skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Empirical testing is the only way to think about anything.

Epidemiology is the way to pluck randomised trials from peoples lived lifestyles

As such all the decisions we make in life have been made by billions of others before us - more than enough to tease out the "best" outcomes.

This is Inthink truly the golden egg of the age of surveillance - you can think for yourself, but back test against a million exactly the same decisions made by a million others - and decide if their outcomes are what we want
There is no particular reason why you can't make "florida orange juice" outside of florida

If I want to Buy American (tm), or Buy Greek, or whatever, that's my right as a consumer. I have no problem with your dodgy Chinese knockoff being sold, I do have a problem when it pretends to be the genuine article.
> BUT... you're recommending this as a workaround for limitations in expensive "Pro" local development machines, as part of an encouragement to go ahead and buy them.

I agree with that in principle, but in practice Docker development on Intel MacOS already performs so poorly that it’s effectively broken anyway. I’ve actually been looking forward to Apple Silicon in the hopes that Docker starts over again and gets things working without the constant CPU pegging and 5-10x performance penalty.
Ever carried a bike up some stairs???
Carbon frames aren't prohibitively expensive. Almost all of them are made in Taiwan or mainland China now and you can get cheap frames from the same factories that make the expensive ones. There was a time when carbon forks were expensive. They became commoditized 20 years ago. The same has happened now with the rest of the bike.
+1 to this exposition!
> We seem to systematically forget that the “shockwave problem”

It's not clear that this method of manipulating space-time would create a shockwave (I would be surprised if it didn't on start/stop) or would interact with matter differently from subliminal travel in transit.
To put it another way, European culture values humility over ego, and does not applaud those who manage to exploit those "lesser" than themselves quite so much.
I'm not sure what your standard is, you said 'corroborating evidence'. This is evidence that corroborates what the employees told the NYT. Now you're at 'concrete evidence'. What would that be? That someone yelled racial slurs at employees and then handed out signed receipts? The coinbase 'prebuttal' doesn't concretely dispute much either, it says you're going to see some stuff in the NYT that's 'hard to read'. If anything, it's striking how little both pieces disagree about the employees' allegations.
You will get downvoted because HN reflects SV groupthink, but you are absolutely correct. This is a well-studied phenomenon analogous to the Peter principle, and has been observed in workplaces (as you described) and schools (black students who get in to meet an arbitrary target struggle more and have a worse college experience).

We are doing these people a disservice. Even in the most “socially forward thinking” companies like Google, this sentiment prevails. The loudest non-black advocates for black hiring are privately the owners of the strongest fences. But when its time to virtue-signal, they’re at the front of the line. Hire a black employee directly into their team in eng/sales? No thanks - but they’ll gladly advocate for the customer service, recruitment and “diversity officer” roles to go to a black individual. Direct result of the push to hire disproportionately many black people which has led to them having a worse experience at these jobs as the psyche of existing employees is they’re automatically a lower bar hire (very unfair to these people!).

Good job big tech - you have once again turned a target into a measure and completely missed the point. Except now the people you supposedly tried to help are hurt the most.

Look at Coinbase - the exec team is largely women and minorities, yet NYT takes every opportunity to point out the percent of black employees (with no context on the number in the hiring funnel and at target colleges) as if CB has an obligation to hit a certain number.

Disclosure: I worked at Coinbase for a brief period.

Ready for the downvotes, but look around at those in your team and within yourself, and ask yourself if there is anything untrue in what I said before hitting that button.
I agree, it's very irritating that so many people respond to who the messenger is, rather than to what the message is. You don't really have to anonymize the author's identity in order to focus on the message rather than the messenger. You just have to let go of identity politics and any similar goofiness.
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No, the point was that anyone who remotely cares about security wouldn't touch Zoom with a 10m pole.
> Rather, the model was designed by the study's authors, Jørgen Randers and Ulrich Golüke, two business school professors in Norway.

