skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Markets aren’t designed to reward raw intelligence or raw talent in specific individuals. Nor should they be. Giving all the money to the best sculptor or best mathematician does nothing for the rest of us.

Markets are designed to reward people who take risk to create useful things for other people.

Are there inefficiencies where markets don’t properly reward useful activity? Of course. But markets trend towards efficiency, so those cases are slowly shrinking.

And obviously since markets reward risk, luck plays a role, but the findings of the author’s model completely contradict real world data.

Their model claims grant money, VC dollars, etc. should just be distributed at random.

Yet, in real world data, the same handful of VC firms generate all the returns in venture capital every single year. And it’s not due to a lack of capital at the other firms.

It seems their simplified computer model doesn’t account for the network effects and momentum bias of real world activities that involve humans.

When humans are all interlinked nodes that influence each other via contagious imitation, clearly you'll never have a normal distribution.

Hence why everything from wealth to coronavirus is better calculated on a log (exponential) scale.

You don’t catch coronavirus at random, and you don’t decide to start buying products at random either.
Staff wellbeing programmes help social relationships and reduce bullying
To be honest everything about the cover and blurb put me off reading 1632, but I've learnt that American fantasy/SF books require applying the maxim "don't judge a book by its cover" quite literally due to the fashion for overblown or just bad cover art and blurb, plus I'd read and enjoyed Eric Flint's _Belisarius_ series, which also dealt with cross-time technology introduction. Lastly, 1632 was free on Amazon, so I figured it was worth a punt! I'm very glad I did because the books are actually incredibly broad in scope and nuance, not at all "America Fuck Yeah!"
Compensation, rationality and the project/person fit (2012)
I concur. This world is simpler than people think. They share specs on powerpoint files and the firmware is written (/built) by one guy during his breaks (I was going to say exactly this even before I read your comment)
Couldn't you use a regular DNN with one-hot encoding of all the movies seen by a user (and the corresponding genres)?
And boosting can give more weight to certain movies or genres.
An organization going out of business isn't just a case of bad management being eliminated.

I wrote that line thinking of the clients I've worked with who've been hit by ransomware and didn't realize IT were not doing their job until it was too late. In some cases it's a failure on their part - not investing enough time or resources and seeing IT as "the guy who installs windows". More often than not, they were assured it was taken care of. I don't expect a manager of a car dealership to know if their Exchange server is running recent patches. If companies like SolarWinds and Kaseya can get popped and compromise their downstream customers, think of the number of small MSPs causing that same issue every day. I don't think a business should go under with people losing their jobs because IT screwed up.

We would be better off without leadership who take no interest in security, and once a company is hit with a 100k ransomware bill you can bet they'll care going forward.
Update, October Income Report and We're Back
Rust Iterator Items An exploration of syntax
How much? So rich wackos get a practically free pass, or will the fines be adjusted to weath?
unwilling to get vaccinated is at least from a legal perspective not a "basic right". Austria had compulsory vaccination before (Smallpox). Measles vaccination is mandatory in Germany. The law is that during a pandemic the country is able to impose mandatory vaccinations.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_policy#Compulsory_...
Sorry I wasn't able to answer your question. What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? Business must not be going well if you need to come online and grill computer hobbyists like me.
Crypto bid to buy US constitution copy at auction fails
The big challenges were things that were inherent to how usage scales in their platform.

As one example, they see a 'project' as one single set of cohesive documentation and they've built a UX/UI to facilitate that. This is perfectly fair but it means you need multiple projects for multiple documentation projects. In simple terms, everything in a project is intended to be 'one thing'.

Again, this might be fine but projects are so distinct and separated that it makes them really hard to maintain at scale (lots of repetition, no setting or customization sharing) and frankly, if you need the full customisation options you need to $400 a month for _each_ project.

This is a pretty unique to our model, so it's not really a criticism of readme, but it's the reason we've left. Archbee has some (not all) of the same limitations, but they don't charge us $400 a month for each project!
Desperate times and all that. With a incident rate of >1000 (and a lot higher in some hotspots), hospitals are at their breaking point right now.
Social justice involves almost no thinking, whereas Maths and Science are hard. It could be that many of these institutions and magazines are dumbing down to reach a larger audience.
For Austria they are completely new... And AFAIK there's no European country which requires all adults to get any vaccine, it's mostly kids and specific professions.
Hand in your pe(n)dant licence immediately!
> vaccinate you forcibly against your will. I heard that the latter is already happening in Australia

Wow, the misinformation is intense. I'm in Australia, there is no forced vaccination, but you do need to be fully vaccinated to go to restaurants, events etc.
Could you give an example?

