skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope we can all agree that notarization is pretty valuable to users. Macs are a mass market product and most users are not technical.
Also to create software for Apple devises you need... an Apple device. Isn’t the cost of the device a bigger burden than the $100/yr dev program license?
> should have considered this before using the biased algorithm for their first consumer credit card

Why would such bias be bad when assigning a credit limit? Are you suggesting that this just isn't related to creditworthiness?
Going to be? We're already there.
If you watch the talk, he finds a number of examples of already implemented optimizations that don't work. I wouldn't be surprised if it was better to immediately start with coz. If nothing else, it forces you to model the problem better so there's overlap with test driven design there, no?
You should try to address my points rather than just repeat the party line.
It's also a combination of drug management. Almost all competitive athletes at a high level use some type of steroids in off seasons.
Boris Johnson has been accused of this. His truely bizarre bus making hobby is one example.
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Not enough people know this.
An additional addendum to this is International airports.
Specifically: The International border includes a 25-mile radius around international airports.

The majority of US Citizens live within 100 miles of the border. A good chunk that don't live within 25 of an 'international' airport.
Further note:
"International airport" is based on designation and not traffic. You can have a 1 runway po-dunk airport in the middle of nowhere that received 'international' status as a checkbox formality in the event that ANY plane MIGHT need to use the airport for emergency purposes.
Amazon’s Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Sellers Puts Consumers at Risk
I met him a few times when I was a grad student at Stony Brook (Physics). I can't speak for his particular math skills, but he's in possession of an incredibly sharp mind.

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics has an art gallery and an associated lecture series, and James often shows up to participate in these events. Luckily, these events are free to enter for all graduate students. At one of these events, I'd commented that a particular piece reminded me of a crystalline structure I was interested in studying (as a li-ion cathode). James overheard me and came over to quiz me on some of my group's work. About 8 months later, I ran into him at another lecture. While he didn't remember my name, he asked how my hollandite simulations had turned out.

This anecdote doesn't really prove anything, other than that Dr Simons is a pretty cool dude.
More people died when communism collapsed in Russia than from WWII [0]. It seems communism kills much fewer people prematurely than does capitalism for any given society it has been tried in. I can only imagine the utopia it would be when tried in a country that isn't a third world hell hole.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia
Goldbach: A Curious Conjecture
Delightful. Add in some snazzy animations and it'll be downright addicting
Really inspiring for her to come forward knowing how big nike is. Honestly, we need more people like her.
devil's advocate: $100 is a lot of money to spend on a hobby/side gig for a lot of people. Like some of us can blow more than that just on IDE's/Git clients in a year, but for some people it's a legitimate hurdle to cross.

When I was in high school working on the weekends, that would have been two weeks wages, which I had other stuff to spend on. And that's from a privileged background, I know plenty of folks who's weekend/summer jobs paid towards rent/bills for their families.

That said, Apple probably doesn't care about the teenagers or indie devs out there who want to make a little game for their platform. However I'd also say to those folks - if you're strapped for money, don't develop for Apple devices. Go make a doohickey on a windows or Linux box.
Most impressive to me is how he is able to track every single thing he eats, with a food scale no less.
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Yes, There were at least 4 trans Atlantic runways designated for aborts at any one time during the program, sometimes changing, and always with 2 "active" for any given launch, staffed with a small city of NASA and military response personnel.

From memory, I think there was generally one each in Africa, GB, mainland Europe, and Azores at any given time. Along with additional sites in Bermuda and Canada (or other US East coast sites) on most post Challenger flights, which weren't specially staffed.

The interesting thing about the added sites post-Challenger, Bermuda was at an US military base. But Canada & other East coast sites were normal airports, with no training or added staff. The shuttle would have had to follow the same FAA emergency landing procedures as if it were a Cessna out-of-fuel, including contacting ATC and directly contacting local traffic at uncontrolled sites.

These were viewed as "modified RTLS" aborts, and were realistically not much more survivable than an actual RTLS.
I had a similar brilliant engineer with odd working hours at one point. I also had the same problem with other engineers requesting the same odd hours, with equally negative results.

In my case, I eventually learned that the odd hours weren't the key to his perceived success. Instead, he used the odd hours to force us to give him only work that could be accomplished alone. We were lulled into letting him make key architecture decisions in isolation, because no one else was awake or online at the same time to discuss them.

