skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but when you die is of significance. I bet if you had a curable form of cancer or other illness, you'd want to be cured and live longer instead of dying six months from now. Your argument is nonsense. You'd do anything in your power to get healthcare if it was you. But of course, when it applies to other people, let them die prematurely. That's your idea of freedom? The freedom to die? That's some sick kind of thinking. Of course, as you imply, as long as it's not happening to you, you'd rather let others die even though it doesn't benefit you at all to let them die. Sure we could spend money to help others, but since it doesn't benefit you, this is fascist. I don't think you even understand what freedom is and likely have never experienced it, but you seem to think you will lose it if other people get healthcare. This is exactly the kind of stupid, disgusting, morbid thinking that keeps us from having proper healthcare in the US and exactly why so many people hate conservatives and Republicans in the US. We're tired of being told our lives are not worth saving or living by people who only want to profit off of our misery and death as you seem to advocate here. All in the name of "freedom" something Americans truly know nothing about outside of idiotic slogans, marketing, and propaganda they memorize and recite like broken records. A child could see through the farce that is "freedom" to Americans.
There were many reasons why Hypercard died:

Hypercard was very much a product of it's time. Software was far less complex so it was much easier to create a general purpose development tool for end users. The author argues that attempts to recreate Hypercard try to do too much, that is because users expect more of software today. To give you an idea of what I mean: I used Hypercard to create a cookbook for a family member in the mid-1990's. You could enter recipes, search for recipes, and even export them to HTML. While this would have been an amazing accomplishment a few years earlier, the program was a relic of a bygone era the moment that it was written. Adding useful features, such as uploading those HTML files to a web server, may have been possible but would have required extensions to the language. Plenty of extensions existed, which is how companies like Cyan managed to produce an amazing for the time multimedia game (Myst) on what most people viewed as a stack of programmable black and white index cards. Yet extending Hypercard to reflect the technology of the 1990's would have transformed a product for everyone to an incomprehensible mass for anyone aside from developers. And the 1990's were primitive compared to the 2010's, never mind the coming 2020's.

In a similar vein, people's interests changed. The mid-1990's brought the web, so people were far more interested in developing for the web. The early days of web development were quite accessible, was focused upon content (much as Hypercard was) and allowed people to embed programs within that content (much as Hypercard did). While Hypercard may have been better for some things and certainly provided a better development environment, it was also obsolete.

As much as I loved Hypercard, the reality is that it was neglected rather than buried. It's longevity could have been improved without increasing complexity, such as adding colour or allowing multimedia files to be embedded (without resorting to third-party extensions). On the other hand, it would have died off eventually. The trajectory of web development shows how a once simple and accessible platform can become so complex that it takes a dedicated student to learn.
15 years is on the high side of average, but not an upper limit by any means. 20-year-old Border Collies aren't unheard of, and the world record is nearly 28 years.
Trump is off the left side of the graph where actual ability is epsilon (~0) while perceived ability is 100.
> the D-K effect is about you, much of the time, even if you are expert about some things

It's as much about you and the things you are an expert about as anything else; D-K isn't just a low-ability effect.
And it has been around for over a decade.
Russian eBike goes everywhere, possibly legal
Just a heads up - the US gov't has complete access to your iphone with the fusion centers and such. They do not need to you to unlock your phone.

If you are participating in a protest and are afraid you will end up on a list, just leave your cellphone home and cover your face up. The US gov't are not above using the same tactics as the chinese e.g. going after you where you work and breaking into your home etc.
Most of the sites that index torrents no longer host their own trackers. They stay “once removed” that way I presume.

This tracker started in 2009 and has gone offline twice since, returning from the ashes most recently in 2018.

It runs on opentracker software that anyone can download and run, but it would seem popularity and widespread use make a tracker more useful to the public.

It also bears the brunt of legal issues since it remains high-profile and subject to numerous court cases.
His acknowledgement of the elephant in the room ("... shit soup of HTML/Javascript/CSS...") is prescient for 2011. Today it's even worse. How many versions of lipstick on pig are we to endure (Backbone, Angular, React, Vue..., Bootstrap, less, sass...) before someone actually makes a sane UI development toolkit?

Think of the children.
For a 10-15 years I ran multi-homed BGP for a Internet CO-OP (Zebra) and for a small hosting company (Quagga). They both worked great, and I never had worries about the number of prefixes we were receiving (full table in both cases), because my Linux-based routers had tons of memory and CPU.

