skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but in the US you need an entrance exam to keep the jocks out

This comment is unnecessarily and rudely exclusive.

I went to a county-wide gifted magnet school that was a satellite to one of the regular county high schools. The athletes played sports at the main school, and non-athletes took gym classes there. About 20% of each class were varsity athletes, and the athletes fit in quite nicely with the non-athletes in academic and social settings.

It’s sad that you added this line, since your first sentence regarding the need for kids and (most importantly) families to take academics seriously is a very important point.
The latest (as of this comment) change to package.json was a PR to turn on macOS builds: https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/pull/687 but unknown if the reservation was more political than technical
> Lockdowns are not supposed to stop Covid-19

China
As a suburban kid I walked a few miles a day to school and back and so did a good number of classmates.

It would have been far more dangerous without sidewalks.
> Can’t you fail them during the previous year, where they don’t have enough grades to graduate

Theoretically this can happen, but in practice it is very rare.
I really enjoyed having a team Discord(.com) where everyone had access to push to talk functionality.

Mumble would be the open source alternative.
I grew up in Northern Virginia, and went to a GT (gifted and talented) elementary school and middle school. I did not go to TJ, but knew many kids from my middle school who did. The GT program in many was a natural precursor to what TJ was.

One thing that I think the author fails to accurately reflect is how fierce the competitive process to get in to TJ is. And moreover, the culture within middle and elementary schools which this competition breeds. When he states:

"Score high enough on an entrance exam—something hard but totally within your control—and you could attend a school"

This is frankly a far cry from what I actually observed. There was an exam to qualify; however, so many extremely smart and tenacious people attempt to do well on this test, that to outperform all/most of them would make you a prodigy among prodigies. It was not uncommon for parents to pay for tutoring specifically oriented around this exam. I feel like saying that this is "totally within your control", is not literally false, but grossly misleading to the actual situation.

I can't stress enough that the competition to get in to TJ was like the competition to get in to Ivy league colleges. In fact in many ways, the competition around getting in to TJ was not just analogous to the Ivy league competition, but a direct extension of it, as going to TJ would make your college applications more competitive. And naturally this extends back even before TJ, going to placements tests in the 2nd grade to qualify for GT elementary schools. I feel (and can attest with my own experience) that kids at this age have no conceptualization of the long term consequences of these kinds of gateway moments. More often than not, success at these stages is more a reflection of parental coaching (or lack thereof) and familiarity in navigating their children through these gateways.
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A Google Play policy that enforces this in other apps would be the next step.
They never said, but at the time it was a full application package, essay, recommendations, and such.

My year was approx 800 applicants for 400 places, that ratio skewed significantly harder, Quickly, as years went on. (I was in the second class)
Ask HN: Tips on moving from macOS to Windows 10
As DIY PC builds drop in price and rise in power, we're looking heavily at bailing on the MacOS ecosystem for work purposes. Our computers are tools and most of our work sees gains from Nvidia GPUs (video, graphics).

Does anyone who has recently made the switch have any tips, feedback, things to look out for?

A big thing for me, is the loss of terminal. File management, tools like rsync, have been a big part of why I love MacOS. Windows has come a long way but there's a lot to learn and figure out to get that kind of workflow back up and running.

Heck, just not being able to hit the space bar to preview media files is going to take months to get used to.

I'm not sure I'll ever get used to limitations of drive letter assignments either. Unix like volume names are so forgiving.
$ git clone https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io.git
Receiving objects: 100% (16655/16655), 534.19 MiB | 2.09 MiB/s, done.

wowzers, 535MB for an in-browser game? But it seems it's the res_raw, and the sounds subdir specifically, that's the source of pain:

168K res_raw/sounds/sfx/dialog_ok.wav
236K res_raw/sounds/sfx/place_building.wav
280K res_raw/sprites/belt/built
352K res_raw/sounds/sfx/destroy_building.wav
728K res_raw/sounds/sfx/badge_notification.wav
1.2M res_raw/sounds/sfx/level_complete.wav
17M res_raw/sounds/music/menu.wav
44M res_raw/sounds/music/theme-short.mp3
80M res_raw/sounds/music/theme-full.mp3

With a 535MB clone size, how many times have those files changed?! It seems LFS was jettisoned with the explanation "Get rid of lfs files" https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/commit/f12cae7bd3fc3b51f... so there goes my suggestio for how to keep game binaries outside of the clone pain
Paid exclusives cause other stores to be more popular. They don't cause other stores to be less restrictive, if that's what the users want, because having an exclusive on a garbage app the users don't want would fail to get anyone to use the store, and getting users to buy anything other than the non-garbage exclusive app from the other store is only done by getting the users to trust the store, by not having it be full of garbage apps.
> The future language will probably just be some bastardization of English and Chinese

Threre's already Singlish in Singapore, something like that would have no chance to be a future language. Esperanto has more potential and that's a half dead language.
So the majority situation could be easily explained using the positive stereotype of Indian and Asian kids taking their academics very seriously, partly due to the support (and pressure) they get from their families.
Assange has Asperger syndrome and depression
The key point I learned from this that I didn't really realize before: even if you already have tenure, you're surrounded by smart people that you want to work with, and they're often earlier in their careers and don't have tenure. So the need for tenure affects everyone in the system.
> Maybe related: I've noticed on iPhones and Samsungs that I cannot get a picture to match reality.

I know I'll come across as pedantic, but you'll have trouble doing that even with DSLRs. Whether you're doing film or digital imagery, you're not capturing reality. With camera sensors, the raw data you capture (RGB brightness for each pixel, for example), needs to have some color/brightness/contrast curve applies to make it look realistic (i.e. linear will not look like reality at all). Each manufacturer picks their own curve, and then also has options (vivid, etc) - and some of them do pick less realistic options for defaults as customers think they make for better photos.

Not to mention tricks to fix overexposed pixels, etc. There's quite a bit of manipulation done before you get the JPG.

Cell phone cameras are akin to cheaper digital cameras that used to be (and perhaps still are) on the market - where you don't have much control on this. This is not new to smartphones - it's just that smartphones have more processing power to do more.

Long time photographers know this. It's not "capture reality", but "how much deviation from reality am I willing to accept", with 0 not being an option.
To the first point, yes, in materialized views, thanks for correcting me. I perceive it as a limitation of their micropartitioning working against the actual goals of such a system, i.e. pushing even more work on data engineers to prep data.

And we're in agreement on the second part: my point is not that their solution isn't more efficient - it is - but it's treating predicate pushdown as some kind of deep synergy between Spark and Snowflake.

That is, it's more the marketing aspect - clueless execs see "Snowflake and Spark work great together" and a box is checked.
Of course not, which is why I don't install their app and wouldn't use their store.
No, you'd actually have gifted schools for gifted children from gifted parents, unrelated to how rich they are. IQ is highly hereditary. Asians which now dominate these schools weren't rich, they were both economically as well as socially disadvantaged as a population because of racism.
Industrial Strength Arch Linux
Thanks for your reply, I was thinking about the actual files containing the DNS entries and not the root file which contains all of the DNS servers. As I understand it the root file is needed in case you want to bootstrap your own DNS server so as to be able to find all the other authoritative servers. What about the actual DNS database files?
Covid-19 in China
Slightly off-topic, but at the foot of the document a reference is provided to Keegan’s To Dissect A Mockingbird, another effort to provide a graphical notation for the lambda calculus.

Anyway, to cut a long story short: his notation for the Turing Theta Combinatory is now a tattoo on my arm.
That's awesome! I really like the idea of setting blocks, and still playing once in a while.

Tried playing less before, but never succeeded for long.

Just not playing at all will probably suit me better. Especially when I know I will be able to at the end of the block.

