skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
James Holzhauer Broke ‘Jeopardy’, but Is Broken So Bad?
You must be one of the following ?

1.You have an outstanding student loan which you are paying off with a non US salary.

2. You were on a scholarship.

3. Rich.
Thanks for pointing this out. This will be my next improvement.
> thought that $700 was an enormous sum and that we were being very clever. (This was in 1984)

This made me laugh out loud, it reminds me of the prizes Atari would give software devs via Atari Program Exchange (APX) contests, some of which teens won, which would be a few hundred bucks (or sometimes more) of credit for hardware usually, plus royalties on sales of the software
Superconducting Quantum Refrigerator: Cooper Pairs and Magnetic Field Cycles
The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap
i saw few as well
Agreed. They say in the postmortem they it was protection against crypto mining, but what kind of weird reason is that?!
If I want to pay for 10 instances mining crypto, why the hell wouldn't I be allowed to do that? I don't see why they should block any workload as long as the credit card details are valid.
The really incredible thing is that nobody has ever walked on the moon.
The success rate of a plane not crashing is much higher, yet it seems like keeping track of bags would be the easier problem to solve than ensuring a plane lands safely.
More to the point, there is a curious social stigma around having children before you enter your 30s that has developed.

The idea that you should "play the field" is part of it, but I'm not sure that tells the whole story. There seems to have been a concerted effort to reduce pregnancies among younger women. In fact, programs like "16 and Pregnant" and "Teen Mom", which follow young mothers in their teens and 20s, were, according to their creator, meant as a "cautionary tale" to reduce pregnancy rates. In modern culture, "rural hick" even conjures up images of a young mother. Not the image most want to portray, which is a powerful social tool.

Equally curious, once you enter your 30s all of a sudden the social norms flip to "why haven't you had children yet?", "the clock is ticking", etc. However, once you are in your 30s, there are some rather hard limits to how many children you can practically have.
Cryptosporidium Incidence in Groundwater Supplying Water Systems in Minnesota
Aberdeen University Students Use Video Tech to Recreate 'Earliest Pictish Fort'
Ice Thickness and Bed Elevation of Northern and Southern Patagonian Icefields
From his twitter, he apparently has recently filed a trademark application for OHOL.
Swift Finally Matches Objective-C in One Major Way
How do we know that humans do not? My mental process for simple arithmetic does seem to involve multiple something that feels like lookup tables.
I think it will change in the future, not once families realize the cost, but because families that have already valued kids have kids while those that didn't realize the cost die out.
And similarly if a piece written by Escobar that had never been seen before surfaced and was published I imagine it would upvoted to the moon with a title like "How I made 30 billion dollars capturing 80% of a U.S. market"
Big Tech's spying a threat to democracy
First, I have a linguistic problem with a "supernatural" theory of species evolution because if it turns out to be the correct description of how it happened, then that is natural.

I cannot comment on Lamarckian evolution.

My main problem of religious theories is that they are only the kind of just-so stories that you so despise. Evolution predicted in-between species and we found them in the fossil record; it predicted traits to be hereditary and later it was found how that worked with DNA, we found all animals share parts of their DNA with all other animals, et cetera. It's one of the strongest scientific theories there is in terms of how much it predicted that was later found to be true.

Some details we don't know exactly (because we can't repeat it, and have to look at ancient fossils even though the vast majority of life never left a fossil and the vast majority of the life that did is still in the earth). And even for those we have are somewhat plausible just-so stories. That aren't evidence, but at least it's a way of showing that the presence of e.g. gays is not incompatible with the theory.

Theist theories _started_ with a just-so story and then added more stories on top.
I expect at Google scale C,R,U and D are each a separate specialized domains.
Same. I don't like how this requires you to use named parameters and defer to add context to errors. It's way too easy to shadow err and I can see this causing a lot of pain in the future.
For anyone who was drawn in by the analogy and wanted to know how they support it, they don't: it never appears in the body of the article.
Using Haskell definitely makes me think differently.

Or at least feel like I’m thinking differently.
Yes, the article actually links to a demo of this technique!

https://mrcoles.com/demo/markdown-css/
Total US spending on water and sewer infrastructure is $65 billion per year. And we have 10 years, not 30. These systems are already at the end of their 70-75 year expected service life. So you’re talking about doubling water budgets to meet the backlog.

That’s just water. Other infrastructure has been neglected by state and local governments, leading to a $5 trillion backlog (including water). That’s 10x total US annual spending on infrastructure. Trains have to slow down when it rains in the DC/Baltimore area because the 100+ year old tunnels under Baltimore are leaky. DC’s metro trains were self driving when they were built in the 1970s. They had to shut off that system because the supporting track infrastructure had been allowed to degrade so much. New York’s subway has basically melted down. Ridership in DC and New York, the two biggest transit systems in the country, has been declining despite population growth because the system can’t provide the level of service it did even 20 years ago, due to decades of neglected maintenance.