My Quagga setup was fantastic! I used linux-ha to do fail over routing, and could do kernel updates and reboots with, as far as I could tell, zero lost packets. I was super happy with those routers!
Cryptocurrencies add value to the economy. At the very least, it is a way for people to hold value into the future and plays a similar role to gold. Other cryptocurrencies can be used to buy/sell stuff.
This was possibly true ~20 tears ago on comp.lang.perl.misc or lkml, but it is certainly not true "on the internet" today, except perhaps in the most marginal of edge cases in places that the eternal september has not destroyed...
It's true for experts (above ~70th percentile) in their area of expertise, too, just in the opposite way as it is true for people below that level.
Honestly, I think the reliability of those packages are not guarded by these people, but rather by the corresponding communities of those packages.

If one of the community failed to secure its package from malicious people, these people at debian are not going to be able to stop it.

Thus, those packages are still guarded by a huge community.
I'm not a researcher, but it seems your logic goes the other way, too: if you walk and your health improves, then there seems to be a positive correlation between health and walking.

And, I think we can control for the health decline. I.e., Stopping exercise because you have cancer vs. stopping because you have broken leg. And even then you can control for changing up the type of exercise. My wife broke her foot last year, and shifted from running 20 miles a week to doing "sit and bit fit" exercise. She actually improved her cardio capacity.

Finally, I think the logical conclusion of your argument is: exercise has no impact (or maybe even a negative impact) on health. Studies and every day experience don't seem to bear this out.
I mean, it generates a lot of output, but "ip ro ls" is WAY faster than "route -n" or "netstat -nr" for some reason.
The translation is wrong. "棲み着く" means "live (in a place) for a long time", so "テトラポットに棲み着いた猫たち" is simply "the cats that have been living in the テトラポット since a long time ago". There is no "arrived" about it.
Another dimension to consider is that some people perform well at some specific things, but not all nonspecific things. And also that performance varies with situation-to-situation and self-perception varies with mood/time.

In reality, DK is an overall impression tendency rather than a strict rule... such is the nature of squishy, fungible social "sciences;" reality is messier than a numeric IQ result.
"Practicality beats purity", and conversions like integer<>floating point are ripe for efficient implementation using a small number of gates. CVT.W.D in MIPS did that decades ago (including setting a condition bit for cases which could not be converted). In a world where, for better or for worse, "how fast it runs javascript" is an important metric, engineers (armed with copious execution traces of real world software) should make a rational choice and find a way to include FJCVTZS in an instruction set next to other more traditional conversions like whatever ARM's equivalent of CVT.W.D is.
Dangers of AI Working Too Well
Sure. Right now I manage a hacker space for way less than the "market rate" for my responsibilities. I am also working as a freelancer on a handful of software projects. Currently all of my employers are non-profits so the pay is lower than in the profit-focused sphere, but the projects are ones I support ideologically and the problems I am solving are interesting to me. In the past I've done work as a handyman and I made a point of not accepting jobs that I felt would stress me out or involve a lot of tedium.
9/10 are failures
> 70% is the bottom of C grade range

70th percentile doesn't correspond to a 70% score, and when it does, it's almost certainly not on a (common, but very far from universal) grading scale where it is true that 70% is the bottom of the C range, just like 50th percentile is very rarely failing, though 50% is in (and not even the top of) the F range on the same scale.

> Honestly I think this can explain a large part of D-K.

It almost certainly doesn't explain any of the high-end part of the effect, and an explanation where the low-end and high-end effects are unrelated coincidences is, while possible, the kind of explanation that a preference for parsimony would prefer avoiding in the absence of evidence demanding separate effects.
The overall statement is a fallacy, correlation does not imply causation. There are plenty of good investment opportunities out there, the truth is that you need to find them yourself. The next big companies in the world are purely in their "unfunded idea" stage.

Also the whole tax reduction statement is mostly an opinion. From what I've seen, most companies are almost purely motivated by the risk-adjusted post-tax profit that can be obtained from the investment. Every idea on the drawing board is effectively evaluated meticulously on this basis. If that number isn't to their liking then the research/project simply never gets funded. The company might opt to simply do share buybacks or pay a higher than normal dividend. Plus the overall argument is mostly junk because the United States heavily reduces taxes for companies that perform R&D through the R&D tax credit.
1: Sounds like they are saying that until the changes to remove the cluster out of the request path, failover cannot be trusted so the only immediate action that can be taken is to disable the automatic failover logic and prevent any live maintenance jobs needing to take it offline from running. Not unreasonable depending on the timeline to implement the changes when comparing the risk of a cluster killing hardware failure (assuming that there is at least a one node tolerance) vs behavior inside of your buy/sell pipeline being "undetermined"; no failover is probably a great way to keep the sprint work priority at the appropriate level.

2. Loadtesting? Accurate end-to-end loadtests are painful to bootstrap from nothing and requires an environment that can be expensive, worth their weight in gold depending on how critical downtime is or if everything in your platform is pulling from the same resource pool(ie appliance based deployment).
An exposed password let a hacker access internal Comodo files
It's a difficult separation for sure. Many of the US states seem like outliers if you look at other nations. The benefit of being part of a nation that has both an extremely high GDP per capita and extreme scale (330m people).

