skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. And play around with it. It's quite flexible. Color, CSS and other goodies. Takes me about 2 seconds to update my entire site...
The tobacco Master Settlement Agreement with the states has a provision whereby they lose money if cessation programs are 'too' successful: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tobacco-bonds-ecigs-insig...

& then also, I suspect the incumbent tobacco industry lobbying effort is already deeply entrenched and dwarfs anything that might be fielded by the e-cig industry.
Diversity statements in mathematics job applications [pdf]
But why a preset percentage? Why not costs + a 10% profit? Once you do a certain amount of work, why does the amount of profit rise when you can extract more from the defendant?
The highest YouTube earner this year? An eight-year-old. $26M last year
None of those activities are actually the act of peer reviewing papers.

It’s well known that getting sufficient peer reviewers is a problem in computer science (and I’d bet most fields) specifically because it’s not actually anyone’s job. Anyone doing peer review is either doing it on their own time or taking the time away from their “real” job. I’m sure there are employers that will say “yes, you should be doing peer reviews as part of your job” but those same employers probably won’t reward you any differently regardless of whether you do peer reviews.

You are also technically getting paid for browsing Hacker News right now. The company employing you probably wouldn’t say it pays you for that.
Not sure about severine, but I was curious so I read the policy. These 2 clauses stood out as deal breakers:

"As a condition of your use of the Service, you grant Roam a nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sub-licenseable license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, modify and adapt and create derivative works (either alone or as part of a collective work) from your public Content."

"We may terminate or suspend your account and bar access to the Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, under our sole discretion, for any reason whatsoever and without limitation, including but not limited to a breach of the Terms."

Seems risky to put content here.
Smokers don't use $1m more per person in healthcare costs than non-smokers. That doesn't pass the smell test. For comparison, total US healthcare spending is approx $3t/year, or $10k/person-year, or $750k/person-lifetime.

I don't know what the real number is. There are plenty of studies showing it's negative, mostly funded by tobacco companies. That might not quite be true, but it's not far off: a non-smoker who lives to 90 has similar levels of health issues in his last 5 years as a smoker who dies at 65.

Reducing smoking would be a huge public good, but the benefit mostly accrues to the smoker, not to the state. We don't need to pretend it's otherwise for these campaigns to make sense.
Response letters, including 2 joint letters signed by over 600 people each, are here: https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202001/rnoti-o1.pdf
UC Berkeley's rubric for scoring job applicants' diversity statements is here: https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202001/rnoti-o1.pdf
Along with Minerals, this gas is a sign of extraterrestrial life. Specifically, Zerg or Protoss.
It also smells like an example of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
"a debit card purchase can only proceed if there are uninvested cash balances in the linked-to account"

Or, bear with me, what if there was a credit line secured by the stocks in the account? Then you wouldn't have to sell anything! But to market it, you'd have to give it a catchy name. Something...edgy, but unfortunately, there's already something called "Merrill Edge" so, I dunno.
I think there is an ethical consideration about addictive substances like tobacco. It's not okay for companies to use physical addiction to force further sales of their product, and many/most teenagers aren't able or willing to think through the ramifications of starting a long term addictive habit.
Some of the ancient Greeks were aware of the limitations and drawbacks of language. Rumor is some of the Spartans took it so far as to refuse to read or write, and even speak as spartan (heh) as possible.
This happens everywhere. Privacy considerations aside, asking a user to download an app is just like placing a brand name on his/her main page, so that they're not just constantly exposed to it, but will be tempted to use the app when in need, real or ad-induced, of something to purchase.
Empire State Building has always boggled my mind, with its speed. Built faster than most houses today, biggest building in the city by far, in the middle of the city, amazing endurance. I need to read more about the process. I wish governments everywhere learned a few lessons from it.
Given the scale, a Mexican cartel was almost certainly the source of the bad carts. It just makes sense that someone there ordered a few barrels of vitamin e acetate from China and the problem appeared suddenly across the US but not in Canada and much less in states with legal carts.
Don't get me wrong, in no way am I suggesting this is an easy problem to fix. I'm aware of how good people are at cramming huge amounts of knowledge into a siloed yet consistent narrative (and I am not claiming myself to be completely innocent of this either, though I think I try fairly hard not to). I'm also well aware of the extreme difficulty in making a system that can automatically check for consistency in the way I'm describing.

