skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really thinking about the lack of 1-2 years of general education classes before a major can be declared, at university, with that particular remark. I know this to be the case in several European countries, and India; in India you choose a specialization at the "11th-12th" grade level I believe. I did assume that to be the case in China, though it looks like Chinese universities may actually spend a lot of time on gen-ed classes. I'll have to ask my Chinese friends about their experience. I think you declare a major in the first year of university in South Korea, but I could be mistaken. If anybody wants to shed light on this by sharing when the major/specialization is declared in their country, please do.

I do know there are countries which allow specialization at the high school level (India, Italy, Romania I believe).

I found this interesting list, which is more complete than I can be on this. I don't think it proves that countries with great mathematical cultures always allow specialization in high school, but it does have some examples of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_secondary_education_sy...
Cleaning out the bot followers of the people who Twitter likes and promotes, and removing hidden followers from the people Twitter has tried to suppress. It's very simple to understand. It'll be very interesting when Musk reveals Jack lied in his testimony to Congress.
> "high-level mathematics achievement is not dependent on rare natural gifts, but rather can be cultivated"

I mean, I would hope this is true.

I'm not "naturally" gifted at mathematics, but like reading, writing, and other things, I can learn them in school and got quite good at them.

Public education is like mass transit. Not everyone gets their own Lamborghini. Most have to take the bus. Its goal should be providing the best general education it can for all people and making as many people as possible productive.

If you looked at society 500 years ago you could assume that only certain people were smart enough to read and write.
Why contact you? Because you are insightful unlike most and there is agreement on some of the insights you wrote. Do you have an email address or a contact method?

Old thread could not be replied to, probably because too many days past.
That is impressive. Do you have an email address or a contact method?
I used to follow rainbow six siege esports fairly closely until about early 2019, every time I check in now I literally have almost no idea who anyone is. Especially after the caster Kixstar who'd been there from day 1 died far too young.
My reaction to "differently able" as a disabled person is to think: changing what you call it doesn't change my disability and certainly doesnt change how I feel about myself. If anything it seems lazy and pandering.

I can't do many things that most others can. That's just how it is and I have accepted that. I work with what I have, just like we all do.

Calling it something you consider less offensive doesn't obviate you from treating me with respect and decency. If you want to know something about my disability ask. Be polite and respectful, Understand the appropriateness of the situation and don't obsess on my differences.

When we first met I didn't ask, "wow why are you so ugly?" So maybe asking "why do you limp?" Shouldn't be your first question.

Compassion isn't avoiding offending me, or offending your own feelings.

Compassion is about understanding, hey they can't do some things many of us can or need to do them differently. But they're a person and deserve to be treated like one just like anyone else.

This isn't hard.
I need someone to make a `Q` wrapper that amalgamates all of them. And if that's already taken by a common utility, I vote we name it deLancie, instead.
Twitter is protecting its source code from disgruntled employees, reports say
I think a significant proportion of the top AoE4 players came from SC2. BeastyQT, MarineLord, DeMuslim...I think it is only TheViper who came from AoE2 (and, I believe, he also was an SC2 player...another one was Hera, who quit the game after one tournament).

But it is very similar with RTS, there is a huge crossover (although one factor here is that AoE4 isn't popular with a lot of the AoE2 crowd, another factor is that AoE4 has been a bit of a flop...pro games are getting terrible views so many are just choosing to stay on AoE2).
You're making a straw man that non-advanced math class == no math class.

The lower level math class is exactly where you belong to train up your math ability. You wouldn't expect to practice running with the same routine that marathon runners use.
I have since just moved everything into my Nextcloud server since it does everything I need and keeps my data totally private. It is on a Raspberry PI running Yunohost, and I can add additional drives as needed. I don't remember all I did when I setup the Gdrive, but I recommend checking the official documentation at https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/config...
'Their role' is certainly one way to explain how someone has been relegated to doing the same work as a Canadian at a quarter of the pay.
They mention 1776 being significant to the Heinleins but is there more to this? The only battle fought in 1776 was Trenton and I don't know of a ship named that in his novels?
Pretty sure you're looking for the SCP meme, which is centralized around https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/
Just to follow up on if it is exhausting nine miles and eight hundred feet is definitely tiring for me, still. :)

Probably different back when I did this daily. But right now... Dead.
Ask HN: Where can I sell my apps?
I have several apps on the App Store that net me around ~$1K per month. After transitioning into a new job recently, I haven't had the free time I normally would to dedicate towards releasing updates, etc.

