skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why? I'm not trying to argue here that tech is a meritocracy but so far as I've been able to discern it is more meritocratic than any other field offering middle class or above wages. If you disagree, I'd be super interested to hear which fields are doing a better job. If you agree, why not give credit to the industry for doing a better job at solving this very hard problem than anyone else?

Apologies, I was not trying to argue that you were presenting it was. That's my internal ideal: tech should be meritocratic and involve zero prestige. To me arguing whether tech is better or worse than any other industry is fairly futile. It's more important to say, "Should this field require a degree and prestige or not?" The answer in tech is, "no", so the fact that we have it and that it weighs so heavy is what makes it frustrating. It's like saying, "Once you're in it matters less!" In medicine or law, that's entirely different. At the end of the day, the process of interviewing and hiring is still bad (if not worse) so being better (or even drastically better) than other fields means very little.

> If we view meritocracy as judging workers as they are, and not accounting for what they might have been in a more equitable society, that's the outcome I'd expect from a meritorious interview process.

That's a fair point, prestigious people generally thrive in a meritocracy. Though, I think what this inevitably leads to is "invest more in education and opportunity" platitudes. The fact is, those things are a long way off from getting feasibly better. There are ways to bridge that gap, like offering free courses in algorithms and data structures for people from non-prestigious backgrounds, but I have a feeling the hiring requirements would just shift then.
Huh, this is a good point actually. I was going to argue that people have internet anyways, but that's not always the case. My FIL would have to both lay an internet cable, pay for internet, and pay for streaming to switch.
Thanks for clarifying how he should be expressing his opinion.

Also:This response is bad.
Nobody uses Metal, and every developer that has to implement it complains of how dogshit it is. Same goes for securetransport. The end result remains Apple hurting itself with their nonstandard, unmaintained APIs.

Clang/LLVM hasn't been Apple led for a long time.
I'm driving my 2011 Nissan Versa until I die. When my kids reach driving age, they'll get the trashy new car and I'll keep the old one.
I was objecting to intentionally obfuscatory language that is frequently employed in attempts to obscure the fact that lobbying as commonly understood is an activity almost exclusively enjoyed by the well-resourced and/or powerful.
Was he by any chance hanging out with a crowd of people "detached from reality and pure reasoning", or consuming media written or recorded by people detached from reality and pure reasoning? Psychedelic use is associated with reinforcing personality traits related to openness to new ideas and "absortion". So do naturally occurring religious experiences. It's a tale as old as humanity, it's not the altered brain chemistry alone, it's the setting.
Meh, I'm much happier with internet + paying for individual streaming services than I ever was with a full cable TV package.

Plus Netflix and Amazon are actually creating some decent content.
This is happening already — with some T Mobile packages I get Netflix and Spotify included.
True, but the cost of that connection also covers plenty of non-watching, so it would be fairer to add only a portion. I suppose if you measured it by data transfer watching is likely a large chunk, but you wouldn't choose to go without any kind of connection, even if you weren't interested in streaming, unless you really couldn't afford it.
> I'm no supercomputer expert. But for reliability, a lot of supercomputer simulations step through twice to "verify" the results. That means both simulations must be setup with the same settings, so that your floats all line up.

In such cases, the result of one simulation is not enough, and we do several ones with slightly different initial conditions, just to make sure that we don’t spend time analysing an outlier. Exact reproducibility is important to validate the codes running test suites, but for the purpose of using simulations to make predictions, it does not really matter as long as each simulation is physically accurate enough.
The registry is the .io registry so it's bound to the domain (so no)

I might be able to transfer it to another registar, but I'm not sure it would help (the registar is Gandi and I trust them)
I'd ask the opposite question: Why wouldn't he choose that?
Or not - old aircraft spotter joke "It approached me at great speed till it disappeared over the horizon".

Really hard to tell when direction a plane is really headed in sometimes. So it can look like it made a 90 degree turn when it really didn't.
It's tough to gauge if someone's competent or not when they're speaking at a very high level in a domain you know nothing much about, and where very high level is at least an order of magnitude more difficult than high level. For this I've found myself leaking in corollaries such as Eric being able to have old time theoretical physicists on his podcast and having in-depth and flowing conversations with them.
> No one claims NFT proves ownership of entities outside of the used blockchain. But within the chosen blockchain, they do prove ownership of that particular NFT. That's a fact.

