skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cost-benefit is not the only way to rationally analyze the world.

First, the article paints a strawman of cost-benefit analysis. Cost-benefit analysis can consider different scenarios, probabilistic measures, and even qualitative components.

Second, what's the alternative? If you don't at least quantify the things that are quantifiable, all you're doing is going by gut feelings and emotion. And that's the province of savages.

> Just curious, I don’t doubt there are some, I just don’t know what they are. What would count as some examples of that having happened in the past, akin to the examples I linked of leaded gasoline, damming the Grand Canyon, or removing vinyl chloride from workplaces?

There are many areas where over-emphasis on desired outcomes and goals, while ignoring costs, led to poor results.

The war on poverty: https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/the-w...

The war on drugs: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/opinion/failed-war-on-dru...

Doubling education spending per student since 1970 (in constant dollars): http://www.foundry.org/wp-content/uploads/ed-spend-fam-facts...

The Iraq War, most of our Middle East policy, and the TSA.

Socialism: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/socialism-markin.... (Huge disaster from an environmental standpoint.)

Many environmental disasters are the result of focusing on goals or outcomes without thinking about costs. Irrigating the southwest, damming the Colorado, hydroelectric power, opposition to nuclear power in the 1960s and 1970s, etc.
Inspired by Lee Israel[0][1], perhaps?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Israel

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4595882/
Is Your Smartphone's Battery Terrible? Calibrate It
Yes, that's it
The Andromeda Paradox
The Slime Blob That Won the Internet Is Weirder Than You Think
For the curious, this is the patch that fixes it: https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/83db8dba09e7
China Sets Up New $29B Semiconductor Fund
The team behind the chip that launched a revolution
Considering McKinsey’s business model (“hey CEOs, if you hire us we’ll make you excellent”), there’s nothing surprising in the content of this article (“coincidentally, the vague list of things that we consider to make CEOs excellent is the same as the list of things that we have experience promoting”).
I'm somewhat inclined to agree that there's nothing wrong per se with paying for additional services that you desire.

The problem is manyfold.

> Someone who has a very large house with very large grounds paying for additional private services for fire protection seems _fair_ to me.

The need to pay for additional services at all is indicative that the public service is insufficient to keep us and our property safe. Fire does not discriminate between rich and poor; that should be a concern for everyone, but only the rich can do something about it (by throwing money at it).

> Should the public pay for the increased cost to cover someone with a house and property much larger than what the median home and property is?

If the rich have more land and property to risk, then they should be paying more taxes too. The public service should not discriminate against them. Why is the service insufficient to keep their property safe, and how can we trust them to keep the poor safe?

Of course you can have more land than the average citizen without being FU rich. In that case, the land is probably your job, and someone else's food or job down the chain. Shouldn't the public service protect those too?

> And keeping the fires from spreading though their own property will no doubt have a beneficial effect on those around them, too.

Yep, helps all the rich in their rich enclave where the poor cannot afford to live.

> The wealthy are stepping up to the plate and paying for the additional services they need without public help.

One of the fears I perceive here is that it's a slippery slope. If public service is insufficient and privatization becomes more prominent, one day it's going to be the one and same fire service everyone needs, but only the rich can afford. See health care, etc.
When combined they yield a treasure map
I don't think so. IIUC tptacek's concern is that the Tor Browser is a monoculture: Tor Browser users are running the same version and thus all vulnerable to the same exploits. Or were there other concerns?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13623821
... Or just burn it in a fast reactor, and get some use out of all that leftover energy, instead of calling it waste?
Why? It doesn’t ask for an email address or any information at all so what are you protecting?
The difference between Irish and scotch whiskies isn’t the smoky flavour. In fact most scotch isn’t peted. It’s the distilling process.
I'm sorry, it's was not my intention to depress you.