However, there are chinks in ideological armor which, if given the right light, can cause breaches and get people to collaborate and understand one another better.

I would argue that the current lack of any form of reliable, extensive consistency checker that people can trust (ie, a SYSTEM they can trust rather than a group of people) leads people to silo themselves into small, isolated networks. They don't operate outside of their network, even though there might be information out there somewhere that's valuable and would cause their worldview to expand, because they know there are at least some nefarious actors putting out inconsistent/untrue information, and it's too hard to identify.

If there were some way to automatically "expand" your axioms and see how much of the world they can explain while maintaining their consistency, it could theoretically be a non biased, trustworthy way of testing your assumptions of the world outside of your own, small, limited network, and might help people recognize what parts of the world it is and isn't explaining.
Your relatives don't know what they're talking about. Offshore racing powerboats typically have separate crew members for helm and throttles. Sailboats are completely different.
Frontend doesn't always mean using JS. You can use a well-designed, modern language like ClojureScript instead that isn't anything like using JS, yet nevertheless has the same access to the browser.
> The comment that the bulky handset killed Iridium is only part of the picture. The bigger issue is that terrestrial cell antennas went up faster than Motorola expected

A large percentage of those terrestrial base stations were built and sold by Motorola; they did pretty well overall. During that period of time, Motorola had low base station market share in the US and Europe - almost all of their business was in the locations that Iridium was built to serve.

The experience in designing, building and maintaining a large array of satellites (in Arizona, I think) most likely paid for itself in government contracts many times over.
I've been using Tiller for a few months:

https://www.tillerhq.com/

Totally happy to pay for someone to maintain connections between bank APIs and a Google Spreadshert. Curious how long they'll last.
If you don't need SSL it's almost free via places like GitHub.
Tyrannical governments would love the idea of all camera images being signed.
New technique increases 3-D printing speed by 1k to 10k times
Wikimedia Design Style Guide
This used to be called Pulling a Myspace. Usage down? Add more ads. Repeat. Eventually, all ads and tiny usage.
Sounds like a man worthy of a black banner.
Journal 2019.25 – dep graphs, s3 transporter, spec 2
Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's Proton initiative
Time is the uppermost bound you can play with, everything else is simply a subset of time
what frequency does the car transponder challenge the key and what frequency does the key respond at?

is it a rolling code challenge like unlock/lock?
Indeed. I fix AWS bills for a living, and I wouldn’t dream of saying whether this was a smart move or not without a careful look at the infrastructure, the financial model of the business, and a series of discussions with the engineering and finance teams.

Somehow HN experts can bypass all of that and do what I do full time with basically no information about the company in question. I really should hire a few of them.
With the multiple-evocation of OpenSSL needed to create the 23-odd types of PKI certificates, I've banged out a bash-based front-end tool to OpenSSL to simplify things.

Hope it helps.

https://github.com/egberts/tls-ca-manage
And the exception use case could be handled the same way that Flash was during its decline -- a box showing that there is some special content on the page, but it doesn't run until you explicitly click on it.

Then it's there when you need it, but the friction discourages it from being used frivolously and gives you the opportunity to decline when the context makes it obvious it's not being used for anything good.
You probably meant: "because the modern web, where 1/10 is the actual content and the other 9/10 is junk, is expensive to host".

If that's the case, then the above line identifies both the problem and the solution.
This sort of time accounting makes no sense.

A lot of these feats were the first _successful_ version, however the people behind them had careers of doing the same thing over and over again.

