skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Revealed preference is just a way to make manipulative marketing sound more noble than just applied behaviorism.
https://app.scrollkeeper.com a subscription SaaS for storing, managing and sharing academic papers. I wrote it because everyone I knew had a problem storing their papers. I did manage to get one yearly paying customer though and I have enjoyed using it to manage my own papers.
Some ways:

1. Switching jobs. If your job environment or role is abusive, overworks you or creates burnout, don’t hesitate to change jobs. We’re uniquely blessed in this field with that option.

2. “Get a life :)”. Focus on things outside work (family, hobbies, fun, etc)

3. Put work stuff away - literally put the work laptop away somewhere out of sight. Use a personal laptop outside work hours. Don’t install slack/email on your personal phone.

4. Focus on the fun work: don’t take on tasks you’re not well suited. Do what is enjoyable in the moment, what you derive joy from professionally.

5. Take breaks: exsersize, meditate, walk away for bits of time.

6. Let your coworkers in: be on a team where everyone gets to know each other as people, not just automatons doing work.

7. Accept the absurd and what’s out of your control: no work environment is perfect, things will happen that are annoying. Being able to step away and take breaks will help you laugh at the absurdity of it.

8. Stop caring about your status: Avoid politics! Stick to what you love to do in the moment. Not how much power you /your team has compared to others.
This is not true, and the and a good example of conspiratorial rationalization.

Why doesn't Mike Pence, the VP back your claims?

Are you saying you have more information that him?

Why don't any GOP Senators?

Judges?

Consider if 'bad elections' claims had any merit whatsoever, the real GOP apparatus would be running full tilt at the problem.

The Supreme Court would practically be inviting cases.

Arguing that 'irregularities exist' is not an argument - because we know they exist, what matters is the magnitude and systematic efforts.

The 'conspiratorial argument' falls apart immediately under any scrutiny - and there has been a lot of scrutiny.

So we have a problem with giving out money, and appearance of problems in voting, maybe we can have 'voter ID' and get around some of the legitimacy/privacy issues.

But the elections are effectively fair.

Please try to understand that this is an issue of public communications and conspiratorial logic, and not reality.

The 'ministries of truth' have considerably more integrity - especially as a whole - then
I've been led by people much younger than me many times. The thing that helps the most is just transparency. If I know the reasons for decisions, I won't always like it, but I'll back off. Also, ask for what you really want instead of what you think will accomplish that. If the budget was cut by X dollars, work with your team on the best way to deal with that instead of choosing how to deal it with on your own.
It's not a sign of softness that you take a (minimal) effort to save a lifeform (that was useful to you). It's basic humanity, for lack of a better term (animality?).
Thank you for this conversation. You've given me some homework to read up on, and I appreciate it a lot!
Then what prevents me from coming and making a "private exchange" of your life for your stuff?

I dig a deep hole somewhere. I incurred significant costs to do so. Is that hole now valuable?
Not for nothing, but the "slowly boiled frog" idea is a myth. When the water gets too hot, the frog will jump out.

In other words, when the problem becomes bad enough, we as metaphorical frogs, will react normally.

This is a Good Thing, and you should be wishing Microsoft, Apple, Google did this more often, because if they did, we'd all be meaningfully safer, having lost zero liberty along the way.

Nobody's freedom is threatened because Microsoft removed software that was notoriously unsafe and was also set to stop working at the same time. Maybe a more apt analogy would be "boy who cried wolf"...
Sounds like he did it right. Age and experience don't have to be a barrier, in fact it can work well. The young / new person likely has lots of excitement about their new role and will hustle hard to do right by their team. The more experienced person is in a position to put their expertise to work without the operational overhead of being in the coordinating role of team lead.

When I was in my first management role, I was in a similar situation. One of the best compliments of my professional career was when a much older team member said that I'd helped him reinvent his career by the work I'd helped him take on. If we're all humble and honest with each other, these kinds of age / experience gaps can be good for everyone.
That decision predates me. I think it was basically because early versions of protobuf didn't actually support using a message type as field type, so instead people would declare "string" fields and then manually encode/decode another protobuf type into that field. When the ability to explicitly use message types as field types was added to the language, they wanted to use it in those existing protocols without breaking compatibility, so the design was fit to the pre-existing practice.

I argued for switching to group encoding for submessages when working on proto2, but was shot down. It was a long time ago, but I think the counter-argument was some combination of "it's not worth the breakage" and "the ability to lazily parse sub-messages is too valuable".
> When browsers will only display sites that are authorized by
corporations we're eventually going to be in big trouble

Likewise they removed support for unsigned add-ons. So you can't
just write a small private add-on without sending them your
private(!) code. Who needs freedom when you are so well "protected" :-(
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That might be a good strategy for dealing with youtube videos but it's not an equally good strategy for dealing with print media. The thing to remember about magazine or newspaper articles is that the author does not typically have any input on what the headline will be. A great article by a great author will quite often get a ridiculous headline from an editor, for all the bad reasons an editor might have: baiting the audience, putting their own spin on the story, or whatever.

