skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember my High School chemistry lesson from the 90's clearly explained we were working with historical models, we talked about nature of the models developments and the experiments that led to them.

We started with the JJ Thomson "plumb pudding model"

Then we learnt about Rutherford and the gold foil experiment which invalidated Thomson's model.

Then we learnt about emission spectrum and the Bohr model which invalidated Rutherford's model.

The whole time it was clear that nothing was "settled" the models were useful at explaining the observed phenomena but were incomplete.

Same thing in physics. We started with debate about nature of light and examined things like lumniferous aether and Michaelson Morley experiment, double slit experiment etc. Then Maxwell and electromagnetism leading to Heinrich Hertz and the photoelectric effect, which led to Planck and Einstein.

I certainly never thought I was being lied to. We were treading along the same path as those who had came before.
Yeah current Okta customer and same experience as you. I was thinking of maybe going to Auth0 but well at least this news came out before we put any serious work into planning.

sigh

Auth0 at least has much better docs and libraries. It feels like Auth0 at least cared more.
I guess I'm not the only one overfitting. Bezos had de-facto stepped down for a while. It was only made official recently.
This absolutely true and a good point. In fact you gave to audit the code you run too. You have to decide who to trust. So how fo we mitigate that?

Decentralization & Cryptograhpy

Cryptography allows that the person you are trusting is the only one who could have changed it. For this we can use code signatures. And of course you tun your local copy (distribution) which you can audit, and compile yourself. That makes it much harder.

You can analyze your hardware and once its left the factory it us harder for the maker to influence.

The point isn’t that you csn economically get rid of all trust, but that choosing to trust a third party is a security hole.
There is no default in Flutter. Everything is a widget that you have to deliberately choose.

https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-clas...
Gold price has never stabilized.

Gold Fixing Price percent change from year ago:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=BzwR

40% change in a year is not good thing for money.
Democracies have complex tax codes because tax breaks and subsidies are the easiest way for politicians to reward loyal voting blocs.

https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
>46000 Euro per month in

I guess you mean 4600€ per month.

FAANG salaries in Europe are not too bad, at least London seems to be okay-ish in terms of salary vs. CoL. The openings are rather limited and I never had any luck, but YMMV.
With roommates, in rent controlled apartments, in subsidized housing, in bad neighborhoods most people don't frequent. And some in homes they bought before housing prices skyrocketed to absorb all of those high tech salaries.

Or just far away with long, miserable commutes.
Facebook to lift political ad ban imposed after November election
> The 9to5Mac article says, "if the item is not received, Apple communicates with the customer over email and phone." Yet Dustin reported no phone call from Apple,

It's possible Dustin had silence unknown callers turned on.

> My understanding is that it's not common practice in the credit card industry for cards to stop working after one late payment.

Missing a payment and a failed attempted payment are two separate things that result in different outcomes. Autopay failed which likely set off red flags.

> Why did this happen so fast

The locked Apple ID and iCloud shutdown only happened on the M1 MacBook he purchased. Which makes sense. If I were to abuse the instant credit system and sold the essentially-stolen M1 MacBook on Ebay, the buyer should be able to know quickly if there were any issues with the device so they can rectify appropriately.
...that run only when the tab is loaded. Non-issue.
Damn you got me. It's true, I created an account 7 years ago, slowly accumulated 6k+ karma commenting on a variety of topics, all so that I could shill the M1 laptop in 2021. I planned it all.

And I would have gotten away with it too! If it hadn't been for you meddling kids...
The OP is about lifting the mask mandate and reopening the state. Your comment doesn't make any sense.
Does nobody care what these taste like? That's the data I'm interested in.
I'll check, thanks! Or you can tweet at me, as I see you found that thread as well.
Exactly -- SEO is a non-starter if I get to curate what goes into the index in the first place. And for transparency-sake I would want to see what sites are indexed, as well as if any of them are "boosted" in rankings.
That sounds pretty neat; I'd love to read more about it if you recall the name.
I think there might be a bit of a problem with quaternions.
Semiconductor manufacturing is essentially the interchangeable parts engineering taken to the extreme. The tolerances are so large (relative to the feature size) that instead of trying to eliminate them you exploit the relations between various manufacturing tolerances such that the errors cancel out.
(and then exploded a few minutes later?)
And the patents would have expired after 20 years anyways.
Quote by Abraham Lincoln: “Don't believe everything you read on the internet.”
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So much for that
I'm really not sure how you could arrive at an understanding of multiplication without first going through the exercise of adding up X groups of Y to yield X * Y. We don't need to declare to children that the precise definition of multiplication is repeated addition. If that's what you're arguing, we agree. If it's that 3*5 shouldn't be explained as 5+5+5, I'm not sure how kids would be expected to learn the subject. We can't transactionally insert comprehensive math knowledge, so it's got to be incomplete along the way.
It was actually an unscheduled Hopper test.
On long distances you are talking about receiving single photons. And while we may view it as probabilistic, it will either interact with our equipment or it won't. If it doesn't, communication failed.

