skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A major difficulty is that understanding one part of a complex system does not necessarily lead to testable predictions about the system as a whole. Take elections, for example: we have really good models for voter behaviour under different conditions, so can make good estimates for how, say, a sitting President's votes will vary as a function of employment, or the differential effect of various changes on results in states with different demographics. But what is the electoral consequence (say) of Bill Clinton being impeached? There's no real way to know in advance: individual political scientists will have intuition, but it's too novel a situation with too little existing data for solid model building or prediction. And it turns out that politics is rammed full of new situations, unexpected events, or changes in the environment. How will voting patterns in the South change as a result of GOP realignment after civil rights? What will happen to the British government's popularity when the Queen dies?

A case in point: a couple of years ago I made an HN comment about parliamentary manoeuvring over Brexit and the likely outcomes [0]. I am skilled and knowledgeable about British parliamentary culture and history, many of the subtleties of the Standing Orders (which were suddenly relevant), and had been closely following the proceedings and thinking hard about the implications. I missed the actual outcome completely, by factoring in the possibility of no deal, or of different kinds of compromise, or of the rebels winning a second referendum. But I didn't consider that Johnson could knife Theresa May, supplant her as PM and then successfully sell a clearly defective alternative (and 'harder') deal as a triumph. Even though I knew lots about Conservative politics, and the strengths of populist rhetoric in changing public perceptions. I assumed that if May was deposed her successor would be in the same bind. But Johnson changed the terms of debate unexpectedly successfully and escaped it. My mostly-rationalist colleagues basically missed calling it too.

FWIW I'm big on intellect, but I'm also big on epistemic modesty. There are lots of things we can show are basically true or false (the 'filter bubble' hypothesis for online political information has been basically debunked, for example) but too many unknowns for our mere opinions to be provably correct.

The same is equally or more true of basically everyone else, of course, which is why I find the false certainties of the newspaper opinion pages so depressing.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19372349
400's are errors caused by the client, I think that fits better.
Over time, ISPs are pushing more users to IPv6 + CGNATv4 because they don't have enough IPv4 addresses.

If an internet service needs to distinguish users by IP address, say for spam fighting reasons, then IPv6 will provide finer granularity because the addresses are not shared by multiple users. Depending on how the ISP implements CGNAT, IPv6 may also improve performance and geolocation accuracy.

(They'd also be doing those ISPs a favor, because offloading traffic to IPv6 lowers the operating costs of CGNAT.)
> You don't start by choosing an architecture.

It really depends. Some patterns might be specific to problem domains, but a layered architecture applies pretty much across all types of software projects.

Between defaulting to a layered architecture and just mindlessly piling up ad hoc decisions without any coherent criteria, a layered architecture always wins.
Couldn't we load it onto an NVIDIA RTX A6000? It is much much faster than the M1 Max. It has a much greater memory bandwith too
Delivery Hero Reliability Manifesto
Genuinely curious, what part of the parent comment is "unfairly screwing other people over for his own personal
gain"?

Seems like ordinary business moves to me to buy up competitors. The competitors are paid pretty large sums for their sale so not sure who's being screwed over here.
I'm reporting you for false info. The Sears tower's name never changed.
I don't know. That's a good question but most modern humans are essentially clones so I don't think there is going to be much difference. [1][2]

1: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/genetic-bottleneck/

2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
Have you considered the time theft of high wage employees going to the restroom, eating snacks in the break room, or having untimed lunches? That’s time that could be spent being productive.

Surely the your team would be more productive if the LOCs were tracked per day and they had to get permission to use the restroom, or better yet use a piss jug. Did Jim really go to the doctor, or pick up his kids from school, or did he just go to the bar and get drunk? Better demand that note, and GPS track him.
I did this with bind and static routing but Spotify refused to work :(
Dug a bit for size info: "outer dimensions (mm): W 170 D 190 H 322"

So a bit over 10 liters. About the size of some gaming computers MSI used to sell (Nightblade, I think), for around 1k fully loaded with RAM, HD+SSD, Intel CPU, and Nvidia graphics. Plus led light bars, etc.

