skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an insightful point.

> Personally I would argue that both race-crime and gender-crime statistics are largely or completely due to social factors.

I think this is probably right too, but which social factors are you thinking about when it comes to sex offenses?
We have presence both at AWS and in a colo facility.

I wouldn't say it's a slam dunk for either one. The Colo monthly bill is much lower than AWS, but when you add in our initial and yearly hardware expenses they are similar. They run different workloads, not smaller or larger, just different.

I'd generally say that maintenance at the Colo has been low, but we've had some instances where managing our own hardware has delayed rollouts (getting a vendor to replace some bad RAM on a brand new box), and where we put huge amounts of time into investigating hardware problems.

In particular we have a couple of machines that have been in service a year or two, that started experiencing data corruption and performance issues. We have really good hardware support, and they tried, but honestly I think the issue is that the SSDs they were sourcing were weren't great. I've spent probably 100+ hours on that issue alone.

There's also the cost of maintaining your own setup. The number of hours we've poured into Kafka, ElasticSearch, and Kubernetes that probably could have been reduced by just clicking a button at AWS is pretty high.

Also, it's very nice to just have resources. We are spending a lot of money on primary and backup copies of some data at S3, plus egress. It would be cheaper to serve it from the Colo, but then we need ~50TB of storage. Provisioning that amount of storage at the colo wouldn't be cheap. Disks are cheap, storage is not.
Now look at the volume on the NASDAQ :D
In theory, if you want to train twice as many doctors, you have to relax admissions criteria to let in twice as many people, and the new admitees wouldn't have qualified under the previous system.
Plug the leaking holes in the boat and worry about getting the sail replaced when you get to shore.

It's certainly easy to brush it off if you're not a murdered Uyghur.
This is such an awful take. So if a doctor prescribes a medicine and the patient never takes it and the patient dies it is somehow the doctor's fault or they don't get paid?

Some doctors are greedy. Some ________ are greedy. There are major factors in the waste in our health care system but by and large it isn't doctor's fees. There are so many rent seekers taking a cut.

There are other models than fee-for-service. They have tried population health models where the Provider (Dr, nurse, etc.) get $X per person per year. They are incentivized to be more preventative where they basically get to keep whatever they don't spend on patient care. However, you can lead a horse to water but can't make him drink. Ask yourself this: would you write web code where you got paid based on how many unique visitors viewed the page your wrote?

We can easily fix health care with a few simple changes but there is no real appetite to do so. One simple change is to go to referenced based pricing. You can't charge more than 1.2 the Medicare reimbursement. This change alone would reduce our spending by 25%.
I can Ctrl-C Ctrl-V bits that will resolve to the exact same MD5. I cant do that with the physical Mona Lisa.

I agree the art world is stupid, but using that as a justification for NFTs is also, exactly if not more stupid
I like this setup. While I don't run much FreeBSD as of late, it certainly helped keep the pagers quiet over the years.
Of course not. Many people are caught without licences usually because the cars they're driving are uninsured and it's trivial to check, even for civilians. These people get fined, jail time, and points against a pretend license which can act towards a ban (eg no learning).

Until we're happy going to a Fifth Element style, license-as-the-key ignition, I don't think we'll achieve what you want. That said, given the drink-driving controls that are being mandated, ID checks seem pretty simple.
There are people that have had terrible mental problems triggered by meditation too. Nothing is perfectly safe.
Coronavirus Vaccines and Cancer
People are so confused about FSD beta.

Tesla should come up with another term for their current efforts, but not because they have done anything wrong, but just because people are so dense.

A good model to follow here would be the naming of the National Ignition Facility. There’s no doubt a reason why they didn’t call it the National Sustained Fusion Facility. (I’m not here to debate that reason though, I’m just using it as an example.)

Because, if they did, idiots at CNN and the like would be writing headlines like “We went to Livermore to see the ‘Sustained Fusion’ at the National Sustained Fusion Facility.” Not to mention what Congress would think.
Surely, that means it never happened. You must be some sort of oracle.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/pay-with-bitcoin-10-of-...

https://money.cnn.com/2014/09/26/technology/paypal-bitcoin/

https://www.businessinsider.com/dell-becomes-biggest-company...

https://money.cnn.com/2014/12/11/technology/microsoft-bitcoi...
> I don't agree with that. Black people are heavily overrepresented in sports in the USA. I personally believe that this is partially due to some physical differences that makes them better at sports, and that even if the cultures were exactly the same, they would still be overrepresented (relative to their proportion in the total population).

I intentionally chose programming as an example because it's an intellectual pursuit. Yes, people of different ethnicities can have different physical characteristics; that much is observable. But the idea that intellectual capacity is an essential difference between racial groups is /the/ white supremacist argument. Ie, the idea that white people are inherently smarter than black people. It's their justification for racial dominance.

> As soon as something involves skill, people will have different levels of success at it.

That is true, but it leads to statical variance across the board. If, for a large enough sample and controlled for mutable factors, white people are more successful at programming than black people, that is an essential trait. Given that we agree that race isn't an objective reality, race can't have essential traits, and thus statistically significant, categorical differences between outcomes must be caused by mutable characteristics like experience, education etc.

> No, this is not. You are making a jump between "a racial group is better at one field" to "a racial group is better than all the other groups", and again to "a racial group is better than all the other groups and should dominate them".

How does a racial group be better at one field, categorically, unless either a) there are social differences like culture or access to education or b) there are essential, immutable differences between them? The important factor in racist reasoning is the idea that black people are less intelligent than white people. It's not true, but it's used to justify relegating them to a lower class.

> Even if deep racial differences existed, I think we could still build a society where people are judged as individuals on what they accomplish

We want this society now, except that differences in intelligence are not caused by race. So it's reasonable to investigate circumstances where outcomes are significantly different in order to understand what mutable systems and institutions could be changed to even the playing field so that capable black and white people can both succeed on merit.
Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections
> I said a 8 but I don’t really know why
> Could be a 1 or it could take my whole life

those lines made me laugh out loud the first time I heard them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh7A8UChBTI
There's a difference between taking drugs and taking them every day, becoming reliant on them, considering we're talking about hallucinogenics here.
That's not a scam, that's you being upset at Tesla's stock price. You said Tesla would fold and silicon valley would end and what you really meant was "I'm frustrated with people buying into hype on twitter".

This seems like the same old pattern of being hyperbolic to get attention, then walking everything back or ignoring what you actually said once someone replies to you.
Read the link, came back to HN to find the discussion. The article’s title is a poor summary of the article’s focus. I went back to the article - the submission here indeed uses the article’s actual title.

It actually covers a lot of ground: How the US FUBAR’d Afghanistan, United States as the only country that can impose sanctions, China does its own thing, Australian nuclear submarine deal is saber rattling with China, climate change, Abraham Lincoln as a classical liberalist, (quote below).

I made a note of this quote:

> Now it’s supposed to be a wonderful thing if you can subordinate yourself to a master for most of your working life. It’s called “getting a job.” It was considered a horrible attack on human dignity for millennia. Millennia, literally, up through the nineteenth century. It’s taken a lot of work to impose on people the idea that it’s a wonderful thing to spend your waking hours following somebody else’s orders.

Climate discussion is the least important part of this article.
Incredibly ironic that this is headlined by Google since they perpetuate most online scams through SEO and AdWords, where they refuse to investigate too deeply since it would negatively impact their quarterly financials.
Homeopathic psychedelics are even more effective.
Nine years ago I decided to use plain old PHP and MySQL to build a self-hosted analytics platform[0], and to this date I still think this was the best decision I could make. Even though nowadays cloud, Docker, Golang, Node.js, Kubernetes are all the rage, most of the websites and hosting providers are still running on PHP/MySQL, which means running the platform can be done on the same server and customers can try it without having to learn to deploy to the "cloud".

Not only this, but PHP/MySQL is such a reproductible stack, if the code is properly written you can run the same app on tens of different server configurations (Windows, Ubuntu, CentOS, various versions of MySQL and PHP) without having to change anything.

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com/
Floating through the International Space Station in 360°
Thank you! And thanks for asking! I could go on about this forever :).

I started working on this many years ago at this point trying to build the backend with Java/event sourcing[0] and the frontend as an SPA React app. I took the unfortunate/fortunate approach of building a webpage first[1]. I learned a lot from this experience and the result was something that worked okay but was terribly inflexible and difficult to work with. (The other problem was that it was an email service, but that's a whole other matter).

I realized that if I wanted people to use this, I needed to have mobile apps and I needed to have a server-rendered frontend, at least the public facing pages. So for my second attempt (which is what you see here, a standalone messaging platform), I did the right thing and transitioned to Postgres/Hasura for the backend (with a NodeJS-based API that fills it out). On the front-end, for the web, I transitioned to NextJS which is wonderful. Eventually I transitioned entirely to TypeScript, and my stack if entirely typed from DB schema to UI. It's just great. I was able to do something like transition serial int identifiers to UUIDs in two hours without introducing a single bug anywhere in the stack.

Since I had started with a webapp, I was able to build the mobile apps out of the same frontend codebase by wrapping the core of the webapp in an SPA that is delivered with Capacitor, which is also pretty excellent. Building a nice mobile experience with web technologies proved very difficult, but I think I did a pretty good job with it. But it is really, really nice having one, single codebase for the web and mobile.

In addition to the tools I've already mentioned, I'd like to make a couple shoutouts to these indispensable libraries and the people behind them:

- ProseMirror — a rich text editor. Thank you Marijn!

