skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would go as far as sacrificing calculus and vectors for stats classes if it came to a showdown.

There's an absolute jungle of information we're presented with each day, and clearly many people would just straight up buy the vaccines-cause-death statistics uncritically.

There's no critical thinking without critical stats. How are the numbers made, what do they mean? Just about every field requires you to understand this, especially the social science fields where we're talking about some quite substantial issues like replication crisis. Things like economics as well, they're things everyone wants to understand but we don't give people the tools.

Somehow we have also missed out causality, when we've had the tools for a while. I reckon it's actually quite teachable though it currently feels like an advanced subject due to historical quirks.
Compiled with memory safety? Which language you have in mind better than rust at this moment? Just curious.
I had many of the same complaints with my remarkable 2... returned it and got an onyx boox note air 2 instead. Still not perfect, but I find the experience much better for my needs.
Let's be explicit rather than subtle: Xi was likely skipped because Xi Jinping is the leader of China.
http://piratebayo3klnzokct3wt5yyxb2vpebbuyjl7m623iaxmqhsd52c...
They have most of the Z books listed in Wikipedia:

https://book4you.org/book/1057065/129aaa

https://book4you.org/book/715472/efd9e3

https://book4you.org/book/1170163/0d5082
You have to remember that musical theater is more pop-driven than operas, orchestras, and plays.
Web4 Should Run on LaTeX
> Based on what I know about humans, the probability this happens approaches 1 as time moves forward.

Wouldn’t it be far cheaper for a Mars civilization to exploit the resources of the asteroids rather than bother earth? It’d be enormously uncomfortable for Mars adapted people to spend any time on earth. So if it’s neither economic to exploit earth resources nor would it be possible to enjoy a conquered earth, why ever bother? I guess if it’s possible for a 007 style mad scientist scenario to emerge it approaches 1 given enough time, however it could be so much time that the sun blows up or humanity spreads to other stars.
Even if their conclusion is OK, the reasoning "'Xi' was not used because it is a common last name" is based on a lie. 'Xi' is not a common last name. It happens to be the last name of the largest dictator on this planet, but it does not make it a common last name.
yes but only after she spoke with a journalist from VICE
Coronaviruses were named Coronaviruses long before anybody guessed that this might become an international pandemic.
No, it’s confirmed via sequencing. But the Omicron variant has a qPCR dropout like Alpha had, so you can identify likely cases from PCR tests and then use sequencing to verify.
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That, and the the fear (for lack of a better word) of not going out of the country because getting back in would be impossible. As far as I understand that was the feeling of many of the expats living in Singapore, had they decided to get out of the city they couldn't have come back (and hence they would have lost their lucrative job, most probably).
To help clarify. There are many different northern climates. Close to the oceans,which is Coastal, is very different than continental.
I think there is misconception for those who don't understand, because how can they(?) If they have not experienced a Canadian or Siberian prairie winter. 30 to 40 degrees below zero ( °f=°c), wind blowing, constantly 30 to 50 km/hr(20-30mph), so wind chill maybe - 60 or more. (exposed skin frozen ~dead immediately.)
Roads not only snowy and icy, but blowing snow, so poor visibility. Equipment breaks from the cold, for example if you go through a pot hole - and can't avoid that because there are no sidewalks or shoulders because snow.
This weather can last for 2,3,4 months.
We do play outside when we can, with preparation, but commuting, and shopping for essentials, is not playing.
That's again one of those arguments, where it's been set up so that when you disagree, you're sucking up towards the CCP.

But, do you think that people who attack or racially abuse Asians because of the virus will care that it's not in the top 200. Xi is a pretty well known name because he's China's leader, and it will most definitely be used against them.

Think of it what you want, of course, but to me this is a sensible decision in order not to fuel the already ongoing racism and abuse people have to endure, just because they're from a certain continent.
> Talk of colonization efforts right now is like building a garage for the Ferrari you're going to buy some day.

Someone in a trailer park isn't likely to ever get that Ferrari, so your scenario kinda begs the question that we're never going to be in a position to reach Mars after fixing the earth.

But I think your scenario is flawed anyway. We aren't living in a trailer park, we're in Holland and the dykes are breaking for the last time. Some of us (you, in my analogy) want to try and fix them again. Others (me, etc) want to build boats and send a colony elsewhere.

The plans aren't mutually exclusive. But it's foolish to do only one.
Indeed. i looked at the benchmark itself, but not the RNG.
Phone cameras have gotten good enough to reliably capture notes, and there’s software that’ll give you better results and are tailored to scanning documents. It’s a pain to have to scan everything by hand, but I find pen & paper to be an overall better experience, plus you get a built-in physical backup.
Show HN: Free email countdown timer that doesn't suck
Thanks for sharing this detailed post. Looking forward to the next visionary project in creating a new environment for developers, if there will ever be another one pushing the state of the art further. I guess we could now build workstations with 2 TB RAM and 10 TB SSD, but what is the wish list on the software side beyond getting back to past sophistication?

