skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly Data Science and Engineering and Visualizations.
Exaggerating here for ease of description: it used to be that if you had 2 spots and these 3 applicants

- applicant A: average grades, average SAT, no sports

- applicant B: great grades, no SAT, great sports

- applicant C: great grades, great SAT, great sports

then B wasn't even considered. Now, B will probably get in over A.
The Gregory Hayes translation is good. Which do you have?
Solomonoff induction provably converges on reproducing any input function by only observing that function's outputs, and it formalizes Occam's razor as a key principle. I don't think it's fair to call it a heuristic anymore.
That's pretty extraordinary. I don't think I've ever heard of someone seeing stuff like that without psychedelics. Have you always been able to see it or was it brought on by something? When did you first notice it?
Developers have been fine with moving everyone else’s stuff to the cloud: Ops, data, security, networking, etc., but now when the cloud comes for your source code that’s a step too far? That horse left the barn a long time ago.
I believe it's more the rampant insider trading that illustrates their selfishness.
Fact checking is basically a short name for "we pretend to be objective but we have a narrative to enforce"
Knowing who the author is and knowing what he knows and what projects he has completed I would expect that he is quite familiar with this citation and the body of literature surrounding it.
Yev here -> Thanks!
I actually like this idea of a status quo; but it depends on teaching children this from birth. In the US, I was taught that NYT and CNN are reputable and reliable sources of the truth. As an adult, I find them "pretty good" at best.
Definitely my most hated section. Full of rare, obscure, you-know-it-or-don't words for massive bookworms.

But if you read the papers cited in the GGGP comment, those hard problems aren't the problems that show the racial gap. The hardest problems show the least gap. Which doesn't fit the pat little sailboat jargon theory at all. However it does fit a common pattern, also seen in longevity statistics, where the most exceptional are more similar to one another than the average are.
I guess lots of people are coming up against the wall where freedom = fun ends and freedom = chaos begins.
Facebook said I was hurting people by "liking" (thumbs up) on there posts. They still ban me from liking posts occasionally.
So they essentially did fabkin knock out on the mice. I would expect that fabkin actually has a function. But maybe we can just intercept the issue farther up the chain to pull you out of a diabetes.
Trading with non public information
Do your own networking / ask your own social network. Find an employee and then send an email. Find a discord server where one is and DM them. It's not impossible to talk to an a facebook employee as a random person. In the age of the internet we are all deeply connected.
Yeah, I agree. A couple people already don't like that I've asked the question, but they won't speak up about it.
Seems more like a marketing ’feature’, to justify jvm per node pricing, more than a feature with technical merit
I don’t understand any of these comments. Discover has two meanings. Unexpected or within the course of a search. We discover oil and mineral deposits all the time. We don’t usually say “You discovered more lithium? Big deal. Been done before”

While it may not be mind blowing, each source of water discovered makes some kind of Martian base more feasible so it is of interest to some

If new sources of water don’t interest you, that’s fine. But it is still within the definition of discovery
I think that's a bit of a strawman.

If everything has a price, the potential to receive that price without much risk encourages your selfishness. Owning stock while being able to make policies that can immediately affect that stock incentivizes selfishness.

Politicians are not suppose to be in the game of maximizing their personal profits.
EEVblog goes into depth about the video, basically calling it out and explaining the how and why the headline is misleading.

https://youtu.be/VQsoG45Y_00
when plastic on mount Everest was not far enough ;)
Bob: Why do you want to continue a relationship with a company that abused you?

Alice: Because there are no other companies to use.

In abusive relationships there are greener pastures in the millions of other possible partners. For me, Instagram is the only option: my friend group does not use other social media. And keeping up with my friends and social calendar is important to me. If everyone was on, I don't know – Mastodon, I would switch in a heartbeat.
Show me who is spending $1M on a sticker thinking they'll double the money?
were we not actively making this planet more difficult to live on I would be a bit more likely to agree but even so there seems to be plenty of motivation

do we not want to be resilient to e.g. solar flares, supervolcanoes, asteroid impacts/nukes/tungsten rods dropped from orbit, on Earth or Mars or anywhere
They could if the government and NIMBY neighbors would get out of the way.

SF's housing problems are entirely self-created and also very solvable. No one wants to change in order to solve them, so the situation continues to get worse.

Decades of single issue voting for idiot politicians leads to idiotic policies that literally are destroying what used to be one of the finest cities in America.

People need to stop leaving SF and instead clean it up. But they won't. Like locusts that swoop in, destroy everything in sight and then move on they will leave CA, infest other nearby states and then vote for the same utter bullshit that destroyed the areas they came from. I'm watching southern Nevada slide into shithole status more and more from this right now and it's beyond frustrating.
> Is a Harvard education really that spectacular anymore or is it more a social indicator?

