skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the answers are a bit underwhelming. Which is fine. But it makes me think, sure working in a bigco is lackluster, but so are many of the other options, and you might as well get paid for your trouble. “Being the one in charge” seems cold comfort to me if the thing you’re in charge of isn’t all that great itself.

Working in a big company allows you to disconnect a bit, focus on getting done what you need to accomplish that day, and then going on about the rest of your life. And then eventually you can just stop altogether. It seems just fine so long as you don’t get caught up in the internal rat race, and don’t get too wrapped up in the ideas they try to sell you about being part of a community and all that stuff. Just do your piece, every day.

Also, it's darkly ironic that one of the best-case scenarios after leaving is that your new venture gets picked up by... a large company.
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(For those prognosticating on whether this is unauthorized practice of law, there is a lot of history and caselaw from when will generation software, etc, first started becoming available)
Please link the other experiment
>*I see nothing wrong with reliance on government being replaced with reliance on more local entities..."

But then you just replaced one government with another. Worse, the one you replaced it with has fewer abilities. How does it get fuel for logistics. (ie - the food pantries get food from where? The federal government is gone, so the oil tankers don't dock anymore and the pipelines aren't full anymore.)

Sure, Chicago would be golden, it's on lake Michigan. But what happens if you live in Arizona? Where does your water come from?

Who helps if a hurricane guts Miami FL?

Who helps if a tornado guts Norman OK?

Etc etc etc.

Our way of life just doesn't support hyper local governments doing whatever they want, and hording resources from other hyper local governments. We, for better or for worse, are set up on the premise of bountiful energy, and through that energy, bountiful access to resources. That's just how we survive currently. No one has the stomach or the constitution to go back to being local farmers.
The Chinese equivalent: the quacking duck gets shot.
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IMHO Scheduling the task beyond 12-24 hours, especially when it requires the Runtime timers overhead won't be practical.
I remember when people would note, "It's the BBC," as a way of vouching for accuracy of news.
It becomes a bottleneck, yes.
The bug happened for setInterval() with any timeout (the bug report is for one with 500 milliseconds).

The problem is that the function that returned the current time was overflowing a 32-bit integer, so interval calculations were messed up and setInteval() wouldn't fire.

The fix[1] was simply to change an int to an unsigned int.

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/22214/commits/3bb7fdfbbe...
Millions and millions of interactions accumulating into a well-oiled intuition.
You'd also need satellite spectrum, which is not cheap and easy to get. There's no unlicensed satellite band.
It's a fascinating experiment, but I don't buy the author's explanation for anti-social punishment. He's talking about punishing "rats/narks" (which is also a big social taboo here in USA), whereas all punishment in the experiment is completely anonymous.

I think a more plausible explanation is status envy. Someone who is publicly altruistic, is likely to gain compliments and plaudits from others. This would then boost their status, and bring down the relative status of others. This is likely to engender status-envy on the part of others, and they act upon their status-envy by inflicting punishment on the do-gooder. It's worth mentioning that I've personally seen such behavior here in America as well, especially when wealthy individuals or corporations engage in altruistic acts.
This is not exactly the same. That used the genetic information from two mouse egg cells. The Chinese study is using haploid mouse embryonic stem cells with genetic contribution from either an mouse egg (successful) or mouse sperm (unsuccessful).
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> Print enough and the currency fails. The lesson has to be learned over and over again

Another lesson: refuse to print in a deflationary spiral and a recession turns into a depression.

> What assurance do you have that they'll stop printing next time?

This is a slippery slope argument. Central banks could always print. Deciding how much to print is their entire job. QE simply meant instead of using printed money to buy Treasuries, as the Fed has always done, it would also buy other assets.

> bailing out UAW and public sector pension funds... all those supposedly "good" things done with magic money from Washington, enabled in part by QE funded deficit spending

QE didn't monetize the bailouts. Buying Treasuries is something the Fed has always done. QE meant buying other assets, e.g. agency debt.
Ex-Googler, worked in ads for ~3 years. Wonderful experience, don't regret any of it, had a great manager and director, definitely focused my opinions on what leadership can and should do (Take responsibility, back you up). I really appreciated the engineering culture and learning experiences.

Left to join a 4-person startup my friends founded, still there going on ~5 years. Definitely enjoy the freedom and faster pace of changes, but the stress of responsibility is much more real.
While i love history, my advice for a humanities minor would always be philosophy, unless you have a really specific reason to want to go for history. But in terms of developing critical thinking skills there is no substitute for philosophy.
Speaking from this space, everyone I see on my end is paying higher rents but it is eating into their ability to save and forcing them to consume less. Wage increases exist but are coupled with moves to riskier companies.
I was pointing such large number of milliseconds passed as argument.
Enabling female mice to reproduce without needing males involved would significantly reduce the risks of a mouse uprising against their overlords.
Yeah, I think that didn't come quite across in my last paragraph.

