skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not at all true.
Can you please not post like this? Your submission history is basically all about one thing, or nearly one thing, and the site guidelines ask you to use this place for intellectual curiosity, not ideological battle. A few of these submissions would be fine, especially the less strident ones, but you should be mixing them up with a bunch of unrelated stuff. Curiosity withers under repetition, and indignation fries it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Aggregate open rate data is vital to a newsletter.

No, it's not. Mine exists without it, and yours can too.
My first support agent just disappeared on me. No acknowledgment from the second that picked it up weeks later.

You can call and that was a faster option for me to get responses.

In their terms and conditions you agree to arbitration. IANAL so I don’t know if this is binding in all jurisdictions. Amusingly(/not depending on your side) there are stories in their forums where a guest has taken the host directly to small claims court.
H E L P

in an unknown alien tongue
In case you missed the reference: https://youtu.be/75iv3RKQUAM
Yes they can. And there are lots of examples.
Life’s short. Take some gambles. Especially if money isn’t a big deal to you. Plus psychologically it’s a bit more motivating to be taking (calculated) risks than stuck in a rut.

I’m not sure what you were thinking in terms of going back to school. But there's so much opportunity in developer adjacent roles. Taking a gamble could also mean accepting a boring job and doing more fun things in your own time. I had a colleague that would take long weekends and do crazy hiking trips, and he just loved it. Work can just be work, imagine all the other crappy jobs out there, our jobs are pampered in comparison.
Probably the person that is producing the vaccine is not the same person that is running the clinical trials and it's not the same person that is calculation the statistics and writing the final paper.
Insider trade a million, you’ve got a problem. You have to insider trade a billion so that you’re untouchable. This is probably the hourly volume of insider trading at many hedge funds like SAC.
I’ll add to the list:

- Ceremonial unit tests for every little thing. The whole system is buggy as hell and we don’t have any confidence that the unit tests are truly covering critical parts of the app. But alas, test coverage, the god damn Pope that can never be bemoaned.

- I’m not making this one up: A/B testing for an internal enterprise app.
If you ignore all the ethical aspects of it and look at it as a purely economic transaction, whether it was a great trade or not depends on the odds of getting caught, not just the punishment if you get caught.
You are so right and I'm so sorry. It is truly miserable at so many companies for exactly what you wrote here:

"Software engineering is a thinking person’s game. I get that management wishes it weren’t, but it is."
Side effect: Apple's proxy servers will see every domain that emails you, even if you don't use Apple's email service.

It will hide your IP and open status from the sender, but not the fact that that sender emails you from Apple.
To be great at X you have to write the rules.
Funny that you mention it - piece rate in construction means 60+ hours a week. The more you do, the more you get paid and there's always work available. Not in all cases, but definitely a lot of them. As a contractor, you finish on one site/job, you have six others lined up.
Its strange how relieved I am that he's anti-antivaxxer.

Knowing some of the people I look up to in the world are not complete and utter morons is cathartic.
If it weren't for this comment, I would have missed this one. Thanks for the flag, and a +1 to this being worthwhile.
Iirc Argentina is the required bribery country to the point of companies planning for it.
Great read. Also, it inspired someone to post this super interesting comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468654

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that take since I thought it was very insightful.
Claims != science. Any company is free to make any claim they want, and they can offer proof in the form of trials. These trials help us form opinions on the safety of a product, however, the long-term safety profile of novel innovations takes time to verify and trials can be manipulated in many subtle ways.

The FDA and other bodies dictate what kind of testing and certification must happen before allowing the sale of such products. And in very rare cases will offer emergency approval that bypasses quite a lot of the trialing or cut short the standards that must be met.

To claim any treatment is safe and that any skepticism prior to long-term trials is unscientific... flies in the face of all reason.

Did we learn anything from: cigarrettes, Fen-Phen, Valdecoxib (Bextra), Pemoline (Cylert), Bromfenac (Duract), Levamisole (Ergamisol), Rofecoxib (Vioxx), Isotretinoin (Accutane), and many many more.

All of these products were FDA approved, a feat these vaccines are yet to achieve.
I can see why entirely unrelated ads could be seen as a bad thing... but the problem with FLoC - or really any ads personalization - is that it's fundamentally based upon a privacy violation. Ergo, even if the data is only being used to serve more relevant advertising, you're still trusting some process or third-party not to use your data for more nefarious purposes.

FLoC is not immune to this: it relies on the device being able to track users and then provide advertisers "blurry" access to that tracked data. The problem is that we already have plenty of other tracking mechanisms that we can't reasonably restrict and that will interfere with the privacy protections built into FLoC. You will always be able to fingerprint and FLoC will always provide some fingerprintable entropy.

