skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a great example of bike shedding: spending time on naming schools instead of figuring out how to educate children during a pandemic.

> The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself, which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively. It was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by Poul-Henning Kamp[1] and has spread from there to the software industry at large.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding
If the secret goal here is to make sure that lucrative developers all get warm reviews, why don't all lucrative developers get warm reviews? Apple makes in fact not all that much money in the scheme of things, even in the just-the-app-store scheme of things, from Robinhood.
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There was an episode of NPR's "This American Life" podcast in 2010 that included the story of someone who had terrible allergy problems and ended up curing that via deliberate hookworm introduction.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/404/enemy-camp-2010/act-thr...
The “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race (Elon Musk Grew Up in Zambia)
What do you suggest is a good alternative input mechanism? Would screen capture -> OCR -> add some minimal metadata be a better user experience?
Google reportedly scraps thousands of negative Robinhood reviews
Amazing hack with the SVG mask and embedded JPEG to compensate for web browsers not supporting WebP images! This trick was used to get an image that has both transparency and lossy compression.

I would have loved to see the face of the engineer who thought of this hack, tried it, and saw that it worked for the first time. :)
It's more meant to be an, "Ideas are cheap, execution is everything," kind of sentiment.
my favorite topics this gets applied to are physics and rocket science.

it's amazing how many HN physics comments start with "my theory"
That's not the sense I'm getting at all. Oh im sure there are those involved who fit the description. But for most, it isn't about making money at all. Its about financial warfare with "the man".

The overwhelming majority of examples I have seen so far are only concerned with causing hedges funds to collapse and to put brokers out of business, personal losses be damned.

And I see little reason to doubt this. Everyone knows Gamestop is a company with an obsolete business model, a bad reputation and little chance of turning things around. Everyone knows that there is little to no chance of making any money on holding. But $500 isn't a lot of money. 3 million people each putting $500 in to GME is. Obviously there are some who are putting in far more. Current market cap is $24 billion. Its coming from somewhere. I suspect once this is all over we will find that some major players got involved as well and put a lot of money into GME to topple their rivals. But that isn't the main narrative and most of the people buying in are doing so to make a statement.

This has started a discussion. A lot of people are getting a 101 education on how the stock market really works and they are learning just how little it actually has to do with real value and the economy. I predict there will be serious public pressure for regulatory reform. People are going to want to make shorting and high speed trading illegal.
What I don't understand with people who reply like this is why bother taking the chance? My thought is that people have never experienced a severe respiratory illness before, while I have and because of that I'm appropriately level set on how bad the consequences can be for an individual.

Nothing like back to back cases of bad pneumonia 19 years ago to make me take this whole thing seriously.

My understanding is the hospitalization rate even for young and healthy (20-44) is around 10%. 1 in 10 odds for something happening is really a quite good chance of that thing happening.
This is an interesting question.

I have had similar questions about my native state of Florida. Florida, like many retiree magnets, suffers from having retiree immigrants who vote against the interests of those who still need schools, roads, and other infrastructure. I half-joke that we should amend the state constitution to restrict the franchise to those with skin in the game.

Obviously there would be childless voters who would have the best interest of students in mind when choosing school board members. For example, couples planning on having children might want to be able to influence the election.

Of course, a board elected by those with children could also be allowed to appoint childless advocates as well.
What if it is false flag posts though? That’s what’s done now on youtube when people want to shut down their competitors.
Thanks for the "hwloc" tip. I hadn't thought about that.

I was thinking of doing something like that. Weirdly I got sustained throughput differences when I killed & restarted fio. So, if I got 11M IOPS, it stayed at that level until I killed fio & restarted. If I got 10.8M next, it stayed like it until I killed & restarted it.

This makes me think that I'm hitting some PCIe/memory bottleneck, dependent on process placement (which process happens to need to move data across infinity fabric due to accessing data through a "remote" PCIe root complex or something like that). But then I realized that Zen 2 has a central IO hub again, so there shouldn't be a "far edge of I/O" like on current gen Intel CPUs (?)

