skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdote. I used to work for Microsoft from the Bay Area and I was up in Seattle once for a business trip when I took an Uber somewhere. I struck up a conversation, "I bet you drive a lot of Microsoft employees around." The driver said, "Yeah. Also Amazon." I asked him if he observed any differences between these two groups. "Yeah," he said. "The Amazon employees are often crying."
Seriously, the tandem failures of the Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Observer missions were probably something NASA as an organization needed at the time. A reminder that Space Is Hard, and you can only pick two of "faster", "better", and "cheaper". Since then, NASA's Mars program has grown in both scope and ambition, yet remarkably has had zero loss-of-mission failures during that whole time!
If you like this idea, Zapatos[1] does something similar but provides more comprehensive types (differentiated into what you get from a SELECT, what you can INSERT, etc.), plus some help using these types to interact with the database.

[1] https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
Browsers Decode Images Differently
just because they have bands for certain titles/w2 employees does not mean so for vendors/developers working as consultants via their own S corporations... Exceptions to HR supervision exist
Shouldn't the OS or libc take care of that? If I write and don't immediately flush()?
We have a 17 and a 21 year old car. We kept up on maintenance continuously and they both still run terrific. Last time I took them both in I was told that neither had anything that needed to be done to them. I think we would have to get into a major accident before we would consider replacing one of them.
Can any Googlers confirm or deny if this is also what Google is doing near their campus? I was out walking my dogs near the Google campus and was just stunned by the landscaping that looks like a bunch of unmanicured wild flowers in bloom. It was simultaneously beautiful but very natural looking. There were definitely a lot of bees and “life” around them. As a resident of Mountain View, I really appreciated it but wasn’t sure if it was deliberate and if it was, if this is a new trend.
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Quite disappointing. They're comparing with Pebble OG, but I owned both a Pebble OG and a Pebble 2. The battery life of the former went away with the OS update to the OS version on v2, but the 2 lasted easily for a week, and it looked better IMO. The HR is like RNG, and the case eventually deteriorated (and I sadly failed to replace it with), and of course the support did not last long.

I now use a Fossil HR Collider. It lasts for 2 weeks probably thanks to e-ink. The HR also isn't useful, but it looks good for a round watch (except for the stage light) which you can make look like a normal smartwatch, and it can control e.g. Spotify and weather. I don't need much more on a smartwatch. The only thing I miss is the ability to put Bluetooth off.
> This is going to be a problem everywhere as robots are rolled out - people don’t like them.

Yeah this is a big problem, especially for unaccompanied autonomous robots.

I’m very bullish on this stuff in technological progress terms, but I’d still dislike seeing these things on the street unaccompanied. At best you’re being remotely recorded/streamed/observed/stalked by some anonymous remote operator (and the internet has taught us a lot about what human behaviour is like when there is total anonymity).

At worst it’s packed with explosives.

I’m not sure how we deal with this issue. I guess there will be a big difference between how accompanied vs unaccompanied robots will be viewed.

A bit like a large dog wondering about on its own would be treated with a lot more caution than one accompanied by its owner!
I have scarring from a TB vaccine on my arm the size of a dime. It's certainly not without effect to have an strong immune response to a foreign substance in your body. I'm not even going to mention the preservatives and other substances they put in them.

The strongest hunch that something is off with an animal population, is a low fertility rate. You have negative, declining reproductive rate hovering around 1.6
Read the full quote, it's not nihilist at all.
The US may be litigious but judges and lawyers aren’t stupid. The key issue is that it would generally be pretty hard to find someone sufficiently culpable.

Many cities plant lots of male dioecious trees (ie some individuals of the species only have staminate (“male”) flowers and others individuals only have pistillate (“female”) flowers, the city plants only the trees that produce staminate flowers) which produce twice as much pollen as they would if trees were selected more randomly. This is because they drop less litter. But it is bad for people with allergies. I don’t think any such people have had success suing their cities for this practice.
The thing is that a comprehensive Python packaging solution would need to include packaging of C and C++ extensions at least. And that's not simple. In the meantime, Guix is establishing itself as a cross-language package manager wich can define an own distro, or run on top of a POSIX system like Debian, Ubuntu or Arch. And it is rock solid and currently features around 17,000 packages. A new Python packaging solution would have a hard time competing with that.
I believe the 1.2B km was referencing mean orbital distance from the sun, which would be 8 AU, and therefore 7 AU from earth on closest approach.
> The affordable care act would have been killed under that and replaced with nothing

But potentially also the NFA, Marijuana prohibition, and much more.

Overwhelming congress gives states more impetus to solve their own problems instead of let the federal government be so bloated.
How/why was the randomness part not "solveable" via using fixed seeds?
This is actually terrible advice based on naive assumptions. Insurance has a cost of capital and cost of operations just like any other business. You are not getting ripped off.

Even the very best mutual companies charge basically the same rates as public for profit insurance companies. The industry is well regulated and ensures margins aren’t indulgent. Some of the best performing public auto insurance companies are lucky to land a 97% combined ratio, i.e. a 3% profit. Home insurance is fairly similar with slightly better margins but many insurance companies aren’t making much more than a nickel on each dollar that they bring in and most are lucky to break even.

Sure there are plenty of things insurance companies can do better. Lemonade, Hippo, Root and many other high profile disrupters are out there spinning BS about how evil the industry is while profiting first and/or burning other peoples money to recreate the wheel while they are otherwise not breaking even, i.e. not viable long term.
This is actually terrifying.

That body is on a cometary orbit, and need not be stable long term. If it's chaotically pushed around by the major outer planets it might get sent into an orbit that gets into the inner solar system. And if something that size hit Earth, it would be game over for life here -- the impact would vaporize much or all of the oceans.

Even an impact by something the size of comet Hale-Bopp would destroy all higher life on the planet.

The chance of impacts like this may have been underestimated because of anthropic selection -- if any had occurred in the past (say) 1 billion years then we would not be here.
It also works in North America.

Outside of FAANG (and FAANG wannabes) I have never seen leet code stupidity. Nor has any of the people I know in the SW field (across multiple industries, fintech, aerospace, data analytics, etc.)

Whiteboard system design -- sure. Small practical example project, sometimes. But never that type of brain dead, artificial realtime algorithm coding.
So pretty much between Saturn and Uranus....

Even as an adult that still always makes me chuckle. I can't help it.
It's an old unit, so there wasn't a global standard yet, and it's exact value wasn't known for a long time, but it was still useful for ratios. E.g. if you observe the orbit time of another planet, you can tell its distance from the sun relative to the distance of Earth to Sun (1 astronomical unit) relatively accurately, even if you can't measure what it is in meters very well.
It can definitely feel not as cool from a popular science perspective but there are many unanswered questions about the Oort Cloud so study of this object would be scientifically invaluable, even if it doesn't yield any "pop-sci" results.
I recognise those points you raised, and I can see how they sometimes look a bit culty.

QAnon is not an appropriate comparison. Generally speaking, Superstonk is very welcoming of counter-DD. It’s members have good intentions (like /r/ApePhilanthropy for example), and there are lots of smart people doing legitimate research into an intentionally obfuscated industry, with a history of secrecy and corruption. But I do see what you’re getting at.

Even without another squeeze the company has some genuinely exciting fundamentals, and it’s future prospects have never looked better. So many people think it’s just a great long-term investment, no matter what transpires along the way.

Part of the “cult” problem is exacerbated by the inherent nature of the MOASS thesis. At its core, it’s Game Theory in action. The MOASS only works if a critical mass of retail investors allow it to.

Individual voices spreading “FUD” only serve to sabotage the opportunity for everyone else. But at the same time, it’s in all the players’ best interests to base their strategy on reliable information.

There have certainlu been a few occasions when users have gotten overexcited, promised things they shouldn’t have, or made claims they can’t back up. But honestly, overall I’m absolutely amazed by the community at self-policing it’s members, and striving for accuracy.

A big part of this, I think, was the fact that Superstonk is now the 3rd home for GME. Investors have watched WallStreetBets turn in to a pathetic shell of its former self, overrun by bots and pump-and-dump schemes.

Most users who were still interested by February had migrated to /r/GME, where good DD was being posted again. Unfortunately the mods there lost control of the sub, and it quickly became overrun with blatant “FUD” posts — usually from users with brand new accounts, and 0 post karma. The patterns were extremely obvious, and for many people, helped to reinforce their beliefs about market manipulation.

Each time the core community migrated, the quality improved significantly. Superstonk has nearly 500K members — which is a lot, but, nowhere near WSB at its peak (10M members or so).

Superstonk is a generally positive community, filled with people who’ve “held from $400 down to $40, and back again”. That kind of attitude is all that’s necessary by this point. Most members, I’m sure, would agree: the research has been done, and it’s just a matter of time.

—

For me, personally: I’ve found it to be a fascinating, eye-opening opportunity.

No matter how things pan out, it’s been a uniquely enjoyable learning experience, and something I’ve very much enjoyed following.
that's not really acceptable. I'm a big julia fanboy, have been since 0.4 (proof in bio) but dismissing real pain felt by newcomers is kind of bad for the ecosystem.
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It's worth remembering that this isn't restoration. This is imagination. It's the construction of an imagined face that fits the blur.

You literally can't get more information than the blur itself encodes. So everything more specific, is a plausible lie.
I'd be interested in how those budgets are broken down. Are those schools spending the money on finding the best teachers, counselors, mentors, etc. for their struggling students? Or are they spending it in more questionable areas?

That's a genuinely curious question. I haven't researched any specifics about those schools or how they use their money.

It's possible for a vicious cycle to develop between waste/corruption in a school system and poor academic performance, wherein additional money doesn't help improve outcomes. That doesn't mean that withholding resources is the solution; rather, it means that a more fundamental restructuring than American municipal governments may be comfortable with is in order.
> Look at Lemonade.com, they do not benefit from not paying out as their margin is fixed

Lemonade reinsurers the vast majority of the risk. Their historical profitability will determine what reinsurers charge them (which is a premium). Basically all of their risk (75%) is reinsured.

If/when reinsurers tire of thin margins and high volatility, they'll hit Lemonade with a rate increase. Lemonade can either retain more of the risk, or pay the reinsurance premiums. The additional capital required to do that will either come from policyholders or shareholders.
While the article mainly focuses on France, the world is mostly looking at China after its one-child-policy as the greatest example. France is a good example for other things though. Its extremely pro-pension policies makes it very hostile against the young. Both countries at either end of the world were spending their time breeding babies to try to feed them 50 years later.
As we have seen, apps decay over time. So someone has to keep track of the app. Also, given unlimited time, all cryptographic algorithms can be brute forced, especially something that has the same key for all hashes. So, now you have the problem of maintaining a key for your "counterfeit detection", and somehow get older keys revoked. Do you see a ledger now?
Here's a simplified version that zooms out, untwists the picture, zooms in, and repeats. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Mdf3zM
> Incremental compilation is much harder to achieve when you require bit-for-bit identical output

Presumably, incremental compilation is only for development. For release, you would do a clean build, which would be reproducible.

> Even just stripping your compile paths from debug info is not entirely straightforward

Just use the same paths.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System for a very large scale model of the solar system.
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That's pretty impressive for a single dev ! Maybe you should try to find amore distinctive name though.
In general, what you want to do instead of having `@.` in front of every line is write scalar functions and `@.` their application. For example, instead of writing
```
function f1(A,B,C)
tmp = A.+B
return tmp1 .* C
end

f1(::Vector,::Vector,::Vector)
```
You can write

```
function f2(a,b,c)
tmp = a + b
return tmp1 *c
end

f2.(::Vector,::Vector,::Vector)
```
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If they do, they will end up identifying everyone as "generic Uighur AI created face #1". A digital faceplant.
> Everything the parent comment mentioned is exactly what we see.

Current sde1 bluebadge. I also see exactly what the parent comment mentioned. I also saw a few nasty episodes such as L6 managers quitting in less than a year in because they hated the pressure they were subjected to, and a yellowbadge say during a all-hands to a bunch of newly arrivals that he was at the company when they joined and he will still be at the company when they all left. I know of a team where SDE2s and SDE3s felt the need to pull in all-nighters and even work the entire weekend to meet the deadlines that their L7 leadership pulled out of their ass. I myself felt compelled to work close to 12 hours a day and weekends during a period just because my senior manager wanted to shine. And yes, I've already see a fair share of colleagues disappear.

Of course YMMV but I'm baffled why I'm seeing accurate descriptions of what I'm personally experiencing on a daily basis being faced with such a sense of incredulity.

> because the engineering quality is so shoddy and the business plan prioritizes maintaining system uptime,

I've created this throwaway account just to comment on the issue of engineering quality being shoddy.

It's true that engineering quality is shoddy but the problem is caused by Amazon's structure and not by the engineers themselves. For example, each and every single engineer is expected to deliver major tasks alone as part of their evaluation process, and this means that by design we are placed on tasks where we are way over our head and we are still expected to deliver things out of thin air. This sort of trial by fire is sold under the premise of allowing us to deliver consistently at the next level before being considered for a promotion, but in practice if you screw up that's expected to also be held against you.
Pretty much. But hopefully x86_64 feature levels will provide the benefits of native builds to a reasonable extent.
Thanks for sharing! Is this photo [1] the titular Casu Martzu? It doesn't have a sign, but fits the description

[1] https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/a05893101da94e1bb109f1ff4...
The article explains in simple terms when one should or should not do it..

However, the asymmetry in knowledge on the consumer's part ( eg, knowing the 'chance the house burns down' for his personal case from the blog ) would enable him to make rational decisions.

Without this information, depending on one's risk appetite, one over or under-compensates for it.

There needs to be an application - that works for the consumer - and paid by him -- that calculates his real chance - by collecting a lot of the data from him ( and others similar to him ) and providing him with his real chance.

Armed with this info, the consumer can then choose to buy insurance for this scenario, and if so, what they should do...
It's a fun thing for a walking/biking trail near you if you can get park permission though!
That's when the government declares "A state of emergency", so that the insurance companies are baled out.
> Who was your last manager? I'm curious if it's anybody I know?

