skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider that the largest employer of mathematicians in the US is the state. Why is that? Why aren't market institutions valuing mathematicians more?

Also, if you look around and individuals who are staffing the top hierarchies of business/market institutions, what kind of credentials are most commonly seen there?

On top of that, in even intellectual subcultures, what stripes of intellect tend to be most respected in US culture?

I think there's a number of ways (some subtle, some less so) in which American society messages people about the status of STEM and in particular about the M, which is almost always about its auxiliary value for something else and rarely respected in its own right.

I think it's plausible there are a number of features of a communist culture that might shift some of those incentives, especially when combined with a generally more intellectual culture.

(Also, this shouldn't need to be said, but this is not an argument about the general superiority of communist society. I suspect that more pragmatic societies do better than more ideologically organized societies.)
Why Trees Don't Ungrow
This is what they do on gambling websites in the UK.

Similarly if you are in a Casino you will never see a clock anywhere. Also generally food and drink is pretty cheap and there is normally table service in a Casino because they want you to be at the tables spending your cash.
Related: I couldn’t close the video modal on iOS.
Typically either by setting up a keyboard layout, using xcompose, or using an editor which can insert them (eg use input modes in emacs). An alternative is to use the “Texas” versions which are made out of ascii but are slightly bigger.
Thankfully there are many ways to participate. But maybe I was a bit short. My point is that if you don't 'meet me half way' I can't do the subject justice in a forum where a significant number of the comments arguing that point is hidden. That increases my effort to make an effective argument and diminishes my returns for that effort. Especially since I don't feel that strongly about it. You are better off trying to find a blog post about it that won't disappear in a couple of hours.

But on the other hand meta isn't that interesting either. If large companies wanted to do security research that wasn't objectionable to people they could do so by consensus, standards and agreements. No one could really question that. Instead the idea is largely that "the ends justify the means". That is what people tend to disagree with. That large companies can unilaterally decide how things are done, not just for themselves but in a way that affects other companies or their users. It doesn't really matter if it is for good or best practice because it is about them, especially as large companies in the industry, having that influence.
Hyperscale – Going from 0 to 100M user scale and quick
Shotcut is a relatively capable Linux-compatible FOSS video editor. It has animation support, video effects and text, and can export to anything that ffmpeg can.

https://shotcutapp.com/
I'm not on the inside, but I have a possible explanation.

Netflix has competitors. If we assume that leisure-time hours are fixed in the short term, the more hours you spend watching Netflix, the less you have available for Hulu, Amazon Prime, CBS, HBO, MLB, or Disney streaming services. Thus, if all those have comparable prices, more hours watching Netflix translates to greater subscriber-perceived entertainment value for money spent on watching Netflix than on the other services.

Netflix does not have to be number one, but it does have to be high enough on people's ranked lists to be above their individual fragmentation threshold.

If a customer's hours watched is low and dropping, Netflix is in danger of losing them as a customer, especially when Disney comes online later.

Perhaps if CBS All Access tracked that number, they would give up, and contract with Netflix or Hulu to stream their content. It seems to me that it is the service that would be least likely to get subscribers that are already at or near their fragmentation tolerance.
Always makes me think of a philips radio my Dad told me about called the "Mono Knob". It had a complex design that allowed control via just one knob. He said they were always in the shop for repair when he worked as a teenager in a radio store.

https://www.thevalvepage.com/radios/philips/785ax/785ax.htm
Well, if it makes you feel a bit better, I love autoplay because most of the time I'm watching Netflix I'm cooking/cleaning/etc. I definitely clean less when there's nothing left that I want to watch, and autoplay means I don't have to break that flow.
Lighter, higher-resolution headsets + full keyboard control = 3D Emacs!
One can still hope.
That's not exactly a super well defined line though.

Slack has infinite scrolling and is mostly used for work, but I also use it with friends and you can't deny there's the same social media type feedback loop with Slack reactions.

LinkedIn and Yammer are "professional" social networks. People use them to get "real work" done, but they're absolutely social media too.
Well we know it wasn't slavery. In the South the rich invested in slaves, and the rich controlled most of the economy. In the North the economy was dominated by agriculture, and was well along into the industrial revolution.

To put the economies in the starkest of differences, 90% of all the capital in the United States, prior to the Civil War, was located in the North. The North employed 1000% more factory workers, in factories that were magnitudes more profitable. Steel production, railroads, engines, chemicals, all this was produced in the North in almost their entirety.

