skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can simultaneously be true that to be successful in your field, you need to be unconventional relative to that field, and also that the means and methods for being usefully unconventional transfer across fields.

"This article is self-contradictory. The article says good programmers write code in a way that doesn't cause surprises for the reader. But the only way for a program to be totally unsurprising is if it's an exact copy of another program which already exists!"

...

"The formulae are all driven by survivorship bias anyway."

In PG's case, he's had a chance to observe a lot of startups, both successes and failures.

But even aside from this, survivorship bias is mainly a problem in the presence of downside risk. Let's say we look at Olympic champions and find that they all trained really hard. You cry: "Survivorship bias! It could be that you will train really hard and not become an Olympic champion!" Yes. It could be. But since the risks of training hard are relatively low, you may as well go ahead and train hard if being an Olympic champion is a serious goal for you.
The copy on the landing page irritates my product side. Lack of clarity, super focused on features without relatable context and no direct mention of what it does for me as a user.
> It's no more a cult than cheering for your school mascot

To just react to this part: from the perspective of someone growing up in a country without school mascots or inter-school sports competitions, the whole US treatment of school sport teams and their mascots (or,
at least, their depiction in media) is rather cultish behaviour.
"it really didn't completely disrupt a large existing industry" - Have you checked market share of Apple Watch ?
Missing nukes
Sometimes people do make up stories about ketamine and nitrous addictions. This has been very disastrous for people accused of rape or witchcraft. This is why i don't like "where there is smoke, there is fire."
Thanks for a pleasant read. I like the text focused layout of this blog, the quotes look great. While I think there are many purposes of writing: clearer thinking, communicating, enjoyment, etc. I don't think it can be boiled down to a single purpose without becoming a tautology like writing is the purpose of writing.
Also, "Isn't it a little pretentious to quote yourself?" - nxpnsv. (Actually I didn't mind, but that would ruin my joke).
I guess I'll have to tell the partners that some guy on the internet says we've been doing things wrong...

You're still misreading the laws. If you refuse to accept that than we are done. Section 475 are the mark to market rules, not capital gain conversation rules. It applies specifically to dealers of securities (who would otherwise be unable to take deductions for their normal business losses.)

I charge $700/hour. Most of my work now involves cleaning up messes by guys who read one paragraph out of context and got themselves audited when they thought they found a new loophole.
Thank you Dang!

Your work on HN has been tireless and awesome!

(Paul Graham, if you're listening, give Dan a raise!!!)
I guess I misunderstood you? Because that's what I'm saying. That it would require substantial wealth to be able to have significant control over your own care.
It's always fascinating to read this type of stuff with the knowledge the authors influenced the way people use technology in such a fundamental way. It's like the inventor of the screwdriver modestly writing about how their curious little tool can be used.
Horrible news. Like many others here his book Delivering Happiness reached me. He was one of the good ones. He won't be forgotten.

My condolences to his friends and family.
Isolation and curtailing the ability to socialize tends to do that. May take a while to fully realize but I bet the ramifications related to mental and emotional well-being will be severe, not even getting into the drug and alcohol abuse addictions that were borne/rekindled during this pandemic.
I'd take a look at passright.com. They've helped tons of engineers and their approval rate (when you follow all of their instructions, of which there are quite a few) is very very high (90%+).
This study fails to add to the cost the huge amount of taxpayer money spent on supporting impoverished people and failing businesses.

It also fails to take into account deaths caused by the lockdown: drugs, domestic abuse, suicide, missed medical treatment, etc, etc.

In the end, it would be more like trillions wasted for no lives saved. The now firmly established police state is just a cherry on the top.
If Apple is free riding on how great ARM is, how come everybody else’s mobile ARM chips are such pants in comparison?
Imagine if France just covertly assassinated a US government scientist on US soil while s/he drove home to their family after work and then France just nonchalantly admitted this to the world and acted like it was normal.
How did you acquire a CGM, if you don't mind me asking?
I am not completely sure why the Go stdlib's HTTP client (which k6 uses) is faster than the NodeJS one. I think part of it is the fact that k6 spins up a separate JS runtime for each VU. goja is a much, _much_, slower JS interpreter than V8, but load tests are IO-bound, so that's usually not an issue. And you can spin up thousands of VUs in k6 (especially with --compatibility-mode=base), making full use of the load generator machine.

