skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Braille is originally from a similar timeframe and carries six bits. Modern enhancements have focused on the protocol above the payload to make it more efficient.
the one big mistake the original protocol made: when sending a file it just starts streaming bytes without first sending the total size of the file. Makes it impossible to know, did the transfer complete 100%? Hence you have to be able to resume a partial transfer.
You can just put webmaster@ (no domain) and that almost always works it there's any check. Maybe ftpmaster@ would be more appropriate though.
It's behind a soft paywall but this article describes what you're saying very nicely. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/does-it-ma...

Apparently college is almost useless for rich white guys but it's progressively more useful if you're not rich, white, or a guy.
It's been a couple of years, but I still like the Outerra project. And also the Bohemia Interactive VBS.
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It's impossible to formally define dark patterns, especially when trying to except traditional dark patterns (recurring sales, coupons, strategically placed roasting chickens, etc).

And so any attempt to do that will necessarily "get the government more and more involved". Either through some administrative body that decides whether a certain thing is a "dark pattern", or through judicial remedies ("Here is your 57 cent media credit because Amazon lied about shipping cutoff times. They admit no wrongdoing but promise to never do it again").

Meanwhile mandating APIs isn't mandating "software architecture". It's merely just a different form of the website that has a predictable structure. Amazon could even choose whatever structure they want, as long as it is documented and versioned.

Both approaches aren't mutually exclusive, so I'm not arguing against the former. I just don't hold out hope for it to create meaningful reform - centralized bodies are just as likely to bless abusive practices.
Subsidies have transitioned away from direct payments to subsidized insurance. The insurance isn’t just about natural disasters or crop loss, it guarantees minimum revenue based on farmed area, basically resulting in direct payments whenever prices are low. That has been successfully rebranded as “not a subsidy”.

https://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=00000&progcode=corn
Absolute number admitted is probably decreasing because the admissions committee is more effective at offering admissions to people who are more likely to accept the offer. There are a number of ways to do this.

Without looking, I would guess that that the entering classes of Princeton and other elite schools largely stay fairly steady over time for a variety of reasons.

As for the number of people who apply, this can be increased via outreach programs, marketing, etc.
A simple description of the Kelly criterion is that if you want to grow wealth over a long period time, at each decision point take the one that maximizes your average expected log wealth.

I'm trying to use it in real life, though sometimes the decisions are quite scary, as it's hard to estimate the probability of outcomes. Also my wealth is much more volatile than most people can stomach, but I look at it like a game.
> two-thirds gambled on tails at some stage in the experiment

I'm not sure why that's called out. If you've just had 6 heads in a row the next 4 "should" be tails, so it's not irrational to bet on tails is it?
Moving away from packaging things that don't need packing would be a good start. One of the grocery stores I shop at moved a lot of the smaller bulk produce items into shrink wrapped packages in poly-styrene trays. Consumers can also stop buying pre-peeled fruit and vegetables (corn on the cob, oranges, melon, etc).
Indeed, I don't think there's a social or economic reason why higher education should be a scarce good. Likewise health care.

There was a recent article suggesting that Stanford should just replicate itself in multiple states. My own preferred route would be bottom-up: Start by bolstering the community and technical colleges, then the regional public colleges, and finally large state universities.

The "elite" private colleges have a dilemma, which is that they have to basically curate their student populations, because any simplistic admission filter will turn the college into a freak show and destroy its own brand. A college that consists of nothing but valedictorian concertmaster robotic-club-leaders, concentrated in three or four "hot" majors, would even have a hard time retaining faculty.

I propose letting them do exactly that -- a decade of no-holds-barred private college admissions -- and then figure out what we want to do about higher education.
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(This appears to be a copy-paste of the Wikipedia article.)
On similar note, schools should not send kids to Youtube to complete their assignments.
What are you plans for helping authors establish a relationship with their readers?
So the person I was replying to, was likely just joking ...
Some CV tips from a bit of time hiring:

Make sure that page one is a clear table of skills, your CV will be fed into a CRM/ATS that recruiters use to search from - "C# AND Jira AND Javascript", for instance.

Core skills, Web, Mobile, DevOps, for example, should all be rows within that table. Don't forget soft skills... Did you manage a team or delegate work at any time? Add it.

Make sure you've got your ZIP/postcode right at the top, otherwise you're invisible to systems that use a geographic search.

Having public code examples (GitHub, BitBucket et al.) help get your foot in the door. If you've got a portfolio, stick a link on there.

