skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- offer better incentives/pay: Right now in Australia no one who does well in school goes into teaching. The demand is there so universities bring in people who get 20/100 on their high school scores.

- change the format of education: kids are more anxious than ever (see current HN front page). There’s no guarantee that you will be okay financially with the current education system.
Its definitely a thing there.

http://myth.bungie.org/legends/delusions/blackcompany.html

Thats a pretty great and detailed page about the parallels. Reading into TBC gave a lot of us a lot of fun when playing Myth and endlessly debating the story canon back in the day.
Different civilizations had different calendars at different times, the calendar would often restart with each new king, some kings would be erased from history because they lost a war, etc. I doubt it is as easy as you say.
How old were you when you first played Halo? I have vivid memories of Halo's music, art and story, probably because I played it all the time when I was 11 years old. I'm sure there's a hint of truth to what you're saying, but I can't help but think there's a tiny bit of bias here.
While I agree that it isn't ideal -- it should be pointed out that neither does the kernel itself.
> It all makes me wonder if there's low hanging fruit in a lot of languages/libraries to simply swap out red black trees for B-trees

I think the short answer is "yes." Although maybe not quite as low hanging as we'd hope.

The nice thing about RB trees and Splay trees is that they are embeddable at relatively low memory bloat (3 pointers and a color for RB, and 2 pointers for splay) to the object they link into an ordered index.

Embedding list and tree pointers has a variety of advantages for operating system and similar code:

1. The memory is already allocated; you can avoid allocating memory in paths with locks held, which prevents deadlocks / hangs.

2. You can put a single object on multiple lists or indices. I.e., maybe your cached file page is on a eligible-for-reclamation linked list but also indexed by offset into the file (to simplify somewhat).

B-trees are not as trivially embeddable in the same way. As wikipedia points out[0], RB-trees are a kind of low-order B-tree, and it's possible to increase the width to something more like a traditional database B-tree. But this increases the overhead of embedding tree metadata in your object.

I suspect that you're right — dropping in a B-tree of branching factor >2 in place of existing BSTs would improve performance for some indices on some platforms, at the cost of additional memory. But I suspect evaluating where it makes sense would require some profiling or insight into a particular use case. I don't think universal replacement is a slam dunk, at least in low level systems code.

It makes a lot of sense for Rust because their lifetime checker basically prevents the kind of multi-list ownership I've described above. It may make sense for other high level languages for the same reason.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree#Analogy...
AWS isn’t using any of MongoDB’s code — merely emulating the protocol and behavior.
I view it this way: being smart and hard working is necessary but not sufficient to achieve the success they have. There are plenty of very smart
and hard working people that are also dirt poor due to various circumstances. Maybe they have interests that don't happen to pay a lot of money. Maybe they are in locations where being smart doesn't pay off that much.
No matter you want to become a manager or architect, you need to know how to run a project.

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busine...
You’re seemingly confused about a few points, such as the difference between applying for a loan and receiving one, and the limits even when you manage to get one. Having said that if you’d like to defer your pay for an indefinite period and try to support yourself throug such loans, I’d read the blog.
It actually looks like they are a good portion of the way towards replacing Irrlicht with their own engine focused on shaders.
There are lots of other reasons to not give someone money besides them being a grifter. There’s not feeding their addiction, not enabling them to continue postponing taking action that will improve themselves or their situation beyond the short term. People can be simultaneously earnest and delusional or fearful.
It is on the ground, no longer allowed in the air.
Yes, very true. And that makes it worse.

I do think that the US middle class is shrinking. But there's a lot more involved than TFA addresses.
It is a good idea in theory, but the problem comes with the lack of a social group for the child. Unless you somehow have the ability to provide the child with a group of similarly aged peers of at least 5, please just send her to a school and try to support her in whatever she seems particularly adept in by helping her find good resources.
Cannot agree with this more, thanks for articulating this so well. I definitely learned this lesson over time. In the beginning I just thought my lawyer would tell me what I should do. Then I realized that I should figure out what we should do and how I thought it should be structured and then use my lawyer to give advice, figure out how to accomplish what we wanted to do, and make it happen. It made the whole process more fun since it was nice to feel comfortable reading legal documents and thinking through the issues and everyone ended up better off.
I played on and off for over a decade before deciding I was going to ascend. If you spend some time on the wiki and learn all the little tricks hidden in the game, it’s not too hard to win. There are a few common strategies to get through the middle game where most people die. Gehennom is fairly repetitive and you will be powerful enough by that point in the game and familiar enough with your character to not botch it every time.
Wow... yes.

