skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would go even a step further and question the randomness of the quantum realm, but IANAP and I might be saying something terribly stupid: apologies in advance.

What if the source of quantum randomness is not really random in the Kolmogorov sense? If any finite (computable, as physics seems to be) process has a bounded Kolmogorov complexity, is it correct to assert that infinite complexity can be originated only from an unbounded process?
Then what about the constituent parts of that unbounded process? Shouldn't they have unbounded mass/energy and collapse into a blackhole? Equivalenty: shouldn't something with infinite entropy collapse into a blackhole per Bekenstein bound?

Somehow I feel that this cosmic TRNG is as shady as the embedding of the real numbers in the real world.

N.B.:
- I don't think this line of reasoning contradicts Bell's theorem.
- I reckon that, as digital cowboys, we have a bias for finiteness and discreteness

I'm really curious about this, please contradict me. There must be something beautiful that I'm not seeing.
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The selection pressure on three versus two arteries feeding the hand has to be so incredibly small (in terms of survival to reproduction in humans) that I am having a hard time imagining how this story has any causal plausibility.

Edit to be more clear about what in the article I'm responding to, it's this:

> Dr Teghan Lucas from Flinders University says ... “This increase could have resulted from mutations of genes involved in median artery development or health problems in mothers during pregnancy, or both actually. If this trend continues, a majority of people will have median artery of the forearm by 2100.”
Yeah 95 is high compared to today. Even FAANG aims for 80-90% of market compensation today. Even FAANG will have to shift stock vs cash compensation for all workers (including american) because of this.

For small to medium companies, I am guessing many will be forced to try remote work in other countries because of this.
Well, everyone who buys from the seller splits the loss. No doubt it's built into their prices.
> Miniphases

To my knowledge the (to be released) Scala 3 compiler[1] implements this concept.

Interesting and related is also Odersky's "compilers are databases"[2] concept.

[1] https://dotty.epfl.ch/
[2] https://www.slideshare.net/Odersky/compilers-are-databases
If the site is down for anyone else, I found a version that has split the chapters into separate pages here:

https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Science_of_sleep
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Maybe we already did, and this waves hands generally at everything is the in-flight entertainment to stop us from going insane, and to both remind us why we’re on our journey, and train us for our destination.
> I don't know why there's a separate F-Droid repo...

You mean why there's a separate "Izzy's F-Droid" repo?[0]

[0] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/info
Yea, I think the same. Further, I feel bad for ICs and bosses alike because the bosses likely had poor management training (MBA doesn't count - I mean modern methods and mentoring/coaching) and are managed by other managers who also never had good training.

I find that most people actually really want clearly defined work / goals from their manager and for the manager to be pretty hands off unless they need help, more resources, etc.

There's also another class of problem which is that, as a corollary to the above: "You weren't meant to have a job" - ie it's not always easy to execute / enjoy work even when the work is interesting and your boss is great. Anything worth doing is probably going to be challenging and that's going involve some measure of stress.
Their other platforms maintain insane revenue.

They knew what they were getting into here and thought it was worth the cost.
It is unintuitive that an overnight package sent from Mississauga to Milton would go to Atlanta first, but that is the key insight Fred Smith had when he created FedEx. Regarding the CBC returns featured in the video, the 105 mile detour and the denim coveralls going to an electronics recycling facility support FedEx's strategy: exceptions in the normal processing workflow are error prone and expensive relative to the extra transportation costs.

The assumptions underlying the criticism of Amazon's and FedEx's strategy is that landfill costs and/or transportation costs do not represent the true cost to society.
Was this not simply about getting the names of masked secret police?

Also, the issue with getting the gome adresses of police officers in that case is that the intent was to bomb them, not getting their address per se, as that really is quite easily done and not something the state would notice.
Your comment was extremely insightful. Thank you for this. I rarely favorite (to be fair I only knew about it recently) but...your comment is in my favorites.
Glad you took another look!
I also find this shocking - 10% -> 30% seems like a massive change in ~100 years in the context of human evolution.

Why does increased blood supply create such a large selection pressure? And what type of surgical procedure uses the median artery as a replacement part?

I have zero training in biology, so I think my mental model must be very off.
As an American who has never really experienced political violence at home, it is really distressing to see how frequently the topic of imminent political violence is coming up.

I’m deeply concerned, and I wish I could just say I’m paranoid or crazy, but it seems like we’re well on the way to something serious.

Does anyone see a path or other than rolling over and being murdered by the people who have been hoarding guns for the last 20 years? I might buy my own but sadly they are selling out nowadays and there’s an ammo shortage from what I gather.
That's how every woman in my life, ever, has shopped for apparel, from TJ Maxx to Saks to Amazon.