But there's definitely some workload placement and I/O-memory-interrupt affinity that I've wanted to look into. I could even enable the NUMA-like-mode from BIOS, but again with Zen 2, the memory access goes through the central infinity-fabric chip too, I understand, so not sure if there's any value in trying to achieve memory locality for individual chiplets on this platform (?)
There is no cure. The best solution is to feed the addiction. Buy as many monitors as you can then display as many subreddits on the screen as you can. Then develop your ability to read multiple reddits simultaneously. At night make sure you have text-to-voice software to read reddits for you while you sleep.
It’d be neat if rather than just display a lifetime average they displayed a stock ticker for the ratings. You could see the app was good but then very lowly rated for a few days before ticking back up for example
Soul of a New Machine
> flossing evidence

That was a thing a few years back:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/tossing-flossing-2016081...
There is something to be said for having "skin in the game," but if you were going to have that kind of criteria I think it would have to not only be "have school age children," it would have to be "have children attending these schools."
And let's not forget WHO actively advising against travel restrictions.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-chie...
I find the Johnson and Johnson Press Release [1] more informative. It gives a lot more detail on the study, including linking to their protocol [2].

It’s unfortunate, but the different vaccine trials all have different demographics and different measures of efficacy. IIRC, the Moderna “95%” is not “only 5% developed COVID” but rather “95% didn’t end up showing any symptoms” while AstraZeneca was doing weekly testing (again this is from memory). With so many people being asymptomatic, the difference between “95%” and “66%” is in the details (which is definitely why Johnson and Johnson also highlight their 72% in the US, and 85% against hospitalization/death).

tl;dr: each vaccine group made reasonable, independent choices for their effectiveness metrics, but they’re not the same metric.

[1] https://www.jnj.com/johnson-johnson-announces-single-shot-ja...

[2] https://www.jnj.com/coronavirus/covid-19-phase-3-study-clini...
Yes to both?
You can definitely use Clojure using Babashka, https://github.com/babashka/babashka
Where is the hypocricy though? The same principles apply to private property in this case too. No special laws required for special people. I grant it's formed as a bit of hyperbole.

It should give people pause what full privatization and deregulation may mean.
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Where he wrote, "although I understand the arguments against", I interpreted that as the obvious no.
The author is here, AMA.
The NIH news release Janssen Investigational COVID-19 Vaccine: Interim Analysis of Phase 3 Clinical Data Released [1]:

> An investigational COVID-19 vaccine developed by Janssen Pharmaceuticals appears to be safe and effective at preventing moderate and severe COVID-19 in adults, according to an interim analysis of Phase 3 clinical data conducted Jan. 21. The vaccine, called Ad.26.COV2.S or JNJ-78436725, requires only a single injection and can be stored in a refrigerator for months.

> The interim analysis assessed 468 cases of symptomatic COVID-19 among 44,325 adult volunteers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, and the United States. The investigational vaccine was reportedly 66% effective at preventing the study’s combined endpoints of moderate and severe COVID-19 at 28 days post-vaccination among all volunteers, including those infected with an emerging viral variant.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/janssen-invest...
We use many products with low price - that doesn't make me trust the products less. For me the reason to charge more is just that customers are willing to pay more than you think.

When you double the price, it is likely that the people who bought would still have bought at the new price. So you are leaving money at the table by not raising the price.
This is obviously part of google's stadia play to bankrupt GameStop. Can't you see it?
Hookworms, maybe, but pinworms are insanely common. Yes, even in the developed world. Especially if you have kids...
> but that's because there was no randomized control trial performed to check mask effectiveness against SARS variants, and how could there be?

The argument was not "we can't do tests because this is new", the argument was "we've got dozens of studies across a range of settings and respiratory diseases (which we expect to act similarly to covid) and we struggle to see any benefit, until we drop the quality of the research down".
Very well said, thank you. That was my objection, too. Outsider is a meaningful distinction in that they're still a domain expert (or something), just not inline with the standard.

What the OP comment was citing wasn't that. Rather, it was people like me - reading that document, not knowing the terms but assembling some form of self reinforced "knowledge".

There's a difference between very well informed outsiders which rival experts and random people. Thinking I know more about vaccines and the dangers than researchers, doctors, etc is moronic. I have no foundation to be making that decision, and beyond the obvious "free will" arguments, i shouldn't.
...and then you have a bunch of money and resources, and your community has nothing because you took it all out. Then your community wants to redistribute the wealth (because they see how unfair the results were to them), you and your followers scream "COMMUNIST!" at them, and we wind up in a right-wing authoritarian situation instead.

That's what happens when capital runs amok.
I imagine at one of these 500+ companies the majority of those are in the art department.

I'm thinking about say DICE. DICE has made essentially the same game (battlefield/battlefront) about 10 times. The 3d engine does get upgraded game to game, but clearly the majority of the delta between games is simply the art.
Yes that's what I'm saying. The same narrative ("wtf, they are allowed to short but I'm not") arises in my scenario.
These guys also got trapped in a purity spiral that lead to some pretty ridiculous decisions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan#2001,_destr...
Why do people trust web apps like this in crypto?
Lol - really??!?

Governments will have to address the elephant in the room? Why on earth would they ever do that?! This system is working perfectly. They write the laws! The police (and army) are their force! That is what governments do!

Perhaps, they could write a law and apply it retrospectively do square things off tidily, but why bother?

But really, once you have total control over what is considered right or wrong, why would they change anything?

You should take a listen to the Quash - a legal insider to gain a better understanding of how things work:
https://the-quash.captivate.fm/episode/politicians-lie-its-t...
J&J one-dose Covid vaccine is 66% effective, a weapon but not a knockout punch
Two hedge funds isn’t “the big hedge funds”. A lot more people are going to make money not by taking the right position, but because they are the market, and they get paid whenever a ton of retail investors decide to come in and buy GME based on memes.
Yeah, so the problem here is that the value creation logic is non-deterministic; not only does it depend on hidden state, it doesn't even do so predictably because you don't know the order in which other threads might interplay. I established three categories of imperative-logic-return-values above:

> The return value is either going to pertain to the state before the side-effect, the state after the side-effect, or the side-effect itself. The first two could easily be broken out into pure functions. The third, again, mostly comes down to error reporting.

So this definitely falls into category three, which makes the coupling legitimate. It's possible I was wrong in my statement that that category "mostly comes down to error reporting"; it was just based on my own past experience.
I think one way to look at it is that RH based their company off of amassing a huge number of retail customers and selling their deal flow. They then pissed off a huge number of those retail customers with a surprise and un-announced change to their trading rules (no more buying GME) in the middle of those retail customer's massively successful effort to make a bunch of money using their product. Their customers then pretty quickly lost a bunch of money.

Regardless of where the fault lies that seems like a recipe for pissing of a lot of your customers, and from there it seems reasonable that the customers would be pissed at the company who sold them the product (as opposed to one of their vendors/customers).

In that light, and particularly w/ a finance app, it might seem even weirder if their angry customers _weren't_ mad at Robinhood and were willing to accept "it wasn't our fault" for any reason.
I think the experience for most voters is having to pick 7 people out of a list 20 names of people they've never heard of. 50% will be educators of some sort, 25% will be real estate agents or developers, and 25% will be raving lunatics or anti-vaxxers.
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> The main issue was that many developers anchored the pricing to ngrok, but ngrok is not the same product, for one, it's a SaaS with rate-limits and is a cloud service.

You’re hooking me in to an interesting pitch here.

> doesn't have any rate-limiting, can act as a VPN, integrates natively with Docekr + Kubernetes and can be self-hosted too. That's the value of it.

That’s just some stuff it does though, not the value.

As an underwhelmed ngrok free user, you could probably sell me this product somehow. We have lots of pain around webhooks in CI, especially with parallel builds.
I only have a casual knowledge of this so sorry if these are dumb questions — doesn't it mean the longs own 240% (original 100% + 140% short sold)? Also, isn't it the case that the longs will own >100% if there are any short positions?
Everybody agrees that there is overwhelmingly more left underground there, and in nearby hills, than has been dug up. Nobody knows if any of it is older. The other stuff they dug up so far has turned out not to be.

The thing to know about Graham Hancock is that he is full of wacky ideas, but he is very careful to keep reports of his observations separate from his speculations. He is better at this than many scientists.

He is absolutely not a scientist, not trained as one, not acting like one. But he also absolutely never pretends to be one, so is no kind of pseudo-scientist. You can trust his observations implicitly, his speculations not at all. Very unlike archaeologists, he is happy to take note of what has no plausible explanation yet, and not pretend that the professionals have everything wrapped up. That, more than anything, is what infuriates the archaeologists who label him a pseudo-scientist. You are not supposed to talk about things they haven't a clue about, and especially things they have been, or are, obviously and aggresively wrong about.

The other thing about him is that he really goes places, and reports accurately what he finds, and takes excellent photographs, even of things archaeologists are still unsure and embarrassed about.

Could the bas relief carvings there represent constellations, as he guesses? Absolutely! The ones he thinks? Very probably not. Does Earth's rotational precession have anything at all to do with the timing of orbital/impact events? Absolutely not. Is the existence of Göbekli Tepe consistent with any narrative of pre-history promoted before it was found? Absolutely not. Has it been integrated into current narratives? No. Can it be? Yes, but with substantial pain; and the new narrative will end up needing to be revised again soon, which they hate.

