skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that the rank-and-file will only follow leaders who have been granted outsize status.

That way, executive compensation would need to be high even if value over replacement executive is low.
I can vouch for this, still using the computer I built in 2009 (Windows XP at the time, now Windows 10). Her days are drawing to a close, but she's perfectly functional. The AMD Phenom 2 was a criminally underrated chip.
> It's because await foo(); (or however you write it) doesn't tend to act the same as a synchronous function, even though that's what you're asking for. Because you called an async function, even though you immediately await the results, now your function is async, and it cascades up the chain, but often you need to provide a non-async interface, so then you're really stuck.

As far as I'm aware of, this is pretty standard for language-level concurrency sugar. It's syntactically blocking in that it allows you to write code without callbacks/message handlers, but it's infectious up the call stack.
> Sure, investing in an index fund would have yielded more money but we only know that in hindsight.

As an aside, the S&P 500 is down since 1970 as measured in gold [1].

[1]: http://pricedingold.com/sp-500/
Hippies are marginalized?

I thought all of that movement has been more or less mainstreamed over the past forty years.

This isn’t exactly Crowley’s England.
It's not my intention to pick on you and I'm sorry it feels that way. I'm not quite sure what to do about that. It's definitely not personal—moderation is extremely repetitive and you're far from the only person that I've replied like that to. From my perspective the principles are pretty much the same everywhere and it's just the job. I certainly understand that it feels different on the other side because the interaction is so asymmetrical.

Since your edit is replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497174 and even quoting from it, I'm not sure why you wouldn't have posted that stuff there. It's obviously off topic here.
You can find the same study in ResearchGate. The domain name doesn't change the content.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346034534_Study_of_...

The ivmmeta website is a collection of public information, you can always refer to the original study/journal if you don't find it trustworthy.

It's not a lack of data. Ivermectin already has many times more data (including RCTs) compared to other WHO approved treatments (Ivermectin vs. Remdesivir, Ivermectin for COVID-19 vs Ivermectin for Scabies).

https://ivmmeta.com/#table_whoapproval
The fact that offering an idea that's better than what's already being done is seen as rebellious at all, as opposed to being the entire job of an engineer, or the definition of what engineers do, is not a good sign for any organization.

Next they'll be talking about rebellious accountants who have recorded more numbers by the end of the day than were in the spreadsheet at the beginning, or subversive lawyers who review contracts that had not already been reviewed. Before long it will take a fifth-column delivery driver to move a pizza to a location it's never been before.
My national-scale organization has Windows, but my unit doesn't. What might seem very, very unlikely to you is reality to other people.
There's still the issue of what kinds of trigger circumstances you can commit to code.
I feel like the interesting part of the synchrony is that the mice will cooperate with the other mice that they are in sync with. How does that happen?

> "the rodents groomed and sniffed companions with whom their neurons were in sync more often than ones with whom they were out of sync"
The first Warrant Canary just turned 15 years old:

https://twitter.com/rsyncnet/status/1387090538273206274

It will be updated tomorrow morning, just like every Monday morning since April 2006.
Except there still won't be long-term support from OEMs, you've instead just pushed the security responsibility onto Fuschia and hoping that the kernel maintaining a strong sandbox will be sufficient to mitigate all driver security vulnerabilities (hint: it won't be).
Not sure why trading volume would matter, they can simply be an authorized participant of USDC. They after all are receiving real dollars.

[edit] Complete speculation, but if I had to guess, Tether's ability to create ersatz dollars is really important to the Salvadoran scheme. After all El Salvador cannot print currency, because it's a USD economy. I know someone who's got an unlimited wildcat money printer (and the reckless abandon to use it) - his name is Paolo.

If I were a criminal mastermind operating in plain sight with about $60B shortfall on my books due to counterfeiting, the best way I could think of to keep myself out of trouble would be to make a poor nation dependent on its continued existence. Literally too big to fail. Again, purely speculative.

Remember, frauds have to keep getting bigger out of necessity.
There’s a road between those views: people are sometimes free agents, but often do not actively choose their own path. So while we should allow people to make their own choices when they’re actively choosing them, we can do a lot to make the default choice one that is relatively beneficial over the long term.

So things like requiring sugary drinks to carry a label that makes it obvious when a juice is as sugary as a soda. Or modifying sidewalks and parking to make walking or biking short distances more pleasurable than driving. Some of how you do this is by removing dangers from their environment, for instance by separating bike lanes from roads. And by allowing people to break from a habit cycle, for instance by establishing rules for gambling like enforcing periodic breaks in play to give people opportunities to reassess their actions.
I thought we called those "hackers".
It doesn't need it, its just that chips that can run doom are the dirt cheap bottom tier chips now. Rather than making some custom chip only just powerful enough to run the lamp software. You may as well just stick a generic one in.

