skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is virtually impossible given how much government, politicians, and even individuals have staked their identity and reputation on being correct and knowledgeable.

In the short term, absolutely. One hopes 5-10 years down the road, a disinterested analysis can get a comprehensive if not conclusive picture.

> I'm constantly frustrated with the unimpeachable self-confidence that's so pervasive now.

I couldn't a agree more. I have no doubts about the absolute best intentions of those making public policy, but their arrogance and utter lack of circumspection with such obvious failures does nothing but further undermine their long-term credibility.
> Enter username to play for free directly in your browser

I was so happy after seeing this thinking, "so amazing of them to let me check it out without having to register" only to discover that it led to a register form :(
who cares about the ui? why can't they just fix their shitty os? even wsl2 is known to break git repositories for unknown reasons.

my only use for windows is for gaming use cases, otherwise I stick with linux
There's still going to be a lot of room at the bottom, e.g. the people building the (say) Control algorithms for the rocket need to have testing infrastructure run for them.

A PhD isn't as necessary as you might think, it really depends whether you're doing front-line engineering or a more abstract work - e.g. I would assume the people specifying SpaceX's self-landing system will have PhDs in control theory or similar but the people making it happen beneath are mere mortals.

That being said, I am currently applying to do what I believe would be referred to as a paid-internship in the US, and it's quite difficult breaking into traditional engineering roles from my background as it's quite difficult to prove you'll be useful as a Theoreticsl Physics student (/ Compiler person) because I don't have any formal credit in a lot of the things I do have non-trivual knowledge about.

Jim Keller doesn't have a PhD, and he "only" went to Penn State and he is now a god amongst men, so there's hope for us all (hopefully).
Brazil did this recently, people have been complaining to the news that the sun has been coming up at 4:30 am this summer.
Worth mentioning Windows 10X -- seems like it's coming eventually.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2019/10/02/intro...
Exactly. The problems with teens are solved once they age into adulthood. The kids are alright.
The actual interest rate is -0.75%. If they are offering 0% mortgages, the bank is taking 0.75%.

From your point of view as the buyer. You basically are being given an amount of free money to on the books take an amount of debt.

The thing about negative rates, it's effectively society is saying 'do anything so long as it's not risky.' even if it doesnt make sense.

It makes sense, tons of money is moving more conservative. Boomers are headed into retirement and need to move their money to safety. Except where are they investing it safely? In those bonds that are negative. They are losing money in their investment.

There's also the reality that the boomers have not saved enough in their generation. Many of them are expecting underfunded social programs are going to keep them afloat. That's not going to happen. In many places those retired cant make ends meet and therefore you get silver crime. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/20/poverty-ageing-j...

So the boomers will raise the money to retire by inflating housing values and the younger generations buy this debt theoretically when they move into those bigger homes. That's not how it will work. It will inevitable result in exactly the same interest rates and inflation like the 70s and 80s during the WW1 boomers.
Don't misread/misrepresent what I'm saying ;-)

My point is that there are many of those people I mention, they're rich, smart and quite powerful. Many of them are on this exact site, by the way.

They're not going to give up what they got without a fight.
If they could just consolidate the half-dozen control panels with both overlapping and disjoint functionality I would be happy.
i second tristan needham's visual complex analysis.

some other good ones:

* the one we used in my undergrad course was fisher's complex variables which is great if you're learning for the purposes of applications. it's a cheap dover book.

* rudin's real and complex analysis (if theory is your thing. note that rudin's books, while great, do require a good background in math).

* as the article mentions, eli stein has a series of books on the four main branches of analysis. i believe the second book is on complex analysis.
My recollection of the original stanford writeup was that you actually couldn't feed the worms anything else. If given any options, they picked styrofoam last.
Good read, I've been doing some work related to database bottlenecks recently and there's definitely food for thought in the article.

On a sidenote, I wonder if this part has a typo?

> These systems allow you to make as many database connections as you want and manage them inefficiently

Perhaps inefficiently should be inexpensively or efficiently?
The actual interest rate is -0.75%. The bank is taking 0.75%
> places like wikipedia

Did you mean NY Times?

