skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kahan summation is better than naive summation, but not perfect. The stable_mean algorithm in the article is not perfect either. It just has more precision than the naive one, but it more or less has the same precision as twice-as-precise floats.

>>> data = (1_000_000.1, 1.1, -1_000_000.1, -1.1) * 25_000

>>> sum(data) / len(data) == -2.3283153183228934e-16

>>> sum(sorted(data)) / len(data) == 2.7122441679239272e-11

>>> stable_mean(data) == -2.571225228716577e-13

>>> float(sum(numpy.array(data, dtype=numpy.float128)) / len(data)) == 2.2648549702353195e-19

Note that in python there is a math.fsum function which return a perfectly rounded summation of floats. There are multiple different techniques for that, but they are more complex than Kahan summation.

>>> math.fsum(data) / len(data) == 0.0
I feel that averages studies like this miss that people who copied off other people's work in the office, and unproductive middle managers, are way less productive than they were before because it's clear now. And that a lot of people are way more productive, but it won't come in averages.
For some this opinion might be contentious/taboo, but mild autism is prevalent across much of the skilled labor pool in STEM - and I count myself within that statistic. So it'll be interesting in a couple of generations what might happen to this labor pool if the potential to screen for the broad autism phenotype affects who is born and/or affects sexual selection.
Compare https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
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Country code domains are common in many countries outside the USA.

If it's clear I'm not local, something like "yahoo.ca" or "mail.ru" is not confusing, except perhaps for Colombians (.co). A local with an address in the "wrong" country can be confusing if it's obscure.

Within a country, using a less-common second level domain (e.g. .org.uk) for a personal domain can be confusing. I've had people say "so that's example.org.uk.com then?" or "what was that, symbiote-example.org.uk@gmail?"
Why CBN seeks to float digital currency – Mohammed
The Weird Science of Edgar Allan Poe
Considering that the author does extensively discuss what he considers to be ahistorical British diction in the Latin speaking, and that Romans (even those that were from Italy!) were much more visibly ethnically varied than modern Italian regional groups, and doesn't at any point raise the 19th century politican position that Italians were insufficiently white to deserve prestige in or even admittance to the United States, that seems to be rather a lot of projection on your part
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27466374

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27466344
There's always a risk that equipment that was running fine, will fail when powered back on, even if not damaged otherwise by the incident.

Thermal expansion/contraction is one thing - a solder joint that was marginal might have contracted enough to actually break.
> what people managers are paid to do. The job is to align a large groups of people on tasks while maintaining coordination with other large groups and keeping morale high.

And if WFH improves output and morale at the cost of more difficult management, isn't that absolutely worth it for managers? Their entire effort is dedicated to enabling contributors, if a policy does just that then they should push for it.

I do mechanical engineering, we design stuff for our manufacturing operators and our customer's operators. Whenever some amount of effort on my side may reduce the operator's burden over the life of the product, it's absolutely worth it. I'm not going to make a subpar design just to save myself an analysis, that's the job.

So if WFH requires more management effort, and results in better output for the team, it should be pushed by management. Managers shouldn't compromise their team's output and morale just to save themselves some remote meetings.
Duh, Irish people (and even Germans) weren't considered properly 'white' in the US.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
The HL2 leak was super cool and practically a behind the scenes copy. Untextured walls, unfinished levels, all sorts of fascinating test areas. Great reference.
I've never watched either of the two shows mentioned and I understood the article just fine. I'm not American either. The cartoon trivia is explained in the same single paragraph it's mentioned in, and the office trivia is explained in the single sentence that mentions it.
Show HN: Ansible CLI Search for Modules
As the README says: "Just a little bit of scraping to quickly get what you need".
I suppose that depends on your definition of normal everyday work though, if you're developing device drivers or something that needs to write into shared mmap'd memory or whatever `unsafe` is something you're going to need all the time (from my 0 rust experience understanding?)
If value is transferred by force, this is theft.
Maybe a community-made Titanfall 3 will finally happen!
With iTerm2, oh my zsh, and Magnet for tiling-ish windows i am happier than i have ever been with linux.

There are a lot of very nice Mac-only Apps and the device integration is phenomenal.

You have to understand what "security" features to turn off tho before it is really usable for 3rd party apps.
> I think confirmation bias afflicts aficionados most of all.

Interesting to link this to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467999 (hedgehogs/foxes and "one big idea"); the people with one big idea, who are aficionados of that idea, are easier to exploit because they're using the idea to avoid being contingent: that is, they're not looking at what's actually happening, merely whether they can fit the idea to it.

