skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Perhaps I went through the wrong door, but runestone heaving me straight into probability mathematics and other seemingly saturated problems seemed an unwelcoming intro. I perceived it as a pretty juicy carrot on a long, heavy stick and bailed out.
Its an offence against the Geneva convention, NATO militaries are worried they will be accused of war crimes if they introduce bullets that could be considered dum dums
why isnt it used more widely? because it's cheaper to just suck water out of the ground?
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I don't know why taxes should also not be disclosed as part of the advertised price. I've heard the "there are so many regions and rules, it's a burden" argument. It doesn't seem to be a huge burden on the company to collect the tax, so why is it a burden to include it in the price?
Good luck insuring a car registered to an out of state LLC without lying to your insurance company.
Rail, at the utilization rate that is observed in the real world in the US, is actually less efficient than a 2-passenger automobile, per passenger-mile.

Note that average real-world occupancy rates of vehicles is 1.5, so that is not to say that rail is more efficient than automobiles. But merely 33% more efficient per passenger-mile than automobiles at the current fleet mpg of 25mpg, which to me was very surprising.

At 60mpg and above (EVs in particular) the automobile at existing occupancy rates is more efficient than rail per passenger-mile.

Part of the challenge with rail efficiency is that it's a fixed point-to-point transit and not a dynamic door-to-door transit. So getting from Point A to Point B has significant wasted overhead distance traveled.

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that's different. Those are nice but there's a company called ZealPC that makes a few different models of switches. They don't have to be purchased from his site directly, there are a few other places that have them.

Healios is the name for their silenced linear switch. Its the quietest and smoothest linear switch I've ever tried. They are about $1.50 a switch though, mx's are like a quarter and Box Jades are about 35 cents. IMO they are worth it but some people try MX silenced reds and like them better at a fraction of the cost.

I bought a switch tester with 25 different switches that I thought I might like and then used it to decide what to get.

Healios is sold out on the company site right now but the 67g version of these (roselios) is identical IIRC. I have a mix of both on my keyboard. These were just done with a different color plastic stem for a charity event: https://zealpc.net/collections/switches/products/roselios_sa...

There are other places that likely have healios in stock.
> they feel the DNS provider is both faster and more secure.

'Feel' being the keyword. Faster, generally yes. More secure, not well defined and users are generally wrong.

> nefarious intention

I don't believe I've heard any complaints of nefarious intent.

But let's be clear, this advantages Cloudflare over other CDNs. That they treat the DNS data very well does not mean they won't have an incident. As well, they are more of a target due to the concentration.

> Until Cloudflare are proven to be nefarious actors,

Nefarious wrt whom? For end-users taken individually, I agree, I don't see and it's hard for me to imagine mal intent.

But IMHO they are bad for the Internet. I mean, more power to them and were I a leader there I'd press the same agenda, but as a 3rd party, the way I see it is that in 10 years they are going to be an anti-power much like Google is. Addiction to their services will allow them to trample over what's good for all.

What I dislike most about them is that they promote themselves as purely a force for good. Except for a few PMs and execs I'm 100% sure they believe it. But it's a disservice to never discuss the negative aspects of any of their services. And woe to anyone who does.

As for proven nefarious deeds, do you not consider "banning" sites from using CF nefarious? What if they take it to the next step now, and stop providing DNS for those sites? Given their stated reason for bans, yes it could happen. Why must you wait until they prove to be nefarious? The concentration of power per se is a bad thing.
It's really a question of scale. Would you be as okay with the government's ability to do this if they could flip a switch and suddenly do it for all of a person's mail immediately and without detection?

What about making that system available to anyone, irrevocably, who managed to get access to that system at one point? And would you put penalties in place for people who, when their mail is opened, are found to be using a cypher of their own? Is it illegal now to speak in code at all?
I’d say it’s more about status signalling, even if it’s kept within that small group of keyboard aficionados.
If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's not your place to tell other people how to live. If they want to spend their days watching football, instead of learning math or computers: it is their decision to make. A lot of those people won't care that you are more successful than them. They're content with just watching football: it's what they're choosing to do, after all.
I cancelled my cable back in 2008 and while I agree with some of your points, the industry didn't evolve into the thing I envisioned when I did it.

