skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conversely I think it will be quite difficult for Russia to win this war as long as a Ukraine keeps pressure up on their supply depots like they have been for the past week.

If Ukraine starves Russia of ammo they win the war and HIMARS looks like it is doing exactly that.

Additionally every week that goes by is a week that Ukraine gets new weapons in the past couple weeks it was HIMARS in coming weeks it’ll be M270s and Gepards, and in the coming month/s it’ll be NASAMS.
Your coworker from MIT left to be a quant/software engineer at a hedge fund, or was the role non-technical?
And in many markets they were a market-distorting entity that drove already competitive firms to the wall by dumping VC money, meanwhile also circumventing rules which were in place for passenger and public safety.

I'm really not fine with that.
oh man. Nobusuke Kishi's wikipedia page is a must read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi
Let's play it forward where in some alternate reality we were able to reset the current "inequity" and give lots more people from non-elite backgrounds a good shot at proving their capabilities. Or even have that as an ongoing policy in a very fair way. ("Fair" being the problematic word which will constantly be debated.)

Do you imagine that a new elite of some new type of class would not emerge? Would that new elite be more acceptable?

Is the problem that we just don't like our current kind of elite? That it doesn't provide for "fair" resetting of the system periodically? (or within each generation) Does it unfairly give children of the elite access to things they wouldn't otherwise be qualified for, compared to some other better system? What is that system? Some kind of setup where every kid gets to have equal access to showing his/her value -- yet you don't like having tests to do that?

I am not against the idea of an elite class. There will always emerge people who succeed and pass on their success. The question is, what is the outcome we're trying to achieve?
You don't just have to be "smart" to pick academia, you have to care about reputation a whole bunch, and you need to be able to not care about money.
> I know the best mitigation for ransomware is to maintain off-site backups. I cannot do this. It is a design requirement not to have offline storage.

The simplest solution would be to maintain "off-site" backups... where "off-site" is actually right next to it (in the same room), but in a physically separate computer. Then you can use on it something like borgbackup's append-only mode (https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/notes.html...), so that ransomware running on other computers cannot overwrite old backups. Of course, this assumes that an attacker cannot access that computer other than through "borg serve" (it would be ideal if administration required physical console access to it), and that borgbackup doesn't have any bugs which allow bypassing the append-only restrictions in "borg serve".

(This has a drawback, explained on that page, that a periodic prune/compact on the server to free space from old backups could allow an attacker to delete data from the repository; but it can be easily worked around by taking a filesystem snapshot of the repository before doing the prune/compact. In case the attacker corrupted the backups, you just have to find a snapshot from before the corruption.)
If Harvard went away, I would be VERY happy. Schools like Tsinghua, IIT, and C9 are much more meritocratic. Oxford / Cambridge are also very "exclusive" in the worst way possible, and given the history of the early US, it's not surprising that this insular Victorian / London culture of poshness also permeated into 17th / 18th century Ivy League schools in the Puritanical US. I'm amazed at what abject conditions Eastern Europeans overcome to earn top international ranks in IOI competitive programming, for example.
I can't believe this comment hasn't been downvoted into oblivion, but I tend to agree. It's a markov model. Educated people care about educating their children. Uneducated either a) want their kid to be the first to reach higher education (but struggle to do so or b) don't value education.

Pretty rare to find a well educated person who places no value on education. Guys like Peter Thiel (educated, but promote non-traditional routes) are outliers on that spectrum, in my experience.
Exit, pursued by a bear
Your link does not seem to contradict what i’m saying “ The constitutionality of declaring entire categories of information preemptively classified has not been definitively tested in the courts.”
Reminds me of the excellent https://museapp.com
So your saying that Germany should retake Kaliningrad then?.
Quant trader at a firm that I've never even heard of but routinely pays even engineers 7 figures
Just apply the same process to the interpreter. Easy.
One cool thing about an analog watch is that, since it’s motion is synced with the rotation of the earth, you can use it as a compass.
> Guess who private sector loves to promote to executive positions like VP and SVP? Harvard and ivy grads. Even in engineering, where it's supposed to be more of an meritocracy, you can see this at every bigco.

No. This has not been my experience working at bigcos -- the opposite is true. This isn't even hard to disprove -- just take a look at any large company (outside of those with Ivy funnels like management consulting). Just go to their websites. Many executives often did not attend Ivy league colleges.

