skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The university I went to is in the top 20 (top 8 when I went)(this is just for context not to start an argument about rankings). The school is also in the top 20 in endowments.

When I was there they did an analysis of alumni donations. One thing they found out was that if you did 2 or more activities in high school you were likely to do 1 or more activities in college. (these numbers are ballpark) If did ANY activities in college you were around 60% more likely to donate to the school. If you did NO activities and just took class you were only 20% likely to donate. If you did MORE activities you were even more likely to donate. The amount of your donation was related heavily to your income and found to be an independent function from your activities.

Thus the school decided that recruiting multi-sport atheletes to play Division 3 sports (which we were) was revenue positive for running an athletic department. Their goal was to provide a positive feeling at all the sports so that everyone felt good about their experience. So the school got very into (even to the chancellor level) attempting to be on par with stanford's numbers in the Sears Trophy (now the ncaa directors cup) for most National Championships in a year. Which means you have to be good at pretty much everything, golf (m&w), tennis (m&w), swimming (m&w), volleyball (w), football, basketball (m&w), etc. And that's what they did.

I'm not saying this is the only reason they did what they did, they were very genuine about providing great experiences for the student athletes as they should if they're doing their jobs.

Anyway the overall point is that some schools also focus on alumni donations which ARE driven by school loalty, which are driven by sports. One could consider people buying school athletic merch as a form of alumni donation.

I'm not explaining or excusing why college sports it the big business it is in D1 as it is. I've got problems with that as well, but mainly I think the schools should be required to provide a real education for the players at ANY time in their life post graduation and some kind of revenue sharing.
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> She is the perfect figure (young, a girl, autistic) with the perfect message (science based climate disaster destroying life for her generation)

Al Gore was neither young, a girl, nor autistic, but he received a similar response. And still does, in fact, even after years out of the spotlight. Perhaps this has nothing to do with her and is simply disagreement over the issue.

Gore did have the same message. His predictions of imminent apocalypse were wrong, and many of us old enough to remember that are naturally skeptical about the latest batch of apocalyptic predictions.

And the venom? That exists on the fringes of any political issue, and advocates amplify the voices of a few loudmouthed fools to discredit any reasoned disagreement. The perception of widespread hate is manufactured.
No, it's not about tact, it's about advocating a viewpoint which demonstrably enables child predators and instills justified feelings of fear in women working at institutions alongside Stallman.
This is a pretty blatant advertisement, part of a larger pattern of what would be charitably called "aggressive self-promotion", and in fairly poor taste IMO. This comment had close to nothing to do with the subject of the parent post except the tenuous connection via the "MUD" keyword.
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It is toxic to all dogs.
Some additional examples of people fixing instances of this problem

Dissolving the fermi paradox[0], convolves distributions instead of multiplying point estimates of life/no life.

How to NOT measure latency, looks at CDFs instead of slow/fast thresholds.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU
So how many more people have to die before we finally understand cancel culture is an abysmally bad idea? Not that I believe RMS is in immediate danger, but for anyone else who's more weak-willed, a mean-spirited article like this would be a career-ending, if not life-ending matter.
Yes, of course, but I was thinking of the rest of the Vue app. Much of the things you do in a Vue app probably will not translate well into a postback-emulated no script variant without extensive work.
Eat less, lose weight. I read long ago that if you want to maintain weight, eat until you're a little bit hungry. If you want to lose weight, eat until you're still pretty hungry.

I've been following the latter on and off over the years, and have been doing it again for the past 8 weeks and have lost a pound a week. I've found it to be much easier than calculating BMR/caloric rate then calculating calories and setting up portion sizes, etc.
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My take.

Since you can expose them through the API Gateway, it is natural to write "web services" as Lambda functions. It is also good for the occasional "web form" such as to subscribe or unsubscribe to a mailing list -- the kind of thing that people used cgi-bin for back in the day.

Memory is the limited commodity in a system like lambda, because lambda can only give you low latency if your function is already in RAM or if it can get it into RAM quickly.

Lambda functions are not good for a database server or an
inference server that works against a 20 GB model.

