skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the decision making while shooting for a hoop in basketball (the example from the article) is subconscious and reflexive, while decisions made related to the conjunction fallacy are conscious. So it's quite possible different mechanisms are used in subconscious motor -control reflexes and conscious 'logical' decision making.

I realise both are implemented using neural networks, but as an analogy digital computers can implement bayesian algorithms, boolean algorithms, predicate logic, etc. It's quite possible our neural systems have optimised to different behaviours to solve different problems, and in _some_ cases these implement or approximate to Bayesian methods.
Coincidentally, I've been looking for a dashcam. Care to share which one you selected?
"The US has started multiple wars to prevent the oil price from being traded in another currency."

Oh please not this on HN.
I would expect a sharia bank to provide market-beating returns to investors because it can charge above-market mortgage rates to borrowers who have no alternative. From the article:

> Al Rayan’s home purchase plan (its sharia-compliant version of a mortgage) charges 4.24% in the first two years, almost double the market average. Even so, 12% of Al Rayan’s home-purchase customers are non-Muslims.

I'm as stumped as you are regarding that 12% number though.
As opposed to a centrally planned model of utopia?
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There is a seignorage advantage, in that people need access to USD. It's definitely a big advantage, and it provides a nice base of support for USD.

But the US is definitely not starting wars over it.
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Let's follow that to the extreme. An "endorsement star" can only really endorse the state of the project at the point-in-time when it was starred. Who knows what awful direction it might then take! You don't want your name attached to that! So the first time someone endorsement-stars a repo, it must become locked and un-push-able. Sorry folks, it's the only moral way.
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This is the first explanation of Category Theory that I could relate to. I'd tried reading into it before, but quickly lost ground with all the theoremizing going on. As is typical with mathematics, once you understand it, it seems trivial. But getting there is not. So thanks for the map.
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Well it's true so why wouldn't it be on here?
One way to solve this problem would be to create a curated directory of reputable sellers on amazon and just link to their products. Sprinkle some Algolia magic dust for search and voilà. Easier said than done but it’s a start.

Actually it seems one site/app is doing that [0] haven’t tried it personally but they seem to have the right idea IMHO.

Edit: I should have linked directly to their about page [1]

[0] https://canopy.co
[1] https://canopy.co/about
I think the code of conduct stuff worked out well in the end, especially as cooler heads prevailed.

In the `code-of-conduct-interpretation.rst` document they write:

```
The initial Code of Conduct Committee consists of volunteer members of the TAB, as well as a professional mediator acting as a neutral third party. The first task of the committee is to establish documented processes, which will be made public.
```

```
Any decisions by the committee will be brought to the TAB, for implementation of enforcement with the relevant maintainers if needed. A decision by the Code of Conduct Committee can be overturned by the TAB by a two-thirds vote.
```

Ultimately this tempers the worries of many about the C-o-C resulting in a tool used by those with politically charged agendas.
Stop blaming Yemen on the Saudis, this is ridiculous.

The Saudis could care less what goes on in Yemen and have shown through history they have zero imperial interest there.

But if there is instability there, causing violence to spill across the border - or worse - Iranian backed antagonists are actually attacking Saudi - then Saudi is forced to take action.

If there were no antagonist forces in Yemen threatening Saudi Arabia, then there would be zero Saudi Arabian military intervention.

Yemenis are not violent due to some arbitrary violence of Saudis, it's the other way around.
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Time spent fixing broken servers is time not spent working on other things. In some cases it makes sense to spend your time that way, in other cases it does not.
Land, labor, and politics.

Bare land in cities doesn't exist anymore and isn't cheap. Labor is expensive due to high living standards. And politics can lower the supply of potential developable land even further, raise the cost of labor, as well as drive other differentiating concerns. Your neighbors can sue you (or compel the government or an HOA to step in) if they don't want you to build. And it's probably next to impossible to design a kit home that could meet the developmental codes of all fifty states, let alone all the municipalities.

It's why comparisons between say, Hyperloop and CAHSR are so infuriating. The technology is not the reason why traditional high speed rail construction in California is so expensive and slow.
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Compared to other Eastern European cars the Lada was very solid IMHO. My dad went through a number of pre-owned cars, an old 'round' Wolga, Polski Fiat (very similar to the Lada, since it was also a licensed Fiat), an East German Wartburg, and the Lada was his favourite, the engine was basically indestructible). IFIR the only problem was that the bodywork was suspectible to rusting, but what's a few holes here and there if the car is just driving fine ;)
My guess at what happened:

They had a split brain when multiple masters were running. Then they were not able to choose a master to keep because the data in both masters was 'corrupted' so they are now restoring from a backup.

