skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this the issue Joseph Campbell addressed? The journey a person with a crazy new idea endures? And, how in all different cultures the redeemer, a person solving an issue that their society needs to address, have the same symbolic characteristics. You and your children experience this not in a philosophy or mythology class but at every moment someone mentions a Star Wars or Marvel reference[0]. Disney keeps telling this one story over and over again, a story of a person with a crazy new idea being ostracized and rejected by their society and the journey they have to make to return to their society with a new solution to a problem.

The system, lol, I mean our culture and society, is very resilient to change. If it wasn't, it would be a different system. A part of the resilience, the reason it doesn't crash down into chaos and anarchy is because it rejects and ostracizes people with new ideas. It's by design, how it evolved. However, it also needs to evolve and grow and the people who do that have to endure.

Not all people who are on this 'Hero's Journey' are correct. Disney isn't addressing whether the crazy new idea is good or not, although in their media it is always a good idea, which is what Paul Graham is writing about. Their stories are addressing the journey a person endures if they have any crazy new idea that challenges their culture and society, good or bad. Whereas, Paul Graham is looking to quantify signals that a crazy new idea is good, something he should invest in. To which, I'd add asking if the person with a crazy new idea is honest, not only to other people, but more importantly honest to themselves, integrity. If a person can separate delusion from fact except for that one idea, that's a signal.

[0]https://livingspirit.typepad.com/files/chris-vogler-memo-1.p...
Oh, agreed. Concrete itself is not a completely stable chemical compost. Modern civilization is not creating many structures that have a chance of surviving for centuries.

What I don't agree is on the classification of that as a "fatal flaw". Looks like we are in serious disagreement on the goal of our constructions.
Yeah, of course: https://youtu.be/BxIxvQgdR7Q?t=62
I'm not much for the genius of government to correct things, but you really can make a strong argument for the standardization to a small number of insurance plans with stated rules, third party arbitration, etc.

You would definitely see more of a free market by producing fungible products with (hopefully) a bit less obfuscation. The insurance companies would still do their best to not cover a claim of course, so this is only a partial solution.

One nice side effect is that it's a small nudge in an organically 'designed' system rather than the inevitable chaos by changing the whole machine at once.

If you believe in single payer healthcare, it would be easy to attach redesigns in cash inflow to a set of standardized policies.

I've always admired the size of office staff in a doctor's office, no doubt mostly due to the complexity of the cashflow in the backend. Perhaps simplification of billing would result in less bookkeeping and more caregivers.
I wonder if a CPU could do something like have 9-bit bytes internally that would allow you to quickly jump over a list like that (use the 9th bit to indicate the first of a multi-byte sequence or something). You'd need dedicated hardware to make it as fast as 1000xRecordsize, though.
Oh boy, the possibilities of an automated trading disaster triggered by some algorithm coded without consideration for unsigned wraparound.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150505-the-numbers-that...
FinTech and InsurTech Startups Don't Qualify for QSBS (Top Mistakes VCs Make)
I'm getting downvoted, but why, I don't understand.
Show HN: Flashcards for JavaScript and Data Structure
Eclipse Memory Analyzer is quite good, but something like Java Flight Recorder is much more capable.

On the .NET side of the fence, you can have a look into this nice article although a bit old,

https://mattwarren.org/2018/08/21/Monitoring-and-Observabili...

and "ETW - Monitor Anything, Anytime, Anywhere"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNdpLM4uIpw
Mhh you are right. Apparently it calls try_from internally. It throws away the error but often creating errors also allocates.
Obesity Linked to Reduced Blood Flow to the Brain
The failure modes were already known before the disaster. They were kept secret from the rank-and-file reactor operators and supervisors, as the Soviet regime was loathe to admit they were imperfect in any way.

The monitors and failsafes were there. Maybe could have been better, but they would have worked had they not been disregarded and deliberately overriden.

