skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be a static site generator.

http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2020/01/12/why-research-blo... has a HTTP header last updated on 01/13/2020 04:34:31.

http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2019/12/23/random-fourier-f... is 01/13/2020 04:34:30, or 1 second earlier.

Also the source code has a link to http://gregorygundersen.com/css/markdown.css which 404's.
AWS S3 – Hosting a React Web App Using AWS S3
E-prime has the prime property...
The communist party played the west like a fiddle. The academics are right in heart, but in effect they raise these PhD's in advanced subjects and then most of them end up going back to China to work on hypersonic missile tech, AI to tighten the party's grasp on their society, etc...

Really dumb. No chinese national I've ever met has doubted the cultural/historical superiority of their country/race. It's pretty astounding. They are completely brainwashed, and one day it will all come to a head as 1 billion of them are called to essentially take over the world in the name of the communist party.
The no code websites are so much better now. Shopify powers a ton of big eCommerce now, for instance.
She provides one of her ideas immediately prior to that quote:

”I have said many times that looking at the history of physics teaches us that resolving inconsistencies has been a reliable path to breakthroughs, so that’s what we should focus on."

And given that she has written at least one book on this general subject, I would guess that idea is elaborated in much greater detail there or on her blog.

https://backreaction.blogspot.com
Iran Air Flight 655: US tried to cover up its own destruction of a plane (2014)
Let me clarify my point a bit: the easier it is to measure the actual performance of an employee, the more their compensation will be linked to their performance.
Take for example a company developing software. The variance in the compensation of the software developers will be lower than the variance in the compensation of the salespeople. That's because it's much easier to measure the performance of a salesperson.

In most trading shops it's becoming more difficult to estimate the contribution of a single individual because technology is more important than before, and plays a role in how competitive you are. That doesn't make them any less talented, educated, hard-working, etc. It just makes it more difficult to know their exact contribution. Which means that their compensation will not necessarily fall down, but will become less performance-based.
Super illegal, AND all ISPs have bandwidth accounting that will quickly spot the manipulation.
We already have deep spaces underground for storing nuclear waste. We don’t, however, have a way to transport said waste to said holes.
No they're not. API's don't have comments, they don't have expressiveness, and by their nature there is almost no choice on the part of the designer, they're just a list of names attached to functions (but not the functions themselves). There's only so many synonyms for "print".

Oracle is trying to claim that they own the idea of a toolbox with a tool called a "screwdriver", a tool called a "hammer", and a tool called "wire cutters", and nobody is allowed to make their own toolbox using the same list of names of tools.
That's extrapolation I suppose, but not induction. For induction you'd need to say '1 is prime, n+2 is prime where n is prime, so [...]'.
I'd really be interested in knowing at what level these two employees were at. How deep does the rot go? Even if the CEO is gone, these people are still around.
I've theorized the 50 percent attacks have already been executed at the nation state level for a long time now, but that many nodes could reduce the effectiveness of the current 50 attack. Unless of course the same three letter did both...
I can train one of my juniors in how zapier works in an afternoon. Teaching them (or myself) a programming language would take years and be more error prone.
Parallel Reality by Misapplied Sciences
2016 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12381791

2014 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149006
"I love the book and so should you". Nothing more then something that looks like an add on a website.

Saved you 3 minutes there.
Is there a version not behind a paywall?
>I don’t think physics operates on anything resembling a social-justice system

Physicists are chosen within the Academic-Governmental Complex, and as such physicists are chosen according to its preferences. Maybe this is a big problem? It's not just with respect to selection based on gender, race or socioeconomics. Have you read Paul Graham's Lesson to Unlearn, about the adverse incentives and maligned merits which academia chooses for: http://www.paulgraham.com/lesson.html

Personally, I just hate it when people praise Academia (I see it often with Wall Steeet, too) as being a shining example of social justice like its some gift-wrapped paper around a rotten core.

>an attitude that bars commentary might stagnate us for a long time.

I agree. Now watch comments such as these incite downvotes and inflammatory responses because they question assumptions and make people feel uncomfortable.
So it's really just like software engineers, or maybe even slightly more bimodal? At least with soft engr you can switch modes fairly easily.
I wish there were more context here. I have no idea what `sync` is. I gather this is js. Searching "javascript sync function" yields nothing obvious. Is it a framework thing?
Generally speaking, when you murder someone you are punished for it. I'm not entirely sure why this would confuse you. If we didn't punish them, there would be no deterrent for the next person to kill people when it's convenient to do so. It's part of what makes us civilized.

Did the CEO PERSONALLY kill them? No, but the claim for outlandish executive pay is executives get paid like they do because they have "all the responsibility". Every time the responsibility bird comes calling, they seem to claim they should have none. Cake and eating and such.
Nuclear waste is already used to being hot in the reactor core (way hotter than the temperatures in the article), and are still hot after removal from a reactor. That's why spent rods are put into a cooling pool for a year or more after removal from a core.

