skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how do their professors justify the cost that their choices imply?
If you read Tyson’s story, it’s more that he was extremely talented and people with a talent for the business of boxing took him under their wing. Because they spotted an opportunity.

Tyson famously lost everything when it turned out his manager/promoter was a crook.

But yes, overall you’re right, talent is useless unless you leverage it and put in the work. My argument is that, if you’re gonna put in that much work, it’s best to leverage it on something you also have a talent for.
About 130 feared dead as glacier causes dams to burst in north India
It is possible to kill culture and it's been happening in London for years, the more people are priced out of the city the less interesting things that are happening. You can see that in microcosm in the differences between Berlin and London. The number of small interesting arts and music venues in Berlin is an order of magnitude higher than in London because it's much more affordable to live there and keep doing your thing for little to no financial reward.
There is a new book out, Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs, Denis Bakhvalov [1]. Let's be honest; he works for Intel and that should have been Intel CPUs. He's a good writer.

Of course, there's Agner Fog's Microarchitecture and the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual.

There are about 11 people who really understand this stuff and they all know each other, and we all read them. Travis Downs and Geoff Langdale (Hyperscan) come to mind.

[1] easyperf.net
You really don't have to defend your masculinity to me.

I promise that I, or anyone else, won't think anything less of you if you'll replace steak with quinoa burger from time to time. It will be good for you and the environment!

Have a good one.
BX is special because in 16-bit mode it's the only one of the ABCD registers that can be used in addressing modes.

...and detecting 11 or 00 is easier than 01 or 10 in hardware, because it saves an inversion and thus a few transistors.
He just knows that doubling his output won't nearly double his pay. I doubt he would be slacking if he could make $10M by completing a big project in a year.
You are focused on the wrong set of 'bad ideas'. Lack of civil liberties for certain groups in this country is what you should really be worried about. Meritocracy and the idea of an 'even playing field' is a myth. If you fail to recognize that the consequences of racial discrimination in all of its forms in America (Jim Crow, immigration quotas, reservations, over-policing of minorities, the war on drugs) affect us
today, you might be the one not seeing things. Focus on uplifting people, not kicking them when they try to bring a voice to important issues. Here's a very good article about the subject:

https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-fa...
My "benefit of the doubt" was sarcastic, if it wasn't obvious.

I think they 100% got caught spamming and are now trying to cast it as a Facebook/government conspiracy against them.
I always thought 'nightclub' vs 'club' was that the nightclub had VIP rooms, and nearly naked ladies dancing around, and £10 lap dances.
I like the way my sister talks about this:

> Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

To reach elite levels you need both.
Given that it was posted on the eve of the Super Bowl, and that the title promises to examine a dimension of "football" that hardly exists in futbol aka "soccer", I think your point is disingenuous.
I never quite understand the logic here. The lawsuits are a big deal for the senior officers of the NRA. They're the ones being exposed here.

If the NRA dissolves, it's members are free to reform under a new org. They can do that in Texas though ironically NY would be better as (apparently) Texas doesn't punish leaders of groups who steal from their members...

They might lose a few things enroute (the name, the url?). But it doesn't seem like it will make much difference to members.

The leaders on the other hand are looking at jail if the company is found guilty (though that will rely on separate prosecutions).
Here's a good summary with some performance charts: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/10278
Also, french.
Ancient Egyptian and Emoji Chain Letters
I'm not sure your criticism is truly helpful.

The fact so many vaccines where designed in such a short period of time is something to be praised, not criticized.

Now given this type of vaccine design work usually takes many years to complete, the fact these were designed in under a year is truly amazing.

To meet that tight deadline I have no doubt corners were cut and 'is good enough' design decisions were taken.

Given more time I'm sure things could have be done better, but the world community doesn't have the luxury of waiting several years for a 'perfectly designed' vaccine.
Chad! Wikipedia says it's fallen out of favour or popular culture or something, but I certainly remember it as a cartoon from school (15-20y ago I suppose), and graffiti since for sure. If there was a history/war link then it's lost on my memory and probably was then too.
Tit-for-tat assumes a relatively equivalent level of negative outcome for each. There's very little reason to assume an alien civilization would be, and a few reasons to assume they would be quite a bit more advanced and with more resources.

Responding in a friendly manner to a direct communication is a good idea. Telling your whole tribe to run to the beach and look at and call to the large wooden boat passing by on the other hand...
> If you have no competition, I would agree with you, its a very bad situation for the worker.

Then why would you want to replace local government with a company that has a clear incentive to limit competition?

>People are only exploited if there is opportunity to exploit.

I don't think having the opportunity forgives their exploitation, but they also can actively create more opportunity.

>Trader Joes, Costco etc come to mind.

