skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like their 429 guidance: https://opensource.zalando.com/restful-api-guidelines/#153

This has massive implications in real-world systems. Rate limiting adds and order of magnitude complexity to a client system due to the next for delayed, conditional execution. So many APIs do rate limiting and don't bother to add information about why it is happening or for how long the limit applies. I've been working with a name-brand system that limits based both on client application and end user. So, effectively, there can be a 429 because the application as a whole is exhausted, or because a particular user is exhausted. There is no additional information, so the only way to know if the limit has lapsed is to try again. It make it incredibly cumbersome to create reliable consumer applications.
They're not supported on any of the popular NFT trading / minting sites. That economy is currently built around ETH.
$45/hour can be $0 per year on SO. Adjust your expectations.
Cool story, but we destroyed it's natural environment. So basically it's a nice experiment, but that's mostly it.
> The Africanized honeybee, known perhaps from bad horror movies

You're talking about The Swarm (1978), which is absolutely so-bad-it's-good. Fans of Michael Caine will I think in particular find it rewarding, and I was especially impressed with its frankly prescient treatment of the drawbacks inherent in mass insecticide application given that the ongoing research increasingly points to exactly that as the culprit for pollinators disappearing.
That's a failure from the dev and management.

Being able to find and get repeatable good results from contractors across the globe and manage them is a skill in itself.
You may wish to actually look up that quotation:

> To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.[20]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samuelson#Aphorisms_and_q...

Paul Samuelson was one of the most important economists in the 20C, and literally wrote the textbook:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_(textbook)
If you're looking to help out some people who've never programmed for a living, I'd be happy to hear some pointers!
What does "perception-based performance breakdown" mean?
How should economists think about biodiversity?
If you want to not get hurt, b makes this not necessarily a good idea.

If you think things are overvalued, there are two ways for it to go:

- the value of equities crashes in nominal terms and consumer prices are stable

- the value of the dollar itself declines, so that the nominal values of equities stay the same but consumer prices inflate to make the real value of equities revert to the norm

It’s probably a mix of a and b, but outcomes that tilt more heavily towards the latter would hurt people holding cash more. And right now b is closer to official Fed policy, since it would prefer that to getting into a Japanese deflation trap.
Pharmacological enhancement of memory or cognition in normal subjects [pdf]
I consulted for a large existing REP to help analyze the market and suggest strategies for launching their own Griddy competitor brand. So when I say "smart consumers aware of the risk" that is exactly who the research showed the customer was. The initial customers were people perfectly capable of the arbitrage. They even had customers using IFTTT to turn up the thermostat (summer months) when prices would spike (in 15 min increments).

I literally built a prototype competitor product to Griddy and I'm downvoted for explaining exactly how this shit works.
It's not a "gosh darn it, they can't drive a car!" kind of thing it's more of a constantly late because they keep losing track of their keys kind of thing.
Check out UniSwap and Aave if you haven't before. If those aren't compelling use cases, tell your friends to stay away.
While changes to insect populations are a thing, it could be in part that your car is more aerodynamic than the ones you rode in as a kid. That would reduce bug impacts, and increase fuel efficiency.
In reality, cruel, incompetent, and careless administrators kept hundreds of inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates.
Many comments highlight the issue of verifying developers. Did you think of leveraging Github Sponsor program?. Developers can be verified via github profile and paid through the same platform.

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/github/supporting-the-open-source...
"Inmates walk out of prison as free people and then have to re-enter society. It's like they're sentenced twice."
WireGuard Implementation for LwIP
> The reason the strategy wasn't ever going to work is because the fear level wasn't high enough

The average American 35 year old thinks if they catch covid they have a >10% chance of dying. This is off by almost 1000x.

If you drove that error down to 0 so people knew exactly what there risks were if they got covid (i.e. for most healthy adults and children, covid is a complete non-event)... I don't think the general public would tolerate any of these NPI's at all.

The fact that people can overestimate their covid risks by almost 1000x has destroyed our ability to have rational discussions about kids in school, who should be prioritized for vaccination, and how we should return to actual normal life.

Shoveling nonstop boatloads of absolute fear into peoples head has been one of the most morally bankrupt things the media and public health "experts" have done over the course of the pandemic. Society is going to spend years cleaning up the mental health train-wreck these people have caused.

Source for the figures. Take a look. It blows me away how wrong peoples risk perceptions are of covid. https://covid19pulse.usc.edu/
Code is vulnerable to SQL injection. And yes the opening bracket on a new line hurts.
> So I guess we were both wrong.