It was completely preventable. RBMK reactors of the same design are still operating safely today.
Getting a tooth pulled is a much much worse procedure than a simple filling. I'd probably opt for 100 fillings before signing up for getting a tooth pulled.
> Because water slows, or moderates, neutrons and thus enhances their odds of striking and splitting uranium nuclei, heavy rains would sometimes send neutron counts soaring

How do slow neutrons have higher odds of splitting a nuclei? I'd have thought the exact opposite: faster neutrons--therefore, having more energy--would increase the odds.
This reminds me of people who have children very young and by the time they realize in their late 30s how crazy the idea of a 21 year old being the sole example of how a human should behave, the children are now adults. Some things best done with youthful ignorance I suppose.
That's specious reasoning: perhaps the dire predictions didn't come to pass precisely because of the amount of controversy that was generated. The telecoms didn't want to rock the boat; they knew that it was only a matter of another administration change for the policy to get reversed anyway.
SSDs that reach EOL should go into read only mode; not die.
That returning popularity is no accident: when it collapsed, its propaganda machine mutated and adapted to the west. Now it has a new master rising on the ashes of the old empire and it started its work.
Twitter, while poorly run at the moment, is one of the best platforms on the web for spreading information. I hope it never dies
Here is a screenshot in case they fix it:

https://i.imgur.com/8z3s0qA.png
The photographs are incredibly interesting. What colours my excitement about them, however, is the knowledge of how ignorant I am of non-biological processes that may produce similar results. Two examples that come to mind are stalagmites/stalactites and large crystals. Crystals, especially, exhibit behaviour that - were I unfamiliar with the phenomena that produce them - appear biological, such as growing upwards.

In other words, when I excitedly ask myself the question, "What, other than biology, could possibly create those 'puffballs'?" I have to be honest that there is probably a long list of things that I've never heard of.

But still - this is the most interesting thing I've stumbled across in a long time!
Sounds like there is all kind of videos on there. Just like YouTube.
You don’t really need dedicated instructions for them. Programmers can do that today, and many decades in the past too, with software. For example, Java has BigInteger in the standard library for decades now.

The reason they did not is less about memory (it would save memory on average, many numbers in that system need less than 4 bytes) more about CPU time. That system is likely very old, older than wide adoption of 64-bit processors.

The reason we don’t often use variable-length integers now, memory and storage are cheap. For new software people simply use 64 or 128 bit integers.

Still, variable-length integers are widely used when storage or bandwidth matters. They are all over binary network protocols, multimedia containers, and media codecs.
Sure. FB knows your ethnicity. In violation of US federal law, this information is used to show you different apartment ads. This makes it harder for black people to live in integrated communities.

Similar things happen with jobs and ethnicity, jobs and gender, with jobs and age discrimination, etc.
Maybe Apple realized Netflix is too big to bully?
Also fungi that "feed" on ionizing radiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
It would be super awesome if the personalities attracted to this would realize they are many many years too late to attract anyone else to their scheme.

That's my personal opinion but ya'll seem to like that over here on the 'ol HN (aka the new slashdot)
I can't speak to Mighty's potential, but this essay is quite good.

As one anecdote in support of its argument, I have an acquaintance who co-founded a startup about 10 years ago. Much like Dropbox's early skeptics, I didn't understand how this business solved any real problem that couldn't be trivially addressed in a multitude of other ways.

I was puzzled as the business continued to grow and open offices around the world, and I was astounded when they were acquired for many multiples of the minimal VC investment that they eventually accepted.
None of these photos have scale bars! Was this actually peer-reviewed? I don't know this journal - should this be taken seriously?
There is a lot left of the 1980s spirit in Czechia.

* Willingness to do things by hand (such as sewing improvised masks in spring of 2020 at home).

* General distrust towards authorities.

* Caustic, dark sense of humor.

* Readiness to be cynical/heretical about every Sacred Cause pushed by the media or activists. Americans would probably be genuinely shocked at the reception of the BLM movement here.