Companies completely dwarfed by Amazon and Walmart's continued exploitation. There were good factories a century ago too.

>Its a very bad example

Yes, for some reason the company you immediately associated with past corruption isn't thriving. The domestic industry hasn't declined, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_police_in_the_United_S... and the US has further embraced the idea with private contractors like Blackwater.
> Except for winning competitions, is there any natural advantage of bodybuilding for both men and women?

For the 'extreme' of what most competitors go through? Probably not.

But resistance/strength training more generally is probably beneficial:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_training

For women especially, as they age about one-third suffer from osteoporosis, and lifting (heavy!) weights forces body adaptions that help strengthen bones. One also often hears about seniors slipping/falling and breaking hips, which can cause a downward health spiral: doing squats and deadlifts with respectable weights (1.0x to 1.5x your bodyweight) would probably help with that.

Some simple tests can reliably predict longevity: number of push-ups that can be done, speed of walking up stairs, and a sitting-rising test:

* https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/simple-sitting-test-...

All involved strength more than aerobic ability.

There's also the fact that strength is useful in life: from carrying children and groceries, moving (heavy) items, etc. It will also help in keeping one's independence when older: I see infomercials about electric chairs to help the elderly up and down stairs. That's completely unnecessary if one has sufficient muscle mass (which is harder to keep as one ages) for mobility and stability.

* https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/want-to-live-...

If one has a limited amount of time, the one activity that I'd do (and do personally) is weight training. The main disadvantage is that some equipment is needed, and with gyms closed nowadays it's hard to get much done. As a fall-back I have taken up running, but it's not my first choice (though I cycled to work pre-WFH).
It's because it isn't true. There's a number of outfits and pretty much every new apartment building has double glazing. I've lived in 4 properties since moving to this country, 2 with and 2 without. Of those with, 1 new and 1 probably last renovated 15 years ago.
What kind of nightclub are you talking about? The best ones don't have tables and entrance is the price of a drink.
It's always a "fallacy" because the fallacy points out that the "next step" is not an inevitable consequence of the step it's arguing against. An assault weapons ban, to follow this example, will not magically manifest a handgun ban by its very existence, and it is entirely plausible that a handgun ban will still face tremendous resistance.

That the "next step" can be someone's eventual goal or desire is irrelevant to the "fallacy" part.
It's F2P on Steam so I guess there are servers for it:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/638490/Soldat/
Did you miss where I said it’s a complex issue?
Learn in this weeks paper how Cloudflare could look internally (Weekly CS Paper)
i use webpack with gulp, webpack helps with bundling, hmr, and code splitting.
Jazz are grown in the AU too! I know because they banned importing NZ apples in the 50s I believe, and I can still get them here!
One difference between the UK and Europe is that the clubs get started even later in Europe like 00:00 - 06:00. They seem to get later as you go further south so maybe it's something to do with waiting for the heat of the day to fade (?). As I get older, this makes going out to a club less enticing (oh, maybe that's the point!)
I think one thing that stood out to me when interviewing people was whether they were interested in what they were applying for. People who seemed interested also seemed to actually know how to do things, what was going on in the field, and they'd know other similar people.

I don't know if there's a connection or it was just the people I came across, but another thing that bothered me was that people who subscribed to an innate talent model tended to be useless at evaluating skills. They'd have no idea what to ask, what to expect as an answer, and they'd have no BS detector.

I think a more healthy approach to talent is comparative advantage. You already have a team, and you want to improve it. Even a person who is not better than anyone at any of the relevant skills can improve a team, because it's opportunity cost that matters. The canonical example of this is the CEO who is better at strategy and grammar than his secretary, it still makes sense to have a secretary write the letters.

The reason sports talent is different from most other talent is that you have a limited number of players on the field. It's then a straight up production-over-replacement calculation, whereas most teams in business don't have that constraint.

It also gives you a floor. If I'm writing a c++ system and the junior on the team eats up time being hand-held, that eats into that opportunity cost savings. I suspect this is actually what people mean with "talent" when hiring, they want someone who doesn't necessarily have all the answers, but will behave in a way that doesn't impede the existing producers.
The "natural" footballer (soccer) physique is far from ideal: it's basically just thick legs and very rigid back. It's only in the last 20/30 years that footballers started training the whole body, mostly because "why not" - their physios are now well-educated professionals with degrees, they're already at the gym on most days, and it helps them look cool.

This said, they are definitely closer to "ideal" natural proportions than most bodybuilders. They are also more balanced than tennis/basketball/baseball players, who have to work quite hard in the gym to compensate for the extremely unbalanced efforts their sports require.

