skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People above me making decisions that don't make sense.

This can be a business process. Maybe it makes more sense use a simpler business process for mundane systems, like fee collection, than to spend tons of money building out a complicated system with lots of edge cases. Good technical systems need a solid underlying business system.

This can also be project or technical leadership. For example, why would you commingle business content and system data I'm the same field? And then if someone changed that field and broke your system and it doesn't comply to json standards, but they refuse the roll back this cosmetic change... that was so frustrating. It felt like a complete waste of time. Work smarter, not harder. More like work stupidly and be political.
You know why a stock typically goes up whenever Wall Street “research” upgrades it? Their sales team spam calls all of their clients. I don’t understand how that’s any different from what happens on r/wsb. It’s really not the “DD” that matters but creating flow. Why firms like Merrill Lynch was feared. The whole industry is a complete joke and Wall Street doesn’t like the fact that their little complex is getting disintermediated even further as machines and self-directed individuals take over.
Early on the focus was on the hypothetical CISC advantage, hence wanting ‘compressed’ variable-length instructions, even though the ISA hasn't ended up especially space efficient now that the actual complex stuff is legacy. But as to why their encoding is so difficult, put that down to lack of foresight. x86 was designed before parallel decode became a thing, and the complexity accumulated over time.

Intel have had quite a few ISAs and all the famous ones are bad, so there doesn't have to be a good reason beyond that.
> They don't exist to report what has happened, or to inform; They exist to shape opinion and control their readers.

That's been the case for some time now, but there will be major pushback from many HNers, who believe we're attacking a pillar of our democracy.

And yes, an independent media is an important part of a democracy. But most of our mainstream media are party-affiliated, not independent. They're party mouthpieces. And both parties are highly influenced by our major corporations, particularly the finance industry.

Between a warped media, swarm-mind on social media, and societal upheavals like pandemics and rioting (at the Capitol and elsewhere), we're reaching a tipping point. I wish people would turn off their TVs, and their Facebook+Twitter. It's probably our only chance of avoiding the chasm we're fast approaching.
An estimate of 0.01% is closer to what we know today than the ~2% estimates of the time. Current best point estimates for IFR are somewhere between 0.1%-0.5%, depending on population age.

But IFR is so tied to age that it's unhelpful to compare it from country to country. One of the reasons Italy's observed fatality rate is higher than average is because of the higher average age of is population. The CDC's current best estimates are:

<20yo: .003%

<50yo: .02%

<70yo: .5%

>70yo: 5.4%

Even a small increase in the elderly population can dramatically influence the observed IFR for a given nation.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
He did. He's also probably correct. I'm pretty sure R/D affiliation is a fantastic feature for tracking the end target of any specific donation. A small subset of R's might donate to Biden, but those are likely swamped by the general split across party lines.
Given Australian parliaments opinion on encryption and environmental issues I think he's right to not trust them on this....
Can you please not break the site guidelines like this? We ban accounts that do that.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.
It comes with a certain level of karma. One must conclude that those with the most karma are the most sensitive to opposing opinions. I’m a bit jaded by the intolerance of the “community” (read echo chamber).
>Both of these libraries' React integration involves creating a "service" that accepts events and transitions between states internally, bypassing React's own state management lifecycle, which is tightly integrated with rendering. In the past I've seen a number of nasty bugs pop up when precise synchronization between theses two sources of truth for state is required, and they can be a bit of a nightmare to debug and/or work around.

I've been using XState and React on a fairly sophisticated large scale application for the last two years. The key is using React hooks with pure components, and eschewing the lifecycle altogether. This turns React basically into just a highly efficient view rendering library, while delegating all of your application logic to the state machine. Your components end up way cleaner and easier to reason about when they are just pure functions without side effects, and all your business logic is contained within a state machine.
Bear in mind, an Amazon Principal Engineer is intended to be a 1 in 100 engineers position. The pay is generally above 600k, with the max pay dependent on the position.
Please don't post flamebait and unsubstantive comments to HN, especially not partisan flamewar hell comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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The steady eclipse of traditional media by Big Tech services has led the USA to a situation where a significant minority actually believe that Trump is a sort of superhero saving the world from pedophiles (QAnon) and a larger minority who really think the Democrat party somehow stole the recent presidential election, and that storming the Capitol is a reasonable response. The view from Down Under is that we need to avoid such civic disasters and propping up the traditional media is an essential part of that.

