skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add anecdote to the data in a sibling comment, I was in the infantry for many years, deployed many times, saw lots of combat. The US government would have a big problem on its hands if any part of it ordered the US military to take property and/or shoot American citizens: Almost no one I ever met would follow those orders. It is a not-uncommon topic of conversation in the grand tradition of military "what if" games. But this is sort of to be expected: Civil wars are extraordinarily messy and complicated, and history bears out that no state goes into this kind of conflict with its military intact. In fact many times it's the kind of thing which triggers the civil war or coups d'etat: The army gets wind of some "unconscionable actions" by the government's ruling party, and some populist general rounds up a few of his most trustworthy subordinates, and seizes power. This is the story of human state failure.
We've been following conventional commits for our front end code for the last year or so at my work. In other repositories, we've loosely followed the keep a change log conventions. I find conventional commits great when your repository will produce a package to be consumed by others. For example, conventional commits for our shared JS code helps us produce great change logs and helps us easily follow semver for the NPM packages our other applications use.

However, I don't find it that useful in the the final applications, even counter productive, since it typically will take up quite a bit of space in the commit title. Many of our front end devs completely ignore title length conventions now.
IMO the smoking gun for racism is this: https://imgur.com/IeJeUDw

Asians have the highest "personality" scores among alumni interviewers who meet with the applicants and the lowest "personality" scores among admissions officers who don't.
And why school funding shouldn't be based on the neighborhood it is in.
Then I can mention some recommendations (in no particular order):

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7346602-algorithmic-t...
Really dry (and thick) book, but it's comprehensive in its treatment of execution algos. This was written by a guy who worked on the sellside, so this is written in the context of receiving large orders from buyside clients and trying to execute them efficiently and with minimal market impact. There's an overview here: http://www.algo-dma.com/2007/12/overview.html

Main criticism is that it's kind of a dated book, but the fundamentals (how to benchmark, dealing with multiple venues) are still relevant.

* Robert Carver's books and blog: https://qoppac.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html
His background is a buyside algo trader whos' now retired. Mostly focuses on futures, still trades on his own account. I'd say his books are entry-level, but they have one big useful rule - keep your system simple and be paranoid about overfitting your parameters.

* Not algo stuff, but more financial, Matt Levine's Money Stuff column in bloomberg is a joy to read:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

* AQR's Asness writes some interesting stuff:
https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives
The main caveat there is that he has a vested interest in pushing for smart beta, as that is AQR's bread-and-butter. Still, clever guy making interesting points.

For relaxed (and arguably information-free) reading, you can look at:
Flash Boys - Main criticism here is that the book is arguably PR for the IEX, so they paint HFTs in an almost exclusively negative light. So take that with a big grain of salt. Still, nice book to get some context about the HFT world.
More Money Than God - super naff title, but ok read; covers the stories of various successful fund managers, especially in the algo space.

As a final thought, I'd say, the quant space is really opaque (and still changing fast even today) and largely misunderstood by outsiders. I find that academics, reporters and pop-culture authors usually get things quite wrong. Insiders, like Asness and Carver know more, but sometimes have vested interests in selling you something. There are a lot of books on Amazon about "systematic investing" and most of them are thin on substance or, even worse, just wrong.
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I don't understand your response. Are you arguing that vaccinations, cars and being a responsible pedestrian should also be banned?
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> That wasn't done, but for reasons that amount to "we don't want to"...

Well, and giant glaring differences in internals. Python3 and python2 have incompatible bytecodes. Swapping compilers on a per-file basis in a language as dynamic as python isn't possible. Python allows dynamic re-writing of modules and source code. How do you decide which version a module is run with if the module is modified at runtime?
Well boy do I get to eat my hat. What happened to Safari? Major broken behaviors and—get this—rendering bugs on HN. Impressively bad. This is like browsing on IE6.
I was typing up the same comment when your hit.

