skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cowen: "Start with the Ivy Leaguers. I have no rancor against lawyers, financiers or management consultants, but the pursuit of these careers seems like a misallocation of human creativity. Those jobs do not comprise most of the value of the U.S. economy, so why are they such a magnet?"

Pretty simple: the US is all about rent seeking these days. It's in the sciences as well; most people gravitate to fashionable woo which isn't particularly reproducible, and may fall entirely outside of the class of falsifiable science. Look at all the noodle theorists, cosmologists and other such wankers in physics departments. Look at the travesty that is the F35, or the laughable efforts of the center of the tech world taking billions of dollars to build a mile of freaking subway.

Just getting into some Ivy League hole like Harvard; there's a huge industry of ding dongs who will set up non-profits, fake admission essays, and either tutor or fake test results; allowing sons and daughters of the ambitious to appear competent and useful citizens rather than parasites. This sort of travesty doesn't select for "creative," it just breeds an "elite" of rent-seeking sociopathic scammers.

The last 20 years of Silicon Valley/Bay Area development are effectively rent seeking. Google and company blew up newspaper advertising while cannibalizing newspaper content. Uber, AirBnB, etc, all the same. Really the big winners in the Bay Area were the goddamned landlords; turning Boomer retirement dollars invested in "new technologies" into huge returns on real estate.

There are entire books of historical philosophy and economics on this sort of thing: Brooks Adams recognized rent seeking as deadly to civilizations. Georgists were a similar intellectual current. I don't see it as even being recognized as a problem. Cowen at least notes that progress has slowed; an idea which meets with screeches of terrified denial from the "muh ipotato" crowd. At its core, though, is a problem with rent seeking.
in doing so it leeches money from places it would be more useful and further enriches and entrenches defense contractors.
I had the same thing. The more anchored it became to reality through supportive others and responsibility and commitment the quieter it became. Writing out my ideas and then really thoroughly and deeply exploring one that means something to gave a weight to bear on my psyche that quietened the others.

Ze Frank has a good video on this where he quotes Jung's work. https://youtu.be/u2cMjeSvZSs?t=184
Artists say life begins when you leave your comfort zone, in regards to making good art.

I find it still an important driver in life to follow that burst of ideas. The only way for me to raise up an idea structure or skill is to follow that buzz upwards. My capacity to imagine is jammed packed with meaningful content now and it grows a weight of it's own.
Tri-X 320 pushes to 800 pretty well.
> One could also type like `CoUnT(dIsTiNcT CaSe WhEn ... EnD)` to make the keywords stand out. Casing has absolutely no meaning in SQL outside of single quotes.

That the language doesn't enforce a meaning doesn't mean that we can't add meaning to the casing. This is like how in multiple languages it's convention to write constant variables in all-caps even though few languages enforce it.
That's not what I'm saying.

Not having the ability to "talk" to yourself (either in words or in the abstractions that underlie the words) is a different issue. That is a serious handicap.

What I'm criticizing is having this going on all the time--constantly ruminating at rest except when attention is focused on some high-bandwidth task.
I disagree, "doing it wrong" just looks different there.
couldn't believe these numbers, read the link. correctness is obvious in retrospect, numbers are trivial to calculate by hand by just looking at daily data.

still can't believe them.
USAF has many options when it's about gunning all terrain options:

C130, yeah, that plane can literally wipe an entire convoy of cars, tanks, and landforces with thousands of heavy rounds, same as the A-10.

Apache helicopters and A-10.

And the list goes one.

I don't think it's wise to use fighters to attack land targets, more than blowing bridges or targeting tanks with missiles. The amount of rounds and the guns used in these fighters aren't suitable in my opinion. Yes, you can fight with it but that doesn't mean it's practical.
Based on publications from SSD controller vendors, it looks like current 3D TLC NAND has raw bit error rates on the order of 10^-3 or better when it's healthy. Raw bit error rates in the 1-2% range correspond to a drive that's either worn out its write endurance, or has been sitting on a shelf in high temperatures for years and has some data retention issues. It looks like most SSD controllers are designed to maintain some degree of usability with ~1% raw bit error rates (albeit with performance penalties), but 2% RBER is pushing the limits of even the last-resort layer of ECC.
I too have personal examples on both sides.

I have an acquaintance who was convicted of fraud, sentenced to 5 years, got out early due to performing community service in jail. Haven't heard much from him after he got out though.

I have another friend who was convicted of manslaughter, he's been a very productive member of society since he was released and I feel that he's very trustworthy. I've known him for 15 years and maybe he's had some parking tickets...

