skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One notable difference is a much closer connection to e.g. intelligence services.

Some CCC hackers had a pretty good relationship with the Russian KGB. They got information about a wide range of US military secrets including details about the Space Defense Initiative (SDI). They were so successful that they wound up dead and a movie was made about them. Since then the CCC has to be heavily infiltrated by all kinds of Intelligence Services.
This wiki page can explain why better than me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy
I remember thinking that the game felt like the fanciest database client I've ever seen. Still fun though
AquaBounty's GMO salmon hasn't "failed in the market"... it literally hasn't hit the market yet, but is still being actively developed, despite unending environmentalist lawsuits.
A Unifying Theory of Everything
Putin residence has cryo chamber and stables, Navalny team alleges
> I'm never going to read that thing.

Is surprisingly accesible and easy to follow in fact. Such way to write science using logic and linking obvious facts instead to trying to wrap all in math glitter couldn't happen today.
Moreover, the important feature of coin flips isn’t randomness, it’s independence (from previous coin flips and from everything else). Independence is in fact a useful mental model for randomness.
It's not contradictory at all.

> If all the good people go to college then college will always be required to get a good entry level job by definition. Why would any employer give someone a "good" job if they didn't go to a "good" college that has all of the "good" students?

I did not equate "academically gifted high school graduates" with "good people". You did! What an insane idea. It's very clear to me that most jobs do not require a 4 year degree. The fact that we only give good entry-level positions (that aren't manual labor) to college graduates is an absurdity.

College should be for the most promising, academically interested students. Students who have a good shot at a career in academia. Employers won't be able to only hire from that pool because it will be a very small pool.
The key here is that it's expected to land heads 60% of the time. Take a normal coin, which is expected to land heads 50% of the time. If you flip a heads, do you instantly expect it to be tails next time? By your logic it would be impossible to ever flip heads twice in a row. Coins as a general rule aren't impacted by previous flips.
Yes, you are wrong, but your confusion is very common. It's so common it even has a name "The Gamblers Fallacy".

Over the long run, you expect 40% tails, but if you run the experiment an infinite amount of time there will be sequences of all-heads or all-tails.

Because the events are independent, the previous flips don't change anything about what happens next.
You can tell we collectively lost it when white paint is presented as a solution for climate change...

You know what's big, white and help with climate change ? The ice caps we're destroying. We won't replace them with paint
Kids in the "usual suspect" nations of China, USSR,
Singapore may not understand why integration rules work, but at least they
demonstrate the discipline know them cold. Unless I'm hiring for an
obfuscation campaign, I'd much rather get an incurious automaton who's
committed basic facts to memory, than a free thinking know-nothing.
Given the limited number (zero?) of hours US students study, any opinion-forming is
going to be trite and ignorant.
> Since then the CCC has to be heavily infiltrated by all kinds of Intelligence Services.

I think this more served as a cautionary tale to not get involved with this kind of agencies at all.
What use cases does "opening files" have which isn't addressed by iPhone's built-in apps and at the same time doesn't involve any risk of using a random third party app that has to be sourced from somewhere like an app store?
> They, may, however, reduce the supply of rental housing if it is easy for landlords to convert apartments to condominiums or other non-rental uses. This suggests that limitations on these kinds of conversions may be worth exploring

Classic central planning thinking. This would work as long as we ban the agents from doing otherwise.
What about the impact of this food source on other animals? You are not concerned about that at all?
I've seem smart Asian kids from poor public schools do far better than the wealthy corrupt kids. It's not about "poor education".
“doesn’t replicate then it’s almost certainly nonsense”

Disagree. A significant finding is expected to occur due to chance in direct proportion to the surface area for such possibilities. More studies, more forking paths within those studies, more models, all increase the frequency of spurious findings. So one can do everything perfectly and still get “garbage out”. It is certain.
Turkey bans crypto payments for goods and services
I wrote a whole website about this, so I'm not really down to debate it with you. There's a lot to read about this, including source documents from Oxitec and the FDA. You can draw your own conclusions from the evidence that's there.
This is blatantly false, unless you are confusing battery for an assembled battery pack. In EVs each battery management IC can run somewhere in the range of 4-14 cells in series per chip, and they almost universally run banks of up to 100 cells in parallel. For example, in the tesla model s the pack is comprised into submodules of 76 cells in parallel and 6 of those groups in series per management chip--so only one management chip per 456 cells.
While the phrase "X is broken" is maybe the most overused in our society, GRs is functional but far from optimal. And there appears to be no incentives to get better.
People tend to forget that everything seems easy when you know things.