Where can an indie developer go to sell the rights to his or her app? Thanks!
Tesla shares sink, wipe out over $125B in value, as Musk scores Twitter deal
> It means a code change that you do regularly but is not major

So "update". Attaching emotionally charged words like "chore" does nobody any favors, and in fact has negative consequences.
Yep, Nassim Taleb has written about it:
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
This will probably get downvoted and flagged (who wouldn't like to shoot the messenger) but here's an example [0] of a person posting a long chain of twits that would almost certainly warrant a ban under the old management, and not getting shot down so far.

[0] https://twitter.com/SaraGonzalesTX
The Doom Loop
I wonder what Snowden thinks of having to live in Russia now with the war in Ukraine. It must be a little awkward.
I wonder if the average ram interest in esports is also shorter.
> Breaking news: as people get older they seek more high paying jobs.

I don't think it's fair, from at least two angles:

- these people work in a niche, and applying generic takes to very specific situations is hit or miss.

- people in similar niches don't follow the generic statement. For instance pro bowling players usually earn more from their side gig than from bowling. A decent amount of top athletes competing in sports belonging to the long tail fall into this category.
Which is why the goal isn't to make everyone rich. It's to end poverty. Those aren't the same thing, exactly. Think like, Star Trek. They have ended poverty, but it's not by making everyone wealthy.
So if we observe e, then:

- h|e becomes 1

- h|~e = e->h decreases

- h increases

I notice I'm confused, though. Is h|e about this specific instance of e, or the general e? How about e->h? It feels like we're moving the goal-posts: at first h|e = 1 because we're talking about a specific e (we found a smoker with cancer), and e->h decreases because we're talking about that specific e, but then later we start to draw conclusions about the general e->h such as describing it as whether "the evidence validates the hypothesis". And I don't know how to formally relate the specific e->h to the general e->h.
How does one avoid RSI?

https://www.engadget.com/2015-04-27-hai-lam-league-of-legend...
Did Russia just turn off Poland’s gas for bringing up old shit?
Thanks for the points and taking the time to write up so much! I am enjoying this interaction, even if we don't fully agree :}

> The difference in irreducible uncertainty between "shuffled cards" and "anything else" is a matter of degree, not kind.

Difference in degree or difference in kind is not the important point to sort out. The important question is what computation methods actually work in practice for humans. Some algorithms that work well on degree-small datasets fail to terminate in the course of the universe for large-datasets.

If you've ever operated in a particular uncertain environment (like, as a first time startup founder), it immediately becomes clear how totally useless explicit probability calculations are when making decisions. I was a self-proclaimed rationalist and tried reasonable hard to be a good Baysian; I ended up deciding I might as well sacrifice a goat and read it's entrails.

> The point isn't to follow the numbers off a cliff, but if you're well-calibrated (as in, have a track record with a decent brier score, or something), then pretending those numbers are totally useless is a bit silly.

I'm actually trying to make a stronger point that these numbers are "totally useless." I think in practice many applications of explicit probability calculation are actually quite harmful.

Rationalists love to talk about map and territory as the two items to be concerned about, but there's also another thing called "agent's belief in the effectiveness of their map." What models/explicit math/probability gets you in improved mapping, it takes away from you by making one's belief in the effectiveness of their map much much more.

If you look at large-scale model failure in practice, it's almost always because someone thought the math they were doing captured the full system in a complete way (and then it didn't). 2008 is a fantastic example of this.

> Well, you'd be able to do that in a world where we cared about keeping track of that sort of thing. Too bad people keep finding reasons not to do that, huh?

I'd love to start tracking predictions generally! I agree with you here!

> Surely you aren't telling me that you've updated your priors on observed evidence, and as a result have a different expectation about future world states (that is, "how useful would explicit Bayesian reasoning be if I tried using it")?

To be clear: it's the explicit probability calculation and mathification that I take my major issue with. I am most definitely not against learning from what I observe :-)

> Their level of performance is not compatible with the "the small number of people out millions for whom the the coin flip came up heads 10x in a row" hypothesis

Can you link this math? I'd love to see it - not flippant, genuinely looking to check it out and be educated here!
Can you tell what domain/service the scam email originated from?
> I’d start pieces, make reasonable progress, and then spend hours making irrelevant changes no one would notice getting more and more confused about what I was doing, and whether the piece I was working on was any good

Even the greats can succumb to this. The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson got caught in this trap when working on the band’s Smile album in 1966. He intended it to be a entire album in the modular cut/paste vein that Good Vibrations used (which was still pretty novel at the time). He spent nearly a year experimenting, tinkering, and retooling to the point of creative paralysis. Having to release something, the entire project was scrapped and the original project became something of legend among aficionados. It wasn’t actually “completed” until 2004 when Wilson was finally able to revisit the project. Funnily enough the big motivator to finish the project was a deadline — just like the article recommended. In Wilson’s case, it was a commitment to perform the material at a series of sold out live shows.