A former peer was convicted of sex crimes in the early 2000s, he's reoffended in multiple countries.

A friend of a friend was convicted of eco terrorism, they've been on the run but keeping in contact somehow, they've apparently destroyed millions of dollars in properties and have yet to be caught again.

If you look at the police blotter in my city, its pretty much all repeat offenders.
That employs and affects millions (directly and indirectly) of people across multiples countries in high deficit areas. Which is the ultimate goal of the project. A plane that may work is merely the bonus of the R&D spend.

Countries that don't do regional-deficit spending in this manner (that seems economically inefficient) end up having severe problems, particularly after the GFC. Much of Europe is easily in this bucket. The F35 is part of the reason the US isn't in as much hell economically speaking as Europe is.
For what it's worth...

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

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals..."

etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also described in "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman!", which I absolutely recommend reading.
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But in this case, a research institution is getting more money, presumably to be able to fund further research.
It seems like a perfect counter example of what your worries are about slowing progress.
What do you associate with "Iron Man"?

For mental-picture people images from the movies or the comics pop up. Via the movies "Captain America" is closely associated for example. The method of loci [0] exploits this somewhat.

Do you rather associate sounds, music, smells instead? Is it purely abstract?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
It's interesting you categorize both A-10 and F-15 in the good bucket because the same group of people responsible for the A-10 (F-16 and F/A-18) were very against the F-15. The F-16 and F/A-18 were actually spun up in opposition to the F-15 by the "Fighter Mafia". That group of people favored cheap, numerous planes that did one job really well, hence the F-16 and A-10. Both of those are undoubted successes but at the same time most people would consider the F-15 a success too. I wonder if F-35 would ultimately prove to be a success the same way the F-15 did.
Answer: Repeal the exclusionary zoning laws in this country's most overpriced real estate markets that are making it so difficult for young people to purchase their first homes. In fact, the regressive zoning laws are artificially inflating the price of many older folks' homes, which is precisely what is allowing them in many cases to pursue the more creative, higher risk career paths.

According to his Wikipedia page, Tyler Cowen is a committed free-market ideologue who still believes in the "meritocracy myth" (also formerly known as the "American Dream").

Got news for Cowen, this country's economy has long moved on since the days back when he earned that Harvard PhD!

As a next semester reading assignment for Cowen, I'd like to suggest Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
They do get to run it - within limits. Some of the limits are constitutional. Things that are not withing the power of the government are not within its power even when the majority wants to do them.
Yes. A lot of my job includes doing voices and impressions, replicating sounds. I've always been a mimic and had a curiosity about sound. So I guess when I'm thinking about an accent or particular voice I'll be going over knotty bits in my mind, trying to nail how to attack a sound with the musculature of the mouth and throat.
I think there's a supply & demand thing. Most people are not that excited about finance, or sales, or computer science. And there's a need for a few million of those people across the US economy to do those jobs. Whereas there might be a similar amount of people interested in being a professional musician at the same degree, but the commercial demand means that say 5,000 of those people can afford to go full time.

Anecdotally, a lot of my friends went into teaching / nursing because it was seen as stable, and pretty easy to get into.
F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Sure, there’s plenty of California-centrism, but from where I’m sitting, a multilingual Siri sounds like a massive technical challenge. I also remember how long it took Google to roll out bike directions, and just how awful it was at first, when it was rolling out.

Bicycle directions are more challenging than directions for cars, public transit, and walking. I’m just speaking from my own personal experience, here. In every city I’ve lived in, I’ve had to test out different bicycle commuting routes until I found one which I liked. Walking and driving I will just take the fastest route and be done with it. Everyone has different preferences for bicycling for how much elevation climb they can handle, how much traffic they tolerate, etc.
It's very healthy. This buzz of ideas and fantasy is where new forms and structures come from. It needs to be applied, not medicated.
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> its disastrous initial release.

I'm no fan of Apple but I'd hardly call it's release disastrous.
Sometimes I have a "how awful would it be to do XY" moments. Usually something brutal. But it always makes me pay even more attention to not doing that very thing even accidentally because I definitely do not want to break stuff or hurt someone. Yet it makes me a bit nervous. What if I actually decided to do that? Fortunately it never happens when I'm under influence. Do I need help?
What would they gain by retiring, exactly?
Did you notice in the police report that "someone got a picture of the drones" but it turned out to just be a picture of a "white light in the sky".

This would definitely be UFO two or three decades ago.

Also the number of spelling and grammatical errors in the sheriff's email was quite... surprising. Or maybe not, for small town police...
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That's you touting your own feed, and you don't appear to be an epi scientist
Maybe it's a good opportunity for you to start following speed limits and stop risking everyone's life :)
Worse, I went in for a consultation prior to having my wisdom tooth removed.

