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by _dps 6y ago
> player skill is assumed to be normally distributed when that is just so demonstrably not the case This is close but not exactly right, and the small difference matters. Elo does not assume that skill is normally distributed, but rather
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by _dps 6y ago
This is true for a large fraction of the programming world, but not all of it. As just two examples I happen to know: 1) graphics / games / vfx 2) energy / mining It is the norm in these markets to pay for industry l
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by _dps 6y ago
I'm curious if anyone has a data source on this that actually breaks down by duties? A "police officer" can be a beat cop in Baltimore, or a desk sergeant in Omaha, or an IA reviewer etc. When people say "being a police
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by _dps 6y ago
Yes, one good way to think about this was that there was very little change in the value (fully discounted long term etc.) of stocks but a large change in the price (current exchange rate with other participants facing temporal constrai
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by _dps 6y ago
I don't want to belabor this, and I'm sure that your intentions here are good. I'm very aware of various technical definitions of inflation, and I understand where you're coming from. I will leave you with this — do you
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by _dps 6y ago
You're just choosing a definition that is convenient for you, and I might mention convenient for the wealthy establishment. The things ordinary people most need to buy with money have gotten more expensive — not as a blip, but durably
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by _dps 6y ago
It's simply not true that they keep being wrong. Yes, hyper-inflationists were wrong. But "much larger inflation"-ists were not wrong. Anything with inelastic supply has gotten more expensive by an average of about 3% every y
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by _dps 6y ago
> There's pretty good evidence for logarithmic marginal utility of money 1) This is, at best, controversial. Measuring cardinal utility is an unsolved, perhaps unsolvable problem. The kinds of experiments that lead to these claims a
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by _dps 6y ago
> scene specific lighting hacks, things that make no physical sense but result in the visual appearance they are after. The flip side of this is that physically realistic shadows aren't always what you want. Any amateur photographer
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by _dps 6y ago
Yes — I was slightly incomplete in my description, but you are exactly correct about what I meant. Company liabilities include things you are obligated to pay under uncertain future circumstances, so accountants have to make sure that such
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by _dps 6y ago
This is in practice just a deferred salary scheme. Since the mandate attaches an unavoidable additional liability to every year of employment, that will get rolled into the total cost of employment by accountants. So yes, when you collect t
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by _dps 6y ago
Same material in video format if you prefer: https://youtu.be/D7CBcFlR3Ms?list=PLEMXAbCVnmY7Zja8lG2TLXvO3... Also, interesting tidbit: this is from the person behind the Handmade Hero project, which has been discussed here
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Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Printing(mollyrocket.com)
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by _dps 7y ago
> Also, it is basically white countries telling Africa to stop having children. Birth rates in europe + descendant countries, china, korea, and japan are already at stable or slightly falling levels. So this is more like asking Africa to
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by _dps 7y ago
I've been wondering about the broad lack of programmability in commercially available drones (something that seems like an obvious feature). Would you say this is the main motivation, or is this just the motivation for Skydio?
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by _dps 7y ago
I've worked recently in this exact field (known in OR as "pickup dropoff problem with time windows" or PDPTW). As you say, all these modifications are completely standard (especially ones that minimize the worst-case "su
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by _dps 7y ago
What's an older and more powerful single institution of an abrahamic religion? I can only guess you are referring to something involving Judaism but there is nothing even remotely like the Catholic church (large, rich, organized, forma
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by _dps 7y ago
I like k8s but this is way too optimistic. I regularly run long-standing 20+ instance clusters using boto, pip, and a few hundred lines of python scripts. People have been doing some version of this for ~15 years. K8s adds a lot of conceptu
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by _dps 7y ago
It's important to note that the Schengen agreement was only about travel, and not what what is commonly assumed these days regarding border debates: the ability to come, settle, work, and take part in the social safety net. Switzerland
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by _dps 7y ago
> The developers hold the power here. They do not, this is exactly the point of free software. Anyone can fork it and release their fork under a different name. Don't want to do that work? Too bad. Want to force the developers to do
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by _dps 7y ago
Leaving aside the outright abusive, probably nothing. But how excited would you be to receive in your inbox "Your [beloved project] didn't solve my pet problem the way I wanted! This software sucks and the devs are lazy bastards w
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by _dps 7y ago
> But in my field, in most cases the source code is never released at all. That's a far bigger problem that not having support to use it. I agree but I think it's good for people to know that almost any moderately successful op
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by _dps 7y ago
Ballpark: say 16 8-byte fields for each transaction and 128 transactions per day, 30 years of transactions is ~180MB. (to be clear I consider this a very generous estimate of how big this could possibly get)
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by _dps 7y ago
I don't believe flat earthers should be banned from social networks, so it sounds like we're in agreement.
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by _dps 7y ago
Both sides believe this about the other side.
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by _dps 7y ago
You say fascist about Trump. The republicans say socialist about Obama. Round and round we go until everyone but corporate-approved opinion is banned.
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by _dps 7y ago
Since I've been mentoring Soslan for a bit, let me offer to do a reference call/email for any interested employers. I've been around HN a long time and can address any of the questions this audience is likely to have. Soslan
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by _dps 7y ago
I've been following Bill's work on Odin for years now and he has really accomplished a lot. I personally haven't had a use case for it yet but people whose opinions I trust have all had pleasant experiences with it, and it&#x
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by _dps 7y ago
I remember distinctly a conversation I had in early 2012 about what I jokingly called "big memory" as killing off the (then ubiquitous) "big data" trend. Most people's sensibilities have not adjusted to a world wher
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by _dps 7y ago
I suspect we're just going to disagree on "as long as you can pay for it". In a publicly voucher system a large part of your ability to pay is provided by the government. This is not the case today. Vouchers take the ~$5-10k

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