skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GP is not contesting this, they just think that the whole discarding/revealing of the goats is an unnecessarily complicated explanation for why this works.

The way they put it, the strategy becomes obvious if you instead reformulate the problem like so: there are three doors with three different prizes. You get to pick one door, but are then given a choice: stick with your original choice, or choose to get the best prize from the other two doors.

The solution (switch!) is more obvious in the second formulation. I have no idea if it's easier to convince someone else of the reasoning in the first formulation, or to convince them that the second formulation is equivalent to the original.
I think I would definitely throw away most of the other stuff and restart with a theory that each of the people should have their heads on birds' bodies.

Tycho Brahe should definitely be an Owl.

Alexandra Elbakyan is evidently going to be a raven, however could probably ask her which bird she would want her head on.

Since this is virtues we can also go looking for help in the symbolism of birds https://worldbirds.com/bird-symbolism/

which tells us for example that the Swan symbolizes "Light, twin flame, purity", so I guess the Swan would be lightness, but then who's head should be on it? I propose W.B Yeats because of the Wild Swans at Coole https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43288/the-wild-swans-...

Not sure what birds the others should have their heads affixed to, but I think this is definitely the way I would go as soon as I saw Darwin's head on the finch.
But the second version needs to run `.strip` twice. It might not make much of a difference for `strip` -- but it still hurts my eyes, and could be an actual performance issue for other operations.
It should activate the brakes, not emit sounds to cause others to have to respond.
The pre-CC Adobe Reader XI functions pretty much the same as Sumatra and doesn't have those anti-features
Thank you for such an amazing product, I have been using Sumatra everywhere I can for years. In an era of bloated software you showed there is another way.
Probably this is some sort of weird bias, I certainly haven't done any sort of rigorous analysis, but it really seems to me like there's something about Hungarian culture or genetics or something that causes an abundance of brilliant people from that country. Maybe the smartest person I know personally is Hungarian, and off the top of my head we have Szilard, von Neumann, Teller, Wigner, Erdos, Lanczos, Karman, Petzval. I'm sure there are more in fields I'm less familiar with. Has anyone studied this and come up with a theory?
Lot of good advice here. Here's my two cents' worth:

Call literally any recruiter, and say "I'm a solid mid-level developer. I'm sick of my current job: the hours are terrible, and there's no support or mentorship. I'm looking for an SE2 position on an established team with senior devs I can learn from." What's the worst that could happen?
https://archive.ph/I6FCt
> I believe that academia has more freedom in how to organise your time.

In hindsight this is definitely true. But that freedom will be worth a whole lot less, if you are not aware of it. This is definitely something that I wish I had known earlier and it wasn't entirely clear to me, until I read your post.
A percentage of people get a bitter taste from stevia. It depends on the person. I think that’s a big reason why it hasn’t replaced standards like sucralose.
I'm a fairly experienced software engineer also working for a startup. I think you should be forgiving with yourself. You sound skilled for what you're handling and your current experience level. You also sound overworked. This is such a common problem for startup engineers. It's very common to push yourself to very long hours that becomes unsustainable in the long run due to burn out. I think this problem has gotten worse since the pandemic. I've had to deal with burn out too. You need to take a break from the heavy hours at least a week or two where you completely unplug. None of this being on call 24/7, just completely unplug and don't read your emails. Focus on centering yourself, take a walk through nature or visit the beach and get out with some friends/family. It'll make a world of difference when you come back.
It's a weird example, but you definitely got a point. Of course, an ambiguity like in your example never causes a problem, because this text is parsed by humans, not by machines!
> There’s no evidence of correlation or a causal link between guns and suicides.

There's definitely evidence of correlation. But the thing is that there are clearly other factors. Access to guns is definitely a causal variable (you can't shoot someone unless you have a gun) but the question is if it is weak or strong. I think it is pretty clear that this is a weak causal variable. It's clearly naive to think that simply having a gun makes one more likely to murder someone or kill yourself. Similarly women do not are not subject to gun deaths (suicide nor homicide: killer or victim) at nearly the same rate as men when controlling for household ownership.

This is why I've encouraged people to look at a more complex picture. Clearly suicide, homicide, and mass shootings have different principle causal variables. There's definitely overlap as well. People are comparing to European countries and Australia simply based on number of guns. But this ignores a lot of other factors like access to health care, household debt, trust in government, social mobility, and many other things. The US consumes far more opioids per capita than European countries. We also have higher suicide rates. I'm willing to bet that there's some coupling relationships here.

