skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true at all! There are many instances of managed portfolios greatly outperforming index funds. There are also examples of them greatly under performing. The crux is picking the right one - which is similar to the point you are making but not the same.
Wow interesting. There seems to be more and more evidence that orcas, dolphins, and octopuses are very intelligent.

I wonder if one of them would achieve human-like intelligence if they evolved for a billion more years. I would bet on it.

And then they would probably multiply without control, and kill off all their competitors.

On land, humans have done that. Although elephants are very intelligent, we're the smarter than them and outnumber them and all other animals by a large margin. We live on nearly every part of the earth.

It would be interesting/weird if the sea filled up with one large, intelligent animal that lived everywhere.
A combination of word if mouth and eventually targeted business development activities (not sales, but business development).

To make it easier to charge more you have to go after customers who are less price sensitive, whose problems are costing them a lot of money, and who are accustom to acquiring outside help for things outside what they consider to be their core business & expertise.

In my case this was big enterprises. Nationwide law firms, banking & fin. tech. institutions, international distribution & logistics companies, etc.

It took a long time to build up to that point and to get access to those parts of the market. The way it worked for me was, early-on, I'd be doing smaller jobs for big companies. Sometimes with another vendor as an intermediary. So, I might work with Boeing or Lockheed indirectly, but I was fastidious about establishing direct personal relationships. Once I hit the media & marketing world, it was the same pattern. Work through an existing vendor of say Pepsi or Nike, and then make direct personal relationships that could grow later for their adjacent or orthogonal needs.

Eventually you have enough contacts and enough of a reputation that you don't need to leverage the credibility of intermediaries anymore.

I don't know that such a path would work for everyone for all kinds of work (everything I ever did was kind of esoteric for its time), but that's what worked for me.
That's definitely possible. But it's also possible no one would have spent the time to come up with the idea if they knew someone else could build on their work and release the same thing for cheaper.

I don't know which is true, although I have suspicions, and unless you've revolutionized the discipline of economics (and decided to inform the world in Internet comments) your certainty is unwarranted. You could have at least acknowledged that counterarguments to your thesis exist.
Yes but if Nasdaq's total market cap is $30 trillion, that's about $750 billion per algorithm. Surely we need more algorithms.
As soon as AI works we call it an algorithm. AI gets used as a hype word for something that doesn't work yet.
How to know if you've been hacked
Most UK IBANs can be trivially derived from the sort code and account.

I have some accounts where the sort code and account are not directly embedded in the IBAN. So for those possibly there is a mapping table one could refer to.
Isn't light-years a unit of distance and not time ?
Seems like you pretty much contrast:

[1] SRS flashcard apps as an exclusive language learning system

[2] Extensive reading

While (2) is clearly better if those are your only choices, as you point out yourself SRS can easily be integrated into other curriculum or used as a supplemental tool. I'm not sure how many languages deep you are but I find getting through the first 1000-3000 words a real slog in the language and it is also quite hard to read in a language when you are at sub-3000 words unless you are reading especially prepared texts in a textbook for language learners.

My preferred method is to do the basic grammar of a language and first 2000 words as quickly as possible with a cram method and then work on speaking and transitioning from passive to active vocabulary. SRS is a nice tool, esp. if the SRS tool you are using also has included sentences in context (I mostly use learnwitholiver.com). Then usually I work to train for the state run test of the language that I'm studying at a reasonably high level.
Keynes foresaw the chaos that would follow from the Versailles peace treaty
> It's because he doesn't believe getting into YC is the achievement.

But so much of YC felt (and probably does more so now) like you're being judged all the time. Which makes total sense to me, because seeking prestige is so fundamental to human nature. That co-evolved with social cooperation in a virtuous cycle.

If pg really believed what he wrote in this essay, YC would be structured very differently. The moment pg allowed some companies/founders to have better access to him than others, or the moment he talked about how some founders are better than others, he implicitly set up a criteria for judging founders and their companies. And people will always naturally feel envy and try to hack that criteria. But a precondition for doing good original work is not feeling judged. So he should have gone on a crusade to completely eliminate all forms of favoritism if he wanted to maximize the odds of success for a modal company. But that's not what he actually ended up doing. At all.

Now the question is, is the essay wrong or is the YC structure/culture wrong. If I were a betting man, I'd put all my money on the former every single time, and I think I'd never come lose that bet once.
space and time are the same thing
This post glosses over something important, which is that many college classes don't assign most of your grade based on tests. In Stanford's CS 229 Machine Learning class (which I am TAing right now), 20% of the grade is the midterm, 40% is HW, and 40% is a big project that students do throughout the quarter (and for which they get to decide the problem, approach, and most anything with just feedback and guidance from TAs). In my experience, "In practice, the phrase "studying for a test" was almost redundant, because that was when one really studied." is absolutely false, because studying also happened when doing assignments and projects. Of course one could cheat if they just cared about the grade, but I did not because I don't think most smart people really only care about grades, it feels bad to cheat.

