skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luck matters a lot, as with anything in life. But the better you are, the less it matters.

If you are some super precocious young scientist who had already developed a novel drug, Stanford would be calling you.

If you show investors a killer product and early traction, it doesn’t really matter who you are, they will be knocking on your door.

Now obviously its not easy to do either one of those things. And most of us are somewhere underneath those very high bars, so luck does matter. Getting into a good undergrad, getting into YC. I won’t lie. In my experience, these things have helped me immensely. But optimizing for them is like studying for the test, not for actual learning.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, worrying about luck, Stanford, YC is all misguided effort. Start a business, succeed, fail, learn, start again. This is what will actually get you closer to your goal. This is what will get you good enough so that the whims of luck won’t make or break you.
Phil Tetlock: Intuition and noise reduction in judgement
> The PS3 shader compiler infamously had a random search for an optimizer, and Sony's recommendation was to just run it continually with different random seed inputs in hopes it found a better optimization for your shader.

Sounds like machine learning with linear regression.
Unfortunately Europe doesn't have that many great tech options depending on where you live...
Any adventure you embark on will involve some degree of luck. However, You not getting into Stanford isn't because you weren't lucky. It´s because you didn't have the connections, the money, the reputation, the scores, the will, the intellect or any of 100 different reasons. Don´t blame it all on luck just because that absolves you of the responsibility.

As someone who has exited multiple startups let me tell you first hand that startups are what you make them out to be. The success of a startup however, while there are some large factors that are outside of your control, is mostly a function of how hard working and smart you are. You need to make the right decisions and work hard for a long time toward a vision that you believe in. Meanwhile being a student requires you to be somewhat good at bullshitting and maintaining a body temperature somewhere in the 30s (and for the students out there, dont get butt-hurt by this comment, it´s literally true).

That said, you have to understand that startups are not for everyone. The best advice I can give you is to go out and work for a startup for a year or two and gain some experience. Additionally get close to the CEO and have him mentor you until you understand what it takes to run a company of that size. You might find that running the show isn't really for you, and there is no shame in that. Meanwhile, save all the cash you can because you will need every dollar once you eventually start your own thing if you decide to do so. It may take months or years until the money makes it in so you want to save up as much as possible and use those savings when the time is right.
Brilliant, but I wonder now that we know how filesystems work if we could redesign ceph to do the right thing. For instance a lot of work was made to schedule the important writes at the right time. Perhaps they could have handled these latency issues explicitly.
The problem is, what are you actually verifying? Mostly memorization and test taking strategies. Wasn’t there just a thread complaining that whiteboard coding interviews are nonsense? It’s the same thing.

“Some sort” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Some kind of assessment - yes, of course. But for example, consider a portfolio of work & a written evaluation vs a multiple choice exam. The latter is definitely easier, faster, and gives you a metric to print, but which is more valuable for the student? Which better demonstrates what you’ve learned?

NB: obviously this is to an extent domain specific. I’m not talking about med school, and I don’t care about your evolving perspective on whether 2+2 equals 4, I just need to know whether you can add.
High bandwidth and high latency...
The amount that banks restrict osko to varies. For me it's $2k/day.
What specific evidence implies that increased creativity would lead to instability?
I thought some of the incorrect captions were quite poignant!

I am still wondering if someone had a hand in that.
This, I've gotten pretty fed up with my current company because management just hands out work with no real explanation. Even more frustrating is that any significant technical design work is done in closed door meetings where the only people invited are development and product managers.

I've stopped giving feedback and I'm nearly at a point where I've stopped being interested. It frees up my mind and motivates me to work on my own projects on nights and weekends so I can actually have a say.
I am sorry to play the devil's advocate but aren't you one of those with their own agenda's too? It's just matter of perspective how to judge yourself vs others, and putting yourself into the `good guys` camp seems biased to me.
>It was fantastic teaching my fellow classmates and a ton of fun to boot.

I think this is as important a point as any. Children are naturally curious. The Socratic Method of learning is all about building on that curiosity to constantly ask (and answer) questions. Learning in this way allows children to exploit their natural curiosity and find their intellectual niche in a fun and fruitful way, rather than boring them to death with rote instruction that is little more than a memorization lesson.
Here are some actual benchmarks comparing Python (with pandas/numpy) vs k (aka q/kdb+). It seems k is orders of magnitude more performant - without applying any no brainer optimizations/indexing:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/data-analysis-example-python-...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lists-python-q-side-by-side-f...
American heroes regularly cycle between hero and goat decade by decade.

Edison is currently the goat and Tesla has been elevated to heroic status rather recently. I expect things to reverse in another 10 years or so.

