skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It's not a pyramid, it's an upward funnel!
I'd love to hear from managers and others who saw compensation increases from having their meeting calenders arificially full, and not from what that managers got from those meetings.

Has anyone ever promoted a manager because they have so many meetings?
Military consumption pales in comparison to civilian consumption though. I can see most large armed forces being OK with using whatever Oil and Gas is produced domestically. Smaller nations without access to oil have a problem, but they probably have smaller armed forces too.
Your argument is incorrect as pointed out by dropin685 earlier. Additional weight by itself does not waste energy. It does require more power to accelerate. The extra power is turned into higher kinetic energy for the same cruising speed. However kinetic energy is not waste. It can be recovered during deacceleration. It's the lack of regeneration that causes ICE powered vehicles to waste energy, which doesn't apply to EVs with regeneration capabilities.
Heck, even a turing machine could solve most of these problems.
Very clickbaity title. Suggest a change to: "Rare genetic mutation protects this woman from dementia", or something more descriptive.
I'd like to remind those who say that socialism/communism "wasn't so bad", that this was a mere 4 years after the socialist revolution. _Before_ the revolution it wasn't uncommon for folks to move from the US or Western Europe to Russia in search of a job, from which I conclude things were all right. I'll be downvoted for this, but I don't care. If you want communism in the US, I suggest you read some of the historical accounts from a hundred years ago, and consider that just 4 years after you "win" this could happen here. And you, dear bourgeois, will be the first one to appear in front of the firing squad, no matter how woke you are. The rich will flee (like they did in 1917 or shortly before), the poor will be doing the firing, the middle class will be stripped of its property and slaughtered en masse as "counterrevolutionaries". The stripped property will then be promptly run into the ground by people who can't own it and therefore don't give a shit. This has happened in every single case thus far.
Sorry, I probably shouldn't have mentioned Tesla since it tends to provoke needless reaction.

However:

1. A geeky acquantance bought a Tesla X in New Zealand. I think it cost $200000. To me, that price implies a large amount of embedded energy. He felt he was helping the world, but by my calculations it wasn't.

2. In New Zealand a large amount of our power comes from hydroelectricity, so electric car owners are often smug. But every marginal extra kWh consumed comes from gas, so electric cars here indirectly use hydrocarbons (that's because virtually 100% of our hydro is already allocated). There are arguments about efficiency, but those arguments are hollow for expensive cars, or for low kilometres.

3. The electric car industry would have happened even without Tesla. They rightly claim some speedup of the market, which implies some gains (if we are careful to ensure electric cars don't cause more CO₂ than other transport options through other side effects). I don't see buyers being careful about finding real facts, and sellers don't really care to give them, so it is hard to know where the truth lies.

4. We import a lot of used cars from Japan, something like a second-hand Prius will usually be far better for the environment for most people than a Tesla IMHO. Obviously non-car choices, or to offset the CO₂ might be better still.
Nietzche said something along the lines that we get the rights we fight for, and we will lose those we stop caring about. Are you willing to die for your right to, for example, filter?

At some point the pile of rights will start conflicting each other and will also start becoming too costly to enforce. Sorry for being overly cynical but I stay hopeful that in the near future code literacy will be as common as alphabet literacy thus allowing anyone to circumvent these trespasses.

Edit: I would expand the right to filter to include the right to sort. I was thinking about it earlier today when searching for what used to be a popular post on Reddit. I thought I'd find it by sorting by all-time top but the number of members community had grown considerably since that post was submitted there, making what used to be a very popular post actually insignificant. If I would've been able to sort I would've been able to normalize the votes count so that it is relative to the number of members in the community at the time of submission.
edflsafoiewq's answer is good, but they didn't really mention functors. If you want an umbrella to put functors under, I'd say "higher order structure". It's a map between structures that respects structure.
They're both on a spectrum.

Medical school faculty, especially in soft-money positions, might never set foot in a classroom. Some of them will even have labs that are almost entirely postdocs and technicians. This doesn't seem wildly different from a research institute to me. If anything, the funding is probably less stable too, since you're on your own.
They'd be quite different because the 8% who are together would tend to have a cabal of connectedness.
It typically is unless you're comparing it to an efficient hybrid vehicle in certain areas. I did some napkin math based on a claim that a 75kWh battery takes 13 kg tons* C02 to produce, and found in my area a Tesla Model 3 getting ~58mpg equivalent to charge has a similar CO2 output as a 44mpg vehicle over 200k miles

I'd say the Tesla still wins since you can likely recycle that 75kWh pack for energy storage afterwards, but it was interesting to see
The problem is: the Tether-USD pairing, which is the one that is supposed to always be at 1:1, is really exotic on exchanges. The only major one coming to my mind is Kraken, and even there the volume on the pair is anemic compared to the Tether market cap.

