skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is assuming familiarity with concepts and a body of research you do not appear to be familiar with. The fastest way to understand would be to read Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education[1].

The education system provides value by certifying potential employees/partners/mates as being of a certain quality. That’s signaling. Some of the quality is due to something the educational institute did, a treatment effect. Most of what selective institutes signal isn’t treatment effect though, it’s selection effects. Harvard matriculants we’re going to be successful with or without Harvard and the signal Harvard provides doesn’t distinguish much between them given the extremely low drop out rate, high grades and low variability of said grades.

Human capital is what educational institutes add, what they’re supposed to do, teaching skills someone somewhere cares about.

Given the amount Byrne reads I feel quite certain he values education highly. Schooling he may be more or less indifferent to as a college dropout.

Lambda has a superior model for education as treatment effect in its very narrow field to almost all universities given that the number that actually want to train software engineers is very low. Job training is what people want and they can do it well. This is good because giving people things they want and making their lives better is good.

As to universities and fun most people have a great time at university. Having free time, not working, being away from home, alcohol, other things, attempting to date, these are great. Many more people have fond memories of university because it was fun than because of anything they learned.

It’s not sarcasm. Many people think most of education is socially wasteful if privately beneficial because it’s true.

[1]I reviewed it. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/cua2dr/review_the...
Anyone else thought of Dropbox Paper when they saw the landing page?
I'm very excited about this! I recently switched to desktop + iPad, and I can't currently code at all on the iPad because all the apps I tried suck. I'm hoping that VS Online will solve my problem.
Exactly this. I'm in the South (U.S.) and a lot of people here would benefit from national healthcare, but they continue to vote against it (rather, for politicians who are against it) because "if you don't work for it, you don't deserve it." They're so afraid of the few who would take advantage of it that they're willing to let the many who need it not get it.
Is the iPad's Safari browser considered a "first class citizen" from a testing/breakage perspective? And on a related note, do you have/know what the minimum requirements will look like? For example, could a low powered ARM-based Chromebook utilize it?
For the purposes of health care in the US, 30 hours is the threshold for full time. At my last gig I was 32 hours a week and considered a full time employee.

So the question is really why some employers insist on the full 40 rather than being open to a range from 30 to 40.
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Anyone know if:

1. This information was shared in accordance with the privacy policies and user agreements in place at the time the sharing started or were the policies retroactively updated?

2. Any company actually been prosecuted / sued successfully for violating their terms of use sharing data with third parties? Have any users actually received $$, or just regulators via fines?

This will be near impossible to answer of course unless you were actually involved in the sharing with Sift, but it seems to me the more this happens with all of our data, along with the total lack of enforcement of any lapses / breaches these kind of problems / proxy scores will only get worse and more difficult to reason about as a customer.
Well, why not both, really? We’re talking about four years of education - is it really that hard to learn proofs and applications with four years to spend looking at it?
Personally I wouldn’t surprised at all. The people working in HFT are some of the smartest in the world, and they have the smarts, tools and the algorithms to smell blood/weakness from thousands of miles away.

It only took one or two of these smart people to identify a weakness in the system, and then they raked in I’m sure millions from it.
To be fair the licence fee has served its purpose. The BBC should move to a £10 per month Netflix model and be available world wide. It'd be a very profitable business and would easily make more in revenue for its current output than it does now.
Looks like Firefox isn't supported, is that on the roadmap?
I think the person meant that presence is a core component of the job, and reduced presence is on its own a reduced work output.
Unfortunately, Bitcoin as designed is technically incapable of being in widespread use for payment, due to a severe lack of network capacity, and a complete lack of interest in ever changing this.

Instead, all effort is going into a building a flawed second layer that is theoretically unsound and a usability nightmare.
> No one shed a tear when the carriage drivers lost their jobs. Except maybe the carriage drivers and their families.

In the 1880s, there were at least[1] 150,000 horses in New York City. How did the industrial revolution work out for them?

Industrialization was about replacing muscles in niche after niche and muscles are what horses supplied. AI is replacing brains.

1) https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cities-paved-dung-urb...
Agreed. The whole idea of "identity theft" stinks of PR lubrication. Your identity cannot be stolen, but "identity theft" is a clever, cynical sleight of hand that obscures what really happened: credit fraud, specifically fraud that is the responsibility of the party issuing credit and the criminal propagating it.
> they thought socialism would only become viable when capitalism had reached its highest stage of development

this is a common misunderstanding.

