skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You’ll notice one other small change to the tidyverse message: we now advertise the conflicted package.

Not a fan of the nature in which tidyverse promotes itself. They used to be more aggressive - i.e. advertising their books in package load messages [1]. But these new changes still feel like an ad.

To me, as an outsider, tidyverse seems to mainly be about "dplyr". The main thing holding all of it together otherwise is just the fact that majority of their functions return a "tibble" instead of a data.frame, forcing you to load all the jungle of the rest of their stuff whenever you use one of their packages.

[1]: https://win-vector.com/2019/08/30/it-is-time-for-cran-to-ban...
It's also literally impossible for many modern tests. For example the WAIS-IV, a very popular measure, has a maximum possible FSIQ of 160. With a mean of 100 and an SD of 15, that's "only" 4 SDs from the mean (99.997 percentile).

And as you say, modern tests just aren't calibrated in that way. The WAIS-IV is calibrated for the 70-130 range [0]. It's used to provide broad ranges (e.g. 85-100 vs. 115-130), not to provide useful differentiations on the high end like 158 vs. 159.

In fact, the error increases with the score [1]. There is less certainty for a score of 145 than there is for 115. It's just not designed for separating geniuses from super geniuses or however you want to put it.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-highest-IQ-score-you-can-get...

(Not a direct source I'm afraid, but the materials are proprietary.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification#Giftedness

(There are several citations in this section, pertinent discussion below the table.)
Iranian police plan to use smart cameras to identify ‘violatiors of hajib law’
Saving face.
Website content can be copyrightable, so web scraping for commercial use being legal would be dubious. But even OpenAI can't tell what ChatGPT will output, so I don't see how this can be copyrightable. Should the outputted sentences really be owned by OpenAI?
Most of the main station (exterior) doors are walk-in style. The same goes for most of the scientific outbuildings. A lot of the smaller outbuildings, like the climbing gym, have relatively "normal" doors.

There is a lot of wood construction, because it insulates well, it's light (extremely important for cheap construction), there's no moisture to speak of, and it's easily repaired. A lot of the walls are wood with a ton of insulation and metal cladding [0]. The windows are beefy, though weirdly they were designed in with metal frames which I imagine leak a lot of heat. Most of the interior construction feels somewhere between a corporate and a university space. It was built by government and defense contractors, so there is also a bit of a barracks feeling about it too.

[0] https://www.southpolestation.com/polefeb1.jpg
In the article, they ordered 76 f35's, which is max production.

>resulted in a machine that is not great at anything.

the f35 is the most capable aircraft in almost every KPI. Granted, The program was ungodly expensive, but we are still paying $2B for each b2, so at $300-760m a pop, it's still ungodly expensive, but the DOD's budget is infinite.
Then they can make a regular extradition request. That's not what these police stations are used for, they are arms of the CCP into the Chinese communities in other countries, they are used for rendition and intimidation. They are incompatible with our legal system and should not exist.
Thanks; that's helpful. "Data analysis in R" belongs somewhere in the quoted intro paragraph. Otherwise that paragraph could describe almost anything: game engine, graphics library, string processing, HTML rendering, embedded systems...
One might assume that and it is mostly true for round based games, but for real-time you just cannot achieve the actions per minute needed on touch. A game like Starcraft or similar is barely playable
what's weird to me though, is that we're all trained on both open source and closed source source material. And our output is totally 100% copyrightable by us.

Why wouldn't we extend the same muster to computer generated text. If there is a copy-written sentence, go after that?

I don't work for openai, but I don't like 1 sided arguments that are just looking for some bottom line. At the end of the day we all have something to protect. When it benefits us to protect something, we're all for it. When it benefits us to NOT protect something, no one has a single argument for that.
Similar but a bit larger: https://redom.js.org/ (2kb)
Saving face means that you made a mistake that has become obvious and you try to avoid owning up. That's not the case here.

Example: if you ghost your teacher without quitting that's inconsiderate, and calling it "saving face" is saving face.
Dating in Japan sounds absolutely horrifying, if this is the expected behavior to your private teacher...
Has anybody switched from R (tidyverse and ggplot2) to python and found they can be equally or more productive in tabular data wrangling, data exploration and visualisations?

Still using R because I find python cannot do exploratory data analysis of visualisation as well as R.
For anyone who is wondering Elon's real genius is not engineering, or technology, it is getting financing and funding. Raising money is incredibly fucking difficult, and Elon is empirically fucking GREAT at it. I just wish everyone would stop assuming that makes him great at everything. I personally chalk up the worship of the rich to the fact most people have never met someone who is filty fucking rich... you would likely be depressed how fucking dumb most of them are.
The CCP has never governed Taiwan, but Macron wants to give it to them. Does he want to give Ukraine to Russia to or is there a double standard?
hot air is still hot air. Yahoo! being a useful web directory doesn't mean that Pets.com is going to be good because it's "Web-powered".

