skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What if we told you there was a hamster who has been trading cryptocurrencies since June — and recently was doing better than Warren Buffett and the S&P 500?"

Well that's nice. Now can I see the statistical analyses?

However, I'm twitch twitch ... unsatisfied! "Then, deciding between two tunnels" - really?

I want to see a shootout between Mr Goxx, Buffett and a reasonably decent RNG. If Mr Goxx and a RNG outperform Buffett and DSnP (just made it up, D=500 in Latin, every byte counts) then there might be a fight or a lesson to learn. The lesson may be that Mr Goxx's choices are not random.

It looks like we might be looking at a lucky streak. If Mr Goxx had dumped his ante for no reward, would we be reading this story?

(No)
Is there any HTML that can be wrapped around the spacer-indents that would mark them as indented for screenreaders? If I knew more about this I’d propose that as a unified diff, so that they could apply it to their templates and solve this, but I don’t :(

(I know there’s ways to restructure it completely to do this, but I like focused and surgical changes that don’t affect anyone who doesn’t notice them. Opinions vary on that.)
Sounds like there is no good answer but a start maybe simplify your lifestyle and talk to your current employer about working 32 hours per week. Most likely they will say no and you will need to jump ship.

This is a great time to find freelance work. Your soon to be former employer maybe your first client.
I guess to get 5 seconds back it would have to many many "green success" or "red failure". Then a slow network hop would get the 5 seconds back.
Axie is simply another "success" that is enabled by unbridled speculation (or probably, Tether). It's no different to the yields in DeFi at the moment. When I first heard about the insane yields, I inquired to the person who was telling me where the yield was coming from in a world that has comparable zero or negative real yields. I heard the same, tired "disintermediation" story but when I went to actually read the solidity for these mostly EVM projects, it became clear that a huge chunk of yield was coming from earning tokens that had market value for no particularly clear reason. The yield on the actual lending is very small, but the value of the tokens you earn supplements that yield massively.

There are people starting real, large projects (OlympusDAO) that have zero understanding of markets or economics. They are technologists playing around with programmable money. I think this is insanely cool to observe, but also insanely stupid for people to put material capital (often capital they can't really afford to lose) into these experiments which are likely to fail.
Very versatile editor. Also see the just-released integration with VS Code: https://github.com/boltex/leointeg.
Lenovo have committed a similar crime with their camera shutter design that includes the red dot from the thinkpad logo, totally ignoring that a red dot/light in the context of a camera has been used to indicate a recording state for a long time. Lenovo's Camera is in the off/disabled/shuttered position when the red dot is visible.

Although of little consequence in reality, the idea that some exec thought this would help the brand blows my mind. It definitely detracts from Lenovo's image in my mind and indicates that they care more about advertising to me than good design.
> What percentage of alcoholics would say alcohol makes them feel better.

What percentage of people who drink alcohol are alcoholics?

It's an interesting comparison because the vast majority of people have no trouble moderating their consumption of alcohol and I'd argue that the same goes for social media. Yet we're so focused on the subset of social media users who are addicts that many here are convinced it's not possible to use social media without being an addict. I suspect if similar rhetoric was leveled against alcohol we'd see a strong backlash from people who enjoy alcohol responsibly, or from people who simply prefer freedom to choose their own actions.
If you don't believe the surveyed teens, then why should we have been concerned by the original reporting in WSJ which claimed (misleadingly) that teens said they didn't like using Instagram?

If 99% of teens self reported that IG helped them cope with body image issues, would you still dismiss them as not knowing what's best for themselves? Why is 60-70% so different?
I agree, but would word it differently. There is a scientific method, but it is not a set of known and universally applicable concrete steps.

The real scientific method is: collect every means you can to test and vet ideas against nature as directly, efficiently and reliably as possible. Then do those things. As you do them, keep growing and fine tuning those methods.

The only thing the "methods" of the "scientific method" have, are their purpose - eliminating bad ideas, in order to more quickly find promising ideas, and then narrow those to the most promising at any given time.

Experiments, repeatability, etc. are just some of many activities, and don't even apply to all situations where they are not practical but other methods help.
I agree that there is a lot of good to be done by curating apps but I don’t think Apple is doing a very good job of it in general or in specific regarding this.

There is plenty of garbage on the app store and while in this case I’m sure there are a ton of hangman games on iOS, at least this one if offering something the others aren’t. So it’s kind of failing to deliver on the stated premise for the rejection. Also this seems like a pretty bad justification to reject and app update. Nobody benefits from this as part of a curation aspect. The app will still be there, so it’s already cluttering things up if that’s the issue for the rejection.

