skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about cancer deaths, it's cancer diagnoses. Don't go to the hospital/doctor => no diagnosis
People tend to have a rather skewed memory for the Thatcher years in the UK - they weren't a time of any unusual growth in GDP:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/gdp-growth-annua...
> But he said specifically that he earns 10-20% less than his friends (and probably a lot less than the one who founded his company), so in fact he can afford less than them.

If he has a defined benefit pension and they don’t he’s probably going to come out ahead if he lives long enough. Given he’s in government and they’re not that’s a reasonable assumption.
your imagination is non-existent.
Thanks for sharing - and that article is really interesting.

Being "good at hiring" -- and hence having better people -- is such an advantage for an organisation, it always surprises me that too often we fall back on seemingly default hiring processes, and we don't look at the sorts of optimisations we could do to help surface the best candidates for a role.
In general, you can't get a job in X without experience in X. The irony has been recognized for generations. But if you have experience in X, what you can do is get a job doing X but do some Y at the same company as sort of a volunteer. People will often share some of their grunt work with you if you don't insist on getting any credit or money for it.

But then, you get experience in Y. If you're good enough (sometimes just meaning hard-working enough), you might get recognized for it and offered an opening doing more Y if they decide they need someone. If not, you'll still have genuine "professional experience" in Y to put on your resume.
Rackspace reveals terms of its planned stock market return
This is how software works, too, in some cases even open source, look at the Python ecosystem. Search for the actual authors or who is doing the work vs. who is going on stage in the Hyatt.
Access to health care is the path forward. That's also the practical meaning of my words - thanks for providing the opportunity to clarify that.

And I think removing the main problem caused by inequality has everything to do with inequality. It's not the end all, but like I said, it's a great baseline.
I have had GW-M5600 for years. It has all you need from a watch and nothing more. It's almost perfect watch.

1. It's small and looks like G-shock classic and has typical C-shock features.

2. Solar powered.

3. Multi-band 5 timekeeping from atomic clocks in the US, EU or Japan. I set the time once after I bought it and just switch daylight savings time twice a year.

The only issue is that it needs integrated strap specific to the model, not generic one. Casio straps for G-shocks break in everyday use in every 5-6 years. Durable stainless steel strap costs $100, roughly the same as the watch itself.
socialistic workplace: Everything that happens has to happen as a group. All work has to be approved by everyone. Everyone works on everything and is responsible for everything.

Business managers at some point began thinking it was their job to destroy the individual professional. It is ridiculous, nothing gets done and no one can do anything. Imagine if a surgeon had to have a live feed of the operation and the entire hospital watched and told the surgeon they were doing it wrong. Imagine if the entire law firm came to the courthouse to sit behind the desk at a hearing, no one was in charge, everyone just spoke when they wanted, and every action was heavily attacked.

And something HN doesn't like to talk about: every hire has to be some sort of social case: handicapped, LGBTQ, under-represented minority, political refugee, or other.

75% of chief diversity officers are black women. There are virtually no other races represented.

Just some stupid stuff that started happening a few years ago.
Need some of the mitigations they use in Japan like calming blue lighting at the platform ends, full length barriers and gates.
Two years is his shortest tenure, not enough time to make a massive difference to a company as big as Intel.
With Outlook you can't unfortunately do that. Create rules, which would un-spam mail. Because filters aren't applied to spam emails at all.
oh yeah, I remember running into that problem when I was using a database on Digital Ocean and wanted to add vercel api routes as a trusted source. I had also switched off of it because of that. However, I had a look at their blog the other day and apparently they have an Anycast IP range now, which probably solves this issue https://vercel.com/blog/new-edge-dev-infrastructure#vercel's.... I haven't tried it yet though
> I think without that conditioning and given the choice, many people would prefer doing things that are fair for other people.

It's interesting that you think this, as there really isn't a large body of strong examples of this behaviour. The person you were responding to came pretty close to something optimistic (there are solutions) but still realistic (most people are not nice to strangers).
Because I live in Russia I guess. The article tells me about how court of law operates in the US but does not really proves me wrong.

Was the FBI give the access to PIA's servers to check things out? From what I understand PIA was just able to "prove" that they can't give FBI what they wanted and the court was "well, sorry fellas". Does this proves that they don't really have logs? Not really.

I guess I'd trust them more than others, sure. But I still inclined to treat any service as a possible leak source.
Surprised Array.sort wasn't mentioned.

[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0].sort(()=>Math.random()*2-1)
This is the logic of economics based on infinite growth and advertising which accounts for a great deal of modern 'IT'.

Companies hacking the human brains availability heuristic need to out-advertise their peers. So they're all stuck on an arms race treadmill. They can only pause if a competitor falls by the wayside, but of course soon will come another...

