skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the author forgot about the part where they developed rockets that are actually 10 years ahead of anyone else's.
"Now it's obvious that the car is in the remaining door."

No. It could be behind the one you chose, surely.

I understand the explanations, or at least some of them; but I still don't get it. I thought I was intelligent and numerate, and this is making me sad.

I don't see why, after Monty reveals a goat and invites you to switch, you can't re-assess the probabilities from scratch. There are two closed doors, car behind one, goat behind the other, and you have no evidence which is which; therefore 50:50.
And radar is an acronym too and it's not commonly capitalized although SCSI is. And, often, Fortran, not FORTRAN. I'm not making a case for how things should be. I'm just observing how they commonly are in style guides, etc.

I think part of it is a general stylistic distaste for having "unnecessary" caps. See also general shift away from "Open Source," "Big Data," and the like.
> Why do you think that?

Because it is a truism. If they lived as long without cancer as everyone else, they per definition are not more susceptible. It's simply a restating of what being more susceptible implies.

> If your “hypothesis” were correct, the rate of death would decline after the early fatalities occurred.

This does not logically follow. This assumes that removing people with a genetic or other predisposition for getting cancer early would reduce the average risk of cancer more than increasing age increases it.

Mortality rates compounds. Reducing your average risk of dying of a given cause by even a tiny proportion on a per-year basis adds up to substantial chances of surviving longer.
Why is this an issue? Most websites support HTTPS. It should be required and impossible to disable. Other malicious actors could also be running such attacks even at a much smaller scale.
I have long suspected that if he knows one thing, elon knows to keep his nose out of spaceX and just throw cash at it.
Forgive my ignorance, but doesn't http://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/notes.html#more-cach... talk about that, with an example?
>clumpy-wumpy-lumpy-timey-wimey

What the heck is this?
> why, in 1967, was it so rare to see a black man ... fronting a major American rock band

The band referred to is The Jimi Hendrix Experience, a two thirds British band, assembled by a British manager, in Britain, where they recorded Are You Experienced and got famous. It would seem to me that they were effectively a "British invasion" band in the US. Hendrix's break in America was the Monterey Pop Festival, which he headlined at the instigation of Paul McCartney, a member of the mother of all British Invasion bands.
It seems like Amazon doesn't have any teeth for some countries. For US sellers, for example, an EIN is a fairly good deterrent as it's cost prohibitive to create a bunch of them for small scale selling. It seems like whatever the equivalent of an EIN is for some countries must be cheap to recycle.
OK, I propose then we replace the tabs with just a single link labeled "Please click here if you'd like a dick joke".

Then have more detailed tabs on a dedicated page.
This was popularized by a YouTube video called "There Are No Forests On Flat Earth Wake Up". For those who feel like going down a flat earth rabbit hole :)
You don't raise funds for such a risky endeavour without a fantastic narrative.

I don't think they're doubting that Musk is also capable of building a company that actually achieves results. Everybody knows this by now. I think the key argument is that he's also a master promoter and that that skill is underappreciated compared to the engineering angle.

The way I read the article, it's suggesting that if you start by to coming up with the best possible VC pitch for a moonshot business, and let everything follow from that, you'd get pretty close to Musk's approach.
Malicious Tor exits should not be an issue. Tor is for anonimity and protects your identity. Enforce HTTPS to protect against MITM.
These comments made me wonder if any smart TVs have something like built-in content-id detection, which then somehow gets shared with the mother ship.

One precedent is Nielsen Audio's Portable People Meter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Audio#Portable_People_...

I assume that if surveillance can be done, someones are doing it.
I saw one mention of Skylab in the half dozen stories i skimmed about CZ-5B. I didn't see anyone mention that there have been other uncontrolled re-entries, before, of equipment made by several nations and companies.

Don't recall seeing any attempt to quantify probabilities in any of the news either. "Most likely" vs "N% chance of this area with X range error bars".
Or they will just assume that all reviews are fake on all sites, and still buy at Amazon because of their Prime membership. I don't know that Amazon has a good reputation.
When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure of Browser Tab Usage
Before covid, my work takes on average about 7-8 hr a day. Now, without the social aspect, I can easily do 5-6 hr a day, but there are days I work 10-12 hr because I was in a flow to solve the problem. From my experience, how much you work is largely depending on:

1. company culture. My friends who work on trading desk as tech person were doing long hours before pandemic, now, they are doing crazy long hours. Managements don't trust their people, lack boundary, etc.. I no longer work for those companies and I'm much healthier because of that.

2. Your skill vs expectation of your job. If you can easily qualify for the job in both hard and soft skills, your hours will be easier. If you are behind on the job in those skills, then you'll have to work harder.

