skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goodhart's law is often confused with Campbell's law.

The two are indeed very similar, and often used interchangeably, but there's an important difference in their phrasing.

Goodhart's law states that: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Campbell's law states that: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."

In other words, the former focuses on the fact that, while metrics sound good in theory, in practice they cannot be relied on; whereas the latter focuses on the fact that enforcing metrics in an attempt to control a social process tends to backfire.

Or, in Trump language:

Goodhart = "Sounds good, doesn't work"

Campbell = "Worst trade deal ever"
I already answered hundreds of questions on reddit but I bet the ones I get here will be more challenging. :)

In case someone wants to start there feel free:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/re0yi6/i_have_a_phd_i...
I would agree with the other sibling reply that asking for citation for natural immunity vs vaccine protection is a bit like asking for a citation for claiming that frozen water floats. Sure, you could prove it but it's a well accepted understanding in epidemiology and virology. It's only lately been.... Politicized.
It's humanity's self-unwrapping Christmas present.
> On top of that, do you review git commit message in code review? Do you aks people to improve descriptions, typos and language in commit messages?

Absolutely I do. The commit message is part of the commit just like the code; why would it be excluded from review? The number of times that a good commit message has helped me when dealing with a bug, and that a poor one has stymied me, have firmly convinced me that they are just as important as any other project documentation. They should be clear and informative, and I ask for those aspects to be improved when needed.
I guess in theory you're correct about (b) but the implications for (a) are that the hourly rate is even lower for people who work few hours. A person who worked 1 hour a week would need to pay the company in order to true-up for the benefits.

DoorDash isn't avoiding anything by not paying benefits -- they are paying cash instead of benefits. Maybe it's the case that the employees should net out more than they do; but that's quite separate from whether they get benefits or not, because it's all cash out the door at the end of the day.
Jura espresso machine. Use it every day, one push button, easy to maintain. In 14 years have had two issues, once they did a complete refurbishment at no cost, the other they gave 30% off a new machine. With great beans, anything at coffee place tastes awful by comparison.
Many religions have laws about interest and usury. Catholics were unable to lend with interest between each other for a very long time. I suppose it's not a stretch to say if a person can't charge interest the government shouldn't be doing it either.
Hmm. I find the interesting part of this thread is all the deny at any cost comments. Apple has created a power/performance tradeoff that is way off the charts from the performance path that Intel was on. The deniers keep saying there must be lint in the Intel machine, Apple's thermal design wasn't good, etc. There is plenty of hard data out there with respect to numerous Intel based machines. Intel cannot come close to the power/performance point that Apple is now occupying.

Here is a different sort of data point. I have two Windows programs I need to run on my M1 Pro MB 16. One is an Intel binary and one has been recompiled to ARM. I am running them both under Win11 ARM on a Parallels virtual machine. I am getting better and more responsive performance than I ever did on dedicated Intel hardware. No noticeable fan noise or heat. It is really just a different beast than I have ever used before. Of course, native Mac apps are also much quicker.

Here is another data point from my own machines. 2019 i9 MB Pro Geekbench single core score is 1024. x86 Geekbench single core on M1 MB Pro 16" (x86 emulation) is 1347. Native ARM Geekbench on Win 10 virtual machine running on M1 Pro is 1560. Native single core Geekbench on M1 Pro is 1734. Multi core is 12400.

Look, Intel performance gains over the past decade have been incremental at best. It makes sense to be skeptical that Apple could change the rules like this. I suggest folks just get one of these machines and run their own benchmarks. Apple will give you a full refund, no questions asked for 14 days from the date you receive it. Don't just throw stones, try it yourself.
what the hell this is unacceptable. is this some sort of sabotage? AWS may have to live this down for years in RFPs
Of course it costs money! Even my own "huh, this is weird, anyway, we don't collect any data, so let's tell them to eff off" cost me time, and therefore money, so, invoice time it is.
The paper itself asks the question I’ve suggested if you read between the lines: “COVID-19 vaccines are now being administered widely to adult populations and are also being delivered to children in some countries. Therefore, it is imperative to understand the profile of SARS-CoV-2-specific immune responses in children after natural infection to inform vaccination strategy.”
No, this untrue. There is no long term harm associated with puberty blockers.

