skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bio 101 at UT gets like 500 students per class, with 3-4 sections for the fall semester. If students fail then, is it because they are not capable of learning the material, or is it because they've been thrown into a totally new environment, where some extra guidance and close attention from TAs would help? There are a commensurately higher number of TAs for these classes, but the quality of teaching and energy they bring varies dramatically.
So the probablity of 60% assumes infinite flips. Whereas I'm only flipping 10 times, so I won't necesssarily get 60% heads. I'd also need to know the probability that I'm in one of the cases where I get 60% of heads. Is that right?
I think there is a little bit. In my car the difference in audio quality is really noticeable but if you don't notice an improvement then you can usually turn the HD part off so you don't have to deal with the frequent switching if it is an issue.
> What do you think explains the difference?

The Asians, at least the ones who come to the US, being a far more elite group in terms of genes for academic success.
Especially when they fight each other.
If you think those are the alternatives, I don't think the rest of this discussion will go well.
parents cannot fight multibillion dollar tech companies trying their damndest to get to their kids alone. it's a one-sided fight.
Which ISPs are doing this?
On reading the headline my first thought was "wow, FTP is way older than I expected" and when I realised it's not, my second thought was: "damn, I'm old..." :)
I believe due to webkit no browsers are allowed to do full screen with multitouch. It is possible this only affects Safari and Chrome and isn't a webkit limitation, I haven't tested Firefox.
Or poison, cigarettes, alcohol, porn, fast food…

There are a host of things parents have the responsibility of shielding their kids from. Trying to cancel out harms in the world is futile.
You don't say where you're located, so there may be cultural differences that make the following less relevant for you. Also you give very little detail to go on. However I'll give it a shot. My professional experience is mostly in the USA, and here, especially as a junior developer looking to break in, you have to be extremely persistent. View looking for work as your job. Spend at least 4 hours a day on it. Do some research on the companies you're applying to. Learn what they look for in their employees, and then structure your contact, be it a résumé or some other way into their pipeline, in a way that's likely to get you flagged for further review. Your job as a candidate is to present a compelling narrative for why a company wants to add you to its team. I don't want to get into a discussion about the merits of "passion," but one of the main ways for a junior candidate to distinguish himself is by showing a high level of engagement. One thing not to do is compete too much on price. If you devalue yourself, other people will too.

Also, the pandemic makes it difficult, but look for opportunities to network with people in positions like the one you want to be in. Those are the people you should ask to take a look at your résumé or CV if you're looking for feedback. Employee referrals are one of the best ways to get noticed.
In a free society, you don't need to justify why something needs to exist.
Pointless? No, and projects can be completed without investors.

Investors will want to enter a market where there is opportunity for a large return, better than they can do in the stock market. How much money must be invested, what’s the market size, and what’s the expected market share of the startup in that market. SpaceX supplies a very niche market by providing rides to the ISS but they can attract investors.
There are actually 3000 species of mosquito. 100 species are capable of transmitting malaria, but only 30-40 commonly do. 7 species are responsible for transmitting the most dangerous form of malaria.
The Devil's Guide to Incremental Research
I don't have the source at hand but by looking at what data we have from successful investors, many of them have returns that statistically seem like what you'd expect from E log X strategies.

In fact, it's not even a point of debate. If you target growth, you are using the Kelly criterion whether you know it or not. It's just the name for the thing you do when you optimise for growth.
Why “fake it till you make it” doesn't work
It's important to notice that the funding, which determines what research gets done, is conditional on "impact factor" and publication rates. The classic case of letting a single metric drive a business function without regard for what it actually means. This has been incredibly bad for research, which now requires very large amounts of gaming the system to get actual science done.

Reproducibility and other forms of validity are not currently factored in very well.
Violence and human trafficking exist when their is puritanical prohibition, not independent contractors without pimps.

Prohibition never works and always creates more problems that it erroneously attempts to in "solving" moral panics getting in other people's business.
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Burners, artists and (I think) hackers doing stuff together in Stockholm.
(I'm not in sthlm but part of the Scandinavian burning scene)
I don't think Dogecoin up 300% is healthy in this cryptocurrency market.

The Doge was pumped based on Elon's tweet and purely hype.

This pump may be suitable for those who profited from the currency, but generally, it is terrible for the market.
It would be hard for him to be clearer:

> With the main point of Rust being safety, there is no way I will ever accept "panic dynamically" (whether due to out-of-memory or due to anything else - I also reacted to the "floating point use causes dynamic panics") as a feature in the Rust model.
How to Choose a Python API Framework
The thing I didn't much like about this movie was that the ending tried to put an activist spin on what the filmmaker was doing. One of the last shots is of him and a bunch of his friends going out on a dive (as opposed to just him), as if this will help the octopus somehow.