Although Jeff Tunnel was really pissed off by it, which as a fan of TIM growing up makes me very happy.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5577185A/en
https://youtu.be/vXb30FDJqB0?t=393
You mean if they used a different strategy, they might have more than the entire one third market share of the entire cloud hosting industry?
Just one opinion here, but I've played a /ton/ of Destiny in a fairly casual but consistent way (e.g. no raids or Mic) since launch, and I think it is fairy underrated at this point. There were definitely droughts along the way, but at this point it is a solid game, which when played on Xbox One X is IMHO the finest looking game on consoles. The semi-multiplayer modes are great fun and they've tuned the weekly reset cycle to a point where pretty much every play session is rewarding in some way or another.

I'm glad for their independence and look forward to what the future brings, and I do hope that further investment in Destiny (3 or continuation of 2) is part of that picture.
> That's why it was the perfect MLG game. Every shooter these days is more and more complex.

OTOH there is Counter-Strike which turns 20 this year and is the third most popular game on Steam right now. Most of the changes to the core game since ~2001 have been about balance as opposed to adding new mechanics.

Someone who played the game over a decade ago could pick it up today and still play on mostly the same game on mostly the same maps:

de_cache 2011

de_dust2: 2001

de_inferno: 1999

de_mirage: 2004

de_nuke: 1999

de_overpass: 2013

de_train: 1999
Good points.

But is education always about financial security?

Do we need teachers in their traditional or rather in their current roles? Should the way of knowledge transmission be altered?

What would happen when there are less jobs to fill and more human population? What is the role of education and work when automation spreads?

I guess we will have to go back to definitions:

What is knowledge?

What is education?

What is the purpose of knowledge?

What is the purpose of education?
It is not that easy. Depends on what you mean by that. There are a lot of aggregators which track different metrics. There are a lot of great teams, great tech, but no use cases are poor token economics, weak marketing, etc., as well as many scams. But Livepeer, Origin and NuCypher are solid ones :)
I've been through all of that, and have a great resume.

Happy to partner up, or just mentor. Just went through a third-party AD integration, for example.

(Throwaway as I don't want too many people knowing I'm looking at side projects right now...)

Feel free to email throwaway650@trashmail.com if you're interested.
Everyone knows this. Even millennials, believe it or not. Yawn.
They had to do quite a lot of source diving to achieve this.

The bumping into a wall to advance the RNG state without changing the game time is a really neat trick that I would otherwise have been completely unaware of, and I have played Nethack for many years and done some source diving myself.

Truly a great feat of engineering here.
Anyone who calls Fortnite a clone of PUBG hasn't played Fortnite.
I took “statistically” to be just a figure of speech to bolster what was simply their view of the world.

However, you probably could interview a few hundred people a label some “earnest,” others “grifters,” and find there are many more of the former.
“why kids are consumed with worry” .. too much social media?
Maldy (Plan B) and J.Alvarez – Tiempo de Vernos
Turn-based strategy games such as the Civilization and Total War series are probably good examples to compare chess with. Aside from the potential asymmetries (which can be removed), they are both 'purer' than RTS games and less deterministic than chess. In 1v1s, they're probably a better test of predictive reasoning than chess.
How do they deal with the glare on all those screens? Do they use a special kind of panel that doesn't become unreadable when sunlight falls on it?
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it :)
There should me more push for really open engines, as in FOSS. Unreal might be more open than Unity in some ways, but it's still not really open.

And speaking of openness, didn't Epic push exclusivity approach recently in their store? That's bad.
Now if only Blizzard had the balls to do the same.
Looks like the focus is more-open engines, not more open-engines reading the source blog post.
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Modern 'street' poetry: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Danger%20Noo...
Presumably Objective-C/Cocoa compatibility. Although I'm wouldn't be able to tell you why that would require non-contiguous storage... surely @NSArray is contiguous?
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It all happened when my father got an iPad and a Facebook account. Now he sits around and consumes the cancerous vomit spewed by "old friends" and predatory "news" outlets. He doesn't understand how any of it works; he has fallen victim, and there's nothing at all that I can do about it. He takes pride in his involvement, even if it's just consumption. It's tearing him away from reality and his family. It's almost as sad, scary, and infuriating as watching someone decline due to mental disease. If anyone has any recommendations, I'm all ears.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) overall and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in the Network. As an example, Look at products from McAfee/Symantec for DLP and Sandvine/Procera for DPI.
Meanwhile, every devops environment I've ever worked in has been Ruby-first, to the point where I learned Ruby specifically for devops work.

