skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't. It doesn't make sense to try to jump into an area rapidly being commoditized. At most, rent bare metal/dedicated servers rather than VPS.

> Has anyone done this and what was your experience?

It works as expected. Big cost/time upfront to get all the equipment setup, then things mostly just worked. The primary challenge is transferability and standardization.

> How do you select a colo and what do you look for?

Bandwidth availability. Proximity to the team supporting it. Reputation among customers.

> How do you manage the hardware and how much savings in time/$ is there really?

Whatever custom stack is built in the colo must be well documented, and have solid maintenance schedules, and change control procedures. The cost savings exists, but it's never as much as you think.

It's difficult to articulate the specific drawbacks. It's more organizational than operational. Imagine that you have a server dropping at random times. The logs say something ambiguous, and now you have to become full time sysadmin to some elusive problem. No one in your organization will want to deal with these sorts of issues, nor will they want you to burn time on it. There will inevitably be other tasks higher on the list. Operational issues gradually build up like other forms of technical debt. No one receives applause for updating the server BIOS over the weekend. Operational discipline/maintenance inevitably becomes last priority.
Everyday Astronaut has a great video on Aerospikes.

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https://youtu.be/D4SaofKCYwo

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Basically everything a layman would want to know imo.
And not but two lines below what you quoted was corporate's response, which doesn't match what the local hotel was saying:

"The Marriott spokesperson clarified in a statement to Axios that hosting the conference would not have violated any "political neutrality" policy, and said the reference to 'corporate management' in the email referred to 'hotel-level management.'"

IOW, it sounds like the local hotel said to themselves, "it's late, and I don't need this shit right now. Tell them 'corporate' says we can't do it."
The blog where the chart was originally posted has a slightly bigger version of the picture:
https://www.leagueoflostcauses.com/blog/2013/08/astronomy-10...
Exactly.

Here's literally the law on what goes into a New Drug Application: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/314.50

The idea is that it serves as the "whole story" of a drug, and includes everything from preclinical data demonstrating how the drug works on a molecular level, up through the plans for actually manufacturing and administering it. Thus, it includes a lot of things "for the record". For example....

If the application relies on material published in another language, then you are required to submit the original and a translated copy. It is very unlikely that the FDA is going to retranslate each article.

Similarly, you need to include individual case reports for any trial participants who die/drop out from adverse events even if in the placebo group and the cause is unrelated to the drug. If Mrs Jones from the control group got eaten by a shark after getting the placebo, a bunch of her medical info will be in there. This a) bulks up the application and b) slows down redaction but c) takes a reviewer about two seconds to realize they can ignore that entire section.
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This writing is truly poetic :')
> that would release the energy of a small nuke if it gets damaged

All we need to do now is containerise it for easy transportation across borders! Err..

My first thought on seeing the prototype was whether they've taken a map and drawn an arc in line with the rotation to see the areas that might be impacted when this thing RUDs. Perhaps they'll put it on a turntable?

Nonetheless I'd suggest it's probably safest to build this thing in a concrete pit such that failure results in a big hole, and not hot and spicy hypersonic plasma flung across the continental USA.
>But unlike say the eternal emacs/vim war, the divisions on this topic are entirely philosophical and about culture instead of technology.

What? My problem with "crypto assets" is that "blockchains" are outperformed by a System/360 while costing billions of dollars to run and drawing about the same power as all datacenters in the world put together. The fact that I like Star Trek is irrelevant.
> Uniswap charges a flat fee to every trade for all user.

Not flat. It’s a percentage of the trade value.

> If you want objective data, Uniswap (and other on-chain exchanges) are truthful.

Transaction costs limit on-chain exchange wash trading to some degree, but it doesn’t stop price manipulation.

The on-chain aspect has an interesting issue in that during periods of high volatility the network itself gets both slower and more expensive, so an end user may not even get to execute a trade.
Assessing the Global Climate in October 2021
Lift as You Climb
But it is a use case, along with gambling via crypto day trading.

You may not like it morally and may wish for crypto to be legally banned as a result, but casinos are real and extortion is real.
Like, seriously you have no comeback…?

Did you seriously think that flaunting EFF was enough…? I don’t get it…
> what does this mean? I'm no historian, but I'm pretty sure the Third Reich was focused on the "German race", to the exclusion of all others.

In France, we don't consider that people have a different race. We may talk about ethnicity, culture, but not race. Asking what race someone belongs to is something that would be seen as very offensive. Part of it would be because of the racists undertones (we don't make much of a difference between people that think human races exists, and people that think human races exists and some are better than others), part of it because it would be treating someone like a dog. Races are concepts that we apply to animals, not humans. Saying "the white race", "la race blanche" or "the black race", "la race noire" in French, would always be interpreted as racist, and most of the time white supremacist.

