skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty hilarious.

I'm all for ending the switchover, but what's the big difference between permanent DST vs. Standard Time? Is it just because people have to work 9 to 5? Is 10 to 6 not an option?

Interestingly, when they ended the time change in Russia in 2011, they first went with permanent DST, but then after a few years switched back to permanent Standard Time in 2014.
This really didn't work too well in practicality. My friends in Myanmar tried using it.
Both interviews and discussions are conversations. I know lots of interviews are too formal in some ways. I think it might be useful to start formal, get informal but still stick to rules like not asking discriminatory questions, and then get formal again for the end of the interview. Sort of like a feedback sandwich.
Are these patients only being given Tylenol hospitalized? Because that would strain credulity.

The FDA regulates the marketing of drugs, not the practice of medicine. Physicians can prescribe whatever they want. Treatment guidelines are determined entirely by practicing physicians.

Uptodate is a good resource to check out if you want to see for yourself what clinical guidelines look like, and the type of evidence they are supported by.

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/covid-19-management-in-hos...
Absolutely.

Take the example of eCommerce. I tend to categorize eCom data into three units. Definitions, Transactions, State.

Definitions : Data that describe products, brands, categories, customers, vendors, etc. This has incredible variation and constantly evolving, with perhaps some core tenets being common across different business use cases.

Transactions : These are your sales, purchases, discounts, returns, etc. Not too much variation, more or less similar across various business verticals.

State : Inventory, stores, location of goods, etc. Least variance, can be referenced to Definitions and Transactions. Operations are standard and mostly fixed.

Choosing a PostgreSQL database, allows me to model Definitions as collections of JSONB items, with a few columns for id, time stamps, etc.

Transactions and state are best modeled as relational tables, with references to definitions.
Apple has never been good in this department, according to the folks I've talked to within mobile carriers.

Even Google, a nearly $2T company, operates an MVNO ("Google Fi") that does not work properly on the iPhone, because Apple has not added Fi's GID to the correct list.

Jailbroken users can (in theory) add Fi's GID to T-Mobile's "carrier bundle," and things like Wi-Fi calling, 5G connectivity, etc will work instantly.
/me falls from the chair.
Hahaha the old “if your workload just looked like my workload” argument.

I like how x86 is a power sucking hog for the performance and enthusiasts response is to go out and buy more power sucking hogs!

Someone wasn’t around when Linux could figure out what to do with a USB device. Spectre? Meltdown? What are those?

It’s almost as if engineering is hard and being a critic is easy.

Kind of like numbers, language allows for a never ending, so big in a sense, corpus of little ideas.
Same! In a few situations I didn't ask a single technical question, it was just obvious they knew what they were doing and showed great insights.
You created your account 11 days ago, you misspelled a word, and you used some unusual phrases that seem to resemble a common saying but you are a little off
> The law in America forbids a foreign-born citizen from being president.

This is incorrect. John McCain was born in a foreign country, but he was born to American citizen parents, which made him natural born anyway. Someone who was born to noncitizen parents, but born within the geographical US would also be considered natural born. The US definition of "natural born citizen" is a lot more flexible than what most countries will allow even for naturalized citizens.
I considered doing this at one point and spent some time on Twitch to see if other people did it. I found a pretty active community but in a lot of cases was overwhelmed by the streamer's desire to demonstrate how smart they are. I think it would be an enjoyable format otherwise.
If it’s not a real effect, then it can’t be used that way because it’s not true. And if it is a real effect it also can’t be used that way -- again, the data in the DK paper shows a positive correlation between confidence and skill, which means if people seem sure about it then chances are higher that they’re right. People can’t be blamed for getting the wrong idea from the DK paper. The authors spun the narrative very carefully to imply or seem like high confidence is suspect, while not actually claiming it in the paper, and their data shows that shows people who are more confident are also more skilled on average.

The idea that certainty and confidence is some kind of tell that reveals incompetence is just something people really want to believe. It feels good, but it’s specious and not actually true. Everyone knows someone who’s been arrogant and wrong, and it feels so good to think that science somehow backs the idea that arrogance shows someone is faking their expertise. Unfortunately, the only science that Dunning & Kruger did shows the opposite, that higher confidence is associated with higher skill, regardless of the fact that “skill” and “confidence” weren’t measured in any of the ways people would naturally assume when they read those words.

