skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahhhh, the replication crisis. You know that isn't true in every field, right? Plus, the exact thing we're talking about HAS been replicated. Many times. Talk to a scientist about the replication scientist. Talk to ones in different fields. You'll see different responses. Correlation between the softer and harder. I'll admit particle physics has replication problems, but that's for different reasons (machines) than psychology (lots of reasons). Some fields require what would be equivalent to p values of far far less than 0.05. When we get multiple experiments agreeing when chance of coincidence is one in ten million, we tend to think that's good.

Also you're confounding the experiment. You can't do this just over New York and Montana. You do it over a lot of places. Over many countries. Plus we have other ways to test this. You can look to see if radio waves heat tissue. The fact is cell phone radiation (radio waves) are non-ionizing and unless you turn the power WAY WAY up, it isn't dangerous. Both these methods are well established and we know what we're doing. So after just these two (there's been others) we have two experiments that match our current theory.

I want to repeat that. Experiments are fitting our theory. Not hypothesis. Theory. We've been studying electromagnetism for a long time. We've been studying radio for a long time. The data is matching well established theories.

This is completely different than your jellybean case because that doesn't match any good hypothesis. There's no underlining reasoning for why only a green jellybean causes acne. That doesn't deny the jellybean correlation, but that's all it is at that point. Correlation. Which is different than causation. To graduate to causation (which is actually the thing being pointed out in that xkcd) you need to give reasoning. There are plenty of things that correlate that don't cause. [0] That's where theory comes in. But if you can't establish a good link, then you just have [0] and people laughing at you.

Tldr: go talk to scientists.

tldrr: you aren't smarter than domain experts (in their domain)

tldrrr: don't shout replication crisis when the issue we're talking about has been replicated with similar results with multile well established methods.

[0] https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
I use Medisafe, and interact through notifications, its widget, and watch notification. It gets the job done.

Good luck.
I'm not finding a case for the moral peril of meritocracy in this essay. Whatever the differences between the second versus the first mountain, isn't the ability to climb either of them a kind of merit?

Is cleaning a hospital room to make it clean a form of merit, but cleaning it to calm a fraught parent not merit? Why would that be?

It's not that Brooks is making an inadequate argument against merit, but that I can't find one in there at all.
At some point, David Brooks will presumably stop writing columns of the type whose subtext is explained so well here: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-dont-think-david-brooks-...

(But then it's been four years since that was written and he's still writing them, so maybe not.)
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Finally we're seeing some reason! It seems that not all of humanity is stupid enough to go straight for self-extinction. The problem is, while Norway does this, there are other countries (ahem, the elephant in the room) and multi-national corporations that plan to increase oil production massively in the coming years.
It'd be interesting to analyze the tech IPO pipeline with this perspective...
I heard a good reason why we shouldn't use a programming language for configuration as it can lead to incredibly custom setups that can be crazy difficult to upgrade or for new developers to understand what's going on.
After many years of flossing, and with my (very-conservative) dentist's tentative approval, last year I switched to using small interdental brushes [0] each time I brush, which is more convenient. I rinse the little brushes every time and use new brushes once per week. I use two sizes (fine and wide) because two particular teeth are tightly packed together. At my last checkup my dentist said it was fine to keep using the interdental brushes in lieu of flossing.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00873H7AS (I get nothing from this link; like me, you might need different sizes).
The purpose of CloudFormstion is not to tell AWS how to do something it’s to tell it the end state. How do you propose using a programming language where you can just change a resource and let the system figure out current state -> desired state and decide what needs to be created, updated, deleted, replaced?

But there are CloudFormation Linters.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/itemdetails?itemName=kd...

And there is also the CF editor for Visual Studio.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/toolkit-for-visual-studio/latest...
My bet is simply that Pinterest managed to game Google's algorithm while technically doing nothing wrong, so there's little Google can do other than explicitly blacklist them - which they obviously won't do.
Of course being treated unfairly and as a group sucks, and is generally stupid.

However, when a society maintains such a universal "your IP is up for grabs" approach to business from the smallest fabricator to the top levels of government, and the govt is noticed to have a top level program targeting a region's business, that's not prejudice, it is established fact.

Moreover, getting the word out on such issues is exactly what you advocate; it is a part of the 'spy-vs-spy' people doing their job.

The network of suppliers is extremely extensive, and expecting the CIA to squander time individually contacting every single sub-subcontractor, or even only the set of ITAR-registered producers is silly.

I would go so far as to say that the threat against you even from overt discrimination is less than the threat from our society being undermined by an unopposed attack on its foundations.
Or ditch the stars all together and grade them based on their position in the bell curve of all ratings (and maybe local ratings). So, "this place is rated higher than 83% of AirBnBs in Des Moines (and better than 65% nationally)."