For growth the advertising companies must find ever better ways to capture attention and harvest eyeballs. It doesn't matter if the users find their services frustrating or depressing just so long as they're compelled to keep _looking_ at them.

The internet revolution should've made product discovery cheaper than ever, instead it now costs more than at any time in history, it's in-fucking-sane. We should just be paying for services including a product discovery service.
I was going off the rough estimate that 0-9 is 10 digits and 10x10 is 100 but that reduces to 50 thanks to commutativity. I think 45 if you don’t count zeroes—I don’t know where you get 36 from.

I also use the term “memorize” pretty loosely—I remember that memorizing times tables was a thing but not so much for plus—but addition is simple enough that most people can kind of intuit what 7+4 heuristically if they’re sat down and forced to do arithmetic as small children for long enough. (Also I’ve never had the patience for memorization; I just rely on my brain to cache things that I use frequently and it ended up working for times tables. Also other things.)

But I do want to acknowledge that Arabic numerals make multiplication nearly as easy as addition, which is a staggering achievement over Roman numerals.

Though I will say, on the other hand, that the Romans weren’t that stupid and neither were their medieval successors prior to the adoption of Arabic numerals. They could add things up and we’ve discussed in a parallel thread how that algorithm works. The Roman numeral system isn’t as optimized informationally—let’s not underestimate the sheer awesomeness of seamlessly expressing numbers as large as 108730026190037365462849562635965—but that would be useless to most cultures that used Roman numerals.

I would even question one more thing. To someone who doesn’t know a numeral system to begin with, do Arabic numerals actually make addition harder? I mean, very small children (and programming languages like JavaScript if you accidentally express one number as a string) sometimes make the mistake of thinking 11+8=118, but in Roman numerals that’s just like saying XI + VIII = XIVIII, which is also wrong, but not as wrong as 118. A Roman child could easily be taught no, that’s XVIIII since V’s go before I’s, and then maybe reduce to XVIV. A child today is like, “wait wtf are places?” Roman numeral users never have to learn the concepts of places, carry, or borrow, which honestly sounds like a good trade off for a civilization that doesn’t have to do multiplication and division that easily.
Iterating over Golang Maps
I've forever been a proponent of personal responsibility. Saving a few bucks here and there and building up an emergency fund that can carry you through 6-8 months. With that said, the current situation seems untenable. I'm curious to read other opinions and suggestions here because to me the only solution appears to be a re-opening and relaxing of current restrictions in order to restore economic activity.

Surprising enough, all this chatter about evictions and missed payments hasn't rocked the US housing market one bit. In fact, prices are up.
Pointing out how it damages body should be as acceptable as pointing out too much sugar is bad for you. There is absolutely nothing weird about saying so. And also, office work is less damaging to body then top sport.

Second, general public knowing that top sport damages body influences parents, teachers and coaches decisions. When we make that topic taboo, people are more likely to push kids toward maximum performance in sport. To teach them set of values that pushes it.

When we know serious clubs can damage them, we are more likely to pick less serious clubs (which prevents future top engagement).
> Why would they need to worry about ARM?

Because ARM is coming (has come) to the server (eg Ampere, Graviton). x86 was a moat around a server product with high margins. Now they have lost the process lead and there is the possibility of using ARM on the server that business is very vulnerable.
Martian packets in Kubernetes (CVE-2020-8558)
You have to remember the context in order to understand my reply. Here it is once again "It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."

First of all programming without thinking about it (i.e. instinctively) is arguably not even possible. But let's be generous and assume that it is somehow.

Are you seriously trying to argue that it's possible to program in a complex programming language which not only requires types, but almost requires encoding complex relationships in them without involving the "higher faculties of the brain"? This is such an extraordinary claim that it requires evidence to even consider it.
The increased prevalence of F91W, ak47, Toyota N-Series trucks in a region vs normal levels are a good indicator serious shit is going on.
> Might be controversial to say, but why manufacturing cost is so high in US they making outsourcing so profitable?

I suspect that the falling rate of interest is the primary cause.

The falling interest rate on house loans makes houses increasingly expensive, as potential home owners can afford more expensive houses (given the same income) the less they have to pay in interest. The same principle ought to apply to companies who buy factories for manufacturing, with the primary difference being that housing cannot be outsourced while manufacturing can.

