skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we are working on it (www.diamontech.de) but our device has still the size of a shoebox. I don't think there is a device in a smaller form factor out there that can measure glucose non-invasively (at least with a decent accuracy).
What are the differences from perforce's time-lapse view? Or is it incomparable?
Jeremy Campbell's The Grammatical Man would like a word with you on Lovelace actual documented contributions.
>the proliferation and promotion of medical misinformation.

I can see that working both ways. The anti-vax folks are never going to believe the 'get vaccinated or you'll die' sort of rhetoric. Better to use real numbers. There's been enough time and cases to make good estimates.

Do masks work very well? What kinds of masks? Where do people actually get COVID (home? bars? schools? hiking in the forest?). What are the actual results from non-vax drugs or treatments? How long are the vaccinations likely to be useful? Did early large-scale vaccination simply cause forced evolution of variants?

There's a shroud of mystery throughout this situation with a need by some people to simply shout down to the masses. None of this is that complicated and medical leadership is some mixture of secretive and incompetent, and I'm not sure what the strongest tendency is.
Milk enabled massive steppe migration
Human-Centricity and the Limits of AI
FTA: “Each run solves 11 planning problems with OptaPlanner, such as employee rostering, school timetabling and cloud optimization.”

How is that “just GC times”?
Yeah, except that's not a real choice. That's pretending the issue does not exist and pretending that you can avoid privacy issues with a piecemeal choice. But you can't, of course. Cobbling together your own solution doesn't obscure the fact that you will almost inevitably end up with something that respects your privacy much less, which was my original point.
I'm going to be entirely honest, this seems like a complete waste of time for everyone involved. The point of writing is to communicate, and I don't see how the position of punctuation in relation to quotation marks affects the understanding of the communication to the reader. Just pick one and stick with it.
yeah sure. but this isn't a breathless soundbite. surely there must be room for _actually_ trying to come up with a reasonable picture given what's known and all the ambiguities.

this report seems quite consistent with the general consensus about both the magnitude of temperature change and the impact on systems of importance (i.e. agriculture).

it would probably be more relevant to explain why you think this in particular is such a misleading exaggeration - you seem to take that as axiomatic.

there have certainly been cases in the past where people (even environmentalists) have said 'hey, hey, wait this is a problem' and it was in fact a problem. why is this not one of those cases?
nobody is saying that NO companies should be run that way. I have a lot of respect for worker co-ops. But to say that ALL companies should be run that way is silly. Look at the companies where co-ops are successful: They have either 1) very predictable revenue streams or 2) are in an enterprise where there are almost no material costs (costs are entirely personnel or upkeep/personnel-infra costs).

In this universe are often high-capital-expenditure endeavours. You WANT the wealthy to take the risk on those, and not the workers.

For example, a co-op of 20 needs a million dollars to create a factory to build widget X. Where does this co-op get the money from?

What happens when widget X fails? Are the losses evenly distributed among the co-op members?

What co-op-ing everything winds up doing, in effect, is either 1) socializing the losses of adventures of politically-connected "wantrepreneurs" who are adept at converting political capital, or 2) making participating in risky ventures only accessible to the economically wealthy.

So in the long run enforcing it is likely to cause more economic disparity, not less.
I'm surprised by the counter arguments here to publishing pay bands. It seems most folks are assuming transparency would mean Norway-style "here is each person's compensation" rather than a salary / compensation band (as Colorado does).

The per-level data from levels.fyi being publicly available has been great for workers. Expanding that data to more roles and more companies would be strictly better (for employees) than the current system.
"Believe the science" vs. "understand the process". The former merely uses the language of science to gain legitimacy.
I officially had enough internet for today.
Watch Boeing's Drone Tanker Refuel US Navy F-35C for the First Time
I am somewhat interested in reading about plane crashes and such. Are there any books/resources you can recommend to me?
There is no moral reason that state taxes should be deducted from federal taxes.
Any sort of bureaucratically enforced 'fairness' is going to be good for a certain type of person, and bad for another type of person.
It will disincentivize high performance, for better or worse.
I have a project that is currently funded by ngi and it has nothing to do with Blockchain...
So any business that accepts cash generates suspicion? I think not.

The reporting you are referring to only relates to bank transactions. In the US, When a business deposits their cash receipts, the bank generates a report. There is no obligation on the business (e.g.a car dealership that sells a car for $100k in cash has no incremental reporting burden)

More importantly - because x can be used in the commission of y crime, but the vast majority of the use of x is in perfectly normal/legal use, one should not cast suspicion on the use of x or reverse the burden of proof on for using x.
Are there any good books on using debuggers effectively?
If this works in CI with Cypress then it’s a game changer. No more chasing down flaky tests that pass locally.