I have been in situations where I had to compile some projects from other people and it has been painful every time. Especially as I might be in an environment where there are no IDEs that wrap things up for you.

Everyone has different experiences and requirements for their projects and not everything is same as it is for you. Don't take it personally and try to passively insult other people's intelligence.
Can you explain why the Kelly criterion wouldn't have you bet 0 every time? The chance of winning a round of rock-paper-scissors when throwing a random symbol seems to be 50% (if ties cause re-dos), so wouldn't that work out to 50 * 2 - 100 = 0?
AFAIK, before everything was byte-addressable and this became standard, people used to talk about "word" sizes. Some computers would have 36 or 38-bit words. The CDC 6000 had 60-bit words, where that was the smallest size value you could address in memory. For things like characters, you would have to pack multiple chars per word. The Symbolics 3600 Lisp Machine had 36-bit words, and it used some of those bits to tag different data types so every value in memory had some basic type information attached to it.
That's strange, given that the Kelly criterion maximizes the expectation of the log of wealth--that is, it's maximizing over multiplicative percent gains in a scenario where you can go bankrupt.
Guide to Connection Management in Postgres
I wonder how this impacts lower-tier schools. My n=1 data point: my child just received a rejection notice from a middle-tier out-of-state university. Top test scores, top of her class, International Baccalaureate (IB). Obviously not a lot of activities.

I am curious what kind of students are getting accepted.
Seems much easier to control, influence, and parent your children than to make other people stop selling drugs. The USA has been losing a war on drugs for decades.
Just to extend your point, some of my stats:

3.0 high school GPA
3.0 undergraduate GPA

Now in year 3 of a PhD program. I wasn't even considered academically gifted in undergrad! Yet I think I am a pretty good researcher.
> Which good schools are you thinking of? Most schools don't really do any analysis to show that they're good or not. The others are either exam schools or schools in areas that are expensive. Given the correlation between socioeconomic status and school performance, that's also just selection bias.

This isn't really a scientific analysis, just basing that on my own lived experience and what I've learned from other people over the years.

I went to an inner city school. Inner city schools here offer fewer honors courses as compared to their suburban counterparts. My experience generally is that people who went to suburban schools are better educated. Suburban schools have higher graduation rates and kids get into college with more college credits than their urban peers.

> I'm not necessarily against tracking (which is what we're describing) - but when you have a fixed number of resources and a mentality that the best should get more resources all you really end up with is a situation where the poor students are setup to fail.

Well yeah, I think we're in complete agreement that some schools just don't have enough resources to do what they need to do. The goal should be for every child to realize their full potential. For some kids, that means you need to move a little slower. For others, that means you need to challenge them.

> Grades pretty much exist because we decided that they need to be out of the traditional school system by 20 or so (in most school systems you can only be held back a couple of times). I disagree with grades in general but that's another discussion.

I dunno, I think they are a useful metric for gauging ability in general terms. Not perfect. But I've yet to really see anything better.
I remember doing something similar to GP that let me craft more and more insane spells, and didn't stop until my character was a walking god
Apart from the interface, in what ways is Librarything better than Goodreads?
So, you think that top schools having top faculty and educators has zero effect on educational outcomes? And somehow they only produce good outcomes because they select good students and that "most of the education is simply due to the types of peers you have".

It's all "selection bias"? Now that's a hot take.

You seem to be laboring under the assumption that elite schools exist as some kind of public service to improve the prospects of average, or randomly selected students. They aren't. They are elite schools, in both good and bad senses. You might as well start comparing the luggage compartments of top fuel dragsters with sedans.
You’re talking about reversion to the mean, which is a phenomenon that’s related to the law of large numbers.

Law of Large Numbers says that, over an arbitrarily large random sampling size, you will eventually end up with a sample that perfectly fits the probability distribution.

But the probability of each individual sample is random. This means that, if each sample is randomly-selected and independent, your history of N samples does not affect your N+1th sample.

The regression to mean curve is only predictable in the big picture, each bump is 50/50 (or 60/40 in this case).
Previous tosses do not change the outcome of subsequent tosses, so no, it’s not more likely to be tails, it has a 60% chance of being heads.
> One of the hardest lessons for young people early in their careers is to stop beginning sentences with “I am going to...” or “I am doing...” and instead start off with a [truthful!] “I did...”

