skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unique as far as I know, at least in a scientific collaboration like ours. But we were unusually sensitive to the risk of false detections given (a) skepticism of LIGO's prospects from other physicists, and (b) the lingering stain of a false detection claim, from a bar detector, a few decades earlier.

We believed that if we had announced a discovery that turned out to be wrong, it would probably have meant the end of our experiment, and in practice the end of the field, at least for a long time. It was fortuitous that the first detection turned out to be gold plated and unambiguous, otherwise we would have probably published a bunch of "we saw something interesting but can't claim it as a GW discovery" papers on the next few weaker events before we would have felt comfortable making a confident claim.
Let's create creatures more complicated than ourselves and then give them domain over us. What could possibly go wrong?

The AI crisis is here, and it arrived when computation was added to our market system.

I think the solution is lots of smaller AIs -- distributed social media and financial services that will prevent the big shocks these black boxes of computation seem to generate. We already have the technology -- TensorFlow is open source, the chips are available. We just have to use them in a way that expands human freedom.

Is anyone writing about the political economy of AI? I can think of Byung-Chul Han's In the Swarm, but that's more about social media sans algorithmic moderation.
Fair enough, sorry then. I mistook it as an argument against delivery fees.

If you're incapacitated for a longer time, you might still want to check out if any meals on wheels services are available to you. I actually know a few colleagues (in their 30s) that started getting those since working 100% from home. It can be quite a bit cheaper. And if you're like me it would also be healthier, because every time I order food it turns out to be something like burgers with fries ;-)
He gave a talk on this very question in the past week. I strongly recommend. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4RSht_aV7AU
> I would imagine a higher up got very angry every time a batch failed.

> After awhile you learn to just keep your head down. Many people don’t feel safe enough to push back. Or they stop questioning after awhile.

Worked at a foundry where a metal lab tech was caught fudging the numbers for this exact reason.

The floor manager would get angry at the tech for telling him the "wrong" mix of alloying elements to put in the melt after the main charge was molten.

In reality, the manager should have been mad at the suppliers sending him shoddy alloying elements of wildly varying quality. Or he should have been mad at the metallurgist for not putting in the correct info w.r.t. the quality of the alloying elements.
Processed food manufactures also have a bunch of tricks up their sleeve to manage price fluctuations, since that is one of the most critical aspects of their success. Tracking price per ounce is a much more accurate measure, since most manufactures want to fix a price-point for a product.

However, what even that misses is coupons and sales.
No problem. Ya I did not see loading UI on mobile safari
Build an underwater server farm and become an offshore (undershore?) banking centre
I've experienced similar as a guest. Had a severe misrepresentation about the property I was renting for a month. AirBNB support initially just said "talk to the host about resolving it", which wasn't going to actually change anything since they simply said "sorry, we're keeping the money". It didn't get fixed until I got in touch with the CEO, which isn't a viable path for everyone - and once I did it was resolved in a few hours.

I had another incident at the beginning of covid, where I had to fight hard to get a refund. The international borders were closed to the UK, and the initial response was "talk to the host" who didn't want to refund it. Eventually got solved, but AirBNB was happy to not-help.

Generally their support just seems to give few fucks, no matter what side you're on.
I think they have this for school iPads, with special management software, but not available on the consumer side.

I suspect they're pushing for you to buy a device per user. But even for a household without kids, I could see some utility in being able to pick up the nearest iPad and having your personal state on it. (I think ChromeOS does this, but I haven't used it.)
Paywall so I couldn’t read all of this but the premise seems sort unremarkable. Those who see it will find it so obvious as to not be worth reading about. Those who can’t see it won’t read this or hate read it and not connect the dots. “Progressive policies hurt those they intend to help.” Duh. It might as well be an article about Venezuela or the USSR. Same conversation; no true Scotsman, resistance and free speech is why the blue policies fail, etc… A tiresome discussion for both parties. When someone is in denial, trying to reason with them will accomplish nothing. A better conversation: why is communist China doing so well? Maybe the blue states could learn something from Xi.
Not a single item I buy in the grocery store right now is less than 50% more expensive than it was 6 months ago.
But for most users, do you really think they want to deal with manual memory management like with Rust? It's a UI framework not a backend performance critical one, I don't think Rust would make much sense. Dart is also compiled and gets good enough performance, at least way better than JS which is JIT not compiled to machine code.
I agree - macOS Mojave is pretty stable for me (apart from the irritating hiccups when you block some Apple services through firewall). As the headline points out, I think these issues may be particular to the new M1 (Apple Silicon) based macs. There was an HN discussion too a day or two ago on how macOS on M1 seems to be experiencing memory leak and out-of-memory issues.
A fine doesn’t solve the issue. Could it be the EU is taking their cut? and will repeat for the other techcos every X years?
High Sierra on my MBP 2012 was atrocious. Not only was the Nvidia GPU literally slower than integrated graphics, the driver would crash the kernel sometimes. They did fix this in Mojave which I'm still using right now.
Ask HN: Austin/Seattle/Portland/Miami
I want to explore somewhere outside of the Bay Area and California at large. Of the cities mentioned where would you pick? Or are there any others that deserve a shout out?

