skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A statistician could talk me out of this, but I've always been puzzled by the use of "prior." Nothing in Bayes's Theorem says that the prior has to be established before anything else. It makes Bayesian statistics seem like a matter of letting your expectations influence your results.

Instead, an interpretation that seems more favorable to me, is that you consider all of the information at your disposal, that can be brought to bear on a problem, and this could include known constraints on likelihoods. Bayes's Theorem becomes a tool for working through problems where a single statistic can't be readily used to analyze an entire data set, e.g., when data come from disparate sources and can't be readily combined.
The easiest way to do that is to make prop 13 for primary residences only.
Not sure why you snuck the word elite in there.
Any econ 101 teacher who goes off script talking about politics shouldn't be taken seriously. My micro and macro classes did not mention political actions at all unless you consider describing the potential actions of the Federal reserve as inherently political.
Here’s a longer look at the economic history:
https://www.paragon-re.com/trend/3-recessions-2-bubbles-and-...
I don't mean to segue here, but I got caught in a logical argument that ended abruptly with no definitive answer.

I mentioned the Monty Hall problem to a friend (an engineer) and discussed the statical analysis done on this issue. (ie, statistically it's better to switch doors after the first is opened, as it improves your odds of winning slightly)

But he only answered with "nope, Bayes' Theorem says the odds are the same no matter what you do". The only other point he added was that if you do something only once, you have the same odds every single time.

I found this frustrating simplistic, because we _know_ through testing that this isn't true. That the odds are better if you switch doors.

Is this the fanaticism of Bayesians? He even called me a "frequentist" as if it were some kind of pejorative.

I've researched this issue, and even mentioned to him his logical flaw (you choose twice, not once) and still "Bayes theorum says there's no difference and you're wrong because you are a frequentist"

sigh.
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Reading the mailing list end-to-end actually shows how much research Tim did before designing it. To suggest that the "academics" had no clue is extremely disingenuous. Worse, it misleads the next generation of great would-be algorithm designers into thinking that studying the research is foolish. Study of both the theoretical and the practical are hugely important; ignore either at your peril.
Basically the same thing that Youtube did to Blender and MIT: Monetize your videos or we're taking them down.
This isn't advice you can take now while you still have this job, but may help you in the future.

I was an early employee in one of the companies in the late 00s/early 10s that became a unicorn. Early on there were frequently times that required one of us (early engineers) to wake up in the wee hours to deal with problems. After this period of time I developed symptoms where I subconsciously always expect phone alerts to ring or things to happen in the middle of the night and have trouble going back to sleep if I wake up (which I do a lot even before; am a bad sleeper).

After I no longer had that job the way I slowly recovered from that is to sleep with my phone completely turned off or outside of the room -- letting my mind rest at ease that I'm not going to be waken up by a call or alert. I had to do this for a long time for that sleep paranoia to go away for the most part. I've also held less stressful jobs for a long time for my mind to recover gradually.
I like your method because it shares what you learn with others while helping you repeat and process the material.

And what good is it to plow through book after book if we remember little or nothing? Quite a few universities also don't give people any time to reflect between courses so modern schooling and many people's reading habits are geared more to the initial stimulation of reading and less to memory.

I'm a firm believer in taking notes, reflecting, and explaining the ideas to others for anything we really want to remember or master.
Looks about right for software engineers. For data scientists and data engineers subtract half the stock.
lead-free means lead comes free.
Toyota or Ford or any other car company can enter any of those fields, either directly or through investment. That they choose not to probably indicates that the risk/reward doesn't make sense for them, and they probably aren't worth that much if Tesla manages to pivot. They chose not to play in EVs until recently, for example, because the market appetite wasn't there
My P3D will arrive in 2-4 months -- very excited for the future of transportation, and an end to gasoline/diesel cars. 100 years is a long time without disruption, and couldn't come soon enough.

But I love the seeing all the hate here, I wonder if people at the turn of the century reacted the same way when their horse drawn carriages were disrupted.
They did the same to SC2. It was like the summer interns that wrote the plot had never actually played SC1.

(yes, I'm salty that I played through a huge chunk of a single-player campaign chasing "prophecies" in what had previously been a sci-fi setting, even if it was 50s psionics sci-fi).
Or anyone who wants to put up images for talented remixers to create new works with...
No, but it has to start there.

That's simply not true. There's a loop: sometimes, industry comes up with a specific innovation, and academia generalized it; other times, academia comes up with an idea, and it's implemented in industry (often a commercialisation effort by the inventors). And sometimes academics are employed by industry and there's a hybrid. There's no one true way.
Municipalities pose a greater threat to privacy than the NSA
If salaries were rising enough to justify the increase in house prices, then we’d also see rents going up at the same rate.

