skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reliance at heart is basically a reseller. This is where their business acumen matters so much. A good reseller has to be very good at running everyday affairs. Operations, expenses and ensuring profits on unit sold have to be optimized.

Making profits as a reseller demands being good at raising funds, negotiating deals/purchases/contracts, packaging and pricing products correctly, marketing, daily operations etc etc.

So far they took big loans to offer their 4G plans for dirt cheap prices. Now they are selling their company in pieces to pay loans and be free of debt.

How will they price things going forward? Well time will tell. But it's one of those companies and business, where they have to turn in profits. They can't exactly show ads and make money like big web companies do.
But if your site supports Links then it’s almost definitely going to work with screen readers and vice versa.
A newbie is started off with some nominal rating; I forget the number, but let's say it's 800. Most likely that newbie is going to lose his first matches, and some proportion of those newbies will get frustrated and quit

That seems like a simple problem to fix. When somebody quits, just subtract 800 points from the remaining ranked players, scaled accordingly such that their relative win probabilities remain the same.

Of course, the other issue is if the number of active players increases over time. In that case, it's not so easy to fix unless you start scaling down the number of starting points given to new players.

Perhaps a better thing to do would be to construct a model of the rating inflation over time and use that to correct for historical comparisons. It's still not particularly meaningful though, because you have no way to measure actual skill inflation.
The other firms were worse in vision, thus Jio had an edge.

When I was using internet on a J2ME phone and Opera Mini, it cost INR 4 for 20MB airtime (2G!), which lasted 1 day. A GB of data cost somewhere around INR 250, and lasted a month. [1]

After Jio, these days I get around 30GB of 4G data for INR 150. That's the kind of improvement that changed people's lives.

Yeah the fake news is No. 1 issue in India, WhatsApp and Facebook spoiled this country. The elder generation naively believes what they read on whatsapp and that's terrible. The young generation is driven by emotions and identity politics not logic. But I think that's orthogonal to Jio the company.

[1] It is another thing that Opera Mini was freaking fast even on that network and didn't spend even 10MB per day for casual web page browsing. But if you want to get PDF or media content the internet was both slow and expensive.
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The impressive kind of cool
Hey - you totally could to mock this exact setup like you're suggesting. However, in a real quantum computer setup you would take one qubit and apply either the positive or negative rotation gate to it again and again and rotate the state of that qubit. The "stick" in the quantum computer would be the qubit (or photon in this case). So the post is meant to show what would happen in a real setup. Hope that makes sense.
It's more of a quantum demonstration than a computer, no?
The "different rating curve" appears to be the actual historical probability data, not a formula. I think. If that's right then it this estimate of the probability of winning is not a new discovery.

On the other hand I suspect the historical data really is the "best fit" to the historical data.
Hi Robert,

This looks like a really great (clean and performant) JS library for interacting with data grid. I'll definitely remember to try it for my next side project.

A quick question: is there a way to make only some of the columns read-only in the grid? I looked through the doc [https://www.datagridxl.com/docs/setting-options] and it seems like user actions for columns are all (applied to every column) or none. If DataGridXL.js allows assigning read-only to a subset of columns, it'd be great to add that in the doc with an example.

Thanks for your hard work and especially for allowing others like me to try it for free!
I would say "completely disorganised" rather than "loose organisation" and I can't see that changing.

The left is a vast collection of competing factional ideas that in many cases the only common purpose is a demand for change.

Environmentalists can't agree with each other, let alone animal welfare activists who can't agree with native/traditional rights; and theres a range of single issue movements that end up diluting support for bigger picture issues simply by association. I'm not saying that they are wrong or their demands invalid but it draws attention away from the messages everyone could get behind if there was better focus.

It happened with the "Occupy Wall Street" and "BLM" will likely go the same way if it doesn't simply stick to one core message.
> I think being stuck at home in a ball of anxiety is a fair response to the current pandemic and general situation.

Yes, true. Would have been nice if we hadn't been like that before the pandemic, though. :)
Yes, provided they are not deciding on the basis of someone belonging to a protected class. Hence a cake maker can cheerfully refuse your business on the basis of you wanting a cake that says “Jennifer Garner Eats Babies” but not on the basis of you, say, being homosexual, or Black.
Can I one-up your rant? We're in an era where complexity has gotten so out of hand, our phones catch on fire under the computational burden of sending text messages!
Venice gondola tours reduce capacity due to 'overweight tourists'
When working with devs that have grown up on dynamically typed languages I often find that they have not really thought carefully about the structure of their data and there are essentially many ad hoc data types strewn throughout the code. Thinking in types from the beginning leads to much better structured code and stronger abstractions IMO.
I think Apple's "marketing folks" already do a reasonable job of this with macos - most non-dev people and most (all?) of Apple's consumer facing marketing refer to the OS as "Catalina" or "High Sierra" or "Big Sur". Outside of the sort of people who visit HN, I wonder how many Mac users could tell you what the version number "High Sierra" was?
Bryan Cantrill Interview – defeating complexity July 2020
Yes - I used the term computer because it really does allow you to mock this quantum algorithm: https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/qcoin13.pdf. It's described in Professor Aaronson's lecture notes here: https://www.scottaaronson.com/qclec/5.pdf
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> I don't know, I'm still vaguely optimistic that people will realise that breaking the HTML/HTTP document model is causing more issues than it solves

What issues does it cause?