This hypothesis could be substantiated by looking at the degree to which countries with a long term falling interest rate outsource to countries with a long term stable or rising interest rate, and vice versa.
It short-sighted to look at those reductions in heart attacks and cancer and claim that they are all the result of people not going to the hospital, I'm sure for some percentage is true but there are dozens more factors likely involved: Less going out means less exposure to smog/contamination, less car accidents, less commute-caused stress, less physical confrontations with coworkers and strangers (eg thieves), more homemade food over street food, less bar fights, less weekend nightlife (eg parties) means less likelihood to get a cold (and pneumonia et al), as well as less promiscuity, you get the point, and I'm sure I'm missing a lot more possible factors on this list.
Online Learning: The Challenging Data Frontier
Online learning is a subfield of machine learning where practitioners sometimes refer to as incremental or out-of-core learning where machines need to continuously learn and predict in real-time. Lately, this field is gaining more attention, especially with the continuous training and deployment of machine learning models. According to the traditional learning paradigm, data becomes available in sequentially incremental order to update predictors for future data at each step or point in time. This is opposing to the conventional batch learning techniques which generate the best predictor by learning on the entire training data set at once. Compared to “traditional” ML solutions, online learning is a fundamentally different approach, one that embraces the fact that learning environments can (and do) change over time. Ideally, we need a model that not just predicts in real-time, but learns in real-time.
In service sectors of the economy, work can be created out of thin air, without any proportional returns in the form of increased well-being of society.

For example, you may spend days improving every little detail of that customer email template, for marginal or no returns over the previous template.
That's not relevant unless you can do all of the above instinctively and without involving the higher faculties of the brain.
In English, "how much" is used to express degree. So, for instance, if I said "A marked difference I noticed between driving in San Francisco and in Mumbai was how much honking I heard in the latter" what that means is "There was significantly more honking in Bombay than in SF". Concluding "there is no honking in SF" would be reaching beyond what is stated.

And I'm suggesting exactly what I said. I didn't make any claims about nationality or ethnicity. It isn't some racist claim that a European can't do it. It's a claim that in Europe I didn't see this as much as in SF (where way more people were like this irrespective of national origin).

But all this is a waste. The sentence structure is a classic from the '90s: Are you really saying "thing that person wasn't saying"?!! Are you really comparing "thing that no one was comparing" with "other thing"?!

Pity.
Is this hindsight attribution of success to an otherwise not related parameter? How much do CEOs make or break a company?
I agree - I have seen a lot of make-work in my previous job at a big company. Every push to production required a couple dozen signoffs and simply collecting those could often represent a couple days of exhausting and meaningless work.
That's precisely the sort of reasoning people use. It might even be true. The problem is that when I see a company like that I don't think "Wow, that company is a well optimised for team efficiency." and instead I think "I wonder why they only hire white marbles? Probably racist."
You should mention that default single core Max boost clock for 3950X is 4.7 GHz by AMD specs and most reviews have usually got values between 4.5 GHz and 4.6 GHz. Percentage wise gains for single core test are so small that there really isn't a reason to do that (this applies to all new modern top of the line desktop CPUs).
Traveloka bags $250m as it recovers from Covid-19
If anyone is looking for a free alternative to Roam for personal use, checkout Obsidian.md. It supports importing from Roam, has backlinks, graph view, custom themes and most importantly is super fast since it's a desktop application. It's built by the makers of Dynalist.

https://obsidian.md/
Thank you for going “old school”. We need more stuff like this. All these frontend monstrosities are getting out of hand lately. Lots of overhead for very little value.
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Shameless self-promotion here; but I think it meets your requirements.

Hexafarms (https://hexafarms.com/ )- an indoor farming startup which can match a throughput that will enable us to grow food in the urban pockets at an efficiecy between 10-200x (depending on what you're meauring).

The website is a bit flashy and not very detailed. Also it is only this month I'm gonna be working ~full time hours on it. Here's why it's radical:

* A empty single-floor 2000 sq. ft. space can produce ~200k KGs of produce. Hence also the idealization of distributed and small farms and not those 10-storey robot driven ones.
* Possibility of growing 'crafted-produce', say low-sodium lettuce for diabetes, bitter and juicy lettuce for kids (apparently they like it), very high oil content mint plants so you get same amount of mint oil from half the weight.
* All of this greatly affects (and positively) the current supply chain.
* It's heavily data driven. And this is not just because it's cool. Think of it as openAI GPT, but for X produce.
California will charge you no matter what normally. The logistics vary by region a little and to some extent you can claim losses as a business expense but in the covid era the end result is still that the grace period for paying rent is more generous than the graces I get for paying property taxes. I do get some amount of relief but that relief isn't comprehensive to the point that I wouldn't be ahead if I evicted someone who had completely lost all work and was unlikely to find new work for half a year. Hopefully more aid will come but the state government is still in denial about the whole situation around covid (I strongly suspect our infection rate is radically higher than reported) so I'm not gambling it'll be soon.
This, a hundred times. I try to gently tell junior colleagues to avoid that trap. You just create a rod for your own back, and you indirectly harm the more senior people with more commitments outside of work.