I too also hate when this sort of language is used. Typically it's "Twitter thinks" or "Facebook reacts" when the correct terminology should be "These 3 users on Twitter" or "This specific person on Facebook".
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Daily Planet was indeed a great show. I wasn't aware it was cancelled.

But, I'd be surprised if many science-minded people from Gen-X or later, were still watching cable in large numbers. Same for the local 6:00 news for that matter.

I despise Bell as much as the next Canadian, but this shift is likely more due to the increased competition (internet, wireless phones) for mindshare.

>Sadly, our phone and TV bills don't go down in price despite us getting less new content

I was thinking about this recently. Every other area of technology gets cheaper and cheaper (relative to their capabilities) but internet keeps getting more expensive. At least in Canada.
And that's why you don't use ccTLDs. Looking at you, everyone still using a .io TLD -- you never know what trouble might be lurking in the pipeline there.
Sure and I'm not making a judgement on whether or not she should have been fired. Perhaps she should.

My point is that the decision should be solely the employer and not under pressure from the lynch mob. In this case, the mob absolutely did put pressure on them to fire her. Without that pressure, they may still have done so, or they may have reprimanded her in another way, we'll never know. In the end, as long as she changes her behavior, I don't think her livelihood needed to be attacked and she certainly should not have been harassed to the point of severe depression and anxiety (which she talked about in interviews later).

Again, call out, reprimand, whatever is deemed correct. Don't incite a mob to harass them or try to ruin their lives.
> if you show just one letter even for non-risky recovery attempts, why bother? It can't possibly be of any significant help to the users.

It can be, if you have just a handful of email accounts. Also if you don't recognize the first letter you know you definitely have messed up something.
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ABS and power steering are a totally different kettle-of-fish to the car actually steering itself.
> With fully automated driving the number of crashes (and therefore injuries & deaths) will go down -dramatically-. So you can argue all you want about the ethics & morality of the ~100 deaths/year or so from automated car crashes. But that's far preferable to the current situation.

Why do people (in particular people without robotics experience) keep assuming this will happen any time soon without any evidence whatsoever? "We must move over to self driving cars as soon as they are safer" is fair but it's almost tautological.

The only numbers we have so far show that despite only testing in near ideal conditions (e.g. Waymo choosing to test in suburban Arizona rather than Manhattan or rural snowy Midwestern areas), the accident rate for autonomous vehicles is actually significantly higher, not even counting "interventions" which every company measures in its own inscrutable way.
Announced only 4 hours after responding to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644056? That can't be a coincidence.
Great essay. The key is to judge yourself on visible outcomes that make the world better for others rather than progress metrics like delivering releases, passing laws, holding conferences, etc.
Which do you use most often?
side comment: An animated pie chart of most popular desktop & laptop operating systems from 2003 to 2020.

https://twitter.com/randal_olson/status/1344021969096720384
Generally softcores are used for command and control for the FPGA. For eg you have a framegrabber and you would like to adjust the shutter speed, fps etc you would create a softcore and run normal firmware to setup the registers based on the users choice.

You can think of FPGA as an ASIC and the softcore to control this ASIC. The hot data path and heavy processing is done in the FPGA and processing options for the ASIC can be done using the softcore firmware.
I wonder what the actual numbers are on malware installed via side-loading and malware installed from the play store.

There is no shortage of sketchy apps on the play store.

Through my personal bias I would imagine that most people side-loading apps tend to be people using F-Droid who know more or less what they're doing. Although I'm sure there are some people who blindly follow sketch website telling them to install sketchy APK directly. But do these people really outnumber people installing flashlight app from play store that steals your data?

All this locking down your device "for your own protection" assumes that the play store software is actually vetted and secure, but that second piece never seems to fall in to place.

This random article [1] suggests that 67% of malicious app installs comes from the play store itself. So this whole "Advanced Protection" scheme only protects against 23% of threats. Pretty weak IMO.

[1] - https://www.zdnet.com/article/play-store-identified-as-main-...
Rowan Atkinson is dead right about cancel culture
There is a more basic economic question that I am curious about.

I don't know how / can't believe how in the 1980s we had the era of 15% interest rates, etc (ok, I have some idea, central bank policies, inflation, etc) -- but it seems now we're in a "forever-0%-interest" situation.

