skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have scar tissue on the surface of my sinus that used to cause me more than my fair share of sinus infections. since I started using a neilmed to blast out my sinuses at the slightest hint of congestion it hasn't been a problem. I think it's like what flossing is for your gums but for your sinus - highly recommend!
That's odd, I definitely have the sleep features enabled and it's a Series 6.
How does Stockfish mimic an Elo rating?
>It's both. Productivity has a very direct effect on the minimum amount they need to attract workers.

Productivity only puts a ceiling on the amount they'd be prepared to pay for a worker.

It doesn't affect the minimum amount required to attract them. That's determined by competition (i.e. who else is out there) and leverage (how much they need the job).

This is why business leaders lobby hard to reduce public sector wages/pensions (so private sector doesn't have to pay as much to compete for workers) and public benefits (like universal health care), which reduces worker leverage => reducing wages => increasing profits irrespective of worker productivity.
> there exists inclusive and positive communities for people of every type of background and experience

I mean, sure, but this also goes for flat earthers, incels, fatphobia activists, dreamsexuals, etc. In other words, it normalized selfish individualism over collective conformism. Looking at it in aggregate, I'm not sure I can agree on whether that was a good thing or not. Personally, it strikes me as the pendulum shifting too far to the other side.
"Now, thanks to the internet, ..."

This seems to be a common misdirection seen with defending Facebook. (Not to mention other Big Tech companies.)

Facebook == "the internet"

Facebook proponents, including public statements from the company, attribute the benefits we enjoy from the internet to Facebook.

Criticism of Facebook == criticism of "the internet"

It follows that any threat to Facebook is a threat to the internet.

Threat to Facebook == threat to "the internet"

Its quite sneaky.

EDIT: One insidious implication is to create or reinforce a false belief that we cant derive any benefits from the internet unless we support Big Tech and their mass-scale, popularity-driven, advertising-based "business model". This helps Big Tech to stifle competition and new and/or different ideas not under their control.

The internet isnt the web, nor is the web a small collection of popular websites, or a small collection of popular web browsers.
I honestly think you must be trolling at this point. You’re taking this pedantic, academic view about the behavior of children and taking it to such an extreme (US school structure and its problems explain all malevolent minor female behavior) that I can’t believe you’re arguing in good faith.
An example I ran into recently is Far Cry 3. It's not that old either. It has a coop campaign that's now unplayable due to server disrepair. Invitations to lobby do not work.
This represents a fairly common misunderstanding of "productivity" as used by economists, as in this story. In economics, labor productivity is simply the output per unit of labor. A common metric is revenue per hour worked.

How does this fit into the discussion here? If a company earns 10% more in inflation-adjusted currency this year than last year, but headcount has increased < 10%, by definition the staff was more productive this year than last.

It's fairly easy for anyone to apply this calculation to the economy as a whole, or to a given subset. Find total revenue in period X and total revenue in a later period Y and the corresponding # of employees, and you can determine whether and how much productivity increased.

Objection: "but the minimum wage earners are not more productive, everyone else is driving the productivity gains." You can run the calculation on any low-wage industry you want, you will likely see roughly similar results.
People are pretty damn good at finding reasons why they can't do a task or can't do it well or at least can't do it now, without it being an unacceptable direct "no, won't do that". And in plenty cases, loosing employees over something like that isn't worth it, especially for companies that already struggle with hiring enough and retaining knowledge.
There was a Korean movie about a vaguely similar topic: salvaging space debris that I enjoyed

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12838766/
Not directly related but when I was releasing an iOS app recently - App Annie made me realize how "pay to win" building apps is these days. You know a service is expensive when there is only a "contact sales" button on the homepage.

It's impossible for an indie dev to afford the data they provide, and gives a massive SEO/keyword ranking edge to the larger companies that pay for the subscription.
There used to be a A&W in my home town that finally closed in 2017. For awhile durning some kind of ownership tranfer the franchisees were mostly left high and dry and that place became the best 'fast food' burger in town. I think I remember that the franchise owner basically started buying everything from other suppliers and was only buying a few things from upstream A&W (notably root beer). He pivoted his burgers to compete on quality with the other fast food in town, i think that all went to shit a couple of years later presumably when he either sold or got smacked down the the franchise. Either way it's kind of one of those 'zombie brands' now .. slowly succumbing to economics.
I love analyzing game mechanics. I haven’t played Wesnoth, but other games that handle luck well are Darkest Dungeon and Faster Than Light. The article makes a good point about how a lot of the challenge is in distinguishing bad luck + good strategy vs normal luck + bad strategy
Making Siri closer to a real A.I.

Making an Apple Watch that can actually download sync with an Audible book.

And since they have this huge fitness push now, I'd like to be able to set custom Run Walk Run intervals when I do an Apple Running workout on my watch.