It's all bad. On Linux we can see the bad.
Meanwhile, Falcon 9 became the world's most reliable launch vehicle today (after today's Soyuz-FG launch failure):

http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2018.html

Vehicle /Attempts Est* 95%CI* Succes Fail

================================================================

Falcon 9 v1.2 42/42(D) 0.98 0.90-1.00 42 None 2015-

Atlas 5 77/78 0.98 0.92-1.00 68 06/15/07 2002-

Delta 4M(+) 27/27 0.97 0.85-1.00 27 None 2002-

Soyuz-FG 54/55 0.96 0.89-1.00 0 10/11/18 2001-

Ariane 5-ECA 65/67 0.96 0.89-1.00 2 01/25/18 2002-
Couldn't build it yourself for less than $100. $12/yr is a good deal
This seems deeply unfair and dismissive of the accomplishments of the people who built Soyuz. Soyuz is a proven reliable spacecraft, it’s not a shitbox.

Who is little jimmy or daddy in this analogy? Why can’t mommy fix her own car? I don’t see the connection to human spaceflight.
There are different America’s depending on where you live and who you are. Some are high trust and some are not.

It has always been that way.
> when an entire town is poor, or washed over by a hurricane? They pick each other up by each other's bootstraps?

Those are cases when you need higher level help. For unexceptional, routine, stuff there's no reason to make a higher than necessary level of authority deal with it. Doing so is like having a CEO waste his time figuring out what office furniture to buy. Funding a food bank is something that can be done on a local level. Figuring out health insurance is something that can be done on the state level. Etc.

>The only way I can see to match your theory to experience is to observe that yeah, poverty evaporates when the poverty stricken people nearly all die off.

You know what else tends to evaporate? Tax dollars making the long trip all the way up the stack just to come back down it. Administrative overhead is nonzero. Better to just fund a locally if possible.
After the fall - House prices - The Economist
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2005/06/16/after-the-fall
> Trust-by-default is pretty much the definition of social capital, which is thought to be incredibly important for a functioning society.

Not all societies are the same. Trust by default is a luxury in many parts of the world. Typically the rule of law is just non-existent in these places.
Then shouldn’t they publish the documents showing those giveaways instead which surely makes more sense, doesn’t put AWS customers at potential risk and holds local governments accountable?

The simple thing is to put anything you get your hands on online under the opaque umbrella of public interest. The responsible thing to do is to run with it, find the local governments in those areas and file requests for the records of any transactions to be made public. That would be in public interest. Dumping anything that has a SECRET written on it is not always a good thing.
The original was:

> The lower certainty would in turn lead to lower rankings for women even without any bias in the data.

your post said:

> If we're talking about the technical statistical definition, bias means systematic deviation from the underlying truth in the data

So I think my interpretation is correct, even though it's not "the technically statistically correct usage". You were referring to the bias of the algorithm (i.e. the mean divergence from the mean in the data), whereas we were referring to the "hiring bias" evident in the data. In fact, your "bias" was mentioned as "lower rankings for women" - i.e. "the algorithm would have (statistical) bias even without (sexist) bias in the data" and I was replying that I think that's false.
The article really says bees stop flying any time it is dark, including at night. There's nothing special about their behavior during eclipses here.
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What about copy-on-write semantics? Or is that not a big deal (since you can just "not do it").
They've been slowly doing that for years now
CMUCL invented that in the mid/end 80s. CMUCL forks like SBCL and Scieneer CL got it there. The other compilers don't do that.
Cracking down seems like a bad idea.. you lose dynamic flexibility on both sides. What would the upside be?
> This political pork spending doesn't help anyone excited about space exploration.

Nope, but it keeps asses in congressional seats and the pockets attached to them full.
I'm not sure the data supports this conclusion that "America is losing its edge."

VC funding continues to rise as a whole, and the declining share of US VC invested vs. rest of the world is just a trend of a broader portfolio growth from international startups. That would be just lazy statistics - e.g. if I go from 1 US city to 3 US cities + 3 UK cities, I have growth in VC funding as a whole, as well in the US, but the US goes from 100% to 50%.

VC funding is growing faster in other parts of the world? Well when you're denominator is 0, or really low, of course growth "rate" is going to be high by definition. It's not really apples-to-apples. Further, I don't see whether or not the US has hit diminishing returns, yet, from this article, or if US growth is still healthy.