I get that you are new here, but this place isn't big on shitposting.
Ilan Schnell is not "some guy". He's the original primary author of the Anaconda distribution. One of the main reasons that so many data scientists use Python.
Oh, don't even get me started on keybindings. There isn't even a good way of setting them up anymore, because there are multiple layers and systems that deal with keyboard events. It used to be that you could get reasonably far with xmodmap, but that is no longer true. And good luck trying to get expansion functionality (e.g. a keystroke that generates several keystrokes).

Also, some context before I get flamed for being a newbie: I've used Linux since before 1.0 (that's 1993). My usual working keyboard setup pretty much requires a Super key and a Hyper is quite helpful, too.
The OP's comment shows otherwise, but if you're bored, take your ass elsewhere.
Great points;

“To a small enough child, reading is a "useless fact." After all, an illiterate child has gone his whole life without needing to know how to read”

“Why waste time learning letters...”

This is the point/philosophy of it. The child will choose to learn when they need and want to. Having spoken to some of these children I found most taught themselves to read without formal instruction.

“None of the facts they teach in school are truly useless, but rather the person who judges them useless is just too ignorant to know their value.”

Exactly. So if they are useless to the person it means an EXTERNAL party has made a judgement call on what knowledge is useful. It comes down to who decides what Is useful knowledge and what is not. Who should make threat decision?
Did you mean to link to something else? That y axis is the quantity of persons who are white men and working full time, not their median salaries.
It was a lead gen tool. He could have used the tool to generate leads for the tool.
Neat, thanks for the link. IIRC the one in the show was used to paint an arbitrary large image, just "scrubbing" over any yet-unpainted sections, at any angle. Seems possible with real-world tech.
Having recently discovered the https://unigine.com/ engine which looks fantastic but costs money at even the cheapest level, I would love more open engines.
>There is one important caveat to keep in mind when thinking about our dataset. The SSA numbers include any wage earners whatsoever, even part-time workers like students and teenagers. This drags down the aggregate wage numbers for full-time working adults, which reach $61,372 for households last year.

So...what do the statistics look like if we remove part time teenagers and students? I suspect much less attention grabbing than the headline.
Definitely a weird thing to highlight as a "surprise" but also not quite right, since it should be exactly half... and also that portion of the pie should be a semicircle (around 180 degrees even if it's 48%)... but it's significantly smaller than that somehow?
> "...you have to wonder if the word 'ironic' still has any meaning."

This is perhaps the most ironic thing.
I feel the same way. Pay is good, work can be interesting, work-life balance and job security are relatively good, but being a developer never gave me any sense of real fulfillment. I'm not making any serious difference in anyone's life, and my six figure salary could be replaced with a team of eastern Europeans who could probably get more done at a fraction of the cost. If I were to die tomorrow, it wouldn't really make any difference aside from friends/family. My company might be inconvenienced for a couple weeks, but would easily find a replacement.

I can put up with unfulfilling work (at least for a little bit). What I can't stand is the Kool-Aid culture surrounding it where you have to put this big smile on your face at all times and pretend like gluing Javascript is your life-calling, mentally stimulates you, and gives you a deep sense of fulfillment. That CNBC article describing Facebook's work culture as "cult-like" is basically every job and job interview I've ever partaken in in the tech industry.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/08/facebook-culture-cult-perfor...

The modern software engineer is a glorified factory worker, except instead of making cars and computer parts we're making apps that help rich people get a little richer or get people to buy sh*t they don't need.

I envy people with actually meaningful jobs - doctors who save lives, journalists exposing the world's atrocities, politicians, anyone working on the cutting edge of anything, etc.
Plus after tax can mean after one puts money into health coverage, retirement, a college fund, etc. That figure is much less scary as take-home than gross salary.
One text is an anecdote. Thousands of independent texts weighed together form our understanding of history.
How do you disrupt public education? You do what certain political activists have done during the past 70 or so years.

1) You relax the laws that require public education using the rubric that private schools will allow for competition and force improvement. It is no accident that fewer families dependent of public schools weakens support for public schools. It also means that political and religious agendas can be entered into American education where before they were forbidden.

2) You couple that with a long term propaganda campaign about how bad public schools are including portraying teacher union activists in the worst possible light in the news.

3) You starve funding for education to the point where, for example, California goes from the foremost example of excellence in education to one of the worst.

4) When teachers start to rebel at the corruption of American education, you vilify teachers claiming they are taking American education hostage.

