skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many things that need justification for safety reasons. All the 18+ stuff comes to mind, most notably slot machines.

Even in a free society.
Really? Have you worked at a FAANG company? Have you hired at one? I don't mean to be rude, but your comment sounds like it is coming from a parallel universe. My experience is the reverse. It's super hard to get hired at a FAANG company (strong initial screening for incompetence), it's also super hard to get fired. (weak ongoing screening for low performers). At google they're so firing averse that they have manager training on "managing out" where you work with a poor performer to convince them to quit rather than just outright firing them. Just curious if you have personal experience that runs counter to mine.
> 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.

The number of good jobs is not a function of the number of college grads. If there are fewer college grads, employers will have to broaden the search. Let high school graduates apply to entry level positions that aren't manual labor.

> 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.

I'm saying that people who are going to college to get a degree so they can get an entry level job should not be in college. They should just be able to apply to those jobs out of high school.

The people left over, the people who actually want to go to college for the sake of knowledge, will be academically talented (or at least interested).
> “If you're finishing pine with knots in it, you'll want a primer that will seal the knots, otherwise the pitch will eventually bleed through and discolor the topcoat. Shellac excels at this.”

yes, i learned this the hard way, albeit on a simple set of wall shelves as cat stairs that i can easily fix eventually with shellac and another topcoat (when i get around to it).
Academia isn't financially self sustaining. Rich parents pay for the prestige of sending their children to certain schools. If college is only for future academics, they'll quickly run out of money.

The general pursuit of academic science could be funded by other means. but it will be hard to match the amount of revenue generated from wealthy parents and alumni
I just started trying https://app.thestorygraph.com/ as an alternative...
Ask HN: Was there controversy with how much energy computers were using
Given the news about how mining crypto is destroying the environment, was there any news similar to that when the personal computer started to be adopted in the masses?
what about interacting with the existing kernel code base? would data coming back from the kernel into rust space need to be wrapped to provide safety guarantees? or would it be necessary to turn safety features off?

a bit confused about this.
Because nodejs kubernetes modern cloud.
LOL and you got mad at me for saying that you were "dogwhistling" earlier.

I call it as I see it, and I'm generally not wrong.
You can do ID (or just validate a few other ways) with anonymous accounts, done properly seems a good balance.

Some would hate it, but if it actually improves the quality and the company has some security chops I’d see it as a selling point.
Block based on feature detection instead of browser sniffing.

if (document.interestCohort) {...
If the goal is to keep buildings cool you don't want your paint to be as reflective as possible in the whole solar spectrum. You want it to have a low reflectivity (thus high absorption/emissivity) in the infrared window[0] where you'll emit more into space than you'll absorb and high reflectivity in the rest of the spectrum.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_window
It works,

Elizabeth Holmes would have made it if not for that whistleblower.

Elon Musk is selling is half baked FSD and it's working for him.
That would annoy consumers more than it would hurt the business. Do you think people would stop buying the Apple iPhone if tomorrow it was called the Pear jPhone?

The name part of a brand is valuable, but it doesn't really define the brand, especially for huge brands like Google.

A bigger punishment perhaps would be if they allowed competitors to use the brand instead - if you could have Apple "Google Maps" and Bing "Google Maps" and OSM "Google Maps" for one of these cases, but that is even less realistic as a possible option.
From a Free Skype Plugin to a $1M/Year Audio/Video Transcription Service
Agree, it depends on how it's executed. Say you have a business entity in the said country and you operate as a subsidiary or you contract to another company, now you pay local wages as per the market.

This is different from hiring a remote employee to your company where you've advertised a salary range as part of the job description.
I went through program like this (french-speaking country). My concern after doing those two years are:

1- You learn a lot of useless subjects!! I'm a software engineer now but I studied organic chemistry for two freaking years!! And I don't plan to use that knowledge (most of which I totally forgot) anywhere in the future. Something that I wouldn't have picked if I was studying CS in the US.

2- You're using the same filter for everyone, and people can have different type of intelligence which can go unnoticed via such program.

3- You don't get to chose the thing you love if you don't rank well! Actually you may end up with something that you hate, because that's what's left! And you only know this after you spent two years of your life!

4- It's mostly about hard work and luck!!

