skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a researcher prefers is different from how quantum programming languages are structured and how the mathematical model is taught: you have a state vector in superposition that is collapsed probabilistically to classical values on measurement.
I was on such team too. There was cycle of power hungry leader, revolution, everyone for himself which special kind of dysfunction, someone else takes power again, revolution, everyone for himself which special kind of dysfunction, ... .
I've been meaning to write 'bullshitting the technical interview' where I neither know how to solve the problem nor APL but end up convincing the interviewer that I know both.
The issue with the evidence in that paper is that they used primers to amplify the specific genes of interest. That introduces a strong assumption at the start of their analysis: specifically, that these genes appeared in the genomes by some HGT process instead of independently being duplicated internally in each genome from another gene shared among the species. Whole genome sequences were not available for these species at the time. A modern, more complete analysis would look into homologs across whole genomes and try to reject that hypothesis, which is much less extraordinary than animal germline HGT.

That's precisely why the authors published the new Cell paper https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0168-9525%2821%2900... with stronger evidence from whole genome sequence to support the HGT hypothesis. I'm still trying to wrap my head around Figure 2 there, so I'm on the fence.
true, but redundancy is hard to build on critical or under-documented parts of the code. It’s also hard to build when the knowledge needed is not something you can just sit down and do a brain-dump in an afternoon (ie you need a lot of context to see the light).

So, you can help people grow and keep your skill polished while you build up job security and hoard critical knowledge. I’m not saying it’s the right thing to do - just saying that I’ve seen it done and it worked for the persons doing it.
Actually there is now a ton of contribution from Microsoft as well.
1938 -- Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell Jr. In the story, scientists discover 20 Million year old space craft in Antarctica. They accidentally thaw the alien pilot who can kill and take on the personality of its victims. People are dying; no one trusts anyone, etc.

1951 -- The Thing From Another World, directed by Christian Nyby, is a sci-fi film in which scientists go to North Pole to investigate a UFO, find crashed craft and frozen alien. They take alien back to base and unintentionally let it thaw. (see above)

1982 -- The Thing a film directed by John Carpenter. Same basic story as above (but as in the original, the plot takes place in Antartica).

2011 -- The Thing a film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Same basic story again, but it is the prequel to the 1982 version.
The article was crap, I agree. Keynes would be better characterized by discussing government intervention to address a market failure, rather than saying the market has failed, which has different connotations.

Personally, I disagree with calling government choices an intervention, because the government is a market participant, and both the market and government are embedded in the society which creates them.
Not certain, but the second time we had a positive PCR test to confirm. The first time, there were no tests in NYC but close contacts had it and we had the same exact symptoms (which are not similar no any other flu/disease we have had).
The ProtonMail client is worth a look. https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-mail

It's a react frontend build with typescript.
> Also, I do find it odd to water plants with water treated with chlorine and fluoride.

I just researched sugar water for fresh cut flowers. The article actually suggested what seemed to be a substantial amount of chlorine bleach (I think a half-teaspoon per liter) to reduce bacteria and mold, so there are some positive aspects to strong oxidants. (.. and at least the plants will have strong teeth and bones.)

EDIT: found a similar article: https://homeguides.sfgate.com/sugar-bleach-really-make-flowe...
> if they are wrong and the tax man comes after you, you get to hold Stripe accountable for any and all repercussions. You are paying Stripe to take on the legal responsibility of getting it right.

Where exactly is this stated? As far as I can tell, all this does is say what taxes you should be collecting, and then collect them. It doesn't even handle (at this point) remitting payment to the appropriate jurisdications.

I see no evidence that if your taxes are collected wrong, Stripe will do anything other than say "Your accountant should have caught that, sorry." I see no evidence that by using this product, Stripe will indemnify you against tax issues (which yes, would go a long way to justifying the cost)
Context: financial SaaS of interest to banks, brokerages and RIAs; no direct-to-consumer at this time.

