skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that for most game players, outside of the top-N group who just want to be at the head of the list, rankings are largely a mechanism to facilitate playing good games, where good is generally defined as close games where both players feel like they could have won.

There's an interesting question about how you rate players who use fundamentally different strategies. For instance in RTS games, should you match boom vs blitz players of otherwise equivalent elo? Or should you instead (try to) construct a classifier to determine which type of player someone is, and then have a rank against each other type of player and match them according to that rank?
As someone who has used all kinds of tooling and typescript too but still goes back to vanilla js when possible, I relish being able to just hit save and refresh. Build steps and hot-reloading are annoying and complex, and with large projects they can sometimes become slow and frustrating.

Please don't feel pressured to make your code more defensive by switching to a typed language. There is often a tendency to make things more complex in the name of safety especially when there's typing involved, and it's not always the right answer. Clean, readable, maintainable code can exist in dynamically typed programming languages, and don't let anyone tell you differently.

The right balance between over- and under- engineering is something that changes based on who you work with and for, what you're truly trying to accomplish, when you need it by, how quickly you can iterate, and your own personal feelings of safety and joy of programming.
On the Effectiveness of Intel's CET Against Code Reuse Attacks (2016)
Good for you but the environmental outcome is the same. Actually, probably on iPhone is better because it's more likely that the shop will dispose the the old battery properly.

Also, what you describe is not about repairability, thats replaceability.
My manager at work came across this version number on a document properties screen (possibly in Word?), thinking it referred to the version of software the document was written in. We bullshitted a bit about how we're still iterating on 16-yo documents, until I googled and found that it was a new MS version.

(I often find that a document I am editing at work was created by "Valued Gateway 2000 Customer")
Nothingness (2017)
I couldn’t make sense of your comment.
Costco has a reputation for treating their employees very well with good pay and benefits. Overall, they have chosen not to prioritize profit above all else, and it ends up having ancillary benefits. I've noticed during the pandemic that the quality of the shopping experience seems to correlate very much with how the company treats their employees. A shopping trip to Costco or Trader Joe's is generally pretty stress-free. Whole Foods not as much (I attribute this at least partially to Amazon policies—even pre-pandemic, there was a notable difference in the experience of shopping at WF after Amazon took over). Going to Jewel is almost always a nightmare.
Did the Times ever publish the story? Has it been officially scrapped? Do we even know?
> More often than not, I think folks just say "SINGLE VARIABLE NAMES BAD. MATH HAVE SINGLE VARIABLE NAMES". It's really dense. In any given math paper, the author typically defines any such variables. And if those definitions don't make sense, it's because the underlying mathematical objects are beyond you, and you need further background

Yes, that’s my point.

Imagine learning a foreign language by being given a dictionary and a set of grammar rules. Is that enough to learn the language? Not really. You’d be missing idioms, patterns of speech, common phrases & compositions - the same is true in math.

If you already halfway understand the language, then yes, you can do with a reference / definitions and rules for application — but even then, understanding how to use them is not trivial.

Also, you are talking about “texts”, but there are plenty of domains in which conference and journal papers assume a certain set of notation, and that notation is not defined, nor even consistent; you need to be well-read in the field to even have a hope of understanding what’s going on. AI/robotics comes to mind, but ML in general is sometimes guilty of this.
This is a feature request relegated to HN. No one else wants this.
I thought the bay area is very liberal? Japan which is a very conservative country, both in absolute terms and as a general philosophy, has very lax zoning rules and many trains running literally thorough people back yards. So I wouldn't say it is related.
Fantastic answer!

Thanks for sharing.
Costco has done a fantastic job of product selection. I've never been unhappy with anything I've bought there. If it's on the shelves, I'm going to trust that it's a decent quality for the price, no matter what brand is on the label. That consistency is key to making the private brand strategy work.
Even if you have a terrible experience in your doctoral program, much of its outward value is in the program's reputation. Giving a program a negative review hurts the perceived value of your own education.
I think Glassdoor[1] would be a better analogue.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/about-us/
I've seen similar things reported in other venues that weren't sourced from reddit.
Aren't Go binaries completely static? That sort of is a large part of an operating system (the libraries minus hardware-related libraries) -- Just add a kernel (tens of MB) and whatever userland stuff you need to get your hardware to work (which could be "nothing" in some cases) and you're ready to go.
I think this is actually proof that students are treating math as a set of rules applied to a process, and not having any real understanding of how the variables and equations they’re mechanistically applying rules to have any connection to the real world.

If they did, it would be a lot easier to talk about trains speeding through the night!
The solution is butter, apple cider vinegar and salt.
A decent review site would be awesome.

I have been looking at WGU for an online MBA degree. Reviews are just scattered everywhere from Reddit to affiliates websites.
If Facebook were allowed to stuxnet the hell out of Apple/google/Twitter etc, who knows what would happen:)

I’m not disparaging the nsa etc talent, but it’s very hard to arrive at fair comparisons in this area.

