skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can never tell what will last, though.

15 years ago I bought a cheap microwave (not the cheapest, but the second cheapest IIRC). I probably use it about 15 times a week. The plastic film over the buttons is flaking off, but it still works just as well as it ever did.

I have bought "name brand" appliances that have failed in months.
Same here. I've switched teams in the past. It helps, but only for a little while, and only if you believe the new position will be better.
>> 1) How do you decide if something “belongs where it is”?

Experience and training. I just went through somewhat extensive system testing. Without going into specifics, there were several instances of 'expected behavior' vs 'actual behavior'. But this example may be a little too esoteric.

Lets say I walk around my house and see a book nested in a tree growing next to the fence. Does the book belong there? I would venture it does not. Reasonable person standard probably could apply here.

>> 2) If a large proportion of a society agreed on a decision function and behaved as you suggest, is there a straightforward way an adversary could take advantage of this situation?

Yes. And, in a sense, it is already being exploited in most visible way via social media. But I disagree with the phrasing of your question, because I think US society already behaves this way, which is precisely why it is being exploited.

>> 3) Bonus: Is there evidence this is happening today?

See #2.
I'm defining closed networks as ones like Facebook Messenger and iMessage and such. The "closed" networks that Trillian accessed still used open protocols. But my progression was AIM, then ICQ at the same time, then Trillian which could do both plus the few people on Yahoo messenger and GTalk and IRC, and then I had to drop it when too many people moved off of those networks onto the really closed networks.
Python’s Data Classes a Data Engineer’s Best Friend
Not performance per se. It's a much more robust model of work that in addition is sipping hardware resources more efficiently (so DoS attacks from one user to all others are hard).

"How many companies need X" is not a discussion, it's an exchange of opinions and won't ever go anywhere, so I refuse to start it.

I was merely responding to the claim that PHP had "prescient" ideas. It didn't.
> Being funded by Red Hat

What funding are you referring to?
It depends on the place, but as a random data point, in a very hot market, Romania, I have a few separate data points of people with means to buy that are holding off for exactly the reason you mention.
I'm not comparing and contrasting countries.

Just pointing out that he was an upper class non-citizen and his experience is very different from a lower class non-citizen because of that.
Kasparov addresses that literally in the first two paragraphs:

> The search is on for new words for old ideas. “Cancel culture” and “woke” have become overused and abused, part of a struggle to define one’s political opponents in the harshest possible way, to dismiss ideas as not only wrong or harmful, but intolerable.

> As a nonnative English speaker, I am content to avoid rhetorical fashion and use older phrases

I hear the term "cancelling" being used on the radio all the time by people that are obviously left leaning, here in California. Again, to go w/ childhood analogies, I'm not childish for saying the word "poop", but a person that reacts by giggling uncontrollably on the other hand...
What would you recommend products that host the service and have ongoing upkeep costs to do?
Intentional omissions of relevant facts constitute lies. Do you disagree with that or do you disagree that the facts are relevant? Or what?
I tried that: living on as little funds as possible per year for 5 years. It was absolutely miserable. YMMV.
I’m not disputing that, just stating that there’s no evolutionary pressure on keeping adults cancer-free. There is a big pressure at eliminating child cancers from the population.
WOODWORKING costs $0?!?!?! What???

How much have you spent on tools? Do you smoke a pipe and whittle on the front porch or something? You don't visit Rockler and buy tons of gear? Where do you get your wood, as that's not free either...
> Maybe "unambiguously a lie" is a too strong

In many cases it is simply a lie - of the exact kind he complains about here.
The obvious, obvious thing is to simply pay the doctor a fix priced each month wether they diagnose you with something or not. Well above what they would earn elsewhere.

Their incentive then becomes to keep a good relationship with you so you continue to pay them. The best way to do that is to keep you healthy and happy.
I hope. I'm waiting for replies from two professors I emailed asking about advice for a PhD and how to pursue it. I even included my proposal and how I'd go about it. One of them, at least, mentioned taking PhD students and the other is at the school that'd be best for it (due to proximity to where I'd be doing field work). Both mentioned a research interest in the topic too. I even emailed from another university in the country's account.

I've also emailed another academic over a month ago about an article he wrote abiut a type of non-profit I'd love to set up, and haven't heard back. Though when I emailed him last year it did take 6 weeks to respond. I just wrote this to say I feel it's very hit or miss, depending on the academic in question.
Congratulations on the advancement, but wow, that's still pretty bad. The only way this would become popular would be through being super cheap.
This is pretty cool. It looks like the cost of LEDs is by far the largest blocker to scaling this or making it a consumer product (if that's even intended). I suspect it's because they're esoteric frequencies are high precision. Is this precision needed to discriminate between different plastics or does it just increase the accuracy of a match?
Speeding is illegal whether you get a ticket or not. There is no such thing as speed abuse.
The fact that you personally happen to know some people who are successful despite being "stupid" (whatever that means according to you), is not really any sort of convincing point. And at any rate, the fact that a "stupid" person _can_ be successful certainly says nothing about how likely to be successful any given "stupid" person is.
I would agree that any description of his misconduct not including reference to his literal bipolar manic state to be not painting the true picture. If we swapped “bipolar” for “schizophrenic” would you have the same opinion?
It's less harmful in family (because the assumption is that ultimately kids do love each other and won't do anything really bad). But I've mostly encountered this sentiment at school when somebody is bullied. And there it can be really bad, for a really long time. And that response is basically adults telling the victim "Nobody cares".
Yes, they are not completely random, but users may perceive them as such. Technically, nothing on computer is truly random.

Non-technical users don't configure active hours usually. Many are not even aware of this feature.

I'm not sure I would call a feature that can (and does) cause data loss, when user doesn't follow minor update schedule, only inconvenient.

The three cases I mentioned, none were using Home edition. 1st was sister's co-worker that was running some heavy computations of the terrain they were analyzing. He left workstation running over night, expecting to get completed results the next day so he could continue working on it, but system restarted and he lost one day, because he needed to run it again during the work hours. 2nd was a friend writing master's degree. She had all her research documents opened at relevant positions while she was going slowly through the research while writing. She put computer into hibernate mode each night, so she could just resume where she left of next day. Same story, Windows rebooted, closing a few dozen documents. Fortunately, she had her work saved, but she still lost her state/organization of documents and needed to find relevant section of each document again. 3rd was an accountant who was working late and left computer for a few minutes. Again, Windows restarted closing everything. I find current design of updates and active hours very narrow minded. It may seem good in theory, but from my experience, it's bad in practice.

But hey, maybe Windows is not intended for professionals any more. Just home users and gamers.
Births and birthrates are only decreasing year after year:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr012-508.pdf

Maybe birthrates among those with higher incomes are trending up? I could not find statistics on that quickly.

Some more data:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/05/24/will-birt...
An excluded juror said that explicitly during voire dire.
Where is the overleverage, though?
I'm curious what kind of privileged insight could Gates have when he's just a billionaire with no expertise and special clearance in this domain? Or is this such a high likelihood scenario that it's the first thing any billionaire would come up with?
You can now buy similar things, e.g. the O.MG Cable,

https://shop.hak5.org/products/o-mg-cable-usb-a

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28394035
It is obvious that ivmmeta.com is picking up something that is a real signal. The only question is a signal of what. Fraud? Bias by the site authors? One of many complex statistical effects? A working drug?

There were loud, even unreasonable, voices in the debate but nobody was raising an actual problem with the results. Ivermectin has a respectable safety profile. "Maybe it works, no obvious downside" was a reasonable position.

It was always a long shot, the evidence was weak. But loudest voices in the anti-ivermectin crowd are people like, eg, jacquesm in this thread. A lot of bluster, a smidge of bullying and a weak-sauce appeal to authority for why statistical evidence should be ignored. And YouTube et al. believe it to be convincing evidence or they wouldn't bother to censor discussion of it. If that is the opposition then they don't seem to have uncovered a methodological problem yet or they'd raise it.

But Scott raises an interesting theory that would be enough to explain ivmmeta.com. Since it was only ever weak evidence that is enough for me to change my mind.
2019-20 and 2020-21 were both actually milder flu seasons than normal, I believe you might have been thinking of the 2018-19 flu season?

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html

Also, the principal advantage modern medicine had in these flu seasons, compared to 1918-1919, was that we had an effective vaccine for the most at-risk population to take, and the most at-risk were not the ones most likely to be out and about working. I've never seen a convincing explanation of why the 1918-1919 flu hit young adults the hardest, but whatever the reason, we're really lucky covid-19 did not work that way.
There is another dimension at play here: solar is about 1KW/sq meter so efficiency directly translates into less area for the same output.
Why This Flight Went Wrong
> Ben Franklin’s clever tricks to foil currency counterfeiters

It's like a double entendre, only boring.
IRV is also very hard to explain to average voters. Approval voting is easy to explain: you get to give a thumbs up or down to every candidate.

In a local mayoral election that used IRV, I've seen some candidates tell their supporters to vote for them in every slot. Either those candidates didn't understand IRV themselves, or they didn't want to try to explain IRV to their supporters.
> There is no such thing as guaranteed income no matter how much money you have.

state bonds (free of federal tax) backed by an insurance policy are pretty close to guaranteeed income. At least that's where I put my first (and only) half-million (for a while).

> And in practice, most people doing this have a hedge of some type against a protracted downturn -- the cost of the hedge is already baked into the 4% expected return.

