skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That is one hell of a presumption. Did I offend you?

I'm not offended. You've stated how surprised you are about several thing that someone having studied such things would have seen. I didn't mean to offend - but to point out that if you have not studied them, it's not unreasonable to assume those who have worked on them for a lifetime have some knowledge about them you may not.

Did you study them?

>This is a complete non-sequitor. It's physics envy and posturing nonsense.

No, it's putting some context. If you've studied some complex field in depth, you know how detailed and useful the knowledge is, and that it's generally opaque to those who have not put the time in.

>The successes of physics and medicine have no bearing on whether mainstream economics is a complete crock.

Yes, they do, since all rely on the same processes to weed out error over time.

>In the soft sciences like economics, the expert doesn't necessarily bring more to the table than the reasonably well-read layman.

Wow. Ok, now I am sure you have not studied them at any academic or professional level, and I see why you're so mad and believe such fringe things about money. Having met enough people like you that are sure you or people like you bring as much to an econ discussion as experts despite what you've written here is the epitome of Dunning Krueger. And that I did mean directly. I never understand why people that know a lot about some area of knowledge assume they are expert level proficient in others without putting equivalent time in.

Have a nice day.
I put one of these [1] in my office 2 years ago and am very pleased. It wasn't cheap, but I use it daily. It always wipes clean, and there is no ghosting. It's right behind my back when I'm at my desk, so I can also turn my webcam on it when in meetings.

I've tried to use electronic whiteboard alternatives and it's just not as fluid when trying to get ideas out. Maybe an iPad Pro with a Pencil, but I haven't sprung for one of those yet...

[1] https://www.pegasusav.us/pegasus-magnetic-glass-marker-board...
No, it's better. You can focus on the thing you're measuring rather than the bloody platform.
I think you're underestimating personal vanity. Plastic surgery and teeth whitening has SPIKED since the pandemic started because people are looking at their own faces on zoom all day in tiny boxes next to their coworkers. People will drop endless cash to make themselves look better on camera.

I frequent the reddit beauty forums and hobbyist non-engineers who have zoom meetings for work are dropping $$ on Diva Lights and video filtering apps etc.

Just today driving to the carwash I passed three strip mall aesthetic places advertising fillers and botox.

I posted a tutorial on how to set up a green screen and diva light and within a week I had three coworkers order them- I joked with DVE Store that I should start getting a commission.
"Take the 3% otherwise you'll own 40% of nothing"

I would call the bluff. It doesn't look like you have many options to exit with a cash settlement unless you're allowed to sell your own equity. I wouldn't take 3%, 15% minimum.

Have you talked to your investors? They might be able to provide some guidance. It's possible that they know nothing or they are responsible for the move, so you need to figure out where they stand. I would personally be looking to kick the CEO out with support from the investors. See how the CEO behaves when the shoe is on the other foot.
> Unlike in Go or Swift, it won't be used on all objects, but only on the small percentage that couldn't be handled by autofree.

Swift also has value types, and optimization passes to promote heap-allocated objects and closures to the stack where possible using escape analysis.
Oh, yes. I'm referring to rigid steel/tin works only.
Every year the flu kills the old, obese, and sick.

This is no different but approx 4x more deadly.

We will see in future years some of the lowest death counts.
> around 40+ lbs

Hell, I wouldn't even bet on a human against a properly motivated 15 pound house cat.
Yeah, many of us that grew up in SoCal recall the heist that led to the so called 'assault weapon' ban, it was completely legal to have a long barrel rifle with 30 round magazines in CA prior to that--they could be open-carried if not loaded back then if I recall correctly, too.

This was around the time of the LA riots in the 90s, too... which in my mind all happened at the same time as I recall being a kid sat in front of the TV not far from it all and being shocked at the level of wanton destruction.

California was always a wild place since its inception and before it was ever a part of the US--many who live here don't even realize that California (both alta and baja) pre-dates the existence of the US and British colonialism by a significant margin.

LA in the 80s was also Ground Zero for Gang warfare in the US, so us multi-generationals lived through that and adapted and we are am entirely different breed to the transplants and the rest of the US as fires and earthquakes were also taking place alongside those events, as those didn't stop either.

And while I personally have no desire to live in CA anytime soon, except the occasional visit, I'm glad so many decided to leave since COVID. In a decade or two it may look like and feel as it did when I was a kid in the 90s and I may be tempted to go back.
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This would be a great OS for Raspberry Pi.
I think the perverse incentive may be in the other column of signatures.

