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Why aren't parent ready to take responsibility?

Easy to say from an ivory tower.

Not everyone is you. Some people have two jobs. Some people travel a lot. Some people have to take care of sick relatives. Some people have hard jobs that consume a lot of time. Some people are poor. Some people don't have great education. Some people are simply not capable of doing all the things that you do.

It's very SV Bubble to make bad products available and then blame the parents when they damage their children. That's not how a civilized society works. It's why we have a Consumer Products Safety Commission.

Why can Facebook just do the right thing and not target children? Why is Facebook making money more important than everything else in the world?
Base auto-pilot works in stop and go traffic, understands stop lights and stop signs (stops for red), as well as highway speeds. It works through construction sites with orange cone lane changes over ignored white lines. For 90% of driving, you're not going to notice the difference. If you care about the other 5-9% and the added safety improvements of a system that actually understands the road, other vehicles, construction and not just the lane lines you should definitely consider a Tesla.

With their upgraded auto-pilot the car detects and automatically passes other drivers, takes exits, can completely handle complex interchanges by itself changing lanes to find exits while getting in the correct lane, slows while passing, gives trucks extra space on the highway, can handle complex construction zones without leaving it's often confusing lane, automatically exits the passing lane when not passing, etc.

Just the precision with which it can change lanes in dense traffic is so relieving. I hate changing lanes without it. I now spend my time keeping a close eye on idiot drivers while the car manages the lane change minutia - don't hit the car up front, make sure I have space, make sure no one is passing on the right, make sure no one is cutting off the space im trying to use from the 2nd from the right, look forward, look back, look forward again to check traffic, look back - never again.

I inherently trust the Tesla to drive better than me most of the time. I inherently trust the Tesla to drive better than 98% of other drivers.
I would agree with a previous poster that money is a debt obligation. If you have "money" in bank, what does it mean? It means the bank has a debt-obligation to pay you back with other type of debt-obligation, the government sanctioned cash.

Money is definitely an interesting concept. I'm not sure I fully understand it. But I use it.
> That's good PR, mentioning that Bezos owns WP when it is completely irrelevant, in order to foster a feeling of openness and honesty

It is standard practice, when a newspaper reports on its owner, for it to point out the fact of ownership. It is considered good journalistic ethics. It is reminding the readers of the possibility that their reporting on their owner might be prone to bias, even if there is no sign of bias in any particular case.

Here in Australia, every time The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney's broadsheet) or The Age (Melbourne's broadsheet) mentions Nine Entertainment (the Australian TV network, and more recently owner of those newspapers), they add a parenthetical aside ("the owner of this masthead"). Different publications, different country, same principle.
AFAICT, the quality and resolution of these supposed alien UFOs hasn't improved a lot since the 50s.
Is it ethical to buy such equipment from China? You never know how it was made and that country does have a record of human rights abuse.
I'd rather pay more and buy something made locally.
Again...personal experience but I can speak to this a bit.

I went to an undergraduate university that would be wouldn't be considered highly ranked, but was nationally known in one subfield. I remember being surprised at one point to see a number of articles in major science media sources from MIT about a 'breakthrough'. I read the articles and they were 100% describing something that we did on a regular basis in undergraduate labs. I read the underlying press release and the underlying paper and was decidedly meh but man did it catch a news wave. I've always attributed it to being from MIT more so than truly novel. Not a shot against them...just an observation of the power of self-perpetuating narratives.

I now work at a different internationally ranked 'best researchy type' university. The research is better for a lot of reasons. The ability to attract the best people helps, but that comes from the reputation of having the best people and the resources to attract the best people. That is intermingled with the resources to have support, PR, media relations, and the brand name attraction for grad students.

We have pretty much the same distribution of undergrad intellect as other engineering schools I have worked with. It skew more academic and less practical...I'll be honest if I was a VC I would look at other universities for the next founder types. But the resources and money available for students to pursue entrepreneurship are outsized compared to the talent.

But the myths about our excellence are pervasive - and drive behaviors from people who have no basis for actual evidence. It means we get students brand shopping and not wanting to do the work (we literally had a case of an international student being expelled for the person in classes not actually being the enrolled student).

I don't think this article is wrong per se but the virtuous circle argument is inseparable from the self-perpetuating circle one. And I am unsurprised that the American Economic Association isn't talking about that piece. Objective functions are great, feedback loops are also an element of a control system.
Since the other thread was a dupe:

> The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so. Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity [sic] as well as fear of open conflict [sic].

Very curious what the thought process is here. Objectivity seems like an incredibly useful concept.

I thought this was just Brietbart being Brietbart but these quotes are real and pulled directly from the https://equitablemath.org/ website. For example:

> White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions. Coupled with the beliefs that underlie these actions, they perpetuate educational harm on Black, Latinx, and multilingual students, denying them full access to the world of mathematics.

