skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've all seen thought leader writeups like this before, written as if the author invented the concept. I was ready to roll my eyes and congratulate myself on knowing the content (the bias) just from the title.

But I found it to be bookmarkable. I really like the RACI-like chart.

Pretty well done overall, good writing style and good advice, opinionated (which is the point) but not overly so.

I only disliked the "warning" about "light math". I felt it was talking down to her audience in an attempt to come off as more human and less robotic / analytical and make sure the reader plows through that part if they start to perceive it getting too dense.

Maybe I'm wrong about the intended audience. It could be for director+ level folks, who make these org decisions. Maybe she doesn't expect them to have any math skills. But it is in the _Better Programming_ blog, subtitled _Advice for programmers_.
Smart move, congrats!
Yann is the sole anti-doomer from the Bengio and Hinton trio. Also, the only one whose "salary depends upon his not understanding it," hmm...
This is a great example of how today's "piracy" is tomorrow's "only working copy left". I wish there were a more formal way to explicitly allow this, though I'm probably just pining for shorter copyright terms. This game was released 20 years ago, longer than the original U.S. copyright term of 14 years.
GP didn't state that it was the sole reason for tipping the election.

Clinton dropping the ball, Comey etc. are events I can live with even if I didn't like the result. But a foreign adversary exploiting network effects to manipulate online discourse and propagate misinformation on a large scale – the influence that had will always be an unsettling "what if" in my mind.
And I have a friend of a friend whose entire business is helping people sell wine for 20K a bottle and up. Emphasis on "and up"

I also have a friendly relationship with a local wine shop, where I usually buy bottles for 10-15 bucks. They also carry (and sell) many bottles at 5K a pop and up.

And if you want to get all mathematical about it, assuming the right kind of power law distribution, it is more likely to see one person who would pay 2000 for a bottle than to find 2 people who would pay 200.

power law stats is weird. Once you are outside of the bell, the bell area has NO constraint on the observation. Unlike Gaussian and similar distributions, where probability falls off very rapidly as you move out of the bell.
Ah that was it. Always forget about that thing.
I wonder if this has an infrared filter on the sensor. It would be incredibly cool to get a sensor that doesn't have any filtering out of the box and lets the user install whatever they need on the lens. That would greatly improve the low light performance and increase its usefulness for things like astro and night time photography.
Upvoting to cancel out unwarranted downvotes. I don't share the political bent of the cited source but the answer is on-topic, to the point, and well within the Overton Window.
I'm sure it's not perfect but I've solely been using https://www.newsminimalist.com recently and have been happy with it

Otherwise, https://www.allsides.com
Interesting, I knew about *.wav files for data cassette images but not for floppies. Makes me wonder if there’s other ways to get the data off it that might be more accurate. Are hobbyist electron microscopes a thing yet? :)
I can't speak to the poverty side, but anecdotally my colleagues and I work in a high-tech profession and our salaries are hardly competitive.

I'm earning less than 33K as a cybersecurity engineer and I'm struggling to save up for a house, my student loan has increased from interest since graduating, and I'm the frugal one at work.

UK wages have been stagnant for over a decade while the cost of living has increased so much.

There are better paying companies I could move to, and I'm keeping an eye out, but as the article states - there are systemic problems in this country that the people in power are failing to tackle.
Free market means free from economic rent. Which roughly means that no one makes extra money just because they are in a position that allows it.
I may not respect a lot of what you said but I can respect that
Compared to software skills those are relatively easy to learn though and they have a longer best-before date than any kind of language/framework kind of knowledge.
This seems like a complete waste since https://vscode.dev etc exist. Why would anyone want to develop inside of a walled garden?
>I care a lot about sex, because it's intimately linked to reproduction, which is the strongest human instinct, without it human life would not exist.

So you think the existence of trans people will end sexual reproduction? Could you be a little more clear?
Preserving trust in photojournalism through authentication technology
Hacker News, no joke
Ah. You found Haskell hard because you were trying to learn it out of order. Demanding to understand what a monad is before learning how higher-order functions and higher-kinded polymorphism work in Haskell is like demanding to know what an Iterator is before learning what a variable is in Java.

The thing about "Monad" is that it's an absolutely trivial interface. You'll know you actually understand it properly when you go "oh, that's all." Is it hard to describe? Not when you understand the underlying concepts. But if you demand to skip them, you're only going to confuse yourself.
> That's pretty immediately a circular dependency though?

By the female reproductive system, I meant the type that produces large gametes, and so on. Versus the male one that produces small gametes.

> Actually the most important question what makes something a "developmental pathway"? How do you define such? How do you distinguish two similar but different "developmental pathways"?

It's a very interesting question, here's what is known about this in humans, if you are curious: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279001

> The more important question is why anyone should take your reasoning over any other about what "Man" and "Woman" mean.