We have two special case preview environments. They're set up just like production, but with lower capacity and no SLA.

The first one is general previews of what we're planning on releasing; it's a normal part of our release process and every release is there for 2-14 days before going to production. All customers have access; some use it extensively, and some basically ignore it.

The second one is for specific in-development features; in theory we can spin up multiples of this, but in practice we don't want to diverge too wildly. Generally we showcase one feature at a time, and we gate the features by customers.
You’re totally right and my rationale was mistaken.

My two examples were based on the idea that there’s some limit on how we can divide the original bet. For example, if a person starts with $10 and loses 99.97%, they have nothing left because rounding. Likewise for losing 99.999% of $1000.

In hindsight, though, the risk of consecutive losses wasn’t the point of the math. As you point out, the asymmetry is the problem. Loss occurs over time even with intermittent losses.

Here’s an example of how to half $100 in capital, despite a 70% win rate.

$100.00
$ 20.00 (L)
$ 36.00 (W)
$ 64.80 (W)
$ 12.96 (L)
$ 23.33 (W)
$ 41.99 (W)
$ 75.58 (W)
$ 15.12 (L)
$ 27.22 (W)
$ 49.00 (W)
. . .

The impact of the asymmetry seems obvious in hindsight. I might have to agree with the original post that it’s a bit counterintuitive.
Not that there's much point to saying so, since you appear to be here for no other reason than to assert that my argument is false because you would prefer it be so, but here's another: software is digital; genomes are not.
In your comment here, what's the distinction of advanced vs. a regular feature flag?
And its a great model for people who want a known payment of $x and don't want to take on the risk/reward of deprecation, maintenance, resale, etc.

Unlike with say housing, which sits on land which appreciates in value at a rate and has a high cost of moving (monetary and personal), a typical car for the majority of people is a means to an end which just sits their and deprecates. The cost of changing to a new car is a few minutes reprogramming the radio and seats.

Ultimately what most people want is transportation which costs a reliable x¢ per mile at a given level of convienience, reliability and comfort.

Cars are hardly a winner takes all business or one with little competition - there's at least a dozen major manufacturers.
I think it can be. AOSP feels a lot like a pretense.
of course we need it, that's why the market was creating the pipeline. pretending that a group of experts can determine what the market needs or is essential, is de facto tyranny. what I can say for sure is that we need cheaper more reliable energy, and it is clear that this pipeline would do that for our country. instead the money and jobs go elsewhere.

what is amazing about this decision is that there was no rush to the courts for an injunction, no reliant interests. the company doesn't even put up a fight. I wonder why that is?
These are very interesting ideas. But I’d like to see to see credit given where it’s due. Many of the specific interface concepts here (retrospectively monitoring whether time was well spent, disabling infinite feeds, a regret tax, batching notification delivery, switching an infinite feed to a paged one which reflects activity) were presented several years ago by Joe Edelman and Tristan Harris. See eg https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peop... and https://medium.com/what-to-build/is-anything-worth-maximizin...

Ideas like these are public goods, so it’s difficult to profit off inventing them. Given that, we should incentivize their creation with social rewards by crediting their authors.
This is specially valuable if you are selling your product across multiple countries, which may have different taxes.
i think it would be great for them to learn programming.

i think if i try to push them to learn programming, they will lose interest because i will be turning their 'fun' into 'work'. it is better for them to go at their own pace where their interests take them. if they ask for my help (they both know i could teach them programming), i'd be delighted to help them.

and minecraft is really fantastic. from the base game, to advance features like command blocks, to the ecosystem of plug ins and online multiplayer adaptations. really an impressive creation.
> APL Since 1978

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386319
That must be a reference to tolerant comparison, but the way it's written is bizarre. Comparisons in APL are (optionally: you can turn it off) subject to tolerance, meaning that numbers with a small enough difference are treated as equal by comparison or search functions. There are probably better resources but I describe it at [0].