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol01/no04...
I suspect physicists look at it for a moment and realize:

Converting electricity into radio waves with energy losses, sent through the air with energy losses, to bombard molecules, which then resonate with the waves to use electromagnetic forces to split molecules, will always be less efficient than simply using that original electric current to do the same thing directly with less energy loss.

This will always be energy inferior to simple electrolysis.
Apple, Facebook and Google should be investing in new office space in other regions. They created these problems by hiring more people than the Bay Area could support. Lots of great talent will move to other places if the jobs are there.
We’ve seen significant interest in folks wanting greater “device flexibility”, and so we’re excited to allow devs to use the tools they love from anywhere, and on any device. Since the browser is the universal app distribution platform, having a full-fidelity VS Code-based web editor, along with a powerful compute runtime, provides you with a companion tool (along with your desktop client) to choose the right tool for each task.
Obviously the way to Captain Kirk yourself out of this Kobayashi Maru situation would be to use the ancient terminal to bash your head in.
Thanks, interesting! I think I misunderstood the initial comment as somehow back-lighting the inside of a window to highlight text, which confused me.

Now that I see what you mean, this is definitely better - the grey-on-black windowing of the original link is far less clear than backlighting each pane.
I avoid using Google Maps for precisely this reason. I'm less concerned about Uber or a local government having that data, far far less concerned. Uber rates as slightly more concerning than a government, because Uber will likely try to monetize it when/if their current business model fails to deliver profits to Wall Street.
Perhaps this makes development on Chromebooks (or similar devices) "more possible".

I'm struggling to think of something else though. It sure feels like forward thinking.
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Whenever public sector salaries are discussed in the news, the outliers are highlighted, never the median or the mean, giving readers a warped sense of what cops and firefighters make. Sure, some workers put in a lot of overtime hours and make gobs of money, but the typical salaries are not enough to live comfortably in the cities that they serve. For example, Glassdoor says the mean LAPD cop makes $76k --https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/LAPD-Police-Officer-Salarie... and the mean SFPD cop makes about $100k -- https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-police-offi...
These are scams.
> * Although in my case, I’m sure someone could come and say “you are not doing it right!” We were fairly new to this.

I think you've hit on a very important and somewhat subtle point here. Remote work is very sensitive to doing it wrong in ways that aren't always obvious and that office work is more tolerant of.
Yes, for years. It has nothing to do with hard or easy; the business doesn't function without you there. Comparing that to a job like ours makes no sense. Hours worked is directly correlated with output, unlike engineering.
edit: This post was wrong. See reply below.

Original post read: They linked directly to the GitHub repo in the post with a LICENSE in it.
What other remote development environments exist? I can only think of cloud9.
Multiple Mellanox or Chelsio 100GbE NICs in an LACP bundle.

The 220g is from a prototype with a Rome CPU in a Naples-designed motherboard, with 4 Mellanox ConnectX-4 100GbE NICs. 2 of them are limited to Gen 3 x8 (since it is a Naples generation mobo).
Maybe you should read up on the history of HP. It is largely considered to be the case study in how a company can be ruined when technical management is replaced by "MBA" management.
This, also, is a scam.
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What structure does an algebra require to merit the name? I've been confused by examples such as the "algebra of a monad", which as I understand it arises from adding an "unwrap" operation in addition to monadic "return" and "join". Most of the references to this only ever refer to specific cases such as an algebra over a monad or an algebra over a functor or a division algebra, etc., and I haven't seen anyone be clear about what makes something an algebra.
The only way to find out is to watch a 20 minute video by a crypto nutter? Is there not a simple explanation for how Dai is pegged to the dollar?
>If the ecosystem has decided one exchange is the lead price, then they manipulate the price without needing the underlying assets.

Okay, but I think there's a big difference between:

A) Some whale committed bottomless resources to keep bidding up an asset whenever it fell in price, leading to a much higher price over six months, vs

B) Some whale caused a one-day surge in price of the asset, which got the asset attention, which had numerous cascading effects over the next six months, including greater attention for the asset, which led to a bigger, deeper reserve of demand for it.

It feels like a stretch to refer to B) as "one whale causing the entire rally", as there is a more complex network of effects at play.
Any plans to support Firefox?
"The house is burning! The house is burning!" A child laughs.