The author of essay is in the UK, and the mentioned castles are all homes for royals, nobility, or bishops, or at least meant to be.

Arundel Castle, West Sussex - that's where the Earl of Arundel has lived (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundel_Castle)

Newark Castle (Nottinghamshire) - for the Bishop of Lincoln (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Castle%2C_Nottinghamshi...)

Norwich - "Norwich Castle was designed to be a royal palace rather than a fortification. However, no Norman kings ever lived in it" (https://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/norwich-castle/whats-here...)

Tower of London - I can't tell if William the Conqueror lived there, but the Wikipedia entry says that by 1135 "The castle, which had not been used as a royal residence for some time", implying it was a royal residence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London)

Caerphilly - given "the castle's luxurious accommodation", I assume Gilbert de Clare lived there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caerphilly_Castle

Conwy - "best preserved suite of medieval private royal chambers in England and Wales" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conwy_Castle)

This is too boring, so I'll let someone else look up Beaumaris, Caernarfon, and Colchester Castle.
I wasn't recording anything until ~6 months into the project. In retrospect, it would have been nice to have!

There's a bit of history about early development here: https://serenityos.org/happy/1st/

Also, one of my earliest videos was showcasing some pre-YouTube builds of SerenityOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rveS_vwp0y8
That's like someone asking for directions and you giving them a shovel and a introduction to archaeology manual.

If someone asks for directions you give them directions or a current map.
> Without the problem for YOU, because, presumably, you have a non-shitty phone. It is a much more severe issue on the likes of Samsung / Xiaomi / Huawei. See https://dontkillmyapp.com

And if you force Google to stop verifying proper behaviour in CTS, do you expect those manufacturers to allow you to run background services at will?

They already kill off anything that's not whitelisted to keep those battery numbers up. The every new major OEM release we developers find bunch of new ways the try and kill background apps.
In most countries, the ISP is legally obliged to keep records at which point in time has a customer had an address. Usually a court can order an ISP to hand over those records. In other cases, the police, secret service, copyright lawyers etc. can talk directly to the ISP.
I actually remember seeing this about 9 or 10 years or so ago! It no doubt inspired me to peruse a degree in Computer Science. Thanks for the nostalgia!
What parking tickets tell us about political corruption
You can also see him on stage in the West End. Quite the talented chap.

https://www.austentatiousimpro.com/cast/
What's an LMS?

(I do understand that my asking this question almost certainly means I can't answer your question.)
At least you only wasted a couple hours. Good luck.
Not quite, smallpox vaccination was first enforced in 1939 (I know..) and then again post-WW2 in 1948. We do have a precendent!
I've been watching this project like a hawk for months to see whether the final DMA/FDC bugs they identified get ironed out.

The idea of being able to hand-assemble a 386DX SBC, ISA backplane and Alexandru's other ISA cards is incredibly attractive to me - I find hand soldering to be entrancing in the same way some describe knitting.
Another good series and one that having read and enjoyed meant I decided to chance 1632 despite the awful cover and blurb.
Being once wrong disqualifies then? What I really hate is that some parties have to be right all the time, while others only once. An expert is not the one who is never wrong, but the one who knows why he was wrong and changes his opinion once data and information changes.
And a de-facto voice-double to Stephen Mangan if he wanted to, I swear I can never distinguish the two on the radio.
I sometimes get the feeling it's an issue of projection, as in people think others have the same values / priorities as them.
"Unfit" means unqualified, so don't say that.
FWIW, I think it already has, actually, multiple times.

My guess there are few factors in place -- people recognized motivated reasoning -- there are many studies the authors clearly want to be true, e.g. "People I disagree with are evil ugly dum-dums" is a recurring one.

There's also the studies that go against our experience, or what seems obviously right "Mormons are more likely to be alcoholics". These have a tendency to grab headlines (and likely grant money), and while occasionally are true, generally seem not to be.
Adding to d3nj4l's answer, that Ruby also has a great community of active and passionate (yes, in the proper sense passionate of the programming language) developers.

I think Elixir has better chances of taking over some of the Ruby pie from this perspective as the Elixir community is a lovely and helpful as the Ruby one.

Without such community it is very hard to build momentum and most programming languages remains great options but limited to a small number of projects.

I like Crystal and played with it a little bit. I tried to use it in production for a small project where I offloaded some tasks from Rails into Crystal small programs.
You scale the walls, then go down in the actual castle. Why bother about the getting in the higher parts of the tower itself? People trapped inside a single tower won't last long, as they probably don't have much supply stored there.
Regarding A, you can also get a test every few days and use that.