I don’t blame @MayeulC for believing what Dunning & Kruger claimed, especially when there’s a Wikipedia article backing it up and making it seem like an accepted and solid idea. I feel bad they got downvoted because of my comment, maybe throw an upvote their way if you feel like it.
Doubt they can do that. I believe people in Myanmar tried. Paraphrasing here, but they can't do it yet.
For the same reason questioning the "virtue" passed down from previous generation that sitting at your desk for 45 hours a week being indicative of a hard worker, or effort.
Dang. Have you ever thought about putting the account age in the comment header?
no bro, programming is programming and nerd bullshit is nerd bullshit. the arguments I see in favor of ESM over CJS fall into the latter category, at least on the node side of things.
True, there's a lot of crap blog posts out there, but I dare say that that's a good thing. An important part of learning how to write code is developing code literacy, which includes being exposed to bad code as well. If the internet were a repository of nothing but reliable information, there would be no need to learn how to recognize code smells.

Moreover, it's good to be exposed to scenarios where the code is technically correct, but the attitude of the author ought to raise red flags - for example, unnecessarily representing a solution as authoritative, discounting other approaches for dumbass reasons (such as preferring fewer lines for its own sake), saying that a problem is "simple" to solve, you "just" have to do this, etc. They tend to have the effect of shutting down critical inquiry, and that's a good thing to learn how to recognize.

In other words, you can learn a lot from hamfisted tutorials and toxic teachers.
How are you excluding articles that were flagged as dupes?

Some have a "[dupe]" tag, but others are just flagged by users.
It is possible to use it with C. Cool. Not that I think it is a great language for the purpose, but is a good illustration of how good the code is or how caring the developers are.

The inspiration in by Borland's BGI is also good. Borland fought hardware limitations of the time and the simplicity of the developed solutions is a testament to what was achieved. Of course, they could be more open and their solution rotted over time with approaches that were later discovered as not being even safe to use, but they were easy to use. As an example, their conio.h is much simpler to use than any implementation of curses.

If anybody is looking for a BGI implementatio to contribute, I suggest SDL_bgi (http://libxbgi.sourceforge.net/). AFAIK it is the only implementation which supports Borland's fonts. And being able to see bgidemo running without almost 0 modifications on a modern system with correct fonts after 30 years is extremely cool.
They turn off 2/3/4G in many places completely. Sometimes, entire cell towers can be cut off to selectively cut off calls/SMS.
I thought they made their case quite clear on that site. TL;DR their case is that having the sun at its apex as close as possible to midday is best for wellbeing.
I cannot upvote this enough. The reasoning was solid: for gameplay reasons, ammo worked better.

There's no way to really explain that in lore - but also no reason too: just make the change, and pretend it always was. Players are willing to just go with a solid change like that for solid reasons - you ruin it once you try to explain it in-universe.
There was definitely a "cache enable" pin on the 486 socket.

I had a 5x86/133 that had that pin broken. It worked but unimaginably slowly. Wedging a snapped off pin from another CPU into the socket and trying to keep the whole mess bodged/glued/soldered together made it usable again.
Arguably they have an incentive not to support games for years. Not when they can re-release the same game with a little refresh 10 years later to "fix" issues.
That screen was just telling you whether the switch was on or off, though - the logic to decide what to display was just a series of jumpers in the case front. That's why some were configured to read

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and

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instead. It's not like it was actually measuring the bus frequency.
sort of explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29144096
There's nothing magical about 100% debt:GDP ratio. Why is "we need to work for a year to pay back all we have borrowed" qualitatively different from "we need to work 2 years" or 3. Or half a year.

First of all there's no need to pay it back in one year (or 2, or whatever fixed timeframe), it's very-very-very likely that if paying the debt service ever becomes a serious problem it's possible to switch it out with longer maturity bonds, and/or restructure it.

“The Treasury is already extending the WAM of the debt gradually over time under the current issuance profile.”

"The weighted average maturity (WAM) dropped from around 70 months just before the pandemic to less that 65 months - or just over five years - at the end of 2020 ..."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-yellen-bonds-...

It's entirely logical to take on debt as long as it leads to positive revenue/growth. (Meaning as long as it has a positive return on investment.)
For quick self notes I use Markdown. I found most rendering engines support $math$ these days. Either that or pen-and-paper/tablet/remarkable.

Joplin is fantastic for creating and organizing references as long as you don't need advanced layouts. When you need them you can very quickly convert MD syntax to html or latex.

On a side note I always wonder who has the time of fine tuning uber-specialized text editor configuration at those levels. Not only that, but also having the burden of maintaining that and the inconvenience of being dependent on a very specific setup. I could see myself doing such an effort only after 4-5 years of daily use and friction.
In my area at least Zillow valuations really suck outside of subdivisions. They don’t do some fancy ML, just apply a factor with a cap to tax assessment based on comparable sales and listings.

