skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title of this should really be "why you shouldn't use 3rd party link shorteners". There are lots of good reasons to use internal shorteners (and this article even ends by telling their own users to use their internal gov.uk link shortener).

At reddit we had a link shortener (redd.it) that was automatic for every post, which was useful for posting on social media, especially twitter, when the limit was 140 charters. There are lots of other uses for internal link shorteners too, like just having nicer URLs for publishing or saying out loud.

But yes, the article is totally right about 3rd party link shorteners.
CAAS - Car As A Service.
It’s just too rare to pop up in the studies, even if n=30000
>in a band of well-to-do humans...

Very sincere question.

From my understanding, most bands were not well to do and specialization wasn't so common until recent history ( agrarian ages ). So in these instances wouldn't cognitive abilities be more generally valuable?

Also, if you were a gathering type and needed to survive for a week away from your group the cognitive skills to recognize resources, weather, threats, etc as well as navigate back to your group would require a certain aptitude. Those without the aptitude would simply not return. Correct?
Shrinkflation and a New Tool to Track Price Inflation in Real Time
We have a powershell script that:

1. Copies the production do
2. Removes sensitive data
3. Deploys the chosen build of that app (from Appveyor) pointing to that db

So in a nutshell CI/CD pipeline

If you are having trouble perhaps there are a lot of manual steps to your deployment.
viruses and bacteria doing crispr like stuff since the dawn of time. there's a whole microbiome that could affect human embryos
I was also wondering that. There was only the tiniest spot of blood when I got mine.
Reminds me a bit of this:
https://discord.statuspage.io/incidents/62gt9cgjwdgf

In particular:
"14:55 - Engineers pinpoint the issue to be strongly correlated to a spike in errors in originating from our service discovery modules. It is determined that the service discovery processes of our API service had gotten into a crash loop due to an unexpected deserialization error. This triggered an event called "max restart intensity" where, the process's supervisor determined it was crashing too frequently, and decided to trigger a full restart of the node. This event occurred instantaneously across approximately 50% of the nodes that were watching for API nodes, across multiple clusters. We believed it to be related to us hitting a cap in the number of watchers in etcd (the key-value store we use for service discovery.) We attempt to increase this using runtime configuration. Engineers continue to remediate any failed nodes, and restore service to our users."
Correlation vs causation is irrelevant in most dog bite contexts, where the practical concern is harm avoidance.
Opinions are my own.

I'm not sure if we're being led to focus on a wrong problem. I hate intrusive Ads as much as everyone else. However, it's not only that "when you open your browser, you are exposed to risk". It's also:

- Every time you use Windows (without turning off all the bad settings)

- Every time you connect to a Cell tower (telcos openly sell your location data)

- Every time you use your credit cards

Now, I'm not saying those are OK, or to justify intrusive Ads. However, I see a magnitude difference in the "violation of my privacy" for the above cases. The media and certain communities keep focusing on Ads tech because it drives clicks. But then we let the Telcos, Insurance, and Credit Card companies establish a creeping normality on our privacy violation.

We don't spend as much effort to stop Telco from directly selling our location data [1], but we have daily threads about companies indirectly use our location data for targeting Ads. Are we having our priority wrong? I couldn't shake the feeling that we're being led by a different narrative. The best situation of course is when we have good privacy laws and practices. However, focusing on the wrong priority like this is how we let other (much more severe) violators (Insurance, Telcos) get away with their creeping normality.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2020/02/28/fcc-set-to-fine-big-t...
They break sites that are broken by design. If a site isn't usable with html and css it's the devs fault. They don't get to dictate my browser's capability or assume I don't have special accessibility needs.
There are lots of contradicting advice in the Erlang/Elixir land.

Garret Smith likes microfunctions, while Saša Jurić avoids them.

Same with "tagged with statement" pattern - Saša Jurić prefers it over Ecto.Multi in transactions, while this post discourages it's use at all.
If you're looking for substance, the article itself is from a related blog on technology, and there's a book compiling ~100 highlight articles from that. The short list is just that: a short list.
A Denialism Taxonomy
Not in a lot of Europe. Tolls are high and gas taxes are high. Driving from London to Rome can cost several hundred euros in tolls.
NVidia is using Ada for their automative research.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/02/05/adacore-secure-auto...
I honestly don't understand what you're getting at.

In the above comment you seemed to suggest that companies would already be charging more for rental cars if they could.

So I pointed out that consumers might be willing to pay more for a rental in return for a higher perceived value in the form of extra features being enabled.
You create a fictional world to make your narrative fit. People generally have the same density. It's odd to assume some people could be as dense as a balloon and some as a bowling ball, all the while ignoring that weight is by and large the determining factor when it comes to impinging upon the seat real estate of those sitting next to you.
This seems to be a US thing at least at the moment.

