skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bizzarely heurestic delusions and self-deception can be useful for taking to heart something which isn't literally true.

Take "the gun is always loaded" rule. Now nobody thinks it means that if they pull the trigger repeatedly on a gun with no ammo they will cause an empty gun to occasionally fire a shot or two after cycling through it many time. It means always treating it as such to avoid any slipups from when it is "not loaded" when it has one in the chamber even after removing the magazine, one loaded from the magazine after clearing the chamber before removing the magazine, etc. The costs of treating an empty gun you don't intend to use as loaded are nothing compared to a mishandling so it is perfectly rational.

In this case it could be argued a similiar thing for the company. Assuming they currently dominate search when there are up and coming ones, subsections which don't technically fit the same category and can take them by surprise (voice assistants like Alexa taking that role is quite optimistic but plauisble enough that consumers could wind up preferring it), or similiar?

It would be "monopolistic" in that it helps keep them on top but "anybody" can self-delude to drive their actions so it isn't anticompetitive any more than say being the only jeweler in the country with fifty years of experience is.
It's unreasonable to equate the states that got hit first, with the states that watched it happen and smugly refused to learn from others' misfortune.
I’m always happy when people get mad that I don’t drink because it usually means they’ve never met an alcoholic whose life has been ruined by the bottle and that’s happy to me.

Of course, they should know better than to ask the guy with an extremely addictive personality type who has played more WoW than hours they’ve ever spent watching TV. But hey, the world must be becoming a better place if fewer people know how bad addiction can be :)
PACER would not cooperate with this. Also, the problem with automating it is that accounts require a credit card, so you'd have to give the automation script the ability to charge your credit card (if there's a bug for example).
Ancedotal, but my experience has been that the tech industry is more understanding of not drinking as a choice than society at large.

Of course, different companies have wildly different cultures
Tall Man Out: A cultural history of Satyajit Ray’s height
Congestion Control still works though between the two protocols!

SCTP and RTP try and respect each other. It follows the same rules as having multiple people using WebRTC on the same internet.
As opposed to the absurdity of claiming the deaths are from "our president and his sycophant governors"?

But I wouldn't equate them - the goal of the early policy was to flatten the curve to avoid overwhelming the health care system.

That appears to have been accomplished - it looks like these later surges will not match the deaths-per-detected-case or deaths-per-population seen in the New York area.

Part of that is better testing and treatment available now, but another large part is better policy - such as not sending covid-positive patients back to nursing homes.
I'd be interested in whether false positives are statistically independent when you run the test multiple times on the same patient.

If they are, this suggests that at some point you ought to simply re-test everyone who tests positive the first time.

"At some point" likely only comes once the disease is well under control, maybe down to 3% of current active cases, just as a wild guess? When that happens, the prior of actually having COVID-19 gets really low. Such that even with a positive COVID-19 test the posterior probability is still somewhat low.

This all falls apart if multiple tests on the same patient aren't statistically independent in false positives. For example, I'm no biologist, but I'd guess it's possible there are a few people out there whose human genetics by chance have a short sequence in common with the viral genetics of COVID-19. If that's the case, that part of the patient's own genetic code might invariably get picked up and amplified by the PCR test. So these unlucky folks will always test positive for COVID regardless of whether they have it or not.
Thanks @sanketdasgupta for reporting the issue and @asadlionpk for the explanation. Nestybox's github account is an organization now.
Simple... and very profitable for Google. ;)
aliases help you use bar from foo.bar and moo.bar. They don't help you with 2 files both of which declare foo.bar
Got it; note that inside a system container you can always run docker-in-docker using privileged containers (https://hub.docker.com/_/docker). That is, you don't need sysbox nesting in order to run more levels of docker nesting inside the system container. And those privileged containers would only be privileged within the system container, but not at host level.
That’s unfortunate. “I have a liver condition” could work. Kind of like wearing a wedding ring to prevent unwanted advances in the work place.
This is a great point. Out of all the ones I've looked into, I think MIT has by far the most complete public curriculum (because of MIT OCW), but Cambridge and Oxford are not far behind, with excellent lecture notes and problem sets.
I wouldn't call it alcoholism, but I do think there's too much emphasis on alcohol in team building. Getting trashed with your team and making memories (or lack thereof) is kind of a fast track to becoming tight. But there are healthier and better ways to do it.

This is 30+ year old me speaking, but mid-20s me would be out until the early hours of the morning with the rest of the team on a work night, and I loved it. But now that I manage a team, I pretty much never make alcohol the focus of any company event - not really healthy or something I want to be actively promoting to employees. I guess I'm a bit of a puritan now.
I drink in general, yet at work gatherings with alcohol I stick to sparkling water.

