skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In practice, I don't find that closely following breaking news is all that useful to me, since I'm not in a position to do anything about it, and it just makes me anxious to worry about things which are out of my control.

Bingo. This is why I never got into the habit of watching the news at all. This exact line of thinking.

This is also why I think society is kind of mad. I can clearly see when the news has people in their grip because then everyone talks about what happened, and eventually almost everyone has the same opinion about what happened (which is the opinion the news has given them and put in their heads).

I wonder if people in the west realise there is propaganda here too, and it's not just in Russia and China.
What percentage of dark skinned people of African descent do you think wouldn't self-identity as black? Same for percentage of light skinned European descent, Asian descent, Central/South American descent, etc.? I'm sure there are some out there who would identify as a different race, and there are people of mixed heritage that throw a wrench in the works too, but the vast majority of humans will self-identity as a race that matches with their skin color and heritage.
I'm 'yes, but...' on both those points.

(1) is true, but I was thinking more about the persecution aspect than the community aspect. If being gay made life unbearable in a particular town, it was at least physically possible, if expensive, for a person to cross state-lines and start life fresh. Today people leave a trail that follows them globally and for a lifetime.

In terms of community, (2) is a little more bleak than the reality. I'm guessing in the 1980s, most college towns had at least a gay bar (or cafe, bookshop, whatever), and community formed around it.
Would that really be a competitive option for your use case over something like graviton?

It is kind of a wild state of affairs that as good a chip as M1 isn't available as commodity hardware.
planes too:

I find the lessons of our reliance on air support in the context of Afghanistan an interesting lesson that our military hopefully learns from.

There is some good reporting that reported the total collapse of their army was partially because without the US they couldn't reach their bases or provide support, let alone maintain their planes & helos.

The US brass were even bragging the the Taliban couldn't use even our guns that were left behind since they take so much special maintenance.

What happens to our 'fancy' planes with electronics/software attacks? Do we even have the capability to drop bombs if something like that happens?
Ironically, "easy to miss" is my objection about Rust's "?" suffix
> I don’t have the luxury of waiting for a patient to test negative before seeing them in the emergency room or clinic.

Agreed that it makes total sense for HCWs to get a booster, but also why are you seeing patients before they test negative? Every patient could be getting a $5 antigen test as they walk in the door. The fact that this is not being done is just one more missed opportunity.
Starting Apr 2022, all apps submitted must be built with Xcode13 and iOS15 SDK
Still waiting for the blood glucose monitoring. I wonder what tech remains to be developed.
And if misclassification is a concern (as the parent mentioned) you can put a prior on that rate too!
Most DAC dongles are no thicker than the actual cable to your headphones.
I work in finance, hedge fund kind of stuff. My team has its main apps on 11, with a long tail of minor services on 8. One other team in the company has been keeping up with each release (brave souls!). Most others are in a similar place to us.

I've been interviewing lots of candidates recently, and i usually chat a bit about what versions they've used. Only one is using 11, the rest are on 8. One only finished migrating to 8 this year!
Rest In Power
Whoop. It has been great for life style adjustments that improve my health.
"What actually matters in the end is a common standard. And since America is the outlier, they are the ones who must conform."

As someone who grew up under the Imperial/Fahrenheit system and had to live with both the Imperial System as well both Metric systems—the Gaussian/CGS and MKS (SI) Systems at school and operate/convert between them on a daily basis, I can attest that a lot of bunkum is talked by those Fahrenheit-ers who devise every conceivable device and contrivance to avoid biting the Metric bullet. It's rather pathetic really (it's a bit like climate science denial).

Every student at my school who did science would overwhelmingly attest that the Metric System is better and much easier in every way. I cover this in considerable detail in the other HN story on Fahrenheit/Celsius titled Celsius Needs a Redesign here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28526183

As I say there, the Metric System isn't perfect but it beats the antiquated US and Imperial systems hands down.