Or at least it was this way last time I was really active in cryptos, which I‘m not really at the moment. But a quick scan of Coinmarketcap didn’t really indicate that this has changed.
I have the most awesome alarm clock. It has an LED display, a radio, and it plugs into the wall for power. It has a knob for tuning the radio and a small slide switch for adjusting its band. It has assorted other affordances on its outside that I will skip over.

The best features are the following: It has a battery-backed time-keeping chip which means it has never needed to have the time reset due to any loss of power to its main power supply. It has a piezo alarm that will sound if the main power is out and the alarm is on and triggered.

It also has a slide switch labeled "DST -on DST -off" so in theory I would never have to +/- the time EVER once it was on the right time zone.

I found it in a outlet-style store when I was looking for a WWV clock and this clock answers all my clock needs without needing WiFi, Bluetooth, any other antenna (for AM/FM radio it might be using the power cord, but I don't need that). It doesn't need to be told a password and I don't need to set up an account.

I think it was marked down to $10 when I bought it.
> but Russian troll farms used Sanders to divide the left on social media websites.

Weird, IMHO Hillary and the Democrat party really seemed to be the one's doing the dividing.
> The brand comes to life in the context of people, cultures, communities and relationships.

What does this even mean? What kind of human could even write such a sentence?
I would assume that most companies have a physical location somewhere and it wouldn't be difficult to track the number of employees that regularly report on-site.
Oh yeah, it's miracle the USA didn't accidentally nuke itself. There are a lot of scary stories out there.

However, I dont think that necessarily means nukes are taken less seriously than zero-days.
Ran into something similar with a resistance band workout system. To access the how to use videos, you must sign up for an account. To sign up for an account, they must verify your phone number via SMS. Why on Earth does a set of resistance bands need your contact information? I sent the whole thing back. Maybe if companies start hurting due to restocking costs, they'll stop.
It's interesting though how very well meaning utopian policies

The largest tragedy of the 21st century is that people still think these policies and these people were 'well-meaning' or 'it just went a bit wrong'. It seems that only when we defeat murderous totalitarians militarily that we understand them for what they are.
Compiler explorer actually supports running the binary now!
My assertion is that "tech companies can choose the winners of the election" is an extremely over-exaggerated statement that holds no basis in reality. Some of the most powerful people in tech industry openly sided with and assisted DNC, and yet they lost the election. Yes, they sold ads to both sides, but the level of support (direct and indirect) that DNC received from big tech was incomparable to that of the Republican party.
As far as the wording goes; it doesn't suggest that platform owners have a right to filter content. It suggests that other users (and communities) have a right to filter content.

Though, that right of platform owners to moderate content still feels valid, and I believe this is relatively easy to reconcile. If you believe in this manifesto, then you should draw the conclusion that Platform Owners cannot coexist with it. Companies like Twitter, Facebook, etc; they simply cannot exist in a world where these rights of individuals are respected. Fundamentally, they have to ignore some of these rights in their effort to police and keep control of their platforms.

If you look at something like Mastodon, the situation becomes clearer. There are "platform owners" but they do not control the entire network. They only control that server, and thus the community on that server, yet the servers are still capable of communicating with one another. Reddit is also kind of like this; not to the same degree, but the same idea of "sharded, opt-in moderation" applies (though obviously they do global moderation as well).

Also, tangentially related: Company's rights should never supersede People's rights.
> All of a sudden the political subs were... reasonable.

Yeah... no. It went full "Not My President" overnight.

Hell, not even overnight. It went full "Not My President" that very night.

And if you think that's bad, had to deal with brass at work (fintech) proclaiming that we needed to spend an insane amount of capital in preparation for the record trade volume we would need to process because the markets were going to collapse.
I expect part of the reason is utility vs cost of ownership. You can commute in a pickup but you can't move an apartment in a Prius (well not in one trip :-).

