skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely see these forces at work at my current gig. In our context the lines separating what should be domain-specific boundaries are blurry. The main system is a monolithic codebase which was developed with a "wild west architecture" for over a decade before engineering leadership realized the tech debt was interfering with feature development. We've tried to draw domain boundaries but that initial lack of discipline meant that things were too far gone to easily separate them, and senior leadership has never been willing to invest in paying down this debt.

The points about shared tech and infrastructure hit pretty hard because it's a single monorepo deployed to homogeneous application servers. When we do bump up against issues with infrastructure we almost always end up building one-off shims. Our architects call them Microservices.

Code contribution is messy too. For any given feature, core functionality is typically owned by one team along with some of the downstream effects. The rest of the downstream effects are owned by other teams scattered across different verticals and often continents. It's rarely safe to change the core functionality of a feature by itself. Dysfunctional politics leads to projects getting delayed because of miscommunication and different priorities, and we can't risk encroaching on someone else's fiefdom. I recently burned a lot of political capital doing just that because a critical deadline was at risk.
The web interface is a bit confusing. You need to click "Pixelated" or "aliased rendering" at the top to see how the final result/look.

I think the default landing page is showing the original vector font from which the pixelated one are made

I quite like the final result. It's sorta like a bitmap font but with a more organic feel to it. I wouldn't want to code in it, but I'd add it to a image for instance
The Gambler Wife: new books about Dostoevsky
Here’s the actual article, since the people that write these press releases somehow think that the actual paper is unimportant:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04072-3
They're obligated by the regulators to ensure best execution, which typically means they have to do statistical analysis of the execution quality. Routing an order away doesn't absolve them of this requirement. However, they have a business incentive to optimize for the greatest kickback. So it's a question of ethics. And those are sometimes in short supply in the financial industry.
Exploiting CSP in Webkit to Break Authentication and Authorization
Yes, in fact this is true.[1]

“Indeed, [due to an immature prefrontal cortex] adolescents are risk-taking and novelty-seeking individuals and they are more likely to weigh positive experiences more heavily and negative experiences less so than adults. This behavioral bias can lead to engagement in risky activities like reckless driving, unprotected sex, and drug abuse.”

There is a great deal of research on this. Its implications for society are profound. Robert Sapolsky is a prominent public face of the latest science on the development of the human brain and the implications for society. He can be found all over YouTube, and I can personally attest his latest book, “Behave,” is illuminating.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621648/
You're right about that. Some projects work well enough for the person who wrote it and was kind enough to release the code, but they aren't necessarily interested in attracting a huge userbase. It's often "Hope this helps someone else out" and that's about it. Still, there are some incentives for writing and maintaining popular open source software. Bragging rights if nothing else.
"This is nothing new, as brick and mortar retailers have store brands for popular products as well".

The analogy seems spurious to me. Do brick and mortar retailers charge other brands for being a market-place ? Don't they actually buy products of other brands ?
In my initial investigation, I actually concluded that "Mailgun" and "Mailjet" were two product names from the same organization. I didn't realize they could be the result of a company merger. It's actually Mailjet with its outbound email templating service that I was considering using.
You’ve figured us out! Damn it; it would have been such a great plan if we hadn’t decided to give DDoS mitigation services away for free. Dagnabit!

https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/
THIS!. 0-60 in less than 60 minutes. All you need is some peristence and familiarity with the Node/React eco-system and you have a fairly well developed curriculum built around an excellent community of learners. Generally find that the Web3 community to be extremely friendly and open to beginners.
> The big tech companies have a much higher market share. For phone app makers, the App Store is the only point of access to the majority of affluent Americans; Google controls access to the rest of the 1st world population (sideloading is possible on Android but 99.9% of normies won't use your app if it's not on the store).

To use real figures, Apple has 60% of the mobile operating system market in the US[1], and Google has 40%. Apple's App Store has 100% more revenue than Google's Play Store[2], and the two are responsible for over 99% of all mobile app sales in the US. Both Google and Apple dominate the mobile app payment market in the US, as well, since they both ban all other forms of app payments on their app stores.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/ios-more-popular-in-japan-and-us-...

[2] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/
Google Pixel 6 Dimensions, Specs and Price
It is hard to find any correct statement here. Power we generate from nuclear and geothermal heat sources is not in any sense ultimately solar.

