skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person I was talking about started as a retail store employee stocking shelves and we had to bring in a fashion consultant because the suits he'd buy for himself looked like they were from the discount rack (and may have been).

Hands down the smartest person I ever met though.

Yes, there is a fair bit of nepotism in the corporate world. But there are people who claw their way to the top on merit, and they are often incredible people, and there's more than you'd think.

The problem is 85% of the room can't tell the difference (or looks at the suit to discern), and the best and brightest are stuck dancing on the strings for nepotistic idiots, often even when in C-level positions.
If it originated from monkeys, then I guess it's at least consistent with other things like avian influenza. Probably too late and entrenched in the public consciousness now, too. I've seen a surprising amount of anti-gay comments in relation to monkeypox however which is not reassuring.
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Curious what's your thoughts on using telebotics where human remote operator is in the loop where automation is not possible?
> but accent-insensitive really makes sense for (probably) most applications, considering that's also how dictionaries are sorted in german.

I doubt it's exactly insensitive in the way that's described in the article, because it's still likely deterministic, whereas in the article the behavior can be nondeterministic.

I'm having a trouble thinking of an example in German, but in Spanish, there are plenty of words that differ only by an accent mark: "papá" and "papa", "tú" and "tu", etc. I'm guessing that any given dictionary would still treat these identical-but-for-diacritic words consistently throughout the dictionary, rather than sometimes placing the one with the umlaut first and sometimes placing the one with the umlaut second.
That is a good reference, thank you:
"The significance of Buridan’s Principle lies in its warning that decisions may, in rare circumstances, take much longer than expected."

A software project may be late because it spent too much time to choose how to proceed. But it might also be late because it spent no time on choosing the best design to begin with and just chose a very bad design and went with it.

That is why my favorite metaphor for software design is the game of Chess. Every design choice you make may lead to a winning position, or losing position. If you lose you may be able to "play again". But maybe not, because of budgetary constraints.

There's just no Silver Bullet that would make you win in chess every time. But you can win sometimes, and get better at it.
Hey, I tried sending an email to vaidhy@airterra.com and this address does not exist.

Is this the correct address?
-- I was just meeting you where you stood buddy - maybe you should take a skim of the HN guidelines and refresh yourself? - Your comment history shows you might need a re-education on them - (as did I) --

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Right - for a start xv6 is a monolithic kernel, and MINIX is (mostly) not.
Last time I looked this didn't have networking. Is that still the case?

Anyone able to explain why networking was left out?

Why I ask? I've seen a bunch of projects on GitHub for implementing xv6 networking.
That's your first test.
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If you have good storage tech you can just store surplus renewable energy and don't really need the expensive reactor part though.
Revenue is "real" - it's the value of what Intel is actually selling.

Market cap is a guess - whether it's justified or not will be proven by actual revenue in the future. A 3x revenue difference is a nontrivial gap, especially when AMD would have to take over the entire processor market to reach the kind of revenue Intel is currently making (or make huge strides in GPU - either way)
). By setting up a structure such that you profit during a crash (either by selling puts, leaning net short, or through some other method), you introduce an uncorrelated return stream that can really help

isn't selling puts directional? One strategy could be something like trying to find a way to bet on volatility but without a negative carry or at least as small as possible...this is hard to do. Taleb's universa fund tries to do this.
I wait 30 minutes before opening my laptop or looking at my phone - other than to stop my alarm.
As others have mentioned, maybe seed it with a few hundred – thousand of your favourite recipes.

Apart from then being immediately useful, I suspect that you'll learn a lot about usability in the seeding process
Part of the whole point of Blindsight is that the reliability of the narrator is explicitly suspect on a couple of different levels.
For me the importance of zero is not about assigning a symbol to nothing. It’s about to come up with the idea that the symbol for the number of things one more than 9 should be 10 instead of another arbitrary symbol.

This concept seems intuitive at first, but when you think about it, it’s such an genius idea.
So you are doubling your money each year? Do you have a forward strategy to keep that up?

