skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No he's not: https://twitter.com/PRWeekUS/status/1400425177075290119

The linked page is a read only snapshot from when he was suspended, and has always been up.
I get what you mean.

I agree with you, some scientific concepts -at our state of understanding-, may seem universal and generalize everywhere, such as Einstein's work on relativity that the Mars helicopter must be using.

What I wanted to emphasize is that, humans are deeply political and biased animals, and will always use a scientific concept to their own interests, even ever so slightly.
Just look on the horror of the stuff psychiatry has done the past century : accusing women of being frigid if their child was autistic, saying that their genitalia made them prone to psychiatric disorders, the list goes on...

In my opinion, the concept of "addiction" falls into the 2nd category. Humans are just so complex, that we will never isolate the gene of addiction, but nevertheless, this is not a requisite to start saying that junk-food or smartphones can damage your quality of life.
I have known many Dutch people over the years who have gotten a lot of benefits from the state from unemployment to housing. Some of it clearly fraudulently too. Seems to be unsustainable.
Yup, but in this case, they hung up while I kept trying to talk.
Very different from my experience, k8s makes deployment very easy. We use Concourse CI for build and deployment and it's very easy. Using Helm to control DDL changes using liquibase pre-deploy jobs, makes the deployment self contained.
The key terms to search for are "nonstandard calculus" or "nonstandard analysis". I just found the following set of lectures (but I haven't watched any of them); maybe they are what you want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILDkYszP2lA&list=PLDXeoTykA-...
Python 4.0 doesn’t mean anything. Python 3.0 made breaking changes from 2.7. I think any reasonable person can agree that what was done and how it was done was a mistake. Specifically, some people decided that since X was already being broken, there’s no reason not to also break Y and Z. That happened in 2008 and we’re still dealing with it.

My go to example is the string prefix qualifier. Python 2.x defaulted to byte strings. You could use Unicode strings with the u prefix. Byte strings could be specified with the s prefix. Python 3 went all in on Unicode.

Unfortunately these prefixes weren’t legal in 3.0. This was just a nightmare for library writers who wanted to support both. And it was completely unnecessary. This was such an own goal that some later minor version added them back.

So there’s really no meaning to Python 4.0 because minor versions no longer guarantee there are no breaking changes. And that’s not a great lesson to have taken.
Yeah I didn't know! And I just realized this is mentioned in the paper just a little further below where I paused. It seems like it would significantly affect anything shared (like L3 cache)... would Intel and AMD have appetite for adding this kind of thing to x86?
I am american, but to be honest I don't quite know exactly what Q-Anon even is - I just never cared to read up on it I guess

As far as covid stuff I was basically unemployed for the first three months of the pandemic (only having a small workload) so I got super interested in reading white papers etc. you wouldn't believe the amount of absolutely terrible science that got pushed through the peer review process during covid. In another thread I detail a study someone used as evidence to support their opinion on asymptomatic thread.

The study was a model where they chose 75% asymptomatic spread relative to symptomatic spread for their model - the model unsurprisingly found asymp. spread to be roughly the same as symp. spread IIRC - now where did that 75% come from? I came from three studies they cite....2 of those 3 studies they cite do not have anything resembling the number they came up with. In one of the citations it was so bewilderingly wrong I can only conclude they cited the wrong study or they just made the number up entirely.

Back to the topic of PCR - I've seen zero literature to date that suggests a PCR with a CT>40 is beneficial. Further we have many studies that show false positives are absurdly high for many viruses well before CT40

So for someone to claim it's reasonable to use CT40, I believe the burden is on them to prove it since all literature I've seen suggests otherwise.

here's the garbage study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
150k sounds very low when you take into account this tax rate and the property prices in London.
> For thousands of years humans have transacted with physical currency, in which transactions cannot be "reversed" once the payment is made. Even today, many people pay and transact with cash. Second-layer financial institutions provide holds, reversals, and chargebacks but they are by no means necessary for a robust financial system.

That is simply not the case. Even in old ancient civilizations and feudal systems you usually had a way to reverse a transaction by going to court (in the old times literal court of the king, nowadays judge).
This was and is possible because when you pay in cash you know who you pay to, and authorities (king and/or police) can lay hand on them. So even if you pay cash in brick and mortar shop you can get refunds (usually :) ).

One of the reasons why a lot of people are comfortable buying online is easy refunds. And if crypto can't provide that, I don't ever see it catching on in mainstream.

And if you want refunds and you are marketplace like eBay , the easiest way to offer refunds is to keep money in escrow which is what is happening here.(Except that their home brew escrow algos seem to not be that great, but crypto won't change that either. )

Bottom line is, crypto either won't go mainstream or will be co-opted by mainstream and will have all of the same problems/features as current currencies.

