skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been studied a lot, I just threw that up as example since it was posted here a couple of days ago. Here's one of OKCupid's own studies [1]. You can search for others that confirm the same thing over and over again.

1. https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/yourlooksandyo...
Leaked Covid modelling shows just the most worrying scenario – not most likely
The HD controller? (the main IC in the center of the front-panel board) in my Cloudshell 2 imploded recently, now I am stuck trying to figure out what to do. I really don't want to shell out for a whole new NAS, and the XU4 is still running great after repasting the heatsink... but it randomly loses the drives when there's too much activity (I tried libata.force=1.5G, but no luck).
Reminds me of Java's use of listener objects because it lacked (at the time) lambdas and method references for callbacks.

Hopefully Go generics continue to improve.
> What would happen if it was a US company? Probably they would be forbidden from selling anything outside of the US.

That's just false. The NSA bought the Swiss company Crypto AG and has been selling backdoored crypto devices all over the world for decades before being found out.
I've upvoted for legibility before. HN can get, again literally, harder to read when school is out.
At this stage of maturity, ETH would never survive a fork like that,

which is pretty evident given the umpteen hacks that have happened since going unabated!
Also, worth mentioning that I was banned after I have contacted the support because my orders were being rejected (this was my initial problem and the reason I contacted the support). It was the support team who banned me. This is a problem of its own: legitimate users should not be discouraged to contact the support.
I could see these being a more cost effective option than helicopter transport. Especially in island areas.
> 'I do not know' or 'I am not sure' for every occasion when it is not 100% sure in something (like a human can), this would drastically improve the usefulness.

This is exactly what a language model does though, just at a different level of abstraction. It gives you a probability distribution over tokens at each step. That distribution can be narrow (low entropy, certain) or wide (high entropy, uncertain). The language output you see is just a sampling at some temperature from these distributions.

Though glancing at your paper I assume you are aware of this and I am missing the point you are making?
Seems silly to call it a security issue when the bulk of the day to day activities for many state department employees is working closely with local nationals. Do you really want to make your average Ugandan caterer make an international call to the US in order to coordinate food delivery for an embassy event?
You can check which availability zone is with:
aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --region us-east-1
It depends on what you mean by retire and your family circumstances.

If you are single, ok cutting your expenses and live very frugally, then you need very little money to make a living. If you are not single, check with your partner :). Kids add a lot more expense. If you can afford it, take a sabbatical and see if that works.
The web has become so overdesigned and complicated that I just don't see that happening. No open source group has the kind of funds to take on google. Firefox is barely in there but only just because they were around before google's engine became dominant and google gives them a half billion dollars a year.
I just don't see it when it comes to science education. If we were talking about teaching students critical thinking and reasoning skills then I'd be 100% on board with that because that's a directly-useful skill (and one I should've probably included on the list of pragmatic skills). But learning those skills by proxy of science would be extremely roundabout, and definitely isn't what's happening right now.
The original assertion was

> lowest scoring areas get the most funding and the highest paid teachers.

I think using highest paid teachers as a proxy for best teachers makes sense in this context, because that's how the public policy works. A state looking to hire better teachers would raise teacher salaries in order to attract better teachers.
Based on the tests examples it's not about being great at math. Being able of divide one number by another or find area of a parallelogram is just a sign that that person is reasonably smart and functional in modern world.

The test is so basic, it's shame that teachers pushed it up to court.

Just a random pick from samples:

> Nada is landscaping her front yard. She has 100m of plastic edging to encloses a circular garden. What is the diameter of the garden?

We seriously expect teachers to not know about the Pi number?
I disagree. I'd be willing to bet that the better educated a populous is, the higher the vaccination rates would be. I also believe that it's not a high bar to expect people to understand basic physics and biology and chemistry before being called an "adult". The info may not be immediately pragmatically useful, but people being less ignorant in general cannot be detrimental to society. How much can I trust someone that doesn't understand that feathers and rocks fall at the same speed, it's merely the air resistance that changes it? How many centuries back do we have to go before we consider something mandatory information?
I hate explaining what I do. I'm a data scientist and 9 out of 10 times the person I'm talking to has no idea what it is and I honestly think the title itself is kind of cringey.

I usually just tell people I work on a "tech team for a finance company". If they show interest in what kind of tech team, then I'll go into more detail. Usually, the conversation just moves on.
If I was rolling my own and concerned about polluting, I’d favour a language like Rust or Go because I then don’t need to install the Python runtime, have random undocumented dependencies for the bash etc.