But I agree it is misleading to lump homicide and suicide together. There's plenty of statistical paradoxes that depend on aggregating data that shouldn't be aggregated. If we over-aggregate data we'll have no hope of solving any of these issues. I'd make the argument that it is of the upmost importance that we be nuanced in these conversations and communicate in good faith. We must have self doubt in our own models. It is a complex problem, we've been handcuffed in obtaining data (forcing aggregation), and people with agendas are trying to oversimplify the problem and have us make decisions based purely on emotions. We live in the information age yet it is sad we have so little here and think so broadly about this problem. It is getting people killed.

One thing to note is that there's a pretty decent overlap between gun deaths/capita and drug overdoses/capita

https://drugabusestatistics.org/drug-overdose-deaths/

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-da...
You can write it this way:

values = [
value
for line in buffer.readlines()
for value in (line.strip(),)
if value
]
Just git clone mingpt and set the parameters to 100 decillion
Jaw: A Headless Blog CMS
Imagine if the United States didn’t get 20% of its electricity from nuclear power for the last several decades
Awodey has a shortish introduction here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02024
I'm a postdoc in Physics and I have very rarely worked on a weekend. Actually I would say that my workload even during my PhD has been far less than most people in the industry.

IMO it is a combination of luck and "work smarter, not harder". Most of the people I know who worked extremely hard produced about the same amount of work as me, the difference was that they spent literally hundreds of hours down strange corners that are not very helpful to their work. For example, one guy I know when writing his thesis did a huge amount of research into the theory of gravitational waves, because his work was related to gravitational wave detectors, but it wasn't directly related to his work. I also worked on gravitational wave detectors, but I just left the theory out, because it has been covered so many times. No one asked about it. You could make the case that it was interesting or important to learn the theory of gravitational waves, but he didn't really seem to be enjoying it; actually his life seemed quite stressful at that moment due to the high workload.

I would actually make the bold statement to say that, outside of cases of time consumption that are unavoidable, e.g. a lot of time in the lab/experimental difficulties, a huge amount of time is spent in academia because the student simply doesn't understand what they should spend their time on. This is because academia feels directionless or self-directed and the future of the research is uncertain, however you really should pause repeatedly and consider whether what you are doing is actually relevant to your research, and if it is "extra-curricular", you should ask yourself whether you are actually considering it with that mindset. Too many academics take their "research for fun" far too seriously.
The question one has to ask is whether it is worth the additional complexity and a dedicated operator. I am sure it is ever so slightly useful, but I am not convinced it is worth the trouble.

Feature creep is programming language's worse enemy after a certain maturity level.

I absolutely love Go in this matter. They took forever to add Generics and generally sides with stability over features.
Bitcoin mining reduces to a process of energy conversion. Electricity goes in and money comes out. The latest and greatest mining gear is much more profitable than older gear. As more people buy the new stuff, they are able to run more calculations with the same amount of energy. This pushes up the cost of mining for everyone, since more hashes per second are happening for the same energy input.

Those on less efficient gear eventually get pushed out of the market because they can’t make a profit.

A 5nm node is many many times more power efficient than 130nm. There’s no contest. An ASIC with that kind of power draw would not be a profitable mining processor.
Your first paragraph makes it seem like you don't accept the common solution to the Monty Hall problem, which is why people have responded explaining it to you, even though the second paragraph makes it clear that you do, and just dislike the way it is explained.

Personally, I'm not sure that it would be easier to convince someone that the second formulation is equivalent to the original problem, but next time I find a dis-believer I will give it a shot!
What has changed with video games over the last 25 years, and what has not
Yes, and no. Profit is profit and is taxed. After making a profit companies have the option of what to do with their profit.

They can dividend it, use it as capital, or use it to increase working capital (like stock.) Some tax environments tax dividends further, thus making it attractive (or cheaper, depending on you pov) to reinvest the profit in the business.

Of course working capital (stock on hand) can also be increased by other means - for example a loan or a capital injection.

Lastly, raw stock (pile of chips) is easy to value for stock-taking purposes (usually cost basis.) partially, or in some cases completely, finished goods is trickier. They could be valued at cost, at zero (a half finished controller is worth, what?)

Generally companies keep as much as they need, ideally no more. But the right number can be a moving target. We've been erring on the high side for a while now.
Well if debugging is the process of removing bugs from code, then logically the act of writing the code must be called "bugging" and the probability of having a bug in any new piece of code asymptotically approaches 1 with increasing SLOC ;^)
> $70 million from the crypto arm of the venture capital firm a16z

Apparently half of this is from VC funding and the other half is from token sales. I'm wondering who is buying these tokens.