The South produced only three things of note: cotton, slavery, and traitors.
My understanding is that finger printing relies on gleaning data about the underlying os and hardware. I'd think using a browser in a fresh VM may offer more security security in this case.
I listened to an interesting podcast on Kodak - https://www.spectacularfailures.org/episode/2019/07/15/kodak...

My previous perception which I think is common, is that due to the amount they made from non-digital, they ignored digital until it was too late.

My revised perception after listening is that Kodak was right there at the cutting edge (and has the cameras and patents to prove it). Problem was how the company was structured. Pretty much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

They had a 'chemical' photography division that did amazingly as they opened up photography to consumers. They created a digital division as they saw the way the market was heading. Problem was the fighting between the two divisions.
> If slavery makes a country rich, why isn't Africa rich?

I never made the claim that any country can become rich simply by having slavery. The question of why the West is so much richer than e.g. Africa or Brazil is obviously vastly complex and does not boil down to "because of slavery." But whether or not the American South was richer than the North at the time of the civil war, it certainly very very wealthy, and slavery was instrumental in this.[0] I don't think this is really controversial.

> Native Americans had slaves:

The existence of slavery in these or other societies does not in any way absolve the US from its past in this regard. Pointing an accusatory finger at some Native Americans who enslaved prisoners of war and the like, in contrast to a vast and extremely profitable business empire built on systematic enslavement, which has had ripple effects of racism on individuals and communities since, seems incredibly tone-deaf. Even more so when you consider that we killed the Native Americans by the literal millions.

[0]: https://www.history.com/news/slavery-profitable-southern-eco...
Brought to mind this story:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
As Ezreal would say: "That thing belongs in a museum.

.. all of this belongs in a museum, I wont tell anyone."
So kubernetes will eat the clouds.

Kubenrentes is the only true cross cloud solution which will get customers out of the high cloud vendor lock in.

What you are describing are the attributes of any micro service architecture, which is more complex than monolith, however it has other advantages, and it is becoming the defacto way to architect new applications.

The future that I see, is the future of complete automation. Once the operating knowledge of the cloud services will become kubernetes operators, there will be no need for cloud services (which are 20X more expensive than on prem). I mean clouds would exist, but there will be not much different between them.
The period I'm referencing with 30,000-50,000 years ago is known as the Upper Paleolithic Revolution. This is where a very large number of things happened nearly simultaneously. Homo sapien began to interbreed with various other species, and they took on the anatomical form we mostly have today. In specimens prior to this period you generally find substantial anatomical differences such as thicker bones, larger canines, etc.

But most importantly of all this is where you find the first clear evidence of intelligence which rapidly expand outward: art, ceremonial burials, clear evidence of fishing, and much more. Some time after that you start to see the beginning of modern civilization with bladed weapons, pottery, agriculture, and so on. This is also one of the most likely time periods for the development of language, though that is something that is hotly debated.

I'm going to dodge the second part of your post for the sake of trying to keep the conversation on the up and up. If you have some clear message you'd like to convey, I'd be happy to get into that. It's a fun topic. However, please do drop the ad hominem.
Wow that reminds me of oldschool google sketchup. Too bad that's not a great tool anymore
Compass Raises $370M in New Funding Round
Lots of savvy insights, but I'd question Rachleff's position that the angel community took on a "sucker's bet" when it became the main source of early funding for software startups that hadn't yet established product-market fit.

I think what Rachleff deep down knows -- but didn't want to say -- is that putting money into a very early-stage software startup is a time-intensive proposition. The founders are groping their way, and their odds of getting it right depend, to a large extent, on the quality of never-ending advice and contacts that they get.

The best angels have the patience and the hands-on knowledge to provide this guidance. They also make a ton of money selling their expertise in the form of repeated consults-over-coffee.

For every venture capitalist that's willing to put in the work at the beginning, there are dozens who would much rather live large, work short hours, bicker with their partners and concentrate hard on raising the next fund.

For that group, everything else that Rachleff says is quite true. Mainstream VCs are very comfortable providing capital (and public promotion!) for 10x companies going to 500x, or for 100x companies going to 5,000x. It takes a rare blend of nerve and cheery enthusiasm to pull it off, but it also is much easier work.
Rails 6.0.0 RC2 released
This isn't a surprise. Canon has lagged behind Sony on the sensor side of things for ages. Nikon was also lagging, but decided to do the right thing which was buy its sensors from Sony. For full-frame DSLR camera bodies, Nikon is far superior to Canon currently and has been for a long time.

