skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the purpose of going to school is to better yourself versus competing against your neighbors

It must be both. In order to better yourself, you must challenge yourself. Your peers have similar capabilities to you, because you both met roughly the same standard in order to get into the school you got into, as opposed to a better or worse one. Competing with them will therefore be challenging, but not too challenging.

Note that I don't propose the average is set at precisely 75%, nor that professors change the weights after the fact to make it so. Just that when they are setting the course - choosing what material to cover, what to leave out, setting the exam - they bear in mind the aptitudes of their students and choose appropriately. If the grades come in too high, meaning the students found it too easy, they might in future terms increase the pace or the difficulty of questions to compensate. This means that as a student you aren't competing with your class, but rather with the body of students that came before. In turn, you gain nothing from doing poorly, because you will still be awarded a proportionately low grade, and only make the course easier for future students.

Why this isn't implemented at the schools you attended I could only guess, but perhaps these schools historically determined standard based on more objective criteria, and have ceased doing so more recently without replacing their system for determining standards.
Yes, seems like people here take threat model of journalists and want to apply it to their 10 year old nephew who is downloading Minecraft mods.
Catalog of Refactorings
While I would characterize the word “stability” in this context as newspeak meaning “destabilize in our favor” the gist is true.

Yet everything the US does must be framed as some kind of sacrifice for some group’s freedoms, its women, children, etc.

I don’t know what would constitute a morally defensible national interest. That is not an easy question. But at least it is an honest question.

Honesty is not the goal however when there is a need to gain consent of the masses to do violence against the innocent whose lives are deemed worthless by our national interest.
No, something like this can spiral: they can write bad reviews about your work, tanking your publication rate, which makes it harder to find funding etc...
what worries me about patent abolishment is the contracts employees would have to sign to work places. It would make career maneuverability absolutely brutal if every single thing was a trade secret.
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"If well known and influential studies only have a 50% reproducibility rate - what about the average study?"

Actually, they might be better off. In the related article* they mention: "Beyond statistical issues, it strikes me that several of the studies that didn’t replicate have another quality in common: newsworthiness."

It could be that many well known works are well known because their finding are counterintuitive, and therefore more interesting. However, this could also imply that the prior probability is lower - hence a p = 0.05 result is more likely to be due to chance than for a study finding something more in line with prior understanding of things.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/scientis...
24 fps is an art medium with certain features and incentives. Its moving shots are automatically blurry, and the audience is used to that, so you can use them to, e.g., give the audience's attention a rest between two important still shots.

Similarly, just because you can technically put the entire scene into focus all the time doesn't mean you necessarily want to!
Interesting you concluded my opinion was lazy and uninformed when I was the one sharing links and references. That behavior usually indicates the opposite. Indeed, that heuristic would be correct in this case. Not that it matters to the point, but I have a PhD in a biomedical field and spent many years working in it before I quit because I got fed up with how "soft" it was.

The sad part is it will never improve to become a "hard science" if people think it already is one. I mean really think about it. Biology is the study of how complex systems change over time, yet learning the primary tool we have to study/analyze change (calculus) is not a prerequisite. Doesn't that seem strange for a "hard science"?
If you don't want web sites to track you, you better not use a browser with JavaScript. eg. you better not user Firefox :P
Also to avoid tracking you are better off using other peoples internet connection, eg. not your own.
"False equivalency" is a nonsense phrase. Analogies aren't true or false.
> What puzzles me is parties like the EFF and Wikimedia Foundation spreading the FUD. Wikimedia would clearly be exempt. What gives?

I think they're making a moral or equality standing. If it's wrong for one company to do something just because they're large, why is it ok for another org to do the same just because they're "small"? And what do small companies strive to be? Usually bigger companies. The law doesn't make sense to begin with. By exempting smaller entities, they're basically saying it's not "really" illegal and it's more of just a free money grab to take from larger producers. You basically said it yourself when you said it's "clearly worded to target the likes of Google and YouTube without calling them out by name". And why are they "targeted???" Because they have deep pockets, and that's it. This has nothing to actually do with copyright other than a subjective means to go after some companies while exempting others. It's either wrong, or it's not. The size shouldn't come into play.
What's the target demographic for something like this? It seems like the trivial part of refactoring.

I've seen a similar, entire book dedicated to database refactoring that had roughly the same pattern. Chapters named akin to "The Change Table Name Refactor" felt kind of bizarre, when what I was hoping would be contained was advice about refactoring large databases in practice (moving data to new service boundaries, etc). Practical advice on building systems to move data and such seems to be just missing
The Allegory of the Cave for the Digital Age
Add me to the list! I hate the way movies look at higher frame rates but the broad category of sports (traditional/e/motor/etc) all look much better.
I'd say it's worth a consideration if it would be some weird word like "Fitta" but since it's a pretty well known english word, I'd say, you have to live with it.