Starting with it from now! Thanks for sharing :)
Lol, no. That's the right needed on android to scan the available cells, and wifi aps.
> It took MANY decades before transmission lines, power generation and brokerage were forcibly separated and regulated. They traditionally were integrated, even through the 1980s in some countries.

It's worth noting that Media has gone in the opposite direction - One of the many reasons I was vehemently opposed to Comcast's acquisition of NBC was because it's just too vertically integrated to be good for the consumer.
No, it explains the lawsuit mentioned in the article.
> My year was approx 800 applicants for 400 places, that ratio skewed significantly harder, Quickly, as years went on. (I was in the second class)

By the time I went there, it was roughly a 5:1 application ratio.
"That evidence does suggest the engineers drew on knowledge and skills they gained from Hooked to develop a product for their new employer––but California’s policy favoring free mobility for employees specifically allows that. (See Whyte v. Schlage Lock Co. (2002) 101Cal.App.4th 1443, 1464 [rejecting the “inevitable disclosure” doctrine, under which a claim for trade secret misappropriation is stated if an employee’s new job will inevitably lead to reliance on the former employer’s trade secrets].)"

Which is why Silicon Valley is in California, and why attempts to create a startup culture elsewhere have mostly failed.
There's the classic trick that Penn& Teller wrote about in "Play in Traffic"

https://www.instructables.com/Prank-a-Cop-with-a-Clown-Nose/
That's only true if algae is incapable of reproducing as fast as it's consumed. In my experience running an aquaponics system this isn't a concern.
That backyard looks like a mirror image of the hacker house from Silicon Valley.
His book publisher stuck behind him...

https://nostarch.com/blog/thoughts-indictment-ryan-harris-ha...
What a tragically sad inefficiency of our current society that people who are way smarter than me are toiling away in the dark for pennies an hour on something extremely hard and useful to society, only to have their results denied by the system.

Meanwhile I'm being paid obscene amounts of money to center divs and type @Autowired and @Component for projects that never end up launching anyway. It's all so badly badly flawed.
Very few people think there should be 0 police officers or zero dollars towards policing. When a homicide happens or an arson happens, yes, there should be a department investigating and diving in.

Domestic violence could be responded to by people who are not police but are instead trained in dealing with this scenario. Domestic violence is generally handled poorly by police (who often struggle to find the aggressor, disbelieve the victim, show up armed and ready for additional conflict, etc.).

I'd much rather have a force that was trained in crisis intervention, drug abuse, and mental health, but who weren't also armed to the teeth, coupled with the prison system, and generally trained to think they are 'warriors'.
> Just like now with police brutality in the US: so much violence from them that expressing/inciting hate toward them becomes acceptable in my book.

So it is you, personally, that is the arbiter of what is and isn't OK? Does your own repeated expression of intolerance for the fundamentals of free speech in this thread similarly allow me to mark "expressing/inciting hate" toward you as "acceptable" as well? Where does this kind of reasoning end?
I don't know. I think people overblow this publish or perish thing. Shipping something and regularly is a thing that's important to practice; whether in industry or academia.

The reason it's important is that both cases, at some level, one needs to justify the use their use of resources. Places without some real world feedback are usually not a great thing long term.

Same goes for publishing in glamour journals/conferences. In the end it's a competition for attention, and things often have to be judged by presentation and storytelling as well. Prioritizing your time on working on your best projects is likely a good thing. If you feel something strongly that no one else sees, you will likely have less resources to accomplish it. That's life everywhere.
Cameras aren't gods. You have to give them a frame of reference (white point)
I have an illness on the schizophrenia spectrum and a lot of what is said rings true to me. My own therapist even doubts my diagnosis because he doesn't believe someone with my disorder should be able to hold down a job.