Still, the idea of dumping waste that deep doesn't sound like a good one.
It's not a meme about citidael I've never heard anyone praise them. They churn and burn. Plus what are they even doing? Turning a dollar into a dollar five. That's really making people's lives better.
The ironic thing is that—specifically in the cloud space—we call this no-code abomination “infrastructure as code”.

But at least there is the AWS CDK and Pulumi now to enable “infrastructure as code” as code.
So form over function then?

That’s also a form of UX fail.
It isn't a throwaway comment, it is reference to writing and work she has been doing for quite a while. It does come across as fairly arrogant without the context of all her other writing and work. With that context it comes across to me as more of an expression of frustration.
But being an ordinary relay means you are still being used as a hop for people to connect to hidden services. Do you think hidden services are less ethically dubious than clearnet services?
I've had a bunch of surgeries and I wasn't given much of a choice as to when they were scheduled. These were orthopedic surgeries, but nothing urgent (stuff like a labrum repair or whatever). I was simply told to be at the hospital/surgery center at X time and that was that.
Well, good point. I think what the author is talking about can he implemented as a Monad, and he / she is describing a flatmap operation.

However, I’d hardly describe it as “just”, it’s a fairly interesting idea.
Quantum mechanics is an example. We know how to use QM. It is an amazing theory. But physicists aren't probing QM anymore. Well most aren't. It does such a good job spitting out answers, we don't ask why. There is a lot to be explored there but academia tells people to avoid it. They say don't look at the man behind the curtain. QM is equations that gives good answers but we don't really know why.

Something Deeply Hidden is a good book on the subject(as a non physicist).

Of course I am just a layman who likes to read books about these subjects but I honestly don't know shit. Just what I read.
Isn't it a good practice to set a base deadline for every product you are working on? Eg. don't spend more than a month working on the MVP? That worked for me avoiding working on something for months and not shipping it at the end.
Just out of curiosity, how was op supposed to phrase that sentence in order to keep from being toxic? Was it just the pronoun that was offensive, or was it just having any critique at all?

Disagreement and critique is a positive thing if it's done with respect. Handling someone with kid-gloves is demeaning.
I've become disenchanted with the whole industry. I don't even trust Google phones or Android One to be what I want in a phone. So I've reduced to the lowest common denominator in how to solve this problem: I've stopped caring. My phone is no-longer a highly customized piece of tech I'm glued to. It's pretty much default settings with a handful of extra apps installed.

And to be honest, I kind of like it. I'm hoping to wean off a phone entirely and be able to shut it off and leave it on my desk when I'm at home.
Because cable TV was almost universally available and nearly as universally installed (at least in urbanized areas) before home internet access became common, cable is very common in US cities due to the infrastructure already existing.

And since available speeds far outpace DSL for fairly similar prices (or at least they did last time I looked at DSL), a lot of households subscribe to cable — especially where fiber isn’t yet available.
I'm super skeptical about anything that claims to be 'no code'. That said, I had an in depth look at Mendix and I have to say I'm impressed.
There's no need to look for minor inconsistencies when we have huge ones such as the Cosmological constant problem.
If your standup meeting is "stand in front of the middle manager", you're doing it wrong(tm). As with all things "agile", many places love the labels, don't understand the ideas. In my (limited) experience, standup meeting involving leaders only work if the leader is clearly part of the team (and e.g. the pressure to get things done comes from outside).

Of course, that doesn't help you if you're stuck in an organization doing it badly.
Ask HN: Why does `news.` resolve to `donuts.domains`?
Sometimes, when I go to visit HN, I type `news.` in my address bar and before auto-complete finishes, I hit return.

Somehow, this resolves to `donuts.domains`. But I can't see how this should work.

Performing a DIG on `news.` returns;

news. 10768 IN SOA demand.alpha.aridns.net.au.hostmaster.donuts.co. 1578924501 1800 900 604800 86400

But how is this permitted? Is `news.` a valid FQDN, even without a TLD?
Woah, you'll need a drivers license for that thing!
You cannot mix companies like that. Each of the companies you listed have a lot of funds with very different strategies and PnL.

Long short are having a hard time since 2018 for instance, doesn’t mean directional funds have too.

Also, we are in a high deleveraging in L/S environment, so the last 2 years should not be taken as benchmark IMHO.
I believe there's only a PDF version, and the author encourages you to print it. It's a monumental effort to make that kind of book, so it's pretty amazing he released it free.
The term for this is regulatory capture. That is why staff at the FAA share in the culpability of these tragic events.
I think that the article raises some interesting points, with some that I agree with and some that I do not.

