skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting, because 'just keep typing' is often among one of the worst bits of advice you can give a software engineer. More code doesn't mean good code, nor does repeatedly slamming your head against a problem work towards actually solving said problem.

I think a lot of what I see in this post is a mixture of survivorship bias/selection bias. We want to believe that the reasons startups succeeded was because they just kept trying, while not seeing the many that did die mid keystroke due to any number of reasons.
the last time i heard elevator music was many, many years ago. seems like it was a thing in the 80s-early 90s department stores.
SpaceX launch highlights threat to astronomy from ‘megaconstellations’
Here are some initiatives taken by transporation organizations to encourage people to talk to each other, like introducing a "chat carriage" on the train: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/public-transport-ch...

For example:

> The results showed that those asked to chat felt far more positive about their journey than those who kept to themselves, and that the longer people talked for the better they felt.

A world where the only people who talk to you outside your fortress are beggars, scammers, and salesmen is a sad one. Not to say you're always ready for a conversation with a stranger every time you leave your house, but there is also a chance of serendipity in the most unlikely exchanges.

I met a woman I dated for a year at a supermarket. This woman next to me was spending a lot of time comparing fruit, like gently tapping them and squeezing them. She hadn't even put one in her basket yet. I stood across from her and put some plums up to my ears as if to listen to them, mockingly, which started a conversation that we picked up that evening at a bar. It's something I think about when I err on the side of not interacting with those around me since it was a bit out of character for me.

It's one of the spices of life.
If you beat the market for 3-5 years, that's not consistently beating the market. That's flipping a coin.

That's 100 people flipping coins, and being impressed that someone got 4 heads - all in a row.
Freakonomics misunderstands what public education is
A biomolecule has been measured acting like a quantum wave for the first time
> A bad idea does mean you will fail.

Or pivot. If I'm remembering it right, PG has an entire essay about pivoting.
If you've already been following a conversation, it should make it easier. If you haven't been following the convo, you should probably start at the first message instead of jumping in the middle.

I find top posting with inline, contextual comments when necessary, most useful.
Russia Raided a Physics Institute. Kremlin Watchers Are Mystified
I have seen more scumbags in academia than i have in WS btw.
I see what you are saying ... but the 'movement of people' was not actually controlled by anyone at the time.

Boundaries in 2019 tilt more ethnic than merely administrative. Even within nations, there are often material boundaries between ethnic groups and cultures.

The 1066 invasion did nothing immediately to shape the cultural landscape as there were no masses of people coming along. (Of course, the new William made a whole host of changes which did affect culture ultimately, but that took time).

The previous invasion waves of the Angles, Saxons, Danes conversely did 'really change things'.

I wonder if Napoleon 'never happened' - maybe we'd see a different chunk of 'departements' in France, with places like Brittany being their own, somewhat distinct administrative union.

Yes - administrative boundaries are always fuzzy, but they are no means fiction.

If they were fiction then the Habsbourg's wouldn't have had a problem holding onto their piecemeal empire.

The Greeks have a well defined culture even though even during antiquity - they were never a single political unit.

Similarly, 'Germanic' people have been living in the are since long before Roman era and again - no political unit.

Same for a few others.

It's not so obvious with the UK or France, but there are still real boundaries.

If you sliced off most of the South of France / Cote D'Azure and Brittany (it's Celtic), I suggest you'd be looking at something resembling a natural state.

In fact - Europe in 2019 is fragmenting further and further along cultural lines. Catalonia, Scotland. Belgium is deeply divided between Flemish and Walloon to the point where the Federal State is almost frozen, and yet the local regions somehow function.

In fact, looking into the material issues between Flemish/Walloon yields I think the greatest insight into why cultural boundaries exist, and not just administrative ones.

As for 'Britain-France' - I don't see why there is any 'scope' at all. Why not 'Britain-Netherlands'? Or 'Britain-Germany'?

"If the administration wanted to, they could've succeeded."

I don't agree: they would have been about as successful as Lenin's attempt to abolish that ultra-bourgeois entity 'the family' by instituting a 5 day week wherein husbands and wives get different days off so they never see each other. It would have been mostly a disaster. I don't see what Churchill or DeGaulle would ever pragmatically agree on anything.

There is clearly a 'natural' scope of some kind of integration over there, which is at the European level! The EU or EEC in some kind of configuration makes a lot of sense. We can debate the details but some kind of coordination is highly rational at least in some way. The EU started as an economic cartel because that's what made sense, it's the part that still makes the most sense.
I do something like this from time to time, just with pen and paper. I often have thoughts for blog posts, and I'll write out as much as I can in a dedicated notebook. After ~2-6 days, I'll look at it again with fresh eyes and type up a first rough draft, doing edits, writing more, and rearranging everything to be more cohesive. Again, after 2-6 days I'll take another look and polish the draft.

