skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are bullshit.
Research can have biases too.
>In retrospect, and knowing what we know now, do you think his advice and direction has been inadequate?

No
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What I like about the economist is that it covers news from many places you'd otherwise unlikely to hear much about unless you are really interested in it or the job requires to know. What I didn't like at the end that there were too many 'vanilla' articles,where I read them and feel that it could be done more in-depth rather than just scratching the surface. Also felt lack of time to read it as much as I'd like. I may revisit it in the future.
I’m reminded of this YouTube video from Wise Crack on mindfulness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPKqnI4D2a8

Among the pros and cons of mindfulness, the biggest negative they find is that it’s a great way to turn your employees into more efficient cogs.

I feel this way about every company that tries to teach their employees about mindfulness (lots of FAANGs do this as well)… they want you to be able to de-stress, not because they care about your well-being, but because they want to increase your tolerance for stress, and thus your expected productivity.
That only seems to work for a short period of time, eventually the platform adopts the most interesting features of the candidates to replacement, and they fade away while the large majority of platform users keeps coding away on the language used to write the platform.
Yep, this is quite nice and helpful, many thanks!
I do not think this is true: you can introduce the complex numbers (including the imaginary unit `i`) without defining exponentiation or introducing `e`. As a consequence, no properties of `e` can be deduced from the definition of the imaginary unit.

In particular, the result is not "obvious".
My frugal, product-driven startup principles
Exactly the same. Things would be the same. There are just as many shitty liars (by proportion at least) in Germany as there are in China. Covering your mistakes is a natural human behavior, if not the nicest thing to do.
Dislike of the messenger and conflicts of interest clouded and intimidated the search for truth. We need an objective press and a de-politicized science free, or fully disclosed of, conflicts of interest. Intimidation by the political wind of the day has substantial consequences.
Sure it can.

Actual competitive markets are made of competing firms, and firms can't (in general) optimise.

1. Holmstrom's theorem tells us that no payment system for a team of agents can have a budget in balance, be in Nash equilibrium, and be Pareto efficient.

2. Since firms are definitionally teams of people, and since you don't get a choice whether the budget balancing or the workers optimise, this means that firms must sacrifice Pareto efficiency.

3. If firms can't always seek out the Pareto frontier, then a competitive market composed of firms will not satisfy the conditions for Walras' theorem to hold, and so competitive markets can't necessarily reach equilibrium.
That's exactly what happened.

Ship owners invested in arming their ships to the point where the pirates would hopefully pick softer target which is exactly what they did. Incrementally over the 16th-18th centuries the profitability of piracy was highly reduced because the goods had fairly fixed relative value and the risk kept going up and it more or less went away on its own in the Western hemisphere over the course of the 18th century. Crime rarely pays at scale when every instance carries a high risk of a firefight. A few may make a good living in such an environment but it caps the maximum industry size at a very low level.

Piracy persisted in the Mediterranean where it was more or less a state sponsored activity. They mostly avoided harassing the commerce of major powers (Britain, France, etc). Which worked well enough until the 2nd tier powers got pissed off enough to stomp them a few times (with the blessing of the first tier powers, think of it like a reverse Falklands). They still didn't tone it down sufficiently and they wound up speaking French for that mistake.

If anyone has any good resources on the history of Indian ocean or east Asian piracy I'd be interested in reading them.

As an aside, old school high seas piracy is an surprisingly good parallel to the variations of criminals in the current cyber-crime environment. You've got state sponsored theft of money and goods (privateers). You've got under the table cyber criminals who would be prosecuted by their home jurisdiction if found (traditional western pirates, the kind you typically see portrayed in pop culture). And you've got locally approved as long as they pay their dues professional cyber-criminals (north african pirates). The former groups mostly steal things of value they can use or fence. The latter mostly takes stuff hostage for ransom.
The problem with opinionated products is people who have very strong opposite opinions.