How does this explain the high performance of asian students? Were other factors investigated?

I'm really surprised projects like this get funded.
I know that automation is key here and all the benefits that doing thing very often bring BUT in the specific case of certificates issue if you have short lived certs now you have to ensure your CA system works perfectly, as its uptime now is the uptime of your whole platform. Yeah you can outsource it to AWS ACM and the like, or use Hashicorp Vault but still, it's something that before the change was totally static and now is an extra moving part.

I'm not advocating against it, just exposing the whole story.
Gosh, had I earned a dollar every time I heard someone in various US corporate environments declare something to be "amazing", "fantastic" when the thing in question was ... vaguely interesting.

Over-emphasis is definitely and American trait and it leave precious little room in the language to aptly describe the really good stuff
As a parent, I know I signed up for this. I need to tell her "no" many times a day, every day, for things she really wants to do. That's part of being a parent. I need to suck it up and be a parent.

That said, I don't appreciate that there are people out there like Zucc, who are making it their business to create even more things I have to say no to, and specifically targeting them at kids. Just like those people out there making kids games that are essentially casino gambling, but just barely on the safe side of the legal line. Thanks, a lot assholes, for adding no value to the world and giving me yet another thing to forbid my kid from doing.
There are a ton of enterprise bidding/auction tools out there. Most of them are domain-specific so we never hear about them unless we are in that industry. Before you jump in headlong have you thought about compiling a landscape (google spreadsheet) of existing solutions?
I guess one issue is that most of the new tech hubs tend to be mid-sized cities that don't really have the capacity. Austin metro is 2.2 million. Denver is 2.9 million. Nashville is 1.9 million. In contrast the Bay Area has 10 million people, and even that struggles to absorb tech wealth.

I think dissipation would happen if tech was actually expanding into a few large metros. Houston, Chicago, and Miami all have reasonable COL, but more importantly have way more population to absorb an influx of high wage earners. It's an interesting question, and one I don't really know the answer to. Why does the tech industry seem to consistently prefer mid-size metros like Austin to large metros like Miami.
Great way to make the life of your kids absolute hell at school. I feel sorry for them, being isolated from other kids because your parents are crazy is horrible.
For those that haven’t seen it I would highly recommend it.

https://youtu.be/XetplHcM7aQ
I am _ridiculously_ more productive at home.

When I hear folks complain about the pains of working from home, what I often hear are their stories about how they were needlessly disruptive to their coworkers.

Having impromptu hallway meetings mean that your peers, and subordinates, must keep an ear open for such events should they risk being left out of important decision making processes.

Having watercooler conversations means that your office-mates must take effort to overcome their human desire for social communication in order to focus on their task at hand.

And so on.

Generally, I find having a team that works wholly remote means that we schedule communications clearly and are able to maintain the focus on our work before us.
> They’re overwhelmingly US-based. Fields, Nobel, Turing, etc

This isn't really clear. For example, EU has generated about twice the fields medal recipients as the US. That's reasonable in terms of roughly equivalent populations, but does beg the question that if someone grows up in Europe, trains and spends early career in Europe, but ends up a professor in USA before being given a Nobel prize, where do you count the result?
How many T. rexes were there? Billions
I think the better question to ask is not who is doing better, but who is doing it right.

You can throw on a lidar and radar on a car, along with a database of high res maps to get next to perfect 3d representation and path generation. That tech has been around for a while.

On the other hand, a camera based system is cheap, through the nature of it being specifically imperfect, you have to make systems that work with imperfect data, which make them more robust.
As a Norwegian I would love some pointers to the Norwegian hacker spaces. I am vaguely familiar with some, but it would be nice with some more info.
You absolutely can ask to have your named removed. To be diplomatic, you can always claim that you didn't do enough to deserve credit. Even now, you could contact the journal to request the change.

In your particular case, I will not contest that the reanalysis was terrible. My point was that reanalysis of a paper after an issue is raised is not automatically also crap. It may indeed be correcting the issue.
Reminds me for https://xkcd.com/1172/

Type annotations were meant to be used as linting, and other forms of type-checking done NOT AT RUNTIME. Gradually, some support for using them at runtime popped up, and them annotations starting being [ab]used for all sorts of things.

PEP 563 (the one breaking pydantic here) is actually super important: it allows referencing things defined later. Like, a function on line 1 can take a type on line 10 as parameter. It is super necessary to make type annotations usable for their original purpose.

It breaks pydantic, but also makes annotations usable for their intended purpose. Previously you had to manually opt it on each file, and now it's the default, as planned.