In fact, the relationship between him and the octopus only works because the filmmaker has a large patch of pristine coast seemingly to himself. If it was some common thing to go diving there the habitat would likely be destroyed. As such the film is not really about activism at all, it's about a man enjoying privileged access to a natural resource.
Even the "Mosquito Fish" doesn't exclusively eat mosquito larvae and tends to prefer other food sources. I don't know of any species that exclusively prey on Mosquitoes.
Are you accounting for family connections? High income families tend to have connections which can help. If your parents are good friends with a lawyer at a top law firm you no longer have to apply on your own merit. Poor families lack these connections and students have to apply on their own. Something to consider.
I like how if you look close enough, the outlines of trees and hills still are block-ish.
Please stop embarrassing yourself.
I would say self promotion, these are college projects.
Does that address the problem, or merely change the window dressing?
Maybe it was applied wrong? The website mentioned that porous materials must be sealed first before spraying with black 3.0.
> I interviewed at Amazon. Aced all questions, (...)

To me that raises a flag on how you may not have a good grasp on what really happened in your interview. You don't ace questions in the onsite interview at Amazon. You are there to provide data for the interviewers to decide if you're a valid candidate. If you were rejected then the data your interviewers collected on you led them to that decision.

Source: I know a few people who went as far as onsite interviews at Amazon. Some got in, others didn't. None of the guys who were left out were cut because of their hard skills.
It’s also 100% based on academic and test taking skill - would be good if a more well rounded assessment could be used instead
I love it when people point to skilled immigration as somehow being bad for wages.

Whats more likely to happen in that Canada may finally get a robust and dynamic technology labor market. With its sensible immigration laws, I know that a lot of my international peers are seriously considering moving to Canada. New immigrants will favor Canada over the immigrant hostile, gun-obsessed and anti-science US.
So a new goodreads minus the technical problems comes along.

It gets popular. The community becomes a mess, it becomes costly to police, you have people upload an ID and the world hates you for invading their privacy, management shifts resources away since its stable-y making money regardless (given some Byzantine model that matters to ownership anyway) and then it falls victim to bit rot.

So a replacement to your goodreads replacement comes along...
That could go along the same line as "an issue for parents to manage". Facebook shouldn't be creating an "Instagram for children", it's up to the parents to manage and monitor their children's internet usage.
Biased coins are *impossible" to make if the coin is flipped not spun.

I doubt any story about a biased coins in the real world.
It would be really helpful, if the OOM killer should be adjustable to kill non-overcommitting programs last (kill any with overcommit first). Then programs could be slowly fixed/improved.
I share the love of Windows Phone 10, but as someone who (used to, before Covid) travel around Europe, the lack of apps really hurt access to public transport and even some cultural experiences (museum companion apps). HERE Maps was also way behind on public transport data for anything outside major capitals.
I’d hate to see the mobile landscape dominated by web apps the way the desktop is. PWAs benefit developers, but I’ve yet to see how they improve my UX as an end user (when compared to native)
You should go out and take a deep breath of reality. People in real life, especially outside of the US, aren't obsessed with talking about their or other people's privileges every time you put a microphone in front of their face.
> commercialfreechildhood.org

commercialfreelife@localhost :)

Now lets get rid of all ads in public spaces.
Are you going to be launching cigarettes for kids tomorrow?
> It's interesting that we can talk about this in such an objective and rational way when it involves non-human animal species, but when it involves humans this statement suddenly becomes extremely controversial.

Because historically people mistook skin color and phrenology and other nonsense for "good genes" and caused grave injustices. The attitudes aren't even fully eliminated and so eugenics is rightly viewed with suspicion.

"Breeding" is also the crudest of methods to produce "good" humans because we value relationships and individuals much more than we do cattle or show dogs. Medicine is the proper science to treat disease in humans.
Vugu: Vue-like frontends in pure Go, HTML, and CSS
Single New Jersey deli boasts a $105M market cap, despite $14K in sales
They are, bitcoin is slightly less so because there is small amount of actual transactions happening .
Can you name a "well-rounded" assessment that doesn't just end up being a measure of privilege?
The Nazi’s had an idea of launching a sun gun (Sonnengewehr) made of sodium metal I think. It would then fry the Allies with focused sunbeams. They were also on meth by the way.

However maybe we could build a bunch of similar mirrors in the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange point (reflecting light straight back at the Sun of course!)
Did you hear something? It sounded like a cash register opening and closing. Kinda like "ch-ching, ch-ching".

No, no - I heard more like a slot machine jackpot. Sorta "Ding-a-ding, ling-ling-dong-ding-ding."

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/16
Ideally, an FTP emulation of any password for FTP/anonymous, recorded to /var/log/secure, would be within SFTP (maybe checking for an "@" character followed by some dots, hoping for an email).

