skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it tricky to judge though? I think the reason why such stories get more attention is because they shouldn't be decided inside a black box.

This person admitted guilt, he also admitted that at the time he made the deal with Brockman he knew it was sketchy. He only tried to course correct when he knew he was being investigated.

If this individual makes a mistake, I can understand the leniency but essentially he made a deal that he knew at the time to be wrong and knowingly kept defrauding the government till he couldn't anymore due to discovery, and essentially came out of it with not so much as a scratch, maybe some stress from all this. And he's continued to whitewash the narrative around this with 'philanthropy'.

In my opinion it shouldn't be about him being fined more than he aimed to save. That essentially encourages others to strike similar bargains with other bad actors as the net result is the consequences are relatively small compared to the upside.
Are there any forums for Amazon users? Would they be English?

Because Amazon has exactly the same problems in the UK, Germany, and Spain.

Delivery and logistics are outstanding. But the rating/review/counterfeit/duplicate issues are a complete dumpster fire, and have made me pull back from using the site.
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I've used Stadia on a 150ish Mb connection and it runs as fast as the game does locally.
I multiplay borderlands 3 with friends and very rarely have issues.

If there's speed issues, what Stadia seems to do is lower the resolution being transmitted, in order to maintain speed and low latency.

So the worst is some very rare periods of minor lower resolution adjustment for a few seconds then it turns back to normal. It's a blip.

It's never been an issue for me.

I love seeing Cyberpunk in max resolution on my 5 year old macbook or playing windows only games on Chrome in Linux.
STD is so eager to hit you over the head with “see how HORRIBLE society is?!?!?”

The Expanse actually has its own world with its own problems that isn’t just a shallow mirror of the writers view of today. Also much less melodrama, although not none.
The argument against nuclear is no longer environmental, it's cost. For the price of a kWh of nuclear (20cents), you can get 3 kWh of solar (3x1.5), 2 kWh of wind (2x3) and 1 kWh of geothermal (7.5cents), with a few cents left over to upgrade your power lines. And you can get it in a year, rather than in a couple of decades.
Derek is a smart guy but here again we see the utter lack of the ability to think big in the drug community. It would have been worth it to spend a trillion dollars and speculatively build out capacity and manufacturing for every vaccine candidate. We should have built megafactories and employed a million people.

And we should have done large-scale phase 3 trials by randomizing distribution of large fractions of the output of these megafactories.

It's just completely wrong to say that everything was done as well as it could possibly have been and there's no way it could have been faster. There basically no amount of money that it would not have been worth it to spend.
“We’ve sacrificed our spare time to build this for you for free.”

Really? You are just doing it to provide free software with no returns for you? I find this hard to believe.

You aren’t doing it because you wanted to explore a particular technical area that you are unable to explore at a day job, pad one’s resume, impress your developer friends, or help maintain the software as part of your day job?
People have also been steadfastly insisting the market will crash again for… well, actually, I don’t think it’s even stopped briefly since the recession.

During the recession we were told that the days of 10%+ YoY returns in the market were over and that we could expect to live in a world with 3%–5% from here on out. The market meanwhile has gone up fivefold in the interceding 12 years, or roughly a 15% annual return.

All along the way have been the doomsayers insisting that the market will crash, that it feels like 2000 all over again, that Trump, or COVID, or Biden will destroy the stock market, that being at all-time-highs, having an unprecedented CAPE ratio, or quantitative easing is going to send things tumbling… and yet here we are. Sure, the crash will come at some point, but given the thousands of failed predictions I’ve seen in the past twenty years I have zero faith in anyone’s individual ability to correctly guess when it will happen.
So good!

Early this winter I had a huge Deus Ex Déjà vu when I was walking in the along the river and someone with a mask was hunched over a barrel coughing (not on fire though, but my imagination filled in that gap). Also during a day when Bitcoin was in the news.

Pandemic circumstances predicted.
This is like the classic DropBox comment [1]. The activities you describe seem easy to you, but are really hard for the average person. Authentication in Webpress? I imagine that is more than a 10 minute activity.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I'm so happy websites have kept RSS around, because even if it's mostly used for machine-to-machine feeds nowadays, we obviously piggyback on top of it and benefit. It could've been so easy for big sites to replace it with proprietary APIs for GitHub, YT, etc...
Shouldn't matter if she recuses herself then.
Except there is a difference between a pump and dump and a short squeeze. No one is listening to the fundamentals, it doesn't matter.

I think you'd be hard pressed to make that argument on either side.
The main problem with this approach for us is not throughput, MALLOC_ARENA_MAX is a maximum number of arenas per core, and our new servers have 48 cores, meaning we would still have a huge number of arenas and fragmentation problem. Yes, it will be a bit better but not even close to tcmalloc.
There is a good post by Heroku with some tests of different MALLOC_ARENA_MAX, that can give more insight on performance hit. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/testing-cedar-14-memor...
> However, none of this makes it ok for the proprietary tools to hurt their users' privacy, like the Apple tools were. In fact, it makes it even worse.