It's tough all around I think. It seems like OP might've observed signaling in the past that suggested that "appearing to be a good candidate" and "being a good candidate" are identical, and in actuality are usually not. It's tough because of nepotism, sometimes appearing to be a good candidate is good enough, but for most people you actually have to be at least close to as good a candidate as you appear to be. Meaning, if you include that you went to X university, you actually have to have worked through a substantial amount of that university's curriculum. Same with any internship/program/whatever - there's almost no value in having just been invited to attend.
I think the important distinction is that negative rights are defaults. You are already not being harmed unless someone harms you. Whether law enforcement exists or not, you can say someone harming you is violating your rights. With the right to healthcare, were all pre-modern humans constantly walking around having their rights violated?

Healthcare requires a whole setup, so additionally it's hard to talk about what you even have the right to, concretely. I agree it's a semantic distinction, but I think it is helpful, because it separates rights in to the kinds that are fundamentally attached to human beings and the kinds that are basically strong preferences for the existence of different institutions.
It's always exactly 60%, no matter how many heads you have already had. That is pretty much by definition, since the problem states that the chances of heads are 60%.

In fact, in the real world getting an unlikely string of heads (or tails, or sixes, or whatever) outside of a casino setting probably means that the coin/dice/whatever are unfairly loaded and you should adjust your expectation for the next coin toss even further towards heads.
Agreed, although it would be interesting if it turned out that bumblebee queens are attracted to the smell of cat urine when choosing where to establish a hive. Seems like that, or something similar, would be a possible evolutionary adaptation. Then you could say they have a "feeling" for cats.
How's that Tether transparency report looking :) ahh, here it is. [1]

[1] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...
"Safeway, Kroger, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Target, and Aldi are among the retailers who will not sell [Intrexon's GMO salmon]." [0]

[0] Source: https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/foodservice-retail/here-a...
Electric cars have ONE battery with thousands of *cells*. I do realize that the colloquial term for "cell" is "battery" (ex: an AA cell is called a battery), but it becomes important to be precise with our words when talking about manufacturing.

Small scale Li-ion does a protection-IC per cell (ex: cell phones), mostly because cell phones are so small they only use one cell.

Larger scale Li-ion, such as Laptop batteries, may use one-IC per cell, OR one-protection IC for all 3x or 4x cells combined. As long as all the cells are soldered together, one protection IC is cheaper and still usable.

At electric-car scales, you have thousands-and-thousands of cells. You can't just manage all of them with one IC, so you build an IC per bundle. Maybe 48 cells or 100-cells per IC or so.
You're right that the work of civil rights organizers is misrepresented today. It's described as "They spoke truth to power, and power listened."

Of course that was never the case. They risked their lives and struggled for years to make progress. But that risk and struggle is minimized; to describe the people who undermined and attacked and killed them would be to indict the same groups of business people, police officers and law makers who perpetuate the same anti-civil rights agenda today. This is how Martin Luther King ends up being described as a Black Santa Claus rather than a radical organizer who was building a cross-racial, class-based movement for civil and economic rights. It's how schools across the country teach whole lessons about MLK for every grade, every year, and never talk about how the FBI harassed and targeted him and other civil rights leaders.
Frankly, I see many cancellations being overly punitive. And that has a dramatic effect on expression and culture leading to a strong orthodoxy and potential fascism.

People will do bad things, make mistakes, offend others.

So, are we one and done on that, or are we going to work a process where people can improve and or those who feel wronged can balance that with some perspective, see justice?

What do we expect cancelled people to actually do?

It is not like there is a process to work through. Do they just go away, die?

We have a similar thing in three strikes laws. People doing life on what can be trivial in any other context.

Stallman is right about software. Those ideas are important, but they can and will die too.

This is a priority discussion:

Is it about software freedom, or something else?

Here is a parallel:

Take health care. Even the bigots, racists and theocrats need to see the doctor. I actually have heard people say, no. We are better off without them. Cancel.

I can't answer what to do or want for anyone. None of us can.

But, our collective decisions will impact the ideas and how they may grow, and or endure.

If cancelling is more important than software freedom, we will have cancelling and will not have software freedom. That dynamic has played out among us humans many, many times.

Here is another reality to think about:

Cancelling, in the fashion we see it playing out today, can be gamed. Got an enemy, or want a resource, or need a door opened, leverage?

Find an event that was not orthodox, where they just did not make good choices and get that amplified. I am not saying that is the case here. Not at all.

But it does happen and we lack process to understand that it has happened as well as to understand how to open the door for people to improve.

I don't have answers here. Just offering some food for thought. The whole mess troubles me deeply.

At the core, I do not want people cancelled. I do want a process, means, methods for them to improve. And I want justice for the wronged.

Ending people in this fashion comes with a high cost. Does that cost make sense?