Harvard has always been a social indicator that is also decent educationally in some areas (but not, AFAIK, superlative in any undergraduate field.)
We need good GUI apps on multiple platforms for tools like this (and for tools like age/rage). It’s one thing to use such tools for oneself, but impossible to have many others adopt it if there’s no GUI.
alcohol!
I wholly support the CCPA and GDPR. They have their issues, but they’re big steps in the right direction.

In the case of the CCPA, nothing I do is subject to it as it applies only to business, and only to those 1) making at least $25M in revenue, 2) handling the information of at least 50,000 Californians, or 3) making at least half their annual revenue from selling Californian’s personal information.

I’m running a free website as a hobby, have $0 in revenue, have way fewer than 50,000 users total, and again have $0 in revenue.
They simply should do paid-by-minute support and make it a profit center. Stop pretending that their service isn’t about making money from users or that they want to do free tech support. Everyone knows how big web companies make money by now, no need to keep up appearances.
There's a despair that overcame me when the data we were processing changed date/time format in the middle of a file. It was a file for one day's data! Data on 5 minute intervals for 3 thousand data sources. Received in an email, no less. (Long story). But date/time format changed. The initial load was garbage. As many know, some countries use mm/dd/yy and others dd/mm/yy. I just wanted to cry when I dug in and saw the change. Instead, I hacked a little more on our lowly ETL script to check for this circumstance. This was just one example of an ongoing stream of data weirdness, as ETLers everywhere know.

In an early startup, (< 4 engineers in my case) I can't imagine using anything but a skanky script at the outset. We went broke before we needing a framework. Needed more engineering time on other things.
He Claimed He Caught a Record-Breaking Fish. Now He’s Being Called a Liar
counterpoint: without ip the economy would be a multiple of its current size and such projects would easily be funded.
Can each download be considered an act of infringement?
I wish I could laugh at this, but watching institutional racism come roaring back to life over the last decade has been extremely depressing. Is there any doubt that the goal of this change is to make it easier for them to reject Asian students?

The Ivy League schools haven't exactly been discreet about their desire to admit fewer Asians.
IMHO this is not the proper frame of question for this case - it's not about whether academic institutions should be held to this standard, but rather that they have publicly committed to doing so and have made it a binding requirement on their researchers, and in this case have violated this commitment.

A different aspect (not sure if it's relevant in this particular case) is that certain sources of research funding will impose certain ethical requirements, including specific process for human subject research - and that would apply also to for-profit companies if they would receive such funding for some project; and of course, the owners/shareholders of for-profit companies are also free to impose a higher ethical bar for e.g. A/B testing in their company, just as shareholders/owners currently are imposing various other ethical and social goals for their management and company policies.

But for the actual question of "why should academic institutions be held to a higher standard than commercial ones?" IMHO a good answer is "why not?" - I mean, if they do not object to having this higher ethical bar (and these institutions generally do not), that's entirely a good thing.
pseudo-mathematics as well, "The Hamiltonian of your world sheet space"..
You're missing T-cells.

There's something on the order of 1,000 T-cell epitopes against spike, not just 20, and some of them are densely packed in areas of the spike protein that are highly conserved.

The spike is cleaved by proteosomes into small segments and those segments are attached to MHC-I in the ER and then shipped off to be expressed on the cell-surface to be identified by T-cell receptors. Those segments are long enough to be recgonized, but small enough that there's a ton of them (and since they're cleaved an no longer attached to the rest of the protein there's no steric hindering or conformation changes or any of that to worry about). And there's still about 80% overlap between Omicron and Delta/Wuhan-hu-1. That number will probably never get down to zero due to the highly conserved areas.

CD4+/CD8+ T-cells will therefore still be able to identify infected cells and lyse them or drag them back to have a discussion with some memory B-cells. That is where somatic hypermutation might be important since some of those antibodies will match Omicron's spike and those B-cells can then be amplified and you can get Omicron-specific antibodies being produced -- all without having to start entirely from scratch.

But its the CTLs that already identify the Omicron-infected cells which will do the bulk of responding to the virus and clearing the infection. This is also why we don't need to rush to update vaccines to be Omicron-specific or why neutralizing abs really matters that much at all (and if there's Original Antigenic Sin it really may not matter much at all since there may not be much Omicron-specific B-cell or Nabs response to an infection or variant-specific vaccination at all).