I feel like pydantic and tools built on top of it were built ignoring the direction on which Python was heading. Much like the user in xkcd#1172.
We put snoopers in jail.

"I wasn't looking in your child's bedroom window for bad reasons. I was just gathering telemetry and analytics."
My point is that once you mandate that, then forever all stores must be architected around providing this web API, based on technology assumptions frozen in law.

Building a P2P or distributed store, not based on a central website, just as an example, would be illegal.

This is just one example of how the future would be encumbered forever based on a 90’s software architecture becoming enshrined in law.

The web as it is today is not some endpoint in software evolution.

A Government mandated API is literally the government regulating software architecture.
What's the use case where a 200MB binary size is a problem?
This article best describes what I've trying to convey:

https://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/who_pays

And I think it will answer your question.
I don't know you start to mess with their dopamine loops at that point.
Until your super chaste name is used for something related with sex.
When your Wordpress site gets hacked and you pay someone $500 (if you are lucky) to fix it this flips pretty quickly. If your Wordpress site doesn't get hacked its because you manually maintain it, and time at most of my clients is worth more than that.

If you are on something that can't get hacked (static site) it is because you are a developer or at least pretty technical and the ease of use doesn't apply to you.

Again, this is all targeted at US (West Coast to be specific) SMB.
I agree, that is true. But I think kids should not be completely be shielded from that tapestry. They should know what crap is shouldn't they? There is time for kids to be gullible and learn to fend for themselves.
Yes, most U.S. universities require a broad range of subjects outside of one's chosen major. This is a good thing in my book. You have your whole life to develop an ever-narrowing level of specialization.
I'm going to venture a guess and say it's more likely that people will associate this with millions upon millions of flashlights that have been sold in the United States, rather than whatever it is you're talking about.
Google Earth's Timelapse Showing the Planet’s Changes Since 1984
I chuckled at the headline because NPR’s audio is a long-running inside joke in my family, particularly that you can so often hear what we call the “mouth noises” of the host (lip smacking, etc).
Development is going the other way at my org. Our JS services quickly became "out of date", and nobody wants to put in the massive effort required to bring them up to modern JS language features, build tools, and libraries.

In contrast, our Java upgrades remain painless. Many of our JS services have been merged back into older Java back ends
Yes, I could ask to lose my job. But again, I prefer not to. Research in certain (most?) fields is a dictatorship and even suggesting something to be fishy puts a target on your back.

In this particular case, there were multiple outcomes tested (read: tens of them) and alpha was .05
This gave me a little more context: https://web-login.human-id.org/demo/

Which has all the same issues as SMS 2FA.
I don't think so, or at least it's not necessary. A lot of my CS classes (US state university) were just kind of watered down so weaker students could pass. In short, grade inflation.
There are a few other nice answers here, but I think it's important to attack it from as many angles as possible.

The intuition that you're going for is that if the true rate is 60% heads and you've seen more than that then to hit 60% odds you _must_ have some extra tails _eventually_. Interestingly, that isn't actually required to make the odds work out to 60% eventually. I'll try for an intuitive explanation:

Say you've gotten 10 heads in a row but that the coin really only has a 60% chance of coming up heads.

- After 1000 extra flips you'll have 610 heads and 400 tails total on average for a 60.4% chance of heads so far.

- After 10k extra flips you'll have 6010 heads and 4000 tails for a 60.04% chance of heads so far.

- After 1M extra flips you'll have 600010 heads and 400k tails for a 60.0004% chance of heads so far.

Notice how the average percentage of heads is getting closer and closer to 60% even though the extra flips don't have _any_ bias toward tails. A temporary bias toward tails would _also_ suffice, and in much less time (some games like WoW use this for their loot tables I think), but it isn't necessary, and in the example of independent coin flips it does not happen.
And cigarette companies should be allowed to advertise to children.

Free capitalism is sacred and parents are the only ones who should care about the wellbeing of their children. Society doesn't exist and no one is responsible for the wellbeing of anyone else beyond their own nuclear family.
Did you see all the signatories? They seem to be wildly in-touch with the subject. You think all those experts in the field are misled?
Make something people want or need? By YC founder Paul Graham
> Letting your cat roam free is a tacit acknowledgment that one doesn’t really care that much for the animal, because they will make time to monitor it.

I would never be able to walk my cat on a leash. No chance at all. I got her from a shelter and she's around 10-11 years of age (nobody quite knows, actually), I strongly suspect she's been without an owner for at least a few years. Meaning, she's a loner in general, incredibly stubborn, a little bit shy and very cautious when it comes to just me touching her outside of petting (and even that took months of getting used to me).

Furthermore, there's no way I could keep her in my apartment for much longer than a few days.