Er, how was I wrong, again?
Totally true. They now replaced it with “sharp scratch”, quite a good description but lacks oomph for sure.
Most studies I've seen about basic income show that the people on it go out and do shit. "Watch TV and become depressed" is what you do when you can't go out (say, because there's a pandemic going on) and also what you do when you come home exhausted from working long hours at a shitty job you hate.
For the record, I fully support decriminalizing drugs, even if I disagree with the currently fashionable rhetoric about their supposed harmlessness. The statistical debate you want to have is fine. It could potentially be helpful, but not if you insist on terms that tell people that they are helpless. Please just stick to accurate terms that don't convince people to not even try.

We have an existing term, "prison labor", which accurately describes the conditions and evokes the appropriate moral connotations. When we have completely adequate terms already, why insist on a legally inaccurate word which requires such a lengthy redefinition?

Slavery is an involuntary condition which cannot be exited through one's actions. It's vital to recognize that criminals can choose to exit the criminal class. It's not vital for rich people in the suburbs who don't have to live in our world. It's vital for us, ourselves. Those of us who accept responsibility for their actions tend to be the ones who make it in society. The ones who blame society, government, Republicans, white men, SJWs, or anything else outside of themselves which they have no control over, keep doing the same things over and over, stay addicted to drugs, sex, and violence, and keep coming to prison over and over. (There are some skinheads that blame racial preferences for their own failures in life, lest anyone think that I'm naming SJWs facetiously). Rich people can afford to have these intellectual debates that talk about helping the poor but never seem to actually do anything. We have to actually live in this world, where our own choices and actions will be the only ones we can always count on.

Stop telling people that they have no control over their lives. If they believe you, it will be true. These ivory tower theories have real-world consequences. They never seem to get around to actually helping the poor, but they do convince people that they can't help themselves, and those are the people that I see coming back to prison on their 8th or 9th sentence. Those are the guys with 8 kids, most of whom will also end up dead or in prison.
Agreed. I find their footer very confusing. It made me think that the site is a spoof on SV culture.

Links: Anxiety, Build, Connect, Freedom

Clicking Anxiety,

The page is broken up into the sections: Try, Suffer, and Quit...

The footer on that page says...

* Being Self-centered
* Boring
* Really contact us?
* WFH
* They Suspended Trump

The work of a funny intern or ?
I'm not sure they could have offered a reasonable fixed rate for the available power. When the federal DOE authorized the supply of emergency power that didn't meet the usual regulations, they required the price to be at least 10x the normal price ("no lower than $1,500/MWh"). I haven't been able to find out how much of the power supply that applied to, but at least some of the power during the disaster was legally required to be sold at outrageous prices.

> ERCOT shall ensure that such Specified Resource is only allowed to exceed any such limit during a period for which ERCOT has declared an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Level 2 or Level 3. This incremental amount of restricted capacity would be offered at a price no lower than $1,500/MWh.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2021/02/f82/DOE%2020...
> And a lot of other personal experience, and a pretty good understanding of the formal grammar analysis that spawned it (and that also underpins computer languages.)

You see, this is where you lose me. Chomsky's work has absolutely no applicability to treating mental illness, and he would be the first to explain that. His work is not even applicable to language translation, and has no hope of being in the foreseeable future. It is just a framework for discussing some basics of how human language works and can be learned.

Hell, it's barely applicable to computer languages, where again, it's only a framework for discussion. It certainly doesn't 'underpin' computer languages (the work of Alan Turing, John von Neumann and others does instead).

> Have you any experience whatsoever with hypnosis or NLP?

No, and neither do I with crystal healing, praying the lupus away, acupuncture and a myriad others.
A weird idea I have had is if I had two distinct personalities, of only one could "run" at a time. And then my preferred "me" would run on the weekends enjoying myself, while my sibling personality would run during the work week, doing all the chores etc.
> Environmental activists that are also in favor of nuclear power are not interested in nuclear power for nuclear power itself. The goal is to get rid of fossil fuels

And the is the point with the anti-nuclear campaign. It is to argue that nuclear is not a solution to the climate crisis (or at least a very bad option next to renewables). I would argue that environmental activists that argue for nuclear are doing the cause a disfavor. We might be in an agreement that fossil fuel is bad, and we might agree that renewables are good. But we are in disagreement about whether nuclear is good (hence we argue).

> Since we are in an agreement on the questions about fossil fuels then everything else are unimportant

Quite the contrary. Where we go from here is very important. Firstly because there is world after the climate crisis (hopefully!), and we should be careful how we build that world. Secondly it might turn out (and evidence suggest) that nuclear is not a solution the climate crisis. This is important—as GP suggests—because renewables and nuclear are competing for attention of public policy makers. My government representatives might tomorrow start making the case that we should focus more on nuclear and allocate money and time that would otherwise have been spent on renewables to the nuclear pipe dream. Worst case scenario. New nuclear power plants are build over the next decade instead of renewable infrastructure, and a decade from now we are still emitting more carbon into the atmosphere. This the nightmare we in the anti-nuclear campaign are trying to avoid.
Smart meters are an essential part of the technocratic control structure. It is imperative that technocrats (those best able to manage the populations) have all the information about individuals and household electric and water usage, so that they are able to finely control and manage these precious resources.

