skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incels, I think, have a chip on their shoulders and negative attitudes. If they had better perspectives, I think they would enjoy life more and connect with others in healthier ways.

It is true though that social media, glowing screen distractions, and changing beliefs based on corporate manufactured/reinforced attitudes to leave insecurities and unfulfilled wants tend to put distance between people in the real world. The challenge is to make the extra effort to break through all that. I've found there are plenty of cool people who still socialize, and not just at an ephemeral, chit-chat level. It's just no one else wants to make the effort, aeveryone is waiting for Godot, and so nothing happens without initiative.
You can plot

g = 0.6 log (1 + 2f) + 0.4 log (1 - f)

And locate f=0.5 and compare to the maximum g.

Edit: I wanted to check my intuition so I did: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot++0.6+log+%281+%2B...

Looks like 0.5 is a slight overbet, but still very, very good.
For any kind of trading activity, the most important skill to have is risk management. You can get everything else completely wrong, but if you have your risk management down you're still in the game and can learn from your mistakes. If you don't you're liable to be ruined and be out of the game until you can build back a bankroll some other way.
For a school to increase admittance numbers, they generally need to a) increase fac/staff and b) create more classroom space. Those two things can be very complicated depending on a school's situation.

I work at a school and we are pretty much tapped out for space, so we wouldn't really be able to add more classrooms even if we wanted to.
No one "cancelled" him. He left because an editor finally stood up and said he could not publish yet another diatribe without someone else editing his work.
It stated in the article that you can purchase a fob which can be used in place of the smartphone app.
Wikipedia has some info (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History_of_the_conflictin...):

"The size of the byte has historically been hardware-dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size. Sizes from 1 to 48 bits have been used.[4][5][6][7] The six-bit character code was an often-used implementation in early encoding systems, and computers using six-bit and nine-bit bytes were common in the 1960s. These systems often had memory words of 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, or 60 bits, corresponding to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 six-bit bytes. In this era, bit groupings in the instruction stream were often referred to as syllables[a] or slab, before the term byte became common."

If you want to be specific, you could say "octet" to describe a set of 8 bits.
But the whole point is that I don't want to ask a really hard question, that then causes people who do not study interview questions to fail.

The whole point would be that someone who knows how to program at all, should pass.

Giving a complex problem would defeat the point.
I agree that the GP's offer is admirable and far better than mere feedback. But this doesn't obviate the value of honest, constructive feedback. His concern is explicitly about the impression he makes on others, therefore our impressions are valid to share with him.
If there is one thing that annoys me in games, it is when every NPC only has dialog that pertains to your story. Or when areas are walled off/boxed off/locked away because they are irrelevant to the player's goals. Maybe I have played too many games where the player is the center of the universe, but I am frankly extremely tired of it.

I want to see this minutia, it tells me that the game designers are detail-oriented and it is a huge part of what makes a game world feel real to me. Why does every game have to make me feel super important, when all I want to do is break into houses and steal NPCs' fancy jewelry and silverware?

Also I don't get this argument that dungeon crawling is irrelevant from a loot perspective. With the exception of crafting, and looting autoscaled overleveled roadside bandits (very unfun if you ask me), the best stuff in my game came from dungeons.
For continuous payoffs, Kelly sizing reduces to the square of Sharpe ratio.
Betting with 'full' Kelly-calculated stakes is highly volatile. If I'm remembering correctly, if you get your probabilities/edge exactly right, you will still have a 50/50 chance of losing half of your bank at some point in the future (i.e. after some number of future bets) It's very common to bet just some fraction of the Kelly stakes in order to smooth out the roller coaster ride.
You have your normal application, accessible on some port serving HTTP requests (or whatever). Then you start a thread (with `bt`, bordeaux-threads, a very common multi-threading library) and run a Swank server listening on some other port on it. Swank is the backend used by SLIME, it allows manipulation of the Lisp environment. A remote server is still the same Lisp environment as when you run it on your machine, so you can use Emacs to connect to it (M-x slime-connect) and debug live.

Swank doesn't allow remote connections though, otherwise anyone could connect and mess with your server. You must connect through the loopback interface. Easiest way is to set up an ssh tunnel, like: ssh abc@example.com -L 4200:localhost:4200

Whether you can call the Swank server a second server or not is a somewhat philosophical question I guess. There's one application serving different kinds of requests on different ports.
Sadly it doesn't work with Go 1.16 :((
https://github.com/bradfitz/shotizam/issues/10
First, I am discussing low-SES schools in the US. It can be very different in other countries, especially Asian countries (first hand experience seeing this).

That said, in the US, many people (Asians included) can go to shitty schools and still succeed. Their success is despite the formal education they got at a low SES school, not because of it.