However, Dyalog just uses IEEE doubles (with an error in place of infinities or NaNs; also you can configure to use higher-precision decimal floats), no different from JavaScript. The result of, say, 0.1+0.2, is not the same as 0.3, it's just equal under tolerant comparison.

[0] https://www.dyalog.com/blog/2018/11/tolerated-comparison-par...
I generally support this assessment.

As a 'developer' I thought 'we were doing all the stuff' while everyone else catered to us.

During my roles out of that seat, I view 90% of development as a form of intellectual labour, it's just work, one piece of many things.

The hardest job by far is selling.

The next hardest job overall, as the commenter mentions, is making a 'whole product' and targeting it at customers.

Engineering is hard, but not harder than the above.

I would almost like every Engineer to work for 3 months in PM or Sales just to get their perspective flipped.

Engineering feels more 'worky' because it's more direct.
Corporate Memphis :)
You don't have to collect tax for states you don't have a presence in. They have no jurisdiction outside their borders.
I think ZFS only needs lots of memory if you have certain features (notably, deduplication) enabled.

Meanwhile, you're still a lot better off, data-integrity-wise, with ZFS and non-ECC memory than you are with most other filesystems with non-ECC memory.
OK, maybe you missed the reference. Plenty of white people benefitted from burning/bombing black businesses and then passed those ill-gotten gains to their children.

Taxing those ill-gotten gains and improving the welfare state would probably be a more just outcome, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
Dumb question: how are they able to sell each of these for ~ $2-3M? I doubt they have sold more than 20-30 of these systems. Given the upfront cost of design, verification, wafer construction, etc, shouldn't the unit price be much higher?
The second time we had a positive PCR test to confirm. The first time, there were no tests in NYC but people I worked with had it confirmed and we had the same exact symptoms (which are not similar no any other flu/disease we have had).
Sales tax is not a "I need this at launch" feature. Many companies start out in a single market where you can just hardcode the tax rates if you want, and worry about that later (and then the engineering hours to add sales tax etc. are probably not a threat to your existence).
This ain't got nothing on some good ol Jumbo! Gimme a jumbo with ketchup on Wonder bread any day.
Just as a reminder, Google is also planning to drastically improve privacy through a sandbox in Chrome: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...

FLoC (and FLEDGE, and PARAKEET, and a million other bird proposals) is being used as a way to mitigate some of the loss that publishers and advertisers will see when those privacy measures are put into place.
Right but you're talking about an abstraction and the abstraction will leak at least somewhat.

A modern language can present you with what appears to be a doubly linked list, but is actually just a veneer over a data structure that actually performs well on the hardware. But of course you'll write programs that treat it like a linked list, so they'll have markedly worse performance than was necessary and worse, you may try to "improve" this based on your erroneous mental model and make things even worse.

I think that's where you got to with ORM too. The object store is an abstraction, but it somewhat leaks the fact that there's actually a relational database underneath. If you really just wanted an object store, this will be slower and clunkier than it should be, and if you really wanted a relational database you shouldn't have ORM.

So this is the problem, exposing the right abstractions. Making easy things easy, and yet not making difficult things impossible. Trying to discourage the programmer from using a huge fixed size array and a counter when what they actually needed was a growable vector, but not preventing them from using that fixed size array with a counter if that genuinely is the correct way to solve their problem...
It will take more than a decade, because you need a baseline education level of the population to better be able to understand the pros and cons, and to realize that nuclear plants that have nothing to do with energy generation can have far more value to society.

Actually, it turns out that the medicinal value of certain isotopes that we could manufacture at nuclear facilities far outweigh the energy value per fissile event.

This is especially true for cancer destroying isotopes that are many orders of magnitude more effective in terms of precision and kill rate then typical radiation sources used today (or for targeted quantum dot medicines).