In the case of the "email newsletter" system above, I send the mail with Amazon's SES, I maintain the mailing list in DynamoDB, Lambda provides the user interface and also answers callbacks to remove bouncing email addresses. The toolset is almost ideal for this case because it is cheap to run for anywhere from hundreds of subscriptions an hour to one a week and I never have to worry that it went down.

I also have built Lambda functions that take callbacks from Samsung SmartThings that then filter the events and queue them in Amazon SQS where another server picks off events when it is ready.
It's the point and time where the body spends energy on repair.
I'm not talking about a metric over space, but rather a metric over spacetime, if that's what you mean. I would consider that to encode the space/time decomposition. My differential geometry sucks, but I thought you could write general relativity in a coordinate free manner that specifically doesn't rely on strong coordinate choices like you're talking about.
There's no reason to preserve bad notation from a 30year old paper.
To the best of my knowledge the corporate tax in question is a tax on income, rather than revenue.

Any would-be competitor to Google is going to want to plow most/all of their revenue back into growth for years, perhaps over a decade. VC funded companies normally lose money so they can grow faster.

Once you're making money, yeah that's kind of a big sucking hole you want to deal with. But that's a political issue that other EU members states have with Ireland (and Luxembourg, and the Netherlands).
Not only that, accusing TypeScript of being "unsophisticated" is just dumb.

Unsound, inconsistent, overly complicated, poorly abstracted, improper paradigms.....any of those would be a more legitimate criticism than "unsophisticated".
Awesome, thanks for the response.
Why do you think that? They're still applying for patents, but they'll share theirs if you share all yours.

So far no other car company has stepped up and offered their patent portfolio in return.
I think the author say some strange things, I am not entirely sure he uses the words correctly but here is my strongest take on what he is trying to say:

Lets say you have an internal value function F which you use to judge peoples worth. If F is deterministic it means that for any observation X it produces a value F(X) = V, where V is some number.

With this function a rational person would be racist, as statistically whites are more educated than blacks, so maybe F(WHITE) = 0.7 and F(BLACK) = 0.4. People from this category say things like "Of course he failed the maths test, he is black!".

But lets say that your F output a probability distribution instead, then you'd recognize that the information is incomplete, so even though E(F(WHITE)) = 0.7 it could both be lower and higher. With this way to see the world the statement "Of course he failed the maths test, he is black!" doesn't make sense, as there are lots of black people who do very well in maths so your value function would include those possibilities as well.

Note that the talk about discrete categorization doesn't make sense, having real valued prejudice function based on loads of factors is still deterministic.

//

In my experience most people go with the deterministic value function when not pressured. But when you say something like "Do you really mean that no black person could have done well on that test?" they typically acknowledge that there are some black people who would have done well, so they can still think probabilistic but it takes more effort. Maybe said effort is too much for the average person to apply it everyday so we are doomed to experience the current political strife forever.
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Is your game project available publicly to play, and/or is it open-source? Have you ever participated in the MUD Coders Guild community? It's been mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
The author might be offended by Stallman's lack of tact, but I don't think that's the "whole moral injunction." Rather, she places him as an exemplar of a culture that tolerates, if not celebrates, sexist and abusive behavior to the point of excusing and dismissing rape and sexual assault.
That's nonsense. Huawei has never proven to be connected with China government either. It is a private company owned by its founder and employees. There is ZERO evidence whatsoever that Huawei has spied for China government.
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There is the NPR, PBS and wikipedia model. Not for profit companies that live off of the public's donations.
Also the BBC model
Is this better than a Driving Truck?
Please don't introduce personal swipes like "malicious" into what's otherwise a fine HN comment. It usually provokes the person you're talking to into replying with worse; or if that doesn't happen, it causes other people to take your comment the wrong way (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20960084). It also breaks the site guideline against calling names in arguments:

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Similarly to AirBnB and Uber. Same kind of thing - use technology create a company of larger scale and coordination than previously existed in a space.

I think the general WeWork idea is great. Investing in it is another story.
My current venture is has been a week away from insolvency for the past 6 months.
They also then immediately dropped Quickdraw 3D like the hot garbage it was.
Hi! I really like your site's design! Thanks for providing the Medium link too. Very surprised that no code was needed to build this; I inspected the page and saw over 5,000 lines of JQuery code in there. Well done.
Well as I said previously, I take issue with the scheme as a whole.

