skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this work is particularly insightful.

I think most people in America aren't accidental moderates or "intentional moderates" or hardcore liberals/conservatives. I think most of them have limited opinions or investment in politics. Their experience is more akin to their patronage for a sports team than a system. They repeat things important figures for their side say and some of them can be bothered to vote depending on how much their side has stirred them up recently but they don't actually care much.

For those that do care. The people that Graham is liable to label intentional moderates are most apt to have as rich an opinion as accidental ones. Not expressing strong positions in public in America is how you avoid having to hear other people's strong opinions that you don't much care to hear.

In America it's not courageous to hold strong opinions from both sides of the aisle especially as a rich person. Most people will experience zero downsides. For those public figures that do they start off so much better off than most of us that their maximum downside is still much better off than most of us.
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An SSA pass is an implementation detail that can't change language semantics, so, as I understand, it either doesn't transform or applies only to pointers when values have externally (to the block in which they are defined) visible mutation based on the language semantics; having single assignment semantics and thereby lacking mutability is a significant property for, particularly, parallel code with shared references. If no one can mutate a reference, you don't need Rust- or Pony-like tracking of who can see or mutate it, it's safe for everyone to see it.
> How are you going to resolve conflicts in an audio file?

By choosing one and discarding the other, or by creating a new audio file that incorporates both changes, just like one would do for any other file.

While I don't know if this exists, there's nothing theoretically preventing the creation of a diffing/patching tool for audio/video files, detecting insertions/deletions/replacements (perhaps by timestamp/frame rather than by line) the same way `diff` does for text.

> at that point, effort has already been wasted by at least one person.

A file lock doesn't prevent that time waste; there's nothing stopping someone from immediately overwriting it as soon as the first editor commits/releases the lock (in which case the first edit was a complete waste of time).
I am embarking upon a similar project: I’m building a privacy-focused product similar to Google Photos and Flickr. My goal is to not only to develop a usable product, but also to document the process in as much detail as possible in order to enable others to build similar things.

I feel strongly about spreading the skills required to build non-trivial products. I hope to enable others to deliver similar technical projects.
I've experienced this with cars, where I wanted to buy something cheap and fix it up, only to find the costs were way higher than I'd anticipated. I've since learned to look for better "deals" that require minimal work, but the lesson that trying to cheat reality doesn't work is still there.

I feel like a "life lessons Wiki" would be really useful. When the old salts said the buyers were crazy, they were right! But they probably couldn't articulate in great enough detail, so they weren't listened to.
> What does calling names accomplish?

Shaming may not be a nice way to manage a company, but I don't think we should pretend it lacks for efficacy just because we don't like it. Pretending it doesn't work will never change the minds of people who already know from experience that it does work. If you want to change their minds you should first acknowledge that it works, then explain why it working isn't sufficient moral or ethical justification for doing it.
Government Standards Are Making 5-Year-Olds and Kindergarten Teachers Miserable
_The_ Road Ahead. Gates wasn't so modest.

Gates didn't miss the Internet. The first verst of the book said that the 1994 Internet was not the Internet of the future, and he was right about that. The Web got big in 1995 after Netscape Navigator came out (and Internet Explorer came shortly after). MS was anti web because the browser concept threatened the Windows monopoly as a computing platform. Gates/MS spent they next 5 years desperately trying to lock the Internet inside Windows, with ActiveX etc
>That sounds like an awesome idea, but it's actually a major issue because once you expose something you freeze it in time forever.

Here is an example that should be pretty familiar. When you have an auto-vectorizing compiler and it generates AVX instructions then you will have to recompile your program when AVX2 or AVX512 are out.

With EPIC this problem is extended across the entire program. The ADD instruction is twice as fast? You now have to recompile everything to use ADDv2.
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Aren't you contradicting yourself somewhat here? The alternate universe version of you wouldn't have the same job - as you say in paragraph 1 you'd work somewhere else.

People on here earn top percentile salaries which warp the calculus, myself included, but $50K is approximately one year of the UK median income (I imagine the US figure is similar).

I'd be worried about making back hundreds of thousands in a low paid field. But a 50K degree in a well paid field is a no brainer to me.

