skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is careful not to suggest that in the paper, but the implication is that this is a stellar empire with ET's transforming the systems that they are colonizing. The author is also quite clear about the results not being significant and that the cluster is of "questionable reality".
Thats the same point. When everyone professional is using 8000$ Macs or PC workstations but you customers are on C64s and Amigas, you would like to run some tests on those machines as well.
It’s not that goddamn hard to understand to even average intelligence people.. where do people with serious symptoms go when they can barely breath? To the hospital. Does the hospital has limited capacity? Yes. Will they be flooded really quickly when a disease grows exponentially? Hopefully you know the answer.

Now, tell me, where do healthy 20 years olds go (who I guess you are able to emphasize with, or is that only yourself?) when they get in an accident? Is a cancer discovered at the prime of someone’s life “comormibidity”?
Most headlines I see these days are developed to attract, not inform.

Informing people is currently less incentivized by money in this world than attracting eyeballs.

I'm not aware of a single newspaper that's needs-centric and trauma-informed. One of those probably wouldn't do this kind of stuff, since money isn't a need.
Powershell is available on Linux. Albeit it doesn't always play too nicely with existing CLI tools.

There are also other typed shells that appeal to yourself which aren't Powershell but do have behaviours similar to Powershell and which do play a lot more nicely with the wider Linux / UNIX ecosystem:

- murex https://github.com/lmorg/murex

- Elvish https://github.com/elves/elvish

- NGS https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs

I'm the maintainer of murex so happy to answer any questions on that shell here. I do know the the maintainers of Elvish and NGS pop on HN too.
There is a answer to a question, which is half of the pie. Does Apple or google get their cut? No.

Ok. Good.

What about stripe? I never used stripe, because their business model is to keep a big pile of the other half of the cake - I think.
“Buy, receive, or sell the personal information of 50,000 or more California residents”

If a business engages this type of activity, they need to have a scalable process for providing California residents with their data.

Describing a California law passed by a majority of voters as “idiotic hoops” is a miss.
Meanwhile, those who don’t participate in the game are eaten alive by inflation.
Of course undefined is safe. It is just a different kind of null, and nothing else.
That's an interesting idea, but I think you've missed a step in your reasoning. Sadly, a dystopia where powerful elites enslave the majority of the global population could be quite a stable state of affairs, and that dynamic could persist long enough for the civilization to spread throughout the galaxy.

Even if a war between great powers were to occur in such a scenario (which would not be in the interests of the elites who profit from the status quo), I don't think killer robot swarms are any more likely to, or capable of, causing global civilization collapse than nuclear weapons already are.
I mean, possibly, but what informational advantage does a random medium blogger have here?

It's statistically likely that there will be one eventually, they seem to be some sort of Poisson process, just as it is likely there will eventually be another earthquake that destroys the Bay Area again. That doesn't mean it can be predicted even to the nearest year.

People were predicting a crash several years before the 2008 mortgage crash, and even so house prices have rebounded since then.

I do regard the arrival of major brands into NFTs and the purchase of crypto-themed sports teams and stadiums as a leading crash indicator, but a lot of people have lost money trying to predict crypto crashes.
[Ice Cube voice]: Started off with too much cargo, dropped 4 letters now I'm making all the dough.
Here's some numbers from 15 December in Denmark, relating to Omicron infections:

76,93% of the poulation are vaccinated.

Of Omicron positive cases 89,59% were either double or triple vaccinated. 8,49% were unvaccinated.

Why are the unvaccinated underrepresented?

Source: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/status-paa-coronavirus-lig...
Neat. I've been thinking that such a product should exist.

Are you sampling just a single point for temperature or do you get the maximum value of a bunch of IR-pixels?

Also, with your first dollars earned, I would hire a photographer for better product pictures :)
> […] e.g. because understanding the code practically requires jump-to-definition.

Wait… so the code you write makes me magically able to know the record field names of your data types without looking at their definition?

Your statement may be true if it’s talking only about the core logic of an application, but when we get to the part that interfaces with the rest of the world, things always get somewhat messy. An IDE is a huge help here.

