skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, in other words, "because Trump thinks it's ok, it's ok." You could have saved a lot of typing.

Everything you said is utterly preposterous. Physycists have failed to come up with a GUT for quite some time now. Should Jared be in charge of that as well? Perhaps Ivanka could do a university tour to shake things up a bit.

What progress have either of these two made on any front exactly? How's the experiment going, objectively? Because what I see is an almost completely ineffective foreign policy strategy and a bunch of appointees whose only real qualifications are being born to wealthy parents.
Looks very interesting. Though I would love to see a few sample simulations to get a better idea of what's possible...
What’s free mean when talking about markets exactly? Free from what?
While I can’t vouch for every org at my company, it sounds like you’re in a bad place and might benefit from switching orgs/companies.
The JVM programming advent calendar
The first 25 years of PlayStation
Curiously, what other products launched by any other company have had a similar effect as the iPhone.
just use depleted uranium
> formal training in critical thinking

thats an oxymoron
This is one for video nerds. From Demuxed in October 2019: "Three Roads to Jerusalem" about low latency live streaming. Incredibly well done by Will Law. Informative and entertaining.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/501523712
Definitely the latter. Bottom 5% of Harvard are likely legacies with little motivation - and unlikely to get into medical school.
> it's very difficult to assess a fair market price for death

Bean counters will manage it though, if asked.
Between species? (Some) kids may have occasionally blown up toads, if movies from the 80s are to be believed. But hurting any mammal or bird without a good reason earns you a trip to the psychologist (and police station if old enough). With animals, there obviously is a lot aggression. But I don't think "bullying" is necessarily the right term. It seems more like either predator/pray behaviour or fights to establish social hierarchy.

The latter obviously comes close to one definition of bullying. But bullying as you explain it, i. e. "because I can", seems rare. Which is also what evolution would suggest, since getting into useless fights is bound be net-negative: even if chances of winning are overwhelming, there is always some risk. Plus it's a waste of energy.

As a test I would suggest looking at solitary, herbivore animals with few natural competitors. Here's a capybara: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b1822fb258d0d6a4ce01db...
That's not a fair comparison because JAX does not really provide high-level libraries (and for ones it does, it introduces many more than those four functions). For example, there must be at least 4 different neural network libraries in JAX. (e.g., https://github.com/google/jax/blob/master/jax/experimental/s..., https://github.com/google/trax).
This is a repost. They can transmit one bit (rotate or don’t rotate) with about 85% accuracy. That’s not nothing, but it’s not that much either.
Cohousing/co living are good solutions to ongoing housing crisis in Ca. Best of luck to them!
>"That was jarring — three white people telling me I was racist,” she says.

I'm amused by the lack of self awareness of anyone who can say that.
The sales people will often give you discounts if you ask, or pretend that you might cancel :)
Capitalism is supposed to result in the highest good for the greatest number. In practice it's often more like "the cheapest, lowest quality we can get away with providing before you take your business elsewhere."
> As a result, the PS4 and Xbox One have PC hardware.

Does this mean the Xbox was pretty revolutionary for showing that you really can make a console with commodity hardware?
> K-12 educational systems across the world have lifted several billions out of poverty.

You can just as easily say "countries spend more on education as they become richer". The correlation goes both ways (and thats all it is, a correlation. Beware those who assume causation!).

I think its a little absurd to think that teaching geometry and Shakespeare to kids somehow will magically lift them all out of poverty.
One suggestion: go with the PDF and not the web page. Grab a comfy recliner and just tune out for a while. The difference between the layouts of the magazine article and the webpage are atrocious. Shows you what we've lost in this modern age :(

I'll buy his book. It will go along with many others I've accumulated from that era, such as a 'A Short History of Nuclear Folly'. Atom bombs and planes is what that time was all about, for me.
Read the recomendad schedule by WHO in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Schedule

* For countries with endemic: case use a few doses of the oral vaccine (that is more powerful) and at least one dose of the injectable version.

* For countries without recent cases an a good vaccination coverage: A few injectable doses and later a few oral doses

* For countries with very good coverage and low risk of imported cases: Use only the injectable version (that don't cause vaccine derived infections)

When your country gets no case for a long enough time and you get a better vaccine coverage, you can "upgrade" the vaccination schedule.

(We changed the vaccination schedule a few years ago here in Argentina. Now it is injectable-injectable-oral-oral-oral.)
Your comment was dead from flags. I believe it’s against the guidelines to complain about downvotes, and it also invites pile-ons.
Could you expand a little on how you're doing that?