The sec teams at faang are just not tasked with stuff the nsa does.
Good luck getting honest reviews. Graduates and recent post-docs are dependent upon good letters of recommendation from their advisors for perhaps a decade after leaving their research groups.

The truly disillusioned won't mind complaining, but those with even constructive criticism will feel constrained in their ability to speak out and be specific.

The graduate-student experience is deeply advisor-specific. Professor A may be exploitative, while Professor B may fight tooth-and-nail for student success. The statistics are low, too. Most professors will only graduate a few students per decade.
It is a very nice article, and very well articulated.

However, this article falls into a pet peeve of mine which is that the behavior exhibited here can also be completely explained classically -- this is also a standard demo when explaining how polarization works classically. I feel that it is worth it to at least include a footnote to that effect. The reason that I bring it up is that I (as someone who first learned classical optics, but is now learning quantum optics) personally suffered from some deep rooted misunderstandings about quantum mechanics due to having seen so many of these simplified demos which do not actually capture the quantum nature of light.

The way this article is presented it implies that one can also model quantum phenomenon using maxwells equations -- which is obviously not true. In this specific case you get the same answer, but as soon as you start looking at the individual photon statistics your answers will start to diverge. This is where the actually quantum things like Bells inequality and the Hong–Ou–Mandel effect come into play. If people had just been up front with their descriptions 'oh by the way, when you look at the aggregate behavior of photons they look perfectly classical, it is only when you look at the statistics do they behave any different' it would have saved me a lot of soul searching and misguided contempt for the quantum community.
Fusion is right around the corner!
Thanks for clarifying.

Do you offer a CSV containing donor information to the charity?

Do you support anonymous matched donations?

Can donors specify that a donation is strongly recommended for a specific effort?

...

3% * $1000/yr == $2.50/mo * 12mo
yeah and PE is not VC...
> If the most you can say about a parameter to a higher order function is that it is "a function", then "f" is the best name for it

Of course. But even in FP languages you don’t name all your functions “f”! At some level of abstraction, sure, you use “i” for index variables, etc., but once you back out of that low level, you are going to be naming things that are less abstract.
The Bay Area is many things to many different types of people. Unfortunately it is also very segregated: http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?bayarea
What field or occupation followed for you?
Pretty useless, over-generalizing piece.

I wouldn't have been able to build my startup to the size it became without venture capital support.
Right? I mean we can’t kill it because everything currently exists would die.

But the many attempts to freeze the existing UA are for the purpose of stopping people testing through the UA
We dont need a Yelp for doctoral programs, we need a Yelp for research labs! It's more about the lab you join than the program itself that makes or breaks your life.

In fact, I have heard that minimally there's kind of a toxic labs blacklist maintained in some Chinese message boards. At least that's what a fellow postdoc told me when I mused why we suddenly stopped getting applicants from China to our lab!
By getting ridership down to 5-20% of normal levels.

Which is a level where public transport is unsustainable, both from a monetary and from an environmental standpoint.
And they may have got into the country with the support of that company in the first place? I'm not heartless. I'm just saying that there is rarely much appreciation of the original opportunity in discussion about it ending.
It's something we're looking into. Would be a great market But for clarity, it's generally understood the employees do not bear the same risk as the founders, who contributed months/years of sweat equity as well as actual capital. Oh and risk of lawsuits.

An employee is paid day 1 and the risk beared does not surpass opportunity cost of a paid job at a successful startup vs a failed startup.
The difference is that other white label brands aren't expected to maintain or increase the quality from the name brand. It isn't unusual for white brands to be absolute trash in comparison. I have a friend who refuses to buy the Target store brands because he's been burned so often.
I have always thought that bad reviews are sufficient for all purposes, and the only reason to even have good reviews is so the reviewees don't feel overly persecuted.

Any product or service will have occasional customers who are either unreasonable or have bad luck. If you have a lot of bad reviews, then as a prospective customer you want to see if all of them fall under the two categories or whether there is a pattern that is relevant to you.

It seems to me that a review database works fine even when all the reviews are bad, and the only regulation it really needs is an effort to prevent one single individual with a vendetta from overwhelming it.
Directions unclear; applied apple vinegar to VC.
The article talks about one of the main reasons I kept going to Costco even when I realized it wasn't necessarily cheaper than the major grocery stores: quality.

I don't want to have to think about which brand at the regular grocery is best, I can just go to Costco, get Kirkland, and it will be the same price as name brands at the regular grocery but the quality is practically guaranteed to be superior.

(Trader Joe's works on a very similar principle)
For better or worse, many restaurants have dress codes.
You'll become Walmart?
> I’m trying to figure out how do you know the basis on which some private enterprise decided to refuse to provide their service to someone.

