skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that also implies that we didn’t — and may still not — have all the data in front of us to make decisions.

We surely don’t - but we have more data than a year ago. And a year from now we’ll have even more
Sorry I asked for what is practical rolling use of smallpox vaccine.
Were you thinking that maybe foreign languages were substitution ciphers, and that you were eventually going to be taught the substitutions you needed?

I think I had a similar thought when I was about six or seven and came across the Cyrillic alphabet printed in the back of a dictionary. I thought "oh wow, I guess if you learn this, then you know Russian!" -- thinking of Russian as something like English transliterated into Cyrillic.

There are phenomena in language that do work a little bit this way (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relexification, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidance_speech) but usually at the word level and not in contexts that will really help second language learners.
Lol, doesn't take insider trading to see that one coming...
I don't disagree with the general sentiment that the GFC was a total disaster, and I'd certainly not argue against the idea that a system had developed that had poor incentives, with sometimes greedy and unethical people working in it. What kind of concerns me, though, is the way that poor decision-making is conflated with breaking the law, or the belief that a terrible outcome ex-post necessarily implies illegality. I don't really see this logic being applied in other walks of life - in most jobs, if you are incompetent, or even incompetent and amoral, you wouldn't expect to be prosecuted.

For the most part I'd not see the GFC as a morality tale but rather a kind of weird emergent phenomena whereby one area of the economy became so big and complex that it was beyond's anyone's ability to manage, and the interactions of the millions of bit players in it - all of whom in their own way wanted to succeed and do well for themselves - led to this collectively disastrous outcome.

Which isn't to say that nothing illegal occurred - I'm not sure how you'd draw a boundary around the GFC but there were a number of securities fraud prosecutions in the years afterwards - but I think if you take the GFC and subtract all illegal behaviour, you'd still have the GFC.
Uh I think the rule of thumb is, if you're writing a library do return an error tuple because it gives the caller the option, and if you're a mensch also provide a bang function. If you are consuming a library in most cases let it crash.
Kinesis data streams and firehouse were down. All but one out of 300 RDSs failed over. One was down for 5 hours.
this is a good guide to help people today, but gee i would sure recommend waiting another month or two for usb4/tb4 to actualize, before buying a dock that either has been out for a multiple years now, or which has a bunch of nearly identical competitors which have been out for multiple years.

to my knowledge even in tb3 different wire pairs were dedicated to different tasks. usb4 is different, in that it can transport pcie or displayport over a packet switched usb4 network. no longer do lines have to be dedicated to tasks. this makes hubs & switches far less particulars far more general devices.
>Millions of investors do that with no problems.

Err, example please? I'm totally blanking here, not gonna lie.
> We tend to do a sucky job of teaching math to kids. A lot of elementary school teachers are women who were encouraged to go into early education because they weren't doing so well in math and this is very much gender bias.

While this may be true and in general is in line with my experience, it might be better for you to reframe it in a more indirect way because sooner or later you'll find someone offended.
Lots of people who do insider trading think "if I don't do it then I won't get caught. I'll just have my [wife, dad, brother, cousin, mother-in-law] do the trade and the SEC will never figure it out".
30 days? That's some bullshit. Legislators trading based on closed-doors meetings related to "national security" (covid briefings) or even pending market-moving legislation should be on par with insider trading. It's not, and they will never collectively vote against their interests, to use their information for personal gain.
In cases where something really should be in the map, I like to use &Map.fetch!/2.
I’m under the impression that representatives are legally incapable of insider trading. Being in the congress privileges them to use the information they hear during speech and debate as they see fit.
I have a fair bit of experience writing Rust code and the current status is totally deliberate. I find module file sizes of about 400-800 lines of code optimal in terms of my ability to find things vs the unnecessary complexity of having to skip around files when changing something that touches an API boundary.
The mid-90's Toyotas were wonderfully reliable vehicles but the plastic parts are failing.

Maybe I'll give up and dive into retro cars fully with a post-war Citroen 2CV? Naah!
There is competition. Businesses that aren't large enough to fund their own cables buy bandwidth from large ISP's, which are likely to invest in more undersea cables when they anticipate selling more bandwidth.

Meanwhile, the big content providers are using two thirds of the bandwidth. It seems like if everyone suddenly switched to something else then that would cause a lot of disruption, but not if the change is gradual.
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> The telescope consumes 250 kilowatts of power.