In other news, Martin Shkreli is out of prison and Billy McFarland just got transferred to a halfway house.
Down votes by Cathy Woods fans?

Here's the podcast: https://www.jesuscalling.com/podcast/surviving-and-thriving-...
Wait... Are you using 100% clean stevia? I thought it is sold in a mix with eritrol, where stevia is a small percent of that mix, because it is 400% more sweetness compared to sugar and to prevent bitter
Read their second paragraph. That is exactly how they think of it, and they do think it makes it obvious you should switch.
To his credit, the blog post about electron was made on his own platform. It's not like he went out of his way to spread Electron developers on public forums. You can never achieve on a personal blog the vitriol Twitter, etc. can bear.
I’m not sure what phenylketonuria has to do with this. Phenylketonuria is a rare genetic disorder that leaves you unable to process an amino acid, phenylalanine. This has nothing to do with taste or sugar, as far as I know. It does mean that you have to have a special diet low in phenylalanine to control your phenylalanine levels.

A certain percentage of people get a bitter taste from stevia. Kind of like how a certain percentage of people get a soapy taste from cilantro.
The US is a pretty disparate place. Here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_vehicle...

If you compare to Iceland and New Zealand, you have to compare with rural US states. But still, not as bad as I thought TBH.
I'd assumed that those 3 factors were to give you chance to find someone on your wavelength, which IMO is pretty rare, and develop a friendship between you.
Yeah, sounds like the new normal
Avocado Ripeness Detector
Okay so, avocados are really expensive so you want them to be ripe and delicious when you buy them. So I want to build an Avocado Ripeness Detector but I need your help with it! Because to build this Ripeness Detector I need photos of avocados, both ripe and not-ripe.

And don't tell me that you can just know it by pressing the top and if it's soft it's a good avocado. Even though that's true most of the time, sometimes the avocados deceive you, those cunning bastards.

So if you have any avocados at home and are planning to eat them, please take several photos of that avocado in different angles with your phone and then open the avocado up to see if it's good or not. Then send these photos to me at avocadophotos@aol.com with the information if it was ripe or not!

If I get enough photos to make a decent Avocado Ripeness Detector I will post the detector with the source code and all the data I got so other Avocado Lovers can use that data.

Thank you guys in advance!

the mail: avocadophotos@aol.com
100% true even for small ideas.

New ideas are worth everything in science, especially when doing experiments.

When I started my PhD in physics our group leader told us repeatedly not to talk to people from MIT or Caltech about our work too early, because there will be a postdoc who will do what will take you about 3 years in the space of 6 months.
If you have brain fog and smoke weed, stop for a while and add in a gym routine. Weed can affect your working memory and make it difficult to recall information, which makes interviewing difficult in my experience.

Land your dream job then start lighting it up again.
I read the article to mean that shared context is independent of culture. I would say that in the US it is more about shared context than shared activities. We don’t have time for sharing activities but we certainly have time for identifying with a particular context. Politics is a prime example.
And for some reason that I literally can't understand, the original gold bears are almost unavailable in UK. British people seem to only like starmix(with those foam-like gummies) and tang fastic with its sour coating. I've only been able to find regular gold bears in the halal version in the "world foods" section at some supermarkets.
Like, I get that countries get their regional versions, but why isn't the classic available here???
I don't know if I'm highly successful but I am probably a great PhD outcome who got a great postdoc position and I did it without working long hours. Extremely happy to be your counterexample :)
Exactly, lisp was always multiparadigm, and only more recently clojure has pushed forward the idea that being as purely functional as possible (with immutable data structures and pure functions) is something that works pretty well in a lisp.
Have the OpenAI folks lifted their prohibition on sharing images with faces then?
Best media for video archival is still photochemical film (the national archive tends to laser particularily important media onto 3 black and white reels, one for each color-channel).

Film, if stored correctly can easiliy survive more than a century. The aparatus needed to actually see the image is easy. Try opening a real video made for the real player.
This makes Python have Perl vibes.
What if this kind of cruel snotty attitude is a telltale sign of people who are as afraid they’re mediocre as they view the people they judge? What if there’s no value to anyone in this kind of response?
> I apologize if this isn't the place for a post like this.

Judging from the reaction, I’d say it is a great place for this post.

I don’t have enough information from your post (I suspect there’s a lot left unsaid), to be able to synthesize any really comprehensive response, but the language is quite familiar. I’ve participated in a community for decades, where that kind of stuff is common.

It’s fairly clear that it’s not a matter of competence, but of motivation, and motivation is affected by many things.

It’s also very important, and it’s easy to miss the forest for the trees.