Absent that, my MO is use this formula f(rating) -> (rating - 4) * 10. Basically, focus on what's after the decimal; so a 4.3 translates to a 3/10. The fact that it allows for negative values is a feature.
Fisher's later work on smoking was funded by the tobacco industry.

He was paid not to properly assess anything. (Not to mention, Mr. Fisher enjoyed tobacco himself.)
Sometimes, a capacitor's failure also cause invisible damage to other ICs, it's pretty annoying since some ICs can't just use volt-meter to check if it is still functional.
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Bray writes that: “I think Google has stopped in­dex­ing the old­er parts of the We­b. I think I can prove it. Google’s com­pe­ti­tion is do­ing bet­ter.”

Those who forget the past are doomed...to be marketed to again.

As Vernor Vinge noted (he popularized the notion of "The Singularity") not indexing something basically amounts to erasing it from the awareness of the majority. If you can control the past, you can control how people think about the world. If you can control the past, you can control the present. The ability to quietly erase something from popular consciousness amounts to a huge chunk of power.

There should be a concept like Net Neutrality. Perhaps there should be a search neutrality -- if you're going to index, you need to index everything.
If I can at least see the image I looked for in the Pinterest link, then I wouldn't have hated it as much. However the reality is every Google image search click to Pinterest is wasted time because the actual image is pretty much never there.
I suspect that telesilla knew that and merely missed out the word Electron by mistake (given the post it was a response to mentioning the Electron connection).
Hypersonic flight technology just passed a ‘hugely significant’ milestone
I visited this expecting a tutorial about burning someone in effigy. Imagine my surprise!
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> Symbolic execution is also known as abstract interpretation

These aren't the same thing! They do both use abstraction of concrete values, but abstract interpretation solves for fixpoints in a lattice of abstract values, which is a fairly different process from how symbolic execution works. The answers here go into more detail: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/19708/symbolic-...

One way of digging into abstract interpretation non-theoretically is via this recently open-sourced framework: https://code.fb.com/open-source/sparta/
The capacitor plague was never fully resolved. There are still a lot of attractively cheap but highly unreliable electrolytic caps on the market. Electrolytic caps represent a substantial proportion of the BoM of most commodity products, so there will always be the temptation to take a chance on off-brand caps. Even crappy electrolytic caps tend to outlive the warranty period and most customers are completely unaware of the issue, so there's very little incentive to spend the extra money on quality caps. In more discerning markets (enthusiast PC components, high-end hifi), Japanese electrolytic caps are a meaningful selling point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
The question mark isn't in the article title either, so it seems particularly inappropriate.
I did, which is already reported further down in this thread, and my eyeball estimate was the Norway exceeded Australia per capita by more than a factor of 4. Happy to see more accurate numbers.
A, B, and C have existed in most societies below a certain threshold of per capita wealth, regardless of whether or not polygamy was practiced, so you may as well throw those out. And essentially every single highly developed country with an economy that is not primarily dependent on resource extraction has a long cultural history of enforced monogamy. Correlation != causation and all that, but I sure as hell wouldn't bet on polygamy being a societal arrangement conducive to human flourishing.
Precision. Compare a single missile from a drone to carpet bombing a city. Similar effectiveness in the mission, fewer side effects.
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Hey, author here! Perhaps I'm missing something, but I think pgBadger is just for log analysis, no?

pgBadger is the second component to the tool this article is about. The idea is to replay the original production logs and capture the target clusters logs while you do it. After the benchmark is complete you can pass the logs into pgBadger to understand what happened with the performance, and compare the report to one produced for production.

I hadn't come across nancy before though, this looks cool! For replay of real logs nancy appears to use the original pgreplay (https://github.com/laurenz/pgreplay) so it would have been subject to the same issue that motivated building pgreplay-go, but I bet providing an option to switch between the tools would be quite easy.
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It could be, but, to be grammatical, it would have to be "You want to know how I lost …?" or "How did I lose …?"
imo Russians culturally are way more individualistic which helps in being rebellious which in turn helps with innovation. Mainland Chinese culture is not so much, so an authoritarian government would exacerbate the problem of conformity and group mind
This is not a problem specific to HN demographic, but to anyone using image search. They've successfully managed to destroy its utility.
If you've been conducting manual quality checks at your manufacturing company, you've probably been over-paying for low productivity and poor quality output. The link explains why AI-powered visual inspection is the future of manufacturing.
Yes. On the other hand, other countries with oil have not saved their oil profits, choosing to spend them on a massive military (US) or trivia (Saudi Arabia building fancy cities in the desert).

