skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than that, he was crucified for things he didn’t say, because nearly every blog and media outlet ran complete lies as their headline.
I guess there are also spiky offline jobs, like Apache spark as mentioned on the article. Likely for things like search indexing, training ML models, etc.
I agree that Musk was very impactful for Tesla, and it would most likely be nowhere near where it is today without him.

My only complaint is that he is not a cofounder, but joined in Series A as an investor.
Being “priced out” because you personally value your data more than others is a valid viewpoint, but that’s not the same thing as being priced out because you don’t have money.
I'm not sure if your advice is for kids good at math who want to eventually do something else, or kids that actually want to be mathematicians? I always thought being a mathematician was something special in that there is ample historical evidence of very young prodigies in that field who made big contributions.

Or are you saying top tier schools for math are so much better, that aspiring mathematicians should wait if at all possible to go to a top tier school? What if he's admitted at a top tier school at 9?
She ghosted me back in the early 90s after she flamed out of college. We were BFF in high school before BFF was a term, we were prom dates, etc. I stopped seeing her in class, and I reached out to her often in the first few years, but heard from friends that she could handle college. I've reached out a few times over the few couple of decades but her lack of response means she doesn't want to talk to me, so I respect it.
I'm curious about the actual arguments people are making. I could see a few, with most people arguing a mix of a couple:

1. People who politically disagree with the work the company is doing should just leave. They do not have the right to resist or organize against it.

2. Google should just go along with anything the government does. If there's an opportunity for profit, Google should pursue it. If employees disagree, they should vote. Otherwise, see #1.

3. Google should have some moral tests, but the current situation passes the test. It's not as bad as people are saying.

I honestly don't see how any of these are tenable. Number one is an argument against labor organizing in general, and the cats kind of out the bag there. Number two is just a variant of number one, and number three is inherently political—it's a situation where people see things differently, and the way we resolve those is politics.
Don’t remember specifically where I first heard that, but for example: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/us/20eye.html
> Can you even enroll in university without a high school diploma?

What a lot of us did (including myself and apparently a lot of other commenters in this thread) was took advantage of community college dual enrollment programs: if your middle- or high-school teacher approves it, and you can pass an entrance exam, they’ll let you take community college courses for credit part time even without a high school diploma. Well, if you’re home schooled, your “teachers”/parents are probably going to approve it, so as long as you can pass the entrance exam, you can start accumulating college credit as early as you care to.

> I'm fairly certain I could have kept up with at least the average college student

If you're on here, almost definitely ;)
Nation’s IQ Matters Much More Than Your Own
The college experience is about a lot more than job training. As I wrote in another response, it's about finding the best way to celebrate and nourish the thirst for learning new things.
What’s that from?
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Gifted != famous. They probably are off living their lives. Just like everyone else.
Never EVER buy food products on Amazon, you are playing russian roulette with your life, so much fake/counterfeit/poison.
Gatsby's founder here:

If you can articulate what makes Gatsby seem odd to you — I'd love to hear it!

FWIW, lots of people do love Gatsby so perhaps there was a misfit with what you were looking for

https://twitter.com/i/moments/1194814354690125825
>> and they struggled with high school algebra, got B’s and C’s, and one actually dropped out of high school last year while my son is still a straight A student.

I keep hearing this when the school wants to put kids on the advanced track. All it does is give them more work and risk lowering their GPA, which is far more important for admissions. One district allegedly give a 0.5 bump just for taking the bait to make up for that. It's all a game.
And honestly, three months doesn't seem long enough for a followup. My wife got LASIK and I think it was about six months before her eyes were back to normal (wrt halo and dryness).
Just found an old review on the same page for a blood sugar meter! (Go to the one star reviews, it appears they were poor quality and not accurate.)
That's too bad.

I'm lucky -- in my area, the burners, hippies, and makers don't use Facebook for coordination. They have mailing lists for that.
Most moderates are fine with consequences for racism/sexism/etc, but we object to willfully misinterpreting one's political opponents as espousing racism/sexism/etc in order to justify their persecution. It's the weaponization of those consequences that we object to.
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I've been banned on most forums I've frequented for attracting the petty ire of moderators (these are usually low-status, unpaid volunteers starved for power and meaning). I'm opinionated and provocative, but I always honor the spirit of the law wherever I choose to be, and dang seems to appreciate that despite probably not liking me as a person. For that I say he's an exceptionally good moderator, but there is certainly a demographic problem on HN that I expect is unfixable and outside management's control.

edit: I just looked briefly at the recent threads in your comment history and had to laugh at "I'm afraid I don't really follow what you've written here." And I see your reply here is flagged-and-killed. I continue to not deny any of your complaints specifically.
> git log --graph; not sure what the mercurial equivalent is,

`hg log --graph` works
We probably need a technical rather than legal solution for this. The problem is that generative algorithms are susceptible to accidental memorization so you can't guarantee that the output will be transformative. For example, play with https://talktotransformer.com to see how many well known pieces of text it can spew out verbatim. It is very prone to derailing into a harry potter fan fiction regardless of prompt.