Other benefits include potential safe nuclear batteries that would allow an iPhone to last a few years without charge. But these are inventions for future generations.
The question I had reading this: when will my company incentivize this behavior?

I get no significant equity. I just get paid a salary.

As an employee, it’s in my best interest to be indispensable to my company’s operations.

If I have made myself replaceable, I have no leverage over salary negotiations.

Obviously, the argument I’m making here is taking this concept to an extreme. Nonetheless, I think it’s a good question to be asking: why should I do this if my company doesn’t care either way?

The only reason I can think of is that I don’t want to be the point of contact for everything and be bothered off-hours.

But in every other respect, I want my company to think “we couldn’t do it without them” every time my name comes up.
Magnus UI vs. Dripsy – Chakra UI Alternatives for React Native (+Web)
> Year-over-year comparisons reflect the abysmal economic conditions during the pandemic.

Great point, May of 2020 is the valley for the price drop so makes sense to see it much higher since then as we "make up" for lost time.

If we instead look back to February 2020 before the dip, can we annualize including that? If my math is correct, we could determine the average monthly inflation (not including compounding) and then multiply by 12 to annualize it? If so, we're looking at about 2.8% inflation, which is still above the Fed target but not terrible.

268.551(feb20)-258.824(may21) = 9.727

(( 9.727 / 258.824) / 16) * 12 = .0282

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL#0
I know he's not right. From experience and from looking at him.

Also, he's unable to function in the society. He's becoming obnoxious, so all his friends and even relatives are starting to avoid him.

He doesn't look healthy, he doesn't look happy, and I know he is unable to achieve any of his goals (the goals I've heard from him that he wants to achieve).
Why don't they increase those rental prices anyway?

A company will aim to charge the most it can to its customers.
Consumer prices jump 5% in May, fastest pace since the summer of 2008
Yes.

The estimate is that nuclear kills 0.04 people per TWh produced. This includes mining, refining, and the construction and operation of nuclear power plants. Natural gas kills about 4 people per TWh produced, making it far more lethal than nuclear all considered.

Fascinating in a grim way, rooftop solar is actually more lethal than nuclear, at 0.44 per TWh. Quite literally more people have died falling off roofs installing solar panels than died at Chernobyl. With rooftop being such a minuscule percentage of global production, expect that number to change.

By and far the most lethal is coal. The world average is 161 per TWh. But that average is hiding a lot of nastiness, because the true range is between 15 (US) and 278 (China). Quite literally millions of people die each year due to pollution, most of them because of coal.

This is a classic case of how people don’t calculate risk correctly. Nuclear accidents are scary, rare things and so people focus in on them. But in trying to get rid of nuclear we’ve ended up shifting primarily to coal and natural gas, energy sources that kill multiple orders of magnitude more people than nuclear does. But because these people die one at a time in hospitals, we end up missing the scale of the tragedy as a society.

All numbers valid from 2008.
Here's the purchasing power of one Euro (EUR): https://www.statista.com/statistics/1055948/value-euro-since...
Hmm. How many computers or iPhones or cars or televisions or bicycles could I have bought in 1635 with one US dollar. Come to think of it, where would I have gotten a US dollar in 1635?

(And yes, I've studied lots of economics and understand price deflators, inflation, etc.; the point is, these comparisons don't really make sense over extended periods of time like this.)
Indeed! However, generation companies bidding on PPAs are in a somewhat different situation from LED lighting customers; if they bid 2% higher than the competition, they lose the deal, and if they bid 2% lower than what they'll actually produce, they build the plant and lose money on the deal. So if the average panel efficiency over a 20-year PPA is 91.0% of the initial efficiency (as this article suggests), but they'd budgeted for 95.4%, that's potentially a huge deal for them; it's the difference between being 2.3% low and 2.3% high.

By contrast, there are very few businesses that will be unprofitable if their LED lightbulbs burn out 2.3% faster than predicted. (LED lightbulbs burning out is a stupid market-for-lemons market failure, but that's a different topic.)