I guess what really bothers me about the App Store review process is that most of the time it feels like the human aspect is ignored despite being enforced (which I think is conceptually good). If you’re going to have people actually review everything, let the people actually act as people instead of rule-detecting machines.
Why not just start a DAO, give the AI to the DAO, then have the DAO only respond to commands from the AI?
> As I said, if you have $5MM, you'll get what you get for $5MM. If you want to spend a boatload of time researching, your estimate might be closer, but that research isn't free.

Knowing how far you'll get might affect what you prioritize, no?
That recent post made me think about my support strategy as well. I guess I could call you with this question (only a 3 second wait time right now!) but I would like to add your answer to the comments.

I would like to set up office hours where I can guarantee that I will be available to take calls. How doe Mantis handle that? What if I am on a long call and several people call in? Is there a way to transition from the call to a screen share if I have a way to show a customer how to solve their problem?
> ² According to the raw unweighted data, we surveyed 1,296 teens in the US and 1,309 teens in the UK and asked them if they experienced a range of feelings or experiences in the past month ... then asked if the feeling started on Instagram

I'm not a statistician but isn't 1,296 (US teens) + 1,309 (UK teens) such a small sample size to make these conclusions with?

A quick Google shows:

> In 2019, approximately 21.05 million young people between the ages from 15 to 19 lived in the United States.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/221852/number-of-youth-a....

EDIT: Added link to US teen numbers.

EDIT 2: Thanks for the replies and further reading it's more about confidence and margin of error.
It is very fair to say that this is:

a) far too extreme of a position to be useful to anyone
b) not true in any sense of the word

Classical logic has been behind the bulk of mathematical results in the last 100 years or so. It may not be perfect, but no system is.
> The article states: ¬A is A → ⊥.

Indeed, that is what ¬A means.
"¬A" does not mean "not proven". It means that A implies a contradiction. I.e. It means not A. To have a proof of ¬A is to have a disproof of A.

"A is not proven" is not a statement in the language. You can't express it in the language. (if you want to add on some provability logic on top of intuitionistic logic, you can do that, but the basic language of intuitionistic logic does not have any way of expressing "it hasn't been proven that A".)

The "either it has been proven, or it hasn't been proven" isn't a statement made in the language, but a statement about, how to reason using the language.

"~~A" does not mean "neither proven nor disproven", it means --
-- well, it means what it says. It means not(not(A)) .

If you have a proof of A, you can use that to produce a proof of ~~A , but not the other way around.
A proof of ~~A is, a disproof of ~A, essentially saying "if it could be shown that A implied a contradiction, that implication itself would imply a contradiction".
I have wondered about that. Some jobs I think make you die from within even if they are only 9to5. One buddy of mine had a govt job and complained about it everyday… it made him toxic. He eventually left but took waaaay to long.
> we have sentinel spacecraft that can issue early warnings of CMEs providing at least 13 hours of lead time

Sadly, I think it's probably realistic to assume that the vast majority of that time will be eaten by bureaucratic indecision and that global power and telecommunication infrastructure will suffer considerably.

Perhaps at some future "earth day" it would be wise to test the shut-down of significant portions of our power and telecommunications systems.
> Lol. Literally nobody thinks he actually committed suicide.

Well that's easily disproved: I think he actually committed suicide.

> It’s just that nobody knows for certain who did it. You can rule out certain nations but was it Clinton, Gates Dershowitz? We’ll never know.

IMHO, theories to the contrary are most likely just the delusions of conspiracy theorists. And if we're going to talk about conspiracy theories, I'd rather talk about aliens at Area 51 than this garbage.
I tested the HAProxy with my Raspberry Pi and my 2GB/s ethernet (fiber) and the maximum number of requests was 500.000 /s. Nice job HAProxy! Thanks for share this LinuxBender!
"we want to know who you are before we let you read"

so f'ing annoying. god I miss the early internet.
Nod. Thanks.
Sure but a subsidy is a market support. A price control is a market support. A subsidy is not a price control.
Wow, a lot of the “grow up” input I received from youth on was to stop being selfish and only thinking about my needs. And I found treating other people’s opinions as important to be really useful in being married and raising kids.

Social groups must have highly variable definitions of adult behavior.

However, my camera is off when I haven’t had time to take a shower, a dashing down the hall for a bio break, and many other times. When I talk with my hands too, my camera is definitely on, and I appreciate the nuance of others’ facial expressions.
No, it's plenty to measure the effect sizes reported. The larger the effect, the smaller the sample necessary to detect the effect. In this case the sample is large relative to the effect.

A bigger concern would be that the results don't generalize outside the US and UK, and my guess is that they probably don't.
> Well that's easily disproved

No, its not.

> I think he actually committed suicide.

