skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a labor SHORTAGE

this is moronic. If anyone reading this has had the experience of being abused for low-skill work, wages stolen, unfair terms with no insurance or benefits, or in a new twist, a contractor who was unexpectedly terminated with no warning.. please add your insights

the actual history of labor is that Slave Labor, Peasants and Indentured Workers, are the biggest part of large scale industry since the Pyramids. Actual people use and abuse "workers" to the fullest extent possible..

This "shortage" language in the USA has an agenda, and is flatly manipulative IMHO
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My first thought was that I would create a rule to dump these in a folder I never looked at. However, if I were on the team generating that email I would like it if it could truly replace the old ways of providing updates to leadership.
Came here to say this. "The Bug" is one of my favorite novels ever. But I'm a biased computer programmer.
Similar. My first computer was an unnamed Apple 2 clone from Hong Kong. There’s no way my teacher-salary parents could have afforded an authentic zone, but it turned me into an Apple fan nevertheless.
“When a metric becomes a target it fails to be a good metric”

https://www.mrowe.co.za/blog/2019/11/when-a-metric-becomes-a...
oops, typo--

"anti-toxic/toxic" --> meant to say "anti-social/toxic"
> How much of this is impostor syndrome and how much reality? How different are other fields really? I also feel any new programming task as something foreign, for which I am not ready, basically undoable from my position. But at the same time consider myself able to get into anything and everything, and of fixing and building whatever that can be done. I cannot figure out any straight explanation for such senseless duality, nor feel I adopt the same position for anything else in life.

I believe this is a side-effect of the "creative" aspect of computer programming. Creative jobs tend to have impostor syndrome, because there is no piece of paper that you receive that says "this person is 100% certified to be a song writer" or whatever that creative job is. Since software engineering also has no paper certificate, apprenticeship, mastership, etc, there is no proof that you know what you are doing, and it's all a little too loosey-goosey "figure it out for that one job". There's no certainty that you're doing it right.

A Computer Science degree is about as much evidence of you knowing what you're doing as a warranty on a hammer and chisel is evidence that you know how to cut wood joints. Software engineering is a trade, completely distinct from Computer Science. That's why so many people in the industry don't need a degree. You learn the trade on the job.

It's just bizarre that we don't have apprenticeships or trade organizations to ratify someone as a Real Programmer(TM). I can hire someone with 3 years experience working as a programmer and they'll turn out to be almost incompetent. That shouldn't be possible, especially for a job that pays $140,000. But I guess it happens with construction contractors too, so maybe it's not surprising?
Why? It's not like someone who doesn't know how to play - and has some songs committed to memory is going to opt to play an instrument in a public setting without having some skill and talent...
America’s Electrical Grid Is a Feat of Engineering–and Its Biggest Bottleneck
$myJson = Get-Content .\test.json -Raw | ConvertFrom-Json
$myJson.Accounts.Users.asmith.department = "Senior Leadership"
$myJson | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 4 | Out-File .\test.json

from: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-a...
Or in less than 20 years when the patent is licensed. No point in sitting in it for 20 years.
Most major airports (as well as many malls etc.) have at least one shiny pretty piano prominently somewhere. Almost all of them are behind yellow/red tape, say no touching and not allow to play and it is a sad sight. It's optics a la "look how we encourage culture" except not really. I much prefer a semi broken heavily used piano you can actually play but these are almost nonexistent.
>They are there for the paycheck.

Well the paycheck ends when the company folds. "Doing good work" is in the best interest of all parties.
Because the world runs Excel, not LibreOffice Calc.
Drago the Dragon King.
I just don't think this is a practical argument. You have zero control, influence, or access to the businesses BlackRock controls. By contrast Larry Fink has the power, which he has regularly exploited, to reshape entire economies at the snap of his fingers, let alone just one of the many businesses under their control.
> As a proportion this is only four times what the richest private landowner (the Emmersons) in the USA owns of the USA. And the Emmersons have come by their share pretty quickly by comparison, wouldn't you say?