To me? No, and that discussion, how to do this better should definitely be a priority.
OMG, can these so-called "scientists" read the room and realize this isn't what we need right now. Its only furthering a culture of supremacy
Social media again silences The Post for reporting the news
Here is the article in question:

https://nypost.com/2021/04/14/blm-leader-defends-buying-1-4m...
Running or splashing water has a particular sound in NPR on-location segments. I wish they'd talk about how they did that.
Youtube started asking me for my passport and/or credit card to confirm my age 2 weeks ago for any age restricted videos, it's definitely doable
Building a visit counter with Redis and React
Is Anish Kapoor allowed to buy it?
By the way, the handy word for an 8-bit byte is “octet” (I have not observed octet used in the software industry, only in school. Don’t use it at work or you might come across as an ass...)

I was curious and searched HN and found this 2012 comment explaining octet is essentially an anachronism, as bytes have been standardized at 8 bits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4649528 . Feeling old!
I have a RTX 2070 that's under-utilised, partly because I'm surprisingly finding it hard to understand C, C++ and CUDA by extension.

I'm self-taught, and have been using web languages and some python, before learning Rust.
I hope that NVIDIA can dedicate some resources to creating high-quality bindings to the C API for Rust, even if in the next 1-2 years.

Perhaps being able to use a systems language that's been easy for me coming from TypeScript and Kotlin, could inspire me to take baby steps with CUDA, without worrying about understanding C.

I like the CUDA.jl package, and once I make time to learn Julia, I would love to try that out. From this article about the Python library, I'm still left knowing very little about "how can I parallelise this function".
I made a streamlit app about Kelly last year, showing how to bet when you have an "edge" over a toy market of coin flippers: https://kelly-streamlit.herokuapp.com/

Other references I found interesting:

- Cover and Thomas's "Elements of Information Theory" shows some interesting connections between Kelly betting and optimal message encoding.
- Ed Thorp, the inventor of card counting, has a nice compendium of papers on this in "The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion".
Depending on what happens the net outcome of repealing 230 might actually hurt conservatism on online platforms, since right now Twitter, Youtube, Facebook et al are not party to things like the billion dollar Dominion lawsuit against Fox News and Newsmax.

Those news networks have deplatformed Mike Lindell because him actively spewing conspiracy theories on the Dominion voting machines undermines their defense in that lawsuit.
I'm sorry, did you claim poor tuning?

look at this graph:
https://alvinalexander.com/sites/default/files/inline-images...

from:
https://alvinalexander.com/scala/graalvm-native-executables-...
We should pay more attention to this rust-on-linux project than this specific thread. It's a treasure trove.
The first email of the thread is good introduction: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1023

The code: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/tree/rust/rust/kerne...

Very cool!
I use Twitter, usually, for about 15 minutes every morning to collect links of stuff that I should look at when I have time. I am taking a RL and thought about following the two excellent professors teaching the class. Neither was on Twitter, which makes sense: they probably don’t have the time to spend/waste.
The number you link is 43% higher.
Agreed.

People think legacies are guaranteed admits, and they are not. Legacies get rejected very often (e.g., ~67% at Harvard).

There are many advantages to having a parent who is an alum:

1. Probably smart.

2. Probably knows something about how to get in via academics and extracurriculars.

3. Might be a gifted athlete who was recruited and knows how to share these gifts with their child.

4. Might understand some of the fundamental rigors of an elite education and shares that with their child regardless of where said child actually attends school (interestingly, an elite kid with great pedigree at a shitty school has a huge advantage in admissions).

Add some or all of these things together, and you get a high school kid who will probably have an above average application and should probably get accepted more often than the general population.

While there are some legacy admits who are accepted on the margin and would not have gotten in without being a legacy, I think the number of these folks is relatively small. The overall
legacy applicant pool is very strong.
Nit (doesn't challenge your argument), but plenty of sci-fi short stories explore (and glorify the concept of) humans as pets for some random aliens.
Except that the DDT probably had little to no effect on the transmission of Polio, and the real reason we live in a country without polio is that we've got a vaccine against it.
That's why https://bookwyrm.social/ is so interesting; as part of the Fediverse, this can't happen.
I think one either loves it or hates it..
Ha, yup. We use the .contains_ method with cats eq on the objects, but this is clever.
How did you apply Kelly to a HFT strategy? Usually those strats don't have a binary outcome so standard Kelly wouldn't fit.
I think the CCC has a strong ethos to not work for such agencies but I'm sure many members do it, either because they are agents or because of other incentives.
Graal's implementation of python is maintained and up to date with python 3.