skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is really uncomfortable to see how much in life depends on the choice of university and how much they have a say in arbitrarily selecting their students.

In the US, this just isn’t the case.

Elite schools produce a lot of elite people because many of the students were already running around in elite circles before they entered the school. They were going to succeed regardless of where they went to school.

Folks from low-SES can achieve wild success through a state school just as much as an elite school. The hard part is putting together the skill set (work habits, study skills, communication skills, social skills, etc.) that leads to wild success when one was not born into it.
And does your company employ hundreds of people or is it a small biz < 99 ppl?
Everyone knows southern states are doing everything wrong. The state you list are doing everything right. We hate the outgroup.
here is the original paper https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/641159v1

related talk by the first author https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy7BUzcAenw&ab_channel=Cosyn...
The "Right to be forgotten" should be interesting.
Do top faculty and top educator correlate well? They may when you do research but probably not at an undergraduate level. Top faculty is generally a top researcher with bundles of grant money. They could be horrible educators. The opposite is true as well.
> The effect, regardless of intent, is always to annoy the other.

Combined with the further-down "Here, let me Google that for you.", it seems likely that that was the intended effect. It's pretty clear that negative value to the discussion was provided by both comments, in addition to the (subjective) dismissive attitude.
SFTP supports anonymous access. I actually just shut down my sftp server to move it or I would be able to show you, but it's super easy on CentOS. Just set up chroot and set a null pw for the usernames of your choice. You can use posix permissions to hide subdirs or files if you wish. You can use chattr or mount permissions to make it read-only or write-only. The only thing missing is browser support. I might have time to put it back online later today and will update this thread.
The value of a social network is directly proportional to the number of edges in the network graph (I.e., SocialNetworkX might be better than Facebook, but if none of your friends are on it, it’s worthless). For Goodreads, couple that with the vast amount of book metadata they have + Kindle integration, and any startup would have a long way to go to even reach parity.

Scalability + data aggregation + user adoption == lots of funding + a clever business model + a significant reason to switch from $DOMINANT_COMPANY + a good bit of luck.

That requires huge financial resources, and thus, a solid monetization scheme.
You can do modem over voip, however expect 2400bps performance in most cases. I think that I saw a guy who used the Linksys ATA devices for that.
I doubt this is some malicious compliance thing and more that they don't want to do per-device settings basically ever.
It seems like there is a spectrum for this sort of thing. I think I'd have a similar reaction to, say, an extremely rich person recommending that a frontline worker take a 1-month detox at an expensive yoga camp. But for me personally, "My Octopus Teacher" was pretty far away from that extreme, and I think an explicit discussion of privilege would have taken me out of the movie, so I'm glad they didn't add one.
Why would an employer hire someone for their "good" job that wasn't a "good" student? No matter what criteria you use to define a good job, all things being equal the better students would go to college and therefore employers are incentivized to only select those who went to college to begin with.

Why do you think college is a requirement now to begin with? Is it some sort of conspiracy? What I'm describing has already occurred. Sorry, but you're living in a fantasy - the vast majority of people who go to college couldn't care less about working in academia nor would there be room for all of them to be academics to begin with.
Aren't we forced to require replication for a measure of truth in empirical studies? If that's universally accepted, shouldn't we demand that researchers come up with predictions of the form "do X and see result Y"? And if we accept that, then should we not discuss who is going do actually "do X" before research gets published?

From the outside perspective, it appears that a lot of people do "open-ended" experiments, write up some findings and pretty much no one tries to confirm the results with the notable exception of actual industrial applications (e.g., pharmacy or aircraft design), where the validation happens out of necessity.
In time the narrative will shift from objections to cryptocurrencies, to how CBDC solves all ills.
Conversely, two of the richest and most successful friends I have have been chronic weed smokers for over twenty years.

I've seen people go off the deep end with weed, but I can always discern patterns of behaviour that would lead to them doing so that are more to do with existing personality constructs than the weed itself, specifically.

As with everything - moderation and self-awareness is key.

- ed

well, not 'chronic' - regular daily smokers.

That IS the difference, I find - people who think it's acceptable to 'wake and bake' tend not be so good at grasping at opportunity. But that's on them - same could be said for starting the day with a gin or three.
“CoC” seems to suffer from the same problem that “bad cops” and “zero tolerance” politicians seem to suffer from, so that's why it's often brought up.

It seems to be a common thing that those that demand the strictest morality rules also seem to have the most aggression problems and often overstep their own rules, but typically have an excuse ready why in their case it's different.