I mean, sure, you may be able to memorize the arguments that “readCreateProcess” takes (https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-18.19/process-1.6.13.2/...), but sometimes it’s really handy to have an IDE help you with this.
The same survivor bias analogy goes for usage of Firefox and Javascript in general. "Our users dont block JS and are 99% on Chrome." Because the tech savvy users just block your surveillance stuff.
it's not research on humans as such. it was intended to be research on organizations, websites large enough to be subject to the law.
In the field of speech, you have the concept of forced alignment, aligning an audio recording with a transcript by way of text-to-speech and pattern matching, which can certainly be used to detect some sorts of errors consistently and various other errors with some probability. (I’m not up to the point of doing this, but I’m early in making software for audiobook recording and plan to see what I can manage in error detection eventually. Unfortunately from what I’ve seen just with a little bit of casual playing around, small errors are not generally well identified because there will be too many false positives.) You could probably adapt a lot of that stuff to music without too much trouble, though it’d certainly require changes and integration effort. My vague feeling is that this direction, with MIDI rendering and pattern matching, would probably be surprisingly effective and I suspect better than trying to more directly match the recording to the score with the help of just Fourier transformations, or converting the audio to a score with something like this and comparing them, though even with the forced alignment adaptations I imagine you’d be changing it to use mostly Fourier transformations for feature detection.

(I’m a good programmer in general, but still decidedly a layman in audio matters. Take my thoughts here with a grain of salt.)
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Yep. And the thing is, despite reading all the awful shit Uber/UberEats has done in this thread, I'll continue using them, because it's convenient, and still better than most of the alternatives. (The Lyft app has decided over the past few weeks that taking my money is too difficult for it, so I'm a transportation app down at the moment.)

I feel a little bad about this, but not bad enough to change my behavior.
> about $3 million plugging about 120 wells

So about $25,000 .. seems ballpark reasonable for anything that requires specialists and heavy construction equipment. The wells are pressurized, so you can't just dump concrete on it and call it a day.
I've sometimes read that Sails.js is the "Rails" of the JS world, but when "I did my own research" about it there were enough red flags experienced by real world devs that I never considered it for a project. For instance, all benchmarks I read showed a very poor performance compared to other frameworks, also very poor real world adoption so it doesn't look good on the resume.
I chose to go the Rails API with a Vue.js frontend route (actually, Quasar), and I'm very happy with it.
Deception is allowed, but should be scrutinized carefully to determine if it is necessary. In this case, it was not necessary. The researcher could have easily just said "we want to know if you are compliant with CCPA for the purpose of doing this research, could you tell us your policy please"

https://research.oregonstate.edu/irb/research-involving-dece...

quotes:

a) Psychologists do not conduct a study involving deception unless they have determined that the use of deceptive techniques is justified by the study's significant prospective scientific, educational or applied value and that effective nondeceptive alternative procedures are not feasible.

b) Psychologists do not deceive prospective participants about research that is reasonably expected to cause physical pain or severe emotional distress.

c) Psychologists explain any deception that is an integral feature of the design and conduct of an experiment to participants as early as is feasible, preferably at the conclusion of their participation, but no later than at the conclusion of the data collection, and permit participants to withdraw their data.

a) -- Hell no

b) -- I can give the benefit of the doubt that they didn't foresee small website owners getting panic attacks from this threat, but their non-empathetic tone in that apology write up is appalling

c) -- Hell no

The more I think about this the more I'm furious that a supposedly top tier institution like Princeton approved all of this and the "researchers" seems to have 0 fucks to give on ethical experiment design.
That’s an interesting question indeed. Based on this public documentation from Stripe it seems they take a 1% cut: https://stripe.com/pricing/local-payment-methods

But maybe I don’t understand it properly, first they talk about a fee then there is a table with prices…
What says that a crypto crash will affect the regular economy as a whole, though?
I still learn a bit from those sorts of debates. But for me they're meaningless because what I need from a language has nothing to do with nerd debate hour. I need a job, so it has to be out there, not just in my city but small cities in case I move. Next I care about good tooling. Otherwise the only debate I feel strongly enough is static vs dynamic typing, and that's mostly because I don't think I'm a good enough programmer to build a 500KLOC+ application without compile time type guarantees. Give me a language with the above 3 things and I think we have a deal, and all of them are about making my life easier.
What? Not at all.

I am a total athiest, and I really like Tagore's poems.

See, Tagore not only wrote poetries and songs, he was a great essayist, as well.

Many of his essays would be highly appreciated by athiests and progressives (I mean the real progressives, not current US-style ones). Same goes for many of his novels and plays.

His romantic poems and love songs are top-notch.

I know because I have been immersed in Tagore culture from my childhood.

He was a thiest, but definitely not in the usual way. Many of his songs that belong to the "Worship" sect, can be, and is interpreted as romantic songs a lot.

He was definitely a progressive.

Try reading this through G Translate maybe- https://www.tagoreweb.in/Stories/lipika-147/kortar-bhut-2533 .