Genuinely excited!
Last names in many places evolved from that same need to disambiguate between people though. Attach some marker of connection to a place (common in Finland, e.g. Joensuu meaning "mouth of river"), profession (common in Germany and UK, e.g. Müller, Cooper, meaning mill worker and barrelmaker), lineage (common in Iceland, e.g. Grímsson meaning "son of Grímur"), or some other culturally relevant characteristic.

Nowadays the meanings of our last names have largely disappeared, so you have countless Coopers who have never touched a barrel in their lives, whose children will be called Cooper also, despite that. I think it's a little sad that so much of what people call us is semantically equivalent to a random UUID with tons of namespace collision. With that in mind, I'd say "da Vinci" is more a last name than most of us have.
Also, configure sshd to use blacklistd:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/firewalls/#firewa...
"H3 is a geospatial indexing system that partitions the world into hexagonal cells."

So, which world? or more specifically which ellipsoid? or is that the hexagons map over the geoid? (in turn, which geoid?)
> Don't you mean option seller/writer? If you buy an option (and therefore are an owner), you have the right but not the obligation to exercise it.

No, meant the buyer, alot of professionals want their exposure to be hedged out so they don't want to end up owning any shares after expiry so they need to be short shares for any calls that will end up in the money. So as an option pins the underlier close to the strike price the option holder ends up buy/selling to hedge out their delta exposure to zero.

> Right, but that's not any different than any other sort of leverage? eg. buying stocks on margin to drive up the price.

Not really,

The tail waiving the dog effect occurs when a derivative instrument that is priced off an underlier actually ends up moving the underlier itself.

Leverage is a different animal. If you lever up 2x you're just buying twice as much. When you unwind you you sell 2x as much. Its still the underlying moving itself and not being affected by any other instrument.
No one should care about single core performance these days. It just feels so deceptive. Workloads that are heavy are usually parallelized to use the chip fully. If performance is important, the portability and power efficiency aspect also becomes a bit contrived.

In broad strokes, a computationally heavy task that would be set up during the evening and be ready the next morning on a high end desktop wouldn't be ready on an M1 for a week.
I'm not sure that your conclusion follows. Google has levels and pay bands per level (you can see sampled data of it on levels.fyi). There are many problems with the promotion process at Google, but the malaise you describe isn't one of them.
>These are not trivial matters that we should quickly forgive them over.

Just imagine the fun you'll have when you start kicking them out of helicopters. The endorphin rush should be incredible.
Blog post here: https://eng.uber.com/h3/
>>I'm surprised to hear about comp sci students who feel their experience was low value

I guess I could be more explicit; I meant to say that, for 5 years of my life invested, for X amount of money invested, for the effort and work and given my inherent and specific desire to learn, it was an extremely inefficient method of learning. All throughout my years, I always had the feeling that learning was not the primary priority for most of the students, teaching was not the primary priority for most of the professors, and instilling knowledge was not the primary priority for most of the staff.

They tell me that this changes post-grad; I cannot speak for that. But I've attended University of Manitoba and University of Toronto, and that was my personal experience. It is shared by several of my best friends who are also in the IT industry (I was a sysadmin, one is Java developer, one is a VMWare architect - all boring Enterprise Stuff compared to HN interests, but still a good cross section)

I enjoyed all the learning and knowledge that I gained in university and put high value on it! I think we agree on that 100%.

But I guess what I'm calling for is a reform (which I think is very much happening:) to increase the efficiency and focus on that learning and knowledge.
Dumb question... so how do I actually use this?
It reminds me how Elasticsearch changed their default index shards number form 15 to 5.

Overall, I feel like decent software that is used by millions of devs can afford being "a bit hard" in the quick start/first interaction stages.

Look at how many articles there're about intro to something, and how many about real/production cases. People leave default configs, so I find it wise to make those restricted.

Can't even imagine how many products are running with software on the default settings that are not supposed to be used in real life setups
Thank you, data science truly is the sexiest field of the 21st century.
Wow, thanks for the link. Really interesting story, fascinating to think about what could have been if she hadn't died so young.
Actually, it wouldn't need to be that long. The circumference of the moon is 40k kilometres, so assuming the site was in the center of the far side (though there's no reason it needs to be), that would put it at ~10,000 km from sight of the earth.

That's shorter than some transatlantic cables. I reckon it would be doable.
Every company is looking for the cheapest person who can fill the role. The question is how skilled does the applicant have to be to be accepted.
Replay employee here. Personally, I'm excited to see maintainers slowly phase out "Please include steps to reproduce" in issues, and replace it with "Can you make a replay"?

