skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pre-judge you

If it’s based off accurate genetic data, is it still prejudgment? We already accept that car insurance is higher for young males without getting mad about it.

Using all available data to make a proper risk assessment seems like a reasonable thing to do.
> If I don’t want to be accountable for the quality or correctness of their opinions, I shouldn’t put out the chairs and invite people to sit down and hold forth.

What metric are you using to objectively decide the "correctness" of an opinion? Can you propose a system that would work? I'm sure many publications are looking for one..
And wikibooks. I think they're are actually multiple websites, so if I had to decide, it would be web.archive.org.
Yes, this would mean nearly all internet sites, but without CGI backends.
You don't think that 600 Ukrainian and western sources only tell one side of the story though? I went down the list. All the Russian sources are actually Ukrainian (in Russian language). Just because you disagree with a perspective doesn't mean it should be censored.

Look at the "reactions in Russia" section. There is not a single positive sentiment expressed there about the situation in Crimea. I guarantee you that this is not representative of the the public opinion in Russia (whether or not you agree with it). All citations are from opposition people nobody has ever heard of. Not a single one from the official media? That's neutral? Really?

If all the people in Crimea are victims and are controlled by evil bad Russia, how come Ukraine turned off their water supply? The one they didn't build. Don't they want those poor oppressed souls to come back into the fold? Where's that reference in the article?

And in the interest of keeping an open mind: here come the downvotes! The people clicking that arrow probably think of themselves as very open minded too.
Basically instead of the government being the middle man, businesses become (by law) responsible for at least some of redistribution of wealth within the economy.

The premise, fundamentally, is that wealth (re)distribution is likely required to "level the playing field".
It’s right here:

https://simplymagicaltravlers.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/im...
Side-stepping how humans don't need milk after nursing, do you have any concerns with phytoestrogens? The closest thing to a consensus I've found with soy is small to medium amounts are probably fine, but there have been cases of funny things happening with large amounts.
SMT-Lib
Making a UniFi and Cisco Network
How Much Did a Tunic Cost in the Roman Empire?
QI is a gem of a television show. American has no such caliber of broadcast media.
> I don’t disagree with your post, but what is the solution here?

If you provide hardware for developers who build software with a direct user interface, don't get them the best. Getting them the best for build machines, so they don't have to wait around for builds makes sense, but make sure the machines they run interactive tests and personal usage on are not the best.

When your developers have 16gb or more ram with 8 cores and a fast SSD and your users have 4 gb, a dual core 15w cpu, and a spinning disk, it can be hard to understand the sometimes huge difference in experience. And sometimes, it's actually not that much work to make things better for users with low end devices. The difference between high end phones and low end phones can be even more stark.
There’s also the latency issue: https://danluu.com/input-lag/

My normal desktop has a 240hz monitor and going between that and 60hz is an immediately noticeable downgrade in performance. Why did we accept 60hz as good enough for so long? Even CRTs commonly ran at faster refresh rates. IIRC 1600x1200@90 was what I ran back in the Pentium 3 days on a 21” Sony CRT. We still don’t have useable 4:4:4 4k@120hz on something like a 32-42” screen available.

Anyway, I agree that web tech is easy to develop (not that I thought Visual Basic was terribly difficult comparatively) but there are too many layers of abstraction these days. Can we not make sufficiently advanced compilers to make these really efficient? If not, do we need to go back to tinge drawing board with libuv and event loops? Maybe interrupts and manual memory management really were better. Java for GUI apps certainly hasn’t done much to show that it’s a better solution.

It’s funny but sad how these days, apt upgrade runs so fast, and compiling kernel modules happens extremely quickly, but it takes 10x as long as it did 20 years ago to schedule a calendar appointment with someone because GCal in a browser is so slow. Slack compared to curses-based IRC clients…woof.
Isn't it funny that itch.io even has a sexualized/porn game on iOS?