Eventually he became the architect by virtue of operating in isolation, where we couldn't discuss his decisions. Everyone else was forced to work around his code. If he refactored the codebase in the middle of the night to make his job easier, the other team members were all forced to work around his refactor and waste time updating their PRs to match his work.

Worse yet, having someone like that on the team drives away other great employees. Eventually everyone else will get sick of accommodating the architects isolated schedule. If they have other opportunities, they'll leave.

> I often think about how I could have better allowed his brilliance while not alienating the rest of his team, but in the end I failed.

It's not on you. Brilliance and individual productivity aren't everything in a team setting. If your project must scale past a single person, you need everyone operating on the same page. It's painful in the short term to lose the quirky rockstars, but it makes for a healthier team in the long run.
Think in terms of iteration.

On your desk > on your lap > in your pocket > on your wrist > on your face > on your eyes > in your body.
because they were on the same IBM speech/nlp team...
This should be the top comment in the thread. This kind of work schedule is not healthy or sustainable. Long term success is like running a marathon.
> Now we are witnessing mini-Valleys springing up in other cities desperate to replicate what San Francisco did for startups.

Without the culture to support it.

A bunch of broke ideas people sitting in a wework or coffee shop with no angel investor in sight, no diversity in VC portfolios. There is a reason that interest rates are negative, because nobody wants to “stimulate the economy“ by giving broke entrepreneurs their money
Lack of features and poor UI is a moderation tactic to keep Eternal September at bay. It’s used aggressively by 4chan (eg setting a fullscreen overlay which can only be removed using user style css), but you see it crop up elsewhere every now and then.

Whether intentionally or not, I think HN effectively does the same. Let’s face it: the UI is lacking and laborious. While I only speak for myself, some might agree: that’s a feature, not a bug.
WebGL isn't fully supported on iOS, so there goes your nice little web game.
http://www.redballoon.net/humor/unix1.txt

A is for Awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for Biff, which reads all your mail.
...

but the grep entry here is different from what you remember.
The logical rule is quite simple:

1. Bootstrap
2. Reach cash flow positive asap.
I have a simpler method to accomplish the same task: a typewriter.

The key, for me, is to retype into a computer and edit during that phase.
In Chrome's address bar you have the "send" icon (or whatever it's called).
In Silicon Valley someone would probably say "It is problematic to get a contributor to internalize something when his compensation depends on him considering it a corner-case."
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I think he means that they funnel the income from fees into this "black box" fund and that's what creates the huge returns. My instinct would be that there's no way this would get past auditors, but then again, Madoff got away with cooked books, so it's plausible.
The linked article is behind a paywall
Could you share this compelling evidence that the algorithm has a sexist bias?
Yes, but on a $ basis rather than a % basis.
How in hell is that "simpler"
"International airport" isn't a checkbox formality. It's a specific length (and weight-bearing capacity?) of runway.
Had the same question, the answer is yes BUT you would have to accomplish the following:

- reflect every part of the spectrum that the laser can produce (idk if military lasers operate in the visible part of the spectrum)

- keep the coating clean enough throughout flight to maintain reflectivity

- meet the same requirements as the current coating which probably includes aerodynamics, heat resistance, etc.

Idk if such a material exists, but I'm sure every country building lasers is also working on the defensive side as well.
I believe you mean any instead of every

I'm amazed by the number of restaurants I walk by in Vancouver. That you happen to see the internet photo worthy more often than the straight forward venues is a side effect of the internet photo worthy restaurant essentially self selecting itself to be shared online
Uh, if all it took to beat the market was consistently rebalancing your portfolio everyone would be doing it. It takes more than that to consistently beat the market.
The fee isn't the issue. It is the on going treadmill of endless updates just to exist. That's a big deal.

I don't use app stores. Never have. And it's for this reason. I do not favor the control coming. If my computer will not run an executable on command, it really is not my computer. Useless and definitely not something I trust.

Actually I do grab free things off Google play, but I side load as often as I do that.