Parents take the child out of the house quickly in fear. After a moment a plane crashes into the house, obliterating it.

While yes, the child was full of shit. It still led to something marginally good. Maybe the parents should have left him in the house because he's a little shit. That might make the situation better. But that's an ethics question I don't feel like exploring.

Peak oil might have been a false flag scare, true. I'm not going to argue with you on that. Fuck it, I'm going to agree with you. It was a total bullshit scare! But it was a scare that led to a big push in getting away from fossil fuels. So still, it was a good thing. Ends justify the means.
This is a partial copy of my previous post re reduced work hours:
A German startup that develops websites, apps and e-commerce platforms (Rheingans Digital Enabler), has a five-hour day work policy. Employees come to work at 8am (apparently 8am is not even strictly enforced) and leave at 1pm. Apparently productivity is kept up by cutting out the fat - cell phones are turned off, company emails are checked only twice a day and meetings are kept to 15 mins. The company was profitable in 2018, its first full year in business. A San Diego startup (Tower Paddle Boards) experimented with five-hour workdays and after two years limited it to the summer months only. This is all reported in the WSJ.
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Did the author actually get his “secret consumer score”? It says in article he got raw data but there was no “score” at top.
Startup idea: unbundle the party aspect of college. That kind of social life is not something you could purchase elsewhere right now. Figuring out how to replicate it would be worth a lot of money to a lot of people.
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> How did you get around the permission to use the microphone restriction

The app asked for permission as usual.
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No they are very productive. Just work for several people at once and eventually turn from 1 super productive person into 3-4 barely acceptable ones. They also gain job security this way. And get paid way more.
This is called the Hawthorne Effect [0], which has also been criticized for not being rigorously measured.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Yes, what about it?
I have been waiting for XML to become cool again for the last 15 years. I started writing XML for all my personal blogs and sites back then, and I still use the same markup. It has been fun to see all the static site generators popping up to solve problems that never existed. At least not for old farts like myself that like XSLT.
Your point seems to hinge on: IF the US became as bad as the CCP, it would force companies to hand over all their data anyways.

But a government like the US isn't a singular entity. There are all sorts of good, bad, and neutral actors within it. If you hand the government your data now those bad actors can abuse it now, rather than some hypothetical future where the US becomes an extreme authoritarian dictatorship.
Say you or your dependents have a medical condition, and your health insurance is provided by your employer.

Your most powerful tool in negotiating with your employer is to threaten to resign. Even with COBRA, paying for your own health insurance can be a substantial burden for many people in the US. If resigning from your job poses substantial risks to your health and life, your employer holds all the cards.

A workforce that does not have mobility and security in the essentials of life creates negative externalities for society as a whole. If workers are unable to leave or report workplaces containing unethical or illegal behavior out of concern for their lives, that unethical or illegal behavior is tacitly rewarded with competitive advantage for the business.
This is absolutely true. I live in rural New York and weather here this time of year is awful. I've watched cars in front of me during my commute slide off into the ditch wondering if I was going to be next.

I am also a father of 3 so being remote gave me the ability to attend school activities, doctors appointments, and just being there for them more which I know means a lot to them - as it does to me. There is also the little things like a trip to the dentist which could take me ~30 minutes remote and I can do it on my lunch break. Now on-site I have the commute so I need to take a 1/2 day which in turn causes a loss of productivity for the company.
Same situation here on Brave for Android. U+2207 shows up fine but the char after "Kotlin" is an unknown.
Peter Thiel called college a "consumption choice", and I think he is at least partially right about that.
Bitcoin's "market cap" is completely imaginary.
My solution would simply be to massively focus on nuclear. Replace all existing coal plants with nuclear plants and plug them into the network.

Once you have mass production of nuclear power plants, you can start using nuclear power to create liquid alcohol fuels. Start a process of changing cars to electric or alcohol based fuels, the same goes for ships and eventually planes.

The process of switching to alcohol based fuels can be started in parallel, with early on using fossil fuels.

Start taxing fossil fuel usage to make people move over to liquid fuels.

This vision was created out by one of the nuclear innovates. He invented the PWR (currently used nuclear) but rejected it as a terrible design for human energy production. His insistence that PWR were not 'perfectly save' got him essentially fired. He had come up with Molten Salt reactors to fix all the issues of PWRs.