You can find some basic performance and other comparisons between load testing tools in this very long article of ours: https://k6.io/blog/comparing-best-open-source-load-testing-t...

And some advice for squeezing the maximum performance out of k6 in here: https://k6.io/docs/testing-guides/running-large-tests
Doesn't Apple use TSMC manufacturing?
Is there some develeper churn on the project? If yes, they would be perfect test drivers for the readme. If they get lost, there is a problem with your readme, or with your code. Likely both.

You also have a developer readme, right? ;-)
I use reveal.js to give presentations at work.

Type 'em up in Emacs org-mode, then use org-reveal to spit out the presentation HTML and screenshare with my browser.

It's real nice, the workflow allows me to slap something together in tools I find familiar rather than attempting to wrestle with PowerPoint.
So does this mean Einstein's IQ was subjective? Was he supposedly smart because he had encountered things on the test before? Would he score lower on one today?
We (Insightful) are developing a tool for you! :) It's called Insightful PerfLab - it will work for native code (CPU and/or GPU) and is designed to help things like Blender detect performance regressions in rendering (we built it to help detect performance regressions in our game engine, and then realized it would likely be generally useful to other developers).
They are not expensive, lots of sub €500 city bikes have them them.
In Xi’s China, Little Room for Dissent
English only, as usual for NLG
The 4% Rule for Retirement
Windows was more stable 10 years ago than it was in the 90s. I wouldn't be surprised if it's less stable now than it was in the 90s.
> What about the employees who were asked to be present for photo shoots to show workplace diversity but who felt ignored and talked down to during meetings?

That is extremely vague. Is it a red flag? Yes. Does it imply racism? No. It doesn't even guarantee there is a problem or a systemic trend for that matter.

If there are 3 red flags and some actual evidence of racism then that is one thing. But there isn't. Even the number of black people quitting - what is the expected retention rate in that team? Most people quit due to dodgy managers, so people quitting points to a dodgy manager before it points to racism.
Chess tactics explained
> Absolute nonsense. The number of pedestrians injured each year by cyclists is tiny, likely zero most years.

No. Here are some statistics from the UK in 2018 because they’re the first Google result. Cycling is wonderful and is a net benefit to communities. Trying to claim there are no injuries caused to pedestrians by cyclists is just silly.

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Figures published by the Department for Transport (DfT) show that 531 people were involved in collisions with cyclists in 2017, up by 15 per cent in 12 months. The accident rate was higher than at any time since at least 2013 when the statistics were first published. More than 120 pedestrians were seriously hurt in collisions with bikes last year and three were killed, the figures show.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/calls-for-new-law-as-cycl...
Notes on creating telegram bot for a hobby project
> 3) at least one of the mink variants of covid-19 is different enough that there is reason to worry the vaccines might not give immunity to it,

This is patently false, and the press have kept on saying it wrong to keep the terror giving them clicks. That mutation:

- Hasn't been observed in humans since Sep 5th;

- gives a slight advantage over escaping neutralizing antibodies (10%, not 100%)

- has no "fitness" at this point because there is no selective pressure for it

- has no effect on T cell based immunity

The Danish move was out of precaution, not because of the mutation, but because minks can become huge animal reservoirs of the virus due to the ease it spreads among them.
Don’t forget restic - it also works great on s3 compatible services!

https://restic.net
> I'm not asking for anything as there's noone to actually ask to, I'm asking about that

We have witnessed spacetime ripples bending the length of an inferometer chamber. These ripples are far weaker than those we can, with known physics, create. (Most of LIGO’s work involves removing the effects we unintentionally create.)