Puerto Rico is an example of this in action. Prior to the hurricane their per capita output was $32,000. Comparable to Italy and South Korea. Yet few would make that comparison, in regards to quality of life, development level, et al. It's of course an artificial inflation, with Puerto Rico getting to ride the US economy.

The second poorest state by output is Arkansas, at $42k. That prompts an odd situation of then comparing Arkansas versus countries with similar per capita output such as Japan, UK, France, New Zealand, etc.

Does Kentucky ($47k) really compare with Finland ($50k)? Or is that mostly the benefit of riding the US output machine. Some states certainly compare better with Finland, such as Massachusetts or Washington for example. Except their output levels are astronomical at $82.5k and $74k.

And all of that naturally opens up questions about Singapore or Australia's output benefit re China. Or Canada's benefit from being next to the US and isolated (versus eg EU nations being near each other and all competing for trade).
Well it's a free tracker for torrents. A tracker is a server that manages the swarm of people sharing a torrent file.

I'm not sure why this is really necessary given the existence of trackerless DHT torrents though. Maybe using a tracker makes it faster somehow?
60 minutes did a news piece on Chaser. It's worth the time to view.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/chaser-smartest-dog-in-world-6...

I've had a couple of dogs as pets in my lifetime and I think they are way smarter than what we give them credit for.
In the UK there is a lot of rhetoric about "the free market".

When prices looked like they were going to drop, the government stepped in with "help to buy".

The free market rhetoric is just that. It's a complete and utter lie.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20536288
Anki is superb for this sort of stuff. It implements a spaced repetition algorithm to keep the added content in your memory while minimizing the number of times that you need to refresh it. While used mostly for studying natural languages, there's nothing wrong with using it for IT stuff (I do).

(Edit: Dropped a bit that was left after some previous culling.)
So the phi number is an eigenvalue?
A peer to peer advertising network
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats' Resignation Letter [pdf]
Fixing iron oxidation is great, my old VW would appreciate it, but I don't see how it helps much... and I'm sure marine coatings have a long history and a lot of technology invested. Wouldn't a systematically-better approach be to do as much local-to-customer, JIT manufacturing and stop shipping finished goods all over the world? If not just for climate-change but for reduced time-to-customer?
(Caveat: Still must ship materials and specialized/complex goods that aren't available locally.)
>Because when you don't grow up with two high earning parents in a nice community odds are you're gong to be exposed to that stuff more and likely even have to adapt some of it to fit in.

Even if you did, racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia, anarcho-capitalism, etc. are very natural or intuitive things to fall into and then advocate.

That's why stupid people often advocate them; they're obvious, knee-jerk, simple explanations of reality. Why is every white country wealthy and every black country poor? Oh, simple: the races are inherently unequal. It takes some wisdom or observed context and thought to climb your way out of them. Oh, environment is actually a major determinant of IQ (insofar as that's an impartial standard). Oh, tropical environments are hell to live in (yet they look so pretty). Oh, there's a rich history of colonial exploitation that I never knew about.

Education helps, but, initially, you come into reality as a machine that tries to solve complicated problems impatiently and heuristically, not as a nuanced encyclopedia of knowledge. Therefore, you will inevitably enter (and perhaps never leave) a phase of boneheaded and harmful beliefs.

Embrace and encourage anonymity/pesudonymity. It's nice to have adults accountable for what they say, but it's misguided to hold kids to the same standard.
I am not sure everyone here knows what "science" means...
First, I should note that I’m speculating without any basis at all here: I don’t have kids nor have I had any relevant formal training. It’s entirely possible this is a wrong approach or simply too nuanced for their ages.

I’d try to frame test as purely information-gathering. There should be neither penalties for low grades nor accolades for high grades (those are for dangerous things and showing initiative). Instead, use the grades to adjust study strategies- are their high grades because of a natural affinity or spending too much time on the subject? Are their low grades from not putting in enough time/effort, not understanding the fundamentals, not finding interest in the subject, etc.
You got down voted by the hamster wheel engineers here.

The reality is there is two types of engineers:

- those how give zero shit about there company or product and use their currtent job as a platform the jump the their next job with zero care given about how it trufly effects the person paying them. (aka we NEED kubrentes, SPA, mircoservices, ect).

- and engineers who care about being REAL engineers... and providing the best technical solutions to the companies issues and/or problems.

One track leads to lead, manager, director, VP, CTO, and the other leads to a dead end bitching how management (aka those who give a fuck about hitting business goals) have more power then the spoiled self centered engineers who are mad the company wont pick the next flavor of the month tech stack to help them into their next job.
Even for percentiles, it makes sense to calibrate to above average: people are rarely ranked on tasks they're not good at.
You kind of have to practice gratitude.

