skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My read is that you can usually get here if you just fight long enough, lol. I didn't get in for undergrad or grad school, but am here doing a postdoc. My advisor here was also rejected for grad school and undergrad. In the end it's really, really important to remember it's just a school. It's a really good school with a good engineering/science culture, and I'm enjoying my time here a lot, but people make it out to be much more than it is. I think I did -- not that I'm disappointed.
While I completely agree the manager was an idiot, it’s also stupid to come in for almost a year and then never come in again because… you got less napkins? Reminds me of the 1-star Yelp reviews where people say “This was my favorite place for years and years, and then one time this little thing happened and now I’m never coming again. One star!”
It's a reactionless drive that would only work if mainstream physics was wrong. Previously posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30797339
As somebody who's interested in postmodern philosophy, I'm not sure I'd characterise it as being against reason or intellectual empowerment. It's primarily skeptical of metanarratives, like the idea of historical progress or the inevitable triumph of reason. The big one it expresses skepticism towards is the modernist project, but that doesn't mean a rejection of reason. After all, postmodern philosophy uses arguments from reasoning to make its case!

Social constructivism and the like also aren't anti-facts or pro-subjectivity (assuming that's what you were implying, just a guess though) - it's about acknowledging which things we consider objectively true are actually only true by convention or tradition rather than being rooted in physical laws. Also how the human mind models knowledge and the relations between our models of reality and reality itself, so we don't mistake the map for the territory.
You might be overestimating how often prostitutes have sex.
I'm guessing a lot here but these types of titles typically ship with very high res assets of various types.

In terms of textures it's not just one for each entity, but often a complete stack of textures like albedo, detail map, normal map, ambient occlusion map etc. All in 4K or possibly higher these day

Then there's high res audio, UI textures, massive terrain textures (again stacked), skybox textures (HDR cubemaps in high res), bits and bobs, weapons, animations, the list goes on.

Assets for these types of games are heavy.
Very accurate description of America.
These measures are extreme even to China, and can only be viewed as a test of how much control the regime can have over its citizens.

The answer to that is that the regime can do anything it wants to, period.

There is no way that China after more than two years, should not have been able to vaccinate those that need the vaccine the most.

Getting COVID is no longer a huge risk and neither is avoiding infections at this point.

No, this is only about control.
> it's highly tied to the idea that you can run a company without understanding what the business actually does.

I find this notion really interesting actually, as intuitively it makes no sense, yet it's clear this is what people believe.

I guess if you consider all businesses as generic machines that work the same way, you could argue it is theoretically possible, but that should always leave open a huge opportunity for the ones that ignore this practice to push on ahead and win... If your rivals all behave in a relatively predictable way, that ought to give you a usable edge.

> I'm pretty sure you're seeing it that way because it's designed that way, unfortunately.

That seems to be the case. It's an incredible situation, and one which I hope in future we will reflect on, laugh at, and chalk up as a massive long-term failure in Western business practice.
They also work well in very obscure browsers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25915313
Dunking on MBAs, while deserved, feels like a distraction to the core problem: Short-termism.

Incentives in almost all US businesses are based around quarterly/annual outcomes, and even more so are almost legally required to for public companies. This results in a breed of manager who wants to get in, pump, and dump.

Hiring from a within via long term employees should be seen as a value signal, but instead professional traders prefer external hires because their track-record is public, and can be more easily quantified. This creates a small number of CTO-tier hires who rotate endlessly through corporate entities making ever more obscene incomes, and often leaving a mess behind them.
OK but that's exactly how customers behave. You can say "this is silly" as much as you like but they're not bringing their dollars back anymore.
Oh weird, I interpreted their summary in the abstract as the opposite:

> consistent with our first set of results, these business managers show no greater ability to increase sales or profits in response to exporting opportunities

I guess “in response to export opportunities” is somehow key there. That negates my point then, and makes me wonder why they put the above sentence in the abstract while omitting the one you quote. Sneaky.
>Goundwater in the ground doesn't help anyone.

beg to differ.

There are many examples of where ground water in the ground helps maintain the environment in ways that benefit everyone.

You cant just take something as significant as an existing water table away and expect the ecology and geography of that environment to stay the same.
Integers to Decimals with AVX 512
yea it's like asking doctors to pay for drug efficacy testing and research. he would have more luck with drug reps and big pharma as clients though with obvious conflicts of interests.
My contact info is public. I am not hard to find
I have mixed opinions about all the scientology hate on HN.