You can still view standards-compliant circa-1993 html files in any modern browser, without any issues.
The last large project I added Typescript, it took several weeks to add types. It took another year to learn how to write code in a way that is more likely to be successful in Typescript.

If you have a ton of state, classes, high coupling and a lot of variance in your data structures (which Javascript really easily allows), Typescript is not an instant game-changer.

This is not that different from having good test coverage is easier during development than adding it later, as you will end up writing your code in a way that makes things more decoupled and testable.

It was way easier to get to that sweet spot with our Node.js code vs. our React code. React code is still more of a battle than non-React code, although functional components has made this better. Class based components suck the most and we just opt for using "any" instead of fighting it. Don't get me started about HoC.
I thought you were saying that “universal rules for nudity (subcontent: nipples)” are easier to write than “universal rules for fact-checking.“ If so, I disagree. They are either:

a) equally hard, given the common understanding of what “facts” mean nowadays, or

b) nudity is harder, given cultural contexts.

Culture makes a lot of difference for what’s considered nudity (e.g. women breastfeeding goats, as illustrated in the link), and it should matter less for statements about average temperatures for a given region, etc. But the “facts” as presented are contested anyway, since they are derivations based on data + interpretation, even if the interpretation is from >95% of scientists in the relative field.

That makes me lean more towards (a) even though I wish it was (b).
Found it!

https://cancel.fm/blog/2019-11/language-fragility/
Is there some population density threshold where corporate governance stops working?

Does a pricing system and private enterprise break down in sparsely populated markets?

Clearly things seemed to work when going from 20,000/sq mi to 862/sq mi (2 orders of magnitude). Is the argument that there’s a magical breaking point somewhere between 603 to 87/sq mi?
I love this answer, procrastination is commonly linked to an expected negative emotional state associated with an activity and thus delaying. I feel this plays into the theme of check in with yourself that you really want the outcome so that you have a feeling of it's worth it.

I feel internal alignment of goals is the first step and then look at some of the more direct tactics others have mentioned e.g. reward cycles and a good mental and physically state
Not only that, Erik has done a good job cheerleading the concept of risk pooling for founders: https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1123331923466522624
I get almost as much benefit from the rigorous null checking in TS as I do from the typing. I would use it for that alone.
No one uses mathematical notation for practical purposes. This is just like the medival music notation which is neither practical nor what modern composers use, which is more visual in nature. Infact modernism is a rejection of medievalism.

I think in the future programming will force all mathematicians to code or give out simulations. Most mathematical notation was intended to be throwaway by the original authors, thats why there are so many notations. Trying to find relevance in them is a pointless exercise. Much like 80x20, tabs vs spaces ... most of the original intent is lost and what survives is guff meant for ceremonious purposes.
The diagrams are the best part! Please leave them :-)
Please improve the screen reader support
"In theoretical investigation there is only one meaning that can rationally be attached to the expression Inflation: an increase in the quantity of money (in the broader sense of the term, so as to include fiduciary media as well), that is not offset by a corresponding increase in the need for money (again in the broader sense of the term), so that a fall in the objective exchange-value of money must occur." - Also your guy

Even Mises acknowledges there are two parts to the system and that it's, in the end, about relative pace. If that is so, the phenomenon must still be able to occur regardless of how frozen your supply, just off the second variable.

"Our fringe school likes to use two common terms opposite from how everyone else does, hence you are wrong" isn't an actual argument, by the way.
For comparison I was learning about medieval armor recently. Steel breastplates are about 2mm at their thickest, typically. So that's a rather heavy duty armor idea you have.

Real question then is how it would fare against bullets and piercing attacks. Cutting is only one possible threat, and usually not the biggest threat. Knife resistant bullet proof vest are already a thing, so how would this be better?
"CSS causes the internet to become a baroque set of arbitrary design decisions, and does not contribute positively to the general experience." <- Well said.
You may be misunderstanding. In this case, I think people conceive of an "obvious" baseline to compare to - presenting posts of your friends in a chronological order.