Fun fact: that he was progressive and wrote romantic poems and songs irked Swami Vivekananda, and they did not talk with each other despite being from the same period.
From a British perspective this sound like madness. We have a tradition of referring baseless legal threats to the precedent of Arkell v Pressdram.
That and the interview was from 2019. It looks like they recycled old content with a catchy but misleading new headline.
This is a bit of a tangent, but this is emblematic of the fact that, beyond Xcode Cloud, the Apple Developer Tools team seems more excited to work on toys like Swift Playgrounds than make the Apple platform development experience better and more sustainable for users beyond the one-man shop and toy applications.

It’s not surprising that more are preferring to use Electron, React Native, or Flutter to develop apps than to live with the bare metal Xcode toolchain and Apple APIs.

The Java / Kotlin + Gradle and JS development ecosystems are dramatically easier to live, despite the fact that Apple has the resources to do dramatically better.
I don't know why you are saying "everyone involved agrees that Google doesn't match broad population trends". Are the men at Google taller than the women at Google? Google employees are probably unusual in variables that relate to their work with computers, but it's not at all obvious that they would be unusual on other traits, like height, for example, or assertiveness, cooperativeness, etc.

Regarding Damore sharing his memo - he shared it in places where the topic was being discussed. He wasn't mailing this to all workers, but posting it in groups that were discussing diversity and asking for feedback. If Damore's memo had reached different conclusions - like say that Google had fewer women because of sexism in education and implicit biases among hiring committees, and he had shared it in the same places, would he have been fired? I think we both know the answer to that.
It is this it previous metrics never decide next crash. If this was so take out shorts on major market players and get rich. Environment is highly uncertain and those who have introspections make best. Manipulators try to move markets way they want because they already made bets.
Interesting note - when it comes to compile times, the most optimized Rust codebase in that aspect I believe is makepad.dev [1].

It is compiling from scratch on mac m1 in around 7.5s [2] and that's +100k lines of Rust. However there is close to none dependencies, so this +100k is all there is to compile pretty much. Still, this is impressive feat!

[1] https://makepad.dev/

[2] https://twitter.com/rikarends/status/1467529091284934666
Spot on, the question is, do you trust BMJ?

I think BMJ has a pretty convincing reputation. So how can ANY fact checker flag an article from them without really good arguments?
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Possibly a Hinge of History fallacy caused by raised anxiety levels. I suppose this might apply to the majority of contemporary doom predictions from all sorts of subjects.
The entire premise of this article is that a digital signature is analogous to a handwritten signature on a photograph print, in that it turns a mass-produced print into a unique (i.e. non-fungible) object. This is wrong. Digital signatures are themselves fungible, since they are made of digital information. You cannot attach something fungible to something that is also fungible and expect that the result will be non-fungible. A digital signature is like a rubber stamp, not like a handwritten signature.
The competition does not have Googles’s ability and/or willingness to burn that much cash.

Apple or Facebook or Amazon or Microsoft have the cash, but obviously none of them see a sufficient likelihood of sufficient ROI.

I cannot blame anyone who does not want to start a YouTube competitor, the moderation costs alone must be insane.

But for video creators interested in sharing their work, they can do it without Google, and it has never been easier in the history of the world.
As a researcher, I find this fascinating. Would you mind citing the requirements that all human research requires consent?

I agree with it, and I feel it's my duty to be well-informed on this. So I thought I'd ask you.

Everything I can find is only applicable for medical research, and not social research.
It's missing channels which are used more on more for thread safety
To me, the self-own was trying to lock libraries behind subscription.

Altium had just gotten to the point that everybody providing chips was also providing an Altium library footprint and symbol.

It was really nice--for about 12-18 months.

And then I started getting Altium libraries that I couldn't pull the symbol out of and couldn't use without being logged in.

Fscking idiots. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

They had finally reached the point that they were an alternative to Orcad in commercial engagements, and then they gave it away in order to try to go after subscription revenue.

I literally picked up KiCad the day after I couldn't extract a symbol from an Altium library and add a couple of missing pins for a new part. I was that infuriated.

Right now, I'm evaluating KiCad 6.0 for work. I'll probably transfer over completely for personal projects (I've been doing more and more personal projects in KiCad over time with only PCB->Schematic back annotation holding me back from full transfer--that's fixed in 6.0 with the new file formats). It may take a bit, but I'll probably transfer over to KiCad for work projects that I'm the only designer on once I get a couple of projects under my belt with KiCad 6.0.
I would agree that is implied in the call for SETI to target them.
The implication is the spread of a civilization to "nearby" stars
could be responsible for the observations.

