skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since Nixon’s momentous announcement, the US dollar has declined in value by 20% – maybe a good barometer of the relative decline of the US economy (but an underestimate because of the reserve currency factor).

A truer indicator of the depreciation of the dollar is what it will buy. Back in 1970, before the dollar was taken off the 'gold standard', a Rolex Oyster cost $210, or 6 ounces of gold.

Today, a Rolex Oyster will cost about $8000, or about 5 ounces of gold, in other words, more or less the same in relative terms. That means that the value of the US Dollar has not dropped by 20%, but by roughly 97% since 1970. Or looked at in another way, to buy what one 1970 US Dollar would give you, you would need to spend Thirty-Eight 2021 US Dollars.
That xkcd comic doesn’t seem to be showing what you seem to think it is showing.

And back when CO2 levels were higher, how many humans were around? Fortunately none.
Code is speech, and its "export" is protected by the First Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
"hard" as opposed to the "softer" ones that give you some number of free views first
Raw transistor count isn't the same as density.
A fair question. It's VMware Horizon client or something like that in this case.
OK, that's good, but the claim I was responding to was that the new variant is not less deadly than the old one. I was asking about infection v hospital rates for the old and new variants. Also with all these different variants going around, if the newer one is less deadly it would skew that number unless the different variant cases, deaths and vaccination statuses are all accounted for.
www.alphahub.us
Some other software, other than Google, might follow the link automatically. Because the standard allows that.

(Also, consider mistaken clicks, which happen all the time on touch screens.)
Ask HN: How to analyze logs in order to separate bugs from transient errors?
We have a public API that's used by thousands of users every single day and we don't have a strategy for figuring out which requests failed due a transient error and which requests failed due to a bug.

Here is a hypothetical log:

HTTP POST /api/event - Unhandled exception: unable to connect to database

HTTP POST /api/event - Unhandled exception: connection timeout

HTTP POST /api/event - Unhandled exception: cannot insert record with a duplicate primary key

Is there a product that can group the errors by type (e.g. never before seen exception, transient error that seldom happens, transient error that usually happens)?

I didn't find any product which makes me think that I'm approaching this problem incorrectly. How do you solve this problem in your cloud application?

Details:

- API is an ASP.net Core application

- We write our logs to SumoLogic

- We use NewRelic to collect metrics (e.g. error rate, and average response time but metrics aren't capable of uncovering unexpected exceptions that only occur a handful of times)
Basically, through Uber’s greed in the proposition by writing in the provision about legislators not being able to overturn Prop 22, Uber et al ended up getting the whole Proposition cancelled vs if they'd just kept it for the contractor stuff.

This is just the Superior Court’s ruling
Both TSMC and Intel have transistor density increases on their process roadmaps, although they definitely aren't doubling.
> IQ is literally the strongest predictor of job performance across every category. ...This result has been replicated by industrial psychology resource again and again over decades.

Do you have source(s) for that?

edit: The top google scholar result for "IQ predict job performance" is Does IQ really predict job performance? (2015), a fascinating paper which discusses a lot of the relevant issues and their history.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10888691.2014.98...

"To supporters of IQ testing...the picture seems crystal clear. Job performance must be a good test of individual differences in intelligence. IQ test scores (or their surrogates) correlate significantly with ratings of job performance. As a result, IQ tests must be a valid test of intelligence.

What we actually have are scores from a predictor of nebulous identity correlated with ratings for a seemingly discrete construct that is turning out to be equally slippery. In other words, very strong conclusions are seemingly being drawn from correlations between two under-specified constructs. This makes interpretation of the (modest) correlations extremely difficult. In primary studies such correlations have generally left over 95% of the variance unexplained. Even the typical meta-analytic correlation of 0.5 still leaves 75% of the variance unexplained. This does not seem to us to constitute grounds for asserting test validation so strongly."

Their "summary of the main points":

"1. Much in developmental theory, and psychology in general, depends upon the validity of IQ tests. 2. In the absence of agreed construct validity this has weighed heavily on indirect validity using correlations with criterion outcomes among which job performance has a special status. 3. Hundreds of studies prior to the 1970s reported low and/or inconsistent correlations between IQ and job performance. 4. These correlations have been approximately doubled using corrections for supposed errors in primary results and combining them in meta-analyses. Such corrections have many strengths, theoretically, but are compromised in these cases by the often uncertain quality of the primary studies. 5. The corrections to sampling errors, measurement errors, and to range restriction have required making a number of assumptions that may not be valid and have created a number of persistently contentious issues. 6. The claim that the IQ-job performance correlation increases with job complexity is not born out in more recent studies. 7. A range of other—including noncognitive—factors could explain a correlation between IQ and job performance, and even constitute part or all of the enigmatic "general factor." 8. There remains great uncertainty about the interpretation of IQ-job performance correlations and great caution needs to be exercised in using them as a basis for the validity of IQ tests and associated concepts."
Yes, it seems like a really dumb idea when we are also still extracting nearly pure carbon as coal from the ground to burn. I just picture someone trying to optimize it by buying coal to then burry.
There are definitely foods that are bad in any quantity. Whether the bad food harms you obviously depends on the quantity consumed and there I agree with you.
It's fitting, how Fabrice Bellard's ideas and creations are coming together.
A lot of people disliked AB5 - I was happy Prop22 passed. The companies were obviously operating in their own interests, but I also think the legislature was wrong (and just politically targeting ride share companies).
We offer free laundry service through Purple Tie and a (fully vaccinated) massage therapist who comes in twice a week!
I think this is a great idea. I never understood why this isn’t a thing.
Wouldn't ruby fit such bill?
Yes, Charlie, sorry.
California judge rules classifying drivers as contractors as unconstitutional
Tbh it sounds like you got lucky on your first outing with ML and your first NN model worked well enough to deliver a success. Congratulations on achieving this rare milestone.

While I’ve seen many data scientists fall into the trap of spending 1 week per iteration even when it’s clear the change produces negligible result. If you stick with the field long enough you’re likely to hit a dog of a problem that should have worked, but ultimately did not.

The areas where ML is advancing fastest also suffer from elusive solutions. Language models and image recognition are only recently tractable problems - the folks trying to advance these fields do not experience magic NN improvements.
only England. Scotland, Wales and NI still mandate masks.
Could you expand on your model?
I spend 70% of Zoom meetings with "Original Sound" enabled. I have a good microphone and I want to be as easy to hear as possible.

However, I also have an air conditioner. You can hear it. I try to keep it turned off during meetings, but sometimes it's just too hot. and so Original Sound goes off and the air conditioner goes on.

What else am I supposed to do? Leave the meeting?
Google should switch to https://google/

They already own the .google tld and you don't even need a subdomain. See http://ai/
Not sure that's relevant here - the reason they can cool this is because they're custom-designing housing, server racks, etc for these chips based on the amount of power they draw. You could cool pretty much anything if you were able to give it this much love and care.
No lockdowns are going to happen, but I expect to be masking up for at least another 6 months. Not a big deal, definitely better than it was last August, that’s for sure.
I think people use Bash/Sh, because there's no other default choices, much like javascript in the browser.

If they switched the bash terminal to a python repl, or just reliably offered stable python, that was available on every single distro, and just worked...I bet people would be fine with it.

Same with replacing JS in the browser with python or another dynamic language.

Tech people are practical and will just learn whatever they need to get things done quickly without introducing additional complexity.

But then there's the idea that todays elegant language become tomorrow's kludgy language.

So in the long run theres no winning. :)
Yeh I should have mentioned MySqlConnector as another example of a high quality .NET library, my apologies.

We ripped out the Oracle MySQL library at work and put MySqlConnector in. The high quality documentation made it really easy to understand and make adjustments for the differing behaviors between the 2 libraries. Any time I've poked into the code to try to understand some fine detail of it, I've always found it very easy to quickly understand what could be going on. It's great.
>Have said this before, but healthcare is the Afghanistan of tech where giant empires go in thinking they can solve it and leave beaten years later wondering what happened.

Very rightly said.

However, that's also because of the traditional resistance of the healthcare to adopt (and adapt technology) to improve processes/ workflows. As well as onerous regulations.
This depends on how it works.

It is perfectly possible for games to be sold digitally online with no drm, such that you could easily (without requiring uncommon technical know-how) copy it to a flash drive and run it on a computer with no internet connection.

Of course, games sold this way are extremely easy to pirate, because it is, essentially, pre-cracked. But one can distribute a product like this, and on occasion people do.
The Covid death rate among vaccinated people is under 0.01%[1]. One hundred times worse than the current situation would make Covid not significantly worse than seasonal influenza for the vaccinated.

Sure, one hundred times worse among those who refuse to vaccinate would be significantly worse. But if a significant proportion of the population voluntarily refuses to vaccinate, I see no reason why the rest of society should bend over backwards to protect them from their own choices.

[1]https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrou...
Stripe, Robinhood, Square are offering larger TC. An experience is relevant
It’s obviously reductive and unfair to say so, but sometimes it seems like strategy is an emergent property at Google.
No, Prop 22 required Uber, Lyft, and other similar companies to provide a health care subsidy and a wage floor.

However the devil is in the details:

Prop 22 set the wage floor 20% higher than minimum wage based off of the time that drivers spent "actively working" (e.g. driving to pick up a passenger and then driving a passenger to their destination).

With the AB5 wage floor, Uber and Lyft would have had to pay a lower guaranteed rate (just minimum wage), but it would have included idle time. So in Uber/Lyft's nightmare scenario, a million people sign up to be drivers, set their phone locations to the middle of nowhere and get paid $15/hour to do nothing.

With the healthcare subsidy, IIRC Prop22 sets the amount of subsidy on a sliding scale based off of # of hours worked per week. AB5 would've treated someone who drives 20 hours a week the same as someone who drives 40 hours a week for insurance purposes
Even if it did their options should be to either

1. Allow the user to play it's purchases, just without social features.

2. Refund the user

If this was the law they'd figure it out I promise you that.
Aside: (that's an excellent quote and logical point) - I read the Wikipedia article on the author of that essay, and got an extremely strong impression of being told how to feel about him, more so than being presented with facts about him.
Keeping hospitals functioning should be a minimum goal.

(like, you wouldn't reduce vaccination effort just because the load on hospitals eased up, high levels of vaccination is a reasonable goal unto itself)
yes, the US will spy on you to help big corporations make profit.

everyones missing the dmca2.0 trojan horse in apples actions.
That’s the coolest URL I’ve ever seen.
Your comment does not give readers anything to learn or benefit from. If your goal is to broadcast to your political tribe on HN that you have the right beliefs, then good job, you’ve accomplished your goal sir. If you wanted to provide an insightful comment that promotes curiosity, then we’ll need a little bit more effort from you.

What do you mean by “carbon offsets are a scam”? Does that mean that the way that some are implemented (I.e. the carbon credit system in California) are scam? Do you mean that the idea of them and any possible implementation is a scam? Do you mean that the issue that they are designed to counter (climate change) is a scam? What do you mean by your comment and why?
Can you share more about how the current job market is different than usual?
Throwing away large chunks of code is what optimizers exist for! Sadly, most discussions of UB only show when it "goes wrong" (has surprising results), not when it goes right!
I can't get the http://ai/ domain to resolve.
What is the purpose of a proposition but to limit the power of the legislature? If the legislature can just go against whatever the proposition says what is the point of a proposition?
> I don't care what you do, the articles I linked you show "a preponderance of evidence" that many vegetarians and vegans (entire populations in India) suffer from B12 deficiency.

That does not prove that supplementation does not work. I cannot attest to what many vegans and vegetarians are doing or what people in India are doing. I know many who refuse to supplement. I supplement and have a open fact-based relationship with my doctor.

Meat eaters can get B12 deficiency as well. When they do, they go to the doctor and get tested, and then get supplementation.

> You follow your doctor's advice so you don't care what everyone else does?

I care, that is why I am debating with you.

> And I'm with you on "mass industrialisation"

I am glad we agree on something.

> But what does that have to do with eating enough meat to stay healthy?

The crux of the problem is you can't scale Western levels of meat consumption to 7 billion + people in the world without the immorality of mass industrialization.

Locally grown, organic, grass fed beef (or even environmentally better kelp fed), free range chickens and eggs from your back yard, ethically caught fish grown in the untouched pristine waters, managed by your friendly ethical farmer or fisherman at scale is unachievable. The reality is, in order to feed everyone on a meat and fish diet at the price people can afford you need industrial scale. With industrial scale you get the absolute moral hellscape we live in now.

> Most people in the world don't get their meat from factory farms.

I actually believe you. However in the US 99% of farmed animals live in factory farms and I am sure it is similar in the EU, and as people around world become richer they are transitioning to Western style diets with meat and dairy which will require them to industrialize.

What is interesting is that in all of the online debates I have had. No one has ever defended the ethics of mass industrial farming.
Frontline Financial Crisis Doc Introduced Everyone to the Term 'F9 Monkey'(2012)
One of the problems is in the framing you gave. Intersectionality is supposed to be a framework of understanding power amongst different groups but often gets applied to an individual basis which is ironically a very much against a sociological way of thinking. One of the prominent ideas in the now controversial (for silly reasons) critical race theory is to emphasize not individual actions or traits but to recognize systems and reckon with those hopefully through policy.

The individualization of racism for example feels like a failure both in how it offends people and also how it leads to policy prescriptions that don't really solve the underlying power relations.
Yes, they work on droplets. Obviously you didn't watch the whole thing. No, droplets are not the only mode for delivering the virus.
Exactly! I think we can all disagree about preferences and risk-tolerance and that's fine. Society is about learning to live with compromise. But what I don't like is how nobody will pre-commit ahead of time about what the acceptable tradeoffs are.

What are the targets? How long do we expect restrictions to stay in place for? If we miss those targets, where do we go from there? Can we just all be clear about this up front, pre-commit and stick to the plan. I'm not even saying that unexpected conditions may necessitate calling an audible. But the burden should be on those who are asking for it to explain why they screwed up.