Generally when you see elite school success from students from low-SES areas, it is due to substantial intervention at home and/or extracurricular education/tutoring.

You ask why it is a handicap. If they could get quality education during school hours, their extracurricular hours could be used for deeper study or more interesting endeavors (e.g., research projects).
It's not a solution but it helps improve some of the causes. Painting buildings white reduces the energy needed to cool them. Reducing peak energy demand generated by air conditioning is a positive step. Peak generators use fossil fuels.
I'll ignore the dogwhistle behind your comment.

The really bad inner city school systems usually: a. don't have sizable Asian communities

b. Not many Asian students from those schools are accepted either.

Anecdotally, in 4 years at my inner city school district, which had a small, poor Asian population (mostly Vietnamese), only one Asian kid got into an ivy league, and her dad was a professor at a top-tier university.
Counterpoint: Goodreads isn't broken.

It's not at all broken for me, nor for my friends. As the article up top says, there are two ways to discover books: incidental discovery and intentional discovery. On Goodreads, incidental discovery largely flows from a daily email showing me what my friends (who are all real life friends) are reading. That daily email is the #1 reason why I won't leave Goodreads. Any site can manage my read/to-read list, but if I don't have any friends on that site, then I lose out on a big source of discovery. And I can see from the email that my friends also use that email to discover new books.
Have you seen this presentation about NuBank's usage of datomic https://youtu.be/7lm3K8zVOdY ?
Mind if I ask where are you based?
JPL Open Source Rover
This is already a thing in Clojure/Script, using datalog instead of SQL. Syncing datoms between Datascript (and/or Datahike [0]) on the front-end and Datomic on the back-end can be almost trivial, and there are libraries like Datsync for that [1].

[0] https://lambdaforge.io/2021/03/03/datahike-clojurescript.htm...
[1] https://github.com/metasoarous/datsync
Gosh so much as that is half the goal of this site!

There is a growing trend that authors have to become their own marketing team. That concerns me because it is very difficult to do and it takes time away from writing. One of my long-term goals is to make it easier for authors to market themselves and I am looking forward to working on this challenge.

How am I doing that?

Right now... trying to help them zero in on their target audience. So if they wrote a book about the Battle of Midway, I want to get them to recommend 5 books around that subject and then feed readers into their recommendation. As readers not only meet their book they get to see their voice and expertise. In early user testing I found these recommendations increase interest in the author and their book because you get to peek in their head.

Next? Full channels based on topics like WW2, Grief, Anxiety, Startups, etc. The goal being to give authors channels with interested readers to serve their book and book lists within. Details here and hoping to ship this end of July:
https://forauthors.shepherd.com/shelf-pages

Lots more, but need to get the flywheel spinning.

I could talk a lot more about this, feel free to email me :)
In my experience the problem with the latter isn't even that it requires a skilled analyst & a debugger. The reality is that, in a multi-threaded program, by the time your process has crashed on a null dereference the offending call stack is probably long gone.

The faster you fail the more readily apparent the root cause will be from your logs/core dump/etc. For this to work though reboots (of the application/environment) need to be inexpensive, and you also need supervision. That supervision can either be at the OS level, like Linux's systemd, Solaris' SMF, Apple's launchd, etc., or at the application level like Erlang/OTP.
Yeah, no, 98% percent reflectance paint has been available for, I don’t know, 30 years. I was using it about 15 years ago for a product that required high optical efficiency.

The problem with such paints or coatings is that they don’t perform well over time outside of a clean room environment. On a roof this 98% would likely only exist for 1.2 microseconds. Dust, dirt, aging an bird shit will make sure of that.

Climate change? Oh please. Ridiculous.
So, he never actually hurt or harassed anybody, but people don't like his words and opinions.

The person who snitched him for ...giving them a card with a funny caption should be ashamed of themselves.

I'd like to see the tables turned, and have these rats and joyless friendless zombies "cancelled" out of jobs, organizations, and communities for a change... Just to see how their mob attacks feel.
Cloudflare and Macrometa combine workers and a DB that spans 100s of regions
I can't read past the paywall, but I am not sure how it is risky at this point. I am one of the people deeply offended by corporate activism and overt politicking, which is causing me to rethink who I patronize. At the same time, as all these companies try to out-do each other on who is more progressive, those who are alienated by this don't have much choice. There isn't a centrist or right-leaning alternative to many of these big brands that can sell low-priced products to rural America, for example. There's also a deeper problem with how consumers discover brands and products, which is that online advertising is controlled by companies in Silicon Valley, who espouse overt political biases - given how regularly we see things like YouTube demonetizing channels, I am not sure that companies with different politics will even be allowed to advertise by big tech giants.