Like most people, I'm astonished at how social media mediated news seems to disable so many people's bullshit detectors, but there's no denying that it is so.

Anyone who wants to persuade Australians that their government should not go ahead with the planned regulation of FB and Google needs to come up with an alternative suggestion that would keep Australia's democracy functional. I can't see anything in the anti-regulation commentary on HN that passes this test.
Common lisp because it's lisp all the way down which makes debugging in slime is better then clojure. With CL you can just have a buffer and start writing code, evaling snippets through slime. With clojure you have to have a project structure set up on disk first, it feels very java enterprisy , made for suits.
Are there any tools that call out bad habits when writing TypeScript?

The only one I know of is tslint:

https://palantir.github.io/tslint/
Since DNA is inherited as discrete molecules, it's most likely he has 0% identical-by-descent. (Except if he's a direct male-line descendant.)

But I don't think genetics has anything to say about legal standing.
Well it's like the Chinese letting babies shit in the street. Chinese have garments specifically designed for children to do this with ease.

Every nation on earth has agrarian origins. And our habits and behaviors shape our culture and continue beyond their utility even when our surroundings and lifestyles change. There's a lot of inertia and habits like these don't change without concerted and deliberate effort.
Missing and outdated documentation. For an iOS/macOS app at the moment I'm looking into how to modify an AVFoundation video copy (multiple splits and deletions of segments) with Swift. The framework grew up with Objective-C, and one of the docs outright shows Objective-C code while Swift is selected: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avmut.... Conceptual guidance is hard to find, and the Apple documentation archive's link for "AVFoundation Programming Guide" is broken.
> The first dose prevents hospitalization. Right now, for every second dose we give, that's a decision to deny someone a life-saving dose in favor of someone already protected. What a strange prioritization to make.

Does 1 dose prevent the spread of COVID19?

If it requires 2-doses to get a true "efficacy" (lower spread), then it might be more worthwhile to push 2-doses, rather than 1-dose (where everyone gets "less sick", but the virus continues to spread exponentially).

Real problem: 1-dose wasn't really tested on a large "phase 3" style 10,000+ person test. Its impossible to answer this question (yet). It will take further testing to know.

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I think there's something to be respected about sticking with what was tested, even if the scientific theory argues for a different approach.

Just because the theory says so, doesn't mean that the theory is true (at least, not until the theory is well tested).

Doing something different and hoping for the best just because its kinda correct theoretically is... overly optimistic. I wouldn't necessarily be against it, but it makes sense to stick with what was formally tested.
Most creators make peanuts from these ads that Google insert everywhere. The real value is in sponsorships that I actually watch because it's part of the content.

I don't feel the need to pay 10$/month to watch LinusTechTips which is itself 20 minutes long advertisements for PC parts, sponsored by their respective manufacturers.
When people feel no need to click away, they don't, and stick with the default, and thus Google has a monopoly. A monopoly doesn't mean lock in or that consumers can't switch. A monopoly means domination or near total control of a market. And if Google leaves the Australian search market for others, someone else will probably end up with that monopoly depending on what Chrome's search, Android's search and iPhone search does.
I'm certainly not suggesting that other commenters didn't also break the site guidelines, but what you posted was unsubstantive flamebait. It's very easy underestimate how much of this one is doing—commenters are often surprised to hear how their comments have landed with others. The solution to this is not to blame other people but rather to err on the side of posting thoughtfully and substantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
TSLint – An extensible linter for the TypeScript language
WHAT!?!?! Seriously?
> /etc/ is per-system configuration overrides. There is a goal to move to "empty /etc/", meaning you should be able to remove all files in /etc/ and still have a functioning system.

I find this goal to be rather frustrating.

It means that software will hardcode it's default configuration when it cannot find a file in `/etc`, and it makes it very hard to deduce what exactly can be configured.

I strongly dislike software that will simply apply a default state when it cannot encounter a certain configuration in it's configuration file for this reason.

I favor that software simply refuse to start with a clear warning as to why, when it cannot find a configuration option in it's configuration file.

Applying a default on a missing key is another case of weak typing; I would hope that lessons were learned by now that guessing what the user wants in case of error is a bad idea.