And it's not because governments. It's because people want and expect their government to be able to protect them.

And government don't censor things because they don't have nothing better to do. At least in democracy's they start censoring, when enough people cry to them to start censoring. Don't expect that to ever change with or without crypto.
it doesn't generate much in terms of particulate emissions (eg it's not dirty like diesel) but it's quite bad in terms of greenhouse effects. the natural gas pipeline network leaks a relatively large amount of the gas that transits it (it's on the order of several percent per year) and because it's such a distributed problem it's not economical for companies to fix it purely on a cost-savings basis. And natural gas (methane) is an extremely potent greenhouse gas - it is #2, behind only carbon dioxide in overall impact on the atmosphere, and something around 100x as potent as CO2 over a 100 year lifespan.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/06/the-us-natural-gas-industry-...

new studies suggest the leak rate is around 2.3%, which is about twice as high as previously predicted - and at 3% you have offset all the benefits compared to coal generation. Again, obviously that's still better in terms of particulate emissions/acid rain, but you wouldn't be doing any less global warming. So it is still significantly bad in terms of greenhouse effect, not nearly the panacea the fossil-fuel industry would like to present it as.

(and conversely - the fact that it's such a distributed problem makes it difficult/expensive to clean up. you can capture CO2 and particulates from a point source - it's expensive and it sucks but you can do it. But you can't stop 2 million miles of pipes from leaking a little bit at every fitting.)

the only saving grace is that methane does oxidize relatively quickly, on the order of tens of years, whereas CO2 is pretty much there forever. but if we're still pumping out more natural gas into the atmosphere 10 years later, that's not really the fix people think it is. Again, it's 100x more potent over a 100 year lifespan than CO2, the "long term" picture isn't all that rosy either.
…or like India broadcasting the IPL cricket back to England?

Because, either no one can clone and customise, or - god forbid - everyone can.

[Oddly its the latter idea that seems to bother many people, even though its clearly and objectively less prejudicial].
If I could edit I would say "this overlooks the impact that thrift stores have on their communities" or something similar.
> Most comments I read on Hacker News that say that working from home is better measure a single individual’s output or that of a group that has worked together for a period of time.

Well, of course people are going to advocate for what works best for them. The workforce has drastically changed and careers are much more in the hands of individuals now. Upper management/HR layers aren't advocating for employees anymore, career paths through a single company is almost a relic. So it's only natural that individuals are wanting whats best for individuals.
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All of the MS engineers in the U.S. have an effective income tax rate of 40%, not a marginal tax rate of 40%? Assuming Washington State takes about 10% marginal tax... that's about half their income coming in above the 32% federal tax bracket which starts at $163k.

Is a starting salary for an engineer at Microsoft really around $320,000/yr.? If they're really pulling in that, one would hope they'd have some long-term capital gains, which would further pull down their effective income tax rate.
Yet she keeps doing it.

Her actions speak louder than her words: she just doesn't care what they think, so she will keep doing it, scores be damned.

I applaud her continuous determination.
I think this is the key, someone can easily use k8s in the wrong way, so if you don't understand the concepts and try to use it like a VM you will have serious issues.
> Funny how "so powerful a platform" makes this "trivial and easy" only if you babysit it and give it rigid fixed dimensions.

That's how math works, dude. You can't render something at an offset defined by the previous items, without knowing their dimensions. HTML didn't do that. Reality did that.

> But sure, to you it's "so powerful". That betrays your ignorance, and I'm tired of this conversation.

Trolls get tired when their repertoire fails.
They sort of have: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/benefits/pa...

But the companies are presumably eating the cost.
If you like your coworkers that much you could just talk to them all day like at the office. You can then meet up with them for pints after work too.

Im not 20 any more so the idea of going for pints after work isn't appealing to me anymore.
Let's not pretend that the Play Store is malware-free. Or that the Android permissions model is flawless.
I agree, though for the sake of argument Facebooks tolerance for tracking and fingerprinting far exceeds anyone else’s on the internet so their stamp of approval for web vitals is meaningless.
First job would be to expose the entire windows registry as a filesystem
Joke technology sure has improved in 4000 years and with a vastly larger population with more leisure time!
Why? Java has no GIL and runs faster than Python.
>We should stop all taxation and use inflation to pay for everything instead. Much simpler and no one can get out of it.