> https://fymm-game.itch.io/dead-dating-demo
> https://apps.apple.com/app/dead-dating-pd/id1554938911

well blaming others about their qa, while it's so easy to put a porn game into iOS.
just search for iOS porn and there is so many stuff, which would clearly cross her argument line.
There're no gravitons in the standard model and every attempt to introduce them has failed. That's the problem. Our current theoretical framework describes all fundamental forces but gravity.
“developer experience” products are really two categories
I agree. I used to do a lot of shopping on amazon. I cancelled prime and don't look there at all now. It seems for a long time they knowingly helped sellers defraud consumers with fake reviews, allowed pay/free product for reviews, hid the reviews pointing it out, and basically all around helped these companies lie to amazon customers.

now they're responding but its been years and years of this.
Because I'm not trying to run my dating app on the Epic platform. And if gamer dating was my thing, I'd have twenty or so different market places to target.

Apple is the only game in town, and they bully everyone. Their rise to this position and stranglehold over all commerce was an illegal move that will be corrected by the DOJ.

Imagine if AOL controlled the Internet and all websites had to pay 30% to AOL. That's the world we live in with Apple.
12”/14”/16” ~> 30/35/41 cm. Also note that area is proportional to the square of the diameter.
How much do you take a day an

In dosage?
As I finished writing that comment (and I truly tried to be constructive as the author is young and inexperienced) I remembered another traumatic event of that era.

Every order we received was like precious molecules of much needed oxygen. We got this order from one of our resellers (we had about fifty all over the world at the time) for about half a million dollars in product. This needs to be in the right context: I had just taken out nearly all of the equity in my home to keep the business going and took out a bunch of cash on all of my credit cards, personal and business. I had already been to the hospital once due to stress and dehydration (I managed to do that twice in a year). A half million dollar order felt like a billion dollars.

We had product. We shipped it and awaited payment in thirty days. That's the other reality, it just takes time to convert components to money.

Almost precisely thirty days into this cycle FedEx freight shows-up with a shipment. Our reseller returned 100% of the order we shipped a month earlier. All of it.

I called the owner of the company and unloaded on him. At the end of the call I ended-up having to thank him.

You see, they were going down in flames, just as most of us were. He was at the point where the banks forced him into bankruptcy. He knew that within days people were going to descend on him to take inventory (and possession) of everything under their roof.

He sent us our hardware back because he actually care for us and did not want the bank to grab hardware he had not paid for. Like I said, I had to say "thanks" and wish him luck.

I can't remember if we ever got another order of that size between that point in time and when we closed our doors.
You're a bit off on the number (maybe you were thinking net assets?).

For those curious of the breakdown https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Statistical_analysis_of_Wiki...
That's basically it. Naked Greed and convincing yourself that monetizing a thing you think you invented but which invariably turns out to be people's attention is always good in and of itself. I've been in or inside lots of wonderful things created as the Internet has evolved, and almost all end up this way.
These were my thoughts, too. Most RAM these days goes into caching apps and files that might be needed. Inverse swapping of sorts.

Is it possible that the problem is worse on Windows because of the DLL zoo, with each app shipping its own, whereas the Mac makes heavier use of shared Frameworks?
This is what happens when the entire world relies on a few countries for manufacturing of computer chips. All manufactured goods should be produced and consumed in the same country. In theory, if the manufacturing is efficiently distributed the supply chain should be immune to the effects of a pandemic or even country specific issues.

I am still baffled that an electronic device produced in some province of China and shipped thousands of miles away (and incurring tariffs) is cheaper than keeping the manufacturing in the same country and shipping at a much shorter distance and not incur any import fees/taxes.
I don't use opnsense but a quick google revealed the following, is this not functionally the same?

https://www.cjross.net/dns-security-and-adblock-with-opnsens...
Oh I've seen this many times in different forms. Especially with regexes.