3. And lastly, the skills of your team(s). I work with a lot of teams with junior-mid level developers, so I spend a lot of time trying to get them to understand what we are doing. Whereas seniors, we just get it done, but there are some seniors that are more obstacles than juniors.
I don't think it's a given that there's a single correct fingering, but it seems obvious that an incorrect fingering is one that's impossible to use at your desired tempo.

People have different sized hands, and different hand strengths, so some fingerings may be more damaging to a pianist's hands, and some might be more comfortable but break down at higher speeds, and some might simply be impractical at any speed.
Microfluidics is great. I'd love to see opto-microfluidics work, which is when you coat a display in a thin layer of the same material you use to make photodiodes so that you can switch the power on/off using light from a normal LCD display.

Anyone who can get that to work reliably will open up a whole lot of new form factors for microfluidics.

(Bonus points if you couple that with LCD-driven resin 3D printing, so that you can move/mix resin around and harden it using one device)
So in what way does tau do worse?
Newtons laws are not accurate at the quantum and relativistic scales anymore though.
Young Adults Who've Had Covid-19 Show Signs of Lasting Cardiovascular Damage
This is like saying “we shouldn’t have a police and justice system because despite all the money we spend on it my bike was still nicked.”

There are reportedly ~4.4 million apps on the Apple App Store[0]; if 0.01% of those are scams, that’s still ~440. How many do you expect to find? And how many false reports do you expect Apple to receive from scammers, trying to take down the legitimate apps they compete with?

Yes, there does seem to be something wrong with the rating system they use, based on what is said in that article. Yes, Apple should take down an entire developer account for scanning not just an app.

The counterpoint is, successfully taking them down requires more than just that, because just that is an arms race between the scanners and those hunting the scammers.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/268251/number-of-apps-in...
This is both the shortest and one of the best pieces of business advice I've read recently.
For me, it comes from a few things, none of which are unique to Clojure or necessarily from the language itself. I use reagent, re-frame and shadow-cljs and use the REPL very infrequently in clojurescript:

1. Reagent provides a much simpler and stable abstraction that js react does. Almost all my reagent views today look exactly the same as they did six years ago, while react has went through a number of API shifts. I barely noticed the switch to hooks, for example, the only place where it mattered to me is with interop with native react components and that was rather minimal. My reagent views are typically extremely simple with no logic, except when needed for performance optimisation.

2. I use live reload (figwheel in the past, shadow-cljs now) to auto update my changes. I use reframe-10x to inspect my state.

3. Re-frame gives me the application structure and let’s me write reusable code easily.

Clojure’s immutable data structures make this pleasant and safe (I don’t really need to think about what could be mutating what outside of interop, but the same can be done in js with a re-frame-like framework and a little discipline) and the sequence abstraction is a natural way of dealing with collections of data for me.

These things make clojurescript react development very productive and pleasurable for me. But like I said, none of these things are actually unique to Clojure.

> I can't memorize all thousands of functions to manipulate lists and hashs in clojure

I mean, that’s just part of learning any language or framework and takes time and hands on coding. When I started with Clojure I would regularly just browse the clojuredocs reference pages to remind me what exists. After a while you stop having to look them up. This is no different from learning any function library really, except that if you’re using an OO language with good tooling or static types your autocomplete might be able to better predict what is relevant to you. After years of using Clojure, I rarely need to look functions up, which is similar to how after years of C++ I don’t use autocomplete to find functions (I use it just to save time typing, not to find what the function might be).

I dunno how long you spent with Clojure but it sounds to me that maybe you didn’t spend long enough to get comfortable enough to see any productivity boosts? Clojure isn’t an easy language to learn so it wouldn’t be reasonable to expect to see productivity right away. It’s also not everybodies things, so maybe it just didn’t click with you.
Hopefully whoever is git blaming understands enough about git to hop past any intermediate changes back to the source

I've never done any kernel development, but with commercial code it's pretty common to have to dig backwards including going back to the issue tracker or even searching through company chat (Slack, email, etc) if the shop doesn't do [a good job with] documentation
If you use scaling up as an argument for paying a higher salary, wouldn’t scaling down do the same but in the opposite direction?
I don't know where you learned French or English for that matter but in my pretty mainstream accents English "bit" and French "bite" are not pronounced very similarly. I can't imagine a competent speaker confusing them.
This is something you can experimentally test. First you should know that "red ball or blue ball" is a simplification. Staying with the metaphor, if you open one envelope differently you might get a purple ball and so know the other envelope contains a green ball. What we're actually dealing with are vectors on the complex unit sphere instead of ball colors, and opening the envelope is choosing two perpendicular axes along which to measure the state, causing probabilistic collapse to one or the other axis.