Equally, it was never risky for corporations to stick to the status quo. I am not sure why all of a sudden every company feels like they need to care what some random nonprofit or vocal Twitter crowd demands from them. They could have just kept going about their business and stuck to their own politics with no fallout. Instead, here we are, with a deeper and deeper divide pervading America as we seek to only spend within our political circles.
You're framing this in emotional terms, and oversimplifying.

Businesses of all kinds offshore labour: small, medium, large, public, private, sole trader, partnerships, VC funded[0], bootstrapped, profitable, loss making, you name it. They all do it for what, for them, are rational reasons. Often very boring reasons. Offshoring can be the difference between profit and loss, the difference between a business that is sustainable and one that is not. A failed business can't employ anyone, whether onshore or offshore.

Now you can argue about whether a business that isn't sustainable without offshoring should exist at all, but that is straying further off topic than I care to go, and frankly is also another rabbit hole likely to lead to unhelpful oversimplification.

You might like to imagine gleeful scheming and maniacal laughter in the boardroom, but I'd confidently bet that that's almost never what's going on in the vast majority of businesses.

[0] You talk about "publicly raising millions": raising funding is not what the vast majority of businesses spend much time doing, and it's not what most businesses who use offshoring spend much time doing.
It's very curious to me, the connection between science, mind, learning, and economy. They are all optimization processes; narrowing the gap between the model of the world and the actual world, with science being a method of modeling and validating models, a method of learning. Minds are collections of learned models, and economy is the actualization of those models to accomplish the acquisition and use of resources.

I used the word "machine" before, and also the word "superorganism". I get this creepy feeling we're part of a cybernetic superorganism more akin to a slime mold, digesting the world not with funky stomach acids, but the humming sounds of a million bulldozers, pile-drivers, hammers breaking down and building up again. And now, in the 21st century, some kind of Star Trek computer sounds as the digitized stock market whirs away at a speed incomprehensible to these little pink-gray bundles of nerves prone to chemical stimulation.

All of those learning and optimization processes are harnessed, in bulk, towards the economy--harnessing the energy and mineral resources of this planet to create "wealth" for the value system of that machine. Even as just a software person, being light-years away from a bulldozer or a harvester, everything I have done inevitably feeds into making that machine more "efficient". I am rewarded, so my little life is improved. (I guess I shouldn't complain, the machine has made me relatively wealthy so far!?)
* LLVMBuild is removed. This means most of the building works are handled by CMake now
This is very optimistic, and not taking into account the out of control immigration quotas currently in place. About 10x per capita as compared to the United States.
This is certainly a possible route. To be honest, I'm not sure the poster has the ability to carry through a four month self-directed project like that; a bootcamp and/or working as a junior engineer provides far more structure and direction.
If there's some way to figure out "those who are willing and able to learn" better than "those who excelled in high school," then fine, use that.

But it's clear to me that the current system is not for "those who want to learn". College is just what you do after high school because an undergraduate degree is a requirement for some bizarre reason.
Understanding Kelly criterion is almost useless in practical investment management. I’m a professional trader and former quant and I don’t know a single actual pro who uses anything like Kelly to size bets.
I’m not saying understanding the methodology isn’t commonplace and useful, I’m saying this isn’t how portfolios are structured in the real world. Securities are not like a deck of cards.

This seems to be discussed at greater length among retail traders who have no way of even knowing their odds than any professional.
I don’t get why it’s strange? What I learned from that competition was that bid sizing was way more important than the symbol selection strategy. Trying to beat the other students at iocaine powder wasn’t really a winning proposition.
Why has nuclear power been a flop?
If you see 60 heads in a row in the real world you've got a trick coin. The odds of that are 1/10^17.
Yeah so inflation is only on suff owned by rich (thus giving them more money) while normal folks have food and energy sources subsidised so they don't revolt and labor costs don't rise. Now you know who controls the government. This gap in real demand expression is skewing markets and might backfire.

IMO workers are beeing ripped off by finance class and recently quite hard. So I support some kind of better money.

Beside this higher land & property ownership tax and reduced work hours might help IMO.
Somewhat related, I’ve tried running compute shaders using wgpu-py:

https://github.com/pygfx/wgpu-py

You can define any compute shader you like in Python, and annotate it with the data types, and it compiles to SPIRV and runs under macOS, Linux and windows
Princeton prides themselves on being a top-tier research university where teaching is taken seriously. That's different from being a teaching university. They spend a ton of money on research, and faculty have much lighter teaching loads than almost anywhere else.