Unopinionated products have to cater for everyone though, and that creates bloat and complexity. Those will kill a product quicker than limiting it to a small portion of the market that agrees with the opinion you choose.
> I think generally we believe that a company like Pokerstars are fair and honest so when we jump online to play a game we don’t question it, but there may come time when that’s not the case

All it takes is one good competitor to highlight that fact. hint hint
Your arguments are sound but then I think about diesel gate and well... corporate corruption is a thing.
As far as the JVM goes only Clojure and Scala have real immutability built-in, ie. persistent data structures. Kotlin's default immutability is more like read-only.
Isn’t it mass media covering this now? It seems like this is a credit to mass media in that it moves as data moves. I always feel this is a highly underrated attribute in organizations and individuals.
it's still working for me, maybe a temporary issue?
https://text.npr.org/972978143
Is there a law of some kind that says the sum of time taken to compile and test code is a language independent constant? So either our testing tools take time to run or your compiler or a mix of both .. if we want robust software, that is.
Google previously admitted it was a false positive and fixed it on their end.

Matomo points out the original source that was errantly marked as malware here: https://forum.matomo.org/t/adwords-campaign-rejected-for-goo...
Keep in mind that // was added to python in version 2.2a3 along with `from __future__ import division`. This gave everyone almost 7 years to fix up any existing code before the first release of python 3 even happened. 2.7 only got deprecated in 2020, giving developers a total of 18 years to fix their divisions.

I don't know what the PSF should have done to placate people. Keeping a core feature like division confusing like that isn't a good option, and extending support even longer seems ludicrous to me.
React from absolute scratch (part-0)
Not currently possible under their privacy policy
Check Out the Bargain Robot
We built the Bargain Robot just to see if anyone actually needs "professionals" to bargain the price for random stuff.
We are just curious about what is the No.1 most popular item in the community, so we gonna make a lucky draw from that.

https://www.thebargainrobot.com/
Is Windows lagging behind Linux in terms of automation and efficiency?
Please tell me if I'm wrong:

Automation is mainly used by DevOps using Linux. DevOps often have created their own modern infrastructure perfectly fitting their needs.

But there is still an huge number of traditional sysadmins that maintain third-party software on any kind of infrastructure from outdated to modern, cloud-based, and on-premise, Linux, Windows, and Unix.

I feel the're not using automation a lot. Is there nothing to automate? Or is it the lack of appropriate tools that prevents the use of automation?

Sysadmins deal with different OS and they often must maintain desktop PCs as well. In my opinion, Ansible and Salt are not the perfect tools for them.

Ansible is easy to learn, but Linux focused. WinRM is not user-friendly. The absence of an agent makes it hard to manage systems on different networks where direct access is forbidden.

Salt has great Windows support and with the minion agent managing clients on different networks is a walkover. But Salt – minion and master – it is anything but lightweight.

There are pure Windows-based solutions. System Center and third-party tools can be used. Most of them require an Active Directory and direct access to the managed clients. Linux is left out.

Sysadmins also need fast access to machines to fix problems and execute tasks manually. Like TeamViewer. Not all problems can be solved with automation.

Is there a need for software that makes automation and manual machine management easy and efficient?
Easy to learn.
All operating systems are treated equally.
Based on a client that makes machines accessible and manageable behind NAT and on different networks.
Dependency-free binaries for all OS.
Powerful scripting and automation options, comparable to Ansible playbooks and Salt states.
Built-in file server to manage distributable files.
Provides access to all kinds of remote login methods (SSH, RDP, VNC, etc.) without a VPN/SSH chains.
*Open-source and easy to install.
Hey HN,

Cloud-Radar now supports unit testing Cloudformation templates. This saves you from waiting on resources to deploy and having to worry about credentials.

Earlier post about cloud-radar https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25253288
The worker is just reading what their screen says. Might as well be a robot.
The article felt accurate to me - The PM and EM absolutely make the decisions. If they are good at their job, yes, of course they listen to everyone else before making those decisions. Failing to let everyone have their say would lead to not only a poor product, but a poor team. But at the end of the day, it is not a consensus, it is the PM/EM listening, researching, thinking, and then deciding.

FWIW, the best teams I've been on have been mostly driven by consensus anyway - if everyone is in consensus, the PM has an easy decision, so that is how it happens as often as not. But a good PM will know when to strive for that solution, and when to just make their own call.
It is about the URL. The google worker doesn't say anything about matomo, he doesn't add any context, he just displays generic and common discussion patterns.

I picture the setting in my mind and it's the best explanation. Someone sitting in a cubicle or a farm, answering thousand of messages like that per day. He's not reading the chat, he's scanning it for words like "ok", "thanks you", "fixed", "working now", "bye", etc.

Matomo doesn't register on their radar.

The user doesn't explain what Matomo is. His message looks like a copy/paste from matomo's website. It's even put into quote.

