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Those who are doing, also teach, but are constrained in their audience and time with which they can disseminate their know-how by employment contracts.

This is a feature; not a bug given the way our quasi-free-market founded on protection of trade secrets over actual marketwide innovation that lifts everyone else.

I try guiding anyone who'll listen how to do things I'm well versed in; but there is only so much one can do in a day.
“Content marketing”
The argument meant in the paper is that organisms encode information about their environment in order to survive. The encoding operation costs energy and generates entropy. Organisms use the encoded information to try to gain (or not lose) energy. Only in environments where organisms can use the information storage cycle to generate net positive energy (and maintain their net negative entropy relative to their environment) can life exist.

In environments which are "too unpredictable", life cannot encode sufficient relevant information for that cycle to be net positive, and therefore life cannot exist. Since life exists, nature is therefore not "too unpredictable".

That's the argument anyways.

For your objection, if we actually lived in a universe where everything was fully unpredictable between 25 and 26 degrees and temperature was the only important variable, then that would be every bit of problematic as between 0 and 1000K. Since life needs energy gradients and quickly destroys existing low entropy states, life always relies on finding temperature boundaries, regardless of how small it is to survive.
While the world doesn't have a president, you could call the International Criminal Court in The Hague[1] the world's court. If you're a citizen of or on the territory of a member state the ICC has jurisdiction for war crimes (among others), and the majority of countries are member states.

Of course the bigger players all aren't members (US, Russia, China, India). But WWII Germany wasn't part of anything either and we still had the Nuremberg Trials, so it's very much "international law doesn't apply until suddenly it retroactively does".

It's noteworthy though that the ICC's stance on the Superior's Orders defense is not completely clear for the less severe cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court
I disliked a lot of this article, as "there is bullshit everywhere" seems like something that should just be an axiom at this point.

However, I will expand on a specific pattern of bullshit that is common in the tech world: over-complication for the sake of some sort of "theoretical purity". I think Redux is a good example of this. I think Redux can be used well, but it became the "recommended way to do global state in React" and IMO way many more code bases have become an incomprehensible nightmare because of Redux than have been helped by it.

Similarly, and I'm probably dating myself, but anyone remember the original Enterprise Java Bean specs, and the laughably bad "Pet Store" demo app from the early 00s? It was as if you took a collection of "architects" with no real world experience, and certainly no regard for performance, and had them create the most elaborate Rube Goldberg machine possible.
Ha, I just posted something similar almost at the same time, but you said it better.
I made this comment on a thread about people having fewer babies nowadays, and I think its relevant here:

Millenial here, born in mid-80s. Have seen or experienced:
> dot-com boom / bust (junior high)

> 9/11 (high school)

> War on Terror (college)

> student loans (probably for the rest of my life)

> the worst recession since the Great Depression, and the lasting economic / career effects that never goes away when you go through that (right when I graduated college)

> the divisive culture wars between old / young, rich / poor, establishment / anti-establishment, etc

> Trump as president

> Covid-19

> narcissistic boomer parents

> narcissistic boomers in all levels and areas of institutional leadership whose baseline modus operandi is incompetence, corruption, and greed

> and a lot more that stresses me out

From my perspective, the world is back-sliding - everything feels like its getting worse, not better. Economic data backs this - real wages are level while cost of living is increasing.

And you wonder why we are putting have having children?
It's because we do not know what economic optimism and financial security feel like.

Edit - the last 20 years notwithstanding, maybe there is still some things to be optimistic about:

> people are waking up (just look at the comments in this thread)

> mainstream media is finally talking about this

> if you are reading this, you have access to some kind of computing device, which means you're richer than most in the world

All in all, what really sucks is we our standard of living won't be as comfortable as when we were kids, and the same will probably be true for our kids.
"bullshit marketing"
I've no doubt anyone can do this within a few weeks (if they work on weekends only)

People can start with extruding clay or Noddles to start
German courts have always[1] held that IP addresses are potentially identifying information and falls under privacy laws.

[1] there was a very short timespan where this issue was indeed an open question, but tech people still debated that years after the high courts had already ruled on it, making it look like it was still an open question.
This. HN is so entitled - I want the perfect thing, then complain about them trying to be sustainable.
Everything goes to shit when marketing is involved. Or more like, everything goes to shit when money is involved.
People have a hard time remembering that if you are in the 51st percentile you're "doing better than most".

I feel like we tend to think more in terms of school grading where even an 80% is "not very good".
That's fair, I am well aware of my luck in this case. I guess I just wish that someone had explained to me the real value of SV lottery tickets when I was younger.

FWIW I grew up poor, and am certainly not wealthy now (I'm still a wage slave), but at least I can afford to buy food and new clothes. Growing up I had to rely on charity.
What about freezing the cheese or removing the oxygen?