As for the elephant thing, I find it highly abhorrent that anyone could do such a thing. But keep in mind that the only reason Edison could have done it at the time is if common attitudes at the time allowed it. It is a lot unfair to judge people by standards that become ascendant 100 years later.
Okay, I was mistaken there, that seems to be country-specific; and according to http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/752/regulation/90/ma... they should have disclosed the contact info (or sufficient information to sue) at the payer's request. That would have prevented the need for the first (but not the second) lawsuit.
I think the best way to foster critical thinking skills is to personally encounter hypocrisy practiced by those who speak from authority.
An expert debater could win either side of the argument. But in this case my father chose the side he believed in.
What's to say? I mean where to begin? Curious to hear more, maybe about how they get back online after such an incident. 100 offices could be rebuilt in a weekend if you have someone capable at each site.
The public high schools in my locale use that textbook.
I don't understand. In NPV, the marginal voter is any voter, in any state. Or, to put it another way, every voter for the winning side is the marginal voter. You don't pander to a particular geography, you pander to the electorate as a whole, because that's whose votes count.
> It is already known that white sharks flee whenever one of their own is killed by anything

But white sharks fight each other, kill each other and even eat each other on occasion. We know that white sharks fetuses cannibalize each other in the womb. How could they do that if white shark blood scares them off? Also, is there really a difference in smell between white sharks and other sharks, seals, etc?

This is such an easy thing to test. Has anyone taken white shark blood and tested it on white sharks ( captive or wild )? Also, does this only work on white sharks? Do tiger sharks, nurse sharks and other sharks fear blood of their own species?

Finally, white sharks are scavengers as well as hunters ( like most predators ). As far as I know, every scavenger will cannibalize when given the chance. Are white sharks the exception?

Also, most animals flee when they see, smell or hear a predator. So I think it's most likely that white sharks flee when they sense a potential predator.

If truly shark blood scares off sharks, then coast guards should dump some shark blood near beaches where sharks frequent.
I can confirm pretty much all of that from my own research, with most of those topics / technologies at least touched on at https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius

The fact of peak US aviation fuel surprised the heck out of me when I stumbled across it.

I'm holding out hopes for wind/solar feeding F-T for at least some liquid fuels production.
they do use it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OopRMUYiY5E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i7ew3XXb7Q
Ignore the stealth wealth part. I think many "eminent" individuals would also not want to draw unnecessary attention to themselves.
Thanks! I completely misunderstood what the commentator I replied to was saying. Not understanding how to solve it well I assumed they were referring the first option with loops and tests that popped into my head: make every one-edit possible and see if it's one of them.
Other entries would be USS Benevolence [0] in 1950, USS Hobson (DMS 26) [1] in 1952, USNS Mission San Francisco (T-AO-123) [2] in 1957, USNS Mission San Miguel (T-AO-129) [3] in 1957, USS Stickleback (SS-415) [4] in 1958, USS Grouse (AMS-15) [5] in 1963, USS Bache (DD-470) [6] in 1968, USS Frank E Evans (DD 754) [7] in 1969, USNS Sgt. Jack J. Pendleton (T-AKV-5) [8] in 1973 and USS La Moure County (LST-1194) [9] in 2000.

But I think that's the rest of the noncombat, post-1950 losses. Lots of support ships, DDs and a single sub.

And thanks for the mention of the USS Guardian - I had no idea the USN still operated wooden-framed ships!

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Benevolence

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hobson_(DD-464)

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

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Mission_San_Miguel

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stickleback_(SS-415)

5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Grouse_(AMS-15)

6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bache_(DD-470)

7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Frank_E._Evans

8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Sgt._Jack_J._Pendleton_(T...

9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_La_Moure_County_(LST-1194)
It is funny to watch you struggle with this (maybe this is why you don't see). He specifically said that wasn't what they were doing (and said it was often simple linear regression with one or two variables), they used no complicated techniques (he even pointed out that people assume that must be true...but it isn't), and that what they did was a combination of good analytical work/hiring. Btw, this is also quite obvious from reading Zuckerman's book.

I understand why almost no-one gets it. And that is why firms like RenTech are able to print money. I actually do work like this in a similar field, and everyone assumes you have some kind of secret algo that is the product of some unpublished, very complex work (these days, usually deep/reinforcement learning). But the reality is doing the simple stuff well and using that to build a deep understanding of the data. I suppose that is less fun for researchers who want to publish flashy stuff about deep learning and write lots of equations on whiteboards...but I prefer the money.
Why is the UK always in such a mess?
And why not use control digit / check sum in the account number like every other western country?
"The IPV that has been used in the United States since 1987 is as effective as OPV for preventing polio"

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/public/index.html

"Unfortunately, IPV costs considerably more than OPV per dose ($3-5 vs $0.12 on the subsidized world market). Because the WHO and most countries have plans to continue vaccination for at least 10 years after eradication, there will continue to be a market for the vaccine. Because of the high cost of the IPV, efforts are underway to derive improved and less expensive IPV vaccines."

http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R44-AI120260-02

"One hundred twenty-six low- and middle Income countries will start to use IPV, which is injected, in a single dose, in addition to the oral polio vaccine (OPV). OPV will gradually be phased out, based on certain epidemiologic triggers.