You know what this is a great example of? A case where hacking makes a mess, and thinking before coding solves the problem.

The madness comes from using the wrong tool for the problem. Yes, you can hack a regex to parse XHTML this might be "good enough", but it is more robust, cleaner and easier to explain if you use a lexical tokenizer and a grammar.

The lure is an illusion that comes from an initial effort assessment. Where the effort to hack a quick-and-dirty regex (call this Ehack) vs a "oh, man, you mean I gotta think about the problem" (call this Ethink) appears as "Equick <<< Ethink." However, it soon evolves to the scenario where "Equick >>> Ethink," driven by the thought process, "I'm almost there, this regex just needs one more tweak." Aka, the gambler's fallacy: it comes into play and the sunk costs are ignored.

TL;DR - Use the right tool for the problem, even if it means a slightly larger up-front effort investment.
It's impossible to take this seriously when it's using profiles of random famous people as if that means anything. If that wasn't done by actually interviewing them, then however it was done, the methodology diverges and is already invalid but even worse, it was just third-person subjective nonsense.

Edit: Why would Reimersholme's comment be buried? Neuroticism is what it's usually called in Big Five. [1][2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
I've been experimenting with throwaway ec2 dev boxes. My environment setups are scripted for setting up a new instance but I usually stop and restart the same one.

The instance shuts itself off using a cloudwatch alarm after 5 minutes of idle time. My IDE is vscode using remote connections, and a ssh client. Startup time is less than 20 seconds and I scripted that too.

Cost: about $0.15 for a few hours of work. Less vscode, it will work from any hardware built withing the last 10-15 years that has a ssh client.

Edit: that has a ssh client (not just a Linux terminal)
> If someone invents a device that lets any random teenager easily and cheaply release an aerosolized neurotoxin into a city center and kill thousands of people, it's hard to steelman the "it's the people, not the technology" argument in that case.

Let me try, though, because I think it's important.

Technology doesn't grow on trees. There are about two ways such a deadly device could be made available to a random teenager:

1. Accidental convergence of unrelated technologies. Somehow, it becomes cheap and easy to acquire a potent neurotoxin (an exotic animal or plant, perhaps?), tools to isolate, clarify and refine it (some toolkit from a chemistry lab?), a refillable spray can, a compressor, protective gear. A random teenager could then, technically, use all these to perform a chemical attack on a budget - if they knew how, and had a will to.

2. Turn-key solution. Somehow designs and makes widely available a device for cheaply release aerosolized neurotoxins.

In the first case, it's hard to blame any individual piece of technology involved. It boils down to the person willing to weaponize them, or one teaching others how to do it. Worth noting is that all the technologies mentioned (except maybe the neurotoxin itself) are already widely and cheaply available, and necessary know-how is part of high school chemistry curriculum - and I don't think anybody sees any real risk in this.

In the second case, the turn-key solution was explicitly designed with malicious intent - designed by someone who knew the end goal. Most likely commissioned by someone else, who also knew the end goal. Also made available to random teenagers by someone who knew what it is. That's at least three people with ill intent, without whom the technology would not exist (or it wouldn't be a threat). It seems to me that in this case, it's also the humans should be the center of focus.

With respect to real, instead of hypothetical, discussions about technological neutrality, I feel the constant focus on technologies and technologists in general is one big flock of red herrings - it exists to deflect the focus from the real problem, the people who commission and use these technologies with malicious intent.
There is a theory floating about that some ransomware attacks were done purely to damage a country's infra and making money was a bonus, but not the main aim. So the perpetrators used ransomware as a front and the real goal is to destroy and disrupt a country's computer infra.

But then we could argue ransomware is just going to bolster and make our systems antifragile and resilient against such attacks in the future, so the ransomware attacks could backfire since in the future it would be much harder to attack the US for example with other types of malware.