I wish the anti-trans crowd would be more honest. Just come out and say that you hate trans people, that you wish to roll-back the hard-won rights they have at the moment; that you disagree with the international scientific and medical community about best treatment; that you're happy to lie about the evidence to try to sound more reasonable and less hate-driven.
Suggest learning about Unified Memory Architecture (history, features and limitations) --not so much benchmarks of "$50K Server" from Armenia.

TL;DR: If you're okay with the non-Windows world, there are few reasons (other than GPU performance) to buy new Intel or Chinese processors for consumer apps or professional bit-banging (image/video/audio/machine-learning).

Likewise, there is NO reason to buy Apple SoC processors for mission critical IT (boxes that run backups, your CFO's workstation that still crunches the Board's spreadsheets or other client-side databases including QuickBooks) --those will all need to be on Intel Xeon processors with ECC memory and a battery/UPS until migrated to the Cloud.

More than a year from now, I expect major Chinese manufacturers will release cheaper (RISC V based) UMA designs (which Apple is rumored to be exploring too) and more than two years from now, I expect Intel to release more expensive (Core based) UMA designs (for anyone wanting Windows). I think it is a foregone conclusion Microsoft will get into chip manufacturing (to diversify from Intel and Qualcomm and compete with Amazon and Google) too.
> It seems to be an evolutionary trend where the virus mutations that are successful became more transmissible and less deadly (probably because a dead host doesn't spread as much as an alive one).

Covid spreads while still being non-symptomatic so that explanation doesn't stand that much. Flu is not getting milder.

Also, how many times more do you think you can get hit in the face by Manny Pacquiao instead of Mike Tyson and survive because his punches are milder ?

How many times can we keep catching mild covid and escape long term damages (edit: and death and everything in between) ?
> People stealing stuff is way up

The article says the opposite, that robberies are down and shoplifting is up from 2020 which ”is still not enough to bring the area’s theft rate back up to pre-pandemic levels, which themselves had been dropping for decades.”
When you're already late...

I appreciate the humor and I totally agree with your point
Just VPN to India, you get 3 months of Premium for like $5 in total. It works fine without VPN after the initial sign up.
It has nothing to do with religious beliefs, its all about gathering capital on his side. He is just abusing peoples' religious beliefs. Everybody knows the new savings scheme he introduced is essentially increasing interest rates.

Contrary to popular belief, I do not think that Erdogan will continue to mold Turkey's future. So far Turkey always had 40-50% opposition which could not unit, but now they are all united and next time it is certainly going to tip the scale in the right way. He will do everything to delay the elections or call them at the right time -like now ?- but his plans don't always work out -not far, look to recent Istanbul elections he lost.
1. Alfred Powerpack - clipboard manager, snippets, workflows

2. Chase Sapphire Preferred - rental car insurance, free memberships for Doordash (12 months), Instacart (6 months) etc

3. IWI multivitamins
It boggles my mind how many scam ads are running on YouTube. Only ads I get are scams, make 5k a day, get rich quick with nft, fake investor ads etc. Google willingly make extreme amounts of money working with these scammers on the backs of ordinary people while already having billions. They are morally corrupt.
Games. Minecraft: 1 cent per hour, 10+ years of free content updates. Satisfactory: 1.4 cents per hour. Factorio: 1.8 cents per hour. Elder Scrolls Online: 10 cents per hour. Bannerlord: 8 cents per hour. Shenzhen IO: 15 cents per hour.

