skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the testing rates in places is higher than average. From my understanding the genetics that enable cancer baked into core of our DNA (I.e legacy DNA of single called organisms). People walk around with cancer and just never know it. Part of me wonders if places like these are just more aware of it or if there’s an out of the norm problem. Either way it should be investigated.
> No amount of “but people could die” can justify this, that’s an irrelevant point, because there never a time when it was proper to remove autonomy for such a reason!

Would you be interested in allowing unregulated tobacco adverts and smoking in any public spaces again as well?
After smashing through OKRs and projects, my manager is evasive on a promotion. Empirical evidence shows how my work frees up others and how libraries I've created have saved time in future projects. Empirical evidence also shows how my work ultimately makes it to production and how I've been at the forefront of crossteam coordination to get projects delivered 100%. Something even other seniors are struggling with on our team. It's a genuine problem.

Peer managers are happy working with me. Peer engineer reviews are good. Director is happy. But my own manager just evades this conversation by saying bull such as "oh, but those projects had a senior on them" or "oh, that's just crud apis". And this is after 9 months of "working towards the next level". He now says that he wants me to work on another challenging project and prove that I can deliver it timely.

I feel like he's bullshitting me and playing with my life. I am very demotivated from trying hard or doing anything for this manager. I keep asking myself, "What's the goddamn point? He's going to bullshit me anyway again".

Has someone else experienced this? Is this normal? I prefer not jumping ship but this kind of evasive bullshittery is affecting my mental health.
For the Prior Work, I gave you this reference on Twitter in response to your tweeted question.

>Computational Geometry: Curve and Surface Modeling by Liu Ding-Yuan and Su Buqing - Chapter 2 covers Béziers. Originally published in Chinese in 1989 - Chinese shipbuilding industry splines. Maybe of interest? (IIRC you don't reference it in your thesis.)

https://twitter.com/delhanty/status/1370618402654461953

In chapter 4, they have a construction for a GC2 Bézier spline space curves - pairs of quadratics and cubics.

Generally, they cover a lot of the same material that you do in your thesis.
In that case, the vaccination system worldwide is the worst. No country I know of has prioritized those groups over elderlies.
We manufacture SoloKeys in Italy and are very happy. Feel free to reach out if you'd like an intro, details in my profile.
> Cleanshot was by far the best, and costs the least. Unlike most tools which are SaaSified and require a monthly subscription, CleanShot still offers a one-off license. It's a steal.

I just want to remark upon how strange it is Mac users are just so nonchalantly paying for bits and bobs because their OS doesn't do things they need it to do.

I spent some time getting my Linux setup _just so_ and feel like I gave macOS a good go when I tried it for 11 months as a daily driver, but I just couldn't take it.

Find a little niggling problem that bothers you just a little bit? Here's a program that fixes it, but it's $5.

Repeat ad nauseam.
I would guess that the seeds were sown once humans (or our primate ancestors) were able to consciously conceive of cause and effect, and learned how one can sometimes, through one's own volition, bring about desired outcomes. From this, it does not seem an implausible leap to imagine that our environment is controlled by conscious entities, and once one is there, to seek out the language necessary to communicate one's own desires to those putative entities.

Even more so, once one realizes that you can use language to persuade other people to act in a way that advances your own interests.
These emulators are usually useless for piracy until after the console has reached its end of life. People start working on them as soon as possible but they don't work well for years. The switch is almost at the end now and there still isn't an emulator which works very well.

When the competition for emulators is buying a hackable switch and running dumped games natively with 0 bugs or slowdowns. I doubt switch emulators have prevented the sale of a single switch game.
There is a massive stats issue in this. It’s not that there isn’t enough data. Is that there isn’t the right kind of data. Properly controlled apples to apples data is what we need, not just a gazillion miles.
> Note: There is a bias about when Autopilot is enabled (i.e. on highways). There is a bias in the type of person that can buy a Tesla car.

This is such an enormous bias, it invalidates the rest of the comment.
Sounds like they didn’t do a good estimate of the lifespan. Grossly underestimating it to impress the general public is quite lame if you think about it. If you were 60 times off on your estimate that was a horrible estimate.
Made in the USA and not offshored :)
Sounds a bit like what synology is offering. The only problem is maintenance of that. You now have millions of boxes that will fail randomly for various reasons (bug, bit flipping, hardware error). And now you have a furious user that can't restore from a broken backup and doesnt know how to repair (if even possible)...
Fair, but no other country(admittedly) save perhaps Brazil or Italy has had anywhere near the spread of the disease, either. In places the disease isn't rampant, I think the approach makes more sense.
dtplyr, the dplyr backend for data table is still IMHO not great, and will often break in subtle and not so subtle ways. Tidytable is, I think, a much more interesting implementation, and gets close to the same speeds.
Flameshot supports Wayland recently. That why there is a “all major operating systems” in the title of the post.
Set up a 1-on-1 with the director to discuss your managers behavior?

