skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no point. @dang's intervention had what may have been the intended effect (suppressing the comment). He's been doing this long enough to know precisely how the various moderation knobs he turns will distort the conversation.

The original comment had 24 upvotes and was solidly at the top of the comment page. Given its popularity, it likely would have stayed there. Mea culpa for exceeding the bounds of the Overton Window.
I find it peculiar that this user "kiyanwang" is submitting 7-8 stories a day, with multiple stories hitting the front page.
Germany I think is exceptional in this, though. They had basically no public WiFi in the decade that it was booming in similar countries, allegedly because of crazy liability laws. I never dove into it but that's what I was told when asking German techies. It should have changed a few years ago but by now mobile data is much more ubiquitous than it was in 2012 or so and while WiFi is an order of magnitude cheaper per gigabyte than mobile data, most people aren't power users and don't need more than checking their email and so it remains virtually nonexistent. You're most likely to find it in foreign companies like McDonald's, and of course hotels but that's a different type of place. There are also "public hotspots" from Telekom built into old phone booths (yep Germany still has those) but that's as expensive as mobile data.
I haven't needed to use one of them, but if you look at the pictures on this website (https://travel.e-japanese.jp/japan-id-photo), you'll see that it's possible to select passport pictures and also apply skin correction/lightening to the pictures. I don't know if those options are disabled for official photos though.
Imo, there's a very big difference between the creation story found in the Pentateuch and Jesus' teachings in the New Testament. As a Christian I, of course, believe both, but I think that the details of the former are much fuzzier than the latter. So questions like "did God really spend 6 days making the Universe?" are theological red herrings. The point of the Bible is to be reconciled with God through accepting Christ as the one Son of God that died for our sins, was resurrected three days later, and ascended to Heaven. The details of Genesis are certainly interesting theologically, but vigorous debate on them (was God describing evolution? does one day represent a billion years?) isn't particularly interesting spiritually, nor does it really help me reconcile my fallen and sinful nature.
Can’t you fail them during the previous year, where they don’t have enough grades to graduate ?

That’s the system in France, where public schools can’t refuse kids, but those kids can only move classes if they passed. If you aren’t interested in studying you’ll spend your life in middle school until you’re 16 and just drop out.
Aren't photos of extreme conditions some of the most important possible photos though? A camera that can't capture them is badly broken.
Codec2 is still not ready for real use for some reason... Never heard of anyone playing around with it, especially in vhf/uhf
There are plenty of twitch streams that have latency under 2 seconds in low latency mode. You have to watch the source stream and the streamer can't use larger buffers, but it has already been done for well over a year or more. If a streamer has the chat window on screen you can type something in and see it on stream in two seconds. I have seen private mixer streams have 2 second latency also.
'Doctors that were assured that OxyContin was not addictive and "low risk" in the educational material supplied to them by the suppliers.'

If gullible doctors actually believed this 'low risk' nonsense then it's a terrible blight on the medical profession's training. Every doctor knows (or he or she ought to) that for most opioids used for pain relief, the respective amount of any specific opioid used to provide x amount of pain relief has y amount of potential for addiction. That's to say, an amount of one type of opiate necessary to achieve a specific level of pain reduction has about the same addictive properties and another different opioid that achieves the same level of pain reduction as the first one. There are some differences such as pethidine which works wonders in renal colic for instance (but it's not as effective even in high doses for some other types of pain as are other opioids).

I don't want to get bogged down in detail here but the principle difference between opioids is in their different strengths and in the different way they are administered. Irrespective of how they're administered, if they kill pain and they're not administered with considerable care the patient will likely get addicted, especially so if the drug is administered over a longish time and or the patient is given too much.

Essentially there's no such thing as a low risk opioids except at perhaps the very margins. We've been down this well-trodden road before with heroin. At the turn of the 20th Century ca 1900, Bayer released heroin, it was supposedly not as addictive as morphine when in fact it was even more addictive. It didn't take long to realize that its ability to suppress pain to a deeper level than any amount of morphine also went hand-in-hand with it to be significantly more addictive.

This low risk argument is absolutely outrageous. The fact that I have to labor facts here that 99.9% of doctors and pharmacists already know attests to the paucity of Purdue's argument. As I said elsewhere, the true tragedy of this saga is that both the FDA and much of medical profession pretended they didn't know these well-known facts or ignored what was happening for self-serving, ulterior motives (I find it very hard to believe it was incompetence or lack of knowledge on their behalf).
It's absolutely illegal, unless it's somehow an emergency that requires it. Don't let anyone say otherwise, there are some crazies who think it's legal.
Note: Finland has the population of Wisconsin.