Here is Switzerland the government specifically says if you have had a positive Corona test you should not vaccinate for at least 6 month and if you do after that only 1 shot not 2.

Then again we had a vaccine shortage so that may also have something to do with it.
Well NATO-aligned countries seem to be the only ones claiming that it’s true. There’s a pretty clear pattern in US history. Or are you still hoping for Saddam’s WMDs to show up to justify the fact that due to the US’ use of depleted uranium munitions, Fallujah now has one of the highest rates of birth defects, childhood cancer, and multiple cancers in the world?
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The mistake is thinking about hours instead of output. The notion of full-time comes from the factory model, where your output is a function of the time you spend working.

For knowledge work, we have known this is not the case for a very long time.

Peter Drucker has written rivers of ink about the subject.

The most valuable knowledge work, many times happen in the unlikeliest of places: the shower, working out, on a walk, watching tv, etc.

Solutions to problems come when they do, not when you want them to. The main thing that happens at the office is the busy work.
It's not inevitable. At one point we made a 6th gen Honda Civic.
Except me, if I open up my RSS reader, I'm usually looking for something new. I turn Youtube videos into audio podcasts using a service, and put them in a podcast client that's separate from my RSS reader.
May wife got severe joint pain like arthritis across both arms and in other parts of her body after the Pfizer vax. She's getting several tests done and has been doing physical therapy.
It was several months ago and it doesn't seem to be getting better.

Her PT said she's been seeing lots of these.

She never had covid. I hope she gets better, it's been really difficult.
I'd say after reading about this phenomena in other media, it's fairly common for tech workers right now. I understand the frustration of management to a certain degree, "what do you mean you don't want to come work in this beautiful expensive office now??? We have coffee, video games, etc!"

But the reality is I NEVER wanted to drive an hour for ANY office. I did simply because I had little choice. Now that I have a choice, I'm going to maximize it. It really is all about the travel time for me. I enjoy being in an office simply because it tends to make my day fly by... and I usually return home with great stories to share. But, the cost is way too high (time is money).

When I worked for Overstock, the CEO made such a big deal about this beautiful edifice he had erected.... The Peace Coliseum, it's called. The thing is, no one ever ASKED him to build it. As an engineer, I was quite satisfied at our old rented office space. But I get it, often when you're at that level, the edifice is an extension of your ego.
My car is bland and functional. If I go to LA then I’ll hire a convertible. If I go to Alberta something big and maybe 4 wheel drive. If I go to Nice I’ll hire a Citroen C1.
China's "not famous for quality" because a lot of people don't want to pay for quality, but they can for sure make quality things.

Sure, and that's what I want to know - are the Chinese solar panels being used in the industry premium good quality ones are the cheaper low quality ones?
"Blue-collar" worker here. safety is the first trade we learn in school and the first job we start at every site. Your real uphill battle with this thing isnt going to be safety, its repair. Can I fix it with a stick welder and parts from a Tractor Supply? If not, its just another John Deere money machine.

If you REALLY want farmers to use it, make it OPEN SOURCE.
> So you want a mechanical door lock, manual windows, no car stereo, no power steering, no thermostat, no cruise control, etc...

I think an extremely small minority of people who want a "dumb" car don't want those features. I feel like you're just making up a strawman here. It's pretty clear (at least to me), that the people who want a dumb car are talking about things integrating with your phone or being displayed on a touch screen. I think anything that existed 20 years ago is not regarded as dumb by basically anybody.
Especially when the most famous electric car maker is marketing so heavily on self-driving, it's just going to get more and more software.
"To them it's no different than trying not to land on your ass trying to pin an implement to the tractor in the mud. Going into a silo or grain hopper is not a dangerous task to them."

I have been on HN since 2012 and this comment is the dumbest shit I have ever seen posted here. By a fair margin.

If you climb into an enclosed space with both burial and dust explosion hazards and your internal alarms aren't going off loud and strong ... you are, sadly, an idiot.

Most of the people I know who handle tasks like this are not idiots.
But how do you take this to a code review scenario? Are these suggestions that you can take or ignore?
> unless it's just the immune reaction to the spike protein that causes the problem?

If the problem is inflammation then that seems entirely plausible... I thought that an immune response was exactly what inflammation is
Kinda, see https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/Kernel.SpecialForms.html#with...
Surely the AGI researchers have a benchmark though, don't they? Somebody else mentioned the Turing Test which is something...
Lawyers tend to love it when their opponents think they've found a cute legal hack.
I call the heart part the bonus round. And same, it took me several months to get better.
Managers are not needed but management is. There are many ways to fulfill the task of management, one way is to have a manager, one way is to have the developers handle it themselves.