The data on China, though, is intriguing - maybe someone else here more informed than I am could speak to that.
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I wonder if you could test this theory using helium gas from one of those cylinders they use to inflate balloons. Put an iPhone in a bag, inflate it with helium, and see if it malfunctions.
I was more thinking about taking a list and shuffling it instead of picking songs at random.

In both cases, people complain because, for example, the same artist might be picked twice in a row. Most shuffle functions aren't random but try to make distance between similar songs.
HN isn't an e-commerce site. Nowhere are you required to put in your real name, credit card info, date of birth, shipping address or anything of the sort.

Your account consists of an alias name, and two profile fields "about:" and "email:" that are optional, and can be reverted to blank at any time. HN doesn't even perform e-mail validation.

You can't delete your posts once they are older than a few hours. Not yourself, anyway; if you ask the site operators, maybe something can be arranged.

Ideas: don't post stuff you want later to delete, and if you do, be sure to change your mind within an hour. Use the "delay:" profile field to delay the appearance of your comments, which gives you a chance to edit or delete them before anyone sees them.

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13b is nothing, remember when 360b was wiped off over night?
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I quite often write stuff with a function that gets called every few minutes or seconds... which is what the bug was actually discovered on. That's not suboptimal design.
i deal with product data all day long, tens of millions of SKUSs.

in the case of two bottles you are buying one SKU that contains two somethings, that each also contain 32 of something.

in the case of one bottle you are buying one SKU that contains 16 somethings.

nesting is important and meta data is a pain to parse when its not standardized in any way.
I’m surprised that people want private channels so much. Most teams I’m on have been public only, and it’s never been an issue. Even private messages are frowned upon, better to have input from others. It’s especially annoying if someone from another team is asking for help but the context is hidden behind a wall.

And outside of engineering they generally self select out of the channel. Or we trust that the people we work with to understand that they aren’t the intended audience in those channels - they’re still welcome but usually don’t contribute.
Yes, the US government does, but the AWS Cloud for government is mostly (entirely?) not included here. This list is also highly incomplete otherwise unrelated to government as well (us-east-2 region isn't covered at all for example).
This is spot-on, and it's also true in organizations without stack ranking.

It's actually not a cynical way to view your job. If what you do doesn't make an impact for customers and/or other teams in the organization, was it really worth doing?

I've consistently seen that successful engineers focus on work that has an impact, and they are good at making it known. The first part is obviously good, but a lot of engineers disdain self-promotion. However, self-promotion is not a bad thing if you really are good at your job, because it opens up opportunities to have an even greater impact, which is good for you and for the company.
I realize that. People generally refer to that quote to criticize people who use "protecting the children" to shame others into supporting bad arguments.

Where social media is concerned, the situation is different. The worry is that "the children" will grow up with a bunch of insane, toxic ideas, and their behavior will endanger the rest of us.

So it would be more apt to say "think of the adults!"
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I use R like I use bash for neuroimgaing analysis: I utilize a whole lot of powerful/specialized command line executables (e.g. R lmer|e.g. neurogimaging AFNI) the outputs and inputs of which I link together into a pipeline using R/Bash utilities.
Which means I can't accurately represent a whole bunch of data received from the environment. Hence why I find it annoying.
If it's the road to currency collapse (presumably via inflation), that doesn't explain why inflation not only failed to materialize, but the Fed undershot its own inflation targets for most of the next decade.

As far as I understand it, it's not that the central banks are unaware of inflation pressures due to QE, it's that they see other deflationary pressures and try to use QE in a proportionate way to counteract them. Judging by the end result of minimal inflation, if QE is inflationary there was probably substantial deflation pressure.

I don't think it is reasonable to be concerned primarily about inflation but not also deflation. A deflationary collapse not only leads to reduced investment in the future (why invest when prices are falling), but a big enough one will lead to bank failure, with people unable to get money out, the FDIC insurance program bankrupt, etc.

The US domestic political situation is already dysfunctional as it is. It's hard to imagine it remaining stable through an inflationary or deflationary collapse. And if history is any guide, radical political changes in a crisis are often not positive ones, since someone who knows who to blame and promises to solve everything can often undermine democratic institutions. I'll take (some level of) stability, thanks.

