skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take the Feynman view here; vain memory tricks are not themselves net new production, so just look known things up in the book.

Appreciate the diversity in the effort, but engineering is making things people can use without having to know it all. Far more interesting endeavor than being a human Google search engine.
There is already a very big tax break for entrepreneurs: QSBS.

You have to stick it out for 5 years (the rollover provisions are not well aligned with SAFEs), but all your capital gains are tax free up to $10m.

Reforming the rollover provisions or making it not a hard cut off would certainly be helpful though.
Now if we want to get into dirty details, no bureaucrat is ever elected. You elect the representatives, and they nominate in turn whoever bureaucrats they feel comfy to work with. Or is this in the UK different?
>I mean, good riddance to Alex Jones, but the tools and methods used were entirely inappropriate to a liberal democracy, where you prevail with better arguments.

The tools and methods used were "a trial by a jury of his peers," in which better arguments did prevail. That seems entirely appropriate to a liberal democracy.
It's like the conundrum that the writers of South Park had, reality became worse than the worst they could think of. To the point where they really struggled when Trump actually won in 2016.
Before everyone piles on, here is the repo owner's Note at the bottom of the page:

This is my first ever compiler project.
I created this compiler for the following reasons:

* To learn about compiler development.
* To build a self-compiling compiler.
* To implement features I find interesting and cool.
I don't think people associate search with an app. Search is something built in to the operating system or browser (a distinction which is disappearing too).
You are right: Computer Vision was always one of the original fields of AI research. The International Journal of Computer Vision was established in 1987 and it remains a premier outlet.

Today the word "AI" has itself been hijacked by marketers of ANN-based techniques, so when the article uses that term, it confuses people who don't know any better.
In tech, ghost job listings maybe as high as 50%. Another reason for ghost job listing is to meet the requirements for visa processing.
People will abuse protections meant to help others in need if it also benefits them.

It's extremely naive and childish to still cling to the view that people are by and large honest when there are little or no repercussions for acting dishonestly.

We could look at medical marijuana as a case study too. As soon as it became available as a medicine, a whole industry to get people prescriptions popped up over night. You just had to make an appointment with a special doctor, check a box saying you were sad, and just like that you could be "disabled".

I would be impressed if you could look at me with a straight face and say "A law mandating people who feel stressed in the workplace need to unquestionably be given WFH rights would not be abused"
Do you have https? I get an scary error in the browser and only http.
I actually have a copy that I stumbled across recently at a book store near me. I'm sure it won't be like the old days, but it was really cool to pick a hard copy up while out and about in town.
He knowingly rallied his supporters to harass the victims and their families. That's a bit more than "someone ranting on the internet".
Indians,Brazilians,Portuguese,Ukrainians,Russians are possibly the worst clique of discriminative nationalities. You can be 100% assured that you will be driven out of a company/job if more of them take a hold and get into higher up positions. This is not racism. This is a pure fact based on statistical evidence.

You will be sold a dream of infinite scalability by hiring "talent" in those countries for cheap and what you will get is usually disfunctional teams riddled with incompetence and nepotism.

Even if a job/team is meant to be multicultural,diverse they will find a way how to hire more and more of their countrymen until knowing the language is basically a requirement for the job.

I am not even an american and i've seen this happen in Europe as well so I imagine in the US it must be 1000 times worse.
If there was a lawsuit, change in regulation, request from an enterprise customer, or doing so MADE THEM MORE MONEY it would be fixed in a week.
For me this is no different than listing paid fonts like Berkeley Mono.
potentially hilarious. can't wait to see what they launch.
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I think people click upvote on reading an interesting title / first couple of lines.

Then there isn't a downvote option if it proves poor.
They did prevail with better arguments… in front of a judge and jury.
Apple's frameworks, especially in betas, often have memory leaks.
>> This is a bit stark: there are many great knowledgeable engineers and scientists who would not get your point about a^nb^n. It's impossible to know 100% of of such a wide area as "AI and CS".

I think, engineers, yes, especially those who don't have a background in academic CS. But scientists, no, I don't think so. I don't think it's possible to be a computer scientist without knowing the difference between a regular and a super-regular language. As to knowing that a^nb^n specifically is context-free, as I suggest in the sibling comment, computer scientists who are also AI specialists would recognise a^nb^n immediately, as they would Dyck languages and Reber grammars, because those are standard tests of learnability used to demonstrate various principles, from the good old days of purely symbolic AI, to the brave new world of modern deep learning.

