skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take on the OP’s comment was that his salary and bonuses are controlled by the board. As Sergei and Larry have majority control he would not have gotten this without their explicit approval.
There is a very recent animation movie by Pierre Földes that kind of remixes his main tropes, but with Frog as the central figure intertwined with the guy and the cat from the Wind-up Bird Chronicles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Willow,_Sleeping_Woman.... I really enjoyed it, it’s like a mashup of his main works.
AD is important for training neural networks, or sgd (et al) generally. But that's still only one field. Numerical differentiation is still important e.g. for differential equation solvers. I don't think you can say AD is the most important or useful - maybe for understanding pop culture.
I'll save everyone a click: yes, this is a case of 'correlation != causation'. We know extremely well, for a fact, that at least a good chunk of the SCZ/marijuana use relationship is confounded/reverse causation. The authors do little to improve over the known-wrong simple correlation strategy.

This is especially lame when they have access to the Danish population registry with its rich metadata and very large _n_, and could so easily control for a lot of confounds, by doing within-family comparisons. (Spoilers: the correlations would shrink a lot if you compare siblings or better yet, twins. Tip to the authors if you're reading this: 'controlling for parental history of schizophrenia', for something as rare as schizophrenia where so few are diagnosed but will still be carrying heavy liability, doesn't control for genetic factors.) They could have done some actual science, and contributed some knowledge; instead, all they did was waste everyone's time by contributing yet another meaningless highly-confounded piece of research to add to the pile of other equally useless correlates on SCZ/marijuana, a pile which did not need increasing. What a waste.
I think this is because automatic differentiation is a manifestation of just one rule of differentiation: the chain rule. With numerical differentiation, you only need to be able to evaluate the function at hand. With automatic differentiation, you need to "seed" your program with the differentials of all existing functions.

What's nice about a discussion of symbolic differentiation is that we can prove a few rules rigorously, and then use those rules to purely mechanically differentiate algebraic expressions we encountered up to trigonometry.

You're right though, in practice, for complex functions expressed as programs, automatic differentiation is superior.
I'm a marketer. I hold a Master's and a couple of Graduate Diplomas. I have a professional designation that requires constant CPD. I spend a significant amount of my time undertaking professional development. I work longer hours and can make a good case that my work has more impact than engineers, and I get paid significantly less than engineers with similar tenure.

I can't see any reasonable argument that engineers are intrinsically worth more, (and I say that as a person that dropped out of Engineering to pursue other opportunities). There might be fewer (good ones) than what the market needs, and this obviously pushes salaries up.
Yep. I complained about that on HN recently- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692884 though since then it has, at least started working again.

I didn’t mention it in that post but that is _exactly_ the attack vector I had in mind also- even if someone stole my phone, Touch ID should stop them from getting at my passwords.
Have you run into a lot of great software engineers that didn't spend at least that many hours working on their own projects? I don't think you could even pass an internship interview if all you did was go to class for 4 years. (Passing the classes is of course predicated on doing a lot of programming outside of class, if only to have some text files to turn in!)

Most of the job training for this field comes from within. Hours, weeks, years alone with a computer. Nobody sees that, and you don't pay someone to administer it to you. But it's absolutely required.
More like compulsive gamblers well aware of the con but betting they can get out in time
> Heavy marijuana

Ordinary marijuana is measured fractions of an ounce or in grams. A half gram in a bowl, which is a lot, contains many doses. I've never heard of this heavy marijuana, but it should be easy enough to identify and avoid.
I disagree, the effects tend to be concentrated on the poorest communities and should instead be spread out more. I am obviously not excited about some nasty factory moving close to me, but my environment is relatively healthy and I could, frankly, deal with it better.
They do count them and they do report them.

See "Rejected ballot papers"
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-w...
Well... between Apr 6, 2023 and the time of this post I have single-handedly brought in >1.2MM for the place I work. From initial customer contact to service provided to billing to negotiation (there's always negotiation after billing) to payment received and deposited, me alone. I got a $25 gift card yesterday (along with my [relatively low] regular and overtime pay throughout, of course). And I'm ok with that, tbh. I could get frustrated and envious and bitter, but I also couldn't have done that without the decades of brand awareness and business infrastructure and equipment and facility and support staff keeping all the rest of it going. I see it as that revenue paying the salary of other people so that they can do other things that leave me able to do my part. I refuse to play the "I did the work for this job so I deserve it all" game.
A mirror shows you what's there.

Social media shows you whatever the algorithm is designed to show you at any given moment.

These two things are not the same.
It's sad really
You've just described what Marx identified 150 years ago.
Dead Simple LLM Agent Builder (Open-Source)
Isn’t an SMS-OTP as well as your old device’s unlock code enough?
If they decide not to, then they get all the capabilities, responsibilities, and level of participation that come with not following a standard that others are expecting.