Generally by that point I find the post is ready to go, but sometimes I go through three or four edits on pieces I'm not sure about. Feedback is also good- I typically ask a friend or my brother to see what they think.

Planes and trains are great for this; I find that I get a lot of writing done while traveling. Even on the subway, sometimes I just type up thoughts into the Notes app, and then pull it up on my computer later.
I'm afraid you aren't jaded enough.

For medications under patent, it really doesn't matter if the standard dose is 10mg or 100mg, the standard dose will have the chosen price. Since they sometimes have to sell both dosages at two different prices per mg, they also need bribes to try to make pill splitting illegal either in general or at least in medicare. With opioids "additives to prevent abuse" are also a great way to prevent pill splitting.

I should probably add that no matter how jaded one is, the field of applying meditation to pain in Western medicine predates any newer interests by big pharma. Jon Kabat-Zinn has some good research stretching back to 1980.
I guess all the math and science PhDs they hire are actually undercover spies that finished their dissertations in order to provide a good cover?
One of the big areas where AI will have a huge impact in warfare is logistics. When fighting in hostile territory (which pretty much all US wars have been since the Civil War), one of the most vulnerable parts is the supply train. Having to devote humans to drive the supplies and guard the supplies is expensive and risk prone.

Instead, I imagine that supplies will be brought to the front lines via self-driving vehicles watched over by armed drones that are programmed to destroy anything that tries to interfere with the supply convoy.

Just doing that one thing will have huge implications for the way wars are fought the the costs associated with the wars.
This is interesting. Do you know for sure that YouTube actually runs on literally the same disks as the Google search index? Because I used to work for Bing and they definitely did not let any other services share hardware with the search hotpath. Serving search results was a case where every millisecond counted (even delays below the threshold of perception caused a stat-sig drop in revenue), and so even suggesting that the index should share disks with e.g. OneDrive would've gotten you laughed out of the room.
The largest Mastodon instance is teeming with lolicon. Quality.
There are more civilian-owned guns than people in the US. The exact number isn't known but let's ballpark it very conservatively at 400,000,000. There are about 13,000 homicides by firearm each year, including justified ones but let's also conservatively ignore those. Now to be extremely conservative let's make the ridiculous assumption that those homicides are evenly distributed throughout gun-owning population, and not correlated to any particular individuals, demographics, or social circumstances.

So then having assumed guns are the problem in the first place, and not say, violent urban gangs, your neighbors' still only have at most a 0.00325% annual chance of being used to kill someone. I don't know what your threshold is but to me that's firmly in "not going to kill anyone" territory. A trailer next door being ugly, though, is guaranteed!
According to comments on Ars, the seas were too rough on Saturday for the ships to safely steam into position.
Discoverability on the Internet is borderline nonexistent. There is no place people regularly go that would present them with foreign websites hosting content to their interest - there is too much money to be made in isolating and siloing users into the major consumptive hubs that already dominate.

I'd be willing to bet if you self-hosted a video blog your only viewers would be bots crawling it, anyone you directly shared a link with, and anyone they shared the link with. And those "share chains" peter out really fast if the content is not broadly applicable / viral worthy. It needs to get "likes" on social media to spread. That severely limits the kinds of material you can even try to make if you want anyone to actually see it, even if there might be millions of people in the world interested in the subject.
It won't work for long. With eSNI and DoH you won't be able to use DNS for blocking, and IP is very easy to switch around, especially in IPv6 but even in IPv4 (ad networks have money, shortage is not a problem for them).
> I hope we can all agree that notarization is pretty valuable to users

Nope.

I've never had any issue with macOS software acquired outside the MAS and I've never heard of any non-technical user with a problem either.

Notarization is not about security, it's about the iOSification of the Mac.
Completely disagree. Candice Ciresi was extremely professional and seemed to be the only one actually looking out for the company (another example is her stance on the telemetry issue). Many ethical companies would consider hiring her.

Gitlab on the other hand seems to be easily swayed by large contracts and willing to compromise their “remote first” values for money.

It’s also disappointing they don’t have a technical solution to this.
Europe Is Toughest on Big Tech, yet Big Tech Still Reigns
Yeah, seeing "sort" in the union-based plan also threw me for a moment about why that would be any faster. Normally sorts kill performance, especially compared to the merge join in the "ugly" version.

I think the key is in the description afterwards, where each subquery only returns 1 row. Which just reinforces: measure everything, this advice may not be generally applicable.
Came across that, but it's terribly outdated. Bottom of the page even says last updated in 2016.
I agree there's no need. What phone camera improvements do you envision that don't involve more transistors on the CMOS sensor, GPU, CPU etc? Microfilm?
This. So much this. The whole electronics manufacturing industry runs on Excel sheets. Every BOM, inventory list etc. is in Excel. Because that's what your manager knows how to use, because that's what their managers knew how to use, and so on.

