skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not going to continue arguing because I think my point has been clear.

I think it is telling on HN that many seem more up in arms around the reporting requirements stemming from the 1964 Civil Rights act than any of the huge racial disparities I've identified above.

Given that the government has not been able to do anything about rampant racial discrimination in the real estate space, I am unsure how you think the government could do better if it can't even consider the race of employees or customers when making an equal opportunity case.
Under affirmative action is a hypothesis: that it reduces inequality among communities. Has the application of affirmative action been measured and compared to its outcomes? It's been a thing for about 50 years now, so I'd like to see some data.
I think the opposite is the case. The larger the population, the more infeasible central control becomes. Also, individualism doesn't support polluting commons. To the contrary, I have no moral right to pollute another individual's space or air under individualism.
the cureent pandemic does not allow me to forget. It is for real and it gets worse like cancer that is not treated.
Tone at the top: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1453954994546229253?s=20
Somewhat related (and definitely born out of a very similar use case): https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs

I initially built this for having access to 1000+ Perl installations (spanning decades of Perl releases). The compression in this case is not quite as impressive (50 GiB to around 300 MiB), but access times are typically in the millisecond region.
I noticed that when the 'laws of stupidity' article [1] came up here. I'm very familiar with it as I read it when I was young and impressionable, almost all the comments had nothing to do with the substance of the article.

What makes it more poignant is that I typically go straight to the comments myself, assuming that intelligent commentary on an article will convey what the article was about faster than the article itself. Which would probably be a good assumption - if I was the only member of the commentariate to make it.

[1]http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit...
A real life example is a store where the owners hire fake shoppers to crowd the store and "buy" items that are later returned to the store and refunded. All to make the shop look busy compared to other shops, in order to attract customers and claim that they have more foot traffic than competing stores.

A wash trade is anything that results in the equivalent outcome as earlier. It was used to get fraudulent tax refunds so it's not allowed to be used that way. An example is buying AAPL at $150 in January, and it falls to $100 in December. One could sell the stock to claim the deduction on the tax return for the year, but would miss out on potential gains on the stock. So what people would do is sell the stock on Dec 31st and buy it back on January 2nd in the new year. So IRS made a rule that doing such a thing is a wash trade and not eligible for tax deductions on the booked loss for the year.
> I’ve tried purely function languages and I just can’t wrap my head around them because they abstract too much.

Not sure what you mean here specifically (do you not understand Enumerable.inject in the Ruby stdlib? That's about the hardest thing to understand and once you're there, functional langs are pretty trivial) I was already coding in a functional style in Ruby (PORO, intentionally not mutating vars, etc.), so that wasn't an issue for me at least, when I hopped to Elixir.

The kicker was when I spent an entire month debugging a problem that would have been impossible to occur in Elixir/Phoenix- I was working on a million-line Rails codebase and there was a session issue where sessions would seemingly randomly get dropped... it was nondeterministic and absolutely maddening, a number of other devs had attempted to fix it and failed, and I finally did- and it ended up being a key-overwrite issue with a regular Hash being merged with a HashWithIndifferentAccess in the ENV variable passed between rack layers (and god, was that hard to find! I had to write custom debugging tools that walked through every Rack layer and deep-diffed the ENV hash, etc.). That was the last straw.

So far, Elixir/Phoenix has been fantastic for me at NOT producing "flagging tests", nondeterministic-seeming bugs, etc. Massive productivity boost.
There is no telling what would happen. It is only difficult, expensive, unreliable because no one does it?

I think there is proof of the opposite in how people host giant torrents without much issues, some buy seed boxes, their friends use it too.
One trick I've found for colos -> Find a small local ISP or WISP, get to know the owners. Do research on local colos and what they charge for say one rack. Then halve that price, split it amongst 2-3 friends, and make an offer to the ISP. More often than not they'll accept, especially if you can pay 3 months+ in advance.
The big tech media term is just bullshit. "Big Tech" describes a handful of companies that employ hundreds of thousands of people. "Big Tech media" is either media about big tech - in which case this list is a horrible mis-representation missing some of the most obvious names in big tech journalism (Gruber, Gurman, MKBHD for Apple journalism for example, the Wallstreet Journal breaking the Facebook whistleblower and Theranos). Or it can be read as big "Tech Media" in which case it's also misleading- since the 13 companies in "Big Tech Media" account for less than 1,000 employees compared to the the "Big Tech" companies that account for hundreds of thousands of employees each. You're literally comparing an ant hill to mount everest.
My money is on "Winamp One" or "Winamp 360" or something equally as inscrutable.
The Unfulfilled Potential of Serverless
Hyperseed, No-Code for Finance (YC S21) Is Hiring a Part-Time UI/UX Designer
Now that university enrollment is roughly 60% female, 40% male, there's very little outcry over this disparity and what little exists is drown out by the continued loud cries that universities are biased against women. It appears the ultimate ideal ratio is infinite of my group, zero of your group.
Colo is fraught with peril.