There is a lot to be said for the rugby physique; sadly the sport is insane on the grounds of personal safety.
Software development is a game of the mind. Companies come up with lots of metrics as if it's a Moneyball strategy to predict winning developers. However the quality of the outcome of my work is highly dependent on several undervalued aspects like my emotional level, how distracted I'm, my hunger level, time of the year/day etc. All of these intangible aspects make a huge impact on my productivity, but I don't see no one talking about them.

When companies like Leetcode, Hackerrank etc try to quantify programmers, none of the evaluations factor for the intangible aspects. No wonder hiring in software is so utterly broken.
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Looking for something in data science/product management/program management using my blended background.
I think you're putting words in my mouth.

I didn't say reject people that respond to them negatively. You're more than welcome to criticize the criticizers with a counter argument. That's healthy debate. What you missed is the main thrust of my argument regarding the "Like" button you see on social media and gamification of an otherwise normal intellectual discourse. It brews mediocrity.
For those who are too lazy to compile the game to see what it looks like, here is the official page of Soldat: https://soldat.pl/en/ It has screenshots.
> What are you talking about here?

Some jurisdictions do not allow models under a certain b.m.i. to be commercially featured:

https://www.euronews.com/2017/09/06/counties-fighting-underw...

> Taking steroids and other activities related to bodybuilding and sports more generally can sure take their toll, but I'm pretty sure nobody has problems because of overly large muscles.

They do, their low body fat can't support them and they suffer from a myriad of complications.

Even if they had the body fat to support them, such as in many professional athletes, the strain to achieve them is not particularly healthy.

> Source?

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/legendary-bodybuilder-died-bod...

As the article says, professional body builders often go in the 3-to-5% body fat range, which is very unhealthy.

> Aren't you contradicting your point now? Or maybe I misunderstood what your point is?

Not at all; — I'm saying that “health” is but a convenient excuse to ban what the authoritarian considers not socially desirable, in this case for an ideal of beauty, whereas he is fine with letting stand that which he considers beautiful, no matter how unhealthy it might be.
As a refugee, you don't get to shop for a country where you want to immigrate. You get the asylum in the first safe one, and only until the danger is present.

While you are there, you can of course ask different countries to grant you immigration visa, but then you don't do that as refugee anymore, since you have been already granted protection in the first safe country.

So no, Frontex is not protecting Europe from legal obligations; it is protecting Europe from abusing and misrepresenting them by activists.
And last time you brought this up, I pointed out you mischaracterized the proposal in question. I'd correct your statement to say "The original FAWB proposals targeted all semi-automatic rifles with detachable [magazines that a future Attorney General wanted to ban]."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21811186
You've never eaten a piping hot El Farolito burrito in the snow in Central Park? You haven't lived!!!
> all 30 recovered — 29 of them within three to five days.

That sounds really good! But the article fails to state the expected outcome without that drug. We don't even know the age-distribution.
Scifi authors have definitely been writing about smart computers for a while now. Maybe some of the things that are newly specific to ML can be fodder for writing:

- When building an ML model, you think much less about the structure of the model and much more about getting a variety of data to feed it. One could imagine some really silly situations. If you're training an affect-recognition model, you might want to contract every single actor in hollywood to act out a single scene. Maybe your voice recognition model is not working on certain people, so you hunt down a specific person and force them to read all of Shakespeare's work out loud. You might work on self-driving problems, and every day you instruct a full village of people to enact a precise ballet of driving, walking, and roadwork, to get the autonomous brain to learn some weird corner case of reasoning. Similar to Player Piano, so many people will be working on non-directly-productive work, almost play-acting work so a computer can do it for real.

- Sometimes ML doesn't work in really weird specific situations. In the 90s, your program could stop working because the lighting and shadows changed, but now the reasons for something failing are so much more obscure. What is it like becoming an expert in psychology for something that doesn't even really think? What does that person do day-to-day and what does their boss think of them? Is it more like being an independent psychiatrist, or more like a police detective? (then again, I'm drifting into an Asimov plot even as I write this...)

- Each object you train an ML model on takes a certain amount of investment, in data collection, in debugging, and in adjusting the training process. Each object adds expense, so maybe a solution is to stop adding objects? Maybe your Alexa enhanced home edition was built in 2025, so to keep your house in order you can't buy items made from 2026 onwards. Or maybe it's a big societal issue, so the government mandates that every new item created must pay some kind of registration fee. Maybe it only allows 10 new items per year. Some people would be pretty unhappy about that.

Maybe you're right! Maybe switching from straight edges screws to philips screws makes for a really boring story, because we've already written every story that accounts for some kind of screw driver.
I don't have the faintest idea how to physically imagine magnetic reconnection. I've only seen it described in terms of "field lines", which are pretty much imaginary. Can anyone explain it in more concrete terms without requiring intimate familiarity with Maxwell's equations?

