skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the class were gender-balanced the odds of that would be 1/512

If each arrival at the desk were an independent draw from the full class, then, sure, the chance of any given set of 9 arrivals having 9 women would be 1/512. (Though the chance of the sequence of 10 including 9 women and 1 man is 10/1024, or about 5 times more likely; by cherry-picking the set of arrivals to consider, you are añready making the set around you seem more unlikely than it is.)

Of course, if they were where independent the case, there’d also be a non-negligible case of a repeat in that set of arrivals; the fact that you chose a set in line at the same time demonstrates that they aren't a set of independent events. So the whole basis of your 1/512 even on the cherry-picked set is invalid.
Let's say one American says "China good" another American says "China bad". TikTok can make sure that former gets more views.
It is amazing to me that in the 1400s when books where astonishingly rare a 200 year old book should become recycled material.
I'd be concerned about their ability to handle sewage which requires water for processing. Burj Khalifa has to have its sewage trucked out daily because nobody bothered to plan for the load on the Dubai infrastructure.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Fuchsias is just a way to not open source drivers and kernel modifications at all. So they can just willfully plan obsolescence without having to fear that any of those pesky hobbyist runs their own version that would circumvent those limitations.
I downvoted the parent comment because (a) it was smarmy and sarcastic and (b) it makes baseless ethical allegations.
I agree that the HQ is a navel gazing exercise of the highest order.

But their ability to sell a full line of computing devices with so few SKUs is pretty amazing. Dell sells like 30 different laptops. Apple sells 3.
It’s cryptocurrency, what else do you expect?
Are you otherwise engaged with these people? Or, is it a bit more detached, like you happen to be on the same bus or cafeteria?
If you are by yourself and have something to signal that you aren't available for casual conversation (a book, headphones, your phone, etc) I don't think that counts. I think people are firing off at you is because the context is a situation where some one rightfully would expect your attention, like talking to a friend or any other sort of scheduled activity.
What is the experiment you're proposing? I didn't follow.

What about just measuring the ROI of the degree?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/your-money/college-degree...

"All of the largest programs in electrical and communications engineering, for instance, allowed most of their graduates to recoup their educational investment in five years or less. But many programs in some fields, like drama and dance, show no return on investment, the report found, meaning most of their graduates are earning less than a typical high school graduate."

So this study more or less backs claim that some degrees offer a positive ROI while others do not. As to whether or not a given degree is "worthwhile," I'd leave that as an exercise for the reader. :)
The abandonment of established interfaces happens on purpose on proprietary platforms to force customers to upgrade. The abandonment of established interfaces happens on FOSS platforms equally as frequent without any obvious purpose.
West of the Mississippi, this is generally correct. The ability to lease/transfer water rights varies state by state. In NM where I live, it is extremely difficult.
The cleanliness of Tokyo is 100% because of cultural issues, not because the government did anything special. Durning the major 2011 earthquake everything shutdown and you had to walk home. When you went into the “Konbini” (7/11, FamilyMart, Lawsons) in Tokyo there was always a bottle of water left. Why? Because culturally no Japanese would ever buy the last bottle.
Vast majority of the screen-shotted tweets don't seem any worse than what the author was dishing out (e.g: https://i.imgur.com/ysm7yxp.png - or more often calling them assholes/grifters/immoral). At the same time the sheer quantity of unpleasant replies probably feels overwhelming when you're just one person, and there are a couple of truly awful responses thrown in there.
The ACLU's 2008 report on how not to respond to a pandemic
Simple reason - there was no way to do feature detection reliably on many a terminal, which also makes me wondering how the hell are they going to make it reliable, unless they simply decide to not support many terminals.
Taliban Reportedly Blocking Private Rescue Planes from Departing Afghanistan
I discovered this when I was looking for a ?German? company that implemented something similar and demonstrated it mounted to real cars, claiming something like "centimeter accurate" precision. I couldn't find them anymore though :(
Do you think anyone else should act against their own interests, or just the middle class?
It will open new issues.Everything will be closed source and we are back to this windows 95 crappy driver situation.
True, but I guess they are also judging our pliability in jumping through hoops, because even us senior engineers have to jump through many. To be honest, I'm probably not jumping through enough of them, cramming for a coding interview is one thing, but jumping in on every welcome!/goodbye! email is something that I really wasn't ready for.
I don't remember. I read that on some news site a while ago. Can't seem to find the source anymore unfortunately.
No, but there was quite a 2600 group around here back then. A big “elite” (slang of the time) BBS scene too.
Hell, I’m convinced for a lot of things, they wouldn’t even need to trains decent developer.