What's your alternative, and why?
I think people overestimate the likeability of Hillary massively
I suggest you read the reasons that MIT switched: https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-f...

and https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/03/26/mit-replaces-schem...

and https://vimeo.com/151465912#t=3577s

As to being 'near impossible' to teach SICP with Python: https://web.archive.org/web/20210916151732/https://doc-04-5g...
teamsters
Are you telling me I can get lab-grown coffee and t-shirts that avoid the nastiest parts of the traditional processes? As for phones, I'm on a used iphone 6. That doesn't make its original sourcing any better, but harm reduction is still reduction
SQLite is superb choice as a local storage solution, you don't need a transactionality requirement to use it as a KV store.

People choose NoSQL databases primarily for scaling reasons, which is not the problem here.
Sometimes the market itself is the reason for the shortage. The value of the work itself may be high enough to justify paying the market rate, but the employer may not be able to capture enough value to pay that. Maybe positive externalities are a large part of the value. Or maybe the industry buying the goods/services consists of larger companies with more negotiating power than the industry providing them.

You see both in healthcare. Patient health is an externality, because the patient is not the customer. The insurance provider is. And insurance providers tend to be larger than healthcare providers.
30 year mortgages are standard in the US. If the bank thought that in 28 years the house would be a foot underwater they wouldn't agree to a 30 year mortgage. 30 years or 50 years depends on which projections you are listening to
I haven't checked everything at Home Depot, but many reputable retailers won't sell things in their store unless they have such a mark.

It's "online marketplaces" like Amazon (or AliExpress) where you're actually purchasing from a random third party seller, and the marketplaces attempts to disclaim as much liability as possible that I'm more wary.

I actually don't know the specific laws or regulations on this. It's very possible that it's illegal for Home Depot to sell a non-UL or other nationally recognized laboratory mark. It's probably that it's illegal for third-party sellers on other sites to do it as well, but my faith in Amazon and other "online marketplaces" for policing their third party sellers on this kind of stuff is...not high.

I'm just trying to be a lot more careful about the stuff that goes into real circuitry, because I'm more used to playing with low-voltage DC stuff where I'm just not too fussed about it, so I feel OK ordering anything cheap that probably works.

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Finally, I think it's actually a regulatory and consumer information _success_ that you feel safe buying something from Home Depot and wiring/plugging it into your house without thinking about the product safety risks. The reason for that is _those risks have largely been eliminated_. There was a time when you _did_ have to be super careful as a consumer of electrical products. Over the years, we've drastically improved the safety of these kinds of products to the point where we for the most part don't have to think about it anymore, because it's not a problem anymore. That's effective government regulation at work.
I will try to answer later with actual math, though a commenter above did a rough estimate. I would think it pays back relatively quickly. Moreover, this approach cannot really scale as old hardware and parts is scarce, and using it at a larger scale would make it scarcer (due to more normal failures). That's if you look specifically at one kind of system, but I believe the real value is in making code portable across a range of low-power systems, including recent and old ones.

You're also looking at it from the perspective of not needing new hardware, but I already have both my phone and my Steam Deck.

Incidentally, I bought a Steam Deck in part because it was cheaper than a GPU upgrade for my desktop PC, while being more powerful and efficient than my current setup. My PC has been collecting dust as I boot the same disk on my Steam Deck, at 1/10-30 the power enveloppe. As an added benefit, I don't have to turn this high-power system on while it's 35C in the room.
Yes it's all wrong, because:
a) recall is designed to measure binary relevance, but vector scores are not good relevance judgments and they aren't binary.
b) most models optimise purely for distance, which makes nDCG look great, but causes content to clump together. This loses local ranking precision and the noise from embedding order is significantly greater than the approximation in the ANN system
c) bi-encoders have significantly greater error than cross-encoders. Basically every vector DB is blowing at least one order of magnitude more resources than they need to to optimise bi-encoding efficiency which is wrong anyway.

Disclaimer: I work at Algolia.
Wrong newspaper: https://twitter.com/mroth78/status/1556653036566618113
Yeah this is very true. You have a painting, the artist may be Picasso, but uncertain. Suddenly it is confirmed it was Picasso. Same painting, different price.
These days it should be assumed that the quality of anything bought on Amazon is dogshit. Which, even though I canceled Prime years ago for ethical reasons, is honestly the biggest reason I won't even click an Amazon link.
As a married guy, I see my wife's ring every day.
Well, possibly. There's a lot of political pressure on them from the right to do that. But if they did it would probably be targeted at businesses, maybe rates relief.
I was speaking towards internet side of things where you do not own the infrastructure.

As a related note, I do firmly believe in right to repair, and if you own something you can do whatever you want with it.

