skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the company that identified less "diverse" workforces as being at greater risk of unionization.

Everything a corporation like this does is to further its own wealth and power. Anything that may appear to align with your favorite political or social issue, or that is ostensibly said to be for the greater good or to help others is only by coincidence, or because that is estimated to further the primary goal.

That doesn't mean corporatoins are evil, or bad, or good. Corporations are a tool. Amazon cares about communities of color in much the same way as a hammer cares about communities of color.
Why would they talk about the US when they cite Euros as the currency?
TIL. Thanks for the info! That does seem like a nice alternative to Spotify/Apple Music.
We found in Bluey a lot of what we were looking for and expected in Daniel Tiger.

Especially the "talking to kids in a helpful way" aspect.

They're obviously not cut from the same template or are even necessarily trying to be the same thing.

The kids enjoy both, and both are great shows, but affecting learned/emulated behavior (for both the kids and us with better parenting) is much more apparent with Bluey.
yeah but if your "comprehensive spec" is neither comprehensive or even accurate, how is your software working any better? If "working" means "what the spec says" instead of "what the customer/stakeholder wanted" then your "working" software isn't working.

Providing the customer with a working prototype to criticise often (always) allows them to refine their vision of what they wanted and helps them communicate what they need. It's always easier to criticise something than create - saying "the interaction around X doesn't feel right, can we make it cornflower blue?" is a lot easier than "the X interaction must be three shades of grey off cornflower blue" in a spec document.

That's been my experience, anyway. Insisting on a comprehensive spec at the start has always been more effort than its worth, because no-one knows what they actually want at the start.
Yes, of course there's now malware for Windows Subsystem for Linux
”The truly high-performing people, who are passionate about their craft are very likely to move to companies that are at the at the top of XYZ, where XYZ is the topic within software engineering that they're especially passionate about, pay well, etc.”

Is there a source for this claim?

How likely are they to move exactly, and what motivates the non-movers to stay?
This is SOP for the FBI. They've also gotten caught leaving a CSAM distribution network running after gaining control of it, for the same reason.
The difference is that it's basically impossible to take control of a fab the same way you can for an oil well. No matter your military advantage, the people you're trying to take the fab from will just destroy it, and odds are good that you can't rebuild it yourself. You may as well skip the war altogether and begin researching how to build your own fabs since you need to do that anyway.
True confidence in ones beliefs derives from a willingness to expose those beliefs to challenge. When no one is willing to expose their beliefs to challenge (and this is manifestly true for any belief which is presented in podcast form), then it is necessasrily the case the the confidence in those beliefs is false. The problem is that basically all beliefs that people consume are consumed from bad faith persuasive essays with single authors.

In the regime of persuasive essays, the winners are decided much more capriciously. Why do people follow Joe Rogan? I can only speculate, but I believe that the following effects contribute significantly:

1) Joe expresses challenges to mainstream beliefs that are commonly wondered, but infrequently asked. These challenges have high heuristic weight. However infrequently these beliefs are asked, they are answered less frequently. There are lots of questions that people are afraid to ask which have sophisticated answers. Furthermore, and I can't stress this enough, some of these beliefs are wrong, and the reason that challenges are socially unacceptable is because of how much we want the belief to be true.

2) Joe has a mock adversarial style. Interviews feel like arguments, but are actually more analogous to a con-artists relationship with a shill. Unfortunately for humanity, we are very bad at recognizing the difference between an interview and an argument. Even in the rare event that Rogan challenges his interviewee in good faith, the creative mind behind the challenge is still merely one man, and that man is Joe Rogan, to boot. Not the most seasoned skeptic to have walked the earth by a long shot. The man claims to believe in Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid...

3) Joe is anti-establishment. I don't think this is a bad thing, I happen to be fairly anti-establishment. But anti-establishment beliefs do not have the kind of readily accessible counterexamples that establishment beliefs have. I can't point to the cities of tents for the homeless as an argument against basic income like I can for <current policy>. If you make an obscure anti-establishment claim, there is not likely to be a wealth of available counterarguments for the people listening to draw on.

4) The author's point. Joe at least claims to subscribe to a different regime. Where free thought and argument prevail over censorship and restricted platforms. I think that, like most people privileged with large, restrictive platforms, Joe probably wouldn't believe this is he knew that it meant opening his podcast to in-line commentary, but I think he believes he believe it, and that he claims to believe it is probably enough for most people.
>> China's manufacturing economy AND its military are entirely dependent on foreign-sourced semiconductors

> Everyone else's military is also.

Great. So if we are losing a war anyway, let's hit the enemy very hard by destroying the semiconductor industry.