It's not always the case that all of the shares are sold in the IPO. Some are allocated to board members and investors. Those people will negotiate a share count based on the IPO price. I may feel entitled to 5% of the company, they may offer 3%, but might only be able to negotiate 4%. But if the shares will double in value after the pop? I'm perfectly fine with that. I know that. I expect that.

There's an incentive for me to fight for shares as if there is no pop, but then agree to the IPO term sheet knowing that there will be.
Minimum wage in LA is like $14
I'm not overstating what the secret software does. Google had Borg, BigTable, Spanner etc that was there special sauce.
Just like NSA tools dumped by shadow brokers was a special sauce for NSA, etc.
Congratulations, the US got you cryptocurrency regulation for Christmas
Definitely. If I'm mistaken and we can point to an organism living right now which isn't directly related to / descendant from the Last Universal Common Ancestor then we're already dealing with multiple "individuals", and having another indeed would be no big deal.

Otherwise, I still think that it would be.

To clarify, though: I'm not at all against the creation of another individual.
Lowes calls it "smooth white wall panel"
It's not like Bitcoin.
> with regards to Korea and China. Japanese resentment is still highly noticeable in countries where they colonized and raped them.

The US and UK are resented for the same reasons in many parts of the world.

For example the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnō_jōi
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People die every day from stress caused by overwork. In Japan it is so common that they even have a word for it.
SEC Sues Ripple over 7-Year, $1.3B 'Ongoing' XRP Sale
Complexity prevents those without deep pockets from competing.
I always had the impression digital encoding was less efficient than analog, because because transforming sound waves to electro magnetic waves was more straight forward.
The FBI Is Breaking into Encrypted Devices – We’re Suing
Not until you get at least one more zero
Yes of course. Only at the end of your life can you truly evaluate what was worth doing and what wasn’t.
Technically, yes. I think what you're getting at is called "Radix Economy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy)

Ternary is the most efficient (integer) base, and binary and quaternary follow. It drops from there pretty quickly. The explanation I've always heard is it's dramatically easier to deal with two-state electronics.

Further reading: https://sweis.medium.com/revisiting-radix-economy-8f642d9f3c...
Can you expand on the process? Why did porting the kernel cost you $1,000?
They said they have 60k users. If you can acquire 12 * 60,000 = 720,000 users for 720k in less than a week I think you'll have a lot of people beating down your door.
You're speaking as if this article gives us certainty that the 400,000 extra deaths this year, compared to last year, are due to COVID. The article makes no such claim. Maybe that's not what you meant, though, because clearly there are things like drug overdoses, suicides, domestic violence, etc., that can also explain a lot of it as well. Tens of thousands of people die of fentanyl overdoses each year, and the number was growing up to this point, so it's not farfetched to consider that the COVID restrictions have resulted in more people taking addictive drugs or killing themselves out of desperation.
You’d have economic prosperity like in the USA between 1945 and 1970.
“Inventing a new snack” and coming up with a idea for a flavor for an existing snack are two different things.

Also, I imagine that a couple food scientists in a lab came up with the actual flavors.
> If you disapprove of a company’s practices, the first move is to not financially support that company (no matter how small your individual contribution).

As a general rule, I do find this is often difficult to actually put into practice.

However, you are exactly right when it comes to video games. It's a crowded market of entertainment products. You can find an alternative that you will enjoy just as much with less hypocrisy.
Also its a very inaccessible way to store bitcoin, and not scalable for all use cases.

It depends on how much money someone is holding. It's certain more secure than a single password on a banking site and your mother's maiden name.

Multisig allows for a possible catastrophic incident to occur—a fishing attack, a security vulnerability with your bitcoin wallet, loosing your pin, etc—and not lose your money.

A 2 of 3 multisig is something tech savvy people could easily do with a hardware wallet, a smartphone or computer and a safe deposit box, for example.

If you're a multinational corporation with over a $1 billion in bitcoin like MicroStrategy, it may make sense to have keys in different parts of the country or in different countries, especially if your adversaries are state level actors.
> They ran their own IPO and you can be sure as hell that partners didn't want to leave any money on the table.

The optimal return for partners probably is giving the institutional investors a pop on even your own IPO so you keep them as investors for future IPOs where you are collecting fees. When the institutional investors lose money on an IPO, are they going to come back to you for the next one?
Ok, neat. And now I'm motivated to find the source for how nmap picks `--top-ports`.
It won't be refusing to look; it will be asserting speculation as fact, e.g. saying that the excess deaths are from increased domestic abuse and suicide because of the lockdown.