Business professors writing papers about climate science? What could go wrong?
Beautiful black prototype PCB for Black Friday just for $0.99
Towards a security certified imune system for robots
I am on H1B for last 12 years. Born in India so standing at the end of never moving line. Basically dont see when I can get 485 or green card.

Is there a way for people on H1B to start a company? I don't know anyone from India or China who has done this. Reason I am picking India and China because they have the longest wait time. I have been waiting for 12 years and would guess I need to wait another couple of years before I can get anywhere with EAD or citizenship.

How do I go about starting a company on H1B?
Pocket is great for this. Just hit that pocket icon and close the tab. Now it's gone from your life forever. I just hope that the browser extension will keep working even if the service closes down, so I can keep putting things into Pocket and never ever read them.
What the world can learn from the Covid-19 pandemic
The theory of infinitesimals is intimately connected to how analysis (differential and integral calculus) was first formulated. Leibniz and Newton understood that you could approximate instant rates of change, or areas under a curve, by taking smaller and smaller "slices" of a function, but they did not yet have the rigorously formalized notion of limits that modern analysis depends on. So they developed an arithmetic of infinitesimals, numbers greater than zero but less than any positive real number¹, with some rather ad-hoc properties to make them work out in calculations.

Philosophical problems surrounding the perplexing concept of infinity were already hotly debated by the ancient Greeks. Aristotle made an ontological distinction between actual and potential infinities, and argued that actual infinity cannot exist but potential infinity can. This was also the consensus position of later scholars, and became a sticking point in the acceptance of calculus because infinitesimals (and infinite sums of them) were an example of the ontologically questionable actual infinities.

As I mentioned before, standard modern analysis is based on limits, not infinitesimals, and requires no extension of real numbers. Indeed the limit definition of calculus only requires the concept of potential infinities, so philosophers should be able to rest easy! But infinitesimals still occur in our notation which is largely inherited from Leibniz, however. We say that the derivative of y(x) is dy/dx, or the antiderivative of y(x) is ∫ y(x) dx, and while acknowledging that dy and dx are not actual mathematical objects, just syntax, we still do arithmetic on them whenever it's convenient to do so! For example, when we make a change of variables in an integral, we can substitute x = f(t) for some f, and then say dx/dt = f'(t) and "multiply by dt" to get dx = f'(t) dt to figure out what we should put in the place of the "dx" in the integral.

Actual infinitesimal numbers are not dead, either, they're used in a branch of analysis called nonstandard analysis which formalizes them in the logically rigorous manner that is now expected from mathematics.

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¹ Not that they had a rigorous theory of real numbers, either, that came in the 19th and early 20th century. In fact what we now understand as formal, axiomatized math didn't really exist before the 19th century at all!
No it's far from common knowledge, if the way you find out is through some university professor.

My understanding is / was that fake sugars do not have response and do not cause you to get fat, while you've demonstrated there is an insulin response which is pretty major.

Now I have to figure out another way to deal with the bitterness of coffee other than my current 2 packets of stevia method.
Yes, which suggests a stress connection. Xylitol in dogs is a unique, (sadly) predictable toxicology, like their reaction to chocolate, and is more like what the human reaction to drinking artificial sweeteners would be, if humans had a similar vulnerability.
Over time there has been a shift in theme from essays on startups to essays on parenting. I believe this example strongly falls in the latter.
Maybe that's conventional wisdom, but I simply disagree then.

Just because everyone tells you not to buy a house doesn't mean you should buy one. I didn't buy my house because everyone told me not to, that would be incredibly stupid. In fact I would even go further and say that doing the opposite of what everyone tells you to do for the sake of being contrarian is worse than just going with the flow.

You can listen to people's reasons and try to appreciate where they are coming from and you can definitely learn from that, but making a decision on the basis of what everyone else is saying to do, one way or another, is bad advice.
This article seems to want to define "Silicon Valley" in terms of companies starting up and the prospect of employment. But in my opinion, these numbers considered over a short period aren't necessarily a relevant base for comparison.