If anything, I feel like the speed (or how recently the land was acquired) is actually in the Emmersons favour here. A generation or two ago somebody got wildly successful, vs. land being inherited because your 30x great-grandfather was Henry VIII.
Well Shell (and BP) are really likely to get sweetheart deals on North Sea oil from Rishi Sunak which might have swayed them.

Now, I know what you're thinking, that that's just because both firms coincidentally signed multi-billion dollar deals coincidentally with Sunak's family business, Infosys, to coincidentally outsource all their IT jobs but I assure you that's a mere coincidence.... probably. :P
It sort of makes sense to limit it to the cloud, because making Python an integral part of the Excel file format would reduce its portability and introduce all sorts of compatibility headaches going forward.
Yes - the title Emperor/Empress of India was abolished in 1948:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_India

So her father, George VI, was the last Emperor of India.
If you capture the CO2 produced when burning the propane, you can get more than double duty. If you used this process to store energy into propane when electricity is cheap, and then produce electricity by burning propane when electricity is expensive, you could potentially have a system with close to 0 CO2 emission. Compared to batteries, storing propane and CO2 even for months looks very cheap.
Beacuse anyone with a budget had Excel already - and had to use Excel to be able to use other peoples' spreadsheets. LibreOffice is not bug compatible with Excel.

Look what Excel had tro do to replace Lotus 1-2-3. Including making 1900 a leap year beacuse Lotus had the error.
It also won't cure cancer or make me toast in the morning, but being able to move parking has big meaningful advantages that are likely to be leveraged!

If you think you can convince the 3rd largest country by landmass in the world to just swap over to trains and buses - great.

In the meantime, let's approach other solutions too. Self driving cars are here, are actively used in areas without trains, and seem like they solve some real problems and maybe create a few new ones.
I don’t think so. The box fan can only pull air through the filter, so it should pull everything out of the air which it can in a few minutes.

This kind of fan can do multiple air changes per hour, depending on how many sqft it’s supporting.
I still don't understand why people are so in love with this song.

It seems a little astroturfy to me...
This is the NN 101 explanation: mean-square loss is for regression, cross-entropy is for classification.

NN 201 explanation: mean-square is about finite but continuous errors (residuals) of predicted value vs true value of the output, cross-entropy is for distributions over discrete sets of categories.

NN 501 explanation: the task of the NN and the form of its outputs should be defined in terms of the "shape" or nature of the residuals of its predictions. Mean-square corresponds to predicting means with Gaussian residuals, cross-entropy corresponds to predicting over discrete outputs with multinomial (mutually exclusive) structure. Indeed you can derive any loss function you want by first defining the expected form of the residuals and then deriving the negative log-likelihood of the associated distribution.
Theoretically, that'll make the debt easier to pay, given enough time.

However, there are levels of debt-to-income that prevent the borrower from getting that time (insolvency exists).

I am hoping policy-makers have a more sophisticated approach than 'money printers go brrr'. Economies like price stability. Deflation and inflation can be destructive in the extreme.
No I didn't answer my own question because a hostile takeover of ARM can cost $70b and it doesn't guarantee that ARM would fall on its face after the acquisition because it has long-term contracts.
But even if Hitler hadn't underestimated the Soviet Union, or if exterminating the Jews had been an actual way to improve Germany, the Holocaust still would have been an evil act.
> Javascript in Excel would be nice.

JS has been one of the supported add-in languages for a while[0], but that's not quite the same thing as the new python offering (which sounds more like jupyter within excel).

Since excel is often (mostly?) used for working with financial calculations, I for one am glad they went with python for this feature instead of a language that insists that an IEEE 754 double is the only kind of number anybody actually needs
Somalia bans TikTok, Telegram and 1XBet over 'horrific' content, misinformation
I have used KL-divergence in authorship verification: https://github.com/capjamesg/pysurprisal/blob/main/pysurpris...