That’s not happening. Also, back when houses were $200K cheaper, and interest rates were almost 1% lower, you needed exotic mortgages (like adjustable rate) to make the cash flow associated with buying make sense (assuming you make apples to apples comparisons between owning and buying).
sorry, you're basing the entire dismissal of a posit by our OP that offers massive economic benefits, death of a sordid black market and freedoms for all because of an article where someone removed a statue of a woman?

People would have to arrive, in numbers for a long time, have kids, retain the culture perfectly in that regards as it blends into US cultures and then override the existing culture to do so. That's like 100 years in a vacuum. That's like imagining you'd see to eye with your ancestors from 1918. Ya think?
Thanks, Scott! I thought you’d missed this. Maybe we’ll get to have you give a colloquium here at Tulane someday soon!
No problem about bad English. But hey, can I ask you what your first language is? Very curious to know!
There’s absolutely a cabal. It’s just homeowners who think that their aesthetic sense is more important than an entire generation behind them being screwed.
Singapore is hardly a dictatorship. It's not a very free democracy, but they run free elections and a significant part of what keeps PAP winning these days is stealing opposition policies.

I don't see a massive distinction between Singaporean elite-driven one party "democracy" and American elite driven two party "democracy". Both fail in certain ways but they function up to a certain point.
> send once a month public release request with a diff to merge into the public one

That makes it incredibly difficult to collaborate with others.
If the source IP is encrypted, the recipient needs to decrypt it first in order to be able to send a response. To decrypt it, it needs to either have some shared secret with the sender, or the sender needs to use the recipient's private key.

The parties cannot obtain the shared secret the usual way, the Diffie-Helman exchange. It cannot be performed, because it requires back-and-forth communication, which we are trying to establish in the first place. Of course, we'd still need to use certificates signed by public authorities to deal with the standard MitM concerns.

The alternative would be for the sender to use the recipient's public key to encrypt the source IP address. That would require a DNS-like system that would store and serve public keys corresponding to a given IP address you are trying to communicate with. This is something doable, especially in IPv6 world where you don't really have to reuse IPv6 addresses, but it leads to all kinds of practical problems, figuring out which is probably best left as an exercise for the reader.
Don't worry, the NIMBY's will move the goalpost and start complaining about street parking and traffic. That's all my neighbors on Nextdoor complain about.
It's worth noting that Java doesnt exclusively use Timsort. Depeding on the data type and heuristics based mostly on the size of the input array, a simpler sort such as counting sort may be use.

You can find a more detailed summary at:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/41129231/149138
They don't at all. At typical companies, their salaries are maybe a bit higher than software engineers. At top companies though, their base and bonus is the same, but stock is about half (unless you're a core DS or have an AI/ML PhD). Also, 4-5 years working on a PhD could have been spent gaining experience as a software engineer, which means that all total a data scientist at FANG will make $100k to $250k per year less than a software engineer at the same age.
Totally bought one from ClickyKeyboards this morning after reading. Thanks for the write up. Currently switch between a Vortex VTG-8200 and the iMac Pro keyboard. The vortex is nice.

https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_det...
Are Paris-style 6-story buildings allowed by the laws of your local area?
thank you for posting this! Progeny of the developed world are not allowed to say such things.
So you're not sure when it expires?
Thats a problem for the greater fool down the line. Not me though i'm too smart for that.
The problem is that it's not the third world's population should go to first-world countries. It's first-world's legal and economic (and associated societal) technology should extend to the third world.

Third world's elites fear it because it will render most of them irrelevant (and it will). Third world's nationalists and leftists fear it because it will change the local culture to look like the fat bourgeois western culture (and it will).

The previous foray into this was tried at the times of colonialism; the results are ... mixed even by the most favorable account.
I suspect that investors are looking at Tesla to be highly automated and have a high return on capital. There's also the hype so it keeps on going up looking for the last fool that buys before the stock's true value is found. It's easier to buy the stock than to figure out its future value.

I think Tesla won't be just a car company. Eventually, they will be a company with multiple branches in the same idea as Alphabet. But that's way in the future. First, they have to survive to profitability.
More specifically, profits are a side effect of meeting sufficient numbers of individuals' needs. It does not necessarily follow that meeting the needs of those individuals benefits society at large.

Profits are also a side effect of meeting needs today. It does not necessarily follow that meeting needs today benefits society in a meaningful way in the longer term.

For what it's worth, I think your implication is true. Clearly most companies create wealth and deliver benefit to society, it's that aggregate effect that makes capitalism the most successful system we know of under which to run a society.

But the reality is that it's entirely the other way around: companies do exist to profit their investors and it's the benefit to society that's the (usual, aggregate) side effect. It's not good, or bad, it's just a fact.
Everything else I reasonably care about can be explained in terms of linear logic.
That only gets up to 280C it looks like, at that point it's not really any different than an oven with a pizza stone
That's too bad. It seemed to be going strong for more than half a decade. I was bummed when SimpleGeo, also cofounded by Joe Stump, got shut down after being acquired by Urban Airship [1] and glad to see Sprintly thriving. I think both can be counted as successes, but it's too bad that both no longer exist. I look forward to see what Joe Stump does next!

1: https://techcrunch.com/2012/01/13/with-simplegeos-shutdown-i...
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Nah, then we will end up having interplanetary strife between earth, mars, and the belters.
This arrangement exists because those are in paper format meant to be printed.

The argument in favor of narrow-width columns still stands. But we do indeed need to acknowledge that most people read on digital devices now.
I’d also make the argument that restricting migration out of a country can be of benefit to that countries economy. This was the case with South Korea after its civil war:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_South_Korea

“Following the Korean War, South Korea remained one of the poorest countries in the world for over a decade. In 1960 its gross domestic product per capita was $79,[57] lower than that of some sub-Saharan countries.[58] The growth of the industrial sector was the principal stimulus to economic development. In 1986, manufacturing industries accounted for approximately 30 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) and 25 percent of the work force. Benefiting from strong domestic encouragement and foreign aid, Seoul's industrialists introduced modern technologies into outmoded or newly built facilities at a rapid pace, increased the production of commodities—especially those for sale in foreign markets—and plowed the proceeds back into further industrial expansion. As a result, industry altered the country's landscape, drawing millions of laborers to urban manufacturing centers.”

A good book that talks about this economic transformation and how it was achieved is bad Samaritan’s:

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Samaritans-Secret-History-Capital...

The books author is a Korean economist who grew up during this period. One point that he makes which is very interesting is that South Korea had very strict laws preventing its academics from migrating to other countries. Those that did travel abroad to study were forced to return and participate in the economic development of the country. He attributes this as part of the reason for South Korea’s turn around.

China is another economic success story that restricts its citizens movements. Not saying that I agree with either of these policies. Just bringing them up as eastern counterpoints to the notion that unlimited free trade and free movement are the optimal states for economic development.
You must not be looking for work, or for that matter have a job.

My phone is indispensable for the kind of work that I do, I literally couldn't do my job without it.
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> There were about 8M computers sold, and assuming Byte continued to sell at around 400K copies, this mean that there were 5% subscribers to every PC bought, or 1 out of 20.

Well, that's deceptive. How many of those computers were purchased by a buyer for a business? (again, a population of buyers you might have had little or no exposure to) The ratio of subscribers to PCs purchased would certainly be higher.

It's not like there's anything hugely wrong with anything you're saying, but I was a kid who read Byte magazine and discussed benchmarking with adults, and I don't think we were all total freaks of nature or something. (that said, a benchmark measuring the execution time of a specific operation definitely represents the far side of wonkiness)
The American concept of "a touch of sugar" is different from most places', so for that audience the advice is pretty sound.

I moved to the USA from Australia. If I want bread that doesn't taste like cake, I actually have to bake it myself.
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We are in a housing crisis. Rich homeowners' desire for a "view" means little when the cost for our society is so great.
God's ideas of right and wrong flow out of his character. If humans are created in God's image, then humans' (unfallen) character is similar to God's. Then God's views of right and wrong are what fit unfallen, uncorrupted humans.

Then you have the Fall. After that, humans are bent, distorted. The situation now is like having a bent ruler. You place it beside an unbent ruler, and the bent ruler often says "I'm straight; it's the other ruler that's bent". That is, humans use their fallen morality to judge God's morality, rather than using God's morality to judge their own.

God's values aren't objective. For them to be objective, there has to be something besides God to judge them by - something more authoritative than God. But God's values are valid for humans made in his image.
Homeowners bought the land, not the view.
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Nobody thought it was unbreakable, just people stopped using the increasingly faster cars on the track because it is dangerous as fuck. I mean just watch the video of it, I wouldn't be going that fast in a video game on that track because it would be so damn easy to fuck up and crash.
Saves a huge amount of machine resources, too. Some folders are GB’s big we have to share.
It's a short and well written book, I'd recommend it if you're interested. One point that Borjas makes repeatedly is that he believes there is a suppression of reporting on the negative impacts of immigration liberalization. He also notes how on several occasions colleagues expressed surprise and dismay that he chose to publish findings that "went against the narrative", out of fear that they could embholden enemies of liberalized migration. Therefore, I would be cautious of drawing much from consensus or deviation therefrom.
The melting pot of the US worked wonders in many regards. But its capacity is limited; the rate of arrival, compared to the country's population, has an upper bound when melting still works fir the newly arrived, when cultural transfer is still seen as valuable, as opposed to just keeping to live the way they used to, and failing to blend in enough as not to pose serious problems.
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Who cares how "ugly" these structures are when we desperately need housing stock? Are you seriously suggesting we should be okay with delaying/blocking construction based on aesthetics when things are so clearly fucked up?
One thing to watch out for is when the board manufacturer changes its memory map without telling you. Boards built before April booted and the new ones didn't. Fortunately, the product was still in the development stage.
I know you guys are downvoting me but I don't give a shit. I used to see similar graphs for Incline Village (in Tahoe). But suddenly after 2008, the party stopped. The reason was that prices finally got to a level where people honestly just couldn't afford to bid higher.

For prices to double again in the Bay Area, you need to start seeing engineers earning $400k per year. It isn't going to happen.

Oh and by the way I have a house in Oakland that I bought in 2000 that has like quadrupled so I already won the lottery. I'm just trying to help others out here.
Dark pools are a special case of this phenomenon, yes, but they're different from regular stock exchanges precisely because they're dark. Some market participants prefer them, and some don't. But a hypothetical "light pool" would be strictly preferable to NASDAQ-but-weekly - it's almost always in every participant's individual interest to trade immediately instead of waiting up to a week and randomly getting orders filled or not.
Exploring the Amiga – A series of posts on the computer that wouldn't die
Though list B contains 4-3, so either B or D would be valid as ordering does not matter
This is a series of "lab notes" on the Amiga that I am writing while I explore the architecture and the operating system. I hope others find this interesting and useful.
The "consequences" were the sales of the $40 Reaper of Souls expansion to Diablo 3; if players were so put off by the core gameplay loop, even the removal of the RMAH wouldn't bring them back.

RoS sold pretty well. (2.7m in first week: https://web.archive.org/web/20140530093934/http://www.euroga...)
I've heard the same argument in Seattle, home owners who are "fine" with Parisian-style buildings, however they only came around long after the point where demand started replacing lower-income people enmasse.

When we wait too long, the market demands cheaper housing ASAP - style goes out the window.
> These days everyone does agile

Is Agile common in game development?
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Slave labor performed by convicts might be morally abhorrent, but it isn't unconstitutional.
Yeah, SF bay area, although I didn’t actually hear “hella” that much until I started spending time in Reno, NV, where my partner is from. Most of my coworkers have been from elsewhere in the country & world.
* Secure handshaking requires interactivity, unless you share secrets with your actual partner (no, your CA trust store isn't enough) in advance. So your first packet would leak it.

* To return ICMP error messages ("destination unreachable"), otherwise you'd have long timeouts.

* Ratelimiting outside the server (e.g. DDOS protection). Many ISPs do actually filter source IPs. (Of course you can't on the backbone, any there are plenty shady AS.)

* Leaving it off won't help against correlation attacks.

* Most applications will need it, so it makes sense to have it in the network layer instead of coming up with incompatible implementations above.
There are probably a lot of young, childless professionals who can afford it now (with little additional savings) and plan to eventually sell and buy a home elsewhere. They may not be adequately diversified or prepared to stay in their home once they have the added costs of family, child care, aging parents, etc. though.
If you don't build more schools, hospitals etc. (essentially everything) along with allowing more housing - then you shift problem down the line.
It isn't a cabal, more of an emergent property of people who don't like change and political process that is effectively only open to citizens who are retired. Which ends up being dominated by old people.

You'll see political change as specific demographic cohorts enter the political process and others die out. I feel like we are at the start of that shift as boomer politicians are starting to die and millenial/gen x politicians are starting to come to prominence. Since millennials are an echo of the boomers population wise, they will probably dominate over the gen x generation.
Based on salarytalk.org and h1bdata.info, median software engineer salary in MV is $127,000 - $129,000. In Pittsburgh: $113,000 - $114,000.

Relocating without a pay cut would be uncomparable, since it would involve pay cut dynamics for an established worker. Google is probably atypically generous in all these areas though, and I don’t think it counters the points about status. They want wage arbitrage to alleviate some headcount, doesn’t mean all headcount, and very likely Google would be among the least worried since revenue per headcount is so ludicrously higher than what they pay in total comp anyway. It still doesn’t suggest they open these office locations for some other reason than urban status or co-location with academic center status. Google US locations look mostly exactly like that’s what they are doing.