There's no inherent contradiction when people say "this simple, transparent, obvious algorithm is better". Even if implementing it would in fact result in forgoing billions of dollars.
I stopped going to Costco when I realized 1) I couldn't get a parking space without 10 minutes of driving around looking and waiting for someone to pull out. 2) I couldn't pay for my items without waiting on line for 10 to 15 minutes and 3) Most items are a little bit to a lot cheaper at normal supermarkets if you wait for a sale and stock up.

Costco has some unique frozen foods I like, and good prices on some fresh meat, but #3 above meant it was rarely worth going for more than 2 or 3 items, and #1 & #2 above meant it would always be a much bigger hassle than 5 minutes at the normal grocery store.

Although I fully recognize that the above times are probably highly dependent on the setup & how busy my local Costco stores are. If I could get in and out of Costco as quickly as the grocery store (I drive by both on my commute home) I'd still have a Costco membership.
It's got to sting a little to use the platform you were laid off from to look for a new job. I wish everyone the best.
I am not saying that with enough dedication one couldn’t screw up the notation completely.
rbanffy says>"It's very generous to assume he has inner thoughts. For all we have observed in the past years, he has as much internal state as a probabilistic prose generator."<

Similar statements are commonly written, spoken or believed. They fail utterly to comprehend the possible depth of human deception involved.

Being a president is like having 4 years of quarters to spend in one of those arcade claw machines at the Walmart Store entrance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3kfLIsaIXE

You have the illusion of control but no true control.

U.S. President Donald Trump is head of one branch of the U.S. government. Whether he is in control of that branch is an open question, as it has been for all U.S. presidents. But if you ask "Does he have absolute control over the executive?" the answer is a resounding "No!" for the simple reason that people cannot and will not do what you ask/order them to do, for a variety of reasons.

He speaks to his aides, to his underlings, to the press, to other outsiders, all whom have their own beliefs, hidden secrets and goals. Afterwards, sometimes they hold their tongue; other times they go off to speak to/consult outsiders. Sometimes they do what he asks but usually they do (or direct others to do) something else (perhaps similar to what was asked). Some of this is deception, much incompetence and ignorance. I might add that no two people think the same way nor do they have the same experiences.

It is often to the benefit of a leader to NOT reveal his thoughts (or his though process) to others. Furthermore it is often to his benefit to mislead others quite deliberately. Just as being predictable can be useful so also can being unpredictable.

It is tempting and often humorous to seek a simple explanation for someone's behavior (as you are doing here). Many psychologists favor the so-called "theory of mind" - the idea that we can establish and use models of each others' behavior. But except for very restricted situations, my experience has been that it is almost impossible to predict peoples' future actions. It is so difficult that I simply no longer attempt to do so. And to predict a person's actions when they are in an office with so many unknown (to me) factors and actors who are variously persuasive is simply beyond my experience.

That's why presidents often have experienced advisors, men or women who have "been there before" and are familiar with the powers and trappings of the office. But even that is a "trap": who can trust that his advisor is well-informed (and trustworthy &c)? On and on...

Anyway, don't assume he's simple b/c, even if he were, the office would complexify him.
Not all derivative work is creative.
Sarcasm for me, but I know some believe it.
Self control correlates with a lot of things.
The author is proposing writing as a tool for self-improvement and to find clarity.

Sure enough, that will help to find clarity for sure. Just don't expect that it will help to find clarity for anyone else beside the author.

In a fast moving team setting, what most people hate the most is reading. If the context is not clearly set why reading something is utterly important, most people won't even bother to open the page, document, note or whatever.

The mental load is immense these days, and reading adds an enormous plus to that in a very negative way, so most people tries to escape this cognitive load.

Of course, you can use your authority to force people to read, but people will simply hate the experience even more.
A bizarre 1970 Arctic killing and the problem of criminal justice in space
To be honest I think my (and most people on this thread) real complaint isn't with notation per-say (as in Euclidean vs Hilbert notation etc, as discussed by Tao).

It's really about the lazy habits of many who work at the intersection of math and computer science, and use maths to express themselves without defining things.

> The other problem with academic papers is that the authors generally don't care about reproducibility, consistency, clarity, pedagogy, or even intelligibility. They're optimizing for quantity of papers published, not quality. As long as their expert peer reviewers understand and give the green light for publication, that's good enough.

Having worked around this field, I think this (common) perception of publishing doesn't quite capture what is happening. Peer review isn't anything like code review, and software engineers (separate from computer scientists and mathematicians) think that it is.
The frustration is inarguably real, but...

Programming language syntax sucks because none of it maps to things that non-programmers know. Every time a new token is introduced, whether it be an ascii symbol or a word it's one more mapping your brain has to create to remember it. And on top of this you have to remember how these actually execute too. Yes I said execute - most programming concepts have so many implementations it's crazy. Even basic conditionals can't escape this. There are several tokens for if-statements (if, guard, case, (^:), etc.) and countless common implentations (gcc, ghc, guile, J, and whatever actual processors end up doing).