Even if FLoC was trustworthy enough to do what it claims, your interest cohorts alone can reveal your secrets. There's the classic example of Target knowing a woman was pregnant before her father was, for example. Yes, Google is going to try and filter out sensitive interests in cohorts, but that's an additional layer of trust you can't control. What if Google's definition of sensitive interest differs from yours?
> one of five kids (out of class of 120) that took Calculus

I am always puzzled by this. Calculus was 8th - 9th material in Turkey in the 80s. In classrooms with 45 - 50 kids per one over-worked teacher.

We did set theory and Boolean logic in third grade. I think that is far more useful for understanding mathematical thinking than Calculus is.
A reference to the TV show Arrested Development :) Terrible legal advice given to a crooked businessman!
Yes, but the slack has to be picked up by others.
This 100%. For example, Nancy Pelosi should be named the Wolf of Wall Street. Look at that amazing trade she made on cyber security companies right before the hacks on the government were announced.

Source: https://housestockwatcher.com/summary_by_rep/Hon.%20Nancy%20...
In my eyes, the substitutions he used really embiggens the audience of the article.

I come from a EEE background, and "Foo" and "Bar" just don't make sense to me in the way that i, n or f do. Sometimes Foo is a function, sometimes it's a variable, sometimes it's a whole framework.

BeetleDB, on the other hand, is clearly a DB client. It's on par with "Alice" and "Bob" in terms of clarity and minimal mindfucks.
But here’s the thing, Amazon is the type of company that most likely beat earnings for an entire decade. It’s not hard to guess at all.

Edit: blah, nevermind:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/after-its-first-earnings-m...

I guess if he dodged those earnings plays, that would build a good case.
This is very cool! If you are interested in using a similar setup for your ML workloads (Argo + K8S), I'd love to chat with you (ville@outerbounds.co).

We are working on integrating Argo & K8S for Metaflow, an open-source ML framework originally developed at Netflix https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow/pull/434
Just speculation, but they may have children, and if so, prosecutors may have wanted to keep at least one parent out of jail.
Nice, but that’s a 340 page document. Is there some good analysis of the impacts and outcomes?
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Try modelling something and see where it goes?

The thing with "modelling" is that in my experience it's often justified post-facto so you don't actually learn anything when it comes to modelling as an art. That being said what you are describing is basically a physics textbook, I would say engineering, but they have no soul.
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I don’t think many people understand just HOW high.

Aside from monetary compensation (which can range widely, and typically is made up of 25-50% tax sheltered disability pay) there is health insurance at a maximum out of pocket of $3600/year for a family ($600 premium plus $3000 catastrophic cap), tax free shopping, discounted fuel, free flights, remarkably cheap lodging all over the US and in allied countries, and the list goes on.

The last calculation I saw for an average Senior Enlisted retiree was that you would need a lump sum of in excess of $3 million to hope to compare, invested at a decent return. Albeit that’s not completely accurate, but it’s as close as we can get given such different financial vehicles.
> So what would happen if you made your own "stock market" app, where people could speculate on "shares" of stock that don't include any actual ownership?

You'd get shut down by the SEC for running a "bucket shop".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market)
It's more like the requirement to do the job without being able to quit for at least a few years (and then they can call you back anytime for another few).
Sorry, the entire medical field exists as a counterpoint to the idea that masks are harmful.
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Those private briefings likely did not contain nonpublic information, or especially nonpublic information about specific companies.

The pandemic seemed obvious in February; I know dozens (myself included) who bought masks and supplies long before the run on stores, long before even the USG was lying to people telling them not to wear masks (to preserve the supply). The briefings were around then. Were I a gambling man, I too would have shorted airlines then, and I wasn't in any of those private briefings.

The abuse is when they trade and then pass laws affecting the industries. A lot of kerfuffle has been around the covid briefings, but they didn't get anything an observant outsider couldn't see as well.

It has to be nonpublic information to be insider trading.
Collaborator: "Evidence across our organization shows when test coverage is above 80% software quality is typically improved."

This Guy: Shutup THOUGHT LEADER!!
This just keeps getting better!
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Yep, that was my first thought as an outsider and of course it's already used in those bins, it's more heavy-duty, faster, probably more expensive to install but more effective than a small robot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRISXr_euWo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vm5jSAmVe0

They still have to get inside sometimes (less than without them) to fix it but it's the same with the robot if it's get stuck or battery dies.
How can we transform the society to fix that then? /s
yes you have it right.
It’s impressive, but for some perspective Henry Cavendish was able to measure the gravitational attraction between two (rather larger) spheres in a lab in the 18th century![0]

He called it “weighing the world”, because it allowed him to calculate the mass of the earth.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment
> Does automobile software development have the level of oversight that aircraft development has in terms of regulation and approval for use?