Since you can choose which axes you measure, there are all sorts of tricky experiments you can do (called Bell tests) to test the theory that you're just discovering a pre-existing value vs. causing collapse to those values. The pre-existing value idea is called a local hidden variable, the existence of which has been conclusively experimentally disproven.

I wrote a post on this you might find useful, explaining a Bell test called the CHSH game that computer scientists will find intuitive. All you need is your rememberance of the unit circle from high school path! https://ahelwer.ca/post/2018-12-07-chsh/
I did that for reddit in 2016. Especcially with /r/the_donald. Funny to watch the steep hill for every upvoted thread after 30 mins or so: 5 minutes of massive bot action with 2000-5000 upvotes and than flat again.
The moon is a little more than 0.1 light seconds in diameter. Any wag that took more than a tenth of a second to traverse the moon's surface would be moving slower than the speed of light across it. There's no way the ponderous wag displayed in the video was moving so quick. At best, it was moving half the speed of light across it.

What would really be interesting of the things mentioned in the video linked from the stackoverflow question, would be how a perceiver would see the closing scissors occur.

If you were 12 light years from the handle end of the scissors, and only 2 light years from the tips, if the closing motion took a year to occur, you would see the point move backwards from the tip to the handles, since the light would take longer to reach you to see the handles close than the tips.
although nothing really vanishes anywhere, no? I wonder, if sun or anything else would fully annihilate, would resulting gamma radiation still produce a gravitational pull just because of the energy contained in it?
Build relationships with other engineers so you can ask high-clarity questions and get high-clarity answers.

In general: career success is less about what you know and more about who you can collaborate and communicate well with.
You only one or two to not notice the http instead of https to make it a profitable attack.
Reducing reality to semantic ontologies is a risky sport and a pleasure for the inquisitive ones.

Forget Gödel's wall (incompleteness theorems) and keep digging searching for imperfect answers to build our existencial puzzle. Thank you for the post.
I already have WSL installed, so maybe I will give this a try if I get time.

> Linux, where you can actually write programs entirely in assembly because the system call API is stable

I didn’t know this — is it not stable on Windows?
It doesn't. Conservation of momentum, which is an equivalent of Newton's third law, exists in General Relativity. The results of how a system would evolve under GR and the special case like the one above just happen to look strange on a superficial look. If one makes the effort to calculate all the constituents of momentum in such a system, from GR equations, they d verify their sum is conserved.
Depending on the stability of the interfaces, you introduce a game of cat-and-mouse of sorts where people make test breaking changes but some other entity is constantly trying to keep the tests update. Maybe, less of an issue if you're not making changes that require test refactoring (which probably also comes down to the quality of the test)
So many layers of indirection does not seem like a good user experience.
> But even so, you have to admit that you can't "just" buy another phone to be able to do what Epic wants.

Sure but why would we expect that this should be the case or be desirable?

Epic has restrictions on its own Epic store, for example.
>This is a pretty absurd statement that assumes the conclusion. Under the Tsars multiple massive institutional changes happened multiple time, and often in the 19th century. Literally just a few years before WW1 the Tsars enacted the largest land reform program in world history that would have absolutely exploded land productivity.

You do realize that tsarist Russia was largely an agrarian society that was lagging far behind industrialized nations of the time, yes? I hope you also realize that the whole reason the revolution was possible was due to mass famines and horrific working conditions that radicalized the population into taking action.

Any revolutionary period will necessarily be turbulent. However, it's sheer absurdity to argue against the gains that were rapidly made in USSR and the quality of life improvements that followed within decades. USSR demonstrates that communism was able to achieve nearly a hundred years of progress under capitalism in the western countries in mere decades while also having some of the most progressive working conditions at the time.
Another fun example besides projections like laser pointers or the spot of a searchlight on the clouds is the junction between blades of scissors. Almost all the examples one sees of this relate to synchronization defined entities not being physical objects. In my experience explaining this, the larger scale of the searchlight on the clouds seems to help people "get it".
Also to add to my previous comment, you can run an online Docker image, with a version such as this: https://hub.docker.com/r/cibsoftware/libreoffice-online
What's different about NUMA today vs 2006?
How much do people differ in productivity?
Amazon has a terrible reputation. They make profit despite this, largely because they have no quibble guarantees and free, fast delivery for prime members.
> [I]t was just a twisted protein, capable of performing the microscopic equivalent of a Jedi mind trick, compelling normal proteins on the surface of nerve cells in the brain to contort just like them. The so-called "prions," or "proteinaceous infectious particles," would eventually misfold enough proteins to kill pockets of nerve cells in the brain […]

Disclaimer: Somebody stop me if I'm spreading misinformation, because I am way out of my wheelhouse. Honestly, I would like to be disabused of this suspicion if it's entirely fanciful. So, if someone knows something about what I'm about to discuss, please weigh in. The subject is genetically modified organisms.

