skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Costs a lot of money to build your own programming language and then throw it out. https://blog.asana.com/2017/08/performance-asana-app-rewrite...
Anecdotal datapoint: vitamin D provokes depression for me. Take 5000IU in the morning and an episode is guaranteed in the next evening. Episode consists of pretty bad mood and "inability to think" for the lack of better words. And it builds up of course. After about a month of 10000IU daily I was on a brink of suicide. Unfortunately I did no tests whatsoever. I've had zero psychiatric issues before but I do have a fistful of medical conditions.
No. The anti-air missile doesn't have the "hundreds of" element.

Also, drones are far slower than a missile, and even far slower than the airplane they're trying to target.
Article took quite a while to get to the point - TL;DR is a series of bulldozers, backhoes, and large rotary snowplows.
> No, I'll use New Jersey because it's the state that I'm most familiar with.

That's fine; you should say something like "In New Jersey, the median salary for cops is...". Stating only that "The median salary for cops is...", and then giving the number for your home state, which just happens to be the largest number in the country, in a conversation about Michigan specifically and the US broadly, is simply misleading. Yes, even though your sources make it clear it's NJ data. Your sources are supposed to back up your statements, not clarify their incompleteness.

I don't disagree with the point you're trying to make. I just saw a surprising statement, checked the source, and realized that the statement was missing some critical context. And not even context that would make sense, like the Michigan number vs. the US number. This is context that no reader could possibly infer from the conversation or your wording. Making arguments that way weakens positions, it doesn't strengthen them.
> even some shell scripts mysteriously not working properly

I'm wondering how this could happen.

I'm guessing the script is using uname to detect the platform, and gets confused by Linux on ARM.

I used to see a lot of shell scripts which detected Linux vs Solaris vs AIX vs HP-UX and did different things on each, especially due to differences in what commands and options are available. Given those commercial Unices are now shadows of their former selves, you don't see that so much any more.

But I still see it in scripts that have to run on both macOS and Linux. I've even written a few of those scripts recently.

This shouldn't be an issue, though, if you just do `uname -s` – you should get e.g. `Linux` on both ARM and x86. Maybe some people, for whatever reason, are checking `uname -p` or `uname -m` instead or as well, or even trying to parse the output of `uname -a` – not a very good practice
I'm not sure what you mean by "valid." I think people can and should be kinder about asking, but it's always fair to ask "how did you learn that" if it's unclear.

But saying you don't remember is a fair response, too.
There is also a question of how to define "merit." Standardized tests aren't that meaningful or accurate. It's a good way to roughly separate people out, but it shouldn't be considered merit. Especially since people spend a bunch of time learning strategies for it, further reducing its predictive ability.
Sure. It's just those scores (or the implied intelligence) could probably get you into programs like the one where the Navy pays you a stipend while at college, and pays for college...before you join the military, as an officer. The other branches have similar programs.

There's quite a lot of crap to go through before you get to use that GI bill money :)
Are you familiar with Apple's concept of "private API"? Apple considers the list of exported symbols from a dynamic library to not be a boundary (in fact, they have a linker that ignores that and links against a predefined list of symbols regardless of what a binary exports), much less the kernel syscall interface. In fact, Apple silicon requires that your program is loaded by dyld as far as I can tell.

While I wan't around in the nineties, I'm curious how syscall numbering helped Apple's success. I'm sure System-V ABI when they switched to 64-bit Intel was probably a nice bonus, but system call numbers?
Based on the quality of support I think they will have high retention. We’re currently a relatively small customer and the support has been excellent. I submitted a bug and it was fixed on our production account in less than two months. This included a step through on our dev account. It would have taken me two months just to convince Oracle and Microsoft that they had a bug.

I had a couple of other minor issues and got very good response.
The "What’s behind the deficiency" section seems to point to sunlight exposure as a very important part of the equation. In particular:
> As we found in the study, urbanisation seems to be a major cause. People are spending more time indoors. In contrast, Africans in rural settings have been reported to have one of the highest levels of vitamin D in the world.
Because your excerpt starts with "To accomplish the twin goals of artificially elevated incomes and worship by patients."

The thoroughly footnote supporting the latter part of that sentence is supposedly comes from something written by The Massachusetts Medical Society, but actually comes from a speech written by a single physician over half a century before the rise of the AMA's Council on Medical Education. And it does not say that mankind "should be 'looked upon by the mass of mankind with a veneration almost superstitious.', as is stated. It doesn't even get the year of publication of the quote right.

Packing an article with footnotes doesn't mean a damn thing.