And I know what you're getting at with lying on your CV, but you need to believe you're the best candidate and consider how your modest CV looks, confidence goes a long way.
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I love the curation of topics - it's exactly the way people would think about discovering niche books.

Curious to know - how did you curate these?
For the curious:

"My favorite symbol is by the way `よ` which denotes the Yoneda embedding" which was named after its mathematician inventor/discoverer Yoneda [1]

The character is the syllable "Yo" in Japanese katakana, and although not everyone knows katakana, still it is mnemonic for "Yoneda" rather than being wholly arbitrary. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoneda_lemma

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(kana)
This is a privacy issue, in the country which thinks so highly of the GDPR. So it's not something which they should be able to sweep under the rug as if nothing happened. As the article explains, the issue is far bigger than just vulnerabilities, it's about how politics supported this app.

If this would be some other thing, like the implementation of a video surveillance system in the political center of Berlin, or any other important place, they would have taken care to at least adhere to the basics in how to give whom the job to do this, how it will be licensed/owned, how it will be run, what happens with the data. A thorough check of the company would have been made.

But in this case? It's a small startup with no expertise whatsoever in data protection, expecting the silliest terms and conditions, and the politicians are just glad to throw the money at them, and even expecting citizens to install this app if they want to take part in public life.

This is as crazy as it gets and shows how incapable they are of controlling this pandemic, even how little they care to seriously work on it, and I wonder how much this represents what they have been doing over the last decade in general.

I was glad to install the Corona-Warn-App and am a bit sad that there are so few people using it, but it was implemented correctly. Not only from a technical point of view.

But should any of these apps become a requirement to participate in public life, I'd take it as far as going to jail for not installing or uninstalling it.
An issue with the reporting is that the ubirch standard solution is confused all the time with the actual project. Especially since it is mostly guessing, not knowledge of the actual technology behind it.
"Now with different bugs!"
This feels like one of those things that will be ruined by bad actors. Finding cheap worthless books for free or next to free is quite easy. I could get my hands on 10K "books" right now for the cost of picking them up and storing them. If there is anything valuable on your site it will likely be quickly swapped out for garbage by some "entrepreneur" flipping them to a for sale site.

The project looks cool and I wish you the best of luck in designing solutions to avoid bad actors.
I guess given the recent court ruling we should see if Google sticks with Kotlin as a hedge, sticks with Kotlin because the community has embraced it, or pulls away from Kotlin as a no longer needed source of extra work.
I have read a few detailed analyses of what he said/did, and there IS a deliberate smear campaign. I see the text of what he said and the analysis and interpretation is completely wrong. There are a few of these.
Actually, the JVM uses comparably less power than other high level languages.

And frankly, you simply can’t write all the software in use in low level languages. Yeah, it is theoretically possible but not feasible
... though in the past many developers have complained that the source code didn't seem to be the one from which the app on the appstore was built and/or it was quite out of date.
The rule sounds fair for direct family members (wife, husband, children under 18, etc.).
Why would you assume I said that.

Government has the job of arbitrating between the needs of all people. Companies should be meeting the needs and wants of consumers without causing harm. When Companies, and the people that own and operate them, cause harm, it is the obligation of government to remedy these problems through action, forceful if need be, against the offenders. Governmental failure to remedy problems results in vigilantism without fail.
Getting an eink secondary monitor for my workstation. I use to get pretty bad eye strain that lasted for days from LCD screens. It got so bad I forgot how it feels to wake up without my eyes hurting. Now it's all gone.

The product offering of eink screens is virtually non-existent, the only usable one for interactive work that I found was the Dasung 13.3", which is the one I got.
Since New Horizon is the fastest probe ever sent from earth, I wondered how long it would take to go further from the sun than Voyager 1.

Never, it turns out: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3520/when-will-new...
I have a friend who bootcamped for 6 months and landed a $130k/yr job at a buzzword start-up doing app development. No previous coding knowledge or really even tech interest. He did accounting previously.

He makes 3/4 of what the president of my small defense contractor company makes, a guy who has been an RF engineer for 35 years prior to taking on the leadership role.

The two fresh grad EE's we have are both spinning software in their free time to nab software dev jobs over EE jobs, because the pay is often double.
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This is the single most important issue imo in modern higher education. It is fundamental to the success of our society that we can provide high quality education to all who want it.

If you talk to the admissions department of every top school, they will all admit that they reject a large number of perfectly capable students.