My theory was: calculate entropy ("surprisal") of used words in a language (in my case, from an NYT corpus), then calculate KL-divergence between a given prose and a collection of surprisals for different authors. The author to whom the prose had the highest KL-divergence was assumed to be the author. I think it has been used in stylometry a bit.
> I'm confused by your comment. How did you decide this was something worthy of fixing if it "doesn't show any good metrics"? If you can't quantify the issue in any manner, how do you determine it's worth doing?

Because sometimes some things without metrics are incidental to the actual thing you set out to do.

E.g. a large refactor that switches libraries which is necessary for your new service that give 10% lower latency. But that library refactor will need to be done and it will take 2 months.
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Hi I work on Excel, can you write a summary of why that's important to you and send it to bgruenbaum@microsoft.com ? I'll get it in front of a PM.

Alternatively PMs read all the feedback sent via the feedback UI on Excel web and desktop so you can use that instead if you prefer.
Virtually every rich person in America might have some funds with BlackRock, whether directly or indirectly.

The site you linked is doing a favorite exercise of conspiracy therorists; A is related to B which is related to C which is related to D. Therefore, A and D have conspired, despite in reality not having anything to do with each other.
The photo in this article appears to be empty shelving "inside the Northvolt facility?"
>It appears to be a conflict of interest [...]

The fed choosing an asset management firm is similar to choosing a vendor. That in itself isn't a "conflict of interest". That only arises if there's reason to believe that the Fed or its officials are making decisions that benefit themselves personally at the expense of the fed. For instance, if they hold outsized positions in blackrock and chose them despite not being the best choice (eg. vanguard is is cheaper).
The John Deere Historic Site – and not a tractor in sight
Here we go,

> Android is a Linux. Native binaries are definitely possible.

Android uses the Linux kernel, tranparently!

Officially only native shared libraries are allowed by non-rooted devices.

> Windows Phone 7.x was CE, 8.x was NT. Native binaries are the default.

Windows Phone 7 only allowed .NET applications for common developers, C++ applications required a special license from Microsoft.

Windows Phone 8.x used MDIL (Machine Dependent IL), with a on-device linker at installation time.

Windows Phone 10 used MSIL as main package, and Windows Store does the job of AOT compiling that MSIL with a so called cloud compiler.

> IBM i: the OS isn't native on the hardware, but the abstraction layer is below the OS. (Taos made it part of the file loader, roughly.)

Doesn't matter, unless one is using Metal C, all applications use TIMI.

> MCP: I don't know enough to judge. I believe that they run on x86 today via a mainframe CPU emulator, though.

What matters is the orignal version.

> UCSD p-System: contained a bytecode interpreter; no native compilation possible, but of course every other version of the language did, leading to the p-System's extinction.

There were commercial systems using native compilation like Corvus Systems workstations.

> Modula-2, Oberon: by default, compile to native executable binaries.

Modula-2 was designed for Lillith and M-Code originally. Lillith uses bytecode with interpreter on microcored CPUs.

A cross-platform format, SLIM, was proposed for Oberon but I am not sure it was ever implemented, let alone included as standard.

Oberon System 3, nicely documented on its manual.

> Xerox PARC: what did you have in mind? AFAIK, Alto, Star, Dandelion, etc. all had native binary formats -- more than one for each model, in fact, depending on the OS loaded onto it.

Xerox PARC systems use bytecode formats, before booting the OS, a microcoded interpreter for the respective bytecode format is loaded into the CPU.
Even worse in food service, because coming in sick doesn't only get your coworkers sick. It also gets your customers sick. And this guy works in an international airport, so those customers are then spreading that illness everywhere in the world.
> Nobody was brandishing a knife at him when he decided to kill millions.

But HE thought so. That's the entire point. He was enormously confused about REALITY. He truly believed in a global conspiracy that was destroying what was good in the world in order to promote what was evil.