I think it would have been helpful for the article to put the 40 years of no progress in perspective. Are we looking for progress on the scale of the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics, and so should we be comparing to the timescales between Newton and Einstein/Schrodinger? How should we think about the rate of progression in a ‘mature’ field such as physics? Should it be linear (big discovery every 40 years), faster (new discoveries are faster due to bootstrapping from other discoveries), or slower (diminishing returns)?
In case you were wondering, it’s a “moral hazard” as in the author saw those two words together once and figured they just mean a moral bad-thing. It’s not a moral hazard in the sense of economics.
No, no and no. Being ignorant is one thing. Deliberately maintaining it and event romanticizing it is a heinous crime at best.
As an outsider, I don't know. There is a presumption that since things have changed over time, they will continue to change. This very well might not be true. I didn't want to get too Kuhnian, so I just used the word "stagnant" for effect.

Once again, as an outsider it doesn't seem to me that they are anywhere near "done", but they sure as heck look like a mature science. Physics and its children have given us amazing things. Spending a lot of time playing with math wasn't one of them. All sciences have one aspect in common: until you get to reproducibility, the conversation in the community tends towards groupthink over time. That's a human characteristic not related to any one field of study.
Can you unlock the bootloadr and load your own ROMs for Android one phones?
Sestrins are evolutionarily conserved mediators of exercise benefits
That's cool. I came from the hedge fund side and left 12 years ago, but many of my peers stayed on. In the last 4 years virtually 100% of them have left due to meager bonuses (we're talking about the systems/infrastructure side of the business, including in HFT) and have all gone on to work at FAANGs (average comp I'd say between & 400k-600k).
Yes, which is why I’d recommend using DDG primarily and only using !s when you need better results. Using Startpage is probably better than using Google directly.

There is debate over the legitimacy of Startpage, see: https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/156...
I have become a bit more pessimistic about it the state of discovery. Things have slowed despite the current generation having abundant access to overwhelming compute power and the internet, things that did not exist even 30 years ago. There has never been a better time to collaborate or prove out theoretical models, yet there has been a decrease in needle moving discoveries.
Mature implies that no further major improvement is required. That does not seem to be the case with the foundations of physics given some of the fundementally unresolved inconsistencies.
This rings very true.

We sell an integration platform-as-a-service[1] and it offers a 'low code' visual environment to stitch together integrations.

But from pretty much the start, we built-in support to drop down to Javascript to build logic and we think we hit a sweet spot there.

You can visually string together most components but drop in a bit of script to concisely define some hairy transformation or complex logic.

These kinds of low code environment are great for doing customizations or enhancements or integrating many things together. It's very much not an optimal solution for building entire applications or software solutions.

There's also the issue of tooling. There's a huge amount of infrastructure built around maintaining large application code bases (version control, merging, diffing). If you want to build large pieces of software in a no-code environment you still need all of those tools - except they don't exist and are non-standard.

[1] https://lucyinthesky.io
When I was a mechanic, we used the joke "must have been built on a Monday" when a car came back for repeated issues, but I think it was lighthearted humor at best. I'm not sure how much truth there was to it.
This is a testament to how messed up Android is these days. Have a look at iOS. The minimal set of Apps they ship their phones with aren't bloated or anything besides useful. Guaranteeing updates if the vendor decides to ship them?

It's basically an example of how Apples strategy with tight grip on their platform makes so much sense. iPhone owners don't have to worry about any of that. Generally phones are supported way longer and updates available even for older phones.
This is 100% false information.

If you are building a consumer app your base unit is attention. You need to post to these sites in order to even find that “right audience” - so long as you’re not just trying to get people to sign-up for a non-existing product, this is the way.

Yes it’s fun to give people the “just give it to 5 people who really like it, and make sure you keep in touch” advice - but the truth is that for most good devs, their product dies because of exactly this mentality.

You need to learn to push your product as a creator, otherwise you will just straight fail, even if it’s a good product.

This is simply the easiest path to getting initial users to seed the feedback mechanisms that drive feature development.

Do not take the above advice - post your product to every high traffic place you can get your hands on. The users you don’t care about won’t stay, the ones that you do care about will give you information through the channels you hopefully have set up beforehand (i.e. Intercom, Segment, email, phone, Logrocket, Sentry, Datadog).

It’s up to you to then parse out which users are responsive, and if they come from some specific subreddit, you target that. If they come from a specific city, target that. You won’t ever get the data to make the decision of what niche group to target unless you post it to some high traffic source, or you are somehow extremely intimate with one of those groups already, which is often not the case.
You're not wrong in the absolute; my point is more that designing, implementing and running a model, good or bad, is increasingly team work. So there is not a single 'whoever' behind that model.
The Manager’s Path, by Camille Fournier.
I agree with the author for the most part.

