skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arithmetic mean, median, and mode, are all measures of central tendancy, and are called "average". Median is often popularly considered as the average, but that's not strictly true, and an unambiguous use references one of the specific measures.

Stating that median or mode are not average measures is also false.

https://www.thoughtco.com/measures-of-central-tendency-30267...

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/average
Housing isn't worth more, money is worth less.
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In what way have past presidents been determined by elites more so than they have now? The US doesn't really seem any more or less democratic than it's been for the previous 100 years.

I agree this is what democracy looks like, though. Demagogues like Trump (if one agrees that he's a demagogue; many surely disagree) are a likely eventual outcome of it, though they also have an advantage in almost every other system.
Center consoles used to be seen only on large trucks. Now most cars have them. That's width not used by the occupants. Even the Tesla Model 3 has a huge center console, despite not having a driveshaft to hide.
the capital consists of pre-existing capital, and newly created capital from debt (from a bank). This is literally how money is created (vs direct printing from the Feds).

And it does guarantee recession and expansion, as explained here by ray dalio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
I have no idea why that would be believed impossible.

The Phoenicians are reported to have circumvented Africa and when the voyaging party returned they reported Phoenician colonies on the Atlantic coast of Africa before entering the Mediterranean. This was done under contract for an Egyptian pharaoh, and from what I understand, the claim that the sun was on their right side as they rounded the southern tip of Africa, although viewed with derision in the ancient world is now widely accepted as evidence they did indeed make this trip.

At any rate, they were amazing sailors for the ancient world and it would be much harder to believe they didn't make the shortish trip up the coast of Europe to the British Isles then the reverse in my opinion.

But as for tin, I thought it was well known tin came from the British Isles. Could this tin have been brought in earlier when Bronze Age commerce was at it's height? Did the Bronze Age collapse really collapse _all_ trade and commerce and travel? Doubtful. Anyway, interesting find but not really a novel story.
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[08:49 PM PST] We wanted to provide you with more details on the issue causing increased API error rates and latencies in the AP-SOUTHEAST-2 Region. A data store used by a subsystem responsible for the configuration of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks is currently offline and the engineering team are working to restore it. While the investigation into the issue was started immediately, it took us longer to understand the full extent of the issue and determine a path to recovery. We determined that the data store needed to be restored to a point before the issue began. In order to do this restore, we needed to disable writes. Error rates and latencies for the networking-related APIs will continue until the restore has been completed and writes re-enabled. We are working through the recovery process now. With issues like this, it is always difficult to provide an accurate ETA, but we expect to complete the restore process within the next 2 hours and begin to allow API requests to proceed once again. We will continue to keep you updated if that ETA changes. Connectivity to existing instances is not impacted. Also, launch requests that refer to regional objects like subnets that already exist will succeed at this stage, as they do not depend on the affected subsystem. If you know the subnet ID, you can use that to launch instances within the region. We apologize for the impact and continue to work towards full resolution.
There was unarguably a crash. Something similar to the GFC will happen again.

But everything bounced back. With the support of TARP and other government assistance programs.

That's the difference here: The recovery.
Well, GoatCounter does :-)

But any service that sends something like "GET example.com/collect?path=/foo" can be loaded with an <img>. It's perhaps not an explicitly documented feature, but it will still work :-)
"A weak version of this would be to just train on the external data in addition to the provided data."

In this competition, the training code was run on Kaggle's system, so you'd still need to smuggle in the extra data.
Would love to see a version that renders train/street car tracks
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different people value things differently. For a renter, they may value the lower cost (compared to buying a property to live), and invest the difference.

Some people prefer to own their home because a renter cannot modify the home (usually). They may also prefer the stability.

There's no universal answer really, since a lot of individual circumstance come into play making this choice.
The article is so far off as to be laughable.

Here's the top salaries in MLB:

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/rankings/

The top 141 players are making $10m or more per year (and that keeps rising year after year). The big five in tech don't come even remotely close to paying the way professional sports does and that includes the top thousand engineers. It's closer to a 5%-10% total compensation ratio at best (including stock-based compensation), in terms of elite athletes to elite engineers.

There are too many engineers and they're too replaceable, versus a Lebron James or Mike Trout. Those players are among the few best in the world at what they do, in a field with a very small number of people being compensated and from a relatively massive pie (MLB money is being split between just ~750 primary players; ~1200 including reserves).

Everything about the comparison is off by a large margin.
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Many man pages have examples, but they consistently bury them at the end, after exhaustively covering every flag, file, or environment variable that could possibly affect execution.