Not something to be done lightly, if you are already planning to jump ship it can hardly hurt.
Ask HN: Is there a book that teaches you dark patterns of office politics?
i read a book best described as dark patterns 4 office politics. It was sociopathic. I disliked it.. but here we're. I gotta develop my office political skills asap. share ur wisdom nuggets

I've noticed who writes the best code doesn't matter and there're opportunities which no one will offer, u have to take them

Laws of prosperity:

1) Prioritize VISIBILITY

- ask ur way into bigger meetings show interest in biz/product side, biz start to trust u and u become the crucial bridge

- propose new ideas as question to whoever above u'd listen

- do value work. emergency fixes and high ROI projects. lots of PRs alone are of no value

- give presentations, move cards in trello. updates to manager his/her manager. ask 4 future plans

- bigger things udo, more biz and architecture knowledge gets locked up in ur head, more valuable u become

- propose & get entire project to yourself. leaving grunt work. massive visibility

- go hard on crucial proj. visibility is double edge sword. keep spacing

2) Socialize

- do this u're already beating most of engineering team. hangout, talk daily

- remember what ppl say

- talk about industry

- get to know their network in the company

- ask questions only they can answer

3) Get transferred to non-eng team

- u're THE engineer in marketing, adops...

- become go to tech person, do their tickets fast. eventually ask to join their team. u'll have so much industry specific knowledge.

4) Make it hard 4 others to encroach ur territory

- 4 new projects structure ur code differently than rest. no frameworks. big files. minimal comments. u get it done in 1 day.

- use new tech. most would be too lazy to pick it up and be totally happy to give that part of the code base to u. to mgmt, u're the owner of this code now = more valuable.

- use odd conventions & make sure every PR adheres to it. nobody will like that code.

goal is to do min work, max impact and have all the cards
Because that's never happened (see: QuadrigaCX, Cryptopia, ...)
The claim isn't that it's impossible, or "rocket science", it's that it's hard to do right and was made much easier. You're bringing up for comparison a game engine that has been in constant development by experts for over two decades (Unreal Engine) and a game engine in constant development for over a decade ago (RAGE). Just because someone makes a professional product using tens or hundreds of millions of dollars doesn't mean it was easy.

There's a reason why Epic is able to charge a percentage of sales for their engine, and companies still opt for it. That's because it's hard to do reliably and with good performance and visuals.
> Not in the last five years, but gradually over the last 40 or so

Thanks for pointing that out. I meant 50, just edited
The password/key never hits the Bitwarden servers. Bitwarden servers are just storage buckets for encrypted payloads. The server is never involved in the encryption or decryption process; this is the case for Vault, and now Send. All encryption and decryption is handled exclusively by clients.

Note the URLs used; all the important bits are contained in the fragment (after the "#"). HTTP clients do NOT send the fragment to the server; a "#" and everything after it is stripped before being sent to the server. Bitwarden's Send URLs contain an identifier as well as the decryption key in the fragment. When you load the page, JavaScript is able to read the fragment; an async request is made to fetch the encrypted payload using the first half of the fragment (ie. the payload's unique ID). Then the client–in this case JavaScript–decrypts the contents using the second part of the fragment as the key.
Mario kart in 4 player mode can only run at 30 fps which looks horrific compared to the 60fps 2 player mode. Most games also seem to suffer from massive load times. Crash team racing and Animal Crossing clock in at literal minutes to load.
> The article does not address whether it's a bad idea, rather its entire premise is built upon the fact that whether it's a good or bad idea is preceeded by a question of whether it works.

An idea that won't work is a bad idea (to me, at least). From the author's point of view, it won't.

> Several commenters in this thread have pointed out that it does work, and is used to this day, from China's authoritarian implementation to the implementation at other points in history.
> I think it's reasonable to make the statement: assuming that it does work (and maybe the article is correct - perhaps it doesn't work), would it still be a good idea? What number of people would it need to work on to be a good idea?

Depends on your definition of works, I suppose. Unfortunately, even if the main objective could be achieved, there are drawbacks. I would not call CCP's implementation a success. Sure, in some ways they have squashed extremist speech, but at what cost? They have also severely curtailed speech which criticizes them. They have created a culture of fear where people self-censor. Eventually, I believe something will have to give. It is simply too early to call it a success or failure at this moment.
> Health care in the US is broken, and so is our governance. This whole thing has made me see just how severe cost and risk exposure for way too many people really is!

There are a lot of people who benefit from health care being broken so I’m very pessimistic if we will see single payer in our lifetime. We all need to keep fighting for it but to be realistic it might not happen in the next thirty years.
Excellent post! I wonder why SIFT didn't find sufficient keypoints early on, it's typically a beast of a method for such a task. It looks like there's some intensity variation, the satellite image is darker, but I'm not sure that would explain it all.
Lol no. The law of cause and effect is prior to any imaginary quantum mechanics.

Multiple causation (of too many complex factors) is still a causation. Everything is caused by everything else.

Randomness does not exist outside of abstract mathematics.
maybe give Vaex a try. it's along those lines – out-of-core data frame library, but also works on a single machine

https://github.com/vaexio/vaex
Right? Today's waste is very often a future treasure in these cases!
That's an argument that can be made with numbers. The problem is we don't really have any. Your assertion that young adults are most likely to spread certainly seems plausible, but the truth is we just don't know. So we made a relatively conservative policy choice and chose to take the low hanging fruit of reducing severe cases at the potential cost of a longer pandemic. It seems reasonable to me, given the facts on the ground.

If you want to pick a nit with US vaccination policy with better grounding, aim at the fact that, with the two-dose mRNA vaccines, we're prioritizing the second dose much more heavily than we should. Numbers after a first dose show something like 70% effectiveness[1]. We should be getting everyone their first dose NOW and not wasting all that effectiveness on the comparatively less impactful booster.

[1] Which is to say, a "1-dose" Pfizer or Moderna vaccine is almost exactly equivalent to the actually-single-dose J&J vaccine.
>“This cave was robbed by Bedouins maybe 40 years ago,” explains Price, an American archaeologist and research professor at Liberty University in Virginia. “Fortunately for us, they didn’t dig very deep. Our hope is that if we keep digging, we hit the mother lode.”

In other words, everyone that came before us were robbers (despite living here). We alone are allowed to profit from historical artifacts (despite living on another continent).
Beware, these chairs come in multiple "configurations," some having adjustable backs etc. and others not.
> Fairly soon autopilot will be safer than new drivers and the elderly

This assumes that our hill climbing hasn't hit the top of the hill in this area. I submit that there's almost no evidence of recent continuous growth in this technology.
Per highway mile or per sunshine mile or luxury sedan mile or per what kind of mile driven by whom when and where? You have to be incredibly careful to compare like miles. If you just compare per mile Tesla on autopilot to per mile everything else, it’s a dishonest comparison.
The U.S. government is begging you to destroy moss balls
And on this meander of the great river Utilitarianism, we find that you become entitled to have a thing for free by pre-commiting never to buy it.
This is the first time I've heard him described as a renowned (or any kind of) analytic philosopher. And I’m not sure he’s contributed anything that’s taken seriously by mainstream cognitive science. Also: “It’s”?
There is an order, if not two more who do not benefit, and it is unnecessary.

I agree with you. However, I will also no longer be quiet about it. My own costs and risks have been insane. Future impacted in the negative multiple times now.

Would not have been most other parts of the world.

Frankly, the cost and risk exposure will hit a point where people move in mass, or it won't and we trundle along for a decade or two.

Nobody knows.

What I do know is I have reached a point where I will act in solidarity with others on this matter and will make very aggressive trade offs too. It is now a priority.
More like they are a lawsuit away from shutting down. It’s far easier to kill the product and then cry about how unfair lawsuits add no regulation are than to just fix the problems.
There’s some decent evidence that the Philistines were Greek, although they would have been Greeks before the period when Greeks wrote much about pedastery so your point probably is still valid
Agreed. Before I was vaccinated I read all the numbers I could find. Apparently all 3 show something like 90 percent effectiveness after 3 weeks, even without a second dose for those that ask for it. Seems much more effective to let everyone sit at 90ish, rather than halving the supply for an extra few percent.
Is it still the case that Nvidia drivers don't work with Wayland?
With sustained > 1G we are effectively talking torch drives, not just "normal" fusion drives. Not many technologies we know of that might pull that off, possibly with the exception of nuclear salt water rocket.
I think I'm going to genuinely cry the day they deorbit Hubble. Maybe it doesn't make financial sense but if there was ever an instrument that deserved to be retrieved and given a hallowed place in a museum, Hubble is it.
China has been doing essentially this (prioritizing young people over the elderly): https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/chi... . You're right that it's definitely not the prevailing strategy though.

(Also, sorry for the vaguely propagandist source -- I originally heard about this on a podcast and am having trouble determining which, and this doesn't seem to be getting much coverage in English-language print media.)
The whataboutism you mentioned in your article was around the energy discussion, and I agree that's a really weak argument for Bitcoin's energy usage, especially when there are many other better arguments. But I don't think it's fair to apply that to what I said about USD. I'm not saying that because the USD is used for / the US government does bad things, that we should excuse both it and Bitcoin and that it's a wash. I'm saying that making a choice about what to put your value in based on who else uses it, or who works on it isn't the best way to judge the usefulness of it.

On the smartest engineer front, I'll grant you that it's an overused platitude, but I'd consider any engineer I know who's in the 80th percentile to be "one of the smartest engineers I know", which to be fair is going to be quite a few people. But my point there wasn't to give Bitcoin credit by association, but more to demonstrate that I have no doubt that those people are smart enough to land lucrative jobs at big tech companies. So if they're just in it for the money, why haven't they?
I was more a FCKGW kind of user
I’ve wondered if that is part of their autonomous strategy. Autopilot makes things less safe but other aspects make it more safe, so it becomes harder to point the finger at autopilot.
Old, but quite relevant:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm

"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach."
I think they meant "many in these parts think he was just running a website which enabled drugs to be sold" vs the accusation that he hired hitmen or was running a drug cartel.
Indonesia is young people first
Now I'm curious about the story behind the personal note.
I guess I don't see how that's the case. In principle you could have had NFTs as soon as the printing press was invented; just sell thousands of prints while also selling the right to own all of them by writing names in a book. The critique is of computer generated art, not art that happens to pop up in the same paragraph as "computer".
"Just in my personal opinion, things like a UBI move us towards that world. It wound allow people flexibility."

I don't have any well formed opinions about UBI and I believe myself to be open-minded about it.

I do, however, think that GSE/WSB is going to push it back outside the overton window.

Nobody in power - across the broad political spectrum, from Feinstein to McConnell and everyone in between - is going to sign us up for more of that.
Thanks - these are good points you bring up. A few considerations to complement your thoughts:

- Banking systems are indeed different. That's why we've decided to raise the capital ourselves. It allows us to set and follow our own risk assessment and not be subject to onerous regulations. Granted, raising capital is not simple either, but doing so allows us to focus more on providing a smoother, more integrated experience with the platforms in the near term.

- What we've found is that a ton of small business owners operate as the equivalent of a sole proprietorship. What's interesting is that many small businesses actually have a bank account. What they don't have access to are financial resources, such as working capital. These underbanked businesses are the core segment we are targeting right now. As you noted, there are even more informal businesses, but they don't often sell through the platforms we partner with.

- We have lawyers in each country to make sure we've set things up well and comply with local laws. It's a pain, but we view this as an important fixed cost that makes it more difficult for others to replicate down the line.

- Agree on your comments about the status quo and not to underestimate their power. We've met resistance before and foresee this happening again if we scale. Can't really add much else except that we've grown up in countries where this is the norm.

- With our first customers, we've noticed that it's critical to build trust upfront. Some of our best customers to date are small grocery stores and cornershops where 90%+ of transactions are still done in cash. The pandemic has accelerated their adoption of digital payments - in fact, electronic transactions doubled across the region last year. We believe this is a good time to try out a new approach!
You may be right about the ramp-up time, though the Switch is only at like 50% of its lifetime and I wouldn't be surprised if the next console is a "Switch 2" or something with backwards-compatibility, given what the other console makers have done
The short version is "it depends". Essentially, each separate Wayland compositor needs to add support for the nvidia driver (or the driver needs to support more standardized APIs).

Gnome and KDE support Wayland on nvidia hardware (though it's a bit rough around the edges). Wlroots (and therefore Sway) doesn't because they don't want to have a separate code-path for one driver which doesn't want to support standards and because the APIs the driver does support wouldn't work well with the code model of wlroots.
+1 for github pages
They're conditionally meaningful: if a small amount of your program is correct, the entire program satisfies some useful properties.

This may or may not be something you care about, but it is certainly a meaningful tool that is quite useful to me, including when I use your type (3) style described in the sibling thread.
thanks for the info, I knew all of that.
the problem here is not the expected switch to PoS, the problem is how do we go about reaching consensus about something in Ethereum.
Is Vitalik calling the shots? I hope not. So if a small group of people is very determined and excited, doesn't mean shit to the ecosystem at large.

I am not saying this EIP, or PoS, are bad. It's the way you do it that matters.
That’s a comparison that would get any data scientist fired (or a marketer promoted). It’s not remotely apples to apples.
wut?

who are you to tell me what damage i can or cannot do to my body?
I recommend you to google "Rube Goldberg machine". Many people (like myself), want to keep off the bullchain stink.
I love reading more computer sciency takes on physics because they always give the distinct impression of God patching together a universe that juuuust barely works. Just something about the phrasing of it is delightful.
Her first big piece on this was https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-report... which i still find better than the book at making the point.