skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alex has been working on that for so long; it was really gratifying to see that she finally got some traction and serious funding to get it to go somewhere. Really looking forward to seeing what will come out of it.

Funding announcement: https://www.ukri.org/news/funding-agreed-for-a-platform-that...
No, the original is:

exec('curl ${line}')

Which takes a single string as argument, whereas mine is:

exec(['curl', line])

Which takes an array of strings as an argument, which are not parsed by any shell interpreter.

Of course, flags can still be passed to curl that way, so the proper way is:

exec(['curl', '--', line])
A solid argument against this is that the analysis itself isn't written in Newspeak but in the kind of thoughtcrime it seeks to prevent. It's also self-incrimination if it was written by someone in the regime, and while it could be argued that O'Brien employs similar discourse in the novel, the ruling party at that time is far from perfect and still hasn't achieved its goals. A future where this is a fait acompli would have made this kind of thinking impossible.
Interesting. I would have thought that someone with the ability to craft such a sesquipedalian response would also have been capable of understanding irony.

Also…you missed the word “public”, again.
I'm not sure that I get the point of your analogy.

To be clear, I'm saying that genetic match supersedes any list of superficial attributes to determine identity. If it's established that X and Y are an 89% DNA match, even though X tastes and looks like Z, the fact that Y and Z belong in distant genetic branches should be enough to dismiss X as a possible Z.
> the authors plagiarized my definition and explanation almost word for word (from my confidential review).

Is there any way the authors could have kept your definition, and somehow credited you, even anonymously? Because rephrasing definitions is the pinnacle of wasted effort, and leads to confusion - you are asking them to say what you said, but without using your words.
I see two options (or, 3 options, depending on how you count it?): Either we interpret this taking probability to refer to some objective probability distribution, or one takes it to refer to a subjective probability distribution.

In the first case, uh, one can either talk about the empirical distribution, and like, because the downside is limited ("all the money one invested in it"), if one puts p-value-ish confidence intervals on it (I don't know the right way to talk about this) on it, and, assuming we treat the behavior at different times in history as comparable, or like, if we assume that the current moment is randomly sampled from the time in which the stock market exists, or something like that, uh, I imagine that it would be possible to say something like "If the stock market across time-as-a-whole and like, selecting when you buy in and cash out at random, with like, some bound on how far apart those two are, had a negative expectation value, then we would see behavior like this with probability less than p" ? I don't know what the value of p would be, but, I suspect it would be fairly small, at least, for some ways of formulating the statement.

Or, one could take a subjective probability distribution view of, uh, what the unknown objective distribution is, and so the statement that it has a positive expected value is just a statement that one assigns a high probability to it having a positive expected value.

Or, one could just take a subjective probability distribution view of like, how it will behave, and interpret the statement as subjectively assigning positive expected value of investing in the stock market.

I think? This seems to make sense to me, but, I've not like, read much about philosophy of probability or whatever, and also I could be missing (or wrong about) some of the math.

But, in any of these 2 (or 3) cases, it doesn't make sense to me to say that it is "impossible to say" whether "the stock market in not a game with net negative expected value".
Colonized Indians need to take control of their history like the Chinese did. Otherwise the appropriators will continue to have a field day.
I will try to answer your questions from my point of view.

It appears "off" that there is no nuance to this vaccination strategy. It seems especially odd to advocate for vaccinating children who stand to benefit very little personally. I had planned to get vaccinated but have been pretty concerned by the totalitarian vibes I've been getting lately. So I guess I've decided to let my civics slide to match. I will get the vaccine for my own personal benefit (if I deem it so) and I expect that is basically what's motivated everyone else anyway. So far I've not seen a clear benefit to me. According to this page https://19andme.covid19.mathematica.org/ these are my stats:

"probability of catching COVID-19 through community transmission in a week is 0.027%"
"If you get sick from COVID-19, the risk of hospitalization is 1.3% , the risk of requiring an ICU is 0.67% , and the risk of not surviving is 0.053%"

If I tell the calculator I'm vaccinated then most those stats go down by 2 which is good but my threshold for action is on an absolute scale and staying unvaccinated does not trip the sensor.

I choose to live life in rural America in some part to avoid such calamities. As an unvaccinated person I am less of a risk to other people person than a vaccinated person in da big city.

To me personally the main issue has little to do with vaccines and more to do with frankly unnecessary (in some cases) overreach. I'm not saying overreach has happened already, but recent overtures are quite alarming to me.
At best this “feature” should be opt in.
It doesn't necessarily change the demand, but it changes the supply curve by making it cheaper per unit to produce whiskey. Previously, you could sell whiskey, and the waste was garbage. Under this hypothetical scheme, now you could make money on the waste, too, reducing the price of production.
How does eBPF compare to WebAsm? I'm a bit more familiar with the latter (thanks to some great articles) and I know that they use the same general approach of safety via linear-time verification and translation to machine code+buffer overflow checks, but I'm curious about the differences.
I don't personally agree with the "slow" as most trading applications are giant java behemoths with custom UI kits anyways. As long as you can have 8-12 charts all updating 30 times a second or what ever update frequency you have and not crash a standard laptop the performance is fine.

I do agree with the other part, there is nothing making your application "special". There is no special feature.
When you have this many tabs, do you actively manage them or even have any idea what they contain. How do you find the information you need amongst 3000+ tabs. Isn't it annoying to have to shuffle through lots of windows with lots of tabs? I start to lose track after a dozen or so.
Where does the energy go? Can you use this as a dummy load? What gets hot then?
Does Amazon score reviews based on user "negativity"?
In freight "backhaul" typically refers to transporting goods during the return journey. During the principle (non-return) journey, often the starting location is more central, like a distribution center, and the destination is a smaller satellite location like a store. So when something is backhauled, that tends to mean it's transported from the smaller satellite location to the central location.

Maybe that's where the term came from?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation
You need at least 3 layers before the adversary would have to passively surveil multiple points in order to surveil you, afaik
Then to be consistent, you cannot use closed source, proprietary systems. That's the trade off.

You _NEVER_ know what Apple is doing under the covers. This principle is well understood and has been espoused by RMS for over a decade.

But saying "well Apple could use this system for evil if they want..." is silly. Apple could ALWAYS use their system for evil if they wanted. This addition does nothing to improve that position.
NB: I'm only speaking about the math doctorate as it currently stands in the United States.

Due to the current market saturation of math doctorates, any pure mathematics PhD worth the paper its printed on will also probably come with a non-trivial publication record. The exceptions I can think of are high-risk high-reward areas like cutting-edge number theory (I had a friend go eight years without publishing, which, yikes, but his thesis was semi-revolutionary (or so I'm told)) or, I guess, suitably abstract category theory (though the people I follow in this area seem to publish lots of interesting papers, like the Baez school or the homotopy type theory people; your mileage may vary).

It's really too bad. One wonders why we can't simply ax the entire advisor-candidate system (with all its myriad opportunities for physical, emotional, and even sexual abuse) and certify new candidates by saying: "You're a doctor of mathematics when you get five professors to sign off on 3-5 papers you've had published."
You can't prove a negative like that. It'd be like academics looking for monetizable edge in the orderbook after properly simulating latency. They wouldn't be able to do it due to a lack of domain knowledge but they didn't prove a negative through their failure.

As for the effectiveness of TA, there's a tonne of dogma on both sides with extremely certain people saying it does or does not work.

If we take a broad definition of TA (which is edge existing in operations on a time series of prices), I have conclusive evidence that it does work. I have seen a strategy print money almost daily using only that data as an input.

If we take a narrow definition of TA, defined as lines on a chart, well I'm a believer of that too, although the evidence is not as strong. I just suspect that it works due to my observation of how things react in the market according to those levels and lines. Here's one you can look out for yourself. Observe what happens when the price moves through yesterday's close price. You will notice that volatility becomes significantly elevated. That's edge, and it's TA edge.

I don't believe it works merely due to the self fulfilling prophecy aspect. It works because other market participants put stop orders, resting limit orders, or algo trading rules (in banks' liquidation or acquisition algos) tied to those levels.
Many years ago I bought some albums from their UK store, but with some workarounds (I’m from Brazil). I was hoping for RoW alternatives, but thanks!
yeah the babylonians are still a little sore about this misattribution
For what it's worth Wikipedia has him as a real person living 570 – c. 495 BC, son of Mnesarchus, a gem-engraver on the island of Samos, who travelled to Croton about 530 BC and set up some kind of school there.
My department was already fully remote since they got rid of our office three years ago, but I did feel now was a good time to switch for other reasons (one being the company hadn't given out any raises to anyone in our department above 1.0% for the past three years).

I had several recruiters contact me that were saying the company required a hybrid situation and I stayed away from those. New company allows full remote right now, with optional come into the office whenever you feel like it. Hopefully it stays that way. If not, I'll probably start looking again.

And yeah, I also think hybrid is just a way for most companies to ease people back into requiring full-time in-office again (or 4 days in-office, 1 day out possibly).

It's really hard to pin down how likely companies are to stay full remote though right now. I only got a clear answer from companies that were remote since before the pandemic.
Technical name is a bit funny, in the past we had no issues calling something a "spanish flu", "bird flu" or "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease", now these are officially considered "inappropriate". With the WHO responsible for picking an interim name until an appropriate name could be issued when an inappropriate name enters common use. They even list tourism among the things that absolutely need protection against this type of language misuse[1].

[1] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/163636/WHO_...
Honestly, I can't quite recall. I've read that before, and can't place whether it was the one I was thinking of or something I read later.
Yes we have plenty of data about past vaccines:

https://www.chop.edu/news/long-term-side-effects-covid-19-va...

"The history of vaccines shows that delayed effects following vaccination can occur. But when they do, these effects tend to happen within two months of vaccination: ...<some examples>"

Whenever I show this kind of info to my family/friends that are against vaccines the response follow the three categories I posted earlier above.

I categorically do not want to make fun of anybody. I really want to understand either:

a) what's wrong about my understanding of the safety of this vaccination campaign (i.e. can really the world governments conspire so efficiently to hide the real data, or other arguments above)

Or is it just a big identity politics problem, where we all think we engage in a rational discussion while each of us has already taken a stance that we cannot be moved out with arguments? (I'm putting myself into question too)

b) how can I understand and reach my family members and friends and engage in a discussion that is not shut off quickly by one of the aforementioned unfalsifiable positions
It’s a solid alternative, but it depends on the artist being there, right? For mainstream singers/bands, I guess that won’t work.
Yes but that is converting JavaScript to bytecode, not using JavaScript as bytecode.
It's strange, I don't really like using the HN Algolia search. I think it's because the responsiveness doesn't fit HN and the results are okay but not great? What are some other big sites that use Algolia as their search backend? It would be interesting to compare.
That risk is fine to me. I meant it more as a “people eat it, so it must be likable” than “people eat it, so it won’t kill me.”
Most of them have common failings though: corruption, depression of women, lack of freedom of speech, resistance for democratic institutions etc etc. It could be argued that Islam, especially the unmoderate kind, contributes to these failings. In fact most Orthodox religions do.
I don't trust the safety of passwords going through my clipboard and me having to manually verify the URL.
The return is called Pax Americana, a global peace that has lasted a lifetime now. It’s easy to say it’s not worth it when our generations haven’t had to fight through world wars.
Funders have been relying on publishers to tell them (by means of who they publish) what researchers are worth funding. This is keeping up the pressure for academics to keep publishing in paywalled journals.

There is some pressure to both make research not paywalled (Plan S is the strongest) and less costly. However, given that most of the funders' researchers can access most relevant research (albeit rather clumsily, thanks to the access mechanisms, and not 100%, hence Sci-Hub even being popular among those who do have access), and that the extracted rent on the scale of a country budget isn't that much, the pressure isn't particularly strong. Additionally, it's hard for a single funder/country to move on its own without ruining their academics' careers (hence Plan S's focus on signing on more funders).
The idea of being at or near herd immunity has been pushed so many times since the start of this pandemic, and each time those hopes have been dashed.

The threshold needed for herd immunity has been revised upward since the 70% figure was widely discussed. First, the R0 for the delta variant is almost certainly higher than for earlier variants. I am personally skeptical of claims in the 8 range, but they are widespread, especially by public health professionals, in contrast to, say, virologists, who tend to point to antigenic drift as a mechanism that could explain the rise in delta prevalence.

Also, vaccine effectiveness is a factor in the herd immunity threshold, and that is also reduced a bit off earlier high estimates, partly because of variants and partly because of antibody waning.

So my best guess is that herd immunity is now permanently out of reach. I'd love to be proved wrong on that, though.
Genuine question: What does it bring new to the table?
I have already clarified this detail:

I will also add that suppressing nightmares is about being able to sleep through the night so you can do your job the next day, not necessarily about avoiding negative feelings per se. Plenty of people take sleeping pills and are not characterized as addicts for trying to address their sleep issues so they can function.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28106688

My father worked long, hard hours for a lot of years. He needed his sleep to do so.
I pcik up refurb Kindles for 30-50 EUR. Plus Calibre makes for a fine and hassle free experience.
The "grant capabilities" model of WASI is such a "how did they not think of this before?" thing. I need to play around with it some more, but WASMtime, etc. is really fun.
A New Era for Mechanical CAD [pdf]
I'll do this stuff for myself in a long-lived branch to keep rebasing and cherry-picking on the table.

I don't see the value for small changes, just squash. I also don't see the value in a PR-based workflow, as your team's PR practices should have sufficient context without asking everyone to rewrite history.

I also don't really believe that devs can reliably retcon atomic commits that compile using just git commands. You make a nice commit for the new file but forget that it has a dependency in another new file. Or you remember the dependency and painstakingly add -p the functions necessary for the commit, but forget one variable definition that was in a chunk at the top of the file.
I just don’t understand how anyone could have less than 14 tabs open at any time. Just using a search engine requires at least 4 at a time, and I’ve often got four or five searches going at any time. And then there’s at least a half dozen communication tabs.