Partly because I want to see the product do well, but also selfishly as an engineer, because we've been dogfooding replay and it's made squashing bugs 10x easier. Having somebody attach a replay to an issue makes that issue immediately better than an expertly-written one, which as an engineer, I can start debugging in seconds with minimal back-and-forth.
A few anecdotes of the sort of:

- The eldest olympian athlete at 39,5 winning a medal for the US being vegan?

- The world record setting strong man Patrik Baboumian being vegan?

- The football team from Tennessee (IIRC) reaching the playoffs for the first time in 14 years (IIRC) after round 10 of their defensive players went vegan?

It was pretty convincing to me because it was not presented with a "These poor animals" moralistic tone. But by a guy, whose job is to train soldiers in deadly hand-to-hand combat. He injured both his knees and stumbled over a study that concluded that a vegan diet might speed up his recovery. He actually tried it, and the results are pretty impressive IMHO.
Somewhere some system depends on CSV files in Lotus 1-2-3 format transferred over a non 8-bit safe proprietary UUCP variant.
I don't see the word "lazy" in the post you're responding to. They describe a lazy compensation scheme, though - a PhD apparently automatically gets more comp, regardless of on the job performance.
>Which is another argument for scrapping the opinion section of every newspaper, it confuses people.

At this point, I'd say that that's the entire newspaper. They operate in the same ad space as Facebook.
(Replay engineer): We're big fans of RR and pernosco, I love to see those tools get their due. Replay is also designed to support backend programs. We [support Node](https://github.com/RecordReplay/node) today with more runtimes coming soon.
I don't know, and it's a fair point; I think I should have just summarised the follow-up article as "here's some follow-up by the authors for context"
Anecdotally, I've seen far more polemic and vitriolic posts on so-called alt-tech social media sites compared to even Twitter and Facebook, which are horrendous in this regard. Sites like Gab, Voat, Ruqqus, etc seem to be filled with the absolute most toxic, angry, and hateful discourse imaginable.

I've noticed sites that tend to be for something other than "just chatting" tend to do better: many hobby specific forums, HN, hobbyist subreddits, etc. all seem to do better discourse-wise when focused on something specific, but I'm not quite sure why that'd be the case.
The result of the tax you are suggesting almost already exists. As the 5 floor town house gets to a price tag of 10mil the owner realises that it is easier to find 5 people who will pay 2mil for a 1 floor appartment than one person who wants a 10mil house.

This works for a while, but we are now at a point where 100's of prime location studio appartments are built and the price tag is the best part of $1mil. Here we hit the mismatch of affordability and function - if you have a mil for a property, you probably dont want a studio appartment. If you do want a studio appartment in central city, you probably only have 1/2 the money you need (if you are lucky).

The only real function of a land tax would be to depreciate the present value of the land by the future libaility of those taxes. In theory this just changes the cash flows, but also might have a dampening effect on growth which would be desireable / undesirable.
Hey David! This should be fixed now
Naively I would assume that one risk might be the seat itself causing you damage upon impact. At those speeds could there be a risk of the entire seat coming apart on impact and impaling you with metal shards?
I asked about this (whether it could be done as a browser extension) and the answer I was given was that the browser was required because they do things like hook syscalls and other close-to-the-metal stuff

From: https://www.notion.so/How-Replay-works-cc65abf5eb11443586abb...

So if you can’t capture API calls directly, what do you do? You drop down one level and record the browser system calls. This probably sounds like a terrible idea. We started off with a simple 3 line JS program with one API call and one clock and instead of just recording these two calls, we’re now recording a program with millions of lines of C++ and the complexity of an Operating System. Yep! It’s crazy, but works, and it’s pretty awesome.

So the nice thing about system calls is there are not too many of them and they don’t change that often. This means that instead of recording an API call directly, we can record the network engine’s system calls to open socket and process packets from the server. And by recording at this level, it’s possible to replay the website exactly as it ran before, with the same performance characteristics and everything else. It’s a little bit like putting your browser into “the Matrix” and tricking it into believing everything is normal, when in fact it is just running in a simulation.
light years behind Google Video Coding Unit (VCU) but still interesting! to be fair, VCU i don't think does realtime, so, some very different challenges. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28302975

i'd love a quality comparison. GPUs often have hardware encoders, but my understanding is that it's super super common for video-game streamers to have a second box, doing CPU encoding, which produces much better output for the same bitrate.

to come back around to realtime vs batch, xilinx alveo u30 vs google vcu, i've always wanted to know how much if any extra latency CPU encoding adds versus GPU encoding. does moving from on-system CPU encoding to having a separate CPU encoder box add signficiantly more?
Agreed. The mainstream needs a single or at least smaller list of heroes that represent a larger effort. Turing is especially suited for this given the oppression he suffered for his sexual orientation combined with the impact of lives saved in WWII as a result of his work.
I'm not at all talking about knowing the latest tech when I say your skills may suffer. I'm just saying that in my experience, sometimes in a chill job your fundamentals as a developer can suffer. You can literally get worse at programming if you aren't challenged.