On the one hand, as an engineer who has reported to and worked with many scientiologists, I totally get it. In no way do high operating thetan levels give someone any ability to effectively work with or support teams they wouldn't have been able to lead pre-scientology. But unfortunately scientology often gives people the _belief_ that they can do so.

On the other hand, as a hollywood scientologist, I _loved_ the material and program. Going into my purification program I was a reasonably experienced engineer, entrepreneur, and manager; that set me up over those 20 months to reflect, learn from brilliant and passionate teachers, and broaden my knowledge in directions I would have been hard-pressed to pursue on my own. When I grew in my career to lead organizations of hundreds and thousands, and had to work in a larger commercial context, scientology made me much better at that job.

Scientology was originally intended to equip high-potential, early-career contributors with the skills and context they would need to become a superb organizational leader. Since then it's become something else entirely.
Sounds like a good way to be in an echo chamber really quickly.
I can see someone trained in mediation, finance, accounting, philosophy, game theory, and some basic general technical skills (statistics, maths foundations, general tool and workshop proficiency, foundations of CS/IT) being a massive boon to any organizational structure. Technical people often lack communication skills and can lose the forest for the trees.

But their voice needs to be equal with people who specialise in what is actually done on the ground.

Basically real management specialization, not 'make line go up, you in charge everyone else is a peon to be exploited' training.
usa.gov has gotten quite good thanks to work that USDS has done to standardize design language across the government (and help support agencies that want to adopt it), but getting other agencies to use it has been a slowwwwwwwwwwww process.
Of course it does. Do you lie about on the ground waiting for it to rain when you're thirsty? No, you want to have freshwater stored somewhere, best in tremendous quantities, so that if it doesn't happen to rain for a while you don't die. A glib response to applied risk does not suggest you have expertise.
In the late 90s I decided on an ARM with a teaser low rate for the first year, then it would jump up. So I refi'd after one year for another. Refi'd a year later. I think I did this 3 years in a row, then sold the house.

I read the mortgage agreements carefully. I didn't write them, and the contracts allowed this.

A side effect was each refi came with a home appraisal, paid for by the mortgage company. Every year, my property tax valuation went way up, every year I appealed, attached the bank appraisal, and got it back down.
Well, partially because browser javascript has more permissions and features now than it used to.
I mostly agree with you - the title of the post includes claims that aren't substantiated by the documentation, and that isn't great.

Something makes me uneasy though: a radical, risky innovation that could significantly reduce operational costs albeit at an environmental cost to be paid at a later date and/or even used as a point of leverage? It feels plausible (and dangerous) enough to warrant inquiry and consideration.
Blue Blood and WASP generally refer to people who come from rich/prominent families. Whether it's fair or not, the stereotype is a polo playing, boat shoe wearing type who has a vacation house somewhere fancy and family connections into good jobs etc.
I think, ultimately, what matters is how the labeling and corrective actions falloff over time.

But reasonable people will notice that information is streaming In faster than any single person can code
If you want to understand how to use an MBA just look at the syllabus
to see what skillsets you're working with. From Harvard to London
they're the same;

"Basic accounting and economics, simple finance and business law,
organisational behaviour, HR and PR, fundamentals of marketing,
technology and information systems management, risk management and
corporate strategy."

This is a highly useful broad but necessarily thin body of
knowledge. When I was at uni we had to do a basic law and business for
engineers module - and that at least taught me how much there is I
don't know and could hire expert advice on.

The problem is that people see the word "management" and then do
something dumb like put an MBA in charge of things, or worse, people
(that seldom goes with the territory). The MBA certificate became
mystified and given far too much clout in the late 90s when the weak
idea of generalised management of financialised business flourished.
Today we better understand the pitfalls of that whole way of thinking.

It's also possible for someone with existing domain skills, perhaps
even a PhD or lifetime in the MD seat, to go and do a MBA just to
learn to speak modern business language.

Again, these are useful skills, but don't just put them randomly in
charge of things because you see an Ivy League brand and the letters
M.B.A.
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It's "immune mediated", meaning that there is indeed a response by the immune system. Unsurprisingly, histamines and other inflammatory markers are detected. Sometimes anti-inflammatories can help.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquagenic_pruritus
then never come in again because… you got less napkins

Welcome to Earth. People are awful. And messy.
I'm not sure that being shy or introverted is a problem that needs to be solved.