Regarding B, it depends on the country, in France nobody besides locations that are age restricted ( bars, sex clubs, etc.) have the right to ask for your ID, and it was explicitly clarified that this doesn't change with the Covid pass.
Relevant open source project: https://unifiedpush.org
For example, for childhood vaccines, France does it by a hefty fine (up to 30.000 Euros) and up to two years in prison if you avoid vaccinating your children.

Maybe the same can be done for adults as well? We will see how they will attempt to enforce it.

https://www.france24.com/en/20141009-french-parents-face-jai...
it's funny, i was wondering how i could use my old 386 cpu that i saved from my first computer. the memories of running slackware 1.0 on it is still vivid. ah that moment i got my first X server running :)
I am wondering the same thing. Thanks for posting your comment.
I might as well create an ip6 loopback network that way. 127/8 is used because it already exists.
Because the current definition of "smart" is very static and theoretical and is in no way correlated to the ability to deliver somethin meaningful in the real world.
Compared to most people in academia they are stinking-rich !

"whole life's work"

Yea sorry they don't always "win" it at the END of their careers !

"compare it to bay area salaries where someone working for FANG can earn that much in half a year or less just by writing microservices."

Guess you can say that about many careers just depends which you industry you compare it to ! Gardening,R&B Popstar,Maid,Teacher,Hollywood Actor,Tutor.
Learning Management System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system
I wouldn’t put CGNAT and general NAT in the same basket.

My ISP and every ISP I’ve used since the 90s has given me a public IP, only exception is my cellular links which are CGNAT’d. I’ve got no problems hosting stuff with my current connection, while my LAN devices are on RFC1918 address space.
I didn't say people, I said China. The country. You know, the one-party dictatorship that keeps dogs and people in cages?

Yeah, it's so easy to be critical. We should try so much harder to find positive things to say. Or like my grandma said, if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything!

Well isn't that nice. You're such a nice person! Everyone! Did everyone notice how thoughtful and nice this person is? Please, let's stand back and appreciate how above the fray, how serene, remote and placid this person is in their analysis of mere earthly affairs. How willing to give opinion, about the opinion of others, to the extent that others' opinions are "simple".
So just read the paper and it's pretty much as described in the article. In the model random events happen to individuals, a doubling of capital for a good event and a halving for a bad event. The probability of a good or bad event is a constant defined by the "talent" score.

This seems pretty nonsensical since you can tune the model parameters to reach any conclusion you like.
And boy oh boy do they try their best to keep the winter revenue alive. Everybody in Europe probably remembers the joy of Ischgl.
Learning Management System - manages training, students etc
ipv6 no doubt was designed without the mistakes that ipv4 learned the hard way. Everything from getting rid of useless (and dangerous) flags, to flow identification, is beautifully designed.

But, there is absolutely 0 reason for Google, Facebook, etc to know how many devices are operating in your home, or which ones they are communicating with. And before the army of drones screams "ipv6 privacy extensions", the battle has already been lost. Unless every request to Google, Facebook, etc was made with a unique ipv6 address, you cannot assume the same level of privacy that an ipv4 NAT provides. Ipv4 makes Google, Faceebook jump through extraordinary hoops to track you and monetize your personal and private life. Ipv6 makes these things trivial (coincidently, both of those companies are pushing ipv6 the hardest despite owning huge swaths of ipv4 space).
All of the world's existing pasturage is prime territory for solar installations. Adding solar to a pasture makes it better pasture, reduces evaporation, and cools the panels vs. desert installation.

Plants generally max out the amount of solar radiation they can absorb early in the day, so are not handicapped at all by partial shade. In fact, most benefit from it in numerous ways.

Installed between rows in active farmland, solar reduces water demand by up to 50%, which is a really huge benefit. Reducing heat and evaporation stress improves crop yields. So, a farm could move from barely getting by to solidly profitable by installing solar, even before selling the power. The panels just need to be placed so as not to interfere with driving a tractor between them.

So, no, there is absolutely no shortage of land for solar installations.
Email your suggestion to hn@ycombinator.com

Include the submission URL and your suggested disambiguated link.
Scientific American [0]:

The Jedi are inappropriate mascots for social justice. Although they’re ostensibly heroes within the Star Wars universe, the Jedi are inappropriate symbols for justice work. They are a religious order of intergalactic police-monks, prone to (white) saviorism and toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution (violent duels with phallic lightsabers, gaslighting by means of “Jedi mind tricks,” etc.)

[0]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-term-jedi...
That logic works on the assumption of science and cooperation that we are all telling each other the truth so that everyone may benefit.