The previous price was a major barrier to making this shift. The shift is needed because, for eradication to occur, the polio virus needs to be gone from people, labs, sewage, etc. – i.e. the places in which vaccine-derived polio virus can survive, mutate and cause disease. IPV is ‘inactivated’, and does not carry risk of polio infection to people who are not vaccinated."

https://blogs.unicef.org/blog/lowest-ever-prices-for-polio-v...

The WHO only recommends OPV because of the low cost.
I see what you're both getting at and to me it's a case of the life you want to live.

Ego isn't going away any time soon, and you will never know anyone who has renounced their ego, because only ego wants you to share that.

Competition can be a lot of fun, so that's ok. As long as it's not driven by jealousy or envy.

Greed - we all have psychological impulses that make us think that one thing is not enough and we need more of it. Most of us do that now through our careers. Including me, I'm still pushing for the bigger paycheck.

Greed and ego can easily be symptomatic of unstoppable freedom and passion. We sometimes call that perfectionism and it's a curse.

All in all, it's not as simple as it looks unless your ego tells you that it's actually that simple for you. In which case...
In some places, it is!

When I was in college, someone kept leaving their car in our driveway, in a spot we had rented to a now-irate third party. The police wouldn’t tow it, but a friendly cop clued me into the procedure for claiming “abandoned” property.

I filled out some paperwork, paid a $10 fee, and the cop came back with some giant “abandoned?!” stickers that he pasted all over the car. If no one called the number on the stickers within 72 hours, the car would be mine.

Alas, at hour 70, a woman came out and started furiously scrubbing away the stickers, so I just missed getting a car. On the plus side, she never parked there again and the rent money from the parking spot covered our cable and propane bill until we moved out.
I remember them pushing the idea the Cell would be used everywhere. At a game conference the brought out an engineer talking about how the Cell would be used in everything...like refrigerators...and then the price for the PS3 was $600 USD...

Meanwhile off the shelf hardware is cheap and has support from developers. And any kind of enhancement to consumer products involves cheap hardware to keep costs down.

I couldn't help but wonder if it wasn't a functional and yet a bit of a corporate vanity project that had missed the boat and had nonsensical ambitions.
I prototyped some physics modeling on the Cell BE. Having Linux on it was a huge help, but it definitely was an odd beast to program for.

One thing that made it practical to work with was that we could install Linux on a PS3.

When Sony retroactively killed the ability to install Linux, they did more than make PS3 irrelevant to supercomputing. They made me deeply skeptical of relying on a technology with a single-vendor gatekeeper.
Imagine how much control Tencent (company behind WeChat) could have over someone's life in such a system. If you live in China and your account gets closed, tough luck.
I confess I too was once a diehard Tesla fanboy. It was only after reading T.P. Hughes “The Electrification of America: The System Builders“[1] that I came to appreciate the accomplishments of Edison and the unfairness of the pervasive one-sided boosterism for team Tesla.

Both men were genius. It’s my own opinion that there is more to learn from the life of Edison and the work of Tesla than the other way round.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/3103115
Simulation... of what?

"General purpose simulation" doesn't really make sense to me as a concept, unless maybe there is some other meaning of the word simulation that is meant here?
Agreed. Epistemology in the abstract without concrete examples of how it has gone right/wrong is a dubiously useful tool.

I've found history to be hepful for better understanding what makes good and bad ways of knowing things.

Unfortunately our public school system wastes its history curriculum on spinning fairy tales. It took years of reading serious history books to deprogram myself. I see the same thing being done to my kid.
It does. What if in worst case scenario, you on on hook for something like alimony or fine payment, your accounts are being garnished, n now this unexpected money is also used for those payments??
AMD Announces Mini-PCS with Ryzen Embedded Processors
For the sake of the environment and not throwing away hundreds of thousands of perfectly functional computers I hope they will change that situation. If nothing else, it's going to be a hacker's dream to play with such a unique chipset. It shouldn't die out.

I'd love to poke into it myself. The only barrier is the language you have to use to speak with it.
To give you an idea, here are some benchmarks comparing Python (with pandas/numpy) vs k (aka q/kdb+).

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/data-analysis-example-python-...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lists-python-q-side-by-side-f...

I think that software history page is meant to convey general workloads achievable, rather than performance.

-(not the author of the benchmarks nor an employee of shakti FWIW)
I'm not going to watch the entire talk. Just listening at the timestamp you provided, I think he confirms my characterization. He states that technically the government never specified how they wanted the keys, so he could hand them over however he wanted even if the format he provided was extremely hard to make use of. This isn't how the law works. Him saying that he thought up some clever trick, and not that his lawyer proposed a clever trick, is also a massive red flag.