Meanwhile, lead pipes are poisoning kids in Chicago, and DC’s civil war era sewers dump untreated raw sewage into the Potomac when it rains. These systems needed to be upgraded decades ago.

I’m not advocating getting rid of the entire system. I’m pointing out that it goes far beyond a “few examples of failures” as you claimed in your earlier post. It’s a systematic problem that affects almost every municipality that allows political bodies to set prices for services. They systematically set them too low to allow long term sustainability.
A promise made by preceding generations that didn't think it through, not by us or people younger than us.

Politicians are now implicitly or explicitly saying that such a promise is clearly not being made to us, why should it be honored as they're the ones who didn't 'pay it forward'?
what are the controls?

I haven't found any explanation and I've only managed to spin the ship on itself.
Symmetry-breaking Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya synthetic antiferromagnet interactions
Why shouldn't it? The metal is contained and can be reused. It's more an economic question if recycling or mining is cheaper.
I don't work at a cloud provider, but I think the reasoning is:

It's a common pattern in malicious actors to immediately spin up several droplets and immediately peg the CPU on each one.

There are, obviously, non-malicious actors who do the same, but it's a bit like wearing a balaclava in public: Likely to raise some suspicion just because it's associated with malicious actors.
I once calculated that if the same percentage of the population was eligible for Social Security retirement benefit as when the program started under FDR, the retirement age would be closer to 75.
More thoughts on this seemingly controversial claim.

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/20714/does-ensembl...
Client-Side Prediction, Server Reconciliation, Entity Interpolation, Lag Compensation. See this post for more information: https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architect...
Losing those is highly, highly unlikely.
As in all things, we humans are predisposed to think in all-or-nothing terms. Agile works or it doesn't. Lean is effective or it's not. People just don't want to do the hard and nuanced work of realizing that these are just management methodologies (ffs). They will not by themselves make your business good or bad. There are a hundred other factors at play in your work life, from the personalities of upper management to the viability of your product. Picking a methodology, just like picking a religion or a philosophy or a brand of toothpaste, is not, and never will be, a silver bullet. It's a tool in the toolbox, with pros and cons. Nothing more.
I get that extra spacing by using:

margin:1.5em 0

When there was no margin the text was quite ugly and hard to read. Then tried margin 1em and it was better. Pushing it out to 1.5em really did the trick.
I follow your example. Thanks for the wisdom.
I’m sure that’s a common problem.
W - forward,
S - slow down,
A - roll left,
D - roll right,
Q - yaw left,
E - yaw right,
MouseY - up and down,
SPACE - shoot,
ENTER - chat
Canada is an English speaking country except Québec. Why would a highly skilled immigrant learn yet another language to immigrate to Netherlands, if given a choice between an English speaking country and non English one ?
I’d expect your military pension to be safe and your state to pay at least 75% unless it’s from Illinois.
The cap on taxable SSI wages went up 7% in 2017 and no one really noticed or complained. It's a relatively progressive way to keep things funded. I don't see why we'd need to do much else.
I assumed it would be interwoven throughout the article. Thank you for saving my time!!
Being 75 after a lifetime in an office job versus after a lifetime as a diner waitress are two very different things.
For anyone interested in this, Dunnottar Castle is one of Scotland's oldest and most famous fortifications. It's been besieged by Vikings, seized by William Wallace and during the 16th century held out against Cromwell's forces so that the Scottish Crown jewels could be smuggled away - a legendary place.

The fact that a group of kids in the 18th century threw a load of carved stones into the sea is particularly sad.
Worried in what way?
Bloom – Super fast and highly configurable cache for REST APIs
This is what happens when management still thinks they can just instill "loyalty" in their employees and we'll happily putt along without raises as they slowly cut more and more benefits and throw more "pizza parties" to compensate.
I'm really excited about [0], but as far as I know there is no way to take blood pressure without touching the patient. If someone here could invent it, I could probably provide a test environment for large scale investigations.

Re: studies. I can't say I know the evidence that well, so I wouldn't want to mislead, this isn't my area. A google search for Hourly Rounding reveals lots of articles, but I haven't poked into the underlying data that proves it is a successful strategy (if that exists). I guess I overstated my confidence above.

[0]: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
As the article points out, the fraction of lost baggage has been cut by 75% in the last decade. I seem to remember even more dramatic numbers if you look further back in time.

