skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 5-year-old Labrador Retriever probably does behave like a 55-year old human. I think the important takeaway from this study is that every species/breed has a life-pattern that can be represented with a logarithmic graph and four key milestones. The fact that the first study used a specific dog breed is incidental.
I find your deeply uncharitable assumption of why people use and prefer to use certain words unnecessarily hostile, and worth fighting. You want to only look at the context for people who oppose these words, and not at all for the people who want to keep them or their utility. I repudiate your goals, whatever euphemism you try to couch it in, e.g. "disturbed".
A lot of people don't possess the capital to, well, capitalise on these events. I tried day trading as early as march, but guess how far 100 dollars of starting investment got me?

The shame is not that people don't have financial literacy.
Ending QE definitely seems like a step in the right direction. If money is inflated away, what's the point of it really? I don't know enough about UBI to say if it's a good replacement. I am curious to learn more about your reasoning.

The debt thing to me seems like a "band aid" on keeping consumption going. If people have no meaningful money saved, then to keep consumption going cheap credit needs to be made available.
Why are you calling people "unsavvy" for understanding the complexity of how money works and how they can influence th behavior of billionaire elites?
Yes, I agree, this provides the best of both worlds.

I could see a potential argument for increasing screen real estate for content-heavy apps though.
Still right though. Too big to fail means too big to be allowed to exist. Either there must be stringent regulation with scale in winner takes all fields or some form of serious punishment if the fed is going to be the saviour of last resort. And I don't mean punishing the corporation itself but the top management.
Then you become the new Apple and rule the world. And you'll see all these politicians licking your shoes.
Yes, talking about averages sounds like it might lead a prover astray into reasoning about the average size of compressed data. The average that matters here though is how many inputs map to the same output.

Compressing (n+1)-bit input to n-bit output makes the average output correspond to 2^(n+1)/2^n = 2 inputs. By Dijkstra's rephrasing of the pigeonhole principle, the maximum number of inputs colliding on the same output must be at least 2.

Or we could make it more robust and say we're compressing to n-bit-or-smaller output. Then the average output corresponds to 2^(n+1)/(2^(n+1)-1) inputs. That average is still strictly greater than 1, so the maximum number of inputs colliding on the same output must also be strictly greater than 1 (at least 2, since that's the smallest natural which is greater than 1).
Forgiveness certainly does not require being correct. The "mistake" language is excellent, because it covers cases where you may not have been badgered at all. You could feel it was a mistake to post something based on its timing (eg a tasteless joke)
It seems stallman had the foresight to predict things like this in 1997. I think the days where one needs to be licensed to use a debugger might not be far away.
>I really disagree there. The difference in quality between FM and DAB (not even DAB+) is very significant, and I’m not even an audiophile.

It might be appreciable at home, does it still apply in a moving vehicle? I personally can't tell the difference.
Left and right are arbitrary labels applied to the two largest opposing parties in a country. They aren't ideologies.
It was a live issue in the Artifex case. The parties ultimately settled so we don't have a final answer, but the district court was going along with the contract theory. The availability of specific performance remains an open question too. But if you can in fact enforce the GPL as a contract, then it's not a big step to some plaintiff getting specific performance, which is going to turn on case-specific things like the adequacy of monetary damages.

https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/breach-gpl-... https://www.omm.com/resources/alerts-and-publications/alerts... https://www.natlawreview.com/article/important-open-source-r...
Actually, I have another private GitHub, where I do most of my experiments and which is bit more informative. When my code executes, I then push it on the official one, hence the lack of comments.
I am relatively new to the cancer IO space, but unless you discovered a new check-point idea (e.g., TIGIT) a lot of the ideas are flushed out already. If you're thinking cell-therapy, there are a number of autologous ideas already on CMC for p1 testing. If you're trying to make TILs angry, or modulate M1/M2 CD11b macrophages, anything that requires transcriptional re-programming, you have a lot of catching up to do.
I installed custom ROMs on my Samsung and Oneplus devices in the past to improve performance. The hardware was more than capable but only custom ROMs were optimised enough to run smoothly. Doing the same to all the Xiaomi devices in my family too.
You write a blog about it, and get hired in the US... problem solved ;)
I agree, social mobility is extremely important for the progress of a society. Talent is not necessarily distributed to those born with silver spoons.
We are long past the point of "fascism" meaning anything but "government that hurts people"
I have serious doubts whether lobbying has a decent ROI, much like mergers it seems to favour managers over owners.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/01/lo...
The US economy is inflated, but US treasuries are still in high demand and we might as well milk it for what its worth. The US is like the lannister’s of the world in that they’re rich because they always pay their debts (historically, their bonds have been the most stable.) Allowing, the economy to collapse basically denies us this otherwise free money and helps no one, besides those who fill the power vacuum, which could very well be big corporations.
Yes, This American Life did a great story on this.