All of the major streaming services. I rotate amongst them depending on what I want to watch. Unbelievably cheap relative to the amount I binge.
It ain't much different if it ends up requiring a 'meta' account instead.
Merry Christmas, HN!
Now we just need a marketplace/forum for sharing custom .fseq files.
Usually any programming text editor will have themes for syntax highlighting. You can pick a theme that does what you want or modify one that suits you.
>"If you believe in democracy you would celebrate the failure of a coup. Even if you hate the surviving leader, you ought to prefer defeating him within the frameworks of democracy."

You are supposing that the once freely-elected leader will permit a reversion to 'free' democracy. In fact, rigged elections form the basis of stable autocracies. Outright juntas and dictatorships are actually more likely to transition to 'free' democracies.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Political_Surviva...
In your position, you have so much leverage in the job market, the most sensible route would be for you to maximize on that. Get a silent auction going of companies bidding for your talents, then get a job that is fully on your terms
I suggest the book "Failure is not an option" by Gene Kranz, an Apollo flight director (played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13). He describes how the primary work of flight controllers in all missions is risk management. You are constantly balancing mission needs, fuel needs, mass needs, temperature needs, and etc etc.

I don't think that a raw metric of the number of SPOF is the right way to measure the risk of this spacecraft. It's a fun term for PR purposes (and emphasizing the risk here) but the actual risk posture is more complex.

I imagine that in the course of developing this, they worked out a possible strategy without all of those SPOF - but doing so doesn't eliminate the risk, and the impact to mission is likely massive.
there is a "natural" interest rate which is roughly what a lender would expect to earn when lending to a reputable borrower. The Federal Reserve/ECB may lend at a slightly lower/higher rate than this natural rate - but going far away from it leads to a crisis as the money supply becomes distorted.

There is a big difference between lending at 0% when "natural" interest is .25% and lending at 14% when natural interest is 20%. If inflation is 18% you're effectively giving consumers 4% return on borrowed money, which means everyone will borrow as much money as they possibly can and use it to purchase goods.
Ask HN: How do you compare Dgraph vs. AragonDB vs. Neo4j?
I want to choose a graph database but I'm not sure which of these 3 (or even more) is a good choice. I want to use community (free) version so I don't want a comparison between enterprise versions.
As I see, Dgraph's stars is much higher than 2 others. It has 17k stars while Aragon has 11k and Neo4j has 9.6k. But I think Dgraph is not mature enough to be used. Is this true?
I want to see your comment about any graph database, especially one of these 3.
Your comment was made intending to shut down discussion by appealing to authority rather than engaging in the substance of the discussion. Note that the last large paragraph you wrote which does engage with the discussion was added via an edit. This was the entirety of your original post:

“{{citation needed}}

My point is that this is unsubstantiated.”
Wonder how much of this is caused by engineers rushing to fix log4j issues at AWS so they can enjoy the holidays? Their stack is heavily Java-based isnt it?
Amazon’s SLAs are quickly becoming only useful for kindling.

At least your fireplace will give some warmth for your relatives. Merry Christmas!
looks like it's a connectivity outage across all services - https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/
I don't think it's fair to call out since no one is putting a println! in hot loops unless they're debugging
Screw that. No one, whatever their age, should have to work a job where they're treated like garbage.
> Throw away anything at the first byte that breaks canonical representation, don't bother verifying its signature.

IMO, the opposite order is better because it means you verify that the message is sent by someone you minimally trust before exposing parsers, etc, to attack, and someone attempting attacks must sign the messages. Here, getting an identity is so easy that it doesn't make much of a difference.

As far as attack surface, the cryptographic implementation is hopefully smaller than a higher level parser. The performance implications are unclear (both parsing and signature verification can be expensive).
In recent history Reddit has added things like profiles and walls in an attempt to pivot towards conventional social media, which serves to illustrate the difference. I'm not saying the line is perfectly clear, but I am saying that using "social media" to encompass both Facebook and HN dilutes the phrase beyond the point of meaning. Different platforms have different advantages and disadvantages, and after a certain point labels cease to have descriptive power if they get applied overbroadly. We should focus on precise features of each platform rather than get bogged down in the usual "is social media bad" -> "is this platform social media" -> "is this platform bad by the transitive property".