What is even worse is software that simply ignores malformed keys, and applies a default value anyway, giving rise to not only innocent mistakes by typoes, but some malicious exploits that were found by putting zero-width spaces into keys to trick administrators viā social engineering.
I ended up writing one in the meantime -- check out the end of the readme. For this workload it seems to be a factor of 30x. The C program gets away with no heap allocation and inlining the entire render loop, though Lean does do quite a lot of unboxed float arithmetic. I tried to optimize the Lean and only shaved 25% off the runtime (code in a branch).

I suspect that it could be made a bit faster if each thread had its own copy of the scene. Lean handles reference counting of shared objects differently.
I use two brokerages and I almost exclusively trade US listed equity options. That's why it's easy to know if I'm getting good liquidity or not; the price doesn't move as much and the spreads are far wider than cash. If I use the one with PFOF, on rare occasions it takes a minute or more for my order to show up on the screens. The other one is very fast with SOR but it doesn't always get a high percentage of the displayed size. When I worked at a shop I got most of the displayed size pretty much all the time because the SOR was way better.

Analogous to the PFOF situation...if a hedge fund sends a limit order to a bank the NBBO may have moved unfavorably by the time it gets sent down to a floor broker. That may be horrible execution but it's not illegal for a floor broker to suck at picking up the phone promptly.

I guess my point is that it doesn't take long to figure out which brokers can improve your committed price, which floors participate aggressively, which electronic crosses break you up, etc, and that knowledge can affect customer fills. But I get what you're saying and you're right that people could monetize it if they had hard quantitative slippage data. That wasn't really what I was describing.

>The reason Nanex is important is that they’ve made bank on proving that risk systems and broker latency don’t matter when enforcing reg nms

I don't understand what you mean by broker latency and Reg NMS...latency between different legs of SOR can affect execution even without a trade-through violation by causing the offer on Exchange B to fade if an order routed to Exchange A crosses the betters there well before the bid destined for Exchange B arrives. I think I'm missing a piece of the puzzle here.
I know this is published in the Lancet but the data is coming purely from Russia. While it’s still a data point of sorts I think it’s really prudent for the rest of the world to try and reproduce these results before taking them at face value.

Sorry but this data is coming from a totalitarian country where everything is directly or indirectly state controlled. I’m quite skeptical that the Kremlin didn’t put their thumb on the scales at least a little bit when compiling these results.

Since this vaccine is being sold left and right around the developing world we might in due course obtain more independent data about it. Until then it’s safer to say that the efficacy of this vaccine is basically unknown.
Well I haven't received any spam from Carta so possibly they're only spamming celebrity investors...
Which non-modern tribal war ended in genocide or mass destruction?

AFAIK Neanderthals went extinct due to climatic change and disease.

Moreover tribes are everywhere defined by a complex and dynamic system of relationships. Neanderthals where another human species, or at least subspecies, and as far as I understand we cannot be sure that such relationships were established or even possible with another human species.

The threat of nuclear war ("MAD") may have prevented wars between major powers, but it didn't prevent many proxy wars, some of them quite destructive, and assuming that the net effect was positive is only an opinion (probably not shared by many in Africa and Asia).
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

The consumer welfare principle post-dates anti-trust.
I don't know, but their reusable Falcon rockets went through a similar phase. They killed a lot of rockets before they got the landing right.
I would buy one, as well as few naked one that I would solder myself.
Those things could become very nifty. Solving problems that mesh-wifi can't quiet get right for organic deployment.
> insufficient peer-reviewed evidence for them to make it their official advice at the time

masks for viral protection isn't a new topic, and plenty of research is available[0] -- unless you're talking about only viral research pertaining to covid-19, which is fairly over-specific to legislate against/towards.

in other words: it was understood in the general scientific and medical public that masks help to reduce or prevent spread of airborne virus, to claim that the government should have waited for specific research to a singular strain is both excusing a willfully in-active government and portraying that government as scientifically credible for doing the so.

These actions, given the evidence that already existed that masks provide a net benefit against viral pathogens, were scientifically unsound. If I had the complete picture that was available to the U.S. government then maybe I could justify the actions by knowing that a call to use masks would cause a profound shortage of PPE for those that needed it -- and I think that's exactly what happened: the government saw that a call to use masks would cause a lack of goods, so instead of looking entirely ignorant to the problem it was decided to latch onto the logic that covid-19 was somehow totally unlike any virus and that novel research would need to be undertaken in order to justify the need for masks.

