skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true with a big caveat: how many of those people get invasive treatments for things which would not have actually become problems? They've backed away from screening as aggressively for certain cancers because the risks of aggressive treatment turned out to be significant and it turned out that more people than expected had tumors which didn't develop into a problem before they died of something else. I don't know how plausible that is with heart issues — maybe aggressive prescription of something like statins with significant side-effects? — but it's very important to consider the cost of false-positives.
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Yeah this problem with shell is real ... it ironically is not good at writing command line interfaces!

If anyone is interested in Oil, I would appreciate help either:

(1) Running this library with OSH. Try it and tell me what breaks! OSH runs many unmodified bash scripts.

(2) Help with a new builtin that will address the deficiencies of getopt/getopts. You could help design it!

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/469
Finding the information was harder. There were libraries, my town library was in the basement of the city hall building, and my local mechanic has a larger building.

If the library didn’t have it, you could hit a small book store, whose specialty was romance novels for local farm wives.

Basically, anything you would actually want would be special order, hoping the book dealer knew what you were talking about in the first place.
Well, phosphorescence or fluorescence are basically the same thing: light emission when going from an excited to non-excited state. Many, many materials exhibit some form of light emission when you shine a laser on them, provided that you shine with the right wavelength...
Chrome is the new Internet Explorer: companies and developers lazily optimize for it, and users (and developers) suffer the consequences.
> redefinition of the speed of light as the speed of causality

Since when this is redefinition? As far as I understand, this was always the definition. In fact, calling it the speed of light was always a bit misleading, since, first off, actual speed of light depends on environment, and second, there is nothing really special about light. It's just under ideal circumstances it can propagate with the maximum possible speed, i.e. the speed of causality. Light isn't fundamental for the laws of physics, causality is.
My team at NVIDIA uses enroot extensively. It's been really nice. We build containers using Docker but then run them with enroot.
Off topic, I'm surprised they can offer data analysis services as Mathematica without a challenge from Wolfram. I for one assumed a connection.
If all you want to fight are small wars abroad, then sure. If you want to be ready against a peer enemy, the entire economy needs to have large manufacturing capacity, or you will get buried by your enemy.
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Complexity vs. ease of use (and of maintainability) is an inherent conflict. It may not be fully unresolvable.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
As a UX designer, I see this a lot. Design has come a long way in being valued but very few companies realize how absolutely critical UX is once you have a crowded market.

In the early tech days "Just build it first and maintain momentum" was enough to win in market.

Now, with the cost of running a business going lower and lower (lots of infrastructure is automated, business functions can be done by 1 person and software, etc), anyone can compete with you and if they have a better experience, users will go there instead.

So many viable business are being built by companies that punch out a niche in a larger market and designing the perfect experience for that niche.
Not only that they gimped the tensor cores. While it has way more shading units it only has 60% of the tensor cores that the Titan RTX has. I'm not sure how much of a difference this makes in practice, but it leads me to believe this is not the titan level card.
Wolfram's mode of operations - independently wealthy, publishing things he's interested in on his own terms, in formats and spaces he chooses to - is far closer to how the science of yore operated. Ultimately his ideas will live or die on their merit, not because he did things unconventionally.
I’m sad to hold it. But the reality is that today you can opt-out and not participate and that won’t impede companies from violating your privacy. It’s enough that your friends shared their contact books or tagged you in their photos.

Beyond that just thing what will stop this? It will either take leadership from Washington DC or a global uprising. Do you think our politicians will fight for our privacy? The second the first shots are fired by the politicians their political opponents will have millions added to their war-chests. The second they open their mouth super-PACs will be organized to assassinate their character. Not to mention they won’t get that cushy job as board members and what-not unless they play ball.

Sorry, we are in a modern feudal age.
sounds like security through obscurity.
>That is why factory workers in the US got outsourced.

Nothing makes the CEO happier to know that you believe it is the employee's fault their jobs got outsourced, and not the fault of the CEO who wanted to maximize profit at the cost of millions of good paying American union jobs that actually helped families, communities, and created the 'American Dream', all so they could afford the status that brings when they show their new multi million dollar sailboat at the regatta. The job that was outsourced still needed to be done, someone still had to do it.
CPS doesn't use a notion of partitions under the covers like Kinesis. Each ordering key can be thought of constituting a "virtual" partition. You can have as many keys as you'd like, without specifying them ahead of time.

Disclaimer: I work on Cloud Pub/Sub, but this is my own explanation.
Since this is flagged for politics, but people are still here looking for a conversation — I think the interesting conversation is around chain of command, readiness, and protocol. That’s not really politics per se, but more about the “systems design” of the government.