This conversation was not around Matomo being an alternative to GA.

Doesn't mean Google doesn't actively classify matomo as malware though.
Step 1: Communicate to team that KVMs are of the utmost importance.

Step 2: Design and implement sufficiently complex algorithm that behavior isn't easily reasoned from changes

Step 3: Iterate through random walk of changes to optimize KVMs

Step 4: Land on parent's behavior, without any attributable decision or paper trail
Of course! Everything can have a bias - that's well understood. Just because something can have one, doesn't mean it does. If one finds bias in the research methods or data in the article - one can conduct their own study and submit their results. Ironically, the research from Cambridge talks about a bias in the original thesis of "BS jobs".
Outputting raw structs would also have its own issues. What would be reasonable? Protobufs?
I know that most people won't; but if this article is some kind of major a revelation to you, I hope that you take some time to re-evaluate your information sources. You really should think more carefully about how you detect bullshit.

There were those who were sounding the alarm about this lab leak hypothesis well over a year ago. The overwhelming media narrative to look away from that hypothesis and smear those who talked about it was always artificially manufactured in a way that should have been obvious to most people.

But this kind of misinformation is really par for the course with the mainstream media. If you're only paying attention to ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NYT, WaPo, etc. (and downstream from those sources) for your day-to-day news - you're in the worst manufactured media bubble in existence. Those big media companies are a locus of power that is manipulated to an incredible degree.

I'm not telling you to drink the koolaid and only watch Fox News while reading Breitbart. I'm definitely not telling you to waste your time on Alex Jones or someone like that. I'm saying to balance what you look at with other information sources with a variety of political slants. This WIV narrative is just one of many that the MSM has been pushing over the last few years. It scares me how gullible people have been on so many topics.
It's usually how corporate programming languages are designed: they have corporate environments in mind which is the exact opposite of hacking. Strict standards, predictability and low bars to entry. Hence opinionated approach even to source code formatting and pretty much everything else. Java, C# and Go are all examples of this. Swift is kind of there too, though it's probably the least opinionated language of them all, the corporate ones. (Some would say C# is also kind of okay. Probably)

But the point of the article was a bit broader. Opinionated products can build a strong devoted userbase around them. The question is only how reasonable your opinions are.

An example from Apple's UI: the way multiple windows of the same app are cycled on the desktop with Cmd-` is absolutely beyond any logic. It tries to be smart but makes cycling so unpredictable that it becomes practically useless. It's probably even worse than MS Word's copy/paste one (actually I'm not sure which is worse).

This is someone's opinion and I can't imagine anyone on Earth except the creator of this logic being happy with it. It's an edge case that illustrates the point: your opinion should resonate with enough people to sustain your business, that's all.
How is he "the leading figure"? Fauci is hardly relevant outside the US. As you mentioned we are discussing a global phenomenon and it's useful to distinguish between global and US specific matters.
Yes, it really is fascinating how there are basically two entirely different worlds out there. But we're not in disagreement that the positions switched at some point, right?

I've seen people talking about the rise in anti-asian hate crimes and it being incorrectly blamed on white supremacy, but that happened somewhat recently. At the point in time we're talking about I haven't really heard about anything too much, although it's not hard to imagine it being the case. I think it's to be expected, what are you supposed to do about it? Should you ignore the actions of Israel, because it's associated with Jews? Or actions of Russian government, because someone could discriminate a Russian person over that? Or what happens in some Islamic country? And we're fine with talking about about "systemic white supremacy", so I find these concerns to be hypocritical frankly. I also don't believe that pretending like the virus didn't originate in China would help anything. People might be stupid, but they're smart enough to figure out that this is just BS.
Maybe you didn't read the full article? There's a lot more supportive of the lab leak theory than the three researchers getting sick.
Because I’d get wildly incorrect analytics that way from all the bots with bogus user agents.
One reason for learning APL mentioned in the interview is learning to solve problems without branching.

Conor's knowledge of solving problems in a data parallel fashion using masks and such in APL helped him with his day job of building GPU accelerated data-science tools at NVidia.

But it's not just a NVidia thing - CPUs can do data parallel operations and also get slowed down by branching. I don't think this means that you should write everything in an array language, but it means that learning how to solve problems under those constraints will teach you important lessons.
Hardly. Despite being Java-compatible Clojure's philosophy is diametrically opposed to that of Java/OOP so anyone who has experienced the benefits of Clojure would hardly return to Java simply because it managed to fake FP with Single Abstract Methods.
PMP is about project management, not product management. Not really related.
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One thing that gave me pause is calling this "coherent noise".