Other footnotes include such thorough scholarship as this one time an unnamed Chemistry instructor told me off the record that white men have a harder time getting into med school with mediocre scores than black women do, and editorialized quotes from sources where neither a long enough quote, or enough information on the source is provided to lookup the full quote.
We can definitely have deterministic Turing-complete programs. Do you mean you want totality? I agree that's nice, but in practice, being free from side-effects is likely more important than ensuring the program halts.
Partially - the AWS Marketplace can avoid a procurement (which can be huge) but then you’re running EC2 servers. The popularity of services like RDS suggests there’s a good percentage of the market which will choose managed options, which is great for them but doesn’t help the upstream developers unless a cloud provider supports that development.
> You go to your local high school

Parents are often willing to move to areas where there are good schools.
I feel there is a common trait of extraordinary people that anyone can develop and it pays dividends. That trait is industriousness. When you listen to interviews from successful people like Elon Musk all the way through to Arnold Schwarzenegger, they all talk about working hard.

Terry Toa almost failed the general exams at Princeton due to slacking off, and it was a valuable lesson for him. I don't care how gifted you are, you won't reach the top without working harder than others.
Quantifying "good enough" is not easy. I work in higher ed analytics. For even a mildly selective school that accepts 40-60% of it's students, there's certainly a group that are very likely "accepts", a group that are very likely "rejects", but 15-20% in the middle require very close review and interpretation of academic trends, non-cognitive attributes, how hard they pushed themselves, and more.

The more selective a school gets, the more applicants meet sone easy to quantify metrics, and the more that close review becomes necessary for making all decisions.

It is a problem that such room for professional judgement introduces room for bias and unfairness. But a random selection based on one-dimensional metrics isn't really the solution: sound training and transparency into the decision-making process would be good start in resolving these problems, though probably just a start.
Whipr. A portable 3-in-1 paddle, ski and rowing machine
This is a hell of a market to short anything. In the near term anything that helps remote work like this is probably going to spike up. Good luck with that. I know that I wouldn't personally be comfortable being confident I could make collateral to outlast a bubble or guess correctly when the tide is going to turn to make money off of an option trade when it comes to a remote enabling company in a stock market as crazy/driven by politics and the fed as this one
Thanks for posting it. It's always a dream to get on here.

The follow-up piece to this one is the Economics page, and this section in particular talks about what's likely necessary to have a good future in nuclear [1] (it's a collection of conclusions from expert groups on the topic, mostly focused on economics).

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html#improving-modern-nu...

The MIT Future of Nuclear in a Carbon-Constrained World report is excellent [2].

[2] https://energy.mit.edu/research/future-nuclear-energy-carbon...
What specific indicators besides covid / asymmetric v-shaped recovery (v-shaped recovery not distributed evenly across economy) are you pointing to? I understand VC's want to favor profitability earlier on in the funding cycle now than say in 2014 - 15, but that was kinda expected before the 'rona hit in March anyway.
Sales and marketing and R&D fuel rapid growth. This should be maintained until growth nears its ceiling and the company starts encountering diminishing returns on investment in growth.
Which part don’t you like? We’ve used snow pipes and it seems to work quite well.
I think this is how other species will eventually come upon our world... just a whole bunch of machines fighting each other with the humans long gone.
From the article these attacks allow for:

* deanonymizing users

* building social graphs of users’ interactions, both in real time and after the fact

* decrypting and reading direct messages

* impersonating users to anyone else on the network

* completely shutting down the network

* performing active man-in-the-middle attacks, which allow an adversary not only to read messages, but to tamper with them as well

This app basically allows for the exact opposite of what people are expecting from the app. Doesn't that qualify as some sort of fraud or false advertising? If not, I wonder if we need further regulation to protect the public from developers that are either incompetent or straight malicious.
To take your "not perfect" results into a conspiracy theory arena.

Genetic engineering on humans.

Politically there is a ban. But given your "not perfect enforcement" and 2000 billionaires I guess at least one of them has this goal - whether it is considered kooky or not. Someone is trying to engineer their offspring for intelligence/looks/health.

Whether they achieve it remains to be seen and will no doubt come out in history.
> What's Bitcoin missing in technological or infrastructure terms that's holding it back? I'd wager nothing.

A cross between ease-of-use and simple knowledge that it exists.

As one example, I know of digital artists who sell their work over the internet, but have trouble receiving payments because paypal doesn't like their platform being used for porn. Bitcoin (& etc) would be the perfect solution, but it doesn't ever seem to even cross their minds as a possibility.
There's been an IPO winter for about 20 years, so yes this flurry of S1s is exciting for tech folks

http://www.bretswanson.com/index.php/2017/01/reasons-for-opt...
This title lacks click-bait and isn't outrageous enough. Try this:

'Five vultures having a round table discussion on how to plan on feasting on no-code startups.'

Also 'no-code' == 'using someone else's code on the cloud.'

Has been called the 'next big thing' since the 2000s and yet here we are.
We make heavy use of views within Snowflake, have sensible cluster keying and, further downstream, also leverage things like Looker's PDTs and Elastic Search.