You'll find that most US executives actually didn't go to prestigious schools. This fact surprised me when I first observed it, but it makes sense. Assuming US management is a meritocracy, those who make it to the top are those who are in some way good with people. Ivies optimize for intellect, but this often has a negative correlation with social skills.
I had the same thoughts. The country is now more educated than it was before, and they want to paint that as a bad thing. And point some fingers at the “elite,” Which is now people who’s parents have a college degree I guess.
In Minnesota it is about $0.20 cheaper than the discount gas places.

I'd definately pay $2.60 more to avoid the crazy people jamming Costco's parking lots trying to get that 20 cents off. I've narrowly avoided many people going anywhere they could at ramming speed while I was visiting a neighboring business.

I now avoid their neighboring businesses on every weekend as I value my life and car to avoid that whole scene.
2 words: quality control
If you don't spend any money on your military except when you need it, it will take so long to get it back up to speed that you'll probably lose the war in the meantime.
There are certainly manifold shameful aspects to US foreign policy. However, it does humanity a disservice to disregard the degree to which the US has tried to promote self-determination in the past 40 years. The US really tried to run free and fair elections in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Taliban and Al-Sadr-aligned parties were allowed to stand in elections. The majority Shia and Kurdish minorities in Iraq now have much more political representation than they had under the Ba'athists. The elections in Afghanistan showed that the US installed government was closer to majority opinion than the Taliban regimes before or after.

The many shameful aspects of US foreign policy absolutely should be brought to light, but that doesn't mean retreating to defeatist nihilism. There can be something new under the sun, and US occupations of the past 40 years have been markedly different from previous empires. It's not enough progress as a society, but it is progress.
Did you ask her out for a coffee?
yeah, good on him, but it'd be so much better if it were an employee co-op. He's still making bank, and eventually could be the amazon of pharmacy undercutting everyone else, and still make a tidy profit.

A non-profit or co-op could do the same thing and only aim for a small revenue target in the green, so they stay afloat and can keep paying payroll, and providing good service as needed.

I'm eventually planning on branching into this area, if I can get my co-op CRM/ERP software platform finished. I'm wanting a system to manage a network of union/worker businesses that work in syndication and encourage loyalty to in-network brands, through benefits, discounts, etc. Think if you had a software to basically combine worker, consumer, and housing co-ops into a sort of network or social net or mutual aid network where volunteering, working as an employee, or just loyalty as a customer dictates if you've qualified to earn a dividend or free healthcare.
Checkout YouTube Vanced, it's shutdown but latest version still works well. Blocks YouTube ads.
It's certainly not direct physical violence to citizens of an established world power that is a concern. It's pushing things in one direction or another politically.

See well documented: Intelligence community v.s Trump v.s Facebook v.s Russian propaganda campaign v.s traditional "manufactured concent" of citizen.

How these players interplay is what is at stake.

If helps tremendously if some of the actors are "trying" have enough independent thought and don't suffer too much when they push things in more liberal & egalitarian direction.
It's interesting that it starts off talking about elite backgrounds by discussing graduate degrees, and only later talks about wealth as an influence.

Wealth seems like such a huge factor in who is successful in this country. Whereas I know quite a few people with college degrees, even graduate degrees, that aren't using that knowledge in their work.
I enjoyed Nice. I also enjoyed the towns around it. I even enjoyed Monaco which seems like an unpopular opinion. Not sure why it’s one or the other. I’d also recommend Corsica if you make your way down there. Now THAT’S a secret (for Americans).
You get the best deal (lowest total cost) by finding out which bank pays the highest financing incentives to the dealership (by asking the dealer), financing the car through them, then paying the whole loan off immediately. It’s all part of the negotiation.
To the op?

Unrelated to this question,

Can you share the top blogs/podcasts based on your listening. Thanks.
I drew a line. It goes on that side of the line I drew.

> And you won’t find many watch enthusiasts who agree with you either about this class of watch.

What specifically would they disagree with? The idea that these 150 watches are made in bulk to a single design, and that watches of this class have many closely related designs? Or something I said that wasn't watch-specific?

If they're not made in bulk that's extremely interesting to me. Would that be like old guns that didn't have interchangeable parts, each one carefully and individually refined by expert hand to fit together? More so? Less so? How much variance is there between pieces? (I'd guess many old watches are like that but I haven't heard so specifically.)
In words, you can think of XOR as: True when both bits are different.

