skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And no, you can’t use string theory to predict anything.

Not even that an apple moves in a downward direction if I drop it?
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Looks to me like a view/click difference might indicate that Facebook shows users Left content but they click on Right content instead.
Poor analogies and collectivist arguments aside, from a medical ethics standpoint, if my personal risk from being vaccinated outweighs the personal risk of infection, you do not have a right to impose it on me. Despite this being parroted as obviously true, these analyses at this point are based on statistical modeling and conjecture with no regard to personal disposition beyond "age cohort"[1].

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/151733/download (Page 24)
I thought that CEOs of American companies were legally required to maximize profit. Reducing Cook's salary sure whould increase profits.
While all of this is true, one should also note that none of this is obvious at any point while using VR Chat. It might be the most popular social VR app right now (Altspace has even more problems, and RecRoom is pretty much strictly children), but that doesn't mean the software is actually any good. We're in the Friendster/MySpace/Neopets days of social VR, with Facebook seemingly interested in making the LinkedIn.
Meanwhile banks in NYC are making their interns work for 80 hours a week and people here complaining about 996
This totally makes sense. At Spacelift[0] we're using Datadog for most of our observability. It's great overall, but the way traces and retention work there, debugging issues you didn't predict beforehand is nigh impossible.

Retained spans don't include the whole trace with them and you can't make them do that. You can't filter traces by fields in multiple spans. You have to set facets beforehand on fields you want to filter on, otherwise you can't.

So we created a small fork of the dd tracer repo which sends all spans to firehose on the side and stores them as compressed JSON files on S3. There we query them using Athena.

It's cheap, fast, and has 100% retention for an extended period of time. If you get the partitioning right and create a temporary table with just the time period you're interested in before starting a debugging session, then Athena will also be incredibly cheap.

Datadog APM is still nice for exploration and initial analysis, but Athena is great for any required deep dives.

PS: We'll probably write a blog post about the specifics of that setup at some point.

[0]: https://spacelift.io
Probably interesting in relation to the app developer settlement, where Apple set up a fund of $100m to support small US app developers.
Over this? I personally see exactly 0 right-wing content on Facebook so the amount of it there is among the last reasons that'd make me delete it.
At least horse armor in Oblivion was DLC - basically a tiny expansion - even if cut down and sold at price / value that was outrageous compared to previous expansions. Microtractions have grown to be way more egregious since then:

- Generally locked to an account, so either not resellable or only within the Developer's market where additional profit can be extracted for each sale.

- There seem to be more and more consumable microtransactions, so you have to keep buying to get the same experience.

- Lootboxes and other gambling mechanics that mean you are not even guaranteed to get what you want when you pay.
> Have there been successful cases of countries with private infrastructure?

Infrastructure generally starts out private and gets nationalized over time.
> I will happily live in a world that only has content that was either fully paid for by purchasing copies or subscriptions, or given to the world for free.

How do you feel about DRM to make sure content is only accessible to those who paid for it?
Already happens which us a good thing given how YouTube drag their feet on this.

Maybe there had been less enthusiasm around such projects though if they didn't have legitimate uses?
Yes, I think this information hasn't sunk in yet for the majority of people.
The problem is that on-call is something in between work and not work. Depending on how often you are actually paged, it is closer to one or the other. As such, the policy I usually implement is simple:

- Being on-call is compensated, although at a much lower rate. The compensation is for the inconvenience of having to carry you computer with you, not being able to get drunk, not sleeping as well (if that applies to you), etc.

- When you get paged, you can generously compensate that time as TOIL. E.g. if you get paged and you realise it's a false positive and go back to bed, you can still compensate 2h as you need to fall back asleep and likely will not be as rested. If you have to do something for 4 hours, take off a day because you likely had to cancel some personal plans or have not had any meaningful sleep at night.
I would think that cutting sponsored sections of videos wouldn’t affect the money they receive at all. With Adblock, they can tell it wasn’t loaded. Can the sponsor tell that your view skipped the sponsor part?
Working in security and seeing these systems just bolting boxes after boxes of various things sometimes I wonder what are we doing? Is all of this really needed? And how many messages etc. did we actually need to handle? How many resources we are allocating for all this?
Definitely seen companies do worse to try getting a couple million dollars.
How do you know that for sure? With less compensation perhaps he wouldn't work as hard.
Your solution to the supposed overhead of garbage collection is to make every single object fat and have an extra test every time a pointer to an object is dropped?
Covid-19 pushes search for remote jobs by 460%
Obligatory comment about that this software abstracts away display, memory and interrupt management and provides services for the snake module. Also I like the name snakeos, since it doesn't promise more than it can deliver
My daily driver is stock Fedora+Gnome. The only "tinkering" I've done on the desktop is switching dark/light themes and changing the wallpaper. Otherwise my tinkering is focused on my terminal tools needed for serious work - nvim, git, zsh etc. If I owned a Mac or Windows, I'd probably be the same.
For what is worth, their methodology also looks flawed and paints an exaggerating picture.

If anything I'm not convinced this doesn't just show that Facebook is mostly used by old people, so there's a lot of interacted with right wing or whatever content. I personally see none of it, and very little that's politically charged in general.
China plans to ban overseas IPOs for tech firms with data security risks
I am an American but I completely resonate with Confucian values when it comes to work and learning.

The most insulting thing to me would be to be called lazy. I can see as a society with that many people though this would naturally go too far.

In the West, we are not lazy but delusional as a society. We are the boxing champion that has quit hard training because they think they can't be beat. This is pretty natural after being the champ for so long. We don't need to train, we can just party and still win. That works until the younger talented hungry competitor comes along and you get knocked out. A tale as old as boxing, a tale as old as human history.
> I thought that CEOs of American companies were legally required to maximize profit.

They are not. Management of companies has the fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interests of shareholders. That does not imply a legal requirement to maximize profit.
Britain came out of WW2 deeply fcuk'd. We'd lost the Empire, owed the US a crapton in loans, and then were economically smothered under a nationalisation programme that wiped out UK manufacturing competitiveness. At least we got the NHS (no small thing) and a passable social security system out of it. The economy we have today is the one Maggie re-engineered in the 1980s. Even the Blair government had the good sense to not dare touch it.
> The counter itself can have its count updated atomically with a compare & exchange.

At some point you have to consider how that hardware implements atomic variables and cmpxchg, because it is certainly not free.
There seems to be a hidden fallacy here. If cows were free range eating _only_ from non productive grass, then sure, they helped turn them into useful proteins in an efficient way.

However, we(humans) as we always do, took things too far, and have been turning lots of wild land to make grass as food for these cows that eventually turn them into proteins. That only leads to more and more grass production and burping cows :-(
Big Tech Wants You to Live in a Virtual World. Prepare for Real Problems
Or ask me for feedback. Like I haven't even used your site yet, only feedback I can give is don't ask me for feedback...
Tesla diagnostic software now available for purchase in the US
Not sure what you guys are doing all day. But I barely need a calendar and even more rare need any office software. When I document or plan I document in markdown in my favourite editor.
A judge is also unlikely to assume the randos on a board are better at upholding fiduciary duty than the company executive. The case that created this BS is one where Henry Ford said literally nothing in his defense and lost.
You have to pay for talent.

How many people in the world have the talent to run a $2.4 trillion company effectively.
It's not possible to give that specific information

The reason being that people in the businessy genre already get 10x (~$10CPM) what a gaming channel (~$1CPM) gets because there's more advertisers and less channels. You'd need to know the source channel
Funny thing, that construction is actually pretty easy to achieve in buttoned-up and statically typed C# with extension methods:

static TimeSpan Weeks(this System.Int32 n)
{
return new TimeSpan(n*7, 0, 0, 0);
}

static DateTime FromNow(this TimeSpan dt)
{
return DateTime.Now.Add(dt);
}

static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine(2.Weeks().FromNow());
}
Because the people that run banks are morons.

It is exactly the same thing. It has nothing to do with productivity. It is a test for membership in a club.
The link from the economist describes String theory as;

> String theory proposes that the universe is composed of minuscule objects which vibrate in the manner of the strings of a musical instrument. Like such strings, they have resonant frequencies and harmonics.

Nima Arkani-Hamed has pointed out that the explanation is a completely outdated viewpoint that permeates every popular description of the theory starting from Wikipedia. Brian Greene wrote a very influential book for the public: "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (1999)" that came out when the second revolution of string theory was happening and the book was outdated already when it was published.

What is now known about string theory is that strings are not a core concept in the framework.

String theory is a framework that has number of dualities, like:

- Strings theories and quantum field theories are different way to talk about the exact same thing.

- AdS/CFT correspondence. What happens in the volume of space can have equal description from different theory that happens in the region that surrounds that volume.
World’s Largest Chip Maker to Raise Prices, Threatening Costlier Electronics
That's not the paper cited in the study. It is also not a study, but a meta-study (review of existing literature on the subject).

In short, it doesn't address the concerns I list in my post.
>your reply does not address my argument at all

Yes, it does. I pointed out that the chance of getting Myocarditis is 0.002%, i.e. near zero. I also pointed out, and I repeat myself, that there have been 2,630 deaths from COVID-19 for 18-29 year olds (never mind the suffering COVID-19 causes people in this age range) [1]. Something that causes 2,630 deaths is more risky than something causing 229 non-fatal hospital visits.

I also observe you’re quoting stuff which uses estimated risks. The 229 number is a real risk: That’s the number of people who actually got Myocarditis after being vaccinated, a fact you conveniently ignored. To argue that a theoretical risk buried in a report (which correctly felt the risk was very small and approved the vaccine) trumps a real world figure we now have is downright disingenuous bad faith arguing.

Going back to your parent post, you allege that the pre-print paper https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.23.21260998 doesn’t “consider that actual COVID infections may be undercounted [sic]” (your words). Did you even read the paper?? Let me quote it: “In the United States, there is no national data on infection rate by age. According to a systematic review and the working assumption of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, children may have infection rates similar to adults, with younger people having more mild or asymptomatic cases. Accordingly, we used the estimated 9.2% population infection rate for April 2020 - March 2021.”

In other words, no they didn’t just look at case numbers, they made a reasonable estimate of actual infection figures, and based on those estimated figures said that one is six times more likely to get Myocarditis from COVID-19 itself than from a vaccination.

Now, it’s possible that a random Ycombinator poster has a better estimate for the number of total COVID-19 infections than a team of scientists writing a paper about COVID-19 and submitting it to peer review, but I’m not holding my breath here.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
Don't repeat your ancestor's mistake
Why can't unicode change the names of the glyphs?
I did the same but it's all bodged together which means I usually don't watch anything from Youtube.

It's a shame that the only video links on HN seem to be from Youtube.
This model should be adopted by every country
How many of us do actually excel? As someone who never was familiar with the windows or UI world of things I usually solve my excel issues with code.
8pm ?! By the time that the things you mention happen to me, SO, and 2 yr old for me it's more likely 11pm :/
Kudos to OP for pulling this out!
Making something illegal is only weakly correlated to companies stopping the practice.

I hope this is not just virtue signalling; the CCP has a reputation of hitting hard once it makes up its mind.

But the 996 culture seem to be extremely prevalent in many Asian countries, it seems, and I wonder if a mere official law will change anything. China is huge.
This is a lot any way you look at it, but before everyone jumps in to compare to other things, it's worth noting that this was agreed 10 years ago, and the value is down to two things: 1) hitting targets that earned him this amount, and 2) the amount being in terms of shares, not dollar value, which he has essentially 10x'd the value of in his tenure.

If Apple had not roughly 10x'd in value over the last decade this would be a ~75m payout, and that's not even accounting for the fact that a lot of this was likely tied to increasing the share price.

It's an obscene amount of money, but it's not today's Apple giving Tim Cook $750m, it's 2011's Apple agreeing to give him 5m shares if he did well.

Edit: Misread the article, "191.83% over the last three years"!
A strategy that works for some GC'd languages is to force a minor collection at some safe point and then run your "non-GC'd" code taking care to limit allocations to what fits in the minor heap. I wrote a small game using this strategy where the safe point happened before waiting for a vertical sync to refresh the screen (where otherwise we'd have been sitting around doing nothing).
Robust High-Res Video Matting with Temporal Guidance(Code and Pretrained Models)
> maintaining any support for Linux is just as a massive effort.

Is it? ALSA still works, even if routed through PulseAudio or PipeWire. X11 still works even if what you are talking to is XWayland. OpenGL still works even if there is also Vulkan now.

Even if you want to stay up to date with the audio/windowing API of the day there are libraries like SDL that will help you stay up to date.
I think you are thinking of the general maxim that the goal of executive management of a corporation is to maximize share holder value in the long term. As with most maxims, there is a lot of wiggle room.
These are international plans designed for Americans living abroad. They might offer coverage within the US for temporary visits home, usually at additional cost, but they are not ACA plans, do not have to comply with the ACA rules, and do not meet the requirements for minimum essential coverage under the ACA.
> Your advice is to be selfish and not care what anybody thinks about you?

Well if one wants to be cynical that's how big fortunes and generally big advantages to self happen.

That is behaving selfishly and somehow manage to avoid repercussions.

Just two examples from stuff that is in the news these days:

1) The grift happened during the War on terror (especially 2001-2010) which somehow was never investigated

2) Members of the rock band "The Rolling Stones" . They cumulatively slept with thousands of married women and women in relationships. They all somehow managed to avoid the husbands and boyfriends looking for their wives. Most of them had homicidal intent against Mick Jagger and their unfaithful wife.
Probably not just this one guy?
What is the right way to overturn stupidity then?
The conclusion in that link seems to say that selfishness correlated with power only in women, in men it was inversely correlated with power.