Same tactic as some nuclear powers' doctrine, “if our country is going to be destroyed, let the world end too".
That is happening, but it is also both a function of a crumbling system and a bit of desperation of the system to hire people, whether they are necessary or not. The system does not really care about the drug use as much as it cares about whether whatever the factor, you can or cannot be manipulated because of it. The caveat of that being though that the system used to function on that basis, something that I am increasingly witnessing is no longer the case. What we are really living through right now is a kind of civilizational event horizon where, e.g., one society/culture has no remaining knowledge of what something really was for or how it was really used or what systems created it, even as they still use or worship it or perform certain rituals simply out of repetition and custom.

A rather good example of this process is the whole "space race" where the Germans pioneered space travel technology, which ended in a kind of collapse of the whole knowledge base to the point that the USA was hitching a ride on Russian rockets just to get to an aging space station, and where space travel had to essentially be rediscovered by SpaceX, etc. I don't think people quite understand what happened in that 1955-2010 period where the "advanced society" of today stumbled upon the ancient technology of the 1955-1960s when men with straight edges and graphing paper put men on the moon and brought them back home and couldn't figure out how exactly they did it … something that has still not been replicated.
Oil is a natural resource, its underground. It survives a war

Fabs are a human resource, if you kill their staff or destroy them, their value is $0
A lot of the time when I’m doing something unpleasant but necessary, I say “You’re welcome, future me!”. And now and then when I realize I’m doing something super-easily because of the hard work of past me, I say “thanks, past me!”.
> Analog computers like this are virtually useless unless you have some particularly applied use-case for them. I'd be interested to hear some user testimony if anyone owns one of these!

You've already highlighted a clear use-case. The Neutron is a semi-modular analogue synth. The whole modular-synth scene is based on this kind of analogue computing, when I look over at my eurorack modules, I have:

* Function generators

* Gates

* AND/ OR / NOR / XOR / NAND / XNOR

* Summing

* Multipliers

* Comparitors (generate a signal based on conditions)

* And more!

That pretty much covers everything in 'The Analog Thing' computer.
> the author kindly pointed out that there are no papers published up to that point that prove deep learning (neural networks) can perform better than classical statistics.

Early in my career I moved to Silicon Valley to work for a large company. The project was a machine learning project. I was taking models defined in XML, grabbing data from a few different databases, and running it through a machine learning engine written in-house.

After a year and a half, it came out that our machine-learning-based system couldn't beat the current system that used normal statistics.

What rubbed me the wrong way was that the managers brought someone else in to run the data, manually, through the machine learning algorithm. More specifically, what bothered me was that we didn't attempt this kind of experiment early in the project. It felt like I was hired to work on a "solution in search of a problem."

Career lesson: Ask a lot of questions early in a project's life. If you're working on something that uses machine learning, ask what system it's replacing, and make sure that someone (or you) runs it manually before spending the time to automate.
Any individual McDonald's restaurant is just as profitable in Denmark as in any other nation. There are just a lot few McDonald's in Denmark (89), which ensures high demand at each restaurant, so each one has sufficient cash flow to support Denmark's wages. Denmark's relatively high tech economy and highly educated workforce has historically meant that they do not need to worry about creating a lot of lower skill jobs, like those found in McDonald's.

>The actual wage is determined by workers' leverage

Yes, and the easiest way to increase worker's leverage is to restrict the supply of new workers. The most powerful unions are the ones that are able to do so to the greatest extent. SAG-AFTRA for example, restricts union eligibility to those who star in a "union position", but also forces productions to give most of the union positions to union members. Likewise, with Denmark, you're seeing increasing anti-immigrant sentiment.
He’s lucky he did this in HK. If he was in mainland then he’d be found with “Picking quarrels and provoking trouble”
I often see (without hearing) helicopters in the downtown brooklyn area. If this aircraft flies above ~600 feet, noise should be little to no concern.
A sunk cost fallacy is only applicable if the assumption is the venture would result in failure.

Which is even more damning of Microsoft / Google management.
The next few decades will determine the impact of climate change. It doesn't seem like a particularly hard problem to solve: embrace solar and nuclear power ASAP globally, but nothing is easy when people get involved. But even China seems to have read the memo now. But also, if someone even blurts out "clean coal" point and laugh.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/world/asia/china-coal.htm...
True, but that doesn’t change the calculus. You’d expect a policy to set the required standard, and you’d expect a review process to identify major deviations.
This made my day, after watching the assembly video:

«You assambled all 19 before testing first one?»

«….Yes. I am not a smart. -_-*»

When you are in the production flow, it is hard to stop for testing.. Good to see it’s not just me that can make this kind of mistake.
The VTOL concept for air taxis is silly; this is just a 3d rendering for a press release, and battery energy density just isn't there yet for them to be useful.