* Corruption, unfortunately. Or at least high perception of corruption. Reality may not be as bad anymore, but we refuse to believe that things have gotten better.

* And, yes, the latent fear of Russian tanks rolling through the country again.
There are more developers in the world than ever before
A consumer tower (air) cooler can clear 150W on the stock fan and if you stick some 2k-3k rpm push-pull it will probably clear 300W.

Fancier vapor chambers and thicker, higher RPM fans can clear up to thousands in server environments.
Worthless paper, administrative costs is only a piece of the many issues with US "Healthcare". Medicare For All is the better and cheaper way forward. No one ever talks about what is the value all these Health Insurance companies bring? The whole point of their existence when they were created was to control costs. Obviously they have failed miserably. Medicare For All handles lowering or eliminating student loans for Doctors and Nurses. It regulates costs for pharmaceuticals and medical equipment. By having the government be the insure. It relieves business on having to provide insurance and creates a much healthier workforce. It would also create an explosion of entrepreneurship. Now that insurance isn't tied to a job.
France Battles over Whether to Cancel or Celebrate Napoleon
Net neutrality is not not just the fight over peering. It's also:

* Can an ISP have charge for access to Spotify but not YouTube Music (and presumably get a kickback from YT)

* Can an Mobile phone forbid you tethering on you unlimited use plan?

* Can an ISP ban you using bittorrent?
By making it possible for them to compete to the consumer on price versus quality?
Like Japan that has a published book which contains the prices for all procedures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system_in_Japan#Co...
The residency slots are so limited right now because the AMA lobbied hard against expanding them in the 1990s (fearing a "glut" of doctors).

Edit: Every time this comes up I go down a rabbit hole of looking for an article from the mid-to-late 90s where a medical lobbyist spoke about how doctors would be forced to leave the profession and do "mundane" jobs like driving cabs if the residency slots weren't capped. It did not paint the lobby in a good light, and I've love to see it trotted out today. I never have been able to find the article online. If somebody with better search-engine-fu than me can find it I'd be greatful.
Thermal management isn't rocket silence. People don't report their (passive) iPads die from heat, even though in sure some have been subjected to extreme workstation workloads.
It is a rare day that holding BRK.B is preferable to BRK.A. Perhaps today is one of them.

If NASDAQ has this problem, there is a good chance that a number of brokers and back-end systems do too.

Edit: The more I think about this, the more I expect that Berkshire will be forced to split. We'll know within a week or so, I guess.

Berkshire-Hathaway: chaos-monkey-elect of May 2021.
Not sure how close Hebigo gets to that idea: https://github.com/gilch/hissp#hebigo
You don't address the issues that most ads are scams and it is possible to accidentally click ads. I recently asked google for directions to a new (to me) dentist while on vacation in Hawaii. As I started driving to the other side of the island I realized maps not taking me to the right town. Turns out apparently another dentist somehow made a scam ad so if you search for directions to the correct dentist it takes you to the scammer dentist instead. This is just one example of many. Screw ads and those who enable them.
I suspect most people's attitudes towards ads are more nuanced than either "I am fine with ads" vs. "I am not fine with ads." And, frankly, most web users probably just don't understand how ad tracking works, rather than being Laissez-faire.

I understand it pretty well. I pay for a variety of services for the value they provide me and to ensure they remain viable. I use a lot of free, ad-supported tools without an ad-blocker.

I make a small amount of money from ad-supported sites. I make more money from user-supported sites.

I tend to be more concerned with the user experience. I don't mind ads that don't get in the way of my intent for using a tool or site. I have backed out of many sites that show me more ads than content, especially if presented in a way that make them more likely to be clicked accidentally than out of actual interest. They loose me as a user. That's a choice I get to make.