His vision was more to use nuclear heat to turn salt water into water you can use for irrigation. Not really produce Liquid fuels in a carbon neutral way but the vision makes sense.

Now, unfortunately this should really have started in the 70s, but it would have been the most systematic approach to actually solving the problem. But of course that requires the population not to freak out about nuclear and to accept potentially higher oil prices.
In EU direct government support for industry (state aid) is illegal AF, but what if we coordinate "environmental" goals with one of the biggest privately owned corporations product releases? Suddenly paying VW for infrastructure from national/regional budget sounds totally legit.
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Exactly. The benefits largely accrue to the employees of the donor company rather than the public.
That's the MicrosoftDocs org, there's no source code in that repo.
>Bonus points if it stacks all the photos in the body as well. Photoshop cannot do this for you.
>You already see it in some phones - great nice shots with low noise because the camera is taking N pictures and taking the median of all the pictures. Why can't I program my DSLR to do this?

I've been doing this in photoshop and lightroom for more than a decade now. I'm not sure how this isn't doable in them?
I'm not surprised. The only empirical evidence we have for a practice that increases productivity and reduces errors, across all forms of knowledge-based work, is sleep and low stress.

As I understand it the only reason we have a 5-day, 8-hour work week is because North American rail workers' labor unions struck for it. Because workers, over tired, were losing limbs and dying on the job. It's not because it's the optimal work week for managing teams of knowledge workers.

What I am surprised by is how long it has taken the MBAs and suits to realize this.
The ozone hole was mostly fixed by changing refrigerants. This was fought at first until it became apparent that substitute refrigerants could be produced. At that point, the refrigerant manufacturers and the manufacturers of air conditioning equipment saw that there was a pot of gold in the transition and dropped their opposition. The consumer paid for it, but consumers are often led astray and aren't organized enough to fight for their self interest.
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http://archive.is/QEes8

It doesn't always work, but this time archive.is did the trick for me.
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Also novelty could play into it, but then again also people don't like change.
The research university, but without teaching, is about as different from the research university as a horseless carriage is from a horse and carriage.
What are the stab and spurt animations for?
ADHD is considered a mental illness. That's why.
This looks interesting but I could never fully commit to it because it seems to run as a SaaS product. If I am building a personal knowledge compendium I want to own and manage that data myself, it’s not enough to just have access.
Oh sorry I didn’t mean the jump bikes but the aforementioned DB bikes in Munich: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=call+a+bike+munich

I would be very surprised if someone can dismantle them on the street. But nevertheless if you have another bike right next to it which is worth more, lighter, faster and easier to crack why even bother?
> The Democrats have decided that the rich must pay for it.

My only question to that is: what level of rich ($200k/yr? $400k/yr?), and how much must they pay percentage wise, etc.

When will poorer people ever be ok with how much / how little billionaires give? I feel like the mindset is "it'll never be enough".
Gotta say I love the style/aesthetics of that site.
This guy has a real knack for complaining about an issue, and than admitting it was actually fixed a while ago.

Complains about a certain guy's benchmarks being affected by using different compilers, but of course that guy switched to using the same compilers already

Than he does the same thing with epoll- complaining about something being broken, but then admits it was fixed in 2016

I wasn't really able to pull anything material out of this article. I guess this is why people like benchmarks- it's hard to write an opinion piece about performance.
>be better of learning the basics of why (experiment design, independence, covariance, etc) and then the basics of how augmented with tools like probability toolkits that do the math for you?

This is how I learned statistics the first time. We started with experimental design and sampling and built up from that. By the time we'd actually started getting to the actual math and statistics we already had a pretty firm grasp of the principles behind what we were doing and why. The math itself by the time we started learning it really wasn't too bad, then we moved onto using R for stastics.

I ended up having to take a second stastics course afterwards, the teacher taught it differently. There were people in my class that hadn't been through the other course. They struggled horribly with it. The material wasn't any more difficult, it was mostly the same material we'd been taught before(my degree was odd, I ended up having to take a few redundant, repeat classes to satisfy credit requirements). The teaching method made a huge difference, I even found some of the second course confusing despite it covering almost the same stuff.
This is just awesome, lmao!
The idea here is that the blockchain model where everyone checks everything that happens doesn't scale to billions of users.

Fortunately for people who disagree, there are hundreds of crypto projects that think this is possible. Including straight up copies of Bitcoin like Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV.