skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or they take the $3b and plow it back into R&D and factories so they can serve as suppliers to the other Big Auto companies who are dying for battery suppliers.

Or the most likely case, they're tired of Elon's schtick and they can take their technology elsewhere.
Which all amounts to a drop in the bucket compared to how much Chinese state money stands up and continues to subsidize all domestic industry, from telecom to solar to cars.
> absent symptoms

A positive blood test is a symptom. One which you'll miss if you don't do the blood test regularly.

And looking for symptoms (other than a blood test) is a form of testing... one with much worse accuracy (both positive and negative) than the blood test, especially in the early stages.
The sources seem to disagree with your claim.

https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-lives-matter-leader-ou...
I really don't think other people's existence creates your emotional response. As an adult, you do.

Discrimination against people for unalterable characteristics can affect theirs in pretty obviously damaging ways.
I view Minneapolis as a very exciting experiment. Crime rates, property values, and so on, these will all be impacted and we get a chance to see how well it works out.

We will also get to witness some interesting spin and sloganeering to explain why "... and that's a Good Thing." I imagine almost every trick in lying will statistics will now appear in the wild.

Apparently shorting municipal bonds is difficult, which is too bad.
Tesla's primary product is Elon Musk, and people want to be a part of that story.
/r/murderedbyAOC is a subreddit with seemingly limitless content. I for one believe that slamming people is her shtick. She is blue team Trump
I would very much like to know the confusion matrix for all these component tests: the false positive rate, false negative rate, i.e., the sensitivity and specificity of each.

For example, the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test is famous for a high false positive rate, inviting many men to worry needlessly or get unwarranted biopsies. The current state of any test and its history are important to know for both patient and doctor, so both can have an informed dialog about the options after a positive result.

Also, each of these 50 tests are going to evolve over time, as will the accuracy of error rates for patient subpopulations. Race, age, ethnicity, co-morbidities and co-maladies will each shift the accuracy and precision of each test in ways that will make them much more useful if everyone stays well informed about all their merits and demerits.
In practice this isn't as big a problem as you're making it out to be, because UTF8 is compatible with ANSI.

Nearly all of computing has made a similar transition in the 2000's and 2010's, and I've certainly debugged my share of encoding issues, but in general it worked for a large majority of use cases.

I think most people would've taken a few encoding issues over the 10+ years long migration.
Maybe this product is an April fools joke gone Theranos? The first thing I noticed was the overhead water sprayer, which is a SFG anti-pattern.

Avoid overhead watering with automatic sprinkler systems. Those systems are designed for large areas (like lawns) that need a broad application of water, not your Square Foot Garden that’s designed to take up little space. The overhead spray never gets to the root zone beneath your plants’ leaves, so the watering winds up being insufficient. That overhead spray also quickly evaporates, leading to water waste, and leaves foliage wet which can lead to pest and disease issues.

https://squarefootgardening.org/2020/05/watering-methods-for...
Micromasters in Statistics and Data Science - MITx. I didn't realize that it involve this much maths when I started. It is really pushing my boundaries by a huge margin.

Machine learning - how it works behind the scenes was really insightful.

(Currently working as a PHP backend developer, Drupal.)
Thanks, yes it an important topic that's still underrated today I think.

I wouldn't say hindrance, but it would probably be a bit easier if I had a biochemistry or food engineering/science background.

My partner has an environmental science background, so that helps a bit and she is the one doing most of the experimenting.

But in the end, it's about trial and error. That's also what an expert would need to do. I think if you're interested enough in the topic it's possible to acquire the necessary knowledge.

We plan to hire experts later on once we have the cash to do so (we're not raising money, all bootstrapped).
It sounds like they mean relative to the stuff they were working on. Very colloquial.
> most of us can attest how little we recall from those classes we didn't care about (and later in life discovered how amazing and highly logical topics they actually were).

Exactly. There's a term for this: Opportunity cost. I would suggest we need to devote all of high school to creating a solid path into both college and non-college professional/trade jobs. As an example, five years of high school history is simply ridiculous. It is utterly worthless for anyone other than those who might go on to college to get a history degree. And, BTW, I love history. I am simply looking at the opportunity cost.

Sir Ken Robinson's old TED presentation is relevant here [0]. A better system would be one where the path optimizes based on a range of criteria rather than treating every single kid as the same block of clay. This is much harder than the cookie-cutter approach we take over 12+ years.

"All kids have tremendous talents and we squander them".

"If you were to visit education as an alien and asked what it's for? <snip> You would have to conclude <snip> The whole purpose of public education throughout the world is to produce university professors"

> The key is social interaction.

Absolutely agreed. My comment does not address this at all. There is a legitimate claim that 2020 had social effects we don't yet understand. I can't speak to this other than to say that I watched my kids manage this quite successfully. I have not seen any ill effects.

> But I am damn sure for the kids this was the net loss that will reverb for rest of their lives in negative manner.

I think you are wrong. The proof is simple: Look at what kids went through during the world wars. I assure you this was worse than 2020. In my own family history, kids survived genocide. They went on to become perfectly capable, balanced and successful adults. It did not wreck their lives. I think this narrative is false and defeatist.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_c...
You’re not entirely wrong, but Tesla (and a small SpaceX investment via funds) is the closest most people can come to investing in Musk personally. Wouldn’t you invest in someone who is obsessed and will strive at all costs to succeed? And how is this any different than accelerators like YC investing in founders vs business ideas? The “eccentricity” for lack of a better word is the symptom of his underlying drive, so if you want the returns you take the good with the crazy.

I wouldn’t work for Musk (to protect quality of life and mental health), but absolutely would sink all of my high risk allocated capital directly into him as a person. Obsessed people get shit done.
I'll stand corrected.

Though that makes this discussion completely worthless - without trial results we have no idea if it is a useful test. Once we have those results we will know something about how useful/useless might be.
I think it's less that some people are overpaid and more that some goods are too cheap (mostly the goods that the West has stopped producing in favor of outsourcing to underpaid working class on another continent).
Interesting point. In the process of adopting a pure-bred Slovakian-line GSD, I've learned that German Shepherd Dogs didn't exist at all until the early 1900's, and the modern Slovakian line (which is related to the DDR line, which is when the two lines became rapidly and visibly diversified when the Iron Curtain divided Germany from the late 40's to the late 80's) is in danger of fading away altogether.

And that was only in 40 years -- admittedly with intentional breeding, but it's conceivable that changes in diet, parasites, tumultuous periods of history, seismic changes, or even war/pillaging/violence could rapidly change the makeup of an entire continent within just a few decades. In fact, we've seen that in very recent history.
Texas checking in -- the dirt in my backyard is full of clay and totally unsuitable for growing anything other than grass and weeds. Many places are like this.
Group theory for condensed matter physics from Dresselhaus, Dresselhaus, and Jorio.
I think this is a good summary of the themes explored throughout the book:

https://americanaejournal.hu/vol6no2/lacey

Reading a synopsis of the story sort of misses the point of the book. The plot is pretty limited.
Yeah, that makes no sense. Valet should use the farthest spaces possible.
I'm not sure.

I weight myself everyday. Some people tell me not to do that but its honestly pretty good at keeping me in check and because I weigh myself everyday I know that sometimes I just get super bloated and put on four pounds of water and it will be gone in a couple days. When you get more data you learn to adjust how you interpret it and make better decisions.

Likewise, if getting a false result 50% of the time becomes common (this assumes we never improve the tests) then people will know to adjust their priors. After all - I've had to go to specialists a few times for extra tests. I wouldn't say we ban those.
Managing outsourced content writers.

I’m building up the side hustle gradually to escape the soul-sucking grind of the day job, and being a good manager of an outsourced team will allow me to take things to the next level.
You forgot the other thing they love: humanity-scale dragnet surveillance (to feed "the algorithms"). If it can spy on lots and lots and lots of people, they might still be interested.
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This is happening because it's Peter Thiel, and he's an enemy of progressives, or at least, he is in their mind.

If it came out this was someone they like and hold dear, there'd be no article. That's why this whole article is pathetic.

By Law of Large Numbers alone, we're almost guaranteed there's another person with another Roth IRA with another outcome almost just like Peter's... but we'll never hear about it because that person didn't vocally endorse Donald Trump for president, doesn't do blood transfusions with 18 year old donors for mesenchymal stem cells, and isn't a thorn in the progressive side.
Would you mind sharing tips/examples of Hey-esque rules to port to other platforms?
> The risk to the company is pretty low that their employee would show up on a global leaderboard.

This invalidates your other point that it benefits developers. Why would a dev sink countless hours for a “very low” chance at being on the global leaderboard and hence moving jobs.

You can’t simultaneously posit it’s good for both companies and developers.
How vast? We're basically talking of the same land - how many cows it could support directly vs. indirectly via feedstock production. I don't see any reason why it should be many times more.
Like shooting isn't a bad or evil thing, per se. But you can break companies or people.
Ask HN: Who is the most famous person you have ever spoken to?
I agree. I learn Muay-Thai (Thai boxing), and this is incredibly useful, mainly because I have to (try to) switch from my usual "thinking for hours/days/months to a problem" mode into "flowing, neglecting analysis/systemics/... and letting whatever is left take control and act/react RIGHT NOW".
every time I think about walking into these kinds of conversations ... I realize that I would much rather not have mud on my shoes

There's a concept in anthropology called the paradox of the periphery, where people who are farther from their origin / homeland tend to get statistically more religious or extreme in their relation to that homeland....