For example, I learned about Reber grammars for the first time when I was trying to understand LSTMs, when they were all the hype in Deep Learning, at the time I was doing my MSc in 2014. Online tutorials on coding LSTMs used Reber grammars as the dataset (because, as with other formal grammars it's easy to generate tons of strings from them and that's awfully convenient for big data approaches).

Btw that's really the difference between a computer scientist and a computer engineer: the scientist knows the theory. That's what they do to you in CS school, they drill that stuff in your head with extreme prejudice; at least the good schools do. I see this with my partner who is 10 times a better engineer than me and yet hasn't got a clue what all this Chomsky hierarhcy stuff is. But then, my partner is not trying to be an AI influencer.
I would not call back propagation and similar techniques "mutation". It certainly isn't random in the same sense as other random searches like EA. Maybe the exact mechanism of iteration is not that important as long as some aspect of it is random, but it's still a novel interpretation of EA.
Depends. Are we talking hours? Because if so, then most companies barely give 2 days worth of work per week. And in many cases, people probably work half of that, maybe 4 or 5 hours of actual focused work per day.

A freelancer spending very little time working probably isn’t making much money. But an employee who spends little time working, is still bringing in those same paychecks, week after week.
Inside a lot of humor is some deep seated truth.

It's encouraging that an org based on humor / even a little truth here ultimately buys and will discard an empire of hateful lies.
Not likely. Satire is protected under the First Amendment.
Oh come on now. The world wasn't just sent to live with it's auntie and uncle in Bel-Air. The distressed sullen worldview might be new to you, but people certainly had it back when I found the Onion regularly quite enjoyable too.
Everyone already knows there is no objectively worse song, and the writer knows everyone knows. It's hyperbole to emphasize the writer's opinion that it's a really bad song, an inconsequential rhetorical flourish no reasonable person takes seriously.
Ask HN: Do you distribute your macOS apps on the App Store?
Hey folks -

I'm an iOS/macOS dev working on my first big desktop project, a 100% free and open-source live visuals / VJ app called Nottawa (https://nottawa.app).

It's always been my intention to use the App Store as the primary means of distributing the app. There are a lot of hurdles to get over, particularly with regards to file system access and the app sandboxing system. In general though, everything's working fine and the TestFlight beta is going well.

Last night I discovered that Syphon (https://syphon.github.io/), a really wonderful open source macOS SDK for sharing frames between applications (TouchDesigner, Resolume, OBS, etc.), is by design incompatible with the Apple's sandbox system. [1] This is functionality I'd really like, though not one that is fundamentally essential.

[1] https://github.com/syphon/syphon-framework/issues/10 and also https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/755911

Do other macOS developers find it to be worth jumping through the Apple hoops so you can distribute via the App Store? This app will be 100% free with no in-app-purchases or ads, so monetization isn't a concern here.

Alternatively, does anyone have experience maintaining an "official" release via the App Store and another "bleeding/experimental" release served as a downloadable .dmg from the homepage?

Would love to hear others thoughts.
The onion should just keep Alex Jones without any filters but put the onion logo on every page. The joke is already good enough, just keep it going.
> If you play fair against monsters, monsters win.

If you become a monster to fight the monster, the monster always wins!
> any other compilers that do this?

TypeScript has a notorious "Type instantiation is excessively deep and possibly infinite" warning that can often be unsafely ignored with a `@ts-expect-error` comment
Did you actually read the article? Nothing in it indicates that the author is working more hours. Spending time with your family and "working while riding an exercise bike" are not MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.

If you have to "be at work" (such as in a remote job) why not get some free exercise at the same time?
I don’t think effective government is founded on the basis of lolz.
I don’t think so.

Like I said, I think it’s referring to much older generations.

It just seems like awkward phrasing.
States like money. If you're complying with local laws and regulations then why wouldn't they want the tax revenue?

Fireworks are illegal in NY and have been illegal in PA for much of the past two decades. Despite this, the border is crawling with fireworks stores. PA made it illegal to sell fireworks to PA residents, but totally legal to sell to residents of neighboring states provided they immediately transport them over state lines.
They should buy the NYT instead, given it has been a joke in itself for the past ~10 years.
That was the most useless async/await post I've seen. The only useful bit is that the Go implementation isn't similarly painful.

First of all, it gets the function color problem backwards. Async await forces 'coloring' of execution to be async. But the desired number of colors is one which is what you have without async/await.

The way Go solves this is by making all 'threads'/goroutines async context without saying so and there's no way to make them not that. Effectively they all started gray-purple or whatever color that was to begin with. It would be as if all the Rust developers went all in and said "Everyone let's only do async."