Canon has primarily survived off brand loyalty with professional photographers driven by the extremely high quality lenses they produce. This too has been challenged lately by Sony and their partnership with Zeiss, meaning Sony lenses for mirrorless are on par or in excess of the quality level you can get from Canon lenses and Zeiss is financially able to offer similarly high quality lenses to the wider market, cannibalizing first-party sales. Nikon has historically had worse lenses than Canon and this hasn't changed significantly, but they've made huge leaps in R&D for large telephotos with usable fresnel lenses at 300mm and 500mm focal length.

Canon had some opportunities to right the ship, but their management seems incompetent. It's sad to me that they're in this situation because I respect what they've done for photography for decades. I don't see this improving though.
Workplace culture is fucking baffling. You may need strategies to deal with bad bosses or bad colleagues. ("Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst")

Watch The Office (UK) -- this is for some people uncomfortably close to their real work environment. Office Space -- ditto.

Better off Ted, Corporate, and Silicon Valley are somewhat more light-hearted, but there's a bunch of truth in them.

If you can stomach Dilbert there's a bunch of early Dilbert cartoons that do a good job of describing culture.

But good luck! I hope you enjoy it!
What makes Functional and OO programming equal
In case you experience slow loading of this hackernews'ed website, here's the archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190730153132/https://www.colla...
I like the Windows flat taskbar style in the screenshots :) how is it called?
I feel the post is misguided. Pick any career out there and you'll find that in a complex enough cranny of it there is mathematics. That doesn't mean that plumbing IS doing mathematics, or fixing the washing machine IS doing physics; at least not in any substantial sense. If you're cutting web APIs, writing wrappers, wrangling pixels; you wont find maths useful to you very often.

If you find yourself working in data science, cryptography, compilers, formal design, etc then obviously maths will be indispensible to you. Having said that most the maths that you need in order to pick something up and implement it is within your grasp and you'd probably have to learn it anyway even if you did know some maths. Recall, there is no "know maths"; you only ever know some maths, and once you've done it long enough you develop an ability to "do maths" which is in some bizarre way independent from any actual maths you know.

As a final note and honestly to hell with lamenting the past. I think if I could do it all over again; I would... and when I did I'd most probably want to do it all over again, again.
Usually military wants cutting edge and precision-ly made tech, that often is also very expensive...

Yet... I keep seeing stories like this coming from US, why?

What changed between the construction of A-10 and the F-117 and the F-35 for example?
> There is no strong reason to think that genes unusually prevalent among Kenyans play a large role in success at distance running.

This contradicts scientific findings.

> Genes significantly influence athletic performance

> Keynans are great at distance running

> |- Keynans have genes that make them better at distance running.

I've been discussing Kenyan and Ethiopian runners for brevity, but as you point out, I should have been more specific: this chain of reasoning should conclude with the much more compelling observation that "from 1980 on, ~40% of the top honours available to men in international athletics at these distances (Olympic medals, World Championships medals, and World Cross Country Championships honours) have been earned by Kalenjin." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalenjin_people

> The article points out that Somalians and Kenyans don't (on average) have particularly similar somatotypical characteristics, and yet both nations have produced exceptional distance runners.

The Kalenjin identity predates modern borders of Kenya and Ethiopia, which torpedoes the "but multiple nations have produced elite runners" argument. They are massively disproportionately successful at distance running, and it's well-established that their specific genotypes are key to their success -- not the only key, but a major part.

None of this is "bluster." We can politely disagree here all we want, but the fact is that we both have near-instant access to reams of supporting evidence for the fact that Kalenjin genes uniquely predispose them to distance-running prowess, similar to how the Bajau of Southeast Asia are genetically predisposed to have 50% bigger spleens as a free-diving adaptation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sama-Bajau#Free-diving_adaptat...), or how Tibetans are adapted across multiple genes to thrive at high altitude in a different way from Kalenjin or Andeans (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/jul/02/mutation-gen...), or any of the other specific examples of genetic adaptation to ancestral environments whose existence might be uncomfortable to some, but are nevertheless real.
exactly what I was thinking when i saw facebook and brain control in same title
I got curious, so I made a graph with the average of sizes above 10KB per version (to exclude the checksum files).