I always felt bad about returns, but my SO worked retail in school and assured me this is how it's designed to be and how every big shopper does it.

And I don't blame returners. There used to be a website that listed variance in sizes from major clothing brands and fashion lines, and it can be huge. If I like a cut of jeans or slacks, I have to try on several, and they without fail will not fit the same.
After ~20 years of using the Microsoft ergonomic keyboards, I switch to a Kinesis Freestyle Edge RGB. I looked at all the other options and this one seemed the most reasonable for my needs (conventional layout, excellent tilt/split).

I've been very satisfied with it. I was skeptical about mechanical keyboards (even though I'm old enough to remember the original ones), but this thing has been a game changer. I will never go back to membrane keyboards, and the ergonomics of the Kinesis are perfect for me.

Microsoft still sells the 4000 for $50 though, and you can get it for as cheap as $35 if you hit an Office Depot with stock (pre-pandemic anyway, have no idea about the current retail situation).
thanks, yeah I saw that, earlier headlines were saying something closer to taking over Michigan government
What is wrong with hiring cheap labour again? Could it be that company should fix their hiring practices and produce higher quality product, instead of the state making laws that equate "cheap" with "low quality"? So the gov should tell companies how to use their money now?
If you're interested in the study or its methodology, you can request the paper directly from the authors at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344230933_Recently_...

According to the abstract, there has been a significant (p-value of under 0.001) increase in the prevalence of mid-arm arteries over time, which has been corroborated by multiple studies.

After removing studies that focus specifically on the evolutionary aspect of this change, the p-value is 0.018, which still suggests a correlation.
The video says a Fender Blues Jr.
I would guess extra blood flow could somewhat prevent people from suffering of cold fingers. I couldn’t find evidence for that, though.

Worse, Wikipedia claims it’s easier to commit suicide by slashing your wrists if you have this artery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_artery), and https://radiopaedia.org/articles/persistent-median-artery-of... says it can be a cause of carpal tunnel syndrome.

I don’t see how either could be an evolutionary advantage.
This account doesn’t explain why your brother proceeded to misappropriated the startups database, and then terminated the rebranded startup once the wrongdoing was uncovered.

http://www.businessinsider.sg/aaron-cheung-brings-homejoy-cu...

I'm skeptical a neutral 3rd-party would advocate selling credit card data to a person planning an illegal scheme. Especially when that person is your own brother.
So which languages apart from F# are reasonable according to the authors requirements?
Google's name comes from "go ogle". It was their goal all along to stare at everything you do.
Yeah I'm not a company here, just a musician with an interest in machine learning and a few amps cluttering up the bedroom. I'd love for other people to train and share new models with this technology. I think that making this free and open source gives it the potential for much smarter people to make something bigger than I can do on my own in my free time.
When I called them last week, they offered to repair a faulty hard drive (clicking noises, SMART errors through the roof) ...

If they try to repair an irreparable hard drive but throw perfectly good items like a bag they're quite dysfunctional.

And their inability to send all the ordered items in ONE package is irritating too.
DNA isn’t so neat as to cleanly separate every change. Thus this could be related to a host of changes that collectively represent a noticeable advantage. With circulatory issues being the #2 killer in the US it’s likely for the circulatory system to be undergoing rapid change.

Increased blood flow to the hand may mean a more efficient circulatory system increasing athletic performance and lowering disease risks etc.
Why would it stop?
I graduated in the class of 2019. Plenty of CS courses had no programming requirement at all and a few only had on-paper coding requirements (i.e. nobody every checked if the code worked).

I once submitted code that did not compile as I ran out of time. I got 100% on that assignment.

Whether you get a good grade on the programming portions is almost random.
> The VC funding model also seems to go against this idea. As far as I understand it (I don't work in SV, so my understanding is all second-hand), the approach is to fund lots of companies hoping that a few will make it big and accepting that most would fail. This is in complete contradiction with the idea of small, non-hierarchical enterprises.

The VC funding model uses the expectation that a few will make it big and the others will fail or be let go.

However, they do spread out funding among many initially smaller companies, and to some extent grant a lot of autonomy to each company to decide for itself what to do with the money, including spend it poorly.

Because VCs already expect many to fail, they are not panicked about it. I think that's relatively non-hierarchical, compared with the alternative where a big investor takes over a company and dictates how to run it.

So it's not clear to me whether VCs are a cause of hierarchy overall when considering all companies in the world, or if they are merely incentivising growth in some, while providing more flexibility to others to do their own thing than if modern VC did not exist.
I'm with you 100% on this. Someone posted a project that is clearly a bad idea to actually use and your criticisms are perfectly justified and on-topic (not to mention correct).

I've also seen too many things of this nature in production to buy into the "it's just a toy, it's self-evidently not for real use" argument.
Total compensation for most attorneys even in high CoL cities at Big Tech firms doesn't eclipse $150/hr. That's hourizing an annual wage of $300k.
I once filled up at a station in NJ where the attendants had disabled the spring for the self locking latch. Not a huge issue for a car filled from the side but with the nozzle pointing down into a motorcycle tank it locked itself without my knowledge and then I couldn't get it to shut off while gas was spewing all over the bike. Still alive though.
> Humans haven’t developed mutations or superpowers just yet, but a new study shows our species is still evolving in unique ways and changes in natural selection could be the major reason.

Ewwww. Why is university press the worst? If we are still evolving and this isn't just about genetic recombination then by definition mutations are involved.

Also the publicist writes

> This evolutionary trend will continue in those born 80 years from today, with the median artery becoming common in the human forearm.

Wat. "Evolutionary intertia" probably has been defined by someone, but it's not that.

It looks like this is a doubl-wammy misinterpration of the following quote, also from the press release:

> “This increase could have resulted from mutations of genes involved in median artery development or health problems in mothers during pregnancy, or both actually. If this trend continues, a majority of people will have median artery of the forearm by 2100.”

It could involve mutations and the trend could continue.
That seems logical and a like it would hold true, but the spirit of being "open" is completely lost once you involve commercial, for-profit interests. I would like to highlight Elon's (co-founder) thoughts on this as a clear deviation from their initial goals:

"This does seem like the opposite of open. OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft."
> Does every country in the world really have to be a democracy?

They don't.

Does every country in the world really need to have racial equality and an even-handed police force? They don't either.
Good example of how a little insecurity is sometimes a good thing.
I won't be buying anything expensive from Amazon anymore. I ordered a 2TB nvme SSD which came in a padded envelope. I didn't even try it before returning it. Its own packing was a simple blister pack. $250

I ordered a camera lens which also came in a padded envelope. $400.

I got a box of wet wipes from them. It had its own sturdy box and they were placed in another box lined with shipping paper. $12.

I also won't buy anything that goes into my body. I ordered toothpaste and it came from some guy's basement. He wrapped them in plastic wrap and wrote two pack on the outside.

Amazon gets lazier and lazier by the day and is in a lot of ways no better than a flea market.
Body Worlds still gets around -- It will be in Houston in just a couple weeks. There's photos online but it is definitely worth seeing in person.
Why not? Mechanical engineering teaches CAD use. Chemical engineering teaches you lab skills.
Well, Natural Selection doesn’t necessarily mean that only advantageous genes survive the Darwinian hustle, it can also mean that in the absence of negative external pressure also neutral variations are not systematically culled.

It’s like living in a civilized society; you don’t have to worry of starving tomorrow so you take on making art...
> Why not? Just because they're a hypocrite doesn't mean they're wrong.

They are wrong. It boggles the mind how anyone refused to understand this. Talk about cutting the nose to spite the face.

> we applied that logic to the US (...)

Putting the blatant whataboutism aside, if you were trying to be honest then you'd be complaining that no one had the right to meddle in anyone else's affairs.

But no, to you having a totalitarian and extensively oppressive regime like the Chinese one, which I remind you is right now executing a blatant ethnic cleansing campaign that would impress Nazi germany, is somehow awesome because it's sabotaging the US?
For mens sizes I find that very odd, as the size are defined units of measurement, unlike the headache that is womens sizes.
Could Microsoft be en route to dumping Windows in favor of Linux?
It's not at all self-evident that something like this is bad to inexperienced or naive developers, even if the readme has the obligatory "this is just for personal projects, don't use it in production" disclaimer. The comment is perfectly on-topic.
I've thought about this recently, and I think one that we have blurred is the difference between a leader and a boss.

As a human, you were meant to have a leader. Your first leader (hopefully) are your parents since you don't emerge with a complete understanding of things, and then you pick up a series of teachers/mentors through-out life.

The thing that fucks everyone up is power. Power will corrupt a teacher. Power corrupts managers. Power corrupts owners.

The question is how to mitigate the corruption of power. A boss is a corrupt leader in my opinion, and I agree that we shouldn't have one.
Agreed. Here's a cross view of the Venturi pump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AEjector_or_Injector.svg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_ejector
Thanks, this is much more what I meant.
In 2000s, there was an ownership dispute between stakeholders of a major Polish telecom (PTC at the time, now part of T-Mobile). It resulted in the company having two sets of CEOs and board members for a couple of years, with all the chaos at the highest levels of the company that could result from it. And yet, the firm plowed on successfully, didn't lose market share and is to this day very healthy.