I was on the fence whether to have the procedure done or not. The doctor used the fact that I would be prescribed “really good painkillers” as an incentive for me to schedule the procedure.
"So when you visit HTTPS sites, anyone along the communication path - from your ISP to the Internet backbone provider to the site's hosting provider - can see their domain names (e.g. wikipedia.org) and when you visit them."

Except wikipedia.org does not require SNI.

Most HTTPS sites do not require SNI.

Not every client sends SNI by default. OpenSSL's s_client does not. There are others.

printf "GET /wiki/MediaWiki HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: en.wikipedia.org\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"|openssl s_client -showcerts -connect mediawiki.org:443 -ign_eof

Some sites "require" SNI, but then do not check it against the Host header. A client can send any SNI.

The server certificate says *.wikipedia.org.

But there are numerous websites sharing the IP addresses for wikipedia.org, not all of them serving Wikipedia content. One example is mediawiki.org.

What if a website padded all its pages to be the same size.
There have been quite a few cases covered in the press about patients which carried the virus but didn't show any symptoms. Most recently: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus-outbreak/Three...
Daydreaming?

I have internal monologues, talking to myself as I write this, and when I was younger I'd play out stories in my head. Still do it sometimes when I'm bored or stressed, or particularly upset about something.

Example of a story: something very much like The Watchmen graphic novel, before I had read it (movie and show didn't exist, or were even talked about.
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With me it is often less words and more action movies: getting innocent people out of harms way, looking for cover, looking for anyone like minded who might be able to help block the doors and try to ambush an attacker together with me. Calling the police, whispering the address etc etc.

Not sure if it would work if anything happens, but this is one of the thing my mind keeps itself busy with as I walk through the city. And no, I'm formally a trained soldier, but I don't have much training in this so it is just my bored mind going crazy with ideas.
So many submissions, exactly one comment[0] (so far). User rightbyte[1] said:

> I don't see any proof of the prediction in the article.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22179289

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rightbyte
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That's good to hear, but S4TF has failed to gain any real traction among ML users and was started over two years ago. I've heard not many care about it apart from the core team and now that Lattner is gone it's likely Google will send it to the graveyard soon.
I don't think the dress is a good example of different people perceiving colors differently since individuals can see it both ways.
Great work, I hate it!
If one builds an internal reality of mind that has others "speaking" in it, as if one has seen them do it, one is allowing one to remove their choice...at least internally. If one repeated what you saw to others, then that could also be spreading the behavior to others, thus removing the choice from target. Shame works this way, for example.
I think you're remembering the fire bit backwards. A lack of controlled burns due to discontinuation of indigenous practices and budget cuts combined with increased fire fighting (preventing natural burns) caused fuel to build up in forests that would have burned away in smaller fires. Many plants in Australia are actually adapted to frequent fires like the eucalyptus tree whose oils ignite during fires to wipe out all competitors near their seeds, which also require fire to germinate. Because of the intensity of the fires this year, it became too hot for many of those species and they now wont be able to reestablish.

A similar problem developed in California due to overzealous fire fighting that built up the forest floor over decades and led to some devastating fires.
I wish they’d fix the issue where if I click on reviews it prompts me to install the yelp app. I don’t want that nonsense.
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I feel the same way on the 2nd layer you're talking about. I feel like I can plan out a big project in my head, and see it, and understand it. But when I try to verbalize it, I get really flustered. I just want to zap the idea into someone else's head so that I don't have to explain how it works, because I'll inevitably do a poor job until I start working on said project.
Californian (Bay Are) here.

Denser development near transit sounds fantastic - it's just the kind of Jane Jacobs future I hope we can build for ourselves.

However, I strongly disliked SB50 - and other measures like it - because they consider American-style busing to be transit.

Buses in the United States, for the most part, are throwaway, afterthought breadcrumbs that planners and political leaders cram in to soften the blow of overwhelmingly automobile-centric transit design.

This results in poorly scheduled, infrequent, usually empty buses bonking their way around infrastructure that has no place for them. There are exceptions, of course, some of which exist here in the Bay Area, but for the most part in the United States, busing is the lame, pathetic stand-in for real transit investment - like subways and commuter trains.

What does that mean for a policy like SB50 ? It means that any old bus stop, which is completely dysfunctional and derelict, counts as "transit" around which to build denser housing. This could be anywhere. I don't want denser housing built anywhere some planning afterthought put a bus stop that nobody uses. Further, I don't want to continue to enable busing to exist as a viable policy option - because it isn't.
There is a mathematical relationship between the sensor size and the optical properties (particularly focal length) of the lens that affects the result.