An exception to this rule is that in terms of front-end (or end-to-end) testing, if an application is deterministic, you most certainly don't need to write any code to create tests for it. You can record actions and snapshots and replay the actions and compare snapshots. There can often be more to it than that (like filtering dynamic elements/attributes and pattern matching), but for the most part, this approach works quite well.
>The current situation of 70k a year college is predatory

Average 2019 college tuition and fees for public in-state is $10k. Private averages $36k/year. Local and community colleges are often cheaper than both these. There's plenty of affordable colleges around.

Where does the 70k come from?

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...
I’m not in favour of our penal system. I don’t think it does much more than provide “justice theatre.”

But as long as we’re showing that movie, right now it shows another man being arrested, and the police do not confiscate his cellphone.

He uses it in remand, and when it runs out of batteries, he asks for help charging it. He is then charged (npi) with illegally possessing a communications device in remand, and upon conviction for possessing a thing that was not confiscated from him, he was sentenced to twelve years in prison.

I’d rather not watch a movie where 9% of the citizenry of a country rots in jail with no expectation of changing their lives for the better when released, with them basically performing slave labour for corporations, and with little evidence it works to deter crime.

But if we are going to make this movie, it shouldn’t be a movie about only the poor citizens going to jail for misdeeds. The movie should show this broken concept of punishment being applied to all citizens, equally.
> but by the time you get to the point where you should be testing, rearranging, and ferreting out flaws in the foundations, you're so indoctrinated into a culture that you don't have the mental tools necessary to do the required work.

Don't you rather believe that a much simpler explanation is that the incentives and terms for grants are at fault?
Most Thousand Talents Program recruits are Chinese nationals studying and working in the U.S. Some of them may have green card, but mostly are not U.S. citizens. This is not a patriotism issue.

The money is not just the directly reward from the Thousand Talents Program. Being a Thousand Talents Program recruit, you can easily become a professor and lab director in China. This gives you money and status.

I knew a physicist worked in a 100~150 rank state University as a research scientist for a decade, low pay, cannot find a tenure position. But he got in the Thousand Talents Program, so he left the U.S. and became a professor in a top 10 University in China.
I was under the impression that the Kora borehole went unfinished because the drill broke due to temperature (7 miles down and you're talking hundreds of degrees C), not the breakup of the Soviet Union.
I was facetiously referring to not having to use any synchronization primitives, but apparently the meaning is lost in ink.
This is my understanding of deliberate practice as well.

Interestingly, The GP mentioned Ben Franklin and Franklin did use deliberate practice to improve his writing:

https://www.anecdote.com/2010/08/benjamin-franklin-deliberat...
AutoGluon: AutoML Toolkit for Deep Learning
A lot of things related to hosting (land, power, cooling, bandwidth) are cheaper in Germany versus where Linode and DigitalOcean are located.
> For example, I've seen many times code that erroneously assumed that values can be read from global memory concurrently if only write access is guarded.

As someone who has made that assumption, what's wrong with it?
Does Belgium distribute the cost of higher education across the taxpayer base? In other words, is university “free” for Belgium?
True, but it also shares that distinction with pretty much anywhere in Southern or Western Nevada. My understanding is that the particular site was simply where the mob chose. But, having looked it up just now, apparently all the Hoover Dam construction workers created some demand for entertainment, so that seems to be the real reason for that particular spot.

Also the federal government created a city called Boulder City to get the workers away from Las Vegas. Another planned city. So clearly the location of the workers was less important than the location of the mafia.
Totally agree - I just don’t see that as a distinguishing factor since we had a bunch of shell scripts break, too, as various CLI tools stopped behaving consistently.
For years now I insisted on getting a modem operating in bridge mode, with a Ubiquiti Unifi USG doing the actual routing and Unifi access points providing Wi-Fi. I never trusted the crappy modems, especially the ones provided by the cable company.

Ubiquiti cares much more about frequent software updates and the general security and reliability of their gear. The cable companies push trash, because they can get away with it in most cases.

In this particular case, I don't know if my modem is affected, but I don't really care: it's part of the operator's network, beyond the security boundaries of my network.
The latest project to drill through the mantle...

The deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu will drill through the crust where it is the shallowest using tech which wasn't available in any of the previous attempts. Looking forward to this one starting!

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jscejam/71/2/71_I_3/_ar...
I appreciate the author not even trying to disguise the post as content.

It's an ad, I didn't know this book and guy existed now I know.

It's annoying but I kind of respect it.
The concept is interesting - adding new behaviors to existing code without fully understanding it. The new code also looks like it could execute concurrently, which is a bonus.

But there are times you do want to understand how things work. With lack of clear "connections" to follow in the code, it seems like it would become harder to reason about what is going on in the first place.