How would anyone know, especially when more and more software becomes cloud based apps, there is no way to make an informed decision.
I'd even say that payroll software could be a lot more interesting than many other fields. If done right, it shouldn't just be a boring tool that adds some numbers - it should educate its user about the current legislation (e.g. about employee status, tax optimisation), be useful for hiring and budgeting decisions, integrate with banking and accounting software,...
I bet tax software isn't too bad, either.

And at the end of the day, the dev hasn't leeched time and money away from some kids, but helped to make a real problem easier instead.
> The fewer pedestrian stops in LA seems to show that there were just fewer cops out and about. So this somehow resulted in more murder.

I suspect this is one of the cases where “correlation does not equal causation” should be mentioned. It certainly might be causative, but it also might not be.

As the other commenter mentioned, you really need to look at the actual murders themselves. No amount of stop and frisk is going to reduce domestic murders.
> getting so many of the technical details exactly right

I'm with you.

It bothers me when people are given sci fi on the hard spectrum but then debate 'how hard it really is' for the purpose of defining then diminishing the value of the material; feels very self congratulatory.

Everyone who praises the expanse's 'hardness' are just as aware that protomolecule is space magic.

Space magic has its place but the expanse also offers a level of hardness I appreciate outside the narrative elements requiring the space magic.

I think its an important discussion in any talk of scifi to point out where the lens is callibrated with regard to hardness resolution.

Turns "expanse is hard scifi" debate on its head by simply changing that statement to "I like the level of scifi hardness in the expanse".

My nephew was reading a book and a character in it built a metal detector out of a radio in a survival scenario.

Due to my interests my nephew asked me if it was possible; if 'he could do that'.

I explained that i suppose you could construct a device to detect eddy currents out of the components of a radio, but it would be so terrible and unreliable that itd fail to detect any metal in any meaningful survival sense.

My nephew was satisfied with the answer, he honestly was uninterested in if it would 'work' but rather 'how probable' it was.

You could tell he was inspired to learn more about the topics that subjectively could allow someone know how to do that regardless of its objective viability.

So, the story could have cut ahead to after its been magically built off screen or could magically source parts from the devices without the actual necessary base components to achieve the conversion ignoring the whole radio aspect or the character could reasonably source components that "magically" works well enough to allow their knowledge to save them (the level this story choose) or the character could sit down and read through a data sheet and spend screen time soldering components to pcbs then accept they wasted all that time, and narrative space, because its an untenable goal given what they have to work with.

I think there are arguments for each of these levels depending on the narrative's slated goals, and being accessible to a broader audience is an important one of these goals.

I feel the further you move down that hard ladder the smaller the audience becomes and leaves less of the 'fi' element of sci fi for you to work with narratively.

I love ben eater's 6502 series and find it extremely entertaining, but does anyone expect that level of detail in a sci fi television show? Is that the end goal of these hardness debates?

I simply appreciate where the Expanse chooses to push that line into the esoteric, and yes even in the other direction of space magic, while still remaining accessible to a broader audience allowing people with less technical knowledge to be inspired to pursue expanding their knowledge within those fields.
The blog post is mainly about the difficulty of producing vaccines. I don't see much in it that is objectionable. But this line may be misleading:

So no, we did not “have the vaccine” in February.

The author is arguing that, because it's difficult to produce of the Moderna vaccine, we couldn't have disseminated it on a wide scale in February or shortly thereafter. That argument may be fine, but it diverts attention from the critical role that the U.S. regulations in general, and the U.S. FDA in particular, played in slowing the process of widespread vaccine dissemination.

Specifically: the process could have been sped by months if the U.S. had been willing to conduct human-challenge trials [1] and to integrate tests of safety (Phase 2) and efficacy (Phase 3) [2].

To my knowledge, understanding of how to integrate the safety and efficacy trials has only recently developed; perhaps the FDA shouldn't be faulted on that front. But the benefits of human-challenge trials have long been understood.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaa152

[2] https://doi.org/10.1198/016214504000001790
I provide an RSS feed for my blog. From my access.log, I see that there is a decent number of subscribers to my feed. Here is the data I could pull from it:

Feedly 91 subscribers
Inoreader 16 subscribers
Feedbin 6 subscribers
NewsBlur 4 subscribers
The Old Reader 3 subscribers
BazQux 2 subscribers
WordPress 2 subscribers
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Total 124 subscribers

I get about 4000-6000 hits to my website on a normal day. It increases by 5 to 10 times if a post hits the HN front page. When I publish new post, I see from the HTTP referer information in the logs that about 30 or so hits come from users who find a link to my post in their feed reader. These are very small numbers but they are good enough to keep the feed alive.
I use FreshRSS as my client. Most news sites have feeds. For those that dont, there is RSSBridge which helps you make them or extend truncated feeds.
When Jeff Bezos was 3 years old, he wanted to sleep in a big boy bed. His mother Jacklyn explained to him that one day he will, but not now. The next day she found him screwdriver in hand dissembling his crib. Instead of chastising him, she sat down to help.