It came with Windows so that's that, they can't be bothered to try anything else. Not even after mangled sheets cause repeated mistakes.

I would so love to work on something like this, but when people won't even use a free solution suggested by one of their trusted employees, selling one will be tough.
Guess what, the data usage policy has made the difference for us.

Data from Purchased Credits neither be used nor shared

Data from free/promotional/demo will be used internally ;)
The parent comment is talking about hedge funds. It does not seem likely that they are responsible for the increase you are talking about.
I believe Apple/Goldmann ask for annual income as part of the application. Perhaps that was the reason if she had no source of income?
I'm curious to see a collection of reports of cases like this (large difference in credit limits of two persons who are married / have same financial situation).

I've read about two husband-wife pairs so far. What else has been reported? What about single women vs single men who both have similar financial history?
Is there a "share my salary" spreasdsheet but for Apple Card limits.

Also, I doubt the new Apple Card is totally unique, and this isn't financer Goldman Sachs's first foray into the personal credit busines. Has anyone encountered this issue with older credit cards and loan products?
They do in fact have a right to refuse service to anybody. But that doesn't mean they have a right to refuse service for any reason. Some sorts of reasons are forbidden, for instance discriminating on the basis of race.
Imagine having a brand so strong that rich people write think pieces framed in terms of social justice when they have trouble getting access to your credit products.

For any other credit card a wealthy couple in their shoes would have written off the credit card company as idiots and applied elsewhere.

I have no issue with the argument against unauditable credit offerings that disproportionately affect protected classes. I’m pointing out that but for the brand being Apple you’d never have heard this story.
59/60 seems reasonable to go anyway. Launch windows are small and delays are hella expensive
Startup Idea: Machine Learning / Ai Algorithm Edgecase Monkey Testing as a Service (AIAEMTAAS)
source? I don't recall any sports that limit the amount of testosterone women can have. By women I mean people with XX chromosomes.
Let's not let facts get in the way of a good internet outrage session!
How to Profile Julia Code?
The big HN thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21494673
They are going for scale, where missing launch window is more expensive than just launching the rest of the payload.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1193687615528042496

And in this case, if dead, the satellite will be used as a science experiment
The final cage match to settle dominance between Musk and Bezos is going to be so epic.
I’ve eaten a meal replacement shake twice a day for two years
They’re less so forks than re-builds. They rely heavily on upstream and Google can certainly make it more difficult for them to maintain a “fork” that diverges too much from Chromium proper. Manifest V3 may be something they can easily keep out of their builds while maintaining the old method, but I’m no expert so I won’t comment on that.

A fork implies maintaining most or all of the code base themselves, when in reality, most Chromium derivatives simply change the “front-end” or the UI while keeping everything else upstream, except for a few tweaks here and there. To maintain an entire fork themselves would be a massive undertaking, especially since Google now has a practical stronghold on the development of the open web. “Forks” would have to ensure they work with the standards (and non-standards) that are being pushed by Chromium and there’s no easy way to do that besides using Chromium and “re-building” it with their broswer’s specific features and UI. Google could make Manifest V3 harder to exclude from those re-builds.

It’s this very reason that Microsoft moved to Chromium as they could not keep up with the changes Chromium were pushing to the open web. They have also made it very clear that they’re not “forking” Chromium for the new Edge, but rather using it as their “back-end” so they can focus on their “front-end” while contributing back upstream to improve the back-end. Too much of a divergence would land them back to square one with the issues they had keeping up with old Edge.

If a company the size of Microsoft are unable to maintain a “fork” of Chromium, it doesn’t leave much hope for the smaller companies like Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, etc. However, that does not mean that they are unable to exclude the Manifest V3 from their builds, just that they’re still beholden to the changes made to Chromium to some degree.
Maybe its so awful that it’s worth $5000 not to have to do it anymore—but at least you won’t quit over anything smaller than that, and the number of times you will regret losing $5000 and your self-respect will probably be outweighed by the number of times you accomplish something you might not have otherwise and at least take a little bit of lasting pride in it.
Agreed. And as you mentioned above, many believe the “real value” or whatever of liquidity is indeed capped and has diminishing returns. Trading financial instruments doesn’t just perform the capital allocation task that we were told it does in Econ 101. It’s also a fantastic way to take other peoples money. Why is that so hard to believe? And to those feeling a need to deny such behavior as an attack on capitalism, I’d suggest that it’s the purest expression of capitalism. The goal of investors or capitalists isn’t to do anything useful other than acquire more money. To the extent useful stuff happens, that’s just a side effect of acquiring more money. There’s no altruism involved. So it should be something that a true capitalist would embrace.
That has not been my experience, on both sides of a transaction.