Do your due diligence in vetting any company before committing your gear and uptime to their care.

There’s a whole lot of clowns operating as colo resellers. And by clowns I mean a lot of them range from incompetent to outright scammy.
So this implies that the crypto markets are actually far less liquid than the trade volume implies. Suddenly those massive 10% +/- fluctuations in a day make a lot more sense.
It's clear why performing unnecessary medical acts is problematic, but what is the issue if doctors being paid by the act work 3-4 days a week? Isn't this just piece work and you can add more doctors?
Same issue, but thank you for trying for an alternative. I’ll skip this one; it may be wise be wary of a website so adamant about cookies that they refuse to show any content when they don’t get them.
I think you're slightly misinterpreting what the parent said. Take the game Super Mario World for the console Super Nintendo. It was released in Japan. It was released in the US. It was released in Europe. It was released in Korea. It was released in Australia. It was probably released in various minor regions and given unique translations. There are almost certainly re-releases of the game on Super Nintendo that issued new ROM files to correct minor bugs. Maybe there's a Greatest Hits version which might be the same game, but with an updated copyright date to reflect the re-release. This might amount to 10-12 versions of the same game, but 99.99% of what's in the ROM file is the same across all of them, so they can be represented compressed very well.

A copy of Super Mario Advance 2 for Game Boy Advance, which is also a re-release of Super Mario World, almost surely uses its own engine and would not be part of the same rom set. Likewise, other Mario games (like Mario 64, Super Mario Bros, etc.) would not be part of the same rom set. So it's nothing about the series using the same engine code or assets.

We're talking bugfixes and different regions for the same game on the same console. But this still has the effect of dropping the size for complete console collections by 50% or more, because most consoles have 2-3 regions per game for most games.
This is great knowledge. People should not be investing based on what's popular or what is being traded. Better hold than gamble. Monetary speculation should be dumb in a sound money system
How important is the precision of the pickup time?

To extend your analogy, imagine telling the postman "I'm just finishing off this letter, could you come back in 5 minutes?"

Except your postman is very observant, and noticed your frantic scribbling as he approached. In a display of empathy he gives you a few minutes to finish while he goes to grab a coffee.
When large models are the main thrust of recent efforts, reducing models becomes the next task...
It's not even factually true - 66% of the US population is on a prescription drug. The average citizen is a "drug seeker" of some type.
This is the use case that I'm familiar with. For packages that don't bundle types, type definitions are often available through DefinitelyTyped[0].

npm install --save-dev @types/node

> The types should then be automatically included by the compiler

[0] https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
My humble blog[1] is still up & running from 2000 (I changed domain name, but ported the articles[2]).

I am not an native English-speaker, so forgive my spelling error :)

I write for remembering I have freedom of speech in my Country ([3]) , for notes for me and my coworker (a "knowledgebase").

Last but not least I have integrated google translate in hope to be kindly people with other languages.

So I hope blogging is not dead, I still write and I will write for the next 20 years at least.

[1]: http://gioorgi.com

[2]: https://gioorgi.com/category/blog-objectsrootcom/

[3]: https://gioorgi.com/tag/politica/
He "tried microdosing" immediately before a meeting with investors. He'd never used LSD before, and was visibly intoxicated.
Check the WebHostingTalk forums [0] for deals and promotions, especially from small providers (assuming your business case is compatible with that).

You might also want to start by renting a “dedicated server” instead of colocating your own hardware. The savings will be still be significant (especially with unmetered bandwidth, if you’re comparing to cloud vendor price gouging).

As for personal recommendations, I’ve had good experience with Psychz.net FWIW.

[0] https://www.webhostingtalk.com/
Brilliant article, thanks for posting.

This is typically the kind of post which makes me want to actually apply, mostly because I can relate to it : it's not magical, doesn't require gazillions of tpus, or petabytes of storage : it's plain old, excellent engineering.

I wonder how often these issues creep up in practice, and how long it took the author to sort it out though! I've had my share of compiler bugs/kernel bugs, and they're usually quite expensive to understand, and it takes a long time to convince yourself that the bug is not in your code (granted, there's an oops here!)
I am constitutionally unable to proofread before sending, and conversely unable to _not_ proofread after sending. It's bizarre.

I wish GMail's "delay send" feature had a much longer maximum time...
I recently had to go through extensive KYC/AML email conversations and phone calls with bunch of exchanges like Coinbase and others. Got me interested how wash trading could happen, when they were so strict with me, and which exchanges were investigated.