If you’re trying to understand the basis by which courts figure this stuff out, what we’re talking about here is the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is civil law, and the evidentiary standard that applies is “preponderance of evidence”.

The businesses’ stated reason is certainly one piece of evidence that courts weigh, but it’s far from the only one. If you refuse me business based on what I’m wearing, but I can show you regular do business with people wearing the same thing, or I can demonstrate a preponderance of evidence that you knew I was homosexual and had made statements to the effect that you would refuse to serve homosexuals, courts aren’t going to just take you at your word.
The Last of Us Part II's Breathing System
If two players of similar skill general roll one another, that's a game design problem not a rankings problem.
It's better performance for one web site, at the expense of whatever may be in other tabs or even outside the browser.

I really don't want to grant that.

Web browsers are failing badly at resource controls. I don't want to hand my whole computer over to a greedy web site. I expect my browser to stop the abusive web site resource consumption, not enable it.
He is working out marketing costs per item sold. The marketing costs for the white brand is almost 0, since Costco does it.
The story has not been published yet, though a review of the whole situation was published in the New Yorker [1] that has been met with mixed reviews, but largely positive from what I have seen (mostly from followers of the blog, strangely).

You can check the subreddit for more info on how things have been going down, I peeked in a few days ago and got caught up on all this.

[1] : https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-st...
Ask HN: The fastest route to a job as a sysadmin?
I realize that I'm asking a somewhat vague question but I'd be eager to hear any advice based on all the factors I mention below.

- I dropped out of my first year of a CS degree in 2003, left my home country, travelled for a couple of years, got married to an American and settled in Los Angeles, where I've been ever since.

- I work for a small online music retail business and have done for the last 12 years. I started doing data entry but I've worked my way up and I'm now basically the Operations Manager.

- I'm burned out, I've hit a roof for earning potential, and I really REALLY don't enjoy the work. It's soul crushing.

- The IT work that I do there, while minor (networking issues, setting up new users, etc), is about the only thing I enjoy anymore.

- I earn 60K a year. Low roof, huh? At least as far as Los Angeles COL goes.

- I have an 18-month old boy who takes up a lot of my time. Especially now that his daycare is closed due to Covid.

- Recently, after years of struggling to focus on any kind of new career direction in my downtime, my wife finally had enough and asked me to go talk to a therapist and/or psychiatrist. This resulted in something I'd suspected for a long time– an ADHD diagnosis. This has made me hopeful but also extremely sad about all the time I've wasted.

- Along with therapy, some behavior shifts and the use of medication, I find myself being able to sustain focus on all manner of things that I never could before, so it's time to knuckle down and start making moves.

I'm interested in becoming a systems administrator but I have some concerns about may age, my lack of degree, lack of experience, to name just a few. Am I kidding myself by attempting to go down this road? Is it too late for a career change? Are certifications worth pursuing (CompTIA, RHCSA, AWS, etc)? How future proof is it as a career?

Any guidance is much appreciated. I'm feeling a little rudderless and like I have a lot working against me.
> PhD students (I am one) are not the consumers of doctoral programs. We're the workers

I wish I had the reference, but I remember reading about a study which showed (unsurprisingly) that the high research productivity per dollar in the US is primarily due to the below-market salaries of graduate research assistants and postdocs.

Not so much capitalism - more like a guild system with a lengthy (and perhaps semi-permanent for many postdocs and adjuncts) period of apprenticeship and indenture.
Indeed, "talent solutions" and "marketing solutions" are Linkedin's biggest revenue drivers. Subscriptions come after that.
I once had a chat with a VC bag man...

He said their policy was to invest in a 100 startups in the hope that one would go viral.

The sooner the other 99 died and stopped bleeding the happier they were.

Go big or die soon was their policy.

If the 1 went viral, they'd make back all and way more than they lost on the 99.

The fact that 99 founders were broke and broken didn't bother them at all.
Audacity is a fine editor, but the UI isn't really consistent with platform conventions. A long time ago I learned audio stuff on cracked copies of Sound Forge, which behaved like one would expect a Windows app to behave, then switched to Audacity and hated it because the UI was so weird.
> MIDI controllers and SBCs

I recently discovered this niche, of building/using portable "digital instruments" with a heart of Linux, in my case running on Raspberry Pi with audio interface.

It's so exciting how affordable and practical this is, I feel like it's an area of exploration worth more attention.

A couple of related open-source/open-hardware projects:

Pisound - https://www.blokas.io/pisound/docs/

Zynthian - https://github.com/zynthian

In the latter's wiki/documentation, there's a big list of open-source synths bundled with their Linux distro.

http://wiki.zynthian.org/index.php/Zynthian_Supported_Synth_...

The above link is down at the moment, I think they may be switching CMS backend. Here's an archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20191020093102/http://wiki.zynth...