The issue is we have billions of rows and very varied analytical requirements, so there are quite a few "pathalogical" queries.

Change streams are something we're looking at (as well as MemSQL, Clickhouse etc.)
What I'm saying is that scientific code doesn't need to handle every special case or be easily usable by non-experts.

Sounds like I should just become a scientist then.

Do you guys write unit tests or is that beneath you too?
Turing-completeness, determinism, and crash safety are three independent properties; a given language may have any 0, 1, 2, or 3 of them.
Their pricing page has price per gb: https://www.sumologic.com/pricing/
Says the "essentials" is 2.50 per gb so if you're pumping 10gb a month it would be like $750 per month.
> People funding research that interests them seems like a pretty innocuous statement by itself. Sure, it's connection to Epstein is blatantly problematic, but if you remove him specifically from the statement, what is the problem being highlighted?

There are two issues here. First, if it would be politically or financially more convenient to not know something, there is no money provided towards knowing it.

Second, in many cases the donors get to decide whether to publish the results after the research has been done. Naturally if only one of the possible results is inconvenient and the study reaches the inconvenient conclusion, that one doesn't get published. Then all your results are totally invalidated by selection bias.

It also provides the opportunity to do this:

https://xkcd.com/882/

Study doesn't say what you want? Fund another one, maybe tweak it a little, sooner or later it will, and you only publish the one that does.
And the scientific consensus says they aren't in the same galaxy as ranking 99.9997% to 99.9998%. SAT, for example, is better than grades are predicting first year GPA, but it's still not that great.
I used AOL Instant Messenger in the year 1997. Chromium didn't even exist yet, right? You think that HTML and CSS somehow unlocked some magical powers that had never existed before? That's pretty surprising given that DOOM came out in 1993 and did things several orders of magnitude more advanced than Slack's UI.

I mean really. How would any of Slack's UI be impossible in QT? And conversely, if HTML is so good, why have we never actually written any applications with it, and instead rely on templating languages?
Wow, that's an amazing effort! What a generous thing to devote your time to - I'll look forward to the results.

I'm not sure how you're planning to upload them back to the archive, but be aware that the command line tools[1] sometimes have issues with uploading larger files. I've found that the command-line tools are more reliable (supporting more retries by default) than the direct Python API.

Also, by default, archive.org will "derive" the uploaded video into a variety of different formats (this is normally a good thing, but I'm mentioning it since you might have already re-encoded them yourself and may want to avoid the system from "messing" with them). You can turn off derivation with a command line flag "--no-derive" to the "ia upload" tool (or a "queue_derive=False" parameter to internetarchive.upload() if using the Python API).

(source: I'm currently uploading thousands of local government videos, many of them 3+ hours long, to archive.org. With this many videos, I have scripts checking the hashes of uploaded videos to make sure the process worked before deleting any source files on my machine.)

[1] https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/
Sinai is hiring a senior back-end engineer to build our decarbonization platform
No I think the former should not be possible either.
I know I’m not anywhere close to extraordinary, but it still makes my heart ache seeing someone with a Google or MIT hoodie or a RocksDB jacket on my evening walk.

I’ll settle for being considered more than just a mental defective just because I work at Amazon.
We're working on a PGP app called Safe Easy Privacy on iOS. Our idea is that if PGP was easier to use more would use it for private communications, we're still in the early stages and we know that PGP isn't the perfect solution, but it's better than nothing. We've noticed people saying they're using Safe to share keys with people who aren't tech savvy.
Loved this show as a kid. The annoying thing about now is, because of the format of the show, they only get to spend a couple minutes on each demo. I would be fine watching a whole half hour of the latest piece of hardware or newest application.

One great thing about the show was that it covered more than Windows and DOS, the most exciting episodes to me were the ones that showed UNIX workstations
In many aspects yes but you also don’t want surprises. Most members of those groups haven’t been caught doing criminal activity; does that mean you ignore them because they haven’t struck.

If you hear rumblings about a heist it makes sense to monitor the conspirators even if they have not yet done the heist.
Must sign in with a social media ID... collecting preference data? For spam, doxxing, canceling, or...?
> "missile only" territory

I wonder why we're even talking about planes any more. Missiles to kill the planes and missiles to attack the ground. No pilots, no problems. Right?
> The average fare I've paid is certainly greater than the cost of paying the driver's wages and gas for the vehicle.

If that's the case then why do they have a -81% GAAP margin? [1]

[1] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/hubert-horan-can-ube...
> If your C suite is personally approving a $5/month charge, your organization is likely no where near the size where a change like this from Docker impacts you.