EDIT: I read that wrong. In men is less correlated with power than in women, not inversely correlated.
No, the handler(s) would only be called when the owner wants to dispose the object and there are still references to it.
Yep... honestly, i liked facebook in the beginning.. it was all people I knew personaly, their photos, their stories, statuses, their vdeos.. they.. people,... people I know.

a few years later, ads, ads, influencers, ads, news story, newsstory, ads, ads... so i deleted my acccount.

Instagram was the same... people I knew, photos of them... now it's ads, ads and influencers... I deleted instagram.
AppImages are a common format for commercial apps which avoid package managers. The fact that package managers exist doesn't produce any "big cost" for using these instead, except that they're larger because all the libraries they use are bundled with the executable.
But it's still a better trade off: The programmer can not think about memory management most of the time, but if they want to they can optimize hot paths in the code. Optimization (in all programming languages) often involves complicated and non-intuitive code backed by careful measurement.
That's apparently a popular misconception: https://medium.com/bull-market/there-is-no-effective-fiducia...

In this case specifically, it's very unlikely that any group of shareholders could succesfully sue the Board about this compensation package.
It's annoying. But for the end user the install is just a button and a minute more. At least on Linux.
"Roughly doubled"? You might want to double-check your research.

Apple is worth about 11x what it was worth 10 years ago.
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Removing doubt about what? That people on this platform do not agree with his politics? (article is paywalled so I can only comment on the first few sentences)
Magical Realist Rust Fanfiction
default cosmos db is public ip, and Jupyter is preloaded with your db ip & key, so breaking notebook isolation escalates to db comprimise

the blessing/curse of Jupyter being a university oss project and private companies largely not contributing back their multitenant notebook stuff (as hosting is the $ maker) is this kind of scenario. the project provides some multitenant stuff, but guessing not what MS uses.

Data science envs generally need wide read access across many data sources, yet mostly only used by a few trusted-yet-security-agnostic power users in an org, which leads to relatively low sec eng infra investments. so my guess is Jupyter security flaws (ex: extension vulnerabilities) are increasingly ripe targets for big escalations.
Yes, we successfully purchased a small quantity of Kinetis microcontrollers which were supposedly tested prior to shipping, those are going into assemblies right now so we'll see if they actually work.

Heisener is just a middleman so every transaction is different unfortunately.
It's easy to find 10x programmers in comparison. 10x CEOs are much harder to find.
No but the other guys at that level also already have offers for very high amounts so you can't get any of them if you aren't paying large sums.
The Artificial Neural Network is essentially just a huge set of formulas involving millions and sometimes even billions of values. Debugging in conventional software engineering sense of having a breakpoint and looking at values does not work.

The current state of the art for analysis is ShAP:
- https://github.com/slundberg/shap

ShAP is primarily an instance based explainer (one image = one explanation) but if you run it over multiple instances it is possible to gather global model insights on the data. The internals of the model are still quite unexplainable compared to decision trees or anything a human can code (horrible code aside).

There is a group at ETH doing work on adversarial attacks:
- https://www.sri.inf.ethz.ch/publications/

While not directly related to explainability their work is on providing bounds on how much can corruption of the input still provide valid output. Very interesting and practically relevant as well.

Finally there is also common sense. If race was a large factor in prediction then the model will implicitly learn to predict races. I am not in medicine and do not know how much it is but if it is then the only way to not learn race prediction is to make race not correlated to the targets.
It's a shame that the Cloud Haskell ecosystem is kind of ... on halt? I wish they at least would review patches and make Cloud Haskell packages compile against latest GHC releases. :/
Mirror Grinding (2005)
I'm not arguing for or against his payment amount, but I find it hard to believe someone would work less hard if they were told, "You'll only receive an extra $200 million in 10 years, in addition to your normal salary, instead of an extra $750 million."

Who would say, "Nah, sounds like a lot of work for only $200 million extra. I'll just coast, thank you."
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Thanks, misread the 3 years in the article. Have edited.
I experimented with using super basic computer vision to cheat at videogames but It never worked quite right. My target was venge.io, pretty bad game but I can tamper with the files freely with some userscripts. I injected bright purple textures for all the characters and used a simple color range matching to find the target.

My choice of language was python with pywin32,numba and a screen duplication library which name I forgot. The biggest problem was that by the time I finished scanning the screenbuffer contents the enemies on screen have already moved.

If I had paid attention in university math classes I could've come up with a direction tracking and prediction system. :/

But then I threw the whole thing out the window and rewrote everything with good old fashioned readmemory()/writememory() :^)
Lack of software is such a one sided argument always. As Linux user it took me forever to find proper alternatives on a Mac and I still have no idea how and if I can replace and use some for me common things on windows. Which is the only OS I can't get looking like I want to either way
Cops responding to ShotSpotter's AI alerts rarely find evidence of gun crime