If you look at the marginal cost of a second vehicle[1] it is quite high. Thus you may be limited to owning exactly one vehicle, and that vehicle is going to consume a chunk of your income (insurance/gas/maintenance). In that scenario the most financially prudent choice can seem to be a truck over another choice. Towing things is another aspect, if you vacation a lot by camping rather than staying in hotels it costs less per day to camp/hike then to spend it at a resort somewhere. Or boating/fishing, same calculus.

[1] Things like parking, insurance, inspection/license fees, maintenance all add up. And the opportunity cost of that capital tied up in a car loan vs doing something else.
Microsoft Announces Azure Quantum
Yet another exception to an incurable disease. This happens all the time.
I was approved a couple of weeks ago and encouraged people donating to Tildes to move over to using GitHub Sponsors (https://tild.es/it2), which has gone pretty well so far, with about half of my recurring donators using it now: https://github.com/sponsors/Deimos

As explained in the linked post, for anyone that can use GitHub Sponsors, it will be the best available method for receiving donations/support right now, since they're not charging any fees at all, which means the recipient gets about 10% more than they would through Patreon. The $5000 USD matching for the first year is also amazing for smaller projects like mine where that can represent a significant chunk of donations.

My only real complaint so far is that the contribution-matching excludes some supporters in unclear ways. It seems like GitHub doesn't want to match contributions from (some?) new GitHub accounts due to potential abuse, but that's a little annoying for projects like mine where the target audience isn't exclusively developers and some people will be signing up for GitHub solely to donate. There also isn't any indication on my end for which contributions are being matched or not, so it's not possible to figure out exactly what my current monthly income from GitHub is.

It's not a big deal overall since it's still the best donation method even without matching, but it would be nice if they could try to make the fraud checks based on conditions outside of the GitHub account, like making sure that the accounts aren't using the same credit card as other contributors. It's been a little disappointing for some of my users to see that their contributions won't be matched.

I have some other minor complaints about a few aspects (e.g. forced tiers), but the main other issue is that everything is tied to individuals vs. organizations. There's no way to sponsor an organization/project, or sponsor as an organization. It sounds like they're working on that though, so hopefully that will be available before too long.
Tether promised a guaranteed 1:1 exchange rate with USD. That guarantee no longer exists, even though the rate is still ~1:1 Tether has no way to enforce that. If it's value tanks there is nothing they can do.
It's an American story as old as boomers!
These machines are literally supercomputers but they still struggle to perform common basic operations without delay even though much slower computers could manage a tolerable UX 20 years ago.
Some people just want a truck because they like them.

Whether or not the need them or make full use of them is another story, but that's not criteria for making the purchase.
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The only reason I like writing tests before code-complete is that I feel less likely to write my tests to the code. But really, that just amounts to defining the functionality of the app beforehand, but by way of unit/system tests rather than some design document.
If a party did that in a country where voters respond appropriately to this kind of thing, that political party would be wiped out for a generation.

If a party manages to dupe people into thinking their populist cause is important enough to see past the use of troll factories for message control, then that I think says a lot about the health of a democracy. I can imagine this happening in Poland, Hungary or perhaps even Italy, but not in that many places in the EU apart from those.
If you have a third party controlled voice device online in your home that controls anything other than the lights and what music to play, you're a fool who deserves what you get.

No consumer IOT device is secure enough to totally control either your safety or security, period.
> I think you’re trivializing the difficulty in categorizing the low quality, and extremely brief, comments of social media. Go look at a political subreddit, or some controversial tweet. There’s little conversation or context. Most users could be bots.

Never mind Google, most people are unable to recognize when they are behaving in a bot-like manner themselves...and if you point it out to them, in my experience 90%+ of the time they will become hostile and double down on their clearly not correct statements.

EDIT: Which is often reflected in willingness to entertain or debate ideas, as well as voting patterns. But alas, it seems I am done on HN for the day, due to "posting too fast".
The IRS has granted nonprofit status to a daily newspaper
from what author is writing, he present his understanding of TDD as being "writing ALL the test before the implementation."
And that would indeed be crazy. But TDD is not that. And again the author doesn't want to write unit test at the end of his project because he would have to "split the project into unit".
Should your code be written using good practices you will be able to test it without having to split anything. Not being able to unit-test your code is a proof of bad design.
Damn you guys, you killed my box. I'll reboot it later tonight. :P
> Without either DoT or DoH, you are basically forced to validate DNSSEC on every Client, which seems like a waste.

Part of Vixie's talk was about the changing nature/position of the recursive resolver: when he started DNS stuff in 1988, it was often the case that there was a resolver right on the subnet that you were on, often living on the default gateway.