Has anyone written a side-by-side comparison of modern (e.g. Intelli-J) environments versus Symbolics or other LISP machines as a research paper?
I own an M1 MBA with 16GB of RAM and it's a lovely little machine. I generally do SRE work and it works out ok for that for the most part. Intellij Idea, VS Code, a terminal and a browser.

Coming from an i9 16" mbp the difference in usability is massive, I hated those fans so much. I do miss the larger screen size though; that, coupled with the lack of ports (just 2 Type-C, would like more) made me consider getting one of the new 14". The battery life is so insanely overkill in this laptop that I'd be willing to compromise on it for a bigger display, perhaps for the first time ever.

Would highly, highly recommend it for traveling though.
Really liked the article. One thing I'd add (and that I wrote about before here: https://jmmv.dev/2021/07/principal-engineers-oncall.html) is that high-level engineers should be on-call. These engineers (along with management) are the people that can most easily make a difference in making the rotation better: and not because of their technical skills, but because if they "suffer through the pain", they may be able to set priorities to fix things.

As some other people have alluded here, though, in some organizations engineers seem to "escape" on-call rotations the more senior they get, which is unfortunate...
you have money invested in Ethereum. Obviously you are biased
Ok, here's the thing. While email countdowns seem to be the marketing hack of the past decade... they freakin' work.

Yesterday I've A/B tested over 10k emails with/without the counter for our Black Friday campaign, and the second hit almost 260% higher conversion rate

The problem is, last time we wasted 3 hours finding the counter that works and doesn't look like 90's. Still we had to pay $15 for it. Still it sucks - no custom fonts, no retina support, crappy.

Soooo, here we go. No-bullshit, free & clean email counter that works and you can generate it in under a minute, without registering and hassle.

And please, use it responsibly. You want to boost conversion, but you don't want to be a spammy marketer.

Perfect for this monday last call email huh?
Yes, we do. I’ve been at GitHub longer than we’ve had that office, so I tend to work from home anyways.
We’ll see how the new EVs entering the market change things. Most of the Tesla owners that I know purchased it as their first car.

I will agree the powertrain and tech (not the god awful screen) are the best in the market at the moment. Maybe it’s just me, but a vehicle needs to cover the basics before anything fancy such as the acceleration will sell it.
> Where can you get e-pub books? Basically nowhere.

Not trying to defend the Remarkable (I have no interest in it) but this isn't true. You can purchase epub files in lots of places (usually on the publisher's website). You can download epubs for public domain books on Gutemberg. And you can remove drm from most Kindle files on Calibre, and then transform them to epubs.
I agree, I wouldn’t want a variant with my name in it either. They’re just being nice, as far as I’m concerned. This isn’t about China controlling or influencing the WHO.
No. Xi is NOT a common surname in China. It's actually a very uncommon one. Stop spreading the misinformation.
> ... stranded energy, which would otherwise be unused. Flared gas in Texas, for instance, could provide more power than the network currently uses.

I do like the idea of using energy that would have otherwise gone to waste. Or the concept of putting mining hardware in remote areas where there is energy to be tapped, but no customers for it. I wonder about all the steam that emits from a nuclear plant's cooling tower. It seems like such a waste to let all that energy just go up into the air.

One thing that troubles me is the various reports of theft associated with mining. I occasionally see various stories of energy and CPU-time theft. Plus there was that truck full of GPUs that was recently stolen.

I wonder what parallels could be drawn to the California gold rush. Theft was probably rampant then too.
To me computer science is the part that scientists are best at, software engineering & hardware engineering are the part that engineers are best at.

Along comes IT who takes whatever hardware & software they can get possessing varying degrees of scientific advancement, and tries to network everybody to their wildest dreams without losing any data.

I would say computer science is the art of using computers to make advancements whether or not the advancements are made to the very computers or software themselves or not.

Lots of worthwhile computer science can actually be accomplished without writing any software or doing any engineering.

Anyway, this is the 21st century, every student was expected to be much more familiar with both computer science and coding by now, so that the aggregate benefits overall would be far more widespread than in just a few "tech" centers.

Every more-computer-literate high school graduate could not have been expected to be an expert, but every org of a certain size would ideally have enough in-house talent to at least take care of their own software needs by now.
Your claim that no operating systems support this seems extremely unlikely. I’m pretty much certain there are multiple Linux desktop environments that support vector based background images.
When you were doing on-call without being paid, that's called wage theft. It's the single biggest kind of theft in North America: https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-fo...