Earnings increases are cumulative. I'm almost certainly 200% over what I'd have without my undergrad, and not just due to the piece of paper.
NetHack: Privilege escalation/remote code execution/crash in configuration pars
That's true in general, but not true near many large ports, for obvious reasons.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191029005379/en/100...
For me it was reading the riddle of the sands and about 20 years ago I passed on the chance to do a leg of the round the world yacht race - I was worried about my existing medical condition meaning I would need a medicvac and spoil the race for the others.
Also there is DYI GNSS receiver, designed by orienteering mapper.[0]

Additionally there is «GNSS Test Summary» (2019-12-03) made by another orienteering mapper.[1]

[0] https://github.com/lpechacek/u-blox-gnss-receiver

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/485564718218028?view=permali...
I tried to be clear that I wasn’t “homeless” in the sense of living on the street.

I just couldn’t make rent (ironically I had to Airbnb out my room) or easily afford food/bills, so needed to sleep at parents’/friends’ houses for a while as I worked to get back on my feet.

Plenty of people go through this, due to a business/career/relationship breakdown, and recover to a good life, and it’s very common for people to start focusing on their emotional/spiritual wellbeing when they hit rock bottom (e.g., join 12-step programs, counseling etc).

People who are chronically homeless are in a different category, but it’s widely accepted that chronic homelessness is usually linked to mental illness and/or addiction (which is a form/symptom of mental illness after all).

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how outcomes for chronically homeless people could be improved if they had access to the kinds of support and healing techniques I’ve used. Given the opportunity, I’d be very willing to support research into this in the future.

Invoking concepts like “survivorship bias” is unhelpful in a discussion like this; my story is obviously anecdotal, not an academic paper or claim of scientific evidence. But that aside, “survivorship bias” in this context would require the existence of a whole lot of people who attempted the same approach to emotional healing that I did but failed to improve their lives, and there’s no evidence for this.
I was sure this would be related to Matt Parker's recent video on back-in parking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rxghexCKj8
Installing offline, just to remove the phone-home-script and then go online..
According to the twitter thread their ``recycle mode'' works by blacklisting the device's serial number in the mfg's database to prevent it from working, so depending on what you want to do with them they might be perfectly functional.
Being at work for 100 hours is different from actually putting in 100 hours of work. I have worked with people that stayed 80 hours a week, but only really worked around 20 hours on average.

If your putting around while a 4 hour script runs, you’re there but not actually working during that time.
Funnily enough, Uniqlo does not package most items in plastic here in Japan.
> How about if a bunch of folks spend 4 years getting English degrees because sophisticated communication is a critical skill when your entire economy is based on information?

This is an argument for teaching Communications or Rhetoric. It fails completely as an argument for English, which is mostly an exercise in poorly imitating literary analysis in some style from the 50’s or later. Even if we did want better communicators a year of focused effort on communications/rhetoric would be enough rather than spending four.

> Hopefully the parallel continues and our great grandkids can take their advanced education for granted the way we take secondary school for granted today.

If tertiary education is expanded massively it will only be by the same mechanism as secondary education was, dramatic lowering of standards.
Related from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13246682

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9470376

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717674

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3065619
So Sonos devices need "activation" via some server on the internet? Why? If I just want to stream audio within my own home, why is internet even necessary? And what happens when Sonos goes out of business and the servers are shut down?

I just don't understand why people keep buying such things...
Former boat owner as well. Now I look at charters as a bargain. Especially if you get an offbrand, ie not Moorings, charter company. I loved our boat, it was our home for 2 years. But the constant worry of it not being there or damaged while we were away was stressful.
There's "illegal but we'll do it anyway since any penalty is less than what we made because of it" and there's "it's illegal so let's not do it as it puts our CEO in jail".

I thought this was obvious.
Sounds like an opportunity to score some decent physical hardware for a song. It could become a brand new hacker brand. "Noson". Fix the device via jag to talk to an open source server like an own cloud plugin.
Cool, what are your expenses?
I don't think Google charges anything as long as you can prove you're the owner.

But even in the physical world, how often do you lose your house or car keys? I can't remember if I've ever lost them for good and had to pay a locksmith. It just doesn't happen. I do have a spare of each key (or another type of key like a garage door opener) I'm case it does happen. Why does everyone bring up the problem of lost keys when it comes to computers? It's no t that big of a deal. I know I've lost or forgotten far more passwords than I have physical keys over the course of my life. Am I that different from the average person?
OpenSSL rsaz_512_sqr overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2019-1551)
Week numbers are easily compared to your present time. If you are in week 19, and you know you have to finish something by week 27, you can easily calculate how many weeks you have until that time.

I don’t need to know what exact dates week 27 is when reasoning about it, for most purposes, I can just do simple math to calculate how many weeks it is away.
Then your complaint is about Apple locking iMessage to Apple devices.

Which is a legitimate complaint especially since Apple had said they would be opening it up (or was that FaceTime...I'm not sure).