> tangible tools that may prevent the entire species as a thing from dying choked in a toxic miasma of our own creation

Bending materials with spacetime ripples is known physics. You are asking for (or about or whatever) something we have.

If you are unsatisfied with anything short of a functioning interstellar drive, see the earlier point about demanding light bulbs from those just grinding lenses. There are those doing the work. There are those oblivious of it. And there are those shouting at it.
A large portion of what I write is to not forget something. I found that better writing means I remember better. So, self-communication perhaps. However, there are many more sides to writing. I find building with language enjoyable as recreation, that is in a class like hobby coding, making, gaming, puzzle solving, or whatever floats your boat... there is no single purpose. Literature certainly is not about getting to the point, there might not even be a point.
A cpu (core) executes one process at a time. There is a lot of cpu (core) global state that gets saved / restored upon context switch (either between processes or just between user mode and kernel mode).

As a side note, there is a often a bit of terminology confusion on whether a cpu is the "die" or the "core". When discussing microarchitecture core == cpu in most cases
Why everyone’s hoarding Mason jars
And a huge homogenous home market.
Yes, and they are the only ones on TSMC 5nm currently.
>Why do you I think I agree with you?

"should the company do something or should it not babysit employees?"

The company is doing something by not babysitting the employees. Not baby sitting the employees is the only correct option here.

>So the company should just call the Police and wash their hands

Yes they should call the police, and it's not "washing their hands". Sexual harassment is a criminal offence. Your employer shouldn't be "handling" that like they shouldn't be "handling" rape.

>have an appropriate sexual harassment policy, train their employees on how to identify and deal with sexual harassment, have a clear procedure on how to file and deal with complaints.

The policy is the law. Adults shouldn't have their employer telling them that sexual harassment is a no no.

>Maybe you will call such things "babysitting", I say its being responsible.

The responsible thing is to involve the authorities when one of your employees is committing a crime. Simple as that.
Wait, where did the goal posts go. Has anyone seen them? I swear they were here a minute ago.
Interestingly Dab Bricklin the creator of VisiCalc built a web based spreadsheet called SocialCalc which was then eventually evolved into EtherCalc.

To download and emulate VisiCalc:
http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm
Spaces where bicycles have right of way and spaces where bicycles are permitted to tread gingerly around other, higher-priority users are completely different things. Calling such a pedestrian path a bike path is like calling a bus lane or a truck loading zone with sharrows in it a bike lane.
Renting vs. Buying: The 5% Rule
> Last but not least, could Gates's approach be an afterglow of his dropping out from Harvard. I see that over and over again, dropouts seem to suffer from this life-long hangover about what could have been? They tend to over-appreciate the power of schooling or the power of college. In the same way, I might be under-appreciating my own degrees. Gates is the opposite of Peter Thiel who studiously climbed the educational ladder until he stumbled to see the light. Thiel is now one of the staunchest critics of college.

I have wondered the same, and often felt this longing for "what could have been" myself. (I'm a college dropout who pursued a rather unconventional startup path.) Even though I've found myself surprisingly well-equipped to tackle most challenges, even when working with researchers, I have a very strong sense of impostor syndrome. I feel that I don't know enough about what I don't know.

Sometimes, I think that if I'd spent more time learning, I would know where to look to learn the next thing. Perhaps this is just imagination.

I'm sure I would feel the same kind of longing had I spent more time in college. A funny predicament.

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Can you give an example where the semantic data you refer to is in the file format in a way that is better?
Bloomberg Article – Why I’m Losing Hope in India
Does Bill Gates send his kids to austere charter schools, or to expensive, nurturing, creative private schools?
Another feature of the scheme was that they made people crowd together on just three days of the week. It was absolutely packed in some places and almost empty for the rest of the week.
Clickbait?

The number went up from 1500 last year to 2100 this year, so not a strong increase in absolute terms.