> SARS-CoV-2 human T cell epitopes: Adaptive immune response against COVID-19

> Over the past year, numerous studies in the peer reviewed and preprint literature have reported on the virological, epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. To date, 25 studies have investigated and identified SARS-CoV-2-derived T cell epitopes in humans. Here, we review these recent studies, how they were performed, and their findings. We review how epitopes identified throughout the SARS-CoV2 proteome reveal significant correlation between number of epitopes defined and size of the antigen provenance. We also report additional analysis of SARS-CoV-2 human CD4 and CD8 T cell epitope data compiled from these studies, identifying 1,400 different reported SARS-CoV-2 epitopes and revealing discrete immunodominant regions of the virus and epitopes that are more prevalently recognized. This remarkable breadth of epitope repertoire has implications for vaccine design, cross-reactivity, and immune escape by SARS-CoV-2 variants.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S193131282...
Limit the types of server used to reduce system complexity. If you can have all your business state in the same place, ops are much easier.

Kafka does more for streaming data, but doesn't do squat for relational data. You always need a database, but you sometimes can get by without a queuing system.
>The truth is, a world Order led by the United States looks a lot kinder than a world led by Russian or Chinese regimes

But that is a preconception you have due to your background. A world order the China way may mean no more narcos and narco killing in my country, no more each-to-its-own culture that is permeating my country.

You have to be aware that in my country we like socialism. We like social healthcare, social help for people. A lot of people believe that it's wrong that 10% of the people has 90% of the wealth.

Thing is, living in a bubble prevents people to see that there is more than what we learn from our country and its social constructs.

I was fortunate to live in 3 very different countries for a long time. It allowed me to both value watch I had at home but also to see other ways to do things. Again the narrative of "russia china bad" is a subjective idea that is given to us by our society.
Playing MMORPGs will help you have more situational aweareness in business
That seems like a pretense.

The researcher was an actual human being, so all they would have to do to require a response is to register on the site before sending the email. If they had registered accounts, then requested their information be sent to them and required its deletion, it would have been an order of magnitude more work for the site owners than just sending answers about the process (which, if the site is subject to the law, should already be prepared.)

I think people are mad precisely because they were asked about compliance with a law. Largely because emails went out to sites that were not commercial or too small to be bound by the law, so they weren't aware of it and panicked.
Stuff Made Here is awesome too.
>You tell OP to aspire to attend

No. It's the opposite. I asked OP why he wouldn't simply NOT aspire to attend if he found the school's "social justice ideals" so disagreeable.

>OP cannot compete on a level playing field

What is a "level playing field"? That statement begs the question that you or OP can and should be defining Harvard's admission criteria in the first place. That's what you're missing. It's their prerogative to set the playing field. Your preferred criteria are irrelevant. And, the kicker is, it's a pretty good bet they know better.

>at all and his accomplishments are meaningless

That's hyperbolic to say the least. I'm sure they're meaningful to Harvard and elsewhere. Likewise, the experiences and capabilities of some whose talents may be reflected outside of a standardized test are meaningful.

>Admitting people based on racial criteria is racist

That's an unserious, facile argument that ignores 400+ years of history that continues to this day. It's been estimated that racism, starting with slavery, has cost Black Americans over $70 trillion. There's a legacy attached to that which clearly disadvantages black people. Further, redlining, unequal pay, etc. continue. If it's racist to acknowledge these facts, then it is also racist not to.
Type II is caused by chronic ingestion of excess carbohydrates, which leads to insulin resistance in those who are genetically susceptible to it. The mechanism is that the carbohydrates are broken down into glucose in your blood, which must be removed because high blood glucose for an extended period causes severe disease. Higher insulin levels drives glucose into your muscles until they can't take any more, your other cells until they can't take any more, your liver until it can't take any more, and then stored as body fat until your fat cells can't take any more. When everything is full, higher and higher levels of insulin are needed to stuff more and more glucose wherever it can be stuffed. That's Type II diabetes.
My take on it, which I think is in agreement with yours, is that rituals help humans to get beyond just their natural instinct for self-preservation, by participating in specific things that bond them with many other people and often last longer than a human lifetime. So death is part of it, at least implicitly, but I would frame it more around humility or a sense of perspective.
Except keyboard trays.
I know a few anti-vaxxers, and they’re more concerned about vitamins and colon cleanses than doctrines of mainstream religions.
The physics answer may be right but it sounds like nonsense. Any clearer discussions?
This theory would make sense if the hardest questions showed the most racial disparity, but it's actually the easiest questions that do, according to the papers cited by jedberg.
At least for federal employees, some of the questions they ask when judging the sincerity of your belief is what other medical procedures you've opted out of because of your religious belief, and what specific part of your religion forbids you from receiving the vaccine. It definitely wasn't a rubber stamp exemption approval like I thought it would be.
Moving charge isn't how power transfer in electricity mainly works, that's the point. Moving electrons is less than half of the story.
It doesn't matter.