But electric flight is without a doubt going to revolutionize commuter airlines. With an electric powertrain, you get rid of the vast majority of costs associated with flying which are the intensive maintenance and overhaul schedules required for turboprop/turbofan engines. You can then economically fly small traditional aircraft with electric powertrains carrying ~10 passengers up to 250 miles at 200mph with current battery tech, and takeoff/land from tiny municipal airports with no need for TSA. At that point flying becomes like hopping on a bus, and just as cheap. Living within 250 miles of a metro area and commuting every day will be a nonissue. Something like the Eviation Alice [0] is far more likely to be the future than any of these VTOL concepts.

[0] https://www.eviation.co/
For those interested to learn more about Ivermectin, watch JRE#1671 podcast episode. Lots of interesting information covered about the drug by 2 biologists. It may change your views on this for the better, or the worse.
From the article you're commenting on:

"We recognize that this is a change to long-accepted practice and is substantially more rigorous than the standards that are typically currently applied"

Meta-analyses generally follow certain pre-established standards. That's the whole point of such studies.

It's one thing to claim that authors of a particular meta-study broke the standards. This is not being claimed here. It's an entirely different thing to claim that the standards themselves are broken and need to be changed generally. This is a huge claim that casts doubt on tons of prior research.

Maybe we do need more rigorous rules for meta-analysis. However, if that's the case, it should be true for all research of this type, not just papers examining "interventions for COVID-19" (as the article suggests).

Hence, my take on this. It's reasonable to question scientific standards if you are willing to demonstrate that they are really broken. (This was done with p-hacking, for example.) It's not reasonable to say that a specific subject in research should have different evidentiary standards because of controversy around one drug.
A motherboard + CPU is just straight up a computer.
I went in expecting hyperbole or clickbait but the author has a very sensible breakdown.

Nothing shocking, and the conclusion is really that it comes down to being a numbers game. Either renting or buying could be better financially based on a hundred different variables, some of which you know in advance and others you don't.
There are no resources on Earth that a space fairing civilization or robot would need that they couldn't get far more practically from asteroids. Earth is a gravity well, extracting resources from the planet and getting it off is way harder than just mining Kuiper belt, lots of water, minerals, metals anything they would need.
This isn't ironic, I've actually done that multiple times in a large company.
No one noticed, everyone went home happy.
How many users have been taking it in human-designed doses, given that it's not generally prescribed for COVID-19 (and therefore those who are taking it for that purpose are mostly self-medicating)?
Medical studies can't be replicated in experiments. They are almost always one-shot. That's not how medical studies (that we do meta analysis) work. It's too expensive and too complicated.
This totally misses the point that there is no where else you can get 20x leverage at < 3% interest. Even with modest appreciation, you're going to make a lot of money putting 5% down on a house.
They're computer illiterate, they're supposed to be learning
This article is a nice overview of different kinds of state and how to manage them, the code is Angular but the concepts apply to any SPA.

https://blog.nrwl.io/managing-state-in-angular-applications-...
https://archive.is/ueggZ
I am looking to do something like this as a Christmas gift for my son. However, this looks pretty labor-intensive (300 bodge wires!).

I have dabbled with arduino in the past but I am no expert with hardware.

Does anyone have suggestions of cool projects similar to this? Toy-like LED things :)

Or even a website I could browse to find similar projects (like Instructables maybe)?
New DocSend VCs Pushing Seed Startups on Biz Model, Traction, Financials
Sway user here. Agree that tiling and customization have helped my productivity.
It would be amazing if this latest memo had different wordings per group of people.
They search would be narrowed and they would have truly made an effort to track these leaks.
Reasons like these are why I switched to using virtualised Linux for most of my development, trying to run it natively on hardware works great 95%+ of the time, but that last 5% is usually tricky to fix without delving into years old mailing lists. And even if you can get things working, there's still often serious quality of life problems like the bluetooth stack randomly failing 5+ times a day
this happened to me a couple times before i switched to an external keyboard with qmk and just did the mapping in firmware
I'll conceded that I might be missing something but houses in my area cost significantly more to rent ($1.5K+/mo) than my mortgage ($1.2K) and have a ton more restrictions (pets, modifications, etc). Every house or apartment I've rented I've had to fight tooth and nail with the owner/manager to get anytime fixed (I once had water seeping out of my kitchen floor for over 2 months in an apartment, it just finally stopped, they came out multiple times and did nothing). This doesn't even start to take into account the yearly monthly rent hikes to the tune of $50-$100. One apartment complex I lived in did these rent hikes like clockwork all while removing/closing amenities left and right.

The author here seems to be making the point that "not really that much money is going to the principal in the end and even the money that does could be better invested". Maybe that's true but it ignores a ton of other upsides to owning a home IMHO.
Open Roles at Quorum
Senior Software Engineer
https://boards.greenhouse.io/quorum/jobs/3464510?gh_jid=3464510

Senior Product Designer
https://boards.greenhouse.io/quorum/jobs/3456980?gh_jid=3456980
I use story points per Sprint on a 3 Sprint moving average weighted by capacity to account for things like vacation. Works pretty well.