The many many hours I’ve spent watching West Wing have taught me that White House protocol is pretty wild when it comes to any potential threats within. This will make the tick-tock reporting (who knew what when, not the social network) particularly interesting in the coming days.
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The holy grail of design is to get both. Many people draw a straight line with complex solutions on the one side and simple solutions on the other side. Depending on what they are aiming for they choose a spot somewhere on the line.

Sometimes however it is entirely possible to "go sideways" sometimes. This is the Answer to the wuesrion: "Why not both?".

This approach takes however a lot more energy usually. More thoughts and modifications are needed compared to just quickly adding some feature. And sometimes there just might be no solution at all.

But we are talking about software. So even if there is no organic solution that gets you both, it might be totally viable to hide some feature in a "pro user" section in the preferences or something among these lines.

After all most people will not click into the Preferences, but very few power users wouldn't.
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> the vast majority of international capital flows into advanced economies that are already flooded with excess savings and cheap capital.

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that this is because of the ridiculous state of derivatives in modern stock markets.

If the derivatives market didn't provide an infinite soak for excess capital, then that money would be forced to go find something "real" to invest in, and the economic theory TFA talks about might work (money should flow from advanced, low growth, economies, to less developed, higher growth opportunity, markets).
Companies reigning themselves in under threats of regulation might be better than actually whacking them with the regulation stick. Regulation has its costs too.
Does anyone know what they mean by "compiler"? The README file on their repository didn't expound on this. (I have a very fast parser and lexer for JavaScript written in C++ that is very compliant in Cycript--the main issues I sometimes see are in my hacky "try to do everything in a single pass"semantic optimizer pass I am doing to generate code, but that is of course optional--though I haven't pushed updates to its repository in a few years despite my doing a lot of work on it... I kind of decided at some point I hated users. But I don't have a "compiler" unless the meaning is "compile from JavaScript to JavaScript", in which case it would be fun to benchmark it against boa and I might start doing that. It is just that it sounds a bit like boa is also executing the JavaScript?)
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Step 2: add the domain on Cloudflare and let it grab the DNS entries Netlify made
It depends on the type of task you have, For some task inference CPU can't be real time. Example for some of those task are speech recognitions and friends, machine translation etc.
It's still way easier to mine bitcoin than it is to produce gold in any valuable quantities. Producing gold was already possible from heavier metals (platinum works reasonably well) but the process isn't exactly easy or automatable.

There's only a limited quantity of gold on earth so its value is more practical than any digital cryptocurrency as far as stability goes. Not that the current world economy cares a lot about stability though, as many economies use inflation compared to other currencies to maintain growth and take a certain spot in worldwide trade.
Thanks, I appreciate the reply. I don't ofc appreciate whoever randomly downvoted me. Creep.
Awesome work!

I’m trying to grow wine grapes cuttings in house, in soil for fun and so far I’m very unsuccessful.

Do you have any advice for tuning optimal settings like temp, humidity, light exposure etc?
Absolutely vast majority of income of everyone apart from billionaires/top 0.01%, comes from work rather than investments... Yes even for top 1% apart from top 0.1%, share of income from investments is negligible.

Total value of U.S. stock market is $35T and given the traditional 4% "safe" withdrawal formula, it is about 7% of GDP or 10% of overall income, as profits. About half of it going to the top 0.01%.

Problem maybe is that there are no highly paid jobs available for unqualified young people anymore.
I agree that it's important to compare anecdotes to available data, but we should be careful not to assume that the available data is itself "the forest." In other words, the map is not the territory.

While it's certainly possible that the sort of anecdotes commonly found in threads like this (regarding the challenges facing today's youth) are unfounded, I think it's more likely that they reflect qualitative changes not represented by the data (or, alternatively, changes which simply aren't represented by the particular data typically used in conjunction with analysis of these topics).

Data showing that the median person earns more working fewer hours today than their parents did at the same age, for example, can't reflect (hypothetical, let's say) circumstances such as:

* An increasingly competitive job market: Unemployment figures don't account for increasing education and experience requirements job-seekers face, nor do hours worked reflect time spent on career preparation in an era where high school students study for the SATs, college students are taught that "networking" is an essential skill, and college grads are more likely to have had multiple internships than their parents are to have had one between them.