I enjoy physical magazines (or digital versions of physical magazines). I pay for several subscriptions, but I know they are making much more money from advertising. I wouldn't pay more for a version without ads. I like many of the ads. They are well-targeted and visually appealing. But I am free to ignore them and I am free to stop subscribing if the advertising diminishes the value I get from it.

Ad-supported sites are important to the ecosystem. Can they be done better? Yes! Can we make choices as consumers as to whether or not we patronize a site based on their advertising behavior? Yes! Ad blockers may play a role in that. Perhaps both will help push the industry in a more privacy-centric direction.

Privacy is more commonly seen as a feature these days. I have a few services I promote as both free and privacy-focused; no ads, no or minimal analytics, etc. And with enough interest I would hope to eventually charge for them to make them sustainable without ads.
Well I think Einstein himself knew that he was wrong, and trolled everyone. He used the vast sums of money he made from his patent trolling he had secretly approved, and paid off all those experimenters to confirm his wacky theories. He then established a fund to keep it going.

If you pay enough, you can change how mathematical functions operate whenever someone actually uses them. That was Einstein’s actual discovery.

Did you know Einstein was actually one of the richest men who ever lived? But his estate hid it so well that no one mainstream ever will know that!

EDIT: Look up Poe's law I guess, No matter how obvious I tried to make it...
It really is harder in the US. The standards are much higher in the US than anywhere else. The US only accepts doctors who went to Canadian or American medical schools. And then on top of that, it is much harder to get into a medical school here in NA than practically anywhere else, except maybe India. I know that in the UK you can go directly from high school, meanwhile in the US & Canada you need a 515 MCAT, 3.7 GPA, and lab time to even get in to a mid-range school.
Net neutrality was a solution in search of a problem, and massive overreach.
The visitors soundtrack was done by Karel Svoboda, my favorite piece from him is this: https://youtu.be/TexUnMWTk04
I'd urge people to consider their experience writing unit tests. It's not uncommon for me to write a test that my code fails, not because the code was wrong, but because my test was wrong. The same applies to proofs. You can prove that your code does something, but that doesn't prove it does what you wanted. It's easy for us to understand, but I could imagine lay people misinterpreting it.
Hm. Interesting site, but reading the recommended configuration I'm wondering what they mean by m68060@100Mhz? FPGA, one of the maybe few 100s turbocards worldwide, or what? :-)
> So even regular working class people who voted for Trump because they want borders to work the way they do at Disneyland

“Being born inside doesn’t help you get back in, and pretty much everyone of any race, religion, or national origin can get in as long as they either have a job lined up inside or pay enough based on the time they wish to stay”?

I’m pretty sure no one voted for Trump because they want borders to work like they do at Disneyland.
So residences are basically taxi medallions. Interesting.
I see this as a pessimism/optimism spectrum. We are on the extreme left if we can reliably predict successes and on the extreme right if we can reliably predict failures.

As we pick a few datapoints (Dropbox, Coinbase, Airbnb) and we average it out, we are pushed towards the left.

More data we pick (colorlabs for example, and I'm sure many others) we are pushed more towards the right.

Most popular article dealing with VC news, startup promotion, funding news, valuation bragging, acquisition gossip, startup failure reports picks data that push the narrative towards the extremes.

My instinct says we are squarely around the center where we can't predict shit.
Speechly (https://www.speechly.com/) enables you to create new kind of voice user interfaces with real time visual feedback easily for any use case.
Easy to use libraries available for iOS, web, React and Android. Great use cases:
- any app that needs to input (modifiable) items, such as food/health tracking, fast food ordering, etc
- any app that has search filtering (see fashion.speechly.com for a demo)
- or of course anything that benefits from voice, such as innovative games, apps used on the go etc
Check it out!
A helpful link on this subject. Apparently, medical schools in the US are now allowing more graduates. Not sure about profitability of residency programs, but certainly not all hospitals are teaching hospitals and the latter are federally subsidized.