It's not like Brendan Eich went from not knowing how to write a language to shipping a language in 10 days however this article presents it like this.

It's not like Boeing went from nothing to 747 in whatever amount of time. Building an airplane get much easier when you already have a factory for building airplanes.

Like I can work on something for a decade and day before shipping, give it a new name and say "hey, I shipped it in a day".

It might take a chef an hour to make a meal. But he might have been optimizing that hour his whole life.
Copper has long been popular for metallization, but it is running into problems at finer linewidths. Cobalt and ruthenium are two popular alternatives being researched. I don't follow the industry closely enough to know if anyone is using them in volume manufacturing yet.

"Imec Presents Copper, Cobalt and Ruthenium Interconnect Results"

https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-services/ic-knowledge/756...

Cobalt needs a barrier to prevent mixing under some circumstances where it contacts copper. Ruthenium doesn't need any barriers but chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) processes for it still have problems.
Siri decoded to give me the number for Lead(II) nitrate. Neat. Still my point stands its not normal to hit that with simple resistive heaters like those in an e-cigarette.
The settlement is also political cover to avoid dealing with this problem. Without that some more meaningful change could have happened.
Hum, I think things should be broadened beyond just a fast/slow axis, and inquire what some of these projects actually serve. Or at the least what they've costed in the long-run in terms of resource use.

Personally I've been meaning to really do an exercise in evaluating projects against a regenerative framework (see https://capitalinstitute.org/8-principles-regenerative-econo... & http://fieldguide.capitalinstitute.org/whats-regenerative.ht... ). I'm not saying this framework is perfect nor am I endorsing Capital Inst, but there needs to be better evaluation than just speed.
When you are exposed to information that it would be improper to act on, you generally have to demonstrate affirmatively that your decisions aren't based on it to stay out of hot water. It's the same deal as clean-room reverse engineering, where you need separate teams with a lawyer as a firewall to prove you're only replicating certain aspects of the source. It's not that presumption of innocence isn't applicable; it's just, when your defense is that you tracked provenance in your head and were careful to ignore the tainted information when thinking about certain things, it probably won't be hard to prove you guilty.
American judges are "in on the take".

They claim they are often forced to accept the deal, because plantiff and defendant agree on a deal (that benefits them to the exclusion of the class).

This is American Justice, pure garbage . . .
> There’s a RAID card with 2GB cache and battery included.

I can't speak for this particular card but, in the past, there were some HP RAID cards where you could not disable the RAID functionality if you wanted to.

Assume that, for whatever reason (ZFS, perhaps?), you had a bunch of drives and you just wanted to use those drives normally -- that is, you wanted the OS to see the "raw" drives, individually. Sorry, too bad!

You had two options: 1) create a bunch of one-disk RAID0 arrays (one per drive) and then let the OS use those (which isn't ideal in the ZFS case) or 2) buy a different card.

Another common thing (when it comes to ZFS) is "cross-flashing" the firmware on RAID cards. Many of the RAID cards shipped by the various server manufacturers are often just re-branded LSI cards, with or without modifications to the firmware (besides just the re-branding).

For example, you could take an IBM ServeRAID M5014 card (which is basically an LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i card with less cache) and flash it with the "original" firmware from LSI. The last I checked (which, admittedly, has been a while), it wasn't possible to do this with many of the most popular RAID cards that HP shipped.

(This probably isn't an issue if you're buying servers for $work. In my case, I buy them for $home too.)

At a previous job (at an .edu), we used HP server gear pretty extensively and, overall, I was quite happy with it. In the last 5-10 years, though, I've become "turned off" to pretty much anything from HP, though.

---

Finally, there was the recently discovered issue with HPE SAS SSDs failing catastrophically [0]:

> SSDs which were put into service at the same time will likely fail nearly simultaneously.

Nothing like having every single drive in your ENTIRE array fail at (basically) the exact same time, huh? I feel bad for the department/team that discovered this issue the hard way!

