skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I simply do make a lot of mistakes in most domains of my life.

I'm ADHD (diagnosed, etc), and medication did help, but didn't solve it. For much of my life, I fought against this natural tendency. But for most part I essentially kept telling myself "pay more attention"! It didn't work.

Compensation is important. Detecting the mistakes I make, and avoiding situations where the cost of them is very high. One part of that is accepting things I can never do, like be an academic :).

In the engineering world there's lots of means of compensating. One you mentioned; knowing people who know more than you. Another one would be automated testing; at almost every workplace I've had, I have put a lot of effort into expanding and increasing it, and generally detecting errors wherever they might occur. I'm always asking "what if there's a typo somewhere, will we know, will that go to production?" Might I create a PR I think I've tested but I haven't? The odds I've done this are higher than my peers, so I need to protect myself from that.

If I'm at a workplace that values accuracy above else - that views being able to focus on the code and get the best (not "good enough") solution to every problem as the main trait that I'm evaluated on, I will not succeed. I'm never going to be the guru of anything. This kind of sucks, because a lot of places view being really good at those things as necessary before you can move to another area (IE, management) where you don't use those skills.

I'm a "good not great" or "move fast and break things" kind of person. My usual working style is to produce prototypes very fast; then whoever I'm making it for can see that I didn't quite read the design thoroughly and miss something before it's a huge disaster.

I need the feedback of fast release cycles. I can detect errors fast, take action fast, fix them fast. But "take your time and make sure it's perfect before you throw the switch"? That's just not my personality. I'm high volume (when not artificially constrained) but error prone.

I'm smart enough to know it, smart enough to insist that my code gets reviewed, smart enough to say we really have to test for these cases, things like that. But it's absolutely something I have to compensate a lot for.
This is awesome! It might mean we get a CHERI board without a RISC-V port. The port is still a good idea but a port to highest-end MIPS will probably be cheaper since it reuses toolchain and some hardware stuff.

Then we can make the desktop cases look like SGI’s as a tribute to the best MIPS of the past. Plus, they look cool.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
HN does not see kindly upon people pointing out rabid misogyny, because misogynists are easily offended, and may get the wrong idea that there behaviour is, well, wrong.

Edit: After reading the actual comment in the linked threat, they are surprisingly, I don't know, self-aware? I wouldn't write any of those posts myself, but it's also not quite as bad as one expects, considering some other fare I've seen in the comments to Scott Alexander's blog posts.
> Accounting for population difference, on a per capita basis US police officers shoot citizens at a rate 37 times more frequently than the UK.

The UK is not a good example, since it is one of the few countries where most cops don't have guns.
Refrigerate your onions before cutting them.

Don’t know why everything else would automatically be bunk.
> Not every calorie is the same

This is nonsense. It's like saying that not every kilogram is the same.
I wonder if HN would release stats on how often people downvote AND flag. Anecdata - I do both while it seems you only do one or the other. What about others?
The incomplete items that this update is about are an extra set of keycaps that I honestly can't even find where on the Kickstarter we were promised them. The main product successfully shipped long ago.
Starting a bank isn't just an issue of money and time, it's also about doing the hard work to obtain the necessary licenses, insurance and meet regulatory compliance requirements in every state you operate in.

The 0.25% failure rate sounds like an under-estimate. I would guess that most banks are simply acquired by bigger ones before they're formally declared "insolvent".
Why do you believe it is even remotely reasonable to compare "traditional equity instruments" with the perpetual scam that is cryptocurrencies?

A comparison that's way more appropriate is tulips, but even so tulips aren't used as tokens in money laundering scams.
Turns out most of what's posted online isn't very pleasant or useful anyways.

So you should be happy knowing that you can never learn or read everything online.
There are large numbers of consumer MIPS devices (routers) in existence, which run mature open-source software stacks.

Future iterations of MIPS can be governed by a multi-stakeholder community, avoiding past mistakes and designing for future requirements, including AI/ML and other domain-specific use cases.
That's arbitrage.

Capitalism is where the gatekeepers on what can be produced and by whom, control through (typically hereditary) wealth and then use that position to capture the majority of and wealth produced (or wealth harvested in the case of unproductive business such as rent seeking). Dishonesty is not a necessary part but certainly occurs in any market where it is favored.

Incidentally, notions of supply and demand are part of a free market which does not necessarily have to be run by capital.
> 2-3 days of water fasting every week, sometimes every other week

You only drink water for 2-3 days in a row, every week or "sometimes every other week"?? That seems a bit extreme to me, or at minimum, not something that we can expect most people to be able to accomplish.

