skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Causality overall is hard. Humans fail at dealing fully with casual perfectly fairly often. But human tend to do far better than computers (partly failing rather than totally failing, etc).

But your examples involve human's linguistic expression of casualty, which is an entirely different question.

The amusing thing about this question is that if you actually have an answer, it reveals more about your biases than it does about the situation and potential solution(s). Various people will chime in about the latest thing that annoys them...whether it is inattentive pedestrians, jaywalkers, pedestrians wearing black at night, drunk drivers, speeders, or people driving cars that are too big and dangerous.

A lot of human language is "socially significant noise", which some might object usually isn't true. But it often serves an entirely different purpose than an accurate modeling of reality.

People walk through complex society, putting their socks on before their shoes and otherwise doing the basic things but articulating positions that ... other people would consider "nuts" but this situation has nothing to do with a failure of casual modeling, which happens on a different logical level entirely.
You can attach the Lambda functions to a VPC. So you can control their outbound IP.
How does a freshly installed brave browser on Android knows how to target me?
How come my just downloaded Brave app on android, without any logins or browser history, knows me and targets me with same ads as on desktop? Where does it gets my information from? My desktop is Ubuntu and i have zero shared logins.
> but it does have superior compactness.

as well as superior scrolling using it with the middle button
You’ve got your causation backwards.

He made a series of purchases... ok... of course his last purchase was shortly before the story was published. As to this being his last purchase, well of course—why would he keep buying after his insider advantage had evaporated? At that point there would be nothing more to take advantage of. Anyway, this does not show awareness on the part of the reporter.

Yes, the fact that his last purchase was close in time could show that he received timing information, but it could be that he was making lots of purchases over time and simply stopped once the story came out.

You note that he started selling after the scoops were published. Again, this doesn’t prove anything about the reporter’s (non-)complicity. I.e., OF COURSE he started selling after the story published. What did you expect him to do? He was waiting on the story to be able to trade on effects of its publication. Once it was published, the stock’s price would have shifted (presumably upwards) based on those facts—no more reason to hold the stock!

He bought options, which have time decay. Ok, but we don’t know that he bought options expiring within a few days or weeks rather than months. Anyway, these deal scoops were going to come out sooner or later—but reporters want to avoid being scooped, so they typically come out sooner.

Overall, I’m not convinced there’s anything here. Of course a criminal trial would/will make this all clearer...
It's often handy for browsing documentation you compiled locally.
it would work better if the event was something like "PLAY, played=7, drawn=K, trashed=K, hand=[1,2,5]" with the client perhaps validating that applying the play does lead to the hand [1,2,5] as an error correction mechanism.

you need to make sure not to leak information about one player's hidden moves to another player, of course, but in general i would say have your events be as rich as possible so that clients can interpret them for animations, screen reading etc.

edit: for reference, this is the format scrabble programs have standardised on for their event log: https://www.poslfit.com/scrabble/gcg/
Yeah, this is where evil-mode sort of shines: I was able to go through my vim configuration feature-by-feature and more or less recreate it in my emacs configuration. A couple years later, I have a sort of hybrid vim-emacs config (smartparens for most cases where I would have used surround.vim before) that works really nicely.
There may be some analogies between the Perl 6 and Python 3 transitions...

Unlike the author, I think there is room for more than one language in town. PHP and Ruby are still around, after all.
Teleport looks cool.
We have a pretty elaborate home grown bastion host setup. Seems like an area that should have more competition. Especially after looking at teleports pricing.
> Before you try to sink billions into nuclear energy, explain why we can't do it with solar + storage alone? Just one good reason. I've yet to hear anything substantive.

The fact that storage at anywhere remotely close to the required scale doesn't exist is a very good reason.
I don't see it that way. Take Bic, for example. They commoditized the razor handle in order to sell more blades. But for that to happen, they didn't need to be in a duel with some other giant who made their money selling handles. They just needed to decide that they'd make more money selling more blades than they would make selling more-expensive handles.
It's worth distinguishing ITER from fusion research as a whole. While it's an interesting project, I doubt it's going to be first to market for actual power generation. Its design is fighting some pretty nasty scaling laws that newer research is bypassing.

I wouldn't advocate shutting down fission plants with the expectation that they'd be replaced by fusion in the immediate future, obviously, but some of the non-ITER work might end up viable sooner than a lot of people expect.
SketchDeck (YC W14) is hiring engineers to launch a new product
Really sorry to hear about your mom. I wish her the best.

I'd been meaning to write a more substantial reply to your last comment, but I've been underwater at work and haven't had the time; maybe this weekend. But I do think we have a lot of common ground, and you certainly won't hear me defending our current healthcare system or many of our current politicians.
> According to some defenders of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board's decision to put founder Richard M. Stallman (RMS) back on its board, the people demanding that RMS be removed are an ambush mob of open-source and corporate outsiders and social justice warriors. Those arguments don't stand up well in the cold light of facts such as three FSF management team members resigning and that the GCC Steering Committee has removed RMS from its membership.