> ... results in SSD failure at 32,768 hours of operation ...

I know what you're thinking: "32,768? That's one more than the maximum value of a --"

Yep.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21637516
I've been building new product from scratch with Ember Octane and TypeScript since March 2019, and it's been a great experience. I will be able to launch the app I spent 10 months building without any substantial refactoring. I would say the Octane API has essentially been stable for almost a year, if not longer. I even had a preview of the rewritten documentation to learn from the entire time. Ember has really come a long way from the early days. The last time I built an Ember app was before 1.0 was released. Building with Octane before it was released has been spectacular.
Ironic indeed, but then the blog itself doesn't use React, the slowdown most likely comes from some utility library[1].
The advice in the article may not be discredited, but this shows that learning basic profiling should come before obsessing over framework-specific optimizations.

[1]: https://github.com/aFarkas/lazysizes
People will of course sometimes treat other people differently depending on physical attributes than can vary in different populations. E.g., skin colour or height or hair colour. But people already know what visible physical attributes they have without a DNA test.
I kind of think I read something that compared long term treasuries from the early 80s and stocks and found that the treasuries returned just as much since then.

It seems possible that is the way in which the future will resemble the past.

30 year treasuries currently yield 2.35%, so it seems to me going out on a limb to assume that efficient markets allow for stocks to be significantly better.

The rate for long term treasuries in the very early 80s was right in the double-digit or near double digit range that people now feel entitled to for stocks. With bonds, you can't deceive yourself as easily about the possible future. So doesn't that constrain stocks?

https://www.macrotrends.net/2521/30-year-treasury-bond-rate-...

...and if market returns over the next 30 years are going to be 2.35%, and you get to pay taxes and then have even minimal inflation, then it looks kind of irrational to take any risk at all, unless you basically have the same psychology of a lottery player.
> The data stolen from Equifax has not shown up on the black market

Yet - and also the absence of evidence doesn't mean the evidence of absence. Not all criminals are stupid, a smart one would wait till vigilance dies down.
You say that yet both Portugal and Italy have an average one way commute of ~15 minutes. So, clearly 30 minutes is far from any real natural custom. At best you can say commute times are going to some limited fraction of the day as people need to sleep, commute, and work in the same day.
I'm not sure any human system is self consistent. Our entire society is built on incomplete information.
The SR-71 should be on this list. <2 years from idea to one of the most remarkable aircraft ever built. Also quite fast :)
ICE to use data on migrant children to expand deportation efforts
No, he had a ~90min video that was purely overviewing how he uses excel. Wasn't really about finance anymore, and isn't available on youtube.
Again, in discussions like this state is often used to refer to mutable state (an identical thing itself mutates).

Having a conceptual reference (oh god another overloaded term) to something does not imply that there is mutable state on the programming language as long as the reference is immutable.

def times(x, y)
if x.is_one?
y
elsif x.is_zero?
x
else
y.add(times(x.decrement, y)
end
end

a) x and y are not mutated.
b) you can implement the called methods on various immutable object types, and the code would work (assuming we send in the same types, and they obey certain protocols but that is yet another different concern):

class WeirdString
def init(v)
@val = v
end

def val
@val
end

def is_zero?
@val.empty?
end

def is_one?
@val.length == 1
end

def decrememt
WeirdString.new(@val[0..-2])
end

def add(ws)
WeirdString.new(@val + ws.val)
end

# times(WeirdString.new('abc', 'hi').val → 'hihihi'

Now, you may say the fact that the object has an instance variable means there is state and you'd be right depending on how you define state, but at any rate the state of a given instance of WeirdString is not mutable.
On Amazon Prime:

From The Everything Store, A book by Brad Stone -- what I got to know was that Amazon had the pieces in place that eventually helped create Prime service such as efficient warehouse operation that can deliver packages in 2 days, quick payment processing, rich customer data etc. So to think that suddenly Amazon Prime was invented and implemented in just 6 weeks seems wrong.
Just Fake It: Mock API 101 for Android Developers
> their resolution has, in practice, only cost their victims more

All class actions are this way.