I would expect freezing to potentially alter the cheese's consistency in undesirable ways, but removing the oxygen for a time should be fine, right?
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It’s possible to measure. Perhaps not to an extremely high confidence value, but it’s absurd to say an upper and lower bound of these ratios could not be determined. Just call Lloyd’s of London if you don’t believe me. If it can be insured, it can be analyzed sufficiently so these numbers exist and have some errors bars on them.

So now we know just now underpaid/overpaid Zuckerberg and our high level employee are. For a thought exercise, what do you think the employees would do with this information? HR departments? Boards of Directors? CEOs? Angel investors? Wealth management advisors? Loan risk quants? Four star generals? Party and national leaders?

Some of these may not care if they knew, or would be too busy to care. I think others already have an understanding of these kinds of numbers and relations due to specific domain knowledge or demographic knowledge; aptitudes which make one suited for a given job may also make one especially clever or capable. In any case, the effect of this knowledge varies.

I didn’t say that ratio had anything to do with fairness or equality. I think that was something you assumed or imputed into my statement.

Insurance companies in many jurisdictions are regulated to prevent excess profits. That’s why car insurance companies are sending refund checks; they’re legally obligated to pass on the savings if it costs them less to provide insurance to you. Why is it absurd then to ask for pay commensurate with profits? They call them points in Hollywood movie contracts[1]; they may have other names in other fields.

Perhaps companies over a certain value should be required by law or charter to give employees a choice to receive their regular pay as:

1) x% of value generation relative to other employees in the company as assessed by the people in the company and outside data;

2) y% of value generation relative to any other measure, such as company stock or inflation;

3) z, their inflation adjusted prior pay period payment; or

4) the same payment as they received last pay period;

whichever is greater, or whichever the employee chooses.

Would that be fair to the company? Why or why not? Would that be fair to workers? Seems hard to say how it would be unfair, unless you are a low value, replaceable worker. Is it ideal? Is it even workable? Would employees like having choice and knowledge better than the alternative? Would they like it better than the current status quo? In the interest of market transparency and maximal agency of market actors, which side is the hand of the market on?

Some of these questions can be analyzed by looking at worker-owned co-ops and companies.

[1] http://www.hollywoodlexicon.com/points.html
[Article] 8 Simple Techniques to Prevent Overfitting (in Machine Learning)
Hi!

Overfitting is a very common problem in Machine Learning.

I wrote a short article introducing '8 Simple Techniques to Prevent Overfitting' for beginners.

Hope some of you may find it helpful!

https://towardsdatascience.com/8-simple-techniques-to-prevent-overfitting-4d443da2ef7d
Make stronger people, not weaker cheese America!

The current approach of eradicating anything that may be a biological threat has resulted in isles of products made with corn and wheat substitutes, and things artificially loaded with sugar, salt, fat, and just cardboard like, spiked with chemical preservatives and flavourings.

Hoards of young, obese Americans (in part because of such food policies) are locking down in their bedrooms because a virus is out to get them, that otherwise has 0.01% mortality in healthy, fit young people.

You can still get lost, by only making "right" turns at every step.

Work to boost your immune system, so cheese mites won't kill you. Or at least let people make a choice with how much risk they're willing to take by eating cheese, and going outside.

How does it make sense, "organic" food, is the most expensive, niche, sold at Whole foods, in the US.
When in other counties its the cheapest standard diet.
> Most of affirmative action is meant to undo this injustice specifically

Intention =/= effect. It would be far more effective if the state invested more effort into educating people from underprivileged families (black, poor, immigrants), rather than lowering the standards for college admissions, which probably has worse outcomes (those students likely won’t catch up in terms of their skills), as well as creating new injustices (e.g. discrimination against Asians).
Please tell me you've spent some of those last 10 years working on your woodworking skills so you can direct some friends to in the construction of guillotine. Because without one of those i don't think much is change anytime soon.

When amoral billionaires die, their children inherit the money.

I'm not trying to be overly pessimistic, but it's pretty good fun.

Note: I'm also a millennial and don't care that much about money but I'm pretty sad about climate change.
Yes.

On one side there are blogs that just post content to keep momentum, say csstricks.com, and don’t care to fix their errors even after you report them.

On the other side there are absolute noobs that post unresearched content just because some VIP tweeted that you don’t need to be an expert to blog.

Well, that’s what you get: Bullshit everywhere.

Then of course you get awful StackOverflow “top” solutions that are straight up “worst practice”
They didnt say no checks, they said next to no checks. There actually are relatively few federal restrictions - effectively anyone who is not a criminal can purchase (most) guns legally [0] (some states are more strict, though). Compared to virtually every other country in the world, that is "next to no checks". Many states have no background checks at all for private sales [1], though that wouldn't apply to purchases from a supermarket.