There are lessons to be learned here, perhaps?
A yearly hardware release is about as "waterfall" as it gets these days.
AirBnB hosts can go to prison.
The primary use case I experience for searching for idiomatic usage patterns is to know how to do a higher level refactoring, meaning I don’t want results that have syntax tree similarity to what I’ve got or even the small bit I start from to create the query. I want the intention of my search query but expressed in a better design.

Separately, for very micro-level idiomatic things, like use of a certain data type operation or efficient constructor patterns, I need to search by natural language descriptions of the subtle differences between options. This is what makes Stack Overflow so helpful, the accompanying natural language description of intentionality or special cases, even if the code that is found isn’t precisely what’s needed, it demonstrates directionally what to do.

This tool seems like yet another example of trying to force machine learning solutions to problems nobody actually has.

Considering the idea that I’d need to integrate this into my coding environment, I’ll say No Thanks!
Less salesy and better design aesthetics would be my advice...
It's not about how much Bitcoin is worth when translated to another currency. It's about how much Bitcoin is worth on its own.

How much is Bitcoin worth without translating it to another currency? Schrute Bucks and Stanley Nickels.
there was nothing inherently wrong with the older "electroshock therapy." in fact it worked quite often than you'd think. but obviously this we have more precise targeting and result metrics now.

Also electroshock therapy ran at much higher currents, while current (hehe) thought is that milliamps as low as 2 over the scalp is enough for therapeutic effects. tho ofc there are those that disagree that 2 mA is enough to penetrate the skull.
I was about to ebay a few thousand in old devices and collectibles. Looks like I am better of selling to a reseller than trying myself. I already have had problems with paypal in their previous incarnations and the bad taste persists.
Dgraph (a graph database) also use Bleve for its full-text search indexing.
Serverless Components keep track of all the resources it creates/updates and their properties locally in the .serverless directory. It also keeps it synced with the actual state of the resource on the provider (in case you've changed them in the console for example)

So if you change the configuration, the component will be able to figure things out.
Capital efficiency is a great point of view. The take that every dollar from a customer is worth 5 is a really good conversation to have with a CEO.

It bucks the trend that showing revenue (and then, showing profit) are liquidation events, not just investment opportunities. So it's not saying much that if you show revenue, you get a chance to liquidate or raise an up round. People have known that forever.

The more valuable perspective here is that many startups deliver products that are copies of stuff that already exists. That's just what VCs fund. So capital efficiency is your special sauce.

It would be nice to have a conversation about where capital efficiencies lie generally in technology. My feeling is that it is still in some sort of user-generated content. This is totally opposite of the trend to fund AI companies, which seek to replace the human being. Seems so much more capital-efficient to get the human being into doing expensive labor for free.

This leads to the most interesting counterpoint to the POV advanced here: capital efficiency is super important, but it's also super boring. Maybe there are investors who want to line up outside your door to do your thing capital efficiently. But the people working for you, especially at the beginning, do not care.

People want to be thought leaders, not penny pinchers.
I always run the fing app to scan the WiFi at any rental I stay at. It's neat to see what all is connected. I assume if someone is smart enough to properly segment the network or enable AP isolation to hide devices, they've put in the time to do it right.

I also run a rental, and that's has lead to a creep in new smart home devices. It came with a smart Lock and thermostat. I added a zwave card to control the lock remotely. Added motion sensors, doors sensors, leak detectors. It is nice to have such things when random people are staying in a place you own. I use a wyze cam in the basement (locked to renters) to monitor for fire alarms and keep and eye on cleaning folks. But would never install a camera while the unit is rented. I do have one in the off season...as the home sits mostly vacant for 6 months.
I work in Seattle and live in Bellevue.

Recently I noticed a simply massive surge in Chinese workers, the last two to four years the FANG companies seem to have pulled in a tremendous number of Chinese labor, or the Chinese have simply had enough money to migrate and liked the real estate situation in Seattle better than Vancouver.

It has gotten to a point here where a significant portion of couples are either Asian Male / White Female or Asian Female / White Male.

The first category is unusual. It used to be that Asian men and white women here didn’t really get together, but now it has become much more common.

The second has been going on for a long time.

While the native US residents are playing this game of Hot or Not on apps and then getting either too old or too far to settle down competitively, the Chinese women who still seem to value white or American men, even the super nerdy ones, are picking up the slack.

My wife is from Taiwan. I remember how incredibly polite and nice she was to me from the moment we met, something I have NEVER experienced from American women. I’m not the best looking dude, but I pull down nearly $400,000 a year.

Other men I know, who have attended Ivy League schools yet are not considered desireable due to their super nerdy personalities, Chinese women seem to find them acceptable while equivalent American women don’t really care.