But yes, I wondered about that when writing my comment. Certainly photons are more than just "bullets" that are getting more and more sparse. So I got curious and it seems[1] that in context on our detector you can indeed put hard bounds on where the photon may be received. As far as I understand it, based mostly on the abstract, I do not really grasp it.

But ignoring the paper, I think I get your point. If photon has any chance of reaching the target (even lower than virtual particle spawning) and even if you don't know the future of the Universe (other photons hitting detector), you can use some complex encoding so that observing certain (allegedly otherwise unlikely) patterns allows you to say you received some message with some probability (which is what communication always is). If you have synced clocks. Simultaneity is relative though so there's also that.

1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.3712.pdf

PS. I seem snarky today, sorry about that, I'm happy to learn if I'm misunderstanding something.
I have to say I think loyalty cards are a distraction, why can’t they just track my via my card info/Apple Pay? I mean the thing is literally a kind of unique identifier...
Do you know our Lord and Savior Unified ID? https://www.thetradedesk.com/us/knowledge-center/what-the-te...
Funny because I think that firing person for saying a bad word, especially when talking about the nature of the word and not using it in a negative context, is an excessively and obviously bad practice of the 'Far Left' and that people who believe in this ideology are quite 'stupid'.

Banning Dr. Seuss books and trying to get publishers to stop publishing or carrying books by Children's authors like JK Rowling is equally bad, supported by 'stupid' people, who 'do not have the ability to critically process information'.

Much of this stupidity is authoritarian and unfortunately is backed by institutional forces.

I think the OP is essentially correct: the 'Far Right' (or the most stupid among them) are relegated to to Parler et. al. because the 'furthest right' of it is not acceptable in public commons.

Far Left ideology is actually supported by enough institutions, private and public, that however controversial their actions may be, it can exist in public discourse.

You can be a literal Communist today, in 2020 and possibly be ridiculed, but not banned.

Also: I suggest the timing of this may be a problem. Since the 2020 US Election, Trump has made the most serious lie of his career and repeated it often, which relates to his claims to have won the election. This is a Trumpian lie, of hyperbolic magnitude, and has millions of people caught up in it. If you read only Newsmax or occasionally Fox (remember that most people don't watch that much news) you might be inclined to believe this lie. In effect there is an incredible amount of buzz still lingering about the election lies, and this might distort the findings. I wonder what the results will be next year? I suggest probably similar, but not as drastic.
People at these companies are super-elite tier. It doesn't even remotely represent the experience of most working developers.
Impressive! I was going to comment going on gut feeling from layman's understanding of resolving power of optics, but glad to see someone who knows more nail it.
Their CEO came out at the time and tried to defend the decision, saying it was necessary to help them expand. But it was obviously one of those grad school exercises on how much you could lower quality and still sell at the old price gone terribly, terribly wrong.

Someone told themselves they'd make it up in volume but they were mistaken. It's unfortunate because surely Alamo like any other theatre makes far more in concession sales than ticket sales. Their CEO needs to completely rethink his strategy and return Alamo to its roots, or more likely get booted in favor of someone who will.
A spinning top weighs more than a top at rest? I get that mass increases with speed, but that works in a rotating system as well as a linear system?
>You are a fucking idiot.

>If you disagree - then, please explain to me. EDUCATE me. on how I am wrong.

Boy howdy if that's how you go about seeking education I can guess a) what you political opinions are and b) how you arrived at them.
Happiness is not the same thing as pleasure. People seeking happiness aren't necessarily hedonists. There's nothing wrong with seeking pleasure (or being a hedonist) but just saying that they shouldn't be considered equivalent.
Interesting take. If it really comes to pass, will Apple be preferable to Intuit?

Or for that matter, would Google or Robinhood enter the industry?
And it has a very nice developer experience :)
No, it is (and always has been) dead simple. The IRS has all the information they need already. They completely eliminate the need for the vast majority of people to file taxes if they were simply told to do so. The problem is corrupt politicians who are deliberately complicating the tax code and hamstringing the IRS. The solution is to vote them out.

That's easier said than done, but it's not complicated.
> My point is -- I don't think food prices will shift much as long as the buffer is positive. If our margin narrows -- less livestock, more of it grass fed on marginal lands, grain spending less time in silos before being processed into food -- to two or three sigmas of food security, I don't think that you'll see food prices rise significantly, from market pressure.

