skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Already posted Apr 25 on this forum at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23139023
Oof, I can only imagine! But if I were to take a guess, I'd say it's probably in the 7-8 figure range!
To estimate the exposure of real flights there is also the "EPCARD ONLINE Flight Dosimetry for Aviation Personel" online calculator[1]. It is provided by a member of the Helmholtz Association, which is the largest scientific organization in Germany, so it should be credible.

[1] https://www1.helmholtz-muenchen.de/epcard/online/fluginput.p...
> Under recent Supreme Court law, however, we are compelled to conclude that, regardless of the legality of Padilla's detention and the wisdom of Yoo's judgments, at the time he acted the law was not "sufficiently clear that every reasonable official would have understood that what he [wa]s doing violate[d]" the plaintiffs' rights. Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, ___ U.S. ___, 131 S.Ct. 2074, 2083, 179 L.Ed.2d 1149 (2011) (internal quotation marks omitted). We therefore hold that Yoo must be granted qualified immunity, and accordingly reverse the decision of the district court.

https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20120502152.xml
Why not build a tool with D3 or another modeling tool to teach chemistry? You could have them build compounds and then if they make a mistake, insert via a tool tip and tell them why. As they combine things, you read out what it is or test them based on the string they put in for the compound. You have to build it and name it correctly.

This sounds really cool and is completely unrelated to what I am saying "Please don't do."
Honest question: does anyone really think that 5G is related to Covid, or is this a story planted in the media to also make legitimate criticism of 5G look like fringe lunacy?
Synology NASes get around this by using Btrfs with MD-RAID.

I have two such setups since 2016 or so, and they haven't given me any problems.
Well spotted. However technically they are correct, it is not a shameless plug!
Wait, really? I've always thought those two words were interchangeable. Should I change it from "alphabets" to "letters" to avoid misleading users?
> Bars and churches

Uh, what? I (and I imagine a good 50%+ of the hacker news readership, perhaps 75%+ if you exclude the USA) am never going to go to either of those without already knowing people.

> generic meetups, smallgroups, dog parks,

Places where you have nothing in common, so nothing to easily bond over (such as a book you've all read)

> volunteering, taking a class

Things where you should be focusing on something else, not socialising (such as in your ideal bookclub).

> If you're not going to read the book for a book club, it just seems like you might have better luck finding shared hobbies with people at a different kind of club.

What makes a book club different to any other hobby club?
Or are you saying that you should only go to any hobby meetup if you're a "hardcore" hobbyist?

Because that leaves basically no way to meet people with common interests.
Can you expand on this with specifics please? Our serverless code is all in one repo and we’re pretty happy with it.
My mistake.

<insert disaster/crisis> then, it doesn't matter. You can always criticize the president for <golfing/taking a vacation/relaxing> when you think they should be doing something else.
One of the authors of Patroni here.

Automatic failover for PostgreSQL works great and can be done safely if combined with synchronous replication.

Multiple tools will implement this correctly:

https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/replication_modes.h...
https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon/blob/master/doc/syncrepl...

Quoting a former colleague here, but "if it hurts, do it more often". That is what you should do with your PostgreSQL failovers.

I have clusters running on timelines in the hundreds without a byte of data loss due to using synchronous replication, tools that help out with leader election, and just doing it often.
> with B players or a team with existing dysfunctions.

Hmm...I got handed a team of C players. By focusing on the technical aspects of XP such as simple code, test first, quick turnaround (work on master, check in when green) the team was outperforming the "star" team(s) after about a year or two.

We paired only on a need basis, but I wouldn't say that we failed.
Copyright registration is meaningless in this context. It is for the registration of complete works, mainly to prove their existence at a certain time.
Trademark registration (USPTO) could be relevant to this situation, but it depends from the specific classes of goods and services the trademark is registered for.
There is nothing that prevents you from registering a domain name if it is still available, or from buying a domain from someone else. The copyright registration is not relevant. The trademark registration could be for other classes or you might reside in a country for which the trademark registration is not relevant.
I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
> Most book clubs are doing it wrong... You have one meeting per book.... The problem is that there’s no time to cash in on anyone else’s insights.

> My book club started four years ago to read Infinite Jest.

Well SHEESH -- most book clubs aren't trying to read 1,079 page long books. Of course you're going to need to break that up.

But the idea that anyone else is doing it "wrong" is both nonsensical and incredibly arrogant. Book clubs are usually concerned with much shorter books that are more easily accessible, where of course you can understand each others' insights afterwards.

And for me, the goal isn't just (or even primarily) to understand the book better or "cash in", as it is more to understand your friends better and enjoy time together. Even if you haven't read the book at all, you can go to hear what they have to say and discuss the topics raised generally.