My very first job was working with tech I was completely unfamiliar with and had really never touched as the lone developer. Yet, I managed to be productive very quickly in the short contract it was. Turns out that a lot of the programming languages and frameworks used in “real life” are pretty damn similar and it takes a little bit of reading the docs to be able to figure out.

Yet nowadays I can’t even get an interview because my resume isn’t plastered with talk of k8s and every other cloud/infra software the company used once.
This URL on SFGate seems to work: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Health-Dept-Stop-taking-... ... Archived at https://archive.is/xteyf

> JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In an article published Aug. 23, 2021, about people taking livestock medicine to try to treat coronavirus, The Associated Press erroneously reported based on information provided by the Mississippi Department of Health that 70% of recent calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were from people who had ingested ivermectin to try to treat COVID-19. State Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers said Wednesday the number of calls to poison control about ivermectin was about 2%. He said of the calls that were about ivermectin, 70% were by people who had ingested the veterinary version of the medicine.
Yes it is the same spike protein, but in a limited dose.

I guess the prevailing wisdom is that the dose makes the poison and a little bit of spike protein damage is acceptable compared to a much bigger amount from actual infection and disease.
The lowered barrier to entry with TikTok and its algorithm means that someone with a PhD in an extremely esoteric field can do a quick presentation without having to make TikTok their new career. Real Engineering is great, but they didn't randomly fire off one YouTube video and get where they are today.
Curious how many of the respondents have read MMT literature. Seems to be a theme of believing MMT ignores inflation, which is not at all the case and is addressed directly in Stephanie Kelton's The Deficit Myth.

Credit is created at the point of contract. This was revealed in a 2014 Bank of England report. The current economic arrangements bake in certain percentages of unemployment. MMT suggests reimagining the model to focus on full employment through civic programs that compensate for slow downs in innovation and lending.

Puzzling to see such a staunch offense against alternatives when the present arrangements clearly favor a small few at the expense of the many.
I like the "collaborative-newspaper" idea a lot.

Though I haven't used it much, this sounds like substack + RSS, that only refreshes once a day.

It's missing some interactivity I suppose
I’ve considered something similar, call it The Morning Post or some such. Choose your delivery/send time, and all your content gets posted (and all previously posted content gets revealed to you). Put some sane limit on the number of times you can change your post/delivery time (once a day?).
If your idea of the pinnacle of a planned community is a big, car-dependent suburb with big office parks and a wide away of chain theme restaurants...
It's a wireless LAN. That runs at 11 megabits per second!

(crowd goes wild)
How a Viking king inspired one of our best-known modern technologies
> The cleanliness of Tokyo is 100% because of cultural issues, not because the government did anything special

Social disapproval over time, including that expressed through government policy, has effect on culture. So, while it may not result particularly from the government doing something immediate to cause the cleanliness, I would be hesitant to assert it is independent of government action merely because it is cultural.
I think you are going to have a hard time convincing someone who only refers to ivermectin as a “horse dewormer” to think of it beyond whatever their summary talking points tell them. That is why the talking point is to try and mislead folks as it being only a veterinary Rx, they don’t have to go into details…just dump the misinfo out there.

BTW, I’m not arguing for or against it for Covid. I am just saying that if my doctor decided to prescribe it for me, I’m going to trust their judgement, because I trust them.
I came across an interesting podcast last week that discussed Ivan Illich and how his ideas relate to modern software. This may be of interest to anyone who would like to explore these ideas further:

“How is the state of modern software like losing at Tetris? Stephen Kell joins Henry to chat about Ivan Illich's thought (counter-productivity, radical monopoly, critique of institutions) applied to modern software culture! We talk about the software/hardware arms race, how our default is more is better, tech being all-consuming, the tyranny of updates. (recorded in Dec 2020) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/tetris ”

https://overcast.fm/+O8teSMuNU
If you know the email address that is used for the Apple ID, you can send it a message without being in messages. You can also send a text to a phone number via email based on the carrier and knowing how to structure the address. So, it's not impossible to do this at all. No stolen credentials necessary.
I think most documentation at a company can and should live outside of version control repositories - the key thing is to have editing tools that non-engineers can use and to ensure that the resulting material can be effectively published, searched and made visible to the people who need access to it.

The exception is engineering documentation: API docs should absolutely be version-controlled in the same place as the code they are describing.

I built an internal search engine for a past employer that covered 11 different sources of documentation - Confluence, Google Docs, GitHub Markdown, Salesforce Support and more - and it really helped solve some of the discoverability problems we were having.
Solana Proof of Stake and Proof of History Primer
Crypto still is small enough that a couple billion dollars can bail the system out. It only took a few billions to pump it up to $25k in 2017. At some point the amount it takes to bail them out will be larger than any of the billionaire true believer investors are willing to throw into the pot and will exceed their ability to agree with each other to risk that much to save it.