250 toasters.
Sherwin Nuland wrote in his book "How We Die" that he really regretted getting experimental treatment for his brother who was dying of cancer. The side effects of the drugs were quite painful and his brother ended up dying anyways. He argued that people who are going to die should be allowed to die in the most peaceful and least painful way possible rather than gamble on some unproven treatment. That said, Alzheimer's is such a horrific disease that it's hard to imagine a peaceful or pain free death. People literally starve to death from "forgetting" the ability swallow. Sorry to hear about your loss. Nuland talked about euthanasia in his book as well. He gave an example of a professor who had Alzheimer's and decided to take his own life rather than wait for the disease to progress. Rather than forcing people like that to do that, Nuland believes palliative care and euthanasia has a role to play in such cases.
Do you know any more blog posts, like the OP's, talking about internal culture at Stripe?
There's a strange pattern in figures 1 and 2 of the paper [1], showing the energy distribution between modes as a function of time. Rescale time so that the energy peaks of mode 1 happen at t=0 and t=1. Then the energy peaks of mode 2 happen at t=1/2, the energy peaks of mode 3 happen at t=1/3 and t=2/3, the energy peaks of mode 4 happen at t=1/4 and t=3/4, and so on. The peaks of mode N seem to happen at t=m/N where m/N is a fraction in lowest form.

I have to believe Fermi would have noticed this pattern, but there seems to be little comment on it either in the paper, or in the linked article. Perhaps the reason for it is so obvious that he thought it not worth publishing. I just wish I knew what it was.

This is an unrelated but nice quote:

> "In the compound pendulum problem, one has a transfer of energy from one degree of freedom to another and back again, and not a continually increasing sharing of energy between the two. What is perhaps surprising in our problem is that this kind of behaviour still appears in systems with, say, 16 or more degrees of freedom."

[1] http://www.physics.utah.edu/~detar/phys6720/handouts/fpu/Fer...
>You are the one making the claims; you need to provide the evidence.

There is evidence that human evolution is actually speeding up since the dawn of agriculture.

"...scientists can study the changes in the frequency of an allele occurring in a tiny subset of the population over a single lifetime, the shortest meaningful time scale in evolution"[0]

>humans have been biologically the same for around 200,000 years.

Human evolution did not abruptly stop. It has continued. [1]

>any real evolutionary changes are so small that they practically don't exist

Evolution can occur in tiny changes and large changes. Most changes are adaptive evolution which changes the species over time. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_human_evolution
[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/culture-speeds-up...
[2] https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/evolutionary-adapt...
>Insider trading violations may also include "tipping" such information, securities trading by the person "tipped," and securities trading by those who misappropriate such information.

It sounds to me like even giving information to someone if you know that person will trade is illegal.

https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...
Lots of egregious violations of #4 and #5 where I work. Leaving a meeting or not even showing up to one even if only to just "observe" comes off as passive aggressive.
DD-WRT also supports this (wifi mode: "client")
Met a couple a few years ago who’d recently lost their teenaged son tamping down a corn bin; still have nightmares about the details. This will be wonderful if it’s accessible to all farmers.
this is even better:

if function_exported?(Mix, :__info__, 1) and Mix.env() == :dev do
Logger.configure_backend(:console, device: Process.group_leader())
end

It makes logger work like IO; where if it spits it out it doesn't disrupt the prompt. Don't run it in prod, though.
What People Do in Retirement, Hour by Hour (2019)
Well I find this really good. Maybe because I am younger and used to multitasking.
But before pandemic just sitting in person meetings and trying to focus for 2 hours to not let my mind wander was really exhausting. Not since everything is remote I can also do some work while 2 hour meetings are being done. And afterwards I don't feel as tired as I did when we had physical meetings
It seems like it would useful to have some kind of probationary approval for situations like this. If the data isn't convincing and the only alternative patients have is death, approve the drug under the condition that the manufacturer must greatly subsidize the cost until they have data that is convicing or the manufacturer loses confidence and withdraws from the market.

This might be a terrible idea given how complex and delicate the incentive structures are in healthcare.
That's a false dichotomy. Paywalls aren't the only alternative to ads. If companies can come up with user-respecting business models, I'd be happy to support them. If their business is worth supporting.
It was satire but with more than a grain of truth to it.

Meant to initiate some thought, but don't take it too seriously.
Great point. Updated as such. Thank you.
About once a year I come across a really great, well written article (IMO). This is one of them. Highly recommend reading this if you are a sr dev or above technologist.
Err, wouldn't most of these millions be employees of the company, who receive stock options as a benefit or a bonus?
> one of the first signs of how Obama was going to betray the progressives and let Bush's status quo remain.

Was it Bush's status quo? That's not an insinuation or loaded question, I'm just wondering if Bush just perpetuated what came before (from Clinton, or Reagan, or Bush Sr.), and Obama continued in that tradition.