I'm approaching my mid-30s and never had anyone "encourage" me to put the water down and suck on a beer. Nor do I think wheeling a keg into the office is the same as a manager encouraging you to drink.

You definitely stand out when you're in a drinking context and your hands are in your pockets. There's something that can feel distrustful about that in some scenarios. I'd encourage non-drinkers to at least learn to play along and have some beverage in their hand.

A lot of our creep-detector software seems to kick in when someone isn't playing along with social ritual, and complaining that you have to play along doesn't really serve you. They're just basic social skills.
I didn't say "it's the same thing", I said "As something that is likely to do good and isn't much of a sacrifice, it's the same thing"

> I would obviously object to other people forcing me into adopting any unreasonable habit.

There is nothing "unreasonable" about naming 3 things you are grateful for each day. If you did it each day, you could probably get it down to taking a few seconds.

> Or do you mean the general attitude by commentators (in the media/on twitter etc.) towards people not abiding by those laws?

I do mean the attitude, but not about not abiding to laws per se. It's just a wholesale dismissal. Like, what does "mentally stable" have to do with anything, why did you weave that in there? Because instable people are complaining about masks or think G5 causes Corona? What do, for example, arguments put forward in the OP article have to do with that?
Kinda does beg the question whether ten layers were really necessary, but I'm not a board designer.
I dropped a kitchen knife on my foot from a dish drying rack yesterday. Granted, it was not my toes, and luckily, it was just a surface wound, but I would probably be wearing shoes while shaving.
I didn't say I would have gone any faster.

My point was that I was actually in my head imagining dropping the phone and running away while I watched.

I also didn't know it was going to be that big of an explosion.

I've got plenty of memories of just not moving fast enough in an bad situation.
Pick a piece of infrastructure: server (k8s), container (docker), RPC protocol (GRPC), user auth/ACLs, etc. and now understand that the internal version is different, and you need to replace it.

At that point, you're rewriting the entire system, except for some of the business logic (and even a lot of the business logic will need to be rewritten).

> And your point is? None can afford running two divergent platforms simultaneously.

I think what they're saying is that all three do run divergent platforms simultaneously, today, right now. So clearly they can afford it.
Some Flippers have an i.MX6 running Kali Linux, but they do seem like completely different products.

Many more radios, but many fewer buttons and pixels.

It's nice that we have so many options for tiny computers these days, but sooner or later, someone is going to have to find something useful to do with them.

The UI and developer experience has never gotten quite good enough to drive a market the size of smartphones or laptops, so...what are we doing here? Is it time to acknowledge that the masses don't particularly want general-purpose computing machines? That there isn't much of a market for anything that isn't plug-and-play? That's a depressing thought.
What part do you find confusing? You forgot to explain your confusion, sorry!

Edit: apparently I‘ve been rate-limited by HN’s anti-spam techniques, so I can’t comment further for a few hours, but encouraging employees to ingest a drug, especially at a workplace, especially a drug that makes people more susceptible to manipulation, doesn’t seem to square with any good-faith interaction between a company and its employees. The point of throwing a party with alcohol at the workplace seems to be an effort to throw money at employment satisfaction, but extremely cheaply and to no positive material effect for the employees. Why not just give the money spent on the party to employees and organize off-site as “normal” people uninhibited by corporate values? Well, that doesn’t benefit anyone BUT employees.

I’ve been to a fair number of off-campus celebrations, lunches, dinners, events, etc and the atmosphere is greatly relaxed and more respectful for it.
I don't get pressed about it often, but usually when people ask why I don't drink, I just say that I have poor self control and all my memories with alcohol end in vomiting.

If they push it further than that, I tell them I have family with addiction issues and don't want to risk it.
I agree that Apple is underrated here, and I think their rigid user interfaces for things like Photos hides the power of their platform.

It seems absurd to let Google Photos slurp up your data server side when your iPhone can do 80+% of the photo categorization automatically. It’s equally absurd that Apple has a glacial pace of change for the user side.
I’m all sorts of conflicted.

Beginning of 2020, I was 45 years old making A little more than the average senior SaaS CRUD developer made locally because of $bad_career_decisions. It was about $50K -$80K less than a CS grad would make a couple of years out of school working for a FAANG or even a second tier software company on the west coast.

Then Covid hit and the company I worked for had an across the board 10% pay cut.

Just dumb luck and being at the right place at the right time - I happened to have a combination of skills that let me slide into a remote position as a cloud consultant for BigTech.

Now I’m 46 working (virtuallly) along side 26 year olds making more than I do. Win??
Amazed at the number of fellow teetotalers in the replies here
Honestly though, after having used slack at work, i definitely feel that not having random thingies dance in the corner of my screen is the killer feature of irc
This is the first one I've seen that's open source, however.
Could that be the result of trade with lockdown countries falling?
You may need to dive in a bit past the initial pages, but you can find fine-grained weekly and daily stats and graphs on pages like:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm...
How To Make Money Selling Drugs - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Make_Money_Selling_Dr...