Right now it just feels like policymakers are making it up as they along, and virtually nobody feels like its leadership in any sense of the word.
I mean, there are large chunks of the world that don’t generally catch on fire. The entire eastern have of the US, for example. The land is more expensive, but if you converted a corn field or prairie to forest anywhere from Wichita to Washington you wouldn’t expect it to burn down in a massive forest fire. The fire cycle thing is more of a mountain west problem.
Also nushell https://github.com/nushell/nushell - it seems to be less verbose than powershell
I still don't see the point. There is generally a single trusted source for code systems, ontologies, data standarda, etc. You can download local copies of anything that you need to frequently access.
Whatever happened to Nathan Fielder's attempt to unionize Uber? Is that still going?
It doesn't have to be planned abuse. Another possibility is "I don't use this much anymore and there's no second hand market for my game purchases so I think I'll just get my library refunded." You were going to lose value anyway on not using it, now you get something back.
Same here.

> This site can’t be reachedCheck if there is a typo in ai.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
There are also anti-fogging solutions (basically soap solutions) available to apply on glasses.
>There appears to be two camps, one that believes that science can defeat this disease, and in the other camp people that believe we need to learn to adjust to our new reality.

Vaccines are part of our adjustment. There's one camp which tries to adjust, and another which places hands in their ears.

>I don't understand how a man made vaccine can provide better protection to the virus better than my body after recovering, but I'm not specialist.

The same way an antibiotic could cure certain diseases much better than your own body. Besides, you're much more likely to survive the vaccine than the disease.

>Aren't the pharmaceutical companies financially incentivized to provide minimal protection, and annual booster shots? Why would they make something better?

Efficiency isn't something pharmaceutical companies could just decide in advance. If they try to make something inefficient, there's a good chance it won't be effective at all, and they'll lose all the money invested in R&D.

And ultimately, less effective vaccines will be crowded out of the market, we already see this in some countries with AZ and J&J.
Works for me, but you might need to add a period, depending on the specifics of your DNS configuration: http://ai./
In other news it seems like google is still soliciting political donations on https://go.dev/
this is sort of going backwards and then forwards in steamvr. In "the labs" you can explore (sort of) the secret valve developer room and its full of similar markers to let the device track 3d space.

This puts the markers on the person instead of the room, but maybe valve played with that too - I don't know.

Cool stuff - I might mess with this next month if I can find some time.
It's funny, but I think that attitude is how it got that way.

Most places, it's not okay to criticize the system. Without criticism, things don't improve.

In Slavic countries, it's expected that everyone criticize the system. That points out flaws, which can then either be improved or worked around.

Seriously, though. Look here:

https://schoolinreviews.com/pisa-results-published-in-dec-20...

Then remove China, Honk Kong, and Macau, which measure China by their top-performing cities. See where Poland lands.

As Poland continues to westernize, I predict:

(1) The education system will get worse

(2) People will believe it's better

(3) Aesthetics (e.g. buildings) will look nicer
While there are plenty of illnesses that obesity can help bring on or worsen, not everybody who is obese suffers from any of them. In the absence of such an illness, an obese person may be as healthy and live as long as, any in their cohort.

As a matter of public health, attention is much better directed to metabolic syndrome and circulatory disease, which are more responsive to interventions. Obesity draws attention because it is easily visible, and because people have attached a moral stigma to it. Blinkered public policy has led to there being overwhelmingly more obese people than the natural rate; fix policy, and the rate would return to its normal level.
I don't think this is an apt comparison. For the last generation CMD was the "shell" on the most widely installed user OS on the planet and yet everyone who ever used bash immediately thought, "why does windows not just use this?," since it was so much nicer. Microsoft ported Linux to windows because people love the developer experience it provides.

That doesn't mean that there isn't a better shell, I just don't think Javascript being the dominant web language is a good comparison.
The fact that judges can override a democratic vote of the people is disgusting.
Agreed. It's really sick that we turn an essential of living into something that costs $850k on average in the city I live in.
No fast food jobs have flexible hours. You’re lucky if you have any say in your hours at all.
Yes, it’s not equivalent… but I think the point was more that absolute banishment as a punishment to anything is ridiculous, primitive, and more an emotional response than a logical one.
And are you not using your eyes when looking at a digital photograph?
Unlimited eminent domain would be very powerful for helping infrastructure projects move forward, but doesn't seem to be compatible with the approach of allowing citizens to remain in their homes or cities and/or or compensating them at fair market value for property loss.
That seems very unlikely. If a variant evolves that has significant evasion of the vaccines, then we should be able to retool the mRNA vaccines quickly. And T-cell response is more robust to antigenic drift than the antibody response, though not as well studied. See [1] for a very detailed investigation into antigenic drift and vaccine evasion.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00573-0
IIRC some gTLD rule prohibits non-NS records from being applied to root zones like this (ccTLDs not having this requirement obviously). I'll look for it.