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> It's not a great look that those guys can't make any money in their college career.

... And especially when the ones that don't make it to the NFL are basically left broken for the remainder of their lives (position specific of course). Once you are a valuable player on an NCAAF team - particularly offensive line - your body and academics pretty much go out the window in favor of your performance. These guys are broken and have no long-term healthcare, no financial incentive, etc. [1,2,3]

To top it off - we have entered a bizarro world where the NCAA now SELLS INSURANCE [4] to student athletes so they can protect against future earnings losses as a result of injury in college.... It's just crazy to me, but hey they have this going for them:

>> Student-athletes approved for this program are automatically eligible for a loan... The interest rate is very competitive, and a co-signer is not required.

... which is nice.

1 - https://kdvr.com/2015/05/13/masking-the-pain-toradol-in-coll...

2 - https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/i-...

3 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4628259/

3 - http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/insurance/exceptional-st...
The Kinect could do pose estimation on 48 joints at 30 FPS on the Xbox 360's CPU.
> This seems... exaggerated.

Not if you understand MMT and its proponents. AOC believes that every dollar spent by the government on infrastructure magically turns into five dollars of economic growth, so she's willing to go into deep debt to make it happen.
a tiny tiny sliver of college athletes will play professionally,

a good way to think about it, is that college athletics is sort of communist society in action where the future professionals athletes subsidize benefits for the athletes that won't be future professionals.

Relative to most minor league athletes or aspiring Olympians,

35K isn't a bad salary.
Even when today's rates are positive the black-76 model doesn't price in the possibility that rates will become be negative in the future.

For this reason the model breaks down well before the rate actually becomes negative, and practitioners have had to worry about this for quite some time! Using a shifted lognormal model is a quick fix, as the article mention. Then you just need to pick a shift size...
Hmm, but the HN guidelines ask you to use a consistent username. Obviously it needn't be tied to your real-world identity. But HN is a community and random posts don't form a community—people do. So users here need to have some persistent identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames, and therefore no community, at all. That would be an entirely different kind of forum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
It's not like $37M is all they have, $37M is nothing to them, so why not? It's the price of prestige, it's the price to get the best damn education possible. Ask any parents, if it will give their children the slightest of advantages in life, parents will go out of their way to make it happen (especially if it's easy as spending money)
An interesting aside is that the encryption system most of us rely on every day, AES, relies on a prime over a finite (Galois) field 2^8. The "subbytes" step is a one to one mapping of a byte to another byte, and it's defined in terms of a prime polynomial in the field GF(2^8). In practice though, the table is pre-computed and hardcoded into AES implementations.
People are never going to "get past fashion". People who have any money at all have been worried about fashion for millennia now. The only people who didn't were people too poor to do anything but worry about keeping themselves clothed with whatever they could find.
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Amateurs don't need NCAA to play sports. I was on my college kendo team, and NCAA doesn't care about kendo. There are lots of other competitive collegiate club sports that have escaped NCAA's plundering. The obvious solution to most schools' Title IX woes would be to declare that all sports are club sports. A compromise would be to say that basketball, football, and softball are official, and everything else is club.
It doesn't solve the pronoun problem but if you haven't heard of them, Grice's Maxims[1] are fun to know about. Basically the idea is that you can generally assume that people you're talking to will follow certain rules, and that allows you to make assumptions. So in your example, you assume that your friend is following the maxim of quantity which allows you to conclude that if there were more people than just Pat, then they would have mentioned the others.

[1] https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/grice.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle
Probably everyone tells themselves that.
> Oh, also, I hope you understand that other people's opinion of me don't affect me. The same as my opinion of you shouldn't concern you either.

I was trying to politely tell you that you are frustrating to disagree with. You keep speaking of "logic" and maximalist positions of individual liberty, while at the same time applying logical fallacies ad nauseum - a slippery slope at the start of this comment I'm replying to! As far as I can tell, no one is arguing that it should be illegal for Twitter to hire people with potential conflicts of interest, but that seems to be what you're arguing against. Instead, people are saying Twitter should avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest, not as a legal maxim but a moral one that might influence their decision to use or trust Twitter. And that doesn't rely on social media being regulated as part of the public sphere.

> there's really no bearing for anyone to make judgement who work there with either current or past employment.

Yes, there is. People judge companies all the times based on their employment decisions, their policies, their impact on the world. This can be another factor that people consider: Twitter doesn't shy away from conflicts of interest.