But, of course, the comments here are (as of now) only cynical takes on how losing luggage is either complete incompetence, or one of various conspiracies of airlines or airports to earn money by... Well I don’t actually understand the ‘how’ part of the schemes. Apparently it’s by paying the customer the contractual (or, in the EU, required by law) hundreds of dollars per loss and then turning around and auctioning off mystery suitcases at $40 a pop?
Everybody speaks English in the Netherlands. People live there for years without learning the local language. Working language in many companies that hire migrants is English.
They probably meant to say that most were behind a firewall. NAT is not any sort of particular protection against anything. Because NAT almost always comes with a firewall there is a tendency to conflate the two things.
I've been there, it's scenic to say the least. Lovely part of the country and steeped in history. Any idea of what Pictish kingdom this resided in? I know there were a number of separate kingdoms.
We ran into this with my daughter who needed multiple surgeries. Two different experiences in two different hospitals.

First hospital was world renowned, ranked #1 in the world for the category of care she needed. This hospital seemed to spend all their money on what I would call “celebrity surgeons”. World renowned, only the best. I suspect the side effect is that they spent much less money on nursing care. There was only one or two nurses to a single floor overnight, and they utilized nursing assistants for everything. I got lots of attitude from the nurses, I suspect it was part of the culture. Their schedules were also much more rigid since they had a lot more patients to cover with limited resources. They also seemed to focus a lot more on the raw numbers and not the individuals. We fought tooth and nail to get a schedule that worked, and got a small amount of wiggle room, but it took a lot of work.

Second hospital was a completely different experience. They had a good surgeon, who had good outcomes, but didn’t have as many surgeries under his belt, so less data. I suspect this meant he took up less of the budget. This hospital had zero nursing assistants, and each nurse only had one or two patients at any given time. This resulted in the nurses advocating for us, and actually working their schedule around us.
It isn't the economic system, it is the lifestyle. I know a number of families where one parent stays home with the kids and they do fine. They don't "keep up with the jone's", but they have enough to eat and a warm roof. (Interestingly, in half those families it is dad staying home while mom works)

This is a subtle difference, but I think it is important.
> What else do you expect? They are international students, undergoing the same undergraduate or graduate education as US citizens. There's no reason to expect them, as a whole, to perform differently than other US citizen new grads.

The quality of a uni graduate is less about the quality of the uni's teaching and more about the quality of said graduates when they get in, as well as how hard they work while at uni. I would assume, that the average international student who gets into a top university is already better than the average national, due to the higher selection pressure on the former. Also, international students, which in the case of the US, tend to come from a less rich country, are more likely to work hard at uni. They are less satisfied with their financial situation and hence have more to gain.

Having said all that, a lot of lobbying in favour of immigration has the unstated goal of wage depression. It is also not fair to accuse those who are against more immigration of xenophobia or worse. Every political decision has winners and losers and it's easy to be pro-immigration when you profit rather than suffer from it.

-- an immigrant
We know it makes more sense to use materials from outside than having to drag them out of Earth's gravity well; I don't see why wouldn't that apply to humans as well. Let's have kids there when we get colonies going, it'll be a new and wonderful experience; there's no need to rush.

> You're literally asking for others to die out of your fear.

On the contrary, you're the one playing up fears like extinction events. People are not having kids because they don't want to, not because point78 asked them to.
Zooko Wilcox (CEO of ZCash) on Privacy, Freedom, and Encryption
The states with better human rights, medicine have gone below replacement while the others have not progressed. South India with ever-lower voter share is becoming irrelevant to national politics, in effect a punishment.

https://scroll.in/article/865569/indian-population-is-growin...
The SEC has sued Kik over their $100M ICO
I think it's the other way around. People who gravitate towards these jobs are willing to put up with more, which while a useful skill in some contexts means that the entire profession has reduced bargaining power.
It's a customer protection method. Most cryptominers are not using accounts they pay for. They compromise customer accounts and spin up resources. If you aren't proactive about communicating this to customers or blocking it, it can be quite some time before the customer notices and almost all customers will request a refund - even when the attack is a compromised password / successful phish on the customer's side.

Additionally, all cloud providers operate on various models of over-subscription. It is not in anyone's (customer / provider) interest to allow the full consumption of resources when the activity is fraudulent.

As you can see in the post-mortem, they are fine with the usage. They have a process and flag to allow legitimate customers to use their resources. However, based on previous experience at another cloud provider, I would bet that over 90% of those automated hits are correct.

This was bad support. They know that and they seem to be making the right moves to fix it. Fraud is bad for everyone and has to be combated. Not doing so can raise prices and kill a business like DO. I'm sure they feel awful that a customer was so poorly impacted, but the error wasn't in the first ban, it was everything after that.
It seems nonsensical that American pensions are payed for directly by employers. In the Netherlands, and I think most of europe, pensions are payed out by special and legally separate funds. These are tightly regulated, and in return are fiscally advantageous.