* Increasing career instability: Not only are single-employer careers long gone, but, for many, so are single-career lifetimes. Additionally, the increasingly bimodal distribution of incomes means that, while the median income may have increased, the consequences of falling out of a "good" career track can seem greater than they used to be. [1] For reference, 44% of Americans work in 'low-wage jobs' with a median income of ~ $18,000. [2]

* Increases in the cost of living that counteract income gains: Rent, housing prices, (more-important-than-ever) higher education, healthcare & childcare have all increased significantly over recent decades, which likely makes it difficult for many to feel as wealthy as one would suspect.

Considering circumstances like these helps me understand how many may feel much worse than real median income might suggest and makes it seem less strange that young people appear to be poorer than their parents were at the same age - living with their parents longer into adulthood, buying fewer homes, getting married later, having fewer children, etc...

I would also speculate that, in terms of perception alone, the rise of social media and increasing economic inequality (with specific regard to the research suggesting that individual well-being is more closely linked to low inequality than absolute levels of economic welfare) could negatively impact the average American's perception of their quality of life.

1 - https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-...

2. - https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/11/21/low-wag...
Did you notice any more obviously physical effects of time dilation then, or just the phone timer? As in, throwing a ball and counting the rotations while it moves through the air, or fan blades spinning, etc?

Just wondering if there's a way to study this as a real measure of reaction-time improvement, versus just a hallucinated one.
I think that’s true, but also true for the other companies I mentioned. Is Palantir more of a part of the apparatus than SAS?

I think it’s less so than dedicated military industrial firms like Lockheed Martin or Northrup Grumman and whatnot.

If anything, going public will more clearly show what percentage of revenue comes from government vs non-government.
Tell that to the people discussing TV ads on those other threads today.

As a matter of fact, I do have a hard problem to get power supply unities and rechargeable batteries. I just settled on treating those things as semi-disposable, because they all are.
As my colleague, kamalaboulhosn, posted elsewhere in this thread:

"The throughput limitation is 1MB/s per ordering key. The number of unique ordering keys allowed on a topic is limited only by what can be represented by a 1KB string, so very high throughput on a topic is still possible."

So, it's more of a throughput limit, not a message limit, per key. With small messages, you can get high "TPS".

Disclaimer: I work on Cloud Pub/Sub.
If I remember my r/badeconomics crash course, the issue is that jobs are being replaced, and being replaced with jobs like burger flipping instead of manufacturing which would allow you to skill up.
Thread masking is one of the big differences - threads in a warp today can be enabled or disabled independently to enable limited amounts of divergent flow control, and conversely super cheap syncronization. I don't know what the CM5 did - was it limited to always-on sets of vector instructions? Current GPUs also support certain amounts of fully independent thread scheduling, e.g., per-thread instruction counters, etc. Maybe that is beginning to leak out of the SIMT model.
> Since 1968, Mathematica has been at the leading edge of using data to make a difference in people’s lives
at https://www.mathematica.org/about-mathematica/overview/histo...

Wolfram Research itself was created in 1987.
Haven't read the article yet, so I don't judge the merits of his proposal, but unproven priors is exactly how science is built. A scientific hypothesis is taken without proof, then you derive its consequences and try to falsify them.

What Wolfram has to do is to replicate known physics at a minimum and ideally derive new testable predictions that we can attempt to falsify.

If he does that his unproven priors will become the new "taken for granted" priors.
The whole point of this touch to sign is that it can't be hacked remotely :) and you can just turn it off for most modes.
Tesla keeps beating expectations
In a just world, you would've gotten a slice of the revenue. Especially in tech, where your performance can be a revenue multiplier and continue to pay dividends for years, it should be that the people who make the change should be incentivised to do so.
Or you could just disable the requirement of using the touch.
Hey, thanks! I think I liked the idea of being tiny in a huge void, so the ship is small and only accelerates very slowly.

It has a couple of fun secret keys:

- hold "P" for slo-mo (handy for debugging)

- hold "I" for a debug display of object counts

- hold "S" during game start to spawn extra asteroids in the level

- press "N" to make all asteroids explode once (handy if you are bored of shooting gravel)
Why did he not call it The Finglonger?
South Africa: Hatred of migrants reaches new heights
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This is pure brilliance.
This special molecule of Stephen's is essentially a Maxwell's demon (it could use that information to open or close the door by choosing appropriate collisions, or simply act as the gate itself). There's a lot of literature about that.