So how do they get data corruption from multiple masters running:

1) Performing reads from slaves during an update operation. If you perform a read from a slave then you might get data from the other master. If you update data on one master based on data from another master then you get data corruption. Probably they don't do this much because if you had any slave lag then you would notice this problem during normal operation. However, they might do it for checking permissions. You can imagine because this data almost never changes it would never show up as a problem normally.

2) Data stored outside of the database. This would be the repositories themselves and cookie-session storage. Imagine repos have an incrementing id. Then if you have two masters a repo gets created with the same id on both masters. This is very bad because now two people can see each others data. You have the same problem with cookies. Imagine if you have user id as an incrementing id. The two masters create a user with the same id and an encrypted cookie or another storage system (redis) stores the user id. Now depending on which master you get routed to you appear as a different user.

Weirdly enough this would always be a problem based on how their failover system works. The only safe way i know how to turn a master-slave system into a safe HA system is how joyent does it (https://github.com/joyent/manatee/blob/master/docs/user-guid... : you basically need a vote at commit time. if you have this then only 1 master can commit). However, I'm guessing most of the time they only have two masters running for < 1 minute but probably this time they had two masters running for a long time.

EDIT: oh. they said it affected issues & pull requests [they have different dbs for different stuff] so repo and authentication stuff wouldn't apply. oh, they said no data was lost as well so presumably that would exclude a split brain running for a long period of time.
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It's utterly not true and keep this off HN.
I’m sorry, i tried to figure out what this is about for 1m then I left because I couldn’t stand the design and colors.

Also leena leena takes up expensive real estate and attention where you could pitch your value or what it is about.

Maybe it would be better to use a specific landing page for each crowd and then get the message across for those people.
Wonder how to make a decision, OpenStack VS. OpenNebula [webcomic]
> the problem is signing paperwork that gives investors (such as Suster), any amount of control whatsoever.

The problem is that I could write the equal and opposite rant that you'd be absolutely mad to invest money in a company that you don't control.
You don't have to use numbers to implement a Bayesian system. It's quite possible to build one using analog methods.

In the same way Voltage = Current x Resistance describes the behaviour of an electrical circuit and we can evaluate it numerically, but electrical circuits are analog and don't encapsulate or express those values numerically at all.

The brain might exhibit Bayesian behaviour without encoding or evaluating anything numerically. After all the values in Bayesian formulae are probabilities on a continuous scale, so there's nothing inherently discrete about their values.
Yep. People outside of the construction business can be shocked by how cheap materials to build a house actually are. It's the land and labour where the money goes.
I don't think GitHub stars a reliable indicator of community size. They are often an indicator of how much effort someone has put into promoting the library on social media. Some people have starred thousands of repos that they only ever looked at once when they saw it on the front page of HN (I know, because I'm one of them).

A quick read of the source, tests, documentation, issues etc provide better information than counting stars in my experience.
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I think you're right. The circumcentre equation is just more complicated than the centroid calculation I was imagining. They're doing exactly what I had suggested in the third paragraph.

There may also be a nice derivation of the triangle centre on the sphere coming from quaternion math that would avoid renormalization. I wonder...
Why though? If getting the product for free isn't contingent on you writing a positive review(only on writing one at all), why would it be broken?
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One more thing I wanted to add is that it sure does look like a catch-22 but the counter-intuitive thing here is that you cannot solve for revenue by gaining more users.

Revenue is a lagging metric that is a result of many things that you do in the business. You could increase revenue by increasing MRR by improving retention,reducing churn. You could increase expansion MRR by increasing value add for customers that enables you to translate that into upgrades/upsells.

Mostly, increasing users via acq only works when you have strong retention and thats a product problem, not a marketing problem.

I would suggest the Lean Analytics book to understand this in more detail and also this 6 part series from Social Capital.

https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-part-1-a...
>It also has a "battery drain mode." Basically, when you are ending your journey, you will tell the Regera where you will be parking the car, at home or a charging station. The Regera will then make sure that the battery is fully drained before it gets to the end point, which means it'll be ready to accept a charge. Very smart. It has a fully electric mode of about 22 miles.

I thought this was the worst thing you could do to lithium cells?!
I've read a few things about the latest happenings with regards to Linus and the kernel, but I feel like I'm missing something here. Can someone summarize for me, or point me at a good summary?