Being able to set the shutter speed or aperture when taking pictures like Samsung phones can.

A better system of defense for robo calls.

A built in audio program to make my own custom ringtones for people.

An easy way to put the phone in "Minimalist" mode, so that it only had the Apps I absolutely need. Like the "Lite Phone" https://www.thelightphone.com/

Premium Apple News content that isn't just click bait articles.

A way to "permanently" disable Air Tag stalker warnings every time I borrow someone's keys who isn't in my 'family sharing group'.

A couple more seasons of Ted Lasso.
The #1 comment on basically all threads now is archive.is and you simply need to do archive.is/https://whatever.url
In this case, the issue would not be that the information is private, but that App Annie had a contractual fiduciary obligation to its customers which it violated.
I took a look and unfortunately programming apps for it isn't that well documented from what I can tell
That’s a very optimistic take on PRC intelligence operations. Historically countries simply aren’t nearly as good at gathering intelligence as you might think.

Further we don’t know what intelligence the PRC has gathered. If China believes Taiwan has nuclear weapons or the capacity to assemble them quickly, there is going to be very little change in rhetoric from China.
But there are movies that you can't rewatch because the company didn't release them and isn't playing the film anymore.
I don't think there's anything wrong with curious nerds... you make a good point that a large portion of scientists are just that. But the authentic ones are willing to do it for free. It's the ones who are always whining about how they need constant boatloads of public funding (which is supposed to be spent on public services), while pretending to have a pure and noble interest in humanity, who are insufferable.
...or they'd just raise the price of a banana to $4, to keep relative profits the same, people would earn more than previously, but everything would be more expensive. Say what you want, we do buy and own a lot more stuff than we did in history.

The only unfair thing here is, why does amazon pay (relatively, percentually) less tax than local banana stand.
There are small debris clouds, but also large uncontrolled spacecraft, like boosters. De-orbiting those could be a huge help, since a collision with a stray booster would create gobs of debris so those orbits may be completely avoided.
Citizen Lab described the NSO software as "despotism-as-a-service" (DaaS) -- yikes.
Reminds me of the great video from Nick Robinson talking about Ubisoft pulled Driver: San Francisco from all digital storefronts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTkxzQDo0ng
you specifically said 'hoping they'll be able to call their family once they get somewhere.'
This might be the case but many jobs I feel like would no longer be worth paying anyone to do at that rate. That would suggest to me that the productivity of minimum/low wage workers has not increased at the same rate as productivity generally. Which would make sense given most of that increase is attributable to technology which isn’t distributed evenly through different sectors of the economy etc.
News of the mini's demise seems to have been exaggerated. Again.
Lambda isn't even the most well known bootcamp[1], just the most well-known failure.

Nearly everyone in my AppAcademy cohort was already a STEM grad and some from top schools. Also that didn't correlate with performance as the person with the most advanced degree was unhirable and the degreeless folks are among the most successful. More than half a decade on, we're still at like 98% of our cohort with long and successful careers. The few cohorts ahead of and behind me have similar results. More than half of my cohort are senior ICs at this point as well (staff engineers, architects, startup CTOs, etc).

Most of us didn't even need the bootcamp, per-se, but were there for the helpful aspects of building a portfolio in a short time and the psychological benefits of being coached through the interview process.

_YOU_ may not have seen successful bootcamp grads, but you also might not be in any of the places where they're looking for work. Or you have a very strong bias.

[1]: Dev Bootcamp, GA, AppAcademy and Flatiron School are/were easily more well-known than Lambda School ever was.
Bad Bosses
So if that's the case, what is the incentive to settle for the company? Or can the SEC just arbitrarily levy fees?
When piracy is more user friendly than a paid service, the service owners should take a step back and rethink what they're doing.
3. Collect more profit
The GameCube at 20
Going off of productivity has a lot of gotchas, I'd go for tracking purchasing power for non-imported goods like housing for the zip code that the job is located in. There might be some interesting side effects to that. Pushing businesses into poor areas, which should have a positive effect on society as a whole to get money coming into those areas without handouts or mandates. It'd be a fun experiment to run.

I see zero arguments against pegging the minimum wage to $12 an hour in 2021, maybe a tad more to offset years of what amounts to theft from worker's pockets. People on one hand will badmouth those on welfare, and then turn around and not want to reward those that go to work either. Those two together never sat well with me. Seems like people are just envious, bitter creatures all around.
your use of the word degeneracy is kinda saying the quiet part out loud
Why would overseas workers be counted in a measure of US worker productivity?
Thank you! Huge shout out to Shane, Jacob and others on our team who helped with the graphics / design elements!
And Citizen, maybe?
Food Irradiation
You know how sometimes you'll accidentally step on a donut and you'll have to call your dog over to lick all the jelly off your toes? That.
I can't find a link to it now, but there was a blogpost on how all other non-compartmentalization approaches to security had failed.
Even if that is true, productivity is not the cause there.