"We’ve fought two wars since 9/11. We got help from tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans—some were targeted or killed because they helped us. We owe these people. We’ve passed laws that say so. So why has it been so hard for us to get many of them to safety?"

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/607/didnt-we-solve-this-one
If this is true (which I doubt) you should be able to find some statistic.
Bots are humans until advertisers decided they aren't.
Seems to me like we're seeing the definition of "moral hazard" incarnate lately.
I don't think this comparison holds up. In software, the reason to release something early is because it is hard to tell if there is demand for what you have built and getting feedback from the market is vital.

In pharma, I think the success criteria are much better understood, but it's just really hard to do what people want.

Not so say our regulatory system isn't a shitshow that needs reform, but I don't think there is the same benefit of releasing buggy versions.

Having said that, there are a lot of arguments for reforming how we do later stage clinical trials to provide access to potentially life saving drugs as well as reducing the costs of drug development https://reason.com/2018/02/02/right-to-try-fda-drug-trials/
One of my favourite quotes on the topic of abstraction comes from Dijkstra, too.

> The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
Seriously, how intellectually compromised and paranoid do you have to be to ascribe these weird motivations onto the entire field of mathematicians???

They’re not a cabal, quite the opposite, they fight like schoolchildren (look up Leslie Lamport view on natural deduction, especially OR-elimination)

The conflict between philosophy and mathematics that you describe, is generally understood as the debate around logical positivism, the adoption of which necessitates an extremely naive philosophy of scientific knowledge.

You can even throw Gödel/Turing into this, which really finalizes any dumb debate about formalizing philosophy as math/logic, but at no point is there any proof of a conspiracy to keep mathematics off-limit for “normal people”.

Like, it’s literally published in journals, and it is easily followed, as long as you actually spend the time to understand the fundamentals it’s built on.
Terminal illness: useful tips for being productive in the terminal
Restructure how we do education in this nation

After person spends 12 years in the public schooling system being educated and after tax payers have invested hundreds of thousands into that person the result should produce a functional adult capable of filling more than 50% if not closer to 70% of middle class jobs in a given nation.

Instead for the last 30+ years we have pushed more and more jobs out of reach for a person with a standard public education largely do to decreasing standards in that public education combined with the self reinforcing feedback loop up university funding.

This is the true cause of the erosion of the middle class that is perceived to be happening. 20-30 years ago most jobs on the market did not have a degree requirement, and there were many middle class jobs that people with out degree's could fill. As we pushed the jobs more and more to have a degree (any degree not even a degree in the field just any random degree will do), with it means many people are starting their adult life in massive debt, where before the it would have been a home, or something like that.

If we want to fix the nation, the solution is not free College for everyone (like many young people and social democrats want to propose) the solution is to make a standard K-12 Education applicable again for most middle class jobs
I fully agree with you. When you see how cumbersome Excel formulas can be when you want to mix different operators together, with their "(",";" and so on and so forth. I wonder how you can say that Lisp is too verbose for this task.
Well, I feel your reply is somewhat uncharitable.

I mean, I said "ideally", and I didn't talk about money disappearing, only about, as you expressed, "money [not] being a problem". Which you might still consider naive, fair enough, but that's another story. And honestly, even if in practice it makes no immediate difference, telling apart the "moral" issues and the practical ones is relevant for analysis and defining the direction we want to move towards.
FYI all that draggable/resizable stuff comes from Ext.JS

https://examples.sencha.com/extjs/7.1.0/examples/kitchensink...
It's not correct to think that capitalism is some natural force. We form states to decide on the rules of the game. The fact that some of the rules are made by people like buffet in conversations with public officials and lobbyists is where the whole 'this system was designed' thing comes from.

Billionaires and millionaires speak with presidents all the time and develop strategies publicly with them, it's foolish to think this has no effect on the structure of the capitalistic system at all.
He's just using it for contrast and flair

Expanding on a topic necessarily encompasses a superset of cases such as the contrast provided
You raise a /very/ good point. But I worry that it is not working in a way that's favorable to those who rely on cash holdings (most people) for their budgeting and daily goals.
If it was actually a wholesale destruction by fire or something similarly final, I'd have no problem calling such a process a "Holocaust".
> It is a shame that so many people are not financially educated enough to take advantage of moments like this in history

For the vast majority of people the problem is lack of access to capital to invest, not education on how to invest.