[BTW, you'll find a link there to the Wiki Imperial site, therein you'll find an image of a 'one US gallon gas can purchased near the US-Canada border showing equivalences in imperial gallons and litres'. This typifies how confusing and problematic the US's stubbornness is. Eventually, it'll have to convert to Metric or it'll be out-competed by other countries.]
>Effect Size Is Significantly More Important Than Statistical Significance

Ok, but by how much?
A mission statement doesn't encode all of human ethics in it, it's just a single sentence. Any mission statement could be bad if taken to the extreme. A super-Facebook that told you the thoughts of every person in real time, a super-Google that could fetch any knowledge, including credit card numbers, etc etc. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTpNX62uaL86j6/the-hidden...

Have a mission statement, just don't go crazy with it.
> don't remember anyone else who's resulting laughs seemed so inadvertent or by chance, like he was ill-prepared or crazy, or both

None of it was by accident: He was really good at comedy and was getting exactly the laughs when/where he expected them. Coming off as ill-prepared was a shtick.
Purchased equity suffers the same dilution as earned equity (on the same grant date), but with the added benefit of liquidation preference.
What about graviton? Isn't it already competitive with x86 on price/performance?
The Neural Basis of Fear Promotes Anger and Sadness Counteracts Anger
Just two generations ago, teaching Latin by "the direct method" was not uncommon in the West:

http://www.arlt.co.uk/method.html

Greek composition courses, too.
> I’ve been thinking about this while playing Factorio: so much of our discussion and mental modeling of automation works under the assumption of perfect reliability. If you had SLIGHTLY below 100% reliability in Factorio, the game would be a terrible grind limited to small factories.

So I'm making a guess here that you play with few monsters or non-aggressive monsters?
If you have one BALB/c lab mouse, you give it something, and it glows in the dark few months after, effect size alone makes it significant.
damn, I've been looking for something similar to Max/PPOOLL but more accessible (especially on windows/linux) after reading about Tim Hecker using it and this seems like it could get to that point
> I'm not familiar with Github release permissions because it's not a process I've ever used, but I assume it's a different capability from being able to push patches. A "release maintainer" & repo owner who won't release or isn't adding release capabilities isn't "actively preventing" anything; they are simply not doing anything.

This is a point of confusion, since GitHub now has a few different things that could be called "releases": tags (a Git thing), tags that are labeled as "releases" (a GitHub thing), and released packages via one of GitHub's package indexes (including one that behaves like RubyGems).

Anybody who has push access to a repository should also have access to the first two, and probably has access to the third. The first is a Git-level consequence of access, and the second is just sugar on top of tags ("releases" don't behave any meaningfully different, and many projects do releases without using the release labeling). IOW, they should have sufficient permissions, as-is, to continue cutting releases. They might not have sufficient permissions to publish those releases to RubyGems, but that just means renaming the package to `jekyll-ng` or using GitHub's index instead.

> Plus, "maybe they don't need to do a release" is rather contradictory with "this project is in rude health, look at how many patches they're receiving piled up in the (unreleased) HEAD!

Yeah, these facts are in tension. Then again, looking further, a lot of the recent activity has been documentation and dependency tweaks, along with some light backporting activity (since they're also continuing to support Jekyll 3). So I think the needle I'd thread here is: "the project is receiving active attention, but is sufficiently stable to not warrant regular releases."
Norm's non-comedy persona (I suspect even when not "performing" he was still performing, at least to himself) was probably not immune to pretense.

I can see the point he is trying to make, although I think it's nonsense
Think of it more like if the British East India Company ran a theme park, if the analogy is what bothers you. (As that corporation did have those unilateral powers)
It existed on the Plus models. I have an iPhone 6S Plus right next to me that I have rotated home screen icons.
If you want a watch whose battery lasts that long, it can’t be a smart watch.

All the other stuff these things do use too much power for to get that battery life from just switching to a even a (not physically plausible) 100% efficient photovoltaic e-ink screen.