You have trouble seeing this, because your understanding of reality is correct. That's a good thing, but it makes you understand evil less, and understanding evil is a prerequisite to avoiding it.

We must truly embrace the truth: misunderstanding reality is the first step to evil. As Voltaire said: "those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities". This isn't a new concept!

Putin invaded Ukraine because he is enormously deluded. That's it. There's nothing else. He REALLY thought he was under direct threat from NATO. He's enormously wrong though, and the damage done to Russia and Ukraine from his wrongness is enormous.
I've always been curious if our society were to collapse would the artifacts left behind indicate to a future society how to reconstruct this technology? Is there any object permanence in our creations?

I imagine a wanderer silently plumbing their way through the streets of Manhattan on their makeshift catamaran. They're mostly in search of useful resources but they can't help but be intrigued by these little, grey squares with faded little pictures on them. What are they? What were they used for?

Perhaps they know something about electronics. They have opened a few of these mysterious squares. There is that tell-tale green circuit board inside. But how does one turn it on and use it? What does it do?

The people of medieval Britain could see the ruins of Roman architecture dotting their landscape. They hadn't seen those people in a long while and had no means to repair the aqueducts or high ways. Yet they built on them and around them none the less. A building is a building and a wall is a wall.

But computers? And the hardware we use to build these artifacts of the mind? Vastly more complicated and difficult to reproduce from first principles.
I do as much work as possible on my cars, it’s the only reason I would consider a Mercedes really.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out because Mercedes provides access to the same workshop manuals a dealer has via a subscription to anybody on their website. However, the diagnostic tool to communicate with the car and the accompanying software is around $20,000. Well out of reach for home techs, but a necessity for any indy shop. Technically Mercedes is allowing anybody to repair, but without pricing controls they can make it excessively expensive.

Luckily for about $300 you can get a working “clone” from alibaba, then pay someone $50 to install a cracked version of the workshop software on a laptop.

There is no reason these devices and the accompanying software need to be so expensive.

Some interesting pricing models I’ve seen before, are with a BUDS system for Seadoo. For $200 I get a controller and a license that ties the software to my ski. Since a workshop would be repairing many skis, the “unlimited” license is significantly more. I think a similar system could be adopted here for Mercedes at least.

Also, incredibly thankful for 3rd party manufacturers of replacement parts. Especially the companies that offer electronic repair services. A simple ABS module can be $900 from the dealer, then needs to be programmed. Meanwhile you could send this to a competent electronics repair shop that could diagnose and repair the device for a fraction of that, and eliminate the need to reprogram the device for your car after.
No you don't start non-science and get science. You must start from science.
SQL is easy to use from Excel what more integration do you want.
> if there was an unexplained signed update logged, Google could just say "sorry, bug/misclick/new guy" and that'd sound plausible to a lot of us.

Precisely. And, practically, you won't be able to audit such update, at least audit it quickly. Even if you find some malicious code they can always blame it to a rogue engineer.
Looking at all the packages available, I'm sure that's why. You make it a much simpler thing to just develop that runtime for a known environment that you control vs a browser/local that requires a lot more engineering effort to make sure it works correctly for everyone.
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I suspect they have batteries rather than fuel cells?

Tesla is known to colocate them for exactly the reasons you say - also to shift load to cheaper hours of the day and to get paid by the grid for balancing services.
I like the Montana model.
Acknowledge it’s a supply problem. Remove blockers to building
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/rural-mont...
It doesn't. I've recently had to add about 30 mail filters to keep all the weekly/bi-weekly area newsletters trumpeting every random "milestone" for every team out of my main inbox.

When it comes time for me to move on from the company, one of my antics is going to be to reply-all to each and every one of them with the word "unsubscribe."
I’m truly curious how many lifetime plans you’ve sold, since you added that option in response to comments here.
it is very rare that algorithms from theoretical comp sci papers actually get implemented and executed.
>If you create a financial incentive for a behavior, you're telling your employees you want to see that behavior.