I think we're gonna see fairly modern systems added to the category of retro computing. It will be a system that just runs programs developed by others. Imagine that!
I am sorry, but you sound like a terrible manager for allowing that kind of work schedule without seeing the consequences down the road. I would wager your most prized teammate left at least partly due to burnout, whether he told you that or not. That kind of work regimen is not sustainable, and you paid the price by encouraging it.
It's an interesting idea, but in this case Fund B only came into existence after 15+ years of market beating performance by fund A.

A funny thing from the recent book: One of Rentech's earlier employees spent his first few months there trying to figure out what the scam was.
> A bad idea, as long as it produces an asset of value, is okay. You can move your asset to a more viable market.

Sorry but it sounds to me that you are not speaking from experience but just from reading many "startup culture" posts. In reality there just are many startups that have ideas and build products that never get to profitability. Most even have users that love the product but that doesn't help you if you can't get enough money.

And ideas matter a lot. Some are just almost impossible to execute to profitability while others are a relatively easy win. I have seen both and no, you can not just "move the asset to a more viable market".
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I hope they take the approach that Focals by North did with their smart glasses. Non-obtrusive heads up display for notifications/navigation, and glasses that actually look like normal glasses.
>Oh, boy. Why can't we have a world where I can pursue my interests without the fear of loosing something

A startup is not about "pursuing interests," that's a side project. A startup is about making money by eating market share. Every product or service that comes out of it is intrinsically connected to that goal.

You are free to pursue whatever interest you want on your own time, especially in this field. Every cloud provider gives you a free tier; most major database server software are free; all the major Git providers give you free private repos; every major library is free and open source; as is every major operating system and IDE, compiler, linker, interpreter, syntax checker...

In fact, as an individual, you will be hard pressed to actually find paywalls stopping you from using new technologies.

Of course it would be nicer if we all got free stuff without having to work for it. But this isn't about that, this is about business.
Right. Hence Moore's law is irrelevant. I.e. the CPU is NOT the bottleneck.

For example, who cares if you have 64 core , 5Ghz cpu, if the still doing I/O from an HDD.
I think any system that responds as if it is modeling another system is conscious.

But there are levels of consciousness, what differentiates “higher consciousness” is maybe the question you’re getting at.

That unfortunately is an largely ascientific question. Like “what’s a good map of Seattle?” there is no such thing as a map of Seattle, so there’s nothing for science to study. Seattle exists for sure. Some maps will help you meet different ends in Seattle. But there is no such thing as an objective map. List n things a map gets right, and I will tell you n things it gets wrong.

But if you want a starting place, you could temporarily accept, e.g., Timothy Leary’s map of consciousnesses. That one is quite materially grounded. Within that orientation you can do all kinds of science and learn many things about consciousness.
A better question might be: DO you train your developers? I've not worked for a single company where management took a proactive approach about training developers. At most, approval was granted for purchasing/reimbursing for books, videos, and a conference, but that required the developers to take the initiative.
> Also to create software for Apple devises you need... an
Apple device.

You don't really - you can use Electron and other frameworks to build it on a different OS, and just package it for macOS.
BuildZoom (a better way to remodel) is hiring salespeople in Scottsdale
Some interesting facts re: Singles' Day
Many of Assad's were. Not that he isn't responsible for his own actions, but the US put him in a position to kill far more people than he would have otherwise been incentivized to fight. The "Syrian Civil War" would have been brief with few casualties, were it not for US intervention and support of the rebels. We turned a tussle that would have played itself out in a couple of months into a decade-long quagmire that has killed countless civilians, decimated the country, pulled in armies from around the world, and on several occasions toed the line of nuclear war.
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I've been denied cards despite an excellent credit history, is this evidence of sexism or just otherwise shitty algorithms?
It’s not the writers, it’s the private equity. See: the recent demise of deadspin.
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Someone's going to say this eventually, so it may as well be me.

Rentech is not the only hyper successful fund. There are others, like TGS management (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2014/05/09/mys...) that are just as successful and who you've never heard of.

What rentech has done is to have built an excellent data processing engine that automatically extracts signal from noise. Other, much more secretive, funds have done this too.
That is an interesting thought. You may be on to something...