So why don't they try to expand their programs and increase their acceptance numbers? I can only guess. Scared of change. Politics as well, I imagine. Afraid of not appearing selective, pissing off alumni, that sort of thing. [1]

It's depressing to me how hard it is to get into a top school these days. I bet many of us who went to an amazing school 10-20 years ago would be unable to afford or get into that school today. If you wanted to get into MIT 40-50 years ago, and you were capable, you were pretty much guaranteed a space.

Something has to change, or extreme class divides will just keep on growing, and meritocracy will become a distant memory.

[1]: A notable exception being Georgia Tech's OMSCS program. They basically admit anyone who wants to get in, and offer the program at cost, so 7k for the entire thing. Graduating is another matter entirely - it's very difficult. The goal of the program is specifically to offer a high quality education to anyone who wants it. It's been an interesting experiment, and shows what is possible.
Do they? He got financial slap on his wrist, didn’t have to admit to any wrong doing, kept absolute power in the company, ignored any corrective actions of the settlement, and continues to pump stock on weekly basis, to a place that made him one of the richest people in the world. And in the free time he’s pumping other meme investments, just for fun.

SEC vs Musk is perfect example of how powerless/not interested in pumping stock schemes regulators are. Until stock start to go down, then they get more power.
Well said. It's going to cause us to re-think the capital/labor relationship.

UBI will almost certainly be a necessity, but then the question is who will mop the floors and what is the impetus of progress.
Seems more like an issue for parents to manage.

It's hard to control what teenagers do, but young children simply don't have the resources and opportunity to do things their parents don't permit them to do.
I think by far the most interesting part of this article is New Horizons observing parallax of Proxima Centauri... it's a bit mind-blowing to think about the vast distances involved, but to actually observe it is just wild to me.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20...
> a heavy enough runtime

Hey, asking out of pure ignorance - Why do you think this? My naive point of view is that the Linux kernel already has enough of a runtime to support such at hing - a scheduler, kernel threads, and interrupts.

An actor system shouldn't be particularly heavy - you can probably implement an actor in just a couple of bytes.

Agreed that it couldn't be a core part of Rust though.

Maybe it's too off topic or whatever, just curious.
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The problem with psychological egoism is that it doesn't say anything.
No, the next toss still has a 60% chance of being heads. The coin doesn't remember how it landed last time.
I think we shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good, here. Yes, ability measurement is sort of fuzzy and it's not perfect. It at least gives you a starting point.

There would be no doubt in anybody's mind that we shouldn't take a kid whose mathematical abilities are counting to 10, and adding and subtracting one digit numbers, and toss them into a calculus course.

So given that there is some boundary, that ability is meaningful in _some_ way, we can start to narrow it down. We can think about methods for measuring ability. What knowledge and understanding is required before you can tackle algebra II?

Again, not perfect, but certainly necessary and better than nothing.
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The story also gives a different perspective on how to use the Death Note.

Pretty cool.
Yes, you're probably right - I hadn't thought that the voice + noise is going to be one thing, extracting just the noise will be difficult, unique and maybe not trainable at all.

I have thought about the constructing a new reality thing - I wouldn't be surprised if models ended up being trained to misspeak words which could get confusing...
Convert word documents (DocX) to text on the CLI with zero dependencies
> And it’s not only sexual but merely human connection that helps an unbalanced psych enormously.

Which is why if you read about what incels say, it seems they don't want to see escorts. Most of their problems seem to lie in feeling unwanted.

My guess is they are largely a byproduct of an atmoized individualistic society. They lack human connection, and see romantic connection as the ultimate one, reinforced by the fact that people tend to have fewer/no friends as they age.
You can do the same in TypeScript with newtype-ts. I'd recommend it for the same reasons you'd use them in Haskell et al.
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I think the biggest lessons for me when it came to investing in Bitcoin is to be strict about what percentage of it is included in my whole portfolio (I stick stick 5%).

I also diversify among cryptocurrencies and invest in both Bitcoin and Ethereum. My plan is to keep a close eye on their role in economy and not speculating on them in short term or get caught in investment gossip and who said who.

Also for the Bitcoins I own, I plan to hold them for a very long time unless something fundamental happens to their prospect.

What are your thoughts about the right way of investing in Bitcoin?
I'm strongly against governments controlling population growth.

OP I was responding to stated:

"Microbes don’t coordinate their growth, and therefore fall into boom-bust cycles that dominate and exhaust their local environment. Humans can reason about these issues, but we see insufficient ability to collectively coordinate in response to them."