Asserting a non-falsifiable contradiction is not disproof.
It’s a mental illness. Imagine somebody saying “I’m just a lowly brown person” or whatever. It’s crazy to think about.
YMMV, but on Android in Chrome app, long press and "open in incognito tab" made it readable for me. Also, seems poster is not OP. In a side note, I would love it if HN links were color-coded or otherwise marked as free, closed-garden, soft paywall, or paywall.
I just looked this up last week and I believe the reference said >950 or so put you in the 97.5 percentile of men 18-39.

Found it: it’s actually 916 ng/dL https://www.healio.com/news/endocrinology/20170223/researche...
This would be a great way to get more content elsewhere.
> Tough luck for whom? It seems like nobody wins in that scenario. What do you think would happen?

They would immediately announce that the old API is deprecated and will be removed in two years and then have high server bills for two years.

Also, you can provide the new API in parallel and publish good documentation for it so that other implementations use the new one immediately instead of waiting the two years and then only some small minority of clients will continue using the old one.

> I’d rather not have them declared infrastructure and become a permanent fixture.

Requiring Facebook et al to have a stable API would cause them to be less permanent, because it makes switching easier.

Right now you can create an alternative messaging app all you like but nobody will use it unless other people are using it. It has to be a lot better to dethrone Facebook.

If anyone could make one that could still be used to talk to people on Facebook, it would only have to be a little bit better for people to switch to it. And once you have a messaging app that can use twelve different services, the ones people were only using because of the network effect lose that advantage and die out.

Also, how are two years and "permanent" in any way equivalent? It's two years to give interoperable implementations enough time to be switched to the new API before the old one is discontinued, nothing more. The problem right now is that the first party service will discontinue the existing API and roll out a new client using the new API on the same day, intentionally breaking all alternative implementations until they scramble to reverse engineer and implement the new one, and then do that repeatedly on purpose until all other implementations are dead.
I feel that throwing in little quipits like that are an easy way to keep the discussion about your article as non-political as possible. It seems counter-intuitive, but if someone comes along and actually brings up the race issue, and it isn’t mentioned in the article, it’ll start a spiral of political/racial arguments that distract from the original article. These little remarks deflect most of it.
> From what I've heard, Swift was also optimized for low memory usage rather than raw speed

at a 1000 foot view, Swift inherits its reference counting system from Objective-C, meaning objects are freed immediately when their retain count goes to zero; vs a tracing GC releasing many objects whenever a tracing cycle runs. maintaining reference counts also adds a cost that a different GC approach could avoid. it's true that Swift will maintain a lower memory footprint, potentially at the cost of lower throughput

I would be a little surprised if that explains the bulk of a performance difference though, vs Swift frameworks being newer and less optimized
I'm endlessly amused by some people in the crypto sphere attempting to force Web 3 / Web 3.0 onto crypto. It's an absurd hype attempt.

That term was already used for the semantic Web and what it was supposed to unleash, beginning over a decade ago. It was still being used for that as recently as a few years ago (although increasingly being shifted to include AI/ML, since the old premise of a semantic Web is no longer considered cool). For example:

https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Web-30
trick is to bounce around departments until you get into a good group of non-toxic folks, and your skill level is above everyone. 2 hours of work is the equivalent of 2-5 days of another programmers work, and everyone loves your output.

If you're working from home, its really not that bad, since the other 6 hours of teh day you can learn anything you want. Just have to be near computer incase something happens etc...
Here is a community member building Jellyfin for FreeBSD
https://github.com/Thefrank/jellyfin-server-freebsd
Oh yeah how the world has changed. When before your grandad, between two wars, worked to feed himself and his kid and could not even fathom complaining about what was paying the rent, now, we cant even whine to millions of people on the internet that the job that costs us nothing to leave is terribly boringg.
"This repository is over its data quota. Account responsible for LFS bandwidth should purchase more data packs to restore access."
Incognito mode defeats this
I'd love audio streaming suggestions too, I've been running Kodi on an old fire tablet to stream music from a Synology NAS but it's surprisingly flaky
>>> Lol. Literally nobody thinks he actually committed suicide.

>> Well that's easily disproved

> No, its not.

A statement "literally nobody thinks" is easily disproved.

>> I think he actually committed suicide.

> Asserting a non-falsifiable contradiction is not disproof.

Providing a counterexample to a statement like that is a disproof, and if I can't testify to my own thoughts to disprove it, then it's just nonsense.
That's what a manager should do, yes. But I think a lot of developers have had managers that don't do those things at all. And I think that's where the resentment of managers come from.
Usually yes. But in urban areas (where there are lots of street lights, and lots of cyclists), people often forget to turn their lights on. I guess it's becoming less of a problem now that most cars have auto lights, but I still see cars driving around without lights pretty regularly.
My two cents... if your inbound baby is your first then a lot of your prior concerns will naturally disappear. If it's not your first then that won't surprise you. Time to be selfish with your time and start distancing yourself from any colleagues that are a time suck.

In my humble opinion, the author is either delusional or spinning a yarn when they say they have solicited advice from colleagues. No co-worker is going to give you advice that doesn't serve their own interests first.
This dude is also a racist:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28664520

Of course the mods will ban anyone who points that out or takes issue with it.
What you really need is a network of hamsters.
This is not an answer per se, but you might find it interesting :-)

https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-l...
The gif at the top of the article seems plausibly understandable, but seeing it in context in the video further down, having a blinking right facing arrow and a solid illuminated left facing arrow, I really had no idea which direction was being indicated and could only infer based on the road lines.

I don't think I'm substantially dumber than average, but asked my wife, without any context, "which way is this car turning?" -- She also got it wrong. Seems like a bad idea.
Have you ever driven in rural areas at night before?
> What the data shows: What the study also said was

Giving yourself the prompt "What the data shows" and then, instead of discussing whether or not it shows the thing, discussing the fact that it also shows another thing, is a classic tactic of two categories of people: obfuscators, and those who can't converse logically.
Does this implementation also support Arcgis files? (geodatabase)
If you happen to live in Canada, email me, my HN userid at gmail.

Honestly, you're doing 4 jobs, and I assume only being paid for one. Fuck that noise.

I work for a big company that has, in my opinion, good work/life balance and a great work culture, and we're always hiring.

Ageism is not a thing where I work (I am almost your age).

Can't promise anything but some guidance on what to apply for and some personal anecdotes about my time here, but if you're interested, happy to share.
The story of "probably the worst drug approval decision in recent US history"
That.. that sounds like a project :)

It doesn't need to be "separate", but it does seem that many of these systems could use the same load balancer design.
It's a shame the article has such a rambling style and seems to take forever to get to the main point, which in the end isn't sufficiently fleshed out. I want to see substantiated the claim that any of these apps anywhere in the world were able to make a big impact on contact tracing. I am not aware of that being the case.

The government report into it is a scandal and should be torn apart. The fact it is almost entirely redacted except for one mildly complimentary sentence is outrageous. But I'm more interested in the simple question of whether it could work or not. There is still time even now in which it could make an impact if it is possible.
It's not a shock to me in Hong Kong. Been called a wumao by so many virtue signalers for just saying it's an illusion: we're less oppressed than they say we are, americans are less virtuous in their attempts to "free" us than they say they are.
>What percentage of people who drink alcohol are alcoholics?

In the US about ~7% or 14 million people depending on how you define alcoholism. Globally about 3 million people die every year of consequences related to drinking, or put differently, 5% of global deaths are attributable to alcohol consumption.[1].

That is about as many people as covid seems to have killed last year. You're actually right in drawing a comparison between social media and drinking, but I think you're wrong about thinking that means we should take social media less seriously, rather we should take drinking much more seriously. Certainly very few people would argue we should take a pandemic less seriously that costs hundreds of billions per year and kills millions, and that is what alcoholism does as well.

As a society we are extremely negligent of threats that cause enormous social harm in the aggregate simply because they don't harm everyone they come into contact with.

[1]https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...
Yes, knowing that ~P and not knowing P are clearly and fundamentally different things in the world of classical logic. (I'm not an expert, but I know this much.) It's hacky computing systems like Prolog and the relational model and/or SQL which erase the distinction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-world_assumption The law of the excluded middle only says that at least one of P and ~P must be true, and doesn't at all promise that we will necessarily be able to conclude which one.
The Other People’s Money Problem
Does anyone have any experience with their Firestick app? I’m seeing some complaints about Chromecast devices but they’re pretty different.
An ssh server isn’t really like a front door though. I don’t necessarily think attempting a random ssh server should be a crime.

I used to spend time on custom iptables scripts but came to the conclusion it’s much better to just architect things in a way where the bots and scanners can’t plausibly create a problem and then ignoring them.
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SimbCoin SWAP offers real state investments in the African market through a token based on the Ethereum ERC20 system.
I’d venture most alcoholics will admit that alcohol makes them feel physiologically better, but know that it’s a poison that they wish to rid themselves of. So the positive disposition towards the intoxicant is gallows humor — a coping mechanism to rationalize a situation they can’t see a way out from despite it ostensibly being within their control.
>I think people just underestimate what spy agencies actually do and how dirty it’s always been.

They certainly do, and that is one of the reasons we are seeing a massive authoritarian crackdown on free speech. The last thing the spy agencies and the rest of the deep state want is for people to understand what they actually do and how dirty they actually are.