Now, there is some link between a pension fund and the corresponding company, so a downturn in the company can still hit your pension. However, the company does not get to set the pension conditions. Hence they cannot lure people with great but unrealistic pensions and later cut those pensions.
I don't think it can be sensibly argued that nuclear is more fuel efficient than wind and solar, which have no fuel as such). Although future nuclear technology (breeder reactors, seawater uranium extraction, fusion) makes fuel hugely abundant, and essentially a non-issue, comparable with renewables.

Engineering and regulatory costs won't necessarily come down over time. As use of nuclear power wanes, costs will likely go up, the positive feedback reinforcing the trend.

In 100 years time, fusion may be developed, but we may have seen peak fission already.
I have not read this book but based on the article, I feel the concepts in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers > This book. Relationships do not prove causality, but David tries to with the stories of Van Gogh and Tiger Woods and Federer? The examples in the article leave me frustrated because professional artists and sports icons are not a repeatable success. Using those people as examples of success is bad data. I don't comment, this article bugged me for some reason. My takeaways are: Specialization matters, how you find 'your thing' is up to you. And figure it out well before you turn 40, unless you are Van Gogh.
Nothing is politically untouchable. Someone just need to pay enough to make it worthwhile. That may not happen with social security because the "lobbyists" don't care about it. SS is money owed to the people, and they already spent it. When government spending needs to be significantly cut back to pay SS then there will be incentives to touch it.
yeah the diner waitress probably made more in real dollars back in the 30s.
What's the difference? I can think of lots of advantages for both.
It also changes with experiences. I used to be SUPER gung ho about work. Dedicated, etc. Then I was laid off.

Changed my whole perspective. Company DOES NOT love you back. If possible, love what you do, and get paid enough to be comfortable.

For instance, my commute matters to me more than just about anything now. I'm 10 minutes from the office and can work from home if I want, and it's actually one of my first thoughts when talking to a recruiter.

Environment matters to some people too more than anything, but for me I want to get along with my boss, like my job most days, not be in the car for an hour a day and get paid enough to pay my bills and have a little extra.

For context I'm 36.
No, please read the rest of the comment. My main example was USA vs Europe, where lower US taxes make possible things like SpaceX.
Real wages are stagnating. Workers are being kept in subsistence. [1]

From my point of view, tech-job market seems to be rigged. There seems to be a huge demand for talent, yet companies willing to pay meaningfully more to attract it are few in between.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_wages
A few airports have bag checks at exit, where they validate the tag against your chit. This is surprisingly rare though.

You can also tilt the odds in your favor by choosing an unusual bag color/design though: nobody's going to mistakenly pick up my lovely lime green number.
Very High-Assurance Cloud Servers (ISR+Manufacturing Level Security)
hi. having been security engineering for about a dozen webhosters & cloud computing data centers, i still have yet to see the offering that i can pay for and use at good conscience.

in times of openvz, sysops used to enter into customer vms with vzctl enter [id] and qemu-kvm's haven't made it any better. lxc containers very similar and docker containers seem like just that, even though, much more branded and enhanced. both focusing on x86-64 and arm64 nowadays with packet, i clearly can see progress on the cpu diversity battlefield, but it seems like we are far from encrypted or even random high-performance emulated cpu instances. it furthermore seems like, we are even far from browser-side generated keys for backups and snapshots, with any level of assurance that the hoster utterly has no access, and the JS loaded in the background didn't sniff the crypto.getRandomValues. obviously the least plausible case for security benchmarking, google even put the shell in the browser.

i would like the comfort of ec2 and gcloud, but not at the cost of anybody being able to read and modify or just watch, without me seeing anything. it would be hard enough to detect a physical wiretap on a dedicated (bare metal) machine when not visually monitoring the dc. so just having a bunch of cloud instances globally distributed makes security virtually impossible. i am aware of the university of michigan morpheus darpa funded thing, but even if we did that, what would be the hardware for assured execution of ISLR? a xilinx fpga, manufactured in currently military disputed taiwan territory? i mean...

i would be curious if you reading this, as the probably foremost plausible customers and influencers in the field, still do care for shielding operations from cloud providers and would prefer an offering that goes to great lengths providing that, over the brand and good will of corps not even claiming it.
Autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other
Node, Express, Socket.IO, Three.js, see https://github.com/nickyvanurk/3d-multiplayer-browser-shoote... for more info! A star would be welcome :))
the US doesn't need more banks. The market is actually culling them dramatically- https://www.fdic.gov/bank/statistical/stats/2019Mar/FDIC.pdf (number of banks since 1990!)

From what I can tell there are 10x (about) as many "banks" in the US.
That's what I had in mind. I figure on average half the passengers on any given flight are returning home. People living in the same area tend to have the same retail choices. The number of variations among this group probably isn't in the hundreds.
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