skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the bell curve for height does not suggest a 30ft human would ever occur. That would be somewhere around 90+ standard deviations out--that's so wildly improbable as to be effectively 0. A "mere" 7 standard deviations is effectively 1 in a billion. And that's somewhere around a 7 1/2 foot tall human (who we do see occasionally).

"Standard deviation of lifespan" (a somewhat erroneous idea since we're not actually on a bell curve) is somewhere around 10 years. 150 years old is 7 standard deviations--improbable but not impossible. If we're following a bell curve, 1 in a billion people should be 140 years+ and 1 in 10,000 should be 120 years+.

The fact that we don't see these probabilities is extremely strong evidence we're not on a bell curve. And not being on a bell curve immediately throws out huge chunks of statistical "rules".
Seeing history preserved on 20 yo threads like that is pretty nuts
This is just such a classic story describing the Murphy’s Law of working with computers. This gave me a chuckle.

Solving programming problems is sometimes similar.
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Corn_Boy - AM what are you saying robot, plese stop it I do not like you. turn yourself off robot!

Corn_Boy - are you there MR lowtax??

Corn_Boy - mr lowtax are you alright??

Corn_Boy - are you there lowtax?????

https://www.somethingawful.com/icq-pranks/icq-transcript-spa...
Can you extrapolate on how you use iNaturalist? (I have it installed, have used it to id a few things, but haven’t really seen apparent what you’re describing. Would love to know more…)
Well if you're going to wake up Deus Ex Machina and make it look stupid, it's probably your survival instincts suggesting you add just a dash of "task failed successfully" lest you find out what happens if you're successful, or worse, very successful.

Letterhead and perfect graphics and absolutely perfect text and whatnot? You could send mail literally anywhere. Media. White House. Obscure government... stuff/facilities. International contacts...? FVEY? Infinite rabbithole much. SO MANY social engineering possibilities, like this is absolutely mad.

And then... and then you're on the run for the rest of your life - not only against someone who can have you added to all the nonexistent facial recognition databases, but against unimpressed individuals who will specially go out of their way to find you regardless of where you are.

Alternatively, you can pop the balloon in a way that's very obviously stupid, make absolutely no demonstrative points about social engineering in the process, and leverage everyone's collective panic attack to ensure there's a widespread search for the sending email address that would be much more far-reaching than a news article ever would.

Genius.
Did you try an experimental approach?
Would JS Proxies be a better comparison? These are similar to get/set, but they let you work dynamically over any given property key: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

i.e. you could write a single get/set pair that works for every property on an object, intercepting operations and doing arbitrary logic, including passing values on to the default behavior if you want to
Yeah. SA's legacy is... complicated, and mixed, to put it mildly.

But SA was so representative of that era of online culture. If you have strong memories of that era, then Lowtax's passing has got to hit you some kind of way.
What’s been interesting through the years on the forums that I’ve found to be strange is that as the Internet social media landscape became “free” services that have terrible, low effort, low quality content and users as a rule, SA’s model of having users pay to post is becoming more of a better model to help avoid the poor incentives of most companies to demand more of users’ attention. The posting quality for users that still post in the technical sections is incredibly high as a rule when most other communities tend to need a lot more attention to curate the content. So in an ironic sense, Something Awful is an irony to me in that it’s actually now some of the better community created content on the Internet.

I’d rather have sites more like SA than more Reddits, Twitter, FB, etc. that is and it’s a bit of a pity the business model never really panned out at scale.
Can document discovery really be this sweeping? Or is this some sort of request where the plaintiff can review potential documents before those documents are submitted into discovery and argued on?
> The person who exploited this could have done a proper vulnerability disclosure.

If that proper vulnerability disclosure happens to land on the desk of some irrational apparatchik at the FBI that doesn't like your brand of facebook posts or doesn't want to be exposed as an incompetent they won't hesitate to open a file on you and dispatch a cadre of life ruining agents. And before you say "but if it's done properly..." I say hire a good Beltway lawyer before you say a mumbling word because you don't know what 'properly' is or if it even exists.
From the government work I've done. The most important thing is the paperwork and paper-trail, everything else is secondary.
How is founding a tech company working out? I work for an established firm in the Greater Detroit area and it’s difficult for us to find great talent. I imagine it’s more difficult for startups in the area? I’ve also heard it’s much more challenging to get VC investment?
> The phrase “unfettered free speech” only appears in the comments here and not in the article.

Yes, and I responded to that comment and not the article.
In all the best ways possible, this reads like an Asimov short story.

Sigh, I miss him so much...
Is that looking a gift horse in the mouth?
Best put. I'm not sure if younger people these days can imagine just how anonymous the internet was then.

It had its advantages and disadvantages.