However, if you are an internally motivated and driven person, you can take that extra time and energy you get from the chill job and learn all kinds of things and become a much better engineer. The situation is whatever you make of it.
Implementation by Wishful Thinking
(Replay employee): Thanks for the feedback and so glad to hear you're excited about Replay! Our focus right now is getting Replay into more people's workflows so we can learn and improve the product.

The great thing about the individual plan is that you have access to the complete feature set of recording and replaying and can invite collaborators to work with others.

I'd encourage you to jump in, start using the product and sharing feedback with us and that'll help Replay immensely.
I agree with you on that note. We do need to know which people perpetrated the horrific acts and for what justifications they had at the time - if only to ensure it doesn't happen again, no matter what race.
I ended up in the same place, by a different route.

Because I spend too much time on HN, I was convinced that the correct answer was to delete my FB account. So I did.

But I really missed out on some family interactions, and after about a year I caved and created a new account. But I have been super careful about who is allowed to be my friend on FB. And for the few people I care about who still insist on posting political nonsense, I muted them. My feed on Facebook is basically inert, I only see posts about family things, pictures of grandkids, that kind of stuff. No politics at all. I'm glad to have it back.

I am more careful now to appreciate that HN commenters lean heavily toward the extremes, and do more due diligence in my own decision making to ensure I'm being sensible, not reactionary, when I follow advice that originates here.
The recipient of the accept mark gets 15. It's 2 for the awarder.
Optaplanner is very much not the type of workload that would benefit from Shenandoah, which is optimized for reduced pause times and low latency. Optaplanner's most useful solvers do lots of garbage collection, so throughput considerations dominate significantly over latency concerns. You'd use G1, ZGC, or Shenandoah for web apis or trading platforms, but not for a computation heavy solver that is expected to not produce useful results for minutes or hours.
Is anyone else finding this WSJ reporting a bit overwrought? They got access to some internal documents and decided to make hay while the sun shines, but most of it is frankly not very interesting. WSJ pretty clearly have an axe to grind and are building a narrative in an unbalanced way.
On the open calls page [1] it seems that the only open fund in the context of a web browser is the one related to search and discovery.

All the other ones specifically mention blockchain based technologies.

Or did your project get funded by NLNet directly via another fund?

[1] https://www.ngi.eu/opencalls/
Many online games have a season model now, and SO at least partially gamifies developer Q&A, so this tracks.
I've always been surprised that Facebook did not try to spin out Events like they did with Messenger.

Facebook Events is an incredible product.
Ensure lead bricks are used to build the said room.
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I manage data infrastructure. Recently, I found I don’t know how to name What we do as many the names are marketing and embarrassing BuzzWords.

All we need is a database that can do analytical queries (and ideally OLTP) and can scale. We don’t need lakes, ponds, swamps, lake houses, sparks, …

Big Query got it right.
Yes, in the sections under Intro > Comparisons
There’s gifs of hexagons on a planet you can search but you can’t cover a sphere with just hexagons. Even so, I imagine the poles are irrelevant to Uber
I absolutely disable sshd on machines where I never need to login remotely like my laptops. My servers of course run sshd.
Facebook is following the same playbook that a lot of mobile games are doing. They don't really care about user attrition because most users are low-value. If you're just checking Facebook once or twice a day, you're probably not worth the server time cost to Facebook. What they really are trying to do is target high-engagement users ("whales" in mobile game developer slang) and make the service more addictive for them.
As someone said to me recently, Schmidhuber may have a few points about lack of credit regarding his work but him having invented everything to do with modern NNs is a wild claim and regardless he has cemented himself as a boor and continues to double down. This is just another example of that doubling down.
the typical consumer and business doesnt give much shit about more than their bottom line and nimby. if half the amazon rainforest gets clearcut for palm oil farming, most people in this generation wont be affected by it, why would they stop buying products made with palm oil? they won't.

until everyone's houses start burning down or flooding due to climate change, or they see empty grocery stores, no one will care/act. at that point it is far too late to _start_ making changes. people with the means to make lifestyle changes are far too removed from the externalities and timescales to affect their behavior.
>“We tend to think that there are lots of contextual aspects that affect the way we move, such as the transportation system, the morphology of a given place, and socioeconomic aspects. This is true to some extent, but what this shows is that there are some robust laws that apply everywhere.”

I'm no computational social scientist, but this analysis doesn't make sense. In fact it would seem to me that if the study took those variables into account the model would become more predictive. It's idealizing the analysis.