skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the optimal outcome really the same as the one that would result from the most complete presentation of the facts?

If you're buying an appliance, and you already agreed, and then the salesperson gives you additional info, you might change your mind ("oh, I thought the failure rate was 0.1%, you said it's 1%") even if in reality this may be a perfectly good enough appliance for you and a good sale for the seller. Optimal would probably be getting the sale done - even if that depends on untrue assumptions in your head not being challenged. Not getting the sale done means your back at square one, depending on what else you want to be doing with your time, that's not good.

When interacting with another party you have a mental model you build to try to figure out what they're thinking, but it's very incomplete. Adding information can change your mind, and even not necessarily in a "true" way - imagine you're on a date, it's going well, both parties want to hook up... and then they say something that makes you think maybe their political views are offensive to you. You might be making a wrong assumption based on what they said. Or they might just disagree with you that much. But you're probably not going to have as much fun tonight anymore! You may have a more "true" outcome but is that what you wanted?
I don't mean to speak for GP, but I'm also in the UK and pretty sure they meant the specific phrase, not mention of skin colour at all. In my experience 'black' here is as casual, normal, and inoffensive as 'white' or 'brown'. (Assuming it is relevant of course. If you're just arbitrarily chucking the description in all the time then yeah it doesn't matter what word or phrase you call it, it's still discriminatory. It'd be just as weird to do so with 'white'.)

If you mean re 'mixed other', I think the point was just that the categories don't apply well, and 'mixed' is technically true of essentially everyone so eh why not. (I believe 'white - other' is an option though, if that's applicable.)
Yes, it's been in that waiting state forever and even links to the submitted online book as a substitute to look at.
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It’s very essential, but it is independently transactional - I.e. very not sticky.

It’s the same reason that buying a drink is independently transactional and competitive vs buying health insurance is very non competitive and very sticky.
Why should people with geographic proximity be disproportionately granted opportunity?

Like I fail to see the motivation for doing this outside of base nativism/tribalism.
The techie in me, paying attention to technology, thought exactly precisely that way for 20 years.

But it is in itself an irrational thought, focusing on some ideal platonic "what should be" which is eminently not observable anywhere in the real world. NONE of us are hyper-rational creatures of pure logic. Myself too, holding that thought of "shouldn't we converge on strictly logical optimal resolution", were in fact influenced by emotion, timing, personalities, circumstance, and other carp going on in my life. As was everybody else.

Now, though I'm not in sales, I'm in people management role, and I've learned quickly that timing and choice matters. It matters in sales, but it also matters in architecture, requirements gathering, solution design, project planning, everything. No matter how technical or sales your role, you eventually HAVE to deal with people, they need to agree/approve/confirm, and people ARE people. If you have a goal in mind, it is only rational for you to take into account the personalities involved and realities of the process, and be aware of timing and emotions and words.

Note - This is what I say now; I'm still struggling to implement it fully myself - the decades of sciencey-techy are still strong in me :D
Agree that my example was bad at least.

The phrase 'present-day x' is also used to denote the setting in a script, novel, or magazine piece completely independent of this historical usage.

The context does not arrive until the end of the sentence and so I feel it is more like a punchline than a well written description.
Anybody ever understand the attack game setups ? I felt like its a bit overcomplicated just to prove a contradiction. Also I am not sure if the metrics introduced like SSAdv and Message recovery advantage actually are used in places other than this book.
In my opinion people really should have jobs. Our ancestors didn't sit around all day. They had "jobs" like hunting and gathering. Jobs and careers give people structure and meaning to their lives; a kid being a trucker is probably better for his mental health than having no job and just being a UBI recipient.
I know we're on a forum associated with a startup accelerator, but something just rubs me wrong on these waxing poetic startup stories. It's like these people live in their own little world, where companies and little "ideas" and massive sums of money are just pawns in some game that ultimately doesn't matter. It's a sort of entrepreneurial aggrandizement, and there's a lot of unnecessary adulation and cult of personality.

There was some reply there that was basically "I lost tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars because of a dumb decision too but I have no regrets". Seriously? That's immediate retirement money for me, my immediate family, and then enough left over to pursue pet projects, volunteer work, and non-profit(s). This guy in the posted Tweet made an idiotic decision that killed an opportunity for himself and his employees, and he seems okay with that and even fond of the decision. Kind of weird to me.
What made python beat out Ruby?

There was one way to do things. It was simple, and it worked.

Then python 3 wanted to become JavaScript. Async, Unicode, floating point division. Move fast and break things. No one way to do things, it's however you want!

I had to explain python deployments to a novice the other day. What a nightmare.