You've effectively described what happens when people don't agree.
I agree it's a people problem - but in the other direction. If you don't use Facebook or aren't part of some groups, if you don't have a bunch of Instagram friends, if you don't use YouTube, If you don't have TikTok installed; whatever your reason for that is your own business, but if you're complaining that people aren't creating content, or that there's no content, and then purposefully ignoring where the people are and where the content is, I think that's on you.
Here are real scenarios:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/10/more-and-more-banks-...
I’m down.
Berkeley scholar apologizes for claiming to be Native American her ‘whole life’
I thought he got paid more?

According to this†, he made $99.4 million last year, but will get $49 million this year.

That's 80% less than Pichai.

† https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/app...
My interests still are not being catered to.

I watch films and media, listen to music, and I'm only truly fully satisfied a single digit number of times a year. That's a consequence of not enough being created and experimented with.

The long tail is longer than you can imagine, and that's what form fits to your personal interest graph.
MagmaChat v0.1.0 Released – Rails 7-based ChatGPT bot platform
You can choose to be asked for your password in addition to the passkey, no?
> While I agree that CEOs are overpayed, I think the same applies to software engineers.

You know who is really overpaid? Landlords. They are the reason everything in Silicon Valley is so damn expensive. I'd gladly take a pay cut if the "landlord association of america" would collectively take a pay cut of their own. That will make this place slightly more affordable.

You know who else is really overpaid? A good chunk of the healthcare industry. My healthcare expenses are by far my highest money drain other than rent.
"It's almost like they care more about shareholders than Googlers."

The C-suite works for the board and the major shareholders. They'll immediately throw workers under the bus if told to do so. That's their job. They'll be fired if they don't. They knew it from day one.
Wait

So I genuinely cannot backup my own pass keys?

Like, I cannot say "export to file" and put that on a thumb drive and put that in a safe? Make what copies I want?

What kind of dystopian twilight zone where literally "all your base are belong to Apple" (or google or Ms, pick your poison of "choice") we seem to be sliding into?
Such hyperbole. Apple is superior in every financial metric. I don’t know how anyone can say this with a straight face while apple exists.
So did I, but those forums were different. As someone else pointed out, no selfies, no actual names, no real identities.

There's no hard and fast rule the government can apply which would serve the people, for sure.

But from a parent's point of view it's not that hard to evaluate. If a forum is about things, and people rarely enquire about each other's personal life, it's probably safe. If it's about feelings and dividing communities along personal lines, it's probably not. If adults and children commonly come into contact and the community isn't on guard for creeps, it's not okay. If your kid really wants to participate in an unsafe seeming community, do it with them.

What government could do is mandate that social media sites of a certain scale run only from known domains, with clearly separated subdomains by activity, and have other tools to express parental control - and then leave the application of those to parents. Right now it's technically hard or impossible to enforce parenting rules, often by design.
> schizophrenic people are drawn to cannabis. I have no idea why

I think that there are a number of reasons for this. CBD, exploration/play of mental states, and the hundred+ other cannabinoids may all be a factor.

First, cannabis can contain CBD, which has strong, known anti anxiety and anti-psychotic effects. Couldn't a person vulnerable to episodes recognize this effect when enjoying a higher CBD strain, then seek it out again?

It is very unfortunate for these people that prohibition selected for high THC, low CBD strains.

Second, it can be a great benefit to know, from experience, that smoking a herb can bring on near-psychosis. Certainly, some people try to get a handle on their condition by 'playing' with it in this way.

Learning about the physical feelings and clues that go along with the early stages of an episode may help in some way to feel in control, and even learn to recognize and change the course of a budding episode.

Again, it is more than unfortunate that prohibition and propaganda have prevented any real exploration of these possibilities. For thousands of years shamans have played with mental states, and it was seen as not just positive but necessary.

It is too often seen as heresy if you suggest that psychosis doesn't actually need to be treated with hardcore pharmaceuticals, for life. I do believe though that it could - at least sometimes - be better treated as a mental state which can be self-recognized, and integrated.

Third, cannabis contains hundreds of cannabinoids other than THC and CBD. Some of these may have positive effects on all sorts of things related to schizophrenia and psychosis - mood, humour, insight, metabolism, gut health, etc.

Studies which only examine THC and CBD in isolation can only ever understand so much - these interactions may be a lot more complex than we commonly guess.
Hard disagree. Marketers conceive of tractors.

They are the ones by talking to the customers and knowing what they need. They are the ones that know that one engineer has been working on a high power engine, and other on rugged, high traction trailers.