But that's a wholly different complaint from the fact that Apple, like nearly every other messaging service, does not allow you to export groups to other services.
Seriously people, Apple is a has-been. It's getting really sad now.
People can be true to a team and end up chauvinist; or they can be true to an idea and end up ideologues.

The point about extremists getting their opinions in bulk is a solid one. I'm not so sure intentional moderates is a well-defined category. It's what most "balanced" media strive for, but it's more like rubber banding in a video game race - the media have incentives to ensure an exciting, tight race, it improves their viewership, so they try to find the dead centre.

I think what PG calls intentional moderates are simply not that interested. Also, I think accidental moderates can end up fairly extreme in the end, because tribalism is ultimately a very strong draw and critical thinking is tiring.
Land use reform: Market economics vs. suburban identity politics
> it appears the svelte code handles much less.

I think the perspective that the react code does much more explains the problem better. I mean, the definition of the task does not ask any of those extra things. If people don't adhere to the precise description of benchmarked task the comparison will never be any good.
I wasn't going to say this quite the same way, but I think I was going to say roughly the same thing.

The metrics are all an effort to abstract developer output into something a manager with no/minimal domain experience can understand.

It feels very similar to the measurement/quantification problems distorting academic output.
I agree with you. I don't like unnecessary packaging. However, I am pretty sure the environmental impact of a plastic bag properly recycled or even incinerated is small compared to all the impacts of the individual item. I am thinking of things like the greenhouse gas emission of cotton crop. Maybe someone with a background in LCA knows the details [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_assessment
“Cancer research” doesn’t have to do that, some organizations interested in “cancer research” do that

Medical research is funded in as numerous of ways that everything else is, while also being subsidized by the government
So far we have a couple of pre-production cars, I'll believe it when I see them rolling around here, Turkey has serious problems and the PR value of this is high enough that I can see this as a marketing piece rather than as a vehicle that is ready to be produced.

One tell tale here is that the factor apparently does not exist yet, if they were serious about production then you'd expect the factory to be ready to go at the moment of introduction, the way other car manufacturers - even small ones - do it.
In my take, it's more that the primary focus isn't on value extraction. Indeed, these are taken on for love or passion.

But in the end, one realizes that there can be heavy losses, monetary or otherwise.
Huawei Strikes German 5G Deal Despite Political Pushback
> She works much harder than me but earns significantly less and frequently comments about how massive of a mistake it was to go into teaching.

Still time to get out. There are data science and other boot camps.
The problem I see is the taxes themselves. If they are making purchase and use of vehicles p prohibitively expensive, they are too high and are inhibiting growth and quality of life. Other car companies probably already reach a higher cost-quality balance than Turkey will get. There's something to be said for the economic stimulus of home grown industry, but you can also get a lot of that by working with a big manufacturer on a custom design built for & in your own country.
I think I'll pass on contributing to Erdogan's genocide funding
Houses don't appreciate in value. The land they are on appreciates faster than the building depreciates.
At the end of the day, securities pricing is based on supply/demand for the security. Predicting precise sales numbers isn't that important, stock prices move based on a plethora of other factors. How many times have we seen a company out-perform expectations and then the stock plummet, or a company under-perform and rally? It's cool that they're able to do this but it's not that big of a deal...
99,999 other models failed.

Let's see how well this model performs for n > 30 or across diverse industries.
You might want to reread the title of that NY Times page you linked to as the basis for your argument. It's not reframing US history around slavery. The series is specifically about slavery in the US. Here's the full title:

1619

An audio series from The Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
If you think RSS support has any bearing whatsoever on a company's success, I don't know what to tell you.....
kdb+ time series database. An installation can cost >150,000 dollars per year... for a 300 kB executable (yes, kilobytes). And it's worth it.
Not to mention it also reduces attack surface ;-)

I feel that will lower cost to manage the service; but I have no data to sustain the hypothesys.
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Hi former Wall Street enterprise software analyst here. Financial models were, generally speaking, tightly managed by the companies being modeled. For each upcoming quarter and full year, management (typically investor relations, sometimes CFO) would hop on a call with my team and discuss where our estimates were vs. consensus. Sometime, "consensus" was an internal measure and not what was reported by e.g. Bloomberg or FactSet.

If estimates were particularly out of bounds from consensus, they would politely ask how we modeled their business, if we would like help modeling their company, if we had a particular reason for out of bounds estimates, etc. That was a firmly worded but polite way to describe that the estimates might need some review and adjustment.
Not planning for retirement in that you’re not even putting funds into a 401k or other retirement account? I get it if you’re strapped for cash but it sounds like you have the funds to save.