The area that must be covered by solar panels to reproduce current power generation would be quite small. Existing pasturage alone suffices. Pasture grass does not need full sun, and benefits from decreased evaporation. Other low-impact sites include reservoirs, residential and industrial roofs, and parking lots, with important secondary benefits in each case.
I think that's the market Substack is trying to tap into, although not quite the same obviously.
> markets can in fact be remarkably inefficient and inaccurate

The markets are working efficiently, is it prices in the costs that apply. In order for pollution to be taken into account, the cost of that has to be applied. The most efficient and simplest way to do this is with a tax.

Tax fuels based on the carbon content.
Yep tech companies should continue to cheat and break laws as long as they offer some free stuff to folks. We should kneel and worship them as gods.
My criteria for a natural monopoly is:

* high upfront cost and/or high maintenance

* takes up valuable/limited space

* access to it is important for the whole population, so should be everywhere and not discriminate, and should be accessible

* choice between providers isn't viable ( there isn't enough need for multiple providers) or practical ( e.g. some people might travel an extra hour to the "cheaper" or "better" airport or train station, but it's better for everyone if they don't clog up transit capacity over that and use the fastest to reach one)

All infrastructure falls here. You can't really have competition between railroads or regular railroads, and it'd be a colossal waste of space and money. Telecommunications infrastructure costs a lot, and without heavy help/regulation can easily become monopolised ( at least regionally). For instance here in France, if an ISP puts down fiber in a neighborhood, they have exclusivity with it for a few years(iirc 3), afterwards they have to share it with the competition. That ensures a healthier market.

As for education, it's mostly a natural monopoly due to the fact that it should be accessible and present everywhere. Switching providers is complicated ( you might have to move, the kid might not enjoy the stress, transportation can become harder and longer, etc. etc.)

Healthcare should be close to you - do you imagine a cancer patient having to travel hours for treatment? Or having be far away from friends and family for that treatment? Or you get an operation 3h away, and nobody can come see you or help you get home.
Nasally-Injected Brain Drug Can Help Treat Depression in 20 Minutes
Unrelated to this but i guess the comment reply time expired to your question before I could answer about the dead physicist. No not without doxing myself. I did some asking for you(and me i suppose) though and most likely what he was working on was something to do with decoherence of entangled qbits for quantum computing.
Why would anyone trust the CDC or the WHO after their abject and emarrasing failure to handle covid?

Here's a better argument for wearing masks:

https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7

A crucial piece of evidence IMO is "the salon story where two infected stylists failed to infect all their 140 clients (making the probability of infection for bilateral mask wearing safely below 1% for a salon-style exposure)"

There's another good point about "evidence". Do you need a scientific study in order to convince yourself to lock your door at night? Does the lack of scientific evidence in that regard make you go "I think I should not lock my door" or worse "people who lock their doors at night are crazy"? It's an absurd thing.
I wonder how are the ion channels of Dolphins are like.
> “Free” makes honest software impossible because software is labor intensive.

I wouldn't say "impossible", because lots of really great and privacy respecting software exists even while being well maintained. VLC is my go to example: Free, popular, as good if not better than commercial alternatives (given all it's capable of), and still extremely privacy friendly after all these years.
I think the PC build lacks some visual effects that are present on the PS2 version.
It probably didn't improve my programming - I started it as a fun way to learn Python, but I'm retired after 30 years in the business writing compilers and other programming tools/library code. Learning and programming data structures and algorithms is second nature by now.

But I'd say it did improve my thought process, specifically the ability to dwell deeply on something, and wait for inspiration to strike. For the really hard problems, I often will hit that "Eureka!" moment when everything is suddenly obvious, and I think I'm getting better at that. A part of that, too, is my Google-fu has improved. As I delve into deeper parts of math, I seem able to come up with the key search phrase more quickly. It helps that I did my BSc in Math, 40 years ago, so reading academic papers wasn't foreign to me.
A while ago I made a bookmark add-on which could be used to do something similar. But it sunk without a trace on HN. Posting it here as readers probably already interested in bookmark related stuff...

https://defaultcharacter.com/2021-09-bookmark-controller-int...
Ask HN: How do you chose a VPS Host?
Trying to move away from GCE's VPSes and would like to migrate to a host that seems to honestly care about user privacy, net neutrality, etc.

HN, I am curious:

- How do you go about evaluating which VPS hosts to use?

- What are some potentially interesting hosts that don't grab a lot of attention? (i.e. besides DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, Hetzner, and Upcloud)

- What are your thoughts about and/or experience with Greenhost.net?
The last time Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay got hit with antitrust action, engineer compensation soared and has been on the rise since.

Ultimately, prices are not determined by costs, and that applies to the labor market, as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
The conundrum is introduced by this: "The point of the game is to figure out which blocks make the machine light up and earn as many stars as you can."