Nothing in my comment implied this, and I don't disagree that it doesn't. The question is immaterial to the specific topic of discussion: the comparison of server uptime to human-driver reliability as an indicator of the feasibility of functional AV software.
> feels like a charity towards advertisers.

This. FLoC has no value proposition for end users.

Your position regarding cookies lumps two categories of cookies together. Cross-site cookies, and same-site cookies. Tracking isn’t exclusive to cross-site cookies, but the effectiveness (and invasiveness) of tracking is orders of magnitude more effective with cross site cookies. With the near-elimination of cross-site cookies, it turns out you can have your useful client side state and eat it too.
I have the worst fucking attornies
Since they got a guilty plea out of him, I'm guessing they had strong enough proof to discourage him from going to trial where he could've risked up to 25 years in jail time if jury found the evidence credible.

If he had just stuck with stocks, I'm sure it would've been harder to prove. But with options and dates, timing of it... it's hard to get away.
Bigger Product, Bigger Shadow
Does anyone honestly care about a million dollar trade by some employee's husband?

The bar for insider trading is hilariously low - this seems like a total waste of time and resources when you could be chasing whales like you should be.
I don’t know exactly how to respond to this. You’ve clearly got some strong opinions on this and maybe for good reasons.

I suppose I agree that environmental stress, survival stress, and PTSD are all common in the addict community. That’s true.

In my experience though, meth-induced psychosis is a thing. For example, if you understand the following sentence you either have seen or done it!

I once snapped/ghosted 3 points in one draw in order to scare off some gangsters, then the shadow people came.

After that I thought I could talk to programming libraries out loud. Not in a fun way. Meth induced psychosis is absolutely a thing.
I've had apps which group all their advertising notifications under useful channels so that you can't disable their advertising without losing functionality. I've had apps create completely new channels out of nowhere in order to bypass my settings.
7 might be a bit on the young side, but it's well known that there are significant differences in how math is taught in different countries; there's some interesting US vs Russia/former USSR maths discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22941144
The stock market didn’t start to decline until Mid March so by definition the majority of “betting men” were still not sure the pandemic would have as far reaching of effects they did. It’s highly suspicious that US Congressmen did after getting briefs that were presumably not public information.
You might be confusing Book Value of a business with it's value as an asset, and how returns are measured. "return on actual businesses" is impossible to measure with any precision.The time horizon chosen for returns on securities is usually short. So, the returns on securities will almost always seem too high or too low compared to what is happening in the underlying business.

The market returns are calculated over a fixed and usually short time period and are easy to calculate. Because the markets in question are expectations markets the prices move around a lot and hence the measured returns move around a lot.

Compare that with defining "returns on actual businesses" in a way which is both sensible (ie accurate) and has even a reasonable level of precision - it's impossible. For example, a commonly used and easy way to measure it is Return on Equity. Net Income / Book Value. Book Value is an accounting number based on the past. The "true" value put on an asset by investors is based on guesses about the future of the business and said business's ability to put cash in the pockets of the owners. Net Income misses important value changes - consider Intel, who have been making crazy decisions for years which allowed AMD back in the x86 server game. Intel don't have to report a "we did stupid things which will cost us billions in 10 years time" on their income statement for a given year. So, RoE isn't good and other similar numbers are similarly bad.

So, your statement about returns on securities should really say: "for the last few years, returns on securities appear to have exceeded the changes in value for the underlying businesses". To which a reasonable response is: "Yup, it happens sometimes".
How much do these cables cost?
Email tracking pixels and click tracking have been ineffective for a while now anyway, as so many email servers/clients load images and crawl links without before the recipient actually opens the email.
I'm kind of hoping the LiquidPiston design works out, since in theory it should fix a lot of the fuel economy and emissions issues (combustion chamber is closer to the ideal round shape), and maybe even be lower maintenance (apex seals move to the non-moving part of the engine, where they can be lubricated more easily). It's not owned by Mazda, though, so even if it works it's anyone's guess if Mazda would even be able or want to license it. Or if gas engines in general will be effectively obsolete by the time the technology matures.

I love the idea of rotary engines, but environmentally they're a disaster (at least in their current form), and even if the problems are fixed they'll still not be significantly cleaner than any other gas engine.

