jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's worth bearing in mind that this is not a study on educational outcomes, but is assessing how useful value-added models are for quantifying teacher performance. While the biggest correlative factor may well be socioeconomic status, that does not preclude teacher's having an impact on within-group differences.

From the introduction:

> In this paper, we provide a stark illustration of the limitations to using value-added models to identify high-and low-performing teachers. We do this by applying commonly estimated models to an outcome that teachers cannot plausibly affect: student height. Aside from the implausibility of teacher effects on height, student height is an attractive measure for this exercise since it is symmetrically distributed, interval measured, and arguably less prone to measurement error than achievement. We find that the estimated teacher “effects”on height are nearly as large as the variation in teacher effects on math and reading achievement.

It's also an interesting approach: take a model that is apparently predictive and see if it's also predictive of something that we know is unrelated. By showing that value-added models are displaying spurious correlation maybe policymakers will take note.

Could maybe take a similar approach to validating our ML models?
Why don't you ask Google?
relevant -> https://lullabydust.tumblr.com/post/65438836771/john-dies-at...
I share that dream!
I’m assuming the change Sally made was an unethical or illegal change.
Notifying users about a breach is a security practice, so they are being fined specifically because of their own security practices.
I feel like you're misleadingly quoting the Wikipedia article.

> In 2018 she received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation from Mozilla, which represents a 400% payrise since 2008.

......

> By 2020 her salary had risen to over $3 million, while in the same year the Mozilla Corporation had to lay off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic.[16]

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So its a 400% increase between 2008 and 2018, suggesting that her initial pay was an abysmal (for a CEO) pay of only $500k in 2008.

For the period suggested (the period where Mozilla fired 250 employees), her pay only raised from ~$2.5 million to $3 million, which is in line with my expectations.
Maybe "programming is easy" as a motto should be seen like "anyone can cook" in "Ratatouille": Not that programming (or cooking) per se is easy, but that it should be seen as open to practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and preexisting knowledge.

However, like cooking, programming requires years of dedication, experience, and experimentation to master.
Most likely because it's of strategic importance to them and they don't want to depend on a third party for a critical piece of their infrastructure.
You missed the if at the start of the sentence. They're not saying that the 100 contacts increases the odds, they're worrying about the effects of 100 contacts if the odds are were underestimated.
He literally owns the property of his neighbors in order to make his living situation more comfortable. It's sort of like a king granting lands to lords he approves of.

Also, what's to stop him from kicking those people out if he changes his mind? I doubt Zuck would ever write a honest contract that held him accountable for anything.
Same thing happening in electronics. The margins are so thin you'd be wondering where they get financing.
Why has this been posted multiple times? Seems like any opposition (healthy) gets down voted...
Yeah, like how 'gay' can mean 'stupid' in some contexts and moaning about it is pointless.
In a lot of companies it's similar to voicing an opinion about an alternative religion in an area dominated by one "true" religion.

Not to mention the fact that various job titles (scrum master?) are tied to the existence of such process within the company and are not useful outside of the context.
While you might be able to reduce costs through dedicated services, it also means you are going to have to write more code, maintain it and also maintain the machines etc. Don't underestimate that there are significant costs to do this reliably and maintain it over time as things grow. If you do need to do it though, I might suggest trying at least at first to use a csync2 with lsync on linux to manage the distribution of the files across the machines. We use this even in AWS for a site and it works really reliably, quick and was easier then managing a distributed FS.

But before I would go that route I'd probably first try setting up a proper CDN for the images and take advantage of the caching settings so you can reduce your S3 bandwidth charges.

Also, if you don't already have it, I'd also setup some monitoring on your AWS account to give you a weekly update on account charges & usage so you can see what is going on.
I'm in university at the moment and we're learning about Agile. Next year I've managed to get a year long placement with a big local software company and their interview and technical assessment mentioned Agile loads. The year after that, I have half a module (worth 8% of that year's available marks) based solely on Agile. I've also attended talks by big names like Citigroup and also local startups which were almost entirely about using Agile.

So is it in fact the case that in The Real World Agile is starting to go out of favour?
> Ah, now I see why you were pejorative about my being a Pivotal Labs employee.

Not sure I see the connection? I probably should have been nicer, you came off very shill-like though. Pivotal does kind of cultivate that attitude though, of "whatever we're working on is a disruptive, game-changing twitter-killer", but I guess it works for them since they managed to get a bunch of smart people working for early-stage companies without any stake in them and then training other people to take over their jobs.