If politians are trying to force people to take a jab they don't beleive they need - people will use an escape shute instead of the door.
While the famous experiment is over, they've not stopped entirely. Three months ago [0], they announced they'd reopen a small portion of it to investigate how they can winnow down from scrubbers to plant based oxygen replenishment.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443187
The problem, like in that previous case, is that "human subject research" is a pretty narrowly defined category. It is mostly meant to cover testing out drugs on human subjects, and stuff like that. Notably, there is plenty of unethical research that doesn't qualify. So when an IRB gets a proposal that amounts to "I'm going to send some emails/interact with some folks online" their reply is likely to be along them lines "not our problem", and it becomes the responsibility of the research to assess the ethics of what they're doing.
A couple things people are missing with this:

1. Test optional - Students can still submit SAT and ACT scores. So if you get a perfect score you can, and probably should, submit your test score and it will look good and the admission committee will weigh that.

2. The issue with standardized tests is not if the SAT or ACT is objective or not. The issue is what those tests objectively measure. Ends up mostly family income and, well, ones ability to take standardized tests. It is like the 40 yard dash in football. Everyone obsesses about it as an objective measure, but it doesn’t really mean too much one way or another as it pertains to football.

As an aside, has anyone gone back and tried taking a sample SAT test? If you have not exposed yourself to the unique framing of standardized test questions in awhile it is quite jarring if you are not used to it.
They're not claiming a general exemption from vaccination.
Aside from the fact, repeatedly pointed out, that the analogy section has been kaput since 2005... this would be a hard question, the sort that shows the least racial and income gaps.
This ignores the fact that there are other religious reasons to oppose it, such as the fact that fetal cell lines from aborted fetuses were used to test the vaccine.
What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code (2020)
LSD’s dose is 100 micro grams, and that’s enough for significant effects.

I’m not saying homeopathy is valid, I’m just saying the it’s hubris to dismiss low dosages as meaningless.
It does not task everyone with responsibilities, and a key flaw of this study is that it lied that a responsibility exists to people who, in fact did not have any - as the article explains why.
You should watch Electroboom's analysis if you want the full details from an electrical engineer:

https://youtu.be/iph500cPK28
What’s wrong with analogies?
I think for Harvard SAT isn't that important anyway right?
And I still don't get what purpose Flask is the best choice for currently...
Beware of the scale up challenges with Redis. Redis can only utilize a single core. If you do anything sophisticated that needs to be atomic then you can't scale out to multiple servers, and you can't scale up to multiple cores.

At least with Postgres you can scale up trivially. Postgres will efficiently take advantage of as many cores as you give it. For scale out you will need to move to a purpose built queuing solution.
I got off it, even though it's second to none in it's niche.

It turns out I just don't have the time/patience for online software. It didn't do a good job offline, they have no native client for OSX, I just don't have the learned tolerance for all this. Even though it's good.

Still sucks to use, if you use it a lot.
It was in the 5th paragraph:

“Rituals are often coupled with pro-social beliefs, such as the importance of community, generosity and being good. And through repetition and long-lived observance, they are a human behaviour on which these ideas can travel across decades and centuries.”
What do you do about the menu items being truncated? I don't even have a lot and it truncates them.
Is K&R still a relevant read for a beginner? Is there a 'K&R' for C++?
> 2. that omicron is more deadly than predecessors

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-17/s-africa-...

> get vaccinated.

Blanket statements like this continue to promote distrust.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/1...

Additionally, there is the VAERS database, which has an inexplicable surge of adverse vaccine related incidents since 2020.

Make a personal health decision for yourself and determine if the benefits far exceed the risks. Then, get vaccinated.
Every song on Feeling Strangely Fine is terrific. The other albums have great songs but uninteresting ones too.
I have a white male friend who works in academia in NYC. They had a staff meeting at the college about hiring for open positions in several departments and were explicitly told that they were looking only for "diverse" candidates and that white men would not be considered.
So SF isn't as bad as the third world?
Whew - what a relief
/s

The amount of utter BS people in CA are willing to put up with never ceases to amaze me. Which is why I find it harder and harder to have any sympathy. At this time we might as well let it all burn down - maybe then people will finally get off their asses and vote for anyone other than the current crop of utter moron politicians that are literally destroying the state.

When CA goes from the most prosperous state to loosing enough pop to get demoted a representative in the House - you'd think that would be enough of a wake up call that shit democrat policies might not be such a good idea. But here we continue to remain talking about this stuff while nothing changes.

The faster it all just burns to the ground the faster it might get rebuilt into something that's not a literal needle infested pile of shit :/
Not to understand generalization, therefore, is not to understand language.

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