> - No ads

Not really, Hulu still has ads for the TV stuff, even if you're on Hulu plus. But yeah, overall, way WAY less ads. For now. But I foresee this is more of a capture strategy. After most of us cancel cable, I think we're gonna see a lot of ads on streaming services. Greed is good. In the meantime, product placement galore. Stranger Things was IMO disgusting from this perspective. Ads just moved from interrupting you to basically taking over the shows.

> - You can watch on demand

I agree, this is indeed a good thing

> - Orders of magnitude more choice in what to watch

Yes, but no. Most streaming services have a lot of filler. A lot of garbage is counted against the 'we have a 10k catalog of movies' but in the end, you have a lot of choice, between a douche and a whole bunch of turds.

> - Writers have a lot more flexibility. They don't have to be advertiser friendly.

Nope, nope, nope. Yes from the show's structure perspective, but in general, It's the exact opposite. Now, they have to write in way more product placement pieces.

> - Writers don't have to write cliffhangers every N minutes so you come back after the ad break.
- Writers don't have to worry about sequence like they did with TV/Cable, because they know you'll be able to watch the show in order. Meaning that their worlds and characters can change and have real consequence.

While it's true writers don't have the same problems, they have different problems. Now they have to pander to specific user-research needs, they need to create season-wide cliffhangers and because they know you'll watch the show in order, there's way less shit they can get away with.
"it was supporting what they wanted"

Yeah, because the FCC and "Broadband for America" are only separate in theory. When you have the industry controlling the FCC to this point, the only difference between psyops and marketing is who's footing the bill.

You're technically right base upon a very literal definition of psyops, but missing the whole point.
Just for the record, it's MastOdon, not MastAdon :) It seems to be a common mistake.
He must have misread legacy as legendary.
Some of David Bohm's ideas are best understood in the context of the philosophy of Jiddu Krishnamurti, who David Bohm was great friends with.

Krishnamurti's "philosophy", if you could call it that, doesn't quite lend itself to being summed up in a handful of sentences, but at the crux were the ideas of thinking for oneself (as opposed to being a "second hand person"), trying to catalyze psychological change through dialogue, and denying the distinction between the "observer" and the "observed". The latter, despite sounding abstract, was of great importance to David Bohm since the field of physics was heading in that direction; that is to say that Bohm saw a connection between Krishnamurti's "philosophy" and discoveries/new theories being advanced in physics more concretely.

There's dozens of videos on youtube, etc of Bohm and Krishnamurti engaging in dialogues that basically were "Bohm Dialogues", for anyone who's curious.

The last point is while the idea of the "Bohm Dialogue" is very "obvious", it's rare to see it properly executed in "normal" conversation; most people are so tied to their preconceptions that they can't ever actually hear the words you're saying as you mean them.
Well, given the subject here, it seems relevant to ask how everyone is organizing their libraries in Calibre. Is there such a thing as "best practices"? Would really love to hear ideas as I've found library mgmt in Calibre to be cumbersome, sluggish, and rather none intuitive compared to something like Plex for movies & TV shows.
How's that surprising? That's simply the result of unbundling the cost of the equipment rental from the cost of the service. If it was offered for "free", it'd be simply be rolled into the overall price. Theoretically this is good for consumers, who now have a choice of paying for it up front, paying it over time on their monthly bill, or using their own.
The accusation of slant drilling was not proven in the slightest, and it's a misrepresentation to state it as a fact (Iraq itself is the only source which stood by that accusation).

I'm not saying it's impossible that it was true, but it is not a known fact like you represented it.
See also (as a rebuttal): "Flash Boys: Not So Fast"
Comcast have a large monopoly here, I only have one choice of high speed internet provider. They charge me $110/month. This gets me hundreds of TV channels and HBO, which I don't want and I have never used. If I buy the "internet only" package, they downgrade from 100Mbps down to 5Mbps.