Is it a fact? You can just fork the full cryptopunk blockchain and reassign tokens whichever way you want. And we're just back at the exact same issue to have to go regular contracts and courts if you want to enforce ownership or legitimacy of the actual blockchain.
> I've been been around long enough to have been disabused of that notion

Unless you're younger than 20, you've seen a Congress pass such reforms [1]. If you were around in the late 70s, you may also recall the Ethics in Government Act of '78.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act
Panther platform, extremely safe still is a very solid choice. Though most people don't particularly enjoy driving land yachts - a grand marquee is a fantastic choice.

Late 90's saab 9000's have TCS, ABS, Dual Air Bag, so your standard set of 2000's features, and are also very safe.

Unfortunately there seems to be a lack of good crash test data publically on older (older than 2004) cars.
Whats the newest car you can buy with a carburator?
I liked the explanation, but I find the bit at the end confusing. Don’t the electric fields carrying energy need current in the wire to form? How are they carrying energy before the current propagates through the wire?
Do any of those allow you to resell purely digital art?
Yes, the bankster grandpa Dahl is right. Crypto is not for you, it is not for the very wealthy old americans that have build the 'open' web of platforms and sucked the value out of all the corners of the Earth. It's for the rest of us.
Just to clarify: I have my phone mounted in a holder attached to my window.

I can basically do whatever I want with it as long as it stays in the holder. If I remove it and put it away without taking my eyes of the road, the penalty is as described above. If I were to type this comment on it while mounted and still payed attention to trafic, no penalty.

And yet I still see a massive number of people with their phone to their ear.
> Depending on the level of centralization, it is also the case that a particular miner will get to mine a new block infrequently at best.

How do all these "mining" companies survive, if they only mine a block infrequently?
The biggest difference is that people use the internet for far more things than just streaming, so the internet bill is diluted into the overall utility. For example, without good internet speeds you couldn't attend classes properly in lock down, nor attend meetings with people across the country or world.

Good internet is becoming more of an overall utility than just a luxury.
What one may call "stale" I might call fun and interesting. That website certainly applies; I always enjoy seeing nice little places like that with an Old Web look!
5300 words and I'm still left wondering, "Who are they?" People have names.
Makes sense. Our build revs are approved immediately, and we do that a lot more frequently than version revs.

I also see the user logins for testing from Apple networks. I'd be surprised if they're bots due to the annoyance of setting up and maintaining BrowserStack-like tools. I watch the Apple logs carefully, and some of them definitely behave like humans, at least!
And if the seller doesn't own it, you can't complain anywhere.

That's not the case with cash, visa or Mastercard. You wouldn't want to get a bad rep with them.

Malicious behavior isn't punished anywhere in crypto. There's an attempt for all those that are getting hacked though, despite the code=law sentiment.
This.

I drive a 2007 base model Porsche 911. No GPS, manual transmission, built to crash with ABS, traction, airbags, cage.
I always say to my out of Europe friends: just state you are from EU in all your app settings, so you get all the benefits of our privacy legislation (GDPR) at no cost!
That is not cable v2.

The distinguishing feature of cable (and satellite) was that you had no option to instantly play what you want when you want where you want. And no option to instantly watch from the media owner and cut out middlemen. And no option to watch select episodes or subscribe for only 1 month.
It's not "no internet". It's "low bandwidth" internet. If it wasn't for streaming or downloading OS updates, would most people need fast internet?
That's true, however I think you're misunderstanding how languages work. The Ruby interpreter knows the "type" of everything. How could it not? It was there when you defined a variable, and it was there when you added data to it. It's there when you define interfaces and other things that might affect the type of something. It's perfectly capable of holding all of that information. And there's no meaningful difference between parsing "int x = 3;" and "var x = 3;" in a program.
a ton of routers (think, high end access or core platforms) use "unroutable" ip space for internal communication between different systems in the router.

These are hardcoded addresses used in the backplane of the system, and changing them would be incredibly difficult because usually:

- these routers have multiple forwarding and control plane systems for redundancy purposes, and upgrading them all at the same time is usually not feasible. (remember, these system are build redundantly because you want no downtime on a core router).

- Some of these prefixes are used for constructs inside the routers (virtual interfaces between forwarding planes for instance). This might be called ugly, but it is the way it is. and changing that is near impossible.
I definitely agree in many ways, but a core goal in creating this app was to meet people (including myself) where they are, which today is on our phones and computers.
I've been looking into using Unleash (https://www.getunleash.io/) for this sort of thing. Seems like that would be a better option than rolling-your-own, particularly if you have the infrastructure for it. I haven't actually gotten too deep into it to know what limitations might come with using it. Does anyone have any experience with it?
Right on. My gf is on her second 2008 Lexus and feels exactly the same way. It's a luxury ride but it doesn't try to take over for you.
The only winning move is not to play.