Survivors Guide To Prison - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_Guide_to_Prison

Invisible War - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_War
Presumably it's entrenched by convention because it's a successful practice; organizations that do it are in some small way more successful than ones that don't. I doubt that is true for amphetamines.

I don't know about offering cigarettes, but I've definitely been in environments where smoke breaks were an effective way of building connections across the organization.
Or just tell them the long and thoughtful truth on why you don't drink in detail. Mental clarity, avoidance of toxins, better workouts, etc. A nice exhaustive list.

I garauntee they'll be sorry they even asked and zone out in 10 seconds or less.
As best I can explain it (being a non-expert who technically works in the Google Cloud PA but not really): Anthos is an abstraction layer that allows you to manage on prem and on cloud servers in ~the same way.

So if you have on prem infra that you can't migrate to the cloud (for legal reasons or because it's some big hefty SAP server or whatnot, or because you want to migrate but can't yet), but still want to have some stuff be cloud-y, and maybe have that stuff communicate, you can use anthos to make that work.

And that's the best I can give you.
I don't drink either, but I'm perfectly happy to answer "It's unhealthy and I don't like it" when people ask me why. Of course, I also try to avoid social interaction, so if this is a rude response it might not be as useful for others.
You're right! I confused the deductive system/language w/ the theory. Oops.

Something like Presburger Arithmetic would've been a proper example.
More interesting is what you do use for file paths, if you accept that both strings and bytes don't work. The answer will be I guess a dedicated FilePath type that knows paths are lists of blobs, and the blobs can further be divided up into prefixes and an extensions.

But that doesn't really solve the problem. You still have to convert file paths to strings to print them, and strings to file paths to accept them as from the terminal and databases. For that to work the round trip had better be safe on any given platform otherwise the user can't copy and paste.

Not addressing this problem has been python3's undoing when it is used as a shell scripting replacement. Actually, it's an undoing any time you want to treat "text" as interesting ascii swimming in an unknown encoding, particularly when you want to modify that ascii. HTML with an unknown encoding is a prime example.
I would buy something with slightly different specs and design.

- square screen, possibily of higher resolution
- high quality tactile switch keyboard, optimized for thumb typing
- useable in bare PCB form (maybe with a two PCB sandwich)
- similar design aesthetics as the pocket operators from Teenage Engineering, but built as a powerful full featured pocket computer for hackers
I don’t drink, but I never felt isolated because of that. I do go to bars though, I just order a coke, a juice, or even a coffee. Yes, I receive a soft pressure to drink. Mostly when I was in college. Yes, people are surprised and ask (sometimes afraid is a touchy subject) why I don’t drink (I just don’t like the taste). A few of the conversations are repeated dozens of times over the years. Some people are hesitant that I am judging them, but pretty early is clear that I am not. But all that is just some conversation, maybe even an ice-breaker. So it never affected my sociability. It is just a fact.

Edit: ok, a few of the other answers are pretty judgemental towards people who do drink, so if that’s your case, I understand why it would make you isolated
The first part of the essay was a very interesting view into bureaucracy and overcoming it via personal connections. The second part seemed to be very hand-wavy armchair-psychologist-esque. The thesis seems to be that:

- Some/many workers care more about job stability, as opposed to making a difference at work

- Such workers are suffering from "real psychological damage"

- They are constantly hounded by imposter syndrome, because they aren't respected by anyone else, and they know it

- They often end up as senior bureaucrats/leaders, because of their risk aversion, and because they are trying to overcompensate for their low self-esteem and psychological damage

- They also "end up in startups more often than you might expect" (which seems ironic since startups are far more risky than being at a BigCorp)

At the risk of putting myself out there, I suspect the above conclusions are quite a reach.
I think given the circumstances, NZ did the right thing and they did it with the support & cooperation of their citizens.

They had the distinct advantages of being a remote island with very few cases to begin with and relatively little international traffic compared to most of the rest of the world which was easily shutdown. They had a really good chance to beat it, they took it and they succeeded -- but I think it was a pretty unique situation.
Big discussion of this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24078990
Ah yes, I am familiar with this tradition. It's called hazing.
At least you can plausibility make the case that they've committed some sort of crime (eg. property damage). Also, AFAIK no one had been "disappeared" (ie. they were released one or two days after). To be clear, the administration's actions were despicable and may be unconstitutional, but they're nowhere close to the actions that the CCP takes against dissidents and journalists. We haven't seen trump kidnap journalists from the "mainstream media" that he hates so much, for instance.
“Posit” extension to RISC-V ISA is a possible alternative to floating point
I was reading through the RISC-V ISA spec―specifically the section on floats―and thought "I wonder if RISC-V and its brand-new ISA are a good time to introduce that 'posit' thing I read about a couple years ago."