Looking for places where I won’t be thinking about cost of living expenses as much, and can just focus on building and learning instead. Having tech presence is important, and access to networking/meetups/hackathons/etc.
>Thomas Vinje, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance and who advises several Google rivals, said Vestager should expand her investigation into other areas.

>"Today's judgment gives the European Commission the ammunition it needs to tighten the screws on Google in other areas where it is throwing its weight around, like in online advertising, app stores and video streaming," he said.

Great idea. Search isn't the only area Google has done bad things. And Google isn't the only big tech company which has done bad things.
It's like robbing a bank for a million dollars and the penalty for doing it is paying back 100K. Why would I ever stop robbing banks?
>The payout on one of the most richly-funded bets of the past decade or so revolves around whether ride-sharing and delivery firms—which once were part of something known as the “sharing economy” but are better described as the “flywheel economy”—can actually ever live up to their heady promise. The outcome will matter to more than just venture capitalists who backed their growth. Whether these flywheels do gather unstoppable momentum is also of interest to regulators worried about technology’s propensity for winner-takes-all business models, not to mention paid-by-the-gig workers caught in its cogs.

Yaawn another one of these "{insert successful company name here} is not unsustainable because of blahv blahh blah" articles. In spite of endless negative media coverage, Uber is still valued at over $50 billion. I remember all the endless articles from 2012-2018 about all the debt Uber had and how it was not sustinable. If anyone believes that these companies are not sustainable, the opportunity to short them or buy put options on them exists right now. Almost anyone, individual or hedge fund, can stand to profit from the inability of Uber and Doordash to keep defying 'the laws of capitalism'.
> have a significant nuclear weapons proliferation risk.

Why. What risk of proliferation is there in France, UK or U.S.? These states already have nuclear weapons.
This is just dumb. Would you prefer if executives were sent to prison? These fines are beneficial in the way that business might think twice before fucking over people.
Studying Computer Science is about learning to program (among other things), not learning what it’s like to have clients.

I’d have been incredibly disappointed to have a teacher like that.
Maybe if they contributed a little more to an open internet they wouldn't have this problem :)
yeah. agree, was merely pointing out the public interface for querying passwd records for the purposes of highlighting why said interface might be another reason to reconsider the proposed idea of a setuid shim that reads a read protected /etc/passwd that contains password hashes and returns only the public components.
21% delta in remission rate vs. placebo is higher than both SSRIs and bupropion in this study [0] for example (11% for both). This is also a single dose which is amazing.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16086611/
From the article:

> “The global auto chip shortage has hit Michigan and states across the country hard, idling plants and slowing production, threatening thousands of auto-related jobs up and down the supply chain,” Whitmer said in a statement. “With no end in sight, it’s clear we have no time to lose if we’re going to protect jobs and maintain our competitive edge."

Seems what they want to money for is not to build new hardware, to recruit new specialists or buy new plants, it would be to retain the current workforce and I guess provide funds for the plants while they recover from something. What they are recovering from is unclear.
This gives some services an opportunity to offer an even lower cost offering.

The thing I worry about though is that this first-party solution will have "special" features that are not possible via MDM using private APIs or some special entitlements.
reminds me of a segment from HHGG in which a species started to make noise so they won't hear each others' thoughts.
Senate Platform Competition and Opportunity Act [pdf]
It exists, but it's a third-party thing, the value proposition here is not the same, Flutter plans to address to entire problem itself, React Native is only concerned with mobile basically, for everything else you are at the mercy of a third-party, which among other things may just stop maintaining the very platform you depend on, how can one build anything serious on top of that?
Is visa sponsorship available for any of your locations ? I quite like what you're building, but I'm not living in any of those.
We had all these videos when it first broke.

Pretty much the week of we had 3 different angles of every altercation.

Also, Rittenhouse's lawyer released a breakdown of the different angles more than a year ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4dhPM99i4I

All of this was suppressed until now for emotional outrage.
It's even worse when you get pressured into giving unrealistic estimates, or even get overruled and have your estimate ignored, and then get blamed when the project runs over the estimated time.