I think a lot of people will just do without.
But wait there's more: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/mopb-app.html

Lovely examples, great writeup.

Using kernel modules "cuz i want to do something stupid now" is a treat. this is a great tutorial for it.
Searching across multiple services is a key feature I have yet to find a reliable option for. For syndicated shows I want to see if they exist on a service I already pay for and if not, price shop.

CanIStreamIt used to fill this gap but no longer.
> What there isn't is a good way to get a single subscription to watch anything you want.

I would even settle for a way where I can ask, "Where can I stream X?" There used to be canistream.it -- which is apparently now being rebuilt but has long been mostly useless. Fingers crossed that it becomes useful.
Or he's gauging, no pun intended, the audience and moving forward at a pace that's safe with the crowd/mob - the crowd who overall on average is less competent than the top minds who'd be able to understand what he's suggesting.
I thought Paramount didn't put any of their new Star Trek shows on Netflix.
This, too. Those big Mercurys are just lovely to tool around in. I wish I had space for one.
Leading with commas – ugly or efficient? An investigation over 320 GB of SQL
Don't manage your own gear. It's a bad idea that almost never helps you, like doing all your car maintenance yourself. Changing your oil yourself? Cheap and easy. Replacing your entire A/C system? Pay someone to do it. Life's too short, and you won't do as good a job as a pro who does it all day.

Things a VPS provider does:

- Buy hardware (every 3 years)
- Rack hardware
- Network the hardware
- Power the hardware
- Troubleshoot and replace buggy/shitty/dying hardware
- Provide an API to:
- out-of-band power management
- out-of-band console management
- remote deployment of VMs
- out-of-band network maintenance
- Patch security holes
- Deal with internet routing issues
- Move everything to a new colo once the old colo becomes more unstable and expensive

If you want to do all of that, you might as well get someone to pay you to co-lo their stuff too, and then provide an interface for them to use, and then you're a VPS provider.

There is only one good reason to colo your own gear: if you have to. If what you want to do simply isn't possible at a VPS provider, or is too costly, or you wouldn't get the guarantees you need. It's the last resort.
> progressives, like Sanders, the Squad

As far as I can tell: Bernie doesn't want to be run out of town like Ralph Nader -- he will do nothing to actually buck the establishment DNC. The squad feigns protest to the establishment DNC (Pelosi et al) only when it's already certain that their voice/vote won't actually effect the outcome of the issue in the direction the establishment wants. It's a scam to keep people voting for Democrats even when they can see the party is corrupt.
Not many of these things depend on crypto or blockchain, though. People on the internet made great art pre-NFTs. Even in terms of recent phenomena, "buy a copy of the constitution" would work just fine as a Kickstarter.
If I acquire your "passcode" without copying it from you did I steal anything?
If the comment you replied to meant iPad 10.2" 8th Gen by "2020 iPad," that also has an A12 Bionic.

If their "2020 iPad" was actually a 4th gen Air (A14 Bionic) or 2nd iPad Pro (A12Z Bionic), it could still be a hardware decoding difference.
The original post focuses on the limiting edge case where the only information coming out of the doctor is a single bit: Treatment vs Healthy. I believe the subject can reasonably expect some explanation from the doctor, and then we are in the territory of Interactive Proofs and Arthur-Merlin Games. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_proof_system) Actually I'm a bit surprised they were not mentioned in the original post, nor in any of the 127 comments so far. They are the computational complexity models of a situation when a (computationally) all-powerful but unreliable agent has to convince another, (computationally) limited agent. If there's a second greedy doctor, or a greedy detective, we have Multi-prover Interactive Proofs.
Well, I believe there's something in-between what the author asks for, and what you describe. I certainly don't want to have a "move fast and break things", "post privacy" kind of car. I prefer solid engineering and quality control, as well as simplicity (over convenience / flashiness). I don't have anything against electronics and algorithms running in my car at all.
Let’s be real. They have some adoption in the art world it’s not widespread by any means.

And as someone part of gaming I have significant doubts that you’ll see major adoption in the next five years.
Hi, I'm one of the co-authors on the study, and also a co-founder of Quantified Citizen which developed the platform used in this study. I just left a reply further up this thread detailing some of the logic behind our approach, and you're asking some great questions here.