It mis-values houses near me by 20-40%. Other tools are much more accurate.
> I find it difficult to believe an engine could have such a terrible opening, then go on to defeat a top blitz player. This is just my speculation.

It's more the other way around. Short was a world championship challenger. There is no human in the world who could beat him with such an opening, except for the possibility of a mysterious Fischer with expanded powers gathered during his time away from the mortal chess world. An engine could also do it, of course, and that's a far more likely explanation. A human operating the engine picks the opening, then lets the engine take over after a few moves.
Not to mention the writer seems to have also gained an extra 8 pounds of lean mass.

Some people could take that as meaning a month of this followed by a month of cardio and proper diet could make you hunky in 2 months.

A 2 month cycle of McDonalds and Creatine doesn't sound as effective as his measurements suggest. I work out at the gym 3 days a week, and I would be overjoyed to gain 8 pounds of lean mass in 30 days.

That's what the cutting cycle is for - getting rid of the fat that comes with bulking. Every body builder does it.

Also, taking his 6 month estimate at face value, that would also mean an extra 40 pounds of lean mass. Again, he didn't mention that.

I'm super skeptical of this guy's claims. Especially the bits he fails to analyze. The brain stuff may be real, but the weight part of his story is bonkers.
Most recent significant thread was less than a year ago, so by https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html that counts as a dupe. Reposts are ok after a year or so.

Raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogame programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26427300 - March 2021 (33 comments)

Before that:

Raylib: a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy game programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18932206 - Jan 2019 (29 comments)
Vaccine mandates are a systemic risk
Google Docs solves this problem. Every revision is auto-saved in the cloud. It's come a long way since it was released 2006, pretty much has fidelity with every major Word feature. Also it's free with a Gmail account.
I think the difference is that the focus is on finding more efficient ways to provide the same level of security. Existing algorithms are "good enough" performance-wise for mainstream hardware, but there is much room for improvement without tradeoffs.
I think the new model is mission to metrics. A lot of google searches for the term turns out garbage, but this works closely: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/3k-what-s-the-second-job...

Basically, the CEO makes it clear what they want to do and what success looks like. (Mission, vision)

But they also break that down into measurable things. The people doing the job can say stuff like our goal/mission is to do X. To do X, we need ABC. My job is doing C, and it's measurable when c0 and c1 happens.
> authk

I've always seen authn. Where'd you pick this usage up?
I recall finding out that billions were being transferred on DEXs and being upset that I'd never seen one posted to HN!
I've also used markdown for documents a lot, and use pandoc when I need to convert it to a word doc (or html or pdf via latex). For more complex stuff I end up using word because the formatting is more flexible, if fragile. But this is a good reminder that I would like to set up a more professional standard markdown to word template for reports.
Robert Mueller's report (https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download) found no such evidence though.

p.181 "The investigation did not establish that the contacts described in Volume I, Section IV, supra, amounted to an agreement to commit any substantive violation of federal criminal law—including foreign-influence and campaign-finance laws, both of which are discussed further below. The Office therefore did not charge any individual associated with the Trump Campaign with conspiracy to commit a federal offense arising from Russia contacts, either under a specific statute or under Section 371’s offenses clause."

"The investigation did not establish any agreement among Campaign officials—or between such officials and Russia-linked individuals—to interfere with or obstruct a lawful function of a government agency during the campaign or transition period. And, as discussed in Volume I, Section V.A, supra, the investigation did not identify evidence that any Campaign official or associate knowingly and intentionally participated in the conspiracy to defraud that the Office charged, namely, the active-measures conspiracy described in Volume I, Section II, supra. Accordingly, the Office did not charge any Campaign associate or other U.S. person with conspiracy to defraud the United States based on the Russia-related contacts described in Section IV above."

p. 183 "The investigation did not, however, yield evidence sufficient to sustain any charge that any individual affiliated with the Trump Campaign acted as an agent of a foreign principal within the meaning of FARA or, in terms of Section 951, subject to the direction or control of the government of Russia, or any official thereof. In particular, the Office did not find evidence likely to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Campaign officials such as Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, and Carter Page acted as agents of the Russian government—or at its direction,control, or request—during the relevant time period."

Shouldn't Mueller have at least included all the evidence that the FBI had taken to this court in the report?
Leaving Tech for Crypto: Why to Move into Web3
Okay, this will be my last comment in this thread because I don't have any new way of presenting this and checking this is not a good use of my time.