Kelly criterion is a great mental framework, but the math obviously doesn't work out for VC placements. The best alternative I've been able to come up with is to brute force / simulate thousands of different portfolio outcomes and optimize from there.
What kind of experience are you looking for?
So energy is only meant to be used for powering our frivolous lifestyles but we aren't allowed to store it for later use while simultaneously fixing our atmosphere? Lol okay.
Define "nobody." If you check earnings you'll be surprised to see GCP is quickly growing, even if it is a few years behind AWS. For large customers, their deployments are increasingly becoming platform agnostic, meaning they shop for price, not platform. Yegge's post, while relevant to almost every cloud customer at the time, is less relevant to large customers that can avoid lock-in today.
This is such a dreadful idea to spread.

Many of humanity's most valuable individuals have died alone, become pariahs or were persecuted by their peer groups. This obviously also happens to entire groups of people, not just individuals.

This happens all the time, even in ordinary places where it is clearly wrong. I can even remember back in primary school a couple instances of even teachers bullying unfortunate students.
Hard to engage in deep reading of this post when there is a popover covering 40% of my mobile browser viewport with a 5 (!) checkbox form on consenting to cookies and tracking. Good gravy.
That has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not the system is rigged. You are giving a non-answer.
The first piece is fine advice. But after quitting, definitely agree you have nothing to gain from saying anything.
> Being forced in to wage slavery to survive in this system doesn't sound particularly free.

That's like saying I was forced into heroin addiction because I felt bad. Let's be real for a second: people have choices, and the concept of being forced to do something or be something simply does not exist. Or, alternatively, you could say that everyone is forced to do everything they do. But either way, it means the same thing.
The last profession to go will be the first one.
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If this is upheld by the Supreme Court then Prop 209 might fall.
Those statistics are weird because they have several things that are thought of races, and then suddenly there's this religion designation, which is not a race. Why is this specific religion singled out and identified differently?
Arab slavers took many more African slaves than the Europeans every did. How much do they have to repay?
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I mean, Vatican City is probably the oldest research hub in current existence.
I absolutely am. D'oh!
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> As for question 3...all current measures seems to point towards 'yes' [13], however, all current measures are also disputed as to whether or not they are accurately measuring ToM [14].

I think this where we're getting stuck.

For me, if a methodology is in doubt, then so are any conclusions that rely upon it. If the methodologies are in doubt, then the conclusions shouldn't be used as a foundation for anything.

Whereas for you, it seems that you'll continue along with the previous belief until such time as new methodologies quantitatively say one way or the other.
I feel like I came across something similar on HN a while back. Not sure of the name (or it could just be this).
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yea, you're probably right, I let the rhetoric run a bit rich there.
No it is not.

If Jews have had a hard time getting into Harvard in the past, and Harvard uses legacy status, then that means that Jews will.habe a harder time in the future for getting into Harvard.
Nah I think the gun debate is nuanced. I fully understand the need to defend yourself against wildlife in rural areas, for example. But that's different than dense urban areas, or maybe some dense urban areas would be fine because they don't have serious gang or mental health issues.

The debate's supercharged, mostly for good reasons (mass shootings are very high stakes). But the rhetoric around subjugating the people by confiscating their weapons is overheated. America has the chance to show that there's an alternative to completely outlawing firearms that adequately accommodates all lifestyles in our country. But we have to be reasonable and not jump down bonkers rabbit holes like "owning a gun is immoral and makes you an ignorant, self-serving hick", or "AOC wants to personally confiscate your gun and slap you".

That's why I think Heller did so much damage. Cities like Chicago and DC were enacting handgun bans to try and cope with escalating gun violence. They weren't mounting an assault on 2A. Leaving policy decisions like this to local and State governments is exactly what the Bill of Rights was meant to do. This way a state like Oregon can say, "there's mountain lions here, you might need a gun", or Indiana can say, "we have deer hunting, so you can have a hunting rifle in season and keep it locked up at some repo off season", or Chicago can say, "you can't have a gun here, violence is out of control". But Heller robbed us of a core policymaking tool. Actually it's pretty ironic that an originalist like Scalia dismantled a policymaking tool that the Founders themselves wrote into the Constitution. But whatever! We can overturn Heller and get it back I guess, in like 40 years or something.