EDIT: This is not in reference to comments here on HN. I wrote this before seeing any comments referencing those other causes of death, and those comments here on HN are not presenting speculation as fact.
I want to preface this by saying: veterinary science is just that, a science. Your vet has spent their career, hopefully anyways, learning what the best veterinary minds know about veterinary medicine. And your vet is probably a whole lot more trustworthy than random comments on the internet like this one. But with that said, I agree completely with the above: citation sorely needed. Show me the data.

One of the first conversations I had with my vet was about when I could start running with my dog. There's a lot of conversation online about how you need to wait until growth plates fuse to avoid future health issues (or similar variations on the same theme).

Her response was, to paraphrase:

> This is all just folk wisdom. There's no proper scientific evidence to support that conclusion, and it doesn't make sense to me. What distance are you running? Do you think a wolf could run that distance at your dog's age? You know your dog, just pay attention to her; play it by ear, don't take it too hard, take it easier on harder surfaces like concrete, and get her used to running before pushing hard.

When she said that, something really clicked in my head. We're finally, finally starting to talk more about evidenced-based medicine when it comes to humans, but when it comes to animals... The plain fact of the matter is that much of veterinary medicine is really just our best guess at things. All of the problems that human medical research have are magnified substantially in the veterinary world, even if just because of how much more resource-constrained it is.

I'm having a really tough time coming up with hard numbers here -- I can't find anything at all from the US -- but I found a UK report from about a decade ago [1] that, adjusting for inflation and currency conversion, suggests that $230mm USD was spent in the UK on all veterinary research, with a heavy emphasis on agriculture over pets (extremely unsurprising!). Meanwhile, about $3bb USD was spent on human medical research [2], with about $866mm USD spent for cancer research alone[3].

Think about how many conflicting studies we hear about cancer risk in humans. Now imagine how much worse it would be with less than 1/10 the budget. And again, most of veterinary research is specific to agriculture, not pets, so now imagine how much more worse it would be if most of that research money was spent on treating other species in completely different environments, with no interest in how it relates to humans.

So again: veterinary medicine is a scientific field, and part of your vet's job is to keep abreast of the literature, and they can almost certainly do a better job of it than you or I. But if you've ever been hit by the thought "man, there is just soooo much we do not understand about human biology" or caught yourself saying "anecdata isn't the same as medical research"... when it comes to veterinary medicine, the situation is much, much worse.

[1] https://www.rcvs.org.uk/news-and-views/publications/veterina...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/298897/united-kingdom-uk...

[3] https://www.stroke.org.uk/sites/default/files/sa-research_sp...
Human beings (or maybe America right now) are good, or used to be good, at attacking threats that are:

-- large and concentrated

-- sudden

-- unusual, uncommon

-- gruesome

Not so good at threats that are:

-- everyday, slow

-- small, but distributed

-- mundane, familiar

I guess COVID found our Achilles heel.
Market can stay irrational, yadda yadda.
Sure, but perhaps it's an improvement on any existing coverage options or even a lack of any.
There's a lot of confounding factors, but in general: Cell network uses very little power when idle, but a lot when transmitting. Wifi on the other hand uses a medium amount of power when idle, and a medium amount when transmitting. (this is really generalized and there have been a lot of recent advancements to optimize power usage of both).

This is why general guidance for years was to use wifi when you are actually using your phone for browsing the internet, taking advantage of wifi's lower power efficiency when in use, but to turn off wifi when your phone is just in your pocket/idle to take advantage of cell network's better idle power efficiency.

However, the above is really only true for urban/suburban areas where you have good signal. If you are in an area with poor signal, your phone will use a lot of battery power via the cell network even when "idle" (because in reality even though your phone is "idle", the cell radio isn't actually idle, it's constantly struggling in the background to maintain the connection through the poor signal).
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Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon right here. I heard that Katie was had a substack about dogs, and within 24hrs I find this on hacker news. (Might just be how insulated by circles are)
I got my first puppy (after a lifetime of rescue dogs) almost 2 years ago.

I worked long and hard to find a dog with the temperament I wanted, and, have spent the past 2 years molding him into an amazing dog.

I decided, before I even got him, that I would only neuter him if it was absolutely required for his health or his behavior. At the two year mark (which is in January) I'm fairly sure that it won't ever be required for any kind of behavioral reasons. It hasn't always been perfect and I know at times things would be easier if I HAD neutered him.

I also didn't choose the easiest breed, he is a purebred Parson Russel Terrier

> The whole practice feels archaic and somewhat cruel

I'm not sure its archaic or cruel. For virtually all rescued animals, it's the best path.