The problem isn't promises/futures etc, they work fine as can be seen in Java with their CompletionStage. You can even use Executors with thread pools without function-coloring. I never understood the need or desire for async/await keywords (and the corresponding 'rest-of-program' transformation that happens under the hood. That Rust adopted it is the main reason I won't consider entering the ecosystem unless it somehow gets sorted out e.g. with two library ecosystems, basically bifurcating the language.
> It's hard to imagine anyone that could be more effective at achieving that than Jones.

Asking as a non-American: how disturbing would it be if he appointed Putin?
Re-posting from a similar answer I gave in another thread:

Yep, still happy with the decision. A lot of my comp at Google was stock, so I would have made a lot from the stock price movement over the last six years, and I'm a bit envious of that, but still yes.

I do still love the independence of working for myself, so I'm happy to have had the last six years of that rather than feeling unfulfilled at Google.

With everything shifting around AI, and big tech could be doing massive dev layoffs in the next five years. Given that risk, I'm happy to have experience as a founder rather than a dev who could be laid off immediately in a down market.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42126800

>Do you feel richer or poorer for the experience?

Definitely richer. I'm glad I did it, and it was so much more meaningful than the work I did at Google or any previous job.

>What's next for you?

My wife and I just had our first child over the summer, so I'm mostly on paternity leave to enjoy time with my family, but I'm slowly easing back into work. My next project is a book about what I've learned about writing effectively as a software developer.[0] Eventually, I'd like to try building a SaaS, but working on a book is much friendlier to an unpredictable work schedule at the moment.

[0] https://refactoringenglish.com/
The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy site Infowars
> Another reason for ghost job listing is to meet the requirements for visa processing.

This plus the idea of just grabbing and holding resumes that the HR team will never actually look at.
Not recently. Atmospheric EB has been around for a long time. Leybold started in the 60's and by the 70's a few companies had machines. Band saw blade welding is one of the big users of atmospheric EB.

The big problem with ATM EB is that the beam diffuses in the air rapidly so you have a few usable cm from the aperture to the work piece. The machines work by using a standard EB column with a turbo or diffusion pumped gun chamber firing down a baffled tube, each baffle having a small hole for the beam to pass and the space between the baffles is pumped by large vacuum pumps. PTR had a picture of such a machine and you can see a big umbilical of vacuum hoses snaking from the head to a battery of large Stokes piston vacuum pumps. Each baffle successively reduces the atmosphere leaking in until the isolation valve can be opened and the head can maintain enough vacuum to prevent flash over arcing.

A lot of that big stuff you see like pressure vessel welding uses reduced atmosphere welding where a small space is sealed as best as possible so the pressure can be reduced below 1 pascal (1E-2 Torr.) Then a standard pumped welding head can be used.

The more recent development was the plasma arc window stuff Brookhaven national labs did with Joining Tech (knew someone who worked for them when that project was active) though I know of no manufacturer using it.
What’s the difference between a ghost job and opportunistic hiring? I’ve never seen any team I work for put out a job posting with no intention of hiring and I’ve certainly never participated in interviewing a candidate where there is no intention to hire. However, I have seen my team put out a job posting where we only intend to hire if we get an applicant that is unexpectedly good.
You're describing the effects of normalising remote work. Employees now are able to work from anywhere in the world, so companies get employees from all over the world. Since we're already looking at employing anywhere, why not also contract from anywhere?
There's tonnes of worthless merchandise and supplements of a dubious nature which The Onion, the least expected of all possible buyers, now has to find a use for. My first suggestion would be melting down all of the 500% marked up gold bars[0] and make a one-time-run charity auction collectible for the Sandy Hook families. Or upcycling all the paper in Alex Jones' books [1] into paper mache, and use it to make globes, to really stick it to the globalists!

[0] https://www.infowarsstore.com/24-karat-999-pure-gold-collect...

[1] https://www.infowarsstore.com/infowars-media/books/the-great...
I think it works as it should work. The problem here is the amount of content and how they're evaluating which video to recommend next. If these systems are showing things you'll likely spend more time with rather than useful things or things you'll enjoy the most, then I agree, it's got a fair share of anti-recommendation.
The Onion wins auction to take control of Alex Jones's Infowars
But even old .NET code needs touched. Every month, transitive dependencies need upgraded for security fixes.

And that's when you realise SDK style projects are much nicer than the old project files. The tooling has massively improved in the past decade.
The number seems to be based on the fact that he made money of it. And if that was in the 100s of million, the fine should obviously be higher to ward of other people doing so (and not just have it as a cost of doing business). Kind of like the german movie piracy thing where the convicts had to give up thousands of bitcoin, which the state sold for more than 2 billion.