The idea that technology offers a solution to a political issue is not realistic.
What do you think of Microsoft's purchase of Ninja Theory? Do you think they've changed?
Is there a mirror of this article somewhere? Something that is not paywalled?
The optimal algorithm is the CHD algorithm - the function can use as little as 1.6bits per key. http://cmph.sourceforge.net/papers/esa09.pdf
There are implementations in Python: python chd perfect hashing
and in go: https://github.com/alecthomas/mph
In addition to the author's C code.
I kept my number from a city I lived but has almost zero connections right now. It makes things simple as every
time I received a call with the same area code, I can be sure it's a scammer.
Zerodha, a bootstrapped startup, becomes the no.1 broker of India
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There are very few, if any, angles where the sun can fall on the primary panel. Also, just above is a shelf that juts out (with many of the commonly touched buttons) called the glareshield that keeps direct light off the instruments.

Finally, the dynamic lighting range of the displays is unholy; I've been in the cockpit at night when the mechanic working on something cranked up the brightness to full (he warned me first) — it felt close to staring into an LED flashlight. There's plenty of oomph there to make it readable in daylight.
Oh I was supposed to go to those Cooley parties to get my monies worth with them? I knew I was missing something.
I thought of something similar, the problem is when lots of these communications, Email, Twitter, Medium, SMS, Phone Calls etc are Free we get a lots more low quality / noise coming into it.

It seems the only way is to put a price onto it.
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For non-NetHack players, this is a joke that results in a useful strategy. The potion of gain level normally causes you to get an experience level. But if the potion is cursed, the universe instead misinterprets the magical effect and you gain a dungeon level instead of an experience level—that is, "You rise up, through the ceiling".

This is generally very disappointing because an opportunity for your character to become more powerful was effectively squandered due to the curse. But magically moving upward quickly through the dungeon can be very useful if you need to escape from a dangerous monster quickly—or at the end of the game when you need to escape from the dungeon as a whole. The latter is what this speedrun used in order to avoid having to walk through the dungeon and take the stairs.

Most normal characters wouldn't be close to having enough potions of this kind to get entirely out of the dungeon by this means (also because of a certain complicating factor that prevents characters who can't control the RNG from knowing in advance exactly how many they'll need!). Although it's been done before by different forms of grinding, this is a whole other matter because the potions were obtained almost instantly with a preposterously lucky series of wishes.
I usually just tell my lawyer what I want to happen, he gives me the options on how I might do it with the risks and benefits of each, I ask a few advisors and pick one. Them my lawyer prepares the documents and explains to me pretty simply what I'm signing and why, and then I sign it. I signed about 160 documents last year (to be fair many of them grants) and I really couldn't imagine taking the time to know more than my lawyer about them all.
People in abusive relationships tend to justify the people who abuse them.
"Codependent" means two people are dependent on each other. The word you're looking for is "dependent".
The takeoff and landing stories seem to suggest that the excess thrust and responsive controls of the 767 make it safer than a more sluggish plane, since it can fly faster and higher out of a potentially dangerous situation.

I wonder if this is just the subjective feeling of a pilot, or if the 767 actually has a record of using its high power and maneuverability to avoid accidents that a 737, for example, would not have been able to avoid. There's a lot of information out there about actual crashes, but not much about narrowly avoided crashes.
What do you mean by "dumbed down"? I played Halo CE mostly on PC and don't remember it being dumbed down graphically speaking(if you had the graphics card for it), though there were a few minor differences like all the jackal shields being teal. In fact, Halo PC had more and bigger multiplayer maps than on Xbox.
Taxation by the states is not people’s problems in the Northeast and “Northeast” contains a lot of variance in cost of living and economic outlook.
Since 2014 I've been playing with mostly one solid group of real-life friends. We've had times where we weren't playing as much, but Destiny would eventually draw us back. Forsaken has been amazing, and we are having a blast at the moment. This is the best Destiny has ever been.

The general sentiment among friends (and the community) is that this is a good thing.
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Historians are usually pretty good at what they do, and aren't just taking ancient calendars at their word.

On top of that, we also have astronomical records to serve as anchors for other dates. We can figure out when eclipses happened, when each planet was visible, and so on. If ancient texts record an eclipse during the reign of King Foo, and we know when there was an eclipse visible from that area, we can interpret any other events in Foo's time around those definite dates.
Best campaign as well.
Shady as fuck.

I'd never do such unethical things to make money.

I work at FAANG where I get paid more than these scums for ethical work policed by 100s of lawyers team who are stalwart of ethics.
OH man. Marathon. My trump card during Mac Vs PC debates in middle school. God I loved that game.