Both have a population of about 5 million.

And even Wisconsin is more diverse at 86% white to Finland's 96%.

Another fun note:

The population of Finland is only 20% bigger than the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, California Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is 4.1 million. If we add in the San Jose-Santa Clara-Sunnyvale, California MSA at 1.9 million, what we tend to consider the "San Francisco Bay Area" has a greater population than Finland.
It's the incentive structure. It's effectively Goodhart's Law in action: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. In this case, the measure is "number of pull requests", and the result of making it a measure is that people created an insane number of PRs that simply adjusted white space in a README or slightly reworded phrases but kept the exact same meaning. Because they wanted the T shirt, because they felt that it validated them as a developer (ignoring that good contributions would have been a much better validation).
This was a long read, but very enlightening. Thanks for posting. It really resonated with me, since I’m going through a similar period of self-reflection, and searching for the true meaning of life and what makes me happy.
For the longest time, I have been telling myself why my job is good, but that “not right” feeling has never gone away.

Since I’ve been remote due to COVID, my life has been remarkably better. I don’t work any less (perhaps more), but I am much happier. It is far more compatible with my lifestyle. I love being at home with my wife and my pets, I love being able to cook all my own food. Like the author, my physical and mental health have both improved; at the start of the pandemic, I could barely hang from a bar, and now I can do multiple pull-ups in a row. Same with squats, bench and everything else. I was never able to build a workout routine, but now I have. And I haven’t eaten any fast food or low quality food in this time, is all been homemade from scratch, and way more delicious and nutritious.

I feel the same about my company and my team, I really have made friends there and have built a great career, but they have made it very clear that remote work is not an option going forward. This is just not compatible with the way I want to live.

If you’re reading this and are in need of a technically skilled, motivated, hardworking individual with many years of experience, have an interesting project to work on, and support remote work, please reach out: https://lukep.dev for more info on me. I am experienced at building teams, delivering products, and leading others, and am looking for a management level role.

Again, thanks so much for the post. It’s difficult to articulate this feeling when things just change for you and there’s no going back, but I feel you and I know that you’re making the right move. Best of luck at CISCO!
I don't think magazines are at fault here. It's social media where most of these photos will end up and be judged.
Can you show evidence of any bias in the testing? Could it be possible its not biased?

Asians are a historically disadvantaged population who have had to ensure so much racism in USA, yet unlike blacks in recent decades they've had huge upward mobility on all social and economic indicators. So how have the supposed racist biases in tests changed to allow asians to surpass the dominant whites yet blacks and latinos continue to struggle?
Bose did get caught vacuuming up user data:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bose-lawsuit/bose-headpho...

I do agree with your overall point though!
Which evolved first cellular metabolism or replication ? Without replication you can't have evolution. Without metabolism you don't have a system to support replication.
(What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger 1944)
They are - in general, Indian people will be counted as Asian in modern American statistics. (Historical statistics are much more muddled, in some cases even categorizing them as white.)
Ola: London bans Uber rival over safety concerns
I guess the real question isn't if beauty makes people feel better. Fentanyl makes people feel great. I think that the better question is, what are the long term effects of unrealistic portrayal of human beauty?
Lockdowns are not supposed to stop Covid-19; that's an impossible task without a vaccine. Lockdowns are needed to help prepare the health system in case it's caught unawares (although how that can still happen now is beyond me, but still) and avoid overcrowding hospitals and apocalyptic scenarios where doctors have to choose who gets access to ICUs and who does not.
I mean, yes, but this looks more like a table of contents. I imagine there are a couple of pages later in the zine devoted to [ vs. [[, since that's at the heart of bash programming.
In the US, for things like passports, retouching is disallowed. However, if the effects are small, they'll have no way of detecting. No one's going to scrutinize your face for all the wrinkles you removed.
It's not just moving from an exam to GPA, it's taking students above a GPA of 3.5 and entering them into a lottery. Scott seems concerned that incoming students will not be as high achieving, because they're chosen at random from a pool that's not very selective, and they won't be as interested in STEM, because the school will be using the SAT instead of their own more specific exam.
This is an animated map of who owned what parts of Europe over the past 1000 years. Do you consider 'colonialism' to be different to any other form of human expansion done since time began?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P0QSxlnI
Authentication is not encryption. Authentication is absolutely allowed, provided that it doesn't obscure anything.
> ...more random constraints

Want to point out that this is much more than simply "random" constraints (the universe isn't merely a probabilistic machine). These are not (or at least might not be) computable constraints; any comparison with Conway's Game of Life stops right there.
One of the big factors with Sonos that you won't get out of receiver setups is the ability to mix-and-match inputs and outputs over a whole house: having one speaker by itself playing the news in the morning, having everything in the house playing synced music on low in the afternoon, and having the home theater set playing a movie in the evening. Not needing speaker wire adds to that convenience: you can then stick a speaker in the garage or the bathroom in the future without laying more wire, as long as you have an outlet.