(If your goal is primarily to understand the book better, you'll probably get a lot more out of reading reviews, analysis, etc. online that meeting with friends, unless your friends happen to be English professors, writers for the New Yorker, etc.)
Aspects of human beings that are widely present in people all over the world, and are therefore likely resistant to effective removal using known practical tools, is generally considered reasonable (but not incontrovertible) evidence for biological inclination. It is not necessary to have linked this to a particular gene, and doesn't cease to be "biological" if it involves gene-environment interactions. It was correct to say that most plants were biologically inclined to use the sun's energy before photosynthesis and DNA were understood.
yeah, eotf. my bad.
My company collaborated on a project to solve this problem (currently UK only, though the tech can expand anywhere given available datasets) - http://commuter.cc/. Unfortunately it’s a very challenging problem and there is very little interest from travellers, at least not enough to create a profitable business! So unlikely we are going to expand this any further.
Thanks! If you are interested more about the event here was a podcast https://www.thetalkingmachines.com/episodes/iclr-accessible-... and blog post https://medium.com/@iclr_conf/gone-virtual-lessons-from-iclr...

Answers:

1 + 2. We used https://slideslive.com/ an external conference provider. They do a lot of optimizing behind the scenes, and have that cool sync.

3. Python is the de facto standard language in ML. We use it for everything. We thought about js/react or something, but we didn't think it would be maintainable.

4. A lot of the existing software assumed there would be a physical event or even worse tried to pretend there was a virtual physical event. We wanted something that was async-first, desktop-oriented, and very simple to browse.
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I'm reminded of what U.G. Krishnamurti said - "cause and effect is the shibboleth of confused minds"
But this is not simply the nature of people to search for understanding. It's also down to the willful exploitation of events in bad faith.

Especially in these days--where there's a pitched ideological/political battle raging, coupled with an assault on "knowing"--that seems to be the larger driving force.
Is there any interest in a proximity based chat app?
One of the interesting things about the Selectric is that it contains a mechanical digital-to-analog converter .. a Whiffletree mechanism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCNenhcvpw
Don't mix privacy and security. Privacy-invading policies have nothing to do with the discussion.

As for examples, you have many, including ones discussed in HN regularly.
I'm not sure I understand your point.

> the master is the one doing all writes. The replicas are read only. By default replicas are asynchronous

The same is true with MongoDB's defaults in an unsharded cluster.
https://www.cnet.com/health/5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory...
My only experience with MongoDB is being "the engineer called to clean the mess".

It’s always the same

1. Newbie webdev (aren’t they all) uses MongoDB because it’s easy to use according to blogs and twitter

2. Somehow it makes it into production

3. A dozen experienced engineers spend years trying to keep it running
> 'they all boil down to "it's the fault of {fill in the blank evil rich person or organization}"'

that's (again) the fundamental attribution error, another type of bias where we attribute to people outcomes that are more attributable to situations.

besides, most prevalent among the covid narratives is the fear and panic of the unknown--the complexity and randomness (of nature) as you put it--so quite the opposite of what you narrate.

the simple narrative is that covid is caused by a respiratory virus, and while there's lots to learn about viruses overall, we know plenty enough about them not to be in a panic over it, and to develop reasonable policies entirely from the knowledge we have. but that's too simple for our overwhelming fear of the unknown, untamped by reason, and many of us seek other, often more complicated narratives to assuage our anxiety.
Yeah :) we hacked in a lot of things last minute for ICLR. MiniConf is a clean 80% functionality / 20% code version of that codebase.
> Why specifically do you challenge far less than you would like to?

Because if you push in another direction then you have to own the new direction.

That is a lot of responsibility to take on - and in many organizations it comes with no reward and serious potential downside.
Hi Kyle! I’ve really enjoyed your work over the years. I was wondering, with all of your testing and experimentation, is there any system that had really impressed you?
I recently bought an Ivy Bridge CPU low power CPU + motherboard for $35 and 8 GiB of ram for $25. No need to buy new hardware if you can do away with old.
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Whether or not humans are biologically inclined to it, it's still a valid question to ask "Are you considering this potential mistake when telling our story and taking precautions to avoid it?"
The same thing that "assures the trustworthiness" of every other computer ever made: nothing. What is the purpose of asking a question so vague as to be unanswerable?
Some libraries seem to have copies of the instruction manual (not online, though):

https://www.worldcat.org/title/instruction-manual-for-use-wi...
Jepsen reports often include two distinct types of analyses: correctness in a distributed storage system under a variety of failure scenarios, and in-depth analysis of consistency claims. Both examinations are extremely helpful.