I will have to look into this Diego, at least. Is there like, a white paper for it?
Team Topologies[0] goes into more depth about this topic, it's a good read.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1942788819
I agree. I'm not saying these people's demands are reasonable. I don't believe they are. OP just asked what their motivation was and I tried to give a serious answer.
I think you meant mold. Not all Facebook employers have to be mouldy.
I agree, unless the GOP leadership already has been filled with his true believers (I don't know, I don't pay good enough attention), they're going to go the Democrat route with a lot more institutional control to prevent a Trump type from winning again. At the end of the day, the last thing any party machine wants is to be marginalized by a single member, especially an entryist like Trump.
You are missing the point of my comment. The main focus is not the distinction between democracy and republic. It was that we do not govern ourselves directly. We elect people to do that for us because most of us aren't equipped to do it ourselves. The comment I was replying to called that fascism.

I removed the "We are not a democracy." line in my previous comment to refocus it on what I was really trying to say.
I just installed element today (the new name for riot)
It’s interesting and may have some features like rooms that will build interest outside of just being an IM tool. I do miss the days of AIM/Jabber/Google Talk/ where everything just worked. Bringing that experience to phones should be the goal rather than jumping from service to service.

My friends from Europe and Brazil are locked into WhatsApp, my American friends seem to prefer FB messenger. They’re really using 2 versions of the same company’s products which are “incompatible” at this point. Facebook could make them compatible with one another and with each other only OR they could do the socially beneficially thing and use an open protocol. Unless employees at FB push for this, they’re likely to take the former route.
The British media is certainly using that word in places.
Not until you can do load balancing on GAE/AWS without it.
I don't think I saw any private places on the front page, excluding the one which was a large region of land, possibly containing homes. All the others were open to the public and many of them. such as the cathedral, actively seek visitors.
The reverse is also true (deadlines have no respect for Muses).
Sure you do, pretty much every database these days has a LRU block buffer cache.
No it should not - missing off the www is as annoying as people who abuse the TLD, e.g. .tv means "I'm in Tuvalu" not "I'm on television lol".
The main problem with the plain "no www" record is that there is much less you can do with it in DNS. Most especially you can't make it a CNAME nor can you delegate the DNS to somebody else without delegating the whole domain.

With a www.example.com I can just make www a CNAME to a cloud or CDN vendor. With plain example.com I have to delegate DNS for my whole domain to that vendor (assuming they do that service) or use a A-record and go with one of the 3 anycast CDN's in the world.

Same if I want to use a GSLB service. I can just make it a CNAME or put in a NS record for my www.example.com . For example.com I'd have to run GSLB myself or put my whole domain under control of the external vendor.

So all work's domains have the smart stuff on www.example.com and the http://example.com is just a 301 to the www version.
If quantum suicide is real, you and I will hear of her death but she will only find herself in realities where the Communist Party indefinitely delays her death sentence.
http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=8k1q5q6k
Looking at the IWF website. Only child porn is within their remit. This seems a little crazy breaking parts of the web and effectively assuming everyone visiting a file sharing site is a paedophile.

http://www.iwf.org.uk/hotline/the-laws
Yeah, stupid admins. They only built the internet that you take for granted, right?
Snap, I thought Joost's GUI was like an SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) experiment gone horribly wrong. It was verging on Gibson cyberspace, but more likely, a kind of useless Minority Report interface.
I'm waiting for the Yes Men to take on airport security.
Well. Intel has always pitched themselves to the end-customer. The 'Intel Inside', Ultrabook, etc., campaigns have all been so that the customer insists on an Intel device.
That's a good start. If they'd be able to do 13 tests from a drop of blood from each of my fingers that'd be 130 tests!
> Operator anonymity can mitigate some threats, from social engineering to physical threats, pressure, legal and otherwise, from a range of parties.

And yet, Mullvad (Sweden), which seems to be one of the most trusted VPN providers without affiliate marketing, has no issues with publicly listing the names of every single member of the team[1].

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/what-is-privacy/
First one was an immediate turn-off. Duplicating code once is fine. With the given example, there's no need to start building an abstract billing method and a data structure to encapsulate the differences in billing between different countries, because there are only two countries and one is new. Wait for a pattern to emerge before refactoring, especially when such refactoring will make the code more complex and harder to reason about.
This extensively uses the American Institute of Math's knowls[0], which I think is excellent for math documentation.

[0] https://aimath.org/knowlepedia/
If the language supports closures which capture variables from their surrounding environment, there's no way around using "the closure itself" as your data object. After all, "the user" is not expected to "know" what any given closure is capturing from the environment; part of the point of closures is implementing a sort of information hiding.
Ok, this is all true, but none of it is the same as "X is going away".
At all, or by default?