Looking for people with good track records is a terrible way to choose traders. See: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zv-3EfC17Rc

Tldw: meets a person, picks 5 horse winners, gets then to invest. How did he pick 5 winners? Emails 1000s of people, using a permutation per person. The person who sees the 5
wins thinks he has a system.

Real life version: 1000000 monkeys given ability to trade. Scratch
bum=buy, scratch head=sell. One of the monkeys will certainly have a good trading record by the end of it.
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Thank god for him.
You have to admit that the internet was more fun when it was enthusiasts expressing themselves, though. That’s the point of the post.
TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy
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I am having difficulty managing my identity across online platforms. I feel like I am more honest on some platforms and not so much on others. The more anonymous I am the more secure (free) I feel online.

Is there a way to mitigate this problem or somehow manage it?
He is just demonstrating that __subclass__ hook has control over what is counted as a match.

Which he explained in another article that it allows the author of the abstract class to hijack calls to isinstance for any instances created from subclasses.
If you have a California billing address, you can just click through a cancellation flow. More states should consider consumer friendly policies like allowing them to cancel by the channel they registered with
Optane by itself wasn't a product that acted as a solution to real-world problems. It needed to be incorporated into a larger stack.
The idea that referring to monkeys is racist is 1) nonsensical 2) racist.
Postings for metaverse jobs plunge by 81%
The US organ transplant network is built on shaky technology, reports say
Well yeah, but we don’t let apartments get built across huge swaths of cities, that might be contributing. If apartments were nice, new, and cheap people might feel differently, or maybe not idk. And yeah trees are great, but we’ve used most of that land for agriculture before, we just stopped because it was slightly cheaper in the west when we pretended that there was enough water out there. Where as, idk that there is any clear idea what turning Arizona green would do to the rest of the climate of the US
What can we do with it? Seems hopeless...
Yes, to be clear the CEO was also a founder, so he didn't just parachute in.

I have, unfortunately, also seen something similar to your experience. This is why hiring for a role like that is tricky.

I want to say for the record I also once hired an awesome CEO who was humble, sincere, reasonable - and very effective. We're still friends after 25+ years.
So what’s the rest of the story? Who was selected as the Phase IV winner?
I highly disagree.

Peter Watts has lots of explanatory segments, but he uses them for building his world and characters, not for teaching you stuff you can already go learn about in this world.

I'm sorry you don't enjoy his work, but I really like his writing style and have read Blindsight multiple times.
> For me the importance of zero is not about assigning a symbol to nothing. It’s about to come up with the idea that the symbol for the number of things one more than 9 should be 10 instead of another arbitrary symbol.

By the middle of the 2nd millennium BC, the Babylonian mathematics had a sophisticated sexagesimal positional numeral system. The lack of a positional value (or zero) was indicated by a space between sexagesimal numerals. [...] The Babylonian placeholder was not a true zero because it was not used alone, nor was it used at the end of a number. Thus numbers like 2 and 120 (2×60), 3 and 180 (3×60), 4 and 240 (4×60) looked the same, because the larger numbers lacked a final sexagesimal placeholder. Only context could differentiate them.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0
great point. in this stage, we only want to hire a senior developer in the future. Maybe when we need to scale, we can start hiring.
There are a great many exceptions; too many to list - think just of the inventions that have been lost for centuries or millenia. Forceps were the trade secret of one family of doctors for many generations. The Chinese invented stainless steel, the Romans succumbed to armies equipped with it in the east but never discovered how to make it. Mendel. Etc, etc. Some discoveries, once overlooked, can be overlooked for a very long time. But this may reinforce the author's point - new fields don't stay new, everyone's attention moves on and the chance for easy discovery may be lost. We would be wise to invest heavily in trying to discover what we've overlooked.
Considering we're leading into elections, it's extremely hot button.
> CHEERS C***

It's not real Aussie if it's censored. And the return value really should depend on if you say CUNT (good) or SHIT CUNT (bad).
Well, that's the theory. There is normally a cash component, and I guess that's how they make their living.
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> and are looking for entrepreneurial-minded folks to join our team.

