skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a decade too late to be saying so, but the Python foundation really missed the boat by not developing a version of the Py2 CPython interpreter that was instrumented to support straddling code.

The 2to3 approach of statically translating Python was a bust—the language is just too dynamic for that. Instead, they should have leaned in on Python's dynamism with an instrumented interpreter that supported configurable levels of strictness, on a module-by-module basis.
According to TFA, Novartis, the inventor of (non-generic) Diovan, found the NDMA when they bought some (generic) Valsartan from Huahai. They were the first customer to test thoroughly enough to find it. So, contamination in non-generics is possible, but probably less likely. Actually the NDMA wasn't produced in the original manufacturing process designated for Diovan and Valsartan, but Huahai used a different process to save money.
Schools are not the bottleneck, residency spots are the bottleneck. Residency spots are governed by the federal government (Congress) and someone, somewhere must be lobbying to keep the number of spots low.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/who-pays-for-resident-sal_b_1...
tl;dr David Brooks is all about Arizona State University.

“Everything is on a mass scale. A.S.U.’s honors college alone is bigger than Stanford’s entire undergraduate enrollment. It graduates more Jews than Brandeis and more Muslims than Jews.”
The claim that their bus is 1.6x smoother than a train is impossible, and indicative of marketing taking priority over honest metrics.

How is 1.6x smoother impossible? Imagine a maglev train has bumps with a peak amplitude of 2 cm. Then 1.6x of that is 3.2 cm. So to be 1.6x smoother they would need their cabin to reduce bumps to -1.2 cm, which is impossible.

The truth is often the inverse of this, such as, “maglev trains are 1.6x bumpier than our bus.” That means that your bus is 62.5% as bumpy as a maglev train, but this doesn’t sound as good to the marketing folks. For any positive metric it is impossible to be more than 100% less than something. Cabin either have people with poor numeracy skills, or they willfully used inaccurate wording to make their bus sound better. It makes me trust the rest of their marketing spiel 1.6x less.
Alternate Reality Game
This is a weird conflating of tech companies and universities. At the beginning:

Exclusive meritocracy exists at the super-elite universities and at the industries that draw the bulk of their employees from them — Wall Street, Big Law, medicine and tech.

Okay, I can believe that both tech companies and universities have an "exclusive meritocracy" attitude. But later:

In the exclusive meritocracy, prestige is defined by how many people you can reject.

No, that doesn't sound right at all. Nobody cares what percent of applicants Amazon or Google rejects. They get a lot more prestige from their market cap, and from the huge amount of people using their products.
Tried the XR-1 at SVVR. It's very impressive. The camera is very high rez and low latency. If I look for something to complain about, the colors are not very rich, it doesn't handle glaring light well, and your perspective is shifted a bit forward of your face because of the physical position of the cameras.

But, still... I'm nitpicking an awesome piece of kit.
Inflation hasn’t been 600% since 1992.

Not sure what processing load is, but if they’re asked to do more that could be an issue, but I wouldn’t call it a cut.
The optimum way to complete an activity or project is to hire the most skilled people to do it. It's a simple fact, very easy to prove.

Media is spending a suspiciously big amount of money to try to disprove this very simple fact.
> When there are many of us there isn't enough space left for them.

Something I’ve always wondered is whether this has to be true, or if we’ve decided as a society that it should be true, and if we decided that we wanted to attract more birds into our world, if we really could.

Pigeon spikes are everywhere in San Francisco. I’ve even seen them positioned on security cameras. Now I get that we have a lot of rats with wings flying around, but that seems like a feast for falcons, if we wanted to employ more falcons as we do around City Hall.

Around the beach I’ll occasionally see hawks, and generally the biggest danger to them comes from the ravens flying around not wanting any hawks. If you go around Golden Gate Park, there’s an enormous variety of bird species flying around and roosting. I’ve seen a turkey vulture roosting on the signs and a goddamned peacock LARPing as a roadrunner in the morning. I am more amazed it has neither been eaten by coyotes nor hit by a car yet. Seriously, I took my first picture of it two years ago and I still see it a few times a month around the same area.

There’s also the parrots of Telegraph Hill, an escaped domestic population that turned wild and has managed to sustain itself. We just built the Transbay Park (“Salesforce Park” since Salesforce owns the naming rights, but I’ll stick with the generic name), the bus terminal below has just entered service, the park has only been open a bit longer than that and already I see numerous small birds up there every time I go up there.

Down by the waterfront I saw an owl flying around right by Aquatic Park. I was pretty lucky to see it at all since it was going for a kill and the wings don’t make a sound.