I've been thinking about transitioning entirely to sqlite for all my data.
No. It might be a problem for real-time systems, which are a subset. For example, storage systems would do fine.
Perhaps more egregiously, using a VPN gets you auto-banned from some Battlefield 4 servers. D:
Regulatory capture I'd guess.
Indeed.

I'm not close to product development anymore in my dayjob but when I was I used to be very product focused, often even more so than the product managers I've worked with.

There often was no spec, no clear vision, and definitely a lack of understanding of the product details. So, when you are an engineer who cares about the product/company what do you do?
You fill in the blanks, you do the scoping, you do the project management, you write the documents to explain everything to other teams. And of course during that time you engage with the product manager to get signoff.

In the end though you are doing a lot more in total and a lot more work the product manager should have been doing. And it's not easy because you come to other teams/stakeholder from a position of less influence than a product manager. In the end it's still the product manager who reaps a lot of the reward and ownership for the product.

The benefits of the product focused engineer for product managers and the company are obvious but what are the benefits for the engineers? Do they get more compensation? The article mentions they get to become team leads eventually, but it's not a given that product focused engineers want that.
Thanks for providing the actual explanation. There are (currently) four other comments with useless everything-used-to-be-better-cynicism, which make me pine for the web of yore, when more than 1 in 4 comments brought expertise and not faux-nostalgia.
Sure. And it’s literally impossible to do so when one of those people is effectively beyond any consequence for anything that they do.

Peasants don’t get to shake hands with barons. Ours have a legal system to (sometimes, not always) even things out just a little, though.
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Thanks for these writeups. This is a very inspiring project.
Not necessarily. There have been real-world operating systems that employed garbage collectors (e.g., Oberon, Genera).
Getting into Stanford is only a small degree of luck. It's only luck if you otherwise fit the profile and were passed over for more trivial reasons. It's really not a lottery.
Yes, it's often the time to fork and take over. But it's a big project in itself, not everyone wants to be the new developer-in-chief.

Sometimes, a project can stay at the borderline of death and alive - there still can be minimum maintenance by a not-so-active developer, major distributions still have packages for it, etc. I recently sent a patch to a project - it took 11 months, but it was eventually merged when a developer with commit access finally noticed it. There was no motivation for me to fork it since all I wanted to merge was a simple fix, I was not planning to take over the project.
Predicting History [pdf]
> Does luck play an equally large factor?

There are some startups that only succeed due to luck, and some startups that only fail due to luck, but most startups aren't in either category.

For the most part if your startup idea requires something like Oprah endorsing it in order for you to succeed, then it's by definition a bad idea.
It's also not really any better than tapping your card against the reader, which is what most people in UK do.
From my understanding lean came out of Japan, so some language seeped in.

I like to use it because sadly in-the-field has negative connations to a lot of software engineers from being deployed on site via white hot angry customer escalation.

Tldr; Genba's got no ptsd!
Last I was told - removing the avx hard requirement is on the roadmap.

This Intel SDE emulator took care of issues I ran into on an older laptop running shakti release circa ~ September:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-dev...
First and foremost, don't worry about not getting into <insert elite college or university>. The admissions process is not fair, and in fact, it's unfair is well documented in a couple of court cases. (See Student's for Fair Admission court case docs [1] Your admissions decision is not a reflection of you as a person.

Next, I wouldn't really draw comparisons between success and failure in starts ups and academic institutions, as success in getting into a school is really arbitrary, where the start up success is not some limited resource decided by a panel of admissions officers. In my experience, as an employee of multiple start up projects and companies, start ups are as much of a lottery game, and I've seen unfair and unjust things happen to other people, and experience them myself.

On a personal note, you will deal with failure, and bad things will happen to you that make you feel bad. This is life. You can give up, or decide to keep pushing forward closer to your goals with minimal delay and resentment. There are a couple of useful philosophies for dealing with this, and I've found Stoicism very helpful for managing these situations. (See Marcus Aurelius's Mediations for a good intro [2]).

[1] https://studentsforfairadmissions.org/sffa-files-motion-for-...
[2] http://seinfeld.co/library/meditations.pdf
Luck is a factor. With knowledge, skill, preparation, learning from experimentation... you get better at pitching.
> Why does the article only talk about corporate sloppiness but not personal misbehavior?

Because asking people to be nice won't scale as well as getting a bank to behave.

