skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of money someone is paid usually has zero correlation with what they are paid. See Cigarette execs vs school teachers.

Some of us see the virtue in authors getting incentivized in theory but think copyright at least as practiced is a net negative for society because it stops the free spread of information that would otherwise better enlighten the world. This way of thinking actually dates back to some of the founding fathers.

Nobody "deserves" to be paid because someone has arranged a pattern of bits in a way that they "own". Different laws have different up sides and down sides and we ought to pick the set of rules that results in the highest benefit/lowest cost to society. This unlike ownership of imaginary property has moral force. By choosing to treat the current rules as given good you have missed out on the opportunity to make a useful argument about the relative utility of different strategies.

Arguably the current dynamic where piracy is technically easy but practically discouraged might be far more optimum than one in which copyright was actually maximally enforced because the people who have plenty of money value convenience and pay out at a substantive portion of what they would pay in a maximum enforcement scenario whereas those who would otherwise go without are able to.

On net you end up with multiple times the positive effect of a maximum enforcement scenario while still funding authors having a decent life.

For myself I think artificial scarcity of any variety is an attempt to preserve a business model based on actual scarcity that doesn't make much sense in modern context. Ultimately it wasn't the VCR inventors job to justify to the copyright industry that home video industry made sense. The logical step towards phasing out copyright would be limiting it to a sane time frame like 7 years wherein most of the money is actually made in the first place.
The majority of this student's high school years were with Catherine Pugh as the mayor of Baltimore[1]. She was eventually convicted of abusing her power as Mayor and being bribed for $500K from the University of Maryland Medical System. The bribe was indirectly done by having the University purchase 100,000 copies of her self-published book to donate it to the Baltimore school system in exchange for her approving contracts for the University (including $4M for the CEO).

Baltimore, like Philadelphia, Chicago, and a number of other large cities, has had the same political machine in power for the past 50+ years. It's a system where corrupt politicians compete and only the most corrupt gets to the top to seize power.

It's no wonder the school children aren't learning anything. Their parents keep electing the same failures who never change anything.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Pugh#Resignation_and...
What do you think about Supertokens.io?

Granted its not as mature but its open source, easy to implement (decouples features based on your use case), really customizable frontend UI and great support (ping me anytime!)
Why do they exist? I'd contend to make money not art (which, like most things, does not require a blockchain).
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I don't know how many of the cursed sites you've visited, but in addition to rudimentary styling, some of the sites contain some rather disturbing content.

Hence the "fucked up shit," and "twisted mind," comments. I don't think they are inappropriate or disrespectful.

I don't think tone policing is appropriate or beneficial.
The author points here (and I think in older posts) to the change of setting for the reason that Strike Commander failed.

That's definitely part of it, but the game was essentially unplayable without QEMM386 (a commercial expanded-memory manager of the time). With the MS EMM386, you would regularly get crashes to the dos prompt (I think the typical error included a .OVL file in the output).

Prior to the knowledge of QEMM being needed to play it, it just had the reputation of "buggy as hell" which had to be contributory to its poor sales (I think a WC branded game that was equally buggy would have probably sold much better, but the bugs were the nail-in-the-coffin)
> If I develop something, I am the owner.

How do you, as a product owner, coming up with new features? How do you, as a product owner, prioritize one feature over other?
Or ICE powered gas tools.
I checked this out of the library in college and it was life changing. It's a whole new way to see.
At some point in grade school I was home sick for a few days and ended up watching C-SPAN for several hours on end. I don't recall exactly what was going on politically during that time, but many congresspersons were standing up and giving speeches for a few minutes at a time.

I eventually started a game in my mind where I'd try to guess their political affiliation before the chyron appeared. I'm pretty sure by the end I was getting it correct more than 50% of the time. Everyone was dressed similarly, but I remember looking closely at their tie patterns and hair cuts as clues.
There's a spectrum of gray in the effect and scale of the manipulation, but deciding to manipulate the user or not is a binary choice.
Neither was the multi-million dollar subsidy to polluters paid by the people who didn't want or need the gasoline-powered leaf-blower service, and who have been picking up the cost of the free riders for a long time.
Is this a case of Java leaking through again?

As in, Clojure uses int rather than Integer, so it simply can't be nil aka null?
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These regulations seem worse than nothing. We already have browsers, we can block and filter cookies based on our individual preference and adjust depending on our tolerance for privacy vs functionality. How has this changed the data collection practices of Facebook or Google in any meaningful way? Not enough people are asking what effect the many new regulatory burdens will have for the internet. It entrenchs the existing players (know who has the money to hire 20 compliance officers for every Tuscan villa?) and makes the barrier to entry to compete more difficult. Plenty of proto facebooks have fallen by the wayside. Remember AOL? Remember Myspace? Now the big players have a hand in writing the law that potential competitors will have to comply with.
This book is incredible. I went from “can’t draw a straight line” to realism in a week. Happy to upload some proofs, haha.
You're being too high-minded.