That being said, I'm a lot less introverted when I have a job to do. If I'm at a party with 50 people, I'm going to be against the wall, hanging out with 2-3 people, and facing the entrances/exits. But if I have to train 50 people? I'll do what I need to do. I still prefer not to have my back to the entrance/exit, but I can be an engaging speaker. When I have a job to do.

If you find that anxiety really negatively impacts your life, cognitive behavioral therapy can help.
Probably going to get downvoted for this...

We have too many people and nobody is willing to do things that dramatically reduce the quality of life that are necessary to sustainably support ourselves.
Why is it stupid to vote with your dollars?
you should visit china sometime - this isn't always the case and certainly isn't for the folks you're talking about
Again … just a lot of euro centric cultural anecdotes projected as global. Times have changed.
Because the restaurant business is all about consistent good food and service. Any restaurant can be good once, but the 5-star is the one that never fails you.
It's against the HN guidelines to editorialize titles like this. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
I think the point is: customers aren't always rational; MBAs and economists tend to assume in rational actors in their models. Blaming customers for being "stupid" seems like a good way to deflect for one's own failures in accounting for their perceived stupidity.
why shouldn't we?

a vacation home is wasted space for 90% of the year unless it's also rented out. Why wouldn't we want to use space more efficiently than that?
Based upon your expressed concerns, it appears that you are currently operating a Windows-free environment. I presume from your question that you have a (potential) new hire who wants to bring their Windows laptop and connect it into your environment.

If these assumptions are correct, then in the interests of maintaining your secured environment and avoiding support issues you have a valid reason to ban such Windows laptops from your workplace. The new hire should be issued with a correctly configured PC.

If the issue has arisen during negotiations with a new hire, then it's up to them to walk if they are so attached to their Windows devices. Is it some new manager or sales person? If they can't handle working in your environment then they will be more trouble than they are worth.
Indeed, the only one silly here is the manager not understanding this simple bit of customer psychology.

Apart from MBAs, politicians of today apply many of the same ideas, e.g. any kind of long-term planning is scrapped for fast results.

Not all politicians, but too many unfortunately.
DHH (who also happens to be from Denmark) gave the classic "Unlearn Your MBA" talk in 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlhAkNWC1qo
Without having tried it myself, that does sound pretty reasonable in Fortnite's case.
This seems pretty innumerate to me. Just off the top of my head: ordinary people use over an order of magnitude more water in showers and toilets and lawn sprinklers than they drink (let alone the amount of _bottled_ water they drink), and farms in California use an order of magnitude more water than ordinary people and businesses (which is why low flow faucets and the like are not really doing much for California's droughts).
Look at where the design and manufacturing skills (especially electronics) went...
I wonder if the MBA would fare better if it was reset, and the roots as a masters degree were revisited - limit the entry routes so it becomes a pathway for postgraduate engineering education, after 10 years of industry experience, and their MBA was "stamped" or namespaced with their industry background in some way?

It seems from your comments that the MBA is worthwhile content and experience, but that perhaps the issue is people doing MBAs without a hard engineering or science background, who want to manage "a business" rather than "their engineering business"?
You find it unlikely that companies would pay people to correct the labels for their ML systems based on their query logs? This is what all the major companies do for their voice assistants like siri, alexa, google etc.
Having worked retail before, encountering something like this as a customer would make me think of several things:

- same checkout/employee reluctantly saying there is a new policy: bad management, new management, other things likely going downhill

- same checkout/employee not being able to bypass this - if normal waste reduction, hand out less, and give on request? but no exceptions?

- sloppy joes are sloppy, saucy, and drip everywhere

- this is a takeaway order, and they are likely going to be eating it somewhere they do not have easy access to napkins

- new policy: why are they cost cutting? have they also changed suppliers to cheaper meat or cheese? if they are cutting corners on one of the cheapest paper products, what else has changed?

- general human pissiness if you previously did not have to pay for sauce or napkins or utensils or whatever and now you do
The personal computing revolution hasn't happened yet (2002) & is only just starting to grapple with how we might connect & network with each other. Projects like the fediverse are so new, & so so so much under-funded/under-worked on compared to everything else. But still so promising for leading us out of the corporate computer control tarpit.

At least unlike the sick Thatcher "There Is No Alternative" world, it's clear that there are elements of light & good & caring. There's undercurrents of caring & nothing really emerging but there's a lot of tendrils out searching, there's vision & reason for hope. Open source is doing great things, runs the world- but yes is mostly industrialized at this point. Still, there's such great hope embodied by Fediverse/p2p/sovereign aspirations.