So TLDR is, I dont think the situation is so bad, because grades are not only a function of tests but also assignments and projects. I think the deeper issue is that people learn to be told how to learn (which assignments or projects to do), and not taught how to learn by themselves. There are exceptions (at Stanford a ton of CS classes have projects where the students map out the problem and solution themselves), but I think this is pretty important too.
Major media, journalists, public figures, indeed entire academic fields of study make a habit of talking about the "evils of white people" and demeaning and criticizing people for being "white" and "whiteness" and other such nonsense, without a hint of protest from the same people who would - rightly - foam at the mouth in anger if similar things were said about other groups.

"White people" are the only group it is socially acceptable to be racist towards.
Fair enough!

I heed your warning!
Blood has been shown to oxygenate when passing in contact with semi permeable membrane with oxygen rich environment on the other side
"Host your own" isn't about simplicity or cost necessarily. For me, it's about controlling data.

I have my own media server, because when netflix removes friends, ill still be able to watch it. sure that means i have to buy the box set of friends for like 100$, which is 10 months of netflix into a single show. but i never have to worry about that going away. I'd rather have a raspberry pi with a webcam with motionEye letting me monitor my house than feeding private data into a company a dont trust.

This is also a hobby for me that has benefited me in my job on multiple occasions, and I only do it for services that I'm ok with downtime on (I've outsourced my email even though that's the data I would love to control the most, I'm not going to mess around with downtime on that). I absolutely wouldn't recommend any of these things for my grandma.

Also, "unpaid system administrator job" can be a bit of an extreme analogy. I do spend non-zero time working on these things... but because I was using this as a way to practice actual system admin things, they are generally set up for stability. there isn't much work to put into it after setup. Unchanged software rarely just suddenly starts breaking for no reason, especially when the traffic on it is low because there are only 2 people using the service. (again, I'm aware that self hosting email has all sorts of "you need to keep spam filter stuff up to date" weirdness, but I wouldn't advocate for that).

Other than email, anything on this list would be great for someone who wants to keep data in home, as long as they know the scope of how much free time they have vs their desired reliability.
You can probably read the following math due to your upbringing: √9+7!

Better compared to "square root of nine plus factorial of seven".
JAX looks really interesting but it seems that it’s not as straightforward to just JIT things. Generally I think you need to use their flow control mechanisms rather than standard Python ones. There are of course technical reasons for doing so, but this makes me wonder if languages like Julia with packages like Zygote.jl would be nicer for some situations in the long run.
Godbolt.org Compiler Explorer works like this. Your code snippets are stored in the URL you share, so none of your code has to be persisted on the server.
How is this different from the GET method in PHP?
Looks slick, you got downvoted because you dared to promote something but this actually looks like a reasonable value-add. Ceph is one of those things that's just a bit risky for orgs without the subject specific expertise.
Deer hunter as well, who eats the meat. I really don't think the large game rounds are a factor. I think I've shot 5 round in the last 8 years, and there are no edible bits in the chest cavity. The lead bullets mushroom out, but...a non-factor for a deer. 270, 30-06, and 300 mag lead ammunition will liquify the chest cavity, but does not go through it.

Shotgun rounds are a different thing. Here in Minnesota, they eliminated lead for waterfowl hunting -- which is a fair thing to do. I'll shoot many, many more rounds at birds - and cleaning the shot out can be tricky. Best not to be spraying the land and/or lakes with lead bbs.
Personal email server so I only send a small amount. Sometimes a few emails per day, some weeks only 1.

Did the outgoing emails for the site ramp up fast? Did you only encounter issues with Gmail or with other big providers too?
> people don't want their competitors to have the competitive advantage (...)

That sounds like a very cut-throat business.

In my target audience, most people are happy to share how they work and which tools they use. I even occasionally see random people recommending my product online (which makes me very happy)
Show HN: Search a User on the Web with Python
Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict Success 35 Years Later
My solution is smaller companies - that way the underperforming ones can be eliminated more easily.
Cyberpunk Documentary Part 1 (Neuromancer, Blade Runner, Shadowrun, Akira)
Those metrics reveal something intrinsic though. Take cigarettes.

They're bad, not liked, etc etc. The usage in 2019 reflects something deeper: their effectiveness, perhaps a cohort effect and the difficulty of quitting, and a certain value proposition.