Comcast + Verizon are essentially a criminal cartel.
No it's rare, if it exists anywhere at all. (Other than via a distant grid connection)
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amazon has them too but I don't want to keep posting links to stores like I have been because I don't know if it violates the rules and I'm certainly not trying to sell anything.

search box jade switches and you should get something.
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This is the site that made me believe that the "unit" of human society is the neighborhood.

('"Atom" is the smallest amount of a phenomenon that evinces all of its properties.' G. I. Gurdjieff)
Nevermind that many vehicles are way easier to ECU program than actually buying a new $1000 unit. Some can simply use a $100 programmer that comes with built in programs for multiple cars!
> This is where your local homegrown provider gets to save significant $$$$

You've got it wrong. Netflix saves significant $$$ by not paying the provider for unthrottled transit. Your mental model is not how it works in practice these days.
End to end encryption allows for the ends to exchange information without fear of the intermediaries leaking the information to others.

Even if it weren't connected to your identity, you may send pictures you wouldn't want seen by anyone you didn't send them to.

You wouldn't want to send forbidden thoughts if your local government was known to repress them. A government could certainly track down your multiple identities and jail you.

I'm more likely to be harmed by government corruption or poor security practices of a messaging service than by terrorism; I would rather be safe from the first two, than maybe have slightly less of the third.
I disagree. I think the potential for a couple of people working in a garage to do something with serious impact is as great, or greater, than it has ever been.

There are, and always have been, things that are incredibly capital-intensive, of course, but economics change and things that once required multiple millions of dollars are now affordable by normal people. This was true in the past as well -- those couple of guys working in a garage couldn't have done it a decade or two earlier when the costs of such electronics were stratospheric.

Things that are costly now, such as quantum computing, will very likely follow the exact same trajectory.
This article isn’t very good or informative. Many, maybe even most, of these “black-box” strstegies are derivarive of work done over 40s years ago at Chicago. Certainly there are a few firms doing truly innovative work such as RenTec or 2 Sigma. But a lot are like AQR: just using publically available academic knowledge but doing it better than everyone else.

Also I think this article is overstating the prevalence of quant strategies and funds. At my old portfolio analytics firm, we had hundreds of hedge fund clients and not a single one was doing fully automated trades. Of course they had optimization engines and tech to squeeze a few bips here and there, but the fundamental ideas were still generated the old fashion way (through sleep deprived analysts).
Offhand, how do you take care of other uses of water? It looks like flushing a toilet takes about 4L of water, so it seems like that would use up an entire bad day.
> Before there were cars there were horses

There was never a time where the average city dweller had a horse, let alone two or three. In 1915, there were est. 20M horses in the US, for ~100M people. There are way more motor vehicles per person nowadays.
As someone in the industry, you're also unavoidably biased. This isn't snark or accusation, just a factual observation.
From the article

“But it’s probably too soon to add broad spectrum antifungals, many of which have lots of side effects, to cancer treatment regimens, even in experimental settings.”
There's another issue at play here that's tightly connected to this one. Underpowered studies. Here's the process. I look elsewhere (e.g. similar studies) to make an educated guess about the size of effect I'm going to look for. Let's say I land on 2 units. Then I ask how many samples I need to detect a 2 unit effect with some low false positive procedure. I want to detect my 2 unit effect with high probability if it's there.

So you end up with three numbers. The probability you find something given that there's nothing, often 5%. The probability you find nothing given that there's something (something being a 2 unit effect), often 20%. The size of effect you're using in these calculations (2 units).

The smaller effect size you're looking for, the more data you need. The lower error rates you're looking to get, the more data you need. So you make sacrifices and accept higher error rates. You make optimistic effect size estimates (making your true error rates even higher).

Using p < 5% as a positive result publishing threshold is bad enough. Using power > 80% as a negative result publishing threshold is even crazier. That's a 20% error rate for publishing negatives. Higher if you used optimistic effect estimates.

What this all means is yes we should publish negatives, but a negative worth listening to is going to be expensive. In a bayesian sense, it's the difference between me spending little money to learn that the effect of coffee on mood is probably between -1 and 1 (a bad negative result) vs spending a lot of money to learn that it's probably between -0.001 and 0.001 (a more useful negative result).
Back in the day, cable companies allowed you to use their equipment for free to use their services. About 10-15 years ago, they realized that they could charge for it.
> There is definitely a culture of anti-intellectualism and escapism among the poor in the US (my background).