Other than copyright there are privacy considerations too. For example Gmail's Smart Compose is trained on users' private messages so you don't want it to memorize "private" details (such as credit card numbers): https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08232

Is it possible to solve this by adversarially checking if the output is "original" enough or not? Or is that intractable, given how much resource our society already pours into making the same classification in court?
"There already is a decentralized Reddit where subreddits are called websites and anyone can start one and run it as they please"

But can your grandmother do this ... or just the common person?
If the victim is yourself, either you were coerced (and the coercion should be the crime) or you consented (and it shouldn't be a crime). If I kick myself in the shin, is that battery, now?
Waaaat! Praise be. Now I can justify the last 45min reading HN...
What about dash cams? This is pretty much the same thing, no? There's nothing illegal about recording in public.
If we work together, you should assume good faith. We are all on the same team at work. That's the point.
Interesting anecdote from from the biography of Stanisław Ulam, a close friend of von Neumann. Von Neumann was apparently fascinated by the history of the ancient Greece which he learned by reading Thucydides and Herodotus. Once he was talking with Stan about the Siege of Melos[1] and how violent the human nature can be when driven by pride and ambition set to pursue a certain goal. That were late 30s and catastrophes like Lidice[2] and countless others on the soil which today are Poland and Belarus were soon to happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Melos

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_massacre
One? Just one?
No, you cannot use modern Intel systems without the ME. me_cleaner will only remove parts of it. What happens exactly (whether it actually stops working or goes into some undocumented free-for-all debug mode) is unknown as there is no introspection into the ME. HAP bit is asking the ME nicely to disable itself, sometime after it booted the system.

https://twitter.com/rootkovska/status/939064351008395264

Purism routinely overstates their capabilities in this regard, claiming to "neutralize" the ME.

Also note that the ME is a hardware feature. Most efforts to remove/disable it focus on the ME firmware, which is loaded only some time after boot. Some ME function remains even if you completely zero out the firmware.

See Peter Stuge's 30C3 Talk "Hardening hardware and choosing a #goodBIOS", noting IPv6 packet sent over the network interface even then (around 17:18 mark).
I didn't say constraints, I said emotions.

I don't believe it's possible to have creativity without emotions, and I've got citations to that point (which are apparently quite controversial, that comment has been fluctuating heavily in score) [1].

It's possible to put constraints on your emotions and to not immediately do something because you feel like doing it. This is the essence of emotional intelligence, and of maturity. The thing is that this is a conscious process: you are expending your limited attention on watching your behavior and ensuring it conforms to the desired norms. (If you internalize those norms such that conformance is unconscious - well, then you've internalized the existing norms, but the point of creativity is that you're trying to break out of those unconsciously-internalized customs.) That means you're not expending that attention on the details of the problem itself. Most of the problems involved in revolutionizing an industry with computer code are immensely complex and require all the attention you can give them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21548499
Except if you disparage white, straight men, sight unseen. Then you are just virtuous.
Because dropping out of primary education is HEAVILY penalized in our society in multiple facets, sometimes in non-obvious ways. Dropping out of college does not create a major barrier to success for motivated people, dropping out of high school statistically nearly guarantees a bad life outcome. Even people who drop out and then attain a GED (arguably harder than just graduating) have lower statistical success indicators.

As a simple anecdotal example, I have an acquaintance who dropped out of high school because he was bored. He's actually quite above average in intelligence and educated despite not being formally educated. Nonetheless, he had a minor run-in with the law (bar fight, he didn't start it), and due to having his official record with the state showing he was a drop-out he was treated more harshly by the justice system, including having a higher bail set and receiving harsher sentencing. Our society basically just operates under the assumption that if you drop out of high school you are complete fuck-up, so that's the context of how you're judged.
Google very much courted political activists in it's employee base, and encouraged its employees to participate in 'woke' culture.

All seemed great for a while, and then suddenly one day, management found itself the target of the woke cancel culture they fostered.
A. I'm a fan of both how HN works and the moderating staff. (I don't wear that on my sleeve more for reasons covered in the post under discussion: Public praise frequently goes weird places.) So I'm absolutely not sympathetic to your conclusion here.