I don't bring it up to anyone IRL because I know what people will think of me- a danger to them, subhuman, a monster. I'm even uncomfortable to be within the spheres of supposedly accepting groups- neurodivergent advocacy groups, mental health advocacy, etc. People with less stigmatized disorders will treat me just as subhuman as a neurotypical.
Is there a picture of your tattoo online?
I guess it's not this one [1], depicting the Y-combinator.

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/98011/is-this-formu...
While I would generally agree with the sentiment, I disagree with you on diff eq. The standard education in a diff eq course is almost useless for real world problems (beyond the obvious linear diff equations). Much of what is taught in such a course is never used - even by mathematicians - including applied (Google rants on integrating factors).

Real world diff equations are notoriously difficult to deal with analytically, and usually a numerical approach is the only tool in the toolbox.
That's not true though? Iguana's reproduce just fine. Being content with what one has does not preclude seeking out sex.
Could you comment on if SoundSync uses https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control ?
Or of course, we can do this mathematically:

http://scribblethink.org/Work/kcsest.pdf
I don't understand why there is no Silicon Valley in Europe then
Why would you end up reinventing the wheel though if the orchestrarion layer were not common? No, you would be using the one from your cloud provider. I think that was the point of your greatgrandparent comment.
Charge by the ability to pay, based on your value proposition.

For example, if your service or product can help the customer save $10k/month for the next three years, that's 360k that you will be saving them. It doesn't make sense to charge them $200 for it, but maybe 30% of the net savings can do it, so $100k!

On the other hand, if for 100k they can hire a FT developer to do what you do, plus 10 other features, then charge less so they pick you over the other option.

From the personal experience, I would say avoid building products where you sell something for very little, unless you can get lock-in and your customer's lifetime value is pretty large. So if you offer a $10/m service, and your customer leaves in 3 months, that's a lot of work. But, if they stay for next 10 years, and you can find 10 million customers like them, then it's worth it (hey Dropbox!).
Social media is this generation's magazines.
3,50 € is the norm in Greece too. You say you regularly saw prices in the format <integral_euro>€<cents> in Greece? I've never seen that and I live in Greece; I surmise that either you don't remember correctly or that the set of the shops you visit is disjoint to the set of the shops I visit :)
You don’t need this directive to get YAML 1.2 parsers to parse your document as YAML 1.2; that’s the default. You only need it to instruct YAML 1.1 parsers to raise a warning (and I guess for parsers of future version of YAML to fall back to 1.2 behavior, if that ever happens).

https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2781553

https://yaml.org/spec/1.1/#id895631
The home office reveal, A battle of form and function
I'm somewhat of a fan of Taleb but I've never quite figured out how this works out in practice.

1. Taleb says the stock market systematically under-prices risk when in reality probabilities have fat tails, or high kurtosis.

2. Taleb took advantage of this by buying OTM puts which were being undervalued compared to the real risk. He's now "F you" rich, awesome.

(correct me if I'm wrong on these two assumptions)

The next question I have is, now that the cat's out of the bag, does this strategy still work? Is it possible that the market could over-value tail risk, making it a losing proposition to run this strategy (at least on certain stocks).

And if so, how do you know when that deep OTM put option is over or under priced?

I recall Taleb spent a lot of time talking about the problems but was light on actual details of how to make this strategy work out in practice (though it's been a few years since I've read some of his earlier books).
I do not know, but I could guess.

Imagine that a group of engineers tries to figure out which colors they should choose for signalling. One of them proposes red and green, and the rest of team agree. All except one who says that it doesn't seem a good idea to him. When asked he couldn't bring any argumentation except "just look at it, you people, it is very difficult to see difference between red and green". This argument doesn't work because of "facts": all other people could easily see the difference. "What the heck is going on" they think, "Is he joking silly jokes or what?". They start to press him, but he is beginning to suspect something along lines "I'm not like them, there is something wrong with me, and I even do not know what. So it is better to drop this topic before they start to suspect me in taking too much of a medication or alcohol or something".