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Although the post is an introduction, I wanted to share a nice tip for coding multiplexers with bitwise operations:

https://blog.uidrafter.com/bitwise-table-lookup

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And here's a fun example, KITT-like lights, for practicing bitwise operations:

https://ericfortis.github.io/web-animations/#-kitt-like-ligh...

Source Code:

https://github.com/ericfortis/web-animations/blob/main/kitt-...
> But are there Costcos in China?

Yes, I know there is one in Shanghai.

https://www.costco.com.cn

> Also, do people in China get out of the city to go camping for the weekend?

I am not sure about camping, but glamping is popular with young people.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/glamping-china-trend-...
> I've increasingly come to view systems operations / SRE as a risk management exercise, where the goal is to reduce the odds of a catastrophic failure.

s/reduce/find an appropriate level for/

It's a common misconception that risk management and risk reduction are synonyms. Risk management is about finding the right level of risk given external factors. Sometimes that means maintaining the current level of risk or even increasing it in favour of other properties.
It is when covering $20 of marginal costs gets you past to a bunch of non-marginal costs.
I never heard of it and I clicked because the name intrigued me. You might benefit from a link preview extension to reduce the friction to explore links before comments.
> If you went to a campus and captured 2 such pictures of people at random

Yes. But if a Washington Post photographer went (or chose the pictures), it's vanishingly uncommon. A duckduckgo image search, limited to washingtonpost.com, of "phd graduation", "phd students", "phd graduate", "graduation", or "university students", yields almost no such pictures. Almost all are either very diverse, or entirely black.

They only find whites when it comes to "elites" "dominating".
I am close friends with someone who has been an IT/Cybersecurity Auditor for several years now and is apparently doing well (receiving praise/bonuses from upper management recently), despite on multiple occasions demonstrating they lack basic technical knowledge and don't understand what they are auditing. Apparently they just have a list of questions they ask and then fill out a spreadsheet despite having no technical understanding of what they are asking; e.g. on multiple occasions this person has said to me that they don't understand the difference between a server and a database. It boggles my mind that someone can be responsible for auditing a company when they don't understand simple concepts like servers or databases, but who am I to judge?
Here’s one of the authors of the mentioned article explaining how the situation developed for more context: https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-p...
I also do this.

The one way I limit is to restrict myself to 1-2 jokes per meeting, and that too at the initial part of the meeting. As the meeting gets to meatier sections, I tend to go mum.
You are right that at the end of day it is just a store. I know many people who keep renewing Costco membership every year but goes like once or twice a year. I on the other end is in same category that author describes. Even for gallon of milk I'd prefer going Costco and if there is more than one item it is not even a question.

To me most basic thing would be great quality at that price level that I guess everyone else is also looking for. At deeper level by reducing choice it sets a familiar pattern of food I eat on daily/weekly/monthly basis. Or for clothes just like people wear brands and proud to announce it. For me it is I do not wear brands and similarly proud of the fact.
I had this extension on my Chrome browser a few years ago, and was dumbfounded when I thought that Chrome had added the ability to not only OCR PNG files - but also replace the text in them!

Completely forgot that I installed this extension years earlier.

Crazy extension!
There's a Go port available over gRPC (and gRPC-Web, and the Connect RPC protocol) at https://demo.connect.build. The code (as well as sample clients) are at https://github.com/bufbuild/connect-demo. You can also talk to our Eliza implementation with cURL:

curl --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"sentence": "I feel happy."}' https://demo.connect.build/buf.connect.demo.eliza.v1.ElizaSe...

I love that this little bit of computing history is getting some love :)
Other way around.

Starbucks gives you the first cup free, because it means the rest of your cups that year are free to you - you've hit your deductible and soon after your out-of-pocket max - but Starbucks gets to charge insurance $500/cup for them.

If they didn't have the program, no one would pay the first $500 because it's out of pocket, and Starbucks gets nothing. By forgoing the first $500 of revenue they get the rest.
An interesting question that probably deserves it's own ask HN post.
I can't do that because you literally excluded any evidence that did not make it the number one cause of death. You're not arguing in good faith, so I'll leave you to it.
Democracy works with one person = one vote. When you have one dollar = one vote you get a plutocracy instead.