PS. I'm 50/50 on handgun bans. The danger is that it's just another way to lock up young men of color, so I think anyone adopting them needs a mitigation that isn't felony or incarceration.
25 years, but the rate is fixed in 5 year terms (ie after 5 years you renegotiate the rate).
Arguably if people try to game the system in that way it would be socially good. Don't we want the privileged people going to the same schools as poorer people?
You can be on the right and have an extremely dim view of unfettered, and out of control global capitalism, as we currently have. 40 years of an experiment where the only answer to everything is less government, fewer regulations, lower taxes and damn the economics. That's from both sides. Clinton as bad as Bush. Blair as bad as Thatcher.

You're kind of right about who's driving that bus - we've really been given no choice, have we? Both sides have offered a destination that takes only right turns.

Forcibly dragging capitalism back to a more inclusive middle ground, nearer where Eisenhower was politically, is hardly revolutionary socialism. Nor is wanting stronger constraints and taxes with fewer loopholes to the corporate machine. Enough to smooth the roughest edges, and limit the worst abuses. That is hardly exclusive to the left, outside the political and media bubble.
You're talking about important, related ideas. Confidence is just the expectation of positive outcomes. "Self-belief" or more commonly self-esteem is just about one's own valuation of themselves. Both are related, and both positively correlated to happiness. Finally, "narcissistic confidence" is just arrogance. Also related, and you're right, it is a type of confidence.
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That's an interesting point. Does that mean you think a chain like Little Caesars, that offers about 4 types of "Hot N Ready" pizzas could basically automate away most of its workforce? If frozen pizza is possible, it seems really weird that no one has pursued this vigorously already.
> At scale, digital becomes analog. — Michael Feathers

> Fortunately, as discrete pieces aggregate, they start to look continuous. At scale, we can take advantage of this, embracing higher-level metrics that can be treated as continuous signals.

He's saying that rather than look at request-level metrics in your Big Data Message Queue (request ID, etc.), your message queue in aggregate can be seen as an industrial process, and there's an entire discipline built around managing those called Statistical Process Control.

Seen in this way, the next NewRelic is going to be all about creating p- and c-charts [1] where the limits algorithmically turn knobs on your kubernetes cluster.

In other words, the next big dev-ops trend is going to be the return of Six Sigma.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_chart
Back in the day of Total Quality Management and ISO9002 the software company I worked for decided to get itself certified. Problem was, nobody had a clue how to quickly describe the business of creating software as a set of processes, let alone apply them in measurable ways under the beady gaze of an auditor. So with evil inspiration it was decreed that the software division had no processes at all. The customers could rest assured that the Accounts and Marketing departments were fully ISO9002 compliant - as for the actual product they were buying? spun out of desperate sweat and divine revelations so far as they could tell.

But this didn't entirely get the software division off the hook. We still had to be able to show an auditor that we knew our processes were excluded. So there was a special folder containing just one functional page besides the meta-bumf to support it, and it read (in effect) "THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SOFTWARE DEPT ARE EXCLUDED FROM ISO9002 PROCESSES". And we were all trained to be able to produce it upon demand.

We passed the audit. Our letterhead paper gained the magical ISO9002 seal of approval. The administrator who had championed the long and expensive business sprung from its success to a much larger company. In her absence the process documentation for the rest of the company quietly withered and when the follow-up audit came due we quietly neglected to apply for it. The letterhead paper was reprinted with a snazzier logo and no seal of approval. We got back to work, quietly apprehending the next big thing.
The main benefit I have heard is that some people already have Kafka.
From rc(8):

# Push the old seed into the kernel, create a future seed and create a seed
# file for the boot-loader.
random_seed() {
dd if=/var/db/host.random of=/dev/random bs=65536 count=1 status=none
chmod 600 /var/db/host.random
dd if=/dev/random of=/var/db/host.random bs=65536 count=1 status=none
dd if=/dev/random of=/etc/random.seed bs=512 count=1 status=none
chmod 600 /etc/random.seed
}

* https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/etc/rc?rev=1.537

FreeBSD:

* https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/libexec/save-entropy/