I think his mother was very good at encouraging his interests and nurturing that relentless spirit.

Btw, a bit of trivia, try typing relentless.com into your address bar.
I've been loving Fraidyc.at for RSS

While https://rssbox.herokuapp.com/ is great, I wish more websites allowed RSS rather than resorting to hacky workarounds
Part of the issue behind this topic is it's still hotly contested where in the chain there were lies and where there was mistaken belief in information.

There's no doubt Bush's actions were utterly disastrous for America and many other countries, as well as their people, but it becomes a very different debate when you consider the two scenarios of Bush lying and Bush believing the intel, and then sub-scenarios like if Bush was primarily misled or mistakenly misinformed.

Hypothetically, there could have been no lying anywhere in the chain (even among the lowest-level intelligence analysts and informants), or some scattered lying, or a ton of it from bottom to top. Until that question is satisfactorily answered, it's hard to know who, if anyone, should belong in prison over the matter.

One of the most impactful consequences is that in most debates I now see, very few people believe the intelligence community when they make any claims about anything, including almost two decades later. For example, claims of election interference and espionage by the Russian government can be and frequently are easily dismissed by citing the WMD incident.

That alone has driven a lot of the civil tension over the past 4 years. (And of course this will remain the case no matter how one considers the deceit vs. mistake argument, since either way it means the IC is much harder to trust.)
Well, Writer offers sane menus, toolbars and sidebars, unlike Word. Word's are a complete mess, each time I have to use it I'm lost and can't do basic things.
I hate to say it, but "empowering tech" is usually an anti-pattern. Technical work is done in service to business needs. The role of Product is to bridge that gap. Both pushing the tech team to focus on the most valuable work and explaining outwardly why a tech team might need to focus on quality or refactors instead of delivering features. It could be the same person the same way someone can be a doctor and a pilot, you'd just have a very hard time finding enough people who can do it all.
A model is only as good as its explanations of previous events and accuracy of future events.

What does your model predict and explain better than any other model? Is your model a simpler explanation?

> onion like slices,

So, nested hierarchies? They're pretty useful. But why the onion metaphor? Is there a centre? Do they have thickness? Is there an ultimate end or ultimate beginning? Are there other onions? Is there no cross talk between non-neighboring layers? How deep does your model go?
Seriously, do you have an email alert to come shit on racket with the same comment on HN with a new username every time? :-D

You must have had a really, really bad experience.
If you have to entertain a room full of millionaires who

- all have an interest in finance

- are varying ages (so may not enjoy the same music)

- are from various countries (so may not be into the same sports)

and you have the budget, someone like Yellen is absolutely a substitute good for e.g. having a private Ludacris concert. It's entertainment and continuing education in one. Plus your staff get to brag about the private event to their millionaire peers who did not get that perk.
Haven't they just invested heavily in Stella Lumens?

Why have in house blockchain when you got a whole team working on it?
They only look instant. Behind the scenes, settlement is taking more time, and if settlement fails, the transaction could be reversed.

They do this by taking on the settlement failure risk, which is exactly what Robinhood does, and is exactly why Robinhood ran into potential trouble when GME became so volatile.
It's cost, BECAUSE environmentalists have slowed down innovation through fear-mongering.. If it was any other industries it would be cheaper.
If you were rebuilding government from scratch as a decentralized entity, then sure. But all the living spaces on earth already have a jurisdiction, and they're not looking to disrupt themselves.
Cars can already pull many times of what a home connection can handle. No problem, since you have all night.

> but then what's the benefit?

Braking and fast charging.
+1. The lemma is trivial not because the result isn't deep but because we have the right definitions.
CNN just ran a story about Biden separating kids from their parents at the border and putting them in cages
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> To the ui/ux point, directly, I'm not even sure what you are arguing.

Yeah I can see that given how off the point you are in your posts. Your initial response is that the separation of form and function is a mistake.

I’m saying it’s not a mistake, separating form and function via abstraction is intrinsic to the industry and I use UI/UX as an example. Your retort is that UI/UX abstractions are notoriously leaky.

How does a leaky abstraction move the conversation in any direction? Most abstractions are leaky, everyone know this, but despite this we still need to program our computers via a high level language designed to separate form from function. Otherwise everyone would use assembly language. The leaky ness is known but to manage complexity we have to separate form and function.