It isn't really an economic problem, it is more like a poker game.

The next market crash will probably be from a substantially higher peak and will take proportionately more to bail it out, and it is also going to be complicated by governments taking the opportunity to crack down on it so "regulatory risk" will be very high. 2022/2023 are probably going to have a high risk of the game collapsing.

Won't be 100% though so it could come back and another ~4 years from now we could be seeing yet another bubble blowing up in crypto. I wouldn't get too emotionally attached to hating crypto or believing that a sudden regulatory attack on crypto is going to manage to pop crypto in the near term (and what China did recently was the kind of crackdown that everyone believed would kill it, but its dragging itself out of the hole again).

Right now chances of it popping in the short term are probably very low, and nobody is going to seriously take a run at regulating it because they don't want to be responsible for the fallout (similarly to how nobody did shit about Madoff's Ponzi until he went cash insolvent in 2008 due to the financial crisis).
> $230K (a quick chat, then four hours of shooting the shit, exceptionally interesting work)

Jesus Christ, I wish I knew how to target these companies.
It's almost as if you read the last sentence in my post ;-)
>Very confused), aren’t we basically saying the economy can never have a serious prolonged correction? We’d all have to default on the debt we bought to give ourselves?

It can have a serious prolonged correction. "The economy" is the sum total of the productivity of a country, and in some ways is a measure of the expectation of what one can expect to come out of the country, especially stability. The glue that holds it together is trust amongst its participants, and I would say that a currency's desirability is a combination of the trust one has in the ability for a society to continue delivery desirable goods (including stability).

People in society also have expectations about their future quality of life, based on assumptions that may or may not be true. Debt is priced based on these assumptions, and it is certainly possible that if assumed rates of economic growth are not met, then debt will be defaulted on. It has already happened in some local governments (e.g. Detroit), and I assume it plays out the same way. Members of the society that experience the default will go through pain and suffer losses. On a national level, one might experience revolution or violence.

But it all depends on the level of trust and cohesiveness amongst the members of society. Right now, based on the USD's purchasing power, it seems that relative to other societies in the world, a lot of people around the world still assume US society and government will be relatively stable and able to deliver desirable goods and services for the foreseeable future.

Of course, this is all speculation, and any society at any given point in time may be in an inevitable downward spiral, or in a temporary downward trajectory, or just about to hit the local minima and about to experience a boom.
Yeah, what a dummy. If everybody put 100% of their income toward paying the debt, we’d be debt free in 1.5 years!
Taiwan is barely on the edge between Japan (East Asia) and the Philippines (SE Asia). But culturally is very East Asian.
I only found buildings crushing interceptors https://www.starcraftai.com/wiki/Tricks,_Glitches_and_Exploi...
4 Wh/day = 4 W*h/(24*h) = 0.167 W. They’re equivalent, by algebra. The only way they can ever mean different things is if you use a custom algebra.
It sucks, but it's a cost of doing business. Physical retailers get shoplifters, we get friendly fraud.

Fortunately, most people do the right thing and with the mitigation strategies we have in place we lose only around 0.5% of revenue to (suspected) fraud.

eBay's ~10% processing fee makes a much, much bigger dent in our bottom line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE8MVNMzpbo

Here’s a game developer talking about the problem and how they solved it in The Witness, but note well the limitations he describes. It’s not directly useful if the player can jump, for instance.
Interesting. My FYP is all weirdos. And I like it that way!
Does TikTok have any ads? I'm not sure how they can survive.
> Voice-wise they are equal or better

Mumble/Murmur and Teamspeak have better voice functionality than Discord, because they really are designed for voice chatting.

> But not in text (Mumble severely lacking, Teamspeak marginally better).

Concur, and this, along with all-in-one Slack-like rich URL handling leads to selections of discord.

A more OSS friendly stack of Pidgin + Daemon | IRC & Mumble/Murmur seems to have the best scaling, and the best of both worlds, at least in my opinion because it has the lowest cost, richest functionality, and can scale the highest in terms of users without being dependent on a commercial service. I say this because I have seen Mumble/Murmur with > 2000 active users which is possible due to the rich permissioning system and excellent performance.
Does he threaten people? And the people that aren't just bystanders will read the thing he says, he doesn't need to punch it up to attract a crowd.
so main difference is kinda transparency?

everything else matches. you (old investor) are receiving profits from new investors. and in some countries retirement money is speculative matter for politicians (vote for me I will increase retirement payments).
> What would it take for the middle class homeowners of America to prioritize housing for everyone rather than the price of their home?