The US is a strange beast when it comes to Agri. It's worth noting that there are conditions under which we are -destroying- surplus crops due to price controls rather than flooding the market.

Which to me is a bigger concern; this 'buffer' may cause price shifts to come with less warnings, and perhaps the first 'shock' will be a bit more than we would expect.
> that may mean that individual tracking & targeting simply didn't add much value in attracting customers and sales.

No, personalized advertising is the key to Google's ad success.

The main reason Google is doing this is to cement their ad monopoly. They have all the data now, when they turn off 3rd party cookies, no one will be able to compete with them.
"The vehicle successfully exploded"
"Celebratory backflip" was my favorite descriptor from the NASASpaceflight stream.
Show HN: A citation network mapping interface for research/scientific literature
* per year (was a typo)

here is the source (in German):

https://www.daxx.com/de/blog/entwicklungstrends/it-gehaelter....
From the non-vertical look after it landed, and the known weak landing legs, I am guessing it damaged the structure at the bottom. It doesn't seem like they actually plan to fly them more than once (once they make their objectives). Is that correct?
Nobody gets rich without owning equity in a business.
Can we count it as a reflight? It got pretty decent airtime.
Wait for coronavirus to be over, publish in a mathematical/computer science journal, ride wave of adulation on the conference circuit for a good 10 years.

This sounds like a fun sci-fi/techno-thriller premise, so it's basically a race scenario between your ever-so-clever protagonist trying to cash in before being discovered. Crypto hijinks could include siphoning off funds from a shady-looking exchange site (so they fall under suspicion first) or quietly emptying abandoned or locked wallets. Another fun scenario is getting a low-status job in the mailroom (ie any company where your protagonist has access to lots of encrypted traffic) and making brilliant stock trades in the evening. When you get caught you show off your collection of dead tree newspapers (just the pages witht he stock listings) and pretend to be some sort of idiot savant who can perceive the mysterious underlying patterns in the market, buying a breathing space before going on the run. Better yet, pull encrypted data literally out of the air, eg encrypted FBI comms in a big city, then start a career as a mysteriously successful crime or paparazzi photographer who keeps magically turning up in the right place and selling pics for a lot of cash, which also gives and opportunityt o meet other interesting people and decrypt their secrets.

If you just want to cash in legally and retire in comfort and safety you just set up a corporation, do tech demos and sell it to the military; better yet, sell a solution to the problem you just created. You do slightly impressive tech demos and then scare the pants off the brass in person. If your protagonist is evil, invest in defense stocks, crack encrypted embassy communications from two countries that hate each other, leak the information, cash in big as they hurtle toward war.

While your knowledge is indeed valuable to dangerous people, it also provides you with the means to remain one step ahead of them right up tot he moment where they realize the nature of your unfair advantage and stop depending on encryption (but thereby incurring a speed or security setback). For an abundant source of additional ideas, try vampire stories.
Rust has time travel. That landed two years before among us was released.
https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai is awesome, way more extreme than the other stuff. But it's super configurable and I love how it auto fills windows (but you may not, which can be configured)
For the moment the only useful usecase of qt for webassembly I found is: https://qmlonline.kde.org/ It's really useful to share some bits of QML but otherwise I wouldn't recommend using Qt for the web as much as I wouldn't recommend to use Flutter for the web.
>> greatest man alive today

> I don't think that's a characterization that can be sustained or not with any level of objectivity.

Ok, but thermodynamically speaking, would you agree that he is the coolest human being to ever live?
NYT David Brooks’s Project Funded by Facebook and Bezos’s Dad
China didn't steal a copy did they? Ah got the dates wrong.
Genetics of Sexual Behavior
He is quick to make personal attacks if someone disagrees with him.

He has repeatedly engaged in ethically questionable influencing of the stock prices of companies in which he holds a significant position.

He seems pretty quick to abuse the idolatry that many of his fans seem to hold for him.
I didn't say that people want them, merely that they are choosing to participate in the system. People being sex-trafficked are not, which is why it's an apples-to-orangutans comparison.
I only use Levels.fyi btw. Blows glassdoor out of the water. Thank you so much.
All this overcorrection is just sad and infuriating. Nobody cares about these things anymore outside the self-righteous West.

“See we’re so good we will stamp out the remotest resemblance to the ABSOLUTE EVIL that WE defeated a century ago.”
A priori, one would expect IF to be low-hanging fruit for DSLs, because if anyone is willing to play guess-the-verb, it's going to be IF fans.
yep, I moved from Spectacle to https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai and it's amazing.
Just looking at this data I question why even bother working for a startup. Getting paid 200k at a startup is a rarity, usually with poor health benefits. Lots of work and a hope that you can make up the difference in case of a huge sale.