All true if your goal is to generate a 4% return over the long haul. Not so easy if your goal is to generate a reliable 4% income stream. The 4% return, reinvested, will be smoothed out over time, and if things are planned well, achieving that over the long haul should be fine. Pulling 4% out of the investment every year, on the other hand, is much harder to cover with hedging.

Remember, the goal in this case is not to generate a 4% average return over the lifetime of the investor. It's too generate an annual income of 4% of the investment value, without ever depleting the investment value. These are not the same goals.
I would be curious to know what would be the best method/tool to detect hidden cameras in places you visit (e.g. hotels, AirBnBs). I looked for devices on Amazon.com and found nothing that seems to be really good at detection.
Sure, that doesn't mean I've got to compose some social media hustle SEO keyword laden engagement over all else bullshit post.

If you did that here or anywhere else self respecting, you’d be met with loneliness. We wouldn’t partake.

I’m sure you know, as I do. There’s no pretty picture next to my name, no claims of success, but I can post here. I have good thoughts or ideas or I don’t, literally nothing else matters.

Here, at least. But you already know I’m doing fan service to you.
This is a good definition. It is very close to my own, though I would quibble about endorsing the propaganda term "legitimate". Certainly those who practice such violence want it treated as legitimate, and your phrase "no means of recourse besides violence of your own" gets to the core of the issue: that others allow them to get away with calling it legitimate, without offering resistance. However, these factors are not sufficient to justify violence when it is neither defensive nor proportional and reciprocal.

Also, you relegate "private ownership and transfer of property" to a minor and seemingly optional footnote while this is a necessary aspect of the definition of "violence". (Is theft not violence? If your answer is "no", how about starving someone by stealing all their food, or the land and capital equipment they need to grow it? Or the barter goods or money they needed to purchase it? Etc., etc.)

The problems with "the usual functions" (and the key difference between minarchists and anarchists such as myself) are: (a) These things can be, and have been at various times, provided privately without initiating violence, so it is not necessary to curtail freedom for them. (b) It's not enough to say "a military is necessary to reduce violence, and this falls under the heading of 'military', and thus is allowed". To justify it on the basis of minimizing overall violence this military must never employ more violence than necessary, or more than it demonstrably curtails elsewhere, including in its funding process or in enforcing any rules it imposes. The same goes for the police and the courts. The courts have the easiest path; they're not that far removed from private arbitration. The military is the hardest to justify, particularly a standing army in a country like the U.S. with only two neighbors sharing land borders or even on the same continent—both of whom are considered allies.
I haven't been formally mentored but at work and in school I have had a lot of luck with "what you do sounds interesting and I would love to know more about it," including with the Dean of my department who (I assume) is pretty busy.

I imagine there are jerks out there but honestly for a lot of people this is something they have poured a lot of themselves into (especially in academia) and its nice when someone is new but actually really interested.
> They’re also slower to charge and slower to discharge.

Yes, but this is changing and there are a number of very interesting options.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-titanate_battery
It’s an established, commonly used title, kinda like Doctor. Entrepreneur not a title, only a name of an occupation. Nobody really calls anybody “Entrepreneur Smith”.
That might be the reason for the different tiers but there is definitely a dark pattern in the auto-upgrade GP describes. LogMeIn could just as easily put a hard stop at 100 computers with a notification the user needs to upgrade to a higher tier package. Instead they auto-upgrade the user without asking. (I’m assuming there’s no way to avoid the auto-upgrade. It’s one thing if a user opts in to the tier scaling for their own convenience I think that’s different.)
This has some interesting comparisons between hydrogen and gasoline as fuel, in terms of historical experimentation as to the effects of rupturing or destroying tanks holding one or the other: https://hydrogen.wsu.edu/2017/03/17/so-just-how-dangerous-is.... Not my field so I'd be interested in if this more or less reflective of current knowledge on the subject.
I think the dot-com example is a good analogy for the current housing market.

Prices in certain regions will just. keep. going. up. Maybe with dips here or there.

But there's also a lot of speculation happening in down-market junk.
I used to think the issue was "Yes, there are houses you can buy, but not enough in the places where the jobs are.". Now I'm less convinced, just because near me, I hear about bidding wars in neighborhoods that have no good reason to be trendy.
Luxembourg, probably other places, too.
"Want to but can't afford" is quite... uncharitable ? (What is happening in, say, Japan or South Korea - surely they are rich enough ?
Referendums exist to get a state-wide policy change. In the last election, historically conservative states voted for liberal policies like legalized marijuana, $15 min wage, etc.