It can't be long until we start to see value judgements about usage - 'your electricity usage for a heating or some such, is too high or beyond your allocation, so that has been charged to you at the regulatory tariff rate. Do you want us to send you a tutorial about how to better manage your energy usage? Would you like to move to a premium energy rate?'
Haskell overpromised a lot.

When I looked at it, the favourite quicksort example was so elegant, I wanted to learn the language. Then after I started looking at the run time (after wasting a lot of time going through learning Haskell), I realized that it was all a lie, ant that sort wasn't quick at all.

I don't see the same overpromising problems with Rust: you usually get the performance that you think you will get when you're writing the code.
> Free contribution is rewarding as a means of helping.

> Well-paid contribution is rewarding for the $$$.

This is crucial. Changing incentives changes the social contract and relationship and does that irrevocably.

I recommend Dan Ariely’s book Amazing Decisions on this topic.

Example: You don’t pay for the thanksgiving turkey dinner at your inlaws’ and if you did that’s be rude no matter the amount.

If you give your neighbor some fruit from the tree in your yard that’s one kind of relationship. If next year you try to sell it that’s a very different one. Transitioning from one to the other is significant.

Lastly, financial incentives kill generosity. The giver now starts to worry if they’re providing too high of a value.
> You mean the ones that the military explicitly restricted to not taking COVID patients?

Yet 70% of the 182 patients had COVID.
For thousands in Texas they're getting both.
> How is this supposed to be in favor of renewables?

I'm a lot more "in favor of the truth" than "in favor of renewables". And the truth is that there's plenty of lithium, but not with current extraction techniques.

> No, no it doesn't. If you generate 10 GWh of solar during the day and 10 GWh from methane during the night, and you install an additional 10 GWh of daytime solar how much did your carbon emissions go down? Zero. How is this hard to comprehend?

You seem to be violently agreeing with me, while congratulating yourself on your intellectual superiority, which is terribly amusing.

Last I checked, Li-ion was about US$111/kWh https://dercuano.github.io/notes/energy-storage-efficiency.h... which is probably around US$300/kW on th current grid, depending on how many hours a day you need battery, and buyers were undervaluing storage. Given that coal and (1970s) nuclear plants cost on the order of US$1000/kW to build, this is already economically feasible. (Current nuclear plants cost close to US$7000/kW, but plausibly that's largely regulatory costs.)

So, existing lithium batteries are already cheap enough to be economic to deploy; about US$100 billion of batteries into the future, new mining techniques are needed; there's plenty of lithium in the sea to get to an all-solar grid; and existing utility incentive structures haven't yet accommodated the necessity of storage.
Some breeds are more hygienic and will do more at keeping mite infections to a minimum.

For instance here in Texas we have BeeWeavers which do really well against mites:

https://beeweaver.com/our-breed/

That said no bee breed is 100% resistant. To breed the resistance that this breed has took a very long time and active management like killing susceptible drones to artificially select for the trait. It’s not going to happen with one hive.

And as others have said you might do more harm than good by letting a hive get badly infected, spreading heavy infection to other hives. You should definitely actively manage it.

With the beeweavers I still get some mites, and you need to do a mite count. Typically a mite count of 3% is in danger and needs treatment.
Covered

> Free contribution is rewarding as a means of helping
Where do they think that the money is coming from to enable them to come out so far ahead and pay people to walk around with clipboards too?
I agree with your reasoning, but I don't believe things are "a little crazy", at least compared with how crazy they're about to get.

IMHO, we're at Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" speech of 1996. If you pulled out of the NASDAQ in 1996, you never made it back. (The nadir of the dot-com bust had the NASDAQ at 1139 in Sept 2002; it was at 1133 in July 1996.) In the meantime you would've missed out on 4x gains in the NASDAQ itself, and up to 100x in certain specific assets.

My indicator for when we're near the top of the bubble and it's time to pull out is that folks like you will drop out of the discussion and start keeping their opinions to themselves. That's when it's time to sell; when you're ridiculed for it.
"It would not do you much good if you send it down your throats in the form of bottles of whisky, bags of sweets, or fat geese at Christmas. On the other hand, if you leave the money with me, I shall use it to provide for you everything that makes life pleasant – nice houses, comfortable homes, and healthy recreation." wow, what a quote. I feel like this really perfectly encapsulates the attitude behind projects like this.
Smalltalk has simple and strong reflective features. Moreover, it does not make a difference between the developed program and IDE. This means that doing things like that are very natural and well established in the Smalltalk cultural background.
Based on the title, I thought you were Daniel Lemire with another writeup for benchmarking character conversion of some sort - for examples see https://hn.algolia.com/?q=lemire.me.