It also means people are going to be storing mission critical and crown-jewels type data in airgapped systems and making filesystems read-only. The data would also be encrypted and compartmented into separate containers so attacks can't affect the whole filesystem if the airgap was breached.

Thank you ransomware authors for forcing people to have better security!
Is there data on that?

Perceptions of intelligence are variable to practice and preparation if the measure is nonrandomized convergent standardized tests, which is not IQ but is the more accepted assessment of intelligence. IQ only seems to matter up to 135 after which other factors become more dominant in determining success.
I re-call the Russians did a full featured malware for macOS called Proton. You may find videos of that in Youtube.

Of course, Macros works in macOS too if the user has installed Microsoft Office
So there's also the the (naive?) assumption that when you see an important perspective missing and you are a scientist you feel the motivation to address it and perhaps write a book.

>> ...or decide wronh the risk is significant.

This sounds exactly the same as what he is saying, i.e. getting trillion dollar decisions wrong.

>> - Pollution is pollution.

This just isn't true. We have limited resources and need to prioritize them to tackle the issues with the biggest return. This is in the best interest of the people who want change and the people who pay for it, even if they're not the same groups.
This is simply a myth being propagated to detract Musk's early involvement in Tesla. It simply would not be the Tesla we know today without his involvement.

Musk simply led all funding rounds up to series C, was employee number 4, chairman of the board and took an extremely active role in the company before becoming the CEO. He and the first five employees are "co-founders" agreed to in court by Eberhard which is the one of the guys you are talking about.

A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five (Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk and Straubel) to call themselves co-founders.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.#The_beg...
>They've been writing absolute dogpoop for the last decade and have lost any credibility they once had.

That's pretty harsh! I'm sure you don't really mean that every article in every issue is dogpoop for 10 years. What is your real complaint?
I'll comment separately for each question to keep the ideas clear:

Raw materials / human resources are the building blocks of an economy. Without them nothing else can happen. So by requiring company A to charge company B more than they charge company C for these things (because company B has 1 million times more revenue than company C) it prevents collusion between large entities. Large companies are notorious for "picking winners" in an economy just like large powerful governments are.
It's not just a rooted tree, it has crossovers and cycles. Trying to draw boundary boxes is a fools hardy.
It’s not a ‘labor shortage.’ It’s a great reassessment of work in America
I'd like to add that you can't make the Sun vanish. Aside from the moral and legal objections, physics won't let you do anything that would just "turn off the gravity". You'll have to be content with moving it away bit by bit in some continuous flow of mass-energy, again limited by the speed of light.
are you an 18th century economist?
Awesome. I won’t consider any vehicle with a touchscreen for controls. Everybody already has phone navigation, so why duplicate it with a craptastically different UX?

And then half the cars can’t sync your phone without a dozen menu selections.
I keep the SLA printer, my Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K, on a table in an unused room at the back of the house. I keep it out of direct sunlight from the window, as I ruined a print when the sun shone in, which wasn’t a problem until winter ended. Our house is pretty big but even still if I leave the door open my wife will complain about the smell.

I also run a space heater in that room at the 85F setting, which I’ve found helps keep the prints more consistent. The viscosity of the resin is reduced by the higher temperature.

I’ve been having a hard time finding good, affordable resin, i tried Matterhackers resin which was a disaster, I could never dial in the settings. Yousu resin worked really well and it’s $26 per liter with free shipping, but my second order I placed a month ago still hasn’t even shipped. Elegoo is consistently good but I end up paying $13 more per liter with tax which is frustrating.

Both 3D printers are running pretty much 24/7 to crank out Dungeons and Dragons miniatures and terrain for the game I’m running. I quit video games last year and found a new, more tangible obsession. I’m really excited about Apple coming out with really amazing AR glasses in the next few years that will revolutionize tabletop gaming.
is cointegration a mathematical concept?
The premise of this article is ridiculous. Your personality doesn’t cause you to be autistic. The personality traits are almost certainly caused by the “outcomes” the author is assessing, or both are caused by some other hidden variables. Personality tests are just reading the tea leaves of self-reported questionnaires.
Mea culpa. Instead of arguing with the shifting sands of ambiguous and imprecise English, it's better to use equations and evidence.