Am I looking at it wrong?
Life After Cookies: Unified ID 2.0
I am refuting the blatantly false claim that only FAANG compensate like this.

I agree that some employers lowball like crazy, and that some engineers don’t know better, have reasons to live in low-productivity regions that are worth six-figure opportunity costs to them (family, etc), or couldn’t pass the interviews. But it is worthwhile to remind people that this whole world is out there and they could pursue it if they wanted to.
Landed! Then launched... again.
If you mean broadcast media, there have always been independent streams and feeds supported by listeners and hobbyists. There are even more since the internet began.

But I took "media" to mean something more broad, including recordings, printed literature, and performances, which traditionally were mostly ad-free (excluding periodicals).
Employees are either clock punchers or workers.

Small departments in poor cities occasionally wind up highly competent because they wind up staffed with a high enough ratio of workers to get things done and everybody above them has bigger problems than micro managing so they have the freedom to get things done. And it runs for awhile then comes under scrutiny and gets made back into junk because politics.
Can we not?

His achievements and things like his public fights with cave rescuers and the SEC are both public record and exhaustively discussed.
If they're not producing blocks, then this does not give Amazon any censorship capability. The only thing they could do is refuse to send their own customer's transaction to the network, which of course would result in losing that customer.

Even if they did produce blocks, they'd be just another miner among many unless they got to 51%.
This is already happening, only it's the credit card company doing the tracking and not to grocery store.
Exactly this! An iPad with bluetooth keyboard (I cannot bring myself to drop £349 on the magic variety) is frustratingly close but it’s just not quite a ‘proper’ computer and I end up carrying the keyboard everywhere it’s so useful.
I would set up a SAAS site that lets people enter their integer and shows the factors. If the number is prime I would request payment before telling them that it’s prime, to monetize.

I have previous relevant experience running is is isodd.dev and iseven.dev, two SAAS that tell if a number is odd or even.

I think the bigger question is, if you had this factorizing tech, what stack would you use to implement it?
There are cheaper alternatives now that are decent, but the situation was different a few years ago.
Two questions:

Why was this controversial?

Why remove the code example as well as the satire?
> It's not that good but it's gonna get there eventually, given the hype around wasm and <canvas> technologies

Is it though? Canvas is basically invisible for anything that doesn't have functioning eyeballs (which include not only screen readers, but also mundane things like your browser's ctrl+f functionality, google's crawler and siri). You know how people complain about some SPAs' back buttons and scrolling being terrible? I feel like this "next gen" tech is just gonna be more of the same excellent-in-some-aspect-but-completely-subpar-in-others stuff.
Agreed on the second point. There's certainly evidence that looser divorce laws allow people to leave unhappy marriages [1], though there's also evidence that these laws made marriage less stable and harmed children, so there are trade-offs [2, but see also 3].

I'm less sure of evidence that cultural taboos have the same effect. Here's some correlational work across countries on divorce norms and gender equality within marriage; this doesn't specifically address violence, though, and it doesn't control for other aspects of culture which probably covary with attitudes to divorce [4].

[1] Stevenson, B. and Wolfers, J., 2006. Bargaining in the shadow of the law: Divorce laws and family distress. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(1), pp.267-288.

[2] Gruber, J., 2004. Is making divorce easier bad for children? The long-run implications of unilateral divorce. Journal of Labor Economics, 22(4), pp.799-833.

[3] Wolfers, J., 2006. Did unilateral divorce laws raise divorce rates? A reconciliation and new results. American Economic Review, 96(5), pp.1802-1820.

[4] Yodanis, C., 2005. Divorce culture and marital gender equality: A cross-national study. Gender & society, 19(5), pp.644-659.
> the GOP

We now have an opportunity to test your hypothesis- for at least two years there will be single party rule by the other party.
I love the ¶ paragraph indicators - Google says it's called Pilcrow? [1] - at the beginning of each section. It's a great typographic choice.

Reminds me of those legal documents where they obsess about formatting and labelling the sections. And by they I mean usually the junior/intern staff at the law firms who are stuck in the 80s with paper and faxes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_platform-independent_G...
It is a joke
The shuttle technically does a flop (it flies backward in orbit) and comes down via active control w/ aerodynamic surfaces. Not sure if that what poster means tho.
This somehow made me feel that I should take up Dwarf Fortress again.
Reminds me of this story:

The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.

His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot – albeit a perfect one – to get an “A”.

Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.

EDIT: This is taken from an article about fear while making art. I think that's what's happening here - The SLS team are probably not allowed to blow up their space ship (because it is too expensive). SpaceX are allowed to blow theirs up, and in doing so they can learn a lot more a lot more quickly, and try more daring things to begin with.