On the up side, I the end it all worked out. Had this been some internet account screw up recourse would have been harder.
That's the whole point, legally the payment is explicitly considered "executed correctly" if it's credited acording to the account numbers (and not the names or addresses) provided by the originator; possibly (but I'm speculating) to avoid a nontrivial number of rejected payments because of typos and variations of spellings for company names.

Actually, pretty much all relevant law for this thing is on this single page - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/752/regulation/90/ma... (with some additional info at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/752/regulation/83/ma... stating that the payer can't simply revoke the payment)

The other account was the unique account matching the account number + sort code (this combination is presumably what Barclays deems the 'unique account number') - so that's "executed correctly" according to "Where a payment order is executed in accordance with the unique identifier, the payment order is deemed to have been correctly executed by each payment service provider involved in executing the payment order with respect to the payee specified by the unique identifier."

The payer had also specified the name and address, but the law explicitly states that the bank is not liable for mismatches of the name or address, it's only required to execute it according to the account number. "(5) Where the payment service user provides information additional to that specified in regulation 43(2)(a) (information required prior to the conclusion of a single payment service contract) or paragraph 2(b) of Schedule 4 (prior general information for framework contracts), the payment service provider is liable only for the execution of payment transactions in accordance with the unique identifier provided by the payment service user. " is quite a mouthful but it essentially says that even if you provided extra information, that information can be ignored.

However, the article implies that Barclays did not fulfil their requirements of "(3) The payee’s payment service provider must co-operate with the payer’s payment service provider in its efforts to recover the funds, in particular by providing to the payer’s payment service provider all relevant information for the collection of funds." which does seem to require them provide sufficient information to sue the mistaken recipient to return the money.
Well since they aren't just trying to determine if people got rich at some point in time but only looking for public accolades, this is a self-fulfilling outcome

I'll add it to the gradient of life, but I'm more interested in socioeconomic movement
Everything until 12 was something that I could sort of get without knowing Go, and then the difficulty magically jumped (which is subjective, but still).
Who need to draw if you have a banana?
this study isn't gauging wealth at all. which I think is refreshing, but limiting. and I think it also highlights how we are trained that "success" is some arbitrary form of linear or exponential wealth advancement that is assumed to be permanent
This is something I would expect a freshman CS major to be able to solve.

It only requires knowledge of looping, conditionals, and how to work with strings in your language (e.g, indexing, finding length, maybe substrings, etc.).

This is like a less insulting version of fizzbuzz.

People are way overcomplicating this. Any professional programmer could solve this.
Has anyone seen similar benchmarks, but with BLIS? OpenBLAS is interesting, but BLIS would possibly perform better.
This isn't fair to tests. They are actually far more fair and objective than BigCo promo processes. You can't fake doing a variety of hard math questions the way you can move up the ladder due things like nepotism.
One important thing to understand about fundamental investing: most fund managers can't outperform the index the way they manage money, and so the business model is lever up on beta, hope to catch heat (close fund down and reopen until you do), take the fees, and then repeat in the next cycle after it blows up...and that is if the manager is actually trying. Skilled management doesn't really work as a business (without luck).

So it is actually very rare. I have probably come across less than 10 managers who are +EV, and the majority don't manage any public money (again, economics of the business).

But it is straightforward: are they doing actual research (the majority of fund managers don't)? Are they turning over their portfolio frequently? Do they say dumb shit (i.e. constantly use buzzwords)? It isn't magic.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but here we go. It depends on how you define "startup". There are two common definitions, and people confuse them all the time and don't make clear what they are talking about. 1. A VC-backed company whose primary goal is exponential growth with a small chance of an outsized return. 2. A profitable business.

If your goal is to do the first, then luck will play a large role. That's why VCs have portfolios of companies. It's nearly impossible to make predictions about which startups succeed, but if one of their companies does, they win (note that they don't care if it's your company or not). As a result, VCs push their companies and founders towards making risky bets. Those bets involve a large amount of uncertainty and randomness. You either win big, or you lose.

If your goal is to build a profitable business not focused on exponential growth or VC-sized returns, then luck plays a smaller role. That's because you are not forced to make those large risky bets. You can take more calculated risks with slower growth while focusing on profitability. If you win, you are not going to win as big as in the first case, but your chance of winning in some way is higher. Of course, there is always uncertainty in life.

Note that I've focused on financial returns, which may not be what you (should) care about. For example, your chance to fail is high in the first case, but you since you are involved with more "successful" people you will likely learn and build a network along the way that can set up you for future success. You are more likely to "succeed" in the second case, but you may not build much of a network or stretch yourself. Similar arguments in the other direction can be made for mental health or stress levels.