> As for ratios, the ratio indicates an uneven pipeline. If idk, programmers were all white and highly rewarded, you might ask why that is. The reason can be one of two things: white people are culturally/systemically advantaged in getting those jobs (for example, those jobs are only available in predominantly-white areas or the education to do the job is more accessible to white people), or white people are more fundamentally capable of programming than others. The former is a social critique, the latter is white supremacy.

It feels very weird to me that you consider that races exists, but then reject any differences between them. I honestly fail to understand why everyone should perform the same in every field. That's the opposite of everything I know about biology and evolution. I also think that those things are not so easy to separate. People will tend to do things they are good at, so a field that is dominated by X people will often correlate with X people being better in this field. You then have two solutions: positive discrimination, or changing the field.

As an aside, it also feels weird to me that you call believing "white people are more fundamentally capable of programming than others" "white supremacy". According to Wikipedia, white supremacy is "the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them". I personally reject the idea of races. Even if I have to work within that framework, I personally don't believe that white people are superior to those of other races. But even more fundamentally than that, if white people were fundamentally superior to those of other races (which I don't believe), I absolutely reject the idea that this would give them any right or legitimacy to dominate other people. I believe profoundely in self-determination. I believe that we shouldn't have the right to tell people what they do, even if it means they may make mistakes, or non optimal choices. I find it surprising and a bit disturbing that you would jump so easily from "white people are superior in one field" to "white people are the superior race and should dominate others".
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Also, what he's talking about is from the Snowden stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
Anyway here you go

https://thenftbay.org/description.html
https://thenftbay.org/

You can have all the NFTs in existence without having to wear out your right click button.

We can all be "rich"
Yeah, that sounds ideal to me. I hate seeing stressed out, rushed medical professionals. In part, that's selfish -- they aren't doing their best work. But also, they set a terrible example to their patients by ignoring the impact of overwork on their own physical and mental health.

Less overwork results in better care, and more jobs. I'm all for it.
I hadn't thought of that but, yeah. While I know people who jumped straight to name publications based on some combination of connections and college newspaper experience, it was also pretty common to "pay your dues" at small town papers before (again, often through connections) landing at some big-time pub.

And, as you say, those small-town newspapers are pretty hurting these days where they still exist at all.
I work on compilers and I have lines in papers like "runtime performance is important for many heavily used services [1,2,3,4]". The reason you do this is to preempt some annoying reviewer whose area is some other dimension of the same problem (eg correctness).
Project Manager. For quickly switching between projects.
Useless/scam tokens are a problem, but it's not specific to Uniswap. That's a problem inherent to permitting anyone to create a new token, like with ERC-20 tokens.

If you want to trade useful tokens, Uniswap's data is the most truthful.

It's not that the system can't be gamed, it's that he costs of gaming are transparent and predictable.
> If you want one-percenters to pay more taxes, be mad at tax law, not those individuals.

In general, where do you think those tax laws came from?
Public health measures for Covid-19
Stellar article. It matches a ton of my views. I really appreciate the author for taking the time to follow the industry and keep writing about it. I've been tempted to do the same, but it would be so much work. involved but not only is the space metastasizing at an incredible rate, but even proponents agree that there's a ton of BS. And honestly, it would be terrible for my stress levels to deal with the army of financially motivated proponents.
Weinstein is either going senile or running a very advanced grifting operation to increase his clout on social media. He presumably did some advanced work in the past but that is no indicator of sanity. Sir Michael Atiyah towards the end of his life developed obvious cognitive deficiencies. [1]

1: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2009/07/15/michael-atiyah/
70% of the titles of top crypto articles on HN are fraudulently paraphrased
The article has a minor flaw that should be highlighted.

Per "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" the issue isn't the surveillance per se. It's how that awareness is used against us.

That is, the Surveillance Capitalist isn't simply watching, there's a feedback loop that allows them to influence. Influence where to go. Influence what to buy. Ultimately, influence what to think.

It's not about surveillance. It's about control.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw
Great piece. Really liking Stephen's content lately.
variance = p*q/n, gives an estimate of ~0.3% which puts >95% probability of the the true proportion of racist french temp agencies >25%.

It's more than large enough of a sample size to put a tight confidence interval around the proportion.

Again, as I've said - you would never get anything remotely like this in the urban core of the US.
A co-worker of mine had a good idea: require management to seal within an envelope the cutoff value that would determine the outcome the decision that required the estimate (e.g. Estimate > X then Do A and Estimate < X then Do B). When the estimate comes back open the envelope.

