skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ingesting past/archival data. As to why use these formats: to still benefit from their sorting properties. As to why use UUID at all: because it's a format understood by a wide variety of software.

Their argument about the value of sorting is quite particular. Put stuff roughly in ascending order by the record creation time so that creating a bunch of records will touch (eg) fewer btree nodes. The simplest way to achieve that is to just use the current time. If you have some other timestamp at hand and happen to be scanning them in ascending order by that, you still get no advantage by this argument over just using the current timestamp:

> However some properties of [RFC4122] UUIDs are not well suited to this task. First, most of the existing UUID versions such as UUIDv4 have poor database index locality. Meaning new values created in succession are not close to each other in the index and thus require inserts to be performed at random locations. The negative performance effects of which on common structures used for this (B-tree and its variants) can be dramatic. As such newly inserted values SHOULD be time-ordered to address this.

My gut tells me that you should rarely if ever stick past timestamps in UUID primary keys. One reason why: can it ever change? Maybe your artifact dating technique was wrong, and you want to update the dates of a bunch of artifacts. But now you have to change your primary key. You probably don't want that.
Early multidrug treatment of Covid infection and reduced nursing home mortality
I mean, I agree. I have serious concerns about the potential for over-sensitizing the adaptive immune system, even with the current vaccines. I also fundamentally disagree with vaccinating just against the spike protein rather than the whole virus (particularly given how immunogenic and therefore pathogenic the spike is; we're injecting [genetic material that codes for] the most dangerous part of the virus with these vaccines IMO)

I'm just pointing out how effective the vaccines would have to be for this strategy to make sense (and that's ignoring the whole matter of people that refuse to get vaccinated against COVID, like me).

Simply put the whole strategy doesn't make sense on utilitarian grounds. I don't need to invoke any libertarian principles to argue against why this is so insane.

Side tangent: Unfortunately many who are on my side of the fence as far as skepticism of mass vaccination, believe equally absurd things like the notion that we can eradicate SARS-2 by having the whole world all take ivermectin at the same time. This idea was non-ironically advocated for by Bret Weinstein...
I don't think that's a typo. Instead, I think when they write "like", they mean "similar to" (not "such as").
The title implies wealthy people are confiscating the extra savings of other Americans, which is clickbait nonsense

The article reveals - wait for it - a Pareto distribution where the wealthiest saved the most. Duh.
You kind of have a model of a lunar space station in the form of ISS. That's definitely not 7000 tonnes of supplies for a base. Maybe something like 15 tonnes per year or so.
I also don't agree with the author during the first half of the article. If anything captcha photos have an overwhelmingly suburban feel, probably because (I assume) they're taken from Google's street view. The six points listed are all the same: they're photos taken from a car. While aesthetically that's dull, monochrome, and ordinary I can't call it depressing without calling every drive to the grocery store equally depressing.
Although I’m color blind, black is one of the few colors I can confidently identify—based on the pictures, this is boulder isn’t black?
Did you read the article? Your argument has nothing to do with the point of the article nor OPs comment.
The only people in need of a safe space are people who say "I crush people" and then are unable to deal with the blowback.
>> They of course have the ability to exfiltrate data, they created the hardware and OS.

I don't in know why you're assuming they have a backdoor built in already. The whole point is that they don't, but they're going to add one.
One thing I don't understand about what this page seems to suggest: shouldn't there be a bright ring of starlight at some non-zero angle away from dead ahead?

Given a finite collection of objects out to a certain radius (stars), relativistic length contraction will compress it along the direction of travel, so an observer looking out from the centre should see the density increase to a maximum when perpendicular to the contracted direction (in a way that's sort of the opposite of synchrotron radiation ending up tightly directed forward and backward). I guess the aberration described in your link will bend this fore-wards from the perpendicular, but it seems like it should still be visible.
>3yr margin, common sense

I cannot guess ages with anywhere near that precision. In California the usual standard is if you look under 30.
Just because mixedCase does not find captcha pictures to be depressing does not necessarily mean that mixedCase has problems with emotional intelligence. I have no major issues with emotional intelligence as far as I can tell and I also do not find captcha pictures to be depressing. Maybe I would if I looked at them for hours for some reason, but I do not, and certainly the idea of them being "unbearably" depressing strikes me as quite extreme. I understand the author's points about the lack of people, the strange angles and so on and I am sure that if for some reason I had to live in a strangely-angled reality full of roads and gray buildings and devoid of people, that I would find it unpleasant. But I do not have to live in such a reality - I barely even glance at any given captcha, then I click some parts of it and move on.

The way that the author describes the captcha images reminds me of the idea of "liminal space" - a concept that relates to a certain kind of eerie sensation but is perhaps most familiar to people in the form of art that seeks to evoke this sensation and makes normally familiar things like shopping malls and schools instead look eerie. Often simply photographing such places without any people in the pictures does the trick. I do see the eerieness in the captcha pictures but again, for it to really affect me I would have to focus on them for much longer than I actually do. The author, for whatever reason, has become particularly interested in captcha images, but until I read this article at least, I was not.
that's exactly my point. maybe it wasn't worded well. "X is an opioid" does not imply "X is an extremely dangerous drug with high potential for addiction". not all opioids have psychoactive effects. some (eg, buprenorphine) do have psychoactive effects that are generally considered unpleasant by users. it's a large class of drugs...
Speaking as a blue collar guy, they missed an excellent opportunity to make 70 tons of racist gravel for backfill or rainwater control
My unfortunate conclusion is that a large portion of people in this industry are either like this or wish they could get away with being like this. The amount of people who always reply about how they don't see any issues is enough proof of that.
The only time I've ever had aluminum drop bars go out on me was when the salt brine from sweat corroded the aluminum a lot.

I was on a hill in a mild rain riding next to a friend. I managed not to take her out and stay upright which was great. The cycling team I participated on in college said road bars need to have the tape off and inspected every year. They were right.
No, born and raised in BD, never left.
Hello fellow poster! Line breaks would be lovely for comprehension's sake.
Rock canceled because it has a nickname.

The color red will be canceled next for being sexist, racist, and antisemitic.
>It was referred to as a derogatory name in a Wisconsin State Journal story in the 1920s

>In a statement released Thursday, the university explained, “[r]emoving the rock as a monument in a prominent location prevents further harm to our community

>Chamberlin Rock, which is believed to be over two billion years old, was described by the university as a large pre-Cambrian-era glacial erratic. It was named for Thomas Chamberlin, a geologist who served as university president from 1887 to 1892

So, a 2 billion year old glacial erratic was removed because some time 100 years ago someone referred to it using a racial slur...and its existence was causing harm.

I can see why people get upset about things like Confederate statues and such...but this, I mean really...come on...it's not like it was officially named after a racial slur, the article doesn't seem to imply there was problems with people today referring to the rock by the racial slur. This just seems so ridiculous at this point.

They are claiming a giant rock causes harm because someone 100 years ago used a terrible word to describe it in a journal article.

If you choose to be offended and upset because someone used a word 100 years ago to describe a rock, that's probably on you at that point.
I bet the robots know exactly how many failures before they need to cycle IPs/cookies/accounts and when the time comes I bet they know how to do it quickly and at low cost.

Humans just have to give up and hope that whatever was behind the captcha wasn't actually important.
I love this kind of stuff intellectually -- deep dives on how edge cases can produce counterintuitive results.

But I'm surprised to see HN uncritically assume this is relevant to Covid [1]. This article deals with viruses that have trouble spreading because they kill the victim too quickly. That's manifestly not the case with Covid, which (when compared to really nasty things like ebola or apparently Marek's) kills a relatively low share of its victims and isn't particularly quick about it.

[1] Or at least the top two top-level comments do as I'm writing this.
You can get CAPTCHAs just by turning on a VPN. You don't need to do anything more "suspicious" than that.
Squatting may also be beneficial in other contexts, as explained in the seminal ‘kink/unkink’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q
For those decrying the fact that this study is about a highly deadly virus, note that mathematically speaking, the same effect would be expected to be observed for a much less obviously lethal virus, if the effect were occurring across billions of hosts, such as what we're currently pushing for globally with the mass COVID vaccination campaign
True. Mine run over bluetooth just fine. The app enables configuration, checking for firmware updates and a hearing test which creates a custom equalizer setting to counteract individual deficiencies.
I’m amused whenever I get one image “wrong” and have to click it anyway.

“I can see how you might think that’s a boat but I assure you it’s a mailbox.” “COMPLY” “This hurts you more than it does me. click”
>>>Uk is over 18, but ask for id if you have any doubt less than 21, 3yr margin, common sense

People are much worse at estimating ages then they think. If the policy is "ID anyone that looks <21" many 16/17 year olds will look 23 and not get asked. I worked for a chain of liquor stores that had an "ID 25 and under" policy - and to check it, they would send in 25 year olds. Lots of time staff would fail those checks. In my jurisdiction the penalties for selling to minors are strong enough that I'd consider a blanket "ID everyone" policy, or at least "ID everyone <40" or similar.
Sorry, but a good architect bully is not a bit better than a bad manager bully.
>Plus my guy would smoke me up for free a good amount of the time and we'd just chill and chat for a bit.

that was my experience with earlier weed delivery groups in SoCal as well, when recommendations were required.

A guy with a suitcase of samples would show up to your door, and offer you a sampling of everything he sold. That person would even help you light-up or vaporize the goods if you have a physical disability that prevented you from doing so yourself , or perhaps teach you how to in-case you're unfamiliar with equipment or technique.

They would sit there and smoke with you or bullshit for a few minutes about strains/strain-quality/benefits/whatever, make a sale with whatever was chosen during the sampling, and then head out the door.

Since those days medical prices have gone down significantly, but the process is now more sterile and 'mass-friendly'. Gone are the days of interactive sampling or someone teaching you how to use a bong or vaporizer -- it's now mostly all 'delivery-fied' : "give me my cash, here's your delivery that I know absolutely nothing about, and i'm gone ASAP."

It's a shame in some ways -- the earlier methods were a lot more compassionate towards actual medical patients and actual medical needs for this product -- the status in SoCal now feels more on-par with UberEats-profit-maximization than it does compassionate-care; a shame since 'weed products' have gotten way more complex with the addition of a million different tincture/extract/compound/etc and the various ways to imbibe them.
It’s not even necessarily the culture, it’s occasionally bit me as a native English speaker but not of American English. It’s a very minor annoyance on par with “colour” versus “color” when writing CSS but occasionally the automotive ones throw me off. For example, it took a captcha for me to know the central reservation is called the meridian over the Atlantic.

I imagine it’s awful for people with English as a second language.
Or just people sharing accounts with random strangers.
> The internet says moonlight is 1/345th the power of sunlight but once you factor in Earth's larger radius and larger albedo you get 1/9th the power of sunlight.

That sounds weird. As per Wikipedia, Sun's apparent magnitude is around -26.7, full Moon's is -12.7, so the Sun is 400000 times brighter than the Moon under the best circumstances. Earth being larger can't correct this by three orders of magnitude.
Yes it relies on the target being static when capturing the training data, but it’s ok for the background to move. We were actually surprised by how well it works on moving objects without being trained on them. In the post you can see Julius riding on a scooter and that is an unseen example with a detector that was only trained on static scooters.
I switched from bongs to dabs and felt better cardio wise. Live resin extracts are suppsedly pretty minimal in extra stuff. I think the vape oils have a lot of extra crap. I went back to smoking for a bit though I think the dabs are to potent and I was getting panic attacks
> you don't ask your underlings to write book reports on things that are of strategic business importance

Of course you do, that's exactly how it works.