You just buy assets, like stocks, gold, property, etc.
If you can believe stories on Blind, this is already happening. People reporting Amazon having a hugely difficult time sourcing senior engineers because their bad reputation has finally caught up to them.
Both "it's shitty to intentionally under-score her performances" and "it's great that she's doing it anyways" can be simultaneously true.
They were a thing a few decades ago not really now. I mostly associate them with the 80s
I feel like there are several problems with autopay

Like its all hidden

You don't know when the bills are paid

You don't get to review the bills

They're on different dates

Etc.
€150/month for healthcare? Ya, that could work lost tax. Switzerland also pays for health insurance premiums post tax, but they are nowhere that cheap.
After 17 years, we finally "cracked" a $100M churn problem at PayPal
Using dependent types to write proofs in Haskell
While infinitesimals lie at the very heart of the classical approach to calculus, in this day and age it is important to complement a course based on what is now considered non-standard analysis with one of the more standard (limit-based) courses. (I think this is also true in other areas, e.g. if the students are taught a physics course based on, say, geometric algebra, they also should be trained in the more ‘standard’ ways of understanding things.)
I’m not surprised. The same issue occurred in python.

And to be fair it’s a pain in the ass to debug and find out why something happens to implicitly depend on iteration order (float stability is common but not alone). And their code did work beforehand, for most values of work.

The biggest pain in the ass is that — at least in python - while you can set the hash seed explicitely if you don’t the langage doesn’t tell you. This makes reproducing the issue very annoying when only some seeds trigger it.

> the order could differ even before that change

While the order could differ I assume it was deterministic and nothing influencing those bits had changed in a while.
This doesn't change the fundamental fact that a tax on every transaction disincentives B2B transactions and therefore directly incentivizes large, vertically integrated companies.

You can try to work against it by arbitrary progressive taxation thresholds, but this doesn't change the underlying mathematics.

Also, there's a reason why progressive taxation isn't widely implemented for corporations, because it's very easy to circumvent by splitting up and increasing the number of legal entities. A sensible way around that is taxing the _ultimate beneficiary_ rather than the company itself (i.e. the owners as natural persons), which is what GP suggests with "sales tax and personal income tax on salaries and distributions".
You can't do much under the current instituitions. The elites of United States spent huge effort these hundreds of years to make sure that 1) Their income mostly relies on the United States as a financial/military beast, and 2) Whatever ordinary people suffer from, be it high tax or flood or lightning bolts, the elites will not be affected and can safely live in areas well protected.
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> Which societies today function like this, that could be scaled up to country level tasks and responsibilities?

None that I'm aware of, though I am not entirely convinced it is impossible for the reasons I stated. I am forced to wonder: what is the virtue of scale like that if it is largely built on the back of human suffering?
The only effect Christianity had on drinking laws was not allowing the sale on Sundays before noon, with some places not allowing sale at all on Sundays. Banning drinking in public has more to do with not wanting your public face to be a bunch of drunk people.
Micron Warns Memory Chip Shortage Until 2022, Taiwan’s Industry Benefits
Show HN: Lightdash – An open source Looker alternative
Java has different semantics to Python. To make Python run fast without a GIL you'd have to change the semantics to be more like Java's, which would be a breaking change, which would mean Python 4.0, which is what they say we're unlikely to get.
Pair programming is way faster with screen share & multiplr monitors. One of you has the dominant screen with "the task" and you can both discuss it whilst doing indirect things on your own monitors, and throwing them to the share when they are relevant.

Over the shoulder pairing has a lot of "do this", "search that". Shared has a lot more of "can you work out x whilst I check y" and "this is the result of y, I'm interpreting that as z. Should we do a?".
Hey HN,

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Install: https://docs.lightdash.com/get-started/setup-the-demo-projec...

We believe that the future of the modern data stack lies in having a single source of truth for all your metrics.

Tools like dbt have made it possible for analysts to manage their transformations using SQL. But existing BI tools still hide away lots of extra business logic, meaning that metrics get scattered across the company (you know those 5 different calculations of revenue XD) and data context gets lost between tools.

With Lightdash, your BI tool is fully integrated with your dbt project. This means:

- You define your metrics right beside the rest of your data transformations, in dbt.

- Developing metrics becomes lightning fast: change some SQL or a metric and immediately see your data viz update

- All your dbt metadata (column and table descriptions, lineage, freshness, test results) is kept in sync with lightdash so you don't have to try to maintain it in multiple places.

Lightdash is still in the early days and we've got lots of work to do. Today, Lightdash supports most popular databases and warehouses but is only tested with PostgreSQL and BigQuery - so, if you try it with another database, it'd be great to hear about your experience using it!

We'd love any feedback or to hear about how you're solving BI at your company today :)

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As far as I understand it, producing entropy, which is needed for fair distribution of odds in games of chance, is not achievable directly on the blockchain.

Instead, the job of producing non-deterministic inputs is offloaded to an off-chain source, an oracle, which still requires some degree of trust in an external entity.