Furthermore, don't many players, coaches, etc, transfer up from lower divisions when they demonstrate themselves to have exceptional merit? It's not clear to me that Division 1 wouldn't be impacted if the lower divisions were eliminated. If that's true, then lower divisions are effectively subsidizing higher divisions, so it's a mistake to consider the matter on a case by case basis rather than holistically.
I am not sure I buy this. Sensors are great and everything, but the electricity for the LED lighting is not what makes buying or renting buildings in major cities expensive.
> I don't get why blood pressure is relevant for heart energy expenditure. Animal bodies are full of blood, it's not like hearts pump blood up there, they just pump it into movement.

No, blood does not get pumped in your head with just movement. You don't swing your head below your heart to replace blood in your brain. Somehow the blood needs to be replaced with fresh oxygenated blood.

> I also can't imagine how that long neck evolved (and stayed there) without a huge competing advantage. The and usual advantage of large necks is feeding high, so I distrust the claim that an animal with a long neck couldn't keep his head up.

It is common consensus that Giraffe necks did not evolve just under competitive advantage, and the best proof for that is the fact that their necks are much much longer than any other species. If it was only competitive advantage, other species would have displayed similar trends. Sexual selection is a more likely explanation.

https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/animals/why-giraffes-have-...
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I felt the same. It's also misleading and implies the common misunderstanding of certainty levels being equivalent to "% chance that you're right".
To me, I envisioned them as being a wheel made with a bunch of shock-absorber leg-like "spokes" with feet.

They seemed similar to old-tech Pedrail wheels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedrail_wheel

I think something like them has been made - but instead of the spokes ending in "feet" - they instead were encircled by a rubber deformable tread; Tweels are another interesting style of this technology, and simpler mechanically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweel
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A lot of students don't really get a free ride. They get a free ride to be on the team, like an unpaid internship. The realities of a D1 team is that, depending on the school and the player, barely go to school.

In D1 the priority is Sports, Academics. I played in D3 where the priority is Academics, Sports. We calculated we spent at least 800 hours per season on the sport. About 3000 hours over 4 years. D1 sports is more like 2000+ hours per season (aka a full job). Imagine how well you'd do at a full time uni if you were working 8 hours a day in construction at the same time. And that's if the school prioritizes you playing sports.

Personally I think they should be allowed to get a education benefit that grants them one free year of classes for every year of sports played for use at any time in their lives post sports. That way when they end the sports dream they can get the education they paid for by working.
Football in general provides massive benefits to Universities.

1. Football (and mens basketball) are forced to pay more or less for the rest of all the other sports on campus[0]. Because of Title IX, student athletes/scholarships provided need to be equal across gender, which means that there need to be women's teams, which almost always lose money. You can make an argument that there shouldn't be other men's sports that lose money, but thats not what is being discussed.

2. Football/Collegiate sports in general are major drivers of diversity in colleges that are lacking in them. I've heard that at UC Berkeley that over half of black male students are athletes. Those are students that are very valuable for administrators trying to bring diversity to campuses.

3. Good football (and men's basketball) teams increase the rankings for the schools in general[1]. This has a demonstrable effect on student applications[2].

4. The culture around football games is that of partying. You go out, drink for a couple of hours before the game, and then stand in the sun for a couple of hours cheering for your team. They're fun when they're competitive, but Alabama was playing competition that was sub-par, so the games were out of hand by the end. Watching something exciting is fun. Watching something boring is not.

In my opinion, Nick Saban (Alabama's football coach) is probably the most underpaid state employee in the US.

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/sportsmoney/2011/05/05/does-foo...

[1]https://www.jstor.org/stable/27739784?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...

[2]https://www.nber.org/papers/w7227
> These comments, if true, lend credability that the FDA is more regulatory capture than actual useful regulation.

It lends more credibility to the fact that the FDA is notoriously underfunded when it comes to ensuring the safety of drugs[1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK52926/
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> Additionally, there are places where corporations do pay taxes, but personal income is tax free.