The majority of startups fails. So for an individual considering the risk of that adventure, it's not only important to prepare for take off, it's also important to make sure the landing will not be too rough. Especially the emergency landing. In the US, entrepreneurship is so ingrained in the culture that the costs and stigmas associated with failure are lower than in many (most?) other places in the world. They're therefore not as big a deterrent.

In order for me to consider Switzerland as a possible alternative to Silicon Valley, I'd have to ask some questions like, how well is the risk of entrepreneurship understood? What happens when the majority of these startups fails in the next 5 years? How willing will entrepreneurs be to try a second time? How many current "second-chance" entrepreneurs (those who've already tried and failed at least once before) are there?
If the ARM chipmakers haven’t bothered to invest to catch up to Apple’s A series in order to compete better in the large phone and tablet market, they’re not likely to invest to catch up to the harder to reach M series in the smaller PC market.

There is a fair chance the M1 will be remarkable in how little impact it has on the rest of the industry.
United is probably the most idiotic of those. What's my favorite sport? Well, I'm not too much into sports but I'd say... Oh, it's not on the list. How about... Also not on the list. No wonder, there's hundreds of sports out there and United didn't pay their contractors enough to make a PhD level survey of sports. OK, baseball it is.
Regarding the ebook section, EPUB 3 does in fact support interactivity along with video and audio [0], among other features, so it's not a technical limitation but rather one of effort for book creators, and for compatibility between multiple ebook readers.

[0] https://blog.bookbaby.com/2011/10/epub-3-explained-features-...
It’s the next step up from 10G (which our peak traffic is outgrowing).

If you look at older/used networking gear, 40G QSFP+ might look like the next step, but to me that’s starting to look a bit like an evolutionary dead end at this point.

Low-end 25G routers/switches are relatively cheap, as are 25G SFP28 optics (including bi-directional ones, which get a bit marginal at speeds above 25G).
What did the doctor write to get it covered by insurance? How much does levels cost?
There is a small typo in the above:

Undecidable ≡ Halt<ExpressionFromString<Natural>>[⦅RunOne.[]⦆] is

inferentially undecidable in the theory Actors, that is,

⊬Undecidable and ⊬¬Undecidable where

RunOne.[]≡Eval.[SelectOne.[0]] and ⦅RunOne.[]⦆ is the

expression for the procedure application RunOne.[]
LiteStore looks fantastic! Do you have any performance metrics (specifically limits) for the various use cases you mention in the documentation? Considering it's written in Nim, I wouldn't be surprised if it actually outperformed bulk of the other documentDB solutions that currently exist out there.
I don't know why this bugs me, but from the article: "(Aside: The hard bit may be getting a new enough SQLite, at the time of writing Homebrew on macOS has it, else you likely need to use an unstable source like nixpkgs-unstable.)"

I feel like the obvious answer is to just get the stable, released source from the SQLite web site and build it yourself.
At times it seems like scientific studies are competing on the most tweetable headline rather than the actual quality of the research.
In US and Canada, the time zones are named after geographical regions. From east to west, they go Atlantic (UTC-4 in standard time; services Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Labrador), Eastern (US east cost, Canada's Windsor-Quebec main population center), Central (Chicago, St Louis, Texas), Mountain (Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado), Pacific (US/Canada west coast), Alaska, Hawaii.

Most US residents are going to be familiar with these time zones because you are more likely going to have to deal with multiple time zones in this set than any other international time zones. Television shows that announce to the broader country usually announce their times as, say, 11 Eastern/10 Central, because they'll be broadcast in both Eastern and Central time zones.

If I'm talking to someone in the US, I'm not going to bother prefixing the timezone with "US" because it's implied. But if I were talking to someone international, I'd be more likely to prefix "US", as in "this meeting is scheduled for 11:00 US Pacific time". This formulation has the added benefit of also describing whose daylight savings rule take effect in international settings.
A bit of proofreading from me:

> Once the readable end of the pipe is closed, an attempt is done to write results with SIGPIPE emitted into the writing process.