It makes you wonder how important those big wigs really are. In my current company (a big bank), from what I'm seeing the execs are so far removed from reality by layers and layers of middle-managers who distort and manipulate facts to their favor when reporting upwards, that what the execs think they're managing is really some kind of alternative-universe avatar of the bank. Essentially they're operating in a Matrix created for them by their army of underlings.
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Unless it has changed, I received a response from some executive team and my request was granted (I missed a substantial Kindle sale by a day, and asked if they would still honor the price).
The preprocessor can be expected to read files and scan to the corresponding #endif very fast. Reading from cache is also very fast. C++ compilation bogs down when templates are involved. You want to split those (in a way which makes sense to the human reader), so that only the ones needed for a given compilation unit are instantiated. Further the link stage, which is difficult to parallize, is a bottleneck.
Exactly the same with analogue synthesizers.

A lot of the time they don't mean analogue when they say they don't want digital - they mean that they want knobs and switches to play with. I think some modern Moog's even have a digital stage in the signal path (I might be making that up but I have some vague recollection of it in a schematic)

Making a synth sound good has very little to do whether it uses analogue or digital synthesis these days, but analogue equipment is (for the same price) less reliable, uses more power, less flexible, and more susceptible to being damaged by impacts (and keep in mind that you can't repair a lot of modern gear with SMD soldering experience anyway)
It's important to note "sent back" doesn't imply "because it was defective".

People who pay for Prime do it specifically because it facilitates the way they shop. They buy a lot of stuff, figure out what they want, like, and need, and send the rest back.

It's completely normal, expected behavior in retail apparently.
Yes, I agree. I'm mostly responding to the authors' speculation:

> “This increase could have resulted from mutations of genes involved in median artery development or health problems in mothers during pregnancy, or both actually. If this trend continues, a majority of people will have median artery of the forearm by 2100.”
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By what logic?
This clearly doesn't actually work though; how many Fortune 500 companies can you point to that use a mostly outsourced employee base, even for their core functions? The closest you can get is likely an Uber or similar, but all they've outsourced is drivers and janitors; they still employ many thousands of engineers, salespeople, etc.

Also, the management chain still exists, it's just at a different company. But from the worker's perspective that's irrelevant; just as many people still have bosses.
Don’t forget that those writing the code are also disposable when not performing well enough.
That's not the job of a university. A reasonably smart student picks up how to work git in a few evenings with some online tutorial and some open source project. Or just when doing their homework.

In fact, a proper theoretical foundation makes this really easy. Graph theory and algebra will have taught them about DAGs and partial order, which is what git branches are. A crypto class will have taught them about hashes and signatures. Distributed systems class will have taught them about issues with synchronisation. With all that background it doesn't matter whether it's git or whatever system will be en vogue in 10 years.

Imagine a student having learnt CVS 20 years ago at university. Completely useless knowledge today. But the same student with the above fundamentals will pick up git in no time. That's what universities are for.
I always believed that the best proof for free well is when we question it
Isn’t it illegal to fill your gas in NJ?
> At a 20-person venture-funded company, there isn't much choice of work to do, and there isn't much room to move or grow

This is kind of the opposite of what I've seen reported around here.

Small startups, they say, are exactly where you should work for a while in order to grow and develop a lot of new skills, which are then valuable elsewhere.

Meanwhile a number of people at large companies report being bored at work.
I agree. There are plenty of reasons why this could be happening, including reasons that have nothing to do with any sort of selection at all. I've updated my comment to clarify what I'm responding to.
I would assume it’s an issue of agreements with Amazon.
Good video explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx-hznTy67w
QVC has an incredible return policy and their margins are built around it.

I do think that anything they cannot process properly should be handed off to charity groups who would get items in exchange for helping sort it all out. Then again, having seen my local St Vincents and Goodwill they to suffer overflow but at least with Amazon returns the items would be newer
In Fortran, you can start the index from any number you want. A(-10:-3) is a completely valid slice or full array declaration, so are A(0:7) or A(1:8). and this feature is absolutely useful in scientific computing.
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On the contrary: the customer is a resource to be sought, managed and exploited.

The boss ultimately dictates how this is to be done. Businesses fire customers, pivot the business to seek better ones, abuse/shortchange/swindle their customers all the time.

There are Bureaus of Consumer Protection, but no Bureaus of Boss Protection.
That's an excellent point. I hadn't thought about it that way.
You also have the kernel recently adopting both 32 and 64 bit RISC-V.
You can still tell but of course there shouldn’t be an expectation of privacy with that many users.
> The idea of individual agency, which lay at the core of the case for traditional human rights, is now seen as part of the vernacular of oppression

This is the exact fulcrum of my dissent from BLM et al. It's a fundamental difference in values that I cannot reconcile. It separates my tribe from other. And apparently my tribe is in decline if not yet endangered. Without this idea on both sides I can see no way to agree on what human rights are, dividing the project to improve them against itself.