Although I'd still rather live in the future of that world than our current identity-everywhere one.
We could use it to teach them mining, smelting…
That jump out of bed to work feeling alone. Of course.

Check this out: https://www.notboring.co/p/announcing-mainstreets-60-million

The restoration of hope is infectious. We had our biggest day ever this Friday.
In this topic, pstuart wrote:

> Advocates for unfettered "free speech" always seem to gloss over the fact that a lot of that shit is not healthy. I'm not trying to argue that such speech should be censored, but it's certainly nothing to be celebrated.

When I tried to reply, hackernews responded with:
"[flagged] Sorry, you can't comment here."

I curious why the system panders to the censorship-assholes who flagged a perfectly reasonable discussion point.
Even in NYC I pay roughly 50% of my income in taxes. Ce la vie
If the dev has that in writing, sure.
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Fuck it all and fucking no regrets... - Metallica; Master of Puppets; Damage, Inc;
"Auto banned" by somebody seems like a contradiction?
> I can also make up stuff he could have said but didn’t.

I think you're getting confused. pstuart was the one mentioning unfettered free speech, and tylersmith was the one saying it's not relevant to the article/SA.
Please tell me this wasn’t the thread they were setting footage of the jumpers to Yakkety Sax
What would a world with cheap energy look like?
Oh okay.

Here, I’m going to say “Lowtax was a huge fan of K-Pop”. Since now that’s been posted, you can accept it as fact and argue that you went through his post history and give me your thoughts.
Higher wages. More market competition.
I have a problem with any article that starts off by making a false statement in the first sentence. GME was not a short squeeze. The SEC did a very detailed analysis, which was released recently, and it’s pretty cut and dry - GME went up because of a massive number of retail traders buying the underlying. Short covering contributed very little to the upward momentum.
Were short positions that caused the GameStop frenzy closed or not? I can never come up with an answer when I go looking for evidence.
Yeah. ISO8601 being alphabetically sortable is one of its most useful features.
???

The analogous response would be "no he wasn't, what are you talking about".

You're going after the wrong person here.
Censys and Blumira are mostly ex Duo folks. Arbor Networks, Clinc, there are a ton of smaller companies that have exited too
DARPA has been funding work on better gyros and accelerometers for about 10 years now. MEMS gyros keep getting better. The good ones are down to a few degrees per hour.[1] That IMU/GPS is $3,386.09. Not down to the phone/vacuum cleaner price point yet.

This is nowhere near as good as the device described in the parent article, but it's good enough for a lot of applications. If you can get a GPS fix every few minutes, it's good enough for many nav applications.

(When we did a DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle in 2005, we had a MEMS gyro with over 10 deg/minute drift. That was too much for the mapping to work properly. We needed < 2 deg/minute for the laser scans to align. Better IMUs were back-ordered due to the Iraq war, and attempting to work around the problem with filters and a magnetic compass were not quite good enough.)

[1] https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Parker-LORD/3DMGQ7
“Basically” was a modifier here, meant to indicate that he was not auto-banned in the traditional sense but rather quickly in a way that resembled being auto-banned.
See also: https://500mile.email/ - curated list of absurd software bug stories
Does having rich parents at the right place and time really put you in the same category as someone like Einstein, who changed humanity's entire view of reality and the nature of the universe?
Does seedvault work for you? If yes, how did you get it to backup apps that tell Android not to allow backups (e.g., web browsers)?

I found that seedvault could/would only backup less than 40% of the applications on my phone (running rooted calyxos). That 40% is what it claims to have backed up. I haven't tried restoring using seedvault yet. But, since it uses official backup apis, like adb backup, I expect a good percentage of failed restores; I had a pretty terrible restore success rate using adb backup.

Titanium backup is not 100%, but it successfully backs up and restores the majority of my (non-system) applications. It fails on apps with lots of data like here maps offline maps, and antennapod podcasts. There are settings that get it to back up the data (the backups are massive), but the restores always fail to be usable.
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This seems like the kind of thing that could be implemented in Rust and then exported to (a) shared objects and (b) web assembly to be used by Python, Ruby, JS, Java, Go, &c, &c. The community would get so much more leverage out of fixes to this one library (consider the `april+1M` example) for probably the next twenty years (since it is unlikely that any of these platforms will be unamenable to all of (a) shared objects and (b) web assembly at any point in the forseeable future).
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It's actually the same thing on Mac or Windows. Younger me spent a lot of time poring over forum posts for tweaking macOS (those undocumented `defaults write` commands) to customize things. One day an OS update broke my highly custom /etc/sudoers and I lost sudo access. That's the moment when I realized I'd gone too far.
Interesting. My M1 Max laptop arrived the other day. I might have to try it.