> Oh, also, I hope you understand that other people's opinion of me don't affect me. The same as my opinion of you shouldn't concern you either.

Ugh, it is draining for people to argue with you when you don't take their arguments seriously or for what they are, while insisting that you're logical and others' arguments are laughable. Please, take care to change your attitude about whether other people's opinions matter. They do. No one wants to argue with someone who cannot empathize with or humanize the other side. Well, perhaps you do, but it's an awful experience for most people.
The fact that millions of people do a majority of their computing on their phone contradicts some of your argument.

I also think it highlights one of the things this article misses; that one of the important design decisions is amount of effort the action takes.

Any interface that requires full body movement is going to be too draining to use all day. It is a lot easier to touch a screen than move your whole body to manipulate a thing, even if that would get you more fidelity.

For all the downsides of a touchscreen phone, people are able to use them one handed for hours on end.
Does any of that studies look at Chromecast?
I certainly don't want to get into the "PHP is a fractal of bad design" vs "PHP is awesome because it runs on a very high percentage of websites, including Facebook" debate. (I have no dog in this race, and I have absolutely no opinion on PHP) But I would ask, are those multi-billion dollar businesses making that much money DUE to their usage of PHP? Or could they run on almost any language/framework and still do just as well? We've heard the stories like "Twitter dropped Rails and rewrote their message queue in Scala, and a lot of their backend in Java"... so I get that there are _some_ scaling stories regarding languages... I just don't think most success stories can be attributed to language choice. Now obviously if you build your entire business on something obscure, and cannot find any competent developers, that's an issue....
Just use julia.
>> US population increasing and the number of kids attenting college increasing even more the top schools have generally not increased enrollment sizes much at all.

Also, while they used to serve almost exclusively US students they now accept students from all over the world, making the chances of an average child getting in more remote. My father got into Stanford a long time ago when you could be a local kid at public schools with nothing distinguishing you but good grades and test scores. Now to replicate that feat you need an athletic scholarship, or an amazing personal story, a legacy, or a huge donation.

I believe this will begin to erode the concept of elite schools truly representing the most capable. In a previous job we sometimes found that kids who were coming from a good public engineering program were often more skilled at actually writing code than people from some fancy ivy league schools. The fancy schools turned out graduates who were usually smart and very polished. But they didn't necessarily have more of the skills we were looking for.

The life experience of DE Shaw himself makes you wonder why he why he values an Ivy League school so much. His biography demonstrates it is not the skills. It is the access and the pedigree.
College athletes already were getting paid with free tuition, room, board, meal plans, expenses, etc.
One side may have more "bribe money", but the other side has idealism behind it. That goes a long way.

Clearly, the climate apocalypse is what dominates the media narrative, so if you want to make money tomorrow (not yesterday), you're pushing renewables, not fossils.
Yes.

“I paid $37M to get you into that position, I expect you will produce >$37M in results.”
Raw vs. cooked diets have distinct effects on both mouse and human gut microbes
Using a HD 3.5" floppy as a DD one is fine, however doing the reverse won't end well :)
I wouldn't say that's where the problems with HN are. Most intellectual curiosity here is outside the pull of VC. From my perspective the issue has more to do with addiction to content and lack of real-world connection.
The whole concept is pretty asinine:

”Collect points to gain the power to fuck with other peoples questions!”
Let's make a new language called Lang. We can also call it langlang. I'm sure there's nothing using that name~
It's a good point that HBM has high aggregate bandwidth but I still don't think it makes sense to call it a 100x server/network boundary bottleneck when the already available NIC is faster than NVlink in the first place.

What "server/network boundary" is in this case might not be the classical boundary though so maybe they also mean the same thing I'm saying just from a different perspective.
> regardless of injury or ability to continue playing

And short term disability insurance, and long term disability insurance - along with the school paying for health insurance (currently students are required to have health insurance, but the school isn't required to pay.
Ask me how I know you didn't read the article. It touches on that, but mostly talks about how women were seen as convenient because they were cheap. The conventional wisdom was also that women would leave when they got married or had kids, but as computers got more powerful; the old boys club decided they needed to own those jobs too.
UCLA is both a much larger and much more highly rated school than it was thirty years ago.
This is precisely what I just thought about. CA has some of the highest income tax rates in the US with 10.3% for income over $275k -> 13.3% for income over $1million. From a tax revenue standpoint, this is a no brainer. If other states end up adopting this rule successfully and I were an athlete, I'd probably consider playing in a state that has a more favorable income tax or none at all like NV, WA, WY, FL.
> And that's perfectly fine.