As time has gone on, it started moving "up" closer to the cloud (as we now call it): to being building-wide, then to the campus, and now generally the ISP. (Though local CPE routers have a caching resolver nowadays, they often go to the ISP's service.)

Now we're talking about having DNS 'in the cloud' (i.e., Internet) from some distant provider, often close (network/latency-wise) to the service that we will eventually connecting to once we get the look-up from.
> While it may be frustrating for some

From my point of view, it's not a "frustration" issue, it's a privacy/security issue.
I realise I left a “not” out of this sentence. Meaning we ended up in a situation in which everyone thought they were supporting the merits of peer review. Win some, cause an almighty wreck some.
The Russian troll factory meme must not be playing very well anymore!
as soon as he buys them he can do whatever he wants, he just cant imply that he works for krispy kreme or is part of the distribution network. if KK doesnt want to sell in an area that wants KKs thats thier problem. people are allowed to grocery shop by proxy and operate delivery services of many types. it would probably help his case if he was taking delivery orders for other things such as bottled water, or energy drinks, and jack links as well.
I keep seeing complaints from devs about the prices of MacBooks. One has to wonder, aren’t devs paid enough these days to not care about the extra few hundred dollars every few years?
It's a 68EC030.
> But the idea that from the 70s to 2000s you could have systematically used wind and solar to replace fossil fuels is nonsense.

I didn't say anything like that! What I meant is that the sustained technology development effort you called for actually happened for other energy-generating technologies, starting on the date you suggested. The result is that costs fell by several orders of magnitude, and also that it makes sense to widely deploy them now.
The only way is if we remember our history and learn from it.
> " what about 2013 when bitcoin went from $100 to $1000 in the end of the year? Or 2016 when it went from $200 to $600?"

Are we obliged to believe that each of these independent events must have had an identical trigger?
It was definitely a case of leaking sensitive info to an on-line "troll", who then published it via Twitter and got this re-tweeted by shady followers, but in this particular case it was not a farm (as in trolling as a service), it was an individual with personal connections to some of the Ministry of Justice officials.
No famines were ever caused by western capitalist powers in any of their colonies or vassal states.
The minimum required ballast probably wouldn't make any difference at all. We're talking about a V8 with tons of torque and horsepower.
The Do’s and Dont’s of Chrome’s Incognito Mode
In version 1809 there was a dark pattern that misled people installing Windows into thinking it was not an option.
There are heaps of them, no doubt. It's actually protected by a reverse proxy firewall. The machine does serve the requests, but the reverse proxy drops ill-formed ones.
Agreed. My washer and dryer are close to 20 years old. They each have a few buttons, and the 'computers' are mostly mechanical (think egg timer). I'm dreading when they break because anytime I have looked for simple, basic models like I have they no longer seem to exist.
I’m just a user and o have no visibility in the internal code (I can’t code in Haskell).

What I feel, as a user, is that most features that I use are already implemented and unlikely to bit rot, since PostgreSQL itself doesn’t change a lot.
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The relatively straightforward concept of the model is great for comparing drugs' relative effectiveness. The ICER number of $150k/QALY is wildly out of line though and will bankrupt us.

1. The $150k/QALY covers only the cost of the drug, not the cost of the physician to prescribe it.

2. The $150k/QALY pricing is based on the manufacturer's hand-picked population of patients and indications, which may benefit more from the drug than the average patient it's actually prescribed for.

3. U.S. per-capita GDP is $60k. One's person's life being extended by one year consumes the entire income of 2.5 people.

4. There is an implicit assumption that drug companies are entitled to be paid by government, the entire value that their products provide. In normal competitive markets, there is a producer surplus and a consumer surplus, i.e. prices are higher than the cost of production, but lower than the value they deliver.
thank you for the answer. I'm not too interested in erlang (I'm still learning elixir so 1 horse at a time) but I'll keep your book close since both overlap quite a bit and the OTP part is common to the two languages. Thank you for writing that book !
> Algebraic stucture, sure, but _algebra_, absolutely not.

As someone else pointed out elsethread, the term seems to be overloaded in different branches of mathematics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_algebra: "Universal algebra (sometimes called general algebra) is the field of mathematics that studies algebraic structures themselves, not examples ("models") of algebraic structures. [...] In universal algebra, an algebra (or algebraic structure) is a set A together with a collection of operations on A."
NASA’s Lonely Rover Took a Beautifully Desolate Shot of Mars