I can't even fathom that because I'm still battling sleep issues (I have a tracker; last night was 4 hours), which of course doesn't make it any easier to eat less, in fact I become a total asshole when my blood sugar gets low :/
I knew we were at peak in Dec 2017 when a fellow tourist in Mexico proclaimed his iPhone was stolen, apparently along with his BTC wallet, and he no longer had funds to continue the vacation.
Yeah I just flipped the sear then cook low and then adjusted it to medium rare. It seemed short to me too.
_G[42] is probably still hitting the hash unless you populated it with 1 to 41.
By "it" do you mean Bitcoin?

Because it is designed to be deflationary?

Because its (energy cost) overhead is still sky high and likely to remain reflected in prices?

Because it is the "brand name" market with whatever caché remains to that name reflecting in prices?

Because sunk costs of existing investors want to keep the price high for as long as possible?

Those are just a few of the more obvious reasons. Not that I think it's any one thing here, it's probably some admixture of the above and other reasons.
Right, that has happened to me before. I've just returned the item in that case. It seems less likely to happen if the item is fulfilled by Amazon.
I've certainly overcooked more than a few steaks due to cooking too long, not too hot. Also, it seems it sometimes depends on meat quality (not just the cut). Or maybe it was the sear that I tend to overdo.
Yeah great tip.

Btw:

Serious Eats is the hacker news for cooking.
> If you actually try to use the prediction of MA(3) you will find it is often very hard to use, because it's always just too late. I wonder if the machine learning version had the same problem, or not.

Judging from the graph in the article, it looks like it doesn't. The model didn't reinvent the moving average, it invented it without the inherent delay. Though it does seem to diverge from real price over time.
AFAICT the way Dragonfly utilizing search log to probe Great Fire Wall blacklist and skip them in results was the same way how google.cn (localized Google search in china) worked.

That was a smart but arguable approach, Google was heavily criticized to present those "passively censored" results. However, no one from Google at that time did a #walkout or resign for that. Also notably Google did not quit China for the criticism it received, but for a later government sponsored hack targeting its code and service known as Operation Aurora.

So to compare 8~10 years ago and now, it seems GOOG leadership hasn't change much on what they think they can do (aka "moral compass"); Google employee did become more active on these issues which I think is progressive.
A Rorschach test administered to Imagenet
Apple’s Face ID wipes the floor with Android’s facial recognition
If you can't trust the results of a self-selected group of individuals who are paying a good chunk of cash for the express purpose of loosing weight... who the hell can you trust?
A spike is something that happens and completes in a very short period of time, not drawn out over a year like this was. The terminology used pretty clearly follows the shape of the price charts — there’s no need to try to redefine terms to meet whatever point one is trying to make.
It's different because when the market cap of Bitcoins was less than one million, an 80% drop or pop did not mean much. One somewhat wealthy person could pump the price up at will.

When it hits a market cap of $334 billion, it becomes something more real. That is when Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger take a look at it and declare it something to avoid "like the plague" (Munger called Bitcoin "rat poison"). The greater market looks at it and it drops 80%.

Bitcoins are completely worthless. They have no value whatsoever. So the entirety of its current supposed market value of $61 billion (which was supposedly $334 billion a year ago), is closer to $0 than $61 billion.

Many overpriced dot-com stocks in 2000 or over-priced real estate in 2008 are still things which have value, even if the price went down for a while. Bitcoins have no value. I said so when the market cap was supposedly $240 billion ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15986475 ), I say so now, when the market cap is supposedly $61 billion, and I will say so until its graph starts hitting the $0 limit.

People say "it's valuable because it can be traded electronically", which is meaningless. Dot-com stocks could be traded electronically in 1999. The important thing is the value underlying what is traded. Bitcoin has none.
> ... capitalism is a class society

So? What came before capitalism? Feudalism. That was a class society at least as much as capitalism is.
Yup, been around a lot of them, they are the ones who love to sling words around and are a prime definition of tech bros always looking to debate not on the basis of firm knowledge but as a cover-up for their inadequacies.
I do that all the time, usually for software, although it can be a bit more difficult for under-marketed things like open-source software without a marketing budget.
The one time I wish there was an artist’s rendering...
I think part of what you are asking is, "If we can't resolve the disk of a object, how do we know if it is a galaxy or a star?" The answer is that we can tell a lot about a point source based on its spectrum. For example, quasars were first noticed solely by their spectra.

The other thing to consider with distant galaxies is that they are moving away from us very quickly. The further away they are, the faster they are receding, and the more red-shifted their spectrum becomes. This is why JWST has different spectral response from Hubble.
Even with this being true, Wave are clearly open-sourcing MIPS because of the buzz around RISC-V.

In all likelihood, MIPS would have changed hands a few more times then been shelved indefinitely by an ultimate licensor that saw no further value in it.