I feel like that applies to people who are farther from the issue in the whole israel situation. everyone living or from there tends to mention nuance and complexity and everyone farther away just calls it an "obvious" issue with simple solutions.
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Sometimes people just need to get started by doing something with technology that they are interested in. Once they get past the first hurdle or two, they are more able to absorb the deeper material.

I have a lot of books where I read quite a bit about something, but never really did anything.

There's a ton of great information about rust, so perhaps they thought getting the right kickstart in front of the right people would be most impactful.
The problem with this and the nnt gatekeeping is that personalized medicine will always require stepping away from massive double blind randomized placebo controlled multiple meta study levels of evidence. From a patient perspective it feels a lot like economics largely determine medical outcomes.
That is a very straw manned interpretation of the phrase. I don't particularly love the phrase myself but this is a dishonest interpretation. Of course a few people probably believe that but it's a giant movement and the large majority do not seem to think that way at all... Maybe take more opinions than a couple op eds.

Have you even spoken to anyone or gone to an event? I live in a city with a lot of demonstrations and you quickly learn that isn't the phrases intent or ideology for nearly everyone except extreme outliers and agitators.
> step is simply a "next step", and the narrator merely describes what is being done

I mean; it's listed a Demo. That's a little unfair I think unless they don't go into more detail in the other other 34 (!!) videos in the course.
Great list, another one I would add is "The Misbehavior of Markets" by Benoit Mandelbrot:

https://www.amazon.com/Misbehavior-Markets-Fractal-Financial...
The teachers who marked us knew where the specimens came from...
lately, the major tech companies have been increasing their refresher grants to try to retain good people.

Startups have always structured their option grants to make it hard to leave. Of course, as people wise up that is making it harder for them to hire.

Unfortunately, companies always get more excited about hiring new people than retaining existing ones, so the constant job switching will continue.
It might be feasible to assess a single contribution, but not feasible to assess all of them. To make this KPI work, maintainers would have to publish an objective quality rating for each accepted commit. That's an enormous amount of work, and impossible to get right anyway since the value of a change might not be immediately obvious, or might be negated by a future change, etc.

The advice to companies using this KPI would be: let your own dev managers evaluate the quality of the commits of their engineers, and rate them on quality as well as quantity, then submit. Engineers will quickly stop creating busywork when their managers get wise to it.
If that were true, would that then mean that age would be malleable by flipping around and deleting and duplicating blocks? How does it ensure continuity without preventing recovery of blocks subsequent to the bad one? I have not dug into the age code to figure out how the encryption works so I am guessing here.
I wanted a game and I believed deeply in Chris Roberts vision because it's something that matches my own idea of a perfect game. Enough so to spend $120 on it sight unseen, without even the hangar demo being out for it. Eight years later and there's still nothing but a bunch of ever-increasing and ever-expanding 'systems' they want to show off.

I'm not interested in tech demos. I don't care about how they're adding one more new system into the 'game.' I don't care that they've figured out some beautiful lighting or entry into a planet or gigantic dune-like space worms or an FPS system or a prison system or anything like that. I'm not interested in going sightseeing, even if they are very impressive to behold. My computer that I bought for Star Citizen can't even really run it competently the way it is now.

I've given up on it. if they ever do release an actual game, I'll reevaluate then. But frankly I can't share your enthusiasm for it.
This is why so many people delay or refuse to have kids. You cannot make such a decision to prioritize your mental health when they need support.
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This is probably the SCARF model:

Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness
> This invalidates your other point that it benefits developers.

Not at all. The company undervalues their employee and sees little risk in them showing up on the board, and the employee overvalues their skill, thinking that showing up on the leaderboard is a shoo-in. Maybe the employer is right, maybe the employee is right, or maybe both or neither is right.

Also, the employee does it because they get paid to hunt bugs regardless. It just helps the company by putting a structure around what they are already doing.
> entirely reasonable to expect an account-type barrier to entry.

Yes, we can expect there to be a barrier to entry.

But that is what I would expect this to fail.

I can both expect that stadia will have this significant barrier, and also think that it is going to be harmed significantly by it.
I think you are talking past each other. Sure, yes, any system may evince disproportionate outcomes for various demographic groups. I think your point is that that variation doesn't matter. In your examples, that is likely the case.

But I think implicit in the parent comment is that there are some systems that have demographic variation and where that variation significantly impacts the power, agency, or well-being of one of the groups.

And for cases like that, real people are being harmed. They are unfairly not getting the same opportunity for success and liberty that other groups receive. That is a problem that anyone who cares about fairness should care to solve regardless of whether that's the intent of the system. It's not about blaming and shaming the architects of the system. It's simply a matter of something akin to good engineering to want systems that work well for all users.

The fact that men don't go to spas as much ultimately doesn't matter. But if black people in Houston disportionately lost power and froze to death that is an entirely different category of problem. We should not equate them.
The most common interpretation I've heard for this phrase is a contrast to the "few bad apples" meme, because police consistently show solidarity in defense of those "bad apples." If you're getting beaten by a cop, and their partner is just standing by and watching it happen, they're both bastards.

That said... the cops who made the news for shoving other cops off from kneeling on protesters' necks? They were good cops in that moment. Even if they were doing it to protect their precinct from scandal.
Does the idea that it’s a “poorly chosen slogan” not seem odd to you?

Isn’t the parsimonious explanation that people kinda mean what they say?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2019/09/10/linke...
Can Wall Street Bets maintain their edge with hedge funds monitoring them? Will they need to move into private forums?
> >> What's unethical about ticket scalping?

> It artificially inflates ticket prices by inserting a completely unnecessary middle-man in the purchase process. This is done by people with no intent to actually use the tickets they bought, so it's very much not the same as "oh I can't go would you like to buy my ticket?"

I think this is called "retail."
Not even a manifesto. If you look at people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, their rise is basic upon mutual dislike, and nothing more. Just a willingness to “own” the other side. There is no manifesto (unless you consider god, guns and glory a manifesto), just hatred. And it’s extremely engaging for their respective base. I don’t blame the politicians per se, in some ways it’s democracy at work if that’s what the people want. We need to change what people fundamentally want to not be based upon us vs them mentality.
That is not how medicine works, especially with cancer. Very often we simply don't know whether or not to "ignore" something. But the harms of knowing are not zero, and therefore screening can itself be a net negative. That's why a well powered RCT is required to say whether it benefits patients or not.
A fun tech-related project is hooking up an addressable LED strip to a digital piano and making the strip respond to your key presses - via a Raspberry Pi.

My repository for this (code finished, just need to add photos and add a write up about how to use):

https://github.com/whyboris/Digital-Piano-LED

I added a feature that the left and middle pedal buttons navigate through sheet music (PDF left/right button). And I'm also running Pianoteq which makes any (even dinky) digital piano sound like a $100k grand piano (or any piano you pick for that matter) https://www.modartt.com/pianoteq
> multiple monitors

If both monitors have similar configuration (DPI, refresh rate) it is fine (Xrandr fixed many of the issues that X previously had). If the monitors have different configurations it isn't, but this problem will reflect even on the desktop and I am sure that nobody will report a problem that they have on desktop as a "game bug".

> full-screen programs

X doesn't have a concept of full-screen, but anyway, it mostly works fine if you grab the root window (that of course you shouldn't write code manually to do this, your game engine probably will do it for you automatically).

> low-latency input

X latency is fine for most games, and in many cases you will not use X to handle input anyway. Also, if your game really needs low-latency (only a minorit of genres do), you can bypass X.

Anyway, I was not referring to specific X or PulseAudio problems that you will if you put things on container or not. I am just saying that even if steam-runtime doesn't built-in those libraries it is not much of a problem since those APIs are stable.
I know this is an opinion piece but surely the NYT has never pushed the ideals of what it thinks Beauty should be?! Gtfo
I think it has a lot to do with the people producing it just not being educators; at least, not for years and not with the 100s/1000s of students necessary to build up those skills.

And a lot of the training for technical educators is based around technical learning being tool-based; where you do just need a series of short videos on a GUI.

It's a complex problem.

I am aware, however, that a lot of people working in online learning think that this is a good style. I believe as it helps with learner engagement.

I have to think, however, that this is just because there's nothing actually challenging to engage with.
Some day I hope everyone has a backyard farm to supply at least some of their food. Some of those people will need assistance to do it.
Classical AI planning in Picat, which is like a mix of Prolog, Python and Haskell. Following this book here: http://picat-lang.org/picatbook2015.html

I think planning is extremely neglected and undervalued for what it is. The field is a mess, but there's real opportunity now with all the progress in reinforcement learning.
Reckoning with Tech Before It Becomes Invisible
I noticed it a while ago with this particular verb too. And ever since, it made me simply have an aversion to articles with these titles, and the news sources that use them.

I wonder if there is a point of diminishing returns - engagement goes down on clickbait titles.

Probably not since they are still doing it.