Even when I declare browser bankruptcy and close whole windows dedicated to some topic, I don’t think I can get my total count below 14.

I mean, I get that my workflow is unique, but I’m apparently truly out of touch with typical browser usage.
Of course, all that carbon comes from the crops grown to make whiskey. So it's 99% from the atmosphere on the first place, so emitting it is really "re"-emitting it.

And it the waste were just dumped, it would likely produce a lot of methane, itself a greenhouse gas...
TradingView has ordering and integrates with most crypto exchanges. More crypto exchanges then your platform integrates with.

Second, it's also cheaper, offers full scripting engine, and has a massive community.
Analogies such as this one are gold.
Isn't Twitter a thing?
Makes me want to put smog-hosting in my CV.
A random anecdote back in the early 90's I worked with a mad lad self taught non-degreed engineer. He did an embedded project where faced with memory constraints based on unit cost. Ported a lisp interpreter to PIC assembly[1] and then write most of the code in lisp. Performance was about 1/2 to 1/5 that of straight C[2]. But the memory footprint was about 50% less. Which meant it fit into flash. He went on to use that for a few other products.

[1] Took him three months to port it.
[2] A 50% difference in speed usually doen't cause firmware to fail performance metrics.
It's called Sci-Hub.
My point is that being an 89% match doesn't necessarily mean very much.
Because to a first approximation everyone understands, and can get, email, while maybe 5% of the population, if that, understand RSS feeds. My 80 year old aunt can read email. While I'm sure I could teach her to use RSS feeds, it would not be a task I would look foward to. And she has me. Most people don't have me, or anyone like me (or, likely, you, or the majority of other users of this site).

What you're saying is roughly equivalent to "So what if they can't use the telephone or television? Can't these folks just use Morse code?"
Here's a mybinder [1] (adapted from IJava Binder [2]) in case someone wanted to try Kawa without installing it.

[1] https://mybinder.org/v2/gl/spellcard199%2Fikawa-binder/06a90...

[2] https://github.com/SpencerPark/ijava-binder
Pathokun,a path generator,updates your content just with your front end by HTTP
In this way you can make Full-Stack project without any backend with any programming language.
Those with associates willing to pay for Raise Dead would be VIPs - prime targets for assassination.
Yes, this :)

I say this as a happy former smoker. Something I never thought I would say.
I think I'd go the other way around. Instead of squash/rebase, you should instead use `merge --no-ff`. The allows your main branch to have a clean history with the `--first-parent` option (e.g. `git log --first-parent`), while still maintaining the history on the branches. If you squash the commits, the original is no longer part of the commit history. Yes, there is a link in the commit message, but being able to manually click through to the commits on an external web page is a huge usability drop as compared to getting the information straight from `git bisect`.

Squash/rebase also plays horrendously with my local branches. If I make a PR, I should be able to use `git branch -d branch_name` to safely verify that the branch has been merged into main and can be deleted. If you squash/rebase instead, then I need to use the unconditional `git branch -D branch_name`. git can no longer verify that I'm performing a safe operation, because the history needed to determine whether it is safe has been rewritten.
Or it'd give us way more options for clever poetry and songwriting. Which tends to make us better and freer thinkers. The weirder your language is, the weirder art you can make with it. The more the audience understands your nuances, the better the art, the more emotional the experience, the more happiness and empathy and connection (or fear and sadness and despair) you can project.
> I can be certain because I have looked at the images, and they are obviously not CSAM. Since the visual derivative is generated from CSAM, any spoof must look like it could be mistaken at a glance for CSAM.

Isnt this making the relatively huge assumption that humans and Apple's algorithms have the exact some opinion of what something "looks like"?
It was also a different world back then. Drinking and smoking weren't stigmatized like they are now and there were fewer OTC drugs to medicate aches and pains. People with physically demanding jobs routinely had a beer at the pub on the way home to ease their aches and help them sleep and it wasn't anything you needed to explain or justify.
> "I’m going to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there."

Either you didn't realize it was a quote and are lying, or you have serious issues with communicating in the English language.

> it’s still useless rhetoric

Why?
According to logic that you should also always commit before you hit Ctrl+Z.

Of course you have to consider what history is relevant and create relevant commits for those. But a WIP commit at the end of the day is rarely more relevant when split up from the finishing up of that work the next morning.
The entire "Edge" browser is opt-in .... as long as you manage to ignore the repeated prompts to install it and set it as default that appear every 3 days....
How exactly? He didn't even know the "feature" existed in the first place, how should he know how to turn it off?
There will be losses in the dipole conductor and resonator dielectric, so you have a finite input impedance, but that’s where the energy should go; into heat. You could use it as a dummy load over very narrow bandwidth.