Deep, complex things are hard, my friend. The pain is real; the payoff is totally worth it though.
Maybe some people would actually like to repeal that though.
Yet many of these use cases can be delivered to the end user as a document. Consider Hacker News. I am able to browse the site and submit comments in web browsers that do not support JS. (This comment is being submitted by one such web browser.)

This approach does not work for everything, nor does it work for everyone. Someone creating a blog post is probably going to prefer the use of JS to make their browser work more like a word processor. It can be done without JS, but that typically involves some form of markup that only a handful will enjoy. You can offer a map service without making it behave like an app, but most people will find a more interactive user interface more efficient. You certainly aren't going to be able to create emulators of vintage computers without JS.

That being said, we can do an awful lot in a useful way while serving up static documents.
You can sort of solve the inflation problem by zscoring the elo. Now a person's score will tell you how much better or worse they are than the median player, assuming an underlying normal distribution (reasonable).

Of course, scores will only be comparable if the average skill of all players remain constant. I would imagine this isn't true, but the drift over several decades is probably small.

Unless you start introducing some purely objective criteria for skill, which can never work, this is the best you can do. It's still way way better than a straight elo system though.
These are great points. Someone else addressed much of it but one thing to add is founders can actually sniff out each others' BS, sometimes better than career VCs. Seems to be common knowledge in SV that builders make the best investors: https://www.fastcompany.com/90266921/alexis-ohanian-on-why-f...
While this is a nice demonstration of the polarization of light, this is not a demonstration of quantum mechanics, or quantum computing (though it does have pedagogical value, if qualified properly).

Polarizers essentially just project the electric field of the wave onto some axis, zeroing out the perpendicular component. Keeping in mind that light intensity is the square of the electric field strength, all of this can be explained through straightforward classical electrodynamics.

An analogous statement would be that interference of light (say through a pair of slits) is also quantum mechanical in nature. This isn't strictly wrong (since basically everything is quantum mechanical in nature when you get down to it) but is a misleading way to present something that can (and was) understood perfectly well before quantum mechanics came along.

Note: These kind of experiments for a single particle (e.g. photons, electrons, etc) are a different story and do provide a demonstration of quantum mechanics (and the combination of wave-like and particle-like properties intrinsic to it).
It’s an experimental fact. (I guess you have to trust me on this one.)
Programming != proofs, or in general communicating abstract mathematical ideas. Writing mathematics is nothing like writing software.
Is that common?

Im not sure firefighters are in a position where nobody can respond.
I guess I don't understand the logistical difference, then, because that sounds like a semantic difference to me. What stops FedEx from saying "we ship this parcel for the same price as USPS ships a letter"?
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It is true. The ex-CTO of Jio, Tareq Amin, who pioneered this IP only network in Jio now works for Rakuten in Japan and he repeated the same feat here in even lesser time. You can lookup terms like NFV and Open-RAN to dig deeper. If you're familiar with web-infra it's similar to replacing expensive hardware routers from Cisco with a simple dumb server + FRR

Disclaimer - I work for Rakuten
Recently a 2nd year MBA student asked me should she wear her wedding ring?‬
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There was an account on 8chan which would sign posts with "Q" and a unique hash which could be used to prove the identity of a particular person or group posting. Last I looked this account/hash hadn't been heard from in some time though.
Try worrying about the plank in your own eye some time. The results might surprise you.
Same in Germany. DHL usually just puts the tag on your mailbox and says you "weren't home" and then you have to go pick up the package at the post office. They use a lot of low wage contract labor and put them on strict quotas.
Looks like we read the same books.
> I am curious what you mean by matchmaking is only individual, it is common to party up and queue as a 5 stack, both in csgo and valorant. now when you have a bunch of solo qs playing against a 5 stack, the actual team is going to win 9/10 times...

That's exactly the problem. The MMR system isn't based off of team ratings, but off of players. Otherwise, teams (e.g. 5 players) would always play against other teams (another 5 players). Now, even ignoring the model problems this generates (and the gymnastics that something like TruSkill does to mitigate it), it's just a bad experience.

For example, if I go to the beach and join some random volleyball pick-up-game, I'm expecting that the purpose of the game is to "have fun." If I'm joining a team to play in a rec league, the expectation is to try and win. The idea of "matchmaking" mixes these two concepts, so you end up having different people with different expectations. Some are going to say "why are you trying so hard" while others will retort "why aren't you trying harder?" This misalignment of expectation is, imo, the chief cause of toxicity in (competitive) video games these days.