The document up on the screen in the video says he had 24 hours. That's enough time to type up an encryption key, if the printout was actually readable.

Can you provide a cite for hiring a lawyer being characterized as an act of defiance? My assumption, given no further information, is that he didn't hire a normal lawyer in a normal fashion if that happened. Many things are unfair about the US legal system, I have never heard being penalized for having a lawyer being one of them.
To further support your view of the elephant debacle, I offer the treatment of Murderous Mary:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(elephant)
The article says they’d like to include BLIS in the benchmark, but nobody has written a good Numpy Conda package with BLIS hooks yet
Eminent means famous.
You expect a (good) product manager to be reasonably technically competent so that they can carry a conversation with business/customers without having to go back to engineering every time to ask "Is this possible?".

Similarly, you can expect a software engineer to be somewhat product competent so they can push back on bad ideas, proactively suggest better ways of doing things, and even connect the business dots and propose entire classes of new features that the PM maybe didn't even realise were possible / within reach.

It's not two roles in one, it's not working 16 hours / day, it's just having the right mix of experience and intuition such that you're still primarily an engineer but you help guide the product.
How+to+Make+Money+Blogging+in+2019-+The+Unique+Ultimate+Hack
Low-overhead wrappers using Kotlin's inline classes
The latest version of PHP comes with FFI, so I suspect that's coming :)
For your #1 example, there is now the details and summary element that accomplish this too.
U.S. airlines carry more passengers, jet fuel use remains below its peak (2017)
As someone who has majored in English, I strongly disagree. You don’t need to understand the subject matter to make rudimentary assessments of validity. People who study the humanities learn to ask questions like, does the author seem to have a bias? Are some obvious questions not being raised by the text? Does the author contradict themselves?

You might not be able to definitively state that the author is being disingenuous, or is a shill, but you can learn to explicitly state where certain narratives are weakly supported. Most people can’t do this. They tend to accept all texts as authoritative.
Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution
I suppose there are multiple measures of environmental-friendly. I would guess that the ps3 offer pretty bad flops per Watt compared to newer hardware.
And how has that worked in the past?

AOL/TimeWarner

General Electric/Universal/Synchrony Bank

AT&T/DirecTV

Google/Motorola

....
Why would many people complain if they were not affected? That seems like an odd conspiracy theory.
Both are nice to have but ultimately irrelevant to your success in life. Means nothing in the long run. Just do you.

And work to get to a level of accomplishment where you don't need to worry about getting accepted / funded.

Successful graduate of an "elite" university. With a wife from a state school who kicked his ass financially before we got hitched... (just saying)
This is not an idea I just dreamed up. It works and is in practice around the world.

For a successful example, look to the Canada Line in Vancouver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Line
Bangladesh is not the only country with a culture!
It's unfair to judge them exceptionally when comparing among the range people and views of that earlier age, or to hide behind supposed earlier universal standards which often turn out to have been anything but. In the pantheon of world history it is perfectly reasonable to judge, question and doubt. Plenty of people of those ages found such things abhorrent and banded together to end child labour, animal mistreatment and slavery among countless other horrible behaviours. After all that is how we got our hopefully better and more enlightened standards today. The ASPCA was formed in the mid 19th century after the RSPCA was formed in the early 19th.

It also allows us to go further back to more brutal, death ridden times and understand there probably was little place

So it's perfectly OK to pour scorn and revulsion on Edison, and judge him and his peers for electrocuting elephants and family pets, whilst acknowledging Franklin appears to have learnt from and been deeply affected by his (eventually successful) attempt at turkey electrocution.
In addition to Linode, Vultr, OVH, there are some local home grown "equivalents" Binarylane and Quantum Core, they both have a presence in Sydney, with the former having locations in other cities in AU, BNE, MEL, PER.
In home. Wife has a lot of movies, and it's just to avoid having to walk to the movie closet and search through stacks on stacks of DVDs. Not doing any high seas or movie sharing. Just convenience and a fun project.

Also a prime example of a "downtime not a big deal" project. If it breaks, we just go back to the movie closet, and its no less convenient than how we used to do things (or just watch actual Netflix).
Do they have a bug bounty program?
Require Is an Anti-Pattern
Yeah, the problem seems to be more about short-term thinking. So then, why are shareholders becoming so short-sighted?

My theory is the increased abstraction between shareholders and actual businesses is to blame. Having patience for long-term thinking by a company means understanding the business, seeing why they're doing what they're doing, looking at the long-game for how things will work out in the end. More and more it seems like shareholders just want to play the market; buy low and sell high with little interest in getting their hands dirty with the business itself.