skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the issue with certain groups being over or under represented? Physically fit people are over-represented in sport. Attractive people are over-represented in modelling. High IQ people are over represented in rocket science. Who cares? We need to stop sacrificing everything on the altar of diversity.
> A formal justification for applying Benford's law to a time series like that would depend on some kind of ergodicity argument

I don't think Benford's law relies on ergodicity at all. I thought it applied to all cases of exponential growth.
That raises a possible / probable principle for discerning between rare observations on the one hand and unjustified ones on the other, and a chief limitation of empiricism.

Empiricism rests on the assumption that the Universe and phenomena in it are fundamentally observable. Which means that phenomena generate some kind of interaction with their surroundings.

Observability is depenent on the frequency, strength, certainty (as opposed to ambiguity), of those interactions. There's a strong association between the sensibility of phenomenon (our ability to see, hear, smell, feel, or taste it directly) and its believability, though also with recordability. "Capturing something", on film, tape, audio, or other sensing devices, is key to demonstrable proof. (In its absence we're mostly limited to testimony or second-hand accounts. Durer's Rhinocerous is a wonderful example of a second-hand account, visualised in detail. It's almost dreamlike, startlingly accurate in some particulars, oddly off in others.)

Empiricism does most poorly with rare or hard-to-sense phenomena. Literal black swans, neutrinos, the interior of the Earth, subatomic particles, the boundaries of the Universe, interiors of stars, black holes and neutron stars (massive, but not very emissive). Or the very long ago (think evolution and geology). Epidemiology and statistical methods for rare and distributed events. Various sensing, visualisation, microscopy, telescopy, tomographic, and other methods.

Even in cases of very difficult-to-sense phenomena, though empiricism tends to improve in its resolving capability with time and improvement of methods. And where those capabilities improve, rare-but-real phenomena are more revealed over time. The distant (or small, or remote in time, or hard to percieve) becomes clearer. Presumed-extinct species are found. Hidden structures within the Earth are visualised, and correlated with other events (see the evolution of the concept of plate tectonics, one of my favourite instances).

Where the phenomenon is not real, though ... it either decreases in prevalence (mostly in the case of frauds), or in the case of "edge-of-perception" sensing, in which random noise is mistaken (or hallucinated) as actual, remains roughly constant over time.

Spellling all this out, I'm all but certain there's an established concept built around this (or several). Though it seems a useful heuristic in determinng likely validity or falsity of phenomena given enhanced sensing or recording capabilities.

UFOs have remained frustratingly ellusive. Meteorites have become stunningly compelling. Footage of accidents, abuses of power, or casual racism are now starkly evident (if often undeterred by the fact of video). And so on.
>So that doesn't sound like a grid that's prepared—irrespective of the reason why

Maybe, but there's a big difference in infrastructure not being there vs turning generation down/off at the wrong times.
The ‘weirdest’ matter, made of partial particles, defies description
Being a woman was her whole selling point. How many articles were written about her being a woman who “could be the next Steve Jobs”? And honestly no one points the finger at the VCs who took a RISKY investment in hopes of getting super rich. What’s that statistic about 9/10 startups failing for then?
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/crypto-s...
> In this proposal, Bezos made a critical error. NASA wanted to see companies self-invest in their hardware. The space agency wanted to be a customer for these landers, but not the only customer. "I think they realized it's why they lost," one politically connected source told Ars. "Meaning they did not invest properly." So Bezos' letter offers a mea culpa.

Offering to personally bankroll the lander is better than not offering to personally bankroll the lander, but this still doesn't meet the bar. There's a business plan for Starship that has nothing to do with convincing the government to use it to land on the moon. If the government doesn't use it to land on the moon, they're going to build Starship anyway, launch more satellites than anyone ever thought they would require, and go to Mars.

Blue Moon was always intended to have one customer. That's why Bezos presented it in DC instead of Kent or Texas. If you read the rest of the letter it becomes even more clear:

> We built the National Team – with four major partners and more than 200 small and medium suppliers in 47 states – to focus on designing, building, and operating a flight system the nation could count on.

Why would you go out of your way to build something this way? The best reason I can think of is to give 94 out of 100 Senators the chance to brag about creating jobs in their home state.

> It also eliminated the benefits of utilizing the broad and capable supply base of the National Team (as opposed to funding the vertically-integrated SpaceX approach) and locks every trip to the Moon into 10+ Super Heavy/Starship launches just to get a single lander to the surface.

It's hilarious to see Jeff talk about vertical integration as a bad thing, especially at the same time that he's trying to sell the government a cloud services provider that designs its own chips, generates its own power, and is actually part of a larger company that uses that cloud to run a retail website, for which it has its own package delivery service.
The "magnet/metal sticking to skin" trick has been around for a long time. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVWMY8EZCA

Comes down to the angle and stickiness of skin.
It doesn't make sense to me, too. At least in the long run.

Yet, I can imagine that there might be some short windows of time when that will work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
It is way more than 4% in SV.
Well, firstly input.get("foo", {}).get("bar", default) is a bit nicer, imho.

Python exceptions are only slower on the exception. They are almost exactly the same speed on success.

LBYL forces you to look for all the ways in which you might leap. EAFP lets you handle even unexpected conditions. The classic use case is checking if a condition exists, then doing the thing, except the condition changed between check and run. So you gotta catch anyways.

I've been moving away from this actually and towards a rust-like Result[T, Exception]. I'm using the package called "result". For fastapi api_request -> handler -> some_func_chain -> return response_to_client patterns, if something barfs, you normally get a 422 and useless "Internal server error". It's far simpler imho to map over some Results and then pack the error(s) into a more useful response.

Also testing is just a lot simpler.

https://pypi.org/project/result/
I suppose what I said would be less of an issue for cosmetic items, good point.
As for “how to get other games to recognize the tokens for the cosmetic items”, I suppose one reason could be via the use of copyright: grant a license to other games to use the assets for the items, conditional on the requirement that they only allow it for people who have the token in question. If they are high quality assets, and in a format where they can be easily incorporated, then that could make it worthwhile to implement them. Of course, the game using the assets from the other game would prefer to be allowed to use the assets for anything they want, but, seeing as it is essentially for free, if it fits with the art style and setting/mood of the borrowing game, that could make it worth it, maybe. If the group granting the license wanted to provide additional encouragement to do this, they could also issue some number of the tokens to be distributed by the other game. This could maybe work as a cross-promotional thing. People from the first game which don’t have the token could be motivated to try the other game because they can use(wear) the item in the game they already play, and people who are playing the second game could be made aware of the first game by the introduction of the item. (Of course, many parts of this could be done without any sort of token by just having the game servers contact each-other on occasion, but tokens could allow the sharing between many games more easily maybe. Also allows making it really be the same item on both games such that if one sells it in one, it is also gone in the other, without needing the servers for the different games to constantly contact one-another over that kind of thing.)

I do think something that could be interesting would be to use a permission-ed authenticated append-only database (essentially like a proof-of-authority blockchain, except not necessarily a blockchain, could be closer to an ordinary database),
which could allow the kinds of cross-chain trades we see in actual blockchains, which could facilitate trades of items between different games, without requiring the players trust that the other player will uphold their end of the trade on the other game, just trust that the game servers don’t cheat, as the game servers would have basically no reason to do that.
I think these would be able to scale much more easily, while still being potentially compatible with actual blockchains.
Some of the famous people just have knack for asking the right questions and then answering them.

I am reminded of a joke that goes something like, if you hit a roadblock in your math problem, the best way to solve it is to get Terry Tao interested in it.
Over represented how? From the total world population? Most definitely.

From the population that gets a CS degree? I may be biased but think neurodiverse people prefer staying at academia if they can and would like that balance to tip off a little.
It depends, I suppose. Others might egg the guy on to do something really stupid. Just search for Wrigley Field trough diving...
Wasnt big news to begin with. Nobody uses bitcoin to pay for things. Well see what Twitter does though.
> If you want to turn this shit completely off

Or just boot linux and dd a couple KB of zeroes into /media/c/Stupid Crap/windefend.exe et al.
Wow. Get an experimental vaccine, have a bad reaction, and you're not going to get any help for your medical bills.
In the end of the day - there is no free money.

The best way to make money will always be producing some positive value to society.
My petition to stop petitions from achieving anything has been a wild success.
And a natural sopping wetland. The Central Valley is a big and varied place.
Man I’d hate for you to learn actual us history then…
i used the work in the substance abuse treatment space, where it's even more impactful. People with addictions go to treatment for 30-45 days, and when they get home, they have a $30k check to pay for the treatment. Same deal - insurance pays the individual who pays the center.

But I could not imagine a worse recipient, in terms of responsibility, than a recently recovered addict.
More than enough of them would be on mobile networks to cripple those networks (even if not sharing, they'd at least be downloading).
Yet another Intel revolution, where they rotate the business strategy 360 degrees and turn the bullshit screw one more notch on the way to utter irrelevance.

But, hey, how about that flash business? oh.
Show HN: Incremental Static Regeneration Blog (Static site with dynamic content)
I've bought and sold dozens (probably close to a hundred at this point) of vehicles in the $500-$1500 price bracket.

Looking at the kind of condition North American and Asian vehicles end up towards the end of their life I can't really think of any one of them that's particularly special. Every OEM has a handful of product lines and assemblies that suck and Toyota is no exception nor do they have fewer of those kinds of problems than anyone else.