It might not be crazy to move the examples section to the top, since it would more quickly provide what most readers are looking for: a sample command line to tweak. Anyone who is genuinely looking for what a particular flag does is just going to search for it anyway, so it doesn't really matter if that flag appears on the 24th screen instead of the 23rd.
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And the minimum NBA salary for a rookie dictated by the 2017 CBA is over $800k, and rises to 1.3M with one year of experience[0].

I don’t think that the data the author used reflects what he think it does. There have to be minor league/partial contract players in those averages to make sense.

0: https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/info/minimum_scale
Are you questioning the article where the link to the 500k salary is a 404? For shame!
Ha, I can't read that one, because it blocks the EU :)

But here's the NY Times one: https://archive.ph/0wbyX

She did an outstanding job of recreating herself.

I wonder whether she was honest with Jerome Sidel.
Sorry, I added some additional text after you replied. I now think the report is just poorly phrased and it should have said "exploit" instead of "downloader". It is very likely the exploit, once run, did download more stuff.
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I'm the person who did the original prototype in Python/Pandas. The purpose of the prototype was to prove that with the right data presentation, you could process more data and cut processing and storage by over two orders of magnitude. I picked search rankings given the size of the data and the struggle the legacy system had in terms of showing more than a limited amount of data.

Previously, the MySQL solution had many rows for each ranking spanning several tables with all kinds of other data not related to showing the aggregate statistics that were relevant to Moz's users.

The solution was processing the raw data in batch and applying categorization to have an integer representation for all values. These changes led to a very compact representation that could quickly be loaded into memory and then filtered/aggregated.

Storing the results as a CSV wasn't important. It just turned out that having the static data allowed me to effortlessly scale-out serving since the data was only updated once a day or once a week, and it was append-only.

How big of a difference did it make? All of the CSVs individually compressed was less than 20GB. The production system served all user data off of a ~60 node MySQL cluster, with rankings being the most costly in terms of processing and 2nd in terms of disk usage (from what I remember).

Also, Pandas was blazing fast at loading several megabytes of CSV data (< 80ms @ the time). If I had to do it again today, I'd probably use Apache Parquet instead.

The most important insight that carried through the various solutions was to pre-process the data so that it was easily consumable for the task at hand. The languages (Python/Elixir) didn't make a difference, in my opinion. That said Pandas is fantastic, it made working with that data in-memory very easy, at least for this prototype.
I’m for liability insurance required for more things, let the actuaries sort it out. Breed-based insurance tiers with training certification discounts. It’s a great solution for guns too, as there is a third party w a strong incentive to price the risk accurately.
why would having large commercial landlords be any different than individual landlords?

I'd say that a big commercial landlord has some edge over an individual landlord by being able to operate at scale, and thus lower the cost of maintenance. This would be reflected as lowered rents.
Hardin's thesis has nothing to do with his character. Please comment on the thesis and try to seperate facts away from the personality of the person saying it. As vile as this sounds, a person being racist does not automatically make all his observations false, it does not mean anything.

Either way, his essay is largely cited in academia from political science to anthropology. A blog post illustrating some factual anomalies (which in turn can also be debatable) does not render the heart of his essay wrong.

It's good to know the background of the author of an essay, but it is bad form and borderline propaganda to use that to discount an insightful observation about the world as we know it.
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You're right. I plan to add multiprocessing support such that there would be numCPU processes, each running one event loop. Which should scale properly.

What kinds of benchmark do you suggest? I'll do my best to provide one.

Thanks for the feedback.
No, and this pattern of thought is bizarre, lacks technical grounding, and more importantly, scruples
Has zero detail. I thought the URL I provided has more albeit, you need to log in.
goods inflation hasn't happened because these printed monies are not given to the average (or poor) person, but to financial institutions and large investment banks (in the form of low rates). The inflation of asset prices has indeed increased - and if the Feds continue down this course, the high prices for all assets will be the new norm.
The first thing I thought when I saw this was “oh nice that looks fun”, but then I saw it was in Racket and thought “holy cow I have GOT to play that”! I’m just entering the world of PL, and Racket is a gorgeous language. I love seeing it used for game development. If you were at RacketConf 2019 I probably bumped into you. :)
>This comparison is entirely unfair

Updating rust: "rustup update"

Updating Go: Search a bunch of stuff and then do the stuff some random website tells you.

Entirely stand by my earlier statements. Apparently the thousands of paid computer scientists at google are simply incapable of automating the basic process to update their lang. It's utterly absurd and should be actively mocked by anyone with half a clue. We should mock this stuff, we really should, it's hilariously dumb.