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Lifetime sales figures for Nintendo’s consoles
Observation: USA curriculum, or, often in recent times, lack thereof, has not seemed to harm the USA’s position in the STEM field
Using Southern US was simply an overstatement. I'm sure I could look at my neighbours from the same appartment block and find people who are not as open about all of this.

Could you provide examples on where disclosing your sexual preferences could be hurtful or dangerous? I honestly cannot imagine any situation except some edge cases where illegal habits are
involved. (E.g. a high school teacher that searches for pornography involving people roleplaying as minors.)

The only other situation that comes to my mind is people not out of the closet being found out and outed before being ready.
>I learn best when I have something specific in mind to build.

This is so incredibly important for me and, based on my conversations, many others as well.

The other thing I struggle with is the feeling that many of the problems I wish to solve are likely also solvable with simpler statistical methods and that I'm just being a poser by trying to pound them home with the ML hammer.
Another example is VR/remote control toys adoption - Mindgeek was pretty early adopter of VR porn and remote control toys with synchronization of video frames.
> In most cases I'd trade a little bit of modularity for increased domain logic consistency

In my experience that is not the entire trade-off. At scale, you also get circular dependencies between modules, which makes refactoring, migrations, deprecations, and other improvements incrementally impossible. Sometimes this can happen unintentionally through including a "upcall" to a module that is actually the best tool for the local job at hand.

In the case of several repos, you will notice the extra work needed to pull in the extra project. In the case of a monorepo... it might look like any benign change.
Bild = picture in swedish. I see what you did there.
Sounds like Apple News?
Google AI Publications on Machine Learning
Don't get me wrong, I understand where you're coming from and what your goals are; it'll be grand if Dark can deliver on its promises. I just don't understand why that particular statement on deployment had to be included, as it makes it sound like you're solving a problem with an existing solution.
You usually don't need to. Perl6 supports both Unicode and ASCII (a.k.a. "Texas") versions of these operators: https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode_ascii

To answer the question, though: in my case I use X11's support for compose key sequences (with Caps Lock as my compose key) whenever possible (TODO: figure out a reliable way to add new sequences to fill in the gaps; I've been meaning to be able to type Compose + S + H + R + U + G to be able to instantly pop in that one shrug emote without having to search for it all the time).

Emacs (and other editors presumably) could probably be programmed to replace ASCII operators with Unicode operators on the fly, though I don't know of any packages which do this.
So, why didn't you keep using it?
Yes, but I feel cheated that Canon put their name on such a terrible product.

I would be fine with no-name Chinese camera for the same amount of money, which by the way would have 4K and a hotshoe mount.
Maybe if you want to write tensorflow, but not if you want to use it.
Aside from probability, what math do you use in board game design?
I don't have resources for Bayesian systems of belief. I do like Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge by Deborah Mayo, but the book is a bit intimidating. I admit I haven’t finished reading it, either.
I suspect that parent wonders what it does now. Which is likely ~nothing. But I am curious how it compares with current machines. Comparable to an i5 desktop? Or to a smartphone?
You certainly can if you install Linux on your Chromebook. I've been using my Chromebook this way for years. But I use a real Linux distro independent of Google (my system will not run Android apps). I have no idea if Google's relatively recent Linux offering works as well.
Sure, the space is called Revenue Cycle Management.

OODA Health already has some major partnerships/investments from providers and payers. https://www.ooda-health.com/

Lumedic was acquired last year by Providence St. Joseph, a large hospital system. https://lumedic.io/
It's a lot easier to have better keyboard when space and weight is not a concern.
Plantation-style forestry like that found in the US is much less efficient as a sink because the harvesting carbon cost is amortized across a much more frequent harvest cycle.
Something I keep wondering about: For as far as I can recall there has always been something people are addicted to. In the 90s and early 2000s people were worried about TV time. Now that attention has moved around a bit: Netflix, facebook, instagram, YouTube, etc. So, who cares? Do people worrying about this have some grand idea that if humans legislated this addiction away then.. what?
This one. You can search for the articles when searching for "Nora Cat".

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3iwL9Yz8LcKkJsnLPevOTQ/vid...
This echo's exactly what I was thinking.

I suppose once you hate something, it becomes impossible to acknowledge that any good can come from that thing. Which is unfortunate.

There is a plethora of things I really don't like about Google, but I make a conscious effort (and it's hard sometimes!) to acknowledge the good they do, when they do it.

P0 is one of the things in the "good" column of Google.
Having watched and listened to the video, the phrase "still humming along" is definitely a misnomer.