This is just in one city! I think if we stopped behaving in an actively hostile way towards birds, save some falconry for population control, we might see the diversity of urban bird populations increase. If we actually introduced niches into our infrastructure for them to roost, managed our urban forests a bit better and planted some more trees while we’re at it, we could maybe even see them thrive here.
I heard a really good argument against high-speed rail in California. We only have so much money to spend on transit. Transit problems tend to be bigger within cities than between them--5 is under-utilized, 880 is over-utilized--so it makes sense to concentrate efforts where we'll get the most return. Projects like a second BART tunnel and Caltrain electrification have a bigger impact on people's lives than a train they occasionally take.

Cabin is an even worse example of HSR demand because it travels when roads are underutilized.
It seems like when you build your corporate culture around being anti-corporate, you are asking for trouble down the line.
Isn't that kind of thinking what got us here in the first place?

We may not even know the full range of micro-nutrients that the soil has been depleted of.
> In the exclusive meritocracy, prestige is defined by how many people you can reject.

This is borderline doublespeak. Is not about how many you reject, Its about finding the best. Obviously you will have to reject the not-best, for that particular task.

The way this is phrased reveals it as an obvious and clumsy attempt at social engineering.

Edit: The best is defined as the optimum person to complete the required task. The "best" is found by measuring his aptitude (tests, etc.).
I have a friend leading the IT team in a company of ~300, and he goes nuts if people keep probing him with "are you here?".

He's a very chill person, but the problem was getting out of hand, so he started pasting users back with just a link to a page explaining why one does not simply do that. Some people took offense, but mostly the situation improved.

It was along the lines of [1], but not sure if it's exactly the same.

[1] https://sol.gfxile.net/dontask.html
Ours are about to expire. I replaced them with free amazon certificates recently. The process of getting and deploying certificates three years ago was super painful. The process of replacing these certificates was super easy and renewal is now automated. Things have improved a lot since the letsencrypt movement kicked off a few years ago.
Curryfinger – Find the Server Behind the CDN
One is discrete while the other is continuous, so that's different. Still, the proposition "a single pill is equivalent to 48 pounds of bacon" seems to put us back in the discrete domain...
At least what we know is that currently the flow of migration is reversed with a lot of European countries. Many countries like all the northern countries, Netherlands, Switzerland, or even Spain have more Americans moving than their own citizen settling in the US.
From my experience they are. They gain a ton of weight, loses muscles, hair, skin softness, become weak, emotionally unstable and underproductive.

Almost all women experience menopause, and some lost their ability to reproduce.

Becoming a vegan and getting nutrients you need is especially hard and almost all vegans fail on that.
>That's not a meritocracy but feudalism.

Exactly, there isn't any merit about being born with wealth. They are bending the meaning of the word Meritocracy.

Often, the wealthy can get better trained and have more time and resources and they end up being the best candidate for some projects, product of the advantage they had.

This doesn't negate the fact that they are still the best and if you want to get shit done right, you have to hire them. Anything else is charity.
This is my homespun solution whenever I need a deterministic, non-repaeting mapping of a sequence. Except I rely - shame on me - on a variable blocksize encryption scheme I've hacked together for just this purpose.

Output - of the mapping as well as of anything I run through the encryption algo - passes all pseudo-random validity testing I throw at it, but obviously I would never, ever consider using the thing where real security was a concern.
Q&A: How Google Implements Code Coverage at Scale
Drone Attacks Spark Fires at 2 Aramco Oil Facilities in Saudi Arabia
> Nobody cares what percent of applicants Amazon or Google rejects.

Dunno about Amazon but people have pitched Google as “more selective than Harvard” before. I’m sure people internally love taking about how selective they are too.
Even the continuous curve has a minimum threshold. One molecule of anything isn't going to kill you.

When it comes to bacon, it's not only the NDMA that can kill you :)
Loot Boxes Should Be Regulated as Gambling, UK Parliament Says
There's a sarcastic comment by `Marcus` in this related article: https://wolfstreet.com/2019/09/13/wework-ipo-the-straw-that-...:

I’ve been driving past the nice looking WeWork building in northern San Diego and laughing at the fact that the lighted sign has some blown bulbs and reads as a massive “WeWo” when it’s dark outside. Fortunately they’ve remedied the issue. By turning the entire sign off. Seems like a big time operation when they have the same building maintenance urgency as a roadside “otel”.
Yes, local in season fruit is always tastier. I suspect because out of season fruit has to come from further away, meaning it has to be picked before it normally would be if it didn’t have to travel so far.
“The best” is crudely and arbitrarily defined.