These IKEA smart bulbs cost about $9 so yes, it is cost effective.
The biggest scandals in sports, far and away, are:

1) the pervasive and increasing economic alignment with gambling

2) the economics of college football and basketball

In terms of this story, as a former high school/college pitcher, to me this doesn't even warrant a meh. The analogies to Armstrong and steroid era are farsical. Tommy John surgery is more concerning.
As a thoughtful and honourable person ... my guess is that there would be probably 6-12 months fighting the incentive then a process something like:

* Develop a philosophy that there are bad people out there.

* Greatest good strategy is to identify and incarcerate/re-educate these bad people through punishment.

* Therefore preemptive crime reduction measures don't really get to the root problem - they provide cover for the bad people to operate.

* Anyone talking about how all people are made up of shades of grey doesn't understand the situation and should be ignored. People providing legal support to the bad people are troublemakers.

* Bad people are the ones least able to resist prosecution. This is a mystery the DA never really sits down to rationalise.

That transformation isn't a new thing. Incentives and a smart mind can rationalise much harder situations.
DuckDuckGo for Android tricks users with global privacy control setting
Because mass produced microcontrollers are dirt dirt cheap. It’s easier to source a way overpowered CPU than some perfectly spec’d one.

Plus how else will malware people run their stuff?
> If I'm a DA, my job description is probably not to reduce crime. It is to successfully prosecute crimes that have already been committed.

Well, it gets worse. Look beyond the job description to the actual incentives people face.

If you are a DA with political ambitions, you might want to prosecute some very specific things, whether they are crimes or not.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice

(And also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law for empire building.)
Nobody ever stops to check if this Standard diet is making the tumors grow faster... instead they go like: mh if they get more of this (omega 3 = mostly animal fats) it grows slower.
In nature mice would eat many different things, grain as well as insects... afaik Mouse Standard diet is high carb
And presumably you can track down when the inline docs diverged from the implementation, and who did it.
Agreed. The actual lamp isn't... the thing. It's just reusing a chip with a monitor.
IOMMU groups are supposed to compartmentalise modems here, but as far as I know this tends to be blackboxed on Qualcomm processors.
US Navy: "the UFOs were ours."
The ikea bulbs are actually pretty good malware wise. The bulbs do not connect to the internet, they use zigbee to communicate with a remote. Which can either be a dumb offline remote or the gateway device. The gateway also does not connect to the internet, it is local network only and can be hooked up to the Apple/Google/Amazon systems for internet access.

If you had to design an IoT bulb, this is the ideal setup.
Sorry for nitpicking but where does it say California?
Siri, play Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional
Good luck with that.

Secrecy is a drug that governments become addicted to, and with zero down side for the government, nothing ever gets wound back.

Things will only get ever more secret.
With the chip shortage, you best believe some people are going to be buying some of these to scavenge for project parts.
Several people mentioned meditation. Are there good books on how to meditate that you can recommend?
This is so hopelessly stupid I just feel sorry for you at this point.

If you think that the hospitals just magically emptied out and the virus is still circulating at the same rate as before vaccinations started in every jurisdiction that has significant vaccination rates you are hopelessly lost.

But I know you are not hopelessly lost, you are just not engaged in an honest discussion.
Back in that era I worked for a Wells Fargo joint venture doing credit investigations. Our clients were LOs, and my job was to research negative items on credit reports. If I could get the creditor to say one of a set of things, it would allow me to strip the item from the report and then resubmit it to the big 3 for rescoring. Basically I turned loan refusals into acceptances.

It became clear to me quite quickly the business's QA process was designed for deniability, not to actually find fraud. The highest performing person in my unit never made a single phone call all day. He'd claim he'd been at it so long he had contacts at all the creditors he could just fax. What he was really doing was simply fabricating his work.

The most pathetic thing about it is doing the job straight up was quite easy. I spent about 2 hours a day on work, and the rest doing whatever I wanted on the web. The negativity of all this actually inspired me to shift careers to coding, so I used my remaining time there to learn a ton, mostly reading CS papers.

I'd say the worst institutionalized nonsense I saw there was WF's "Alternative credit" reports.

Here the borrowers would supply 3 references of someone they'd paid installment payments over time. Typical examples were jewelry stores, small used car lots, etc. It was immediately clear to me most of these were straight up fabricated. I'd often call someone, they'd answer with an ordinary family name, then I'd follow the script and say who I was calling from, and they'd immediately switch modes and say "Oh yes, this is actually Shady Dave's Used Cars. $Borrower bought a car from me. They always paid as agreed" often without me having mentioned the borrower's name yet. In fact the wording was so consistent it was absolutely clear the LOs had told them exactly what to say. But under the rules I was supposed to follow, that counted.