They do take undergraduate teaching much more seriously than most of their peer institutions--much less instruction is relegated to graduate students. But they hire and promote for research, at least in the departments I'm familiar with.
> 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 see it used (and use it myself) from time to time in contexts where you want to differentiate between 7/8/9-bit bytes, mostly when working with embedded/low-level software.
This is the text that made me take computing seriously when I was a teen, and just learning to read in English. I have found many people who have been similarly impressed by this story.
> Look you can claim that "having the necessary metadata for garbage collection and reflection in a statically-compiled language takes up a significant amount of space" but without clear evidence of how much space that is, with proper accounting of byte usage, this claim is non-falsifiable and thus of doubtful value.

The article made the claim that 70% of space is wasted "dark bytes". The article should prove the claim, which it did not. It's an extraordinary claim that really requires more evidence than just an off-hand napkin calculation and talk about mysterious "dark bytes".

It takes very little time to write up something that's wrong.

It takes much more time to write a detailed rebuttal.

What you're doing here is pretty much the same trick quacks, young-earth creationists, and purveyors of all sorts of pseudo-scientific claims pull whenever they're challenged. Any fool can claim the earth is 6,000 years old. Proving that it's actually several billions years old requires deep insight in multiple branches of science. People stopped doing this after a while as it's so much effort and pointless as they're not listening anyway, so now they pull the "aha, you didn't falsify my claim about this or that bullshit I pulled out of my ass therefore I am right" zinger and think they look Very Smart And Scientific™.

But that's not how it works.

Also just outright disbelieving people like this is rather rude. You're coming off really badly here and your comment has the strong implication that Russ is outright lying. Yikes!
I agree, we should use SSPL[0]. It's an advancement over agpl, s.t. SaaS providers and such have to open source their whole stack containing your code.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License
siscog in portugal is one example but there are others, historical and current. it is also used in quantum computing and financial markets. gramarly and google flights are perhaps the most famous current users of the software.

edit: i adjusted my answer because i thought i was answering to parent
We can always re-introduce them if it becomes a problem.
Low frequencies carry an awful lot of energy and you will get maximum dynamic range out of a mic by close-micing but HPF'ing off the lows early in the chain. Many condensers have little preamps inside them, and the HPF may be placed before this pre giving it effectively a lot more headroom.
To be blunt, this sounds like a lot of flowery-language bullshit that isn't backed by anything.

Anybody who has been through education has observed that there are the people who "get it" and the people who struggle. And similarly, if you take an expert in some field and have them start explaining concepts to a random person that are at the very edge of the expert's knowledge, said person will be completely lost. This is a real thing we all can relate to.

The idea that "we all can do it" because "we're all equals" is doing a disservice to the kids who struggle. You better prepare them by putting them in courses that are matched to their level and challenge them appropriately.

You can't take someone who weighs 600 lbs, say "okay, go run a marathon" and expect success. Even if that person really wants to suceed. What you can do is train them in a way that is tailored to them, and eventually they may be able to run that marathon.

One idea I agree with is that we should evaluate kids more regularly to see how their abilities change over time. If they show improvement, their coursework should be adjusted accordingly. But all this "not sorting" kids stuff? That's just nonsense.
Their building gen is also super nice but it really takes away from the experience when flying a known location.
I finished at near the bottom of my undergrad. Got a PhD and a job that uses those skills, which puts me in the top 10% of graduates in my field.

So yeah, study and research are very different.
Just a thought, is IVF an unnatural response to ubiquitous unnatural hormone disruptors and the proposed reduction in gametes? Would IVF even be known outside of the lab if men were as virile as their grandad (generally speaking)?
M68k LLVM maintainer here: I'm also excited about it :-) I'll try my best to write a proper release note.
Not sure if it's how they did it, but there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion#Multiple_outco...
I have had that happen but I think it was due to switching between the HD and not HD radio signal.
Ne Joke: Use it on something you prepared before (eg sanded down). And use Black 2.0 as a primer. Results are way better
SaaS Funnel Metrics
Dunno how it works in the US, but in Brazil there are plenty of "influencer" children accounts on IG and they already are dealing with IG obsession and whatnot. Knowing that, I figure IG is trying to isolate kids in a sub-site.
You wouldn't believe the lack of efficiency in law firms (much of the cost of which is passed to clients). When I tried selling SAAS to law firms, there was a degree of resistance because efficiency threatens the charge by the unit model.

I no longer work in law ;)
As it turns out, schools hire faculty for more than just research. Not only are faculty usually required to teach, and evaluated on that, but there are faculty roles that are geared to teaching, as well as lecturer roles.
For people who earn a wage and don't just make money by investing, the Kelly Criterion can't be applied in its basic form, since it means your capital gain has both constant and linear components, instead of just being linear as the formula assumes, which complicates matters a lot.

Plus for low probability high reward bets you have the additional complication that you probably can't make them often enough to get a decent chance of hitting the jackpot.
Eating disorders at even a younger age! Coming to a child near you.