You'll miss some things if you just skip a story because of a bad headline, and I think the cited article is just another indicator that we ought to deliberately not give headlines too much thought.
Argh, I'll look into it because it shouldn't do that. It's using DOM + simple hardware accelerated animations intentionally (over something like canvas) and no polling to keep CPU usage down. Runs fine on Chrome on Mac.
Good question! You can definitely add a constant to the Hamiltonian without changing the local physics, but I was referring to the stress-energy tensor (i.e. energy density), not the Hamiltonian (total energy). The stress tensor can be locally negative but still integrate to a positive or zero value of total energy.

So let's talk about energy density, I'll call it T. I need two facts:

1. The Reeh-Schlieder theorem implies that any operator that the vacuum state of QFT is "separating", meaning that the only operator A that satisfies A|0> = 0 is the trivial solution A = 0. (Here |0> means vacuum.)

2. The energy density operator has zero expectation value in the vacuum state, <0|T|0> = 0. Why? Explicitly: it has to be constant because of translational symmetry, and it has to because 0 is the only value that is constant and integrates to 0 total energy.

From fact 1, we know that T|0> is not 0 in any nontrivial theory (otherwise T = 0 identically, and no state has energy density at all). From fact 2, it follows that T|0> is orthogonal to |0>. Therefore |0> and T|0> span a 2D subspace of the Hilbert space.

Now write down the matrix T in that space. It looks like

[0, b*]

[b, c ]

where b is nonzero because of the way the subspace is defined, and c is real because T is Hermitian. Such a matrix is never positive definite, therefore there exists a state with negative expectation value in this subspace. Explicitly, one of the eigenvalues of this matrix is c - sqrt(|b|^2 + c^2) which is negative because b is nonzero. The corresponding eigenvector therefore has negative energy density.

(Source for this argument: [0])

An example of such a state is the Casimir state, see [1].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04993

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
Root comment of this thread:

> Baltimore police does need a mass surveillance program - for it's own officers. Remember when they looked at 2 years of body-cam footage for one of their highest earners and came out the other end with 32 counts of assault, false imprisonment and generalized misconduct? [1]

That's police brutality.

Your reply:
> The police is not the problem. [...] Victim-rights trump criminal-rights.

The fact that you are arguing against oversight of the police due to documented police brutality is at least indirect support for police brutality. Beyond that, your general stance that appears to be okay with the police doing what they need to to prevent crime would imply more direct support for police brutality, especially since you seem to justify their actions as "tough policing," which I fail to understand in any way other than a polite euphemism for "police brutality."
I used to love Haskell, even hacked on GHC internals.

But it's pretty telling that Haskell is only getting (pre!)-production-quality substructural types five years after Rust did.
I haven't been able to locate the source study mentioned in the article that used older individuals. Does anyone know the title?
An app for finding the best hotels for traveling with kids.

It was basically crawling the booking.com API and then applying an algorithm to figure out if a property was suitable for families with children or not. It would do the usual. Parse descriptions and try to find keywords there, parse and count the number of comments mentioning family-related topics, up-score hotels with certain facilities and then push the images through Google Cloud Vision APIs to re-order the images putting first the ones with children, pools, playgrounds, etc.

With that done, just an app to find hotels by searching anywhere.

It was more built for personal use but ended up being quite attractive. But marketing apps is hard so never really pushed it. Then, also... covid happened.
same I bought a cpu from Amazon 700$ and sold by AMD

they shipped me a used one where the paste was already partially applied on the socket.

it works but still payed full price for a "new" item when it was a returned item.

it's just scummy all around
Is that generally preferred to the others?

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ailisp.c...
For handling rapid deceleration, I think you’d be best off with seats facing the rear. A cushioned seat can distribute force much more evenly than a seatbelt when the car stops suddenly and your inertia wants to keep you going, and the backs could be reinforced to block anything coming into the passenger compartment from the collision. Hard to do that with a windshield.
Dr. Gebru? No, she said she'd resign if [some demands] weren't met and Google said, "We can't meet those demands so we accept your resignation."
It's still a much bigger hassle to implement HTTPS than just HTTP.
Here is sort of a modern variation - upload your Excel workbook to the cloud. I don't have hands on experience or any connection but I think it translates to C# under the hood.

https://www.milliman.com/en/products/milliman-mind
Damned if you're not the most patient self-advocate for an open source project I've ever seen. I feel like I can always count on finding The Kenton Varda in the comments whenever a protobuf discussion comes up, graciously discussing design trade-offs and dispelling misconceptions.