Right now the majority of AI startups are hypeware.
IMO a company whose goals can be defined as “make object of X weight achieve Y speed at below Z dollars” is very, very different from a software product company. The goals are quite hard to define and you have an infinite number of levers theoretically available to you, and those levers interact with each other in unpredictable ways. Especially true of a social network which can both nullify big changes like an immune response, and can reach tipping points and experience big behavior shifts due to apparently small product changes.

He’s just way, way out of his wheelhouse with Twitter and doesn’t have the humility or trusted advisors required to see it.
> The politics lies in what it wants to become - and that is a function of whether the people in the second organisation will keep power in the new place.

Yes, this feels partly correct. There is a meaningful part of all layers that skew towards self-interest. Every hop amplifies the skew and has fewer checks because it is less visible/accountable to the top level.

The local maximum for someone reporting to the CEO is much more closely aligned with the long-term best interest of the company than someone 3 or 4 hops away.

Something I learned was just how much success is dependent on one's manager. In early startups, executing on what's best for the long-term success of the company (including when that is short-term optimization) is a good career strategy. Maybe the best. In larger companies—or at least in this single anecdata point, though others have said similar things about other bigger companies—that's not so true.

I found that sad.
I think he's almost certainly speaking of the %>% group_by convention that is basically demanded of within the tidyworld.

I load magrittr and ggplot and toss the rest out. Right to left reading order is all I really want from that world. Data tables are such a superior convention to tibbles that it's not even funny (I need a tibbles like I need another hole in the head).
I won't describe how we're doing what we do, but I have to say that we work with a lot of unknown variables, and we have to structure the query and data, clean it, and return it to the user in the right format.

It's a lot of data processing and manipulation.
What's with the 21 parsers limit?
union leaders, who need to do their fucking jobs and bargain for the benefits

You're assuming good faith bargaining, which is frequently absent. It's strategic for the company to reward non-union employees to hurt the union, even if it's economically inefficient to do so. The reality is that the only leverage the union has is litigation, moral conflict (complaining about it publicly), or going on strike. The union's resources are a function of its members' resources. Apple is rich, the union members are relatively poor, and Apple intends to keep it that way.

A lot of modern labor strategic dilemmas stem from Samuel Gompers, a 19th century trade unionist who was deeply anti-socialist. He fought against affiliations of unions across industries (as promoted by more socialist groups like the IWW), arguing that laborers within each industry had more interests in common with their employers than workers in other industry. He argued instead for a federalized model of labor, which gave rise to the modern AFL.

The reason this matters today is that the fragmentation of trade unions makes coordinated industrial action virtually impossible even where unions exist, because few companies are vertically integrated. Trade unions thus have only one site (their own workplace) to exert leverage because they're unable to coordinate with workers in other areas (ie farther back on the supply chain), and sympathy strikes are now generally illegal. In theory the AFL was supposed to fill this coordination function. In practice it served as an administrative brake on the ambitions of more assertive organizers, and kept workers at their posts during World War 1 to ensure the successful participation of the USA in that war (which was opposed by more socialist minded organizations).

Intentionally or not, Gompers institutionalized the fragmentation of the labor movement in the US, and practitioners of corporate divide-and-conquer tactics have been quietly thanking him ever since.
Fair enough, however there are a lot of other areas of CS I would use Rust before frontend.

Also, easy to work with completely depends on personal preference but at least for me Rust isn’t too high on that ladder
Thanks for sharing, fun anecdote.

Works both ways. There are publishing functions and development functions.

A "studio" does development. It can be independent or owned by a bigger company.

A "publisher" focuses on handling distribution / sales & marketing functions. It can publish games from studios it owns ("first party") or from external studios it has business contracts with ("third party").

There are companies that do various mixes of these functions, but the biggest tend to do them all.
> He

Given that the post mentions the author's pregnancy and miscarriage, I'm pretty sure it's "she".
Even if they have an extradition treaty it only apply to crimes which are actually crimes in both countries. So most political "criminals" couldn't be extradited anyway...

> diaspora wealth, knows it's misbegotten, and can't survive politics of formal extraditing

So prosecute them for any crimes they committed in your country? I mean the Chinese government is thoroughly corrupt so the fact the they want to arrest certain people and not others is not a great indicator on which wealth is "misbegotten"...