In a single write master configuration, Postgres runs transactions concurrently, so the consistency analysis is still quite relevant.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that everyone expects Postgres to get top marks in this configuration and it would be worth confirming that this is the case.
Good luck upgrading your X1 Ram ;)
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> I don't see how that's different from peer review

A lot of people think they're subject-matter experts and may comment on your article, but may be mistaken.

In all the peer review processes I've been involved in reviewers review each others reviews before they go out. Other reviewers will challenge a bad or misleading review. If there aren't people who know enough about the subject they'll go out and find someone who is.

You could literally do this process in a web interface that looked like Hacker News, but they already pretty much do.

I think if you built your dream review system... I think you may find it looks pretty much like what we have already.

> callouts on Twitter and Hacker News

Sounds like a popularity contest.
the posts linked in the beginning of the thread talk about 51 memory safety bugs over the course of many years, from 2002 to 2018.

Stylo has been the default CSS parser starting from the beginning of 2018.

It's good that Rust could have avoided them, but is it a fair comparison?

I think that when at Firefox they started to think about a new architecture to better enable parallelism they began improving considerably, Rust is only a part of that.
> somebody who enjoys his job, or creating value, or material things, more than surfing and playing video games

AKA: responsibility
Nitpick but the finite sum of sines is not an approximation ( except for quantization effects when transforming between time/frequency)

A defining characteristic of finite length orthogonal transforms is that there exists an inverse transform that preserves energy. What that means is for any particular orthogonal transform, such as the DFT which maps a time domain vector to frequency domain vector, the transformed vector is not an approximation or the time domain. It's the same energy, arranged differently. Nothing is lost in the transform, and it can be transformed back.

This is actually why lossy codecs employ lossless transforms - they decorrelate the energy of a signal over a window of time into a representation that has the same energy but compacted into fewer elements of the vector. Some information arranged differently, in a context that makes it more useful.

There is no fundamental building block of a signal other than energy. Whatever domain you choose to view that energy on depends on the context for which the signal is meaningful. For our ears that's time. For our brains it's frequency. For any given algorithm or encoding, it could be something totally different (eg the DCT domain, which is like frequency, but isn't the same).

Another way to think of it is that frequency and time are two compositions of information, there are infinite such compositions, and infinite ways to map between them. None is any more fundamental than the other, only more meaningful or useful in specific contexts.
I'm not sure "high functioning" is the right term when discussing individuals rather than teams. I suggest using "leaders" or "mentors", since "high functioning" as in personal contribution productivity is, as you pointed out, often a toxic thing to optimize for.

Consider this: a team with one insanely productive contributor and three new/less-than-productive folks is tasked with a bunch of projects. As expected, the productive person does most of the work. The others might learn a bit by example, or not. Productive person moves on/gets bored/gets significant non-work commitments/burns out/gets hit by a bus. The team is no longer productive or functional.

Then consider this: a team with one person with a talent for teaching and leadership, and three new/less-than-productive folks is tasked with a bunch of projects. At first, they aren't that high-functioning as a team. The teacher/leader spends a lot of their time mentoring, going over the basics, reviewing, and planning. Over time, they get more productive. If the mentor/leader leaves the mentorship/leadership role, at worst they leave a high-performing team behind. At best they leave a high-performing team of people who are additionally prepared to assume a mentorship/leadership role in the future.

Depending on how "10x" (ugh) the developer in the first scenario is, the team in the second example might never reach their productivity. But I think it's pretty obvious that organizations are benefited more by second-example-type teams.
I repeatedly see this trope about Bezos' hyper intelligence. I mean he appears to be intelligent but how did his reputation for being the smartest of billionaires arise? What proof is there of it? He generally comes across as a well read, educated person who also happens to be very rich.

Pointing to Amazon and his success is no answer. People don't go around calling Carlos Slim hyperintelligent. Or Michael Bloomberg. Even Buffett gets the "wise" tag. But Bezos is always referenced as if he could readily out smart his smartest employees in their field if only he could be bothered...
The article states that teams with high psychological safety have success with feedback weeks, it does not say that feedback week results in high psychological safety.
Not before millions were exposed.
The latter, but they're actively trying to get those patches upstreamed, which is more than most arm vendors do.
What was the import duty like?
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> PostgreSQL doesn't offer multi master replication.