(Beside the fact that in other liberal democracies, he would be in prison now)
There have been countless proposals for alternative systems. Last-in, first-out from memory is holacracy [1] "Holacracy is a method of decentralized management and organizational governance, which claims to distribute authority and decision-making through a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy".

Not sure there has been an opportunity to objectively test what are the pros and cons of all the possibilities. The mix of historical happenstance, vested interests, ideology, expedience, habit etc. that determines what is actually happening does not leave much room for observing alternatives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy
Everytown isn't an educational organization and they have no gun safety programs. It's Michael Bloomberg's gun control advocacy group.
> Somewhat ironic since The Onion could be brought down in the same way by defamation lawsuits.

Unlikely.

It's worth remembering that Jones was never actually tried for defamation. He instead received a default judgment. In the US, both sides of a civil case have the right to a fair and speedy trial. If there's delays, you had better have a good reason for them and they need to fit the rules of procedure.

Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, more-or-less refused to participate in the trial. The Knowledge Fight podcast has some episodes dealing with the discovery and deposition process for the suits, with actual deposition audio. I'm not a lawyer but it was absolutely brutal to listen to how ill-prepared Jones, his employees, and his representatives were. They were submitting Wikipedia articles about false flags as evidence, had a comprehensive background check on one of the parents that was in FSS records that no one could seem to explain the presence of, and generally didn't comply with other discovery requests.

The end result of this is that his life's work has been reduced to a satire and he is likely financially hobbled for the rest of his life.

For The Onion to have the same fate, they would have to basically disregard every single common-sense rule regarding what you should do when you're sued.
No but it dispels the opening statement of gp about supposed dictatorial power.
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What is unreasonable about it?

Someone should get to lie and spread conspiracy theories for decades and have to only pay a little? The man had been doing it because he could, not because he didn’t understand it was a lie. Then when called out and asked to stop, he kept doing it.
Fitting!
You have to step extremely far over the line to be brought down by such a lawsuit, particularly if you have money to spend on legal defense (as Jones did previously, or the Onion does today). Jones went over that line one time too many, in a country where a lot of people strongly dislike him. It's like being Martin Shkreli, the system* is going to keep targeting you and eventually get you (entirely warranted) on one of your legal infractions. The more you're a jerk and stick your head up prominently, the more you're going to draw counter attacks to your behavior by the varied masses.

* the system referring to the vast combination of peoples: politicians, legal, monied interests, lobbyists, news media, corporations, journalists, agitators, whatever, et al
I strongly object that "We built this city" is the worst song of all time.

Especially when we live in a world where "Sweet Caroline" (specifically sung by Neil Diamond) is a thing.
Yes and he profits from fooling mentally ill people. Selling homeopatic pills and whatever.

But I think the right to be wrong is way more important than getting at Alexander Jones.

The precedent is bad.
Utilize the Tor network to access free proxies for any use case
Stocks are just mirroring the general state of the economy. When I grew up, my mental frame of the global wealth had the U.S. on the same tier as most Western European nations. Maybe a little ahead, but not comparable to tax havens such as Luxembourg or Switzerland. Now the U.S. is almost as rich as these two nations and is probably going to overtake them, while most of Western Europe is standing still, with scarce hopes of recovery given its bad demography.

In the Nineties and Aughts, Europe managed to keep pace with the U.S. and even reduce its gap, till the 2008 financial crisis. But since then the two zones are on totally different paths.
Of course, it's easy to be ideological and defend technology A or B nowadays, but I agree 100% that in 2016/2016 Keras was the first touchpoint of several people and companies with Deep Learning.

The ecosystem, roughly speaking was:
* Theano: Verbosity nightmare
* Torch: Not-user friendly
* Lasagne: A complex attraction on top of Theano.
* Caffe: No flexibility at all, anything not the traditional architectures would be hard to implement
* Tensor Flow: Unnecessarily complex API and no debuggability

I do not say that Keras solved all those things right away, but honestly, until just the fact that you could implement some Deep Learning architecture in 2017 on top of Keras I believe was one of the critical moments in Deep Learning history.

Of course today people have different preferences and I understand why PyTorch had its leap, but Keras was in my opinion the best piece of software back in the day to work with Deep Learning.
> but then go on to say (perhaps unintentionally; communication is hard) that you only want someone who has already rote-memorized how to solve the particular problems you throw at them

They said the opposite of that. Unless you think it's not possible to figure out problems and you can only do them by rote memorization?
The difference is there aren't hundreds of people applying to some random company's "opportunistic hiring" post, meanwhile the req gets reposted every 2 weeks like clockwork (possibly with a lower salary and more duties), just to see what it would take to get a "reasonable" number of "qualified" applicants.