Actually, the fact is I what to be able to advocate for Tor to friends and family in the future. Too much? Viable?
What Is Bitcoin? An In-Depth Report on Bitcoin Features and Market Assessment
> A lot of discussion of early web technologies, like MOSAIC and HTML, took place in newsgroups that are still recorded and displayed online.

Which is why I'm devastated how much new conversation about how things are put together is generally not hosted by the organizations involved, but is stored places like issues on Google Code (all gone), SourceForge (increasingly difficult and likely will begone), GitHub (which people don't seem to like to believe will one day delete their data); imagine if some of these early standardization efforts had done all of their communication on Internet protocols using the contemporary equivalent of Yahoo Groups or Google+--maybe using CompuServe or AOL?--and all of that work was now only around due to haphazard archiving efforts. (Google+ really burns me, as there was so much discussion of how things in the Android ecosystem works--particularly among all of the third-party forks, such as CyanogenMod--which is now just deleted and gone :/.)
I read about a guy in his 80s who did the DIY equivalent of this. He was concerned about fire danger so spent years and much savings preparing. He built a large water tank, got lots of pro fire fighting gear including a full bunker suit with breathing gear, etc. The fire happened, burned out his neighbors, but by actively fighting it he saved his property.

Regardless of whether of not the right amount of taxes are spent on public firefighting, this seems admirable to me. If he had hired someone else to fight the fire, his foresight and preparation, if perhaps not his personal courage, would be as admirable.
Every candidate is different, but generally, if you have experience as an engineer and can get someone to refer you, then you will likely be able to get an interview.
Well it wasn't entirely wrong. Just because the doc was about malware doesn't mean somebody won't accidentally click it.
Great content/analysis. Shame the PDF is not optimised to read on mobile.
This is not a good mnemonic to use at all. Basically only the US and Irish whiskey use 'whiskey' (and legally, you can drop the 'e' in the US), whereas everyone else (India, Taiwan, Japan, WalEs, SwEdEn, GErmany, FrancE, DEnmark, etc.) use 'whisky' (and tend to largely (but not totally) follow SWA regulations). Don't sleep on so-called 'world whisky'. You'll be missing out.
Sounds like an opportunity for the gig economy.
Yes but if the BBC initiative starts spreading this might change in the future. No?
Famously (until a few years ago at least), even places like MemSQL, Palantir, Quora, Yandex were all famous for interview processes tougher than the regular FAANG.
Sounds like a potential avenue for developing critical memory systems which can survive an EMP. Hope that pans out.
That was an IMO problem? How long ago was this? I'm just surprised because I found the solution set + proof in like 5 minutes of writing elementary observations on a sheet of paper... (Very much unlike the IMO qualifying test I took a few years ago. Couldn't even produce a meaningful sketch of the geometry in question there...)

--- quick solution sketch ---

- every regular polygon is an obvious solution

- no three points can be collinear (can't have distinct parallel symmetry axes)

- for a given solution, look at all (3+) symmetry axes - they have to meet at the same point (easy to prove by contradiction)

- thus the angles between "neighboring" axes must be constant, namely PI / n for a solution with n distinct axes

- since any solution has to fulfill the above, for a given n > 2 we can draw all the axes (intersection point and "phase" are degrees of freedom). Add one point and mirror it on all axes - if no new axes are added (and you now have > 2 points, i.e. didn't put the initial point at the center) it's a valid solution. (You can't add another point afterwards - it would form a new axis with the first one).

- some footwork left to conclude that only "starting points" that produce regular polygons fulfill that. A proof by contradiction is pretty obvious in a sketch, but takes some effort to get even/odd n-gons covered correctly - there's probably something more elegant, but at this point you already know you've got the proof down.

While writing this out I realized that all the points must lie on a circle (apply circle chord perpendicular bisector theorem to "successive" point pairs) which should help simplify the proof.

(Please point out any mistake/misunderstanding - the solution seems way too trivial for an IMO problem. Well, a recent one at least.)
Killr: it’s like Uber for hitmen!
You can use tor also for search, reading articles, and research topics that you don't want associated in any way with your traceable internet persona (no region, ip, etc) identifiers / telemetry.