200 for an industrial looking orange case seems a bit of a fashion statement.
Free Software Awards: Nominate those who help us live liberation by Nov 30th
a) 1 idea that he stole

b) having absolutely 0 moral compass
My outsider understanding of advertising is that the most valuable marks are the richest. So the PR might kill that.
> Now lets see what happens with buffers.

> Understanding why I'm out of ammo: wait, I'm not out of ammo. I've got thousands of ammo buffered up right now. As such, I don't fix the problem for 2 or 3 hours.

We don't live in a centrally planned (by a single person) economy where companies are run by simple automation.

Companies are run by people. These people notice when their suppliers are disrupted. They notice when they can't refill their buffers even before the buffers run out. And suppliers of raw materials certainly notice raw material shortages.

We didn't find out about the chip shortage from the article you linked when Toyota's buffer of chips ran out.
Not really when it’s used in the ways they use for imaging. What this procedure uses is ‘focused’ ultrasound that is comprised of a helmet-array of transducers (it has serious Magneto vibes) that is very specifically calibrated to create areas of focused resonance within the brain, using the MRI imaging as guidance. Any of the individual transducers don’t have anywhere near enough power or penetration to be really dangerous by themselves.

This same technique is also being researched as an alternative for radiation therapy, since it doesn’t cause nearly as much collateral damage.
Sounds like more patchwork crap for a failed model...
CVs and File Extensions (2013)
What's a flash loan? They just lend you money with no collateral?
What It’s Like to Drive a Groundbreaking Electric Car from 1908
I'm puzzled Canva.com is top 25?! kudos
Yeah I find this very insightful too.
$120k stolen live stream scam on YouTube (do not send)
damn look at the transactions pour in

https://etherscan.io/address/0xaAF030b1ecAc406B1f081e28f7D75...

This is from having to type the url in as displayed on the video, not even a hyperlink.
DCA and National are more-or-less interchangable. It's Reagan that's the own-of-towner one.
> The essay you linked is very good, but it's actually illustrating my point... The mouse study ran into bias problems because they had to go and directly measure something in nature, and then turn that into a number. That introduces several opportunities for error.

> But this SSRI/COVID study isn't doing that. They're literally just looking at patient records, and counting hospitalization vs current SSRI usage. They're not picking up mice to count ticks... They're exporting records to a spreadsheet, and summing columns.

> Now, these guys might have problems with the quality of the records they're relying on... Who knows whether the records are accurate or not. But that's a problem of data quality, not experimental bias.

Well, no, I have to disagree with this analysis. The mouse study described in that essay didn't run into bias problems, and the reason it didn't is that it was counting the ticks itself. But other tick-counting studies did have bias problems (due to bad methodology), and the Lyme-disease studies based on the bad tick-counting studies had the same bias problems (because they were using the bad data). The bias doesn't go away when you wash it through two publications instead of one. It's not a different kind of problem -- or even a different instance of the same kind of problem! -- and there's no reason to give it a different name.
Kind of a silly question when we're not saying FAANA rather than FAANG.
The thing I don't understand about the Metaverse is, if it was going to be any good, we would have it now with mouse, keyboard, and a nice big 4k monitor. _What you do_ in the metaverse doesn't really have anything to do with goggles you strap on your face. The goggles are just supposed to improve the immersion.

If Facebook wants to make this work they need to get into the business of making multiplayer games for everyday people. They need a huge catalog of virtual experiences with as much variety and content as Netflix's catalog.

I have no doubt that for $15 a month a huge amount of people would switch over from watching TV in the evening to hanging out in virtual worlds doing interesting stuff.

Then once everybody is playing these games on their playstation, xbox, or pc, they can upsell them on a VR rig.
not necessarily. Even in my prototype sender pays email environment (camram/2 penny blue), the cost of the stamp was pushed on the message originator i.e. the email client. The mail server delivering the mail to another server on the Internet doesn't need to take that message if it doesn't have postage.

There are a few other ideas the project explored including using captive zombie nets generating postage for a company's email using spare cycles on desktops. Truth be told, whole distributed postage stamp generating model looked a hell of a lot like bitcoin mining.
An ESL speaker once used "FAGMAN".

We chuckled.
I was thinking this thread was basically explaining kanban
If we go with MAANG, can I pronounce it like "mange"?
Spoiler — it won’t.
The M is Meta - Microsoft isn't in FAANG
> IPv6 will never be universally adopted because they chose to make baroque auto configuration features

What is "baroque" about it? It probably takes less infrastructure than IPv4.

In fact there are standards in the embedded space that use the auto-config features to reduce the infrastructure needed to work:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMEA_OneNet

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15118 (EV charging)
It's far too rare for a founder to maintain control in that way while also growing the company to the size of Facebook is. For example, Basecamp has managed to maintain control but it's nowhere near their size.
Please lead me to some examples for your claims, if you have them, so I can make up my mind and re-evaluate my stance, if you're correct.
I'd appreciate it.
Tell me who needs 200-ct bottles of imodium. People who observe proper hygiene have food poisoning maybe once in 10 years (and whether a motility agent is a good idea in such cases is another question).
But it's not only about bandwidth. An h.264 video file off a camera is rarely going to be a good choice to throw up on the web.

Cameras write files with extremely short GOPs and overly high bitrates because they have to capture live video and can't know what the next second of content will look like. They need to use settings such that pretty much anything captured by the lens will be captured in good quality.

An offline encoded h.264 video can have far more processing thrown at it. Typically you'll see longer GOPs and a much tighter tuning of bitrates and more features like b-frames and CABAC encoding enabled.

A file directly off a camera can have bitrates of several tens of megabits a second. Even short videos are huge and won't stream well to many. A lot of devices also have limits on the profiles of video they'll even decode.

Someone throwing a camera's direct output onto YouTube can be guaranteed better than 99% of all devices on the Internet can be served a watchable version of the content.
This started in 2018. See https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/02/02/understanding-appl...
The M in FAANG is already Microsoft?
retail price != manufacturing price, so say just 2-300 bil
> Encryption is not supported on FILESTREAM data.

I think that means you can’t have MSSQL encrypt FILESTREAM columns, but still can have them stored in a file system that encrypts data (if so, that still may be different in the sense that the file system uses a single encryption key, while the database may support multiple ones, but data will be encrypted at rest)
Visa Processing and Eligibility Criteria
>they'd simplify their brain

This is not how evolution works! They are not in control of their breeding. Evolution is not some intelligent agent with goals. It is like a river, responding to to the path of least resistance in reproduction.

Intelligence and/or brain size not a dominant evolutionary factor unless they are specifically bread for intelligence and/or brain size. Domesticated animal's dominant evolutionary qualities have nothing to do with the animal preferences for mating, thus brain size in fairly arbitrary, and we should suspect it to be some sort of drift, rather than rationally getting smaller.
Internet Radio has a few educational sites:

Science Zone
http://amber.streamguys1.com:4200/live

Astronomy F.M.
http://radio.astronomy.fm:8111/live

Star Talk
http://tunein.streamguys1.com/StarTalkRadio?aw_0_1st.playeri...

Jupiter
http://n06.radiojar.com/0uk94cu0xrquv?rj-ttl=5&rj-tok=AAABbx...

Radio Newark
http://streamer.radionewark.com:8000/

Broadcast radio has morphed into a political propaganda tool.
Wouldn’t benefit from UMA
>The US literally has a law on the books

laws can change, I'd personally love to see some of our politicians and military leadership get punished for lying to the American people and the damage they did to entire nations around the world. A lot of people my age feel the same, some of these people better hope they croak before a younger generation can hold them accountable
Today there are certainly drastically more opportunities for someone like me to not comform with the tribe. The risk is far lower than it would have been in past times. I tend to function like a robot in a traditional job context, my brain does some manner of emulation in those situations. Instead, I can be a remote software developer and never have to fit into a traditional team environment in an office, or slog through a corporate hierarchy. I can pursue high value contracting/consulting tasks that pay for the rest of my time to do what I want to do. I can trivially invest my earnings at zero cost into massive scale markets, again without requiring that I go through tribal/caste/cartel networks (bankers, brokers) to partake; specifically there is no permission required, no kissing of the banker's ring needed, I don't have to work through tribal networks to gain access, I don't have to win their favor (and they largely have no idea who I am in this context, whereas a thousand years ago the situation would have been entirely different for someone like me). I can fairly easily and safely roam at will, whether within the US or internationally courtesy of a passport. I plainly benefit from society, and I happily pay taxes into it (I benefit from the order and systems that helps deliver), even if I don't enjoy all aspects of society. There has never been a better time to be someone constructed as I am.

I suspect that I would have operated on the edge of civilizations many thousands of years ago. I would be more likely to do fringe things, and trade. I've always enjoyed trading, the economic action of it, although I dislike traditional sales. Roaming trader or hunter would be most likely rather than shop owner in a bazaar. The roaming would be ideal for multiple reasons. I also prefer to be awake during the night and always have; I can easily sleep during daylight hours and without a darkened space.
True, but what isn't on the table is producing locally even if it doesn't optimize to the penny instead of shipping crap halfway around the world to save half a cent.

This has the advantage that you already have industries that have capacity that can scale up. You have people trained who can train others. You already have equipment and facilities to which you can add to to break a bottleneck.

Basically, vertical integration at the country level.

Of course, this is the CEO of a shipping startup so that solution isn't on his plate of possibilities.
Why is Facebook "meta" but Google isn't "Alphabet"?
Weekly Global Catastrophe Report [pdf]
I'm not sure that's relevant, since the Hague Invasion Act[0] only applies to war crimes. There's all sorts of other cases in which the US is perfectly happy with other countries asserting jurisdiction over it's own citizens. The US has signed plenty of extradition treaties that allow other countries access to US citizens who commit acts which are crimes in both jurisdictions[1].

Furthermore, copyright is usually treated as a civil tort; and the US also has processes to domesticate and enforce foreign court orders under US jurisdiction should someone decide to play scofflaw. There's plenty of international cooperation that makes the whole concept of "jurisdiction ends at national borders" null and void.

[0] Not the real name of the act, but this is funnier.

[1] If you're curious, there are countries that object to criminal extradition. Notably, France considers French nationality to constitute immunity to any extradition treaty it signs. Though, they haven't promised to invade countries over it like the US did.
Your meaning was indeed clear but I find your reasoning flawed and the cargo-cult intellectualism... silly and pretentious.

The main flaw, to me, is the 1:1 correspondence you draw between the magnitude of UBI-style benefits and cost of living. That may be true (at least under some simplified/idealized econ101 assumptions) if UBI was the sole source of money in the economy, but that's obviously not the case. The crux of the "UBI doesn't cause spiraling inflation" argument is that UBI accounts for a sufficiently small fraction of total incomes that its benefit (greater spending power for lower incomes, and the downstream economic benefits of that spending) outweighs its nonzero but noncrippling inflationary effect.

That is, though the $10 cash benefit you describe may of course increase COL, it does so by some amount between $0 and $10 that is influenced by all sorts of factors you're glossing over.
> There isn't one until IPv6-only ISPs (or plans) pop up offering cheaper connectivity because you don't need an expensive v4 address.

This has been happening for years with VPSes.
I didn't say MSG caused headaches, because we all know that may or may not be true. I've seen the long threads on HN about it. I specifically said they complain of it. In the same way that people complain about IBS with chloramine.

At the end of the day though, I see no problem with winning by filtering it out of my water supply. It is a small cost to do so.

If the argument is that we should have it in there to keep the water clean on the way to my house, great! I'll filter it out when it gets here and I am more than happy to not drink and especially not vaporize the stuff into my lungs in the shower.

The science on it is irrelevant at that point.
Am using (high quality) USB for my pi storage now. Recent firmware can boot directly, though before that I was using the sd card as boot partition only, having everything else on USB. Depending on the application, network boot (i.e. completely diskless) might also be an option - probably the most reliable one, but needs wired ethernet so not possible on the Zero.
> condemnation of the white saviour

it seems more like condemnation of the concept of leading, or controlling, as opposed to educating and liberating. The white savior element is not neccessary to convey that message.
I'd hope that money could be put towards researching ways to make their machines less fragile, or how to engineer an M.2 slot in a professional device with more than enough room. Maybe a thinner camera?
Good god. Has Facebook now got such a bad rep it has to change its name?

For me it will always be the fat man standing behind a lamp post.
The endgame isn’t going to a fix, it’s defeat.

Newer, smarter Asian companies will displace stupid old American ones, just as the Americans crushed the Europeans.
> The reality is that Apple Silicon only started shipping only in a subset of Apple laptops...

Well, more than that. They recently discontinued intel MacBooks, entirely.
Welcome to the opinion zone.

You mention market caps, but I don't think that is really the reason why certain companies enter the mindshare of people.

I think the reason that Netflix became a part of the acronym is because, like its counterparts, all of them are leaders in a big space that others have a hard time competing with, with products that seem innovative (also explains why the giants of FinTech don't have much mindshare). This kind of industry leader at enormous scale results in high compensation for individual emoloyees and it becomes convenient to lump these companies together because everyone is going for it regardless of whether they care about any individual workplace.

Netflix essentially bootstrapped and proved the market for streaming. For a really long time, people weren't sold by the idea of streaming their shows instead of getting millions of commercials on cable TV.

Don't get me wrong, Microsoft is a great company that operates at a massive scale, winning many enterprise hearts like Microsoft Office (slowly losing relevance), but if I think about it harder, I just don't think there's much for Microsoft to claim as a leader.

It has the largest gaming and PC markets, but those markets don't have the same nearly infinitely scalable potential profit that Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, or Google do. They don't quite lead hardware, software, or "platforms". Windows is pretty good, but really more just a data platform at this point and hasn't done much movement compared to macOS. Azure, GitHub, LinkedIn—they exist, for sure, but we tend to talk about them as separate entities than "Microsoff" a lot of the time.

I'm sure many people can raise counterpoints, but keep in mind we're already talking about ambiguous notions of "feeling" how a company should be perceived, and why many people would "feel" like Microsoft doesn't lump with the rest.

I'm reminded by a quote by Steve Jobs talking about Microsoft's "lack of culture" in the products.

https://youtu.be/KSg3fU9XWow
Priesler goes by "Uncle Fester", and wrote "Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture" - he's effectively the expert on clandestine meth manufacturing. He writes some interesting, and kind of terrifying, books.

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/130/130179_Secrets_of_M...
> the struggle would be legendary

You just assign a ULA address to an interface and that's it. There is no "struggle."
as a user of TSQL in a MSFT/Azure shop, I feel increasingly isolated from other dialects. Virtually all other databases these days use a dialect that's closer to PostGres. Does TSQL have a future? If you don't have legacy dbs and you have a choice of dbs, would TSQL ever make sense to use today?
Software services firm Zendesk to buy SurveyMonkey-parent for nearly $4B
Sounds like Hashcash. Could work, but not if noboby implements it.
Postage has done nothing to stop the tremendous amount of spam flyers I receive every week.
Yes! I have definitely heard that one, too. I will update the list.