So often, management wants a certain outcome, but needs the estimates as cover for making the decision. Just demand a detailed estimate, fool around with the estimates details--no matter what the estimate ends up being, and finally say "Estimates indicate that we should do this.", which is what they wanted to say all along.
Yes! Everyone is trying to reduce risk, and once way scientists[0] reduce risk is to get preliminary results like this before spending a ton of money on a huge study. Absolutely not the final word, it's good to keep in mind the limitations when discussing it.

[0] Translate "scientists" into "the current scientific system between academic researchers and grant agencies"
Mapping Huawei’s Smart Cities Creep
Thank you, that's a good question. I've been trying to figure that out. The URI scheme is not something that has occurred to me, but that seems like a pretty good idea—at least for tech people. Otherwise, maybe a QR code, or at least getting into services like Linktree, so that logo and concept becomes recognizable. Am I missing anything else?
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/india-ov...

Much bigger than that. The big Ag friendly laws are extremely unpopular.

250 MILLION farm workers! That is 2/3 of the entire population of the US!

More farm workers protested than we have as an entire labor force here!
Is There Life After Death? Fifty Years of Research at UVA (2017)
There's no excuse for sexual harassment, public sexual humiliation.

This kind of behavior is unacceptable, let alone from the CEO of a company like Tesla.

We're talking about a CEO who intentionally smeared the reputation of another man by publicly insinuating that the man was a pedophile. It's beyond the pale.

You should ask yourself, "Why am I defending the sexually degrading behavior of Tesla's CEO?"
I think that’s antiquated honestly. I don’t hear that justification given now, as it was decades ago. I hear more talk of “justice” and increasing diversity merely for its own sake rather than as a means to and end. Whereas the original intent was lowering the importance of race and sex in life outcomes, I don’t think anyone would espouse such a goal today. Being “color blind” has become a pejorative in the parlance of today. Wanting a color blind society, one where a persons sex is of little concern, is derided as the hallmark of racial and sexual privilege, something in need of reform. It’s hard to pinpoint where this change occur. Maybe it was doomed from the outset and racism to end racism doesn’t actually work.
Effectiveness of handwashing, masking and distancing wrt COVID19
I’m all for people remaining open and curious to youth culture as they age, but there’s something about a 50 something year old man shitposting as if he were a 15 year old on Discord makes me cringe.
Not really. There’s a lot of post processing going on to make up for the lossy part of the compression. It’s actually quite wonderful that the technology and methods can improve over time.
Could you provide a source for the average wealth based off race? $8 is pretty wild and hard to believe.

I agree with your point, if disparities exist, they should be discussed.
People think that because something is professionally and popularly marketed, and frequently painted as a "hot new trend!" that is profitable that it is a train they need to hop on to.

Crypto and NFT are (relatively) new online havens for many criminals, money launderers, and scammers to hide within in the same ways that AMWAY, Time Share Vacation Sales People, and as the guys selling speakers out of their vans in a parking lot did throughout the past, with a little Bernie Madoff and updated/modified MLM tactics added. Not saying all trading is bad, but millions of people have already been victimized in such a short time, and social media is in on the hustle because they make great profits within the promotional and "pump and dump" food chain.

I decided to invest just $100 in bitcoin (on a reputable exchange) to watch it over time a year ago, and so far it's maybe gone just slightly over double that (with spikes and dips in between)... I could not imagine having risked any more money than that because it's pretty stupid to send cash trough the US mail system even though it's protected by law, and Crypto is largely unregulated, and one tweet from the guy who owns Tesla can bring the system to it's knees within the blink of an eye. You can't cry over imaginary profit you haven't lost, so I'm fine with not developing a new gambling addiction.

It's very telling how hard it is to see a simple detail about profit performance for other coins online (over time), graphs are way too simple, each coin's graph has a different set of rules and context, there are far too many different apps and exchanges, regulation and taxing is uncertain, the methods of creation and management for crypto are really elusive, confusing, and abstract for the purpose of making the process very mysterious. The very creator of bitcoin is still not willing to take proper credit for it FFS... That's all I needed to really know in terms of the system's reliability...

NFTs are basically digital files, often stored in a Google Drive (which cannot be exclusively owned by nature), but they are sold as if it's possible for a file to not be copied, scam cue #2... What I'm really trying to get to as a point is that it's all basically a giant pile of malarkey for normal people who can't afford to lose money right now. I trust the skeptics more than the people who are raving about being millionaires from it on YouTube every day, because you can't tell if diamonds are real by watching a video on the Internet.
Is that likely in practice? I thought nearly everything will conform to IEEE 754 and give identical results for floating-point arithmetic.
A Tesla factory worker alleges sexual harassment is rampant in a rare lawsuit
> Can you cite anything that shows these drugs drive you insane with regular use. That sounds like mythology.