I know a lot of blue collar workers, restaurant workers, farmers, truck drivers... their concerns during the pandemic is “how am I going to pay my rent / mortgage / medical / credit card bills next month”... investing in the stock market is not on their radar:

For the upper middle / upper class who do have extra cash to play with, it’s important to realize these specific market conditions are rare and unpredictable (it’s still possible for there to be another major sell off, just because we’re up doesn’t been we’ll stay up). It’s easy to look back and say “oh I could have made 40% in 3 months” after it happened. Yet many of the best money managers missed most of the upswing because no one was expecting a V shape recovery so quickly.

To build wealth, don’t try to time markets or pull crazy stunts like outing cheap OTM options. Just invest a steady percent of your income in index funds every month over a long period of time.
Yea I have never bought in to whole "Dont blame the player blame the game" mantra.

If you find something unethical, even if it is legal, you are still an unethical ass if you exploit that legality for your own gain.
I wouldn't be so sure about it.

https://creativeloafing.com/content-219258-Activists-block-S...

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/opinion/when-jim-crow-dra...

https://medium.com/@FrankCastro/she-doesnt-look-american-coc...
Furthermore, this spreadsheet is fully "libre", you can modify it and transform it according to your needs.
There is also the possibility to write "regular formulas", which are more similar to what people are used to.
Lol. I use both mac and PC. I have a theory. The more you curse at them the slower it gets. I think their voice asst captures the curses and slurs and assigns a cursometer rating. It determines how fast my windows works.

Since then I boot my pc and I say, I love my country, my God and microsoft (the other two are necessary to sound sincere). Since then things have felt better. It atleast stops the Belichek type of urges.

Seriously though, if your file explorer does not start, it helps to start the task manager and open a task in file menu, named explorer.exe.

I have such tips for mundane things like outlook or Chrome.

I have started believing that microsoft does not love me.
Cata-list: Useful lists of some of the best info, media, tools, and quotes
Creator here. I've been lurking on Hacker News for a while and often add useful and interesting articles and tools which I find here to my lists. I hope and imagine that any who resonate with the Hacker ethic [1] and/or seek to be/create catalysts for positive change may find some interesting and potentially useful things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic

Quick example links/pages:

News / Timeline: https://cata-list.github.io/articles/timeline/2020

Media / Books: https://cata-list.github.io/media/books

Media / YouTube: https://cata-list.github.io/media/youtube/academyofideas

Tools / Science: https://cata-list.github.io/tools/science

Quotes / Ralph Waldo Emerson: https://cata-list.github.io/quotes/emerson
tbh that feels like a total misread.

They were treated arbitrarily by the system for decades, and dealt with it as they could. They are happy that it's over and that they are being recognized for how they worked.

The article saying these people are "proud of the nation" despite it is the weirdest take. You build a life somewhere, you enjoy your community, of course you want the stability offered by getting citizenship!

Arbitrary immigration rules and services make you feel miserable about the administration. It's just that many people in these scenarios are able to make the difference between the bureaucracies, the communities, the people themselves, and everything in between. So they're happy about getting recognized, and happy they won't be torn away from the communities. This doesn't transfer to some sort of 'love for the country' full-throated admiration that that phrase usually implies

(This is just my personal read based on how other people talk about going through US immigration, about general things said about mindsets of people in this kind of limbo, and my personal experiences with immigration systems. I am not a mindreader, but popehat isn't either)
You say cynicism - I say finally recognizing the emperor has no clothes.

The fed now buying junk bonds - directly propping up the LBO/PE industry - crossed a fundamental line for me. Not only is the USG propping up its productive corporations - not great, but excusable, in my view - now it's propping up its worst, too. Why is it doing that? Who is in charge and who are they obeying? Uncomfortable questions all around.

When the USD loses its reserve status - when, not if, and all the sooner given the fed's recent behaviour - we are going to see some serious shit.
> > what can go wrong when you

You're mis-quoting me. Is this intentional?

I understand paraphrasing, but there's better (and more accurate) ways of doing that.

> I don't know why you're trying to turn this into an "obviously govt can't do anything" point. There are plenty of very well-run governments who would have ..

FWIW it wasn't a 'no government can do anything' claim.

I have no doubt that there are a number of government agencies that can do things.

The fact that this particular project delivered a measurable 20% of projected outcomes is the point.

If you have some alternative interpretations of this outcome, they'd be very welcome.

> And no doubt there's any number of private companies who would have screwed up just as badly.

Are you suggesting I can't claim something is bad -- because something else would be just as bad?

> Trying to tar the entire idea of government with Pakistan's performance is pretty bad faith IMO.

This is a bold leap, and no faith is involved.
Programming Fonts for Developers
Please try not to extrapolate all of human existence from your unique circumstances and trajectory through life.

Consider that many suffer from all manners of adversity that are tough to overcome: ill health, bad fortune, financial setbacks, lack of inherited wealth, and so on.

