skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. The horrible truth is that affirmative action cuts both ways; it can give advantages to under-represented groups, but only at the expense of the majority. Admissions is a zero-sum game. Every student admitted is a spot not available to someone else.

It a horrible system, but so is every other system. What you can say for affirmative action is that it tries to game the system towards those who generally get screwed over otherwise.
I do not understand how the first sentence was supported by the next two sentences. Hundreds of millions of people eat insects daily, and it seems way more efficient than using them as an intermediary food source.
What will you do in a bad year when a couple of cats drive your loss ratio north of 110%? I imagine the answer to that is a big part of the regulatory challenge!

I wish you the best, I do like your goal. I spent almost 15 years from post-college to ~present in insurance before moving on recently to something else here in SF. Ping me if you ever need anything or just want to bullshit about the industry :)
That's what Cormen/Rivest is for. Much sturdier, too.
Just eat your goddamn veggies.
> most of the “tech people“ on this blog either give paid lectures, sell books, or are associated with a “tech startup”

That's false, you're vastly under-estimating the size of HN. There are tens of thousands of users and millions of HN readers. Dang noted three years ago that there were 300k daily uniques and ~3m monthly uniques.

A small fraction of those give paid lectures, author/sell books, or are associated with a start-up. Most is an extreme exaggeration. It's closer to 1%-5% than 51%.
That's pretty brilliant.
ECS has a docker size limit of 4GB before it will crash silently with no user facing error message. It is also is pretty buggy with the agent sometimes not starting and paying for nodes that aren't used.

Also containers are better for production security than just having apps sitting side by side on the same disk.
>>>Figure out a way to travel to San Francisco

Hahahahahahaha is this for real?
Hmm, why doesn't `fn() echo test; fn` work? It seems to work in zsh, but not bash.
Profit. Profit. And more profit. The profit of corporations here in the US is the most important pursuit by government, even when it comes at the expense of jobs or even human lives. Nothing will stand in its way. If you take a closer look at why we have the worst of the worst ideas implemented in the worst way, you'll see it's because someone or some corporation is making a ton of money at the expense of everyone else. This is not an inherent property of capitalism, it's how the US chose to implement its version. Put simply, humans are second-class entities in this system and only the profits of the rich/corporations are first-class entities. When you put this idea into a country built on war, colonialism (carried out towards others), slavery, and oppression, the current status quo should not be surprising.
I don't really think there are any negative effects to having good social skills. If anything, being able to effectively communicate with others probably helps with coming up with new/unique ideas. Very few great ideas are created in a vacuum. But, I do agree it's important that people don't feel afraid to be an independent thinker, and it's easy to fall into the trap of forced conformity in order to feel more socially accepted.. but I don't think that is really necessarily a product of having good social skills.
Agree, and feel sad we need to go here. This transfer to the bottom of the chain is a real and difficult problem for sure. But at some point is the supply of people who will do this crime gets cut off then the entire supply chain falls apart. In an ideal world it would be best to target the kingpins, but we all know how difficult this can be with their use of lawyers, cut-outs, front companies, and other evasive moves. It sucks that humans will hunt a species to extinction for pure vanity (skins, jeweler and horn potions).

Agree further with you and maxxxxx that smugglers and buyers of said animal contraband should be severely punished. But again, that's so far after the fact and there are so many possible outlets for these goods that a demand side solution will just not work.

The Chinese government, if they really wanted to cut down on ivory and rhino supplement trade, could enact and enforce severe buy-side punishments.

The sad fact is, there is one and only one choke point in this entire global supply chain and that's the guy with the gun that chooses of his own free will to kill one of these animals for money. Stop him and the entire enterprise folds. Yes, I know it's harsh, but other efforts are just not working.
I recall seeing a tweet this morning stating the same for ethics committees in academic research papers. Students are being taught to put questionable things in - that are easy to excise. They get challenged, remove the red herring, and are approved since the "offended party" feels appeased.

Anyways, Interesting analog. Intellectual dishonestly aside...

I have no first hand knowledge, but it seems highly probable.
How are they "overrepresented" if they're qualified? All data point to them being underrepresented in terms of their qualifications.
I don't know what's up with Uber, and why they crashed into any object in the middle of a freeway with no other cars nearby, but Deep Learning is part of everyone's systems, including Waymo. Terrain analysis is great, for static terrain, but once you need to classify what objects are, or predict where they are going to go, that gets a lot less feasible as the only approach.
Unlike (ba)sh, those languages are not a DSL for manipulating processes and files. (Ba)sh is more accurately framed as an ancient DSL than as a general-purpose language that has now been exposed as subpar.
The site is sadly broken on Firefox.
To answer one of the questions in the post: I do believe that MongoDB's transactions will only be used in some applications, and only in few but critical places within those applications. That is because with a document database, data that belongs together will often already be together in the same document, rather than distributed over multiple tables as with a traditional database. And if it's together in the same document, you can already modify that atomically in MongoDB without multi-document transactions. (Disclosure: I work for MongoDB.)
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Again, black or white, pro or against, no compromise.
Why do you assume that people who are not pro-abortion-in-all-circumstances support Republicans?
Yes, agree here. Big problem. A long prison term to allow for all due process and appeals should be used.
Not surprised. Scamming is HUGE business.

