skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should submit this! I think it’s a great idea.

One way that people discover books is by listening to / reading about authors they enjoy, talking about other books and authors that they enjoy.

There’s an NLP problem in there for sure, because they like to both bash and praise certain people.

It’d be amazing to have a searchable graph of “Tolstoi likes Turgenev likes Gustave Flaubert”. There could even be a time aspect to it, as certain writers hated or loved their contemporaries as time went on.

At present, authors and literary people have these graphs in their heads, it would be nice to write them all down and expose them. At present it’s quite laborious to bootstrap such a mental graph by yourself, as a student or hobbyist.
Not everyone has the time to read "a whole website," nor is everyone inclined to if you are unwilling to clear up a seemingly unscientific concept (DNA from GMO entities ending up in our genome).
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Actually I like pyCuda. https://documen.tician.de/pycuda/tutorial.html

You can write all the boilerplate in python and just the kernel in C (which you can pass to a string and compiler automatically in your python script). So far the workflow is much smoother than with nvcc (and creating some dll bindings for the c programm).
Not that I think we should go back, but I do miss the wildwest days of web development when it was still acceptable to FTP untested code straight to production.

For my first dev job we would develop on production using an FTP client to push up changes on save. One day I was writing an SQL UPDATE statement and I forgot to include a WHERE clause. I basically nuked the entire product DB and it took days to recover because it was also not unheard of to not have regular db back ups. No one really questioned it too much though. Stuff like that just happened from time to time back then.

I rarely ever use FTP today. I wonder if students learning to code today even know what FTP is? It was one of the first things I learnt when learning to build websites as a teenager, but I don't that's the case anymore.

It's kind of interesting how processes in tech have evolved as much as the technology over the last few decades. It's hard to think of a good usecase for FTP anymore, but just a couple of decades ago it was used everywhere. Is anyone still using it for anything?
Noone said that you need to forcefully segregate people based on ability. You don't even need to measure it!

Just offer different classes, with different difficulties. Some people will be bored and go to more advanced classes, others will struggle and move to less advanced classes.

There's actually a well-organised system that almost does this - primary school! Except that there, people are forcefully grouped by age, when there's really no need for that. That's (one of the reasons) why I advocate for mixed-age education.
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When something like this is proposed, remember Mao's Four pests campaign.

The ecosystem is way too complex for us to understand. This might finish very badly.
That's not a guarantee for any number of flips. For example, if you only flipped the coin one time, what does "60% of the time" even mean in that context? As your other replies have indicated, this is getting at the long-run frequency, meaning as you flip the coin more and more times, approaching infinity, the number of heads approaches 60%.
In The Chip, T. R. Reid talks about how Kilby and Noyce (inventors of the integrated circuit) spent time reading through new patent applications every day/week. As programmers, we spend a lot of time reading blog posts, but it's possible to take it further than that. For a couple years I attended a database reading group every Friday at a local university, where each week we would discuss a paper someone was interested in. You may also have alumni access to interesting journals. Or A Morning Paper[0] is a more Readers Digest approach. It takes some intentional work, but it's fun and you learn a lot.

[0] https://blog.acolyer.org/
What makes for “strong” genes in humans? Accepting the axioms of that discussion is a quick way to arrive at eugenics.
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I thought CF's story could have been a bigger hook into how he rediscovers the circle of life and his place in it. But the film never closses that loop successfully.
As I put it in another comment, in many countries, introduce a camera and somehow what amounts to prostitution becomes magically legal.

Drugs are cool, but easily addictive / bad in excess.

I don't see how sex is bad in any amount unless it interferes with daily life or health.
I agree, an explicit discussion of privilege would have made this a significantly different movie but please note that I said I was looking for "A small acknowledgement" rather than "an explicit discussion".
No, the high electricity cost in my country + the noise pollution in the house + how much I generally earn from the machine + my views on burning the world speculatively, discourage me from mining crypto.

Perhaps my position might change in future, but for now, I'd probably rather make the GPU accessible to those open-source distributed grids that train chess engines or compute deep-space related thingies :)
Program fails, and parents are mad/furious about their kids not learning anything and years wasted.
That is a really good idea actually, didn't know that such services existed. Perhaps several peertubers could pool their resources and set up CDNs using seedboxes.
How do you know you wouldn't have ended up where you are without a mentor? There's no control here. AFAIK twin studies provide the best insight we can get within ethical means.
Stuff like this has been circulating for years, usually under the guise of Quality of Service management.