Look around you – becoming successful is like walking on a tightrope, a series of little nudges can easily knock you off and you may never get back up.

Your bio does say "Ethically challenged software engineer working for a major tech company" ! :)

https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-rich-people-so-mean/
You have to stay logged in for the App Store, or you need to login each time. The point is I only want to be logged in for one purpose (the store), I don’t need all devices I’m logged into be syncing and taking my calls. I understand now this behavior can be changed but I had no idea this was even a feature. My stance is that this should not be the default setting the same as the thread creator doesn’t appreciate books offloading to iCloud by default to be a helpful feature. It’s the default option of these types of things that can inadvertently lead to privacy issues or issues where data you expected to be there when you need it not being there.
Nice story.

I've been trying to articulate a reason for hope during these chaotic times. Forgive me:

About American Exceptionalism

As a proud citizen of the USA, I do think America is Exceptional.

Our struggle between reactionaries and progressives is done in public, embarrassingly, in full view.

This struggle is done in the large, in the small, in every corner. It never stops.

So, yes, please, criticize America. We've done so much wrong. But also praise. Because we're also doing good, thru fits and starts, and many are trying to do better.
Needs vs Robustness (ex: security)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGPU
Please don't assume that Democrats ever consider the best interests of "black neighborhoods". There's very little evidence that's the case. The most they can really claim is that they are often less overt in their racism than the other face of the status quo party.
I am a recent finance graduate and I can attest to this statement: My friends who are not in finance are absolutely garbage in their understanding of savings, interest, wages, taxes, market dynamics (and other realities, like the fact that you're not going to make it big working at a random fashion retailer's corporate offices, earning only a 4% raise annually).

In all fairness, there are just so many people without STEM degrees thinking that they will make 200k a year (in Europe). I'm not saying they can't, but it's honest to God very, very rare, and very, very difficult in their current understanding of labour markets, finance, and investment.

However, I would like to say also that I don't think this is a new phenomenon. I also know an even greater amount of older adults who are fooling, instead of educating, themselves.
How about creating a "derivative work"?
Absolutely agreed. The K-12 problem seems to be one exacerbated by school leaders optimizing for things that can be graded and "tested" in the name of "standardization and fairness". But when it comes to fostering discovery, like science education should, it doesn't always fit that "standard model" if you will...
Solve problems more effectively by adopting a strategic mindset
I spent two summers in an apartment in San Francisco that was near the nest of what I assume was a nightingale.

Every night around midnight it would start singing. It would loop through maybe 8 songs. Some of them sounded very much like the local environment. For example one song was pretty much identical to sirens that I would periodically hear.

It would last for an hour or two each night. I don’t know where the bird went the rest of the year. That was almost ten years ago and I still miss falling asleep to that.
See also Java and Scala’s Type Systems are Unsound, discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13050491
One more thing, while hung, it occassionally throws up an ancient styled msg box that says "RPC failed". I have a suspension they are returning the slurs by citing my intellect and body parts.
I love it that they’re so worried about privacy they build an extension, but still use Brave, which is a real world example of a MitB, which is also aiming to become the new ads broker to put google out of business.
> Placebo research and documented cases of physiological diseases treated via mental health therapy

How is cancer something you can fix with mental health therapy? Tell them to go home and feel better, that it'll all be over soon?

What about a host of other genetic and immune disorders, many of which can be fatal?

I don't mean to come across as harsh or mocking, but there are a host of diseases where your solution does not work.

> I’m somewhat alarmed that I feel the need to spell that out

I understand your argument, but I reject it because I don't think we're seeing the same picture of where things now stand or could be. I'll counter with an analogy of my own.

Right now we're attempting to fix issues in prod by looking at another company's software, decompiling it, bit fiddling a bit, then trying to hot patch it into our own production instance. We run some smoke tests before releasing things, but these can't always identify long-term effects.

I want to have an actual honest to god dev and staging environment. Not just that, but a system that looks remarkably like prod that we can burn down and spin up on demand for each investigator trying to solve novel problems.

We can actually test at scale (and duration!) and pick apart the system to see that no part of it goes into failure mode or disease state.

Development goes much faster when you have an actual dev kit to run your code on or tear apart.

We don't have anything like that right now.

I get that the notion that human beings being equated to fungible software or disposable hunks of meat is uncomfortable. But the special ingredient in both you and me is consciousness, and this design ensures we never bring new consciousness to life. We turn off the gene expression that causes the brain to develop, and we can double down with mechanical amputation.

It sounds macabre, but so too did dissecting cadavers a century ago.
You've just expressed part of the problem with numbers, you haven't tied them into averages and minimums/maximums.
C++Cast: SYCL 2020
Except all the work in training the birds...