I know that this is probably not an answer that solves anything, but it sounds like you may be going to a drywell for water.

I sincerely wish you the very best, but I’d strongly suggest exploring help on an emotional and spiritual (not necessarily “church,” but something that feeds the spirit) basis.

Good luck.
At some point the anti-nuclear movement should have to admit they were completely wrong.

40 years of trying to avert climate change and we are still waiting for the windmills and solar, with no way to store enough electricity so we can stop using fossil fuels.

40% of global electricity is still from coal
Porn dulls people. It dulls the personality, the soul and relating to people.

Your innate drive for a better romantic partner is being replaced with porn. The dull emptiness could be a space for envy to grow in you.
In case someone overlooked it in the article, the name HARIBO comes from HAns RIedel BOnn (company owner's name and location of company).
> If you really imagine that "debug" vs. "release" building is about optimization, I don't know what to suggest for you.

I mean, if you really want to be pedantic about it, "debug" vs. "release" means precisely nothing since they can be arbitrarily customized. However, in the context of this comment chain (newcomers to Rust), who are likely to be using cargo in its default configuration, "debug" vs. "release" primarily comes down to optimization settings and the generation of debug information, neither of which change program semantics for the most part.

The only exception is overflow checking, which is disabled in release mode. While I'll freely admit this does weaken my argument, I assert it doesn't suffer from the main flaw that yours does, in that debug mode is less lenient with respect to overflow checks, and turning them off for release mode doesn't cause compilation errors. This is significantly more friendly to newcomers, though I still think the semantic difference between debug and release is not ideal.

> Nobody has proposed "turning off" the borrow checker

Nobody in this thread? Sure. Nobody on the Rust dev team? Also sure. I assert (albeit without evidence, unfortunately, though I suspect you know better than I do) that that sentiment is not that uncommon among newcomers, though.

In any case, I think you're reading my comment too literally (though that's partially my fault for being unclear). The intended meaning was that adding some way to "bypass" borrow checker errors is not new, whether by literally "turning off" the borrow checker or through some other mechanism as in your proposal.

> you might better compare the suggestion to turning const violations in non-release builds into warnings (while imagining that over-aggressive intolerance of const violations was driving away potential users).

Yes, this is one possible comparison, but as I stated in previous comments, an analogous comparison applies to every other statically-checkable property, and I would argue that they all face the same issue: that what you write in "debug" mode may be unusable in "release" mode, which does not seem like a good experience for a newcomer. In addition, there's the question of why the argument should stop at the borrow checker - why not also have a mode which allows a program to compile despite the compiler complaining about type errors (which is a superset of const violations)?

So in the end, yes, I can imagine ignoring one set of problems allowing a programmer to focus on another set of problems. I can also imagine solving one set of problems by ignoring another resulting in an entirely useless solution because the ignored problems are actually/incidentally important, in which case the ability to compile code in an "intermediate" state is cold comfort. Maybe preventing said intermediate code could have clued in the programmer that the solution they were headed towards was unfeasible, as well. Hard to say how this tangle of hypotheticals turns out.
Yes, I will concede that of course PTS can be used in a "first the invariants, then the code" way, and so my distinction doesn't make much sense here.

Nevertheless, PTS is for verifying imperative programs, and if whenever possible, I prefer reasoning about more elegant and simple mathematical objects instead.
Miracle Fuel Hydrogen Can Make Climate Change Worse
That Python uses the exact same string if they contain the same immutable content can probably be a bit confusing. But if you want truly confusing behavior look at how Java treats numbers wrapped in their object type:

public class Main{

public static void main(String[] args){

Integer a = 300;
Integer b = 300;

System.out.printf(" %s == %s: %s\n", a, b, (a == b));

a = 100;
b = 100;

System.out.printf(" %s == %s: %s\n", a, b, (a == b));
}
}

// output

300 == 300: false
100 == 100: true

When combined with Java's auto-boxing, this can create some serious confusion
> This somewhat begs the question that there are the same rates of suicides in the two areas you are mentioning

I think if you look at gun deaths and suicide you're going to have significant autocorrelation. 60% of gun deaths are suicide, so the data is baked in. But I have another correlation that may be more fruitful and interesting. It isn't 1 to 1, but there is significant overlap with (per capita normalized) overdoses[0] and gun death rates[1]. We'd have to dig deeper, but I think it wouldn't be surprising to find that rates of gun suicide and overdoses has many similar root causal factors. The north east seems to be the biggest mismatch

[0] https://drugabusestatistics.org/drug-overdose-deaths/

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-da...