The only correct move is to exclude yourself from the class and reserve your right to sue individually, after the class action, citing that as precedent.

Class members never get more than a useless coupon or comparable.
> None of those activities are actually the act of peer reviewing papers.

Being on a program committee is reviewing papers. That’s what the program committee do.

> you should be doing peer reviews as part of your job

If it’s part of your job, which you agree it is, and it’s literally in the job description that companies post, which we saw that it was, then you’re being paid for it. Baffling that people still say it isn’t.

> those same employers probably won’t reward you any differently regardless of whether you do peer reviews

I’ve got a colleague at another company who gets a bonus for every program committee he’s on. He is literally rewarded more if he reviews papers than if he doesn’t.
This is kind of hard to avoid without hand-coded assembly or careful use of vector intrinsics. The core of chacha20 is a 4x4 matrix, which would need 16 registers to hold without spilling (plus a few more for temporary use during the calculations). Both 64-bit x86 and 32-bit ARM have only 15 or 16 general-purpose registers.
Constraints foster creativity (if the right people are in the team). When JFK announced (in 1961) USA's intention to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade, he set a time constraint that could not be moved without considerable global embarassment. In less than 9 years, it was accomplished. Perhaps the formula is: a deadline + right people + leadership support.
That paper is mind-blowing..

It seems to be describing a mapping from Chinese to Japanese, using algebraic/functional transformations (a few mentions of monoid) - and the equivalence of this projection is proven using the inductive method. (A bit confusing how the lambda symbol is used to represent a null string.)

The concept of a "mathematical structure of language" is quite intriguing. Maybe I'm a bit biased (Japanese is my mother tongue) but I get the impression that the Chinese language is particularly suited for mathematical representation?

Like in this 文言 programming language, the sentences seem to read naturally (not sure if they're grammatically correct though).

My favorite take-away from this post: in the Turing machine example, the program is titled 「圖靈機」. I see that 圖靈 is a phonetic spelling of Turing ("tú líng"), but the literal meaning of these characters combined feels like "map/scheme/plan of a spirit machine" (I guess that would be more correct as 霊機図).
Can you shed a little light on the sorts of things that are shipped hundreds of times a day? curious if you could share some use cases or examples.

Intercom is pretty awesome - congrats!
I recently got a couple of the NooElec NESDR SMArt v4 dongles, and I've been quite happy with them. I also have a few no-name dongles, with one of them that has been running rtl_433 for years now to graph outdoor and basement temperature and humidity from off-the-shelf sensor units.

The NESDRs are much more accurate than the no-names and don't drift. I was flabbergasted when I plugged one in, tuned it to a nearby NOAA weather transmitter, fired up gqrx, and saw that it was spot-on without having to adjust the frequency error. Also, they have SMA connectors instead of the dodgy barrel connectors on the no-names.
If you bought long term government bonds in the early 80s at double digit interest rates, your returns over the next 30 years were very comparable to stocks.

Is it safe to assume that stocks over the next 30 years will return more than the 2-and-a-little % of 30 year government bonds right now?
"Discovers"
Windfall? People are hoping at best for a tiny fraction of the cost of actual damages. That's not a windfall. The only people getting a windfall are the class action attorneys. The actual victims get basically nothing.
Yes, but the ester will probably only affect the hydrophobicity and will be hydrolised at some point.
I wouldn't expect vast differences in specifity.
#!

exit 42

bytes: 10
:D
>$750,000 per person

You’re making GP’s point. If you filter for just tobacco users from the general population it could very well be above a million per tobacco user.
HTML's middle ages were characterised by competing implementations of similar functionality. Inconsistency would be cause for concern, but incompleteness is expected.