5- You get out with almost only theoretical skills in the first two years. A good thing if you're looking to continue in the research track afterword but a bit of disadvantage (compared to people who used those two years to master the required skill for the job market).
Thanks for the advice, that's a really good way of framing things.
Target creates knock offs (Up+Up brand) for almost all the household products they sell. They're placed directly next to the item from the known brand, such as Neutrogena. I would say if anything, the known brand item is more front and center, but it's impossible to ignore the adjacent facsimile that's 2/3 the price.
Kelly can work if you can properly model your uncertainty over the probability of outcomes and take this into account. You can either do some sort of Bayesian averaging over your posterior belief of the risk, or you can use the pessimistic side of the confidence interval of the actual risk probability.
Cool. Netherlands has this benefit for disabled people.

ATX = Austin?
Sorry, I misread your comment initially. Yes, if you have an additional degree of freedom that is not being plotted (a coined walk), then the overlap is fine.
We typically use the bankers as a sentiment indicator to show you folks who like bankers, that the bankers are getting into Bitcoin. The beauty in Bitcoin is these bankers enter in an equal or lower playing field to those involved. We don't seek permission from, or worry about said bankers.

They are pawns, if you will, to point to as jumping off points to your average Joe and say "Look! Your favorite X,Y,Z institutional guy is into Bitcoin now!" That is all.
.. how is the alleged instagram for children going to circumvent COPPA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
> I have a RTX 2070 that's under-utilised

I've found that there are really good and beginner-friendly Blender tutorials. Both free and paid ones.
And that right there is probably why Bitcoin is going to persist. They can't afford to become poor themselves easily. So it was never about the technology and all about keeping an entrenched position at all costs.
Why watchit? Open movies everywhere?
..Watchit gives users control over the content network by welcoming enthusiasts or small studios who wish to have a platform without much "red tape" in between to promote or distribute their films...
Reproducible Research: A Retrospective
lol I was just sitting here thinking I miss my Python job and not having trouble with IntelliJ detecting changes in dependencies and how frustrating it is to invalidate caches and reindex the whole project multiple times before I can run tests for the dependency change. I regularly miss the testing libraries we used, too -- it was so absurdly clean and easy to build robust mocks in our DJango stack (and I set up that tooling, largely on my own iniatiative, based on my team's feedback, so it's not like I'm just like wishing other people had already done the work). Now I work with a bunch of Java devs who use to work for Amazon and somehow use that as an excuse for not caring about tests, our ci-cd tools, and all these other things I'd gotten use to thinking of as standard in my past life as a Python dev.

Code style! Hah. First day on the job I asked about that and was told nobody cared and everybody had their own preferences.

... I'm very bitter today. I'm working on it.
Wow, if you have a perfect SAT, perfect grades, and are of a race which is more likely to get in, you still only have a ~50% chance. It really seems like a lot of these admissions are purely random, unless you're a legacy kid or football player.

I'm not American (Canada), and I beat myself up over not applying in the US, because of intangibles like "networking" and "small class sizes". Now I'm glad I didn't, this seems fucked up.
Totally, this is launching on Monday into beta and there is a lot of work to do here.

The cool thing is that those recommendations are vastly different depending on the person making them. So I do want the same topic from different angles and then I am going to change how they are viewed to make that more useful. As this scales I will be drastically changing how that is displayed on the homepage and topic pages.

For example, here is a future way to get books recommended on a topic one at a time... kinda like book dating:
https://forauthors.shepherd.com/shelf-pages
Great, yet another communication channel kids need to be "parented" away from at the potential cost of social isolation. It must be wearying for parents.

Kids are resilient, but I imagine many parents don't like the thought of their kid missing out on context/social interaction because the lazy-parents kids let them do whatever they want.
> Then your site will not be included in FLoC

caveat 1: extensions. And if one user runs an extension on your site, that triggers inclusion on FLoC, who knows how the domain will be classified in the near future or for other users without any extension?

caveat 2: google simply deciding to change the algo. Or running silent experiments, such as they one running now to try FLoC. Or would anyone here bet $1 on google keeping terms/services around?

caveat 3: the use of condescendingly misleading terms on the official FAQ. E.g. to define the item FLoC works on page/site "A page visit will be included" vs "Websites will have the ability to opt in or out" (no mention of accepted, non-ambiguous, factual terms like url, domain, origin, etc);

And yes, I am biased against FLoC because it is a very low effort to abuse browser monopoly to keep a business that nobody likes.

I will just end this rant with my favorite quote from google announcement: "FLoC service will evaluate whether a cohort may reveal sensitive information about users without learning why that cohort is sensitive".
No offense, but regardless of how right you might be, you come off as a bit of a condescending asshole. Like "Oh, you don't know that there's a more efficient way to do things? There can't possibly be any explanation other than you're literal human garbage and presumably have brain damage!". Come on, get off your high horse.
> Eradicating the disease carriers would have minimal effects on the ecosystems.