These seems to be the exchanges they investigated. Would be interesting to see a breakdown of percentage per exchange, as I still don't understand how wash trading can happen at Coinbase since they seem to be very strict.

Exchange Code Exchange Name

Panel A Regulated exchanges
R1 Bitstamp
R2 Coinbase
R3 Gemini

Panel B Unregulated Tier-1 exchanges
UT1 Binance
UT2 Bittrex
UT3 Bitfinex
UT4 HitBTC
UT5 Huobi
UT6 KuCoin
UT7 Liquid
UT8 Okex
UT9 Poloniex
UT10 Zb

Panel C Unregulated Tier-2 exchanges
U1 Bgogo
U2 Biki
U3 Bitz
U4 Coinbene
U5 DragonEX
U6 Lbank
U7 Mxc
U8 Fcoin
U9 Exmo
U10 Coinmex
U11 Bibox
U12 Bitmart
U13 Bitmax
U14 Coinegg
U15 Digifinex
U16 Gateio
Basically the lesson here is: don't underestimate how stupid HFT algorithms can be, especially when there isn't really a penalty for doing this.

I've worked at an above board HFT with a big crypto desk, and this happened constantly.
Did they publish their articles, though, somewhere at all?

I'd love to read a good quality investigative article any day. I couldn't care less about how much melanin the author got, but I like good stories with the "from below" perspective. They are invariably better than the founders/leaders information bubbles a lot of outlets like to fixate upon.
Yes, absolutly, it needs to come from the top down as well as the bottom up. In a world where we give subsidies to polluters which artificially decreases the price, it makes it harder for consumers to make the right choice.

If we instead subsidised green industries and technologies, we could artificially lower the price of making the right choice.
By your own admission, the problem is that we aren't investing nearly enough into renewable energy. I'd also add to that list requiring companies to pay for their externalities via a carbon tax or something similar.

Why are these not worth protesting over? And yes, oil companies are forcing it on us by blocking progress for renewables paying off politicians and using fracking which is one of the most polluting things possible.

Nobody is suggesting we turn off all oil wells immediately. But the pace of progress is FAR too slow given that we've known the issues since the 60s.

How do you suggest getting renewable energy plants constructed if not via protests
We have a 2yo we're trying to teach both Finnish (which has near-perfect letter/sound correspondence) and English (barf). But many English words are learned purely by sight ("one", "two", and myriad others), so I want to teach English spelling by using the correct letters but with visual cues (i.e. letter-level CSS styling) about which letters are not pronounced, or pronounced not as they look. Has anyone else tried this ? Would love to trade notes.
There is still an order book so to get the price to rise or fall, the trader would have to buy or sell enough to clear the book.

How does trading back and forth with themselves do anything other than generate fees for the exchange?
Placebos actually do work even if the patient knows they are placebos (source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...), but regardless, how do you keep the patients from finding out that the psychedelics are just placebos? Why not just use some other realistic-sounding placebo like a rare herb or something?
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28982585

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932498

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29072408

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26694221

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27863941
I found the idea fresh and very believable, even though the writing wasn't very crisp.

I don't know how to articulate it, but there's a lot to unpack there about symbolic force, ritual, and male expression.

Mcluhan, baudrillard, hegel, wittgenstein.

Building castles reminds me of building muscle in the gym. The underwriting philosophy is violent, but it requires uninterrupted peaceful effort. Built for an imagined "us vs them" conflict that, in reality, ends up as an "us vs us" status contest.
I wonder if microdosing is effective for longer periods, or will the dosage need to be increased after after longer time periods?
Usually it goes the other way around.

Your system critical servers are too costly/too resource intensive and you move them to dedicated.

If you're simply looking to reduce costs, why do you want colo?

Can rent dedicated server from anywhere Hetzner and OVH already mentioned, there's many others.

- Want cheap storage? Backblaze?

- Want cheap VPS? Vultr?

- Cheap storage VPS? Time4VPS or something else?

- Cheap dedicated server? Hetzner/OVH

- Cheap bandwidth? Maybe a CDN provider like bunny.net or a dedicated server provider like https://100gbps.org/ can offload traffic

Plenty of options for what you're looking to optimize for, just need to google

Colo is a whole different game, why go in that direction
I find that this article's willingness to frame the crypto debate as "entirely cultural" either dishonest or ignorant. There are real technical concerns that the technology itself isn't capable of scaling the way it's proponents want it to (without causing a climate catastrophe).
Would you care to share reasons of using both IDEA and VS Code?
No, regulated at as well it seems, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29279380

Edit: sorry, misunderstood parent comment.
It seems to me as though people who make a big deal out of "lack of diversity" in any field are saying that it's because of some form of discrimination or bias in hiring. This is the primary hypothesis they're putting forward, often as fact, as opposed to the reality that it's a hypothesis until it's adequately substantiated with unbiased data collected from multiple sources.