B. If you think it's absolutely not you and dang and HN are simply broken because everyone else likes you just fine, the logical solution is to just leave. I've basically done that numerous times over the years -- left a forum that just didn't work for me personally -- and I've generally not been all blamey about it. In most cases, I leave quietly and don't run around trash talking them afterwards. I don't expect every single forum to be a good fit for me personally.

C. If you decide you value something about HN enough to keep coming back in spite of the problems you are experiencing, there are some best practices for trying to make that work. Here are a few:

1. Try to understand why other people do what they do in a sympathetic manner. This includes dang.

2. Try to focus on what you can do differently more than on what you wish others would do differently.

3. Try to put some of your negative feelings down and stop making your baggage about the site a large part of your focus when engaging in discussion here. It just keeps the problem alive unnecessarily.

D. I don't really care to engage you further here. I decided replying late was the least worst answer in part because not replying at all can come across as "giving someone the cold shoulder" and can add to their problems, if only inadvertently.

But the bane of my personal existence is people who latch onto me personally and act like they think I'm personally required to meet their emotional needs, magically fix their problem that I have no power to fix, be endlessly kind to them while they are ugly to me and so forth. Choosing to respond in hopes that it might help you does not make me personally responsible for your feelings and your problems for all eternity.

Edit: in the interest of avoiding temptation to reply to you again, please note that my introduction to you was you thread shitting my post which is an article I personally wrote. Yet you clearly seem to think you never do anything wrong and it's everyone else here and also seem to think I should care greatly about your feelings and your needs and your problems while you care absolutely not at all about mine.

That's a big fat Nope.
Sports or clubs (Scouts, etc) are a better way to hang around with peer kids than school classes, IMO.

I transitioned from homeschool to public school at one point during my childhood and I think I was actually much more socialized in homeschool where I was in sports, Scouts, intentional play dates, etc. that my parents were doing to avoid the socialization problem. Whereas once you’re put in public school it’s simply assumed you will be somehow “socialized” (in reality socialization in school often takes the form of bullying, especially if you’re clearly different from peers in some way like intelligence, or you can end up just not having friends)
More fundamental than context, stop telling me your sole purpose is to make money. That's a one-way ticket to turning me off of any attempt to ever increasing my engagement as an employee.

Your business exists to solve a problem, which then makes money. Otherwise, I expect your business to be in finance or the government's treasury--then your #1 is "to make money".
> how did that time produce so many people of colossal intellect?

We have since invented TV, computer games, quantitative finance and web frameworks. All these things cause massive brain drain.
I bought a 2kW inverter on AliExpress and it was top notch.
For huge things like TVs I think it makes more sense to buy in in person at BestBuy or Costco.

Costco's return policy alone is a big advantage. Plus they have so many TVs in the store where you can see them in operation.
I started refusing any meetings that didn’t say their purpose and desired outcome. I’m a schmeg so it just made people stop scheduling meetings with me and that was pretty good.

People seem really busy and tell me they are too busy to plan their meeting or prepare for mine. It’s a viscous cycle.
If you're an engineer at Google, you've probably had a great technical education, you feel empowered because if Google would hire you, you can assume most anyone else would too; you probably feel smart because of this and in many ways you probably are a pretty smart person. You're very well paid and compensated and you know it.

There are a lot of things here that not only give someone confidence but also conviction. As you rise up the social hierarchy, and a Google engineer is very high on the social hierarchy, you begin to question your beliefs less and less and have more conviction that you are right - you must be enlightened. Because if you're so awesome as to be an in-demand engineer (at Google!), clearly your opinions are more informed and enlightened than people below you on the social hierarchy. This conviction is going to grant you confidence to not only openly proclaim positions on topics most people find private, but use this newfound social power to leverage dominance over those subordinate to your leadership position in society.

How could you be wrong? Just look at how awesome you are - your expensive house, nice car, rare foods, and luxury recreation activities validate this. Lift your hammer of justice (it's a heavy burden you carry with the privilege's you were born to have) and smash any who your in-group find problematic. After all, it's only collateral damage if some honest, humble, and hard working people are destroyed in your wrath to feed your new, insatiable appetite for further social conquest.
From Tom7's description of the video on YouTube, "Note: Everything in here is real (IEEE-754), but the target is computer scientists and the troll level is set to ULTRA."
> It certainly feels like they're a bit touchy about certain references.

I'd say they quite overstepped the boundaries. What are fun times to you and the recipient is certainly not their business. Why would they even waste time reading the RE line if they aren't doing your accounting for you at the same time?

There is even a party rental company named Fun Times. Would they interrogate every cheque written to/from them?
I completely agree, but there really are managers petty or shortsighted enough to block this stuff.

I think one mistake my wife made, though, was mentioning it to her boss before she did it.