Though, perhaps it simply stands out more if it's one to chant “code of conduct” or “zero tolerance”, but as far as statistics in the Dutch parliament goes, it's often pointed out that all the parties that are in favor of lighter punishments and rehabilitation tend to be spot free, whereas politicians of parties that advocate harsh punishments and zero tolerance tend to very often have past criminal records themselves.
College admissions in the US are messed up. There is no way for a student to be in control of their destiny through hard work, because there are far too many variables and randomness in college admissions.

Ideally what colleges should do is to use a standardized test and go strictly by the results of the standardized test. Standardized tests are not perfect, but if there are flaws in standardized tests then fix them, because it is better than the alternatives. The advantage for students would be predictability and being in control of their own destiny. Students would not have to apply to 12 to 15 colleges, instead the would apply to 2 to 3. The benefits for colleges would be better predictability as well. Today colleges use complex mathematical models to predict who is likely to accept their admission offers. Then they use "yield protection" to avoid admitting highly qualified students who are unlikely to accept admission offers. It is complicated.

Colleges can use complex data analysis to guess which students are likely to accept but hapless students can’t run data analysis to determine which colleges are likely to accept. Colleges, especially public ones, ought to minimize the guesswork and use more objective criteria to admit students. Students need to be able to control their own destiny through hard work. That’s only possible if guesswork and data analytics and so on is minimized.

Other countries such as UK use test scores for college admissions. At one time the US too used scores. But US colleges introduced subjective criteria ("holistic reviews") because far too many Jewish people were getting admitted when they used objective criteria. (Not kidding, see https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/histor... ).

Even public universities perform complex gymnastics to decide which 4.0 GPA student to admit. Even when two students have taken the exact same courses (including AP courses) and have the same GPA, colleges do not consider them the same. (See here https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-12/covid-co... )

Excerpts:

UC admissions directors stressed that they evaluated students in the context of their own schools and communities to assess how much they challenged themselves and took advantage of available opportunities. A student who took all six AP classes offered at her school might be more impressive than the one who took six at a school that offered twice as many. A campus might admit a student with a 4.0 GPA who ranked at the top of an underserved school over one with a higher GPA but lower class rank at a more high-achieving school.

So basically it is better to be a bright student in a dumb school than to be a bright student in a bright school. This is messed up. Students shouldn't have to do these calculations and move to areas with dumb schools to improve their chances. We need to bring back objectivity and predictability back to college admissions.
And when you're done with that, the Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion is one of the better books I've read. But it's a much more advanced read.
Yeah, the problem is more with the schools. At least until post-secondary education, you don't go to school for just a narrow range of subjects. You might be excellent at math but does that mean you can keep up with people who are excellent at history? Unless we expect people to hyperspecialize from a young age (which would have disastrous consequences), we need schools to be able to deal with people at various different levels of proficiency.
Thanks!

To start, I am focusing on asking authors/experts for their 5 book recommendations on a topic they are passionate about and know well. Here are some examples of how this is playing out:

The Best Books On The Soviet Space Program And The Space Race -> https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-soviet-space-program

The Best Books On The Ocean And Seas -> https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-ocean-and-seas

The Best Books On Content Creation And Content Marketing ->
https://shepherd.com/best-books/content-creation-and-content...

Then I will relate those book lists to each other both distantly and closely in order to help a reader follow their curiosity through the website, kinda like walking through aisles of books:
https://forauthors.shepherd.com/related-book-lists

Then toward July/August I will add Topic pages to help people find books on a topic they are interested in like World War 2, Grief, Startups, and so on:
https://forauthors.shepherd.com/shelf-pages

My goal is as I build up the content that next year I will do two things:

1. Start playing with NLP to create even more unique ways to find books, such as browsing a timeline of Japan and inserting people and events and books/book-lists into

2. Start asking users for their 1-3 favorite books of the year. I want to make this an incredibly high quality vote that is limited. And, use that to help add more books to the mix.

ben@shepherd.com, hit me up as I could use feedback :),
Thanks, Ben
Malaria was endemic in the US prior to the National Malaria Eradication Program, which used DDT.
curious to hear what you think this says about wealth
I think the contrast is probably less about the language, and more about the scope and objective of the projects. the blog is describing low-level interfaces in python - probably more comparable is the old CUDAdrv.jl package (now merged into CUDA.jl): https://github.com/JuliaGPU/CUDAdrv.jl/blob/master/examples/...

here is writing a similar kernel in python with numba: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/gtc2017-numba/blob/master/4%2...
Very cool! It's a lot of fun working with retro computers and helping them be more "useful" in the modern age.

I've also been playing around a lot with Classic Macintosh programming recently and have been working on building out some serial port-utilizing software, and some different UI approaches due to finding the Macintosh Toolbox a bit frustrating to work with. Although having spent more time with it, I may commit to diving in more on the Toolbox at this point.

I haven't written up any blog posts or anything yet as I haven't built a full piece of software, mostly just library exploration, but I have plans to build some more comprehensive pieces of software soon.

Here are some of the things I've been working on:
probably the most interesting at this point is this one:

- coprocessorjs host library:
https://github.com/CamHenlin/coprocessor.js + mac app library: https://github.com/CamHenlin/coprocessorjslib + example app: https://github.com/CamHenlin/retro68-coprocessorjs-test, allows Classic Macintosh applications to send nodejs programs and function calls over a serial port to a remote machine (I was thinking an RPi) and get a response back.

and some UI toying around:

- nuklear quickdraw: https://github.com/CamHenlin/nuklear-quickdraw - nuklear back end for quickdraw. Too slow for 68000-based system unfortunately. I think this would be fine for targeting an 020 system however. Looks and functions really nice so it's unfortunate that it's a bit too slow.

- micro UI quickdraw: https://github.com/CamHenlin/microui-quickdraw - similar to the nuklear backend, a micro UI backend. Also too slow for 68000-based systems but was an easy test after writing the nuklear back end, so why not?

- UGUI quickdraw: https://github.com/CamHenlin/UGUIQuickDraw - again similar to micro UI and UGUI, but way slower due to only relying on drawing a single pixel at a time. Might work OK on a considerably faster system
Five ways employees could be scamming your time and attendance system
If we're abandoning automation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_(diplomacy)

> The term protocol is derived, via French and Medieval Latin, from the Greek word πρωτόκολλον protokollon "first glued sheet of or onto a papyrus-roll".

> The rules of protocol to create space where meetings can take place.

https://www.protocol.dubai.ae/About/Protocol-History

> The diplomatic relations that existed between Egypt and Babel, which started in 1450 B.C., included highlights on the application of standards for Protocol and Etiquette that were related to both diplomatic immunities as well as receptions and ceremonies.
Japan's real PPP GDP 4.634T in 2009, 5.261T in 2019 = 13.5% growth in 10 years.

Germany 3.696T in 2009, 4.471T in 2019 = 20.9%.

Japan grew at 2/3rds the rate of Germany in the last 10 years, against the backdrop of a significantly worse 10 years before that.

The shape of the graph looks similar, but the difference between 1.019^n and 1.012^n over a long time is massive. Not to mention that Germany is not particularly healthy.

It's rather spectacular if you look at the per capita PPP GDP series, actually-- https://i.imgur.com/eD8cECd.png

Yes, it'll be about 23 years at the present pace for Germany to surpass Japan in absolute terms, but Japan has a much larger population and Germany has better prospects for long term growth.

Germany's debt is ~60% of GDP, and Japan's is 240%, too, which is pretty terrifying when GDP is not growing much and may begin to contract in absolute terms from demographic changes.
> No more of a stretch as comparing it to farming or art.

Indeed, and that’s precisely my point. The externality problem ought to be addressed directly instead of creating a new regulatory body to decide which goods are “good” and thus allowed to have externalities and which goods are “bad” and thus are banned completely or banned from having externalities.
100% hand curated for now, my hope is to get into NLP early next year to do some cool stuff :).
”Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
+1 Would love to see official support for CUDA for Rust.
Which means the people on drugs are winning.
I think it’s well demonstrated to be slow (ns/op) and wasteful (allocs/op) in benchmarks, especially in bigger payloads.

The HTTP library is similar.

Most 3rd party libs make some trade offs that are pretty reasonable to achieve superior perf, but it’s worth understanding them to make sure it’s best for your use case.
I'm not so certain about that. Government of Canada is aiming at increasing immigration to around 400,000 to 420,000 new immigrants per year, most of whom are going to skilled workers.

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October 30, 2020—Ottawa—The Honourable Marco Mendicino, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, tabled the 2021‒2023 Immigration Levels Plan today, which sets out a path for responsible increases to immigration targets to help the Canadian economy recover from COVID-19, drive future growth and create jobs for middle class Canadians.

The pandemic has highlighted the contribution of immigrants to the well-being of our communities and across all sectors of the economy. Our health-care system relies on immigrants to keep Canadians safe and healthy. Other industries, such as information technology companies and our farmers and producers, also rely on the talent of newcomers to maintain supply chains, expand their businesses and, in turn, create more jobs for Canadians.

[...] [T]he global travel restrictions and capacity constraints led to a shortfall in admissions over the last several months. To compensate for the shortfall and ensure Canada has the workers it needs to fill crucial labour market gaps and remain competitive on the world stage, the 2021 to 2023 levels plan aims to continue welcoming immigrants at a rate of about 1% of the population of Canada, including 401,000 permanent residents in 2021, 411,000 in 2022 and 421,000 in 2023. The previous plan set targets of 351,000 in 2021 and 361,000 in 2022.

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https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ne...
It’s a good question. You’re right, if I followed it strictly it wouldn’t work. I suppose I rationalized offsetting it because I couldn’t actually go bankrupt. If I was better at math there’s probably some other criterion that takes into account how hard it would be to get back to where you are, given that you couldn’t go below 1.
It's not that you're expecting 60% of your flips to be heads, but the coin has a 60% probability of being heads.

The former implies that previous flips have an effect on future flips. Or that, if you land on heads 6 times in a row, then the probability of it landing on tails goes up.
How would a coin that's weighted to increase the odds of it landing on heads, somehow start landing on tails more frequently?

If you flip a normal coin and it lands on heads 10 times, you still have a 50% chance of getting heads the 11th time. The odds of it landing on heads 10 times in a row in the first place is vanishingly small (0.5^10 or 0.097%). But if it Does, the 11th flip still has a 50% chance. The first 10 flips don't affect the 11th. Physically, how Would the first 10 flips affect the 11th?

This is all assuming that the coin flips aren't somehow magically linked or casually dependent on each other. The math changes if the previous coin flip could somehow affect the next one. But in a situation where every single roll of the dice is purely independent, then by definition (Because they are Independent ) a previous roll doesn't have an impact on future rolls
You joke but it's interesting to think about what mixing them or mixing their components would do.

Mixing them as-is would ruin the effect of Vantablack. Since carbon nanotubes are black you probably would get a boring grey color with a gloss surface due to barium sulfate.

I'm curious what the effect would be if you coated Vantablack with barium sulfate. A highly reflective surface with an extreme black paint underneath.
I can't help but think that this is some kind of Nazi level of thinking. How a scientist who works on eradication of species can look themselves in the mirror?
As much as I hate mosquitos, these types of intervention in eco-systems should be illegal.
Today mosquitos, tomorrow maybe you and me.
If you are a looking to maximize use of that card, you can make about $5 a day mining crypto with the 2070.
Link fails with infinite redirects here.
Naval Ravikant has a small post about this here: https://nav.al/kelly-criterion

I first heard about it from him. He summarizes it as follows:

> Naval: The Kelly criterion is a popularized mathematical formulation of a simple concept. The simple concept is: Don’t risk everything. Stay out of jail. Don’t bet everything on one big gamble. Be careful how much you bet each time, so you don’t lose the whole kitty.
Your friend walks up while you're playing. They haven't seen the game, so think heads is coming up.

Your other friend has been playing longer, before you even started. They saw 13 tails and then your 6 heads. The next throw should be heads to even it out for them.

Why is your history more of an influence than theirs?
Billionaire Reveals His ‘Secret’ to Beating China at Manufacturing
Totally by hand over the last 3 months, I have quite a lot of automation in place to help me do it, but at the end of the day I work with each author to craft these.

With just me I should be able to scale up to 300 new lists each month, and I am looking to further accelerate that.
I fail to see the distinction. Bitcoin mining, just like farming, traditional mining, etc. doesn’t literally have electricity as its only input.
But we're not talking about making something illegal, this is a plea to not create a service specifically for children.
You may be interested to know that Kelly's work was instrumental in a company called Axcom in the 60s. Elwyn Berlekamp, previously an assistant to Kelly at Bell Labs, implemented Kelly et al's work in early financial trading at Axcom, which was later turned into the Medallion Fund at Renaissance Technologies. Wikipedia [1] has some info on this, but I also highly recommend "The Man Who Solved The Market" (Zuckerman, 2019) for more history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Larry_Kelly_Jr.
I upvoted you because, while you aren't correct in your assessment, I think this is a good "teachable moment". Human intuition about statistics is really, really bad.

I think people who have a better-than-average understanding of statistics forget how bad their intuition is. I suspect it leads to a lot of incorrect assumptions about what a "rational" behavior for someone working from only their statistical intuition would be.
He wouldn't, and that's why it's a hypothetical.

People that run business know that they need to keep a coherent symmetry on some level in how the team is structured and how they're compensated.

Save money by paying some people on your team less based on where they live.. yea, for those that think it's a good idea, good luck with that..
Project Chip to Start Smart Home Device Certification in Late 2021
Was just reading about how common that trend is this year. It seems that the n is much greater than 1: https://news.yahoo.com/uc-explains-admissions-decisions-reco...

I’m sorry about your kid’s rejection letter. Larger societal trends aside, that’s not a fun experience.
Why parents who think so can't just ask kids not to go to instagram? So dumb.
You seriously think parents aren't trying to stop their kids from doing drugs too? No, they do both. What planet are you from?
Oh yeah, I 100% do not believe this would be something that ships to the kernel :)