Even Catalina wouldn't support my displays at 160Hz, only 144Hz.
Not by definition.

If that uninformed flow is going to market, there is a good market design to encourage price competition among MMs who fight each other for time and price priority. That mechanism is obstructed under payment for flow. Under this, the MM only needs to give at or better than NBBO. The primary competition among MMs here is to pass on as much rents to brokers as possible, instead of minimizing rents in the first place. The market is also more prone to consolidation due to scale economies and informational advantages that private flow access provides.

I also dispute the clean distinction between retail and institutional. Much institutional flow is just funds (e.g pension funds) that hold retail money. If they're getting maximally screwed by this, then so are their investors.
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It's called job security... imagine if anything else was built like modern software...
Server IP can easily be differentiated from casual internet users' IP, and since you also don't usually get a server IP rotated, you're pretty much stuck on a single IP and you're easy to be categorized as an unique user no matter which device or location you use it from.
The flow on the market becomes much more toxic after the uninformed retail flow is siphoned away.
9 comments and all are about pedantry.

I found the article interesting, and I wonder if anybody with more experience could give their 2 cents.
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Yea, the whole psychotic dance that computers do when you plug or unplug another monitor is just a terrible user experience. This happens not just in Linux, but in macOS and Windows, too. Have two monitors and plug another one in, and it blanks both of them, screen comes back on one of them, blanks again, then comes back on another one, then a second one comes on, blanks both of them, then, if you're lucky, all three will light up in some random order. Also, if you're lucky all three monitors will display correct, most recently configured resolutions. It's so bad, and seems to affect all kinds of monitors, all kinds of graphics adapters, and all OSes. And it's been this way since the very first time I had a second monitor back in 1999. Plugging in a monitor shouldn't confuse a computer so much but here we still are.

When I plug a monitor in, I expect the other ones I'm looking at to simply stay on. This doesn't seem like a huge development effort, but what do I know?
Previous discussion - currently #2 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29213850

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29208276
Sure, but if I'm not comfortable with the terminal, I probably shouldn't be too loud with my criticisms of shell scripts.
Hadn’t heard of this, what a strange read
Probably better to let your server go through some public VPN service.
I don't fully understand the mechanics either, but one point of clarification that might help.

> - "Google allegedly dropped the second-highest bids"
>> - So publishers still got paid the highest bid?

During the relevant period and until end of 2021, Google is running a second price auction. The highest bid wins and then pays the second highest bid.
They're very verbose and dense, and it strikes me that Neal Stephenson more or less wrote the three books just for himself, but it's worth checking out his "The Baroque Cycle" trilogy, culminating with "The System of the World."

It's fiction, but it's very eye-opening and mind-teasing fiction that puts a lot of contemporary moving parts in motion at the same time. And the books basically revolve around the Newton-Leibniz feud over inventing calculus.
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No, you aren't playing "logic UNO" as you put it. You are just not having a discussion in good faith. As you first imply people never hearing about some musician are not "serious", and then you claim that having a logical discussion is somehow a lower form of a debate.
Reads well but scarry how seemingly intelligent people can be so stupid to risk everything for couple hundred dollars.
Robinhood is fun! Really. Like, compared to IB, TD or Fidelity it's FUN. And game-ified so it had a cute ding when you get a green up arrow! A Skinner Box for your money management. Humans (and rats) love to press the lever to get the reward.
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Nothing's going through a kilometer of rock, but if you have a few meters of blocked tunnel, neutrons will go through that just fine. If you actually had a kilometer of rock between the miners and help, the miners are dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s_law_for_magnetism

Flipping a dipole is literally just radio.

How do you think nuclear reactors are controlled? Nuclear reactors can vary their power output at a rate of tens or even hundreds of MW/minute. While it takes special designs to throttle at high enough speeds for load following, to send a signal you only need to change the power output enough to be detectable by a neutron detector, which need only be slightly greater than the variation due to random noise.
See paras. 148-154

https://ia601404.us.archive.org/8/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.56...

There may be more details in the 3rd amended complaint that was just filed. Has anyone found a copy online.

It would be surprising if anyone could ELI5 the mechanics of Project Bernanke in a HN thread. If they could, the state AGs would probably like to hear from them. :)
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What if you love working with php and when you start working in other languages you start noticing shortcomings that have been solved in php?

Let's say you wanted to jump into golang. It is easy enough to learn but you are forced into structuring your app a certain way. You lose some joy you had with php. How do you deal with those feelings?

Historically it was widely believed on here that php lost the race to Ruby/rails but fast forward and Ruby has grown out of fashion and a php developer is more employable.

React has the most job postings but most of them are frontend jobs. Comparing php to node jobs is probably a better match for a backend developer.