I can relate though. Some newer people are eager to please. I was a bit like that when I was younger. I wish someone had taken me aside and pointed out the problem with it.
> By compiling to wasm we sandbox the code, preventing it from accessing anything on the outside.

Operating systems are in a sad state, as virtual address spaces already offer exactly that in hardware at full speed. It's only through the operating system APIs that processes gain the ability to affect anything outside of the process.

Current operating systems weren't made with untrusted code in mind, but have so much inertia that new operating systems repairing old misfeatures can never succeed. All code is already written based on the bad Operating System APIs like for writing files. This project just handwaves the actual problem away:

> the sandboxed code can’t do anything but pure computation, unless you give it a function to call to do things like read from a file, tell the time, etc.
The problem isn't time though, it's energy. Even if the day might have 16 hours, you're still limited on energy.
And there is also this related article that was discussed a lot here on HN last year: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-w...
I cannot afford $1000+ CPUs, but can you link to a review that actually shows this? I just read an anandtech review that compares AMD and Intel and I am not seeing that at all. In fact it looks like Intel still has a lead on single threaded performance which is really pathetic at this point. Maybe AMD should start firing and reorganizing too.

I also am not thrilled with the engineering logic of bimodality and other compromises that AMD seems to have made in their engineering to beat Intel on core count. As a purist I hate these sorts of shortcuts. On that alone I would favor Intel. History shows that they tend to go for engineering purity over shotgun approaches, but of course that sort of corporate culture can change at any time. There is something to say for engineering elegance and purity over meaningless benchmarks.
The same way you protect all other flight-essential electronics? You air-gap it.
I Was a Screen Time Expert. Then the Coronavirus Happened
curious to read other opinions and suggestions here because to me the only solution appears to be a re-opening and relaxing of current restrictions in order to restore economic activity.

We do need to resume working. But we need to do it without relaxing pertinent restrictions.

Little Caesars has a pizza portal. We should have every eatery have something similar for contactless walk up take out.

We need more remote and work from home opportunities for people who aren't highly skilled white collar professionals.

We need more solutions that meet both standards: an earned income and germ control.

We can't get there if we don't even bother to try because we insist it has to be one or the other.
Speeding up static websites with PJAX
> I don't think this is true. In my experience a lot of work time is just wasted time. Often nothing is accomplished. A lot of extra hours for meetings are not productive at all. A lot of extra hours looking into that bug ("so we can fix it today") is not productive at all..

And this is not true in public sector ? :D
Python merely allows you to program quite close to a state where you focus on the problem and less on the infrastructure and syntax required to solve the problem. At least in exploratory phases and when working with smaller pieces of code.

Other languages almost always require more thinking and design upfront, even when doing exploratory programming.
Your second paragraph makes an important point: when reading texts from the 70s it's important to remember that they're using "Communists" and "Leftists" to describe groups who, in the public imagination at the time, were extremely destructive and pervasive. Big cities had hundreds of bombings, weird leftist cult leaders would commit unequivocal crimes and get sympathetic, top-tier legal representation. These were not the relatively subdued Tumblr leftists or Scandinavian socialists of today, even after accounting for COINTELPRO distortions of the historical record.

A particularly striking example is the case of Lincoln Hospital in NYC which was taken over by a leftist group named the Young Lords that received a million bucks a year from the famously bankrupt city government to run a putative methadone clinic and Marxist education intensive. The details are a bit of an aside, but long story short the clinic had poor outcomes for patients, doctors dying of heroin overdoses, staff absentee rates in the 70%s, and about 4x more in spending per patient than city run hospitals. Yet it still kept getting funding renewed until 1978 through a variety of lobbying schemes. Some contemporary publications write of this medical failure fondly: https://filtermag.org/how-the-young-lords-took-lincoln-hospi....
>Fed, housed and clothed is a great baseline, but it has nearly nothing to do with inequality. //

Inequality of what characteristics?

Because having sufficient food and clean water makes an incredible difference to ones fulfillment and ability to focus on less basic needs.

I'm pretty sure the parent comment to yours was referring to availability of healthcare [and associated aspects such as nutrition and exercise] according to needs, rather than expecting that we can get cancer to agree to a treaty.
Honestly I feel like I do the same thing when I think about it, but it’s so well cached that whenever my brain sees 5+7 or 7+5, I simultaneously think “12”, forget the specific order, and imagine 5+5=10 with 2 overflow all at once and I can’t honestly tell you which concept arrives first.

And yeah, you can get by with less memorization and more counting, but eh...either you’re taught not to do that or you do enough arithmetic that your brain just caches the whole table eventually anyway.