Archaeological distaste for further work there can probably be explained, in some degree, by the expectation that further revelations will show that the pros have been even more wrong about our immediate pre-history than we now know. It will mainly yield further embarrassment.

At the time it was built, the Persian Gulf was largely dry land. Did people live there? Very probably; we would need to know why not, if not. Did they have to abandon settlements as the sea level rose? They would. Would there be legends about that? If not, that would be surprising. Did it happen suddenly? No.

Thing is, archaeology is not science. They do fieldwork, apply for grants, order lab work, and publish papers in journals, but are not allowed to make hypotheses that could be overturned. Their role is to tell stories about facts already unearthed.

Graham Hancock is happy to speculate about it all, and be wrong. For archaeologists, obvious speculation is forbidden, and being found to have speculated wrongly embarrassing. The easiest reaction to what he does is to label him a bad scientist so his observations can be safely ignored.
What an absolutely nothing and unspecific statement. It could be the description on Wikipedia explaining the responsibility of the SEC.
Between pyodide, pyo3, rust-cpython, and rustpython, I think Pyo3 is the best way to drop in rust in a python project for a speed up, if that is your goal. Some of the demos show using python from rust, but to me the biggest feature is without a doubt compiling rust code to native python modules. I'm using it to speed up image manipulation backed by numpy arrays.

There’s a setuptools rust [0] extension package that can be used to hook the compilation of the rust into the wheel building or install from source. Maturin [1] seems to be regarded as the new and improved solution for this, but I found that it’s angled toward the using python from rust.

There’s also the rust numpy [2] package by the same org which is fantastic in that it lets you pass a numpy matrix to a native method written in rust and convert it to the rust equivalent data structure, perform whatever transformation you want (in parallel using rayon [3]), and return the array. When building for release, I was seeing speed ups of 100x over numpy on the most matrix mathable function imaginable, and numpy is no joke.

I think there is a lot of potential for these two ecosystems together. If there’s not a python package for something, there’s probably a rust crate.

If anyone is interested the python package that I'm building with some rust backend, its called pyrogis [4] for making custom image manipulations through numpy arrays.

[0] https://github.com/PyO3/setuptools-rust

[1] https://github.com/PyO3/maturin

[2] https://github.com/PyO3/rust-numpy

[3] https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon

[4] https://github.com/pierogis/pierogis
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> Further, mask-wearing was already a well-established practice in medical settings to prevent the spread of respiratory disease from practitioners to patients

We don't see much benefit there, either. See the "clean surgery" papers.
I take much of what you say a reasonable wisdom, but the idea of retail investors buying weak stocks on margin and riding them to zero seems far fetched. They shouldn't be buying on margin anyway and if it goes to zero, they're going to get the margin call no matter what.
Why are school boards directly elected rather than just appointed by the elected representatives?

It seems like the democratic equivalent of micromanagement.
The mutation would have to happen in the lab and not in the wild, since the pills would come from the lab.

I imagine if such a thing did occur, they would just kill the batch they were breeding and start over from a known strain.

(Not a microbiologist, so who knows though)
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Third optician I had did it did it and explained "why", including pointing that the last one also did it according to their logs. Both over adjusting by 0.75, explaining why the first year with each pair gave me a headache. I looked into the causes of nearsightedness afterwards, including the focus nearby/read too much myth, as well I definitely read enough. So was prepared to stop the next optician. But she just called the earlier ones idiots when I mentioned it. Terminal glasses worked well for me.
That makes sense, but I have a hard time believing the approach of calling into a date time parser O(n) times is going to yield a significant performance gain no matter how much faster the parser is. However, I'm being downvoted, so perhaps I'm mistaken?
Do people not take Walmart seriously? Office 365 is also extremely cheap compared to what you get. Do people not take that seriously?

I don't think blanket statements like, you're SAAS product is not expensive enough, work. You should take a tailored approach for what works for you.
While I wouldn't support the restriction, most voters at this local level are not voting with any real information and often no real opinion on the issues relevant to the position. Even if someone has some general principles they'd like to express in the voting booth, mapping that to school board candidates is very difficult.
Serious question, why would you not? It's designed to be incredibly convenient and the trades are zero commission. Why not use Robinhood to buy and hold, if you're just making simple plays (buying ETFs etc) and don't need high performance (ie executed immediately etc) trades?
If an index fund wants to maintain the same portfolio percentage of GME when GME’s stock price rises, wouldn’t the fund sell GME, rather than buy?