As for the "indie producer" aspect, that's certainly one useful property to consider, but I don't think it's sufficient since pre-internet we had things like 'zine culture which were the bastion of indies, and I would find it a stretch to call zines a form of social media, rather than just indie media.
1. Queue up tasks that don’t require internet.
2. Buy internet if you can afford it. It’s usually around $10 USD for a full flight.
3. For take off and landing, when they tell you to put away your large devices, queue up audio/e-books for that period of time.
4. For longer flights queue up a movie or else you’ll be at the mercy of the airline. Sometimes, you can’t focus and need a break and I find a movie helps in those situations.

For what it’s worth, I’m incapable of sleeping on flights at all. I would probably sleep if I could and I were lacking sleep.
This is pretty close to my area of expertise, and I don't think this is a well established principle at all.
I got into Trisquel briefly about a decade ago. I first noticed that YouTube wouldn't work. You could download some packages from the debian repository to get that working, but because that isn't free software, nobody would explain how. Instead they'd just lecture you on free software. I get it, but at the same time it makes your computer unusable for a lot of things. It's a hard line to tread.
I just did a ctrl+f for Yunohost and only got one hit! Have more people tried it? What was your experience like? Hosting my own email will be a 2022 project of mine. My current plan is to get like a linode/personal server (my first test for myself is to host my own html website :) yes I'm new) to avoid customizing my home router too much.
“Revolutions” and “The History of Rome” by Mike Duncan. I think I enjoyed Revolutions a little bit more, as it’s more recent history.

Also, “In our time”, which is my go-to for standalone episodes.
Yes, they'll understand if the impact is worth paying someone(s) for 24/7/365 support, and so far they've decided the answer is no. In my company's industry, it probably is correct - our customers don't work christmas eve/day either. At my previous company they did - and so oncall and its compensation was specified in the contract and there was a formal rota.
I did clean it kinda regularly and did replace the thermal paste once. It stopped throttling when I put it on a stand to provide some airflow from below.
Unclear on this one, but wasn’t the last one caused by power failure in an AZ?
Is there any evidence this guy was actually a KGB agent? I've seen this guy a lot and he talks awfully like someone who is saying what a certain group of people wanna hear.
I use it for personal use, would also recommend. It's not 'self-hosting' of course, but that's not what I actually care about personally, more interested in 'running my own' regardless of whether it's physically my hardware or not.

(Or rather given everything I've read about self-hosting email, not regardless, this is my preference...)
is this unexpected ? erdogan literally buys weapons from russia as a nato member, allies with putin at every occassion and disregards any civilized values. he'd like to squeeze minorities as he wants, oppress the opposition as he wants and ally with whoever he wants. at that point, people might not want to cooperate with you, a bit of diplomacy eh ?
The problem with Czech is our extended alphabet and, more importantly, conjugated forms of verbs and nouns. You can't make the code sound good without proper conjugation, but of course no mainstream programing language supports it.
Weird, in the US the way it's taught is you always put the car into first gear when it's at rest (and pull the hand brake, and turn your wheels towards the curb). But yeah, most people drive automatics and just leave the transmission in park.
You stand on a street corner downtown and shout at everybody and nobody.
Merry Christmas HN

that was fun. thanks Google.
I guess I thought I was describing non locality
I personally don't host my own Mail Infrastructure, If I where forced to do so, I would probably run a Mailcow.

Especially the "dockerized" Mailcow is reasonably easy to setup.

You will still have to setup SPF, DKIM and the other DNS records. But Mailcow is a solid package!
> there is an actual reason why people don't want them around schools

Agreed, but the real point is there's a geographic location you can't legally go to for some valid reason that the supreme court insists you must have access to on election day, regardless of the other reasons.