In many cases, additional services (ports) are available on request. This is largely a spam-management (outbound) issue for service providers.
I think you, GP and WalterBright are talking past each other. Sure, cost-benefit seems to be ingrained deeply into the structure of our minds; I'd go as far as to say it's also an important part of rational thinking in the abstract. But GP isn't talking about that.

GP is talking about being forced to do cost-benefit analyses on a conscious and even instinctive levels all the time, by our economy and our society. GP is talking about the desire to not have to do that, and to instead be able to enjoy life without constantly worrying that anything but close-to-optimal decision will be disastrous in short or long-term. The dream of being able to relax, to be able to dive deep into something that interests you for couple of weeks, without risking sacrificing your kid's whole future in the process.

Upthread, I believe GP was also talking about what I call the competitive vs. cooperative nature of society. Our society is way too competitive for my taste, and it's what I believe is driving this cost/benefit craze.
I think this might be an effective response to AdBlock. It seems like death by 1000 cuts.

If ad blockers don't work on YouTube, then the average person won't bother to use them (because they won't be bothered to configure them). Videos are everywhere, and networks have improved to the point where you can reliably stream them from a mobile device. Is this the beginning of video ads plastered all over the web? Or is this just going to make YouTube more annoying?
ah, the Homer

https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer
Sometimes I wonder if Parler is a government run honeypot.
Brit here who has driven a lot in both the US and DE, int al.

You are talking about "undertaking" - which needs two lanes. The P(GP?) is on about people driving slowly on a scenic route and I've had a look at the road in question and it has one lane for quite a lot of its length.

I'll asert: Accidents on an autobahn in DE do tend to be quite nasty when they happen.

(Observation: I lived in West Germany for about 10 years and my family name literally means "german")
The ticket for hogging the left lane would need to be substantially more expensive than most other tickets if you want cops to actually enforce it.
I used Bluestacks emulator (and Nox too, one has to be a clone of the other I guess) to run the app. For the virtual camera I used OBS with a plugin to emulate a webcam. This worked for the webcam feed in the browser, but in Windows > Camera it wasn't detecting anything. I got the same results when trying to use an old smartphone as a camera via DroidCam before I gave up.
Technically speaking, fission is defined as splitting a nucleus into large chunks, approximately half the size of the original atom.

These things use radioactive decay, which is either alpha or beta particles coming out at a constant rate. Alpha and beta decay are not considered fission. (Though you'd have a reasonable case with Beryllium-8 alpha decay to Helium-4!)

Spontaneous fission decay is a thing and does happen. But not enough to power any of these kinds of things.
If someone killed themselves then they most likely experienced negative emotions very strongly. Not everyone does. The insight that can be gained about existence from someone with such an extreme phenomenological experience (i.e, someone who feels like everything is a kind of soulless torture, as he makes clear in the essay) might be useful for people on a more even keel. He talks about having to constantly remind himself that his negative outlook is only one way of looking at things. It didn’t seem to be enough for him, but it might still be helpful for me to think about. I highly doubt that many people have read his essays and were driven to suicide. I do think many people have read his essays and learned something about their own nature.
> "Based on Google Play Store rank"

That diagram is for Android only, so I wouldn't read too much into it.
So, suddenly things like police use of facial recognition, phone GPS data and other such privacy invading measures are good?

Weren't these methods being decried only just a few months ago when they were being used on the protests and riots during the summer?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/cops-in-miami-ny...

Another article from July from arstechnica about the very same thing written in a very different tone.
See my post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25679759
Well we agree on Trump at least :). I think election fraud does happen at a low level and is detected, usually in most US elections they report a low level of fraud, but nothing that would swing an election. That’s very interesting, why don’t you trust people to be honest? I personally believe in the good of people, that >90% of people are good people who want to do the right thing. So when people without skin in the game or anti-Biden people say there was no election fraud, I trust them. This is why I believe Raffensperger. But I’d be very interested to hear why you don’t trust people you don’t know?
I still don't think it would necessarily "hurt developers". Ads are needed mostly so that developers can release free apps and later convert these users into pro-users with paid apps, and make some cash from ads in the meantime. Devs only care that the advertisements pay well, so as long as iAds has better pay-out compared to adsense, I don't think anyone would care. Most developers would probably rather not put annoying ads in their product, but it's probably the only easy way to make money without requiring the customer to foot the bill.
Someone on reddit pointed out that the morality of making addictive games was never discussed. What does the community here think about this?
How to get moderate attention on HN:

1. Come up with a provocative blog post.
2. Write a whole lot of shoddy math to prove your title thesis
3. Extrapolate that your tiny sample set of anecdotal experience encompasses the entirety of the problem
4. Publish
Even assuming he's completely non-materialistic, I find it hard to imagine there's nothing Perelman could spend the money on that would make him even a little happier

What you're saying makes perfect sense in the context of our (modern Western) attitude to money, but Perelman has always struck me as a throwback to an older conception of these things. He might well regard money -- or at least money obtained in this way -- as intrinsically incompatible with pure intellectual life. If accepting the money would entail losing something that he values more, his refusal is not so strange.