I'm not going to ask you to prove a negative, but it sure sounds like it's going against all the advice I've heard about ecology.

Namely that ecosystems are far more complex than we understand and that even small changes can compound into larger changes. Basically: don't play God.

If this is safe and it does work, then it might be helpful to have some new messaging about when and where we can start actively designing ecosystems.

"Don't mess with mother nature" is easy to understand. So, how would you create a new maxim that preserve that general rules but also accommodates eliminating undesirable subspecies?
How so? That is really non-obvious to me. If site A associates user X with IDs 1,2, and 3 over three weeks, how does that help site B that only sees the IDs? When B sees ID 3, without any further unique identifier, they won't know that the same device came with ID 1 and 2 beforehand.

If site B also had an account and both sites would work together, they could simply compare the email address.
Out of curiosity - what software is being used to design chips? Is there anything within reach of a small company, or something open source?
Colleges are obscenely bloated mini-empires. They have grown their own legal systems and police forces. They should have far, far less money.
I don't get the GMO-bad crowd. Before GMO crops, you would take seeds and irradiate them. Then plant them and see what interesting mutations happen. And somehow GMO is worse than that? SMH
the binary outcome formulation you see everywhere is just "real" kelly boiled down. the real thing, which is contained fully in the first paragraph ("The Kelly bet size is found by maximizing the expected value of the logarithm of wealth"), has no such restrictions.
A tiny firm managing under $100m uses Kelly...and...

The post you replied to is right. The fundamental principle of Kelly is that you know your edge, in the markets that is mostly untrue. Funds will volatility-weight their portfolio but this isn't the same as Kelly in practice. Most fund managers will also weight their portfolio towards their "best" position but that is not necessarily based on return. Indeed, picking high return assets is only half the battle.

I also bet a lot, so I am familiar with Kelly. It is totally unusable in finance, no-one uses it in finance, and retail investors have an obsession with it.

In particular, if you Kelly-weight a value portfolio (which the firm linked to in your post is) then you are setting cash on fire. And if you Kelly-weight a long/short portfolio (again, the firm linked to appears to be doing this) then you are setting cash on fire. It is important to understand how a tool works at a practical level.
Apple says selling new iPhones wo power adapters will save 861000 tons of metal
> As a legal tool to promote greater software freedom, I believe copyleft software licenses have largely failed, since they have done nothing to stop the rise of cloud software, and probably not done much to increase the share of software whose source is available.

A license alone cannot solve the problems. A license is a tool to be used by humans, software developers in this case. "Cloud" is a marketing word for XaaS, and it is not a problem as the author argues: I have no issue with mastodon.social hosting all my toots and interactions, not just because I trust the admin (I could trust gmail's admin) but because I have the assurance that the software must be able to give me back all my data, and that I can interact with it the way it says in the source code. You know why ? Because Mastodon is AGPL.

You know what created the rise of Cloud ? Open source non-copyleft software, being already developed by communities and ready-to-reuse, adopted by companies who just had to pick and collect those bricks, glue them, and capture users. It's not that copyleft failed to prevent that, it's that non-copyleft actually helped it. Author is completely wrong in targetting the former and should question why the latter is possible and whether it's good for society.

To be honest I'm stunned at the recent attacks on the free software movement. I could understand RMS' wrongdoings creating some outrage in the usually vocal tech bubble echo chamber, but now people are coming out of the wookdwork at the same time and making the association between RMS and the FSF and between the FSF and (A)GPL, and because one is bad all of them are bad. It's just a license, I don't get the desire to actively avoid it. I'm starting to wonder if that wouldn't be the work of software developers who want to restrict rights to their users in the name of sustainability, and are just blind to the effect that has on users' freedom

> You might argue that a software license is something that an individual developer can control, whereas governmental regulation and public policy is a much bigger issue outside of any one individual’s power. Yes, but how much impact can you really have by choosing a software license? Anyone who doesn’t like your license can simply choose not to use your software, in which case your power is zero. Effective change comes from collective action on big issues, not from one person’s little open source side project choosing one license over another.

Both are complementary. An individual developer can use the AGPL license and work towards government regulations to safeguard user's freedom. There's no reason the two have to be opposed. In fact a simple regulation can be "if a software is AGPL then the interest of the public is there".
Better article over at https://phys.org/news/2021-04-whitest-hereand-coolest-litera... says that lots of energy saving paints already reflect tons of IR, a large portion of their (incremental!) improvement over previous paints in this area is specifically because they expanded the range of wavelengths that are reflected.
In the Florida Keys?
And yet, as humans, we've found ways to repeat mistakes first made millenia ago.
A few years ago, I heard a couple of kids on the bus singing songs about how they’re going to be big on Instagram. It stuck with me as one of those things about how kids observe the world versus how I observed it as a kid.