The reason I think is that interest/mortgage/etc rates just reflect how much people/banks/etc are willing to receive in profit for parking or lending their money somewhere. This has gone to 0% (almost no profit) because no one can offer good returns on the money. Or the people receiving the money have so many choices that the lenders are forced to compete to 0%. All the VC money sloshing around for free is because there is no more favorable place for that money to find profit and the 1-in-10 (?) shot that startups have is still better odds than average other opportunities.

Right now it seems there is too much money searching for returns. And that money is not somehow just going to disappear over time.

To take the opposite hypothetical, if you consider the accumulated wealth of all countries now, and the relatively low growth of most of them, how could it be possible that all that money could find good investment return rates? Except for isolated pockets of growth, need for investment, where will we find broad returns anything greater than a few %?

So, until something fundamental about the money supply changes, are we in for a long period of pretty much 0% returns?

I would love to know some more sophisticated ways to understand the situation.
I have a tendency to believe that any research, in any field, veing used for any purpose, should be discounted if it doesn't present its source data. And in computer science, the source code. The fact that this doesn't happen 100% of the time already is baffling to me, it feels like science is broken.
Why YouTube has not been broken up in an anti-trust case to date is beyond me. They control 99% of the video streaming market with billions of users. Its the clearest monopoly in tech that exists.
Can you go on PC Part Picker and build an Arm desktop yet?
That's only for really obvious cases. Part of the problem is that a corporation can effectively distribute liability across different people/groups, so no single individual can have a really good idea, or is even aware of what's happening collectively, to facilitate bad behavior, so to speak.

Doing this allows them to effectively engage in the same bad behavior an individual can, but without the risk associated with a single individual doing all of those things themselves. It also may allow them to scale better too. :/
No wonder Singer didn’t end up liking Marx. EA is the most alienating code of ethics that I’ve seen.
Rob and team have been working hard to ensure m3db is a long term winner. love to see it.

For those of use who love trying before buying, would love to better understand the moving parts and their responsibility --- querying engine, coordinator, and datastore (etc) --- and how they evolve as your scale the systems.
Just happened: https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-g...
My issue is that work ends at 5pm and the sun is already down.
> Dove sorry is the key to investments.

What does this mean? I am at a loss.
we use the "classic editor" plugin because it was automatically installed when we upgraded from a previous version of wordpress, and all our old posts weren't automatically converted over to gutenberg so if we want to edit them we need to use the classic editor.

that doesn't mean we don't like gutenberg, or that we don't use it for every new post we create. trying to use this install stat to make some implication about the reception to gutenberg seems pretty disingenuous. the only thing this number means is that wordpress created a perfectly functional migration path from their old editor to their new one, and people are using it.
> Why did every African country do well despite limited ability to lock down or distance? Why did all of Asia do well?

It's not necessarily causation of course, and likely not this simple, but it's fascinating and maybe not all that surprising that the regional impact of covid correlates quiet well with regional obesity:

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/11/share-of-adults-d...

This study found that a total of 73% of ICU Covid patients were overweight (34.5%), obese (31.5%), or morbidly obese (7%).

https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports
This is really an amazing point, though unfortunately couched in the world of startups. Thanks for posting!
Sure, I’m just not trying to disprove you, I argued similarly in other threads.
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I don't think GitHub successfully convinced OFAC to allow them to offer services in Iran in the intervening four hours between then and now.
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This is not exactly what we are talking about. Yes artificial blue light disrupt our natural sleep rhythm. Yes there is research that shows this fact. But, that does not mean that we are not effected by the sun.

This research would need to show that blinds and artificial blue light would be sufficient to replace natural sunlight for setting the sleep rhythm to a healthy level. The existence of flux actually suggests the opposite is true, and people need software to prevent artificial blue light from disrupting the sleep rhythm.
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The point I was (clumsily, as it were) trying to make was that one man's north is another man's south - the sun setting (at summer solstice) at 11pm is something happening way south of where I am currently at - but, apparently, way north of wherever the person I was replying to was at. :)
With the exception of regressive products like drugs and junk food, making a profit from a product or service is a good sign that you are helping people and improving their lives. Otherwise they wouldn't pay you for it. You've hit on the reason why capitalism has successfully raised billions out of poverty over the last century.
This is not an acceptable way to speak to someone on HN.