Beware. When people start talking about how to bin traffic or discriminate streams or particular hosts, they really have only one thing in mind.
I looked into this, and it's way harder than you think. Several browsers report themselves as Chrome, Chrome itself is about to get rid of its user agent, and all the javascript feature detection methods I could find no longer work.
Did you determine the probability of winning based merely on the sport-book odds are do something more sophisticated?

The sport-book odds, as I understand, are merely trying to divide the bets on each side evenly (i.e., they don't necessarily represent a probability).
There are lots of Asians that grow up poor in the US and excel at far higher rates than poor African-Americans. There isn't really much evidence that SES has a large impact on things like SAT scores, I doubt it would affect being able to do well at Harvard (which I've heard is actually very easy once you get in).
Not sure if links are allowed but I think Real Science on YT has some pretty good information on GMO mosquitoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrIS7mia36k
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It blows my mind that a record-low acceptance rate is held up as an achievement, and not a structural failure. Why is the metric not "we are able to educate X% of students who meet this well-defined bar"? There are some departments in institutions (think CS) who, in the face of exploding enrollments, have made every effort to scale their courses to accommodate as many students who are capable as possible. And they do that with substantially fewer resources than many of these Ivies. Why, as a society, do we tolerate universities selling "exclusivity" instead of education?
It might, but I like to think we've come a little ways since the 1950s in scientific understanding of the environment.
For a long time I had a "todo" to make a better way to display my favorite books. Before we started working on Zeneca, I had a bullet list on my personal website. I noticed so many other people did the same. For example in Naval's Almanack he also has a bullet list with some comments on his favorite books. It struck us that a better experience could exist, and for now most people just accept the status quo.

Having a nice way to display my books was enough of a "hair on fire" problem for us to start working on Zeneca. It's been cool to see other people using the platform and asking for more features to solve broader problems and engage more frequently.

You can check out a sample profile here: https://zeneca.io/joe
> Every single political party in Pakistan is an islamic-nationalist party. Yet the Western media never describes them so.

Because that is to be expected in an Islamic country. India, on the other hand, is supposed to be a secular nation that prides itself in its diversity.

As for CAA and the like, I feel it's mostly a branding problem. Most of the resistance BJP gets is because their PR people aren't able to present or explain their policies in a civil, rational manner. Every time someone tries to challenge them they go apeshit defensive, declaring them anti-national and whatnot, pissing people of even when they could have had good reasons and people would have probably not reacted to them had they only spoken of them properly.
Should Costco/Walmart be allowed to sell products along competing ones in their own marketplace? No! Of course!

I’d like to see how well they would perform on Target/Best Buy shelves, they probably wouldn’t sell at all. Therefore the only origin for their success is an abuse of marketplace ownership, and it has distorted the market, and therefore has harmed consumers by simply reducing quality brand’s ability to scale, by imposing higher shelf costs for the same brand exposure, and therefore fewer sales.

Although it’s not a monopoly — and another law should be drafted against competing on a marketplace you own.
That’s “nybble”: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/N/nybble.html
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Why is Dogecoin any less viable than Bitcoin? Both look like tulips to me.
My response to this is straight from your own post: "It's also foolish to believe that history is a linear trajectory towards something good or better". You seem to state that we need violent revolution to get from one local optimum to a "better" one, but violent revolution can also lead us to worse ones.

It's foolish to believe that we actually know a surefire to fix injustice, or to build a system which will not contain "flaws" in its power structure. It's even more foolish to believe we can build a system with no power structure, like certain movements do.

On the topic of injustice: While I agree that you can't overthrow injustice without some form of violence, my issue here is that people often create more and bigger injustice when trying to fix injustice, because the bad in the status quo blinds them to the good. People often take things for granted which are not obvious and only realize they had them when they lose them.

Also, justice is subjective. There are visions of justice where you can create a "more just" world where everyone is worse off. What then?

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Addendum: I'd just like to say that I appreciate that you clearly put effort into your arguments, and actually talked things out with me even though we clearly hold different view points. I probably won't reply to this thread anymore, as I think I've said all I have to contribute to this topic for now. I will read if you reply, though.

Thank you for debating this complex issue openly with me.
>Microsoft won that litigation in America

No they didn’t?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...

> the district court ruled that Microsoft's actions constituted unlawful monopolization under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed most of the district court's judgments.
https://blog.alphatheory.com/2013/01/kelly-criterion-in-prac...
I believe that option was more to do with transparently converting between DOS and Unix line terminators. I definitely recall several ruined 2400bps modem downloads in the mid-nineties, because I'd failed to issue a TYPE I command.
Twitter was designed to be the perfect Russian op. It's a complete disaster and deserves to be shut down if it can't control it's bot problem or prioritize non-combatives. Which I know it can, it just values it's lackluster growth to keep a few dozen people rich. Fuck that useless stream of propaganda horseshit.
I get it, it’s just a funny quote. “Paints” a rather absurd picture - scientists furiously painting a mountain somewhere Ultra-white® in a last-ditch attempt to cool down the planet.

If you haven’t yet read Douglas Adams, I can highly recommend it.
Tried and true list:

1. Side Meier's Alpha Centauri

2. Heroes of Might and Magic 3

3. Age of Empires 2

4. X-Com

5. Jagged Alliance 2

6. Crusader Kings II

7. Civilization IV

8. Master of Orion II

9. Dwarf Fortress

10. Rimworld

11. Homeworld
Someone should turn it into comedy, make a parody of it.
The people you want running the country aren’t likely people who are willing to get paid minimum wage too.

You want the best? Usually have to pay more. People in congress are barely paid anything as far as the private market goes. (<$200k/yr and that’s while having to live in two places and frequently travel between them) Considering how many have law degrees and other professional degrees, being a congress person certainly is a step down in terms of certain income. They just make up for it with should be illegal forms of market manipulation. (And other things)
That was my immediate guess as well. I almost always encounter this with music radio stations when I leave my parking garage and the signal flips to HD. With music it’s very easy to hear the quality improvement at the same time as the “skip,” and in my car there’s a little “HD” icon somewhere on the radio interface.
What the hell are you all getting PhDs in where it is a doable path if you are near the bottom of your undergrad?

I've explored a PhD in CS, and reading what people write I've gotten the impression that it is extremely difficult to get into programs.
They wanted to hold speech to account for things they didn't like. Right now they can't.
Nvidia's Grace CPU
It appears the opposite may be true

> But it turns out that the proportional increase for those who grew up poor is much less than for those who did not. College graduates from families with an income below 185 percent of the federal poverty level (the eligibility threshold for the federal assisted lunch program) earn 91 percent more over their careers than high school graduates from the same income group. By comparison, college graduates from families with incomes above 185 percent of the FPL earned 162 percent more over their careers (between the ages of 25 and 62) than those with just a high school diploma:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/02...
HBM3 wasn't just supposed to be about speed. It also offers a 512-bit option that doesn't require a silicon interposer. I'd guess this was added to make cheaper consumer GPU designs possible.

I suspect they're using the HBM2 spec for the narrow bus and cheaper interposer while keeping speeds lower and only using a couple stacks instead of the 16 or so HBM2 stacks required for those 2Tb/s speeds you mention. It makes sense given that their chip likely couldn't use a huge amount of bandwidth anyway.
Children like emulating adults and "older kids"
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Indeed, this was also the original use case of ISDN before the internet.
Are you talking about the dev workflow?

My point was that I already have a cheap webhosting, with a domain and email and I can now just login into cpanel and paste a script.

As a developer as other mentioned there are ways to run stuff from CLI, so IMO PHP is pretty equal with python or ruby , not sure there is a general clear winer so it always depends on the project and the team.

But if you are a new dev and you don't know any of the languages I would say start with Python, even if I prefer the C syntax. I got into PHP indirectly, I worked on desktop applications and I was asked to help with a web project so I learned it by doing (but I was already experienced so I did know what are some good practices), in the end desktop applications are no longer popular so I am still working on SPAs
Or, more accurately, one medium-sized brain in each arm
www.sciencedaily.com is what you’re looking for. This story, like most others, was published there the same day the research came out:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201021112358.h...

And they have an absurd number RSS feeds for every topic too:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/newsfeeds.htm
The bookie odds go into the formula as b- the net fractional odds received on the wager.

We have our own models for our confidence, and the Kelly criterion decides our wager size (though we don't use a full Kelly bet).

Yes, the sportsbook minimizes their own risk by setting a spread or odds with respect to how patrons are wagering. This actually makes it easier to make money if your model is much better than the average bettor. There will be games where public opinion and the majority of bets are on the wrong side of a matchup, and the bookie adjusts the odds accordingly, so the correct bet's payout is bigger than it should be.

In high school I tried to do more what you are asking- use one bookie's odds (which I deemed the most accurate) as the "true probability", and another as the payout. This was not successful, but theoretically could be if the two bookies' clientele were consistently better or worse than each other, therefore influencing their odds consistently.
Your comment enrages me. Parenting is a full time battle against both the will of your children and the marketing spend of billion dollar companies. I worry myself sick and drive myself to exhaustion trying to raise sane and happy children, pouring my entire resources in to this battle and you think I should just tell my kids not to do something and problem solved? You think that counts for anything against the billion dollar marketing budget? The team of experts whose only job is to make my kids rebel against my wishes?

This post contained no profanity, but that is only because of Hacker News’ general policy of civil discussion. I’m. Furious.
There's no reason a standardized test's worth should hinge on what a student might focus on in college. There's no reason any college student shouldn't arrive without a basic grasp of English or math.
> allows transfers between two remote hosts

That’s commonly known as “FXP”, and has been disabled for security reasons on all modern platforms.
That's hilarious.

Crows always seem to make noises when any big animal appears, possibly to warn the others.

The best way to make a crow friend is to save one that happens to be in distress. They'll be your BFF for life.
Princeton != Higher education writ large.

Exclusive educational institutions like Princeton are inherently a scarce good.
I've always thought that the French model for top-tier engineering schools was cruel but it might have some merits.

You essentially study for two years post high-school to take a competitive exam, your ranking in this exam determines where you can go (first place chooses, then the second place gets to pick etc.) You suffer for two years but at the end it's based mostly on merit.

Obviously it's not entirely based on merit as privileged kids have a huge head start but you at least get a chance to catch up during those two years.
I once gave notice before the 2 month mark because I had a major life event change, boss was flexible and talked me out of it and I stayed there for several more years.
A weaker gene pool puts a huge strain on our medical systems though.

For examples: the gut microbiome directly impact our health, diets influence gut microbiome, junk food has a negative impact on it, it is mostly inherited from your parents

Which means in just a few generations you can end up with massive changes. Diabetes, obesity, cardio vascular disease, cancer, &c.

I think we shouldn't have blind faith in tech, we can fix broken bones and a few other neat things but we're far from having the right tools to work on these kind of problems on a global scale, especially since we usually detect the changes after they're too late to properly revert them.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3983973/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385025/

https://www.popsci.com/holiday-junk-food-gut-microbiome-fibe...

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/most-of-the-mi...
Goodreads is an excellent, mature, website with a vibrant community. I use it all the time and have never noticed it lagging or had trouble using a feature. I think it looks and works better than most of the space-wasting,
feature-hiding, animated sites online today. I review a few books a month on there and end up in interesting discussions frequently. The amazon kindle integration, with ability to publish your notes on a book, is a killer feature for me. IIRC they had this before Amazon bought it, too.

People seem to dislike the recommendation engine. I can't comment on this because I didn't notice it even had one... it's not a feature I'm looking for. I guess I get that from friends and possibly from the main Amazon website.
To summarize your blog, your biggest gripe is that it might not work, and that doing a test that may not work isn't worth the risk because "GMO bad".

Jesus Christ, millions of people have malaria, it's a life-ruining disease. This is some of the worst luddite nonsense I've ever read.
There are thousands of mosquito species and only a few dozen spread diseases to humans, of which only 3 make up the vast majority. Eradicating the disease carriers would have minimal effects on the ecosystems.
Read the posting, it's not about that.

One may dislike Stallman (as I do, and as I think the author does) and think he does a poor job (as I do) and still discuss a separate issue: The FSF's mission in the world of 2021. That's what he tries to do.

Even if one thinks think Stallman is whatever, that doesn't mean that the FSF should stop caring about software staying free, or users having the ability to modify their software.

AFAICT, the FSF's main response to the modern SaaS trend is largely to ignore it, and want the problem to become something that the GPL might solve. Ignoring it won't make SaaS go away, and neither will it change its effect on software freedom.

IMO it's a pity of the FSF shoots itself in the foot by ignoring the world's changes, and also if the FSF shoots itself in the foot by hiring someone like Stallman for a campaigner position. One doesn't have to like Stallman or agree with the FSF's goals to think it desirable that the foundation should do a good job. Pluralism is IMO good and desirable for a society.

There was an "Affero GPL", wasnt there? I didn't try to learn about it, but wasn't that an attempt at reaching the GPL's goals in a SaaS-dominated world?
This is the twitter of the guy referenced in the article: https://twitter.com/andymstone

Note the bio: House Majority PAC, (D) Barbara Boxer, https://dccc.org/, (D) Jerry McNerney.

When people yell and shout that the left has subverted these tech companies into political entities, it's easy for us to roll our eyes. But when you look at the background of the people calling the shots, I dunno... it's kinda hard to argue with.
I made a more specific offer which received no response, meanwhile others have posted a number of research articles in this very thread.

Nothing I’ve said disagrees with the scientific consensus, so you could also just Google it rather than whining that someone on the internet isn’t holding your hand.
I can't help but feel given the meteoric rise in executive compensation and the stagnation in buying power for the types of workers who actually have to punch a clock that a little scamming on their part seems not "unreasonable".
Don’t worry, SFTP is the backbone of the US financial system.
What's wrong with Chinese tech companies?
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