Following this, a lot of modern social media culture war consists of (a) selling you a universal idea that explains everything you see in the media and then (b) recruiting you into a cult which uses your support (money, votes) for their own gain. The ur-example is of course Nazism selling the idea that Jews were the problem to which they had the "solution", but you can see analogies to this all over the political spectrum.
Can this sort of thing be refused? If you're paying for your education - in some cases very dearly - you're a customer aren't you?
In the first season of Mr Robot, when they want to create financial chaos by wiping records of all debt, iirc they trigger a fire alert in a datacenter to force a backup wipe of some sort.
"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
Wow, while reading your comment at first i thought asking if you're talking about actual anti-Semitism, or Israel criticisms deflected to the former. Thanks for the source, yikes!
Agreed, that is true.

Nobody is saying Rust is completely bullet-proof: if anything, our current hardware doesn't allow for it.

But it gets very close.
So part of their code is now kinda open source /s
>Everybody mining bitcoin...

This is just demonstrably false.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/09/bitcoin-m...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-27/bitcoin-m...

https://www.waterpowermagazine.com/news/newsbitcoin-mining-p...

I could go on, but I won't, I just wanted to show how hysterical and full of BS you and people like you are.
It is clear. Heartbleed does not affect CPU like Spectre/Meltdown did (both migitations increased CPU usage quite a lot).
> What does "white" mean? Are you telling me the Romans were British? German? Nordic?

It means that the second image, showing Roman senators played by a few dozen white Italian extras, is a perfectly likely depiction, and the caption about how real Roman senators were much more swarthy ("like modern Italians", he claims) is nonsense.

(Of course, the HBO show was filmed in Italy, and almost all the extras and background characters were Italians.)

Even if I am wrong, he is wrong too.
> but very easy to fake with useless “tests”

While it doesn't alleviate the problems entirely, you can also run things like mutation tests that check that your unit tests actually test conditions, rather than just execute all the code.
I got promoted working 30 hours a week, maybe don’t work in tier 1 service teams?
It reminds me of when unsuspecting thieves accidentally stole a container of Iridium-192 used for industrial radiography from a lab in Mexico, and were eventually arrested and taken to the hospital to be treated for radiation burns.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-32332271

The FBI should keep an eye on hospitals for anyone showing up with burning bleeding eyes and a swelling itching brains and melting faces, from looking at EA's source code! ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1bNh-9Nj7U&ab_channel=HRViz...
You've just inadvertently reminded me of that and now I'm probably going to be grumpy for the rest of my day.
FTR if you try to order that even remotely looks like a known human virus from these companies, they will reject your order.

But yes, the more accessible this technology becomes, the greater the danger.
A Lord of the Rings anime movie is headed to theaters
What an amazing resource. Been looking for something like that for a while!
(1) Making assumptions about why other users are doing anything is a risky game. I personally have a policy of never downvoting anything because the message is too ambiguous. The one exception is posts that say "I know this will get downvoted" because that seems satisfying to all parties.

(2) There is nothing here to discuss, this is water-is-wet levels of scandal for the Trump presidency. It is water-is-wet levels of scandal for the executive government. It has been argued to death since pre-PATRIOT Act that the willingness and ability of the government to harvest information was dangerous.

If HN wants to discuss something, I suppose the question could be "what is going to have to happen for this sort of thing not to be routine?" or "how much worse will it be for people on the edges of the political sphere trying to make the arduous journey into the centre". The fact that politicians are spying on each other is non-news. The NSA is spying on literally everyone. Congresspeople are also anyone.
These are the people that think people like me are subhuman for working at Amazon. Pass.
> Unfortunately shaming such people will only push them further into antivax territory.

We welcome any better suggestions. Have you ever tried to have a respectful, adult discussion based on facts with antivaxers?
Thanks, that last bit clears it up for me. I've never touched Rust but write C++ everyday so don't really know much about what is guaranteed vs. what is less likely due to borrow checking/compiler verifaction
I was about to reply that AWS shouldn't be relied on for safety-critical systems, but someone is probably already doing that.

I'll revise that to - I hope that whomever is relying on AWS for safety-critical systems at least does it over many regions. It's still dumb, because even AWS occasionally has global/multi-region outages, but at least it hopefully reduces the chance for it.
I gave up long ago, I now tell my employer to use a much shorter name that is easy in most languages and is similar to my real one.
Those all make sense for long trips. For the short trips, users will more likely charge at home and thus there will be less demand for "fuel" stations.
I had the same reaction to the book. I love the content and the science behind it but it impacted my sleep for the worse.

Once I stopped worrying about whether I was having enough sleep every night, I got back to my previous, not ideal but better, sleep patterns.

Being a night person I just wish I could wake up late rather than having to be up early for work but it's better to sleep well for 5-6h than really badly for 3-4h.
>Edit: Come to think of it, also there were also a few Roman Emperors from North Africa!

North Africa, like most of the Mediterranean, was white in Roman times. North Africa is only swarthy today in the aftermath of Arab conquest in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Some country second-level domains cause stupid warnings on badly implemented web forms. I wonder if customer support people have the same crap on the systems they use, leading them to "fix" the address.