Sometimes massive libraries of patents are useful (I presume this is why google kept Motorola's patents when they sold the company off) simply because they can be brandished as a counter-weapon when a large company is threatened in a patent battle. But think of it as a sandbag: one grain of sand is negligible and few companies have more than a handful.
Looks like I hit a nerve! which is shame b/c there are some good comments from people who understand that the tech landscape today is a lot different from "way" back in 2005/6; which means making a new YouTube today isn't so much a technical problem as much a political one.
> running this sham for 30 years sounds less plausible to me than beating the market the boring way.

I agree that a sham seems unlikely. But to this specific point, didn‘t Madoff‘s scheme run for several decades? Wasn‘t he even made NASDAQ chairman or sth at some point?

I think multi-decade frauds are definitely possible.

My own pet conspiracy theory about Rentec is rather that Simons was a cryptographer so maybe there was/is some actual hacking involved at some point in the pipeline. I say this, of course, with zero nonpublic information and on the basis of nothing. The stated numbers are just so incredible, it boggles my small mind
I'd be curious if her pain can be managed with non-opiods now.
Meditation will never gain mass acceptance or practice no matter how many more of these articles we see.

People seem to forget there is a huge percentage of the population that will never meditate or can't meditate due to extenuating circumstances.

While this article is interesting it's not helpful for this subsection of the population.

For them it is far more beneficial to seek alternative therapies like rTMS, tDCS, tACS, and DBS tech, of which meditation is probably a self propelled variant.

It is well known that these technologies have analgesic effects and modulate brain state with desirable outcomes, just like meditation.

They have the added benefit of also being directly applicable to nerve branch areas/PNS in the body itself and not just the brain. So they go beyond meditation and what is possible with meditation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulat...
4th reuse. Wow didn't realise they were that deep in already. Thought reuse was still conceptual
AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race
Human Experiments
Ah, sounds a lot like the solar sector. Chinese manufacturers, close to now ERP-usage, inefficient processes. And being a b2b market doesn't hurt neither if you ask me. Also, the MVP when compared to excel shouldn't be the hardest thing in the world. I only expect the sales cycle to be rather long.
It is, the reply is just the original tweeter continuing the joke. https://twitter.com/jdan/status/1193871077790932993
Thanks for introducing me to the word “akrasia”!
> It’s why I was deeply annoyed to be told by AppleCard representatives, “It’s just the algorithm,” and “It’s just your credit score.

Surely AppleCard reps. have deeper understanding into what caused the $57 credit limit, no? Either they do use a blackbox DLNN, their algorithm literally doesn't have any non-boolean output or other logging (unlikely), or the author here is omitting the explicit reason for the denial.
Going off on Twitter seems to be a good way to get attention but how does an average Joe get help for company "policies"?

We need a service where companies and their customer service, their policies and their practices are openly shamed, feedback gathered and voices heard without the need for twitter (and being famous enough on it to get world-wide attention). An issue board of the sorts that companies can go to and see what their users are complaining about and it needs to be an independent service.

Corporations have no one person that can answer, enforce, amend or question their protocol, so this whole thing becomes an attention contest on twitter or HN or whatever. It is an uphill battle until that "one person", may be a CEO or VP gets informed about it from their PR team. They don't have infinite bandwidth to listen to hundreds of complaints and many important ones go amiss. Even if the leaders of the corporations have aligned intentions.

I can't remember how many times I've seen major issues about a product or service raised through twitter and posted on HN . This needs to change somehow since we are only hearing the top 0.01% of people who took the chance to speak up on Twitter.
Knowing what you know now, how would you manage this situation again?
Yes, Steam allows lewds, but, and I'm not trying to move the goal posts, just reiterating the core point: Can you get away with something that hatefully targets a racial or social group etc.?

The point is there are always going to be limits to what you can release on any platform. Does that count as creative control over developers?

If there truly are no restrictions on what you can publish on Steam, then my initial list of examples is wrong, but that still doesn't make Apple the sole company with restrictions for their platform.
Household income.
The crux of this issue is that Apple Card is only for individuals

>“As with any other individual credit card, your application is evaluated independently,” Williams said in a statement. “We look at an individual’s income and an individual’s creditworthiness, which includes factors like personal credit scores, how much personal debt you have, and how that debt has been managed.”

That setup makes it “possible for two family members to receive significantly different credit decisions,” Williams said. He added that the bank is actively exploring ways to allow users to share their Apple Card with family members.

Goldman was aware of the potential issue before it rolled out the Apple Card in August, but it opted to go with individual accounts because of the added complexity of dealing with co-signers or other forms of shared accounts, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/11/goldman-wants-to-fix-the-app...
How do startups fit in the machine learning arms race?