In any case it's good news - MIPS support in Linux is already fairly decent so having multiple, credible open-source vendors in the space should be good for competition and adoption.
This talk references the Cleavir compiler, which is part of Robert Strandh's (of McCLIM and Climacs fame, at least) modular CL implementation called SICL: https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL. Looks like there's at least one discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8284835.
Death: I have explained but follow the guideline not to give too much information to the child up front. That is, answer their questions simply and downplay your own potentially emotional reaction.

Drugs: I don't see anything wrong with a simple cause and effect lesson, and showing that the effect is generally negative in the long term. However, experience and feelings from past trauma (say family alcoholism) make this a taboo subject for many folks. You may have to tread so lightly that the lesson is lost or not worth the aggravation.
Then take Germany. They have guns but in 2011 (only number I could find) 85 shots were fired during the whole year by all cops.
Ah, those mature MIPS routers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18688947
It was primarily trained on portrait shots. So not many samples with groups of people. May change in the future.
You said you are skilled with Machine Learning.

Turns out you probably can help by predicting the impact of independent variables on climate and see by yourself.
Is it possible to turn this system upside down, because really embarrassing smelly SJW shit seems to float on top?

It is annoying to look at the page source to find the voice of reason in the greyed-out areas.
So I installed and use `git open`. How do these applications get to work, prefaced by `git`? Wouldn't `git quick-stats` just invoke `git` with an invalid parameter?
> it's clear that the reasons were to appease corporations and not the community at large.

That's a pretty uncharitable interpretation. The reality is there are companies who want to upstream their changes, but can't given the current license.

It's better for the community as a whole if more people/teams contribute their changes back, and that would be one of the benefits of the relicense.
I'm talking about the patent licences for the ISA, not a specific core. Does the GPLv2 licence for the T1 confer a patent licence? If not, you'd probably need patent licences for the 64-bit ISA from Oracle to market something, AIUI. Whereas I believe 32-bit SPARC is an IEEE standard and royalty-free.
Time, primarily
Somebody has to make a movie about this whole story and entitle it "The Real Wolf of Wall Street"
Must be awful to be an American cop... the gun, the body armour, the training, the radio to call for a SWAT team or an actual tank... and a woman in pyjamas terrifies you so much you have to shoot her https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Justine_Damond
MIPS support is some of the most mature in GCC. The architecture is well understood.
For inspiration of around helping build tools, check out the Air Miners index of 80+ startups working on removing carbon dioxide from the air: http://airminers.org

I helped build it, happy for any questions.
MIPS is involved in this foundation: https://prplfoundation.org/current-members/
Sorry, that's a bit hyperbolic on my part. There's so many old wive's tales out there about how to deal with onions. People try to solve it as though the tears were magical and not caused by (relatively) simple chemical reactions.

If you refrigerate your onions, you might be fine for some amount of time and you'll be lessening damage and it's going to help but not solve it at volume (cut one onion, you're fine. Cut 100, not so much).
What images did you use? Could you give me an example so I can look into this?
Depends on the style, which is why it's worthwhile to look into it. These links might also be interesting:

http://hackeducation.com/archives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvgbvtxYRX4
One Year Ago Today, the FCC Killed the Internet
Wireguard might gain a lot of support (especially corporate) by creating a good windows client.
> The point is no one knows how to price BitCoins and what to base the price on.

That's because bitcoins base price is a very round zero, and the only value associated with them was derived purely from speculation and prescribed prices used in money laundering operations.
People in the 70s didn't all have bariatric surgery, or access to miracle drugs to control hunger hormones. Nor did we all develop some mutation that caused the current obesity epidemic. Clearly something in our environment has changed. Seems to me that it would be simpler to figure out what's changed between now and then, rather than try and invent new drugs. I.e. we need to do root cause analysis rather than flounder for workarounds.

Some have suggested that the carb-heavy government food guide pyramids are to blame. That seems to be a good place to start.
My question is how to brown/caramelize meat with only an induction cooktop?

After I put my chicken, I just see all the water come out and the chicken starts boiling in the pan :(
Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to use RethinkDB in a new project?
It seems dead, but the sharding and change feeds (not to mention the query language) seem tough to replicate elsewhere. Has anyone else considered the same thing? Any good alternatives?
Also, does anyone have a chart of the mentions of "climate change" on HN? I'm curious if it's rising in interest, I have alerts set so I see a lot of it but would be interesting for someone to pull actual data.
I haven't been keeping up on this topic. It's very exciting. If I'm understanding what I've read, this is the furthest of the "dwarf planets" which lie well beyond Pluto. There is a hypothesis that another planet (Planet 9) larger than the earth is out there as well. Planet 9 is what they believe explains some orbital peculiarities shared by these dwarf planets? Is the Planet 9 thought to be even further out than "Farout?"
I immediately noticed an unusual (to my ears) usage of the phrase "down to you" in her article: "it’s not down to you ... it's down to others.". Where I'm from in the states, we usually say "up to you" to mean something isn't one's choice. Is this another odd difference between American and British English?
>If you actually try to use the prediction of MA(3) you will find it is often very hard to use, because it's always just too late. I wonder if the machine learning version had the same problem, or not.