What flavor of entrepreneurial mindset do you mean? There is a lot of variation. For example, West Coast entrepreneurs don't tend to mesh well with the DC-area military-industrial complex. One major cause is a disconnect between creators and customers.

In my view, the essence of entrepreneurship is calculated risk taking. What kinds of risks does the company want employees to take?
In the context of this article, the result is not surprising, but in general it's probably not most people's expectation that you can define a class, make sure it doesn't subclass any ABCs, but then still have it "match" an ABC. (If you ask me, cases should only match when types are equal -- pattern matching is structural but (in Python) subtyping is anything but.)
You still didn't explain how "build more" is not an option, which is, you know, the original claim that we're debating in this comment chain.
A book and a half per year? Neither asimov nor herbert could do that. Maybe jules verne? No. Even if tech is different than SF, I strongly doubt the quality of such high book/y delivery
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Our 'shit' includes maintaining order in international commerce. No on else is doing that other than our little helpers in the UN and we fund most of their part.

I'm not complaining about farmers. You have based your entire position on assumptions that not everyone in the world agrees with.

Had you thought about that? Have you thought that there are significant reasons why some countries would gladly accept 'climate change'??

Your premise is that everyone is going to do this reduction in output and gladly yoke themselves with an individual accounting for their global expenditure. How utterly foolish.

The climate accords you so poignantly mentioned are attended by private jet riding elites that have NO intention of reducing their quality of life.

When you choose to step into the light of reality, I'll gladly meet you
Absolutely part of the plan, there will always be strange situations that the vehicle can't adapt to. So it has to stop and phone home.

Our current test vehicle uses remote operation a lot!
I can respect your opinion but we'll just have to disagree. I appreciate you taking the time to explain your position.
Usually too smart, on rare occasion they cheat. MMs inherently deal with information assymetry and adverse selection because they generally stand ready providing liquidity with quotes out in the world (though obviously width matters). Toxic counterparties are parties who decide to trade against you who have a better idea about “true” price than you. They might make or they might not, depends if the degree in which they’re right overcomes the spread they crossed. Other MMs can be (and often are) toxic.
Nah, yeah!
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> I increased my account by 5x since the lows of covid to present with simple large cap tech and etf strategies (...)

You managed to make money on a levered high-beta strategy in a zero interest rate environment? If you don't know who the rube is in a market, it's you. Add a bit of volatility and the smart kids at Jane Street will eat your portfolio. They are on both sides of every trade, taking your money no matter what you do.

The days of the "good track record" traders in the public markets have been over for 15 years. Forget your strategies, park your money in SPX and thank me later.
Oh, an easy one : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_Data_Link_Control
There are a bunch of these firms. And when you pass the gauntlet, you realize that the people are smart but no smarter than at other firms. At some point, the strict hiring filter just produces noise.

If anything, having that many achievers results in bored people doing things that are suboptimal for the performance of the firm as a whole. Whole divisions of wasted talent spawn and self perpetuate.

It's the hiring process hazing ritual that sets the allure, there's not much else to it.
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yeah - booleans here have three values. "Yeah", "nah", and "yeah - nah"
I suspect so. There is more and more anecdotal evidence that Alzheimer's and other similar diseases are cause by insulin resistance in the brain. However there is unfortunately no gold standard double blind research out there to confirm/deny it yet.
MBAs eating the world.
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The thing is, it's really just a simple crud app. More features = more CRUD endpoints.

We're not onboarding someone anytime soon cause we aim to hire a senior dev right away as our engineer employee #1.

Honestly, I plan to just talk to users.
It seems like this is an ideal case for modular wiring, ie the wire is cut to size, and terminated with modular connectors at the factory. Installation is just threading the wire through the building and pluging it in.

Connectors could be copper, the wire itself could be aluminium, completely sealed in pvc.
Isn't part of the problem actually that we're hiring at all for these kinds of positions? Why isn't it possible to invest in the people who already showed up and demonstrated motivation to get things done?

The cynical (but maybe also realistic?) part of me wants to say that we hire for these roles to satisfy the class of people who feel entitled to occupy them. That is, we have this big educational apparatus churning out MBAs and so we better have some place to put them.