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/us-medical-school-enrollm...
Petition to re-title this, "No, you're a towel"?

We're in this incredibly undesirable place where instead of debating something, we have this meta debate. "Net neutrality is valid because it's opponents astroturf."

It's pretty funny, because I have the same opinion, but in reverse. Net Neutrality disappeared off the radar, and now all of a sudden it's on HN every other week. Looks like astroturfing to me! "No, you're a towel!"

But you know what? Whether or not something is being AstroTurfed is entirely irrelevant, and debate is fruitless. We can have a debate on Net Neutrality without pointing fingers at who has genuine interest, and who is astro turfing.
tell your recruiter friend to go ahead. do it. then let us know how that went.
> And there is only one confirmed death from the nuclear incident.

There's plenty of evidence of increased cancer rates in the affected areas. That's never a statement made in good faith in the context of nuclear disasters, because radiation effects on the environment, including the people, have a very long tail.

You're basically saying nothing, while ostensibly implying there's nearly zero risk of fatalities.
Same as saying that the draft is terrible, but having a gender-specific draft is even worse. We'd rather have no ads, but until that's possible, the least we can do is stop them from worsening social inequities.
WeWork?
They state early in the article that this research details how to tackle those three issues without resorting to Medicare for All.
I have an idea. Remove government management of this industry.
Humans probably could do in a week what all rovers have done over decades.

We are a long ways away from having robots that are advanced and flexible enough to replace people.

Well trained, educed people die every year in the thousands from completely unnecessary activities like wing suit jumping. Many millions if you include things like smoking and drinking.

I don't see anything wrong with a few astronauts willingly risking their lives on new frontiers.

And I'm sure this will happen once we have the capability. I think the primary reason why we haven't sent anyone to Mars is the lack of public interest and funding. We don't even have the rockets to launch any considerable payloads to Mars, without incurring insane cost.

Starship (the new rocket from SpaceX) makes me optimistic that things might actually happen in the next 1-2 decades.
Thanks - that was good.

Also reminded me of an older comment I wrote a while back that’s a little related (at least has some more absurd examples I had forgotten about).

“ Illegitimate (or at least arbitrary) authority is something schools seem to thrive on. Our school had a staircase you could only go up and one you could only go down and you got yelled at if you went the wrong direction. Naturally the building wasn’t made by insane people so the stairs were on opposite ends, this meant if you had to go downstairs but were near the “up only stairs” you had to traverse the entire building and would be late with 3min class change times (and you couldn’t run either).

We also couldn’t talk during the second half of lunch because it was too loud for the lunch monitors.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637787
time machine uses snapshots, which might take your disk space away if you do not know it.
just for anybody wondering why they do not have any disk space left of their 1tb drive, besides only using like 400g
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There's an aversarial Tetris you can play in any Tetris implementation: no rotation. It's surprisingly hard.
See also this Planet Money episode about formerly-free doughnuts. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-...
Let's not bring it back to Earth, though. We've already seen this scenario in fiction many times, and it doesn't end well for us.
Ok, makes sense - if there really is some life form on Mars then it's rather a humble mushroom than a xenomorph.
A rare glimpse of a star before it went supernova defies expectations
Epic Games admits its own developer agreements ban rule-breakers
This jives with the overall point of the article of keep it simple and readable. The semi fancy indexing caused 2 errors and the upside is negligible after the compiler gets done with it.
Companies opposing to NN paid for astroturfing campaign. While proponents based their marketing on fear-mongering ("The internet is dying" - NYT, "Death of the internet" - CNBC). Would be interesting to measure which was more efficient in terms of mobilizing voters, but worth keeping in mind that it's tangential to the discussion about NN's virtues, and deficiencies
There is a difference between thinking something is a bad idea because it's hard and thinking something is a bad idea because it's dangerous. Your Stripe example is an example of something that was hard. Mighty is an example of something that is may not actually be hard but is most likely dangerous.