Greeting from Poland where you find versions of "kurwa" (literally: "whore" but used like "fuck" in english) in all kinds of languages as a word for "curve" ;)
Starbucks Halloween Pumpkin Spice Spidermilk Latte!
To understand the significance of Khashoggi's death you might read the excellent and short Wall Street Journal article:

"The Long Struggle for Supremacy in the Muslim World"
October 27, 2018 By Yaroslav Trofimov:

https://hiiraan.com/news4/2018/Oct/160847/the_long_struggle_...

Turks and Saudis have been enemies for centuries. The Khashoggi incident occurred in Turkey but on sovereign Saudi territory (an embassy). The Turks were watching _very_ carefully and apparently had eyes both outside and inside the embassy, an obvious violation of diplomatic protocol. The event has become an opportunity for the Turks to embarrass the Saudis and attempt recapture of the leadership of the Sunni Muslim world from the Saudis.
Now you're getting into philosophy. As a materialist, I do believe everything comes from the natural world. I take the view that if every time we combined two objects with two other objects we ended up with something other than four objects, we would not be saying "2+2=4".

There are of course other viewpoints that math has a Platonic metaphysical reality in and of itself, independent of the natural world.
If it's my car, the wheels will fall off before it reaches the bottom. Mine starts to shake around 90, then smooths out until about 120, then starts to shake again.

My mother-in-law in the back seat was not happy.
Saw him in a talk just last week - he actually mentioned that typescript would have been an alternative, but considered it less well known yet.
This is certainly not the case for gaming. I use a 4k 24" at a desktop and still need to turn AA on to prevent noticable alising.

It looks like 5k is the sweet spot for 27", and 8k for 32".

Not to mention VR needs 8k to provide 1080p-like resolution over a large field of view.
You could compress the written language in UTF-8 or the IPA version of the languages words and potentially get very different results. Also, languages tend to be spoken at about the same bitrate even though they may have different numbers of bits per syllable. Spanish and Japanese, limited to pure vowel sounds and neither tending to pile up the consonants, tend to have less information per syllable but be spoken rapidly. English, with its diverse vowels and relatively consonant-rich syllables, and Chinese, with its medium number of phonemes but added layer of tones, tend to be spoken more slowly.
maybe they are deteriorating because they 've been listening to bad science?
A movie at a frame rate higher than 24 looks strangely “cheap” to some of us. I believe it’s because on a subliminal level, the higher frame rate reminds us of a television broadcast.
It couldn't be monetized, true, but the way I remember it netnews was still supported in the US until it became too politically hot to handle. See this ancient article for ex,
https://mashable.com/2008/06/10/child-porn-usenet/
Here is the publicly available evidence: A bunch of Saudi intelligence agents and wetwork contractors flew into Turkey for the express purpose of murdering a political opponent of the Saudi regime, which they successfully did at the Saudi embassy. They then attempted to replace him with a body double to fool efforts to detect their crime. The crime itself was recorded on audio. Everyone knows exactly who murdered him, where, how, and why.

After doing this, they disposed of his body (which they still have not returned) and promptly lied dozens of times in a row about the circumstances of his disappearance and death. They originally pitched he had wandered out of the embassy. Then that he had disappeared unrelatedly. Then that he had died, but no one knows how. Then that it was after a fight in the embassy. Then eventually admitting that it was a targeted murder, but by rogue agents. At each step, they lied until their lies were publicly and definitively exposed, largely by the Turkish government who are understandably mad that a foreign government exploited the diplomatic easement given to embassies to murder someone on their soil.

In conversations following up on this affair, the position of the Saudi government has been simultaneously that Khashoggi was a dangerous anti-government subversive who no one should mourn because he deserved to be killed, that KSA should face no consequences and be the ones to determine what justice means, and that no one not being charged by the KSA could possibly be involved in the decision to do this.

We have two possibilities from this stage: Case 1: This was ordered by either the Crown Prince or someone near him; or Case 2: This was a wonderful act of serendipity that the Crown Prince thinks was a very good outcome, but which was independently pursued by Very Bad Men Who Will Be Executed, and surely they were acting alone.

How would we be able to tell between cases 1 and 2 (besides the fact that case 2 is completely implausible and is "Kid with Crumbs Around Mouth Claims Dog Broke In To Cookie Jar" nonsense)? Well, we'd know for sure that case 1 was true if for example we had access to the Crown Prince's private correspondence and it demonstrated that he was involved. It would be difficult to discern between the two without this. Okay, so we all agree that the next step in this investigation is someone who intercepted the Crown Prince's correspondence to confirm what it says.

Note that at this stage in my post, the United States and its intelligence community has not been mentioned and nothing said so far relies on its credibility. So, given this, would you care to make a case for Case 2? Would you care to hypothesize which institutions, globally, we might rely on to make Case 1?

The CIA and FBI suck and have agendas. Turkey sucks and has an agenda. KSA sucks and has an agenda. And yet we can do better than nihilism when it comes to adjudicating this situation.
Consider this: 4K DCP, which is just a little larger than consumer 4K (4096x2160 vs 3840x2160) is good enough to project on 40 foot movie theater screens. 8K is FOUR TIMES that consumer 4K resolution. The benefit of that resolution on a 65 inch screen is, uh, negligible.
In my mind, 50% replication is not that horrible. Even decent seeming sample sizes might have an 80% chance of replicating at a certain effect size, and the effect size originally reported could be (by chance or other reasons) over-stated, leading to insufficient power. More certainty ends up meaning vast increases in sample size). Another issue that should be tested (have not read paper but doubt it) is not just whether the result is statistically significant, but whether it statistically differs from the original published result. If the effect is weaker, but not statistically different from the published result, I would hesitate to say the effect is not real. Then there is that some of the psychology findings investigated were rather dubious to begin with, and the ones that even non-specialists can identify as being likely to be true replicated.
We have a lot of experience with this, and I can tell you what is far more common: people projecting manipulation and astroturfing onto legit users who in fact are merely expressing an opposing point of view. Hauling out this accusation without evidence is poisonous to discussion. That's why the site guidelines ask you not to post such insinuations. Please read and follow them from now on: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Following the site guidelines also means not using flamewar tropes like "Oh please", and refraining from nationalistic flamewar in general. "The Chinese always sprout up" is a pretty gross thing to see here.
VPS providers are basically for personal use only not for enterprises. There have been multiple vulnerabilities that you could exploit another box from your environment.
Most certainly no. Your best chance is putting the gearbox in neutral and even then an absolute free fall wouldn't even do it. You'd hit terminal velocity well before that.
You're right, and I too have run a startup and came to the same conclusion about contract-to-hire being the most reliable way to ensure employee quality. Unfortunately it's just not an option for most candidates (especially for more senior people in high CoL places like SV).

The fundamental challenge of interviewing is that no matter what you focus on whether it's technical or social skills, an interview is not long enough to give a proper indication of how someone will perform day in and day out. As an interviewer the best thing you have are proxies such as work experience, and yes, squishy behavioral questions of dubious value—you still have to ask something. As an interviewee there is no way around learning the subtexts and getting good at answering them. In many ways it's a silly social dance, but when you get good at it you actually can learn a lot about companies as well, and improve your chances of getting hired at a place you'll really like.
I won't be satisfied until my TV goes to 11K.
The truth is that the hotspot computer is pretty old at this point and never really implemented a lot of good, robust, and thorough optimizations (I've read the source every year or two).
It does some stuff and hopes for the best.

This is why there is a real commercial jvm market with azul.
We can argue about physical limitations of reality, but all we ever really understand is a model of reality. Sometimes it seems to match predictions well. But it’s always the model we understand. Given how complex reality appears to be and how comparatively simple our models appear to be, it seems likely that the models are incomplete, and probably always will be incomplete.

As such, perhaps it would be better to say that given your understanding of the physiology of the optics of the eye, and the receptors and nerves of the eye, that you believe strongly that it’s not possible to detect the difference between 4k and 8k at some common viewing distance. Or perhaps more simply “most” or “nearly all” people can not detect the difference. As with unusual occurrences like tetrachromats, it could be that there are some people with higher resolution perception such that they could see the difference.

I don’t have a reference now, but I recall from a Feynman writing that there have been experiments to see how few photons a person could perceive. As I understand it, nobody was able to say they saw the photon (or bundle of a few photons), but they were asked to press a button whenever they thought they might have seen a photon. The distribution came back slightly biased towards affirmation that they could see the single or few photons, rather than the distribution mere chance would predict. Nobody could tell you what that photon looked like, and yet somehow they did perceive it x% of the time, where x was something like 10% (or the experiment had a flaw that cued the subject—I don’t know if it’s been repeated).

Now, I’m not suggesting this says anything at all about resolution, it’s about intensity, but it is still it is interesting. And the idea of the study is worth considering for learning about resolution perception.

Perhaps nobody would pass the Pepsi challenge comparing an 8k Mona Lisa to a 4K Mona Lisa at some distance. But if subjects were shown a series of many images and asked to push a button when they would thought it was 8k, maybe would tell us something interesting.

There are lots of things to control for, like a correlation among all the 8k images or 4k images, but I think it could be done. I don’t really know the details of how the hypotheses are constructed for a good study, but if someone has some suggested reading, I’m interested. Perhaps we would say:

* All subjects are shown the same N images

* The image is randomly (normal? uniform?) selected to be the 8k version or 4k version.