If this is social engineering I’m fine with it. The real social engineering is the intentional social stratification that has been cemented over the last 50 years among ethnic (redlining, blockbusting), cultural and economic lines.
I’ve been living in Ukraine for the past few months, trying to figure out why the food here, especially the vegetables, simply taste so good. The very same dishes (e.g. steak and veggies) from popular mid-range restaurants are far more enjoyable to me over here in Kiev than I ever ate in Canada. When I went back to Canada for a brief visit, my body was craving Ukrainian food. Now this study on vegetable mineral content may explain why. I’m very keen to see a comparison study on Eastern European agriculture and produce versus North American. Ukraine was once the “breadbasket” of the Soviet Union, so there must be an explanation. Ukrainians who migrate to other countries are often said to complain about a loss in food taste - previously I assumed that was just some form of homesickness, but this study lends some potential scientific ground to their complaints.
I am more impressed to hear that California apparently have incredibly smooth roads. I mean otherwise, they'd need some suspension that would relinquish all control of the bus itself. Or are they only referring to the seating? I mean they can have independent suspension, that might achieve that.
I feel like this could be the basis of an interesting, what, Comedy Central show maybe? Get two semi-famous people together every week. Have them play RPS to 10 or 20 wins. Just enough to get to the meta mind games and drama but not long enough to drag on.

Maybe design some kind of goofy little arena for them. Let them dress up in costumes. Put some medium stakes charity donation on the line. An announcer and color commentator calling the match.

I wanna see Ken Jennings take on Annie Duke. Dennis Rodman battle Sebastian Bach.
Google Wage Fixing
Are you referring to Medicare part A and B coverage? They paid out the whole $50k bill for triple coronary artery bypass. Apparently they cover 60 days of inpatient hospital stay for any health issue. I hope I have this coverage when we hit 65....
I'll just leave this here:

“How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?”

~~ Ecclesiasticus 38:25
Seems to me that place would have been dysfunctional with or without their dysfunctional form of ”agile”.
Privacy or Profit – Why Not Both?
That's a good point, and I'm sure that's true for many people. Interestingly, for me personally, my interview skills increased as a result of interviewing others, as I understood what interviewers were looking for. The big problem is that interviewers typically don't provide feedback to those who fail the interview.

So even that part can have some component of perpetuated exclusivity.
Must be one hell of a tomato if it takes multiple months to grow. I’ve only grown ones that take a few weeks.
To be clear most new grads and people seeking internships..don’t. Even getting into Hackathons was very difficult when I was in undergrad (right around peak Hackathon in 2014/2015). Generally the people that got in and got good internships were the ones that already went to top schools. And all of that is before the interview prep training, the fact that 50% of coding/algorithmic interviews are just proxies for either raw IQ or remembering the problem, etc etc.
This reminds me of my neighbor who had recently retired and began a side business making furniture in his garage. He was just looking to make a little beer money, but his business grew quickly just through word of mouth and he was complaining to me that now it was more of a job than he had before he retired. He was thinking about shutting the whole thing down.
The dangers of magnet fishing
... which is perfectly ok, because MarkDown nicely degrades to plain text.
No need for high speed even, just offer daily night trains on the existing route
I’m likely a member of the top quintile but the gulf between people like me and the super elite at HYPSM seems absolutely massive - I wonder if it’s an exponential difference at some point.
Awesome story, any good references for you to date medical coding based off your background?
Google to change search algorithm to elevate 'original reporting'
Recession Fears Could Swamp Trump Even Before a Recession
How is “the best” defined? Who defines who is “the best”?

How do we know that hiring “the best” is a valid concept to begin with if it’s quite arbitrarily defined?

I think there is more behind those two words than you are willing to admit. Appealing to hiring only “the best” appeals to our common sense, appeals to simplicity, a simplicity that simply does not exist at all. There is more to it than it just being “the best”.

And I’m not talking about out there conspiracies and evil intent. I do not think that plays any meaningful role, and it does not have to for “the best” being more complex than you think.
Format it and start fresh, my dude
"are" in the concluding sentence of thread parent is equivalent to "are being" in your concluding sentence. "granted" is equivalent to "entitled". In a passive-voice sentence like this, the object of the verb is made to seem like the subject, but the object it remains.
Honestly that idea sounds absolutely un-American to me. Those with “merit” design the systems that define “merit” to benefit themselves.

This should not occur in a society uniquely positioned as one that emphasizes social and class mobility.
No it's not. (The whole "copyright" thing?)
Personally, I’d be happy with the free monthly quota they offer. Unfortunately, I get charged for one of those views whenever I load a NYT page even if I didn’t realize that’s where a link would send me.

They (and other similar paywalls) have generated an asset that gets spent automatically by clicking on a normal web link, which has made me be much more self-conscious about every move I make on the web. This materially degrades my experience everywhere on the web. What happened to the idea that a GET request should not have permanent repercussions?
It is not a formal difference, but agile has evolved into an industry itself, with certification ladders and gurus. So on one hand you have the one page agile maniefesto, on the other people who make their living on preaching how teams should work, shouting from the sidelines.
Benefits of Mobile Apps in Education
This is staggering..