Not in itself, but it does offer a PREPARE TRANSACTION - COMMIT PREPARED / ROLLBACK PREPARED extension that could be used to add such support in the future. This would not be unprecedented, as the simpler case of db sharding is already being supported via the PARTITION BY feature, combined with "FOREIGN" database access.
The USB-C ports do not support DisplayPort.
It's a very active conspiracy. I have seen anti-5G stickers around town.

https://nltimes.nl/2020/04/11/five-telecom-towers-torched-po...
And the wealthy class of Wuhan had to have their New Year banquet.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3049173/coro...
High functioning team can have juniors in them, can have inexperienced people in them and can have people with range of knowledge and skills.
Not sure how many ways I can say this: the titles are already "Jepsen: X". HN's got a policy in place that means sometimes mods change the title to just "X". That's not something I have control over, sorry.
It's running 5.6.0-0.42-MANJARO-ARM, so that'll be a bit behind.
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This kind of comparison strikes me as generally unproductive and toxic to the discourse. What useful parallels are there between a disease with 1% mortality that we aim to control through public health measures, and a disease with 50% mortality that could not be controlled through public health measures?
> such practical decisions cannot be taken when everything has to be politicised.

But what politicizes it is precisely the fact that the government is making the decision for everybody, instead of letting each free person make the decision for themselves. If the government didn't force its decision on everybody, then it would not be politicized at all. It would just be a practical decision, exactly as you say.
Anyone wondering: The summary is that Caffeine seems to be very good for your health! So keep on drinking
Ask HN: Does it work to send cold emails to a company where you'd like to work?
I've been fired from a toxic company in the past days and I decided I would like to work on a company that'd enjoy - mainly on a topic or theme that I'd love (art, for example).

I have in mind 3 or 4 companies that I would like to apply, but some of them have no opening positions for my role, others I can't find any open position at all. Would it be OK if I write to them explaining my position, why the area they work is my passion, and asking if they have a role for me? Or should I wait until they open a new call for my job?

Anyone did something like this in the past?

Thank you!
I was involved in student politics and then grownup politics, so I feel qualified to exercise all due cynicism about people's motivations.

Once I got over literally every other professional experience I'd ever had, Pivotal was the real deal.
You make a great point, there's a big temptation to commit narrative fallacy when trying to explain narrative fallacy.

So we should look for empirical evidence.

At the same time brains are complicated, psychology is complicated, genetics is complicated.

We know a lot about all of the above but we don't really understand any of them.

The history of all three sciences is full of narrative fallacies.

Given what we don't know, absolute proof, especially in genetics, isn't currently possible. So we have to settle for the best working explanation based on what we know. I think there is plenty of peer reviewed support for the idea that we are biologically inclined to look for neat explanations so that we can file challenging concepts away as resolved and focus our bandwidth on other things.
> In an unhealthy environment, not only are the novices doomed to failure/making things worse, but so are experienced folks.

Is that true though? I can think of plenty of counter examples where lots of quality work has been done in very toxic environments.
The Journal of Open Source Software https://joss.theoj.org is a nice example of this.
I don't think I got stung with that. It's a bit random with getting stuff from the U.S. - sometimes you get stung with import tax and a stupid handling charge and sometimes you get lucky.

Edit: looking at other comments, it probably came from China which tends to be better for not getting caught with import charges.
> serious potential downside

See? Found your problem. The downside must be eliminated.
There is no good reason to use an esoteric language in production except in order to make yourself irreplaceable.
Ouch. This is what you get when you order up a third-party review and then misrepresent it in advertising.
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a "nootropic" in modern parlance
>Not sure if they take an extra fee on top of the "pre-delivery price" or how does it work.

Not sure about those but others in my country do - I've talked to a restaurant owner here - he has two companies with marked up prices for the same menu to get arround the app policy that prices must be the same as buying directly from vendor, if you order directly from him it's ~20% cheaper. That's on top of explicit delivery fee.
And that’s the epitome of selfishness
> What is the purpose

Challenging a claim made by the previous poster?
Anyone have an example of taking a low functioning team to a high functioning one? Building trust, changing culture.

It's one thing to just say "here's the ideal".
And another to say if you're in a sub-optimal place, "just leave."

But how to change a poor habit place into a good habit place.

I don't think bad habits really go away, they get drowned out by the better habits. I think the same is true of teams. But, IMHE, improvement has been hard to come by.

I'd love to hear your stories.
I love this demo. It’s a good example of how much our perception is affected by our priors.

This is a other great example, where speech is synthesized with an acoustic piano (though the keys are controlled digitally, the sound is just from the hammers and strings). Without the subtitles you probably couldn’t understand, but it sounds pretty clear when you know what it’s saying already.

https://youtu.be/muCPjK4nGY4
Only shortly afterwards, several hours to a day or so.
Separation of life between work and non-work is really important, especially if long term mental health is concern. Personally, I would burned out really fast in this scenario. This is the pressure I felt when I go on week long business trips where days are spent in the office, and night are spent preparation for the next day.
I am impressed at the lengths people will go to rationalize consuming that to which they are addicted.
Resteraunts should just put "GrubHub fee" on the bill