* If a version of the image has been shown to the subject, it will not be shown again to that subject in either resolution

* Subjects that have seen the images can not discuss with subjects that have not

And million other thing like the coloring of the images, subject matter, and so on. Maybe have a version that provides feedback on correctness.
> The observations focused on a species of jumping spider, normally found in Taiwan

Does the species have a name? I'd like to read more about this spider but I don't know what to search for.
Rockstar Claw is fixed via the ‘Standard FPS’ setting with toggle to run. You click the left thumbstick once to jog and twice to sprint just like FPS games like COD. Pulling fully in a direction sprints and just barely touching it walks. I liked the change but it felt weird and I worried that I would just run off every cliff I came to.
Whilst a fan of typescript myself I think the last statement is incorrect, I'd be surprised if >20%-30% of projects started in JS this year are typescript.
This. Too bad many APIs around are designed without keeping in mind that timeouts and double submissions can occur.

A few years ago I had to integrate with another software vendor (using SOAP, sigh), and development went all smooth, testing too but when the integration went live we noticed that the VPN connection was somehow not working properly and we were getting 20% packet loss.
Luckily, for each API call that would write data we would issue a unique "requestId" and implemented retry logic so double submissions (eg. due to timeouts) were discarded.

Needless to say, that saved our day and the project went smoothly even though it took a week to the DevOps guy to debug and fix the faulty VPN tunnel.
I remember a scene from "NYPD Blue" between Sipowicz and his adult son [who wanted to become a cop like his father]. The advice was that the "most basic" thing to remember was "People, Places: The things they do, the times they do them".

If you turn a hard Left at Crazy, that's profiling ... but it's not wrong. Going with the example provided in the scene, it's good to figure out that the night-shift worker at the toy factory is bringing home a toy gun for his kid at 3am Christmas Morning instead of a high-profile over-armed robbery in an otherwise deserted industrial district in the middle of the night during a holiday.

It seems like the "grey line" shrinks and expands at will depending on the context one desires.
No it is not. It is 100% false with respect to voting rights.

The most visible sign of Vanguard’s engaged ownership is our funds’ proxy voting at shareholder meetings. We have an experienced group of analysts on our Investment Stewardship team that evaluates proposals and casts our funds’ votes in accordance with our voting guidelines.

Fund holders do not vote on corporate issues of stocks held by vanguard.

And of course, the owner of stocks held by a mutual fund are the mutual fund. Is that not clear to most people?
What you saw was the limitation of display technology, not the potential in 8K. 70 mm IMAX is equivalent to something like 12K (5-perf) or 18K (15-perf).

What is needed is better display technology to exploit the 8K.
If you forgive the self-post:

"The theme is familiar to anyone who's tried to join a country club or high-school clique. It's not supposed to make sense. You are expected to conform to the rules of The Culture before you are allowed to demonstrate your actual worth. What wearing a suit really indicates is —I am not making this up— non-conformity, one of the gravest of sins. For extra excitement, the rules are unwritten and ever-changing, and you will never be told how you screwed up."

http://carlos.bueno.org/2014/06/mirrortocracy.html
Steal car and everything inside.
A group of humans is a group of atoms.

Even a simple double pendulum is chaotic, yet we can describe its movement quantitatively.

For me the failure of psychology are very similar to the failures of pre-enlightenment physics, chemistry, biology. Wrong abstractions, storytelling instead of formal models, unfalsifiable claims.

My girlfriend was seeing a therapist, and the methods used were basically clairvoyance. Telling the patient "draw a tree", then interpreting the kind of tree as an indication of inherent characteristics of the patient. When she told me that - I've drawn a tree as well, and it turned out my tree was basically the same (the most common kind in our climate, in the most traditional drawing possible). I'm nothing like the description she got from the therapist and neither is she (but in a different way). Of course - she accepts the interpretation of that picture the same way people find matching details in their horoscopes.

Psychology sounds to me a lot like bloodletting or voodoo programming, and scientific community should distance itself from people claiming its discoveries to be scientific, and its therapies to be scientifically-proven.
the event-stream story remind me the true/false story of the color logs : https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and...
> Is this something you witnessed going down in person, or did you just develop a strong feeling given a lot of clues?

The latter.
The South always had enough votes to keep slavery legal. Direct democracy is literally mob rule.
I was talking to a friend who moved from the Google Brain team to the DeepMind team and he said point blank that no one was going to reproduce their work and that they were not going to reproduce other groups' work. Everyone has their own research agenda and the cost of the hardware and compute time needed to process the data is available to a tiny number of research groups around the world.
I should have mentioned that in my post. I have a dual-core i7 model.