There are lots of reasons to use tor that have nothing to do with illegal sites.

Anything that you want to really keep private and never creep back into your normal day-to-day browsing experience (considering divorce, medical conditions, future vacation plans, "taboo political ideologies", etc.).

Traveling to a foreign country with questionable privacy laws?

You can access normal search engines, websites, etc. Not just .onion sites. Just avoid logging into your personal accounts.
The FAANG interview is meant to reduce the number of false positives, however, the cost is having a lot of false negatives. This isn't really a problem for them since they have so many applicants.
Presumably by disabling it on the workstations of security researchers. Or just the feature that flags linked content rather than content itself.
Hmm, shouldn’t it be “somnolence” or “hypersomnia” then...?
Do you usually stumble across illegal material when you browse the Internet? I don't see why it would be any different using Tor... you can still access clearweb sites via the Tor Browser.
You can use archives like the ones you find in Hackerrank / SPOJ, or participate in contests run by Codeforces / Codechef.
Japan also drop the e. Japanese whisky is quite interesting though, some of the stuff is completely out there (eg using seaweed as flavouring) and other stuff could be mistaken for being a scotch. I seem to recall reading that a lot of Japanese distilleries were trained in Scotland.

Last year I had a bottle of whisky from India which I’m pretty sure also dropped the e. That too was a lovely drink and could easily have been mistaken for scotch.
It sounds like you didn't have very good counsel if the court didn't consider clear prior disclosure as demonstrating invalidity.

FWIW in the UK we have expert patent court judges; USA used to have that too, I gather.

>I doubt it was non-obvious to one skilled in the art //

You have to be careful here, "obvious" doesn't quite mean the same as in daily life. It's so easy to see a neat solution to a problem and go "that's so simple, anyone could have done it". Once you've seen things they often seem simple (ex post facto analysis).

I think this is particularly true in some arts where basically every day any ordinary worker invents solutions to problems.
The Myth of Green Growth
So we want Facebook to stop propagating fake news and hate speech and we want them to do so without crawling URLs?
Right. Every day a new format.
Carbon Capture Technology Could Solve Climate Change
Adobe hasn't learned... I still get spam to myusername+adobe@mydomain.net (or occasionally, adobe@mydomain.net if the spammers' email parser is dumb) to this day, to the point where I've had to blacklist that address.
For all we know this is possible but not at all practical. The NIF [1] already does experiments with lasers that start nuclear processes in the ICF [2] capsule. An exeptionally good shot produces 2e16 neutrons [3], from (about) 2e16 nuclear reaction. But that single shot required more than 400 MJ of energy from the electrical grid to charge the capacitor banks that drove the flash lamps that pump the lasers that input 500 TW of laser light for a tiny fraction of a second into a hohlraum to heat it so high that the thermal x-ray compresses the implosion capulse in the middle to a sufficient temperature and density that nuclear processes start. Per neutron that was 2*10^-8 Joules. A typical large 1000 MW nuclear reactor produces 25–30 tons of spent fuel per year [4]. Assuming that nuclear waste has an average Z of about 50 and weights 100 daltons, 100 grams of material are one mole, so we have 3e5 mole to reprocess with 2e29 nucleii that need to be treated. Assume that on average only one neutron needs to be added or removed that will requires 3e21 MJ. But the 1000 MW reactor running for 365 days, 24 hours a day, 3600 seconds per hour only produced 3e10 MJ to begin with. In other words it would require 100 billion times as much electrical energy to convert nuclear waste that way than you get out of the reactor creating that waste. Can we make things more efficient by a factor 2 here and a factor 100 there? Probably. But that wont make a dent.

Transmuting elements with lasers is really cool for basic science, but completely useless as a solution for nuclear waste.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion

3: https://www.llnl.gov/news/nif-achieves-record-double-fusion-...