I posit that's not what happened, there was no absent evidence. The NHC knew full well that they had (another) SARS on their hands in January 2020, but lied to the WHO because they were directed by the party to suppress the findings for the usual reasons (don't rock the boat, save face on the global stage, keep the populace under control). The WHO took this false information and neglected to verify it before disseminating it, so they are complicit in the affair.
Apparently what a lot of people seem to miss is that this is not what is happening.
LMS stands for Learning Management System in case anyone else didn’t know.

And it’s a misnomer as far as I can tell, because it’s a system for managing the teaching, or the administration maybe, but is not actually used by the learners.
Thank you. This is one of the reasons I like HN! How about essential activities, such as going to work, school, institutions, banking, public transport etc? Do you need the vaccine to go there as well?
Learning Management System. An online tool to manage physical and online courses students wiki test etc.
>You should be more open minded that different people and cultures have different values.

So I can start owning slaves, if I claim it fits my values? Or I need to gather some minimal number of fellow slave owners, so I can declare it 'culture'?
Apple’s Extremely Quiet Year for M&A
You'll pay a hefty fine if you don't get vaccinated (and that fine will eventually be enforced).
Reminds me of this thread that I was in, a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27119718
One only have to look at that website to realize it's the opposite of what simmanian is asking for.

> Each week you get...

> A rundown of opportunities

> A new crypto tactic to learn

> A new strategy to consider

> A recap with an action list

Absolutely zero focus on technical details...
> Abortion would be the closer analogy.

Are abortions infectious now?

I don't know how Australia does it, but the EU green pass isn't and can't really be used for tracking at a big scale. Anyone can implement a reader for the QR codes, and the official ones are open source and just check the validity. And why would any government need to store that information when they can just ask Google and Apple for location data?
I have an LCD projector in my studio almost permanently tuned into the live streams of various ocean exploring channels on Youtube, and it is truly a productivity booster .. it features the ROV's Nautilus and Argus - maybe not as cool as Benthic Rover II, but definitely a lot more accessible in terms of knowing what they're up to ..

https://www.youtube.com/c/EVNautilus

(Try the quad stream at first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPb9BxxuiaE)

Something about having this going on in the background really helps me focus. Probably one of the most exciting live streams on Youtube at the moment, and definitely a positive way to learn more about the beauty of life on this planet...
Sure, and God could smite all unbelievers, turn water into wine and bring about the Rapture: there are no limits to what purely hypothetical omniscient beings can do.

But based on we actually know about the sort of AI systems humans actually know how to build and obtain useful results from, we'd end up with a computer which absorbed time series of paperclip sales figures, supply chain costs and marketing campaign data which recommends small paperclips for the Kazakh market, and there's no reason to believe a model trained to optimise paperclip production would know anything at all about how to generate fusion power. This article suggests we might even be able to analyse why the algorithm prioritised that obscure market after applying a lot more thought to the relevant data ourselves. (We can also reason that the AI model is more likely to be wrong about the small paperclips for the Kazakh market, because the permutations for the Kazakh market aren't as perfectly encapsulated in the underlying model and simulated by training on data as the permutations of chess)
Maybe for more complex games, example: economics. But chess is pretty simple compared to seven billion people going their own ways.

On the other side, AlphaZero and all the previous Deep Mind's AIs played some very different go than human players did. Every single move was not unheard of but they were dismissed by human masters as not good. The most noticeable contribution was the total change of how to play corner invasions. By looking at game records we can draw a line between pre and post AlphaGo. Maybe go is a little bit more wide than chess and AIs have more space to find novel plays.
Austria imposes mandatory Covid vaccination from February
It would be so awesome if this guy may start producing and selling these in small quantities.
Exactly this.

And you are right BGP is a non-starter for smaller sites, especially where cellular is involved. Often small site businesses just need a backup internet connection to access the web and emails, which doesn’t need the overhead of BGP. Also there is a non-trivial cost to using BGP (equipment, expertise, and ISP will charge more for the privilege) which for smaller business doesn’t make economic sense.
> Only in Germany is vaccination against measles mandatory for children and caregivers (daycare, etc)

Well, aren't the children the (future) general population? If all children have to be vaccinated, all adults are also vaccinated.
IDK, in our local universities Moodle-based systems are very much used by the learners as that's the primary way of receiving and looking up all learning material other the lectures themselves (and now with covid, also the recordings of remote lectures), the organizational information e.g. schedule changes and other comunication, feedback, and of receiving and submitting assignments and, in some cases, tests; it's essentially the primary "portal" used by students every day.
the concept of material isn't found in the rules and yet was discovered independently during self-play.
Elizabeth Holmes Soured the Media on Silicon Valley
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