Without anything but wild guess to go on
much closer transient (natural) obstructions
in our line of sight could cause dips in a small region too.
I would like to think we have some way to rule this out.

Or further fetched,
common formation seeded them with "something peculiar"
and they are still neighbors.

But again much like the GP question of what is the avg dist between
what is common about their size age, composition etc,
other than they seem to (slowly) dim?
In order to use less resources, features will have to be removed.

The pdksh version of the Korn shell was available to the POSIX shell standardization committee. It was not chosen because it was too large, with too many features.

Another round of less-capable tools does not seem productive.
We're not sure if YouTube even makes money
Then it sounds like the blame is solely on the researchers for thinking IRB approval == greenlight to do whatever the hell we want. Or we have a mismatch in the social contract of research.
I thought this seemed low too, but it’s a pretty new feature and if you’re the security conscious type already (by virtue of being a Tailscale user) you may already have your own certs setup for these internal hosts.
That makes a lot of sense. I hope this thread doesn't give anybody any ideas.
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That's not what's happening, the article mentioned it was when the submitted report didn't have a license field at all, so it perhaps is comparing null to null on the lookup.

Personally I would've thought the lookup would be an empty string. Hopefully little bobby tables doesn't get caught speeding.
Hmmm I've seen it in crypto firms, particularly once you're higher up in the chain and already getting involved in the details of their internal systems. Particularly those with established businesses in multiple countries with a decent client base they dont wanna lose.
The sub title of the article is "History ain't changed" and the article starts with "In the late summer of 1929 [...]" and I already knew that I shouldn't have read any further.

Yes, there will be a crash, there always is, but it will play out differently than the ones before. History only rhymes, never repeats itself.

There have been calls for a big crash for decades now but no crash in this millennium was the big one.

"The S&P 500 fell 57% during the 2008 crisis, 49% in the dot-com bubble, and 34% during the COVID-19 crash. So if the most pessimistic predictions prove true, the next one would be the most dramatic crash since the Great Depression."

We already had big crashes in the last decades but we always came round (more or less). We are no longer on the gold standard, governments have plenty of experiences with crashes. I'm not convinced that we'll be seeing a crippling crash again.
I use wildcard LetsEncrypt certs for securing internal stuff which seems to solve this particular issue.

Something like *.internal.mydomain.com - so that’s all that would appear in transparency logs.

I guess this means you have to manage your own internal DNS mapping to your Tailscale IPs though rather than using Tailscale’s convenience split-DNS.
> How is a reminder of the law a legal threat?

In the same way that "This is a nice place you've got here, it'd be a real shame if something were to happen to it", when spoken by a Mafia enforcer is most definitely a threat.

It's not, outright, threatening to bring a lawsuit, however the language of that last paragraph is definitely something which you'd expect to see from a lawyer in preparation for such legal action.
I assume google cares about people who block ads because a month or so ago, google figured out how to show ads even though I am using a content blocker on iOS and macOS.
The post talks more about usability issues rather than any theoretical issues.

There are more fundamental objections to typed holes - but Wingman is kind of the answer to those concerns - with typed holes you're filling in types from the expressions, with Wingman you're doing pretty much the opposite - synthesizing programs from the type.

Now there might be usability issues with Wingman as well, but it represents a different direction - more suitable for type-driven development.
> In addition, the younger Gen Z (45%) and millennials (41%) are more optimistic than the older Gen X (33%) that Americans will be able to come together and work out their political differences.

The percentages seem reflective of experience and wisdom. The situation with politics in America stems from a deeper struggle, a kind of tug of war between good and evil. It's not a matter of just being nice and patiently hammering out differences; our goals are mutually incompatible.

So, I don't really want to hear from the young about their prognosis. They're naive and not meaningfully in the struggle yet.
This was my biggest misconception when learning Rust. I was thinking "&mut" can modify data, so "&" cannot. Wrong.

The "mut" keyword is not the opposite of "const" from C++. It's declaring that you have exclusive (unique) ownership at this moment.
I second "Atomic Habits". It's not my inspiration for building a habit (it' too dry and too methodological for me) but it explains some core ideas why habit is important. One of the main benefit is once you commit your habit, you do it without thinking and even arguing. For example, I commit to read several pages of book before bed time. I try to keep it everyday, even the holiday. Just one page is okay. The amount it accumulates is amazing. Now I already read 40 books per year and still counting.

* PS: my inspiration for building habit is Haruki Murakami.

"When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at nine p.m. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. But to hold to such repetition for so long — six months to a year — requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity."
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