Of course, all of this isn't exclusive to Sonos, but from what I understand none of the copycat competitors have matched their ease of use so far.
What was the cutoff score?
I'll have a look. There is also

(ps:import-macros-from-lisp
'rutils:aif)

in Parenscript which lets one import macros from CL.

https://40ants.com/lisp-project-of-the-day/2020/05/0071-pare...
Help needed:impact of convertible debt on cap structure
Hello - I would like to learn about the impact of a convertible debt on future dilution in my cap table.

Could someone help me with the math (simple example below)? I am not sure how to treat that particular instrument upon conversion.

Assume I own 100% of the business today (1 mio shares), that this business was financed through a $2m convertible note at 20% discount that triggers in 3 years time (regardless of whether or not a sale has occured).

Now, my business (an offline retailer) will be making $2m EBITDA, and be valued at 7x = $14m enterprise value.

How will the conversion of the convertible debt impact my cap table?

I'm (probably wrongly) assuming that equity value = $14m - $2m = $12m, and that the discount should therefore be applied to that number. In this case my original investor will own $2m / ($12*0.8) share price = 208k shares. That would mean now 1.208mio shares exist, which at a $12 share price implies a valuation of > than $14m!

Many thanks
> Now the boomerang has returned, and it’s time for a more drastic remedy: namely, to eliminate the TJHS entrance exam entirely, and replace it by a lottery for anyone whose GPA exceeds 3.5.

Excuse me if I just don't see anything wrong with this. Sorry, but we all know these scores are less meaningful on the extreme high end. If you can scoop up everyone two standard deviations above the mean and select randomly from them, you're doing fine, and the poor kids get a break from the the grueling regime of trying to rank higher than the other kids who are trying to rank higher than the other kids who are trying to rank higher.
What does your contract say about who owns the IP? If it is him, then this is a lesson learned on setting prices for your work. If it is you, just tell him that no, he cannot sell it.

Either way, if you delivered the work for the original contract, then it is over. Decide how you want to move forward, likely by letting them know that your rates have gone up.
And? The graphs show costs growing exponentially as area expands in two dimensions. A few times productivity improvements can't keep up forever, and they aren't.

Federal deficit spending and cost-disease are also things. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to think forward a decade or two.
https://inc42.com/buzz/indian-govt-likely-to-tax-google-face...

They only collect a limited subset of taxes (VAT). The larger part of income is to the US and isn't taxed in India yet.
That's a current project for me right now. When I took computer architecture in university, it was fairly light on hard details about things like superscalar and out of order designs. Sure there's the concepts, but there are so many interesting problems it didn't cover.

E.g. how do you, at a hardware level, actually do the reservation stations for a out of order design. How do you actually implement a register file with enough read and write ports to satisfy such a design without taking up a whole die for it?

I know there are a few Linux capable soft-core RISC-V designs out there (VexRisc, etc.) and microcontroller class ones (PicoRV32, etc.). If my goal was implement a system and it needed one of those things, sure, I'd use an off the shelf one. But I really want to understand how the CPUs work, and the best way to do that is doing it myself without looking at the answer key.

Turns out register files are complicated and fascinating. I'd never come across "register file banking" in my architecture courses. Makes what I had to deal with in CUDA make a lot more sense now.
> The idea that there is a group of some super-smart genius forecasters is a rather common mistake of academics

I'm pointing out is that there do exist some people who are more accurate than the others at assigning probabilities consistently, year after year. This is the real world phenomenon that needs explanation (though see below for caveats).

> Also, you cannot predict black swans

You don't have to exactly predict black swans to roughly estimate probabilities of events. As in, you don't need to enumerate exactly what could happen in the future, you do need to be aware of the possibility but some events are more likely than others.

Now, Taleb would say this is all nonsense because you can't meaningfully deduce a probability of a future event without knowing the denominator, that is look at all future possible worlds leading to outcome A as the numerator and (all future possible worlds leading to outcome B + worlds leading to A) as the denominator.