Python 3.5 to 3.8 just kept drastically changing things. My first experience wasn't pleasant, and for the first time I needed virtual environments and custom apt repositories to install multiple versions of python.

But it finally seems things have settled a bit. Here's hoping the Python cultural revolution settles down, and stops trying to be a trendy language, and instead a dependable one.
Startup takes on big telecom
the opportunity cost still would.
Let see what happens when Apple fails on appeal in Epic's case.

The gaming mobile market is still too big and valuable. With 30% commmisson, Apple doesn't need to care about Mac gaming, at least for now.
This also reads like social commentary :)
But the size of potential customers for games is still much smaller than the market for a pocket sized computer (roughly everyone on earth).

I was more talking about the size of the current install base of the platforms (iOS, Xbox etc) though.
Friend of mine have an IG account for their kitten, and they post in a form of a journal from the cats perspective.

Might seem silly to some and only have two followers but they have fun and it doesn't harm anyone.
He's not talking about freelancing, though:

> I am not talking about freelancing, consulting, and the other forms of working for many clients. I am talking about holding down multiple full-time jobs at the same time.
What Amazon Did to Fiction
...But they still can't be bothered to implement a real graphics API.
>Anyways, I’d suggest you talk to others around you and see if you spot the pain points in their day

This is not a predictable tactic that would yield a viable SaaS idea, this is a gamble "go dive into the ocean, maybe you will find treasure"
People use FB as a photo backup service?
Is it sunlight specifically, or just low light?

Either way, the amount of sunlight entering the average home is marginally more than earth homes. It would be like going from eating 300 to 100 calories a day: ultimately, the difference is negligible if neither keeps you from starving.
I can only bake Raspberry Pi…
My favorite bit from this series was early on when they were about to call Mabel but he hesitates and says "Calls bother them for some reason".

Martin Short is amazing in this series! Actually all 3 of the main characters are great
Speaking from a US perspective here, although these basics would likely be true everywhere. Stations have a process when this type of thing happens. There's usually a range of time when the commercials are "good", and there's often times enough non-commercial content in the breaks that things could be shuffled around and all spots can still be made good during the relevant program. At the very least, I'm sure they'd bump a lesser-paying commercial if it absolutely came down do it, to get paid by a more expensive commercial.

In this case, being live, the operator would be firing the break themselves. If they missed the break due to gross negligence, they'll probably lose their job (or at least be reprimanded). But, if the fault happened due to technical malfunction, or if they happened to be dragged away from the console by their supervisor, then they'll just make the spots good and move on.
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It feels rude to ask, but I wish people asked this more

You see it a lot in the livestreaming/YouTuber circles too, 5 viewer channels advising 10 viewer channels how to grow

Theory is great but it should really be marked as such. At least give examples of other companies doing this or something if you're acting solely in a research and present findings capacity
Hand Me Your Pin Inferring ATM Pins of Users Typing with a Covered Hand
Sam Lessin on thinking like a second-time founder
Credit card PINs can be guessed even when covering the ATM pad
This is BS. The publishers make the larger take. If a Game Developer can release a game on it's own without a Publisher (with iOS allows) then the developer will make most of the money. Ask Epic how much they made when Unreal was sold at stores. Less than 40%!
I don't think "what people write about" is the same as the majority of the experience.

You work on cost-cutting after everything else is working. It's usually a sign you like the service well enough - if you didn't like it, maybe you're not cost cutting, you're trying to get it out of your stack.

If you like everything else about it, shopping around instead of doing cost optimization carries much larger risks.
"Incredibly simple to use" compared to what?

How hard is it to get the same functionality out of a set of rented servers? Or a fully hosted level-7 IaS? Or a fast starting VPS park?

The allegedly benefit of AWS is that you just focus on development, and let Amazon handle all the OPS noise. Well, minimizing costs is a lot of OPS noise.
I listened to a crypto guy on a podcast after taking a significant amount of edibles. He sounded brilliant! Next day I resumed listening and he sounded like the charlatan/ideologue I knew him as before.

There is a skill to sounding brilliant when you’re not, and much of crypto seems to entirely hinge on that skill. Fake it til you make it and then just keep faking it.
I’ve noticed Poetry being used more and more for projects I setup locally, and I must say, it does seem to be very, very good. Minimal overhead, easy to adopt, etc. I’ll need to setup a proper workflow with it for my current projects. Being able to abstract dev/prod environments in particular are really handy.
Ha yeah the part where under-13s weren't allowed to opt in to the telemetry was really misunderstood. Lots of people leaping to crazy conclusions like that children couldn't use it at all, or they were sharing all the telemetry with the KGB or whatever.
One failure mode is static electricity build up leading to arc discharge and pitting the bearing races. Also, the vacuum tends to make the bearing grease evaporate. Back in the 60's they used spermaceti, maybe we should go back to that?

https://est-aegis.info/2018/08/in-space-no-one-can-hear-your...
> "I'm a domain expert in X and my last client saved $Y thanks to my expertise when I optimized their Z".