For politicians, for me, it's more about (perceived) character vs. their stated policies.
Netherlands, Italy, Poland, probably many others.
If you don't want to spend the time setting up a pi-hole, you might consider a service like NextDNS. It makes the process extremely simple.
Yes, there is a line of research combining passage retrieval with question answering. The query is used to rank passages in a database. The top-k passages are concatenated to the question and used as input by GPT to generate an answer. This means you can keep the model fixed and update the text corpus. Also, you can separate linguistic knowledge from domain knowledge.

I think a new type of apps are going to popularise this: a language model + a personal database + web search. It can be used to recall/summarise/search/ information, a general tool for research and cognitive tasks, a GPT-3 Evernote cross breed.
Where is the overleveraging now?
Aside from pumped hydro I'm only aware of tiny, one-off pilot projects.
Love Kinokuniya. What stationary do you get? I got some Tomoe River from Kino once upon a time and wasn’t impressed. I’m a big fan of MUJI but they don’t stock that so I normally settle for Rhodia when Michael’s has it on sale.
Thanks for digging up those details!

Looks perfect for implementing a small 16-bit CPU core with a handful of peripherals; wonder if it'll come in a hobbyist-friendly package?
No, I don't think so. If the seller actually incurs monthly costs like hosting, this is absolutely fair. What I would call a dark pattern is when you buy an app, a piece of software that executes code on your device, and are forced to pay monthly fees. This gets more and more common. I understand the reasons, but I personally prefer one-off payments and buy software in this way. If it's good, I will pay for upgrades anyway.

Another dark pattern is switching off your customer's apps remotely as Adobe did to their customers in Venezuela two years ago.
"likely"

That doesn't sound very confident...
My theory for a possible price correction is that those buying places with the intent of becoming landlords will be unable to find tenants that can make the house purchase profitable.
Thank you for a clear, detailed response. (It would be more clear if I understood the math behind spinors...)

So, returning to a previous question: If I understand this correctly, it means that if we have a kind of nucleus that undergoes beta decay, and we built the exact same nucleus except out of antimatter, it would not undergo beta decay. Is that correct?

Has anyone actually done that experiment? Or is it beyond our ability to construct things out of antimatter?
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...
I've heard of JS referred to as "PHP with cooler shoes". I smirked.
This would ba a great Ask HN
NFTs are the Future but also a Mess
In an inflationary environment you want assets. 30 year fixed mortgages are a great way for a regular person to get a levered asset. SPY would be next on my list followed by a little bit of BTC and ETH if someone wants to be more risky.

Investments by their nature are not 'stable'. Investments pay off because there is risk involved.
>I have asked that people consider that I deserve neither total condemnation nor total exoneration.

The basic irony of the intellectual community responding to the symptoms of bipolar disorder by carrying out the behavior that is the most characteristic feature of bipolar disorder can't be lost on anyone.
Why do governments regulate land use so heavily? Why are house owners fine with this arrangement? Why do NIMBYs go up in arms? The root cause is the same - each actor is trying to protect the value of their investment. It makes perfect sense.
I think most people in this thread should read this report [1]. It's quite eye opening to see how a small change in interest rates exerts strong downward pressure on housing prices because of how many buyers get priced out. Essentially, I think the ECB is saying that if interest rates go up, and they have nowhere else to go, then housing prices _have_ to come down, regardless of the other factors at play. People just get priced out.

[1] https://www.nahb.org/-/media/NAHB/news-and-economics/docs/ho...
The palmitic acid content of palm oil (or anything else) has nothing to do with what you're describing here. Like, absolutely nothing.
Toyota bet on the wrong horse, they just haven't publicly admitted yet and for now the marketing engine is still running on (hydrogen) vapors.

There is also Hyzon, a fuel cell manufacturer that hopes to massively convert trucks to Hydrogen.
I don't know if deciding whether not to fund the NEA or what books can be taught in school is really anti-freedom of speech.

Someone has to decide what to teach children. Teachers and parents both influence that decision. Teachers through what books they pick and parents through who they elect. And since Teachers are to the left the population as a whole, it makes sense that they would push books to the left of center, and elected officials would rein in that impulse.
When I did tech support in the early 2000's, we used the corporate version of ICQ for internal communications. It actually served quite well.
Hah, you are the first one who got it :)
What would one do with it?
I don't know, if you hear about the accounts of the parents of children killed in Sandy Hook, I don't think inner peace was available. Many had to move or go into hiding. Imagine, after losing a child in such a horrific way, that you also need to somehow start an entirely new life in a strange place because strangers think you're a crisis actor and threaten your life.

Externalities matter.
Biotech Platform Benchling Valued at $6.1B in New Funding
Not entirely sure if you'll find many sed posts there, but answering open/new stack overflow and related stack exchange questions is a great way to find some real-world practice and help others out in the meantime.
Computer Science is a vast field. Most software is not interesting in a computer science mindset.

The difference is partially attributed to science vs engineering. Even so, the latest software is rarely the best choice when the task is only tangentially related.