Partial ownership seems to be a thing now. So I think there is a lot of missing framework around managing that properly.

Long story short - I think there is room for manufacturer consent / acknowledgement / notice to be part of the solution and if it can be part of the solution then it should be. We may need regulation around that, it likely cannot be left solely to the companies discretion and may even need an aggressive "receipt but no reply by X days is considered consent" clause - but I would like to promote solutions that come with communication between the effected parties
Of course it didn’t happen in a vacuum. And Hillary was a horrible candidate imho.
We will make this happen.
So I found this app which seems like it's supposed to create more swap but the review seem mixed. I wonder if it depends on which version of Android. Seems Samsung has this feature built in to their OS at some point.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allakore.s...
YOU ARE ON THE WRONG WEBSITE!!!
These simplistic models of Supply/Demand don't work in the real world. We have price-controls on rent, property tax increases, utilities, healthcare, etc, etc. Would you support removing those?
Did the GM CEO salary go up? Or did GM’s share price go up, causing the previously scheduled stock grants to increase in market price?

Usually, the vast majority of compensation is scheduled a few years in advance, defined as a certain number of shared. Clickbait is then made using changed in the price of these shares even though the compensation agreements did not change.
Yeah, most of the surfaces I saw them talking about were essentially what you've mentioned - handles, tabletops, etc.

I think one of the big problems here is that in this field (which happens to be the one I work in), showing effectiveness in an RCT is very hard for any single hospital due to the relatively small numbers, and the small effects you'd expect these products to have.

I think the implant market is an interesting one to be going after.
> First, it's not totally clear that Assange agrees to crack the password,

Assange said he "passed it into our lm guy", which is an implicit--but clear!--signal that he will help with the technical problem, along with being a kind of small assistance all on its own.

> Read the chat logs. This allegation is actually false. [...] He definitely doesn't supply the cracked password.

That part doesn't matter, since Assange is accused of conspiracy to X. That one word is very important, it means a chat-log showing him agreeing to assist with the X is sufficient grounds to charge him with that related crime.

Analogy: You message me explaining you need to crack data on a CAN bus in order to steal a luxury car, and I agree to analyze your collected data and find the secret key needed to disable the security systems.

Those chat-logs would still be enough to charge me (and you) with conspiracy to commit grand theft auto: It doesn't matter if I never touched the car myself, and it doesn't matter if I failed at extracting a secret key, the important thing is we each acted and collaborated towards a crime.
> If you are equating unregulated Hollywood accounting to SEC regulated 10-K filings, then either you need more education

Are you saying it wouldn't be advantageous to claim an easily recoverable loss which both makes your shareholders happy and reduces your tax burdens not only for the current year but future years (because you can defer losses)?

Hollywood accounting is orthogonal to the concept of a 10-k. The numbers are "real" but they are also VERY easy to manipulate (IE, doing a stock buyback).

I'd suggest considering the case study of sears. Where somehow a public company went bankrupt yet the owner ended up with billions of dollars and... the company.. again.. somehow. [1] That is hollywood accounting in it's full action and all perfectly lined up for 10-ks (after all, AFAIK the SEC never stepped in here to give Lampart so much of a slap on the wrist).

I'm not saying that Ford or others are anywhere near as bad as what happened to Sears/Kmart. I am saying that the same system Ford operates in, sears operates in.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/news/downfall-of-sears/
Thank you for this detailed feedback. In the long-run, it's worth asking whether a business that doesn't make money once externalities have been internalized is a business worth having. But this is a voluntary program, and we're just hoping to spur growth of a segment of the device market where these issues are properly accounted for. Hopefully as more and more purchasers begin insisting on higher-standards, maybe by insisting on this label being present, economies of scale and componentization of secure IoT platforms will drive the costs of good IoT security down to the point where your concerns aren't as salient. Please consider sharing your thoughts through official comments.
Is there an argument that the government failed in oversight with SVB?

I think this is a textbook slam-dunk by the government? They stepped in when the situation was _bad_, but not _catastrophic_ yet (mmmmaybe arguable), took over, and no depositors got hurt.

Is there an argument that this could've gone better, apart from "no banks ever fail"?
> Or at least half of it. The other half points loaded guns with the safeties off directly at their own crotches to own the libs[0]

The source you cited specifically says it is not to own the libs.
"So we agree that without wheels, a car is useless?"

No, not really. A blockchain without a native currency is imparted no special economic security i.e. insurmountable costs to rewrite data.

If you want a system that allows anyone to participate and secure high stakes transactions, you cannot allow cheap revisionism or censorship which is exactly what traditional systems allow (through power or bribes). A blockchain without a native currency is void of any economic security.