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Edit: Here's a good one, from another comment:

https://github.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio#synthesizers
what is your tech stack? I am interested.
I've been following "Q" out of curiosity since when it started posting. Not sure if it's a pied piper op, as Wikileaks said, or something else. However I've not seen any of the things you listed as examples of hateful content. You can search all the posts yourself. "Chrissy Teigen" and "Hanks" show no results. Clinton is mentioned but none of the "cutting off her face" stuff. Where did you get these ideas?
https://qposts.online/?q=Teigen&s=keyword
In our area, the Costco stores are unique in having their entrance in the corner of the store. That means there are twice as many parking spots that are close to the entrance. I've always wondered why that model wasn't copied by other stores.
OP is just voicing annoyance at a nag feature, nothing personal, just a UX critique. I'm not sure why it would matter to them if the feature increases engagement for others.
so, where exactly did you start? surely not on freelancing websites... but rather your network, yes?
The real benefit is with refactoring. It is built-in testing. If I change an interface because a business requirement changed, I immediately follow a trail of errors that I need to fix. If types are setup properly, making major changes is dramatically simpler to accomplish.
Sure. Input elements are still HTML FYI, we dont use canvas to simulate that.

I have been working with DataGrids for more than 4-5 years. So I consider myself at a position to compare HTML and Canvas performance

We went with Canvas because of the following reasons

1. Scroll performance is much better than HTML

2. Drawing on canvas is cheap compared to modifying DOM or attributes

3. Streaming updates are much smoother in canvas as drawing is quick. I had used Canvas as an interface for high-frequency trading

4. Canvas is easy to work with. And with https://konvajs.org/, any React developer will find it at home

5. No more Browser bugs :)

6. Performance tuning is quicker with Canvas

7. In the future, we can decide to use WebGL (using PixiJS)

Some problems with canvas IMO

1. There is no relative positioning :(. It sounds silly, but coming from HTML, any element can be positioned relative to its parent.

2. Styling/Pixel ratio/Stroke - can be hard to figure out first. And the 0.5px crisp stroke workaround on DPR 1 devices. Took me a long time to figure out
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Would be pretty awkward once you started interviewing, I'd imagine. I wonder how long one could keep it up though... perhaps during COVID it'd be possible to fake your race/gender all the way through the offer letter? I'd read that Medium article.
Now saute the VC in butter....

Bon Appetit.
Bus rapid transportation could be a better fit, given existing freeway infrastructure. But good luck taking away two lanes of highway anywhere in the United States (true right-of-way separation is necessary for any effective _rapid _transit). A lot of other BRT ends up most of the time being express buses with fancy stations/shelters that still cost a bunch of money.

Honestly I think that the way we plan cities in North America is broken to the point where any transportation strategy is doomed to result in sprawl and congestion. To use a train analogy, I’d say that city planning is the true third-rail of American politics.
... nothing except a vague feeling of self superiority, judging from the answers so far.
>> Does the author also prefer talking to people who wear face-masks?

> Right now, yes, yes I do.

Sorry, it seems I didn't make my point clear enough. Also not sure you're not joking. I just meant that if "a uniform experience" is good, having everyone wear a mask (at any moment in history, nothing to do with virus) will make talking to people more uniform and thus better.
Jokes aside: boil uncut for a minute or two. In the meantime start frying some nicely cut carrot in olive oil, cut and add broccoli to frying pan, add garlic and some seasoning, apply soy sauce or a bit of tomato sauce. Serve with white rice. Profit.
In your magic example you seem to be arguing that which kind of deck you pick is not part of your skill, which is of course totally incorrect. Picking "fun" decks over "obvious/OP" decks means you're worse at winning games. Or at least that you generally play with a handicap, which is easy to account for in elo.

To your coin-flip example, if you model a league in excel you'll find that elo actually results in a rank distribution very consistent with what your intuition would expect (given enough players and enough matches, of course).
This is a good point. Anonymous reviews are not possible with such a small and easily identifiable set of reviewers.
It would be better to just contact current students at the lab and offer them coffee for a conversation.
Entrepreneurs free riding on the VC model is the opposite of what really happens: VCs free ride on founder risk.

We see VCs themselves encourage founders to take money off the table with a secondary sale in rounds as early as series A. They also look for founders with previous exits, and usually pay a premium for their startups or invest with a much lower threshold.

This idea that "founders that are not starving are going to be less motivated to succeed" is one of several silicon valley mythologies that don't stand up to scrutiny empirically or otherwise.

Most people don't start companies to sit back and chill as soon as they are financially secure. If they did, and you had invested in them and now have to force them to stay hungry, you should reconsider being a VC.
this is what I use, I do not use -s -w link flags these days, just run strip over the binary and it gets the job done. then upx to make the size further down.
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