- Framer Motion — an animation library for React. Thank you Matt!

- Apollo Client — a JavaScript GraphQL client. Not as robust as Relay in some ways, but actually better in my opinion (having spent a lot of time with Relay). Thank you Ben and the entire team!

(You can get a complete list of frontend libraries by clicking "Credits" in the footer on the homepage or in the menu inside the app.)

Edit:

I almost forgot: the backend is running on GKE. Kubernetes hosted by other people is a wonderful thing! This morning I woke up, ran:

gcloud container clusters resize cluster1 --node-pool default-pool --num-nodes 3

Tweaked some resource requirements in my a couple YAML files, ran

helm upgrade prod .

And here we are! There was a post on here the other day about how the hermit developer is dead but that post was very wrong, and I am living proof :). One person can do so much in 2021 with all the tools we have. (That said, I would love to work with other people on this.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28702975

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18824993
Have never heard of Divvy and Slab. PagerDuty is a nice company though.
Thats still not much. You can't compare it to Go or Kotlin or Swift who are about the same age as Elixir.
I've noticed that a recent Windows 10 update replaced Google Japanese Input with the Microsoft one.
Indica and sativa don’t mean anything, please stop spreading misinformation. Different strains have different effects due to the cannabanoid and terpene profile of a specific strain, sativa and indica don’t mean anything.

It’s marketing, nothing more.
Star-like (4th to 5th mag) point, not blinking, moving across the night sky in about five minutes, consistent sinusoidal (full moon wide) trajectory... this wasn't too helpful, really.
Now do high-frequency trading.
Screenshots like that are unfortunate. EquitableMath updated their material after its controversial 2019 (edit, or earlier 2020) release. Before people judge it, please hold them to their FAQ:

https://equitablemath.org/faq/

If they violate their FAQ, then the ire is warranted as we try to fix the damage.
People say "everyone should learn to code" because that's where the money is. It's well understood that becoming a journalist is a cause of, not a solution to, financial woes.
> In this case, it doesn't matter to me which dependency update broke it, what matters to me is to have the tests passing again with all dependencies.

Knowing which change (or changes) broke it can make resolving the issue much faster.

> If a version is done then why is there a new release? Using old versions is tech debt that will one day blow up and cost much more to correct than if it had been corrected over the time

Because <new feature> was added, that is totally irrelevant to your use case.

> not to mention the security risk.

As parent mentioned, there is automated tooling for this. Your tooling yells that you are using a version of a package with a vulnerability, so you update.

> Another dependency might decide to use that dependency in a newer version, in which case aren't we all better off using the latest versions of everything?

If you don't update A, it doesn't matter if a newer version of A wants a newer version of B.

> The cost is some effort, the benefit is more features, security, performance, less bugs, basically a better program.

This assumes bugs and vulnerabilities decrease monotonically over time. This isn't true.

> Then why upgrade at all when you have a dependency with a security issue? After all, in your upgrade you might be adding even more unknown security issues that might be even more dangerous.

Because a known (to the world) security flaw is orders of magnitude more dangerous than an unknown (to the world) one, all else being equal. If there is a CVE for it, there are likely large-scale attempts at exploiting it anywhere it can be found.

> If I can test well that a newer version of a dependency works for me, why not upgrade it? There might be performance, security or other bugfixes, and I'm allowing other maintainers of other dependencies to also use that newer version.

Large amounts of labor. Furthermore, "well-tested" may include "battle tested". Some bugs make it through to deployment, and get caught and fixed. Updating dependencies without a good reason means more potential bugs slipping through, which means more bugs being discovered in deployment and a worse experience for the end user.
Is that different from how crypto operates though? Cryptocurrency exchanges already have to report to the IRS/government and they'll still come after you if you have unpaid taxes.

If NFTs get big enough, there's no reason to believe that the NFT exchanges wouldn't have to register with the government/IRS.
When their graph titled "Tech Journalism Is Less Diverse Than Tech" only shows "white" vs non-"white". When their statistic, introduced with "highlight of the results", only contains data points about "white" vs non-"white".

There's not much else to this article. Therefore, the author reduces diversity to skin colors.
You think LSD induced psychosis is not a thing?
>Python ... Subsecond latencies

Lol, fair enough.

But I believe my point stands even if you go to python-level latencies.
The Paramilitary Unit Hired by the City of Minneapolis
Any of them could easily deploy enough compute to own any blockchain.
Electronic chips themselves are rather good to withstand acceleration - can be packaged well. Mechanical systems for simple rockets could also be, well, simple - e.g. first orbital launcher of France used pressure-fed engine.
Surely this analysis is completely flawed unless they were able to introduce placebos unwittingly to the participants who thought they were microdosing?

