skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m very curious about a few things - how does someone like Steve gain so much respect from so many different types of people? Was it the ‘we’ve won before with him, so I must believe’? - a Nick Saban like persona. Or was it that he was unbelievably empathetic? — that doesn’t make sense, because not all empaths are able to rally people to a cause due to the bleeding heart syndrome.

I ask because it is almost as if you see the bricks change shape at Apple trying to fill the missing piece... they know they need that influence, it’s just not there, and honestly, I want to be a part of an organization that operates in the post-kicked out Steve aura.
I understand your sentiment, around people treating different diseases differently, but I am also not so sure that comparing polio and SARS-CoV-2 makes sense. Polio created a lot of psychological fear due to the graphic imagery of children dying or becoming permanently deformed. The WHO says (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/poliomyelit...) that 1 in 200 infected with polio experience irreversible paralysis (usually the legs), and 5-10% of those with paralysis die, meaning the IFR was 0.025%. The IFR for COVID-19 is incredibly low for those under 50, as most of the deaths impacted senior citizens. Even the CDC's conservative planning scenarios (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...) use a planning IFR for minors of 20 in 1M infections (0.002%) - which is an order of magnitude less than polio.

The side effects you called out (like loss of smell) are rare to begin with, subside over time for most people, and aren't as serious as having to live on an iron lung. Additionally, it isn't clear if "long COVID" is even a real thing or just a casual/imprecise term for the unknown. My speculation is that many illnesses like the common cold have similar side effects, but we're only now rigorously studying and measuring them because of the prominence of COVID-19 in the public's mind.

I would also point out that there are potential consequences from a lot of things we've done in response to COVID. Limiting social interaction, hiding faces/emotions, reducing oxygen intake via masks, normalizing government overreach, hurting the economy, keeping children out of schools, and so on can have impacts we don't yet understand. And then there's the potential for vaccines to have some kind of long-term side effect of their own. My sense of the probabilities and risks is that it is preferable to take the vaccine, implement some basic hygiene protocol, and avoid the worst of it. But I also feel there is a fairly wide spectrum of reasonable choices and policies in this situation.

I'm also not sure what you're expecting in terms of taking it "seriously". COVID is going to be endemic. Everyone will be exposed to it over time. In terms of government intervention, I don't think it ever made sense to do more than 'flattening the curve', and even that was perhaps a step too far since those who are healthy and under 50 can more or less treat COVID like any other common illness. It may have even been preferable for that group to simply contract it and build up antibodies so that others who are more vulnerable could re-enter society with a lesser chance of transmission.
I would create a website and/or app for people to learn media competency. I know it does not sound so much like open source, but there should be a practical learning path including sending you phishing mail to test your recognition skills, such services should be open source. And it should teach how to avoid being influenced by FLICC based disinformation including how you recognize it in social media and meme like images.

Also learnig how to discuss and behave in online discussions would be nice. That includes recognizing trolls and socket puppets.

Hell I wish there was something to teach my parents, who ride every disinformation wave out there. I'm only glad they did not fall for phishing or internet scam. But it needs my constant attention. There are so many people out there who are not ready for the web.
I'm not familiar with Acoular*, but the math involved in computing the sound coherence function over a large space is quite involved!

In my implementation, there are multiple stages using a dataflow approach with lots of compile time optimization. In 2011 I could image a roughly 2m^3 space using 8 microphones at ~10fps in real time on 3 desktop computers, 2015 I was able to do 12mics, 3m^3 space, on 2 laptops, but that involved a LOT of custom numeric programming to shave cycles.

If I had access, I'd love to see what could be done given a well tuned implementation and modern GPUs. An efficient scatter gather OP (like what AVX3 has) would increase performance by an order of magnitude.

*OK, I've skimmed Acoular.
if you start a company you should be able to continue to own that company until you decide you're ready to sell it
> In my experience the people who “know everything” either wrote the code from scratch (thus understanding it at a deeper level than the quick summaries people would use to describe it) or just read.the.damn.code. This is a problem I also deal with working with junior team members who would rather ask a question about how something works rather than read the source. Even if I do try to explain it, I can’t explain it to the fidelity and nuance encapsulated in the actual code. Nor can I explain the context as well as clicking “find references” does.

Depends on the shop.

The trend is toward people trying to standardize and automate as much of the development process as possible (so that they can get rid of domestic employees who cost to much and fetch it all over to people in exploitable-countries with less valuable currencies).

People who ask questions, push less ambitious changes, push buggy stuff that barely squeaks past the unit tests and then go back and improve it later if someone complains.. all of that leaves activity metrics that check boxes on the reports of people who don't care whether devs read and understand the existing code or not.
I have, but only for fun personal projects.
I thought the weirding modules were sick as hell, too - especially with Paul's name literally becoming a killing word.
This movement is called open source. We should educate people about importance of privacy and show them open source, privacy respecting, self hosted alternatives to closed source, tracking, proprietary services. If all of us converted only one person, this would make a legion of conscious people.
Church Tax
Well, one workaround would be to treat securitization of shares (eg for a loan) as a taxable event. This is a common (and currently legal) tax avoidance strategy.

Another consideration is that maybe having sole control of a massive pot of cash or financial instruments by an individual is just a Bad Thing. Consider how Zuckerberg structured FB so that while he it's a public company, the bulk of the stock is non-voting so he has de facto sole control of the firm. No matter how destructive of shareholder value or public goods his executive decisions, it's virtually impossible for anyone else to overturn them barring some novel legal line of attack.

I have no particular feelings about Tim Sweeney/Epic, but would the economy or the gaming world be worse off if he no longer had founder control? If he's great at his job I presume shareholders would want to keep him on as CEO and would compensate him handsomely in cash money.
If you use very low level tests then sure, maybe you need to adjust your tests to match the adjustments in the rest of your refactored code. But since by definition a refactoring does not change the code’s observable behaviour, no tests above that level should be affected. I find that very low level tests tend to be fragile and have limited value in most situations as a result, so I don’t personally tend to use them much, but YMMV.
One of the more convincing argument I've heard is the "bullet cluster". Basically it's composed of two clusters of galaxies that recently collided. Since dark matter and normal matter interact differently (dark matter interacting weakly), you could imagine that the two would have different centers of mass following such a collision.

If there's really just modified gravity without any dark matter, the distribution of the regular matter would be sufficient to model the gravitational dynamics but if there is such a thing as dark matter, you'd see that the gravitational effects would be consistent with a center of mass which is displaced from the center of mass for the regular matter. This is, in fact, what you see, suggesting that there really is some type of dark matter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
This will lead IMO to an interesting problem, although the technology and the idea is certainly cool.

Currently many programmers do not take the time to really understand how/why their code works -- programming without understanding 1.0. Essentially make library calls and fuzz around with the arguments until it appears to work. [Not wanting/suggesting to go back to the world before libraries/code completion, just stating where we are now.]

This will enable programming without understanding 2.0 -- not only will you not know how/why a particular function call works, you will now fail to understand why you want a sequence of functions in a particular order.
> we’ll need to identify important people with both a high degree of importance but with a low degree of tech literacy, i.e. your average white, male C-level executive

From this, you think the author is suggesting that white male users are more technically illiterate than other individuals? Your detectors are tuned for too much recall.
Absolutely none of these were found guilty of "Russian collusion", "hacking the election", or any such thing. Especially notable is Ukraine bribery, which is something both parties are guilty of, but part of the reason why you do not see cries that Ukraine hacked the election is that we launched a coup there and installed an extremely corrupt government (one that pays lots of bribes to US elites). That government is an enemy of Russia, so I don't see how these (legitimate) concerns about Ukrainian payoffs have much bearing on the Putin-puppet thesis. I guess they are both slavic nations, so hey, that should be good enough for low information voters.

The rest were all charged for things like making false statements, tax evasion, etc. Given the general witchunts and prosecutorial abuse of that era, you'd think they'd be able to convict just one person for something related to "hacking the election" or "colluding" with Russians.
The inverse square law really dilutes out most signals - https://www.quora.com/How-far-do-radio-signals-travel-into-s...
Sorry, but I can't find any sympathy after they squeezed every penny out of developers in the app store.

> And they really have no feeling in their hearts, usually, about wanting to really help the customers.

Developers are customers too.
Interesting that the Eastern demographic developed horses more so but it seems like they definitely still had spoken very similar dialects since Sanskrit has insane overlap in lexicon with modern Lithuanian
Strictly only the performance or can it also answer usage questions like:

When customers go through this workflow step, they use this option/button 90% of the time and the other options are used rarely?
Didn't know that. I enjoyed those stories!

Another favourite is of course Lieutenant Commander Data. His goal, rather than to destroy humanity, was to become more human himself. This is finally realised when he is presented with an 'emotion chip'.

Yet if neuropsychoanalyst Mark Solms is correct it turns out that emotions are the foundation of all minds, i.e. Data could not have been emotionless to begin with.
10 years in here. Found myself in similar roles over the past 5 years that reduced my coding time and skill.

It has hurt me. I'm only a midlevel though, so I can't jump to an architect or tech lead role (well, I worked as a tech lead for a year but didn't get promoted into it officially). If you're a senior you could make that jump. I'm stuck in between and it sucks.
The damage is done by the psychological manipulation used to keep people engaged with the platform, not the centralization or advertising.

Platforms that eschew psychological manipulation don't grow as large. That is the proverbial cat.
The stories I see, like https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/25/senate-democrats-push-for-bi..., says the tax on unrealized gains only applies to "tradeable assets." It doesn't seem like that would cover private companies. From what that article says, it would invoke an increased tax due to the deferral of taxes though.
> Neither do we say that chihuahua's and labradors have evolved into their present form.

They 'evolved' into their present forms because they were forced/accelerated by the hand of humans through selective breeding.
https://www.hackster.io/sandeep-mistry/create-a-usb-micropho...

Main limitation is USB 1.1 IO, so ~1MB/s, unless you are fine with recording to SDcard then probably around 10MB/s. Pico itself can interface 29 microphones with no sweat (30 GPIOs, 2.0 GB/s internal bandwidth).
Huh, interesting. I disable that feature in Altium because I always want to break the connections when moving components. I will sometimes use the move-without-break tool in LTspice for two-terminal parts just to slide them in one direction a little bit to avoid text collisions.
I guess it could be either: Different constraints or ignorance.
Crazy to think that we have catalogued thousands of exoplanets, even though we basically can only detect them if they pass in front of their stars along our line of sight. Space is big, but also pretty crowded.
There are no mom and pop store billionaires.
If the example code is everything that Copilot generated, there's no guarantee that lat or long are floats and that seems to be an implementation detail left to the user.

Isn't that a pretty big risk though? Specifically, that people will use co-pilot recommendations "as-is" and give little thought to the actual workings of the recommendation?

After all, if you have to intimately understand the code it's recommending are you really saving that much time over vetting a Googled solution yourself?
The problem is we've stopped asking ourselves what it is that we value. What are our goals? If it's maximum pleasure we could just create a VR world with heroin, a catheter, and a bedpan. Go on a soma holiday whenever we wanted. But we don't want maximum pleasure, only our hindbrain does, and we are letting ourselves be led around by it for the profit of others.
One loophole is the step-up basis that applies when the owner dies. Not sure why that wasn't targeted instead (maybe because the current plan produces revenue more quickly?).
Look at Qt and its styles.
I also expect, just from my own experience, that starting a writing routine can actually cause the obsessive motivation to write, rather than vice-versa.

I started writing a musical last year while stuck in my NYC apartment during the COVID peak. At first, it was just a way to cope with the boredom. After a few weeks of writing every day, it became more and more difficult to think about anything else. Eventually I stopped, not because writing was too hard, but because it too hard to get through my day job.

I'm not implying that I have the necessary talent to succeed as a writer, but I expect successful writers feel similarly about their writing process.
I'm hesitant to share publicly but if you send me a message I always love to discuss side projects. :)
A great sci-fi movie, anyway. Except no one wants to see really old people naked.
> those who are healthy and under 50 can more or less treat COVID like any other common illness.

Is that true? I thought that changed with the variants?
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Public housing increases supply. That's why I said rent control and public housing.
"Just because you don't agree with the cool shit going on, doesn't mean it isn't cool."

Dota is cool shit too, but I am not pretending it's an achievement that will be remembered in 3 generations, like the invention of an airplane.

I feel your categorisation is fed by being a fan of SpaceX and fails to put things into proper perspective.
You also depend on cron never having a bug, and you also depend on crons working as intended, unless you also have some extra system logging your cron jobs.
As I understand it the amount of time we were tossing radio into space was quite brief, and more modern radio traffic is directed at the ground (since after all if you're leaking signals into space you're wasting power).

One of the papers cited in the OP argues that a good indicator that there's something interesting about a planet is the combination of molecular oxygen and methane in its atmosphere - the former is a strong oxidiser, while the latter is a reducing gas, so there's some dynamic system producing free methane in the atmosphere.
This is a same problem in financial markets. Things like options contracts depend on a value observed say at 10am New York time on a particular date a decade in the future. If the daylight savings time schedule changes between now and then then the UTC time of the expiry of the options contract will change. The right reference isnt UTC or EST or EDT but "NY City local time" (or Tokyo or Warsaw or Mexico City or whatever is the relevant jurisidiction).
For what it's worth, Copilot can do it.

I typed the following prompt:

def search_wikipedia(lat, lon):
"""
use "requests" to do a geosearch on Wikipedia and pretty-print the resulting JSON
"""

And it completed it with:

r = requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=geosearch&gsradius=10000&gscoord={0}|{1}&gslimit=20&format=json'.format(lat, lon))
pprint.pprint(r.json())
I had a couple of questions:

Are 100% of tusked females giving birth to 32% of the newborns without a tusk?

What % of tuskless females give birth to tusked females?
Article seems confused about the difference between 'wealth' and 'income'.

It has to be tough trying to write about complicated topics while staying under a 'fourth grade reading comprehension' ceiling, or whatever the target is.

How confusing the world is when you have to stick to the 'ten hundred' most common words and concepts. (ten-hundred from XKCD)

https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/
I think maybe you are using different definitions of coverage -- textual coverage vs logic coverage.
Well they are in circles where they feel decidedly poor. Just see the excesses in the Bay area and come out feeling real poor even if you are in the 1% income bracket. Of course everything is relative and you might need 50 years income to buy a place that would be considered awful in Iowa.
Maybe it's like TV? There's still some new content but the bulk of the material are reruns.
But I would still never not escape the params because you don’t know how that code will change one day or where it will end up, and chances are that you won’t remember to fix it later if you don’t fix it now.

We just had a major failure at work recently because someone decided to not decode URL params and their code worked fine for years because it never mattered… until it did.

Just do it right. It’s so easy. Why risk yourself a ton of headache in the future to save you a few seconds?
Actually, why wouldn't the Epic's of the world just issue themselves shares with super voting power, like what Facebook and Google did. That would address the concern in his tweet.
also, I want a version that lets me browse papers. Unlike people in academia or other research fields, I don't know the paper that I want to pirate yet.

from my lived experience, this request has been seen as absurd and invalidated by many because their lived experience is always having feeds of papers and abstracts they can start from. or how they see a browser extension that doesn’t do what I’m asking at all to be good enough (there’s some that automatically give you the scihub link to any paper you are looking at, which still puts me at square one, which paper?).

its a pretty basic feature though.
because taxes should be paid on money that exist and can spent.

you wanna take a loan against your stock? you pay taxes on that loan.

you wanna sell your stock? you pay taxes on the stock you sell.

you just get your salary from the company and never sell stock? you pay taxes on your salary, and not on stock that are doing nothing.
It's a principle that we should apply evenly. I also find it hard to believe that this won't grow in scope once implemented.
This, along with the WWVB station[0] that makes most of your "atomic" wall clocks work, is an underappreciated national (and international) resource that was almost shut down recently[1] due to budget cuts.

I'm not going to link directly to any of them because of the Hacker News hug of death, but do a web search for "websdr", find a US based or nearby location, and try tuning to either 5000 kHz, 10000 kHz, or 15000 kHz (depending on the time of day - lower frequencies are usually better at night), AM mode, to listen in.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB

[1] https://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2019/03/wwv-funding-restored...
> Also persisting stuff in customer DBs that depends on class names (and reflection) is nice source of terror.

We do that but with XML files, most of our tables are dynamically generated. I'm a bit scared every time I touch this part.
> not understanding the difference between majoritarianism and democracy

Democracy literally is: rule of the people. If the majority in a country votes one way and this way is not acceptable to the minority, there are a few ways to frustrate the will of the people:

- give minorities veto power over decisions affecting the lives of the majority

- install a permanent plutocracy within various arms of the government that is not answerable to the people in any way, shape or form

This happens in India all the time. Know, however, that all these options are undemocratic to the core. And eventually ends badly for everyone involved.
When a healthcare bill could bankrupt you easily, hard to feel secure with even millions in the bank. Americans are right to feel exposed.
East Coast of Australia is similiar - normally we are AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time), but during daylight savings, we are in AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time).
From the 1960's to the present, the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radars have been broadcasting enormous amounts of coherent power on specific, non-natural frequencies into outer space: if we were to detect a signal like that we'd almost certainly determine it was artificial.

You can see the list of stars which would have recently started seeing the first glimpses of the BMEWS Line radars here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_star_systems_within_55...

Obviously many other radars (DEW, Hen House, etc.) are doing the same thing, but BMEWS has continuous operation and power on its side.
“These teachings are like a tree trunk you hold onto in order to cross the river, and the discard”. Quoting from memory.
why? the phone i have works just fine, and it has a jack. no dongle necessary.
It will also add very odd incentive to not grow your company after you reach the billionaire tax-level.

A. you'll maintain ownership

B. you wont have to pay taxes on the gains

Tons lot of founders care about 'A' a lot more than is "rational".

It sounds okay, but the USA will miss out on a lot of potential wealth and tax revenue from people who choose not to grow their companies into huge multinational corporations.
That doesn't exactly do what the guy above you was talking about, though.
Stanza – A Python NLP Package for Many Human Languages
That and getting shot.