If you're lucky you can get a team of devs who are capable of self-managing and communicating with the outside world and handling everything else they need to do to be successful besides just writing code (writing JDs, talking to customers, dealing with budget, etc.)

But hiring a team like that is hard. Developers like that cost a lot of money. The law of comparative advantage is a real thing. If you can't hire a team that can manage everything themselves you can at least piece together people who can fulfill the different functions.

And that's how you end up with developers and managers.
Plex is pretty solid, I run it on a low power Linux box at home with a few hard drives of media.

It’s great for sharing with friends and stuff too. Has decent mobile apps, but haven’t used it much for music.
Presumably the effect is also bounded by the fact that it can't reproduce.
> Your model is busted - the Flynn effect has already reversed and intelligence is decreasing again.

Which metric are we using to measure intelligence this time? How do you know it gives meaningful results for what you're trying to use it to measure? (Please don't say IQ.) And has the study been replicated?

> The risk has nothing to do with what the concrete pressures are, but how much error correction bandwidth we have vs background mutation load rate.

But the selection effects you've described are all local and weak. Worst-case scenario – absolute worst-case scenario – the city Americans marry rural Africans and the problem goes away. But it won't get to that point.

Eliezer Yudkowsky knows a lot about philosophy of thought, and AI theory, but he hasn't put as much effort into learning about genetics. If the average geneticist isn't worried, chances are that he's made a mistake in his reasoning (or that you're misunderstood his concerns) – and I haven't heard anybody in a biological field worrying about this.

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Wait, are you talking about his “in the absence of selection pressure, we'll get mutations that aren't filtered out”? If so… that's a hundreds of generations kind of problem, and I'm confident that stuff like IVF embryo selection (selecting against the genes for known genetic conditions) is already counteracting that effect. (Yes, this is technically eugenics, yes it could get dystopian if we're not careful, no it doesn't justify what the word “eugenics” makes you think of, no I shouldn't feel the need to write this parenthetical, yes this is the internet we're talking about.)

Transposons are likely to be a bigger issue. I read that they've started duplicating themselves more recently, and we don't really know why.

But imagine the human genome (for some unidentified reason that hasn't happened in the last thousand years) starts degrading across the entire world, so we only have a hundred years left before no human fœtuses are viable. We could just GM a human embryo to be the genetic child of modern-day humans (whose genome we've already sequenced), and we roll-back any mysterious genetic problems that far-future humans might develop.

There is an upper bound to how bad things can get, even imagining something out of a sci-fi novel, so I am highly suspicious of the motives of people who get loudly concerned about the “decline of the human genome”.
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The government printed fiat money in the Civil War.

WW1 was financed with fiat money.
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The vaccine produces spike protein and some research suggests that the spike protein itself is the source of vascular system damage. There was a contention that the vaccine spike protein is designed to stay on the surface of infected cells and not freely circulate into the bloodstream in large quantities but we also just don’t know for certain. It could even have to do with how the vaccine is administered and whether it largely affects the lymph system or a large quantity makes its way into the bloodstream.

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/the-novel-coronavirus-spik...
Curtis Roads's “Composing Electronic Music,” the Bad Parts
Regurgitating the pre-packaged US line
"Pet Peeve #208: Maps that are actually just population density"

https://xkcd.com/1138/
I muddled the point. Not as a contractor literally, but as a "sharecropper" who must provide more things themselves instead of work providing them.

> Personally I would even buy my own laptop for work

This reduces your income if work would pay for it. This reminds me of some jobs where employees have to buy their own uniforms, equipment, etc. as the point I almost made.
You Don't Get to Know Who Won the Titled Arena, Sorry
Dogs have been bred, and certain breeds are nature-inclined to certain behaviors, but the parent is somewhat correct in that the influence of that nature is limited.

However, I think the more powerful correlation is that of owners selecting breeds and training for expected behaviors: Some Newfies can be trained not to jump in the water at every opportunity (mine is capable of this restraint, but will always let me know she wants to). Few Newfies will be afraid of the water. But dog owners who know they want their dogs in and around water may select Newfies, swim with them, and otherwise encourage that behavior. More relevant to the article, owners who want dogs to guard their property will select certain breeds who may have only a slight nature for guarding but will nurture that behavior.
I have a hard time figuring out how to bridge the gap when even "riot" is used without appending "... in the US Capitol, at a time when the transition of power was being formalized".

I could understand not wanting to call it "insurrection", a somewhat rare and specific word. And if you don't want to use "overthrow", OK, I don't want to get hung up on semantics.