How are all the people getting paid SF wages literally incapable of creating "go update"?
Thank you for this. Our TAM confirmed the same a few hours ago.

Is it me, or are AWS outage messaging always really invasive?

Error rates and API latency? I mean, 100% is technically a 'rate' between 1 and a 100.
Why not just use Bing then? Why drink the same wine from different bottle?
He made a good career in quant finance before diving into ML and Kaggle
I agreed with and enjoyed this 'document'!

I think the new Web3.0, and blockchains, and IPFS are going to lead to a new web that is more like it was in the old days where people were sharing actual documents.

I'm the creator of 'quantizr.com', which also fully adheres to your sentiments, but also a belief that documents themselves should be granular (i.e. quantized).

The IPFS 'interpretation' of my quantizr concept would be something like saying a 'document' can have a version stored on IPFS that is a specific immutable copy.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand the authors thesis here. He seems to have a problem with when he navigates somewhere and instead of receiving an expected block of pure text, he gets that along with a whole bunch of tracking/impressions/pay walls.

Sure, I get it, that's a problem, but it's not a _document_ problem. The web of applications let you _actually do stuff_. Yeah sure there's a ton of crap, but cherry picking only the news sites as a reason to remove PUT requests seems like the total wrong approach.
It's called a joke, guys.

The README is literally full of them.
That's helpful.

But branding, let alone domain names, is proof that namespaces matter. And have immense market value.
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because some of them are conspiracy theorists? It would seem improbable that Michael Flynn is alone in that.

In any case, I think this is most likely due to incompetence. Whether a few of this guy's bosses are conspiracy theorists or not, they obviously aren't qualified to evaluate his work and see that he's a crackpot. It wouldn't be the first time, with things like MkUltra and that telepathy crap.
She was befuddled we didn’t learn much math or science, nor anything else for that matter. In her words, she felt we spent all our time “cutting paper.” (Dioramas, mobiles, etc.)
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>an astronomical $800,000 USD for a house

<<cries in a Hong Kong dialect of Cantonese>>
Honestly, I have lost track of state of matters. How many are there? 3? s,l,g? Plasma? Bode Einstein Condensate? I vaguely remember at least three more.
That doesn't sound accurate. After all, ignorance is no excuse and ignorance of the crime guarantees lack of intent to commit it.
and how much do those jobs pay? I think that's the problem - you cannot attract people with low pay (it can't be justified by saying the cost of living there is low).
This is a big problem for me. I will buy novelty domains on sale, then abandon them after a year because the renewal price is so much higher than the 1st year promotion. At least com and net are fairly consistent year to year.
Depends on what you value. If living a hedonistic lifestyle is your life goal, then you can have as much fun as any 20 year old way past 37 and for little money. People in their 20's are more likely to live that lifestyle before discovering that it's not for them. Then they get into some sort of grind in which they become a statistic for reports which claim "mid to late 40's are the most miserable age."
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No way that 1,875 people are promoted to L6 every year.

I have no idea how he gets from "15% of google engineers are at this level or higher" to 1875 people, and then on to that many being promoted.

I might believe that 1875 is the total number of engineers at L6 or above across the company. Seems slightly low, but not impossible. But I guarantee nowhere near that many are getting promoted every year.

Also, making L6 is in no way guaranteed. It takes years.
This is categorically wrong. URL is the fundamental part of the web and without it, the Internet couldn't be decentralized. Imagine if I must reach tweeter by typing "tweeter" somewhere then that somewhere now becomes the gatekeeper. The URL allows distributed gatekeepers. A mechanism with a distributed structure will need something like URL infrastructure.
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Is it physically possible for the energy absorbed by crumple-bits to be greater than the additional energy required to decelerate all the extra mass which the crumple-bits provide?
It really worries me how many people are so quick to forgive him and tell him so.

In my family if someone cheated they got called a cheater and suffered consequences. At least, they would have, if someone did something like that. But my parents didn’t raise mendacious villains.

Look at this crap on Twitter:

“Everyone makes mistakes. Thank you for the apology”.

“Kagglers will still love to have you back”

“It's great that you realize your mistakes. Looking forward to see your comeback with more cool DS solutions and ethics than before.”

“Thanks for doing this. It's okay to make errors in judgement, we've all been there to varying degrees. Y'all be gonna be fine.1!”