I'm not sure what you believe the "gotcha" is when your hypothetical removes the most crucial aspect in order to try and prove the tech is useless.
There is nothing unprecedented about COVID. It is not the deadliest pandemic by any account. We simply had different attitudes toward civil liberties and the role of government in the past. The Spanish flu saw minimal national level policy and isolated (time and space) restrictions in particular places, along with sensible policies (like outdoor classrooms) meant to ameliorate the worst aspects. The sort of coercion during COVID was unprecedented. It is not something that we should accept.
> Supporting them is hard.

Ding!

We had a bespoke wireless entry system for our hackerspace which kinda sucked. Eventually the board switched it out for OpenPath (which also sucks--to be fair).

Why?

Support. The board can now call someone and say "We pay you. Fix this."

Support is the bane of consumer products. I really wish we had some way to counter this.
> artificial in a human machine in a lab - and the other by raw natural forces in the wild

What do you suppose is the value that distinguishes these two processes? The story? Or is it the persistence of the naturalistic fallacy, surfacing in all sorts of places and in all kinds of minds including those one would expect are habitually vigilant against what is essentially a generalized form of superstition.
The web version you linked does not support the remote SSH extension, which is critical for many folks workflows. I can’t do any work without that extension.

I’m curious if the android version supports this extension?
I’m not so sure about that. Learning a programming language for example is pretty easy, iterative, and had quick feedback for me. Learning years worth of math makes my eyes glaze over. I do agree on the latter half though, regarding how they’re useful for much longer.
It was due to use of specific adenovirus shell. Some people have some weird antibodies that in some cases might cause clotting problems because of the interaction with adenovirus shell. Just a bad luck that has nothing to do with coronavirus spike proteins. So mRNA vaccines don't suffer from the same problem.
Funny, I always feel like I’m about to get injured using really low travel keyboards like the new apple magic keyboards. Hence I prefer mechanical ones.

Guess it varies from person to person. Good to find what works for you.
I'm from a country where the government has several institutions to provide healthcare. It's not the absolute best, and depending on the institution one qualifies for it might not be quickest or cover all conditions.

As administrations have come and gone, there's been a back and forth between officials who want to privatize health, claiming inefficiency, dilapidated facilities and that the system is a drag on public finances, and officials who want to save the system from what they claim is purposeful gross mismanagement by administrations who want excuses to privatize it.

Overall, even if not as pristine or efficient as the private sector, this system of healthcare does means the private industry has to compete with "free".

When I have a cold, I don't think I've spent more than $10-20 on a private doctor's appointment, out of pocket with no insurance. I had a rare eye condition called Keratoconus. In the USA, the specialized procedure to treat it seems to generally cost between $2,500 and $4,000 per eye [1]. I paid about $650 per eye on a private ophthalmology clinic, again, with no insurance.

EDIT: To add an addendum, and in the topic of "efficiency", whenever I'm back home I tend to have more face-to-face time with my doctor. There isn't a team of nurses on every clinic to talk to and do the menial work. I even book appointments directly via WhatsApp with my gastroenterologist, and transfer money directly to their bank account, instead of going through a front-desk secretary, forms, and apps/paperwork. Without insurance "networks" I hear of a good doctor and just go, no problem.

This also means I tend to go to the doctor when I'm home, rather than when I'm in the USA. I find very interesting how for me personally, the experience seems to be much better in a country with an overall lower purchasing power than the USA.

[1]: https://www.nvisioncenters.com/corneal-cross-linking/costs-a...
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I dont know about that, they've grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory before. Starmer isnt Blair, and no one really trusts or likes Labour that much. It wont take much for peoples moods to turn against them.
Because lab grown diamonds are naturally grown, unless humans are supernatural.
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> My capital being misallocated is not relevant to GDP?

It's not. If I steal a million dollars from you, the net impact on GDP is ~0. Hell, if you were keeping it in your mattress, and I spend it on drugs and parties, GDP will actually go up.

GDP is a useful number, but it's not the only useful number.
people skills, not social butterfly skills, but being able to criticaly eveluate people as an element of a computer system.
AC is powerless.

This isn't the Corporations fault, the Pilot and Flight Attendant Union should be open to suits , that would make them behave properly. They can basically do whatever they want and the company has little power to do anything. Make the Union liable and you will see everything improve....
> My cynicism is probably not the best approach to change the world for the better, so any hint on how to teach younger colleagues to stop snacking micro service candy is much appreciated.

I could be way off base here, but I'd bet a lot of junior devs are just trying to stand out. They want respect, raises, promotions, and new job offers. Invisible good solutions don't bring those.
Do you know how much of a settlement patients get for experiencing Chemotherapy when their cancer diagnosis was false and they went through the harrowing experience because an expert misdiagnosed the source of their problem?
High 6 figures. low 7 figures.
recursively: https://news.ycombinator.com/
also any privatized railroad network