(I'm currently working on trying to covert an RX-8 to electric.)
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Funny, I often say the opposite. Don't feel compelled to split up your lib.rs. It's really refreshing to see a nice, compact library in one or two files. Much easier to follow, especially over "type per file". Of course, there are limits, but for a small lib like this, I personally would keep it in a single, or maybe two files.
The spec of a gold-backed dollar can still be redefined. A $10 gold piece from the 1790s contains about 6% more gold one from the 1930s.
Sorry, I didn’t read all of of the original comment earlier.

Now I see where you’re coming from with the suggestion to go straight to a qualified source instead of asking a bunch of random people.
To be legendary at X you must go beyond X and invent Y, by creating a paradigm shift that echoes throughout your field.
What's their phone number? I couldn't find one.
My 6yo daughter has exceptional talent and interest for Math. She's already discovering some fundamental theorems for herself (number theory, algebra, geometry). Does anyone here know any resources to help her development?
Most people agree with this. The actual challenge is to discern real rules from superficial bullshit. That is a level of criticality many people do not possess and some find hostile or disgusting.
I agree. As a child I thought these would be extremely rare. In my naive little kid brain I guess I figured there must be only a handful of them known to exist, and I had endless ideas about how such a rare and unique celestial entity must have alien origins. Haha.
I completely agree. I think it makes sense when they have 256 processing nodes with GPUs plus everything else, just the number caught me off guard at first.
...and the hood would be welded shut at the factory.
The YouTube channel 3blue1brown has some great, accessible introductions to higher level math.
That's totally fine - but people need to also be aware that if something is really a must then they have to be willing to spend adequate time and resources on getting it done, instead of assuming whatever resources they have on hand will be sufficient.

It's amazing the things that stop being a "must have" as soon as they have to spend more money.
I am going to disagree with the author here, while the end result might have been successful for the author, the though process to get there was flawed. Ironically, the concept he talks about is right on the money, but with incorrect conclusions. In the example he brings up, that people with subject matter expertise predict events with more accuracy (Foxes) than those who make confident forecasters (Hedgehogs).

The thing is that the questions/predictions are all around specific/measurable outcomes (I believe that $X will happen if $Y, I believe that $X will happen due to $Z). Asking someone "What do you think of Iraq?" will yield significantly different answers than "What predictions do you have with regards to Iraq over the next 5 years?".

I have noticed one common thing, which will cause scope creep in projects with almost 100% certainty: The shitty question.

In my mind a shitty question when building software can be a number of things:

- Something outside someone's subject matter expertise

- Open ended

- Without timeframes

- No context

I would argue that the problem is not that people are getting feedback from Hedgehogs/confident forecasters and that they should discount/ignore their advice. The problem is people keep asking shitty questions, or questions outside the Foxes scope of expertise. I think that product/engineers actually need to be asking more questions of people with experience, not less, but they need to be good questions. This is a skill that requires more effort than most people think.

Sure, there are Hedgehogs/people who blab on about the newest tech, but not having a feedback loop is how you get disconnects between your users and the product. I have seen this play out in so many different ways and its amazing how quickly a product team can become disconnected from reality, even in a small company.
Amazing and so removed from the day to day!
>Thing is, even if you're against new-technology vaccines, we have numerous old-technology vaccines following the same paradigms used to make the vaccines I mentioned above (AZ, JJ, etc).

Those two are viral-vector vaccines, which isn't old-technology. They're almost as new as mRNA vaccines.
>After teachers, BIPOC were prioritized due to their higher than average death rate and rates of COVID, even though those rates were still far lower than those of the elderly.

Depending on what you're optimizing for, that might be rational. The elderly will in large parts not be alive for long with or without covid. On the other side you have a group of people where you can save younger people's lives that have a much higher downside in terms of shortened life expectancy.

I.e. if you have an equal number of 40 and 80 year olds, you might expect them to die in 40 or 5 years respectively. So keeping the first group alive has an 8x multiplier.

Additionally if you consider quality of life concerns, that might tilt everything even more in favor of saving the young.

Also the young probably have more social contact, meaning that early vaccination there saves other lives by containing the spread.

It's not as cut and dry as one group having a higher risk.
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You aren't wrong to be skeptical of the author/purpose of the article but the claims that are being made are very likely to be true. I have a friend in my states unemployment office and another friend in a different states department of labor. Both have been complaining about the rampant, and obvious, fraud for months. Early in the pandemic someone tried to file a claim in my wifes name and it was shut down during employment verification but the federal funds may have been sent anyway.
She only committed some light treason.