Usually the 'underlings' do the research or collect information, and then the people higher up synthesise that information into a strategic decision.
At this point I'd just leave. This is an employee market now. Promotions are made by changing jobs anyway. Be sure to leave the proper feedback when leaving (what are they gonna do, fire you?)
Yes, this is the real problem with the modern world, and I'm afraid it's only getting worse. We're becoming hyper-efficient and scaling things up enormously at the cost of being extremely fragile.

Eventually, some black swan event will happen and we'll have a systems collapse it will be very hard to recover from - because so little of the population will have baseline skills. Thankfully this pandemic wasn't it, but it doesn't seem to have woke up TPTB to the problem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_enthalpy_of_reactio...
Sure did. Turns out my experiences inform my emotions on the matter. Who'd have thought?
Same thing but tons are hard to gauge when consumption of weed is closer to grams.
I use Python daily, but I still find the way R / Tidyverse handles df manipulations much more user-friendly and efficient. My understanding is that R has a health ecosystem of packages for dealing with spectrometry data. It is not field so I am not speaking from experience.
Energy is falling in price and will continue to fall for the foreseeable future. Fossil fuels will rise in price primarily due to under investment and solar and wind will continue fall at about 7% pa. Already "Solar Barrels of Oil" (1.7MW-h) are under USD 20 and falling.

Also, due to efficiency of modern electronics you get a lot more work from e-oil rather than black gold.
"Can create conditions" in the sense that any actions that perturbs a system can have that effect.

With, for example, antibiotics, resitance is quickly lost in their absence. Why? Because it's a costly adaptation to a need that no longer exists.

By the same mechanism, adaptation to the vaccine–if it happens–will by definition tend to be net-negative for the virus' fitness in unvaccinated people. Otherwise, that adaption would also happen without the virus.

All that's entirely theoretical, of course. Because the vaccine, despite the breakthoughs, still prevents the vast majority of infections. And that effect swamps everything, including hypothetical Quergedankenexperimente.

But, of course, they'll run with it, seeing how it's eaten up here as well. Personally, I'm no longer losing sleep over it since everyone I care about has been vaccinated, and most of my future attempts to explain evolutionary biology will be on the theme of "Darwin Awards".
> Numbers in Provincetown have fallen and there were no reports of major outbreaks when vaccinated people returned home. So it would seem like you could have vaccinated-to-unvaccinated spread in some cases, but vaxed-to-vaxed is multiples less likely.

I think time will show this to be false. A shockingly high number of the vaccinated have actually already had COVID (some of them explicitly knew they had it yet chose to get vaccinated anyway, sometimes at the advice of their doctors, which is horrifying to me insofar as it reveals fundamental ignorance about natural immunity), but of those who haven't been exposed to real SARS-2, a strain capable of readily infecting them will just as easily pass to their vaccinated friend, given the "strategy" of the virus is to acquire point mutations on the S2 subunit that render the vaccines (which protect ONLY against the spike protein) ineffective
The 95% efficacy statistic was ultimately a positive PCR test, i.e. infection or a 'case' of the disease.
Military grade crypto will refer to a new proof-of-weapon chain anyway.
I completely agree with your characterization of the various concerns.

I don't agree with the characterization that this system will cause baseless accusations.

These systems have been in place for many years and have proven themselves useful and reliable.

Apple have tried to implement it in a way that allows them to turn on E2EE on iCloud, and HN has turned that into a conspiracy theory.
The CEO has a job, too, and that job is set by the board and/or the company's owners. And the most important job of the CEO is to be a good leader.

Was your CEO within his legal rights to ask you to do the job? Sure, assuming it was legal and not forbidden by your contract. Would it have been advisable for you to do it anyway, for the sake of your job? Probably. But that doesn't mean that the CEO was doing his job well by asking. And evidently he knew that, because he didn't actually fire you and the people protecting you.