"I'm glad I didn't have any trouble paying the security deposit so I could move."
"Good thing I can afford this dental care I need."
"Isn't it nice that someone will just tow my car for me? When you have the money it's very convenient."
The real issue the Balkanization of JavaScript programs. The `rate-map` package
is essentially one line of code:

start + val * (end - start);

https://github.com/shinnn/rate-map/blob/90c234c9/index.mjs#L...
"Health" is a loosely defined word and there are many goals and metrics. We can definitely study some metrics of "health" and study them with high confidence if the goal is well defined and it can be monitored with fine granularity. For example, if many people exercise and then the blood glucose drops for the next day, we can see its good effect, and probably it's easier to figure out what hormonal mechanism or neural pathway affect them.

If the goal is higher-level health issue, like longevity, it is trickier because of, as you said, many confounding issues. I suspect there would be cyclic causality between exercise and longevity/overall health, and it would be quite difficult to separate the cause and the effect. IMO, maybe the best way is, making educated guess based on the studies with clearer metrics.
Great summary of the suicide literature. This is why it's okay to restrain suicidal people against their will - it's temporary madness most of the time

If your happy but very drunk friend wanted to tapdance on the edge of a tall building, would you restrain them if necessary? Or if someone high on shrooms was trying to drink bleach?

A suicidal mind is often one caught in the temporary throes of delusion and irrationality, even if it comes from internal wiring going haywire instead of external substances.

Preventing someone from killing themselves is in their best interest most of the time for that reason. Suicidal impulses are most often fleeting relative to normal lifespan.
Dual Grid Net: hand mesh vertex regression from single depth maps
US teenager wins $3m as Fortnite world champion
This doesn't really address the point you're replying to, which is that 75K would represent a high or mid-career salary in other fields. I think that's more than a tenured public high school teacher makes in San Francisco or Manhattan.

If you're a journeyman programmer making 175K and you decide you're unlikely to make much more, what field could you move into that would even match your salary, much less offer more room for growth? What would such a programmer be better off doing?
I think you have the wrong idea; riding on national productivity isn't an explanation of why US states and territories with high productivity don't seem to be as prosperous as foreign countries with similar per-capita production.

And that's because it's not the explanation, which probably lies in The difference between income and product, the differences in the distribution in income, and the difference in lifestyle from tying up resources trying to compensate for the reduced security of weaker social safety nets.
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Brazil's indigenous people: Miners kill one in invasion of protected reserve
Yes, anything that requires government action is very hard in practice. But rhetorically, we discount that when talking about whether some government action would be a good idea or not.
Something I like about this is that whatever number you imagine as the greatest number signifying god, your conception is still much lower than Graham’s number. Graham’s number is the terrifying giant that reminds you that the limits of your conception are that of a weak human mind.

No I don’t care to debate technicalities :)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-13/the-black... everything is fine lmao
It's amazing - and yet unsurprising, the more I think of it - to think of how little has changed atl least locally.

Pick a random sentence from something written by Thucydides, 2.5 millennia ago, and (barring the nouns) it's probably a completely usual scenario involving people and/or groups of people.

edit: usual not unusual d'oh
Ask HN: World Internet Conference – Valuable?
I had never heard of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China. We've just been invited with a scholarship, and wondered if anyone had been and what they felt of the experience?
OpenWebTorrent – An open webtorrent tracker project
Similar to Hoover <=> Vacuum Cleaner
hah. my dog will perform the said tricks if food is involved. if no food... it's anyone's guess what's going to happen.
For every lifestyle decision, there are always potential risks and potential benefits.

For example, people who run excessively tend to lose fast-twitch/bulk muscle mass and wear their hips, knees and ankles faster than most people. For example, one of the worst things you could do to your body would be to repeatedly run fast, downhill while letting your feet slap the ground.

And, you're never going to be able to measure all of the pluses and minuses intellectually or quantitively, which is why these choices tend to be primarily qualitatively-based with some quantified-self bits on the margins.
> If you're a journeyman programmer making 175K and you decide you're unlikely to make much more, what field could you move into that would even match your salary, much less offer more room for growth?

Finance and Management (particularly management in technology) are the two potential candidate fields that come to mind.

At least, those are where I've usually heard of people making market tech salaries move into laterally or upward without really unusual circumstances.
As a not-fully-recovered Lisp weenie, I give a lot more slack to other wild-eyed idealists than I used to.

Like, he's not wrong. I also had a HyperCard experience about that age, and it definitely was a significant factor years later.

So he doesn't have an alternative. So what? Do you have one for cancer? It's still worth something to avoid Stockholm Syndrome.
Start a business and/or grind leetcode.
Pro Bono tool to analyze location history and prevent wagetheft