My understanding is that at least some (if not all) GMO's are produced by bombarding an organism's genetic material with radiation and then separating out modified organisms that seem to be useful. This process, however, does result in misfolded proteins. Often, scientists judge that these misfolded proteins are of no harm, and so some GMO's (if not all) make it to market with misfolded proteins. That's my understanding.

I'm wondering two things. First, is my above account (over-simplified in any case) basically right or way off base? Second, if it's basically right, aren't we playing a very dangerous game with things we don't understand well enough?
What is Google charging Facebook 30% for? In-app transactions?
Heteronormative too.
I’m not clear on the mechanism by which the prion encourages other proteins to fold the same way. Is the protein interacting with the other protein directly like an Ice IX situation? Is it an interaction between the body and the prion, like the prion causing the body to create an enzyme which interacts which then folds the next protein? Something else?
Doesn't this run into the same issue described by the author?

> Because unsigned char in C expressions gets type promoted to the signed type int.

> So if we say 0x80<<24 it overwrites the sign bit, which is an undefined behavior

Does the u8 type protect against this?
I’m a software engineer with a lot of demonstrable skills and good credentials.

Like I said in another comment the money is stupid high in this industry and country.

I take it of course. And I had unlimited PTO 3 times in 3 different places at this point.

It depend greatly of the implementation. But overall I feel that the only real time off I get is between jobs. Where I usually take one full month. ( if the next job refuse; I take it as a red flag )

It’s not the same, unlimited PTO have to be placed carefully and you have to be mindful about optics.

PTO that you earned and are enumerated on your pay stub are more enforceable.

I would rather have 4 week of normal PTO that a unlimited vacation policies that I’m not sure will be well inplemented.

Large companies tends to do it correctly. In that context I was usually taking 5 weeks. But with some stress and guilt and kinda check my work inbox.

Not the same. But then …you guys have those massive paychecks… I will take them while I can.
No one's trying to ban all potentially offensive homophones though, where did you even get that? I don't see any sort of proposal for what that would look like or how it would work.

This is the case of one project changing its name because the reality of using that name causes frustration and embarrassment FOR THEM. It's not even about politics or pressure external to the project. They are just annoyed and want to change it and its theirs so they can. What exactly is your beef here lol.
>there are no incentives for anybody to host a node.

Sounds like you kids need an anonymous decentralized cryptocurrency powering your tor nodes with rewards for doing so. But everyone here hates crypto so I’ll just be over here sipping my Monero tea.
This probably isn't the right place for this question. But the right kind of people will be reading this thread so I will ask it.

In college physics my teacher insisted that, despite gravity being popularly referred to as a force, it is not a force. Weight is indeed a force, but gravity is more like a field. I understood it like this: Say you have a point mass in an isolated system. There is certainly gravity all around that mass, but there are no forces anywhere in the system. Not until another mass is introduced into the system do you have any forces. It is apparent from the formula for force since then you have that new mass times the acceleration of gravity.

Or is this just being pedantic and does it even matter?
Wasn't that a synopsis of Ben Bernanke's entire output over his whole career? Personally I don't completely agree, especially as Bernanke used that theory to justify some of his own questionable actions...
I wasn't aware - thanks for sharing; I've come to like the more modern looking WMs though and will probably continue to use GNOME3 with Dash to Panel now :)
That is what I inferred, but it seems a bit ungentlemanly to jump to that conclusion after merely picking “GNU” and “gnuplot” up in a sentence and nothing more, which is what most likely happened.
The Future of the Creator Economy in Africa
Machines that matter to who? Maintainers of packages for OSes that support s390x (RHEL/Fedora, SUSE, Debian), Arduino AVR users, AIX users, embedded systems people with, say, Coldfire or some DSP? I don't know to what extent portable code is relevant to embedded systems, but I guess they care about cryptography libraries, for instance. (I know it's bi- in principle, but SPARC is still even in the Top500.)
I'm not really familiar with Stallman, beyond knowing he wrote some software and has opinions on software freedoms.

What is implied in "trips to indonesia" and why would this be interesting news?
Well you’d have to look up your kWh rate from your electric bill then look up the total storage capacity of the battery, then you’d multiply and get the number.

Making numbers up here but if your battery is 100 kWh and your rate is .05 per kWh then you’d pay 100 x $.05 to charge your car which is $5.00 in this case.