Productivity increases our wages because it naturally decreases prices. It's already account for.

Edit: to those that don't believe it, what do you think would happen if suddenly 3x more of every product popped into existence?
Statistics 101. Mean, median and mode.
Mirabile dictu!

(p.s., don't bother looking this up in Google translate. It's terrible on Latin.)
The stores don't like it. I know art directors who are banned from Ikea and Home Depot for returning ~$10,000 in a single month. At higher levels it's mostly Amazon returns. Mind you plenty of above board renting goes on as well
American hacker mercenaries face U.S. charges for work in UAE
Canva raises $200M at a $40B valuation
I'm struggling to understand how productivity has anything to do with salary.

Productivity increases are inevitable for everything as automation keeps improving. Salaries go up with demand for skills. If its more difficult to hire for a critical role (a skilled job or competitive), or the role generates a lot of value for a company, salaries go up. Simple economics.

Low skill jobs and physical labor jobs actually require less and less skills as automation improves. In this situation wages would go down. But I do think it's a good idea to have a wage floor to account for the inflation and increases in cost of living. A social limit to what we all collectively feel is a minimum amount of money one of us should make to survive in the society we are building. I think universal healthcare and a UBI would solve a lot of this. Especially as its only going to get worse for people at the bottom.
In short, legacy code.
It's discouraging that the top comment is in effect sticking up for the billionaire caught red handed in a lie (think of the good things FB has done for us!).

I'm sure people smoking cigarettes throughout the years have had very nice conversations and maybe even made friends. That doesn't absolve the manufacturers from responsibility for knowingly selling poison.

The same is true here.
US housing price higher than housing bubble 2008
Thanks for the detailed reply.

Your name looks familiar. I think I've seen you around some code golf hangouts somewhere on the internet.
Unfortunately, if this is serious, it just makes me lose respect for him. The Enlightenment was the greatest period of human history ever with regards to philosophical and intellectual progress since ancient Greece.
Even HN people struggle with fractions evidently!
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? (2020)
With isotonic solution, I would expect pretty short periods of loss of smell over the 14 days, but your results may vary.
> The whole NHST edifice starts to seem really shaky once you stop and wonder if "True" and "False" are really the only two possible states of a scientific hypothesis.

The root problem here is that people tend to dichotomise what are fundamentally continuous hypothesis spaces. The correct question is not "is drug A better than drug B?", it's "how much better or worse is drug A compared to drug B?". And this is an error you can do both in Bayesian and frequentist lands, though culturally the Bayesians have a tendency to work directly with the underlying, continuous hypothesis space.

That said, there are sometimes external reasons why you have to dichotomise your hypothesis space. E.g. ethical reasons in medicine, since otherwise you can easily end up concluding that you should give half your patients drug A and the other half drug B, to minimise volatility of outcomes (this situation would occur when you're very uncertain which drug is better).
It's incredible to me how much people care about bezels. I'm not objecting, more marveling!
Amazon doesn't offer graviton in the open market. You can only get those chips if you buy AWS.

Graviton is a standard N1 neoverse core, which is slightly slower than a Skylake Xeon / Zen2 EPYC. There's hope that N2 will be faster, but even if it is, we don't really have an apples-to-apples comparison available (since Amazon doesn't sell that chip).

The most likely source of Neoverse cores is the Ampere Altra, which is expected to have N2 cores shipping eventually. As usual though: since Ampere has lower shipping volume than other companies, the motherboards are very expensive.

x86 (both Intel and AMD) have extremely high volumes: so from a TCO perspective, its hard to beat them, especially when you consider motherboard prices into the mix.
> Hospitals should have been setting up Covid wards, or tents.

didn't this happen basically everywhere already, and most if not all of ended up being unneeded at the time? our local civic center converted into a temporary emergency covid care facility months ago and it was never used, so they shut it down. now the local healthcare corporation CEO is claiming the ICUs are full again. well if that's truly the case, we could easily set up the emergency care facility again, our mayor and governor have shown they're more than willing to help when the situation arises. so, at least here in my neck of the woods, something doesn't add up.
Second vocal vote for that. It'd make it a more powerful tool and be less of a pain at the same time.

Or at the very least some kind of remedial hot key navigation would be great too.
Crazy how? With the caveat that I know essentially nothing about biology past school lessons and therefore I have a real risk of being dangerously naive, to me this seems more like a Columbus Egg to me: Washing hands reduces the risk for other diseases, this is washing inside one of areas the disease targets.
> No. I'm talking about whether it's bullshit. Scam is not the same as bullshit.

You called it a ponzi scheme!