Government is how we collectively coordinate. Microbes exhaust their local environment by reproduction, hence the question.
> Princeton and Harvard admit, for the most part, people who already excelled significantly in high school. Such excellence is already indicative of ability.

> Ideally our fixation would be on a hypothetical institution that admits people entirely at random, and through some means (whether authoritarian, or montessori, waldorf, immersion, etc.) shows that beyond a reasonable doubt the school itself has improved the persons educational prospects.

This view of higher education as training students or increasing the socioeconomic prospects of students is fairly new and it's not working. The former view is better. College should be for academically gifted high school graduates.

At the same time, a college degree should not be required to get a good entry-level job.
I love SQLite, I do all of my projects prototyping before I move to postgres which is also awesome.
One if the major problems in facing is that heroku for example in every build will override/delete the SQLite DB since it treats it the same as every file - which is a shame.
I used this to win AI Rock Paper Scissors competition in undergrad. I just played random symbols, but used Kelly criterion to compute my bid. This worked well because the game wouldn’t allow your bankroll to go to 0 — the floor was 1.
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.

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.

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.
Totally agree, Copperhead looks much easier to use. Perhaps one of the reasons they went and rebuilt from scratch is because Copperhead relies on Thrust and a couple other dependencies?
They can treat it as malware - blackhole all IPs involved into P2P.
That's a good point, but the various Java JDK websites, intended for developers, really aren't any better.

- https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.ht...

- https://jdk.java.net/

- https://openjdk.java.net/
Haha I have "make a like 30% better Goodreads" on an idea card somewhere
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Momentum itself is as speculative as it gets.
Only if they are warmer than their environment and don’t have a huge influx of radiant energy incident on their surfaces.
Maybe not more, but different wavelengths.

The Wikipedia page does say "The purpose of the colour was to reflect some of the thermal radiation from a nuclear explosion", as far as my experience goes polished metal can still get extremely hot.
The official app stores all its data decentralized, only cryptographic hashes are stored centrally that each device then can check locally for potential risks.

In the Luca app, the user's location data is stored centrally, and the states can then purchase a license to access data of potentially risky contacts.

(BTW the public health offices are notoriously overworked during the pandemic, so it's not clear to me if they'd even manage to do anything with this data).
Cooking.

Specifically it’s fun to learn some fundamentals, like roast a chicken, then try to mix it up and perfect that. Plus it is useful and feeds the family something wholesome. It’s not hard to make something great with a small number of good ingredients and simple techniques. You don’t need to be a chef to do a better job than 75% of the restaurant food out there.

Gardening.

Being outside, digging in the soil, caring for nature, connecting with family as we grow things

Hiking / camping

Getting out and exploring... getting out and feeling uncomfortable. Noting how slow the time goes. Forcing myself to a deep state of boredom due to lack of electronic stimulation.
>In Rust it's guaranteed that you never get both Ok and Err values at the same time (Result is a tagged union, not a tuple).

Yeah, that's the standardized part -- it's a tagged union. In Goland the second value might not even be an error, it's just a convention using the variadic return capabilities...
Those are independent variables. The fact you've had X heads has no bearing on the future flips. It is irrational to bet on tails statistically speaking, though psychologically that line of reasoning is common.
> Ability (not innate, but current) to learn a particular set of things. How well you are prepared, motivated, and maybe even have some innate bonus points.

Again, you have kind of a chicken-and-egg problem here. Ability is typically measured by standardized testing, which is a poor proxy. The same way engineering interviews are a poor proxy for actually measuring engineering ability or ability to add value as an SDE.

Unfortunately, measuring ability this way also captures your socioeconomic status, family stability, medical conditions, and many other things that adversely impact your "ability" to perform well on a standardized test.

We could argue it's not on Princeton or other institutions to account for that, but as a society I think we could probably do better in that regard, by offering a variety of solutions to this complex problem.
The way to get there, IMO, is a lot more freedom to experiment. Not just charters, but something closer to a startup culture.

A) Innovative teacher decides to go out on his own

B) 20 parents like what he has to say and want to enroll their kids

C) Existing tax money pay the per-student rate for the 20 enrolled to participate

D) Program is successful, more parents and students want to enroll. New teachers are hired and trained on the approach, bigger building is leased.

E) Schools that see students departing start to wonder what's going on and hire the teacher to train their staff on his methods so they can see if it can be adopted into the program.

This is how everything should work, but the nature of our mostly centrally controlled schools simply doesn't allow for it.