Forcing the null password up the stack to /etc/shadow (or other credential sources) potentially compromises PAM and other applications that may depend upon it.

It sounds like you've implemented a separate SSH server within a chroot for this to protect the base OS; I've done the same for tinyssh with nspawn for an internal project. This is not easy.

Anonymous access for SFTP doesn't scale to the extent used in FTP, even omitting browser access.
What about Tiktok?
I used to not like autotune at all in music, but then I think I heard an interview with Grimes (?) who basically said (paraphrasing) "oh, I love autotune. Yes it's artificial and detectable, BUT it brings the vocals even closer to the music, which makes a more powerful impression.

Ever since then, it's not bothered me nearly so much when the vocals are tuned. The track hits harder. Yes: it's true the voice loses some of it's natural beauty, but in turn, you get music and voice that follow perfectly.
Thought experiment: in what way has it landed heads 60% of the time? It landed heads 100% of the trials so far, but the coin has no way of keeping track of that.
It's possible, but it is the "who cares" mindset I object to. File sizes are important. Memory usage is important. CPU cycles are important. Many devs with powerful machines don't give a heck and in the end everybody has to pay, in different ways.
Firefox is a bit of an interesting case.

We have essentially 3 categories of allocations: (1) those that are large and/or the size is user-controlled, which are (mostly) handled; (2) most of those that happen within the JS engine, which are handled but we're constantly debating whether it's worth the cost; and (3) all the rest, which includes all other allocations outside the JS engine as well as the ones within the JS engine that are expected to be rare and are too hard to handle in any sensible way. For (3), we crash on OOM.

So if you do use cgroups or ulimit or whatever, Firefox may do something reasonable with OOMs. Or it may not, depending on what code sees the OOM. It's still an open question how often the JS engine handling an OOM is worthwhile (as in, it won't just continue to OOM until it finds something that will choose to crash.) OOM telemetry is a little iffy, so I don't trust statistics based on it.

The cost of (2) is not just code size and code complexity. It's also a larger vulnerability surface that is rarely exercised. Within the JS engine, we have ways to synthesize OOM events to at least get some level of testing. (We'll run a chunk of code repeatedly, OOMing on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ... allocation, and make sure we either handle it properly or do a controlled crash.)
I believe it was first - https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/010...
There are 3000 species of mosquito. Only a few dozen transmit diseases to humans, and of those just 3 are the primary spreaders. No predator feeds exclusively on the disease spreading species.
Kudos to students to pull this off. Although, I would refrain from claiming Level 5 autonomy on 3 wheeler rickshaw. It is a pretty bold claim.

[1] https://minuszero.in/
Having 100% code coverage just because is not meaningful in itself, so I don’t see your point.

Having 100% is just as not enough because you can arrive at a line of code from exponentially many states. Mutation testing is a good way to show whether the tests are actually worth anything.
The documentary focuses on a single octopus, unless you're suggesting that the premise of the documentary is one big lie.
but that means you should bet into the bias, not against it.
>> Most of their problems seem to lie in feeling unwanted.

And exactly because of that they are the least attractive to potential mates. And instead of facing that they attack idea in itself. Their problems are initially psych related and there should be a cure to them if enough attention was paid to them clinically. Their forums are not part of the solution, they are creating it. The terrible negative advice and toxic evolutionary dogma, the idea that they are excluded from the genetic pool by genetically superiors, ascribing them epithets and making it all a game in which they are the anti-protagonists themselves cannot lead to a healthy psyche but I haven't heard of any orchestrated effort to help them out, there are only secret agents monitoring for potential violence outbreaks in these communities. They are instead embittered, self hating and fueled with resentment daily on these forums by the self proclaimed leaders of thought in these forums. They feel like they are rejected from both women and men. They feel out of place from this world and the only solace they find on forums. These people need to be paid some attention to, to be taken out on trips, healthy communities to be made for them since they are not capable of creating themselves but this is a societal ill in many ways.
How does the parallax due to being in a different point within the Solar System compare to the parallax due to the Solar System itself moving relative to the Galaxy?

Is this the magnitude of parallax effect we could observe within a couple years while sitting here on Earth?
Because 'speed' isn't the only measure of a useful programming language, or even the most important one.
Some of us don't want to work for the CCP.
Waiting for the article : "How should we critique research without being called anti-science?"
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Prohibition is good for the criminals and police-industrial-political complex, but bad for society.

I think the moralizers just need to MYOB and government regulate each vice sensibly. It is the least harm and most pragmatic approach.
It 'proves' that a lot of people, yours truly included, do not use frameworks
> this guy's apparent privilege.