This is about absent parents and a school board that has already given up on students before they even enroll.

This is not a "systemic" national issue...its an issue for inner city schools where the students are poor and brown.
It must be Origin retrogames quarter on HN!

We had an article about what made Ultima IX (or was it VIII?) a complete disaster and it was exactly from this same web domain.

I read the entirety of the WCIII article then ,since the ultima article linked to it.

I think the article is well sourced, and for sure i learned a thing or two, but more importantly, it made me think on how valuable sources of information (domains) get lost in the process unless the right HN user is posting it.
the use of this term in this manner has been deprecated
Very cool, can you give details about the monthly costs?
Wing Commander IV was just much more polished to me and just mind blowing all around.
I don’t build my life around it, but I try to sometimes do things that would have tickled my teenage self. I did sell the loud, blue-with-green-flames 1988 Fiero that all the kids in the neighborhood waved at. I still try to do cool stuff and scare myself from time to time.

I agree it’s not bad to be boring... but it’s not the only thing that /I/ want to be.
So the dozens/hundreds of crews are just going to plug in anywhere/everywhere they can? That's not feasible.
in the specific case of erlang, and the erlang beam vms,

0 !== 0.0

Of course 0 == 0.0

I imagine if they had chosen to follow IEEE, it would have been that 0.0 !== -0.0 and 0.0 == 0.0.
>gouraud shading

The fact that I think you're a philistine going with Gourad over Phong shading is something totally incomprehensible to that person that came five years after you.

I feel like my relationship to computers vs. newer generation is very much like my parent generations relationships with cars vs my own. My father in law can tell me about every car he's owned, upgrades made to it, etc. Similarly, I can recall every PC I've built, as well as all of the incremental upgrades along the way.

At this point in my career, I've directly managed close to 100 different software engineers, and only a handful are terribly interested in the inner workings of the machines they use. For them, they're tools, some better than others, for doing the job.
Worth noting the human guessing was not on the same data set, but I believe the machines are going to beat us at this in general.
Here's a selection of tweets for you, by a celebrity many still trust and consider a "scientific genius":

@elonmusk Mar 6, 2020

The coronavirus panic is dumb

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1236029449042198528

@elonmusk Mar 19, 2020

Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960

@elonmusk Mar 19, 2020

Kids are essentially immune, but elderly with existing conditions are vulnerable. Family gatherings with close contact between kids & grandparents probably most risky.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240758710646878208

@elonmusk Jun 29, 2020

There are a ridiculous number of false positive C19 tests, in some cases ~50%. False positives scale linearly with # of tests. This is a big part of why C19 positive tests are going up while hospitalizations & mortality are declining. Anyone who tests positive should retest.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1277507826529660928
Most of the answers to this will be in a big JuliaCon talk this summer. But I'll give a few hints.

>Could you elaborate on the design choice to model components as functions as opposed to objects ? functions seem compose well from your example but what about initial conditions and type safety ? In Modelica each component is an object where you can specify initial conditions inside each of them with constraints and can eventually make a big system, and if it compiles you can be reasonably confident you aren't mismatching units, missing outputs etc.

There's things for type verification and all of that. The decision comes from how it interacts with the compiler. You can easily redefine functions and create them on the fly, less so for structs. That turns out to make it easier to do features like inheritance easily in a functional workflow. Symbolic computing seems to work very well in this setup.

>Do you have any plans for graphical representation ? Some of the systems I work on in Motorsports are absolutely massive with 150k equations, and having a diagram to see the connections are really helpful. An auto generated one from code would be more than good enough.

Somewhat. Auto-generated ones from code already exist in the Catalyst.jl extension library (https://catalyst.sciml.ai/dev/). That kind of graphing will get added to MTK: we just added the dependency graph tooling to allow it to happen, so it's just waiting for someone to care.

A full GUI? There's stuff we're thinking about. More at JuliaCon.

>How do you handle FFI and interaction with other Julia objects inside ModelingToolkit.jl since it requires symbolic reduction ?

All of the functions are Julia functions, and you can easily extend the system by registering new Julia functions to be "nodes" that are not traced. See https://symbolics.juliasymbolics.org/dev/manual/functions/#R... . So if you do `f(x,y) = 2x^2 + y`, then it will eagerly expand f in your equations. If you do `@register f` (and optionally add derivative rules), then it'll keep it as a node in the graph and put its function calls into the generated code. This is how we're doing FFI for media libraries in a new HVAC model we're building.