In the case of Google, a public company, it is simultaneously true that individual low-level employees should act strategically and optimize for their own benefit - which might include putting up with misbehaving management to remain employed under them - and that the public has a strong interest in knowing when management, especially senior management, is being bad at their jobs.
The Power of Purpose-Driven Schools
I know there are different gradations of slavery, but I'd take working for food and shelter over fourteen months of rice and water. Especially seeing as eleven of fourteen men outright died on rice and water.
Arbitrary - based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system (first definition from google)

I think that reasonable and technically-informed deadlines are fine. But arbitrary deadlines are not a good long term approach.

We probably agree, but it's difficult to explain everything via comments :)
Building an app was hard, but stop making excuses
Good luck with Airbnb support or most of those "on an iPhone" based companies that think they have brought something new to the world. When everything works great, it's fine. When you have a problem you're given the run around.

If these aren't the people you rented the space too, inform them they are trespassing and call the police if they won't leave. Video it all and post it on Twitter and link it to Airbnb to complain how they refused to assist.

They only way to get action from these companies is to embarrass them in to it.
‘Apocalyptic’ scenes hit Greece as Athens besieged by fire
If a package transfer does need to occur, then the only method to do so should be the owner doing it. The registry itself shouldn't have the ability.

This might be fighting fire with napalm. Namesquatting is very much a thing, and if every new package registry finds itself with millions of common names registered on day 1 those registries are going to become a lot less useful. This is also going to encourage a lot of bottom feeders to get money just to go away.

Package registries should instead consider all parties' (including greedy and unscrupulous third parties) motives, and try to come up with some scheme to make sure this process works.
How to Deconstruct the World
Building an app and its stack with LOLstack
> I feel like academics don’t do enough to help understand why some countries succeed and why some don’t

What have you read so far? Did you do any research? The field of philosophy and political science does not lack publications.

I can recommend "The Rise and Decline of Nations" by Mancur Olson.
Further authors which I still have to go through, but seem relevant:

Theodore Dalrymple
René Girard
Roger Scruton
James Burnham
I'm deeply confused at your response. 310 is still 1.3%, which is both a low number and percentage. Especially when compared with the larger 7.8% of other UK universities as OP stated.

Most UK universities are heavily selected. Indeed, Oxbridge moreso and as such you'd expect the dropout to be lower which it is. Hence OPs response.
My first guess at this would be that the parents bought boy's and girl's shoes, and sold the pair they didn't need. Nothing to cry over.
Thanks! This business is doing well, it’s just entrenched in its ways, leadership is old and averse to change. I made my peace with the situation, I’m not interested in becoming a lead or anything and I’d rather save my energy for my life outside of work. I understand this doesn’t necessarily work for everyone, and I hope your replies will be useful to others in similar situation but with more desire than me to change things. Anyway, whatever works!
> > Mustafa was super paranoid about Google spying on him

> Interesting but I can't wrap my head around its implications.

It's not paranoia when you're on the inside. It's like saying Snowden is paranoid for typing his password with a hood over his fingers.
It is all very simple really.

Whatever we do, if we do not do it decisively, we just give the virus occasion to adapt.

population of hosts * selection pressure * number of generations * ability to pass material to next generation = adaptation

This is the same reason that the optimal strategy to use antibiotics is to avoid using them but when you need to, use a lot of it to make sure you kill completely whatever bacteria it is supposed to kill.

By not vaccinating thoroughly and keeping regime until the virus is largely gone we are giving it right conditions to keep adapting.

We are not going to get rid of this pandemic until everybody gets vaccinated or gets sick.
>Argentina did not pledge allegiance to the US in the Second World War and was officially neutral.

This is a weird way to put it. The US entered WW2 after more than two years of fighting. Did Stalin "pledge allegiance to the US"?