My information might be out of date, though, and some implementations might have resolved this issue without destroying the integrity of the entire system. And I will concede that gambling seems to be the most popular use of the tech so far.
If you are cloud based this does not sound correct. If you have the cluster autoscaler setup, then the cluster should grow to allow for the deployment based on the constraints in your deployment.

If you are on prem then this is reasonable, since you have limited physical hardware so the cluster can not automatically grow.
Honestly, in the neighbourhood I grew up in, this would basically make having Amazon Ring a no-no. Noone in their right minds would want to have anything to do with it. You would be targetted and not just by the gangs.
That's not what the F35 does. It is a strike fighter. It is meant to stealthily penetrate enemy airspace and strike targets, as well as survive air combat after its strikes make it abundantly clear that enemy airspace has been penetrated.

Airborne Observation and control is a job handled by AWACS and JSTARS. While an argument could certainly be made for a stealth JSTARS, that's not what the F35 was intended to be, nor what it is optimized for. JSTARS planes should be long endurance planes, not super maneuverable supersonic VTOL jets. A stealth JSTARS would resemble the B2, not the F22.

The F35 does have an impressive set of sensors and communications abilities, but that's simply a consequence of being a more recently developed aircraft. It's really not too hard to appear impressive when your competition was designed to use core memory. A purpose built drone controller would put it to shame however.
That’s ridiculously unfair. Imagine, in the next few moves, Simone injured herself or something, but still demonstrated superiority to the others throughout the competition, but loses because of the silly scoring system they implemented just for her.

She’s better. Let’s just recognise her greatness fairly. If other athletes feel bad about it, so what? If the audience wants it to be competitive, even when it isn’t, so what? She’s better and we should just recognise (and appreciate) reality.

Love her attitude though. Just does the moves anyway “because I can”. She’s great. Maybe a bit of an ego, but who cares? She backs it up, so who can say anything? Love that.
Pandemic homeschoolers who are not going back
Like gun control! Chicago, with its restrictive gun control, hasn’t fixed gun crime at all, just continued to restrict law abiding citizens rights.
All human activity except agriculture and medicine is a waste of time of you want to be strict about it
True, SVG itself can be surprising if you don’t know what you’re doing with it—it’s a powerful graphics format that supports flexible sizing and aspect ratio handling, which is much of the reason why width/height and viewBox are separate things, and in cases like this it’s important to understand what they each mean (and how any of them are inferred in the presence of the other).

For the sort of thing that you’re doing here, there are two most likely possibilities for what you want:

① Give the <svg> element a preserveAspectRatio attribute, most likely preserveAspectRatio="none" if you’re just trying to draw a diagonal line across the image. This’ll allow it to stretch the SVG, effectively throwing your stroke-width off a bit so that it could look wrong if you use it on multiple images of different aspect ratios.

② Accomplish a dynamically-sized viewBox with percentages: <svg width="100%" height="100%"><line x2="100%" y2="100%"/></svg>

Fortunately all of this stuff is nailed down pretty well now. IE always had trouble with these more unusual aspects of SVG, even to IE11. I fondly remember a design I implemented a decade or so ago that exercised just these sorts of fiddly areas, causing such issues on IE9 that I gave up and made it use the simpler, not-as-pretty non-SVG fallback that was necessary at that time because of IE6–8.
Look when you have a hostile foreign power destroy your entire business and and force you to retool most of your software stack, you get kinda restrictive with people inspecting your new stack coming from that country.
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> The whole point is to generate an exciting event that an audience will watch. Multiple competitors having a chance of winning makes an event exciting

Disgusting. Do all the competitors also get to have a trophy in the end, like in modern day schools?

If you want everyone to have a chance, next move is to give them handicap. Make them wear lead belts. That'll be fun for you maybe?

Me, I want to see the top competitor crush the others after utterly dominating by doing daring moves
While I do not condone benefits fraud, it’s just a drop in the pond.

Government projects are quite corrupt, and often go way over budget. Of course, this is a global problem as well.

The main problem is corporate tax evasion. Pretty much every multinational funnels money via NL, while paying almost nothing.

For example - IKEA, Walt Disney, FAANG, Uber, and innumerable more are all Dutch BVs for most global activities.
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United Airlines purchases up to 50 Boom supersonic Overture airliners
> Both "it's shitty to intentionally under-score her performances" and "it's great that she's doing it anyways" can be simultaneously true.

That I can agree with.
don't worry, Biden will fix that. Soon you'll be paying 30% and then 20-40%.
It’s hard not to see the heavy hand of racism and misogyny in the committee’s reactions to this kind of unparalleled excellence. Any time they’re presented with exceptional performance that doesn’t fit their mental model, they find a way to neutralise it.

Just ask Caster Semenya.