Would you truly ask that? And have someone's personal name be searchable forever? What is the impetus?
The software doesn't suddenly become incompatible with CPU-specific optimisations (or many other compiler flags that change its output), but if you do so, you won't be able to reproduce the distribution binaries. Distributions don't enable CPU-specific optimisations anyway, since they want to be usable on more than one CPU model.
This right here is the thing that nobody wants to say but is just true.

I had some good friends in high school (a large, below-average public school in CA) who were solidly middle class or better, had supportive parents, and were just shitheads when it came to education. They were disruptive in class, didn't do homework and just generally didn't care.

I'm all for giving kids who are struggling the benefit of the doubt and trying to help them, but if they don't want that help, at some point you have to weigh the cost of trying to force it on them against the cost of wasting the time of the students who are actually there to learn.
This a version of an earlier Trabant (East German car of dubious reliability) joke, but I suppose it applies to other similar cars like the Yugo. Other jokes are "Why does [car make X] have heated rear windows? To keep your hands warm while pushing it!" And "When does [car make X] reach its top speed? When it is being towed!"
Likely it means that with the same input arguments the end result is bit-by-bit identical. (As I understand the problems were hard to control output elements. So it was not enough to se the same args, set the same time, and use the same path and filesystem, because there were things that happened at different speeds, so they ended up happening at relative different elapsed times, so the outputs contained different timestamps, etc.)
It's expected orbit will take it around 54,600 AU from the Sun. The orbital period of something that far out is in the millions of years range.

If it doesn't kill us this time, rest assured by the time it comes back we'll have done the job properly already.
Crazy idea: what if we can use mRNA or any other tech to make old blood young again by changing the chemical composition? The rest of the body follows along, it's proven.
It's somewhat interesting that I was the happiest with Pluto being shown.
Do we know how many of those craters used to be satellites?
Don't mitochondria only come from maternal cells?

If the contribution was significant, wouldn't we have seen folk tales about "if your mum goes mad, you'll go mad too!". Yet, as far as I know, no such tale exists.
Friday App
On Friday the 25 my friends and I are putting our new app on the App Store. It's a social networking app that is meant to optimize for real life interaction. Its called Friday its just an MVP and it would be great to get some feed back on how we can improve.
I'm more referring to objects of this kind, not this specific object.

Threats from supercomets are not a new concern: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/448/1/27/990672

"A 100 km comet striking the Earth would carry ∼1000 times the energy involved in the creation of the 150 km Chicxulub crater and would presumably remove the surface biosphere"
The thriving business of IKEA hacking
I'm just wondering, what would you prefer to be the method? Isn't providing banking info the least they need? To send the money?
I believe pip and conda already support native modules. I'm not saying it was easy to get there, but it's a solved problem at this point. The problem that still needs to be solved is project-scoped dependencies vs system-scoped dependencies. Virtual envs are a hacky workaround that causes all sorts of problems. I'm convinced Python has been one of the major drivers of Docker's adoption, because any given module is concerned with the entire system.
This article makes a familiar error in thinking that I routinely see when it comes to the subject of extraterrestrial life. It goes like this:

1) There exist billions and billions of stars, each of which can be thought of an independent Bernoulli trial with probability P as to whether intelligent life exists in that star system.

2) P must be a non-negligible quantity, because we ourselves exist

3) Therefore intelligent life "must" exist elsewhere in the universe due to the sheer number of trials.

This is an epistemological error that echoes the sort of error made by proponents of intelligent design. They conclude that the chance of thinking beings evolving is prodigiously unlikely, and therefore our existence is proof of a creator.

But in fact, you cannot post-hoc conclude that our existence says anything at all about P, because if we didn't exist, there would be no one to ask the question. Therefore the fact that we are wondering about the value of P means our existence is an implicit axiom of the logical system itself. One way to think of it is there could be infinitely many possible universes with no life at all, and by definition the question of P can only discussed in the one branch, in all that lifeless space of possibilities, where thinking beings actually exist. So P could, in fact, be made arbitrarily small, and Earth could indeed be the only place in the universe with intelligent life.

Note that this doesn't claim that extraterrestrial life _doesn't_ exist. It merely points out the truth in all of this P-hacking: that we have no evidentiary basis for believing one way or the other.
In general, Debian aims to upstream the changes they make to software. That allows all other distributions, including Nix, to profit from their work making software reproducible.
No, just that you need to avoid naively conflating the machine that is doing the compilation with the one that optimization is being performed for.

Concretely, you would need to keep track of and reproduce e.g. the march flag value as a part of your build input. If you wanted to optimize for multiple architectures, that would mean separate builds or a larger binary with function multi-versioning.
History as an academic pursuit Boom or Bust?

Propagandist on a pension?