And the only reason why that's more than the Coronavirus deaths is because they have managed the pandemic quite well so far, like - it seems - most Asian countries do.

To put things into perspective, the monthly suicides in Japan from all reasons combined is about the same number as 4% of the monthly US coronavirus deaths.

So while sad, Japan increasing their suicide rate by about 0.005% of their population per year sounds like a good tradeoff against risking a >1% death rate.
Yes, that's it. If the C++ application exposes some service, then k6 might be the tool to test how it behaves under load now (or in the future). The only protocols we currently support are HTTP(S), WebSockets and gRPC, though we plan to add a lot of others (raw TCP/UDP, various DBs, queues, messaging, DNS, etc.) in the future, and we've recently added a way to extend the k6 functionality by writing external Go modules:
- https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/blob/master/release%20notes...
- https://github.com/k6io/xk6
Equivariant Neural Rendering
Glad you like it. A lot of work went into focusing on essentials for a team to ship product to paying clients. We're optimizing for that and building what similar teams to ours need to execute real projects. We want at least 10x improvement (time, cognitive load, dreading to do things for fear of breaking stuff which limits experimentation).

There are also features you might like, such as automatic experiment tracking (metrics, parameters, and models). You can also deploy the automatically tracked models pretty much in one click and it'll give you a nice "REST" API endpoint to invoke your models. The plumbing for model monitoring is there, we'll add the porcelain very soon to allow users to see it.

Currently tweaking data management as well in the "Object Storage" application.

We'd love to hear more of your problems. You and your team can sign up for access and start getting work done while you either find a platform that suits you, or we become a platform that suits you. It will be sooner than you think, as we've done a lot of - non user facing - plumbing recently.
Yep agreed.
What is the Continuous Bernoulli distribution good for?

Edit: I see it’s equivalent to a Beta distribution.
You've got a bit to learn about Tibet, HK, Xinjiang ( a muslim region), and soon Taiwan
How would you know that he caused the fire himself?
If you remove the duplicate jon.bo/ then it seems to work;
https://jon.bo/posts/index.xml
It needs a transpose/pivot function
That was just for one month though. 1500 last october vs 2100 this October. 2100 is a 40% increase over 1500. That's a pretty drastic change especially when the trend was downward.
yep. if only there'd been a real lockdown like what the chinese did...theyre projected to achieve gdp growth this year what the hell...
I think this is a bit unfair. I grew up in Europe -- which had no mascots or crazy "American" sports -- and during my childhood, Maradona (who also sadly passed away just last week) was absolutely idolized.
I strongly suspect they dragged us into Libya & Syria through their Epstein blackmail operation. Using the holocaust as a get-out-of-jail free card is wearing pretty thin.
Half measures seem to have worked here in Madrid during the second wave.

There is a general curfew at midnight and health districts of the metropolitan area have been selectively locked down, but everything else has remained open: restaurants, gyms, non-essential businesses, etc.

Cases per 100k are not low but they have been declining for weeks now, with most of the city largely open for business.
I think what also added to it was NTs responsiveness. Today there are so many housekeeping jobs that might take your CPU that you never know how long e.g. opening settings will take. Clicking anything in explorer on a good Pentium 3 running NT4 always had the same satisfying latency, almost like an RTOS.
If someone lucky to be in area/time of great development or inherited a lot of money, or have a good connections...

Then following your advise in less lucky situation is likely to fail.
Thanks for sharing! Is there a reason why borg is excluded from the comparison?
Just a little thing to note, the timeline scroll bar dates are all smushed together and illegible on mobile
I used to use reveal.js when I was teaching for many of my lessons.

Of course there's an Emacs mode for authoring your deck.

https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal
My current solution to perform backups with local encryption (locally encrypted before syncing) is to use a gocryptfs setup. Specifically, I create an overlay with gocryptfs in which the overlay has the unencrypted filesystem, and what's physically written to disk are the encrypted files.