It could be a fitness tracker like the Fitbit Zip (advertised at 4-6 months), or a plain watch like the Casio F-91W (when I had those as a kid, the battery outlasted the straps), but it can’t be a smart watch.
Nim for Beginners #26 Reference Objects
"Slow is smooth and smooth is fast"
Wonder if the uncollected amount is more or less than toll-taker compensation during the same time period?
I don't play golf, but I do run a hell of a lot. I also recently have been swapping back and forth between my Garmin Fenix 3 HR (yes, several years old) and my Apple Watch 6 on runs. It would appear that the more recent Apple Watches have upped their GPS game (or maybe its software, dunno). Whereas previously the Garmin would track more accurately in general (say, measured against race mile markers), and certainly more accurately on twisty trails and the like, than my old AW4. But now I'm annoyed by the fact that the Garmin shorts me on distance more than the AW6; looking at tracks, the AW6 hews closer to the actual trail than Garmin does. I believe DC Rainmaker had similar results, or at least confirmed that the AW does better than it used to.

Of course, Garmin's more recent watches are probably better now, too. And they have golf functionality. But as it concerns the AW, it would appear to me that it is as good as anything else these days.
I don't get the problem here. You're able to select which notifications are allowed to come through to the watch.

I only have notifications from a few apps allowed to come through, and out of those I also filter them with the in-app settings to only get ones I'm interested in getting pinged about.

I never get more notifications than I can handle, and especially not ones I don't want to be harassed by.
Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to monitor health
Maybe I should have said "a coup was nearly started because a coup was nearly started". But then you could go down some really long pedantic roads about what a coup really is.
Don’t fight the Covid-19 vaccine mandate
It’s the app’s financial data. Not usage data.

App developers would keenly sign up for this to get analysis and visualisation tools of the financial reports provided by Apple.

At the time App Annie came about all that Apple provided devs with was a CSV broken down into line items per country.

A bunch of companies made paid for visualisation and analysis tools/saas for this data but then app Annie had the bright idea of offering it for free and using the data to create aggregated (or not) intelligence tools.
Well I think it's clear that Apple will keep M1 to themselves. But I would imagine other vendors will come out with Arm offerings to compete.

I agree a truly open-source option would be desirable.
I don't know Xi's intentions, but there is a lot of rhetoric from him about restoring China's 'natural place' as the world's leader as viewed through hundreds of years ago.
> Cutting them off from human contact in sterile bubbles inflicts terrible psychological harm.

Which is exactly what society did for more than a year. Even assisted living places were cut off from outside visitors. It’s cruel and inhumane.
People do mock other people for being Christian or for a political belief. Nothing has changed but the bullies are now using the power of social media and the press to amply that bullying. The bullying continues to employers or schools, groups, friends.

Same as it ever was.
It would at least filter out the social science experiments where results on 30 college students is "significant" at p=.04 (and it's too expensive to recruit 3000 of them to force significance).
Uh... is that how you think people understand non-native languages? 'Cause it's not.

If you are still at the point of translating in your head, you are not a competent fluent listener. Someone who is fully competent in Latin won't do that.
Ah, sorry I misunderstood. I totally agree with you, I live in Germany so I know perfectly well how superior the ATO and MyGov services are compared to my local Finanzamt
Hm - that's about 3.5x what it is now. Does that mean everybody else should be making 3.5x what they're making now, or does this just apply to the lowest earners?
I think the fact that we are discussing this on a social platform served over the internet, the good parts haven’t been overlooked.
I have a mechanical watch which is similar.
Is there a modular audio environment like vcv/reaktor/max, where I could plug stuff together by typing text, instrad of mousing pips? I honestly tried to get into pd, but it felt like typing book using the character map.
> modern messaging apps wouldn’t work with the single interface nowadays

The notification system on my phone already lets me reply. All I need is to be able to see text, emoji reactions, and a thumbnail of any photos. It's extremely reasonable for any advanced features to require me clicking the message and opening it in the app.
This is just begging the question. How do you know wage changes equal changes in productivity?
Looking at the processors behind the watch, it seems like Snapdragon 4100+ is the latest and greatest for Android [1].