Purely engineering firms fail in the long run as they drift away from what buyers want and chase interesting things because they think they know better.
A 1 bedroom condo in the neighborhood I've shared a basement with my partner in for going on 4 years now, is ~$750k CAD. I didn't even want to own something before, even when it was theoretically in the cards, but now it's so unbelievably unreachable and not-worth-it, I just think wtf

Anything we could pay for even if we really stretched irresponsibly would be twice the price and likely not provide anything we don't have except a shit ton of debt, stress, and an extra closet
this is such a hacker news blog post
Wikipedia matches my recollection: Windows NT was actually ported to 64-bit using Alpha workstations, so there were probably some pre-release versions floating around. But by the time 64-bit Windows was ready, Alpha was a dying platform and the original release was only for the 64-bit platform with a real future, Itanium.
No, = or == is purely a lexer decision easily decided by greedy _character_ matching and easily resolved.

In JavaScript the following give wildly differently shaped ASTs since the / character initiates RegEx parsing when in a _value position_ that has different lexing than the division operator that _only_ appears as a potential binary operator, consider the following:

a = b + /c.y/+d

a = b /c.y/+d

(Given b=1 , c={y:2} and d=3 )

The first assigns a as add b to the RegExp matching c.y added to +d giving us the string "1/c.y/3" (JS converts most types to string on addition and strings are dominant during addition as concatenations), this is correct since the + operator before the / character forces the parser to look for a value.

The second reads as assign a to b divided by property y of c then divided by d (ie the numeric computation (1/2)/3 = 0.166666.... ), this is because the parser is looking for binary operators after the b identifier and when the / character appears it becomes an operator.

So, without knowing the parsing context (operator or value position) the lexer decision is ambigious.

This is somewhat how A<B<C>> is ambigious when parsing C++/Java/C# templates/generics VS the <, > and >> operators but that case is usually easier since the parser could include a hack in the generic parsing code that mutates the token stream if it encounters >> when closing a generic. (The JS ambiguity is worse though since RegEx lexing rules are totally different from regular JS)
I never understand why well paid SWEs feel guilty instead of realize that being able to live comfortably if you're working most of your waking day should be the baseline accepted state for society.
Isn't HN pretty small? This post has <400 upvotes over 3 hours. There can't be 1000x that amount of lurkers can there?
Short selling comes under fire as regional banks sell off
The only moat in technology are the founders and team. I think this concept of having a moat sounds great when VCs write investment memos - but in reality, cold, hard execution everyday is what matters and that all comes from the quality and tenacity of the team.

Every piece of application software is a wrapper on other software with a set of opinionated workflows built on top.

Yes, there are some companies that made it hard to switch from - Snowflake, Salesforce - because there are data stores and its a pain to move your record of data. But even they don't have true moats - its just sticker.

So I think Google is right in saying there is no moat. But given their size, Google has layers and bureaucracy, which makes it hard to execute in a new market. That's why OpenAI I think will win - because they are smaller, can move fast, have a great team and can hence, execute...till the day they become a big company too and get disrupted by a new startup, which is the natural circle of life in technology.
> something like Pynecone that targeted html/dom/js directly instead of wrapping node/react/next

This might not be what you were imagining, but I think this js more or less what we built at https://anvil.works (I'm a founder).

Anvil's UI toolkit is built "straight on the DOM", and it's shaped like Python objects rather than going via some other React-y abstraction. This is possible because we expose the difference between client and server code - even though they're both in Python (transpiled as necessary), and you can make mostly-transparent function calls from one to the other. Contrast Pynecone, where the UI is "puppeteered" from the back end over a websocket, so every update is a round-trip. And of course, because you're writing in-browser code, the HTML/JS interop is pretty straightforward (in fact, you can import JS objects right into Python code).

There are downsides to our approach, of course - the developer needs to understand the difference between code in the browser and on the server, which can be a hurdle, and it's really neat that Pynecone apps can be a single Python file - but you don't have to round-trip every UI update to the server, and we've seen people have scaled up to some pretty big apps with Anvil!
JS runtime != JS engine

Runtime:
- Chrome
- Deno
- Node
- Bun

Engine:
- V8
- JSC
- SpiderMonkey
- LibJS
> I'm not really worried about mRNA per-se I'm worried about an unvetted delivery mechanism.

mRNA and the adenoviral vector vaccine delivery mechanisms have been studied for 50+ years and are vetted.

> Did you know its rare but accepted that some dogs get injection site tumors and we don't really know why?

Did you know dogs aren't humans, and there's no evidence of this kind of thing in humans at all?

btw it's also extremely extremely rare in dogs, to the extent it's hard to find any kind of data on it. It wasn't thought to occur except in cats until the 70s, so I've written up the rest of this generously assuming cats.

