skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so I quickly skimmed the paper in question, and I'm very skeptical of it.

They are using talent as a variable in their model, but what do they mean by "talent"?

"talent Ti (intelligence, skills, ability, etc.)"

Throwing "intelligence, skills, ability, etc." together doesn't make much sense to me.

Out of these three, only intelligence (assuming they meant IQ), is an established measure, at least from what I understand. What does "skills, ability, etc." even mean?

It's not surprising to me that their conclusion doesn't seem to correspond with reality:

"An important result of the simulations is that the most successful agents are almost never the most talented ones, but those around the average of the Gaussian talent distribution - another stylised fact often reported in the literature" (what literature??).

I can't comment on this "talent" variable as a whole since it doesn't make much sense but in terms of IQ it's certainly not the 100 IQ individuals that tend to be the most successful ones.

I also question the "luck" variable, because:

"...does not change this fundamental features of the model, which exposes different individuals to different amount of lucky or unlucky events during their
life, regardless of their own talent."

I find it unlikely that "talent" and "luck" are completely independent from each other.

For example, if I recall correctly, reaction time correlates with IQ, so wouldn't that make more intelligent people less prone to accidents?

Finally, I'm dubious of their results that show that distributing funds equally among all scientists would lead to most scientific discoveries.

From what I understand, people with a specific set of traits, aka geniuses, are over-represented in scientific discoveries.

If that's the case, wouldn't deliberately seeking out geniuses and throwing money at them lead to more discoveries than distributing funds equally?

Again, I only skimmed this paper, but it seems to me that the researchers didn't look at the data we already have, and instead made up their own models that don't appear to correspond with reality.

Also, given that this is a Hacker News comment, not a scientific paper, I can't be bothered to cite anything :D
Winnie the Pooh and his buddies in the CCP are no more communist than Republicans are republican. They're a bunch of state capitalist scum.
My biggest project, it's about 6k loc. So maybe that's not what you meant by 'big', but many of the others here have listed a lot of closed source apps.

https://github.com/Libbum/Odyssey/tree/master/src
I’ve found Martin Fowler’s Refactoring very practical
No relation. SPIR-V is the fifth iteration of the Standard Portable Intermediate Representation, originally based on the LLVM IR.

It's an intermediate representation between the high level shader programming language and the GPU's native machine code. It's expected that the GPU will compile the SPIR-V to its own internal instruction set, rather than executing it natively.

RISC-V, on the other hand, is a native instruction set for CPUs.
Sweden is not stronger than the U.S:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#Sweden
You still do that this way, it's just that your physical button will be for the device plugged into it rather than the TV itself. Instead of turning on the TV with a physical button, you'll turn on your Chromecast, Apple TV, Roku, Blu-Ray player or whatever you have plugged in. That device will then turn on the TV using HDMI.
1. I really appreciate that DDG shows me results deemed relevant globally or pertinent to the search query (and its language), rather than trying to guess where I am and what I want to see based on that. Now I find using Google, particularly when using a VPN, rather annoying (no, I don't speak Swedish and I don't want to know about Swedish Python groups, thanks).

2. You can easily ask DDG to show you country specific results by the switch on top, though (and you choose which country).
Let them drive Ubers.
The king could get dead, BTW, depending on what happened after that.
Expectations do matter?
It saves me time in the sense that I can trust that Walmart knows who is selling them products to stock. Amazon has no idea where their products come from or even if they're counterfeit. And they certainly couldn't be bothered to find out. They also don't really care if the stuff you buy from them actually arrives. I stopped buying anything from Amazon after the 3rd or 4th shipping screw up in as many orders.

The last shipment was just left somewhere in the building that I sublet in. Luckily the guy who runs that office was nice enough to complete the delivery. And before that they had apparently just lost an entire shipment of 24 orders. They were all marked as delivered, but nobody had any way to change that in the system so they wanted me to call customer service.