And to your substantive point, if "use your good judgment" is all people have to know, why are there so many tiers of lockdown?
To elaborate on my comment, if you've read the paper, they have a large section devoted to fine tuning, intelligent design, and the surrounding criticisms and responses, all with explicity references to the main authors, such as Dembski, and their works. I'm not really grasping how your comment is addressing the paper and the reason for the warning notice.
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One may well ask, “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: there are just laws, and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “An unjust law is no law at all.”

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://letterfromjail.com
The problem with standard time year around is that in the more northern areas it'll be light at ~4:30AM in June. Maybe we could meet in the middle and compromise by 1/2 an hour?
This is exactly what I was trying to say, but you did better.

My using the word "normal" totally derailed the discussion.

I'm not a vegetarian or against killing animals. I just wanted to note that the natural relationship of killing to satisfy hunger is not what we have now at all. Many children don't even realize that the food they eat used to be animals until they are 5-6 years old. That's pretty detached from the "natural" order.
An accident is just something that occurs without intention. In the cases you're describing people don't intend to hit another car or person. That makes accident a reasonable label.
> Because we have a term for the Dunning-Kruger effect, we know to be aware of it, etc.

Or rather, we are more accutely aware of how everyone else might suffer from it.
Blocking renewals has the same ultimate result, just with added steps and a less clean process (because right now everyone whose domain has been suspended is FORCED to resolve it within the next 3 months, which is preferable to domains just randomly vanishing over the upcoming years as they expire).
>No one seems to be making significant theoretical progress in physics, and when the physicists are stumped, it rouses everyone else's curiosity.

Definitely true but I think that points more to a broken system, where String Theorists have totally dominated the field for several decades and we have nothing to show for it. If you aren't a string theorist you are going to have serious trouble getting a tenure position and attracting good grad students at major research Universities and so the field is stifled.

>Personally, I think the more crackpot ideas, the better; as long as they're not presented in a crackpot way (e.g. the proposer having high confidence or even certainty in their random speculation). And even the ones that are not even wrong can at least lead to useful, intellectual discussion so that the proposer can understand the landscape a bit more and at least closer to the "mere wrong" category.

I don't think this is a good approach, you'll have lots of people wasting lots of time. There are alternatives to String Theory out there they just haven't had the mental horsepower pointed at them because everyone is busy playing with pretty math in string theory.
And it's not just personal data. Imagine if organizations were only allowed to index or archive web sites if the copyright holder has explicitly opted in using robots.txt or something similar.

A huge part of the functioning of the Internet is enabled by practices you need to explicitly opt out of--if you can opt out at all.
I haven't tried, I assume not. But aren't the hardware fashions changing rapidly now? Compared to 2005-2020, with x86 everywhere I mentioned.
Can anyone suggest a domain provider who offers good emergency support? (e.g. they pick up the phone).

My current provider only does daytime email support. Combined with a 9hr timezone difference, this has meant trying to fix this .eu domain issue has now reached day 5.
> To me it is obvious that the solution to the global climate change crisis isn't rich countries buying new luxorious cars, that happen to be electric.

THE solution? Who has ever said the problem is solved with just one thing?

It's certainly a very important part of the solution. Solving climate change is absolutely impossible without electric vehicles and better batteries. This is not just about driving your SUV to your cabin, it's about transportation of goods, farming, mining etc. We're also seeing that there's overlap in development of EV batteries and grid batteries (at least for short term frequency regulation).. so there's some synergies there that will be important for increasing the share of renewables.

It just happens that personal cars is the easiest vehicle to implement as BEV first. If rich western countries didn't buy them, and China didn't have the foresight to push BEVs hard, the development could easily have taken 10-20 years longer.

> That's a very western-centric view.

Cars are used in non-western countries too. Now that batteries for vehicles are getting cheaper, you're starting to see BEVs become viable at the very bottom of the market as well. Cheap BEVs and cheap renewable energy will be huge for developing countries. You're already starting to see renewable micro-grids giving a much lower barrier to get access to electricity. Importing oil is expensive for a developing country. Importing refined gasoline is even more expensive.