A simple way of thinking about this is that you're almost always making a trade off between quality and quantity when you collect data, with enough quantity you can hope to overcome some of the quality concerns. For instance our study also included a finger tapping test (analysis will be in an upcoming paper). This would have traditionally be administered in a lab by a technician by placing electrodes on a persons thumb and forefinger and asking them to tap them together. It is a validated practice for measuring Parkinson's symptoms or neuromuscular integrity. We can easily replicate something like this on a mobile app.

Obviously doing it this way might result in noisier or less reliable data because there isn't a technician standing next to them helping them to get it right. Over time we have improved this by adding better instructions, addressing training effects and providing better instructions. We also collect data like screen resolution and phone model with each response so we can account for people who switch devices between tests or device-specific issues. And having datasets measured in the thousands means that a lot of these confounders come out in the wash, which isn't the case with study populations measured in the tens.

We're picking up the pace on our technical development. Version 2 of the app will be out in the next week or two; we planned to get it out before this paper was published, but they surprised us with a very fast turn-around on the proofs. One of our goals is to make this type of research more agile, in a similar way that the software industry moved from waterfall project management to more rapid iterations. If the cost of designing and deploying a study is low enough, and data can get back fast enough, researchers can do more rapid pilot studies and iterations, and more quickly make adjustments to add new scales and assessments.

On the subject of direct HealthKit measurements that's also a trend that we're excited about. The new version of our app will read from HealthKit and Google Fit, and we will be adding more integrations to other wearables and passively collected data with a privacy-by-design approach. We'll also be moving towards a design where users can consolidate different feeds of data and assessments that they are interested in collecting for intrinsic reasons, and then choose to make these available to different research projects.
I whip out my phone, pull up Sky Guide, then point it at the star in question. Around here depending on the time of the year it's typically Jupiter, Mars, Venus, or Sirius.
But SLS is not "basic research".

> but their goal isn't to productionize something and turn it into a business

Which means that you hate the government's recent plan to do just that with the SLS?
Though pentagon is not a fortune 1000 lol, but I get it why they are taking new initiatives.

https://www.imanami.com/enterprise_hybrid_cloud_migration_pr...
Inside Ableton, the Music Software Company Everyone Wants to Buy
but it does mean that there's a higher chance that a stranger male is a sex offender than a stranger female.
https://goo.gl/search/Define+feasibility&hl=en
feasibility (noun):
state or degree of being easily or conveniently done

The originator, Ross Ulbricht, is in prison for life. Anything that involves any remote possibility of that is not "feasible" to me, specifically in terms of the strength of my own self-preservation instincts.
Problem is, up here in the north, cars start rusting away before they are otherwise unusable.
What kind of digital gimmicks are you looking to avoid? Touch screens and fancy UI (e.g. vs physical buttons and dials), lane-keeping and dynamic cruise control, automatic emergency braking, drive-by-wire, backup cameras, tire pressure monitors, parking proximity sensors, voice-activated AAA roadside assistance with automatic last-30-second built-in-dashcam upload, etc? Or is it critical that it has a completely physical carburetor and physical connection between wheels and steering or something?

Personally I like physical UI controls (touch screens are hard to hit precisely, and don't give feedback when you're not looking) and definitely not baked-in AAA junk, but the rest I'm fine with. Lane-keeping often sucks so I disable it, but... it's disable-able, so meh. I almost never use the main UI for anything (my phone is infinitely more capable), so I don't particularly care how many features it has as long as I don't have to use it at all for most trips. My phone auto-connects, I hit play on Spotify and maybe start a navigation app, and I'm good. I'd probably deeply hate something that required button taps to start the car or shift out of park or something.
Ask HN: Are you using Deno for production services?
What's been your experience with it? Which web framework do you use?
How can anyone possibly be considered a "long-term" collector of something so new yet?
>This is conceding the author's point: a hash on a blockchain has no innate value and being the purest form of a fiat currency with weak backing means that nobody has a strong reason to need them. Nobody buys a hash because they like the pattern of ones and zeros.

And what's the "innate value" of an original painting, compared to a forgery? They look identical to the naked eye, and can probably fool a fair chunk of experts as well. Sure, you might be able to tell the difference using some advanced analytical methods (eg. carbon-14 dating or whatever), but does the slightly lower carbon-14 isotope content justify the massive premium?