Which is strictly speaking very true and we are liable to fool themselves. Yet at the same time you can deduce that on aggregate people above the age of 80 have fewer years to live than people under 8... and if you were to predict how long someone would live based on their age, would you just throw your hands up and say it's impossible to know because of black swan events? Or might you look at actuarial tables and try to come up with a probability, especially if there's profit to be had in the form of selling insurance...

Taleb would counter that these predictions are fragile, that one day a black swan will come along and steamroll you when the next cosmic gamma ray event wipes out only the young and not the old, wiping out the past 200 years of gains.

Is that what you're referring to when you say that (super)forecasting doesn't work?
Peter Higgs, of the boson and Nobel: “It's difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964. […] Today I wouldn't get an academic job. It's as simple as that. I don't think I would be regarded as productive enough.” — https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...
I'm not sure if I understand you: isn't it a truism to say increasing opportunities for a group increase their outcomes?

Maybe we shouldn't expect similar outcomes from different groups and shouldn't focus on groups at all?
>> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the author of Faust.

Ah, yes, I thought the name sounded familiar.
I'm not a fan of having dedicated "gifted" schools at any level. I attended a small magnet middle school that was ranked as the best public school in the state, but it was still the most toxic experience of my educational life. It's false to assume that gifted students don't bully other gifted students, and it's false to assume that the teachers at these schools care more about students than they do about their own sense of status. When I went to a high school where half of my classes were with the "gifted" kids from middle school, and others were with "normal" students (especially electives like debate) - I realized that many of the "normal" kids were actually pretty cool and more relatable to me in many ways (similar economic class, having divorced parents, more open to punk/hippy/counter-cultures). I still learned fine in classes with these kids, and nobody bothered me for being "smart" (ie, getting good scores on tests). Probably because I wasn't a condescending jerk who only ever socialized with other kids in the gifted program (like some of my other post-magnet school peers were).

The truth is: kids who are able to go to these specialized gifted schools, regardless of if the schools are merit-based or lottery - are frequently the same people who would have academic success anywhere. It's people who have learned to pass tests, and people who have parents who take an active role in advocating for their child's academic success.

All this said, one program I'm a huge advocate of having available for gifted kids: the option to attend community college instead of High School. Since community college students are there by choice, they tend to be both motivated and more mature than average high school students. They also tend to reflect the diversity of a community better than highschools which often serve specific, segregated areas. Many of the community college professors I've had are extremely talented people (Retired professors from 4-year schools, working professionals) who only teach 1 or 2 small classes per semester, and do it out of love for teaching. In fact, I've taken probably 8-10 CC classes in my life and can't remember a single bad professor. The same cannot be said from my experiences at a very well-regarded state university. Also, community college credits transfer easily to a 4-year college down the road. Even the non-transferable, vocational-type courses can be extremely rewarding for the experience, and they are often much better quality than what you can get at a high school anyhow.
Yeah but, typical Apple, instead of doing the obvious thing it does something completely different. It back spaces instead of deletes!
Nice write up.

I would just like to point out that the variability across academic jobs is as large as variability across startups, or across corporate jobs.

So the important part is not so much whether you're in industry or academia (there are toxic environments in both), but that you find an environment where you work on problems you care about and with people that make you better. Those places are available in both academia and industry.

Although I admit the worst environment probably is found in academia because of the lack of checks and balances (being in the wrong lab can really be a nightmare), I would argue the best environment may also be in academia.
> Also totally agree that the papers are written for these referees, instead of the people reading them

Of course papers are written with the reviewer in mind. What is your suggestion? Abolish peer review? It's up to the AE to find referees who are qualified to review your paper.
Yes, cells are extremely crowded and fast-moving inside. Molecules are moving at 250 miles per hour inside cells due to thermal motion, and a particular molecule collides with other molecules billions of times per second.

When you see an animation of a cell, it's puzzling how the right molecule shows up in the right place. But in reality, a typical enzyme collides with something to react with 500,000 times per second just from random motion.

I wrote a blog post discussing this in more detail: http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowde...
Am Estonian and agree with that. The investments via EU have yielded awesome results over the years.
Perhaps, but our crumbling roads say they have a point even though the absolute number may be off.
Chuck Marohn is a well-respected planner with decades of municipal experience. He’s written books on this topic. You can watch him give his usual anti-suburb talk on YouTube. He’s especially good at reaching tough, conservative audiences, I think.

In his broader body of work he does a good job of talking actual numbers and why they’re a lot higher than you’d think.
In the US, graduation rate is seen as the primary metric of public school quality, so policies that encourage people not to graduate aren't feasible. (One of our most famous educational reforms was named the No Child Left Behind Act, on the principle that in an ideal world not a single child would fail to graduate high school.)
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