What she should have done was done it. Then her boss would be more inclined to let her keep it.
We are surrounded by functional alcoholics (10% in the US drink most of the booze). They naturally tend toward career paths that support their behavior.
I'm not sure I follow.

What if you change the initial conditions of the environment?

Then A would act differently, but B would still act the same because it is blind.

So now they are not taking the same actions.
It seems impossible to have a blind agent that follows a non-blind in all situations.
> Small numbers (1-3) of stuck or dead pixels are a characteristic of LCD screens. These are normal and should not be considered a defect.

Wait, what?
Haven’t reached any degree of publishing quality yet, but it’s something I’m aiming to do if time allows.

Ideally I’d prefer to Yep people run their own testing and monitoring. This stuff isn’t rocket science, just requires a bit of knowledge, inexpensive tools, and a bit of logical framing. :)
> I did PRK and have had chronic dry eyes ever since. I can't recommend it. I would go back to contacts if I had the choice.

IIRC, from my research, dry eyes are more common with Lasik than PRK. But you make a good point: PRK isn't side-effect free, either.
Could something like keybase be adapted for this purpose?
Req
Is this legit?
Isn't that basically Searle's Chinese Room argument?
Once upon a time, yes.
People talk about 'famous' but it's not about fame. It's about being known because you were so smart you achieved something special (of value).
I wonder if crypto could play into this. Blockchain prevents sybil attacks by making interaction not free so that large scale influence is incredibly expensive.
So mastondon is an open source twitter clone right? is there anything out there yet or in the works that is more in line with Facebook's product offerings with out the surveillance and tracking?
Ask HN: Alternate VCs?
I see lots of small, founder friendly, super-early funds coming up on twitter almost everyday, can we together create a super-list in the comments for new founders with links and short description?
My list until now -

1. https://hustlefund.vc
2. https://indie.vc
3. http://afore.vc/
4. https://backstagecapital.com/
5. https://precursorvc.com/
6. https://645ventures.com/
7. https://shrug.vc/
8. https://earnestcapital.com/
9. https://weekend.fund/
Oh, individuals who enjoy using credit cards absolutely have convenience as the primary goal.

Regimes working on creating cash-free societies, where there are no legal anonymous payment schemes, on the other hand, simply want to use the threat of turning off your access to the economy as a means of control.
That’s definitely not just an allegedly thing, my private high school gave a GPA bonus of 0.5 for honors classes and 1.0 for AP classes to avoid this issue. And I’m certain it wasn’t something unusual or hidden, many other schools must have done it also.

Goodhart’s law and all that - if unadjusted GPA were the sole number to target, it would make way more sense to take the easiest classes possible and never challenge yourself.
There is not a serious unionization effort for them to fight. The activists are just making themselves out to be victims, as usual.
I think the thing being said here is that market fit is a known exercise often practiced as part of funding raises or model validation before products are built. This tool seems like a really cool tool for rating and Ranking items in a Product Roadmaping exercise
Holy crap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cny_D50Rr44
Indeed that is the case. I've already been wearing progressives (+2.0 add) for several years. I think presbyopia is something a lot of folks don't consider when they opt for LASIK. It might make your vision better for one decade, but then worse for two or more. Maybe people just can't internalize that age will catch up with them too. Maybe they just hope that medical science will come up with something new by then, so they can have the best of both worlds. Didn't work out that way for me, though I do think we've passed Peak Eyeglass and glasses will seem as outdated as buggywhips some day.
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I only get 'real' glasses from an optometrist, and have done since I was about 13. You need to have your eyes tested by an optometrist every 2-3 years. In some countries, that testing is covered by government health subsidies. I am not an optometrist - so no vested interests.

Everyday reading glasses from supermarkets, etc. are a different matter, I have several pairs of those which focus at different distances, depending on whether (ferinstance) I am reading a book in bed (9 inches/22cm), or looking at a computer screen (24 inches/60cm), etc, etc.

I have tried multifocals but I dislike the distortions that often appear at the sides of the field. I find bifocals the best for me overall.

Another point of comfort that I forgot to mention in the last post is the width of the nose where the piece joining the two lenses sits. I have a weird wide bridge which means that that part in my glasses has to be longer than usual. So far, I have only found glasses which are suitable in that design in France, consequently I have bought my last two pairs of spectacles (buy 1, get another pair cheaper) while travelling in France. That was three years ago, and I don't think I can get back there for quite some time. Maybe I'll be forced to put new updated lenses in those old frames.
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Playing the devil’s advocate, if what you say is true, that most of an organization is extroverted, why would you want to optimize your feedback process for the introverts? Is the reason that you believe the extroverts’ voice is already heard?
Chrome or Mozzila?
Tell me your reason
I mean couldn't you just require a phone number for all accounts?