They were great about 10 years ago when I first signed up for Prime. I don't trust them anymore and will advise all of my friends not to trust Amazon for anything.
Recruiting is a big, fat, inefficient market. If you have N people contacting M companies, and M companies contacting N people, there's a whole lot of inefficiency there. Then you have ridiculous interview processes, a lack of communication about how to improve all around, overloaded in-house recruiters who get swamped and work below peak efficiency, high costs to access premium services like job posting & LinkedIn, and so on. Eventually you throw your hands up and pay big fat fees to people who send you candidates. Any nominal optimization or gimmick can charge a lot of money. Eventually someone will figure out a way to remove all the friction and drive the cost of hiring the old way down.
where's Corey Quinn
The point is NOT to mess up the end points (univ entry) so we force some kind of diversity. What we should do is to diversify educational resources. The endpoints, if I may argue, are actually NOT that meritocratic, because powerful people can buy entrances. Univ entry should ONLY be hard GPA, or at least 80% hard GPA, not brownie points like voluntary work that only rich kids have the leisure to do. And then you spread good educational resources around evenly.
I use Google on my desktop and iPad, and DDG on my iPhone due to Google AMP.

While I find that DDG is pretty good for anything work related (e.g. programming stuff), it’s mostly worthless for things like "best chinese food in [some neighborhood]" or "shop cord knit stockings"… ironically, exactly the kind of stuff I gravitate toward my phone for.
In fact, if true it would just imply... Godwin’s Law.
It should be named 'server in a remote place' instead of cloud.
I wouldn't patron an establishment that utilizes such a system, out of respect for the waitstaff.

Anyone who has ever worked at a call center knows just how soul-sapping these types of metric-monitoring systems can be.
Similarly: https://www.layoff-aid.com/
> Why hasn't a spot-market for transfer been introduced?

Enron tried to create a market for this.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2001/11/enron-a-bandwidth-bloodbath/
Elizabeth Moon (fantasy and mil sci fi writer and a former marine) happened to write a book about almost exactly this modification being available: https://www.amazon.com/Speed-Dark-Novel-Elizabeth-Moon-ebook... -- I enjoyed that more than the canonical "Flowers for Algernon"
I don't think that's fair.

The hypothetical with no side effects or safety issues means we have to consider the ethical side of "should we 'cure' autism". We have to answer that before any discussion of "what level of side effects are acceptable".

See, for example, the Deaf community's feelings on things like cochlear implants.
Pretty much.

There are only five patterns that matter in real world software development.

Observable

Singleton

Composition

MVC

Inversion of Control

And the last one isn't even covered by GOF. The book is an out of date relic of 90s programming. Let it die already.
> Wait, do I hear you correctly?

Not precisely. Mainly I'm saying we can more easily affect Google and Uber's ethics than we can Blackwater, because we're generally not going after the services that Blackwater provides. Add to the fact that Blackwater doesn't always operate within societal norms, and the issue becomes complex.

Is it ethical to kill someone? What if that someone is killing other people? Google and Uber don't have to worry about that. Blackwater does.
I've never heard Calvinism talk about either "fortune" or the "prepared mind". I get that you're denigrating Calvinism here rather than making a precise statement, but what part of Calvinism are you referring to? The Calvinists I know would be more likely to say that God willed your situation or gave you the preparation for your mind. This is more akin to fate than fortune. ("Fate" being what will inevitably happen, and "fortune" being chance events.)
You call an organization "Pigs" for this? Also I don't understand what happened? Did they steal your technology?
Well I agree with you on the self hosted VPN option being the best. I’m just saying there’s not zero benefit to hosted VPN in some cases.

And it sounds like your just looking at http traffic and web browser traffic. Your computer is communicating over lots of other ports and protocols that are often not encrypted. Are you blocking all outbound traffic?

Let’s take the recent iTerm vulnerability. ( https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/763073/ ) I’m guessing you don’t have a plug-in to force curl to use https? What if you execute a script that curls http and you don’t realize?

Now you could say well “I just make sure all my curls are https.” The problem with that approach is it requires unrealistic levels of vigilance, about every outgoing service you may use, and that all your software on your machine is patched or bug free.

The easiest and quickest place for a hacker to learn their tools and skills is simply public WiFi. Want to try that iTerm exploit out... you go to the coffee shop and wait for a programmer to accidentally curl something over http.

VPN is not perfect, but it does provide some protection in certain circumstances that can’t be ruled out.

Best course, force https for web browser, and use your own hosted VPN anytime you are on a public network.
Also looks like NordVPN has been misleading customers about the number of servers they have (or didn't make clear they were VM/containers).
> Of course, predicting the climate it tricky business. But the underlying processes (e.g. the greenhouse) are simple physics that a high-school student can understand, and are completely beyond reasonable doubt.

> How much more evidence do you need?

Understanding how the underlying processes work isn't evidence of the specifics of how it is working in this instance.

As for wanting more evidence, I'd be interested to see some comprehensive documentation on the data sources and adjustments that occur, including a full honest disclosure of areas that are problematic for various reasons. I've read some fairly detailed conspiracies related to this (some email leak, can't recall the name), and as I recall the outcome of the investigation that was promised essentially consisted of "we fully investigated and found no problems, carry on".

As another example, I've also read a fair amount of interesting behind the scenes details on the rise of "grassroots" activist Greta Thunburg that don't get mentioned for some reason in the extensive coverage in the mainstream media.

This and many other similar things do not give me a feeling of trust that everything is on the up and up.
My daughter was diagnosed with Autism at 16 months. Just this year (she is 6 now) we found a genetic cause (SCN2A, the one mentioned here). We have invested a ton of time and energy into therapies and she is doing very well... I wonder how receiving the diagnosis in reverse would have affected us mentally. I have met others who got genetic results and pushed more into finding a cure. I always felt like any potential "cure" wouldn't be in her lifetime... now I wonder.
Given the starting numbers, the math is fine. But because the starting numbers are not real data, they had to create them out of a simplified model - and all the decisions that went into that model can be criticized and used as reasons that the output is wrong.
>>... and warned of a bleak future for journalists publishing “truthful information” contrary to US interests.

I wonder if that wasn't always the case.
Well the issue is that you bootstrap on AWS and then have a hard time going on premise without a major rewrite or initiative. That and you want to keep adding features and driving the product forward... it is easy to see how this happens. Plus you can have 200 people focused on things other than running ESX boxes or docker or whatever you need.
I'm not a scientist but have worked in the telecom industry. My understanding is that regardless of 4G/5G modulation, it's all just RF electromagnet radiation, using the same frequency allocation as old analog television transmissions. Besides, given the frequencies used, there will be difficulty having the RF get through building walls.
The RecordDotSyntax extension is just syntactic sugar for the HasField typeclass. It doesn't make HasField "outdated". Anyway, the HasField typeclass (with the proposed change to support field updates[1]) does have at least one law:

uncurry ($) (hasField @x r) == r

or expressed with the getField and setField wrappers:

setField @x r (getField @x r) == r

[1] https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/p...
And nobody got fired for purchasing IBM.

You start wondering if 90% of corporate world are there to do nothing if not erecting roadblocks for people who are actually doing something. But then you start wondering maybe it's a good thing that all of these people get paid and could spend their money so that majority of the country has purchasing power and not live in piss poor poverty.
any software the bank is licensing can run into the 10's of millions per year, for anything they use: loan orignation, underwriting, etc. they have a lot of users also so just think about their basic workspace cost per user for all the software necessary.
A Tiny, Static, Full-Text Search Engine Using Rust and WebAssembly
> I wouldn't patron an establishment that utilizes such a system, out of respect for the waitstaff.

I wouldn't verb a noun[0] that already has a perfectly good verb form for expressing the desired concept[1], out of respect for the language.

[0] e.g., “patron”

[1] e.g., “patronize”
> companies have their own cultures, and if you're not a fit to that culture, bringing you on runs the risk of ruining the culture they have been building and making their employees quit.

You can justify any kind of discrimination that way. I can come up with a number of reasons that would make women, people of color, foreigners or literally any other group a "poor culture fit".

> Sure, we probably miss some good people, but we have a specific culture in place that we all enjoy, and I don't want to feel uncomfortable or have to walk on egg shells around my team.

So you'd reject a candidate because of comfort and enjoyment? Even though the candidate could make you tons of money? That's very discouraging.

> You may just be rude in an interview, and that will 100% result in me turning you down. It doesn't matter much to me if you're an "Aspie/ADD"

There's a difference between having Asperger's and being an asshole. A person with Asperger's communicates differently than a person without Asperger's. You chose to interpret that difference as rudeness. Instead of understanding the cause of the differences and adapting to it, you simply eliminated the candidate for the sake of your own comfort.

This doesn't matter to you but it should. Especially if you want to claim you don't discriminate based on factors the candidate can't change.
FWIW, this is what Ikea's system does, and all that lets you do is turn the lights on and off.
It was just fine until you imagined `set -e` as something unportable and a bashism, bro.
I think you just answered your own question. As detection improves, so will the rates at which cancer is detected.
I use !g for specific types of searches. Like when I want to compare things, Google handles "vs" queries much better than DDG.
it is way better now. Good job!
No, I think they said they have 1.3M subscribers at that price tier and the price increase is only affecting them.

And to go back to your original point, each additional customer does create variable costs. At&t has to pay carrier fees for every subscriber. A customer pays $6/month for ESPN, $0.60 for NatGeo, etc. Maybe the old price tier wasn’t covering the carriage fees + equipment + labor to install
If I'm not mistaken AWS has the highest egress rates of the major cloud providers.
I thought this was just me and the esoteric technical issues I've been searching for lately. But...you're right. Even with general searches.
There is a balance. If we stop the economy to stop all fossil fuels, that would be one solution, but then we would lose R&D support for the next step in our economic revolution.
> I want to stop using Google .. Gmail.. Maps, etc..

Agreed.

> and want to move over and use one company's services I trust.

What do you think got you in this mess in the first place?
I'm no more interested in being made neurotypical than I am in being made right-handed, cisgender, heterosexual, or Christian.

A society that regards people who don't fit in as "defective" is itself defective, and ought to be burned to the ground.
AWS and Azure is moving into hybrid space, checkout AWS Outpost - your own cloud, AWS software (or something similar)
This is a good approach. I think my urge comes from several areas.

1. Not feeling like I've done enough re: education. There's always a feeling that I need to have a graduate degree to gain some level of knowledge I can't self-study, to gain a network that might be closed to me without the credential, to feel like I tried harder.

And if I'm being honest, it's partially my ego that is driving this, ie: I want a degree from a top school just to know I was able to do it to not continue to have this regret lingering in the back of my mind.

2. I want to create. Your approach is great. I want to be more of a builder that way I can combine my marketing skills with building products.

3. I feel like I'm not accomplishing enough. So what are the levers I can pull to accelerate this? It seems like a graduate degree and a complementary skill set like coding would satisfy this itch.
nobody outside of Germany consumes German culture

Everyone in the world that listens to electronic music would like to disagree with you.
The fact that this was on your list of "improvements" rather than being a minimal requirement before being willing to launch, sell, etc, is pretty damning on it's own. No need to get misty-eyed.
Better workplace protection for whistleblowers and protection from sexism and company retaliation seems like a good thing for google. There have been a stream of these court cases. I think this is actually something that would also benefit google - they seem to constantly struggle with this. I think google is no worse than other tech companies and based on my time there I think the company is well intentioned. They are just so large, a little more structure could help them.

Of course, union members with workplace protections don't usually get stock grants, free food, and a free gym. Google needs to address these problems themselves, but of course it's so hard for big companies not to just try to stop unions.

Instead of stopping unions, work on those workplace protections. Stop hiding problems and paying off executives with tons of sexual harassment claims to go away.
Stack Overflow is declining, except it's still so well populated with moderators that the author of the article struggled to be able to answer a question quickly enough for it to matter, and he can find no alternatives to it that work as well.

I dont know anything about the internal politics of SO, and I dont think Ive ever asked (or answered) a question, but I use it every day.

It is absolutely the single best resource for developers on the internet, and thats amazing.
I don't mind systemd and I've administered a lot of stuff with it at this point, well beyond just start/stopping services -- I've written plenty of unit files, written drop-in unit file overrides, written timer units, written auto-mount units, looked at startup timing profiles, debugged issues using journalctl, etc.

If I had to guess, it's probably because I've never ran into any of the weird systemd problems that I see people report sometimes. For me, it's always pretty much just worked, and more often than not it natively has the functionality that I want.

My largest complaint is that I have to bounce across several manpages to write a comprehensive unit file.
As someone who worked on search engine algorithms in grad school in the late '90s when Google was coming of age and everyone admired them and thought their engineers were brilliant, it is just discouraging to witness what they have become.

Technology was supposed to free mankind, not make everywhere like China or the former East Germany. Depressing.
any in the US?
It's not just America's problem, it's everyone's problem. It's a problem for people in the developing world who will be dominated by Chinese and other influences. I'm from Bangladesh, where we have some high-minded, western ideas of freedom of speech and press baked into our constitution. It's a good start, but our implementation has been less than perfect to date: https://www.dw.com/en/is-bangladeshs-media-freedom-deteriora....

I had long assumed--hoped--that the arc of history would point in only one way: closing the gap between practice and ideal in the direction of more freedom. But what now? Bangladesh is beset by forces that don't value liberty. Wahhabism from one side and Chinese Communism from the other. Neither is the path to enduring liberty and prosperity for Bangladeshis.

Who will fight those forces? Europe long ago abdicated any role in evangelizing its own ideas. Americans are the only westerners left who believe in their hearts that their values are universal, and that means the world need America more than ever. The last thing they need is for America to equivocate, pull back, or, worse, start dismantling its own framework of liberty.
"Building its own cloud" = leasing data centers from Equinix or other large data center providers. Financial services have challenges using public cloud due to regulatory and compliance requirements. Most of these challenges are self made - artifacts of moving their teams from "This is how we currently do it" to a shared services model.

Curious if they are all in on providers like Redhat Openshift or Pivotal Cloud Foundry as their PaaS layer.
I've found that using a VPN reduces my streaming ability. Using Private Internet Access in the past I was forbidden from watching anything on Netflix. Also I was forbidden from editing Wikipedia even on an old account with positive editing history.
Given their history, I would say they aren't friendly and/or cordial. I'd say they're professional.
Search a job board for an experienced ”Document Controller” with experience from large engineering projects and hire one or more. You need more than a tool, you need processes and a strong owner of those processes.
Another: "We connected you with great companies looking for you!"

Should probably be revised to something like: "We connect you with great companies, who are looking for great workers like you!"

Or something more simple, like: "We connect great companies with fantastic workers!"
Really helpful guidance on the audio quality considerations, thank you!
The part I find especially frustrating is the double speak. Why do they say "We encourage players and community members to express themselves" while punishing someone for expressing himself? Just be honest. "We discouraged players expressing opinions that make it harder for us to sell in other markets." That has the benefit of being honest, plus everyone knows it's the truth anyway.
Time the difference between an npm install, with all its thousands of tiny files, on NTFS and ext4. It's excruciating.