Edit: To be clear about the unreality of field lines, since that's apparently necessary: magnetic fields are not made of finite numbers of discrete 1D elements. They are continuous. The placement of individual "field lines" in a drawing is purely arbitrary. This part I understand quite well.
In the case of nvidia drivers, at least there is the (valid) excuse that the hardware vendor is purposefully hostile to linux. But failings of sound and localization are entirely of linux making.
If this is the case why does Michael Phelps not have the same body shape as Brad Pitt?
College will become mandatory but it will matter what your degree is because demand and supply dictates market economy. I'm more worried about full automation that is coming in the next decades because it will leave many unemployed. I think universal base income is inevitable but what comes after that?
> Oct 2019 - this article

The article was published on Oct 31, 2018 (not 2019).
Show HN: Which Countries Have the Most Open-Source Contribution?
The last two weeks of Console [1] I interviewed people who are not from the U.S. about their open-source projects. This got me thinking, are people outside the U.S. more prone to contribute to open-source than U.S. developers? So, I went looking by pulling in the location data for 500,000 publicly available repos to answer this question.

Why 500,000? Well, GitHub rate limits their API to roughly 1 request per second [2], and I didn't want to wait a year to write about my findings, or abuse their API. Anyway, here are the results:

None: 328,
US: 232,
Other: 38,
United Kingdom: 29,
Germany: 25,
Canada: 17,
Australia: 15,
Switzerland: 9,
Netherlands: 8,
France: 8,
Japan: 6,
Romania: 5,
Sweden: 5,
Finland: 5,
New Zealand: 4,
Spain: 4,
Russia: 3,
Czech Republic: 3,
Slovenia: 2,
Bulgaria: 2,
China: 2,
Norway: 2,
Argentina: 1,
Singapore: 1,
Hong Kong: 1,
India: 1,
Chile: 1,
Poland: 1

Since the GitHub location is free-form, Other was used to capture things like "Everywhere", or "The Internet".

You might be thinking, "gee, this seems low", and this is because not only did I only look at 500,000 repos, but, I also only took repos with >1K stars, as I considered that a good heuristic for what I would consider a "substantial" contribution.

Anyway, there are obvious flaws with this approach (for example, are US repos more likely to be starred than others?), but it was enough to sate my curiosity and figured I'd pass it along to others in case they were also interested.

[1] https://console.substack.com/

[2] https://twitter.com/sjkelleyjr/status/1357523698039676928
And Romanian :).

Based on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soldat it seems to originally come from Italian?
This seems to be an exemplar of "what we wish were true" conclusion.
Not surprising the writer completely omits the redistribution of wealth the pandemic has enabled. Arguing against increase in minimum wage, wealth taxes and pandemic stimulus checks, he ends his article with "when everyone gets a trophy, no one gets a trophy".

The oligarchy [1] has certainly gotten a lot of trophies this year and shall continue. Didn't register on his radar.

[1] The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

"Testing theories of American politics: Elites, interest groups, and average citizens" Gilens, Page,2014, over 2k citations.
Interesting that they now sell prebuilt kits on new hardware, after years targeting the now-defunct Globalscale Dreamplug.

https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pionee...
they aren't struggling too much around here even during covid... still a bunch of tourists in FL
Is this similar to Abuse?
> What was left was mostly tilapia and cod, kale, low-sodium broth, and colorless, calorie-free shirataki noodles. Sasha’s rules around food and training, handed down to him from other coaches as bodybuilding doctrine, were inscrutable to me. I found myself living in a world where green bell peppers were OK and red peppers were not

I just want to say that while this is representative of what some bodybuilders do. It's also completely wrong and not representative of how you can diet for a competition.

Modern bodybuilding is not "witch" magic. You count calories, macros, and your exercise output and manipulate those to lose weight. Anyone who is saying one bell pepper type is okay but another isn't doesn't know what they are doing, and it's not fair to judge bodybuilding based on that.
I'm old enough to remember the first time this was posted to HN...
France, Italy, Spain, and Israel all have laws about the weight of fashion models. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39821036
So… multiplayer gravity shmup?
Wanting affirmation from and to be attracted by others around you (total strangers included) is basic human nature. It’s why we adorn ourselves with clothing and perfume, not to mention our skin and hair, whatever gender you are. I am a male and always want to seem attractive in physique and in character to the opposite sex, and even in some level to the same sex. My wife insists she doesn’t care what other people think about how she looks but she spends hours doing her hair and makeup when she goes somewhere with me or by herself. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this and it is completely healthy from a psychological standpoint.
And Swedish.
I'm probably the only person that likes them. I like the big mushy ones.
So what do you know about Slovakian attitude towards non-white people?
"Keep Austin weird."