So your statement is completely and utterly wrong. Your responses fail to prove your point and go off topic into unrelated metaphors, tufte and Tex. Stay on topic.
I think the point is that we chose and are still choosing to wait for a hundred people to get infected at random in each efficacy trial, instead of just deliberately infecting a hundred people immediately.

The cost of our approach is that roughly the same proportion of the country's population must bet infected as in the trials.
It wouldn't be, unless you were sharing an unsalted hash database across organizations, where it was aggregated with other ones, then that hash is a unique identifier. Uniqueness becomes an issue in things like de-identification, which is a legal concept, and pseudonymization, which is basically tokenization, but not an information theoretic one like say, k-anonymity, or a cryptographic one like entropy.

If these distinctions are new to people on this thread, I recommend https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-an-anonymizati... for some background.
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This is apologetics for the status quo, which by design benefits the financial sector at the expense of consumers.

Give me safety over freedom, says every hegemonist when putting words in our mouths.

Your corner case scenario should not determine behavior for the market. That it is used to excuse behavior that is rammed down our throats anyway is, well, inexcusable.
Well, this has been flagged so maybe there's a huge market for them that we're just not grahamscale enough to find
What is a flow cell made out of and why is the cost so high?
I'm happily using Feedly ever since Google Reader got shut down. I genuinely would be missing out on a lot of content if people would stop providing RSS feeds, especially for blogs that only update very sporadically.
Exactly this. Bill Clinton's life goal wasn't to use the Presidency as a stepping stone to wealth. He just wanted to be President, and would probably still be running if there weren't term limits. But once you enter the government, you suddenly realize that people are willing to throw large sums of money at you to become "friends". Even if politicians don't start out corrupt, corruption is hard to avoid while in office.
The passwords should be salted, and therefore unique.
Farmers' protest: Rihanna tweet angers Indian government
Sounds plausible!

Links to that actually happening is exactly the kind of evidence I'm asking for.
This is a common misconception - "averaging out" errors only works if the errors are pretty rare at any given site. This is true for some types of errors & sequencing technologies, but not universally true. Some types of DNA sequences (most notably homopolymers and other simple repeats) are very difficult to sequence correctly, and X% of the reads there will be incorrect. If X>20% of so, then it may look like real germline variation no matter how many reads are sequenced
It is fishy in the first place for a long stock holder to lend their shares to speculators that will do whatever it takes to bring the price of the share down. Naked shorting should not be legal.
Can SYCL Slice into Broader Supercomputing?
#theguysagirlBRO
Your argument is already questionable since you imagine a subred that makes retard/dick/cuck jokes has any SJWs in it.

I just find it amazing how so few people actually go on WSB, but have a garbage pail of opinions. Seriously, less then 5 min on WSB shows how incredibly wrong the media has been regarding that community or their motives. Mark Cuban, Kevin Oleary and a few others are backing what wsb are saying due to the exposure they generated of how manipulated the stock market is. This isnt, "this is the mob ruining the market". This is, "oh boo hoo did the wrong people manipulate the stock market and it hurt the hedge funds?"

There will be regulations on this. The trick is to regulate the market so the average schmuck can have a more level playing field instead of the cards stacked in the hedge funds favor.
Fully agree. I was being sarcastic.
We arrive at a place where either discrimination is either not categorically wrong, or admit that for practical reasons we have no wish to eliminate discrimination even if it is categorically wrong.
But you aren't bribing the former president. You're bribing the current president by showing him what awaits after he leaves office.
> The Clintons earned over $150 in speaking fees since leaving the presidency

So have I, just in free beer!
Paywalled so can’t read the article but am familiar with this. Part of me thinks universities are in for a karmic boomerang in the COVID age and as more and more educational material is available for free/cheap.

It used to be the case that a college education was essential if you wanted to make it in the modern world. That is less and less true and I think universities will go the way of newspapers - they’ll serve a niche well (those who are academically minded) and be irrelevant to the rest.
Yeah - maybe there needs to be a "customize" option for posts that don't fit into the bullseye. I think venn diagrams would be too complex in the interface.
Thank you for the super detailed response! It's illuminating.

For the product you're describing, it seems the division of labor is a no-brainer and highly-productive.

It seems there is a spectrum of maturity/complexity (correlated with age and scale), and depending on where your product falls along that spectrum, it either makes sense to have a PM "role", or not.

Additionally, it appears that the domain-relevant experience of the PM is a big factor. If a company is hiring to fill an org chart, rather than hiring to fit an expertise gap, it's more likely to end up with PMs in the scenario I describe. I suspect this is also correlated with age and scale.

Finally, I guess there are orgs that expect PMs to be (or become) business domain experts and orgs that expect PMs to be highly-educated secretary-task-masters, and these expectations weight the outcome.

In any case, thank you for sharing your experience, this was a very interesting snippet of insight!