But it's hard to see this as not attempting to alter the transition of power, and in so doing subvert the most basic principle under which people who disagree can live together. And even that would not have been so important if it had just been a series of isolated nut jobs, but it's clear that they believed that they were doing so under the direction of the person who was losing power. And who had used other less-than-entirely-above-board mechanisms for that as well.

I just don't think it's feasible to present it as merely civil disobedience. The thing that they wanted to be heard about was a denial of the process by which others get their rights to be heard. Not just about this one event, but forever.

The fact is that they could not have succeeded. But they were the most vehement of an extremely large cohort of people who have been convinced that this basic rule of modern nations -- that elections are the means by which we make collective decisions -- is invalid. Even if they're wrong, it becomes true if enough of them believe it.

The threat of actual violence that day is dwarfed by that larger issue. I don't know how to respond to it. They have a self-realizing truth, one which I believe makes the country a much, much worse place to be.
Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!
In my state (WA), we can't have all of our employees in the exempt status [1]. I'm guessing its the same for most companies in WA?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/exempt-employee.asp
High student graduates holding sign: 'Rapists don't belong at graduation'
I do wish there was one for the Nintendo Switch.
I’d be interested to see a source. I know of rat models that show a very small accumulation in ovaries, but these rats were afaik given doses in the range of 300x-1000x that of a human. And the accumulation in the ovaries or other regions was still incredibly small, despite the dosage given.
Analog for the People: Synth Master Tatsuya Takahashi on Engineering Fun (2017)
This is the very reason I drive a 1988 Suburban. The mileage isn't good, but it's not worse than most modern SUV's.
Agreed with your observation. Every news source has been brimming with stories on potential adverse reactions as they are discovered, including ones that I'm sure GP would dismiss as "MSM" or "the radical left." The reality is that all current evidence suggests the virus is still far worse than any vaccine side effects.
A few manufacturers, expensive ones included, are reverting to screens and physical controls.

I think there is proof your eyes spend more time off the road when using a touch screen compared to physical controls
lol that is crazy.

Just leave the control to the person behind the wheel, but somehow that's too stretched of an idea.

I hope the F150 E truck will not have those 'automatic' features. but then again, I kind of wanted lane keeping and follow so maybe that's just the necessary evil. Maybe 'modes' where it gives all controls to me when I wanted it?
Why would you guess more dogs are kept indoors in California? Much of Texas gets too hot for dogs to live outdoors during the summer.
Then why only look at one correlation? Wouldn't it make more sense to look any many correlations that could potentially correlate better, such as owner demographics? Or would it be better to only discriminate against dogs and not their owners? We all know how much the dogs use USPS.

If harm avoidance is the goal then why not take it on by promoting better dog upbringing?
Then the next lines of defence will be warrantee negation, OEM parts locking, sensor/actuator distribution (like seat-thermo tied to airbag weight sensor), safety regulation either directly or through failed inspection scams.
If that was even remotely true, we would still be sitting in caves sharing raw animal scraps. Fortunately it's not true, and things like discovering fire and inventing tools don't take resources away from others, but instead increase resources for everyone. This is just as true in the modern economy.

Obviously the inventor of fire got more of a reward from his invention's bounty, but everyone still benefited. Similarly whoever automates your job gets most of the reward, but ideally we all benefit through cheaper products.

At least, that's how it's supposed to work. Obviously it doesn't always.
I understand your concern about dogs, but the question is why we would think what a person believes about a breed of dogs impacts how they approach humans. You said it well yourself:

> People care less when it's done to dogs because people are not dogs
Physical controls are vastly more useful - when the control you want available can be planned ahead of time. You get touch feedback when you're operating it, of where it is and what state it's in. You don't have to look. Missing it with your finger is obvious.

Glass controls are optimal for precisely only one scenario, and that is when you don't know ahead of time what will need to be on the screen. That's why smartphones use them.
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There are no infinite rewards in biology and yet mathematicians seem to do just fine answering these sorts of questions.

I don’t think you want to encode your problem domain in your reward system. It’d be like asking a logic gate to add when you really should be reaching for an FPU. Maybe I’m missing something though?
yes, it is. it adapts. firings get less strong as we get used to stimulus, and neurons that fire together wire together. so different connections form on more important info.
My aunt moved into an old age home and there is one chap that uses a mobility scooter to drive down the road to the local convenience store.

He has to cross a rather busy road though.
Had both covid and 2 shots. Covid was the most pain I've ever felt in my entire life. I thought I was going to die. And I'm "young". The shots were like the kiddie ride version of it. Still felt bad but man, I wish I could have had that over covid.