Should be "any attempt done to write results with SIGPIPE"
I think you make a very good point, especially with the Google answer.

But I don’t know if that shift in sentiment is unwarranted. The Google of 2005 was nothing like the Google of 2020.

When Google was just a search company, they were purely innovators. Google indexed the internet better than anyone else.

But Google now is pretty bloated. Chrome, Android, Gmail, Docs/Drive, YouTube. The thing is, your gripes with one product affect your perception of all Google products. If you don’t like Chrome, your YouTube experience might be degraded, and you might resent Google’s increasing influence on web standards.

I’m not saying it’s bad that Google has made a lot of useful things work. But Google has lost its magic.

The same can be said of Facebook. Young people flocked to it a decade ago. It was new, it was magic. Now it’s bloated too (Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus), and has its own set of unique issues.

It’s like how some people prefer bands that haven’t become mainstream yet. I prefer small companies because they are still on their toes trying to make better products. Google and Facebook don’t care about you as a user anymore, they’re too big to care.

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft... they too have lost that magic with age and size.

They’ve become boring. Boring is a recipe for disruption.
The claim towards the end: "'he discriminated against me' is about as subjective as 'he was a jerk to me'" is proof that the author wrote this in bad faith. His entire argument rests on this claim, and yet he offers actually zero defense of it.

Someone who agrees with the author, please, do you really come up with no apparent counter-examples to this claim that need to be explained?
One of the things I've started actively disliking more and more are the "independent thinkers" in the tech oligarchy who seem to do it simply because they enjoy being contrarians.

They post pseudo-intellectual babble about going against the grain justified by single sentence "observations" about some anecdotal evidence they then stretch and generalize into a larger point and continue beating up until the horse is dead.
1x is a cost reduction measure disguised as a "new thing". Same price - less components = more profit.
Ports: ssh tunnels, ngrok or similar tools.

Mounts: it's equivalent to mounting a remote file system. Docker -> server -> local.
Indeed, thanks to at-will employment, failing as a founder is not a financial ruin.
Wow, I stand corrected.
Ooo, nice. This is quite clever - still will require insight and effort from the rider, but it should be less of a shot in the dark, if it works. I'm not in your target market personally, but I like the approach.

Are you going all out with triaxial load in the seat post, or uniaxial (posterior)?
But schools generally ignore independent-mindedness, except to the extent they try to suppress it.

Why do so many folks buy this bullshit about American schooling? Sure, we've got SATs and standardized tests but schools also have jazz bands, rock ensembles, student written plays and musicals.

Hell my failing public high school had plenty of room for self-expression, it wasn't the sort of conformist prison PG thinks to seem schools are, it just wasn't a very good school. No one was going to punish you for writing an essay or starting a club or anything else.

My university, one likely to be accused of 'credentialism' also had the gamut of clubs: campus crusade for christ down to groups for divesting from Israel to Zionist groups, to LGBT groups, etc, etc, etc.

Its just bullshit.
That's an interesting question. Supercavitating torpedoes take advantage of two effects (a) gas typically is much less viscous than liquid, which reduces drag and (b) if you reduce the pressure enough, liquid turns into gas.

In the atmosphere, you're already in a gas, so there's not an obvious other state of matter that would be advantageous. Furthermore, reducing pressue would certainly reduce drag, but not by orders of magnitude like a phase transition.

But in the spirit of 'yes, and': if you reduced pressure near the skin by A LOT (near vacuum) you might see a dramatically lower drag. Maybe that could be accomplished by ionising the incoming air and then electrostatically repelling it? Who knows. It's fun to speculate though.
well i liked it :P

& think it'd be great if more thoughtful-oriented writes on the internet generated such HN discussion
> The evidence of Iran’s nuclear weapons research is incontrovertible

There's no evidence Iran has pursued anything since entering the agreement, the Israeli intel is rehashed old news[1].