And I verify that... how?

LC is basically a proxy for being able to pick up random shit quickly, learn how it works, and demonstrate/use that knowledge. The particular knowledge isn't that important. It probably won't be that important at the big tech co - what's more important is how fast you can pick up their novel processes and stack and start getting effective work done.
A = 432: A superior tuning or just a different intonation? [pdf]
The current JS argument order is a mess too because you'd ideally want your collection last so you can partially apply the parts you'd normally apply and compose transformations for that collection, but most function arguments aren't in this order. Elixir is the 'weird' language piping the first argument instead of the last, so I guess that is a solution, but it doesn't fit the 'normal' compositional style from ML-family languages. This might be a requirement for languages with variadic functions.

The spec points to the `%` placeholder-y thing from Hack which shows how weird piping gets in an uncurried language like JavaScript. I think these issues illustrate how nontrivial adding piping would actually be in JavaScript.

Currying is the obvious, simplest solution because it's always one parameter in and only one thing is returned (often a function awaiting one new argument). But this would require massive fundamental changes to the builtins probably requiring something like "use currying" to tell the user agent to flip the argument order and curry all the functions. I'd be pretty into this though.
Dang, I better go uninstall Retroarch from my Switch and Xbox then...
Cryptocurrencies and financial sanctions are totally incompatible. I see this as one of the main drivers towards banning cryptocurrencies, with a side of 'saving the children', 'ransomware', and 'the environment'. Decentralization and centralized power are enemies.

There is a huge amount of innovation in the space for anyone who looks deeply, but most people won't and just jump on the bandwagon.
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Median?
not if you never go talk to anyonw but your direct team. when i was at a 500 person consulting team i would wander over and chat woth sales, finance, and hr. sales needed updated resumes and better writing and presentation skills. i pushes the engineers ro all do lunch and learns. finance i plumbed some extra metrics for. hr i got some data into excel for, amd figured out how to get our door badge system to accept building badges which saved money and let people carry one badge. all within 4 years of school.

at a game studio of 300 i would wander amd chat with the various non-coder teams and just watch their workflows. for the tech artists a big blocker was gui access to enums in shaders (custom engine). i just set several of them up to compile the engine and taught tyem how to link enums to the editor gui, saved them many weeks of wait time. saw the lighting bake loop would take 1 year to run fully and a local test loop was 8 hours. asked my boss for time and rigged up a cluster of 64 ps4 dev kits and brought that down to 45 minutes, going from less than one local iteration a day to 9, and less than one a year to 3 a week for full bakes (cluster would bake when it wasnt helping am artist).

at super large mega corp i do similar, constantly meeting people for coffee and understanding more than just my cog. Eventually I got good enough at it and a reputation for improving things that I just get pushed/pulled at problem/opportunities areas, but you have to work up to it.

while none of this is doing a startup, if youre not curious, youll never see the myriad of things that could be improved with software, nor will many non tech folks, or really anyone who doesnt think "outside the box" as the olds say. challenge for devs is understanding where that tech is worth it and how to sell it, and not become that angry dev who is just yelling at everyone and politics for not taking every one of their half baked ideas as words from on high.
Interesting, I've never been asked that when donating blood or going to a clinic, but yes, my insurance plan did (as that is a financial service). It's worth noting that medical clinics will service people without social security numbers just fine.
If you're designing an OAuth login system, it's important to consider what happens to your user when they are locked out by their provider and can no longer "Continue with Facebook" or "Continue with Google" to use your service.
Python distribution is honestly horrific. The worst thing is that I actually see people defending it or saying it isn't that bad if you simply learn it "properly" but I have no idea what they mean when they say this.
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Interesting, I think Julia was close to that too:

> We want a language that's open source, with a liberal license. We want the speed of C with the dynamism of Ruby. We want a language that's homoiconic, with true macros like Lisp, but with obvious, familiar mathematical notation like Matlab. We want something as usable for general programming as Python, as easy for statistics as R, as natural for string processing as Perl, as powerful for linear algebra as Matlab, as good at gluing programs together as the shell. Something that is dirt simple to learn, yet keeps the most serious hackers happy. We want it interactive and we want it compiled.

https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/
Hey, I'm the author of the article -- just wanted to point out that what made this story interesting to me is the implication that this kind of conduct could be very widespread. Prosecutors definitely hinted at that. If anyone knows of any similar stories, I'd be very interested in hearing them. christie.smythe@businessofbusiness.com
Driving too much is not just at the cost of time. It is at the cost of life, drivers and whoever he crashes into.
You could also take that as a signal it's not a good market to be in?