It's not unusual for me to type in my email address, and see a validation warning appear below "did you mean xxxx@xxxx.co.uk?"

.co.uk is probably the most common, but who would mistype .net.uk, .plc.uk or similar as one of the valid second-level domains?
Cost of a Big Mac in 2000: $2.51 (in 2000 dollars)
$2.51 (2000) in 2021: $3.92 (in 2021 dollars, CPI adjusted)
Cost of a Big Mac in 2021: $5.66 (in 2021 dollars)

So a Big Mac in 2021 is 44% more expensive than what CPI would explain.

If the Big Mac would be an item in the CPI, it would gradually be removed from it because the more expensive it becomes, the less Big Mac's a person would buy.

Arguing that items which become more expensive are rightly removed from the CPI because they become "unnecessary luxury items" is fine for modelling consumer behaviour, but misleading for establishing inflation metrics.
Only two residents!
That's not evidence that RH was:

> supporting the short selling hedge funds

Just to be clear: Robinhood claims that they prevented buying certain stocks because of increase collateral requirements by DTCC due to high volatility. Do you have any evidence that's untrue. Let's establish that before we move on to the claim that Citadel front-runs retail flow.
> Why do most Danes use Ø or Æ in their names, but not Å?

I think because Å was added later than Ø or Æ (introduced in 1948 vs 1100 for the other two). People are hesitant to change the spelling of their names, so the old form "Aa" is still common in names like Aamand and Aagesen.
I have now added this book to my Amazon wish list.
The maddening thing is that there is data that will always be ignored.

Like the % of users who will opt IN to cookies or tracking or similar.
I remember visiting a potential client who ranted about their existing solution before we started talking about replacing it.

I didn't tell them I'd implemented the existing system whilst working for their previous supplier.
I've been running rescuetime on my computer for most of a decade, and "my developer time"(time on terminal, few documentation sites like SO, editor etc...) goal was initially 1hr 30 minutes, but nowadays it is stuck at 3 hours.. and been not filled except for rare days.
Yes, perhaps claiming to be Anti-Israel used to be their cover... but they're not even really bothering with that anymore.

I really shudder to think about what is getting talked about amongst many mainstream progressive young people in the UK right now.
When you consider how prone to patents the gaming industry can be, (and the fact that this is EA), I would be very careful before reusing concepts from here.
Might in some cases be OK, but it is also how you get "general protection fault" and rampant uncaught exceptions in some earlier versions of Windows.
Summary: Deep Work by Cal Newport
Reminds me of the time when Valve source code was exfiltrated.
office bling is a good idea. But the problem is that usually the company pays for any expenses you have during work hours.
I suppose by this you mean Bitcoin incentivizes investment in ever-cheaper electricity generation, but does this actually result in cheaper electricity for other purposes, or would the Bitcoin demand simply expand to consume all of that cheap electricity?
We generally assume the internet is empowering but part of that assumption expects personal computing and an understanding of the web (IMO.)

Getting your android phone a better connection to Google/Facebook is probably more empowering to Google than you.
One may like it or not, but defaults matter.
https://github.com/OpenRA/ra2 is good enough
This is not correct. They load the URLs at the moment you open the e-mail. You are still trackable. It's just that they open it on backend, so they don't get your IP, but they still know that you opened it.
Not really sure what this changes for the games released.

I would say very little, in a way bad advertising is advertising which is good advertising.

It might reveal some part of the scenario or features, and put pressure on the teams, but other than that, who really cares? Fans will talk about it, and that's only what this is.

Maybe competitors might get an insight on what games are planning to be, but I doubt that there is much innovation, so meh?

And it's not like those engines have tremendous engineering secrets either ways. I mean GPU are documented, and special shader effects are not that so hard to come by, what is difficult is getting developers who are able to understand how GPU work and to take advantage of those ever changing GPUs and APIs.

I really don't think the game is going to be available in a pirated copy, seen that building such AAA games is pretty difficult for developers who are not part of their teams, not to mention all the copy protection mechanisms.
"Rules" often contradict each other. For example, in software development, "keep it simple" often directly conflicts with "dont repeat yourself" as it takes increased complexity to achieve reuse of code. I often see keeping it simple take a back seat in newer developers as they slavishly follow the don't repeat yourself trail. The end result is routinely a brittle, rigid, and overly complex solution.
You can run some dlls as separate processes (manually using rundll32, or from another process). If you ask a privileged process to start these processes they can also have more privileges than you have yourself.

But you can’t have part of a process have more privileges than another part of that same process.
> For example one popular progressive actress' response to George Floyd was to... claim it was a Jewish conspiracy...