I've been using a TicWatch Pro 3 and I'm pretty happy with it, although I'm not a "smartwatch poweruser", if there's such thing.

1: https://www.smartwatchseries.com/a-list-of-snapdragon-4100-s...
Most companies starting even seed closer to $10 million cap these days. But minimum investment can be as low as $1k on angellist syndicated deals. so for a 100k, you could do a 100 deals… if just for fun. Though it is time consuming, and I agree with most of the article. But I enjoy it, and am good at it, so I do it.
Have you ever been a teen? When I was a teenager when my parents told me to stay away from something, I would absolutely check it out.
> [...] their pay has flatlined, or even declined when factoring in inflation [...]

Neither #1 NOR #2 are happening, what is instead happening is #3

> [...] increased inequality with most gains going to people at the top [...]
Tia raises $100M to fix women's health
I wrote an app which used JNI to call into C++ code. I ended up refactoring it to spawn subprocesses written in C++, and communicate with them via RPC. Not because JNI was difficult, but because errors in the C++ can take down the whole app otherwise. All the performance and ergonomics improvements in the world wouldn't persuade me to give up that safety barrier.

Unless i rewrite the native parts in Rust, of course :).
The critique is that much of the investor class has chosen:

3. Pay yourself more.
If you prefer digital notes, the iPad is by far the best way to take handwritten notes imo. I wish there were comparable Android experiences, but nothing really comes close. Some of those e-ink tablets look sorta neat though.
This makes Alpine interesting for containers. Docker makes it so hard to run systemd.
But do I get to keep my sense of smell?
>the employers would simply be glad to pay them based on their productivity

Based on...? What employer do you know of that just willingly offers employees raises for no reason other than "you're producing more for the company so here's some free cash"? The only role I'm aware of at most companies that directly ties your output to your income is sales, and even that can be sketchy depending on where you work and how transparent they are with the financials.

Most publicly traded company's goals are to pay you as little as possible to retain you.
Suppose the likelihood it missclassified a ball is significantly different from zero, but not yet known precisely.

If you use a model that doesn't ask you to think about this likelihood at all, you will get the same result as if you had used bayes and consciously chose to approximate the likelihood of misclassification as zero.

You may get slightly better results if you have a reasonnable estimate of that probability, but you will get no worse if you just tell Bayes zero.

It feels like you're criticizing the model for asking hard questions.

I feel like explicitely not knowing an answer is always a small step ahead of not considering the question.
The phrase "walk around on donuts" has one Google result and it's this thread.
Second language speakers do not translate words in their head. (In fact, if asked to do so, I often have trouble rendering English sentences in my native tongue, even though I understand them just fine.)
Norm MacDonald was pretty much the gold standard for comedy for me. Unlike my other comedic hero, Dana Carvey, he wasn't good at impressions -- his Bob Dole was pretty much just Norm speaking as if his pronouns were Bob Dole/Bob Dole -- but he could take literally anything and make it funny. Even if a joke failed to land, he would just "do the Norm thing" for a couple seconds and everybody would laugh. The Norm thing is like the Christopher Walken thing -- it's a person's ineffable talent of being that person.

To this day I still speak of my "inner Norm MacDonald voice", which kicks in when I observe something hilariously absurd. Like when Jeff Bezos launched his evocatively-shaped rocket, what Dennis Miller called the "Pynchonesque cock rants" practically write themselves -- in Norm's voice in my head.
> If you had SLIGHTLY below 100% reliability in Factorio, the game would be a terrible grind limited to small factories.

I'd argue you do have <100% reliability in Factorio, and much of the game is in increasing the 9s.