So I let her out on her own. Keeping her inside would make her unhappy pretty quickly - pets can and do get depressed in such cases - and probably also lead to her tearing through my furniture after a while :)

Also, it's actually work for me to do this. Because of the way my apartment is set up, I can't have a cat door installed. So, I wait for her to return, sometimes until pretty late at night, because I don't want her to have to be outside for the night. Well, at least not when it's cold or raining out, she can deal pretty well with warm summer nights, as long as I put some food out.

So, I think the assertion that owners who let their cats roam free therefore don't care about them as much...that just doesn't follow at all, imho.

Now, about the potential ecological impact on the other hand, I'm not going to argue (even though I live in Germany and as far as I know, the situation is different here than in the US - but I'm not sure about that.).
Klarna, Revolut, and Hellofresh (German founding I believe) immediately pop to mind but I'm sure there are more if I did some searching.

The recent trips to Europe I have been so intrigued by how different the apps people use for many common commercial tasks are to the ones I use at home. I'm assuming there are logistical, cultural, or compliance reasons at play but I can't speak to it.
John has gone to the pub, a random person gave him $5,000 and said he can keep half if he transfers the rest to Bob. Later it turned out it was drug money.

The question in court will not be "is money laundering illegal" or "is taking money from random people illegal". The question in court will be "does this amount to money laundering, or is john just an idiot and it was not his responsibility to know".

Similarly, here we are discussing not "is market manipulation illegal", but "does the activity carried out by Apple amount to market manipulation"

Comparing Apple to game consoles is basically: "stop selling drugs" - "John does it too, and he is not in jail, so it's fine."

That argument only works if John has been to court and a judge has ruled that he is innocent. That's case law - it established that previously, in similar circumstances, a court has rules that this was / wasn't a crime.
I have three dozen client sites (mom and pop businesses) running on Google App Engine that cost between $0.05 and $0.20 per month.
Oh, nice, a lenticular roof. Make it show white from summer sun angle, black from winter sun angle, tile roof images from ground level, and a "Pull Up" sign for aircraft overhead.
It sounds like we might mostly agree in substance and a debate over semantics isn’t productive.

I agree that “the inputs to the Kelly formula are imprecise and therefore we should not mindlessly implement its recommendations.”

I agree that retail investors should not model their 401k allocations like Soros and Buffett.

Having run a factor neutral long short book I’m extremely familiar with the role of correlation and volatility in portfolio management and position sizing. As others have noted, there are extensions of Kelly (and related portfolio construction formulas) that account for correlations.

I disagree that risk-reward (broadly defined) shouldn’t be the primary bet sizing metric. I think many investors ignore risk reward calculations in their sizing and they would be better off if they paid attention to it. Many of the smartest investors I know have their entire sizing strategy based on risk reward.

To suggest that active investors should ignore risk reward / odds / whatever you want to call it, is wrong, in my opinion.
Since the HN username matches the twitter name, I'll bite: Is it the case that a raw function pointer is always trivially copyable?

I'm not super familiar with C++'s memory model, especially since they have deprecated the notion of POD and replaced it with trivially constructable.

My rudimentary thought process is that you can't just "move" raw functions because there is probably some assumptions made that a C++ function's call-site isn't going to move around if it isn't owned by an object. Otherwise, the runtime would have to deduce the location of the function call every time.

Well, on second thought, is there any reason why an int function ptr should be any different from an int ptr?

Asking as someone who has been writing C++ on-and-off for a few years for games, school, etc. but never professionally.
Neurons might contain something within them
It's strange to me that this is the pattern for things like books, movies, or beer but with Uber drivers the pattern seems to be "Give 5 stars unless something was wrong."

Before I learned this Uber etiquette I would rate drivers the same way. "Well, he got me from A to B without issue, but was there anything that set this ride apart and elevated it?"
This seems a bit presumptuous. Epic's Glassdoor reviews[0] don't seem to list pay or staffing as systemic issues.

[0] https://www.glassdoor.co.nz/Reviews/Epic-Games-Reviews-E2669...
At least the CCC of today is actually much more loosely knit that what your comment implies. Much of the work being done to dismantle e.g. election counting systems, the covid apps etc comes from various corners of that community.

Infiltrating the CCC would be akin to infiltrating Antifa. Sure, you can get close to a group and learn their secrets, but you can't get close to the center of it because it has none.
> is largely funded or driven by companies

GP never implied it was the largest contributor, and yes, depending on your field a significant amount of funding does come from the private sector.
Item #3 is why /r/books is dead on arrival
Fair enough. I was also a bit underwhelmed after all the hype it had received here and in a couple other places. I still thought it was a worthwhile read and will probably include it in a list of books I'd recommend to a mentee in the future. I guess my second reading of it will either confirm that for me or get it moved off that list.