Edit: Who is Greg KH and why is this significant and what is the relationship between Greg KH and Linus (and the community)?
I think this is just an early stage of the "fuck you, got mine" mindset, where OP can't quite plug his ears yet...
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If there were really some kind of new beamforming tech it could find use in sonar, defense, imaging etc. If it can do milliwatts in air without radiating painfully loud harmonics in every direction that's something too
Actually problem was in a very bad quality control (same as with infamous Yugo later). So some were working fine, and some were delivered with screws missing and stuff like that. Overall, yes, it was not a good product - but when you get your lada and invest some time/money into fixing all the initial problems it would work and it was very hardy and able to work in tough conditions (winter, mud, bad roads, etc.). It was peoples' car, a product of a different era and different viewpoint. Very basic, not luxurious in any way, but affordable, and ultimately it would get you from point A to point B. If it didn't, parts were cheap and you didn't need any special skills or tools to fix it, so maintenance was fairly easy. My uncle owned one for around 20 years, and that car survived a lot more than any modern passenger car could take (among the other things you could put crazy amount of load in it without breaking the axle, he transported construction material in it like it was a truck).
Linux Kernel Newbies is certainly a great resource.

The more interesting component this cycle is the fact that the release notes were written by Greg KH--worth the read in my opinion.
All done, I added multiple events. Let me know what you think.
Another problem with infinite scroll is often incorrectly implemented "back" functionality in the browser. If you had scrolled down somewhere, click a link or image and then click on "back", you usually do not end up were you were before, but most often on the top of the page where you have to scroll down again to were you were. Very lousy UX.

Even if you solve this correctly by remembering the scroll position, you have to fire X ajax requests to restore the scrolling position, and have to wait until all images are renders or the content will jump wildly around.
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I had a few lectures with Professor Ilya Strebulaev from Stanford GSB back in 2016.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/ilya-s...

He wrote a few articles.

1)How much VC drives the US economy(October,2015):
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how-much-does-venture-...

2)Unicorns are overvalued(May,2017):
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/silicon-valleys-unicor...

In class in 2016 Ilya Strebulaev(who has arguably the best VC dataset in the world) stated that 92% of VCs surveyed believed unicorns were overalued and a correction was likely.

He also told our class a very memorable and self effacing story of how he placed a bet with a colleague for a bottle of nice wine on the future date of bankruptcy of GM.

In order to win the bet, the GM bankruptcy had to occur prior to X date.

GM’s bankruptcy was date X+1, thus losing the bet.

A lesson on timing. Even when you’re “right”, you can be wrong.

Perhaps a Saudi assassination “string” pulled too hard for too long could see a cascading effect.

It’s inevitable we will see a correction in valuations.

But I also think it’s pointless to fear it.

That time is better spent building a sustainable business on a fair valuation with more challenging access to capital.

YC’s suggestion for YC Batch(as well as all other) startups to be careful with not accepting money and scaling a startup at excessive valuation sounds like a solid one in this climate and the likely future.
Hosted gitlab has more features than github. But you are on the hook for security, config and uptime.

However, it might seem a wise choice given gitlab's history of breaking every week and a half. (However that has improved significantly in recent months.)

Gitlab is a far better tool for enterprise, as it can group repos into projects and have a shared issue tracker at a project level (as well as repo). It also has first class CI integration(git lab runners). All of this beats paying for github[1]

[1] I worked for a very large financial news company that has partially migrated from stash/bitbucket to github. With a mix of public/private repos its a total mess. The tools for managing more than 40 repos simply don't exist. Not only is it more expensive, it doesn't integrate will with Jira, (well thats not entirely github's fault) it literally is just a git HTTP web interface, with a ticketing system bolted on.
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Could they have observed you looking at it?
I don't see an author mentioned.
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I think it's literally just there to allow the engine to idle when the car's stationary. Otherwise it'd stall since it's direct drive gearing.

With a redline at 8250rpm at 249mph, that gives you ~600rpm (which many V8s can idle comfortably at) at 20mph and ~1500rpm at 45mph. I'd expect it to lock somewhere around 45mph and be effectively a rigid connection above that.

Edit: From TFA the hydraulic coupling starts to engage around 30mph, so not a bad guess. :)
By long-standing tradition, the Economist's articles have no byline.
Sounds like a PR piece
Glad this was posted on HN because Roi's work is outstanding. I see there is a thread about the license here, you know my position. I think in short that:

* It makes sense for MongoDB / Redis Labs to change licenses of what they produce if they want / need.

* In the case however of the Redis core, it's BSD, no way it will be changed. But for modules produced by Redis Labs, it's their choice and there is something to do against the cloud providers exploit.