So to answer your question, I don’t know how it would be appealing, but I think they find it appealing anyway independent of whether we know why, so it’s probably worth revisiting your priors.
> I've been through education, and my take-away is that it's quite a bit more nuanced than that dichotomy. Get what? Struggle with what?

Seems like a bit of a bad faith take here. Of course I didn't mean that there "are kids who are good at school and kids who suck" and that's it. Some kids are really strong in a particular subject. Some kids really struggle in a particular subject.

Growing up, we have all observed peers who are in say, math class, and kids seem to grasp every new concept that is taught intuitively. There are others who seem to struggle with everything. There is also the wide range in between.

> Strawman. The idea isn't simply "everyone is equal". The literal first thing I quote mentions differences.

It does mention differences, and then follows up with something to the effect of "well if we only didn't take note of their differences, and try to give them appropriately challenging coursework, they would do better!" As if to imply that really they're not that different. They are just as capable and the difference is mostly a result of reinforcing their ability by track placement.

It's flowery language. Some people are dumb, some people are geniuses, and most people are just mediocre. It's not fair, but that is the way life is.

> Careful not to confuse being blunt with being upset and stubborn! Or maybe you just really like the hat in Harry Potter!

No need to assume my emotional state here now. No ill-will was intended -- that text just rang my bullshit alarm and was woefully unconvincing to me, that's all. Sorry if I offended you.

Any time somebody writes things that presume to understand the myriad factors in someone's psyche, and how particular words are impacting them or not, need to show up with a mountain of evidence. There are way too many factors at play, and way too little evidence for such a bold claim to stand up to any scrutiny.
The problem with something being wrong is that there's nearly an endless number of ways for something to be wrong.

However, with something correct, there's very little to say about it.
Kelly himself ended up using 1/n for his own personal portfolio management.

Gerd Gigerenzer has a lot to say about how harmful this model has been to finance and the world, because it creates "false certainty".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26325425 has further discussion.
The article criticizes the linguist for
1) Being a cranky, arrogant academic - supposing his study of the language trumped elders' pronunciations of those words, assuming there was a "standard" version of the language that could be reconstructed
2) bequeathing his dictionary and his field-work materials to the American Philosophical Society, where its hard to access the materials, instead of giving them to the Indigenous community or releasing via public domain

I think the first one is fair. Perhaps, for the second one, he expected the materials to be easily accessible. That's on the APA, which should at the least put them up online for free in the public domain, sans the restrictions the article talks about.

I applaud him for caring enough to try to preserve the language, no matter the flaws. He is a human after all, warts and all.
I think Steam is probably a decent model of what Goodreads could have looked like. Full of product reviews, with a carefully crafted recommendation engine that focuses in on genres/studios of interest based on a combination of what your friends are reading/reviewing/liking, your past purchases, new release, etc.

Video games have a similar problem to books in that there’s a lot of genre, and genre is also often a hazy line. And, too, some people really like stuff that I think is total crap (and vice versa).

These days I am almost exclusively shown content that I am at least somewhat interested in.
Lol. He must have never met anyone who has bet full Kelly.
What about Nano?
> but are instead willing to fuck for cash.

And what is the problem with that?

Sex is not charity, there is always something in return, why not cash?
I really hope Python doesn't become the next Nodejs

Last week, I tried to reuse a benchmarking script I wrote 1-2 years ago and was surprised to find a couple of functions were already deprecated/removed in my current Python 3.8.5
I'm recalling a technology from 70s Southern California: low-slope, tar paper for water seal, half-centimeter fragments of broken light-colored rock scattered on top. Dust falls through the gaps onto the tarpaper.

One downside being that after a heavy rain, some fraction of the gravel makes its way down from the roof.
Yes, our government policies actively work against Canadian citizens. Hopefully by then I'll have brain drained out of here into America, like most of my peers.
"Show HN" is for things people have built themselves and that other people can "play with or try out." Basically Show HN is for things that are product-like and submitted by the person who made them.

Articles and blog posts aren't really in the spirit of Show HN except when they directly point to something that meets the criteria...for example a blog post about a new software framework that contains a link to the tool (and of course written and submitted* by a person responsible for making the tool).
Most mosquitoes are harmless, so getting rid of all of them would be incredibly stupid. Getting rid of only species which carry malaria is another matter entirely.

Also, the fact humans have destroyed a lot of biodiversity already is no excuse to do so in the future.