While I’m not a musician, I certainly understand the desire for some measure of perfection in my software or hardware projects — many times to the point of creative paralysis and eventual abandonment. It’s said that “shipping is a feature” and sometimes you just have to settle for “good enough” if you ever want to share your creations with others.
Could you make a protonmail address?

It is good to have a circle of non-public capable people.

Will be good if you can be contacted.
What's the mechanism behind the reduction? People foraging less and hunting more? Missing out on upsells further along in the funnel?
My goal as a someone who works isn't to reduce inflation. It's to maximize my salary. This fact has zero weighting in my actions.
Because that's inefficient. A class geared towards the bottom 50% of kids is going to waste a lot of time for the top 50% of kids. Simply giving the gifted kids more homework just wastes more time, and hardly encourages them to reach their potential.
If you're worried about the work computer having access to your home network, you can setup two routers in series.

Modem <-> personal router <-> work router

Connect your work computer to the work router and it will be the only thing on that network.
"some startup from Estonia" happens to be bigger than the Bolt you are thinking of no matter how you measure it. Higher valuation, more employees, servers larger part of the world, was founded earlier etc. It makes sense to try to clear up confusion here, as anyone from Europe would assume you are talking about the very successful ride sharing company Bolt.
Yeah up until he started losing his mind near the end Hitler mostly did what the people who elected him expected him to do. It might not be good or what everyone else wanted but there's no real betrayal there IMO.
Google Scanned Objects: A High-Quality Dataset of 3D Scanned Household Items
Every student needs and should be entitled to an education that pushes their abilities. Without it, they won't learn to put in the effort required to be successful even at a level that doesn't make use of their enhanced abilities.

This might mean that there are additional costs for 'gifted' students. But that's no different than there being additional costs for mentally less advanced students: no matter what the students are, providing an education fit to their needs has costs... and a failure to provide it creates inequality when the most privileged families move their children (or relocate entirely) to places that will provide a more suitable education.
HyperNCA: Growing Developmental Networks with Neural Cellular Automata
This is very transparent and a good write-up. I wonder if someone at Slack could explain how they calculate their downtime on their status page. This outage was for 3 hours and 14 minutes but they claim 99.79% uptime for the month of February.
Shouldn't the title be "Espionage or Whistleblowing?" Journalism would just be reporting on the events.

For example, Daniel Ellsberg, leaking Pentagon Papers - basically everyone now agrees that was legitimate whistleblowing as it proved leading government figures were lying through their teeth to the American public about the reality on the ground in Vietnam. In contrast, Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen were CIA and FBI employees who sold all kinds of secrets to the Soviet Union for several decades - pretty sure we can safely call that espionage.

So Edward Snowden... proved the likes of James Clapper were lying through their teeth to Congress about mass warrantless collection of the private communications of American citizens. Hmmm... is it whistleblowing or espionage? Gosh what a tough question.
You're half right? thehighestofstakes.com
<really long rant about jq being hard to use> <description of equally hard to use replacement>

I almost gave up before I got to the first mention of zq, and then wished I had.
Thank you! Can I send you a coffee/tea/something on Kofi or whatever?
Try exiting full-screen in the video player (green button) back to windowed mode and then double clicking the title bar. It’s not full, full-screen, but it’s the largest window you can get.

I’m still not sure why you can’t switch between applications even if they aren’t on the same workspace though. Cmd tab, Cmd tab takes me from a full-screen video to the last app on a separate workspace, and right back to the video.

And if you want to see other apps at the same time as the video, no wonder full-screen gets in the way.
No, they meant democracy. You are conflating the terms "ruler" and "head of state" if you think their comment is about monarchy vs republic. It's not as if no president has ever been assassinated either: people kill for power, not so much for ceremonial titles.

Going a bit on a tangent here, but it is for that reason that I personally prefer the European monarchies over the directly-elected presidencies of e.g. France and the USA: it's very hard to have a meaningful pluriform democratic society when national elections break down into a single-winner-takes-all outcome. I much prefer the democratic structures of e.g. The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, where the election outcomes (and, importantly, the media narrative surrounding the elections) are focused on the composition of the legislature, and the subsequent ruler is determined by negotiations between the winning political parties.

Of course, Germany is a good example of how to run a republic and still have a pluriform democracy, and the UK is a good example of how even a constitutional democracy can devolve into winner-takes-all outcomes (namely, by allowing a few large parties to monopolize the entire political landscape). But in general, I'd say that the countries that do not directly elect their head of state are much healthier democracies than the ones that do.