Most study headlines you read are fun achievements that only work on the animals under study and they don't have the same effects in humans. You can significantly increase the life of worms by not feeding them, but humans not so much. Weird huh.

Again this brings us back to our 'substitution of T with N' conversation. It's always a normal distribution. While these VAS tumors develop a few years in, in some cases they develop within a few months. So if you give 6 billion people vaccines over 3 years, you would have definitely seen this kind of latent thing by now, even if its peak effect is a few years later.

> That would surely be a latent effect in dogs, why do we think it could never happen in humans who live much longer?

That's not a thing. Again you're asking to prove a negative, which is not how we do anything because it's impossible. The burden of proof is on you to explain why you think it could happen, not on me to prove why it couldn't.

Prove to me that eating a tomato won't cause turbo-cancer of the elbow. You can't.
You will inevitably be hacked if you use prevailing commercial IT solutions, period. The absolute "best" solutions they can muster can not make it hard enough to deter financially motivated attackers and the existing attackers already have enough resources to invest to exploit the opportunities that are beyond the limit of the "best" solutions. They can invest anything up to $1M to get $10M paydays like clockwork. If you could do that would you stop before exploiting the entire market? A rhetorical question because that is literally what is happening right now. All raising the cost of attacking every company to the "best practices" limit of $1M is kill all the new entrants and maybe slow the growth rate of the incumbents.

Is there some value in doing that? Sure. But all you are doing is slowing the growth, not fixing the problem. At this point the only way to fix the problem now that there are mature incumbents is to make the upper-end attacks unprofitable or at least make them require more startup capital than they can invest in new exploitation opportunities. This requires making the systems secure against teams of highly skilled attackers with tens of millions of dollars to spend and years to design a successful attack. Literally nobody in the commercial IT sector believes that is even possible but they aggressively insinuate that they can solve your cybersecurity woes.

It is all total bullshit. Literally every single one of them is peddling snake oil, but people believe it solves their problems so they do not need to look any further. The problem will only get solved when they realize they are totally screwed and nothing that the cyber(in)security vendors can sell them will fix it. Only if you understand that your computer systems are trivial to hack by motivated attackers will you do things very differently than if you do not know the truth. It might even lead you to try finding a real solution, but at the very least it will change your behavior to better account for the reality of your situation.
So what I'm hearing through all these answers (many thanks for the info!) is that my original question of "am I screwed if I arrive to somebody's house naked/robbed/with a broken device", the answer is "yes. Thorougly. Unpleasantly. By design."

Am I missing something here?
start a company and pay your CEO less if you want. Sergey and Larry believe he should get 226M, are you saying they are misjudging the situation?
Western leaders had better start coming up with radical solutions to housing market driven inequity or there'll be ructions.
I'm good at everything that I'm good at, every time that it works out!
> Nothing is going to change until the country becomes a republic

Aren't you holding that up as a bit of a silver bullet? There are many republics in this world and I'd not want to live in them. Changing the head of state from a powerless unelected to a powerless (or worse, powerful) elected head of state would change little practically. It would be just another part of our nation handed over to the partisan political class.

And even if we became a republic, who would run for election? The members of same political class as before. Just now they're even more entrenched in the structure, and we will look a bit more like America with its heated Republican/Democrat presidential elections every few years.

I think your post comes off a bit cynical. Can you not see any advantages and positive achievements of the British history of constitutional monarchy, common law, Bill of Rights, etc? Jury trials, habeas corpus, etc, have done much for freedom. The legacy code, if we might call it that, is the only thing still holding back the authoritarian ambitions of the powerful.

I think we've fared a lot better than many other countries, and it has taken great effort to destroy our institutions. We're definitely far gone now, but I can't join in with the kicking of a formerly great man when he is down.
Defying your government's orders is easier said than done, even if your life is at risk.
I remember reading this RAND Corp article published maybe 60 years ago about the deep underground highspeed transit system that goes 10K MPH in vacuumed tubes. I guess that was the origin of Musk’s hyperloop but my understanding is such system is actually darkly operational connecting the world for DUMBs?
I agree in theory that a company should not be the arbiter, but the reality is that the company is less dysfunctional than the government and less beholden to political powers.

If we had a government that would regulate away dark patterns and generally do things in the interest of us, that would be great. We don't have that.

I think I have more influence over apple than I have over the us government. I think apple works on behalf of me more than the us government does. I've made that calculation differently than you, so we've come to different conclusions.
What's the relation between the coin and subreddit? Like I get that they share a name, but is it say endorsed on the sub itself? Endorsed by the mods? Is it popular among its users?