Otherwise you've got a bunch of people who are the sorts of people who are going to try microdosing. Of course they're going to answer questionnaires in a way that scores them as less depressed. Firstly because they're less depressed people (can be bothered to work out how the hell to get hold of the stuff) and secondly because they're not stupid and know what sorts of answers will influence the score in what direction).

Totally did not read the paper. Someone tell me I'm wrong please!
It's in Nature Scientific Reports. Not the same journal as it's better known sibling, and it takes the megajournal approach of not judging notability, only rigour.

That said, the reputation of any journal is a poor predictor of the impact of papers published in it, so you shouldn't judge. In fact that's why megajournals like nature scientific reports, plos one and peerj have become so popular.
There’s a lot of that kind of thing in JS, isn’t there? :(
Shared mmm.page on HN a few months ago, and it ended up on the front page -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27128424 -- was stunned by the reception, and wanted to share this recent interview.

Let me know if you have any questions! Will share more updates on the project in a blog post soon.

Feel free to check out https://mmm.page
I like how your comment ties in with "rebuttal".

I think we can all agree -- without a trace of irony -- that toilet technology is way more important and has a greater impact on society than warfare.
On the contrary, it is a blind assertion that those who do not act only do so specifically out of a lack of knowledge. If people cared about a problem, they could look up solutions, or look up people who could solve it for them, or people who could solve it for them would come knocking on their door, offering to solve their problem for them with the expectation they'll say yes.

Talk to 1000 random people, take all the time you want, bring any supporting material you want, how much of their hard earned money could you convince them, on average, to pay you to solve this problem for them? What is the value of having this issue magically disappear? For the vast majority of people, I doubt they'ed be willing to pay much if anything, which is equivalent to apathy.
Triroff: Adaptation of troff for formatting tri-directional text (1989) [pdf]
Interestingly it renders just fine in Safari on iOS 15
> Today's "diversity" champions are big on sorting people into genetically determined but superficial categories called "races", and make decisions based on those categories rather than an individual's character, qualifications, or merit.

If you're talking about affirmative action, the argument is that black people are held back in American society by historical and institutional racism (an objective fact), and thus are not operating on a level playing field. I think affirmative action is a bad response to that problem, but the problem it seeks to patch over is real.
There is no point submitting a hard-paywalled link like this.
False dichotomies there. Collectivism is not lacking surveillance, it's just that the surveillance is distributed and decentralized, you have citizens snooping on other people's business and ratting them out for their political beliefs (a behavior common in former soviet countries).

Individualism does not require surveillance. The existence of the state does though, and if the preference of the citizens is for individualism, they delegate their collective surveillance duties to the police/army/secret services etc.

Individualism is possible without a state, collectivism is not.
Developing Games in Go for the Nintendo Switch
Exactly. The requirement for my first personal PC was that it could run True Emacs on Linux (Sun 3 at my University had spoiled me), but I could only afford the absolute minimum: 386SX/25 MHz w/4 MiB. It was a Toshiba T1800 notebook, very nice but monochrome LCD, tiny harddrive, and not expandable.

With 4 MiB I was able to try X11, but not use it in practice. 32 MiB would have been incredible.
It's a cliché for a reason.
I provide a free trial for my product even without asking for an email address, customers can just download and test it.

From what I can tell, this works pretty well, a good amount of the ones who test the product and up purchasing (after 7 days you are prompted to purchase to continue using it).
Thanks for the link!

Unfortunately, it looks like this only works with gitlab.com. I don't think my GitLab instance will work as this blog post describes. It's still an incredibly cool offering and I am sure there is a way to do it with just vanilla CI inside my GitLab instance.
> What would be really interesting is to set up a double-blind placebo study comparing the results of using antidepressants (SSRIs etc.) with the results of using psilocybin at similar levels.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032994
Ask HN: Would you accept a job in Crypto?
I use to check new jobs every week to know how requirements and salaries are changing, this year I've noticed a quite dramatic surge in Cryto related jobs with really good salaries, three years ago I interviewed for three crypto related companies and none of them survived, they just got some investment and disappeared. Since then and after the massive surge of crypto miners mafias last year I ended up hating the lack of transparency, environmental ethics and their dirty marketing therefore I wouldn't accept a job on that field.
Would you accept a job in Crypto? I wonder if I'm missing something?
YT maxes out at 2x, which is extremely slow
Also I'm sure that crimes committed by billionaires are selectively prosecuted.

This one one seems particularly political, given her crime was trading with Iran against U.S. law. Funny that she is not a U.S. citizen, though.

I wonder how would the U.S. feel if China arrested a U.S billionaire in a third-party country because they broke a Chinese law. File this under "might makes right", I guess.
Everything looks gravely dangerous if we hand pick bad outcomes.
Just to clarify, wash-trading has nothing to do with wash-sales, right?
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