At the time I knew it was fraud, but was somewhat ambivalent about it, as nearly all of these people were low income minorities or immigrants that face a great deal of discrimination in the loan application process. Once I was a bit older I understood better and regretted that ambivalence.

When the thunderclouds started to appear near 2008, I was not surprised in the slightest.

More recently when I read headlines about WF branch managers opening 2nd accounts in their customer's name without request nor consent, I was also totally unsurprised.

The corruption is deliberate and is instituted top down, just in a way that's more wink, nod, and shaping of processes to create obvious opportunities than overt. I'm most familiar with WF, but I'm confident this is the industry norm.

I think people generally underestimate the scale of institutionalized corruption, even in supposedly low corruption nations, of this form, and how much of a loss it is to the economy and the ordinary person.

I'm not going to pretend I'm smart enough to think up some technocratic solution.
Not necessarily; you can remove the cumbersome async/await syntax while still tracking concurrency/mutation/control effects with an effect system, which might come with effect inference.

Also, even without effect inference, implicit effects don't have to be wrong: Haskell has them (unsafePerformIO) as do other MLs, but they aren't used in normal programming and that's largely turned out fine.
As I said, no one is required to be so credulous.
So does this mean other currencies are built on this? I'm admittedly a noob I just don't get what makes this exciting. Like, ok, blockchain running faster which enables me to do ___?
> "using tailored viruses to genetically modify cells so they respond to illumination"

>"These head-mounted and back-mounted devices are battery-free, wirelessly powered by the same high-frequency radio waves"

>"The widely available wireless technology used in this work, the same now used in contactless payment with credit cards, could allow broad adoption"

>"such research, he says, may in turn “inform better diagnostics and therapeutics in humans.”"

The conspiracy theorists are going to run with this one
You can also eat fish that are low on the food chain like sardines.
I meant under normal circumstances
It's all client side. The entire database of error messages is downloaded up front and searched in JavaScript. The database is just a JSON file that I put together with some scripts to parse a few header files and other documentation. The whole thing is fewer bytes than a typical news article page these days, so why not download it all up front? I wish more sites worked this way.
I used to do this type of commute

But having the ticket master interrupt my work or sleep used to kill me
They found "an n-3 long-chain PUFA-rich diet significantly delayed mouse tumor growth when compared with a monounsaturated FA-rich diet." So the difference was feeding one set polyunsaturated fatty acids and the other set monounsaturated fatty acids.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15504...
I wonder NeXT was better or bad for documentation.
While this is true, the stock market gained something like 20% while CPI is sitting at ~5%.
Warrant canaries are unreliable. Apple, for example, stopped issuing warrant canaries in Sept. 2014 [1], but was added to the NSA's PRISM program almost 2 years earlier, in Oct. 2012 [2].

But I suppose a warrant canary by nature requires companies to be honest. There's not much you can do if the company is being deceptive with a vaguely phrased canary.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/no-apple-probabl...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/new-leak-feds-ca...
I think that most people that hate working in the office don't hate it because of the office - they hate it because of focus quality.

A social obligation here, a senseless chat there, a coffee here...a person reminding you about an unimportant email there.

There are just way too many distractions from work, at work. And those distractions are what people describe as "corporate life" because corporates over-micro-managed everything.

Open office spaces are horrible, except for the people not having to work in them - which coincidentially always decide pro open office work space.

If the work culture is manifested in interrupting your colleagues over unimportant stuff all the time, it's perceived as toxic by engineering people because they lose valueable focus time.

That is essentially what it boils down to. Add the additional time required to get there (and costs on the side of the employee for commute) and you have the perfect formula to get rid of quality work people.

While there are upsides of working in the office, there's also huge downsides that management likes to ignore in the discussion.
Back in the 80s/90s there were some questionable ports of TeX do unlikely hardware. Perhaps the most egregious of these was TeX running on a Cray supercomputer. Time on these machines was metered heavily. I can't imagine anyone actually used it for formatting papers. I had a dream of doing a hand port of TeX to 6502 assembly to see if I could get it running on a 128K Apple //e. I envisioned heavy use of bank switching to enable code to jump back and forth between the two 64KB banks which could only be switched in predefined blocks as I recall (the page 1/2 text/lores blocks, page 1/2 hires blocks, the high 16k and I think the low 48k that wasn't part of the lores/hires blocks but it's a long time since I played with that hardware.
From his comment history, search for Pakistan. It's a flagged post. He is openly racist and hates Muslims. "Muslims have always been the perpetrators of unwarranted violence," This is why he votes for modi.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=naruvimama

Development of gujarat under modi is a fig leaf for the underlying reason for voting for modi. The motivations are right wing religious ethno fascism. The others in this case are muslims, with Christians and Sikhs being discriminated on a more opportunistic basis. Their vote for modi is in the hopes of building a hindu religious ethno state along Nazi principles with the muslims playing the role of German Jews. This idea is being heavily propagandize through social media, primarily WhatsApps encrypted channels.

