skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn, I'm a tenured professor and reading through the comments it seems like I'm the only one who thinks this is a good idea at some level. The reasons I think it probably wouldn't work are things I haven't seen anyone mention, though.

This is really not too different from the current system, except for one critical thing, which is that instead of decisions being based on nepotistic review panels, they're based on everyone. So this has the benefit of everyone getting funding, and decisions on who to fund based on some highly democratized process rather than the old boys club.

The issue you're raising is important, but making funding decisions totally anonymous would help. Of course, I don't know that you could make it totally anonymous, and what you're suggesting would still be an issue, but anonymity would go a long way. Also, the thing you're suggesting would probably still happen anyway even in today's system.

The problem in my mind is deciding who gets to participate in the system. Everyone who's a tenured professor? Tenure-track? What disciplines? My guess is this would just shift the funding decision from a per-project issue to a per-researcher issue.

My favorite idea for remedying the current process is to randomize rewards. That is, everyone above the median gets thrown into a pool and everyone has X% chance of being funded.

Also, I'd like to see "term limits" and more randomization of review panels. Make it more akin to jury duty, where, if an institution receives federal funding, their researchers are all put into a pool, and review panels are randomly selected for fixed periods of time.

Finally, indirect costs need to be eliminated, sharply curtailed, or reorganized to require explicit justification. Republicans are finally drawing attention to this, and they're right: it's slush funding. Universities wouldn't give as much of a crap about funding if it weren't a profit margin for them.
Ah it's fine, I really didn't mean to not have my name on the site anyway, I just didn't get around to adding it. I'll do that soon!
Everything I've ever heard on that front is that Erlang should be considered a control layer which has any CPU-bound tasks run in C. Actors/message passing is a good synchronization primitive but there is apparently a whole host of issues with memory leaks regarding it in the "Erlang in Anger" e-book.

I personally lost interest in Erlang because of it only supporting actors as a concurrency mechanism. They're good for some things, and probably exceptionally good at what Erlang was designed for (Telecom systems), but I think they're just one tool in the toolbox. If the recommended solution for CPU-bound tasks is to start writing C, I have to wonder if there's a better way.
Here's my gripe with this interview process. It encourages engineers to spend months and years into learning and remembering optimal solutions to textbook problems.

A REAL engineer would spend the same time doing something productive....things like:

- Writing a sql optimization for their current company that saves resources

- Creating shared memory interfaces for faster processing of logs

- Modifying filesystems or kernel to create their own log processing

- Modifying JVM to optimize critical code

- Rewriting parts of a server to set up security alerts

- Fast encryption and decryption of in-memory cache records

- Writing an interpreter for faster generation of low level code for high speed processing

- And on and on

My point is, today's interview process treats engineers with such complicated experience as shit because they spent time working on complex projects and couldn't memorize these questions. But then these same companies will hire some mediocre engineer who cannot think out of the box but is an expert at memorization.

Said mediocre engineers then hire other mediocre engineers using the same process, because these mediocre engineers do not even have the ability to grasp what kind of engineering would lead to above points.

To top it off, these same mediocre engineers sweep this problem under the rug claiming they are trying to reduce false negatives. Lol!

Sad state of the industry!
Why so many complex suggestions when we have not shown that any system is better than the lottery approach. Unless you can show that your grant allocation system is better than a random number generator why should we use anything else other than dice.
I'm the same age, and I was let go too. Corporate did a death by database search and got rid of a lot of people. I rather not speculate the reasons.. :)
Well, I think paper is a pretty good approach. But, some downsides:

1. Not very easy to share.
2. Gets wet in the kitchen (so I want to have a copy)
3. Not amazingly searchable.
4. Not easy to access remotely.

But sure, can just type it up and scan it in.
yes - but the same computational photography done on a Google Pixel can also be done on larger cameras. The Pentax K-1 for example can shift its sensor in 4 different directions for one single picture for increased dynamic range and color. So if one day you are able to simulate an amazing picture on a smartphone camera, with great deep learning filters, you could also create even more amazing pictures on a dedicated camera with a larger sensor. You'll just have to adapt the algorithms
agreed. I was at my last job for 20 years. From here on in, I'll try to not stay so long in one place. But I stayed mostly because I was friends with everyone. I was paid well enough, but work was fun.
"Principles", not "principals".
A FF Sony camera such as the Sony A7II with a lens like a 35mm f2.8 or 28mm f2 can be smaller and cheaper than an equivalent Fuji system, or even Olympus (although if you want f1.4 lenses, it's definitively going to be bigger).
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Wow, that's a nice way of pulling HN quality down, grats !

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> That's what countries do - if they can.

It's not countries but spying agencies that need to justify their existence now that the cold war is over. Or governments.

But I sincerely doubt that worldwide a national referendum about "should we use our resources and power to spy on other countries and try to control foreign government" would get close to a majority of yes in most countries around the world apart maybe in the US and north korea and maybe a few others. And even for the US I'm not so sure.
"Wealthy people aren't getting taxed 50%. You're thinking of income taxes. Wealthy people don't make income."

Income tax is indeed what I am talking about and people do indeed get taxed at (roughly) 50%. You can use whatever term you'd like for those people.

The income limits for the top tax brackets are in the low six figures. Presumably you'd see those raised significantly to avoid these punitive rates on the "non wealthy" ?
If this materially impacts the bottom lines of companies that are practicing this approach eventually companies that are not using this process will prevail.
There's the very real possibility that in 10 years, you'll be broke with a failed startup. Articles like this often act as if risk didn't exist, and then claim that everyone should quit their steady jobs for a moonshot dream career, be that in arts, acting or startups.
I see your point. It does not help that .01% of the general internet population create most of the web's useful content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygen...
If there is political will, things like that can be done remarkably quickly.

South Korea had a massive shortage of chicken eggs last winter due to an avian influenza epidemic. It took only a few weeks for the government to start importing fresh eggs from abroad, something that had never been done before. It wasn't enough to get prices down to normal levels, but at least the government acted quick -- especially considering that the nation was in the middle of a Presidential scandal.

Unlike South Korea, Japan is essentially a single-party dictatorship. They can pass whatever laws they deem necessary if they really want to. I'm assuming that they don't want to, probably because there's someone who profits from high potato prices.
A: Yes.

B: Doesn't matter since you're not resource constrained on the backend.
I haven't advocated corporate ownership, however what hkmurakami describes is an extremely accurate picture of the rural Japanese situation.
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I live in Anaheim and they banned Airbnb because the hotel tax (because of Disneyland and visiting sports teams) is 17%. Airbnb's didn't and wouldn't pay it, so they got the ax.
What concurrency patterns have you found yourself unable to express using actors?
Structural Integrity
How to Achieve HA on Your AWS EC2 Instance with Incapsula
Well short answer long term it's the only viable model you are not going to use locking and STW gc on 500+ core system
with few TBs of RAM.
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I'd say that type of thing is fine. Some count university or freelance projects towards the experience rankings and even if not it doesn't hurt to ask, worst they will do is say no
As Southeast Asia’s tech funding sinks, the search is on for a new identity
the "best doctors" in my eyes are the ones with the best outcomes,
lowest utilization, highest efficiency and highest patient
satisfaction.

As a lay-person, how can I tell which institutions or doctors have the best outcomes, and patient satisfaction? How can I make smarter choices about where I take my family for medical help?

I think those are the best doctors and it's what I'm striving to be.

As a doctor, how do you measure this? How do you know you're becoming better and in which areas you need to focus?

Also, have you seen this article? It might interest you: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/03/personal-best
It's impressive what you can achieve in under 16kB:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaVo-OffZD8
There are other equilibria, likely because the employment market does not have the characteristics necessary for analogies of the the Efficient Market Hypothesis to apply. (most glaringly: people are not fungible commodities / the agents involved do not have rational expectations)
from the link:

CoffeeScript’s intent, however, was never to be a superset of JavaScript. One of the guiding principles of CoffeeScript has been simplicity: not just removing JavaScript’s “bad parts,” but providing a cleaner, terser syntax that uses less punctuation and enforces indentation, to make code easier to read and reason about. Increased clarity leads to increased quality, and fewer bugs. This benefit of CoffeeScript remains, even in an ES2015+ world.

so, it's not really about "CoffeeScript's functionality" but more it's "style".
Sylpheed is GTK2, those screenshots are GTK3.
I'm firmly on the side of the corporate career, but this is a BS argument for it. The outcomes aren't binary. Even if you don't "make it" as a writer / actor / cartoonist, it doesn't automatically mean you're broke and waiting tables well into your forties. You can find yourself part of a well-paid production crew or as a grip or something that you're better suited for that the industry actually needs.