Great work on reducing the size of the character conversion tables, but I don't see any evidence for the title of the web page.

"Compact character case conversion" is more appropriate currently based on the data given in the readme.

Data can be greatly compressed at the cost of access speed or the compressed data could speed up data access - with x86 CPU complexity these days, I wouldn't bet on determining the speed based on a quick glance of the code.

You state the case conversion is fast, yet I don't see any benchmarks backing up the assertion.

I'd expect a few different types of input to be benchmarked - ASCII upper/lower case alphabet chars (typical A-Z,a-z & space/punctuation thrown in to make it look like typical written language text inputs), Unicode upper/lower case et al., and random characters.

Not gonna leave people in the lurch though - Daniel Lemire has a recent post which can be used as a scaffold for benchmarking.

Code:
https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-blog/...

Post:
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/02/09/on-the-cost-of-converting-...

If the code is to be timed on Windows, the code will need a Windows version of "clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, ...)" - see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5404277/porting-clock-ge...
This is true, but it illustrates a key dynamic. For most people, as soon as you put a dollar value on a task that someone may have done for free or for fun, you have now fundamentally changed that relationship.

If someone is doing something for only the intrinsic motivation, putting a dollar value on it changes it to an economic calculation. The person may still do it for money, but they're more likely to only do a level of effort commensurate to the economic reward. Whereas if they're doing things for intrinsic reasons they may be willing to do more work.

There are a couple of behavioral economics experiments that bear this out. The Soma Experiment from the 70's gave participants a puzzle game to solve, and measured how long they tried to solve it. One group of participants was paid for their time, the other wasn't. The paid group on average spent less time trying to solve the puzzle than the group that wasn't paid. There are a couple of other experiments in that vein, but the common thread is that intrinsic motivation can be more powerful than economic rewards in multiple contexts.

So someone might be willing to contribute some code to OSS for free, but if you ask them to develop some code for $30/hr they might pass.
Hiring for a junior dev position, and being disappointed seeing a Github repository filled with homework assignments? Ok.
> Is there anything actually wrong with PoW?

There’s more wrong with PoW besides just environmental effects. PoW creates different incentives for a blockchain’s miners than for its users. Often these are conflicting, and have a tendency to gridlock the protocol development. This is especially pronounced today in Ethereum where the majority of users are in favor of certain protocol upgrades that would scale throughput, but miners are opposed to it because it comes at an economic cost to them.

There’s no inherent reason for this dichotomy between users and miners: if it’s the same people using the protocol as securing it, you’d expect to have better outcomes for everyone. PoS makes it so that the users are also the ones securing the protocol. It’s not _perfect_ alignment, but it is much more aligned than the miner/user split in POW.
Also, the performance gap between flagship Samsung and iPhone (even 8) is now just too large to ignore.
If you have allergies and have doubts, you can speak directly to a physician with a free visit: https://www.wyndly.com/allergy-visit

We cite research studies whenever we can to demonstrate that this treatment is medically sound and is used every day to treat thousands in the US and millions in Europe.

What specific questions do you have that are holding you back?
This is a great question!

To start, our goal isn’t home allergy testing- our goal is convenient and accessible immunotherapy for all.

We will work with patients as long as their testing is valid and from a reliable source.

For some patients this means using their existing allergy tests. For other patients who want testing through insurance we will prescribe them a prescription for an immunocap allergy test through a local lab like quest diagnostics. But many patients want the convenience of a home test so we’ve partnered with a highly reliable and clia certified allergy lab to supply home allergy tests. I didn’t just trust the company’s word for it, in fact, many of my friends and family members volunteered to be tested both ways when we tested this out for use in our office and we found the results of the home test to be reliable and accurate.

Unlike allergy shots where the skin testing results affect the initial dose, for sublingual allergy drop immunotherapy the initial dose is incredibly small for everyone for safety, and then escalated up. This is why the combination of symptom history, geographic area and testing can be combined by an experienced doctor to tailor a therapy for you.
>in trouble the instinct to pull back on the stick like a traditional aircraft

You mean push on stick? (that's what is done to avoid stall in normal aircrafts)

Anyway, https://xkcd.com/1972/
Thank you for expressing this better than I could have.
Nah, just made it up, it's probably total crap
As Cities Grapple with Climate Change, Gas Utilities Fight to Stay in Business