The religious frenzy being built up in the country is absolutely unreal. Well educated software engineers have also been completely absorbed into this fold, as you can observe from the comments.
As far as I know it’s a subject of some debate whether full immune escape from the mRNA vaccines is probable even given new variants. The spike protein can only be reconfigured in so many ways, it’s not like the flu.
The prison experiment example already has a volunteer playerbase, it's called "Jailbreak mod" and versions exist for various iterations of Counter-strike and probably other FPS games, and almost certainly Roblox. It is role-playing, and attracts certain kinds of personalities. I have played it.
Heidi Larson, Vaccine Anthropologist
Similar to how a fire cracker is exactly like ICBM, yes.
BillG was a huge believer in visual computing and digitized personal assistants for the masses in the early 90s. This was before the internet went mainstream, so making a single machine smarter through presentable data repositories seemed the way to get another 100 million computer users. Encarta was a good example of this push.

At the time, Microsoft Research, who were an independent org but still well-tuned at coming up with things the mothership’s C-suite enjoyed*, came up with a lot of concepts like the Bob computing environment.
Microsoft ended up shipping a lot of these as products largely due to the personal curiosity of a lot of folks, not just Bill. A golden example of several good ideas being combined into one really bad idea.

* Ballmer the biggest proponent of going international for growth. There were some neat projects around internationalization, content translation, and regional functionality that didn’t see light as far as I know.
Microsoft's plan to remake Windows what that might mean
> do we really want to search a 90 year old female pensioner as often as a 21 year old man, when the former is significantly (as in, 100x thereabouts) less likely to pose a threat to a flight?

Terrorist organizations aren't stupid, and they have members of all ages. If we made it our policy not to search 90-year-olds anymore, then they'd suddenly end up committing most of the attacks on flights.

> Or consider health insurance. Do we really want young people paying the same premiums as 80 year olds?

In this example, what are you saying that the 80-year-olds have control over?
Well, they didn't solve the chicken & egg problem, they bought the first platform that was created.

But I don't understand how large audience matters to anyone else than to the platform.

If you're just an user, there's nothing stopping you to use all of these services. In fact given the problem mentioned no one should stick to just one, because that leads to creating a monopoly.

If you're content creator, less of other creators means less competition, your videos are more likely to be featured etc.
> Obviously, a team can't challenge another pitcher saying "check his /jersey/cap/forearm/inside of belt/!" because their pitcher is probably doing it too.

It is trivially easy to agree within the team on a game you're going to play clean, and challenge the other side during that game.
Yes, that is how it should be done.

For example, I collect all the files that I send to backup in archive files whose size is approximately 50 GB, then I copy to the tape the 50 GB files.

Doing like this, the write speed to a LTO-7 drive is always constant at 300 MB per second, which is the maximum possible for that standard (which is much higher than what a HDD can sustain, so the 50 GB files must come from a fast SSD or from a RAM disk).
it’s one thing to offer an idea or point out something could be done in a different, better way. completely different when you’re told it’s not gonna be done that way but you go ahead and do
it anyway.

the “rebellious” attitude also comes with you sinking in more time (you need to do your “dayjob” on top of this, right?) and with the real consequences if what you’re doing rubs people the wrong way/is seen as wasting time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
The richer get richer in absolute terms but not necessarily in %. The latter imo counts more.
If it worked there could have been a effort around Applied Phrenology where bumps are added to peoples skulls to improve behavior
I wouldn't expect PoH to lead to much energy use, since nodes are evaluating a single hash chain. Since the computation can't be parallelized, computational throughput isn't a factor; only latency is.
> One could have expected the same wrt. proprietary *NIX workstation and server hardware in the 1980s and 1990s, and where are those today?

Server hardware is of course commodity and dominated by Linux.

The high end workstation proprietary workstation market seems pretty alive and dominated but a closed Unix still.

> Embedded brings more trouble because the hardware, far from being a "multi billion dollar" endeavor, is all-too-often entirely undocumented and sloppily hacked together, where a barely workable state is considered "good enough" for shipping.
But even there, Linux is easily gaining ground over proprietary OS's.

This is true of ‘embedded’ but phones are not embedded.

> The underlying dynamic is clear enough.

I think this is wishful thinking. Embedded and servers are quite different from phones and workstations.
There would be a period when both systems are active. It will likely require more bytes to log a quantum-secure transaction. With no other protocol changes, this would incentivize people to keep using ECDSA keys. And the increase in transaction size, would cause reduced transactions per second.

No inherent problem. The protocol could have a built-in discount. Maybe the block cap should be increased to compensate. Questions like that are not so easy to get consensus on.
Agreed, that's the entire point of user accounts... to hide sensitive information and restrict access.