It's also the kind of theft that insidiously convinces you that it's really cool and that you're actually OK with it because you're learning how to 'keep cool during crisis'. You know how else your employers could have taught you that? By providing actual training during working hours, while you were being paid.
> Maybe someone should explain this to Alex Berenson before he writes another SubStack post, or the thousands of people forwarding this around social media and alternative social media platforms.

Of course Alex Berenson understands this perfectly well.

He's among the utterly despicable group pushing various forms of covid denial for the benefit boosting their standing in their tribe. Whether it's for $-for-clicks or political capital or just to make themselves feel good, it's pathetic and terrible.

Speaking directly to the people doing this on HN (including in this very thread): you're going to have to go to the end of your life knowing that when things were bad, you made them worse, and got people killed who didn't have to die like that. Do you really want the biggest contribution of your life on the world to be bad one, and for petty, pathetic reasons? Really, think about it. Do you want your life to have been about fooling people about the risks of covid, covid vaccines, and the general value of science? You don't have to live a sad, pathetic, less-than-meaningless life.

If things aren't good, go out there and contribute rather than just tear things down.
> (sadly, most Germans say phone numbers as sets of two, and not as single digits) It just makes no sense and I very much prefer English, it is much more logical.

German and English are very closely related. Grouping numbers into sets of two is common in English; it would be completely normal to vocalize 2514 as "twenty-five fourteen".

Presenting numbers below 100 in little-endian order was also normal in English, though that is no longer true of modern English.
I guess I don’t understand the line you’re drawing here. If they enjoy the circumstances of their work, why should they go out of their way to “reason clearly” about how it’s actually bad? I could understand if there’s a collective action problem, but as many people in this thread have attested, people who want a job without oncall duty can get one.
If you think it would be confusing to have a nu variant, just wait until there's a variant that's newer than nu:

"Hey, are you worried about the nu variant?"

"No, I'm worried about the new variant."

"I knew you knew about the nu one, but about the new one I didn't know you knew."

"Yeah, the nu one is not the new one. I'm also concerned about any that are newer than the new one."

"I knew the new one was newer than the nu one, but is there one that's newer than the new one?"

"Wish I knew. Guess ioata find out."
Can you explain what significant improvements BMW have added in the last 20 years? I'm not a car guy but from my perspective, BMWs have only added incremental improvements.
The bulk of the fault lies at the root of the subthread, yes.

If you had actually pointed out what you say you intended to point out, that would have been much better. What you actually posted was an inflammatory quote plus a snarky one liner, and the expected value of that is a flamewar [1].

I realize it's not so easy to make intent explicit, because it seems obvious to you (by "you" I mean all of us, of course)- the problem is that it exists in your head where no one else has access to it - therefore the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate [2].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
I share this criticism. It's almost like you have to scream at people that although correlation doesn't imply _direct_ causation, it most certainly does imply some causal chain.

Ruling out chance through significance and power, what phenomenon in the world is correlated without being causally related _somehow_?
Should have just stuck with numbering. Numbers are neutral. I think they're going to run out of Greek alphabets
What's the best way to measure VO2?
I’m really struggling to understand what you’ve written. I certainly don’t feel like my “chain of logic” has been broken. Maybe I just don’t understand your argument. Or maybe I’m just being stupid.

To be clear, I think:

- having surplus (or cheaper) energy is good

- generating relatively more energy through renewable resources is good

- renewable energy is cheaper and so lower energy prices promote renewable energy more (but also reduce the supply in general)

- Current bitcoin mining increases demand and therefore generation and, to some extent, prices while supply catches up

- a drop in bitcoin mining would lead to a surplus of (renewable) energy which I think would be good

Can you help me find what the source of confusion is?
Where can you get e-pub books? Basically nowhere.

Legally. If you're willing to break the law you can essentially get every book ever written in a few minutes via torrent. Truly vast archives are available at surprisingly small file sizes.
> but miners complained https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441399 and then it was delayed again

To be clear, it wasn't delayed because miners complained, it was delayed because it wasn't ready yet.
By your logic, any time someone posts about GitHub, it’s appropriate and sensible for each of us to post about whatever GitHub bug upsets us most. This leads to the HN we have today, with hundreds of upvoted comments per day clamoring about each individual’s personal upsets, wholly unrelated to the topics at hand.

If you had violated a guideline, I would have contacted the mods rather than reply. The tragedy is that no rule can sufficiently be written that keeps people from concern shopping their personal issues into discussions on the most tenuous of links. “This is a post about a GitHub bug” opens the door for me to post about the hundreds of GitHub bugs I’ve encountered over time, and with thousands of users at HN, if we each do this, there’s so much less room left for discussion about the actual bug this post is about.

This affects Show HN, too: when someone posts their cool thing, everyone chimes in with all the other cool things that they like better. It’s incredibly disheartening and sets aside the purpose of the post – “a thing, discuss” – so that people can use that request as a launchpad to discuss other things instead, without making even the slightest effort to tie it back with relative comparisons to the Show HN topic itself.