> I wonder how much of it is societal/vet pressure rather than in the best interest of the dog/owner

1000% social and vet pressure. In my circle of dog people, who are more conscious than most, being a part of dog agility/sports, I still have people who get hostile when I say that I don't intend to neuter him unless it's absolutely required. They insist his behaviour will turn foul. At first "no way he doesn't become a terror by 1 year old", recently "wait till he's 2," soon I'm sure I'll hear about how awful having an uncastrated 3-year-old will be.

The pressure from my veterinarian was INSANE. Keep in mind this is a vet practice I've been using for over THIRTY years, I've had 9 dogs and 1 cat under their care. The owner/veterinarian who I've known all that time and is a close family friend was strongly in favor. Her associate who I see now as the owner is transitioning out of practice (I've been there that long!) was nearly hostile about my decision and flat-out told me I was wrong and tried to fear-monger me about how I wouldn't be able to control him.

> I understand why people do it

I, too, understand why people do it. It was hard work. It required lots of careful planning to find a dog with the right temperament. It STILL requires lots more work than if I just got him snipped. I will still do it again. It's not for everyone.
> The article makes no such claim.

The article claims 318k COVID deaths.

> COVID-19 has killed more than 318,000 Americans and counting. Before it came along, there was reason to be hopeful about U.S. death trends.

The numbers also don't highlight the number of unnecessary deaths and suffering because hospitals are overwhelmed.

(Edited to include the specific statement I'm refuting.)
> Facts aren't super relevant anymore.

This is so interesting to me. Facts are still important to those seeking truth. Sure, there are a lot of people seeking reassurance ahead of truth, but there are also simply a lot of people. Given that people now have more ability to make their opinions widely known, I suspect that truth and facts are just as relevant as ever, but that loud noises will be made by those who won't be doing anything relevant about it either way.

Our ability to judge the relative value of messages is proportional to our ability to reason about the sheer number of people with things to say. I think that wrapping one's mind around the enormity of 330 million people may be valuable towards honing in on not only what messages are important, but what movements simply aren't.
Unrelated question: Why is your name green? I've been seeing others with green names more and more through HN and have wondered why.
Because traffic will downlink traffic locally (for multiple reasons) there should be virtually no interference between countries.
There were other factors that differed in 2020 compared to other years, like the effects of the lockdowns: mass-bankrupties [1], social isolation for the elderly [2], an increase in drug-overdoses, a decline in access to quality-of-life enhancing services, etc.

Isolation in general is extremely deadly. [3]

My guess is that the effects of COVID on the US's 2020 mortality rate were much greater than the effects of the lockdown, but that is just a guess, not a scientifically validated conclusion.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/sm...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hidden-covid-19-health-...

[3] https://slate.com/technology/2013/08/dangers-of-loneliness-s...
White privilege doesn't exist and is not "tangible". It is just some academic theory which was accepted with no evidence and with no common sense. "Privilege" is a combination of many factors so even isolating it to skin colour as if it sums up everything about a person is just plain stupid. Not to mention that it all comes out of some American internal issue which doesn't apply to many other "whites" around the world. Even the concept of white is different in different parts of the world. Can American leaves us alone with this idiocy and keep it to themselves?
the difficult isn't designing such a system. the problem is getting people to use it, and having institutions accept the publications as part of a researchers CV. (come to think of it..if I'm a department chair - maybe I should be reading the papers of my faculty instead just trusting SIG* to do a good job).

I think a reputation system (ala HN, but a little more transitive) would work just fine here. and then the reviewers get some measurable benefit for doing a good job.

and then each paper thread just stays open persistently and people can ask questions, and reviews can get posted, and talks and slides attached.

then you can do inline comments and revision control

and then people can collectively manage the topic taxonomy and publish things like field survey papers.
I am not sure we have colonized the minerals, but I am pretty sure we have been relying on fossil fuels as so-called "energy slaves."
Comcast will have nationwide data caps in two months...
Most rich western countries don’t have mass shootings in schools. Even though the media you describe is the same. So obviously the media is not the reason why. So what is the difference then? It’s simple: kids in the US have easy access to guns. Not so in other rich western countries. If kids in other rich countries had easy access to guns, there would be school shootings there as well.
> I think it made me less safe.

That's unlikely, unless it increased your own risky behavior. If you install uMatrix and then set it to allow all content, you would be in the same situation as if you didn't have uMatrix at all, ie. no less safe.
Cantennas were always inferior to real yagi or dish antennas which are now <$100.
But the example was run on Linux.
The devil's advocate could point out how trivial it would be to fudge these numbers. "Government releases data showing government is benevolent. Trust government."

Better yet, he might point out how absurd it is that we need to wait this long to identify a potentially statistically significant increase in deaths... during one of the worst pandemics in recorded history.