Similarly, if you're doing startups, failure doesn't go on your permanent record and you can try again. These career fields are about choosing your priorities in life, that's how you choose one path or the other.
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>> If this materially impacts the bottom lines of companies that are practicing this approach eventually companies that are not using this process will prevail.

It would, if companies realize that they can save millions by improving their interview processes and not have to aqui-hire so much.

But this insight requires smart people (who they eliminated with this interview process) to be already hired in those companies.
OTOH the time to do a "risky" startup job is when you're young and have no real responsibilities other than yourself. Being broke in your late 20s is recoverable especially if you've gained expertise in current tech; being broke at 40 with a family is a much harder challenge.
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Wow. I used to cut, and occasionally write, radio spots for a living. I agree that it's annoying, but it's so that the message is carried across, not because marketing people are some epithet. That's what the sponsor is paying for, after all, and you are not. Radio-friendly music is often mastered with the same dynamics removed. Most pop and modern rock looks about the same on a spectro as the spots I used to cut. We made a conscious effort at my last station to master stingers ("you're listening to...") and other meta stuff at the same overall loudness level as the average spot, so there was a heavy contrast between the talk radio portion and the everything else portion and you'd have a solid cue of when to turn down if you so chose. There's actually pushes in the industry right now to move toward PPM meters that more effectively indicate loudness. We got it, believe me.

Radio is a lovely profession full of wonderful people. There is a strong hacker culture on the engineering and air operations side of things, and the head of sales at my last station baked six huge cakes for a company event in her home. Pretty much every day the station smelled like solder from some hilarious contraption the bored engineers were putting together. Most people who like HN would love a radio station.

Marketing ("sales," in radio) is a necessary function in capitalism, and loud commercials have nothing to do with ethics. If you want an example of how ethical radio sales can be, if I technically erred while airing even one second of a :30, they'd refund the whole spot and re-air it. Most of my job during broadcast operations was notating these exact problems, and they never thought twice about making it right. Why would they? Advertisers are what, you know, feeds the family of everybody at the station and gives you something to listen to on your drive home for free, and they do spot check.

This comment is just really, really awful all around, and I expect better from you. Ethical is not an antonym for crappy, nor annoying, and accusing a whole group of people of being unpleasant and unethical simply because [issue] is nothing short of completely shitty, speaking more about you than them.
I think there might be a happy medium. Knowing how to implement a specific algorithm is not necessary. Knowing of algorithms and picking the right one is important. For example, a junior developer apparently forgot about hash sets. He used a list for lookup. Worked fine in his local tests. Fail miserably when we had to load millions of records. A more seasoned programmer should be able to explain why a hash would work well here.
Richard Cook's writing and talks on systems have hugely shaped my thinking on systems.

For those interested in more, he gave a highly entertaining talk on system resiliency here and introduces a helpful model. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60

I also wrote a post summarizing how I think about Rasmussen’s model in startups and web applications. https://medium.com/@sunils34/managing-systems-ecbf161066cf
It will be worked out eventually, maybe 20 to 50 years from now, when China says "ok that's enough young man, now go sit down and behave yourself".
I'm sorry for the awful situation but I'm glad her doctors are doing good work and helping her.

I wish her, you, and the rest of your family the best.
Yes, I still use it when I'm in Rails. Even in new rails apps it's easier to use coffeescript than babel. The newer sprockets beta still isn't reliable enough.
Yes, because you have to be pretty capable plus lucky to make it in a fundamental new way, there's a better chance you can be successful in the future. But you see people being really lucky too.
Well then. Let's all remember to stay on-topic.
Yes. Because that is exactly their purpose. To gain SIGINT on others.

Every major nation does this kind of thing to each other to keep the others in check. Trust but verify.
There are optical telescopes that use interferometry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_optical_interfero...

But given the we don't have multi-THZ digital sampling, I guess, all the work has to be done in the analog domain in realtime... which is pretty limiting compared to what is possible with radio.
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Blah. Based on the title I expected a more generically applicable pattern rather than a product pitch. Could be interesting but it's something I see as a difficult sell over K8's and open source tools
Frasier is a chimpanzee

https://glot.io/snippets/ee0wub5ywy

God damn you are one stupid fuck.
I get slightly better battery life in wayland
Agree with other commenters, not sure what the 2.5x increase in traffic would open for you in a home setting. I use 40gb fiber between switches on opposite ends of my place and 10gb connections between switch and computers and I've always found something else to be my bottleneck, not the internal network itself. I can saturate my wifi network easily though (I've got a $20k retail Aruba wifi network, yet still not enough). I buy most of my gear used so it's not that expensive (would've been very expensive retail), but still overkill unless your a network nerd (like me) or are doing something out of your home you likely should be using a DC.
I'm not particularly emotional about this, at least not in the "getting irrational" sense. And I'm not against intelligence agencies in principle, I acknowledge that we need them to some level.