Most jobs are trending for python this year. Different types of companies use python. Typical startups may use it as a replacement for php but others may be more interested in unlocking ml. That complicates that stack.

One thing is to consider is culture . Moving from php into a different stack usually means a different culture. Chances of bigger teams, daily standups.. bigger orgs.

Let's say you decide to switch to React how would you leverage 20 years of php experience into a React position?
I solved about 270 problems several years ago, had fun doing it, mostly in python, but I reached a point where I just didn’t have the math theory chops to continue. I visit the site every now and then, try a few new problems, but without success. Some problems I can get started but seem to run into a brick wall. Others, I don’t even know how to approach the problem. All in all, however, it’s a great site to learn more about math.
SomethingAwful forums were NEVER about any kind of free speech. They had stifling censorship that drove a lot of the regulars off the forums for good.
Funerals are different from biographies, and this seems more like a situation for biography.

Especially because the people at a funeral already know the person well.
I'm curious, where in Michigan are you going where you see all this racism, homophobia, and hatred?
Related, and worth contemplating if you're someplace safe, warm, and dry presently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_the_Grea...
The article concerns => https://www.notion.so/
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>There’s not a strong path in Michigan to become rich (or even nationally upper-middle-class)

How are you defining "nationally upper-middle class"?
Chrome is actually adding a feature that lets school admins disable view source because school test pages had the answers in the source.
That they would even use that name indicates they hold themselves superior and beyond reproach. That bubble seems about to burst now.
No argument from me there. Even on Arch it takes a while for the nvidia updates to arrive precisely because of these issues. Proprietary nvidia drivers have such a poor user experience.
Technically, Ruthenium is a platinum group element, not a "rare earth" element, though it is rare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenium
You could slam a blast door closed behind the exiting projectile. It should be possible to place it in the exit tunnel so that it is fully closed before the inrushing atmosphere gets to it.
Honestly, I'm not sure. In hindsight, I think that there must have been a race condition somewhere else in my code (school project) that this was somehow exposing. Removing the comment reliably resulted in an executable that always did the wrong behavior, and leaving the comment in, the program always worked.
I wish that was the case. I've seen brilliant people forced out of their jobs because a particular project was botched: a principal engineer, a former founder of a company bought by Amazon, an amazing director. And those were just the people I encountered on my journey.

Amazon certainly won't "fire you on the spot" in most cases; that gets them all sorts of trouble. However, if something got screwed up and your name is on it, I'm sorry to say it's just a matter of time before it comes up in a review cycle.

There are good folks at Amazon. Really. But as a whole, I don't see evidence of a company that even attempts to see the long-term value of people.
Washington has it, but Microsoft and Amazon were able to water it down so that it excludes higher compensated employees ($107k salary for 2022, which basically excludes people in tech/medicine/law/engineering). Foolish decision by WA legislators, especially when they are in prime position to poach business in the same time zone as CA with only a nominal state income tax.

https://lni.wa.gov/workers-rights/workplace-policies/Non-Com...
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> During Obama it didn't seem like the problem it is today.

> I'm not saying it wasen't a problem, but America thought these FANG companies were solving our problems.

You are unintentionally projecting what you believed to be the truth, thinking that others also believed the same as you. I can assure you that not all of America thought those FANG companies were solving our problems.
We had the co-ed dorms, which seemed to work out. If you were too offensive, you were Spoken To.

I had friends who were members of fraternities or sororities, and they were far more strict on a daily basis. That structure also seemed to work for people who were more accustomed to family as a public persona. The scope of their mistakes were perhaps more broad.

And then... there were the co-operatives. The communes. More rules and work duty, usually better living conditions than the dorms.

Finally, perhaps, there were the Streets, which at the time were very densely packed with people in urgent need of psychiatric care. De-fund the hospitals! 1980s.

For all that, nudity was a real stretch. It was rough, and it was weird.
All the surrounding areas of Ann Arbor are reasonably priced. I live in Dexter (working remote) and love it here. Close enough to go to Ann Arbor whenever I want but far enough away to get a big house and lots of land.
To each their own, but it does seem to open more doors at companies big and small.
Thanks, I think I will
College degree is a requirement for most work visas. Otherwise, you can show significant work experience, but from what I remember last I checked (been a few years since I looked into this), it's a significantly higher hurdle in terms of # of years.
Notably absent from that list are hydrocarbon fuels,

Sure, but carbon monoxide is a product of burning fossil fuels, so the fossil fuel cycle has it's poison dangers.
I've heard the same about those studies. I've seen it described as three different sizes of popcorn tub or three sizes of plates. It made sense but it seems to be debunked or maybe the debunk story is not true either?

In my situation it was right before my eyes and quite obvious.
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