What a cop-out. Everyone should want the company to succeed. So why not say "Hey, boss, this KPI won't work, here's what might happen..." instead of literally working less than needed to prove some point? It's dishonest.
Organic maps has the same feature and they also have opening hours which is cool, Google Maps still has a lot more but for an Open-Source project it's quite decent
Imagine how much of a hypocrite we'd be if we taxed the Philippines without representation, or how different politics would be if 113M Filippinos voted in American elections...
> the name change refactoring thing isn't there

what does Matlab provide wrt this? Does its editor have refactoring assistance now?

> the idiomatic way to create a reusable module in julia is a lot heavier

do you mean package creation?

> I also run into issues of collisions between the new module and the lines I copied.

what kind of collisions do you mean?

what would your ideal tool for this look like? you select parts of your REPL history, ask for some name changes in it, give it a package name, and have it generate a package? any other features or steps that come to mind as potentially helpful?
Side note for the author: your LinkedIn link is broken (it looks like it was parsed as a relative link to your blog, rather than an absolute one)
If the efficiency of propane production (from atmospheric CO2) can be made even close to that for hydrogen from hydrolysis, then the systems benefits of propane over compressed and/or liquid hydrogen will blow liquid hydrogen out of the water. Hydrogen is an awful fuel. It's only real advantage is the potential for being carbon neutral, and the fact that it doesn't create noxious air pollution when used in a fuel cell. It's claimed advantage of energy density is at best a wash in most applications - higher density by mass, but much lower by volume. But everything to do with hydrogen as a fuel system is hard, complicated, and expensive, compared to the alternatives.
My guess is that it makes it easier to work on large files which is common without downloading the whole file and it makes CoPilot related efforts much easier.

I work on Excel but not this feature and am happy to ask around if people are interested.
Still don't see what forest you have.
Note that "drawing samples from P(x)" means to have training data drawn from P(x).

You can form the 'empirical' probability distribution P'(x) from your n training samples {x_i}, with P'(x_i) = 1/n and P'(x) = 0 for all other x.

Then finding the θ which minimizes KL(P'(x) ∥ Q(x|θ)) is equivalent to finding the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) given your training data.

(Note: I don't know what's meant by "the min/max of some probability distribution P(x)" and suggest ignoring that)
While I think it's an interesting idea to have the LOC 'acquire' the Internet Archive, it's not addressing the more fundamental questions around copyright, fair use, public access, and ownership. If we actually tried to create a system, in the context of today's technology, globalism, and ways of creating work, that 'incentivised innovation' or, as it originally was framed, 'Encouragement of Learning' we would not come up with the copyright system we have. That's the conversation I would like to see.
You could ship that known environment as an optional download.
Every AHK I've made has gone rogue because I want it to do things and it does it well but without guard rails i overwhelm my target every time. Thankfully the target is usually my local and I just mostly reboot

You'd think I'd learn but my scripts usually start small for with one specific use and i enlarge it Unsafely once I think of another use for it

Loops are my danger zone. After a few crashes the first guardrail I end up adding to a script is a stop key combo interrupt. Then figure out what bounds to put only after every mistake. I don't have the foresight to prevent "rogue" behavior
I don't care if the company fails and there's no amount of emotional manipulation that can ever make me care. Only double-digit percentage ownership could make me care. Of course you can't get double-digit percentage ownership of a big company like Facebook, but in a company that big there's almost nothing I'm doing to move the needle anyways so there's no reason to be concerned, any shares are gambles.

I do care about my professional reputation. I'm highly skilled and understand how to improve social dynamics on a team, making me very valuable to have around. Clever leadership will figure out a way to align my skills with their own goals. But, if they don't, that's their problem.
Because it’s irrelevant when the global age adjusted cancer rates are increasing overall.

An increasing number of people under 30 are developing cancer. America is only 4% of global population, if you want a better picture look at China and India which have both skyrocketed pollution levels recently.