I assume there was more teeth to enforcement of this at some point in the past (I hope), but don't really know enough to know when that would have been.
Nothing stays viable forever. You may be able to dump it into preservative brine, but you can't halt spontaneous nuclear breakdown.
Why 20? Why not 10? or 5, maybe 1hrs a week some how people will magically get more done than 40hrs a week.
Wow I would have guessed 10x that
You can’t even make the Bitcoin transaction that investment would require for that pathetic energy usage.
All great advice. I guess I behave in many of these ways just because of my personality, I've never understood (or liked) people who try to entrench themselves in some position and become irreplaceable, I've never seen how you can think that is a good strategy for yourself, and this article explains some of that.
Yeah they must be including all underlying os and libraries in that LOC not to say that it's all official Ford created code. Still insane tho
If the car alerts the driver very seldomly, like once or twice in the lifetime of the car, then it could be a dangerous situation as the driver would be somewhat shocked. That or the driver would need to struggle to remain vigiliant as, day after day, the car did the right thing.
Nope, fast-radio-bursts (FRB's) aren't commonly attributed to quasars.

From ["Not all fast radio bursts are created equal"](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03894-6), 2020-01-06:

> Curiously, because the luminosity of a typical quasar is not dissimilar to the peak luminosity of an FRB, we cannot yet completely discount the involvement of supermassive black holes. But Marcote and colleagues’ results argue against that possibility, and the timescales for quasar variability are more likely to be days to months than milliseconds.

Wikipedia has a [section on hypotheses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_radio_burst#Origin_hypoth...).
“Swarm” That Lit-Up Radar Was Almost Certainly Caused by the Military
I noticed that WikiPedia does something that would work for you; if you don't login and click the link in the email, they stop delivering wiki page change notifications.
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Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome
The book is a must-read. I keep multiple copies to give away to anyone receptive. It has aged very well.
Bandcamp's app is no longer listed on Google Play
At least then it can be their names on the rubber stamp.
I appear to be the highest ranked openly female member on HN. I can suck up a few downvotes from people who don't like me or don't like what I am saying and that, in fact, seems to be par for the course here.

Thank you for otherwise validating my position, but I'm not going to soften it. If the truth about our world bothers people, they are free to make something else true instead of asking me to cater to their feelings at the expense of stating the truth.

Edit:

I will add I am unwilling to back down on this point because we are actively giving young women a math phobia and crushing their dreams with it instead of telling them to get a tutor and work for what they want and we are doing so in a manner that causes them to pass their math phobia onto future generations.

This isn't just a case of "sexism sucks." We are poisoning our entire society with this garbage and it negatively impacts huge numbers of people.
That would remove all incentives to actually seek regulatory approval for drugs. We'd end up with an unlimited number of treatments trying to convince desperate laypeople of their benefits.

Another angle: yes, you would be willing to try any experimental drug you're reading about these days. So would I. But that's because the current regulatory system ensures that "experimental drugs" are usually at least good-faith efforts to produce a working, beneficial drug.
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Revue lets you export your subscriber emails.

This is cheaper than substack, with less lock-in, and integration with Twitter. Seems like a win all around.
> All of this makes it hard to move beyond stage 2 into stage 3.

Often, moving to the stage 3 is a waste of time and resources. There are a few cases if your business's main secret sauce is stage 3, but for most other things - commoditize and focus.

I've seen so many teams and engineers trying to master stage 3 but no real business need and ROI. Engineers love mastering things but good leaders guide them in the right things to master and avoid getting addicted to useless stage 3 expertise.
I would like to know why they don't use GPUs for training but vCPUs.
Yes, without context it's just not interesting.
I wanted to map the cities, but without state name, quite a few of the cities are ambiguous. For example, MA, MO, and OR all have a city named Springfield.
The pandemic was definitely a "thing" through all of February, just binned as something that happens to Other People. February 24th was when US stock markets started to really react, and it was maybe 2 weeks until major US cities were making decisions like schooling from home.

There was plenty of opportunity through January and February for "prescient" trading decisions. The main decisions in question are those executed by US legislators immediately following a national security briefing. I'm not saying it's illegal, it's not; but they're assholes for selling after the briefing and still deliberately telegraphing otherwise.
The NSA has a lot of resources at their disposal. If they wanted to, they could be like a better version of Project Zero: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/about-project-zero....

I think the only issue would be maintainers too suspicious to accept patches from the NSA.
Chaff (Countermeasure)
A fire sale.
It looks more fun to use.
the source without paywall: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/announ...
I was recently recommended Brainpop Jr. I signed up only 2 days ago so can't yes attest to the results.
Wow you really do sound serious. I have done ghost development for 2 jobs before, as in I took the job and had juniors help me out although I was doing majority of the work. Never thought of 10 jobs.