Also reminds me of unplanned importation fees. Transporter started to send me letters after letters. I bounced emails as long as possible asking for some explanation. After a few months and a few lawyer agencies (mind you it was just a few SBC bought online) they accepted to make me pay for a much smaller amount, sending me the same bill but with an added line "deal rebate" and that was it.

I wonder how much money get lost this way...
The type of university you attended is not what the article is referring to. Elite schools are usually categorized as within the top 10 or maybe 15 getting single digit acceptance rates of very well qualified students, and they are very well funded with class sizes of only a couple thousand. If a school is busting at the seams with additional students, I would say it’s not elite by definition.
There's definitely an obsession with exclusivity in tech companies. For one, the various literature around interviewing and job applications (Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? Cracking the Coding Interview, etc.) Also, the particular focus on the FAANG or Big N companies. While Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google are undeniably good places to work at, there's a whole bunch of excellent companies with comparable salaries and benefits, but aren't known for their mystical interviewing. Think about how much cachet phrases like "Ex-Google" or "Ex-Facebook" have.
Meanwhile, in austria: https://www.priestmangoode.com/project/new-intercity-and-nig...
He's referring to expanding the acronym in the headline. He didn't write “...to make writing more powerful," the original author did.
This looks fantastic, I can't wait to read this all the way through. It seems to solve a supreme fundamental issue of removing competition from the proofing.

> I want to use the money for effective altruism and existential-risk reduction.

Since the absolute most fundamental nature of any organization is risk reduction, I believe you mean the underpinnings of what the poli sci world is calling the 'network state' :)

However, with that said, to me the most promising goal of crypto will forever be the exchanging of computations for social mobility, ie PoW, PoS, PoST, etc. There needs to be some way to actually earn semi-passive income. Why work when a mining rig can do it for you? Banking the unbanked is cool or whatever, but unbossing the bossed is where the ultimate potential for humanity is at, imho. How does this consensus mechanism help with that, if there is no staking or mining?

Thanks again, I can't wait to read it!
I've worked in several places that each had their own unique snowflake take on "Agile".

With Agile being constant, the experiences were wildly different between them.

The key variable to whether they were dysfunctional or not wasn't Agile. It was the quality of the people in management.
I asked MDs about that, beside the normal certification fees there's also market dynamics at play. They know they can raise prices because hospitals and doctors can spend more.
What's important here is the overall size of the country and its economy, not really its relative growth.

Switzerland's population might grow faster than the US's at some point, for example, but that'd be irrelevant because it is way too small in any case to threaten the US's position.
Are they also why he behaves like a baboon?
> I’ve been living in Ukraine for the past few months, trying to figure out why the food here, especially the vegetables, simply taste so good.

I had exactly the same feeling when I was living in Lviv and buying vegetables from the local Farmers Market[1] to cook at home.

It seems that Ukrainians are still growing vegetables like their grandparents did in the 1930s, as it's one of the poorest and most isolated regions of Europe.

In my own post-soviet EU country, most people living outside the big cities still grow their own vegetables in their backyard[2], but more as a rewarding hobby.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI0VnuZObjE

[2] http://imgur.com/a/3afScVR
GordonS gets it.

This is true. Not long ago (about six months) a project I was working on was assigned a scrum-master (tip: You can just be the person saying "any blockers?" and "next". You don't need to be master of anything.)

Genuinely nice person, it's anecdotal, but just making it clear I'm not bashing them. Regardless, after a stand-up in the very first week they just volunteered that they had no technical background whatsoever, and couldn't write a line of code. They were at the same time actively making architecture decisions outside of the stand-ups and relaying this to the P/O.

It was a nightmare.

The above is right, Agile (with a capital A) has become little more than a way for non-technical people to have lucrative careers in software by destroying the otherwise promising careers of technical people in software.
> Parents in the exclusive meritocracy raise their kids to be fit fighters within it. Markovits calculates how much affluent parents invest on their kids’ human capital, over and above what middle-class parents can afford to invest. He concludes that affluent parents invest $10 million more per child.

$10M investment per child? How is that possible? Even top boarding schools and private US universities would not add up to that amount. You could hire several teachers full time for your kid and it wouldn't get that high.
> This is borderline doublespeak. Is not about how many you reject, Its about finding the best.

University rejection rates are actually used in college rankings. The more you reject, the higher your ranking.

US News just recently removed this as a factor in their most recent rankings, so maybe this measure is on its way out. See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/09/12/us-news-...
This is outright fraud.. I wish I could wear a bodycam into the hospital and have the footage confirm everything I'm billed for is actually administered and necessary for the diagnosis I'm provided by the physician.
Yes, making private copies of material that you have legal access to for your own use is legal in many jurisdictions. In many places the content being "copy protected" affects the legality of copying, but I think youtube content it not?
If you think 'cancel culture' is bad wait until you hear about sexual assault trauma.