For example, contrast the UK, which in addition to outright banning most firearms such as handguns, requires a "good reason" to issue a firearms permit - and things like self defense are not considered acceptable reasons [2].

[0] https://injury.findlaw.com/product-liability/gun-laws.html

[1] https://consumer.findlaw.com/consumer-transactions/private-g...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_the_Uni...
> 1) Bolsonaro paraphrases nazi slogan "the work sets you free"

That's merely a case of misinterpretation of his words. By using this method of finding nazis, you would conclude that every one is a nazi because nazis had red blood like all of us.

> 2) Bolsonaro drinks a glass of milk in one of his infamous Facebook livestreams a day after Brazil has its first neo nazi "protest" a LA Charlottesville.

Fact-checked to be false. Revista Forum is a well known fake news site. [1]

> 3) Minister of education compares Supreme Court investigation against Jair Bolsonaro to the holocaust, going as far as posting "SIEG HEIL" on his Twitter account

Can you read portuguese? He was accusing his politicals opponents of treating him like nazis treated jews. And in fact he is from a jewish family that fled from nazi Germany.

> 4) His slogan, of course, "Brasil acima de todos" which paraphrases the nazi slogan "Deutschland uber alles"

Same as point 1. You can't get loose expressions from people, put them in whatever context you would like, and pretend it is true or even a fact.

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[1] https://www.boatos.org/politica/bolsonaro-copo-de-leite-brin...
The bigotry of big tech began a long time ago.
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I basically realized this when I was at an internship talking to a buddy about a compilers course I could be taking and his language he was making for fun. He was talking about a couple topics I'd probably go over in the course.

Then a more senior coworker came over to join the convo and mentioned a few similar words that were clearly jargon related to compilers etc. He spoke with such confidence that I didn't want to admit I didn't know about them, but figured I shouldn't be ashamed at not knowing stuff. I asked him what it meant and he said he didn't really know and wasn't entirely sure. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Let's suspend everything that seems to be offensive but if public starts to make a big deal out of it, just say there was a bug with our automated software for filtering content. It's not like anyone will ever look at our code"
Mental models are useful when you use them. Not so much when you talk about them.

The idea of having a favorite mental model is fine if you are talking about them abstractly.

But I envision a whole bunch of people using the wrong models in loads of situations simple because they like the idea of them.

Your brain more often than not picks a pretty good one without having to even think about it.
I eagerly await the Tom Scott video.
Or those fake how-to tutorial pages. Often when I’m looking up, say, error codes in Windows, I need to wade through pages of “Step 1: Download the MyNewFreeComputerCleaner.biz app”
I'm also very concerned about climate change. I feel like boomers have robbed young people of their futures.
As a musician who came up with the touring model, I've been struggling with not being able to gig and connect with people. There's a real visceral phenomenon that happens when you play live. I think it's fair to say those days were waning even before COVID.

I found the sentiment of this article comforting. It points to a way forward to make music and get some of that connection back. I don't know that there's any substitute for the real deal but that's probably because I'm old. ;)
As a saying that used to be popular back in the day goes, Nobody has been fired for buying (from) IBM. This in my view is what explains much of the problem.
1: Google gets caught building project dragonfly and is forced to abandon it.

2: YouTube gets caught automatically deleting comments critical of the Chinese Communist Party and is forced to undo it.

3: Google bans the most popular "Remove Chinese Apps" app in India.

Is anyone else starting to see a pattern here?
It means that the environment at time t is totally unpredictable given the environment at time t-1. If you imagine that the universe at time t is described as a string of random bits, and the universe at time t-1 is also described as a string of random bits, it means that you can't predict any of the bits at t given the bits at t-1. That's what it would mean for nature to be "algorithmically random" in the sense of the paper.
Probably Chinese hackers trying to hack and get access to the account, so it was suspended
Because the outside world sees Ethereum as a business, and is confused why the foundation doesn't do all of these things which would make the "product" better.

While the Ethereum Foundation sees Ethereum as an ecosystem, much closer to an open source project, and tries to support people who want to contribute to it.

The answer to your question is, nobody has shown up yet who's willing to put in the massive amount of effort required to write the compiler in a formal language.

The closest we've gotten to that is an implementation of the evm: https://jellopaper.org/
If it saves your live, it should be regulated, or the costs otherwise removed or hidden or not placed upon the consumer or end-user. How you do this is important but not to the context of this question. It’s a matter of humanity and morality as much as profits and benefits.
One time, I had to maintain FORTRAN code. Much of it was still in FORTRAN 66.
> as for the audits, it would allow HN to get an independent opinion in a way that doesn’t result in data they normally withhold from being public.