Bigger sensors tend to have shallower depth of field for a given aperture, which requires stopping down the lens further or using lens movements to compensate to keep the subject in focus. But that can be desirable where you want to isolate a subject or otherwise create an effect.

However, stopping down further also tends to cause an increase in diffraction as the Airy discs become larger and start to engage each other in constructive/destructive wave interference which reduces the theoretical resolution of the system. This particularly affects smaller sensors but since you stop a larger lens down farther it also affects them as well.

And in contrast - smaller sensors need wider apertures for a given amount of subject isolation, but they are also subject to diffraction at much wider apertures. This means you need a lens that can deliver maximum resolution at very wide apertures. This is why your cellphone camera has a f/2 or f/1.8 lens, the sensor is tiny and it needs a very wide aperture or diffraction will rob the image of all sharpness. It's also why, for the most part, cellphone cameras haven't gone much above the 10-12mp range.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/diffraction-phot...

(I've always suspected there is probably some asymptotic limit to the amount of resolution that can be extracted for a given amount of depth of field, even with an infinitely large film/sensor size. as you increase the sensor size you have to stop down further and the diffraction becomes stronger and limits the lp/mm)
What is counterintuitive about this? That best dynamic programmers are the absolute best programmers? I mean come on man..
If you are "export[ing] data in its raw, natural state" then haven't you lost the isolation benefits of microservices? Now you have external systems dependent on your implementation details, and changing your schema will break them.
What Do You Care What Other People Think?, a book of Richard Feynman stories, has a chapter that ties into this. You can read the chapter here:

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/607/2/Feynman.pdf

He discovers that he can read while counting in his head at a steady rate, but he cannot talk while counting. When he tells his friends, one of them claims to be the opposite, and indeed proves that he can count while talking but not while reading. It turns out “he was visualizing a tape with numbers on it going by.”

That friend was John Tukey. You may have heard of him. He invented the Fast Fourier Transform.
People mistakenly calculate %2 and %50 simultaneously because they assume that when a case is confirmed the death or cured status is also determined at that moment.

In reality, though, people who are going to die don't die at the moment of infection confirmation and people who are going to live do lag in the log because it takes time to confirm if someone has recovered and virus-free.

Some will suggest to simply compare the deaths to the confirmed case from a week? ago but this assumes that the patients are admitted at the same stage of their infection and all cases at the time are accounted for(deaths are probably much better tracked than the infection and the publicity has a huge impact on the reporting). It would be a guesstimate at best.

I would say, let's stick to official numbers since the calculation requires each patients timeline. Surely an educated guess can be constructed by modelling the patient prognosis and virus behaviour but that also requires much more data than what the public has.
If hospitals err on safe side and do not report recoveries promptly (they probably have other business to deal with), applying this method at such early stage would not result in correct numbers, even supposing the virus is well-studied enough to tell when a patient has recovered.
iPhones are not the market leader and do not have to follow molopoly based rules. They can allow apple maps only and all is legal.
I know for Slovenia that you can start a company there as a foreigner, and then get a work visa simply by employing yourself, it's a fairly simple procedure. After 5 years you qualify for permanent residency (I believe that's the same everywhere in EU).
Which is why both sides bring in, and cross-examine experts to help the jury decide.
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You need air superiority and excellent AA suppression before those drones can take to the skies. Most of today's drones are basically fodder targets for any, even basic AA regime.

The F22 and F35 are great pieces of gear. Though obviously flawed, the problems are in many ways overstated.
That’s 3 emails a day for 10 people... what have you built that requires that level of communication with family and close friends?
Ever get any of that Seattle FilmWorks film? Not C41 process, but people didn't understand that, and I learned it the hard way myself when I first started working at a lab. I had some really frustrating conversations with customers who thought I was lying to them when I told them we couldn't process it for them.
With all due respect, rumination is a well known symptom of depression and depressed people's internal dialogue tends to be warped in negative thinking patterns.
One thing I’ve seen: feature priority driven by what is expected to drive sales. This is a feature that I could see, justified or not, as not driving adoption.
> If you're referring to the overuse of hand sanitizer and other disinfectant agents

I'm thinking more generally: I was thinking along these lines because the news report I heard [1] described 'wet markets' as a place where disease spread. I'd never heard of it before. But it occurred to me that centuries ago, this kind of thing might have been more common. Processes and regulations for handling of animal products are a net benefit but I wonder if there are any drawbacks.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800725826/why-wet-markets-are...
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