Then I looked it up, and, of course, a bunch of smart people had arrived at that conclusion before me. Thought it might be worth sharing here.

More technical details can be found in the PERI paper [0].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01466
I agree with most of that.

But if you're measuring at least a small distance from yourself, it's pretty easy to say if any cloud exists or not in a particular area.

It's like asking whether you have any grains of sand. Much easier than asking if you have enough to make a pile.
This piece is interesting because Apple was saying this all along but no one really believed them because it sounded like excuse making. But here JG is basically saying the same thing:

>Yes, I understand this perception of bigger models in data centers somehow are more accurate, but it's actually wrong. It's actually technically wrong. It's better to run the model close to the data, rather than moving the data around. And whether that's location data—like what are you doing— [or] exercise data—what's the accelerometer doing in your phone—it's just better to be close to the source of the data, and so it's also privacy preserving.

A few years ago was when this narrative was at its peak and I believe it was mostly because Google (and to a lesser extent Facebook) were talking about machine learning and AI in basically every public communication. What came of it? Were all the people who claimed Apple's privacy stance would leave them in the dust proven right? For one, being "good at machine learning" is like saying you're good at database technology. It's a building block, not a product. Maybe Google and Facebook are doing cutting edge research in the field, but so was Xerox PARC.
If you look through entire USA history, they do seems to care about human rights abuse. Americans still heavily debating to this day about the Japanese internment. It pales in comparisons to what British and Chinese did consistently throughout their history. Even American Indians are given their own "Nations" within USA. Show me which countries are doing that.

No other countries outright fought a war to emancipate slaves and enshrined that in constitutions. No countries willing to go fight consistently in foreign lands for the idea of freedom. No countries on earth allows a slave minorities became president. No countries on earth has peace corp and fund United Nation operation more than USA. Even WHO is largely funded by USA. No countries without the need of signed Montreal Protocol and achieve it. USA is probably terribly shitty by any metrics if you judge it individually. But as a nation overall, it is simply the greatest nation on Earth and human history until now. Americans do believe largely in manifest destiny. That phrase alone say a lot about USA. You should read up more and diversify your readings.

You can't change how trade works. That is international. At best you impose sanctions. Trade changes won't change a country behavior. If it can, Obama would be greatest true Peace Nobel laureate having change Iran, Libya, SA, Iraq, China, Russia, NK for the better.
I agree. I feel like tech industry in this regard probably is below the average of all professions.
Millennials discover going out with your guy friends?
> ...deeply entrenched by convention as socially acceptable behavior.

Have you considered that some things are deeply entrenched because they work?

I think most people who aren't teetotalers and who have worked at a startup have brought beer or whiskey to the workplace for after a long day, and I don't think that it's that different when the boss brings the beer: if you are working with people you can't trust, you probably have other issues.

Nobody's saying you have to drink, but it's not a tragedy if that leaves you out of some of the benefits of social drinking.
S/questionable assumption/incorrect assumption/ = how to speak to non techies

Subtle cultural hint
"Creepy" means everything these days and you'll find people invoking it for everything. A guy dating a woman five years younger than him? "Creepy". Wheeling a keg into an office on Friday? "Creepy". Approaching the opposite sex? "Creepy".

So I think you'll send a clearer message to explain what you mean instead of leaving it up to everyone's interpretation of the word "creepy".

Edit: To respond to your edit, I can see how you can think something like that. But at the same time, alcohol is also an effective age-old mechanism for social bonding, and social bonding is important at a workplace. I think there's a certain cynicism in looking at social drinking at the workplace as some manipulation-play that errs into the side of unreasonableness. I, myself, often opt out with a sparkling water, yet I think the ritual is useful to really meet and befriend others at work.

The nice thing about our drinking rituals is that they are inherently social. We don't need to go to some contrived "team building" activity. And it's effective to get people to talk to each other in a way that "Okay everyone, it's social time! Get chattin'!" just isn't.

Alcohol definitely has its downsides. It's unhealthy. It can get people to make fools of themselves. It can make people aggressive. For sure, these are problems. But I wouldn't so quickly dismiss the upsides. Some social drinking can make things possible that I'm not even sure how to replicate without it, like getting people to actually open up and be real with one another. There's something to say about that that isn't just negative. Just like I don't think the workplace is optimal when we're all just impersonal professional drones who never really get to know the real human behind our coworkers.
Or they have an acohol problem and by not drinking you're un-normalizing alcohol consumption and making them feel self-concious of their faults so they lash out to distract from that.

No idea if that's a true thing that happens, but that is definitely the sterotype of people who want everyone to drink.