> They believe that because Iran’s leaders specifically call for the destruction of Israel, just taking Iran at its word.

Israeli leaders call out for the destruction of Palestine and its people, should we take them at their word?[2][3].

1 - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/netanyahu-s-info-iran-n...

2 - https://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2014/07/14/mothers-of-all...

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Israeli_annexation_of...
This sounded very intriguing, but I have to agree with the other comments that it is not very clear what the actual focus is.

It is at the same time confusing and frankly quite unbelievable that zenoh seems to target everything from couple-hundred-kb systems to scaling well in the cloud, and still being best at everything. I mean ok, that's rather awesome if even half of it is achieved, but I would definitely like someone more knowledgeable about the project to expand on their trade-offs etc.
Sometimes password can be reset without your asking so, or the system requires to supply both password and security questions.
Salary will depend heavily on where you want to live. As someone else commented, SF salaries are insane.

If you don't live in SF, your salary will not be that insane. Seattle/New York will be close.
> .. While Lincoln led the US to a civil war which abolished formal slavery, his own opinion on black people was quite horrid ..

I figure Lincoln had to say that, in order to bring along those wavering abolitionists.
Every organization will have leaders - that's just the human nature, most of us feel more comfortable if all hard decisions are made for us. The choice is between officially appointed leaders (managers), and unofficial ones - I guess it makes it harder to run an organization if you're not even sure who the actual leaders are.
I rather like to do things and to do that you need money and they help you get more of it. That’s about the only attachment I have.

Idealistically the knowledge is so transient that it’s probably only worth googling on the fly. I’d rather fill my head with mathematics or something instead if I had the choice.

This I learned without certification that were more valuable: C, Go, Linux shell and admin, HTML, CSS, networking, various reusable computer science bits.
I think this is an appealing sounding false dichotomy. Bryan Caplan consistently wins bets by betting trends. Robin Hanson has noted that merely taking all the basic facts of a domain as actually true will often get you to contrarian status.
I will admit to being less well traveled with the SQL family, mainly sticking to news on sqlite and mysql with some curiosity of postgres, but I'd only known of the GENERATED AS syntax being primarily for virtual columns that use a computed value.
Extremely vague post. Doesn't even reference the original paper and the rebuttal? Links to a couple of tweets in the classic disinformation style, please flag.
Why wouldn't the lights be tilted down from the bars? I have external lights on my bike that are mounted ABOVE the handlebars, and don't seem to have any problem illuminating the road in front of me?
Technically the proposed drive is not moving within spacetime but instead is causing a spacetime bubble around the ship to compress and expand. So redshift might be zero inside? It's about as speculative as the negative mass required.
Functional Scala-backend - distributed event driven system
FRP/RxJs/React Front end
I'm absolutely for it. The more competition in the space, the better.

I hope recent software advances in ARM by Apple pushes Microsoft to focus more of their efforts in building a competent translation software layer for x86-64 apps (in contrast to their current garbage-ish emulation layer that makes their ARM devices running legacy x86-64 apps nearly unusable, in some cases) like Rosetta 2.

And also hoping those advances by MSFT in turn push Apple to make an even better version of Rosetta 2 (because mainstream x86-64 apps will probably be around at least for the next couple of decades, imo), leading to a 'golden age' of sorts for translation/emulation software.
I kind of get your point but please don't try to say that USB-C wasn't a thing until Apple adopted it. It's absolutely false and Apple was just the lame late adopter. They can't even get it right, in 2020, after everyone else had figured it out: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/04/24/why-you...
If the person intends to naturalize in the US, a 6+ month period outside the US is also presumed to break the continuity of residence, which resets the 5 year clock for naturalization.

You can challenge the presumption of a break though.

https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-d-chapter...