There's a term I'm perhaps misusing which is: revealed preferences.

This statement is perhaps a stretch but maybe what paul meant is that learning history for history's sake is helpful but learning potentially untrue test patterns (aka launching on a tuesday to try to maximize funding) is not.

This might not get a lot of traction but it seems your last sentence describes the Ayn Rand novel where the guy spends years toiling in anonymity versus his peer who is "fake" and successful, where the value is in the work itself.
For the record, I didn't pretend to give medical advice at all.
bubble stuck

please send help
The point is that they suggested a strategy that other big banks were already doing. There was no creativity in their suggestion in this regard.
The mileage charges set by the IRS are for 'computing the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical, or moving expense purposes', i.e. they're used to work out your tax bill.

There are similar mileage rates in the UK, published by HMRC. They have the same purpose.

The mileage rate you agree with your client needn't be related to those rates at all.
Elite violence and elite numeracy in Europe from 500 to 1900 CE: A co-evolution
I think it's fair to say that thirst-removal is inherent to turning on a faucet. It's true that there are other ways to reduce your thirst, and it's true that turning on the faucet has other effects (such as increasing your water bill) that have nothing to do with how thirsty you are. It's even true that the water company behind your faucet might be doing bad things that it ought to stop.

But it doesn't seem helpful to analyze faucets as being a monopolistic plot by Big Water rather than a technology for letting you drink when you're thirsty.
Don't forget to withhold quarterly taxes if you're 1099
>But I think that is far too onerous for candidates (and a big company) to have legs.

Actually I did exactly this as a candidate at one place for an afternoon. I left after 2.5 months. :-) In the end I felt a bit sorry for them since they put a lot of effort into the process, being a really small company. On the other hand I really didn't want to stay there. It was technically really interesting and I could contribute but the business was run really badly IMHO
Fed Adds $72.8B to Markets, Balance Sheet Moves to $4.07T
You wouldn't be able to sign the fake message with the fake domain unless you compromised the sender's PGP private key, which was not the vector of this attack.
> There is obviously a tradeoff between risk and speed. The article provides evidence that speed is increasing. I don't think the article provides any compelling argument that approvals are too fast. Do you?

Vinay Prasad is a cancer expert and an outspoken critic of too fast approvals of drugs. He has done research on it, I could e.g. find this:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
It seems odd to me that they ended up computing the average of the word vectors which is way too simple to represent meaning. Similarity metric over this semantic vector is not accurate.
Show HN: Reqman, a postman killer without GUI. tests your APIs with YAML files
I think you need to take an even bigger step back. I mean:

>Robots in Government could wipe out just as many high paying jobs

I didn't know there were all that many high paying jobs in government. I can't think of many jobs in government where people make as much as investment bankers for instance?

Maybe he was talking about AI taking out consultants that contract with the government? (I know some of them make in the high 6 figures, and many can make 7 to 8 figures depending on what that consulting firm is doing.) Or maybe he has a different idea of what "high-paying" means? High 5 figures may be high-paying to a lot of people.
As somebody who has designed some of the tests Paul Graham is complaining about, it really is hard from the other side!

For example, it's long been known in the physics education research community that students come away from introductory courses with very little physical understanding, even if they can do the plug and chug problems on typical tests just fine. Students can all recite Newton's third law, but immediately afterward claim that when a truck hits a car, the truck exerts a bigger force. They know the law for the gravitational force, but can't explain what kept astronauts from falling off the moon, since "there's no gravity in space". Another common claim is that a table exerts no force on something sitting on it -- instead of "exerting a force" it's just "getting in the way".

For research purposes, we measure physical understanding using a battery of tests, such as the Force Concept Inventory, containing only simple conceptual questions with unambiguous answers. So then everybody asks: if ordinary tests are so hackable, why not just switch to these conceptual ones? But that wouldn't work. There are less than ~100 distinct FCI-style questions. If these conceptual tests were the norm, students would just memorize the answers and parrot them back, with a flimsy understanding that crumples the second any follow-up question is asked. It would be just the same problem as before, except they would be worse computationally, too. The FCI only works as long as it doesn't count for a grade.

The problem isn't tests, it's scale. If the people aren't motivated, any standardized measure will miss the mark -- even the entrepreneurship Paul Graham advocates for. God knows I've seen a lot of bullshit in that direction.
Steel shot is required by law to hunt water fowl in U.S.A. The lead shot falls in the water. It's eaten by fish then eaten by eagles or waterfowl that are then eaten by people, so it's easy to find in any gun sport shop.