>The FMI standard is a very popular export standard for these models. Any plans to support it here ?

There is a way to read in FMI that will be explained much more at JuliaCon, with some details probably shared earlier. It's somewhat complex so I'll just wait till the demos are together, but yes we have examples with FMU inputs already working.
The sandwich structure described in the article makes sense: separate the superconducting and the load-bearing functions into different layers.
> The American school is striking in its emphasis on externally managed curricula, state-wide tests, etc. It feels like the teachers are competent but nobody trusts them.

One of the most important things to understand how America works, I think, is to appreciate that blame-avoidance is the #1 priority of basically all actors who matter—which itself isn't that unusual—and also that we also have a bizarre cultural blindness to same, such that we'll give people a pass when they plainly are responsible just because they set something up in advance to shift the blame (to e.g. a system of rules or a committee).

The flip side of this is that we crucify people who can have mistakes pinned on them, or admit to a mistake.

"No-one got fired for buying IBM" is practically a national motto for us.

We'll tolerate a chronically-broken and ineffective system far, far longer than we will an individual making one bad choice for every ten good ones they make.

Keeping this in mind makes a lot of how our institutions and "decision-makers" operate much clearer.
I haven't tried it yet as it's still a release candidate, but startup time is said to be much improved in v1.6.0.
It generally ensures that there is always something to charge someone with if they come to the attention of the authorities and if the "offender" is not politically or socially advantaged in some way.
Because your standard 1.5HP 110V circuit has as much torque an as sloth, which is only slightly better than battery operated tools' having as much torque as an anemic sloth.
Americans drive more than 3 trillion miles per year.
I can see that story ending like this: "... and that's how our startup failed."
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How do you call the short bets? Why is that not accumulating positions then used media to convince ppl to sell stocks making they're positions profitable.
Yes and no.

There are extensive documented procedures for handling under performing or absent students, defined in great detail at the top level. But seems like there is a disconnect between those bureaucratic processes and actual connections between the teachers making sure the students know where they stand.
I believe Teslas rely 100% on cameras for this type of maneuvers. Regardless, it didn’t need to swerve into the next lane, just move to the right 6 inches in the same lane.
All I want is truck-size fusion reactors.

That would open up the Solar System the way the steam engine opened up the oceans.

Ideally you'd have a custom design for rocket engines, where the reactor is semi-open: you feed in fuel through one end, and have the nozzle generating thrust at the other end. Even better if you could optionally close that, when you need only electricity but no thrust.
I remember a major debate about in-engine cut-scenes when Interstate-76 used them, which came out not too many years after WC3.

Of course the final fantasy series used in-engine cutscenes up through the sixth installment.
I've found -<> and -<>> very useful- they by default put things in first and last place respectively, but let you override with <>:

(-<> x (foo bar) (map baz <>))

Found here:
https://github.com/rplevy/swiss-arrows
It's a fact that I don't have an internal monologue. I didn't understand that people actually thought in words until I was a teenager.
Clearly parental involvement was exactly the problem here. It took her 4 years to notice he was failing every class. Maybe she was very busy, but still.
Indeed. EVERYONE involved in finance, from Warren Buffett on down, talks their book. EVERY transaction in finance involves asymmetric information. Might as well stop pretending these facts aren't true.
To learn to draw, you first need to learn to see. So copy things.

Try this project:

Take a sheet of paper and divide the space into 2 equal halves. In one half make a collage of black and white images. No color - this is important. Try to fill the space if you can.

Once done, get a pencil, eraser and ruler. Your job is to copy the collage into the other half as accurately as possible.

To do this, measure where every point is on the collage - any place where 2 edges come to a point, then plot that point in your working space. With or without the ruler, copy the edges. Then focus on how dark or light the part of the collage you’re copying is and replicate that.

After awhile you will find you’ll want throw away the ruler and do it by eye. Try it. You will find yourself drawing much better.

Some tips: you have to use pencil and paper. A screen is going to throw you off. You can always try it on a second or third attempt of this project.

This one project literally took my art mark from a failing grade to 85%, and everyone after swore I had a gift. It’s not a gift. It’s just a skill that develops with hours of practice.
> Teachers only have so much bandwidth for parent-teacher conferences, so they likely prioritize students in the lowest quartile.

Different system and different country, but at our son's school, every child gets two parent-teacher conferences a year (one at the start of the year and one at the end). There is an online booking system, you go in and book a slot. They only go for ten minutes. The only way you don't get one is if the parents choose not to book one.

And that's nothing new, I remember the same thing when I was a kid. The only thing that is new is online booking.