If that ever happens to you, don't wait around and suffer. Start looking for another job and save your sanity.
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Tuvalu is not the only place impacted by climate change.
>entrepreneur

>wave-laborer

These terms are mutually exclusive.
Massive wealth consolidation leads to huge piles of capital that are itching to invest in ventures, which leads to entrepreneurs sprouting up to pitch ideas for a piece of the pie. To get the most enthusiastic investments, they don't bother building a productive company but instead pitch dazzling tech startups that operate at a massive loss in order to disrupt and grow to critical user mass, in order to replace a legacy market with a proprietary platform and thus enable indefinite rent-seeking for growth-obsessed investors. The "flywheel" tech companies aren't the point, getting hands on venture capital is the point.

That sounds like good old normal capitalism as I understand it.

Edit: fixed run-on sentence
Google Relate, a voice assistant that recognizes impaired speech
>Consumer perception of the economy is roughly equivalent to 2009 numbers now, in a recent study.

Source? Searching for "Consumer perception of the economy" leads me to consumer confidence index, which seems to be significantly higher than in 2009.

https://www.conference-board.org/data/consumerconfidence.cfm
> costed him his life at 2008-12-13.

It's Jan 11, 2013.
That's fine if Airbus does evil at the same scale as Google.
And how some of the biggest boondoggles got built. Never mind bridges to nowhere. The Arkansas river has a multi-billion dollar lock and dam system. To take all those Arkansas products to market presumably. From a state near the bottom rank in GDP. That's pork.
> They will raise it as soon as inflation goes up

Yoy 6% for october. Inflation is already up. What are they waiting for? 10%? 15%?

Also Powell isn't Volker by a long shot. I don't recall the Volker pivot because a few traders weren't having a good day.
Are your security cameras sensitive enough to pick up rogue sophons as well? (Three body reference, sorry.)
Same, and New York. Anecdotal evidence doesn't really amount to much though, since prices fluctuate wildly from place to place (i.e. Pittsburgh is cheaper than New York, regardless of the inflation index).
> If anyone believes that these companies are not sustainable, the opportunity to short them or buy put options on them exists right now.

Stocks can remain irrational for a long time. This advice is bad for precisely that reason.
certainly needs some kind of 'Confirm?' handling, however that would work..
> This isn't like an SSRI. 25mg psilocybin isn't something you can just pop at the beginning of a workday. Your setting and "head space" matter a lot for how your "trip" (which we will now rebrand as "treatment") will go. This needs to be accounted for in future studies.

This is what I worry about. It's likely great, when done in the care of a licensed and trained therapist. It's not the mystical panacea many will make it out to be, and I worry that people will do it when they're not with the right people and it'll be a mess.
When Not to Use DI, IoC, and IoC Containers
There are lots of comments like that on HN every day.

I feel like a lot of them are just people who see something getting praise and need to put it down to make themselves feel better.

Seeing other people be clever somehow threatens them.
I've had several occasions where some absolutely insane thought occurs to me during a wedding or a funeral. Makes me feel like a psychopath lol.
Whooooosh!
Bypass the paywall -> https://outline.com/TMHXeX
With scripting, often you don't have to deliver it to another user; you just have to get the data from them, run your script on it, and give them back the result. It only has to work on your machine, because that's the only place it'll ever be run, and only once.
Intel signed an agreement with Hillsboro, Oregon to pay zero taxes for 30 years. It's a little crass for them to go hat-in-hand to the federal government.
probably better than a bickering Italian couple! https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/25/the-last-gre...
I've never seen a Xamarin app running on the browser, is that a thing? As far as I'm concerned the web is the most important platform I care about, if a framework doesn't support it at all, like perhaps the language used isn't even compatible with the browser, then I'm not personally interested in it.
I wish the author provided more information about the strangeness of some of these formats and why they're now obsolete. PCX being one of the oddest because it's ordered by planes. So the red, green, and blue components are split.

What this list is missing is WMF/EMF which were basically direct serializations of Windows drawing primitives.

> BMP files are usually not compressed and, therefore, are not well suited for transfer across the Internet

When BMP files were compressed they'd typically be given the extension .RLE.
How many As are there in batteries?
If you're happy with the UI looking the same on each platform then you don't need any duplicate code. E.g. I used to have a Android+iOS app that was Material UI, so on iOS it looked like a Google thing and less like something that was Native Apple.

If you want it to look native on each platform (and this is key) you need to write different code anyway. MacOS and Windows design rules behave sufficiently differently that some of your UI logic will need to be different on each platform - it's not just a different skin that can be abstracted away.

Flutter itself doesn't magically do anything for you - it doesn't care what platform you're running on because it does all its own rendering. It'll perfectly happily let you build a Mac looking app on Windows. It's then up to the libraries that you use (or create) to do whatever you want and abstract away whatever cross platform details.