Or has toxic micromanaged structure. I've had friends who have worked places that would barf over ongoing $60/year software charges, where anything like that would have to go up to C levels and require justification. Luckily never worked at one myself, dodged that particular bullet.
I really want to see pricing, early on and massively obvious in the UI. I need to know if this is Oss or free, or if I'm gunna get hooked on something I can't afford...
There's a feature of linx-server that provides uploaded files with a torrent URL as well as a regular download URL. I believe the torrent client tries fetching data from peers as well as from linx (http).

https://github.com/andreimarcu/linx-server
Other pure languages with similar goals: https://cuelang.org/, https://dhall-lang.org/, https://gcl.readthedocs.io/, https://jsonnet.org/.
If you want to understanf how "flatten the curve" turns into "lock down until further notice" you first need to take into consideration the fact that a) this phenomenon only happens in free democratic countries where the people have a say in picking their government, b) covid19 infection rates and deaths is used extensively by populist opposition parties to stir discontent torwards incumbent parties in particular but democratic regimes in general.
Zero to $3.4B: Luminar Goes Public
- How do I put math into it?
nice. I understood that reference.
I haven't clicked the link, but some are on YT too, featuring the coolest guy in the industry : Gary Kindall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall
In a well-functioning society, they should care because taxation of the small elite disproportionately funds the social safety net that means that, even though they mop a Wal-Mart, they'll get chemotherapy if they have cancer, and won't immediately become homeless when Wal-Mart deploys a floor-mopping robot and lays them off.

We don't have that, or, we don't have all of that. But we could. And historically, simply confiscating the wealth of the elite, or just stacking their headless bodies in mass graves, doesn't do great things for the prosperity of the average citizen.
I'm assuming combat aircraft are capable of delivering more G's than a human body can handle, though pilots train to sustain brief bouts of high G for quick maneuvering - is this limit factored into to the "AI player" handling? Is it meant to simulate another human pilot or is it human versus the physical limits of a machine?
CloudWatch Insights and their security tools make me think that they’re exploring the idea but planning to grow up organically rather than try a direct feature comparison against established customers.
Exploring Monster Taming Mechanics in Ffxiii-2: Asking Deeper Questions
The Real story..

NYU: Implement Black Student Housing (petition)

https://www.change.org/p/black-student-housing-at-nyu
> It surprises me that 5 of 200 that do so well actually enlist.

I’m generalizing here, but: No matter what their score was (high or low), most people are going to take the ASVAB because they want to join the military and reap the benefits of it (i.e. TRICARE, GI bill). We can’t forget that military granted health insurance covers around 3-4% of the total insured (US Census, 2019, p.3)[1]. It is also a heavily road traveled road out of poverty for many POC and low-income students. There’s a reason you see more military recruiters in counties, states, and especially schools which have a overall lower income level. But we must also remember we do not know where their true interests lie. Or if they’d be able to — or even want to — handle efficiently the responsibility of being in a higher education setting as opposed to the more structural hierarchy of the military.

However, this does not take away from the fact that some of those 5 people may have a certain given ability to excel in a field that only the military provides. They may want to take that skill all the way to an Officer position instead of working up a corporate ladder. Say geography for example. Someone may have an educational knack for it and perhaps they change their military career goals toward something more technical (cyber defense, intel) instead of labor intensive (infantry). Either of these career choices would only be possible in a military setting. (Lucrative military contractor and paid mercenary jobs are moot points for this discussion.)

In the end, I do not think the ASVAB should be looked at as a moment of enlightenment the same way the SAT would be. They are serving two different purposes and a majority of people sitting in the recruiters office already have their mind made up; it’s now just a matter of figuring out which base you’re attending for training and how long it’ll last.

1: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

Edit: Just saw your reply to another user.

I think you’re missing a major point: Not everybody wants to go to college. Yes there are ROTC programs and you’ll be commissioned as an officer after 4 years BUT you still have to attend school.

If someone does not want to attend higher ed, telling them about a stipend and quick ranking will fall on deaf ears. They’re sitting in the recruiters office to find an escape from their current situation and reality. I’d wager most kids do not want to be told “stay in this town for 4 more years and then it’ll be better. Trust me.”

They want to get out NOW and start a new life and a new career. Not be told what they want to do is wrong.
Great post. :)
Thanks
That 3rd point is outdated, as you have more recent valuation data - the stock recently traded at 13.04-25.00 price, with 151M shares outstanding and 33M in unexercised options.
Because this is Notion, it's supposed to be used as a notebook(although they call it pages), not as a webpage. Until now I didn't even know you could share them like that.
25-year-old sells high-school startup Luminar in a $3.4B deal
I just think agreeing to let any individual in all cases, legally, be able to give money to another individual for research, is maybe jumping the gun a bit. Ok perhaps you don't agree with my idea of wealth inequality, fair enough, but if for example you are trying to fund WMD research, or research into pseudoscience, or research that is inherently biased, I would actually like to see that banned I'm afraid. Other workarounds maybe include banning the research area itself, or banning newspapers from publishing it, whatever.