Then, I create another mount on the physical disk and simply sync _that_ mount to multiple remote sources. Of course, this solution is fairly simple, and does not provide the features like file moves. Further, this approach potentially "leaks" some information, such as how many files I have, the approximate sizes of each file, etc.

This was set up a while ago; will definitely take a look at NFreezer to see if it's time for a refresh of my setup.
I'm curious what you think is which? For me, "live like you'll never die" is more motivating than "live each day like it's your last".
There is auto-completion, see https://k6.io/docs/misc/intellisense

Regarding debugging, that's unfortunately unlikely to come any time soon... We'd need support for that in the JS runtime we're using (https://godoc.org/github.com/dop251/goja) and then we'd need to figure out how to expose in in k6, while dealing with potentially hundreds of concurrent JS runtimes (VUs). Not impossible, just unlikely to land anytime soon...
Meh. You are moving goal posts, and you are making baseless claims against an experienced reporter who is well connected in the Bay Area for a major newspaper.

You are offhandedly discounting the reported experience of more than 20 people, many of whom have come forward with evidence.
> the whole US treatment of school sport teams and their mascots (or, at least, their depiction in media) is rather cultish behaviour

It’s tribal. Or team like. We don’t have a good word for it in English.

Being strongly affiliated with a group isn’t a bad thing. It drives innovation in companies and research groups and campaigns. It’s easy to mock. Often, there is some totem Kool-Aid everyone rallies around.

This cult-ish mode isn’t antithetical to individualism. We freely choose to associate this way. Unlike cult members, there is an out. And at a certain level we know it isn’t life and death. Though it’s fun to pretend it is, since so infrequently does the modern world let us fight with a team to life or death.
Iran made its bed, now they have to sleep in it.
From the postmortem:

At 9:39 AM PST, we were able to confirm a root cause [...] the new capacity had caused all of the servers in the fleet to exceed the maximum number of threads allowed by an operating system configuration.
> White men are racist just by existing

I've attended my share of diversity trainings but none of them taught me this. Maybe you just had shitty trainers?
>You are worried that if an application has a directory "cache" with files in it, a user will go into that directory and randomly delete the file "cache/3F3819A1.dat", and that might confuse the application.

I have done exactly this for a few applications. I likely wouldn't have done it for the database.

The reason I've done this is disk space. Some software is bad at getting rid of things that they've cached (eg Chrome). Theyend up taking more and more and more and more disk space. I don't understand why my browser needs to take up 10-20 GB of disk space, if it can't even retain 7 months of history.
Say Hellooo to survivorship bias, then!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

You're throwing half of the information away. You need to know not just what to do, but also what not to do. Losers can teach you about mistakes, injuries etc.
That's because apple bought the entire 5nm production capacity/runs for basically for the entire last quarter of 2020.

I can tell you some companies were not too pleased about that.
Not disputing what you're saying on instruction decoding but there is a lot of other stuff on an x86 processor that Apple hasn't needed or chosen to implement: 32bit, AVX, legacy SIMD, legacy modes, Intel Management Engine plus probably a more complex instruction set. Individually these may not make a difference but add them all up ....
You use a combination of local measurements (over a year) and historic weather data (over decades) combined with the specifications of your generator to estimate output. That model gives you an expected generation in an average year, amongst other things.

To learn more, this post talks about it in greater detail: https://blog.greensolver.net/en/p50-p90-simplified-two-figur...
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Replacing a Coal Plant Takes an Infinite Number of Wind Turbines
restic, borg, even plain rclone. plenty of backup tools exist with encryption at rest, what's the key selling point of yours?

I use rclone+restic because of google drive(=cheap unlimited storage) integration in rclone, and restic provides snapshotting on top.
Most tin foil hats do come in antisemitic varieties.
> You've got a bit to learn about Tibet, HK, Xinjiang ( a muslim region), and soon Taiwan

Or, you've got to read to the end of the sentence:

> Mostly because China didn't conquer a bunch of neighbors and create a name for the resulting state distinct from “China”

That last part matters.