Under capitalism. :)
Does pytorch have a Tensorboard equivalent? For rapid prototyping, I find Tensorboard a lot more useful than, say, print statements and such that you can get through eager execution. Tensorboard is also crucial for post-hoc analysis, and the Summary format is clean enough to use as a primary data artifact (e.g. use loss recorded in summaries versus some alternative hand-crafted text file).
What happens when a user submits the response? Does it redirect to the default Google page?
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The note doesn't appear, just an empty box with a thick black border :( Impossible to use!
Can someone here make some kind of an app/platform that let's me know where I can go to plant a tree and how to do it?

I would be a big fan of a long weekend/vacation planting trees part of industrial scale joint operations where I am making an actual difference.

Maybe include payment and and donations for seeds/land/water/etc. I worry about climate change all the time but I don't know how to affect change at an impact level.
Once they move as you suggest people will say you should have moved to a country that grows food if you want to eat.
I think that's the main reason why buying an ad in Cosmo is different from buying a targeted Facebook ad in terms of discrimination. Cosmo might be written with women in mind but anybody can go and buy it. But it's pretty much impossible for someone who identifies as a man on Facebook to see ads that are only targeted towards women. The Facebook example is more similar to a real estate agent who only shows certain properties to white families.
I've been using Anaconda and it finally made Python work without endless rounds of 'incompatible libary bingo'.

It also works well for machine learning projects.
> None of the things BV has worked on -- smart tiles or putting pieces of paper under a camera/projector -- do ANYTHING AT ALL like what he's talking about here.

Sure they do. At Dynamicland there are turn tables that can be manipulated, joysticks on springs, books with pages that turn, and pieces of paper that are manually rearranged on surfaces by groups of people. All of that involve physical devices, and using hands for something other than sliding on a 2d surface.

Does it solve all the issues he raises here? No, of course not. But it's clear that he's working on it, and providing rich avenues of exploration for other people.
What reclassification? And how would you account for the fact that every other type of crime also increased? Assault, robbery, threats, gun homicides, detonated hand grenades?
Only on update, and only if the update requires it.
Think of this as an example of the rationality, or lack thereof, of modern stock exchanges as sociali resource allocation mechanisms.

Also of what financial institutions' investment-loan money goes towards.
> If people have become so devoted to monetary success alone, how can all these industries that rely on vice exist? Indulging a vice is inherently wasteful. It costs time that could be spent working, and money that could be better spent on self-improvement, or invested or saved.

Simple: people are not perfectly rational economic actors. I believe the study of irrational economics is called "behavioral economics."
I did not know that debt was a mitigated issue for Ph.D's. Thank you for informing me.

If that's the case, and he can literally just light his diploma on fire and walk out into the world without any huge burdens (like debts), then it does seem strange to say it ruined his life.

Perhaps he let someone go who he really adored and is being romantic. Or maybe he thinks he has to keep following this path.. but if he's free to start over, there's no need to worry about the old ruined life anymore.
It’s sad that since this article was first written, the trend for dumbing down both the hardware and software we use every day has only continued.

When I was a kid, I used to love experimenting with programming. I first learned on a ZX81, with a magnificent 1KB of RAM, typing in simple games programs from books every session because there was no storage device to save them. That experience, that joy of being able to create something fun, sparked an interest in what these amazing technologies we have invented can do.

Some of my slightly younger friends were lucky enough to have more powerful systems like the BBC Micro available by the time they reached that stage. Those were brilliant because you could connect anything to them. When they were writing simple LOGO programs at school, they didn’t just draw a circle on the screen, an actual mechanical turtle with an actual pen would draw a circle on a real piece of paper, right before their eyes.

Now I want to offer that same joy and intrigue to the next generation of my family. Today’s ubiquitous computing devices are phones and tablets, each with numerical specs many orders of magnitude bigger than that ZX81. That little boy typing in listings from a book now has multiple decades of professional programming experience to share.

And yet, I can’t sit down with my own child and write even the most simple game on those devices, because for all their theoretical power, they lack even a rudimentary programming interface. In some cases, I can’t even write a game myself on another system and port it, because the whole ecosystem is closed off.