It's also the case that Russian intellectuals are -- or at least used to be -- biased more in this direction than Western ones. Which reminds me of one of the greatest and funniest things ever said on the subject, Saltykov-Shchedrin on the difference between Russia and the West: "A Westerner sells his soul to the devil; a Russian just gives his soul to the devil."
These are all good points, but pretty shortsighted. Yes, convert from coal to natural gas. Yes, build cleaner nuclear. But we cant continue to build dams.. the good spots are gone and we need the few remaining wild rivers because they are part of our heritage.

What he dismisses is technological progress. Maybe, solar aren't cost effective now. but they are getting better by the year. The subsidies are worth it to get there. And he doenst even talk about conservation measures like more fuel efficient cars or painting all the roofs in America white.

He dismisses bullet trains too easily. Sure, cross continent maglevs dont make sense, but SF to LA is faster than airplanes + security theater. I shudder to think of the highway construction necessary to support 500 million people. Maybe telecommuting and self-driving cars are a better alternative.
A doctor who refuses to use such a system is putting the lives of his patients at risk. How is that acceptable?
Three emails regarding two separate incidents over the span of 28 days (and counting) does not seem excessive to me.

As far as the CEO being personally involved: he's evaluating the effectiveness of a potential long term strategic tool. His issue is with the process in place by Groupon for dealing with said incidents, not the specific incidents themselves.
I've always thought that t-shirt was pretty offensive. If your manager wore a shirt saying "go away or I'll outsource you to India" what would you think about that? They've both as true as each other...
These mathematics seem highly dubious to me. It's like they just found a bunch of different ways to describe the same thing, Infinity.

Yes 0 is 0. I could also describe it as (5 * 4 * 3 * 0), but how does that help?

When you think about it, there is no such thing as infinity. It's just a word and concept used to describe an amount bigger than you're able able to imagine or comprehend. It's something we use because we need to give a name to the "limit" to the far end of a spectrum.
I wonder if this will/can effect node.js. Will they ditch V8 for the faster, free, javascript engine.
he did mention "part I"
you have to take into account that cost of living will not be anywhere near sf cost of living in germany or austria.

i cant say anything about austria but in germany 36-40k€ would be a good starting salary for someone with a Diplom or M.Sc. straight out of college.
The thing I always heard is that if you are any hourly worker you are paid for your time. If you are a salaried worker you are paid to get the job done regardless of how much time it takes. I think I've heard that cited in legal cases. It seems like a useful distinction.

Many jobs in the modern economy are flexible. You do your work whenever. Maybe you carve out six hours a day to program but if you need to take a client call or answer an email out of hours you do it and you don't feel bad because you can goof off during the day when you like to as long as the work gets done.

Tracking this would be ridiculous and most employers will actually remove that flexibility in order to make sure that they comply with the law. People who like flexibility will lose and so will the economy. We'll become much less responsive.
Other implementations that do strict checks of the spec could reject keys generated by openssl. This could lead to connection failures and in some cases a retry on a less secure (or insecure) channel.
Given that EC deployment on TLS is rare anyway this will probably not happen very often.
IT workers are an exempt class is Canada.
If you allow flight software to override a pilot's decision, what happens when the plane's instruments malfunction? You could end up with a situation where a faulty airspeed indicator causes the flight software to nosedive the plane in a futile attempt to prevent a stall that isn't happening.
Do you have any recommendations for good sources of data on energy embodied in consumer goods?
I've been making a little calculator but have foubd it almost impossible to find trustworthy sources of evidence on this https://robinl.github.io/robinlinacre/energy-usage
Nobody doubts it's the weakest prize of the lot (alongside the peace prize, although you'll probably remind me that's not real either).

They seem to be perennially awarded to academic staff at the university of Chicago for coming up for a new way of pricing something or interpreting the markets. Nothing earth shattering or outside the realm of orthodox economics (beyond a few exceptions such as game theory).
>Sure, nobody should fault Kondo for being a capitalist, and props to her for introducing some Eastern spirituality staples to Western sensibilities.

Why on earth not?
I took it to be a more personal statement, that they themselves fall into that classification and are thus making the statement from their own perspective.
If you can look up and see gamma rays with your eyeballs, marvel has a movie deal for you.
I'd easily drop $1000 for a system if they announce L4D VR!
And that's why wayland will never replace X