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_waste
It looks much more sane on ARM and MIPS.

On x86 most people seem to use NASM for non-inline assembler.
I wasn't trying to be dismissive, just saying that I didn't have much to add that wasn't already said there (and separately pointing out the connection between Buzzard and this thread).
I know what it's about :) it was mostly a joke based on the thought of the large multinationals using proudhonist language.
I wouldn't descibe it as a power dynamic; that's not what we do. We teach our students programming fundamentals that help them do well in interviews outside of just Google as well as prepare them to be better engineers.
That is missing the point. Boys have a lot more role models that they can see themselves emulating, for instance Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerburg and so many others. Even more so if you look back in history (Einstein, Newton, Edison, etc)

It takes a concentrated effort to expose little girls to role models that are the same gender as them. For whatever reason, girls like to emulate other females, and unfortunately there are a lot more Kim Kardashians and Ariana Grandes and Taylor Swifts than there are famous women software developers, scientists, tech entrepreneurs, and so on.

(nothing against Taylor Swift. but aiming for a career in entertainment is a lot higher risk than studying technical pursuits as the male examples above did)
huh?

Surely there's a better way to describe it.
I don’t recall how wealthy he was, but the claim that he pursued was a percentage (15% comes to mind, but don’t quote me) of all revenues generated by Spain in the New World.
Do you know ML or learned just for this?
Probably Hobby Lobby’s owners. They’ve been known to pay for stolen historical objects.
Bill Gates (2003): Windows Usability Systematic Degradation Flame [pdf]
The people promoting this are the Lean developers... :p
They are very different, Julia is a multi-paradigm dynamically typed language at it's core, with heavy inspiration in the Lisp family. The type system is designed for the purpose of specialization and dispatch, meaning if you add two variables, the compiler will look at hundreds of possible implementations of addition for the one that best fit the combination of arguments, with increasingly more generic and less performant options as fallback until it's unable to match any implementation and fails (after running the program).

Dex is a functional statically typed language inspired by the ML family. That means type errors will be caught before even compiling the code, which gives a guarantee that once it starts running there will be no case of failure because there is no implementation of a method for given types.

The similarity between the two languages seem to be mostly the high performance powerful native multidimensional array support.
OK but the guilty businessman here didn't change his mind, nor did any of the first four hitmen.
This must actually be about stimulated emission on the nuclear scale, with much getting lost in translation on the way to something politically marketable...

There is much to be learned in this space still.
And if you use/collaborate with someone who uses Linux they can't use Word and any alternatives muck up the formatting if others use the default docx/doc file format.
But qnx is almost universally hated by people actually working with it :)
This one. I believe I tried that but they are able to reconstruct them to some extent at least with trivial broken-ness
Getting started with Docker and Kubernetes
Thanks! That article has a lot of critique and I also like that the author collected the responses from one of the authors.

But, to me, most of the critiques seem uninformed (not made by ML practicioners) and focus on the ethics (where I agree with the authors: we need solid research into weaponized algorithms and show what is currently possible by ML practicioners, who may use such technology adversarialy, and can look at reclassifying profile pictures to the same degree as we do information about sexuality, religion, or political preference). By my estimation, most of the critiques are by people who find this research to be threatening to them, their friends, and their sexual identity. That may very well be the case, but it also leads people to conclude the scientific study was flawed and that an automated gaydar can't possibly work. Two replications by scientists who took issue with the paper, and lack incentive to fudge the data or metric to dress up their paper, also demonstrated a better than random automated gaydar. These systems work! (And that poses a problem we can now tackle, where before we did not even know this was possible, and the majority in this thread still thinks it is all bunkum).
Well, a sine wave is not a fractal, for one...
Patents are only valid if they relate to new and inventive stuff.

USA came in to line with the rest of the World which uses first-to-file (first to invent means the litigious will always challenge inventorship which is exceedingly difficult to determine as there isn't necessarily a paper-trail).