Biters can wreck havok on your base. Miners contaminate your belts with the wrong types of ore, if you weren't paying enough attention near overlapping fields. Misplaced inserters may mis-feed your assemblers, reducing efficiency or leaving outright nonfunctional buildings. Misclicks can cripple large swaths of your previously working factory, ruining plenty of speedruns if they go uncaught. For later game megabase situations, you must deal with limited lifetimes as mining locations dry up, requiring you to overhaul existing systems with new routes of resources into them. As inputs are split and redirected, existing manufacturing can choke and sputter when they end up starved of resources. Letting your power plants starve of fuel can result in a small crisis! Electric miners mining coal, refineries turning oil into solid fuel, electric inserters fueling the boilers, water pumps providing the water to said boilers - these things all take power, and jump starting these after a power outage takes time you might not have if under active attack if your laser turrets are all offline as well.

But you have means of remediating much of this unreliability. Emergency fuel and water stockpiles, configuring priorities such that fuel for power is prioritized ahead of your fancy new iron smelting setup, programmable alerts for when input stockpiles run low, ammo-turrets that work without power, burner inserters for your power production's critical path will bootstrap themselves after an outage, roboports that replace biter-attacked defenses.

Your first smelting setup in Factorio will likely be a hand-fed burner miner and furnace, taking at most 50 coal. This will run out of power in minutes. Then you might use inserters to add a coal buffer. Then a belt of coal, so you don't need to constantly refill the coal buffer. Then a rail station, so you don't need to constantly hand-route entirely new coal and ore mining patches. Then you'll use blueprints and bots to automate much of constructing your new inputs. If you're really crazy, you'll experiment with automating the usage of those blueprints to build self-expanding bases...
> Do you think that companies pay based on productivity, or based on the minimum amount they need to pay in order to attract workers?

It's both. Productivity has a very direct effect on the minimum amount they need to attract workers. If a low skilled worker can produce 100$ an hour of value, and you're paying them 10$ and hour, someone else will very quickly be willing to pay them 11$, or 12$, etc. Suddenly, you have to pay several times what you did before in order to keep your employees or attract new ones.

> If the former, do you believe that if a remote worker moves from NYC to Idaho, and their employer cuts their pay by 25%, it is because their productivity has dropped by 25%? Or because their employer knows they can get away with paying them less in an area with lower cost of living / less high paying jobs?

Same as the other answer. In NYC there are more companies competing for your employee, so you have to pay more to keep them. Competition in the middle of nowhere is restricted more so than in the middle of NYC.
This website is horribly broken. Scrolling down seems to work well-ish, but scrolling back up breaks everything and my eyes are left dazed and confused.
There are scalable bits of Education - courses, books, practice questions (look at leetcode), and lectures. I think that is why a lot of ed-tech fails. Information really does want to be free, and anything that can be broadcast is usually better free. Youtube has seen an influx of high quality content IMO.

There are also non-scalable parts - access to expert, prestige, and all the bits you've mentioned. I think that's probably where the future of ed-tech is going.
> when you have an iPhone in your pocket?

... because I don't.

You're so convinced that you have all the answers, and that everyone else will eventually catch up with your brilliance. You're pretty narrow minded.
It's been interesting watching how "conspiracy theories" turns into mainstream news about 6 months later. The years of 2020 and 2021 has been absolutely insane.
I don't know about your (2) argument. There's a lot of college towns even today that don't have gay bars. I've lived in Boulder, CO (CU Boulder) and Athens, GA (UGA) and neither really have a gay bar.

In the 1980s? Only the major metros really.
That is exactly what capitalism is about. Prices being driven by supply and demand. Companies certainly try to pay the minimum they can get away with, just like workers look for jobs that pay them the maximum they can find. Companies are not generous (although some claim they are), and workers aren't either. But the competition drives the prices and, in the case of jobs, the salaries. If you are productive, you'll be in demand, and you'll be paid handsomely. If you are productive but live in communist Soviet Union, you'll get very close to whatever else gets in a similar job.