If our son's school can do this, why can't this one? Incompetence? Underfunding?
I can't say I completely agree with the philosophical outlook behind this list, but this specific term you cite seems like a clear improvement
Blue No Matter Who. Its why Andrew Cuomo would be re-elected tomorrow, as would Gavin Newsom. Indeed, if I were Andrew Cuomo, I would schedule an election ASAP - there's nothing like a vote mandate to erase any doubt.
I believe it's this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00165

And then the NTK paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07572

There is also this which seems to have been produced in parallel, closely related to the first but not exactly the same: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.11271
You can't compare Finland and the USA because this is a race problem, not a school management or teacher trust problem.

If you compared Finland to only white students in the USA you'll see one result, if you compare to only black students you'll see very different results.
You got the right idea, but in my three years of using Clojure professionally I never ounce needed this, so I feel at least in some cases like mine, this is a pretty rare situation.
> 2. custom GPU kernels

You can write them in Julia, whereas in Python you have to write them in C/C++ and then use the FFI to call them.
I'm 30 now and my best small changes were:

* Walk more - Getting a Fitbit motivated me a lot

* Sleep better - educate yourself about sleep

* Write things down - I refer to this as a superpower.
I know Musk isn't exactly conventionally sane and tends to be erratic but tax evasion while trying to surplant big oil and muscling in on the auto industry, and grabbing space launche business from Russia would be a downright /stupid/ move.
Isn't it possible in many ML models to then synthesize of the images of the features that most strongly predict the orientation? Like an archetypical "conservative" or "liberal". Could this help identify if the model is picking up on something like facial expression, or facial hair?
You can also create a getter on NodeList.prototype named '_' that returns Array.from(this) and then just use any of the array methods on it. Like

document.querySelectorAll('div')._.some(...)

So many options. :)
With modern reactor designs the inherent safety mechanisms mean that humans are not in the loop to reduce reactivity or remove decay heat.

Here's an example from Argonne National Laboratory:

> In the first test, with the normal safety systems intentionally disabled and the reactor operating at full power, Planchon's team cut all electricity to the pumps that drive coolant through the core, the heart of the reactor where the nuclear chain reaction takes place. In the second test, they cut the power to the secondary coolant pump, so no heat was removed from the primary system.

"In both tests," Planchon says, "the temperature went up briefly, then the passive safety mechanisms kicked in, and it began to cool naturally. Within ten minutes, the temperature had stabilized near normal operating levels, and the reactor had shut itself down without intervention by human operators or emergency safety systems."

https://www.ne.anl.gov/About/hn/logos-winter02-psr.shtml
I think there are many reading this that are unfamiliar with that scene.
As an Engineering Manager vs. team lead or Principal Engineer, the main difference is your #7 (growth and performance). That's the thing I list as #1 in terms of what an Engineering Manager does. You'll play a big role in all of the others as you progress in seniority, but if you don't love the growth and planning, it's hard to success as a Manager. Related, you're also the one that has to make the hard decision when it's time to part ways with someone who's not working out.
As suspected, McKinsey has its hands all over the NYGovCuomo data scandal
HN feels more like a single subreddit than reddit as a whole. There is far greater cultural diversity on reddit.
> Paypal growth held a 1:1 correlation with online prescription drug scam (or online prescription crime rings, depending who you ask).

This correlation is about as compelling as these ones: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
As you wrote it, yes it is completely fine.
The problem isn't just the schools, it is the endless cycle of poverty and lack of mobility. For many of these students, school is the least of their concern. Just having food to eat or staying safe is hard. Combined with high single parent rates which is very hard, and just nobody to look up to.

Schooling can only get you so far. Many of these kids need help outside of school with mentorship and staying out of crushing poverty. Otherwise they really don't have a chance even with the very best of schooling. I have no doubt that it is very difficult for these teachers. We try to quantify "failing schools" with standardized testing but that is not taking into account the students going into it. Then for the teachers working there they are demoralized and have a tough job as it is. I am not saying the schools are blameless but this is a more multifaceted and systematic problem than underperforming schools.
There is no way you can actually delete anything in the cloud, because once it is in the cloud, it is not under your control anymore.

The ability to "delete" something is only apparent. You can just tell the customer you have erased her data, but preserve it anyway, not to mention other parties like secret services or competitors, that could be interested on your data too.

If you have valuable data, people(like the Chinese or competitors) will offer your workers millions of dollars(or just threaten them or you like 3 letter agencies) for access to this data.
I don't have a filebrowser. For me it'd be enough if they had the number visible and hopefully allow me to highlight it too
I'm now imagining an implausible scenario with a SPARC reactor loaded onto a trailer and being used to power Jay Leno's steam powered car.
I think that quick research about the company can give a rough idea about the salary they offer.

In most cases, it's possible to find feedback from past employees on Glassdoor.