The difference is that I come from a country where secret service (both domestic and from other USSR-friendly countries) used to be almost almighty ~25 years ago. And I've seen the damage it inflicted on the society (including some family members) by eliminating any form of dissent or sign of disagreement with the government. Considering how much cheaper and easier dragnet-like surveillance got over the past few years ... well.

You may point out this particular case (compromising SWIFT bureau) is different, i.e. it's the type of action you'd expect from NSA-type intelligence agencies. But it's a mistake to see the agencies as independent / isolated entities. The rest of the leak is however interesting as it shows how hoarding of NOBUS 0days fails, because it's never really NOBUS.
The Eighth Dirty Word - "Just"

https://blog.forrestthewoods.com/the-eighth-dirty-word-just-...
There's no allegation of sabotage in the linked article or the grandparent comment though. And in fact the structure of the US intelligence community makes that sort of a broad leap too: "spies" may be involved in sabotage, but broadly the NSA never is. That's someone else's job.
Mr. Buck's book is also really good, I would heartily recommend it

http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/
I have a space alien.

Frasier is a chimp

You are the stupidest fuck in the history of the universe
Interesting site. One thing I'm confused about, is why PHP? The content is essentially static, of at least infrequently updated. It seems like a waste of processing resources, even with caching, to repeatedly re-process the page in an interpreter. Why not just generate the static content, or even roll it by hand?
You're making a false dichotomy.

Yes, you are personally responsible for your own circumstances and society isn't going to take care of you if you don't work.

However, it's also incredibly shitty that society let you down enough at 15 to stay "high and drunk" for several years, which, for most kids, doesn't turn out well.

There's enough blame to go around. Taking personal responsibility and blaming the system aren't mutually exclusive.
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Still dont you/anyone find these kinds of threads out of place for HN, a VC forum ?
If only all people with hiring responsibility were devoted to the bottom line of the business, as opposed to the bottom line of their personal careers.
Whoa that's nuts! Sounds amazing for saving babies though after reading the article my next thought was using that plus a dialysis machine to create a Frankenstein body to cheat death.
I was looking at the source, and came across this URL:

https://gmpg.org/xfn/11

the HTTPS cert isn't signed correctly, and if you accept it, you just get a 404. I decided to see what https://gmpg.org is, and (to my surprise) was presented with a login page for RBC.

Looks like all of the pages work over non-secure HTTP, though. Looks like they got hacked?

Maybe some sort of malicious redirect?

From wget:

WARNING: cannot verify gmpg.org's certificate, issued by ‘CN=online.rbcaccessverifcation.fotomateo.com’:
Self-signed certificate encountered.
Calculus would have happened without Newton (Leibniz). Special relativity without Einstein (Lorentz). Etc, eventually.
It loads in way under that time on a OnePlus 3 over LTE, and most of the time is spent connecting, from what I can see.
Common mistakes to avoid while using big data in risk management
Well I'm 50 and my job involves a lot of context shifting, solving sudden problems with systems I'm not an expert at (thus requiring research) and generally being a jack of all trades.

I find it easier to do now than I did when I was younger, I see it as just what the job is. When I was younger, a sudden demand to do something different would have me annoyed because it was distracting me from what I really wanted to be working on.

Now I know that everything will be different in 5 or 10 years, so it doesn't really matter what I'm working on as it will be irrelevant soon.
I feel like I've read some research that patient satisfaction is sometimes inversely correlated with other measures of doctors' skill. This is because the sickest patients tend to seek out the most skilled doctors, but doctors are not miracle workers. If you receive a higher fraction of people in marginal condition, you may get worse outcomes, despite having better outcomes than a similarly situated, less skilled doctor. Patients don't know this, being able to see only their own situation, and knowing only that they had a bad outcome.

There is some name for this apparent statistical paradox, but I forget what it is. In any case, the main problem with your criteria is that the "best" doctor would be one that treated only the healthiest patients. They would have low utilization, high satisfaction, good outcomes, and very good efficiency.
While I highly dislike this trend it's hard for me to call say Sundar Pichai not smart for example.
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