Take a drive down skid row. Or look at Haight-Ashbury in the 70's.
It’s really hard for anyone under 25/30 to appreciate how hard it was for information to come by.

I vividly remember loving a song that was playing on a store’s radio and then standing there for half an hour until the spokesman eventually listed all songs he had played. I did my best to identify and memorize the author, so I could later look them up on a music store.
Chess is a closed system. Alien beings could be "playing checkers", so to speak. A biology completely different to anything existing on Earth (say, inteligent life living in the astmophere of a hot gas giant planet) would likely lead an utterly incompatible psychology. It's kind of like in the famous Wittgenstein quote: "if a lion could speak, we could not understand him". Well, lion is an Earth animal, but you see the point.
This is the line I'm betting on.

> most people can successfully predict which psychological/behavioral studies will replicate

Here's the underlying claim:

> Results showed that these laypeople predicted replication success with above-chance accuracy (i.e., 59%). In addition, when participants were informed about the strength of evidence from the original studies, this boosted their prediction performance to 67%

My problem is with what does "above chance" really mean.

> For instance, several systematic high-powered replication projects have demonstrated successful replication rates ranging from 36% (Open Science Collaboration, 2015) to 50% (Klein et al., 2018), 62% (Camerer et al., 2018), and 85% (Klein et al., 2014)

It sounds like we don't actually know what our ground truth replication rate is. I think what we're actually above-chance predicting is not the replication rate but just the baseline uncertainty challenge of scientific funding ("I have $X and I need to spend it on $SCIENCE - here go do some $SCIENCE things because my experts tell me you're good at $SCIENCE") + the low-level corruption it brings which blinds us to reality.

> If laypeople can indeed make accurate predictions about replicability, these predictions may supplement theoretical considerations concerning the selection of candidate studies for replication projects. Given limited resources, laypeople’s predictions concerning replicability could be used to define the subset of studies for which one can expect to learn the most from the data. In other words, researchers could use laypeople’s predictions as input to assess information gain in a quantitative decision-making framework for replication (Hardwicke, Tessler, Peloquin, & Frank, 2018; MacKay, 1992). This framework follows the intuition that—for original studies with surprising effects (i.e., low plausibility) or small sample sizes (i.e., little evidence)—replications can bring about considerable informational gain.

I'm betting against ^this as being the replicatable result (that this produces better scientific outcomes). That's just saying "humans have confirmation bias". This is a useful tool to understand our how we should remove confirmation bias from our experiment selection/setup NOT as a way to guide the selection/setup itself blindly. Imagine if you said "we should let the majority of people weigh in on surprising mathematical/biotech/chemistry/biology/drug discovery results". That's an INSANE statement for anyone in the business of scientific discovery. To me what it signals is that the people doing "social science" isn't building good theoretical models of how humans work and therefore the baseline quality of research is insanely low. This makes sense when you consider that the financial incentives and difficulty of the problem interplay with each other. There's some very good people who are doing the work of wading through the garbage, but they can't keep up with the volume of bullshit that's getting generated.

So if you're willing to place a bet on that specific hypothesis, let me know.
Scott Alexander thinks that ivermectin might work in places where people have a lot of worm infections: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...

Somehow I start to suspect that masks might have a similar effectiveness that are dependant on climate, air humidity and widespread co-infections. Maybe not effective against covid but might prevent other infections that ultimately make covid worse or make them more susceptible to covid.
.... People pay for volume on uniswap daily ...
They just spin up new wallets and keep making them exchange very high amounts of a token (10ETH buy , 10 ETH sell , multiple times) (net expense is just the gas fees, but they get paid wayyy more to do this).

This is usually done to get uniswap traded tokens onto various trending lists like cmc , dextools , etc.

I’d say there is 10-40x the fraud on uniswap than on centralised exchanges, its just that on uniswap if you know where to look, you can transparently see the fake volume being created in front of you.

But for human traders, it can be tricky sometimes.
Thank you! I've been wondering this too. It would be a great problem to have. As a sibling commenter writes, telemetry+selective scaling would probably be okay? Otherwise some other creative approaches like "pre-delivering" messages.
Terrorism?

Hardly.

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/india-ov...

That is more people acting in solidarity in opposition than we have in our entire labor force here in the US.