I'm used to "coherency" being a property between two different "channels" or sources of signal.

Here, I guess it is being used to mean coherency between the X and Y dimensions. Is that right?

If so, I think this is not truly coherent noise but rather mimicry. We see large "patches" in X-Y because the 1/f increases the relative power in lower frequency. It is thus a "natural accident" to have low frequency in X and Y form some patches somewhere. But, it's not a coherent effect.

I'd be curious to learn if I'm misunderstanding the use of the term.
So are we to believe that, out of 200 million square miles on this planet, this novel bat-related coronavirus just naturally emerged within 8 miles of a facility that specializes in novel bat related coronaviruses?

During a season when bats hibernate to areas thousands of miles away?

If you look at the circumstances behind this pandemic's origins, and do some basic back-of-the-envelope math, the lab-leak hypothesis is close to a certainty.
Yes, of course, my comment and the parent are to show that there cannot be a simple truth about a nation with 1.4b people.

Realizing that, is the first step to reach any meaningful truth about China.

That's true even to native Chinese people. That's even more true to outsiders (obviously).
Ah, two of these did get to me:

- Pricing, I can never tell whether I'm pricing too low or too high. So I went as low as I could feasibly go, to make sure that price was eliminated as a factor turning clients away.

- Don't change your mind every 5min...haha, yes, it's quite easy to start to doubt what you are doing and change strategies without having fully explored your original approach.

Thanks for the reminder.
This works in the other direction: how many developers are willing to pay for their dependencies? Would things like npm even exist if you had to pay invoices for every bit of code loaded?
You don't think nojs and librejs are skewing your client side analytics?
I got that a lot in Iceland[0] recently.

I’d say something to a clerk, and they’d reply with “you’re an American!”

Yes, how could you tell?

You’re so loud!

Thanks?

[0]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOgT48pM4GctCy-88GTDyyqyy...
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On this episode of Free Thinking, Montel chats with Jerome Foster II, an 18-year-old climate justice activist, voting rights advocate, and emerging technology developer. His work as a leader in the youth climate movement has been recognized on the international stage. He serves as the youngest member of the Biden White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. He’s the Executive Director & Founder of OneMillionOfUs, which is mobilizing a new generation of young people to register and turnout to vote. He is the Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Climate Reporter, an international youth-led climate-focused news outlet. He has spoken at the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights, met with world leaders, and has helped to pass the Clean Energy DC Act which is one of the most aggressive and comprehensive decarbonization bills being implemented in the nation. He was awarded the World Series of Entrepreneurship and has been featured in TIME Magazine, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The Washington Post, New York Times, and many more. He has also been awarded the Amnesty International Ambassadors of Conscience Highest Human Rights Award alongside Greta Thunberg and other youth climate leaders.
That is closer to a shareholder than an employee type of relation.
Wrong on the drivers side.

The Objective-C drivers framework (DriverKit) was replaced by a C++ one based on a language subset (IO Kit).

It is no accident that IO Kit replacement is named Driver Kit as homage to the original NeXTSTEP driver framework.
Just realised that this was submitted earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27383075

I'll leave it here with that reference.
Yes, this is a problem. Feel free to contact me.
I realize this is difficult and embarrassing for you, but you cannot remain in denial much longer. And your feeble attempt to be cavalier and aloof by omitting punctuation fools no one. It just makes you look like a haughty fool. The paper may "conclude" nothing but it provides strong evidence for the lab leak theory, if you understand it. As did many other things back then, some of which are alluded in the OP article. Indeed, the pure prior probability, based simply on the emergence of a novel coronavirus in the one city with the biggest coronavirus research center, is significant enough to make the hypothesis very credible.
I think you're reading far too much into this.

You spoke with a support agent who is checking the status of your AdSense campaign. That system has flagged links on your website as 'malicious'. The agent is simply telling you the links are 'not allowed' because the system has flagged them. Ie. you're not allowed to run AdSense on a site with flagged links.

I'm 99% sure this has nothing do with you using a GA alternative.
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Multiple launches. Assemble and fuel a big spinning water bottle in orbit. Maybe tether maybe not. Spin up and establish cycle orbit. Done. Basic physics and orbital mechanics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler