skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just ended up with a rather perverse definition of equal outcome. What you may intuitively want to do as a society is maximize everyone's happiness. Which is hard to quantify, so you go and try to eliminate things that typically make people unhappy. Being denied the things you want because of the factors you don't control is surely a big depression maker. Not "go study better and you'll pass the exam", but "fuck off, I don't like your face", pardon my French.

So how did we solve it? We made a faceless inappealable uncriticizable statistics-driven system designed to tell the majority of people to shut up and cull their ambition.

And you know how we ended up here? Every society has a certain amount of people with ambition to power. They want to tell others what to do. They want to make decisions affecting others. That's fine, that's human psychology. That's why the previous generations started companies, studied hard disciplines, took risks, and found their place in the society with the perfect effort/power balance just for them. Except, this doesn't work anymore with the "economies of scale" where there's a bunch of CEOs and investors, but everyone else is a replaceable drone.

So there's an incredible power vacuum in the Western society. People are desperate for roles in life that will give them meaning and power - ability to make decisions affecting other people. The corporations have PR departments and centrally owned media companies that steer this force clear of colliding with their financial interests. So, it effectively turned into a cold civil war. Want to change something in the society? Go get a 5-figure loan on a social justice degree, and then exercise your power by telling majority of the people to hate themselves, and enjoy no retaliation.

Kinda like every war. On both sides of a conflict there are regular people with friends, children, families, hobbies. But they are too busy demonizing the other side, and eager to be foot soldiers in someone else's game. Someone whos mansion is located far from the front line and whos kids will sit at the board of a munitions manufacturer, rather than in a trench on a battlefield. I don't know how we're gonna get out of this mess.
This place cost 1.5B. If you want to give everyone more space and windows then it’s only going to cost more, and that’s before it’s goes over schedule. This is one dorm building for one college. If you play it through, which you have never done, then you would see that even if we took every penny from the rich we wouldn’t be able to do what you said. And by the way, you are in the top 1% wealth bracket globally, so why don’t you put your money where your mouth is and empty your bank account and send it to a family in Myanmar? Then you will be living the redistribution dream you always blather about.
Yep! That was the set of tweets I was referencing. It allows items behind the notch, and it's not just iStats.
With ZFS or even RAID, there should ideally never be a need to "restore from backup" because of a conventional hardware failure; storage drive malfunctions nowadays can and (IMO) should be resolved online.

This is of course not a reason to avoid backups, but nowadays "restoring from backups" should be because of operator error or large-scale disaster (fire, etc), not because of storage drive failure.

Nowadays I'd be more worried about compute hardware failure - think CPU, RAM or the system board. Storage redundancy is IMO a long-solved problem provided you don't cheap out.
If you're not into cars, I doubt you'd recognize a Chevy Bolt if it came up and tapped you on the hind end. Hell, I'm not only "into" cars, I bought one of the first Nissan Leafs, so I know my electric cars. And I have to take a second look to make sure it's a Bolt and not a Chevy Spark. Even the new Leafs aren't the odd-looking, bug-eyed beasts they used to be, and look almost normal these days.

So unless you've actually been looking, it's likely the body styles just haven't stood out enough for you to notice.
> And if some future ruler decided that meat is to be banned, what would you think of activists opposing that?

I'd become an emigrant, activist, or terrorist.

> Or is it the idea of the stereotyped hippy/conspiracy theorist whacko as the 'activist' you oppose?

No, I just don't care for activists in the general sense. I'd prefer to live in a generally liberal nation with some form of hegemony again, rather than miring through constant quibbling over every topic with the ultimate cause of disagreement being fundamental differences in belief.
XPS 13 camera has been back on the top for a while already.
On the Airbnb point -- we ran many incrementality experiments prior to COVID -- COVID just completely changes things. Also 5% of Airbnb's revenue is alot.
Signal,

please stop asking for mandatory phone number to register and use Signal.

This raises privacy concerns and negates all the end-to-end encryption goodness you're offering.
They aren't planning on it, based on Mark's keynote. They are opening up the products to multiple different account integrations. You will most likely be able to create an account with your Google account or Microsoft account.
> "These sex differences were larger in countries with a higher level of women's empowerment."

There are confounding factors here, though — it's not like the only variable being changed between two countries is a woman's empowerment.

See also, Simpson's paradox.
The costs of the money robbed is so far removed from the individual customers who use that bank that it's just as absurd as saying the government gets money from the tooth fairy.
Sorry to burst your balloon, but there isn't enough rubber.
> Spying programs and laws will only worsen unless people really voice their concerns and elect the right people.

I very much suspect that who is elected has nearly zero effect on spying programs.
>the widespread abuse of power[...] The vast majority of what they do has very little effect*

doing a lot of work here. To what degree is that simply anti-governmental sentiment rather than an honest evaluation of the agencies in question?

Say you'd be living in a narco neighborhood in Mexico were cartels regularly shoot civilians up in private wars, have you considered how badly institutions could do in comparison?
> Well, they covered that too. "As part of the deal [to get his money back], he agreed not to pursue legal action against the government".

I think that doesn't cover the payment itself, the gov. entity just recognized the debt but he needs to collect. It he wants to enforce collection, he'll need to get a court order (not really that knowledgeable about the US system, so maybe he already have the right to enforce collection).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Ge...

These have been shown to directly affect statistical likelihood of career choice.
It is a mistake. The bomb does not damage a radius, it damages an area which is quantified by a radius squared. Again, this is high school geometry, not controversial, and maybe there are factors not explained which make this correct in a sense (maybe "damage" is a term of art which varies by the square root of area destroyed? Seems unintuitive, but I'm not an expert in atom bombs or much of anything.)

It's a silly error which in no way undercuts anything in the article afaict, but it annoys because it is very simple and obviously true by unit analysis. I make silly errors too, as we all do, present company excepted. But it does undercut my confidence in the more far difficult journalistic work being done, which I cannot interrogate with my limited mathematical skills and pretty much have to take on faith. To me it speaks to the question of whether I "learned something" or "read some words".

This is a very boring digression and I take full responsibility for making a ticky-tacky point, which I have now I believe fully explained and contextualized.
Isn't a preprint a way to make your article available outside Elsevier's paywall these days?
"Don't know what you mean by "individual level" policy but a lot of policy needs to change."

The long-standing beliefs, policies, laws, and scholarships that assume a woman in a male-dominated profession is an abomination and represents a loss of a good job to a deserving man.
Personally I have never found a good agency for these type of things, and I have worked with a bunch. Some in the gaming space were decent enough.
There are very few ARM vendors that don't deserve Hell...

(And I include ostensibly FLOSS in it as well, as shitty firmware can be worse than no firmware)
The workaround for the RSA patent using dynamically loaded stub libraries is also kinda noteworthy.
Interesting to see the continued interest in G100UL on Hacker News. Personally I'm ecstatic to soon be able to run unleaded. I'm curious to know if this is indicative of a broader (politically-relevant?) interest in getting lead out of GA, or just the sort of specialist topic that tends to interest HNers.

It's interesting (but not unexpected in hindsight) that this new slew of approvals (generally) only impacts engines previously approved for low-octane unleaded fuels (e.g., 94UL). Even smaller engines like the Lycoming IO-360 (except the derated -L2A) aren't approved despite only modest power increases over the O-360.

At any rate if GAMI is to be believed this is all academic because the final set of approvals should come out before G100UL is practically available anyway.
Re: the price.

It’s expensive at the top end, but Apple have cheaper laptops.
If one doesn’t need two dedicated prores encoders and the ability to run a myriad of high definition screens - it’s really better to save money and buy a slower unit.

After all, it won’t be long before we look back on this laptop’s fast performance the same way we used to look at G5 powermacs.
it's like an idiom, man.
Didn't make it to prod.

I tried migrating to YB at one point. I had issues migrating the indices (got lots of timeout issues). Once I got past that, I found out that a particular query I needed to do didn't have predicate pushdowns implemented and so always resulted in a full table scan. Ended up giving up.

Cockroach (at the time at least, ~1.25 years ago) didn't have support for some JSONB things that I needed.
> Sub poena is basically a rubber stamp after filling out a form.

Do you have a source for that?
Not to be super cynical, but it would be embarrassing and reveal that there is not really any innovation. I kept cringing and thinking “didn’t they do this in Europe (Netherlands) decades ago?”
Is there any study to back his claim? Just assuming your conclusion doesn't cut it.
You do have to wonder what makes for a higher paying career, though.
We bypass natural selection all the time. Some people are more vulnerable to certain pathogens. We give them medicine or vaccines to mitigate mortality. Natural selection would have us let nature take its course. Some people have religious beliefs that in fact route people towards nature or God determining mortality rather than medicine.
Random anecdote: When I built my first 386 box that had a socket for a 387, I was super eager to fill that socket because even then PC builders were the same as today... but realized there wasn't any software that I used which would utilize it (my QuickC C-compiler didn't even support it!) The first app I remember that used it was Excel. It wasn't till the 486 that commodity games started using it.
Sideloading on android is quite simple. "download apk" -> "launch apk file" -> "alert gives you a shortcut to settings to allow installing apk from [source]" -> toggle the only switch on that screen -> "launch apk file" now installs it.

You press the only non-"give up" button at each stage and you're done.

Remember that Fortnite succeeded in convincing people to do this by the millions. It's not hard.
Fair enough. A warrant issued by a judge that is required for every case is good enough.
Paper lead author here - yes, usage is multi-factorial and there are hidden factors we may not know about. You can see the Paris August holidays in our visualizations of the models, and I was recently told about Goteborg July holidays.

So the model with four variables (UTCI, rain, hour of day, day of year) is best, but then that is hard to visualize.
>there exists criminal behavior that most reasonable people would agree is bad and should be stopped

Absolutely.

>In formulating your statement that examining criminal behavior is a problem, you are suggesting there shouldn’t be ways to uncover crimes.

I didn't get that at all. Before Signal and other encrypted apps, folks who didn't want to be spied upon would meet in person, in private places or write messages in code.

That didn't stop the police from bringing down many criminals, such as Al Capone, the New York Mafia and many others, did it? Nope, it didn't.

What you seem to be advocating is that everyone's privacy should be forfeited so police can get information without doing, you know, police work.

I'm all for bringing criminals (especially violent ones) to justice. But I'm not willing to give up my privacy so that police can spend their time eating donuts instead of their jobs.

Feel free to disagree, but I'm going to keep using Signal and be glad of it -- not because I'm involved in criminal activity, but because I value my privacy.
Out of curiosity, what outcome would mean something has gone wrong? 75%? 90%?
Or, as most banks are for profit institutions, as lower profits for shareholders.
My go-to on this is that if someone says "you left me waiting for days" we don't say "sometimes 'days' means 'a few minutes'" and wring our hands about how anyone will communicate time. We say that people exaggerate. That doesn't really change if people say it a lot.
> Azithromycin's use as a covid treatment seems to be controversial...

By itself? Or as part of the supposed protocol from HQC/zinc/zpak pushers?
The US is the smallest and slowest growing of the big three EV markets. China and Europe being the other two.

Please find year to date (2021) EV sales by car group here: https://eu-evs.com/bestSellers/ALL/Groups/Year/2021

Volkswagen is outselling Tesla.
I think that is a very difficult conclusion to draw. There are a lot of factors in there that are impossible to control. We can't really isolate cultural and historical trends. Yes, we can measure a difference that significantly correlates with sex, but it is a bit naive to draw causal conclusions.

But I still agree that equal outcome metrics are misguided. It is too lazy of a metric and statistics will mess it up very quickly with such things as Simpson's or Berkson's paradoxes. These are far too easy to fall prone to. Besides that, the question seems to be more about if the reason for these differences are due to biology or society (rather, which one is more significant), not that the differences don't exist (i.e. causal). But coming up with good metrics to determine what is going on is difficult. I do not think a metric should become a target though, and we have to be more careful in nuanced in our approach.
Yes of course. Democracy will save you. Grow up.
Everybody likes to imply that Elon is going to make some sort of shit new society in space. Perhaps they'll get as far as trying, but the odds of it working out are questionable on social grounds alone.

In general, people living in hostile environments develop higher levels of trust and social responsibility. When you live closely with people, where everyone's choices impact everyone else, when a single person intentionally screwing things up could doom the entire community, you get societies that are pretty much the polar opposite of the archetypal billionaire libertarian vision.
The snark is publishing it in the blog post not blacked out. As a side effect the account may or not be warned by this. Not sure, if it’s legal to do so, in the US.
My inorganic chemistry prof was fond of saying organic chemistry experiments "usually fail if the labware is too clean"!B-))
I've A/B tested hiding functionality and reducing info density increased the number of people spending money on the site.

I was completely shocked by seeing those results initially and dove deep to look for any other negative effects from these changes but could not find any. I've repeated similar tests and the results are often similar.

From that experience, I've learned that most people are not like me or the HN crowd. The things that you complain about could actually make things easier for the majority.
Oh funny. Just ten days ago someone asked here in the comments about DDG:

> Why, on any planet, would law enforcement issue a warrant to get user data from a company that doesn't have any user data?
Thanks for the correction. I ignored decay products because it is a very small rate. Anyway, if we're invoking physics, the Sun harbors a very large reservoir of He. ;-)
Assassination is already illegal, there is no legal precedent to fight on that front. On the other hand, letting Julian Assange be judged as guilty here sets further legal precedent that it is illegal to published leaked classified information.
You mean like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042603 ?
The problem with the state-of-the-art X11 is it (Xinerama or RandR) implements multi-monitor as a single logical monitor with each output stitched together. Getting multiple DPIs on each monitor is effectively impossible because you only actually have the one logical screen.

I believe it's possible with the older X multihead method, Zaphod mode, to have fully separate X11 screens, which could have different DPIs on each screen. The problem is there's no way to move windows from one screen to the next, and my understanding is that is an architectural limitation of X.
Most definitely.

Interestingly enough, Google told me there are only 14 gasses that are lighter than air. They are:

* acetylene

* ammonia

* carbon monoxide

* diborane

* ethylene

* helium

* hydrogen

* hydrogen cyanide

* hydrogen fluoride

* methane

* methyl lithium

* neon

* nitrogen

* water vapor

Wiki lists most of them at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_gas , although it leaves out ethylene, methyl lithium, and diborane for some reason. It also doesn't explicitly list carbon monoxide, but talks about it under "coal gas."

Of those, only hydrogen and helium are even vaguely suitable for party balloons, due primarily to their nasty chemical properties and/or expense.
I'd say the lack of price savings are mainly these three factors:

Material quality: Purple, which I roughly used as inspiration for my original mattress design, used polyurethane which is cheaper and lighter, but less durable, than the latex I used for the core of my mattress. I have no idea what they used now but that was the case at the time.

Economies of scale: They can keep making the same few shapes cheaper. I was unable to buy specific dimensions of buckling column gel so I had to buy several toppers to extract the material and I only used 49 square feet out of the 64 square feet (although I found other uses for some of the remaining gel), plus the toppers came with other cheap foam that I had little use for. It's really difficult to order buckling column gel directly.

The literal scale: My mattress is larger than most of the US mattress companies, more material = more money. I imagine an emperor sized mattress would be similarly or more expensive from Purple. I would've gotten slightly better ROI per size had I made my bed larger due to the aforementioned discarded buckling column gel. Plus I needed to get nonstandard custom sheets and a custom sized encasement.
>So you want cost the taxpayer significantly with potentially months of unneeded work and expose cops to potentially more danger to ultimately arrive at the same result? How exactly is this better?

Because my privacy and that of most others who are decent, law-abiding citizens is more important than not making police do their jobs.

How do you think police caught people before apps like Signal? With real police work. Perhaps if they had to spend more time doing that, they wouldn't have time to beat and kill as many unarmed civilians.
> Does American law even allow such warrants?

Even worse - American laws allow the US government agencies to actually access the servers directly (or even add other servers or routers) in the data centre of the service provider, and the service provider is legally obliged to not tell anyone about it!
Can the availability of this fuel be scaled readily, or will most people be stuck with leaded fuel still? Can companies other than GAMI make this fuel?
The stars.

A star gate, if you will.
Covid-19 virus most likely began with Wuhan lab accident: US intelligence agency
Not to say that some systems don't introduce accidental complexity, however, getting distributed systems right/correct is necessarily complicated. Design for failure and you will get a good picture of what tools you need to employ.
For a moment I thought cool yet a another SAT solver having a chemical as a name. This is nothing new I am thinking of Glucose solver ...
I am very interested in the buckling gel, and I have considered getting a mattress from Purple a few times. Is it a significant upgrade from memory foam?
These are either non-individual laws/policies, or personal beliefs/biases, but not both "individual level" and "policies" at the same time.
ByteDance (字节跳动) the parent company that owns TikTok and mainland china Douyin 抖音 have been caught suppressing and hiding videos from disabled or LGBTQ users so that they are not shown to regular users. [0] [1]

One might wonder what other content is suppressed on the platform. [2]

[0] https://www.dailydot.com/irl/tiktok-fat-lgbtq-disabled-creat...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50645345

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
You still sometimes get transactions and fees within seconds of each other you - i.e. I had an ATM charge me the amount of cash withdrawn once and then the fee as a separate transaction.

I get that you want to stop identical transactions within 5 minutes of each other, but I have a feeling there may already be stopgaps in place for something that simple.
I thought Smarter Every Day's analogy to carbon emissions was great for this exact reason. It's hard to feel like it is a problem because it is difficult to see the pollutant and small amounts don't cause major problems. But when that pollutant reaches a critical mass then it becomes a very large problem for everyone, not just a particular individual.
I'm a layman! I rarely read research papers, and generally only in fields I have a smattering of competence in (computing matters)

It's interesting that single-author research in those fields is easy to get published. I'm surprised.

I'd never heard of MOND. I'll do some digging into MOND and Famaey. Thanks.
Their suppliers are changing, too and have been for years. Supply chain skills such as selecting partners, handling logistics and optimizing trade finance aren't becoming irrelevant because of a switch to EVs.
That is actually a different instance.
Macbooks (since the 'unibody' aluminium design) infamously pass a little stray current through the chassis, even earthed in the UK. It's quite unpleasant if I rest my hand between laptop and desktop keyboard (laptop sometimes to the side) touching both, like a steadily warming burn.

Hardly compares to the shock (pun intended) I got when I happened to touch the long-'tingly' light switch at the same time as another well-earthed one through the door though.