I'm not convinced that the old stories of climbing up through the ranks somehow originated in a world that worked really any differently than the world we live in today. We've just built up a lot of momentum moving in the direction of bad business culture. But there's no real reason we can't begin moving back in the right direction right away!
India has banned it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok#2020_ban
TikTok isn’t great, but fortunately most of us have the freedom to simply not use it.

The authors conclusion around potential regulation is, though well intentioned, misguided.

Hopefully through more posts like theirs we can have better conversations around addictive technology and teach the younger and more impressionable members of our society how to moderate tech use.

Since this is a tech forum - some interesting technological solutions to this could be:

1. Headless app use with updates. Some affordance that you can setup that will open the app, take some actions and give you back the summary. In the case of TikTok you could use this to build your own notification. Maybe only go on if this hypothetical tech tells you something is really, really popular.

2. Reset mode. The OS trains a model on your gestures and you can tell it to tell you if you’ve been making a “brainless action” too many times for too long. In the case of TikTok this would be mindlessly swiping up.
Faaaark mate.

Looks fair dinkum.

Hooroo.
> it is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy

I mean, it's "social media".
You can reverse type 2 diabetes. Doctors in Australia, the UK and the US have done that for decades by recommending low carb diets.
Unlike WeChat in China.
Video is from from Kuching, Malaysia.
At my job? I take food ingredients and perform some manual manipulation to arrange them into enjoyable edible form (although the natural gas powered grill and the electric element powered heating elements, via cooking oil perform the bulk of the "work" in terms of watt-hours), and contribute to the maintenence of the facility and equipment that allows that to happen. Per shift (along with 1-4 coworkers) I think I am involved in preparaing late breakfast or lunch for approximately 150-200 people, saving them perhaps dozens of minutes from preparing the equivalent meal themselves. (don't worry, I dont think you owe me too much respect).
The article's behavior is non-determenistic only because author didn't finish designing the system and just kinda gave up instead.

For example in the last statement, one approach might be to keep all equivalent strings, then sort them using some other complete ordering function (like utf-8 codepoints) and always return first one. (Yes, this will increase complexity, but locales often do that)
And yet making pithy comments isn't?
- There is a search cost of finding someone to trade with. Market makers streamline the process by always having a deal available. They might not offer you the best price you could get if you waited, but if you want to buy/sell a commodity right now you now have the option to do so, and probably removing the search costs from society as a whole is economically efficient.

- Special case of the above: They allow people who have want to trade huge amounts of a commodity a way to efficiently do so (no need to talk with multiple people; can do the trade all in one place).

- By making trading more efficient, society can get a better idea of the "true" price of things. Extremely important because prices guide investment. For example, if you're a farmer, and you're thinking about what crops to plant or a research lab thinking about where to focus your research. Having an efficient market with accurate prices ensures the economy grows at max speed.
Don't use it and if you have children with access to mobile devices take steps to ensure they can't use it.
I think GIS content is typically more straightforward than CAD. Most of it is 2D, stuff like vector rivers and streets, or a heightmap (terrain) as a raster bitmap. You can import that kinda stuff into many games and use it as a real-world location.

But they are moving into 3D, such as using drone photogrammetry to map cities at once: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/2.8/help/mapping/layer-pro...

Sometimes those 3D layers are built from simple extruded polygons, other times they are more detailed meshes. But AFAIK even the most complex don't typically approach CAD complexity. More like the 3D buildings you see in Google Street View or the old Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Any GPU capable of running an Unreal Engine game should be able to handle that sort of stuff.

But it's really cool to see them going this way. It's always been a dream to play a AAA game in a real-world city (kinda like Watch Dogs or GTA) but where you can import any city you want.

You can already kinda do this with terrain with Cesium for Unreal (https://cesium.com/platform/cesium-for-unreal/) or for other games like Cities Skylines (https://en.number13.de/cities-skylines-how-to-import-heightm...), but I think those typically are limited to basic heightmaps.

Being able to translate not just buildings, but hydrology, vegetation, population density, etc. all from public GIS data, and simulate a whole game from them...? That'd be really awesome.