skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBH, I got bitten by this assumption. Once, in the course of many decades. A single flipped bit - in a place where it never could happen in the program. After checking everything up and down the stack, this was our conclusion: "the issued command was invalid, thus caught and aborted; the higher-level operation was rolled back, retried, and succeeded; impact: some insignificant delay; root cause: probably cosmic rays; probability of repeating: infinitesimal. Result: no point in guarding against that." (Note that this was in normal athmospheric conditions, not in deep space, hence the probability.)
Great against insects that are attracted by UV light, like mayflies, but not mosquitoes.

Some mayflies may look like mosquitoes, but they don't bite and are mostly harmless. It doesn't mean they are not annoying, especially when there are lots of them, and if that's a problem, UV light traps work great.
Best explained by American outdoor humorist Patrick F. McManus:

"Well, we had a crick," I said. "It wasn't much fun being poor if you didn't have a crick around someplace."

"You mean a creek?"

"No, I mean a crick. A creek is what rich people had. Poor people had cricks."
It comes in waves. I'm in my 22nd year of developing software and I can reflect on times when I felt incredibly confident and didn't shy away from sharing my opinions, and other times when I felt like it was better to remain silent because I had things to learn from others.

There are times for both speaking and listening in our careers; as I've progressed further in my career I have felt it is often more valuable to exercise active listening.
They don’t make them like that anymore!
Yeah. I love watches but I decided I'm not going down that road. That's why I wear just a Casio. Though admittedly it's a $1600 titanium Casio with DLC coating and sapphire glass.. but it's still just a quartz watch and in the grand scheme of things not a huge deal if it gets dented or smashed. Wear it every day, everywhere. Really the only thing I regret about it is the integrated bracelet. Can't replace it with a cheap nato strap when the pins fall off and links vanish in snow.
I suggest a read of Ikigai ( https://www.amazon.com/Ikigai-Japanese-Secret-Long-Happy/dp/... ) to get some fresh perspective about retirement. The book talks about centenarians in Japan, their happiness and its link to never retiring.
I'm not sure I'm getting you. If you want to do things outside the blockchain against the terms set by the NFT owner, you're in violation of rights (if copyright is properly integrated, currently not the case).

Can you do that? Sure. But it's no different from pirating anything.

I think we're overstating this example. An NFT owner might also claim zero resell royalties and instead go for a higher first-sale price. Or set the royalty percentage lower. I think some balance will be found.

A far bigger issue with NFTs is a single person buying their own NFTs using different wallets. This artificially boost the price, some fool falls for this high perceived value, buys it, and is then forever stuck with it.

The other big issue is front running. Knowing ahead of time which projects will be dropped on major marketplaces. It's insider trading basically.
Not really, Genghis and the other khans killed more than Hitler using a fairly simple technique: divide the captives by the number of your soldiers and each soldier is tasked with killing the captives assigned to them.
They usually had around 100k soldiers, armed with bows and knives, and killed tens of millions.

My point is, you don't need technology to achieve bad things and it is the wrong thing we are focusing on when trying to prevent these things. Nukes can already annihilate billions yet here we are, not being annihilated by nukes.
In my experience, cider is a bit contextual. I've heard and used it to mean both alcoholic and non alcoholic cider. But usually people default to mean a non filtered apple juice like you said. (Since we also have apple juice, but it's hard to think of it as anything other than super processed sugary drink)

Apple liquor/cordials are usually called just that, or more specific depending on the type of liquor (i.e., my family keeps a bottle of Apple flavored whiskey)

Things like apfelkorn probably just get wrapped up in the catch-all term schnapps, if not one of the above terms
> Oddly enough, touchscreen-based UIs were determined to be one of the contributing factors!

There's no substitute for looking around (which of course is impossible in a submarine below periscope depth). As a JOOD* underway aboard an aircraft carrier, I had a tendency to spend a lot of time looking at the radar scope. But as soon as I qualified and started standing OOD* watches, I realized that I had switched to constantly scanning the horizon and the flight deck and only occasionally glancing at the radar.

* OOD = Officer of the Deck, the person on watch who's responsible for the safe navigation of the ship for that "watch" (generally, a four-hour period), reporting to the commanding officer. JOOD = Junior Officer of the Deck, in training to be an OOD.
But then we can also go the other way, and forget how crazy and diverse humans are. So you will still, eventually, end up facing the same challenge, framed differently.
DNS in Google Sheets
Q: What's worse than finding a worm in the apple you are eating?

A: Finding half a worm.
John Carmack programmed Wolfenstein at 21 and doom when he was 22. At that point he did what most "masters of that craft" couldn't do. What would you call him? And what would you call him now, 30 years later?
Yeah this is what I do as well. Really honestly surprised how good it works sometimes.
> By comparing the timing of excess-mortality peaks and lockdowns, however, Karlinsky and Kobak have shown that, in the case of Covid, excess mortality mainly reflects deaths from the disease.

Calculating excess mortality can also generate some strange results...

Can anyone flesh this out? I'd like to understand the gist of their "innovation". I'm also curious if their work has been peer reviewed.
On parentheses, this is one of the main reasons why I integrated ocamlformat with my editor: I write explicit parentheses around everything and I let the formatter remove the superfluous ones. No surprises or guesswork that way.
The divisions between expository, persuasive, argumentative, etc, essay styles tend to blend together when done well.
Elite MBAs are no Longer Relevant
TL;DR // As someone who has spent a substantial amount of time reviewing top MBA programs, I have concluded that they are no longer relevant in an increasingly digital world, particularly in younger agile companies.

Their relevancy is decreasing for the following reasons:

(1) They are far too generalized in a world of specialists and in the case of the 'many hat' entrepreneur, most of these skills are learned from experience.

(2) Hiring is increasingly based on unique profiles of candidates based on their experience and tangible contributions, this is particularly true with younger more agile companies that give its workforce a greater ability establish a colorful track record of performance.

(3) They are inefficient in a mature digital learning environment, where one can pick and choose which courses they take or curriculum they follow based on their specific agenda and take this course at their own pace.

(4) The hiring of an elite MBA over (2) encourages an elitism that disadvantages minorities and hinders social equality that socially aware tech companies seek to combat.

(5) The 'network' of an elite MBA is diminished with democratized access to capital and executives (I.e. LinkedIn, Hunter/Snov.io, and Crunchbase)

Notes:
- I'm not arguing that an elite MBA is not 'worth it' for everyone, but rather than its relevancy is/has been declining and will continue to be negatively correlated with technological advancement.

- There are some focused arguments where one is making a career shift (E.g. Ex-Military), but even this is debatable considering (3)

- An argument can be made that those in top management positions have elite MBAs. My counter-argument to this is a post hoc fallacy in that elite MBAs recruit the most competitive, intelligent, and high performing people and these characteristics are drivers for their success rather than the elite MBA itself.

- I opted not to address the obvious monetary cost in this analysis as to isolate an analysis of its diminishing value rather than the more common argument against its cost.
I buy last-year's special thing, and use it up. Phones, cars, bicycles, whatever. It was good enough last year, so it must be pretty good. And I treat it like a tool. Saves a lot of money too.

I long ago categorized that 'too good to use' impulse as a childish one. As a kid I wouldn't want to use up a new box of crayons or whatever, and would end up never using them much at all. Later I recognized this as a feeling that I wasn't good enough for nice things. I consciously shed that attitude, and taught my children to be confident enough to open everything and use it up.

Life is too short.
Twirp: A simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions
> At the end of the day, if you dig deep enough, the why will be related to human happiness.

At one of my jobs, one of my tasks was to take client HR feeds and load them into downstream systems for travel management. On your second day of employment at your company, you should have a profile in our system which was a portal that displayed all travel policies and a profile in whatever booking tool your company used.

We knew who your manager was so approval emails went out automatically. We knew what corporate card was assigned to you, so you never had to deal with that. We knew what preferred vendors your company had agreements with etc

All I was doing was data manipulation and loading on a scheduled or triggered basis. But ultimately it allowed new hires in a new environment to have an easy time booking their trip for mandatory training.

Any time our process failed, you had a traveler stressed out that they wouldn’t be able to book the trip in time or have to outlay money and reimburse later or get stuck at a distant airport.
> For many data science projects, maintaining large code bases in Python is often the optimal decision (rather than reinventing the wheel and writing your own data frame and machine learning libraries, or using immature poorly maintained ones in other languages — for data manipulation and scientific algorithms, these libraries are highly optimized in Python anyway since the underlying code is in C or Fortran)

Or you could use R, instead of the half-baked immature clones in Python :) I'm only slightly joking here, even if Python is much much better for string processing, it's much less useful for DS tasks (unless it's NLP or DL, to be fair).

That being said, Python is the second best DS language, as well as second best for everything else, so it can be a good choice for these projects.
I think this applies to not just software, but engineering in general. See, science is mostly about observing the natural phenomena. On the other hand, there are jobs that are mostly about taking care of people's needs. Engineering sits in the middle. It's a mediator. We have to understand the circumstance of both sides - nature (this could be something like hardware capacity in our case) AND people. Just taking care of one side makes you a bad engineer. You need to be technical and sympathetic at the same time.
I'd gladly pay $5/mo for that.
FWIW I use my Windows 10 Pro (VLK) license on my gaming PC, and as a virtual machine when using Linux. It's undergone 3 activations, initially for the desktop, once when I was using VirtualBox and the last when I converted my VDI to VMDK when I migrated to VMware. All activations were several months apart however.

Windows activation servers were happy enough with that, without any install becoming unactivated (other than the VirtualBox to VMware conversion which is the 3rd activation).

While you can use Windows unactivated but it restricts access to various settings, which may not be important to you depending on your use case.
FPGA based mobile phone: Creating a truly open and trustable mobile comm device
What Is Armodafinil?
Okay, use the Internet and computer networks in general. Network connectivity was expensive and slow until the late 90s. Computers were very expensive, further limiting reach, until the personal computer revolution opened it up and prices came down in the 1990s. Software was primitive, too, limiting reach and capabilities - people who could afford Macs or Amigas had GUIs but that wasn’t mainstream until the Windows 3.1 era, arguably Windows 95.

The pricing for hardware, software, and especially connectivity meant that this was an upper-middle-class or richer phenomenon at first and it wasn’t until the mid-to-late 90s that it had become common for lower-middle class families to have a networked computer.

All of that is completely unlike Bitcoin’s day one availability to a billion people.

Despite those barriers, because network connectivity had actual value to people who weren’t selling it, unlike Bitcoin, many normal people paid money to get access to services like Compuserv or GEnie, the earliest ISPs started connecting businesses and schools, you’d hear about people taking an elective at the local college to get a student account, etc. Technical work adopted as allowed - email/Usenet support, FTP sites, Telnet access to applications and forums, etc. were all common before the web – but so were people reading the news, getting stick quotes or researching, playing games, or socializing - the first met-online marriage happened in the late 1970s if memory serves. Real people found it useful enough to pay extortionate telco rates, deal with modems, even getting second phone lines to avoid disruption.

That all contrasts sharply with Bitcoin which arrived in a world where a billion people had the ability to use it. The lack of adoption has been due to the lack of a need – and especially the community’s tendency to say “you don’t get it!” and rant when people explain real concerns such as cost, fraud, or lack of benefit over the other options. This is a dead tell for when people have major conceptual problems: if you can’t explain a system to a non-specialist at a high level, something is wrong. The fact that 13 years in people are still unable to come up with a compelling pitch for why someone would want to use Bitcoin beyond speculation tells us that long-term success won’t happen without major changes.

The central bank analogy doesn’t work, either, because that didn’t arise out of nothing but was rather formalizing existing banking relationships with goals like stability. That evolved over centuries and, most importantly, constant daily use — nobody went from storing money in the couch cushions to a central bank without an intermediate state. Similarly, central banks are backed by some form of real value. A pure fiat currency like Bitcoin with weak backing, plenty of competition, and no innate demand is not what you’d use for such a system — and, indeed, anyone who is familiar with the history can see that’s the concept people who’d bought into Bitcoin pivoted to after failing at the original goal of being a currency.
Well, if it wasn't drones it would be something else.

Or in other words, should we slow or stop technological advances because they may get into the wrong hands?

And, for part 2, who decides what's wrong?
Soundaktor: a vehicle audio system used to simulate engine noise in the cabin
While I appreciate the effort, and the code is very readable. I just want to give a friendly warning that these shell scripts just download random stuff from the internet and run this random stuff without checking any integrity/signature.

Apart from that, I will definitely use that project as a documentation for "how to run MacOS/Windows in KVM". Cool project :) .
Recently had to go through the source code of mpg123 and found this:-

/* =========================================
THE BOUNDARY OF SANITY
Behold, stranger!
========================================= */
No, verification is not belief. You can believe in the methodologies I suppose, but that is not what is being said when people say "believe in science". They are saying "believe in the findings from people you haven't met who have credentials", which is nothing more than a nonsense appeal to authority.

If a subject is important to someone, they should try their best to understand the research and to more fully understand a claim, one would do well to research with a heavy dose of skepticism in everything, especially things that affirm their own bias.
A rare 2,700-year-old luxury toilet found in Jerusalem – Live Science
I think there is a lot of truth to it. I would guess for the majority of people here, they deeply identify as tech workers and it is a huge part of their being. Hopefully it isn't everyone's entire life though.
Mind sharing a bit more about which Radeon you got? And how you achieve proper gpu pass through? Do you run Windows on Qemu?
I think the upcoming Qualcomm-Nuvia chip will be what you want
> why did they give you a summary, but gave the doctors a full report? Could you get the full report if you asked them?

If the tests aren’t FDA approved they probably don’t want to risk the regulatory ire that 23&Me encountered.
Hello,

You're right. Their latest attestation[0] does not yet reflect their move to only cash and treasuries[1].

0: https://www.centre.io/hubfs/pdfs/attestation/2021%20Circle%2...

1: https://www.centre.io/blog/usdc-reserves-composition
>I do agree it’s going to be hard to make this profitable without trampling on the workforce

is 15 minute delivery any more exploitative than 2-day or even "regular" delivery? seems like all the issues with delivery (eg. poor warehouse conditions, low pay, contractor classification, pressure to meet metrics) are there regardless of whether it's 15 minute delivery or not.
I think that depends on the context in which you’re working. Flashes of genius don’t have much place an an enterprise code base. Everything is rigorously standardized and separated into layers. Each layer has a bunch of bookkeeping about dependencies, interfaces, mocks, expectations, and test cases. This is not really brain work; it’s typing. Now maybe if you’re really brilliant, you’ll do much better than average with the implementation of a really tricky layer. But the layers are rarely tricky, implementing them never takes all that much time, the slow part is always the integration and associated mocking rituals. Typing speed pays better dividends than brainpower in terms of productivity, there.
The forgotten Einstein: how John von Neumann shaped the modern world
> This is a thing in the UK

Today (Friday) The earliest slot at Ocado (A big established grocery delivery service / Online supermarket with own robot warehouses etc, in the UK) will give me is Sunday morning. I do not know if this is due to cut-off times or slot availability but it is moot.

I'm not worried, I plan these orders weeks in advance (and you can add or remove until the night before).

Other smaller services (e.g. Deliveroo, weezy, gorillas) will come much faster, but they typically just collect and cover the last mile. This seems to be a growth area lately, two of those companies are new.
THAT'S the quote. Thank you.

It seems like moths, and many other insects, throw themselves at everything and just miss most of the time.
I’ve seen this happen in companies with stupid projects. Same thing happened with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Anyone who dares ask questions is ignored, sidelined, or fired.

Seems to be a general pattern when there is an economic or policy “bubble” and big players in an organization or sector are holding the bag.

Everyone who holds cryptocurrency is holding Tether’s bag of poo. No they are not even the majority of money in cryptocurrency, but they are enough to prop up the price a lot given that it’s a fairly thin market. They are also structured so as to make it very easy to use their funny money to manipulate cryptocurrency price.

Their joker CEO sounds like a cutout and fall guy.
The Cult of the Vaccine
I’m not sure how this is related to Microsoft’s control of GitHub. This was the .NET Foundation using application-level permissions that it was granted on each repo. It wouldn’t matter what platform was used, if it supported re-organizing project hierarchy, this could have happened.
Like EPIRBs! The tech already exists and works anywhere on the planet with no dependence on cell towers. I've decided that if I ever go hiking in the woods, I'm going to get HAM certified and carry a GPS radio with a beacon, just in case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_...
You're not alone!

It's going to take a movement to raise awareness about felons not being a Protected Class, and the legalized-discrimination that implies.

The way I usually phrase it is:

"What would you do if you were black/hispanic/asian and someone said:
'Yeah there's nothing technically WRONG with you as an applicant.
'But we just don't really house/hire YOUR KIND around here. Just policy, nothing personal, sorry.'"

And then watch the horrified look on peoples' faces.

This is just an expected occurrence as a felon, regardless of how long it's been.

But who is going to raise such awareness?
Someone who can afford to lose their job?

Which unfortunately isn't me at the moment, and it sounds like isn't you.
Sure. The point is catering for emergencies and cravings, and maybe laziness/convenience.

But this is exactly the sort of premium service that people should be willing to pay for. So, to me, saying that they won't charge for the service is a big mistake: they are setting themselves up for extra costs will passing on income. This will not last. Ultimately they will charge or disappear, we've seen it with other delivery services.

As you say, you're bagging a bargain thanks to VCs, so enjoy while it lasts.
TLDR :

* Use a structure of "what I'll explain, explanation, what I explained" (aka intro, body, conclusion)

* use concrete examples instead of starting off abstract

* write well

Pretty underwhelming list tbh. There are many more small tips I'd personally include. But, what this does have is still agreeable.
> in fog, huge cargo ship coming at us

And Iron Mike probably had the conn aboard the cargo ship .... (Source: A similar experience in the South China Sea.)
Or luck, or crime. There's probably overlapping Venn diagram circles there with investing.
> More importantly than this, we need to discuss why major news outlets were parroting government propaganda that shortages and inflation were transitory, when they were obviously not.

Because the inflation being referred to being transitory was from the central bank's monetary policy, but the inflation we're seeing for many things is from supply-side constraints. The why of a thing happening can be just as important, if not more so, than the what happened.

People were expecting demand-pull inflation ("too much" economic activity), but we we're probably seeing is the cost-push variety:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation#Keynesian_view

See for example Shipping being >4 times higher than the base line of January 2019:

* https://www.oecd.org/economic-outlook#GDP-growth-projections...

The same thing can have multiple causes, some of which many be more easily predicted and/or modelled.

Also, this begs the question for what is considered "transitory": 3 months? 6? 12? Other?

The fact of the matter was that inflation was expected because of the spending surge, but that 'transitory' meant that it would be 12-18 months, some using the spending of the Korean War (as compared to the Vietnam War spending):

> The Korean War started when North Korea invaded South Korea in June 1950 and ended with an armistice in mid-1953. As displayed in the following figure, US inflation soared in late 1950 but returned to around 2 percent in 1952 and 1 percent in 1953.[3]

* https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/in...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/opinion/covid-biden-econo...