Panels getting better is actually another potential risk for these projects—if, three years from now, low-cost PV modules cost €0.09 per peak watt instead of €0.17 like today, then PV plants built at that point will have dramatically lower costs than PV plants built today, and probably PPAs signed then will also have dramatically lower costs. When plants are built without a PPA, this could result in those plants being "stranded assets" that can't make enough money to pay the interest on the bank loan, like many coal plants today, but even when there is a PPA, the electric utilities and ratepayers (who in many cases are also taxpayers) have strong incentives to find ways to circumvent it, for example through inflation or bankruptcy.

Now, €0.09/Wp sounds like a ridiculously low price; window glass, for example, costs substantially more than that. It's hard to see how PV panels could reduce their raw material use enough to get that low. So maybe it won't happen. Or maybe we'll find a way. (In Derctuo, for example, I suggested that new solar modules could use chicken wire instead of glass, though that might drop the efficiency of low-cost panels from 16% to 15%.)
Projects written in java/c#/python don't have to write their own ad-hoc http api in nodejs to access playwright from their language.
The weirdly tribal support for nuclear kind of confuses me.

Like, 10 years ago I thought nuclear was an essential part of the future energy mix, just as a sensible hedge against other things not working out. It's maybe been 5 years since that became obviously unnecessary as renewables continue to progress.

My opinion on nuclear hasn't really shifted in absolute terms. It's still much better than coal for example. But the possibility and now near certainty of solar, wind and batteries being better and cheaper has put them way ahead in relative terms. It's renewables that I've been getting new information or confirmation of old information which was speculative in that time frame. Nuclear hasn't really changed.

The people who remain loudly pro-nuclear, then seem in fact to be super pessimistic about renewables compared with me, rather than super positive about nuclear.

As you kind of confirm with your edits, you think solar is inadequate, when I think it is one of the most astonishly successful power technologies ever conceived by man.

How did we end up with such divergent views on renewables if we're broadly in tune about nuclear?
Really interesting!

I have a very small video game business (emphasis on small) and I already use Stripe to handle non-EU digital purchases. I specifically avoid taking money from EU customers because I briefly looked into the tax requirements and it seemed onerous. The registration process for really small businesses that did online sales was very weird, and unlike Canada or the US, the threshold question seems to be hard to answer (I think you have to pay taxes from day 1 even if you sell 50 euro per year?)

Anyways, I am glad stripe is adding this product, and I've signed up to join, but I am still wondering how complicated and expensive the whole process of registration for vat OSS was. I doubt I'd get more than 50 euro total per year in sales (yes, I mean 50 euro. not kidding).
>The wealthy will have their money in assets that may benefit from inflation (stock market up 30+% since pre-covid seem a little odd to anyone else?).

Who's selling that stock if the rich are buying it? From what I can tell it's mostly companies issuing new stock and leaving the money in their bank account and inflation is eating away at that money. Here is the thing, given a high enough inflation rate that money will be used to hire people. If you want to stick it to the poor that is an extremely ineffective way to do it.
I'm not sure what it is you think I'm trying to say, but much of your point seems to be "don't talk about things you don't understand", which I have no interest in abiding. I like talking about things I don't understand, and I've enjoyed the posts from you and others on the topic, even if I'll only ever be a layman.
Shooter games are just paintball wars for the brain.
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It's not necessarily as different as it seems. When you buy a second hand Tesla from Tesla it can happen that a feature that the previous owner had has been disabled. Tesla has in fact been accused of disabling features of cars that were not sold through them.

Does the 1000 USD upgrade buy the feature or merely enable it for the time that the owner owns the car?
"This account owner limits who can view their Tweets."
We already have fusion.

It's a 24/7 fusion reactor that requires no supervision or maintenance. There are minor energy losses due to its transmission being over 8 light-minutes in distance, but it provides 50% cover of the entire planet 100% of the time.