This, as well as the rest of this piece, reads like an explicit condemnation of the consensus here in previews threads on the topic.
Honestly curious, can you name any one of the 80,000 Protestant denominations that believe sex is only for procreation?

Am more familiar with the Catholic view: https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/...
yes, but you can't just recreate a print at high quality unless there happens to be a digital image of it floating around.

Here's Beeple's $69 million artwork in full resolution (warning: 300 megs!):

https://ipfsgateway.makersplace.com/ipfs/QmXkxpwAHCtDXbbZHUw...

The metadata for the IPFS:
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPAg1mjxcEQPPtqsLoEcauVedaeMH81WXDPvPx...

Because a token is public we can all see the contents. Now, you could theoretically just put the hash in there without the content existing on the IPFS (or elsewhere), and then give the owner the content after the sale via a separate channel. But now you've got the problem of how to verify what you're buying is the real deal. Furthermore, it complicates resale (not that IPFS will save you there, IIRC if you're the one storing content on IPFS and the only one, then it's possible you just stop hosting it and the data vanishes).
Oh absolutely, just an experiment, I am really curious about doing things like video editing etc on the client side.

I did use this to delete a lot of old tweets though.
$900M/year is <1% of Alphabet's yearly revenue. I know you mentioned profits, but the OP mentioned revenue so I want to keep the same units because they're very different things. It could very well be that if it was $20M/year in profits, then those projects would not be considered failures.

If something happened to their core business, it's unlikely that those tiny projects (<1% of revenues combined) would save them. The more likely thing is that many of those small projects fail over time and it becomes death by a thousand cuts.

What you said is mostly correct and is exactly what they are doing. The only problem is that at the scale of a trillion dollar company, they need 10, 20, even 30 business lines generating $XB - $XXB of revenue each.
The Information War and Vaccine Passports
> const -> immutable

const -> read_only_view
is better
Having grown up in a small house and spent quite a lot of time in a friends house which is a lot bigger (I'm still young, so this was very much post video games for example), I think the mental separation of having multiple rooms in a house (rather than everything being done in my bedroom) is probably worth another 5 or 10 percent on exams for me at least. The idea of having a "games room" for example is utterly unthinkable to me still, for example.
My kettle's thermostat only releases the power switch, but doesn't actually cut the power, so if something is blocking the switch from going to the "off"(up) position - like a large plate or something similar - it boils off all the water and then starts burning itself.

Happen once and I only noticed because the light was on and I couldn't hear the water boiling because it wasn't there anymore.
https://supabase.io/docs is a good example of adding a nice security later (and more) on top of postgres
How would this work for a hierarchical structure like a B-tree?

Also: If, say, 30% of your system is pointers and you have them "spread all over the place", wouldn't moving are your pointers to a central location result in pointers "spread all over" two different places.

"Cache oblivious" systems organize B-trees and related so related objects are close together in memory. It seems like a system with bits of things relating to each other scattered about would have to just use some ad-hoc similarity measure to minimize cache hits.
I see quite a few posts discussing running Postgres in a separate VPC or network.
We currently run our Postgres databases within Kubernetes and leverage network policies to ensure that only application pods can access the database.

The application pods ingest the db credentials from Vault. The biggest concern we have today is automating credential rotation.

Curious if anyone else has a similar setup or thoughts on ours?
Omg! This is an exciting idea. I want to build a small react version of this. Tree based tasks list are a thing I've always wanted to build.
Do you have any idea how insanely hard it is to create 30 separate $30M businesses from scratch?

Even with the weight of the Google brand, creating new businesses is HARD.

It'd be roughly 1,000X easier to squeeze an extra $900M in revenue out of search than it would be to incubate 30 new mid-size companies.

Instead of going on an insane boondoggle where your brand image is trashed by creating literally thousands of failed companies (the only way you're going to end up with 30 successful ones over the $30M hurdle rate)...why wouldn't Google just buy those 30 companies? They have enough cash on hand to buy 99.9% of Silicon Valley startups outright.

And even then, would the 30 companies they buy grow faster than their core business...or even the S&P 500 at 9% a year? Because otherwise they might as well just dump that money in existing products or return it to shareholders.

If Google buys a bunch of businesses that grow slower, then their valuation and stock price drops dramatically. If investors wanted to own a random sampling of 100 mid-size companies, they'd buy the appropriate index fund! They buy Google because they want a concentrated bet, not an index fund.

This is nowhere near as easy or simple as you think it is.

For all of Google's PR efforts around moonshots and only hiring "the best talent," a vast majority of their revenue still comes from only one product they incubated on their own, the google search engine. The next biggest bucket comes from external acquisitions (DoubleClick, YouTube, Android).

I think the fact that Google hasn't incubated any big success in the last decade is a good thing! It leaves more room for others to take their place. Why would we want one company to dominate everything forever?
> How would you feel if the government regulated how much sugar or salt you can eat, how many hours of video games you can play, or maybe even forced you to exercise (400 hours / year)?

That's actually an interesting idea... Not saying I'd recommend it, but I'd be interested in how this affects a population at a large scale.

Requiring physical activity might lead to population demand for parks, more social interaction, less isolationism, less conflict. And I've had times where a hard limit on video games would've been nice. Incentivizing a society to not fall to their vices doesn't sound too bad.
I am by no means a tmux expert but I think I discovered copy paste-yank paste by accident because I use vi keys. Also, tmux on Mac feels weird compared to Linux terminal
Yeah, I really don't get SPACs. From a company's perspective it just seems like a faster way to go public with less regulation. SPACs seem decent for the initial investors. But I don't see how investing in a public SPAC is better than investing in an IPO. There's a lot less disclosure, and you don't really get any special benefits.
Aside from launch costs, isn’t heat management one of the hardest parts about schemes like that? I’m obviously not an aerospace engineer, but I thought the vacuum breaks most heat dissipation schemes
> Second, utility is limited because we already have a huge fusion reactor in the sky beaming energy to us which we simply need to build receivers for.

Said fusion reactor's transmissions are blocked by the earth's bulk for half the day on average, including peak demand hours. The rest of the time it can be partially absorbed by cloud cover, greatly increasing the necessity of spare capacity over extremely wide areas.

Space-based solar doesn't have these issues. It has unfiltered sunlight 24 hours per day.
How close are we to this limit?
Peter Mansfield also comes to mind (MRI).
Haha! I have this one too. I’ve always wondered, wouldn’t red represent the fact it’s being heated better? Anyway, I have to admit it looks cool unfortunately
Compared to saving for it and buying it outright? I think we all know why we should do in this situation.
They don't prosecute for a random one off. It's always people that have done it multiple times, so they establish a pattern.
Looks and works fantastically. Great job!
Are you familiar with the Innovator's Dilemma? Because it sounds like you're describing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

And yes, splitting is part of a solution. I think discipline is another part.
My suspicion here is simple; they couldn't find a proper candidate who can demonstrates technological and operational leadership from both insiders and outsiders. You can simply promote either of them (usually COO suits better though), but that risks departure of another candidate, so this compromise has to be made. Anyway, this might be okay for Waymo for a short term; unlike other companies, even if those two CEO don't agree on a specific matter, there's an escalation path to Sundar (and ultimately Larry and Sergey).
Temporary suspension of the entry of certain H-1Bs expired
There is literature comparing many long covid cases with chronic fatigue syndrome. The medical establishment doesn't go out and say it outright, but I think the implication is that some of these symptoms may be anxiety driven.
> They periodically reimport it.

Right, so why would the US - with much more porous borders - somehow do better?
> I'm a Luddite and a luddite. There's a distinction that folks fail to make: in my jargon, a Luddite opposes the automation of labor without a plan to support the displaced laborers (as the followers of Ludd)

Being aware of the effects of automation seems wise. My problem with Ludditism as a philosophy is that it seems to focus anger on the businesses that created the jobs in the first place rather than focusing energy on the government (ie, the people) making more jobs.

Why does offering someone something become a promise to keep doing so?
Malaria used to be common throughout the US.

"Although malaria was eradicated from the United States in the early 1950s, it had once been a prevalent disease, especially prior to the 1880s. Through-out the nineteenth century, malaria affected most populated regions in the United States, significantly undermining the health of the population and the U.S. economy. Above all, malaria was one of the country’s leading causes of death. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 45.7 out of every 1,000 deaths resulted from malarial fevers in 1850."

-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600412/

It was (and is) controlled by draining swamps and getting rid of standing water, the use of insecticides and window screens. If malaria can be controlled today in Florida, I think most of the rest of the country doesn't need to worry about mosquito death pills for quite a while.
I hope you consider global prioritization of leaf nodes, either entered individually or calculated from weights of ancestor nodes.

One big deficiency of most todo apps is lack of support for making routes through the leaf nodes. I see that you can already do this with Grit via pointers and numeric task prefixes for sorting. But that brings us back to the bad old BASIC style line numbering problems.
Where do you buy this? I've been searching periodically for months and it always seems unavailable.
I agree, but think that statement does a disservice to programming by treating it as a monolithic domain. It’s telling a mechanical engineer “mechanical things will never deprecate”. That’s true, but doesn’t help the ME whose career may have been built in, say, a fossil fuel power plant.
Sure, but you could be lying or they could be lying.
Trump's ban on H-1B visas ends, no renewal of measure
This is completely illegal in the USofA. A person by law is not required to share their medical history to anyone.
Yeah, I suspect it could've been a variant (I was traveling in Costa Rica just prior) and I had a lessened episode.

Exactly the same about the lack of congestion. That's something I've never had in my life, cold symptoms without congestion. That's the reason why I think it was covid. Plus a little fatigue and muscle soreness.

Overall it was light, medium at most. But def something.
I agree, but it's the law that should refrain itself from referencing closed standards, not the standard that should open itself because the law references it.
I believe there is still a finite limit on any intelligent system, regardless of whether it is completely biological, or cybernetic.
I hear you, in that since the smart-phone there has not been a new consumer platform shift, with all the value creation for new B2C companies that a platform shift implies.

That said other parts of the ecosystem are having incredible bursts of innovation and new products: B2B SaaS, Cloud providers, Space (e.g. Starlink), Bio-Tech (e.g. Moderna and mRNA technology), Semi-conductors/Chip companies (TSMC + Nvidia + many many others).

If you're wondering why VCs are eager to back new companies with small revenue but fast growth - it's because interest rates are very low, and the returns to winning are very high.
As John Scalzi has warned, “the failure mode of clever is asshole.”
The requestor should not bear the burden for scanning in the documents. The state needs a digital copy no matter what. They should bear the cost of obtaining that. The requester should bear the burden of making a copy of the digital document. 29000 pages--even at 2MB/page--would require < 64GB of storage. So, about 15USD for a thumb drive.

Or put the document on the website where it belongs, and eat the cost of storage and data transfer just like you do with all your other state-run websites.
AI, Genomics, and the Future of IVF
How long for VOC purge post build, pre occupancy?
I totally get that. I did exactly the same. Cost £8 at the time if I remember as well which is a hell of a lot of money for an LED. It was just so different to the yellow, red and green ones. I was buying a bit of the future.

But roll on to today and the things are mostly a nuisance
In my life. I’ve got one shining at me off my monitor now. If I scoot myself up in my chair a bit it doesn’t annoy me as much. I may stick some tape over it.

Still, RIP Mr Akasaki. Your contribution to the world is a net good one. Without it we probably wouldn’t have white leds :)
Yeah good point, exactly. Now that the facts are so obvious, they are forced to say... "Well China isn't following through! And we can adapt anyway!!" which is obviously naive.
I don't think I do. To me it looks like some last-minute greed. He would have been smarter to keep his transactions further from the scoop.

But as I said, the nearness in time only implies coordination. I can't prove it. A trial might, or might not. I doubt that all the communications between the reporter and Peltz's burner phones were recorded.

The expiration date on the options would be interesting to know. If they were very short-term options (lower time decay) only slightly out of the money (higher time decay), that would be even stronger evidence.

The sales within a minute of publication are also strong evidence that Peltz knew what was coming when. You don't want the off chance of a sudden stock market crash to get in the way our your insider trading...
Dang covid has killed a lot of brilliant humans. So many obituaries here are from covid
Here, have my upvote. For karma points, please keep doing this. Great summary.
You could encode the item's location in the tree into the handle itself, though this assumes that the tree will never be rebalanced while that handle remains active.

This is basically (from what I understand) how hierarchal triangular meshes (HTM) works. The "coordinate" is a number describing the location of a coordinate's triangle within a larger triangle within a larger triangle within a larger triangle and so on until you get to an octahedron.
Nevertheless, there is an Islamic Banking industry that offers products which seem economically equivilent to a mortgage with interest, while being theologically different enough to attract some market participants.
In the case that I am completely familiar with the business was returning $20M/year in net profit margin on roughly $180M/year in revenue. Google threw it away.

Their reasoning was that the resource usage to net profit numbers wasn't "good enough." The comparison was always search advertising.
As usual, the Irish are left out in the cold.

(disclaimer: I'm of Irish descent. It's a joke.)
> 10G over copper requires Cat6, most homes have Cat5e if they're lucky.

10G over copper works fine at medium distances (up to about 45m / 150ft) on Cat5e. You would need Cat6a if you needed to guarantee 10G performance at 100m, but for the average home it's not a big deal to use Cat5e.
I was talking about bars/restaurants. I think it's banned at shops after 6 pm completely.

Also, from what I remember, there is a weekly quota at the store at McMurdo station in Antarctica, but I think that probably has more to do with limited supply than rampant alcoholism (there is also a quota for soda and LaCroix...).
I too want to buy (another!) And it looks like all supplies worldwide are dried up.

The rockpi 5 port variant may still be available.

I bought mine in 2020 from allnet, direct to Australia from China, worked fine.
Deflection after deflection. If you really have no defense of the guy, don't step in to defend him.
The Distributed Operating System Void with Kubernetes
Is it? I trust Google more than postal workers / people who live near me.