How is it that in a time when children seem, often all too soon, to be carrying around more processing power in their pockets than a supercomputer had when I grew up, they still can’t enjoy the sense of freedom and discovery that I experienced with my little ZX81 and its 1KB of RAM and no storage device in the 1980s?
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Where can I read about this? Are conferences what divisions are subdivided into?
The in-progress 4th Edition of his textbook will have more to say about an agent's utility functions.

I hope he does not reduce the symbolic AI chapters to emphasise deep learning.
> Compared to those two, setting up an office lease is about as hard as tying your shoelaces

This has not been my experience. Given how localized real estate markets are, they haven't been subjected to efficiency-driving global competition. The result is every market has hidden oddities. Little details that are a nuisance if you know about them but a disaster if you bumble through the process.

For long-term commitments to a market, sure, it makes sense to own your plot. But for short-term assignments? Toes in the water? Being able to spin up an office with flown-in staff committed to for the short-term, to develop leads and/or find those skilled locals to hire, is a tactical advantage which doesn't presently exist.
Communism, aloner.

There is a cost to socialism, if it ever becomes established, it is state socialism, and state socialism is inherently violent. You are free to associate with more people, to change your relationship with work and consumption, you are rich. Your problem is that you have chosen to be alone, and you blame society for not forcing you to be at least superficially engaged.
>the recipent may interpret under their prefered deity as they wish

This may come as a shock to you, but there's a lot of people in the world who don't have any "preferred deity", and really don't appreciate religious people trying to push their myths on them.

>It's rather sad that even an act of kindness is now seen as bad behaviour simply from refusal to accept that we have different ways of showing it.

This reminds me of Christians who want to give food to starving people, but only if they sit and listen to some stupid sermon trying to get them to convert.

If you want to be kind, then don't tie your "act of kindness" to your belief system in an attempt to convert others to it.

This is generally an American problem too. Other cultures, even when they do have a religion, don't really care about pushing it on others. Even in Europe, most modern-day Christians there seem to keep their religion very private (hence why Germans say "gesundheit" when someone sneezes, even though Germany is traditionally a Christian country).
Small/cheap cities are not the same as rural.
GitHub pulls its tentacles into CI/CD and artifact management
Yes, it was basically a contract work.
It has TensorBoard integration itself (which can be installed independently).

https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/tensorboard.html
The roots were very much more in the public's insistence that college students had to stop dying while playing football. Lots of players were paid in the old Ivy League days. Those like Theodore Roosevelt who "saved" the game did so mostly by not letting students handle the payments. Only much later (1940s and '50s) did NCAA take on the form it has today.
Graduate research and teaching assitants get paid. People doing graded, required internships that provide non-incidental value to the employer get paid, per IRS rules. Yes, lots of them used to be unpaid, but term slavery in exchange for education has fallen out of favor.

Well, except for athletics, but that is starting to be seen as problematic, too.
The one case where I think it makes sense to say "Don't do that" unequivocally is with security issues. Cryptography SE gets a decent number of people asking some variant of "how do I implement <incredibly insecure harebrained scheme>" to which the only correct answer is "Don't do that. It's unsafe."
What would be the use case for those firms?

An executive search firm that's able to find candidates who would be suitable for jobs that pay $1mm+ in total comp is going to be using the network of people who they already know in order to find those candidates. At that level of comp you're relying on relationships and recommendations in order to find candidates (along side, most likely, some judicious use of LinkedIn) rather than any form of job board.
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Good question why did the completely unknown but sociopathic Zuckerberg get enough funding to squash everyone else?
Unless you are shelling out a college tuition for a top-level private school for the connections that it gives, there's effectively no real difference in your public school options - absent completely abysmal warzone type places.

In any case, one will need to put in the effort to get one's children properly educated. A smaller school district probably gives more opportunities to experience a wider spectrum of activities anyway - I certainly wouldn't have been able to be a three sport athlete, take every shop class available, participate in math and geography competitions, and a whole host of other extra curricular activities in a bigger pool.
"Starry-eyed kids" who went to work for a company which is a glorified landlord for office space?

Somehow I doubt they had a bright and hopeful vision for humanity in mind when they joined up.
Well, to illustrate my point the differential equation f'(x) = 1/x has the solution log(x) for positive x. If you let x become negative then that particular solution ends up becoming complex, however there is still a real solution namely log(-x) (which only differs by a constant).

The Black Scholes equation is a tad too complicated to say whether something like that will happen but it's too simple to just conclude everything breaks because of one complex logarithm.