The point I am trying to make is that Flutter is doing the right thing here, but the ecosystem is still maybe a bit limited.
Metallurgist Who Tested Steel for US Navy Subs Admits Faking Results
Yeah a link to that would be great
Yes, this has been my idea in many cases, but it is not always that I have a say over the logging format.
Be an experimentalist.
Pork is a pretty efficient way for the richer part of the country to subsidize back the poorer ones without making it look like socialism/communism. It partially makes up for the huge demographic subsidies the richer parts of the country receive from the poorer ones as a result of internal migration.
World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021
I think Flutter is going into the right direction. I developed some apps with it, it has rough edges but it gets you there. Dart is ok language, no issues for me going with it.

My only complaints are as follows:

- the dart formatter which is a cancer that wants to do things in only one way. The forced 2px indentation for example is unbearable for me. The maintainers are close-minded and refuse to understand that some people cannot operate with 2px indents. They will even delete your issues/comments at this point.

- Flutter is backed by Google which likes to anihilate, sometimes without warning, projects that don't go as planned. It is open source but still, without Google backing it, it would have never left the ground maybe.
All you are doing is teaching your kids to hack into their own device (speaking from experence) . Try a different strategy than attempting to lock down a device . When your are dealing with an individual who has a large payout if they succeed in getting around security and a long amount of time to circumvent it’s an extremely lost cause.

Instead you should limit the amount of time for device access or even just take the device away.
Didn't most of the mainstream 90s OSes lack memory protection AND use cooperative multitasking, which meant one bug in an app and the entire system crashes or freezes?
we have a group of Pacific Islanders from "somewhere" that relocated into an underused Church property on the next block here.. there is a large parking area and apartments, in addition to the Church itself. The building was obviously lonely, then, presto! full of people.. they speak in a native language and there are a lot of them, all ages.. it has food and events several times a month or more now.. must have been hundreds of people
Does anyone know if there are more local numbers published? I’d imagine that urban vs suburban vs rural inflations are different, that there are regional differences too. It’s tough to interpret this with the US being so huge and heterogeneous.
Flutter repo in Github has 10 000 open issues, so I don't know how you prioritise that at all.
I don't see what your point here is. Apple forces developers to do something. Google does not.

Information on alternative Android app stores is trivial to come across. They're just not very popular or worthwhile because Google isn't a crazed overbearing dictatorship like Apple. You can go implement whatever payment/notification/clone-of-stock-app/browser app you want and no one will stop you. IIRC, you don't even need to pay Google a yearly fee to be a developer, unlike Apple's greedy rent seeking.
I'm glad to hear it! Time to take it for another spin.
The New Deal governments have a legacy of getting a ton of bang for it's buck - Rural Electrification, the Hoover Dam, the Interstate Highway System, and the Apollo program just to name a few. The entire point of Reaganism was to destroy that legacy by making government ineffective, wasteful, and disdainful of the very people it is meant to serve.
Congrats on the launch! I've love Dendron and the application to turn long timespan complex information into spatially organized formats.

My wife is writing a book and a weekly newsletter, and I know she spent a lot of time to organize how she collects/documents what she reads, so that she can minimize the time to producing new content. In that vein, this makes total sense.

What do you think are some other areas outside of software that can benefit from this kind of note taking? Are there any active users now that you can share about?
By quantity of businesses, not most. By market cap, most.

Since dollars are votes in capitalism, market cap is the more relevant metric.
> What happens when the number of dollars approximately doubles in 2 years as it happened?

Do you think countries that don't use the USD will remain unaffected? People keep blaming this on the fed "printing money", but that logic only holds water when just the USA is affected.

Everyone is experiencing inflation; it's a global phenomenon. Some countries have it even worse than the USA because their local production is getting redirected to the USA, where even higher prices will be paid.

In two years, things will very likely cool down globally.
I've probably burned some bridges this way, but whenever this has happened to me I've sent strongly worded messages to the recruiter and hiring manager. It probably goes nowhere, but I think it's time that we as an industry stop putting up with this shit.

It's also a great indication that it's not a company you want to work for anyway, but I don't have the stomach for accepting this level of disrespect towards applicants.

The only people who benefit from this situation are the people who have the luxury and freedom of 20 hours to spend on take-home projects. And even when I was that person once, I still hated it.
Can’t edit anymore. Just wanted to say sorry if that came off too negative. I really want to like a potential Google competitor.

UX things that I wish were improved:

- scrolling vertically and horizontally to find results is quite confusing and a lot of effort

- low DPI icons make the page look unpolished

- too many “things”, the results page doesn’t fit on an iPhone 12 mini’s screen without horizontal scrolling

- fonts change style after they appear making it look jittery and unpolished

- upvoting/liking seems like a good idea; would reconsider value downvote brings. It seems to convey results are user controlled and prone to vote wars

The results are pretty good, but the UX is poor. Wishing you and the team the best.