So when consumers vote with their wallets, this vote isn't democratic at all. People that don't have money in their wallets don't get to vote.
It you eat the food they offer you can definitely get it at a better price. Furthermore Costco demands a higher quality for certain products. I don’t have the source on that but read somewhere once that say the can of soup you get at a regular grocery store then compare it to Costco they have better ingredients things like higher protein for example. I also know things like protein powder were the same price but much larger at Costco. Meat is much better quality and cheaper. Their return policy is hassle free. Probably a lot more I could say about Costco.
It's insanity that we are in the minority. Capitalism and imperialism has grown these people into unconscious exploiters.
I'm amused by the re-naming exercises and attendant mental gymnastics. It's no longer a "hard-fork", it's a "network upgrade". It's no longer "ETH2.0", it'll still be ETH.
The vast majority of people on hn seem to genuinely not be able to wrap their heads around the idea that this is a serious possibility. It’s super weird, but it also makes for some highly entertaining comments.
And all of this contributes to extremely low intellectual diversity at Ivy Leagues. I have the pleasure of frequently interacting with Harvard students and it is consistently true that they are always unremarkable individuals. These schools simply breed a managerial class that is capable of grinding hard and following orders.
I got super into messing with the parameters of the ants, and after watching a randomized map (along with tampering with it mid-game to see what would happen) I decided I wanted to see what would happen if I pit them against each other. I set up a map between different extremes that gave them all of the same resources and obstacles, and would over time force them to interact to increasing degrees.

I want to preface this by saying I didn't make some of the decisions I made for any particular reason. This whole thing was purely for fun and not intended to be perfect. Things like the placement of the colonies and what the map ended up looking like in the end just felt right. Some of the decisions were deliberate, like the quality of the food is based on where it is on the map, and the likelihood of encountering another colony to get it.
In what markets did Uber decrease passenger safety relative to existing cab companies? I have literally never been in a locality where the cabs were safer than Uber.
The experiment:

I copied an old warcraft arcade map initially meant for tower defense, made some adjustments to add additional resources and interaction points, as well as some walls to not have an all-out war immediately, and some extra long tunnels with big payoffs so the less aggressive ants. The map was originally made for 8 players, but to create each extreme maximum-medium-minimum combo I only needed 6 colonies, plus the med-med-med colony, so I ended up with 7 colonies. I just duplicated the all-mediums colony for the sake of balance on the 8-colony map.

I wrote out each combo, and used a randomizer to assign each to a number, then placed them on the map in counter-clockwise order starting in the upper-left, as seen in image 2 of the imgur album. The list of colonies and their randomly assigned max-med-min combos are at the bottom of the post.

This is twice the number of colonies as the default, so I just halved the starting ants to 50 just so we can get a slower and more interesting start. I felt like this would keep the colonies from being obliterated before we get to see them all have a chance. I kept the maximum at 500, however, because I thought the ending would be more interesting.

As I said before, I manually drew the food in with varying values based on where it is on the map, the likelihood of encountering another colony to get it, distance travelled to get it, or how small the payoff was in size. You can check image 3 for the map with the food values listed.

Imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/hU1noNy

TL;DR:

Winner: Colony 4
Total ants: 4685
Starved ants: 0
Killed: 4185
Kills: 1976
Stored food: 187,308
Total food obtained: 512,782

Start time: 07/10/22 8:59pm
End time: 07/11/22 12:34am
Total runtime: 3 hours, 35 minutes
Run speed: 25x

In the end, it came back to the old tactic of starvation as a very good method to kill armies.

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Colonies:

Colony #1
Aggressiveness: 1
Mean ant Energy: 1
Freedom: 0.05

Colony #2
Aggressiveness: 0.1
Mean ant Energy: 5
Freedom: 0.1

Colony #3
Aggressiveness: 0.5
Mean ant Energy: 5
Freedom: 0.05

Colony #4
Aggressiveness: 0.5
Mean ant Energy: 10
Freedom: 0.003

Colony #5
Aggressiveness: 0.5
Mean ant Energy: 1
Freedom: 0.1

Colony #6
Aggressiveness: 0.5
Mean ant Energy: 5
Freedom: 0.05

Colony #7
Aggressiveness: 1
Mean ant Energy: 5
Freedom: 0.003

Colony #8
Aggressiveness: 0.1
Mean ant Energy: 10
Freedom: 0.05
Death by a thousand paper cuts. No one cut is egregious enough to warrant an emergency, yet you still die.