Which is only possible because they either have lucrative (taxed) tourism industries, are rich in oil, or are Monaco (sorry but you're not getting in), Nauru (enjoy your stay while you can), Somalia (need I say more), or the Sahwari Republic (good luck).

So you either have places where governments are lucky to have found some other way to make money, or dysfunctional countries.

At the end of the day governments need to get currency somehow to provide the basics.
To be fair, chocolate is not what it was. Many cheap substitutes on the market
They do not have a personal right to be on the sidewalk or threaten pedestrians.

We have bike lines in Chicago, but yet they still act like entitled assholes.
If you’re going to be pedantic, you subtract out the baseline, and the alleged caloric burn from chess would be 1.5x the measured burn from running a marathon.

But in any case it still astounds me the human body can run that far on just 2,000 calories (2.3kWh).
Anti-competitive means anti-"fair competition"
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Might be, my computer has been having a number of OpenGL issues in Catalina. Anyways, I filed https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201765 and CC'd you.
I could also see Brook's Genghis platform being extended to "centipede" multiples of legs and probably working well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Robot

EDIT: fixed mistake - put "Dante" but meant Genghis...
The premise of this article is a straw man and a red herring. I haven't heard anyone in the intelligence community suggest that Huawei has already implemented any back doors in their devices.

The concern is the ongoing support that is inherently necessary with networking equipment.
While they were playing chess no less!
Have they looked for Tritium release? It seems that is not picked by common geiger counters (I could be wrong about that point)

Update: Nah, a Virus explains much better some animals falling ill and other in the same place not (affected by the disease before and having developped immunity).
specialp and johnmaguire2013 are correct. 'real' weight loss occurs very slowly in comparison to the ways your body can shed or accumulate water. In a week you're not likely to lose more than a 'real' pound unless you're being pretty extreme about your calorie intake or expenditure, but you can fluctuate by easily 5 pounds of water/food weight in a day.

Source: tracking my calories and weight for the better part of a decade and having lost and kept off 150+lbs.
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WeWork has virtually the same number of desks as IWG/Regus, so it’s unclear why their valuation should be lower.
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A lot of companies seem to value continuous learning and professional development but I was wondering how structured that was for the HN community. What do you want to learn? Are you succeeding at learning it?
That's my whole issue here. The author's post makes it sound like her problem is with his lack of tact. She complains about his "choice of words," about how it wasn't "appropriate" to send an email to undergrads, how "shocked" she is.

If the problem is that his viewpoint is morally reprehensible, why not just say that, and let's hear some arguments in that direction?
Huh?

I am no biologist (or physicist) but if a bulk(¿) liquid moves against gravity, then surely it needs assistance?

Getting the blood in a vessel to "just move" if that vessel leads many meters up, has got to be more difficult than if it weren't.

¿ I know capillary effects exist, and plants don't exactly get water up themselves by magic but ...
Not sure if vaccines are relevant here because -- as per the CDC data, and contrary to popular belief -- child mortality rates were on a downward trend well before the introduction of vaccines in the mid 1960s. The CDC claim it's had a "modest" effect:

Infant mortality: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4838a2.htm

Edit: children mortality follows similar trend: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality?tab=chart...
Companies aren't different from people. Everyone responds to incentives.
Ah, didn't know that. For me while growing up in India, Billiards was synonymous with the English version.
>it's plain to see that football itself has nothing to do with education, except insofar as it's an activity that many students enjoy

Sports are part of a traditional old-school liberal arts education. That is why the Ivy League schools have some of the largest athletic departments in the country even though they don't generate revenue anywhere close to schools like Alabama or Ohio State. It is really no different than a school having a music or a theater program. Alabama just so happens to be the Juilliard of football. There are certainly some schools that shouldn't be spending what they do on their athletic department, but the idea that they need to generate a profit is just as flawed as expecting a public school's theater department to turn a profit. That said, there is no question that Alabama makes a solid profit on their football team.

Also the baseball industry is run differently because minor league baseball exists. There is not much of a minor league system in either basketball or football that provides a well defined development path for high school athletes. Both the NBA, NFL, and various independent organizations have tried developing them over the years, but college athletics is still the primary route for all American born professional basketball and football players. Universities and the NCAA are just taking advantage of that market need for minor league sports.