It's my opinion that masks were already well-enough researched, and that the surrogate viruses that were used in this research prior to covid-19 were a 'good-enough' approximate to understand that masks would be a net social benefit, if available. It's my opinion that other co-factors that the government was privvy to influenced their decision to push against mask use temporarily in the beginning.

[0]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=mask+efficacy+virus&hl=...
This needs wider awareness. Communism is awful in every form. The Chinese government is not guiltless!
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I think you need to re-word this in simpler more concrete language. My mapping of words to concepts is not resulting in a coherent idea of what you’re thinking.

> layers that consist of feedback loops that employ interactions outside any reasonably small bound

I’m interpreting this as: Maybe there are interactions between part s of the brain that occur using a method we are not currently measuring (for example, maybe quantum probabilities interact in another dimension), so what seems to be a random process is in fact influenced by something outside of the “physical” world.

I personally “believe”, that consciousness operates outside of the physical world (or in a dimension we don’t directly observe), and interacts wit the physical world through the quantum boundary, influencing probabilities and observing the states of atoms. By paying attention to certain atoms, it is able to create an API that allows it to interact with the physical world through our common modes of cognition, mediated through the nervous system. I’d say the nervous system itself is the physical manifestations of the API, and the brain contents is another part of the API, and the user of the API is consciousness, observing through the quantum doorway.

So to bring this back to what you were saying, I think the brain in a way is an antenna in that it mediates interaction between consciousness and the physical world.

What the physical world is, is a whole different kettle of fish.

If you want to discuss much further, I can setup a throwaway/anonymous email. I love this stuff!
“I’ve never had more energy, and this isn’t about retiring”

[imitates Bezos]

With that said, I’m out. Don’t call me, I’ll call you. If I don’t show up for a meeting, it’s because I’m paid and gonna do whatever tf I feel like for the rest of my life. Peace!
I installed DokuWiki on a DigitalOcean $5 instance. Best 15 minutes spent on LX (learning experience) ever.
Aren't all of those threads older than 5 days? I actually visited r/wsb during the last few days to watch the show. While I cannot be sure, that there were no threads about SLV, I am very sure, that to this day GME was the stock being hyped. There was not a sudden switch from GME to SLV like reported today.
I guess we'll live to see cube-shaped chips perhaps with cooling channels.
You realize the Raptor engine is different from the Merlin used in Falcon rockets, right?
It's actually not mine, I've edited the Telegram but XMPP part out now. I just did not think about the UI, But rather the auto discovery of Telegram and the like.
Han, that's fun.
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More like “defeasible”.

It’s not deductively valid in the same way that modus tollens is, but it is a often a good heuristic: the authority wouldn’t be recognized as such if they weren’t often correct in their area of expertise.

Thus, it’s fine to find an appeal “rationally compelling” as long as you bear in mind that the authority is also not infallible.
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Out of curiosity, is there a business case as of now or is this a side-project mostly?

p.s. I love that you are using the latest Ruby and Rails
I totally agree with most of this list but have some clarifying and contrary:

2. The recommendation goes too far in suggesting fallbacks in the parameter list (and would if it had suggested the same for destructuring options/objects generally), without explaining that for some braindead reason fallbacks aren’t `null` safe.

3. This leads into #4 but if readers leave here they’ll think the cast from `unknown` is somehow safer. I have seen this happen, people just cargo cult stuff. I’d much rather a 9-length list than risk that.

5. This particular problem/example is spot on but I’d like to expand the “in tests” scope to explicitly explain why some unsafe types are justified in tests. I always specifically unlint rules about non-null assertions in test because a non-null assertion is an additional safety mechanism in that context: it validates that the runtime agrees with the type system. If you intentionally but explicitly bypass the type system and don’t see an error you should know that’s a bug and fix it.

7. Is mostly spot on but conditional. There are unfortunately a lot of conventions at play. Anytime there’s ambiguity definitely add verbosity. If your type is truly generic without constraint adding that verbosity is actually harmful.

10. This is just plain wrong for the vast majority of cases. It’s also a JavaScript-ism that doesn’t translate well to other languages and the “bad” habit helps avoid mistakes. For most use cases `null` should only have one meaning: absence of a value. The cases where it doesn’t are almost always a mistake (oops this was an “object”), and the cases where the distinction does matter are usually (but not always) a sign that your interface is bad (the exception being explicitly passing `null` sentinel values to overwrite existing data in a stateful external system like a database). This should be the exception not the rule and making it syntactically clear is useful.