This schema is also in Boyce-Codd normal form. It's normalized in every usual sense of the word. Trivially so, even. It's not a question of being "technically" correct. If you think the second schema is more normalized than the first one, you need to re-evaluate your mental model of what normalization means. That's all there is to it.
Slight aside: anyone who grew up reading Tove Jansson‘s Moomin books will remember the Groke—the closest thing that the Moomin world had to a monster. She spent all of her time wandering the world looking for warmth and (mostly inadvertently) terrifying people.

It’s interesting to me that they named their company after her.
I never met right people in real life and I spent majority of my life in Internet subcultures, with physical isolation.

Then I moved to capital city and "boom" - majority of my Internet friends live here and we meet on regular basis. For first time in almost 15 years, I'm not affected by dysthymia or depression.
All that, versus spending twenty bucks a dose. Are you sure you’re not sure why? I hope you aren’t one to disparage taxation and public spending.

Also, you’re plan doesn’t address the significant numbers of victims who become incapacitated. Vaccination reduces their numbers; your plan increases it. Again, very expensive.
> There's a reason large states arose in the first place, to displace hunter-gatherer tribes, and it is precisely this

That's a big leap, from the paleolithic world of 10 000 BC to the iron age armies of 1000 BC. Other things happened too: sedentism, agriculture, metals, buildings, money, writing, and so on. No doubt being able to feed and pay your soldiers made a big difference to their motivation!
Your points are clear and coherent.

For what it's worth, thank you for actually analysing the evidence and not blindly falling into conspiracy or groupthink against the vaccine. While I object to some of your points, your hesitation is your right. I also appreciate the fact that you're open to taking it in the future once your questions are addressed.

As someone who took both shots 6 months ago and had absolutely zero issues, if you decide to take it, I hope your journey will be the same as well!

:)

Edit: I just noticed something interesting. You said something about the fact that if the incidence rate was 1/1 million, it would be statistically unlikely for a couple to both get it. If the aspiration theory was true though, would this really be the case? It would be very likely that both partners got vaccinated by the same provider, perhaps even by the same person. That drastically increases the chance of aspiration not occurring for both people! Just an interesting observation about how the mathematical theory of statistics is not always immediately applicable to RW situations.:)
>The most important thing is that the currency is actually used to make transactions that are meaningful to human life.

Millions of people use cryptocurrency on a daily basis to make transactions that are not only meaningful, but absolutely critical to human life. Here in New York I personally know more than a dozen people who regularly send cryptocurrency to their families in other countries. It is cheaper, easier and faster than using banks and legacy money transfer vehicles like Moneygram or Western Union and it has the added bonus of not being saddled with the red tape or regulatory requirements that go along with these institutions.

Here's one personal anecdote. Several years ago I attempted to send a small amount of money ($50) to a friend in Ecuador via Moneygram. When my friend went to pick up the money, it wasn't there, so I called Moneygram. They proceeded to ask me a series of questions about why I sent the money, who I was sending it to, and a variety of other intrusive questions that (in my opinion) they have absolutely no right to ask. If I had sent that money in crypto, I would have paid less of a fee and had confidence it would arrive without going through the third degree by a middle man.

I find that wealthy people, those with deep ties to traditional banking systems and those who don't value their privacy are the ones who have the biggest problem understanding the value in cryptocurrency. They don't see the need to operate outside of a system that works very well for them. For many, the system doesn't work well, or efficiently, and crypto offers a valuable alternative.
> And the USA distinguishes "natural-born american citizens" from "american citizens".

True, though there is no clear consensus on what the former means, it is clear it is narrower than the latter.

> The law in America forbids a foreign-born citizen from being president.

That is not one of the major theories as to the import of the “natural born citizen” rule.

> By contrast, according to the wikipedia page on the subject (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-born_Japanese), Japan has no restrictions on foreign-born citizens.

Japan actually has much narrower restrictions on who can become head of state than the US does. It just doesn't combine that role with the head of government.
I actually had to learn Ruby somewhat recently, although it was only for the purpose of fixing something and not an extensive development; and for that purpose I went directly to the official documentation:

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/

Personally, I think something similar to K&R style would be my preferred learning material; short and concise but clear and easy to understand.
I agree with your identification of the problems, but not your solutions. You seem to point out again and again the problems with public school education. I know a few highly educated people in your position too who are trying to teach without being hampered from all sides by the government and the unions.

I just find it weird that despite all that you think more government, more regulation, is going to fix it. Private schools do not have any of these problems. Why not?

The solutions are simple and obvious. School choice. Let kids go to whatever school they want. Give monetary incentives to schools that attract more kids. Let the schools teach whatever and however they want, but with nation wide testing. The problem will fix itself.