I don’t have any judgement about what is going on, but one thing I am certain of: Either American women learn to enjoy nerds again or all the babies in Seattle will be mixed, and it seems to be a trend well underway already.
That matchbox "computer" in action, courtesy of Standupmaths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9c-_neaxeU
Transfer is done via DTLS, a protocol on top of UDP, so we have to deal with packet loss and retransmission, which itself is controlled by SCTP.
gfile uses pion/sctp[0] (via pion/webrtc[1]), and there has been some work going on to improve performances. :)

The performances used to be far worse, but with the recent improvements on pion/sctp, I felt gfile had become fast enough to be useful to some people.

[0]: https://github.com/pion/sctp

[1]: https://github.com/pion/webrtc
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> One typically doesn't glue things together with paint

A friend of mine had his house repainted and the contractor farmed it out to some idiots. They painted all of the windows shut. No one noticed until after the paint had dried.

It's as solid a glue as you could want. :-)

(As anyone who's been sloppy and lazy with a can of paint knows.)
Good point; I've added it now, both to the blog post and to the graph:
https://blog.minimum.se/assets/elasticsearch-open-source-com...
Problem is, it might be too late. The time is indeed now, and yet the countries best positioned to make the change (both largest polluters per capita and richest, so able to make the sacrifices) are pretending the problem does not exist, for the sake of short-term profits for a selected elite.

I find this incredibly depressing. Should I teach my daughter to ski? Is it going to be of any use in 20 years?
In George Orwell's 1984, there is a description of a "kaliedescope" machine that remixes plot elements, etc from books to create media for the "proles." Basically, technology is at the point where we can do basically that for news stories. I wonder how far down the road TV shows and comic books could be? (I'm guessing 10 years, to get to the point where the first news synthesis by AI was a few years ago.)
jcastro!

The flaming is the required price for not spending all your time in an echo chamber and for leaving your comfort zone.

And gosh, if you really want flaming, just mention a Code of Conduct. Even a CLA doesn't bring the worst of the dreck out like a CoC does.
> meaning - correct, performant, maintainable, understandable, clever and so on

The only little nit-pick I have here is the use of the word "clever". Maybe you and I define clever differently in a software engineering context, but to me, "clever" is a dirty word in programming.

For me, "clever" means undefined behavior, one-off hack, difficult to parse, shortcut, etc. The difference between "clever" code and "bad" code is that "clever" code is written by someone with a lot of knowledge and experience. Their knowledge and experience has allowed them to work with the undefined/undocumented behavior of languages, libs, etc in order to come up with a solution that has the least lines of code/uses the least memory, etc. Not to say that those things are unworthy metrics, but "clever" code doesn't seem to consider maintainability or stability.

I think a better descriptor to strive for is "elegant", defined in my opinion by code that is beautiful in it's own simplicity, succinctness, reliability, and correctness.
How is that different than any other good where people can arbitrage?
Well, I guess if you‘re in the US it is perfectly reasonable to expect police (even „special tactics“ teams) to just immediately shoot people on the sole base of a phone call and thus all of the responsibility lies on the caller.
Remember kids: Don‘t use emergency services, they might get someone killed.
Samsung had a batch of these too; I suspect it's a combination of iffy suppliers and designing things exactly to the spec. Thermal design feels like it's often glossed over, especially with cables going everywhere and interrupting airflow.

On the other hand, if it's common knowledge that everyone overbuilds for tolerances on capacitors, it's easier to not feel bad about putting 95C electrolytic fluid in a can marked 105C if you "know" that it's common to bump up the rating by some factor when ordering parts.
Amazon has pay on delivery in India, too.
Pinterest's results in Google Image search isn't remotely analogous to littering. It's more like a hoarder who allows tour guides to show off their home.

If you mind pinterest in your google image results, add "-pinterest".
That was the only reason I used edge at all
That project is really cool!

I'm planning to work on the SDP stuff at some point. It works well, but sharing two base64 encoded strings isn't very practical :/
That's always the case for the short-term. I am worried about the long-term consequences though.
I don’t think that was conclusive (they didn’t have free access). Also, often times a first go at anything is typically faulty. It was; however, a reason to put things on hold and be more rigorous and investigate further.

I think mostly it was the establishment (Dems, Repubs, Globalists, etc. m) that wanted Saddam out, no matter what. Only old-style conservatives and leftists and other small constituencies dissented.
This is downvoted because I think people are insane. FB has indeed been pushing for regulation. Your comment is accurate.
You have a trilly in the bank because you were smart enough to save it, instead of spending it.
The actual cost of manufacturing the drug is tiny, so pharma companies have a lot of freedom to price their drugs to target a market segment.
This is great! Is it possible to setup only the backend and have an iOS app as the frontend?
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One of the best youTube science videos ever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWbpyjJqrU
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