Why does the sensitivity matter when we know that the accuracy was so similar? The point on sensitivity does make me wonder how an exponential moving average would've performed though.
Every system involving money will attract criminals. But a new system that's much better for criminals and much worse for regular people will obviously attract more of the former than of the latter.

Still, I agree with vkou:

> Ransomware authors, heroin dealers and money launderers don't care how much BTC is worth - they only use it to cash out into USD. For them, the spot price is largely irrelevant.

That is, they'll still want to use Bitcoin, just not necessarily care about the spot price. The price is, I believe, driven up by gamblers.
> You can also wear goggles.

Or even just contact lenses. At least for me it eliminates onion tears completely. I had been using them for at least a decade before I started to cook my own proper food, I'll never forget that one time I tried cutting up onions wearing my glasses instead...
Yeah, but to be fair the work to actually enable LTO was very significant (at least as far as we outside the community could see via stuff like the blog post here) and involved a ton of toolchain-specific hackery and work with the clang upstream.

Given that same level of effort (c.f. the article we're discussing) it seems like you could have done as well or better by moving to a more recent gcc instead. Or better, by working with both at coming up with a portable way to get LTO working.

I'm not really concerned with what you use to build (I mean, you have to pick some compiler at the end of the day), just with what seems to be "needlessly tight coupling" between clang/llvm and Firefox in a way that hurts the interoperable toolchain ecosystem.
Yes! an ass-helmet.
> Only when they hit the terminal stage, they seemed to notice that they were doing something wrong

Sadly this is the motivation for a lot of "correct" decisions. It is the first thing I look for when I read a startup pitch, a misunderstanding of where the value is and what the customer perceived risks are for adoption. Too often I've heard entrepreneurs or senior managers say, "But if we did that, this business model wouldn't work." And I patiently point out to them that if they can't get customer engagement with their current business model, it already doesn't work so they need to change something. Typically it is re-think the business model so they can focus on what is valuable to the customer and what isn't.

ARM Holdings can be disrupted by a business model that can keep software coherence high while not requiring an architecture license to add special sauce. That puts more pressure on the foundation/management entity but it trades value (architecture extension) for adoption. The key is partnering with those who would extend the architecture to keep it aligned with key architectural invariants, and when possible allowing really useful extensions to move into the mainstream.
IIRC Iran throttled TLS connections to ridiculously slow rates to discourage their use.
I've come back to this article a number of times over the years whenever I get this feeling: https://www.npr.org/2011/04/18/135508305/the-sad-beautiful-f...

The end provides a decent summary of the article, and how I've tried to think about things since I first read it:

"It's sad, but it's also ... great, really. Imagine if you'd seen everything good, or if you knew about everything good. Imagine if you really got to all the recordings and books and movies you're "supposed to see." Imagine you got through everybody's list, until everything you hadn't read didn't really need reading. That would imply that all the cultural value the world has managed to produce since a glob of primordial ooze first picked up a violin is so tiny and insignificant that a single human being can gobble all of it in one lifetime. That would make us failures, I think.

If "well-read" means "not missing anything," then nobody has a chance. If "well-read" means "making a genuine effort to explore thoughtfully," then yes, we can all be well-read. But what we've seen is always going to be a very small cup dipped out of a very big ocean, and turning your back on the ocean to stare into the cup can't change that."
Apparently that lock down has already started (regarding leaking).
> Cryptocoin speculation will likely be remembered closer to beanie babies or baseball cards as opposed to the dot com bubble etc.

What exactly do you base this idea on? Are you involved in the technology at all? An economics major? Or do you just believe that Mr Noah Smith has the expertise to opine on such a situation.
That's a very cool way to think of it, thanks
Link to this data?
How It's Worked So Far
After the 2007/2008 financial crisis—the worst financial crisis in the history of the US—the S&P500 dropped 54.1% from peak to trough. BTC is currently down over 80% since its peak.

Let's also make sure we understand that the S&P500 (or any stock ownership) is owning _business(es)_. Businesses make money, and they return that money to their owners. Bitcoin is purely speculative and depends on someone else buying it from you, presumably for more than you bought it for. Good luck finding another batch of suckers to fall for this after that last round.
Wanting reliable and fully baked features is natural.

I interpret the parent comment not as diminishing the problem, but just reacting to that notion that calling is the main feature.

I genuinely think that ship has sailed since the iPhone, as every single aspect of pure voice calling got worse.

The first iPhone was so bad it was wise to keep it as a secundary device only. It got better with time, but there is still IMO no phone centric feature that is better than a decent dedicated feature phones.

I say that as someone who hates calling, and I’m still annoyed at how it’s half assed.