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?loader.conf(5) (see "entropy_cache_load")

OpenBSD's boot loader also injects entropy into the kernel.
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I guess in the end, like life, it's not about grades... sadly.
Except the strawman of abject simple property rights falls apart when you acknowledge that taxes, especially sales / capital gains / etc, are the absolute and certain forfeiture of your property - your money - to the government, to almost exclusively be given to others. Societies are erected on a foundation of the seizure of private asset for public benefit. If you own the breadmaker machine, what is the difference between the seizure of bread and a 100% tax on your revenues of said bread?
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Perhaps. I personally would still setup DoH at the router level. ISPs begone.
When thinking about this sort of thing I always find it fun to think about information density perception. I could hand you a USB drive and it could either contain a significant chunk of the sum of human knowledge, taking you lifetimes to even skim through, or it could contain a 2.5 hour movie you'd think nothing of.

Multiple layers of things at work there of course but that's what makes it fun to think about.
Isn't this a product of the different exchange rates people use?

From what I've seen, if you want to buy something large like a car in the UK, you can approximate the cost by taking the American price and converting it using the official exchange rate, which is...1.23 at the moment but often higher.

But the salaries I see advertised are generally as if the exchange rate were 1:1.

So I think wherever this factor comes from, it's not new or obscure, and at about 20%, it pretty much explains the discrepancy here.
Yeah. I have cut my meat intake by 99%+ - and for simplicity I describe myself as a vegetarian. But if I am overseas I will order a vegetarian menu option if there is one but I'm not going to drag my friends across town to find somewhere I know will suit me, so sometimes it means ordering a meat dish, especially in east-Asian countries.

It depends on the country, and sometimes city, of course.
I think its more likely they just don’t fire a few hundred people on the few bridges and tunnels in from NJ that probably pull in millions a day. All new bride tolls I’ve seen have cameras and toll processed do not stop signs.
LTV is a fundamentally classical liberal idea, so it really shouldn't be that surprising. Even so, the supply and demand model offers a much more coherent vision of prices in the marketplace.

As such, we can view working more than anyone else in supply and demand terms. People who produce the most are always in high demand, and the less of them there are, the more value a high productivity individual provides.
I'd been founding a startup at the time and decided that if I wanted any income for the next couple years I should probably look for a job. Ended up getting hired by Google despite the press reporting they were in a hiring freeze.

It was...a good decision, but I sometimes wonder if it could've been better. Financially I did really well, because my stock options were granted at the bottom of the market in 2009, and I got to work on a bunch of really cool stuff with really smart teammates, and I'm also glad to have worked at Google in the 09-11 period when they still had a fair bit of the old culture in them. Plus in 09 everybody was just glad to have a job, any job, and it felt like the rat race fell away for a couple years. My rent didn't budge for the first 3 years I was in California. I've heard that there may be a reputation bump from getting hired at Google in 2009 (since they hired so few people), but I haven't looked for a job since then, so I dunno how true that is.

OTOH, I look at people who did keep going with their startups, and actually accelerated into the discomfort, and sometimes I wonder if I made the wrong choice. The class of startups & computing projects released during the 08/09 recession includes DropBox, AirBnB, Thumbtack, WhatsApp, Bitcoin, Node.js, Angular, and several you haven't heard of (sometimes they were started beforehand, but this is when they started getting adoption). And my plan-B if I didn't get into Google was to go all-in on Android development. People who actually did that in 2009 did pretty well, because it was a time when the huge markets hadn't yet been picked clean and the hardware was getting better every year.
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Feel free to make your voice heard by your vote and donate from your paycheck. This is a zero sum game and my ancestors were not oppressing either latinos or Africans.

I'll make my voice heard by not voting for Democrats.
Why would this comment get down voted?
> I made the point about his jobs

The guy who was editor of the Spectator, and a wildly successful columnist and speaker?
Hey, I built a 40 year career on 'fake it until you have to leave or learn how to make it' -So don't knock this. And, all you young whippersnappers remember that its only old fools like me messing up in the code which gives you meaningful jobs fixing bugs in the future.