(yes, I'm aware that most countries that elect their head of state also have separate elections for their legislative bodies. But going by the media coverage of US presidential elections and the recent re-election of Macron in France, that seems an afterthought compared to the democratic processes in more representational democracies).
But... scp is deprecated, isn't it?
The site breaks the back button in Firefox.
Maru is a SCII player which might not be a thing in 6 years seeing the diminishing prize pools etc. Meanwhile Morten Andersen did 25 years in the NFL which isn’t going away anytime soon.

Beyond game longevity, each game can only support a tiny number of professionals and the games balance is often changed in response to overly dominant strategies. On top of this as you gain fame people will prepare to counter you specifically. Combined with injuries or other out of game issues and it’s extremely uncommon for people to be self sufficient for very long.
> the whole point of having a hobby is to become skilled at some esoteric thing

Hobbies are activities done for pleasure, nothing more.
A part of me wants Bolt to be successful because they’re pushing new ideas like four day work weeks. While flexible schedules may not be for everyone, having it as a option is nice.
How would Github sponsorship help pay for the time of someone at a finance company earning who knows where between 200-500k?
Series D companies above 1B valuation?

How did you make it to senior staff without leetcode? How many years YOE to get there?
aff... I understand that this is a good idea, but posting a project in HN without a release, and saying it will have, but have not implemented the cool features at the frontpage, like cloud integration, photos, search, tags, extensions, cloud integration(gdrive,dropbox,etc), key manager, etc... This is the dictionary´s definition of vaporware. Maybe all you want is to attract more developers to the project, but if all big project wannabe start posting in HN... what the heck.
Payment for order flow is not front running (which is illegal).
Not just that, but I'm going to have a hard time using your $10 mil IOU as collateral for another loan. On the other hand I'd have no trouble whatsoever using a $10 mil IOU from the US Government as collateral. The question is do your liabilities have currency?
I had never heard the bin Laden satellite phone claim, but it stinks so much of intelligence agency bullshit. It blames the press for what is unquestionably their failure in the run up to 9/11, and it's central claim isn't even true. Yet it's become a staple of their rhetoric.
Like, say, an airliner?

https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycl...
Starcraft and AoE are both micro-heavy RTSes with similar overall economic dynamics. I can totally see that skill carrying over.
In the 50’s the US saw nukes as the answer to every question never asked. There were nuclear armed SAM sites throughout the LA foothills for the armada of expected Soviet strategic bombers
Unknown Values: The Secret to Terraform Plan
If you are the lowest paid NBA player, you are still making more than the highest paid eSports player.

Johan Sundstein has made just over $7 million over 9 years. Or about $780k per year. No slouch, obviously. But that's under the average yearly salary for the NBA. If you are the best at your position in most sports, you're starting salary negotiations there.

This is almost kind of cheating as NBA is one of the highest paying leagues on a per player basis.
I'm India the official term used and promoted by the government is "specially abled"
First, it's a bad idea in general to tie your salary to outside economic conditions. If there's a recession, are you going to volunteer to take a pay cut? You should focus on the value you add and your increased productivity to justify a raise.

Second, it's bad to tie your raise to inflation because inflation is very real but very distributed. Here's the CPI for the USA: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ Note that the change in March was far larger in energy than in food. Are you going to try to map your usage of goods to determine your personal rate of inflation and ask for that size of raise? I hope that sounds silly to you; it sure does to me.

If you want to ask for a raise, point to your productivity and dedication to the company, as well as what competitive comp looks like. Surveys are great for that.

Most employers want to be at market rate or above for employees they want to keep. Bringing in inflation just confuses the issue and makes it look like you want something for nothing.
There is a surprisingly small amount of senior rails developers. Many who learned it when it was cool, have moved on. There are so many legit companies making tons of money on Rails stacks with 0 intention on leaving. The market is excellent for rails developers and likely will be for the foreseeable future.
Work remote, move to middle of nowhere, raise livestock, and actually enjoy life.
He could be a good guy who donates the money made from that.
Actual math is irrelevant to this whole argument, just as actual literacy was irrelevant ~500 years ago. This isn't about math ability, it's about the fact that STEM is an obstacle to woke bureaucrats' projection of power.
Didn't he basically say "OK I was wrong, I'm gonna shut up" over the war?
Even superhuman have a finite amount of attention. Elon has so many irons in the fire, that he is simply going to run out of bandwidth to keep all his businesses operating with the 'Musk-touch'.
Sleep deprivation and too many hops between time zones contribute to waning attention to each of the Musk projects. At some point, Elon is just going to subdivide his time so much that one or more projects don't get the full attention it deserves.
Now that is just for starters. Elon surely has pledged such a chunk of his Tesla stock, that it starts to become 'at risk' for margin calls. So, its a double-barreled threat that Tesla is under, within this new scenario.
It's a shame Apple turned that into such a problem for their users, when Linux and Windows didn't. I guess they gambled wrong on how the market for monitors would evolve.