There is no guideline that asks us to set aside our personal needs and desires in these comments and focus on what brings the most value to the original topic, no matter what we feel about other topics that happen to also be about GitHub. But I continue to hope, out loud and with salient arguments, that HN will step up and respect itself more than the guidelines require.
Yes, PoW coin emission curves often leave something to be desired, tending to emit too much in the first few years, which leads to some wealth concentration as well.

In my opinion a fixed block subsidy would be most equitable, but that's a very slow emission, taking 100 years to reach a yearly supply inflation under 1%.
And yet they didn't skip Delta despite the confusion with one of the US' major airlines. Given that people fear getting Covid from flying, there was a lot of potential for confusion that the airline had to combat.
Good thing I was drunk when I made it!
I don't understand the "nothing at stake" problem. Can't it be solved by just not allowing people to withdraw the coins they have staked?
Yaha he sounds pretty bad at business.
& what about Monero?
So notice how quickly blank-slate side devolves into politics, questioning motives, casting dark aspersions, etc.

The reason is that they don't feel comfortable talking about the science, and so this is all a form of science-denial.

If you care at all about what is real, as opposed to fighting political battles, you may want to read up on the current state of the art. Human Diversity is a great read, but if you are short of time, there are lots of scientific articles out there - check out the tweet stream summarizing the data with links to the current research here:

https://twitter.com/a_centrism/status/1211170458902487042

Unfortunately trying to get people to look at scientific questions using scientific methodology is as hard as trying to convince a creationist.

They are simply not going to listen and will accuse you of being a bad person, etc.
Author seems to be expecting Big Corp level quality of software & integration. He says something about not being able to read books on the ReMarkable because he can't find e-pub files for them, lol.

It does high-light the fact that the best users for RM don't have a need for a Microsoft Onenote level experience and/or are more technically astute and can figure out their own workarounds.
I often see a similar problem in code that deals with coordinate system transformations. But there is a simple solution! It boils down to properly naming your variables.

When using transformation matrices to transform from one coordinate system "In" into another coordinate system "Out" you have two options to name the matrix:
M_{In,Out} or M_{Out,In}, which can be read as "In to Out" and "Out from In".
Unfortunately what I often see is the first notation. It looks simpler at first, but it is actually backwards, similar to how the german numbers are backwards.

When you chain the transformations you get this weird forth and back:

M_{A to C} = M_{B to C} * M_{A to B}

M_{A,C} = M_{B,C} * M_{A,B}

Compare that to the (not backward) alternative:

M_{C from A} = M_{C from B} * M_{B from A}

M_{C,A} = M_{C,B} * M_{B,A}

Note how the Bs line up, C is the most left in both sides of the equation and A is on the right. When you transform a vector from coordinate system A to, lets say C, it looks like this: "vec_C = M_{C,A} * vec_A". Everything lines up and is in the natural order the transformations are taking place in.
Compared to this, the backward notation is really confusing.

I see people make mistakes when dealing with transformation chains all the time because they use this weird M_{From,To} notation, or worse, no notation involving the coordinate systems at all.

Like take this example: "M = M1 * inv(M3) * M2", what does that even mean.
Find names for the involved coordinate systems and name the transformations accordingly. That could be:
M1 transforms to A from B, M3 is C_B, M2 is C_D. Then M is A_D:

B_C = inv(C_B)

A_D = A_B * B_C * C_D
> the biggest pain point for software developers is the small amount of RAM

Software developers thinking that 16GB is a small amount of RAM is why all of our software is fat barges of bloat now. Y'all, this prophecy is entirely self-fulfilling. Please stop.
Other car companies do outsource, but it's tricky. Toyota, for example, invests a ton in building long-term relationships with suppliers. [1] But Toyota is the exception here. The more typical oursourcing relationship is one of low bids and dangerous incentives. As Toyota shows, it's not impossible to get it right. But I think it's reasonable to be concerned.

[1] https://www.stateofflux.co.uk/ideas-insights/case-studies/to...
Naively, I imagine the rate of 404s or the percentage of 404s as compared to all responses could be helpful in such a service.
That was my first thought too. They are spending so much money on gear and employing someone full time - wouldn't it be cheaper to just drain it? There must be a reason they aren't doing it.

Also, he can't be there 24 hours - what happens if a bird lands on the water at night?
You're confusing the discussion by trying to force the "leader" terminology. That term does not appear in the BTC whitepaper and the protocol's approach to consensus is different than a traditional leader elected system.

There is no "voting" and no "leader" except in the most abstract sense and I'm not sure why you're so determined to use those terms.
I use HN Search on the fly but have a bunch of keyboard shortcuts in a browser extension to make it faster. Past explanations here if anyone cares: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28441182.