This seems way better for me to set my own funds straight than chasing investors for my product ideas. I do not think I can pull off the work needed though...
I would think they train for predicting the normal case from positions near the airport to touch down and from touch down to the parking positions at the airport.
Typo on page 56, "Laprange" instead of "Lagrange". Also I find it strange that logarithms are part 10 / page 121, after Newtonian mechanics.
> If that is true, then per person contributions to ad funded services would be roughly propotional to personal spending. Someone spending 10 times as much as another person would also pay 10 times as much for using Google search or Youtube.

> If these services were subscription based then both would pay the same price in absolute terms, which is very regressive in comparison.

This is the part where you kind of lose me, unless a rich person is also watching 10x as many videos on Youtube. It seems like you're saying a fixed percentage of a person's spending is going to the websites they visit, but why would that be the case?

You will see the same number of ads on a Youtube video regardless of whether you're rich or poor. And the cost of each of those ads -- the amount of money that gets paid out by the business -- is based on the competition for the ad slot, not the price of the product. I wouldn't take it as a given that products like Taco Bell and Pepsi spend less on online advertising than a luxury watch brand. If anything, I would expect products in crowded consumer markets (ie lower-cost, non-specialized, mass-market goods and services) to have more competitive ad slots that cost more money to target.

So I understand that rich people spend more money, I agree with you on that. But I don't see how you're connecting that fact to the idea of more money from those rich people going to the websites who are displaying ads. I don't see the thread of logic that says that a product costing $500 per unit is contributing more ad money to a website than a product that costs $5 per unit.
Well, no.

Suppose you have 64-bit one-time identifiers for password reset links. With base-85 encoding, it's 11 characters, short enough to even type manually.

I suppose a password-reset link should expire within an hour. Scanning the entire 64-bit space in an hour in search of a working password-reset link is infeasible: rate-limiting will prevent it, and monitoring will warn about the attempt.

A feasible attack vector could be on the generation algorithm, but I suppose a good link shortener won't use a simple predictable RNG.
I was going to ask if DXT was still relevant since ASTC has come out, but, uh, apparently ASTC never got implemented on anything desktop? Weird.

There's BC6H/BC7 but it's not as flexible and doesn't do normal maps.

Edit: I misread the description of 3Dc and cancel what I said about normal maps being stuck on DXT5. But there's still a lot of use of DXT5 for normal maps, which is a weird thing to see recommended when 3Dc is almost the same but strictly better.
> Also, imagine if your doctor only worked 20 hours a week.

The reduction in misdiagnoses and straight up practical errors might give them better throughput overall?
It looks like her TSLA stock is down from when she purchased it, because there is no corresponding sale and TSLA is trading for less than it was on 12/21/2020 (and has been for the last month... the disclosure period for trades). So instead of purchasing an index fund, which would be up 10% since 12/21/20, she purchased TSLA which is down ~5%.

So this trade underperformed the market by 15%, which seems like it is a horrible trade. Am I missing something? Why did you say she made a killing?
> When I worked in an office I never worried about being the first to leave, and didn't even realize other people do.

A lot of it is scarcity vs abundance mindset. Many people are quite scared to lose their jobs. I know people making six figures who would be in deep shit if they had a month of no paychecks while switching jobs.
> operational solar assets are continuing to experience higher than expected rates of degradation, with annual degradation in the field observed at around 1%.

So, after 33 years (12,000 days producing, oh, 10kWh per day = 120 MWh), they'll only put out 2/3 of their rated output? ? Without doing the financial math, already sounds like a damn good investment to me.

And, I'd guess, we'll get better at making them in that time.
They did compare it to placebo, plus, humans don’t compare to placebo they compare to their status quo condition.
It is not only that, awareness plays crucial role in safety, there are numerous factors that negatively effects awareness, some factors might not be related to job at all, it might be "simple" commutative cognitive fatigue. Arguably, this issue is irrespective of training quality and/or understanding of job risks (smart), to large degree.
I personally find that I want opinionated advice in two scenarios: either all the options look indistinguishably similar or they are very different sets of trade-offs that leave no clear winner. At that point, the advice is more a tool for breaking decision paralysis than a choice between options with noticeably different outcomes.
Not sure what you mean by “special treatment”. I’m well compensated for the work that I do, and remote positions are not exactly hard to find these days.
Out of curiosity what was the outcome of each of these? Did Amazon drop on any of them? Hypothetically if they're all up, then it suddenly seems way less sketchy.
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