Figuring out "which blocks make the machine light up" is not the same as "earning as many stars as you can", apparently.

If the original research introduced this ambiguity, then I don't think the conclusions of a "learning trap" are supported. Compare adults' and children's performances given a single goal, either "figure out the rule" or "earn more stars", but not both.

The children are likely to have misunderstood the directive to mean that the way to earn the most stars is by figuring out the rule, while adults properly understood the tradeoffs to earn the most stars
@convolvatron Why do you say that implementing CM-LISP would be a really cool project?
Or just a dense forest.
Looking again at the RHD Camaro I linked, it might be a conversion. The parking brake remains on the right side of the shift lever, and the wipers wipe in the LHD direction.

I'd love to know if there really are factory RHD Camaros, and if not then why did they have that unusually lopsided engine bay.
https://archive.md/BxdfB
This week's dominance of .NET on the trending pages can be explained by .NET Conf https://www.dotnetconf.net/
You need 5+ mods to the PC version of San Andreas before it looks and feels “right”. Look up SkyGFX for an example
This does not make sense to me.

If bridging the "time divide" is a profitable business, why is it not done by normal market participants?

Instead of becoming a "market maker", why don't these players just go on the open market, buy shares and hold them until "demand surfaces" and sell them?

The business model which a16z describes seems no different from what every investor does. Except that the "market makers" get an unfair advantage. I doubt that this is for the better of the market. It seems like the only difference it makes to an open market is that some money is sucked out by these players because they get leverage over the other market participants.
I mean, I don't buy the conspiracy theory at all, but I would expect it to still be true that you benefit from DDoS attacks even if you offer protection for free. As the need for DDoS protection increases, you convert non-users to users, moving them one step closer to paying customers.

I'm sure that the fact that it's highly illegal and unethical are reason enough for Cloudflare to not sell DDoS capacity, but the perverse incentive is still there.
If we're only talking about income, your only option is contracting (or maybe starting a successful business...).
If you are willing to work on your expenses, then a lot of other avenues open up to you; you can make significant savings by moving to a country with lower taxes and/or cost of living (for example Romania). Keep in mind that coming from Austria, you may experience some culture shock.

Here are some quick back of the napkin calculations:

Austria

Gross: 80K

Net: 49K

After rent: 41K

Romania

Gross: 80K

Net: ~71K*

After rent: 66K

* Micro-company at 1-3% tax on revenue, 5% dividend tax, ~€2000/year social contributions (once you cross a certain limit), €500/year accountant. I am not a lawyer or accountant so please check with one before making any decisions ;)
As a slight nit-pick. For the third option, instead of having raw pointers in the struct, I'd instead have `Option<NonNull<Node>>`. It compiles to the same thing thanks to niche optimisations but it has much better safety and semantics
I'm very skeptical of the claims about Insulin being a cause of weight gain or preventing weight loss.

All insulin is, is a signal to cells to absorb sugar from the blood. Think of it this way: if you consume dietery fat, your body will obviously not ignore this fat in your blood and start pulling fat out of your fat storage. It will wait for the fat flowing through your blood to be all used up first. Why would sugar be any different? You have to believe that the design of the calorie input management system is so broken that it reacts so badly to carbs but doesn't react in any negative way to fats.

There's another "theory" of diebetes too: that excess fat int he cells blocks insulin reception. So if you consume high fat, you better not consume any carbs with it or else your body won't know what to do with it.

Now, think about it from an evolutionary point of view. Our ancestors have been sustaining themselves on farming carbs for thousands of years (potato, rice, grains, etc). We should all be very well adapted to a diet that is a mix of carbs and fats and proteins. What is different in the modern age is not an excess of carbs; it's the lack of movement. Athletic people consume upwards of 3000 calories per day with no problems.
Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages
Given the choice between free email and Google paying enough tax to improve the entire education system of the US, why do you think people would pick email? Do you believe everyone is stupid?
Oxidized for heat to drive the process.
s/Browser/Chrome/, please.
Having the problem of testing serial correlation of data for RNN in AI?
Release the software of Durbin-Watson test statistic with the parameter settings:

(1) four models can be chosen.
(2) set the autocorrelation coefficient that you need to test.
(3) set the lags.
(4) set your own data of independent variable(s) for models III and IV.
(5) set the sample size numbers for models I and II.

What can you obtain?

(1) get critical values from sampling distribution which is very close to true distribution with running 100 million times simulations.

(2) get the simulated data of the sampling distributions for Durbin-Watson test statistic and sample autocorrelation coefficient.

(3) get the coefficients of the sampling distributions.