Actually Stephen's special molecule is more powerful because it's omniscient. Ordinary Maxwell's demons just see fast or slow molecules coming at the gate and act accordingly. This one knows the momentum and position of every other particle it needs to know something about, which can be peculiar if you don't think about uncertainty.
Take-off for UK-built supercomputer nanosatellites
Would you say you're aiming for the high end market or is that too risky of a venture, relying on reaching the appropriate and steep quality level, when the lower end would be easier? It seems like you've put substantial effort into this so I'm presuming you're shooting for the stars.
The "hyper sensitivity" also cuts both ways. There do exist hyper-sensitive people seeking out reason to be offended... and other hyper-sensitive people seeking out evidence of others' hyper-sensitivity and getting offended about that.

Both are further stirred by major media trawling through minor media and social media for something to declare as "controversial". I had never heard of the Adele thing, and a quick Google turned up a CNN article which said[1]:

> The singer was quickly accused of cultural appropriation by some users for the hairstyle and top.

How many users is "some"? A dozen? A hundred? Does it really merit "controversy"?

Much of the time, I've found, one hypersensitive person is piled on by a thousand people who have found yet more evidence that there is an enormous social effort to repress them. They rarely or never encounter anybody who actually puts them down, but they hear about somebody else, and that's repeated so often that it sounds massive.

I've even seen it here on HN an awful lot: "I can't even say X anymore without being told how bad I am by a bunch of snowflakes", blithely ignoring how much of a snowflake that makes them. All they want is to be able to say whatever they want without anybody disagreeing -- is that so wrong?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/entertainment/adele-bantu-kno...
I recommend looking into Privacy as Contextual Integrity. Privacy is not about control. It's about appropriateness of information flows, not about private and public spaces.

If you're interested please read Nissenbaum's book on Privacy in Context.

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=8862

There is also an active community you can follow:
https://twitter.com/privaci_way
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The final thoughts at the end of the article are amazing:

"Why not just press the button?" ... "Don’t you get it? This button BAD, but this button GOOD. Me want to press GOOD button."
The obvious next step is to plug this into a server and control it through USB over IP. Call it "remote, centrally controlled 2FA" and your manager will love it!
There are numerous valid HTTP payloads that are larger than a single TCP/UDP packet.

Ordering is important in these cases.
A bunch of Networking commands/scripts all on one page (Linux, Unix, Mac)
The only way you can accurately evaluate and attribute the work of this hypothetical intern is to answer the question "what would happen if they took their idea and implemented it independently?"

* Does it require a big capital investment? the company provides that.

* Is it risky? The company gets a risk premium.

* Does it need a bunch of specialized resources? the company needs to provide those.

* More subtly, is it net-new or incremental value? Providing a company with something that boosts what they already do isn't evaluated on the incremental increase because you can't realize them without the previous baseline.

There are countless factors measuring value-add, making it extremely hard to allocate back to a single cog in the machine - unless you're a startup with very few cogs, hence they're responsible for all value (or costs).

If you want to be evaluated based solely on your individual contribution, put yourself into a situation where this is possible, i.e. do it all yourself. Otherwise join the broader team and take the benefits and costs that comes with that.
The stock market has no bearing on ~50% of US population who own absolutely no stock except meager small amounts in 401k's.

18-29 year olds, 70% do not own any stock, 401k, etc.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...
I do the same except I use a small fanless NUC running Linux Mint which I control with the top of the line Logitech blue tooth "thumb ball" mouse. Aggravations vanquished.
In case it's not clear: this tries to use the submitted password to log in to Google, FB, Twitter, GitHub, Reddit, and HN, and reject if it's re-used.
It's a good list, but the best static site generator is a human person writing .html files. All this static site generator stuff is unneeded complexity for those that enjoy complexity.
Yes, there's harm to Facebook, the other users whose data is scraped, and probably to organizations advertising on Facebook. The masses of users and organizations are unlikely to be aware this is going on or to be able to organize and sue the extension makers.

These extensions are made by shitty companies using shitty practices to make money. If current legal frameworks aren't well suited to deal with it, that doesn't make them any less shitty.
Let's not forget that the economy has transitioned to have both partners in a marriage to work. (Being dual incoming earning) That's had a few negative effects on the market and social issues (less parental involvement with kids and possibly contributing to a higher divorce rate)
> The net tuition (not the sticker price, which only the rich really pay)

What exactly does "net tuition" exclude? Financial aid comes in many forms - grants, loans (multiple kinds), work study. Excluding some of these might be fair. Excluding others would be chicanery.

> the majority of Americans attend public universities (myself included

Also, the majority of students attend big universities. Want to guess how tuition has increased at Texas A&M or Ohio State vs. a legion of tiny schools that barely achieve accreditation? How many of the sources you found on Twitter are improperly taking an average across schools instead of across students?