Depending on how easy it is to find customers, and your goals/options regarding to scale of course.
A big factor for not doing that (besides the cost of employing a helpdesk for every language that Facebook is used in) is that the helpdesk just becomes another vector for malicious account takeover. If you put it there, you're going to have sob stories about people who made their account years ago but don't have the old password, don't have access to the email, don't remember what they posted, and yet will cry, expecting the human on the other end to give their their FB account back - and if they can do that, so can a malicious actor trying to get into random peoples' accounts to scam then on Marketplace[0] or what have you.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28918834
I don't see how any of that is relevant to the article, but the reason python beat out ruby was almost entirely due to ruby being really really slow.
Napkin math based on Ethereum mining, which on original 8 GPU core M1 was about 2MH/s, puts M1 Max GPU performance (8MH/s with 32 cores) to be only 1/4 of mobile 3060, which does over 34MH/s.

So I am extremely skeptical about Apple claims on "comparable" GPU performance to RTX 30xx mobile series. And again, that RTX is still using 7nm.
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The in-ear fit works in conjunction with the ANC. The regular AirPods are for people who don't want noise to be cancelled, either passively or actively.
Yes as a freelancer I once got handed admin passwords to financial accounts containing hundreds of millions on your second day because the company has a problem that needs solving (and would have been first day had that been a full day instead of half), whereas as an employee you need to go through the company-designed teaching and vetting process lasting 6 months or more before they'll let you in the building where passwords to financial accounts are stored. Handed to me on a little scrap of paper that I "needed to make sure was properly destroyed at the end of the week".

It was a firm that did financial transactions, so not only did those keys give access to the money itself, they also allowed one to approve normally refused transactions or vice versa (e.g. make a transaction with a wrong pin entered go through anyway).

Obviously we were watched, but still.
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Personally I do find lisp code terribly difficult to read because of the inside out nature of it. For tricky Lisp I used to use a tool that would generate control flow graphs for me to make it easier to grok.
Loot Boxes and it's kin are the same and do exists in AAA titles.
I normally use https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv when I need to test multiple versions.
The electronic logs are probably the reason these rules have been relaxed recently. When you could cheat, everyone just cheated because you needed to in order to make a living. Now you can't cheat and the industry is speaking up about it.
There are many reasons why Yahoo may have called off the deal. I doubt it was this one single comment.
You worked hard but the rich kid next to you in class paid someone to do their homework and steal test keys and maybe even bribed a professor or two. Companies need to filter them out.
>>The only difference was California’s restrictions and higher vaccination rate

False.

We literally just went over this...

Florida is the second oldest state in the country and the oldest with a high population density which means it's old people stacked on old people.

California is the fifth youngest state in the country, so there's a level of herd immunity already existing there as young people under 55 are virtually untouched by Covid.(more people died of car accidents in 2019 than under 55 age group in the entire pandemic)

Its been clear from the start that this disease is bimodal and kills old people at a shockingly high rate and the under 55 at a shockingly low rate.

Old people are the difference... not vaccinations (which don't work that well,see Colin Powell/ Ireland/this paper) or restrictions.

But it's better to avoid this fact because it calls your narrative under question and makes it less certain why you injected experimental substances in your body in the first place.

All of this was to save Granny remember?
Grand Theft Auto made about a billion last year alone.

Madden Football (which comes out every year): $1.62 billion.

There are a lot of games "bigger" than movies in not just revenue but total players/viewers. Engagement isn't even close as players stick to games far longer than the average 100 minute movie.
Agreed. It's a good hunch, but no evidence.

"One such factor [of increasing ADHD prevalence] may be audiovisual media exposure during early childhood. Observational studies in humans have linked exposure to fast-paced television in the first 3 years of life with subsequent attentional deficits in later childhood." [1]

but also

"The diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among children and adolescents has increased considerably over the past decades. Scholars and health professionals alike have expressed concern about the role of screen media in the rise in ADHD diagnosis. However, the extent to which screen media use and ADHD are linked remains a point of debate. (...) The available evidence suggests a statistically small relationship between media and ADHD-related behaviors. " [2]

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/115/40/9851

[2] https://www.pnas.org/content/115/40/9875