I do fret that we're kind of entering a dangerous territory where computers themselves might become unaffordable, where the only computers that make sense to run are hyperscaler computers. Connectivity seems pretty good- plenty of folks with 100Mbps or more both ways that they can use- but it feels like there's so much intense cost optimization happening in the industry & so so little trickling down. The enterprise market is still filled with fat margins and support contracts, or vast margin multi-$1k chassis+motherboard barebones systems. We see price volatility like crazy: ram in 2017, hard drives in 2021, gpus in ~2018 & again now-ish. It feels like the cloud folk have enough volume to just build chips & slap them onto very low component/simpler motherboards, and there's no mainstream marketization of this obvious/logical/superior path.
Oddly enough Harvard MBA along with Stanford are the only two worth getting in 2022. And that’s only due to school network not the actual education. It’s really the y-combinator effect at a corporate level.
I did half of an MBA and then realized how much I didn’t want that title associated with my image nor needed it to succeed. I’ve worked with so many horrible MBAs both new and old. The worse were those who paid six figures so they can say they went to Wharton and be mediocre at their job.
The most important problem I find with MBAs (or wanna be) is intrinsic motivation. I often wonder why a person would ever want to just “manage” things without actually knowing things or create things? Why one would find themselves entitled to lead without actually having vision or skills? It occurs to me that people who wants to be MBA have a singular goal of making money at any cost and just become rich. It’s basically seems to be anti-thesis of being artist, hacker, engineer, scientist, doctor, teacher, and other creatives, for whom making money is likely secondary goal, if at all. I suppose this might be root cause of why MBAs are virtually despised so universally, especially on HN.
Many have deep sleep features where they sip energy.
An interesting attempt to address this idea (albeit with not much traction and thus questionable benefit) - the long term stock exchange: https://ltse.com/about
In California? I’d agree with you. The state really hasn’t upgraded the infrastructure since the 70’s. We’ve probably tripled the population since then.
Importantly, that was because of the PRC not because of the Brits. The Brits had long sought to increase democratic freedoms in Hong Kong however the Chinese flatly refused to permit it in anticipation of the handover. This began shortly before the Cultural Revolution, actually, in the 50s.

I'm not saying the sentiment is wrong per se, but Hong Kong is a bad example. [1]

Liao Chengzhi, a senior Chinese official in charge of Hong Kong affairs, said in 1960 that China "shall not hesitate to take positive action to have Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories liberated" [by the People's Liberation Army] should the status quo (i.e. colonial administration) be changed. The warning killed any democratic development for the next three decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_development_in_Hong...
This is an advertisement for Authorea (which I'd never heard of). I extract two passages that stand out to me.

> What is the single most important factor that has prevented the arXiv to quickly innovate? We believe it is LaTeX. The same technological advancement that has allowed the arXiv to flourish, is also, incredibly, its most important shortcoming. Indeed, the reliance of the arXiv on LaTeX is the source of all the weaknesses listed below.

> The research products hosted by the arXiv are PDFs. A title, abstract, and author list are provided by the authors upon submission as metadata, which is posted alongside the PDF, and is rendered in HTML to aid article discoverability.

It's interesting to me that the authors ignore that it is possible to read the source tex for most papers on the arxiv. The arxiv prefers to be given tex and source files, and then to compile and serve the pdf --- when this is done, you can read the source. In this way the arxiv is a repository of both the plain text source of the document and a formatted output.

In some of my papers, I deliberately include comments or extra data in the source for others. I'm not alone here; I've used the code embedded in this paper [1], for example.

While I think there would be some advantages if the arxiv required all papers to be compilable tex source files, I understand that the arxiv also accepts other formats to not exclude potential writers who do not know tex. [The other formats are pdfs (e.g. converted from Word) or HTML with jpg/png/gif images (which I have never seen in practice)].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07827
My kid didn't get to take an SAT/ACT due to Covid. They did end up with a substantially lower PSAT score due to one of those dumb mistakes. They missed one "easy" question on the math portion while nailing almost everything else. The difference between National Merit Scholar Finalist and a "really good score".

They're doing great at a top 50 university now but it probably was the difference between waitlist and admit at two top 15 schools.
ahh yes, the classic "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong"

Sorry if I do not trust their investigation
Great idea and I want to love it, but it is still far too slow and buggy. Someone else mentioned the blank space on the right and that is also an issue for me.