I think that's quite a spin there. First of all, here's the claim:

"During the interview, Maxine Peake claimed that police in America who knelt on George Floyd's neck had learned the tactic from 'seminars with Israeli secret services'.

This may or may not be factually accurate, but seminars with Israeli security forces do exist, it is plausible that Derek Chauvin attended such a seminar, and that this particular method of restraint was presented.

Many people don't realize that this method of restraint is (or was) in the police books. Derek Chauvin may have applied poor judgement in using it, but it was part of his training material.

Making this connection between Israeli security forces (of all) and this particular incident may well have anti-semitic intentions, but this actress does deserve the benefit of the doubt.
At the time of ancient Rome, Turkic tribes lived somewhere around Mongolia. Gauls, Celts, Goths, and even Greeks were as white as any typical European is today, if not more white.
never noticed this guy before - could you provide a more exact location?
Not strictly on-topic, but I’m wishing we could adopt the term ‘flexible-location’ instead of ‘work-from-home’.

I feel that the latter can convey a mental image of a person lounging at home in their pajamas, drinking a chai latte while ‘dabbling’ occasionally in work, while the former more accurately describes what I’m hoping the future of (former) office work will be: something not bound to a single, company-controlled, indoor location.
> The only people allowed to naked short are market makers

The SEC made naked short selling illegal after the 2008 financial crisis. Market makers are not allowed to naked short.

> Clearing houses don't lose anything during a short squeeze, as long as funds committed to a trade actually clear

Exactly my point — as long as funds clear, which they were at risk of not doing, thus putting clearing houses like the DTCC on the hook, in the event of a margin call.

Let me break it down:

- Melvin Capital were aggressively shorting GME

- Retail investors used Robinhood to take advantage of a short squeeze opportunity

- During the short squeeze, Citadel (who partly own Melvin Capital) bailed-out Melvin with a $2.8bn investment

- Citadel is Robinhood's prime brokerage, paying them for preferential order flow

- Citadel's global Head of Operations is on the board of the DTCC, the clearing house responsible for increasing collateral requirements

- As a market maker, Citadel care a huge amount about GME exploding, because if Melvin Capital were margin-called, Citadel end up holding the bag

- If Citadel are margin-called themselves, the DTCC clearing house end up holding the bag.

This is really just the tip of the iceberg. I'm consistently surprised at how defensive comments on HN seem to be towards hedge funds and the whole short-squeeze debacle — which is still very much ongoing. I can happily point anyone with an open mind in the direction of excellent research summarising the ongoing situation, and there's mounds of evidence indicating hedge funds never actually covered in January.

Not to mention the math on vote tallies in GME's latest 8-K filing from 2 days ago clearly proves more GME shares exist than should be mathematically possible, enabled only by naked short sellers who never covered.

Oh, and whilst I'm at it, their 8-K also disclosed that they've been working with the SEC since May to assist them with an active investigation in to market manipulation. Doesn't get much more obvious than that, does it?

But if it's easier to turn a blind eye, then each to their own.
Come again? Frescoes are not evidence?

You should know that you’re not making a very strong historical argument when part of your argument is “Ignore these primary sources.”
>>So what exactly is the problem here?

I suppose I have an ideological problem with cars being sold this way. I see them as something that you own entirely once you paid for them. The idea that the car physically has heated seats installed but you can't switch them on without paying a fee to BMW is literally offensive to me on some higher level.

I don't know how to explain this better, I just don't want to live in a world where we buy things but never actualy own them. Yes, I am aware that computers and their software has operated like this for a long time now - doesn't mean that I accept this in cars.

>>Isn't having the choice between several options a good thing from consumer point of view?

To use another example - imagine if property developers built only 6-bed houses to streamline their construction process, but 4 out of these bedrooms were walled up and inaccessible by default. But hey, don't worry, you can pay an annual fee to the developer to unlock these bedrooms! Surely that's great for customers, because you only pay for what you need. Kid moved out to college and you no longer need their bedroom? Stop paying the extra fee, some guys will come over and brick up the door again. Isn't consumer choice great?

My point is - consumer choice isn't always the best outcome for everyone, including consumers. And I believe this is a false choice anyway, because BMW isn't aiming to offer this as a $500 one-time unlock OR $100 annual fee - it's just the annual subscription. Just like you can't just buy a standalone copy of Photoshop anymore, it's been replaced with a subscription model entirely.

>>Isn't extracting more money a whole point of company to exist?

I mean, it can be, but in a capitalist competitive market hopefully there will be competition that doesn't do that - and if it actively turns people away from buying BMW products then this whole idea fails at its intended purpose - can't extract more money from your customers if people don't become your customers in the first place.
For some reason, my brain thought your comment was a Haiku at first. Here it is in actual Haiku form (don't ask me why):

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Props for resigning

Regulatory capture

Sucks and brings danger
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