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Flash games were absolutely huge. Web games on mobiles could absolutely work.

Platform owners don’t want that for obvious rea$on$.
How many countries are left after that list?

You've already ruled out any 'five eyes' countries (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand), much of Europe (for similar reasons), China, Russia (okay, these literally break all of them), Japan and South Korea (work/life balance), almost all of the middle east, much of South America, much of Africa, etc.

Maybe one of the Nordic countries avoids these issues. Maybe.
> it is pretty much completely inappropriate for production since it uses no vector instructions nor GPU computation

Many platforms do not have GPUs or special instructions, for example, at the edge.
The requirement of parliamentary systems to form a government lets some smaller parties have a look-in, since they can get concessions from the large parties to agree to join a coalition. Without that, a smaller party has no leverage.

But the UK is the classic two party system that Washington warned against.
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Also it is important to keep in mind the old tricks used to pass bad laws: they push initially for worse laws then after public protest they slowly step back to the initial goal to pretend people were listened to, so that not only they get what they wanted, but the public is also being fooled into believing their protest were successful and they have politicians who actually listen to them.
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That's called haggling or bargaining and is old as the notion of trade.
I just quit Facebook. Your own posts ought to show in your 'Most Recent' News Feed. One particular Share I tried posting over and over again with 'what I had to say about it' never showed up in News Feed. Facebook is Censoring. Anyway it's screwed-up when 'Most Recent' does not have in Chronological order yours and your Friends Post. Lots of Users messed up Facebook by accepting fake profiles from whomever into the thousandths, which no doubt are Foreign Hackers.
Could be Facebook couldn't figure out which 'Political Box' to set me in. As I'm Social Conservative, but with the Democrats on economic issues. Populist so to say!
I never tried to 'sort' my Friends. I enjoyed seeing the whole spectrum of Opinions, and never wished just to surround myself with those only thinking like me.
Dual nationality.
Oooh that's how they take off! One time I was on a high mountain and there were so many tiny spiders floating above they made a glittering halo around the sun.

I still wonder how they get so high though. Shouldn't the charge diffuse as they lose their connection to the ground?
Well, the second that admissions process gets out, an entire industry will move to game the metrics it uses. That will make those metrics largely useless, as only the rich will be able to afford private coaching to make sure they hit the metrics.
Cro-mag’s developer Pangea Software has been an excellent Apple platform developer for a long time now. If you ever played Mighty Mike/Power Pete, Nanosaur, Bugdom, or Otto-Matic on the Mac that’s them as well.
This is an issue at Stuyvesant High School too.[0]

[0] http://www.bkmag.com/2015/03/31/only-ten-black-students-were...
Visualizing how a deep net classifies texts by paying attention to certain words
> Does this mean that gravity is a real form of eneergy and not a simple deformation of space-time?

No, it means that, heuristically, your local definition of "energy" and your local definition of "inertia" are both determined by the geometry of spacetime, i.e., by the same thing. That's why they have to match.
>> “When will cars drive themselves? Experts say nobody knows” articles.

Nobody knows because it has yet to happen. We have all seen demos and studies but that doesn't convince anyone not involved in the tech. Cars will be capable of driving themselves when I see one, sans humans, ask to merge in front of me on the highway. It will happen when I see one navigate the lineup to the ferry I take every week. It will happen when I see one accurately obey hand signals from a human directing traffic. Not youtube vids. It will happen when I see it with my own eyes. Just like electric cars, we will have to see them on the roads playing the game we all play every day. Until that tipping point, driverless remains a myth that happens in a faraway place.

So put them on the road. Let's give it a try. Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn't and people die and they sue. That's been part of driving since day one. Roll the dice. I'm sick of the endless debates.
Underwriting profit shouldn't be a major part of the business model. If you're making too much money year to year from that, there's going to be regulatory pressure to lower your filed rates in a given market, and absent that, competitive pressure, because your competitors are going to have similar loss behavior in your segments and will cut rate to take market share from you. Customers see insurance as ~fungible and they will shop, although not as often as they should.

EDIT: I see the OP responded to you, and independently, I'll say he gave a great explanation and probably knows WTF he's doing. Didn't expect to see IBNR explained on HN!
Depends on your database.

Some like Cassandra are easier since it is multi-master and so you could just use local storage and if the node goes down then it's not the end of the world.

There is an interesting solution for MySQL: https://vitess.io which apparently is used by Youtube and Slack.
> They have products that did, before or at the same time, similar functions.

I don't think that's accurate. Autosteer is the fundamental innovation of Autopilot, and no other manufacturer released a system that "did, before or at the same time, similar functions" as Autosteer. Other manufacturers have since released systems that technically check the box of turning the wheel. But the value of a system isn't how it's described on paper; it's how useful it is on real roads. I haven't seen anyone release a system that's competitive with Tesla's except for Comma.ai (which is a very special case as they are not an OEM and only sell raw hardware).

"Imitators" wouldn't be my word of choice (it feels needlessly pejorative), but until someone actually innovates beyond what Tesla has done, I think it's fair to frame the conversation as the gold standard vs everything else.
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I would imagine that both MIT and Caltech have a higher acceptance rate for legacy for this reason. However a side effect of them not keeping track is that we will never have the breakout of those rates.
I don't think it's arbitrary. You even distinguished in this comment between a brain and a simulation of a brain. Steel is a physical system that can be modeled mathematically. Accurately simulating steel doesn't make steel.
Yes, sorry - although public schools are strictly speaking only a subset of private schools.
Private health care in the UK is a scam just gives you an extra tax bill for no real advantage
Check with --js-flags="--no-untrusted-code-mitigations", it should be about 10-13% faster.
https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Untrusted-code-mitigations
That's arguably better. In the original formulation, I think it's that the sub-population that is genuinely intellectually curious gets jaded, while the sub-population that is into capitalizing on group-think starts to take over. In this way, it's also related to intelligence.
I agree with your points - each step of processing feed material leaks some of the efficiencies gained by harvesting at lower levels. Generally the benefits from chaining production come from the lower level consuming the waste products of the higher level, like fertilizing aquatic plants with fish waste.

Where insects could make a big difference is replacing more expensive or less effective inputs into higher-level products, ideally commodities. For example, if we could produce breads using crickets that have higher caloric densities for the same price that would be a huge global win. We're not there yet though.
Same here, I actually lost 200 lbs in my mid-late 20s and it's amazing how many positive ways it has affected me beyond the physical health benefits. Growing up I never had an interest in sports/physical activities but I wish I had.
I don't think it's the same. Stuy (and Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, etc) have only a single well-defined metric -- the test. Admissions are as transparent as it gets.
Why bother with 40% pig? Why not replace it with 40% plant based fibers?
It's pretty much a self fulfilling prophecy, yes.
Because advice comes in many forms and is almost never universally applicable. Something that sounds great when applied to one case can usually be flipped on its head with a thousand counterexamples. I'd rather listen to someone who was an expert in whatever problem domain I was seeking advice in than someone who demonstrated massive success in a completely different area, yet I see people do this all the time. Mark Cuban is regularly on CNBC discussing his stock picks while he has actually underperformed the markets for many years. Yet his opinions and advice on stock-picking are highly respected because he top-ticked the sale of a startup that no longer exists and hasn't really created anything lasting since.

The Stripe founders I'm sure have incredible expertise in the payment and startup space and are clearly brilliant. Yet from reading this piece I can sense in a way that he himself probably can't, a sort of ignorance that comes from a lack of life experience. I wouldn't really be too interested in their ideas on most other subjects whereas I would be very interested in reading someone who (gasp!) hadn't created a 10-figure net worth before 30 if they had experience in that area. What a concept. I can't recall how many times I've looked back on a time I dismissed someone else's opinion only later to realize I was completely wrong. The realization that your opinions very often will prove incorrect and the associated behavioral change is what makes you wise, not the refusal to admit you are wrong and the dismissal of everyone who disagrees with you.
So what are your thoughts on the “war on terror,” the “war on drugs,” and the “war on poverty?”

When has attacking an abstract idea ever accomplished anything?
I assume you mean CLRS when you say "the white algorithms book" - if so, I'm not sure I necessarily agree that any of these books are meant as reference works or "not intended to be read entirely". They're textbooks, of course, so there's something of an expectation that you'll read them over the course of months or years, but I do believe that all three of your examples are _meant_ to be read cover to cover rather than used as a reference book like a dictionary or a thesaurus or even a cookbook; if you pick up any of these books and start at a random chapter (much less a random section) you're likely to be lost. You might use them as references once you've finished them, but you are expected to start on page 1 and finish on page 1,892 (or whatever insane page count these books have now).
"and that the education itself is middling"

If this were true, wouldn't we already know this?
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See also "the duck":

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1220...
Oh, I wasn't imagining them in a vertical string. Imagine a horizontal line of them, instead.
Pretty soon we will be running Chrome on Firefox.
Wow, cool. I'm skeptical that this poses a substantial impediment, but that's incredibly fascinating in its own right.
"it's a safe bet that hiring managers would be aware that Harvard graduates were not necessarily selected for merit,"

Isn't this true of just about every school?
>There are only two strong counters, one is that the quality of life can be very high in parts of wealthy Western Europe, and the other is cultural (preferring one culture over another).

I would think the counters would also include:

* Getting to go on vacation ever, at all.

* Weather and closeness to family.
Corporations don’t do things.
People within corporations do things. You’re not going to get anywhere with a protest website that says: “BigMediaCorp is trying to take away your rights!” But, if it says “Mark Smith, VP Government Affairs at BigMediaCorp, who lives at 155 Spruce St., Los Angeles, leads the team that lobbies to take away your rights!” ...you’ve got a real person to oppose who does real things.
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1 Which apps do you use to track all your subscriptions like spotif in one app?
I don't know if it makes sense to get renter's coverage.

I had a friend who had his apartment burn, the first thing the cops asked him was if he had insurance, and the they told him they were very relieved, otherwise he would have been an arson suspect automatically.

Homeowners generally do have insurance, so they don't face this stigma, but renter's coverage is rare enough that having it and using it makes you look like a crook.
Did you use -O3 or some other optimizations?
Google has willfully abdicated its responsibility to the hundreds of millions of people whose digital lives they manage. Whether the product is paid in cash or the erosion of privacy, this kind of failure can ruin lives.

People choose to rely upon Google, but Google has spent tens of billions of dollars influencing us to do so.
> I wonder if during interviewing, what would happen if interviewers were simply not allowed to know the educational background of the candidate - after all, once they have been admitted for an interview, does that information really matter at all (i.e. in the context of a specific interview?).

I've been heavily involved in interviewing, from the hiring side. You are actually correct.

From the hiring party's perspective, the cost of interviews is the time of the current employees administering them. The candidate's entire resume is thus taken into account before making the expensive decision to fly them over and have 5-10 people interview them in person.

In other words, there certainly is some weight given to a candidate's educational credentials, but it's almost completely limited to the decision whether to interview them at all.

Once a candidate is in front of an interviewer, their resume only matters as a jumping point into live discussion, typically of topics like past projects and interests. The brand of their school makes zero difference at this point.

> It's hard for younger people to avoid this, and when I did a lot of interviewing in my 20's I think I was too skewed by this, not having the opportunity to know really what all of that meant.

The unpleasant truth is that unless you interviewed with some extremely inefficient employers, you were not rejected due to your school brand, but due to your perceived interview performance.

Nobody flies a candidate for a full day of interviews just to reject them based on something that was already known.

Not every candidate from a top school is smart. There's plenty of terrible candidates from top schools, and they bomb interviews just like everybody else, and when they do they get rejected.

Finally, I'd say that nowadays, the benefit of the handful (say top 10) schools is far less obvious. There's plenty of "2nd-tier" engineering schools that will easily get you into most interviewing processes.
I agree that it's well-established at this point. What I'm poking at is the question of "what is an object?" since that's also fundamental to the question of "do heavier objects fall faster?"

And it's a question that Newton could easily have asked, as far as I can tell.
I've seen "haven't read my policy" numbers in the 80s and 90s depending on the survey. And yes - we're property insurance people but know that health can be even crazier. I understand a lot of the times the price for the procedure isn't really decided until they find out who's paying for it.
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I'm so glad I read this. I've tried to finish the book au least three times over the last 15-20 years and never made it much beyond page 200. I loved the prose sections but had a hard time getting through the Achilles & Turtoise sections. Some of them were super long and I always felt like they were clearly trying to convey some important, deep message that I'm too stupid to understand. Despite not enjoying them I actually reread some sections because I thought it must be me not getting it, although I had no problem understanding the actual explanation. I'm so happy to learn that I can skip the silly stories and dialogs without missing the value of the book. Maybe now I'll finally finish the book?!
What is Love-An abstract feeling or reality?
I'm glad you mentioned Azure and GCE -- I started off with minikube locally and things didnt really become magical until i started using a kops-deployed AWS-EC2 cluster and saw the magic of elastic scaling, ease of deployment, and migrate-ability.

PS - Could you share which books/websites/resources you used to get up to speed to the point where you're at now?