(4) source code is included.

The software is based on the probability distribution simulator and freely downloaded on website: https://lnkd.in/g8GCNt_Y

Enjoy it!
Should regular bicycles have to be licensed? When I studied in Vietnam I'd ride my bike amongst traffic in bursts of 55 KPH and cruise around 40kph (I had a Garmin mounted). Generally I can only do 30 kph in the countryside, but in the city & amongst traffic there is much less air resistance.

Additionally a bicycle can do Lane splitting much better than a motorcycle can.

I however don't ride my bike in the US because it's not safe to. There's not the proper infrastructure which just annoys drivers, but if there was I wouldn't have a problem sticking to riding 20kph in the city until I get to rural parts for training. Riding fast in bicycle lanes seems irresponsible if you're amongst commuters.

I suppose I just kinda answered this. There should be speed limits for bike lanes inside cities.
It drives me crazy to no end forcing the dollar to depreciate by generating inflation by any means... pushes people into the stock market while corporate c-suite get stocks as bonuses while the masses auto-buy stocks each paycheck through retirement accounts, hoping to keep their money ahead of inflation, pushing stocks up regardless of what true valuation. Thusly giving free money to the already rich through higher valuations... hoping that their retirement accounts can stay in front of inflation when the Fed generates inflation on purpose... the dollar would be worth more than 20 years ago otherwise, and the super-mega rich would only be just very rich.
> That’s a bad idea though, and the past 30+ years of OOP has laid-bare all of the problems associated with not having compile-time object type safety

Hyperbole much?

The past 30 years has shown me that a language with a joke of a compile type system system continues to be The Language to write operating systems that still rule the world and run most of the chips we use in every day life: C. Until recently, Linux built in said crappy type system was glued together with completely unchecked shell scripts. The great and abominable typless wonder that rules and glues mankind to the internet is JavaScript. Visual Basic dominated the “business scripting” world. The language that reins in scientific computing, is typeless Python. The language that participated in Apples comeback with a fraction of the manpower being spent elsewhere: ObjectiveC.

I write a lot of Swift and Kotlin. I have as many bugs as I did when I wrote Objective C.

The thing I have learned with types is that it’s an 80/20 thing. I’m not an anti-typer. I don’t believe in relying on any one single paradigm to improve the quality and robustness of my systems. Do tests help? Yes. Can some level of type annotation/checking be good? Yes. But taken to an extreme, for me they follow the axiom:

“Every institution perishes due to an excess of its own first principle.”

Maybe tooling is finally getting there. And we’ll finally transition to a more compile time safe world. What I have observed though is that when any system/language becomes too rigid/constrained, people will swing to more @dangerous” solutions to have the freedom to create what they want.

Even between program this occurs. Numerous inter program formats and schemas have come and gone. What dominates today? JSON.

> Just because you can do a thing doesn’t mean you should…

Just because you don’t appreciate a thing, doesn’t mean others shouldn’t do it.
Heh, i remember a story of a server somewhere in train-station in Russia (iirc) - that'd sometimes spontaneously reboot...

Turns out, this always happens once a train with radioactive waste on it passes by - causing a few bits to flip in memory and a subsequent crash...

Can't seem to find the story online tho...
Use a default password, eg, 123.
This post resonated very strongly with me. 18 months is what it took me- everything that you listed to a t.
> Google does not want documents produced to the DOJ to be shared with the state AGs.

Are the documents produced to the DOJ public? Can attorneys general not use any public information?
It's really bad. If I turn off my main monitor, it reverts to a default setting and I have to reconfigure the rotation of right-monitor, enable middle monitor, and swap the positions of left and right monitor. Every day.. but I hit a key combo to fix it.

Ended up making an awk script that can be run by hand to create the xrandr command line based on the current configuration (to be applied when it fucks up). Not at my computer now but if anyone is interested in it, I can link to it.
Ask HN: Forgot the Name of Incubator
Unless of course deadweight loss from monopoly power n FAANG is causing the industry as a whole to be less productive and competitive. In that situation antitrust against FAANG could actually cause wages to rise.
It was one run by teens for teens
VIM user here. Yes, after over two decades of VIM I've almost completely converted over to SpaceMacs thanks to org-mode. It is that good.
I am not that familiar with theses new sheet like apps. Although I like them because I hate sheets/excel. But can anyone point out the main focus difference between this and Airtable?
imagine all the mangosteen he could have bought for that.
A markdown-like syntax for todo lists, tables, and other things.

And an Emacs extension for easily navigating, editing, and searching these files.

(And an entire way of life, apparently.)