Anyway, to answer your last question, QE is determined by economists at the central bank and not directly by politicians. I think the main reason they are looking at unconventional monetary policy is that their traditional way to end recessions, lowering interest rates, stops being effective once interest rates are at zero.
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Set of responsibility
Mostly likely that he has not been completely duped yet.
That has the effect of quickly realigning your trust meter.
A variation of GOF design pattern Chain of Responsibility, useful for example for handling a class hierarchy hiding type-conditional in a open-closed compliant fashion
They are hit and miss. Nearly 100% of the results are from news sites and it seems to lag. Like, I'll get forwards from associates about Topic on Monday then the Google alert on Wednesday
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There is a file in that directory for each physical led on your computer. You echo in the name of the "driver" for that LED (disk, cpu, heartbeat, whatever) and that physical LED becomes what the driver wants it to show.

So if numlock and scroll lock are the LEDs available on your hardware, you can repurpose one of those as the CPU activity LED.
The bug was discovered on a call with 500 passed as the number of milliseconds.
There's all sorts of discussion that can be had regarding leaks, sanctioned vs. unsanctioned, how they're used politically, etc.

It remains illuminatingly inconsistent that Wikileaks would oppose certain leaks.
The assumption that parking tickets are usually avoidable and legitimate is understandable, but surprisingly far from true. The assumption that the legal system is overloaded as a single entity that's stressed by all new cases is also untrue.

One of the most ticketed spots in Chicago was a mind-bending mess of conflicting signage: it was a cab stand except when it was metered parking with a digital meter nowhere near the spot, which took money and issued city parking receipts for times when it didn't govern any legal parking spaces. Matt Chapman dug through ticket data to find this, asked the ward to clarify the signage, and annual ticketing there fell by half, saving $60,000 per year. Not exactly intentionally parking in handicapped spaces, is it? [1]

Of course, those were still legal tickets. The NYPD kicked things up a notch by simply failing to understand the city's parking laws. Parking in front of pedestrian curb cuts in NYC is legal if those cuts don't connect to crosswalks. Ben Wellington got a ticket for parking in one of those spots, and decided to see how many other people it had happened to. Rough estimate? Ten thousand illegal tickets per year, costing New Yorkers $1,700,000. And apparently an honest mistake - once Wellington raised it with the NYPD, they offered a reasonable explanation and promptly fixed the problem! [2]

Finally, these are not the sorts of cases which are overloading the legal system. Criminal charges in big cities consistently take more than a year to reach trial, even for very simple cases, and even simple bail or motion to dismiss hearings can take a shocking amount of time. But those suits do not funge against disputed parking tickets, rent payments, or bank fees, which are handled in traffic, housing, or small claims courts that are nowhere near as overloaded or urgent. And with high rates of summary judgement, mediation, and self-representation, those courts don't even have a substantial impact on the price of legal aid for plaintiffs elsewhere. [3]

Frivolous lawsuits and overloaded courts are very real problems, but an app that helps people represent themselves in the face of inappropriate tickets is not a meaningful contributor.

[1] https://mchap.io/using-foia-data-and-unix-to-halve-major-sou...

[2] http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/144197004989/the-nypd-was-sy...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/opinion/waiting-and-waiti...
Generally low level C++ will do it. I have been out of the game for about 5 years now, but when I left the game was all about speed speed speed. We weren't trading smarter anymore, it was just about trading fast. If you are faster, you don't just put an order out there with an opinion that the market will move in your favor, you get an immediate risk free return (risk free assuming operationally everything works as expected). I also worked on the "benchmark strategy" side- VWAP/TWAP type algos, when they were very new, and there was some statistics involved but the math was fairly simple. I haven't kept up with that side of the space, I am sure they have added complexity, but fundamentally you are looking at how a particular security has traded in the past- IE how much volume does it tend to trade at 10am vs 10:30 vs 11am, compare that with market statistics for the current day- is it high or low volume, is volatility higher- and apply some heuristics about what % of a parent order to put in the market at any given time.

This is a bit separate from the actual execution in the market, which is called smart order routing, and that just focuses on speed.

The best book on this still seems to be the now almost 10 year old "Algorithmic Trading and DMA" by Barry Johnson. If you want to get a feel for the strategies involved, this is your best bet: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Trading-DMA-introduction-...

As for job titles, they tend to be generic like "infrastructure developer, strategist" but look for key words like "Smart Order Router, Algorithmic Trading, Index Arb (itrage), statistical arbitrage, market making, dark pool. I put two of those in Morgan Stanley's site and got a bunch of relevant hits. Posting numbers 3119617 3120636 are actual jobs in this space.

A better bet is to just look at job openings for the companies who specialize in this stuff- Virtu, Jump, Hudson River Trading, Citadel Securities, etc...
Great question! We have https://chart.ly which is pretty good. But charts dot com???