skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct me if I am wrong - but Twitter is reminding me of what Yahoo! has become when it was acquiring various companies/services.
Being acquired by Yahoo! meant a death sentence to the service and company.
MySQL has undo logs while PostgreSQL has vacuum based MVCC. It's a significant difference for some workloads. And MySQL is closer to standard SQL on some things like PL/PSM.

I personally still prefer PostgreSQL but can't deny the benefits of a well configured MySQL installation.
> Clinical labs are not regulated by the FDA, but fall under a far less arduous regulation known as Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, or CLIA.

I know a bit about the clinical laboratory environment through a close relation. In fact, that person was the first clue I had that Theranos was BS. (This was before the WSJ article or any of the whistle blowers had come forward.)

Clinical laboratories are so resource constrained that FDA regulation would literally kill them. And many may not realize this, but 75%+ of any diagnosis is actually done by the lab. Care teams make hypotheses and labs reject them.

I feel somewhat sympathetic to this article's thesis, that these "fraud" laws are meant more as a bailout for rich and powerful people as a way to pin blame on a scape goat. A regular person defrauded by a bank or some other professional would have no hope of bringing their abuser to a criminal trial. But demonizing then CLIA loophole as if it is some ghastly deviation only fixed by the Powerful and Mighty FDA seems short-sighted.

Again, keep in mind that basically all lab scientists, all medical researchers who investigate lab procedures and all of the academics who study this and teach the next generation said Theranos was BS long before the government or press.

No one listened to them.
Where I live in the US southeast, non-professionals tend to get married at around 20-24 years old, then tend start having kids within a year or two of getting married. Income doesn't really factor at all.

At least on the more conservative side, perhaps one reason this works economically is the culture of the wife staying home, and the husband working. Although the overall income is much lower, this makes the dollar cost of each additional child small - kids don't eat that much, and there are no child care costs. By having kids young, both your parents are still healthy and active.
>someone falling for a romance scam is simply inexperienced in that matter, and should not be expected to know better

People that fall for romance scams tend to be older and significantly more experienced (in terms of life and love) than people who don't. They also continue with the relationship even when friends, family and eventually law enforcement sit down with them and show them that it's a scam.

I think many of these scams really highlight our innate desire to fool ourselves, especially when we are desperate and hopeful.
Overloading the opponent's radar with false signals is a good jamming method, after all.
Another aspect of how home mortgages are more borrower-friendly in US is that in many states of USA if you default on your mortgage, then after foreclosure the debt is considered settled; while in many other countries the mortgage is just "extra" collateral, so if you default then the mortgaged property is auctioned, but if the proceeds do not cover the whole debt, the remainder still has to be paid in due term and/or accrues extra penalty interest; so a housing bubble followed by a mortgage crisis hits borrowers more and banks less.
We use custom valves, single board computer, water tank, pump with controller and a dozen meters of tubing. Valves are not shown on purpose.

All these things would fit in a human chest - we have a plastic skeleton next to it. We are working on further minimizing this.
> don't make as though that's what I was arguing about

You were arguing that that engineers are often unscrupulous, I'd counter argue that actually their managers and the stakeholders are often unscrupulous and force them into complicity. My claim is that the responsibility ought to be at the top.

Edit: But I think I agree that even if peers hold each others to account in engineering, it doesn't really matter. They don't hold the power to change institutions. I know there are Engineering societies... and I think in some domains you need a licence to practice that could be revoked, but this isn't true of your typical aerospace firmware coder.

> seemingly incorrect claims you made about Tesla

Such as? Regarding FSD, the deaths stats only break out numbers for autopilot. You might argue that the drivers are responsible for their actions if they leave their hands off the steering wheel, but encouraging any kind of overconfidence or complacency is putting other drivers and pedestrians at risk - all for marketing purposes.

As for having a bone to pick, I provided 3 examples of well publicized engineering failures in recent years. You zeroed in on Tesla which is fair given the OP, but not evidence of me having a bone to pick, an axe to grind, or what have you :)
Chinese government abolished one-child policy and also the following two-child policy. Actually, at the moment they have the opposite problem: the population is aging and the new generations do not even have enough children to guarantee their generational change.
I’m not sure this is correct. A state court of appeals made this ruling, but it wasn’t a matter of state law (the “law” is the US constitution and the precedent was a US Supreme Court case); I believe the “jurisdiction” (e.g. where this ruling establishes precedent as far as how the 5th amendment applies in this situation) is the entire US (unless a higher court rules otherwise).