They did eventually implement comment folding though.
Conversely, get better at handling interruptions. In almost every non-junior role (not just "manager") you will be required to deal with many things throughout the day, coding being just one of them.
This is even worse. I want to be able to disconnect and just ... be human.
To the satisfaction of Apple, not to the user.
Although I get your frustration, I think it's too early to say there won't be a shift in the field. More people are becoming aware of the mass surveillance and globs of data collection which means that someone can make money making a startup that "Does X, but doesn't sell your data". Maybe _I'm_ the one who's too optimistic, but projects like Monero show me that there's people who care about privacy to create/maintain a digital cash equivalent.
Let me know if you need any help, I have written several control scripts. I should probably open source them..
Wow. So not good.
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It's not even competitive athletes. It's folks doing the local race.

Years ago, when I was an avid cyclist, I was turned off my first local race, a meaningless city race. Three guys, and two girls were doping in the parking lot. To this day I have yet to be at a single race where people aren't doping prior.
China is already selling attack drones to the saudis.
I believe there is a little bit of overhead when it comes to mapping virtual addresses and dealing with different pointer sizes for the OS, but imo the main reason Apple wants to ditch 64 bit support is so their OS isn't tightly coupled to an ISA that has 32/64 bit modes.

In other words it's not about the overhead, it's about the reliance on x86.
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I've a certificate whish is valid until 2022 (valid for 5 years) (generated in 2017 after paied 100$). I distribute only free games (GPLv3) that I sign with this certificate. For Catalina, I can't notarize because I don't pay each year (my certificate is valid then it's useless to pay and I distribute only free softwares)... But I'm fucked by Apple for the notarization.

It's too expansive to pay just to distribute games that will be even refused probably on the app store because it's GPL.

Apple is just killing freedom and continue to take advantage of free softwares (free developers) on BSD, mach kernel, a lot of unix tools... even on projects started by Apple like LLVM Apple takes all advantages of all third contributions.
> devil's advocate: $100 is a lot of money to spend on a hobby/side gig for a lot of people.

Agree. But this isn't some lost nobody. This person has a Wikipedia Page [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalie_Lawhead], is an established game developer and artist, and lives in California. She's won multiple awards and she owns at least one Mac.

Like come on. The refusal to drop a hundred bucks on something that is apparently so important to her reeks of good old fashioned stubbornness, or at worst, entitlement, but even then, she has a significant audience. Crowdfund it, cough up and stop whining.

Like I don't entirely agree with the $100/year model being the only option from Apple, but we're all paying that particular piper. Why is she so special that hers shouldn't be subject to the same?
Should have a Cash Out button where you sell to private equity and start over :)
how do you package an Electron app for MacOS for free?
I can't observe a bacterium without a microscope and I can describe all the material properties of a microscope.

I know a microscope exists. I can see it.
Here's some inside baseball:

I recently graduated from Stony Brook University where Jim Simons chaired the math department in the 1960s. He left to start Renaissance Technologies which is located 1 mile down the street from campus. Their influence is everywhere. We have a Simons Center for Geometry and Physics ($150m building). I take classes in Frey Hall (Robert Frey used be managing director at Rentec). Our med school is literally the "Renaissance School of Medicine." Our athletic facility is the Walter J. Hawrys Campus Recreation & Wellness Center (named after Jim's father in law). etc. etc.

Children of Renaissance employees come to campus on weekends to train for USAMO and play chess. I met Jim a couple of times at alumni events and what stood out is how humble and normal and down to earth he seemed. He is also a chain smoker and was lighting up indoors(!) but of course no one can say a word to him lol. He's been making >$1 billion a year for like the past 20 years. To put it in perspective: an average code monkey like me making $250k at a FAANG would have to work for FOUR THOUSAND YEARS to make how much he makes in a year. It's unreal.
Right, the engine unstarts were a common and expected problem, but the key is that I don't think they were in any way predictable, other than being limited to certain condition regimes that included basically everything except subsonic flight.

That would be a lot of unknown conditions to test for.
Also last I checked he didn't shoot at agents, he tried to set their (empty) cars on fire and was shot for refusing to disarm himself. This is technically arson, but different from the "he tried to burn down a building with people in it" narrative the authorities tried to push for a while.
Why not just use a sub query ??
It's funny that the article mentions that processors have not increase their speed, and therefore Moore's law is dead. In fact, as many people know Intel has been struggling with their 10nm chip, and now with a new CEO, this might change. All other processor manufacturers are catching up and some are moving ahead of Intel. That's the whole reason Apple is trying to move away from X86 with their MACs
How can I use Bel?