Either way, please listen to the distinction I'm making.

You're talking about ways the industry is bad.

They're asking if the article is flat-out wrong about this single account being successful inside that industry.

Those are two separate ideas to call bullshit on. A bullshit industry can have bullshit success stories, but it can also have true success stories.
Thus, accidents were typically attributed to worker “carelessness.” Even if partly true, this was a dead end in terms of understanding the causes and how to fix them. It would not survive a modern root-cause or “five whys” analysis. In modern parlance, “systems thinking” was lacking.

This way of thinking still appears to be common in US road/street design.
No, it wasn't that I didn't want to get the vaccine because my friend got sick. The fact was he had the vaccine, and got me sick and we both had as close to the exact same experience during the sickness. The second parts about my uncle and my sister's husband I can't really prove they are related to the vaccine, but were just in response to the previous commenters. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
That's seems to be more of a comment about semantics and language. Yes, language is a construct in which we classify certain phenomena but you can still argue that the phenomena itself is not a social construct but rather something with some intrinsic "natural" truth, a truth we describe by using language or sometimes we don't because we are afraid to loose our jobs.
It is easy for statistics to ignore the big picture, ignoring important details and caveats. There is no single number for CO2 emissions for beef and different crops. If beef is 10x more nutritious than cereals, does that change the equation? If cows are raised on grassland unsuitable for crops, does that change the equation? Would the demand for non-edible products produced by cows be satisfied with more CO2 intensive solutions? Highly efficient, mature and industrialized agriculture in the US is very different from burning down forests to raise cattle or make room for poorly raised crops as happens in some countries - does that change the equation?

I highly recommend watching for more details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdrhpThqlCo
> Cost saving would've been to get rid of the IHS entirely. Their mobile chips work fine without them, I don't really understand why they're a thing for desktop processors.

Because there's a huge difference between running 5watts sustained through something the size of your fingernail, and 100 watts sustained. That heat has to go somewhere and there's 20x more of it on a desktop part, as it requires way more integrated cooling to not immediately thermally throttle.
> nothing needs regulation

This is a hyperbolic statement. Even if you are just talking about internet regulation.

Let's imagine for a moment that someone invented a hypnosis algorithm and hosted it on a website. Anyone going to this website went into spasms and died in front of their screen. Would we seek protection for our children and for the general public from such a website from internet browser companies, ISPs and the government? Yes we would. This is an extreme example but it illustrates a point. You can say the same thing about websites that prey on children, or the elderly.

I'm not advocating for the banning of pornography altogether. I am making the simple proposition that it be better regulated. People who distribute porn know full well that their content is seen by minors. Having a child check a box that says that they are over 18 is not good enough. If I hadn't seen porn as a minor, I might have had a better chance of avoiding the extremely negative impacts that it can carry with it. Don't believe me? Visit a support page like r/NoFap and read the hundreds of thousands of stories there.

I'm not going to touch any of the other subjects you raised because I'm not arguing for any of the things you listed.
sonic pi is not exactly like modular but easier than pd
It sounds to me like the contracts did not contradict.

> [App Annie] went to great lengths to assure [Trading Firms] that the financial and app-related data [App Annie] sold was the product of a sophisticated statistical model and that [App Annie] had controls to ensure compliance with the federal securities laws. These representations were materially false and misleading

It's illegal because App Annie was feeding trading firms insider information while swearing it was actually just a really good statistical model. Presumably the actual model wasn't good enough, so they started using unaggregated data to eke out perf.

What they did is not just breach of contract, but insider trading as they fed private information to trading firms.

> the order finds that from late 2014 through mid-2018, App Annie used non-aggregated and non-anonymized data to alter its model-generated estimates to make them more valuable to sell to trading firms.
Definitely worth a read. This could explain, to some extent, the unfortunate events at the end of 2015.
Well, "rotating the diagram in spacetime" is also exactly what you do when you move your hands while holding the printout of a diagram...

(In this case though it's about rotating what's shown in the diagram, that is the interactions pictured, not the diagram itself :-))
"Better" in what way? I have been using CoderPad (and similar services) for over a decade and they do all this and a lot more at the same price point.
> That's simply not correct. The literature abounds with all sorts of correlates with race, like propensity for sickle cell anemia, vitamin D deficiencies, susceptibility to alcohol, and morphological differences. These are just as empirically justified as any classification of species, and just as with species, not all of those properties need apply to every single member in that category

I think this is the thing people misunderstand about race being a social construct, is that race is a bucket, by nature there need to be correlations between people in that bucket in order to actually place people into that bucket in the first place.

There will likely be other correlations between people in said bucket, who are in this cause usually more closely related and share more recent common ancestors.

The size of that bucket and how we put people in it is arbitrary, but the fact that correlations exist when you put people in buckets isn't.