> told of personal and extended consequences

Right.. like how much their families will suffer it they won't return. The Soviets were using the same tactic on political dissidents to shut them up,

> capital controls is that virtually every PRC ex-national with a decent amount of assets abroad didn't get it there legally

Safeguarding the capital control laws of the PRC should be something anyone cares about why exactly?
What’s your take now?
Towards Categorical Foundations of Learning
Boosting photovoltaics through simulation of photosynthesis which is a quantum mechanical process.

https://chemistry.illinois.edu/news/2021-03-08/high-level-si...
Several other links I posted in this thread, and based on personal experience, suggest that generally much less thought goes into discarding books than that.

Nevertheless I don’t think your link helps your case. For example, it suggests books containing the following content should be “deselected”:

> Material that contains biased, racist, or sexist terminology or views

As you can imagine, this allows the disposal of almost all old books regardless of value or status. As I mentioned sometimes book destruction is ideological, but I’d never seen it written down before. Thanks for the cite.
Structure as bulk
"Buy 10 classes at a discount"
Researchers use quantum computers to simulate quantum materials
There’s also an issue of legal holds. I have worked at large enterprises where data was retained in perpetuity due to a constant influx of lawsuits.

Legal tends not to understand the subtleties of data models, so they blanket prohibit any data deletion from anywhere.

Yes, sometimes even archiving or vaulting of old data is not allowed as it might compromise ongoing litigation.
It's not a mental health issue. It's not unhealthy to feel upset if people behave in a way that inconveniences you or makes you feel bad. It's a normal human emotional reaction, people are not robots, and knowing the rational explanation for something does not prevent one from feeling emotions about it. There's not much to be done about it, but blogging about it may actually be pretty therapeutic.
>“Not a Good Match”: Almost One in Three Japanese Graduates Quit First Job Within Three Years. While earlier generations saw lifetime employment as the norm, 30% of recent Japanese graduates quit within three years of starting their first job.

Looks like it used to be lifetime and now that is changing.
> Can you explain what is this secret sauce social infrastructure?

The NASA-industrial complex that built the Saturn V rocket is largely gone: The engineers, factory workers, etc., who had the necessary knowledge — much of it tacit — are retired or dead.
> it seems perfectly capable of generalizing concepts

How would you support that perception?
> Which means it becomes a political game where the union is going to help you only if you help them.

In the US unions are required to assist even non-members who are in jobs represented by the union. It's called the "free rider" problem.

> And then the bosses get used to these unions and they know personally the people who represent the union, etc.

This has historically been a problem in non-worker-run unions, and may still be. In worker-run unions workers directly elect their representatives from the membership. If you think your current leadership is too tight with management then you can run against them, or vote for someone who does.
I dated a Japanese girl for 4 years throughout college. We spent basically every moment of every day together and then she just disappeared. Haven't heard from her in 11 years now.
Being compatible with the standard ISA is itself a benefit.
Maybe a combination of spinning, accelerating forward, curing, etc etc.
I'd stress that this is at the colder locations on the continent, not the South Pole. The bigger challenge is actually the altitude. Physiological altitude can (occasionally) hit 14k ft at the Pole and those days are rough.

Temperature bottoms out around -100 F/-72 C and if you're outside, you're breathing through a gaiter/balaclava). That's sufficient to warm it up. I don't recall there ever being a situation (even that cold) when breathing was challenging due to the temperature alone.

Weird fact: you can't whistle when it gets that cold. I don't know if it's something to do with the immediate dense condensation or the temperature. It's not the pressure or the humidity, because indoors is OK.
Houston, We Have a Problem: Where Are the Astronauts?
We decided that animals can't create copyrightable works and hence limited the ability to create copyrightable works to humans.

I am fine with granting AIs the ability to create copyrightable works provided we grant that right, and human rights, to Orcas and other intelligent species.
Sure, my remark was about controlling, how the game is designed is another matter.
I don't get it. Do you think auditors and consultants that screw up on their job should be prosecuted?
To be fair Netherlands and many western countries don't have (yet anyway...) extradition treaties with China due to perfectly obvious reasons.
Doesn't seem like it based on the article.
> I prefer someone blunt and clear who will say what they mean. I don’t care if they don’t say it in the nicest of ways, as long as they say it. Speak your heart!

If that's the author's preference (fair enough), then Japan is not the right place for them (in that respect). Intercultural Communication 101. Either learn to deal with it and stop taking it personally, or move somewhere else. (Or, sure, go on a one-person quest to change Japanese culture - what could go wrong.)
And documenting the lingo, the concepts with which the software was designed is more important than some system diagram or call sequence charts or API stuff. (For the maintainers; API consumers obvi need something).
Unfortunately, it's often the way of politics, people will often put up with or tolerate a lot of abuse before they snap and go 'riot'. We've seen this often enough down the ages to know it's basically true.