Did you ever consider looking for official / commercial backing for Cap N Proto? It seems demonstrably better than all the alternatives, but I get the sense that it hasn't taken over because "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". I know for certain I'd have an easier time pushing capnp in my own organization if it was getting that type of backing.
If you do your job, I don't care how old you are. That said, it's hard to lead well without the wisdom that years of experience brings.
Quote: "The recommended daily allowance (RDA) for vitamin A in humans is 0.9mg, and you can get that from eating just one-tenth of a gram of the liver from a well-fed polar bear. The entire liver contains enough vitamin A to kill as many as 52 adults!"

I was amused by this one as well :).
No. No. No.
Link's not working for me ATM, but here's another link about how they perform in the real world: https://www.bayjournal.com/news/fisheries/pumped-up-performa...
fwiw I can reproduce the problems with Firefox Android, the latest major update broke heaps of shit.
SmartOS might interest you. It's not BSD (derived from Solaris), but it is marvelous for OS-level containers.
Is this a joke on his 'I don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay!' famous sentence? Because it's true: https://www.pnas.org/content/107/10/4612
Perhaps buyforlifeproducts.com? See submissions about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=buyforlifeproducts.co...
Also consider the Nigerian government current receives aid money, plus whatever amount they're able to tax from this fraudulent money (which is probably pretty low as you mentioned, fraudsters are unlikely to be on the up-n-up with their taxes, especially when the income came from illicit activities).

So chopping nearly $1 Billion in aid is going to hurt badly, even if the fraud continues as normal.
One thing I wonder is:

How did the UK virus suddenly get 17 mutations at once if it's not a new engineered release by someone?

I'm not a biologist, but that part had me wondering.

Any biologists here who want to explain for a layman?
The Best Alternative to RTMP: A WebRTC Migration
There is a radical difference between the March on Washington and numerous BLM protests that have resulted in crime.

The creation of BLM protests has detracted any form of conversation we could have had between policing ethics and renewal of the system. As it soley focuses on a single racial profile and has created such an air of protests that lead to anything from property destruction to death. Which produces such an odd fixation against anyone else, and even at times of those of African decent.

There are large issues to be discussed with regards to BLM and its role. Ultimately however, there do exist "extremes" of all flavours. And those extremes can easily be against any form of race by any form of race.

My two cents are that there is a larger issue in societal class structure, and it is incredibly easy to sweep that aside and play it off as a racial issue.
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Rock isn't very thermally conductive. Geothermal plants work great where the crust is thin, but for the rest of the planet you have to do a lot of drilling to get not much heat. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/01/warm-and-fuzzy-on-geother...
They may have negotiated the $100M deal, but who was responsible for the value creation that made the deal possible in the first place?

The staff. The staff, who were subsequently fired.
Then let's talk liability. Nobody comes and takes away your car if you fail to have safety-related recalls performed. You might face significant liability if you cause injury as a result of ignoring a recall.

I am perfectly fine with a world in which end user companies or individuals assume liability when they fail to adhere to a manufacturer's prescribed update regime.

In the business world, I expect insurers to drive this. As "cyber attacks" get more and more costly the insurance industry is going to put the hammer down.
Really, you are going to compare the destruction of "Iraq" to the hindering of the activities of the entire civilised world?
It's also not entirely simple. My mother is over 65 and while at risk due to her age she now has to deal with the fact she can not see her grandchildren which are very important to her.

I life in Australia and had intended to visit the UK this year or have her come over, now she will not likely see her grandchildren until sometime into 2021, nearly 3 years since she last saw them.

She was also looking forward to seeing my sister with her young kids this Christmas, she lives in the mainland UK, and has had to give that up as well.

Whether or not people who frequent HN value human interact much is irrelevant for my mother she very much enjoys seeing her family and that's not happening this year and makes her quite sad.
It's a no-brainer for an administrator, not for me. And I think I have ways to prevent an administrator from putting in that policy yeah.
One reason people are suspicious of the vaccine is because major network and cable news told them that the government's time line for getting a vaccine was a lie.

Now that the government's time line is proven true, people have to figure out if the news lies or the vaccine is a fraud.

https://streamable.com/i4ziur (October)
The bookkeeping is not that hard... the pointer is null until it is first allocated, then it remains non-null, while a separate boolean indicates whether the sub-message is actually present in the parent.

The big problem is bloat in memory usage if you parse many differently-shaped messages, requiring the app to implement hacks like only reusing a particular object a certain number of times.
This is nothing more than cheap (effective!) content marketing for the prediction platform (rootclaim) that it is on.

I ran a large forecasting research project for 4 years so know this field quite well.

The "willing to bet" thing seems nonsense - there are no bet resolution criteria stated anywhere I can see.