I think they make slightly nicer interiors which I think results in less broken knobs and handles when the well to do white collar crowd gives them to their college age kids which is where most of that goodwill comes from.

I feel very, very comfortable saying that any edge Toyota has is wholly the result of the additional upfront cost and less attractive financing options and deals ensuring their vehicles start life and rack up miles in the hands of people who can afford to maintain them and treat them nicely. The average Toyota buyer will make almost any vehicle seem highly reliable.
USDC isn't audited, but it is attested, which means what most laymen think of auditing as meaning - a major auditing firm has confirmed they hold the backing dollars
Frankly it sounds like you have organizational or cultural problems or perhaps just the wrong set of people with the wrong set of expectations.
Ahh yes, and the US Government is so famously responsive to the many problems facing our society.
> What's wrong with using an EV for daily driving and renting a gas vehicle for the rare trips that really need the extra range?

I don't know. How about the vast majority of people don't have the economic means to do that? Most people live paycheck to paycheck. Their one and only vehicle is likely their single largest purchase. The idea of dropping hundreds of dollars to rent a vehicle simply isn't in the cards. I know people who are in this position.

If the answer to the objections people have to electrics is "just rent an longer range gasoline powered car", why would anyone buy an electric car in the first place? True believers, maybe, but that is not how the average person makes a purchasing decision. I learned this reality of business the hard way many years ago. People rarely make altruistic decisions when buying anything. They want the most for their money and, for the most part, could not care less where it comes from or how it works.
My understanding is that neurologists are taking this from EEG readings and that even people who say they "don't dream" show the same telltale markers of dream as people who do dream.
Index machine: an open source pick and place machine
> The sensors have been placed almost exclusively in predominantly Black and brown communities, while the white enclaves in the north and northwest of the city have no sensors at all, despite Chicago police data that shows gun crime is spread throughout the city.

One country, two systems

Arbitrary death by firing squad? Check

Arbitrary expropriation of private property? Check

Arbitrary internment for one class of society? Recurring theme, but Check
There's also Droidian [1], which is Mobian for Android devices.

[1]: https://droidian.org/
Pictorico OHP film is the best for this. Yellow ink is usually more UV-opaque, so I suggest using that to improve dmax.

There are ready-made toning curves to linearize the results, but to obtain reliable results a calibrated workflow is necessity in practice.
If you wanted to replace all of California's water consumption with desal you'd need thousands of plants.

But even 10% of thousands of plants is a lot.
When this hypothesis first came out, I remember looking into it a lot, specifically looking into the rebuttals from Western European researchers that poo-poo'ed the Russians' theories. I remember the thing that struck me was how defensive without evidence the rebuttals sounded to me. I mean, the rebuttals kept pointing out how there was all this documentary evidence to show that Jeanne Calment was 122, but of course all of that documentary evidence would still exist if it were actually evidence from her mother. I never found any convincing rebuttals of (a) the sheer outlier-ness of Jeanne's age, nor any of the more suspicious actions like some of the burned documents from her family.

FWIW I think the jury is definitely still out, but I would take the "Jeanne was 2 people" bet 9 ways to Sunday if it could be proven with DNA evidence.
As an ADHD person I tend to be suspicious of progressive sounding ideas around things like neurodiversity because they usually get tied in with attitudes that culimate in telling me I shouldn't need my medication. Even amongst the academics I know it's very popular to argue I only need my meds because of x societal factor. I'd much rather not be forced to trust society and just have my medication to deal with the problem.
You just plug the payment backend into the mega deep liquidity pools in DeFi and hedge out in real-time. It’s actually significantly easier than dealing with foreign currency in the traditional banking system.
Measuring the Health of Open Source Communities
I’ve experienced it on highways, but as I noted in a parallel comment, if Tesla thinks Autosteer isn’t viable on non-highways, it’s odd that they make it available. They have no trouble identifying road type and using it to determine speed restrictions for autosteer, and no problem disabling autosteer if they can’t ID the lines.

Maybe the phantom breaking is so harsh in your car it’s giving you amnesia, because it’s a well-understood Tesla failure mode on the Teslamotors subreddit, TMC, and every other Tesla owner forum I’ve seen.
> that’s not an option on a 1 minute per question interview.

Why do you assume that all interviews are structured that way? They aren't. I have interviewed with Google and that was not how most of my interview process was conducted.
Google is a search engine, not a code instructor.
Good point! iPhone SE 1st generation was released after iPhone 6S, so that makes sense.
Imagine how cheap gas would be if no one wanted it.
> Benfords law is a perfect example of something that is cool and compelling and then gets applied inappropriately all over the place by people who don’t know better.

Yes, but an Ivy-League educated Professor of Economics who created Yale's first course on the stock market under the mentorship of a nobel prize winner (for his work on the stock market) and whose research specialty is statistics and financial markets should be able to use Benford's law correctly.

That this analysis was then repeated by Columbia is also pretty strong credibility.
I, believe, that the Japanese at least sometimes, use the Emperor's regnal era in the same way.

An English speaker might say "In Japan during the later Meiji era..." and a slightly more awkward one might say "In Japan during the later Victorian era". Which mean the same thing except for ~10 year ambiguity since the Empress of India and Emperor of Japan in question largely overlapped.

I don't know enough Japanese to say for sure, but in Japanese we might have the exact thing except reversed with (literally) "In Victoria's ruling era Britain" and "in Meiji's ruling era Britain". (Anyone know if someone might actually say that?)
How was ATT not good at what they did? Yes they were a monopoly, but they provided reliable phone service to much of the US, and were required to built to cold war standards (reading about the long lines facilities is fascinating, with these massive concrete buildings and redundant backup generators). They also had an expanding wireless phone network (mostly for car phones) that was heavily rolled out by the early 80s. They put heavy research into satellite communication and laying undersea cable as well, not to mention bell labs.

Many of the complaints against att are entirely valid, but I have not once heard that they were actually bad at running a phone company. That so many of the baby bells remain around in some form (ATT itself nowadays, Verizon, many local phone companies) seems to be a testament of that.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, you're absolutely correct.

The low-end 400 series is a good 1-2 processes behind, being 11nm currently with the Snapdragon 480 5G (2021) on what looks to be Samsung's 8nm (aka, Samsung 10nm+), and the Qualcomm 215 (2019) is on 28nm even.

Qualcomm isn't going to buy bleeding-edge foundry space for a low-end product, and definitely not for a wifi router which has almost no power or significant performance constraints.
That is a good trick and I have a place where I can use this idea to make something more clear. You should write that blog post!
> What we do in software is not real engineering, not even close.

The only reason our processes and practices aren't much heavier is because the stakes are lower. People do not die if a Tweet doesn't make it through, but they do if a bridge collapses through.

The threat model is also significantly different. If we go back to the bridge analogy, a company like Microsoft has to deal with tens of thousands of people trying to blow it up or find some weakness every day, while a million people are going over it. Just by sheer laws of scale they are going to have a tougher time, Real Engineering or not.
Fair enough. The numeral system is Hindu and the typography is derived from Arabic thus Arabic, although what we use in most of the rest of the world diverges quite a bit from truly Arabic typographs. One could argue 0, 1, 2, 3, 9 are similar with some rotation , but 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 do not look like Arabic numbers. Curiously there is overlap of some E. Arabic numerals and Brahmi numerals.
Sounds more like Ada than Rust.
Meh, good thing she was a woman then.
There is a chemist from the UK that has done extremely impressive work in this field and offers a lot of more technical informations (https://www.mikeware.co.uk/mikeware/downloads.html).

A couple of mine, "new cyanotype" sensitizer brush-coated on arches platine paper, digital negatives printed on Pictorico OHP film from scans of analog negatives:

https://i.imgur.com/ISWlz81.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/xYRUrKk.jpg
This is really difficult and quite a grey area. Just to make a point, is gender dysphoria an acceptable neural diversity, but bipolar affective disorder is not?
While I can't say what will happen in the future, on the current course we are on self driving is simply not getting solved. Driver assist will keep improving, sure, and it may be the case that most miles driven are automated, but there will still need to be a steering wheel and trained drivers.
Just hope you don't run any of the security cams with known remote exploits.
CRO Case Study: These Changes Increased Leads by 79%
I like that framing of culture fit, and I think it is incredibly important as a candidate one should also try to answer determine that fit (rather than leave that up to an employer).

I really like Randall Koutnik's list[0] of questions to ask your interviewer, as a good way for a candidate to assess the engineering culture of a company.

[0]https://rkoutnik.com/articles/Questions-to-ask-your-intervie...
This article seems to somehow be painting Holmes as a byproduct of startup culture while conveniently ignore the kind of insane things Holmes and others did at Theranos that are not at all the norm in Silicon Valley or the broader startup world. It’s been some time since Bad Blood came out, but I’m recalling serious problems like intimidating employees, defrauding lab inspectors, and performing false testing that misled patients about their health. Holmes and Theranos were a relatively unique example of incredibly bad product and leadership, and it was enabled by the irrational attention given to gender and diversity over merit. Exhibit A in this society-wide grift was Fortune’s now deleted cover story on her (https://fortune.com/2014/06/12/theranos-blood-holmes/).
Blurb on punch cards, they are not binary!

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/16112/wha...
Did they also disconnect from satellite internet?