One likely way to parse that is as a generalization of all poor people, which I think is inaccurate and harmful.
I've used Robert's rules in a political context. Since we believe in rule by the majority (democracy) majoritarian rule is fine. Consensus cannot always be built and some people will lose a given fight. However, Robert's rules are so easy to game that it's easy for people skilled at them to use procedural tactics to gum up the works or blindside less skilled participants.
One of the things with using commercially-licensed components like this in your stack is that is greatly increases complexity.

You have to worry about counting instances vs licenses. This might sound trivial, but months down the road, are you still remembering to go through and check which licenses are affected anytime you make a change to the number of instances you're running? Can you spin up another instance or two to handle a load burst, or does that violate your license terms and/or require a purchase order go through finance first? What about dev/staging/testing stacks? Can you spin up a replacement for your production in a blue-green deployment and flip, or do you require 2x licenses?

If the license is enforced technically (eg, a license file) then you have to also have that as part of your deployment, but also make sure you secure it. In the worst case if the license is unique per instance, that pretty much precludes use in modern "cloud" environments.

What guarantee is there the cost won't go up 10x come renewal time next year? If it does, what does it take to replace the component? As others have pointed out, you also have to go through purchasing and maybe convince someone(s) that this purchase is necessary, etc.

This is all extra cost (time) and pain that really doesn't exist with using OSS -- and brings it far above whatever the list price is (even if it's "only" $25/node).

Also, from a developer perspective, none of these problems are fun or interesting to spend time on. Even if it has some feature that's missing in the OSS equivalent, I'd way rather spend my time building out a missing feature than doing licensing paperwork.
Such a fascinating take. When I was young I used to think that scientists and the scientific process were perfectly objective. As you get older you learn that human beings have human being problems. Those don't magically disappear once you become a scientist.

You see this even in highly objective fields such as physics, where much progress comes from the previous generation simply dying.

Our own ego's, as well as the factors mentioned in the article, create problems much more than you might expect when you're young and naive.
Throwing this on agile seems like a stretch. Kind of reminds me of the recent article about Commoditised Excellence. As soon as you slap a name on something, people will use it willy-nilly everywhere and then blame you.
It sounds like the author studied medicine in German.

In German, "ophthalmologist" is "Augenarzt", which is literally "eye doctor" (Auge: "eye" + Ärztin: "doctor").
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> especially within MySQL (and I haven't worked in Oracle so maybe there too) the query planner is a bit dumb, so sometime you really need to help it along.

Yeah, I've seen it as well last year when working with MariaDB (but I'd guess that MySQL might be a bit more clever as maybe Oracle might have improved it a bit).
I think this must be show-dependent. I, too, pay for the ad-free tier, and the most ad-like thing I've seen is a 2- or 3-second Family Guy is returning on <date> and a FOX logo interstitial at the start of streaming an episode of Family Guy. Can't recall seeing anything else across a number of shows.
The problem would go away if Apple got off their lazy lock-in ass and allowed U2F like everyone else.
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Was it a successful surgery? Which temporal lobe was it on?
that book is garbage
> I'm not surprised it hasn't been forked, although I'm a little surprised it hasn't been replaced.

Shouldn't be all that surprising. Things are harder than people think, and only a few people are willing to stake actual skin in the game instead of just complain.

Also, Calibre is already a niche tool. All of my friends/family have a Kindle, they all use Amazon's default send-the-kindle feature, and none of them probably even know how to get the physical ebook file out of the Amazon system nor care.

And ebook file management just isn't a very sexy problem to solve beyond a proof of concept weekendware effort. Surely most people aren't spending much time in Calibre anyways. I know I just use it intermittently to load the next 10 books onto my ereader. It's not a part of my life I'm very passionate about changing.
My parents pay Comcast $219/month for cable TV (with HBO/Showtime/Netflix) + internet + landline. I've told them multiple times that this seems outrageously high but they're remarkably blasé about it.