The hypothesis may be true, but it's hard to tell objectively (e.g. I don't know many managers who would even be capable of seeing that they're biased, let alone acknowledging their biases). Accusing people of being biased without evidence isn't constructive for anyone involved either.

So we need to come at the problem a little differently, and accept the fact that we're never going to get a 100% clear-cut answer, but we can get much closer to the truth than we are right now. We also need to accept the fact that the reality will change over time, and so regular interrogation of the hypothesis is necessary.

We can look at a variety of metrics to try to tease out whether there are biases in specific companies (this list is by no means complete, these are just two studies that I can think of conducting off the top of my head):

1. Compare the candidates who actively apply for jobs to those who actually get the jobs. This comparison must not only include candidates' group affiliations (ethnicity, gender, age, etc.), but reliable measures of competency for the particular role for which they applied.

2. Find out from a larger pool of people outside of (1) whether they would have applied for a particular job but did not or could not because of particular barriers.

If you find that the data from (1) shows that there are candidates who have particular group affiliations and meet the competency criteria for the roles, and they are less preferred by a particular company than people of other group affiliations of similar or lower competency, then you can say with a reasonable degree of likelihood that whoever made the hiring decisions at those specific companies is/are probably biased. Not the company as a whole - just the people who made the hiring decisions (there won't be data on the other people in the company, so you can't make judgements of them from such a study). Do that for enough companies in different geographies and you'll get a sense of the different biases in different cities/states/countries (e.g. some places may be biased against competent women, others may be biased against competent older people).

Then, (2) should help us to find out qualitatively what factors are actively contributing to people not even applying for particular jobs in the first place. These may be structural problems in countries'/states'/cities' education systems, lack of access to food or housing, poverty, etc. (the possibilities are almost endless). This will form the basis for more study to figure out how to best address particular structural problems/impediments.
> To start playing, you need three Axies. You can acquire Axies in the Marketplace, where the cheapest of the 99,323 available is going for 0.1 ETH, or $195.

Something is fishy. Where do people making $5/day get $600 to buy into dumb game? This is nearly half a year worth of income to gamble on this thing. If this is actually happening, it’s sad.

Lots of games have had grinding farms in developing nations and in that respect, this seems no different except that is branded with “crypto” and “nft” and somehow that’s supposed to make it different, while in reality it just seems to make it more complex. But mostly it seems insane that the buy in is $600. I look forward to hearing the stories of indentured servants in developing nations being forced to play this game to pay back their buy-in debt.
FWIW there is a difference in certification to be a hair dresser vs a barber in most states in the US. So one has to specifically choose to be a barber or a hair dresser when they go through said process.
you can do both, it's not an either-or thing
Yeah, but everyone already knew that unregulated exchanges are faking their volumes. This isn’t news to anyone who has the slightest clue about cryptocurrency markets.

This is one of the few things about cryptocurrency markets that isn’t being disputed by anyone.
SpaceX will ‘hopefully’ launch first orbital Starship flight in January
When I did use twitter the only way that was even remotely tolerable was with a third party client (tweetbot was my client of choice; twitteriffic is quite good too).

The biggest benefit is you get a literal timeline that's unmanipulated by promoted tweets. I have no idea how anyone does anything remotely useful with the native twitter UI.
Windows App SDK version 1.0 (first stable release)
If you are just quibbling over whether to buy a Tesla or an Audi then you have completely missed the bigger picture.

There are plenty of choices that are obviously better. Buy a bike rather than a car. A small house rather than a big one. Holiday locally rather than flying.
I'd add one other option if you care about audience but don't care about monetization and that is to write for various sites. It restricts you subject matter and style of course. On the other hand, you usually get at least some copyediting and a built-in audience. Your company may even have blogs/sites you can write for.

I still (fitfully) maintain a personal blog that's also an index to my podcasts but most of my professional blogging/writing these days goes to a variety of established sites.
This actually hits on an argument that I don't understand that is actively and currently happening around me.

I work in a place that is currently undergoing some diversity, equity, and inclusion education for staff.

One camp sees it as an attack on themselves. "I'm not racist, I can't be racist, I would never act like that."

One camp sees it as an opportunity to attack others. "My experience is that people like you are racist. My experience is that people like you treat me poorly."

I can't get the two parts of this argument to understand that ---literally every human stereotypes and uses those stereotypes to make decisions--- and that's okay, as long as you identify them, and work to NOT make decisions based solely on stereotypes.

There is no 'good' group or 'bad' group (outside of overt racists or something like that). Everyone sucks a little, but some groups have more power to turn their suck into policy. And everyone needs to know that to be able to try to fix it.
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