It is just a guess. The only other scenario I could imagine is people with color vision deficiency were unlikely to get a position allowing them to pick colors for signalling. But the trouble with this scenario I couldn't devise a detailed story which would be looking like "real life". It is just an abstract idea.
Maybe someone in the US system can explain it to a European. I don't get why a lottery of GPA > 3.5 is so different from an entrance exam? Isn't it hard to get a high GPA? If Asian kids are better at the entrance exam aren't they also gonna have the highest grades?

Is it that the entrance exam is very topic specific compared to general grades?

Also, if you want the best kids at some subject, why would you think that would give you the same profile as the average population? Unless you do an unbiased sampling of the population, whatever your high school is for is going to have a lopsided distribution.
I was going to say basically the same thing, but you have said it better than I could have in many fewer words.
This is the inevitable outcome of social justice, equality of outcome politics.

Every time you don't speak up when someone pushes for one of these policies because they are scared of being canceled or fired, we move a little bit closer to this worse world.
Hey, didn't you know, there is an ice age coming ....

In 1970, The Boston Globe ran the headline, "Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century." The Washington Post, for its part, published a Columbia University scientist's claim that the world could be "as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/failed-climate-change-predi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSDLRm3jhc8
Virtual follow-ups: More convenient and just as beneficial to surgical patients
Lockdown has worked very well where I live (Vietnam), twice now. Back in April the virus was iradicated outside of hospitals and life went back to normal, except with extra mask wearing. Then a couple of cases (possibly linked to some Chinese people who were smuggled in) cropped up, and the city of Danang and surrounding provinces went into lockdown and major testing of the everyone in the city was performed. Once again, this completely eradicated the virus, within a month this time. I've noticed people in the west often refuse to accept that a developing country could have this level of success when they have failed, but I live here and can assure you it's true. If it was a cover-up, people would still be getting sick, and yet, they are not.

It has also worked in New Zealand (and possibly other countries?). I can accept that Vietnam with a strong socialist government and New Zealand as an island are well suited to lockdowns where other countries may not be. However, the fact remains that we have proof that lockdown can do more than just slow a virus. In countries where the lockdown failed so badly, perhaps it's not the lockdowns fault, but rather that the countries were culturally or politically incapable of a speedy and strong enough response?
I'm rather a fan of IZOKEE Development Board for ESP8266 because you get Wifi / WLAN built-in but yeah, ESP is cheap!
Incorrect. If everyone else pays for it and I don't, then I benefit. Tragedy of the commons. My winning strategy is never to pay.
> Certainly someone who immigrated to the US as an adult cannot know more about the US than someone who grew up here.

They certainly can, might even get a Ph.d in Cultural anthropology albeit without necessarily grasping small local intricacies, but the same could be said about someone from a different state.

Though US here is a bad example, it's just too culturally heterogeneous compared to China.
Interesting. That still doesn't give us any nonparasitic or non-symbiotic survivors. Merge with it, feed on it or go extinct.
The difference is that anyone can buy stock in their publicly held employer (with a bonus or otherwise) and have the same incentive. RSUs force the incentive to exist (instead of directly rewarding performance), but the balance between RSU growth as reward and ability to influence RSU growth may be negligible except at VP levels and above. If I am reasonably certain that keeping a backend service running within SLA is unlikely to meaningfully move the stock price I certainly won't be putting in extra hours or weekends to achieve it. Additionally, it forces a minimum risk on the risk-reward calculation made by an employee.

Whereas banks and sales teams have long given bonuses because it's tractable to assign value to individual contributions, I think bonuses are the generally preferred incentive when tractable. Making partner is roughly the VP-level equivalent of RSU grants where company performance starts being tied to individual performance.

Where this becomes a bit more evident is that RSU refreshes are almost always based on performance review, like bonuses.

I see RSUs as a cheaper/more flexible compensation for employers and a tax reduction strategy for employees (both worthwhile in their own right).
Lmao you guys drew all over it