Not a lawyer but I think a future defense attorney with a client in a similar situation in a another state would reference this ruling and try to convince a judge that their client’s situation was similar enough to invoke that ruling, whereas a prosecutor would be making the case that it was different enough that it did not apply (vs saying that it was a different jurisdiction and did not apply).
Is Japan considered an Empire (on the power/clout level, not how they nominally call their head of state) before expanding to Korea and Formosa? I don't think it is.
You can enable fsync in ClickHouse. And it will not decrease bandwidth.
What I dislike with git terminal UI is that commands reflect the innards of git, not what the user wants to do. It also forces a deeper understanding of the innards for basic commands than ought to be necessary.

Examples where undoing an operation looks totally different to doing it:

- To stage a change you `add` it, to unstage you `reset HEAD`

- To commit you `commit`, to undo a commit you `reset --hard HEAD^`

The last example is also where you get pointed to an unsafe command for a fairly benign operation. Uncommitting is not particularly dangerous, but anything with `--hard` ought to give people a pause for thought. If you mistype it and nuke more than the last commit, that's also a bit bad - and fairly easily done.

Some other examples include shenanigans around pushing and pulling remote branches. After 10 years of using git, I still need to google it each time.

I think these commands are an accurate and reasonable representation of its inner state, but IMHO users should at least have the option of being somewhat isolated from it. Git is not a tool for algebraic manipulations on directed graphs, it is a version control software.

It has to be said, to git's credit, that although the commands are confusing to some (myself included), the tool works very well. I wanted to like mercurial more, but ended up going back to git, as much as I dislike the UI.
But it's much much harder to acquire a privacy-respecting contactless payment setup than carry a bunch of coins.
You’d be surprised the number of upper-middle class professionals I know who had a kid “by mistake” despite their being reliable ways to plan kids. It obviously clashes with the biological drive and risk taking.

Most of them were ambivalent about having a kid (or more kids) so the unexpected pregnancy was taken in stride but I was surprised how many were unplanned.
And? Are you worried he might be sad?
It’s both. torch.jit started life as an optimizer. I think fusion of pointwise kernels on GPU - which we finally extended to CPU in this release - was one of the early wins via jit.

But at some point it became a model export format for production environments that can’t use CPython for performance reasons.

I’m surprised that you’re seeing worse performance with jit. It sometimes takes 20-ish iterations for the jit to “settle down” but I’d expect roughly equal performance at worst. If you can share a repro, I’d be happy to take a quick look if you file an issue on GitHub. (I’m @bertmaher there)
that includes real estate in Monaco priced at 100K per square
meter, works of arts jewels, stocks trading at 100+ PE etc. e.g. sh#t not convertible into shelter, food and other things people need. It's not that elastic on a gloabl scale.
All that is to say nothing of the numerous times it turns out the banking system is itself the criminal actor. Just looking at the most recent scandal listed on Wikipedia [0] I see Madoff near-single-handedly exceeded the 50 billion in missing cash with his ponzi scheme.

It isn't like removing privacy stops crime, it just makes corrupting the government more profitable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_collapses_an...
Properly measuring vaccine efficacy and risk reward
so most early stage startups get tens of thousands of dollars of free AWS credits. https://aws.amazon.com/activate/
100K if ur part of a university accelerator.

it is far far more efficient (as a proportion of time-to-market) to rent and build on top of services.

Kubernetes is where the wider ecosystem is. I dont like it ...but it is what it is.

So Grid.ai is something like AWS Sagemaker. I wanted to figure out what someone can use on a readymade kubernetes cluster.
When you made the switch how did you go about getting embedded employees to take your applications seriously?
Megatron-Turing NLG, largest language model with 530B parameter
Thanks for the link. But I’m curious about the first part now. Why does yield time matter if you have all the empty land you could possibly need?

Indeed this matters for regional supply and reducing shipping. But does it matter for other reasons I’m not thinking of?
apropos link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program
>You sure about that?

I was just making a pithy and cynical statement about how wealth distribution in general will just "shuffle the cards" and not change the fact that there are an entire class of people who refuse to acquire genuine wealth.

>It's giving roughly $1000USD worth of shares to people in countries like Somalia, with a GNI per capita of $310USD, e.g. probably about 3x the average yearly wage over there.

Yeah, that could start a war. According to Google the average cost of an AK over there is about US$100.
Misaeng - how mega corporations won’t give you a chance even if you only want to do a good job for said corporation in the first place.
This is not true if you can generate a random number in constant time which is probably the more practical of the constraints to satisfy when implementing this algorithm.
Yes, it is if every sentence in it is a thoughtfully crafted poetic fragment.

And many of the chapters essentially nonfiction, a sort of encyclopaedia of Whales and Whaling.

"Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents’ beds, unerringly I rush! Naught’s an obstacle, naught’s an angle to the iron way!"
Fact sheet of human rights violations by U.S., UK and France
I agree. He writes about how we lived in a dream but for me what he writes is also a dream of some sort.

Just stop doing our dream-work.. and then? What do I do to provide for my family? Should we all get a patch of land and grow food for ourselves? This idea does not seem realistic or scalable.

But maybe I am just misunderstanding the essay or my thoughts are just not deep enough.
CISA warns of GPS bug that may roll back dates by 1,024 weeks, to March 2002
Facebook again? Why is there always negative news about facebook? What about google & twitter? They do the exact same evil stuff. I swear, at this point it seems like facebook is being targetted by some propaganda group. Not saying facebook is good, but this is suspicious.

As for the "whistleblower"... she told nothing, absolutely nothing. Everything she told was already known. It was like a show for the media.

Also, "showing that whenever there was a conflict between the interests of the company and the public good, the social media giant would choose its own interests"

That's good. That's how it should be. What shouldnt be is when u use your company to hurt the public. And in my opinion, that is what all these giant companies do. These companies decide which opinions are right and which are wrong. That is wrong. It's playing dictator. It's not their job. It's mis-use of power.

Whether FB wants to show ads for Trump or Biden, it shouldnt matter. These companies should not be allowed to decide which information you should be allowed to see and which not. If they do, which they do, it's called interference aka. meddling with elections aka. bias'd system.

I hope fb, google, twitter disappear one day. The world would be better off.
What wealth does a yacht crew member create? A private guard? Or a private chef? These are all luxuries wholly consumed by the individual rich person, and whatever "wealth" may have been created vanishes the next day under the spin of the hedonic treadmill.

The labor of these employees could have instead been directed towards build infrastructure, nursing, childcare, or any other number of jobs which generate real and persistent wealth which compounds across generations.
I don't know - but 1password absolutely does have this! Useful if you're in a scenario where you don't have the American version of human rights. You can hide stuff for a period of time
This is literally victim-blaming. Someone who walks alone at a bad neighborhood should have known better, it doesn’t make them less of a victim if they get mugged or raped.
Swiss exhibitions organizer MCH Group hit by cyber-attack
That would only work if Paypal transform Pinterest into a marketplace which Pinterest could have done earlier if it was that easy. I get the intent but it still feel like a lot of work with no guaranteed ROI.
I suppose this could be useful for 'public' proxies where you are able to invalidate cache with an API call, but can't create arbitrary logic for the cache
I think you're underestimating the tenacity of hobbyists. Some people hack every device they own, then release the software they wrote to do so; it only takes one or two of these people to write the drivers for a few dozen devices, and then they all run Debian.
If you cannot be with your child for 13+ hours a day, 6 days a week, wouldn't that be a disincentive to having children?

And working all those extra 996 unpaid hours would really grate on my nerves. Especially if the government's official position is not enforced by the government. I'd do the "laying down" version of repopulating the country - i.e. not doing it.
Not being too smart can be a forcing function on the quality of ideas. Very frequently the idea that wins in the minds of others is the one that is easy to think about.

I am frequently caught in the trap where I am enjoying the puzzlebox complexity of a problem, and building an equally complicated solution. I then attempt to explain my complicated solution to someone else, and I fail on delivery.

I also have a coworker whos mantra is "if its hard to think about, I don't do it". We actually worked on similarly aligned solutions to the same problem. His version met with significantly more success than mine did, and I credit the fact that he ensured that it was all easy to think about (and thus talk about). I don't begrudge him at all though, he's one of my favs!

IMO if you are unwilling or unable to think about overly complicated ideas, it might force you to eliminate them and develop new ones that are easier to talk about and think about.

Thanks for sharing BTW.
No, not all communists are Marxists and the predominant tradition, anarcho-communism, is not post-Marxist but derives from a different set of authors who opposed Marx during his lifetime. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism#Other_types_of_commu...
Comment seems to forget that humans are naturally fearful, its not some conspiracy. Just human nature
As someone with a kid whose spouse took extra time off work, it’s still a ton of work.

I’d argue with a stay at home parent full-time until they are teens it’s still a massive undertaking. One well worth it (in my opinion), but if your life goal is money and career advancement kids don’t help in that regard.
People in Yugoslavia weren't genociding each other in regular times (outside of WW2 and the Yugoslav wars), there was just ethnic tension. Furthermore, present post-Yugoslav countries aren't homogenous, and there's still ethnic tensions there ( in Bosnia, or Serbia and Kosovo). I'm not sure "working out" is how I'd put it.
But what would that look like in Adam Smith's time?

Suppose there was a butcher known to be a psychopath who people would really rather not buy from. Given the relatively low barrier to entry of being an 18th-century butcher (relative to many of our large industries today), someone could enter the market and just not be a psychopath and take all that guy's business because people would prefer shopping there.

Knowing this, then from a purely game-theoretical perspective, the psychopathic butcher would realize that if he wanted to be competitive in his village, he should probably dial the psychopathy back. An alternative would be to outright attack competition, but before the industrial revolution he probably wouldn't have enough of a leg up on challengers to afford that.

Arguably that has changed since, where incumbents benefiting from economies of scale have much greater advantage over new competitors and therefore have less to fear from bad behavior (see basically the history of labor post-industrial revolution). Incumbents do still get disrupted, but for some reason virtually never on ethical differentiation.
> The problem is its deeply-entrenched psychopathy and pathological record of lying [1].

I think it is sociopathy. They know what they are doing is wrong but do it anyways.

Which is worse really
Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets
chunk/line staging: yes

interactive rebase: no

cherry-picking: yes
But "buy with Paypal" is not the same as "Buy on Amazon", there is a wide gap to make that a reality. Just buying Pinterest itself not enough.
The combination of amorality, intelligence and power are enough to let anyone turn into that. I don't think there's anything particularly novel about Zuckerberg, other than the stars all aligned on a few mundane conditions.
Wow. Not expected to see that in Modern Database Product.

What is the most funny though I remember them in MemSQL days showing benchmarks vs Oracle (which as I understand also has the same restriction)
> The problem isn’t Facebook, a private company, seeking profits.

Very often in modern world this is exactly the problem. Stuff you'd be ostracized for if you did it as individual is perfectly natural for a company and in fact expected. It was designed this way, too - the limited liability is there for a reason.

So no wonder the entities that let you get away with almost anything are ruled by psychopaths. Firing one guy won't change it. The system must be changed.

You can hire an honest person that balances morality, law and profits.

Or you can hire a person that optimizes profits over anything else, and if (s)he gets caught - you just hire someone else.

It's a no-brainer, really.

It was a mistake to let people legally limit responsibility for their behavior in this way. And if companies are legal entities they should go to prison or be executed when they fuck up.
Just turned the "search engine" into a discussion platform. Decided a good way to have the platform populated with data, was by turning it into that, rather than the search engine it once was, which was a horrendous failure, due to the weak crawler, which was responsible for the bad results you all saw in your experience with the platform. I kept the search functionality, but as you may have already figured, it doesn't search for web results, rather discussions posted by users on the platform.
Most financial jobs in the private sector allow the ownership of individual stocks. This is quite a strong ban being implemented, it doesn't suggest there were no guidelines in the first place.
Now that I've learned that Facebook doesn't care about me, I am pretty disappointed. I what kind of a world do we live in? I thought that guy Zuck was a nice person.
It's even more nuanced than that. We already pay them money and are looking to pay more.
@vpj The only drawback I see is that much of the implementation is abstracted by your helper libraries. Not everyone wants to add an extra dependency layer. Otherwise the walkthroughs are super helpful.
That's weird, the linked page shows them significantly up, and Google shows them storming it at $56.
There is a significant school of thought literally called anarcho-capitalism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
>I concur, there's nothing "communistic" about the idea of full employment, if anything it strikes me as something rather capitalistic in its nature: Full employment would mean there's an oversupply of labor, which means labor would be dirt cheap and easily replaceable.

There have been nobel prizes on labour participation rate and unemployment rates. The reality is that you have so much population, you have requirements of productivity to produce things for your population.

Cuba is an exception, they do still have government owned slaves. Mostly political prisoners, you can't say anything negative about the government. However, only 30% of their population has a job.

What's the consequence? You only get about 1lb of meat a month. Literally I will eat 1 month's of food in a single meal.

Also what's up with other consequences? Doctors are forced to work ~65hours/week while 2/3rds of the population stays home? Wow. While taxi drivers who work less hours earn more than you.

>That would be the dream for anybody trying to exploit others labor for their own gains, something that's generally seen as a very capitalistic mindset.

Not capitalistic at all, what capitalist society has enforced near full employment? I don't know of any. This is a communist thing. Only communism has ever done this. It's something Marx never said needed to happen. It's just the reality of productivity and how society works.

>The USSR attempting to have full employment was yet another misplaced attempt at trying to "Beat the capitalistic West at their own game".

The even more interesting thing. Graeber obviously says that communism is where you typically get all the bullshit jobs. Yet here they are in capitalism. The reality is that he's right. The reason for the rise of bullshit jobs in capitalism is all the socialism/communism being introduced.

Japan isn't communist and yet they also have government slaves, 99.9% of people accused of a crime are forced to work in a gulag. Why? They implemented loads of socialist policies and blew up their debt. Their public debt to GDP is 266%. That's actually worse than Greece during their collapse. The only thing holding Japan together is the government slaves.

Why does communism(or whatever name) always seem to come with full employment and government slaves in gulags? I actually don't fully understand why, but that's not a capitalism.