While I see obtaining feedback on user behavior and satisfaction valuable, I'm still unsure of how a public audit would benefit HN. It might already be the case that HN conducts private audits and we never know.

I don't really feel that HN has a community or reputation problem in the way that I feel Stack Overflow does so without understanding what you see as the motivation for a public review, I'm not sure what HN or the community would get out of the results.

One thing I would say is that I personally think "shadow bans" are a little petty. I don't agree with the idea of making the site artificially slow and making participation "seem" to work when it does not. That said, I accept that this is the way HN has chosen to work.
>Modifying links and modifying typed URLs are equally bad

Sorry, but you're plainly wrong.

"Modifying links" implies another victim in the scheme: The party who authored the link in the first place. It implies that a third party is being deprived of their affiliate revenue because the link they wrote was "hijacked".

That's not what happened. No one is having anything stolen. If that distinction is not important to you.... then I don't know what to say.

Words matter. Never more so than when making serious accusations.
Congratulations (seriously) on making it, then. I only called your comment out because I think many people in the HB bubble have very inflated standards about a “good” life.
More likely is that China used many accounts to report it as violence or some other sensitive category. Automation would have taken it down at that point.
These companies have too much control over public discourse.
There's a voice inside your head that prevents you from sharing ideas
Can you suggest a way to understand and develop the right habits? Or Any good method to improve code quality at personal and team level?
Would be really useful for my case.
I second this rather strongly.. The harder it gets to "stop" and clean-up shit, the quicker it gets to just lose it.. Especially relevant in environments where the authors of the write-only codebase are not around anymore. Somehow it is hard to blame/hate someone you go out with for lunch or beers.

What really worked great for my teams in the past is to game the transition so that the team as a whole sees it as an internalized mission, usually much stronger than that of the company. Then killing X lines of code from the old mess and beautifying the codebase becomes a shared and extremely satisfying exercise
I can confirm that AppleSoft ][ BASIC stored its programs in memory in tokenized form.

On another note, I went ahead and wrote a code emitter, because I couldn't wait for part three (though I noticed it's in the GitHub repo). Once you get this compiler up and running the sane thing to do is write a Makefile so you can treat Teeny as a first-class programming language. Just add a Makefile with the following:

%.c : %.tiny
<TAB>python3 ./teenytiny.py $< > $@

And you'll be able to type `make hello` and have hello.tiny compiled to hello.c compiled to hello automagically. I can never pass up an opportunity to remind people that Make is wonderful.
Show HN: A movies recommendations engine based on famous directors tastes
Hi,

A few weeks ago, I shared on the quarantine side-projects thread my idea of a recommendation engine based on famous directors tastes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23185673 ). At this time, I was procrastinating, but your warm messages motivated me to complete it, so thank you HN!

I had for a long time this idea of a movie recommendation engine built not on the tastes of people like you or peoples you follow but on favorite film director tastes. I became a film buff with starting watching Tarantino movies, then watching movies of directors that influenced Tarantino (Melville, Godard, Woo), and so on. It helped me to become aware of all the phases, periods in film history and to develop a critical approach to movies. Conversely, I'm often frustrated by movies recommendation systems today. Most of the recommendations I get are often the same, too out of context, too cold. This is why I made this small website, to generate recommendations based on the favorite movies of the directors you like the most.

To use it, you just have to export your Letterboxd profile to CSV ("Settings" > "Export your data") and import it here: http://theylovepictures.com/

It'll generate you recommendations like this: http://theylovepictures.com/recommendation/33241372-cc7e-4fe... (they're mine!)

I also develop a Directors section, where you can access to a "family tree" of a director. For instance, here is Martin Scorsese's: http://theylovepictures.com/director/Martin%20Scorsese

Feel free to give me some feedback, but please keep in mind that I don't really plan to make it more than just a side project. I know that the UI/UX is very basic and that having to import a CSV is not user-friendly, and I don't really know if it will scale or if it will work for all kind of profiles, but again, it's nothing more than a toy project, and if it gives some good idea of movies to watch to a couple of film buffs, I'll be happy!
You know... millions of real people suffer from actual broken bones, and millions more suffer from being broke (having no money). I think it's pretty insensitive how we use the word break and broken so casually in all kinds of tech documentation...
Couple that with so much advice that encourages people towards action with their current worldview and not introspection and then action, and it isn't too surprising that we end up with discussion-via-screaming-match as the standard in a public forum.
SO what you are saying is we should distinguish between a descriptive, and predictive science.
Except there is a conscious entity driving the room towards an ordered state.
They do, and I found Blizzard's moderation to be better than most. This is especially true of hate speech. But as the linked article finds the bigger issue is that discriminated groups are disproportionately the targets of criticism. That's much harder to police and the end result, making the game less fun for those targeted, is the same.