P(A) = first ticket wins

P(B) = second ticket wins

P(A|B) + P(A|^B) + P(^A|B) = 1 - P(^A|^B) = 1 - (1 - 1/N) * (1 - 1/(N-1)) = 2 / N

It is slightly > 2 / N if the ticket is revealed before the next one is chosen because then it does throw away that possibility.
I run RHEL 7 desktop, because it's what my vendors support (scientific / engineering desktop applications, simulators). I'm about to get a new Thinkpad, and highly considering running Fedora because packages on it weren't written in 2002 (sarcasm) and use it side by side to my RHEL 7 dekstop, even if some of my work applications won't run on it.

Linus is completely correct, though. I think the open source world has gotten way to mixed up with the "free" world. I understand that gcc and some of the HUGE packages are free and open source. They are cost shared by companies and have many people that use them and are maintained well. But other packages with small user bases? His dive example was perfect. Unless someone uses it personally, how can you expect to maintain it unless you pay for it? Or, if the software is paid, how can you expect the company to maintain it for Linux, when their user base is going to be for Mac / Windows?

I think Ubuntu LTS is the most sane approach I've seen. You can get relatively new packages in a pretty stable environment. It's not RHEL stable, and Canonical is starting to care less and less about desktop Linux, but it's not too bad. Ubuntu needs Vanilla gnome option by default, though. Their default look is horrendous. I know I know, it's Linux, you can customize it! Why should I have to waste my time?
According to the same chart, conscientious people also seem to perform significantly better in college than everyone else. In the modern world, better GPAs are usually correlated with higher income.

Interestingly, those people don't seem to do particularly well in the SAT. Perhaps their abilities are "unlocked" to the fullest only after they get into college and get a chance to make independent decisions.
I see this as an extension of the idea that we should not be the sole bearer of the consequences of burdens that are not our fault. Where is the fairness in my having both a shortened lifespan and the financial devastation of a chronic, terminal illness? There is none.

(This was meant as a reply to a sibling comment but the "reply" button is absent).
Sounds healthy to me. I've definitely seen it work. Saying "no" to people who want changes in Service B can be the right thing for the future health of the entire company. E.g.

Service B: We built a distributed storage system. You can append to files, and you can read at a given position from finalized files, and that's it.

Product A: We'd rather have an ACID database.

Service B: lol, fuck off.

Product A: reads some distributed systems papers, improves their design OK, we now realize that these primitive operations are sufficient.
Because there's latency. It wouldn't be distracting if there's no latency at all because it feels natural even if the code is in stale shapes.

I use Wallaby[0] to run JavaScript tests, and it shows the result on the fly just near every line of test code. The latency is very small so it's hard to notice it.

After I was used to this approach the idea of press the test button, and waiting for 1s to compile, another 3s to run tests is simply tormenting. It breaks the flow because I have to repeatedly wait for the computer to catch my thought.

[0]: https://wallabyjs.com/
Sounds like you're talking about coppicing. Some tree varieties will continue to produce young shoots from the stump, and those can be left to grow and harvested.
Piling-on and screaming isn't a rational argument for anything. No listening can occur. None of them had above a high-school education.

Your piling on isn't helpful either, so can it.
No, physical ("intermolecular") forces are electromagnetic, and the force between atoms is transmitted at the speed of light.

Vibration in gears travels at the speed of sound for the material that the gears are made of, but that is not what separates the gears physically from merging at an atomic level.
Arch Is the Best
Standard Ternary Logic (2016)
Many recent studies related to "grit", determination, practice and effort vs "talent" seem to refute this entirely.

They could just be out to sell books though, too; I don't have a strong opinion either way.