Numerous weird corner cases could be imagined; soon to be ex-wife teaches at your local polling place and your lawyer insists/demands you go no-contact or even worse the judge orders you to no-contact her, now you can't vote.

One novelty that affects my kids is "in the old days" it was a city tradition to visit your old elementary school on the first day of school, but now its time to control people by fear thus terrorists are hiding behind every tree and fences everywhere and lockdowns and you're not allowed on school property without a guest badge and background screen or the cops will get called which does impact voting operations quite a bit compared to the 80s when they'd literally prop the doors open and be friendly if you wandered in.

For a long time they we were just "oh well" you can always vote at city hall or vote by mail, but there was some kind of court case either locally or larger scale and now we shut down the schools entirely so they're not legally schools for one day.
I used to work as an editor for my city's metro newspaper.

As someone who wants to see local journalism succeed, I would be willing to subscribe at a reasonable rate.

But the only subscription plan they offer is {ridiculously low rate for first 6 months} then {ridiculously high rate after that).

And I know what a hassle it is to cancel. No online option. You have to phone in, endure 20-30 minutes on hold, then resist a retention specialist's multiple efforts to get you to reconsider.

No thanks. I want to support local journalism, but this is not the way.

The FTC recently announced that it's ramping up enforcement of subscription services cancellation rules:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-r...

"Marketers should provide cancellation mechanisms that are at least as easy to use as the method the consumer used to buy the product or service in the first place."

I hope that these efforts do make a difference with news subscriptions.
Speak to some Gen Z’ers and you’ll find they’ve grown weary of millennial narratives.
The link is PPP adjusted already
I agree about hetzner. Specially servers auction. I developed websites that were terrible backend performance wise, just because i knew 20 pounds can get me so much comouting power that i never have to optimise it. i cringe at that now, bht starting your own business without much of a reputation you need to cut corners. When using server auction though make sure you have good backup as its bare metal.
Indeed! I really hope governments will start recognising this and give us back our freedom. Media messages and restrictions are still pretty negative, despite the lack of severity. I don't know how can they talk about another lockdown.

A lockdown is probably impractical at this point, but we are stuck with a disease that will be a health burden on humanity that will be difficult to eliminate.

For example, if a disease kills 40,000 people per year. That's 400,000 people in a decade. A drop in the bucket of humanity for sure, but that's about a city size population. That's not counting the collectively lost days in term of feeling terrible.
Assume you are wrong until proven otherwise. There are really quite a lot of constraints you are at most times not qualified to reason about. Small example: I was working on implementing accessibility for a government website and was rather baffled at the requirement to provide sign language videos providing basic explanations. I had assumed we'd need to provide augmenting accesibility, i.e. text-to-speech for the blind. In my mind, if a person can see, they can also read. Turns out: no, not the case. Sign language is a separate language and you'd be learning your locally dominant language as a first foreign language, so depending on the community you grow up with, you may as well lack basic literacy in that language. Therefore, sign language videos are more akin to offering the website in different languages that assistive technology. After that incident, I've learned to assume there is always something I don't know which explains the things I find weird.
I think it was ACE magazine in the 1980s that always rated its games by "Improvements through improper play". e.g. could that racing game be made more fun by, instead of racing, turning around on the starting grid and ploughing into the entire field of cars at the end of lap 1?
I must admit I did not know MAME is able to emulate the SNES. Does it run Genesis games, too? I only used MAME to run Neo Geo and other arcade games.
I was looking at the mobile results that PageSpeed Insights reports by default. Bing on mobile uses ~170 KiB for the background image while Bing on desktop uses ~1,000 KiB for a higher resolution version of the same image.
> There is literally no medical condition out there that is treated this way.

Literally every medical condition will take into account quality of life before, during, and after treatment.