Those are the worst. I’m not so crazy about these below, either, although there’s just a hint of steel in them, at least:

“I’m glad to see that you had a change of heart after sleeping on it and that you will be returning the prize money. I hope you will consider donating to or volunteering at a local animal shelter as well. Atonement here is more than returning the money and apologizing.”

“I hope this can be used as a teaching moment as well. Many people clearly look up to you because of your work. What can we learn from this? Something to ponder in the days to come.”
> systemd
The salaries will be there so long as the profit and margin is there to pay them, versus the relative scarcity of labor supply. It's that simple.

Microsoft, for one example, will double in size in the next ten years and they're already generating ~$50 billion per year in operating income (next four quarters).

They're going to fire people while doubling in size, from their already extreme scale? Nope.

Adobe is now worth as much as SAP. They're booming, extracting vast profit from their global cloud business. They'll more than double in size in the next ten years, their operating income will zoom from $3b to $6b or more. They're going to fire people in that environment? Nope.

The same is true of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple.

Apple will fire people while generating $60-$70 billion per year in operating income? Nope.

So where will the labor slack come from in tech to reset salaries lower? It's not going to.

Plus, the Fed has its hands all over the financial system in several ways that it didn't in 2007. Rates will stay perma low by necessity, they'll drown everyone in inflation before they allow rates to ever rise beyond 3% again for a consequential duration of time (it'll bankrupt the US Government, they can't allow it for the same reason Japan couldn't). Those perma low rates will provide a very large support base under valuations and will persistently push money to chase greater risk (public multiple expansion; and VC capital flowing very freely).

When there is inevitably a large downturn or correction, the low rates and massive QE injections will make the bottom higher than it otherwise would be. The next downturn will be far more gentle than the great recession (and the bounce back to prime conditions also might be even slower).

The only way any of this changes substantially, is if US tech is decimated by foreign competition. US tech can pay so well because they dominate globally, extracting vast global profit and paying a relatively small number of employees (vs the profit scale) from that big haul. That's the equation that has to change to drain US tech salaries.
The comment you're responding to isn't cracking, it's penetration testing. Hope that helps.
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"I guess you can actually patent a perpetual motion machine"

No, you can't because it violates fundamental principles of scientific laws.
I bounce between two cities (not something I planned on when I got the pup) and when I’m gone for a week or two my pup stays w my mother. It’s odd that there is NO amount of money short of NetJets money that will let you bring a 35lb dog in a plane without the ESA cert. I’ve asked to buy her seat, keep her crated, belt the crate into the seat, etc. The options are drive, stow the dog under the plane and cross your fingers it’s only traumatic, or get the ESA.

Airlines could do so much better with price discrimination than they do. Back three rows are dog rows, one dog per row. Pay double for the ticket. First airline to do it will make a killing. Have a behavior and temperament verification course if you like. Make the little guys wear a Hannibal lector mask if they’re big enough to be dangerous. The current system minimizes revenue, convenience for dog owners, and doesn’t preserve convenience for non-dog owners. It’s mind boggling.
I’m not saying that Pleskov is a sociopath, but I’m beginning to see how sociopaths manage to make their way in the world without getting punished.
> I think the argument you shared contains a logical fallacy.

You'll have the formalize that argument, because I'm not seeing the fallacy.

> In its central example, a human being, with their degree of thoughts, feelings, intelligence and all, is transferred to an animal, and the animal is still subsequently labeled as an animal. An accurate representation of my view would, at the very least, label the new animal as one with human-level sentience.

Let's walk this through using your example of intelligence as the trait. I'll also quote the definition of intelligence from Wikipedia as the frame of reference.

>Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving. More generally, it can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

Let's use the reducteo. If we replace animal with a severely mentally handicapped human, the human would fail the meet the above criteria for intelligence. We also have studies that show examples of animals demonstrating problem solving, emotional knowledge, etc. Which would likely place the intelligence of the animal above that of a mentally handicapped person. That being said, do you also support medical experimentation on the mentally handicapped?
The more and more I learn about color, the more I learn what we're taught as children is wrong.

Primary colors are arbitrary, the only reason there's three is possibly because we have three types of cones, but really to cover most of the visible spectrum.

So yeah, color spaces are a thing.

Cone sensitivity doesn't line up with primary colors, and some are more sensitive than others.

Tetrachromacy exists in humans, so some people can see more colors.

Magenta and violet are very different. Magenta isn't a real color, two colors we interpret as one.

The sky is actually blue and purple. If you look hard at it you can see both, kinda like seeing RGB on a white LCD.

And I'm sure there's more.
How does once check for the presence of a VM from inside the VM? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the VM to begin with?
You're an animal