USA patent seem, to me, to be worse than other places, and first to file works elsewhere suggesting that is not the problem.

Personally I feel the costs system, and low presumption of validity at grant seem more to blame.
The Thirty Million Line Problem (2018) [video]
They should cut out the sensationalism, they don’t need it to get people approval, their mission is their best asset.
It isn't just social media. Google's censorship of their search results predates censorship on social media by a few years. It feels like a century ago, but traditional media and the elites attacked Google until Google gave in on censoring google news and google search.

Also, I think we distract ourselves when we blame "advertisers" for censorship. After all the top advertisers in the US are also the major media players - Comcast, AT&T, P&G, Disney, Charter, Verizon.

https://www.adbrands.net/us/top-us-advertisers.htm

So these media companies use their massive platforms to manipulate and control the public, they also use their advertising money to manipulate and control ( indirectly and directly ).

It isn't "advertisers", it is major mass media companies trying to control and influence new media. As has always happened, whether it is cable, radio, telegraph, etc.
I get what you're saying, but by the time you are playing political games with your software you've already lost the technical battle.
No, PMF is a different topic. I need a more granular take ok what positioning means.
These feel... dumb?

Specifically step 2 sounds like it’s skipping the important bit that people disagree with on the original problem. Again, compare hiring the cheapest hit man vs the most expensive.
> Of the 50 most value-creating roles in any given organization, only 10 percent normally report to the CEO directly. Sixty percent are two levels below, and 10 percent sit farther down. Most surprising of all is that the remaining 10 percent are roles that don’t even exist.

This is very insightful analysis, using the method called "I made up all the numbers".

And somehow we're supposed to trust the rest of the article?!
I've seen nothing to convince me that most C-level management "experts" care about confounders, selection bias or, generally, the quality of any data they come up with. Nor have I seen evidence that others in a position to call them on it care to. They either do not care, or do not know, how to reasonably use data to support a point or to make a decision. To include folks from the big-3 management consultants.

Though to be fair, it's not like people down the org chart are usually much better at it.
This. VCs are just doing what they are expected to do.
Hey saganus, this has come up with previous students actually. They asked and also felt bad about getting free help, but really it's our fault for either having too high of a salary target or not giving them better coaching. That's we didn't charge them when they took the job; CodeBreakers will never pressure a student to take a job to meet the ISA, we're here to help people get the jobs they want. If the ISA doesn't align with that, then we have bad ISA terms and need to modify it.

If the standard ISA listed on our FAQ page doesn't work for you (maybe you already have lots of experience and are looking for something far north of $80k), then we can discuss alternatives that make sense for your goals and life situation.
> What the CEO controls—the company’s biggest moves—accounts for 45 percent of a company’s performance.

What do executives think numbers are for? Why does the author find this metric meaningful? How does this number have any meaning at all? The fact that a CEO is important was not one that I questioned until I read this.
Japan has a significant whiskey distillation setup, generally though to be in the Scots vein of production. I wonder what their signature would look like. Of course wasting any of it by purposely letting it evaporate is nearly a criminal act.
> Perhaps.

No doubt about it. Look around you, all the stuff in your dwelling, etc., all from capitalism.

> Enron

Enron made its hay from taking advantage of California's regulation of consumer electricity prices, and the inability of the regulators to adapt.
This was just a quick fix, but I agree with you on the e2e messaging service. However, I do wish more e2e services like Telegram would open source their backend. Looks like Signal does now at least!
I failed physics but, in theory if you could keep pouring neutrons into fissile material, couldn't you lower the amount of nuclear fuel required to achieve critical mass (which is bound by the rate of neutron loss)?

Wouldn't this basically boost mpg and/or increase safety of reactors?
"Headless Body in Topless Bar" seems to deserve mention somewhere on that page.
Berlin Rent Freeze Puts Politics over Economics