Also, there's another important mitigating factor hindering copyright reform. As outspoken copyright reformer Cory Doctorow points out, most people have very little interest in copyright reform as they don't see copyright issues impinging much on their daily lives.

Whilst in recent decades copyright has come from a subject that the average person's knowledge of which would hardly fill a sentence to a much talked about topic (at least for a reasonable percentage of the population), the actual details of matters concerned with copyright reform are either difficult to understand or have little relevance—or both. Many know all's not well with copyright but it doesn't affect them sufficiently for them to become involved politically.

Essentially, we end up with several camps—the vast majority who'd like to see 'something' done but who are not sufficiently committed to do anything about it (these are the people who've been placated by iTunes and such, as these services offer the path of least resistance).

Then there are the pirates (a small but not insubstantial lot), who, almost by definition, have solved their copyright problems.

Lastly, there's the tiny numbers of people lobbying seriously for change (like some of us here who are posting to these columns on HN).

In opposition we have well funded Big Media and Publishing, with bags of money, they can lobby politicians very effectively, witness the power and extent of existing copyright law in almost every country not to mention WIPO, international copyright treaties, etc.

In summary, we reformers are not only heavily outgunned but also we're without reinforcements. For that to change something significant has to happen to stir the wrath of the great unwashed.
> The author has correctly and rationally identified the problem.

Did she? She indicated politeness likely plays a role but didn't get into the specifics of Japanese politeness that results in this.
Researchers love the ViT and all its varieties, but a reminder for those following at home that ConvNets still work and scale fine, depending on your requirements. For example, in "A ConvNet for the 2020s"[1], the authors are able to scale up ConvNets to the sizes of ViTs.

From the abstract: "Constructed entirely from standard ConvNet modules, ConvNeXts compete favorably with Transformers in terms of accuracy and scalability, achieving 87.8% ImageNet top-1 accuracy and outperforming Swin Transformers on COCO detection and ADE20K segmentation"

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03545
One case among thousand possibilities of what a NFR is all about.
> It’s not like these workers are in coil mines 15-hours/day making below minimum wage.

No but with the advent of communication devices beepers, mobile phones, mobile computers, etc the typical office worker can be reach and in some situations is expected to be reached and respond _27/4_ in a salary type position (I’m not saying this is the 100% norm, no is it abused by every employer).

Coal miners don’t have the luxury of a _connected_ job.
Of course they are useful, but they arent replacing jobs with any meaningful creational spirit, if you will. They help, yes, like the invention of autocomplete or google, but theyre not nuking as many jobs as the hype suggests.
If I ever finish it, I can let you know about it somehow. I'm currently using the material for a science fiction story, but eventually I am going to want to write an article about what I learned. If you want to drop me your contact details, you can reach out to me on my hacker news profile and I will send you details if an when its finished.
A lot of digitally created content will likely include AI going forward
For data manipulation, R/dplyr is still much, much superior.

However, there's a ggplot clone called plotnine in Python which seems to be reasonably comprehensive.
Sure, but . . .

When Warhol was painting a soup can or a well-known celeb, there was no doubting the source material or who produced the image.

When Duchamp hung a urinal, there was no question about manufacture or who hung it in that way.

With Lichtenstein things get blurrier. Where did those images come from? He didn't tell us. We were not privy (I wanted that to be a Duchamp "privvy" pun but failed) to the trail of provenance that some of us might have found meaningful in other art. No, he treated his sources as though they were worthless, where other artists seemed to exalt them but placing them in the public eye.

All pop artists seemed like they were "getting away with something," but Lichtenstein seemed to be punching down hard to do that.
I think the NIMBY argument is - no you can’t build stuff on your land because I don’t like it.

See it works both ways.

YIMBY argument is largely that government and neighbors shouldn’t have such a front ability to restrict development.
Isn't it reasonable to feel a little sad when something like this happens?

Like by all means if they are crushed by this, see a specialist, but a little pang of sadness hardly seems like an unreasonable reaction requiring a mental health professional.

The goal of therapy isn't to make you immune from all negative emotions.
Game design is the key here.
It's literally not. I don't see any of those two things you mentioned. Unless you want to call neo-nazis anyone with an opinion you don't agree with, as some do. And even then, you still can't classify as crypto spam everything else.
What is "skin in the game" in this context?
> The station is at 10,657 feet (it's on top of a mountain)

Nitpick: it's not on top of a mountain, it's on top of a 2-mile-thick ice sheet (glacier).
E540 has a shitty case in my opinion, totally without metal. Keyboard is vulnerable to liquids and original one is also hard to find. Touchpad is a batshit.
> If web scraping is legal
Source? That LinkedIn case did not resolve how you think it did.
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