They seem to be using a "Superforecaster"-like method of breaking down a prediction into smaller parts, and trying to work out the liklihood of each.

But their approach for doing it is crazy. The "escaped from lab" odds increase the most because they guess (and it is a guess) that the Wuhan lab does "20% of the gain-of-function research in the world"

That only makes anything resembling sense if they can establish that C19 is caused by gain-of-function research - but they haven't done that.

The whole hypothesis chain is full of this weak reasoning. For example the "lab dissociated itself from bat research" claim uses an unreferenced article by Miranda Devine in the NYPost as a source. Devine is an Australian columnist who left Australia after being forced to apologise for making up a story that a 9yo boy with dwafism was running a scam[1]. If this site was being honest in their approach they'd include that as evidence her claims on this story might be made up too.

Edit: and in (sarcasm) astonishing news, they also think the Syrian chemical attacks weren't carried out by the Syrian regime[2].

[1] https://junkee.com/miranda-devine-apology-quaden-bayles/2715...

[2] https://www.rootclaim.com/claims/who-carried-out-the-chemica...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25584775
On top of facing the rear they can attach industrial spring to absorb the shock of the fast deceleration/collision
Since it's relevant, here's a very lightweight javascript toggle I made for Chrome a while back. I still use it every day. No data is sent anywhere, and no unnecessary permissions are required. The code is very simple and easy to validate, in case you're one of those paranoid people like me who insists on looking.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/js-toggle/bnhjfamo...
If you want to stop the current surge, you need to vaccinate the current spreaders (teachers and school age kids, super market workers, nurses and doctors, workers on larger sites, etc). That's a different brief to the original one: just working down the risk groups. I guess it's good they're now immunising NHS staff sooner on that basis.

Of course the UK could also do things like making masks mandatory in shops and public transport, something it still hasn't gotten close to in practise here in East London.
Reporting to someone younger than you (even much younger) is perfectly normal, and common in the industry. Not every mid-late career engineer has management aspirations. What I don't understand is someone becoming a team lead out of the blue and directly managing multiple people with 6 months of total experience? I cannot think of any situation where someone right out of college would be a good fit for a management role.
> The most common use case is building out a web interface to replicate the Excel formula engine.

This is one of the projects that I'd worked on. We implemented a pretty thorough version of the Excel engine in JS. Load data and expressions as 2d arrays and get a nice api for the output.

https://github.com/websheets
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Surely you mean Aliexpress, unless your product is super cheap or you’d already be ordering 100x or more of that product (since most alibaba shipments are for bulk ordering and have a minimum quantity).
Interesting how that headline can be parsed in different ways, since "attributes" and "work" can both be nouns or verbs. I initially read it as "How Python contributors are given credit for their work"
One can conclude you believe it purely coincidental that the Wuhan Institute of Virolgy specialized in research on bat coronaviruses?

A paper in the lancet early in the year reported that the Wuhan Seafood market not only did not sell bats, but that many of the early patients reported never visiting the market.

At this point, it may be too late to ever discover the true origin of the virus.
With regards to memory, I've been pleasantly surprised with 8GB as well. A fair number have reported being surprised about getting away with less RAM.

Stole my wife's MBA, but I'm going to get a mini with 16GB once the next series launches. Not going to bother with 32GB, I don't run a ton of VMs so it seems like a needless expense.
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So why do absolutely no game companies do this?
I think you've misunderstood. In places that have winter it's not just when it's snowing that the road lines and curb are obscured. It's for long periods of time: days, weeks, months, depending on the road.

This isn't a weather condition. It is a season condition. It's around an appreciable part of the year and human drivers drive in it.
The title is a bit misleading: It's not that typical Excel users are encouraged to, or experimenting with, using Python instead.

Rather, these are people who need to "price complex deals with increasingly large datasets". They write pricing models and need to run them.
Then we quickly spiral into the dystopic conversation around biometrics, chip implantation, etc... this is a hard problem.
I suspect they would have control of the account that the state set up to distribute benefits since they had enough information to file the claim in the first place; but the non-mailing contact info would be email and phone number that they control. Once the funds have been distributed, they'd be notified and then make the transfer to the second account set up at another bank. From there...poof...

This is probably why a second bank account was opened up in my name. This bank's KYC controls were so lax that they didn't even bother to do a credit inquiry on me, which would have resulted in a notice to me from a credit monitoring service that I use.
Automobiles are the model here. As an owner I am liable for any damage I cause by my operation of the automobile. However if there is a design defect (e.g. Toyota sticking accelerator, etc.) that I reasonably was unaware of, then the manufacturer has liability. But if I continue to drive my Toyota, knowing of the problem and ignoring the manufacturers recalls, then liability comes back to me.