Rifle bullets are mostly either lead, which leaves lead residue on the machines parts and causes jams as the tolerances decline. Thus lead coated with copper is superior technology and more reliable but more expensive to boot. It doesn't mushroom as much but the velocities are higher. Plus rifles aren't used around water do they are much less likely to end up in the food supply and this legal for hunting.
Montessori schools as well: "Follow the child"
Ask HN: Career Path for Technical Recruiters?
Hey HN!

I'm a PhD student in CS/ML. I have a number of good internships and a pretty solid background in math, cs, and ml.

I really enjoy tech, but I enjoy the meta aspect more: networking, resume reviews, job searching, applications etc.

Is there a path for me to technical recruiting and sourcing?

I see people regularly complain about bad recruiters who don't understand the tech requirements of a certain job or drop the ball in communication. I feel like there is potentially room for more "high tech" recruiters with some understanding of the job requirements.

Could I start an agency? Do any of you have experience in this domain?

Thoughts?
I have a single machine running FreeNAS that's running all of my home services at the moment (I know it's not the best hypervisor, but I wanted my NAS on bare metal and I can't justify a separate dedicated server). I have Ubuntu running in a VM running Docker, and installed Home Assistant using the official instructions for this setup[1].

PiHole is so light-weight and relatively low-risk, you could easily run it on the same VM as Home Assistant if you'd like. I keep separate VMs for everything out of habit. I would isolate the LAMP site as much as possible, especially if it's publicly available—potentially even keeping it off of the same network as everything else.

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/docker/
What a YouTube Copyright Strike from 2015 Has to Do with 'Mario Maker 2' in 2019
I'd imagine most of ours are similarly dedicated to visual processing, but that's just a shot in the... dark
Here's the Reddit post that links to them

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/dkzlfc/offic...
> cutting out sugar

I'll assume you mean refined sugar here. I'd expect the benefits of eating fresh fruit and sugar-containing vegetables to outweigh most of the harm done by their sugar content.
The goals of monetary policy are to promote maximum employment, stable prices and moderate long-term interest rates so long as those goals do not conflict with price supports for assets.
> "The Air Force had to convince Sony to..."

To be a fly on the wall during that discussion. I'm sure money wasn't an issue for the Air Force, or that Sony had some balls of steel.
Why Mammals Are So Good at Hearing (and Chewing)
looks pretty accurate to me. As you said - good enough for everyday usage.
Without fire, it's hard to imagine the virtuous cycle getting kick-started in the same way
Pig monkey hybrids created in China genetics lab in bizarre world first
Ugh, no Java is not the same the Java Virtual Machine, no one calls them by the same name, no one is confusing those but you.

When Github says your project has Java they don't mean your project has Clojure or JRuby.

When Tiobe says Java has X market share they don't mean JVM does.

They are not Java platform languages, they are JVM platform languages.

If you can't even talk about this using simple base definitions of the two languages that I've literally never seen argued against until today, it only compounds why I said having this conversation with you is not worth my time.
AI is the new co-writer
I realize in retrospect my comment might have appeared that way. I meant only that people might (possibly) read your comment and be misinformed. I meant it might be mistakenly read as legal advice, not that it was.
It would be awesome if you could install Linux on modern Xbox or PS4 consoles and use them as PCs...
There are stars which we can "see now" (i.e. receive light that they released long ago) which are unreachable because the space between us is expanding faster than you can move - if you're moving at lightspeed towards them, every year the distance between you and that star is becoming larger; right now you're closer to it than you're ever going to be, no matter what you do.
In general, carbs / sugar paired with fiber are healthy. Sugar without fiber is unhealthy. Fiber is always healthy.
To play the devil's advocate, Sony is in the business of selling games, their cosnoles were just a means to that and since they were selling the hardware at a loss, selling more of it to people who will never buy games was bad for their business model.
What Is Systems Programming, Really? (2018)
Exactly. In my experience in prop trading, simple things win. Convoluted strategies probably don't...

Also, the winners usually have a structural edge that others don't. In the past this used to be low latency infra but now everyone has it. Usually edge means unique flow or market access that isn't common.
They might think we're cute. We could be like kittens to them or something.
Makes me hopeful, and why I am so excited about the Recurse Center. https://www.recurse.com
> Yet another extreme are the professors who endlessly allow exam re-submissions, so students just brute-force hack their way to a passing grade.

I know professors who have changed the answers during the re-submission time, so students brute-force their way to a failing grade...
Running a content blocker makes the original page load quickly and doesn’t require any amp.

If you need an ad blocker to make amp load quickly that defeats the purpose of amp, because the ad blocker makes the original site load quickly without the inherent google bullshittery.