I recommend reading "Fooled By Randomess" [1] on the topic of chance

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Marke...
> Internet providers use government regulations, not available market forces, to keep out competitors.

High initial investment cost have totally no role to play at that. Or landlords allowing only a single ISP [0]... that's just part of the market... you can always move, after all. But no, dysfunctional markets must be because of government regulation, since markets are so great that there are no other form of market failures.

Sorry, but equating regulatory capture with "government regulations" kind of triggers me. Companies obviously will use everything possible to their advantage. Including dysfunctional governments. At that point, fixing your gov might be the more important issue...

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/fcc-siding-landlords-a...
I think I blame Google, because it was started by a couple of graduate students.

I don't know how it was at Stanford, but at Berkeley in Physics there was a series of big honking tests ("Qualifying Exams") that dominated our attention the first two years. You were expected to know all of undergraduate Physics. Fail it, and you're out.

Grad students don't know any better. "How do we hire the best people? I know - they'll have to pass a big hard test, just like we did."

Then everyone else goes, "How do we hire the best people? I know - we'll do it like Google does, they seem pretty successful."

Ugh.

No, I don't know that it really went like that. I just suspect it.
"Impactful" individuals are those that impact society "e.g., full professors at research-intensive universities, Fortune 500 executives, distinguished judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers".

"stealth wealth" is not impact.
I agree agriculture is possible in some form. That's why I think the real blocker is combustion. Is there any other kind of chemical reaction that can generate energy that can be harnessed and that works underwater?
One of the best physics tests that I took was one where each question has a sense of progression. So the first part laid out a fundamental law of physics and the question was to prove something using it. Then using the result from that the problem was tweaked in a few ways for a few more questions until you were far removed from the original concept but could still explain why and how something worked.

To take your gravity example, the first question might be something about calculating gravitational force on the ISS. Then explain that it's rotating in space and therefore has centripetal force that accounts for this gravity. Then compute how fast it must be rotating. And from there you can switch to a completely different topic in the same context. Maybe something about EM radiation from the Sun that falls on the space station.
How Artists on Twitter Tricked T-Shirt Stores to Admit Their Automated Art Theft
As a PM I would agree that some of these traits are really able to increase team effectiveness. For example, just in a recent project, we saved weeks of work after asking the developer to be more upfront about tradeoffs.

However a big, big caveat on #1 "proactive with ideas/opinions" and #3 "curiosity and keen interest in 'why'". These are also traits of a different kind of engineer — the opinionated one with poor product insights and who isn't interested in feedback and constantly derails the team by sharing their thoughts on what we should and shouldn't do.

Of course I prefer working with an engineer with product opinions and who asks why than one who doesn't, but if you're an engineer who's looking at this article and thinking "oh, this says I should start blurting my opinions out about the product more often and asking people why they are doing things the way they are", well that doesn't work well. To be really efficient I think you need to look at it more as "I should share and be curious about whether my insights on product and strategy are valuable to the team", then listen to the feedback about it.
The US formalism and legal system around public education specifically calls out its purpose for creating nationally aligned citizenship.

For example a few years ago Colorado proposed to educate High Schoolers using a textbook that highlights morally questionable aspects of American history from the perspective of "The Left" (Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"), it was rejected by the courts on the grounds it would not accomplish the required purpose of creating nationally aligned citizens, crucially NOT because it wasn't a good textbook for teaching history.
I hope not. He/she might be trying to lure you in with an interesting comment but next thing you know you're upside down, immobile, and suffocating.
Does stealing baffle you similarly?
When the other side of the story is Ladar saying he hired a lawyer and the prosecution characterized it as an act of defiance.. then character attacks on both sides lose their value.

He turned over the keys on paper because that's all he had access to in the 3 hours he had to provide it.

https://youtu.be/g_lN-RAfzRQ?t=4485 Timestamp for the paper keys.

There is way more detail that shows he was put in extremely difficult situations and his ability to respond to quite a few legal mechanisms was severely limited by compressed timeframes and legal actions been done in parallel and out of sight.

The whole talk linked goes through a lot of it in detail, if you want to take the Wiki's story do.. but it's not the whole story in any sense of the word.

https://youtu.be/g_lN-RAfzRQ?t=5754 Timestamp for a Q&A question that asks specifically about the paper keys and he goes in to much more detail.