* I don't like the OSS license + Common Clause combo, but instead I like more to rename the sum of the two, like "Redis Labs Sharing License". We'll see if the company will move in that direction, I'm advising in that way.

* I don't like the attempt at getting things like SSPL OSI approved.

However, I want to ask if you would be more comfortable if RedisGraph would be licensed under SSPL instead of Apache 2 + Commons Clause. I don't have the power to change the license but I can advise, and for Redis Labs I suspect it is practically the same because the goal is to let users do what they want like-if-it-was-open-source, but stop cloud providers.
Since you been involved in the financial world and run a hedge fund, you'll agree with me that if you go high enough, all money is morally tainted. No one ever made a billion dollars by being a boy scout.
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Desktop version: https://theintercept.com/2018/10/21/kentucky-pensions-crisis...
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Common question here - standard Economist policy is never to name their writers and correspondents, except very very rarely. Their content is published under the name of the newspaper, not the individual author.
1.5 hour later (a couple minutes ago), despite an estimated time of less than an hour:

> We continue to monitor restores which are taking longer than anticipated. We estimate they will be caught up in an hour and a half.
Well, there is still the possibility of removal, it should just kind of be all or nothing.

>I could write the equal and opposite rant that you'd be absolutely mad to invest money in a company that you don't control.

It's hard to reply to a hypothetical rant, but I've imagined one (I think charitably) -- can you then further imagine, if I wrote a reply, that you'd be mad to invest in a CEO who was a pushover, that you could just push around and get to do whatever? Because if you can push them around, how about people whose interests aren't even as strongly aligned as yours and theirs? Therefore anyone you can control, you'd be mad to invest in. J:D
CoC assumes contributions are primarily due to the conduct of the community and not the intellect/interest of the contributor. The quality of a community isn't primarily measured by its conduct but rather its accomplishments.
The first version which boots on RISC-V hardware (and QEMU) out of the box. Previous versions needed out of tree patches[1] for essential IRQ and device driver support. Excellent work by many people getting these upstream.

[1] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-linux
>Really? I haven't had any such problem with Firefox in years, and I tend to browser with a few hundred tabs open. What platform are you using?

Windows at work and Macos/Linux at home. The situation has gotten better since browser extensions that save and restore all tabs reliably don't work with FF anymore. Now the browser usually forgets about 50% of my open tabs when I restart it...
Replace MBS? You say that like he is in am elected position. He's the heir to an absolute monarchy. Unless by replace, you mean a coup d'état of the Saudi Royal family?
"Drug seeking behavior" extended to antibiotics and chemotherapy lol
Linus may have been sincere in his writing, people saw him as this verbally abusive boogeyman who would tear people apart, which led him to become that type of person more and more.

The embrace and extend going on over in Redmond right now is threatening though, what better time to use your clout and power over a competitors org (that your a member of now) than when you have forked what depended on their software, extended it to work on your platform, and now want to take the wind out of their sails.

The recent reaction from Valve is telling, I think Gabe is fearful about the current state of affairs. We really don't know all the pieces of this puzzle though, so best to watch our backs. Avoid vendor lock-in, its the devil.
Keep at it, it takes time and perseverance. Learn by doing mistakes and falling just to get up once again. There‘s no other way. No one gets it the first time.
> Some people have starred thousands of repos that they only ever looked at once when they saw it on the front page of HN (I know, because I'm one of them).

If you ever want to process and try and extract some value from those, I recommend this: https://astralapp.com/
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Huh, why would anyone give them his/her bank details?! looks like a scam.
Is it a worry, rather than simply being crass, when the author of the CoC herself has said that it is indeed a political document[1]?

[1] https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1041465346656530432
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I agree. Political compromises might not always lead to the best possible result. Linus will be missed!
True, enthusiastic devs are definitely bad at amortizing their own time’s cost.
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There's no formal structure/rule for which prince leads / who is "closest" to the throne. It comes down to politics. MBS has many many siblings and cousins, essentially any of whom could "replace" him.
The simplicity of the sample code is a strong factor in deciding what library to use for a task.

If the 'hello world' example is hundreds of lines, then I imagine the effort of using this library to be a few days at least.

If the 'hello world' example is just 3 lines, then I can probably integrate this library into my service in 10 minutes.

Making the sample code more robust (handling errors, checking for legacy configs, etc.), makes it longer, which in turn puts off people like me.
My comment is relevant because the person i replied to claimed a company must aggressively enforce their mark or lose it.

That is the relevance of the comment, not to the Apple Situation but as a rebuttal to the claim the parent made