Of course, importantly, points cannot be directly tied to time or people will start biasing their estimates. I use "complexity" on a Fibonacci scale.

Edit: works pretty well until someone does something to effect capacity mid Sprint like making everyone work extra hours.
Sorry, my mistake on the price for the USB-C passthroughs, they are $9 along with the type-A modules. All others are $19.

I was looking at the DIY edition and the price is not included in the estimate so it is an increase in price to get any modules. Looks like you are looking at the prebuilt options and I see those do include 4 type C modules in the standard configurations and price. I think they should do the same for the DIY editions and let you remove them if you want.
No, because the turtle is concluding that it's likely false, not definitely false. There happens to be a cosmic coincidence working against the turtle, but that doesn't mean that it was bad reasoning to conclude that the cosmic coincidence was very unlikely.
The lesson of ivermectin: a lot of medical studies that go uncriticized because they're less controversial probably have problems similar to the problems of the retracted Elgazzar study and the other studies mentioned. Why else would these people think they would get away with it?
OP estimated 60hrs for placements and related work.
I agree, though there are two obvious courses of action that result from this:

1. Prevent the viewing
2. Increase the readiness

Of which I think #2 is most preferable.
That is incorrect. Good reasoning can lead to conclusions that are strictly false.

For example, when asked to be more granular, the turtle could say 'I reason that there is only a 1 in 10 chance that seafaring civilizations exist'. The existence of seafaring civilizations doesn't make the turtle wrong in this case.

If the turtle concluded that 'there can not possibly be any seafaring civilizations, because I don't see any' then you could accuse it of bad reasoning.
True but how is that relevant? The point of policy is to manage inconsistency. In this case we would expect there to be a policy that sets the required standard, and to be able to see whether these decisions match the policy or not.
Bottom of the barrel vendors will absolutely give a fuck and will cheap out without telling you.

The advantage of USB 2 is that it's so simple that it's very hard to screw it up. You pretty much have to intentionally do it if you want to create a dangerous cable. Even the shittiest cable will work with the vast majority of devices (it might slightly heat up, voltage may sag at the receiving end meaning it will charge slower, but it'll somewhat work).

USB-C is significantly more complex and requires active electronics in the cable itself in some cases, and the potential for higher voltages means a faulty/recklessly-designed cable could request higher voltage from the charger and blow up whatever's connected at the other end.
One benefit is reduced risk of extinction by the various nasty ways the grand cosmos might annihilate a local-only civilisation.

Let's consider extinction mitigation as a luxury? I posit that sooner or later, as technology improves, the relative cost of such projects will go down to a point where some group of people think it is a good idea.
I would like to see concrete reproducible evidence for this.
Hmm that is why that Huawie android fork flaw of running other mods as system allowed with hidden updates is screaming at me now.

Its way to update that mod in real time without the user knowing about it as its system allowed due it running in a separate allowed system space.
don't forget A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_A...
Dealing with Burnout During the Pandemic
Android is more desktop like than any other Mobile OS, that goes for Windows and MacOSX.

Android simply does most thing UI better. The pull down menu and notifications, the app drawer, the home screens, the settings menu layouts, etc. Sure there are some iOS UI elements that are done better, such as gestures. But really iOS shines more under the hood.

Every year iOS keeps getting more and more Android features. App Library, Pull Down menus, more customizable home screens with widgets. There are so many things Android was doing years before iOS it is crazy. Maybe oneday Apple will fix the crappy settings menu and finally make the pulldown window a full copy of android with quick settings at the top.

Using iOS is consistently more of a Torture to use than Android any day of the week.
I wish people were more suspicious of these mega cult corporations. Amazon is not doing this or anything out of some kind of warm spot in their frozen corporate hearts.

Just like when the internal Amazon emails revealed the cynical reason that Amazon, and likely all other corporations, support "diversity" is that diversity causes disunity, disorganization, and weakness among the workers that then do not unite and form unions or have any demands or unity that can create leverage over the corporate masters.

I don't know why Amazon supports pot legalization, but we know why Amazon supports diversity and it's not for reasons that their Department of Propaganda broadcasts to the masses, so it seems extremely unlikely that Amazon would have somehow had an epiphany to not be a typical psychopathic corporation.
Isn't the baseband Qualcomm code? Do you think Qualcomm allowed Xiaomi to run their own baseband on it?
Valve and Epic should sell graphics cards to keep them affordable
This is the blog post that inspired me to stop reading mass-media produced news years ago: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/10/01/the-low-informati...
Modularity isn't enough to force me back into handing over money to the literal evil that is intel

No AMD means no sale for this guy. Wasting money on Intel gear in 2021. I mean, why even bother