Radically rewiring human nature.
Rolling Stone forced to issue update after ivermectin story turns out be false
Are there seriously 5 XML parsers available in iOS? Are they all written in C? Do they validate all of them whenever a bug is found in one? I can’t tell if this is some sort of defense in depth or just swiss cheese copy-paste…
This is not quite true. Most western US (well, say CA central valley back to the plains) agriculture has been made possible by large scale irrigation systems backed by the construction of substantial reservoirs. From time to time, it has been necessary to pull from groundwater, and from time to time, some farmers have done so even when it wasn't necessary. But in general, most of the agricultural expansion has been based on collected rainwater, distributed via huge systems. This system has worked "well" as long as the snow and the rain has kept coming (and flowing, rather than being absorbed into warm-weather baked soil). But the rain & snow are not making it into the rivers and reservoirs, and so this system has serious problems now.

By contrast, plains and some midwestern ag. has been drawing down the Ogallala aquifer at an insane rate, and that really is "fossil water".
I dailied a Pismo until the Intel Mac era, even after Leopard dropped support for G3s midway through its beta cycle. I didn't get my hands on one of the 550mhz G4-upgraded CPU cards until a few years later, but Tiger was a way more cohesive and enjoyable release anyway before all the fun got wrung out of OS X. Easily the greatest Mac portable of all time imo https://i.imgur.com/xUYBUG3.jpg
No, I'm telling people (of which you specifically are one) to wait until the subject of the slight has indeed confirmed they are slighted before you get offended on their behalf.
> still a bit weird to call that one out as an impressive example

Well, the clips from Last of us seemed to be the only ones where the character put their hand on the doorhandle, and kept it there for the duration of the door opening. And the door didn't visibly clip through anything on the other side.

The clips from Fortnite and Hitman, in contrast, didn't show the player character using the door handle at all.
> Can you imagine, the government telling you to do something and then dragging you in front of a court after you do it :S

The French agents were arrested by New Zealand, not France, and convicted in New Zealand. France also threw their weight around to avoid having their agents jailed for the term of their sentences, AFAIK.

Beyond that, there's nothing wrong with holding responsible agents of the state who follow illegal orders (whether this was by French law, I can't speak to it). Many liberalized states, and particularly the militaries of those states, operate on the assumption that you must refuse to follow an illegal order. (Intelligence services, which caused the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, may have different rules, but fundamentally there's supposed to be a carve-out and an escalation process for addressing orders "beyond the rules"." An example from the United States: https://warontherocks.com/2017/07/when-can-a-soldier-disobey...
I don't know enough about Ravelry to say whether it'd be infeasible for them to take on the liabilities they'd have if they weren't a digital service, but I think we're on the same page now.

As mentioned, I personally think there'd need to be something to account for "moderated forums/platforms" as an in-between (but not exactly sure how to do that without just recreating the current situation).
From Wikipedia:

> In mathematics, a real number is a value of a continuous quantity that can represent a distance along a line

That's the intuitive definition that makes the most sense to me.
The specifics are not timeless.

The concept may be timeless.

The positive energy that made me do this is definitely timeless.

I'm still here.

Thanks for reminding me why, sorokod.

Best wishes,
edw519
Excellent link!
> age keys are application-specific keys, not universal personal identities.

Not a courtesy you extended to SSH keys, choosing to instead re-use them for an unrelated purpose, with, so far as I can see, still no proof in 1.0 that this is actually safe, just the usual hand-waving.
Which is why I mention plists
It's funded by the party comrade.

No, they have in-app purchases?
It has been done successfully in the past. All you need to do is add the appropriate lens to focus further away.

Here they used an optical flow sensor for obstacle avoidance in a canyon. The closer to one side you got the faster the terrain would pass by the sensor. Allowing the UAV to self correct.

See the last two pages:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
depends what you mean by "pan out". columbia, md [0] is a fairly successful planned community. I personally wouldn't want to live there, but it's a fine place to live if you enjoy life in the suburbs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,_Maryland
The choice between TUI vs GUI is far from that simple. It’s too reductive to say that TUIs are common in FOSS because the state of GUI programming is in such disarray.

TUIs are easier to deploy and the GUI landscape is fragmented. But the only reason why TUIs are common is because the users are comfortable with them. I think that the proportion of users who are comfortable at a command line is much higher with Linux, BSD, or even macOS users than other OSs.

If the users weren’t comfortable using a CLI or TUI, there would be a bigger push to unify the GUI landscape. Otherwise no programs would get written because they wouldn’t be used.
The energy derived from a potato should probably be enough to serve a static webpage with 100 req/s. Even the highest-ranking HN posts should not result in more than five requests per second. It's beyond me how the "HN hug of death" has ever come to be an issue in any scenario.