This was filmed near Simon's Town, near Cape Town (1)

One can feel blessed living in that part of the world near beach and mountains. There are also still some appalling 3rd world tin-shack slums in Cape Town. It's a part of the world where the privilege is very easy to see, if you care to see it.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Octopus_Teacher
> The article made the claim that 70% of space is wasted "dark bytes"

This is incorrect. The claim is that the bytes are either non-accounted, or motivated by technical choices specific to Go.

> What you're doing here is pretty much the same trick quacks [...]

Look the article has some measurements with numbers which you can readily reproduce on your own computer, and the methodology is even described. The main claim is that "it's unclear what these bytes are about". The previous claim that they were "non-useful" was retracted. The data is there, and there's a question: "What is this data about?"

The text is even doubling down by spelling out "there's no satisfying explanation yet".

> outright disbelieving people like this is rather rude

We're not in the business of "believing" or "disbelieving" here I think? There's data, there's measurements, and there are explanations.

After my comments and that of others, Russ provided a more elaborate, more detailed (and at last, falsifiable in the positive, epistemological sense of the word) explanation deeper in the thread. Now we can make the work of looking into it and check the explanation.

> your comment has the strong implication that Russ is outright lying

Your understanding is flawed then? There was no assumption of lies implied.
I don't actually use good reads, but I clicked around - everything I clicked on loaded faster (less than 2 seconds, usually less than 1) than everything I clicked on in medium (always more than 2 seconds, where this blog post is hosted).

Neither site is fast, but "one of the slowest around" doesn't track either.
Yeah, thought the same, this train left already the station.
It needs an ide as much as any other language. Java programmers are just lucky that they have the best IDEs around.
Search result positioning is equivalent to physical placement in brick and mortars. Are you going to start legislating where exactly Whole Foods or Target can place its house-brand items? Should Starbucks be forced to reorder its menu items in descending order of popularity?

There's basically nothing on Amazon that can't be purchased elsewhere online, so to say that the answers to the above questions can change because lots of people choose to buy from Amazon doesn't ring of "protecting the consumer". If anything, the fact that so many people choose to shop there makes me think the consumers have spoken and they like the deal they're getting.
> In a closed world, these [polar and cartesian] are identical representations.

They are not identical! To even think for a moment that they are identical, you must have something like floating point numbers in mind to back x, y, r, theta. An IEEE float can take on the value "inf". The polar representation allows you to represent "a point at infinity in a specific direction", whereas the Cartesian representation allows you to represent "a point at infinity in an axis-aligned direction" and "a set of points at infinity in a set of directions within a quadrant".

You can argue they are identical for points not at infinity. But even then, they are not identical. The polar representation has redundancies (1. negate the radius and flip the angle. 2. add one turn to the angle).

These are the kinds of things that might make you prefer one representation over another, in addition to performance characteristics of certain operations on the points.

If you like thinking about these subtle differences, you can drop down to one dimension and consider two representations for intervals: 1. a lower and upper bound, 2. a center and a radius.
> The French and Japanese I think have it about right.

What?? Prostitution is legal in France BUT proxenetism is not, and buying sex isn’t either, making it very hard for sex workers to work under a roof and advertise their services. It exactly creates the conditions (trafficking) that the laws are supposed to fight.

In Japan prostitution is nominally forbidden and actually tolerated, and other sexual services are available as well, which is indeed a good solution.
This. You wouldn't believe how much visibility contributing to known open source projects gives you. And you train your communication and collaboration skills (PRs/reviews) in addition to the usual developer chops. Good luck!
Is this artificial scarcity? Are the automakers blaming a chip shortage to cover for low demand? Has the world turned to FOMO as the next big marketing paradigm? Can we pull demand forward by creating a "shortage"?

Perhaps I should be in the looney bin, but I don't like the smell of all these "shortages"... they reek of manipulation and greed.
Should Costco/Walmart be able to sell their own brands on their own website? Should retailers who sell other brands be able to sell their own brand at all?

> and therefore has harmed consumers by simply reducing quality brand’s ability to scale, by imposing higher shelf costs for the same brand exposure, and therefore fewer sales.

How come brand name items cost more on the brand’s website compared to Walmart’s brands on Walmart’s website? There is no shelf cost online.
I understand, once 60% chance is established - then - that's what it is.

However, until such probability is established, if I see heads in a row - my intuition would tell me that the physics is skewed towards heads. I don't think that it would be unreasonable to think that in such circumstances until one gets a larger sample of throws.
Here's a related yet totally different take: your comment demonstrates flawlessly the reason why sufficiently intelligent people must be weeded out of these experiments (or at least the results). And that in turn helps explain why we end up with people who bet tails.

(Note that the thrill of gambling is another explanation; I'm not claiming "those people are less intelligent, it's the only explanation" but rather "a bias against a certain kind of intelligence could lead to an increase in the observed outcome".)
My tests show the tab does not consume much when it is not visible.