This isn’t clever, it’s irresponsible especially given that just putting a little money away now literally pays dividends later.
The entire sell side business is filled with sycophant analysts being paid under the table for producing good reports. The entire training set is bullshit if all you have as your "correct" dataset are these corrupt fuckers.
It's not the model, it's credit card data.

VISA / Mastercard could have its own hedgefund making great amount of money if it didn't sell the data to other companies.
No offence, but I’ve done extremely creative and demanding intellectual work, and then work like you’ve listed.

What you’re doing is valuable and useful work, but it is a lot easier to do. Much less mentally demanding.
ubu is a great resource, thanks.
You do not know in advance what problems you need to solve on the test. You know the topics, sure, but you show up to the exam to perform work.

In a well designed meeting with a client, you show up to present work already done - or discuss what work needs to be done. Internal meetings might be more ad-hoc and you can get brownie points for working off the top of your head but its not necessary
Fantastic!

Great resource. As someone who's used AWS before but always felt lost, this is great. The writing feels like I'm talking to a colleague sharing their experience, which makes it super approachable.

There was a repeating element of "x is a bit like y" (e.g. DynamoDB is like a super-durable data structure", which I found to be a really useful / easy way to think about each service.
Siloam Tunnel
Be kind. Don't be snarky.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Only Trinity and University College Dublin are in or near the global top 200. Two is not several.
Import duties are tariffs. The only way it wouldn’t be a tariff is if it applied to domestic cars as well.
Yep. Relatedly, reminds me of a quote from Skin in the Game (Nassim Taleb):

"I am, at the Fed level, libertarian;

at the state level, Republican;

at the local level, Democrat;

and at the family and friends level, a socialist.

If that saying doesn’t convince you of the fatuousness of left vs. right labels, nothing will."
Land will appreciate in value if more people move in to the area. So the downside to a boat is you have no neighbors.

On the upside, you have no neighbors.
I happen to agree about subway, but that's a personal taste that immediately implies it shouldn't be able to run a store in the first place. "This is terrible food" just isn't the same argument as "it's good, but you get tired of it after a month". High sales that taper off aren't compatible with the first.
For my comment, it's just indicative of design issues. Some designs do trust these devices to make RSA and ECDSA keys though, which we've seen in the past can be majorly screwed up by accident.

https://www.ria.ee/en/news/possible-security-vulnerability-d...
As I mentioned in a prior post (and which, as you correctly noted, did not adequately recognize the context of the thread), the cost for educating social scientists and humanists is minimal (though certainly not negligible, especially if we aspire to providing a good education rather than a bottom-of-the-barrel and grossly underfunded degree, which is currently the norm). However, I'm wondering what you consider to be tangible benefits? And to who?

The benefits of a degree in social sciences or humanities are ways of thinking that can be applied in various fields of practice. Students in these programs literally learn how to think and argue effectively, especially about social issues and social systems. This goes way beyond the first year sociology class that computer science students are 'forced' to take as an elective. Techies without social science or humanities backgrounds are notoriously bad at thinking about social systems, and end up developing extremely problematic socially-embedded tools and technologies. If we consider many of the problematic tech of the past decade (intrusive surveillance tech, under-moderated social media, crispr genetic modification, etc), they were all designed without such considerations in mind, and have had detrimental effects on society. It's sad that we continue to not 'get it', that thinking properly about human experiences and systems, as informed by specialists who deal with this specifically, is crucial.

This is not only true about tech fields. When social science and humanities graduates enter post-grad programs that actually recognize the value of such prior education (i.e. medical schools that accept students with bachelor or arts, which is surprisingly rare) these students actually tend to perform better. Public policy designed by social scientists and humanists also works more effectively, but instead we have huge lobbies funded by the tech industry and management firms pushing for de-regulation or regulation designed by those technocrats themselves (i.e. sidewalk labs in toronto).
Price weighted. Maybe even worse. Moreover, correlation isn't enough. What you would want to look at is the Beta exposure (covariance of the asset/portfolio and the market divided by the variance of the market) if you were deciding whether something was representative of the market.
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If you’re planning at work, it’ll suffice to know that it’s 34 weeks away, more than half a year. If you work two-week sprints, you can easily calculate how many sprints you’ll have until them.

It’s not a replacement for dates, but a useful shorthand used when dealing with weeks.
Hi former bulge bracket technologist/trader here as well. That seems like an extremely terrible idea due to the ability to pollute independent thinking by the model makers. What do you think about that?