Or I’d use Docker.

But as said before, there’s no wrong answer here since it’s just a hobby project running on a HTPC.
I recently used GPT-J to create some handouts (fake 1930's newspaper articles) for a roleplaying game. I wrote a headline and byline, then have the model suggest some text. I change the text to include the details I want the players to have + enforce consistency, then reuse the text-so-far as a prompt, and repeat.

I definitely cranked out the newspaper text much faster than I would have on my own, and the model actually made some really nice embellishments and added a couple ideas that I kept in the final text.
Honestly, I have an app in production that isn't completely hardened against single zone outages. There was pressure to turn off some redundancy in our caching infra, and not every backend service we call is free of tenant affinity, so we could well lose at least 1/3rd of our customers in a single AZ failure in the wrong region, or have huge latency issues for all of our tenants based on high cache miss rates.

Having written this, I'm going to ping our SME on the cache replication and remind him that since the last time he benchmarked it, we've upgraded to a newer generation of EC2 instances that has lower latency, and could he please run those numbers again.
To code well, you need to be able to write well too. If your code isn't clearly written it can't be understood and it can't be maintained. Writing well isn't a "nice to have" for doing software development, it's a requirement. Yet despite this fact most coders are terrible, terrible writers. Even within the very limited literary realm of variable naming. And this lack of skills results in billions of dollars of thrown away and abandoned projects every year.

For a lot of teaching jobs, mathematical skills really aren't necessary. You don't need to be able to do long division to teach Shakespeare. You don't need to know algebra to teach French. For those professions, mathematical skills are indeed a "nice to have".

I think the individuals taking time out from their highly paid days of not bothering to add doc-strings to functions, skipping adding READMEs to new projects and not bothering to name their variables anything more informative than "data" should take consideration of these facts before posting here to say that overworked and underpaid teachers are lazy and stupid and should be required to jump through a bureaucratic hoop to confirm that they have a skill they don't need.
A Popular Test Claims to Boost IVF Success. The Science Is Unclear
411, in the latest reInvent AWS announced preview of AWS Backup for S3 (right now in USW2 only).

Relevant blog post,
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/preview-aws-backup-adds-sup...
Some past threads. Hard to search for. Others?

The Io Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22796409 - April 2020 (24 comments)

Io Programming Language (new website design) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10605310 - Nov 2015 (73 comments)

Io language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867575 - Jan 2015 (40 comments)

Io language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2624097 - June 2011 (35 comments)

The Io Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1538835 - July 2010 (39 comments)

Io language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750830 - Aug 2009 (4 comments)
https://archive.ph/AdXja
Qubes OS 4.1 RC3 has been released
This was a great tool written in c, for handling large data files fast, unfortunately the new golang rewrite (version 6.0) is much slower (around 10x in a quick test I did).
That's a bit of a stretch... If someone made a language that directly copied Haskell's type system, I'd 100% call it a non-traditional type system, but there would be nothing novel about it.
Web 3.0 is a concept being pushed by fans of cryptocurrency. And it sure is going great. https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
> Obviously the point was to maintain paying as little as possible

Is this the only reason one would want to withhold disclosing everyone's salary?

Full disclosure would likely lead to one salary for every person in that role. But anyone that's spent any time in a company knows that not everyone is the same. I would hope top performers get paid better than mediocre or below average employees. And if everyone had all the info, that would open up huge legal liability due to the perception of bias.

There would also be complaints and comparisons across roles as well. There's also the privacy component.

I think the idea of pay transparency but in practice if you dump everyone's salaries it would case a disturbance and a huge cultural shift in an org that didn't disclose salaries before.
The foldy bit isn't a solar panel. Its a sun shade. Its job is to keep the telescope out of direct sunlight and help regulate temperature.

Normally, space telescopes will be built like Hubble or Spitzer where the mirrors are inside a cylinder which keeps light out from all directions except where the telescope is aimed. Its also insulated to keep heat from messing with measurements.

JWST's mirror is so large that they couldn't build it this way because no launcher existed at the time with a large enough payload fairing to fit it. So instead of a conventional, and otherwise superior in every other way, cylinder they came up with a clever origami folding sunshade. For comparison Hubble has a 2.4 meter main lens and JWST has a 6.5 meter lens. Its so large they couldn't reliably make it out of one element either so its actually several hexagonal elements put together. This is a popular technique for large telescopes.

For power JWST just has solar panels. L2 isn't that much farther from the sun than earth is so it gets sufficient power this way.

But unlike Hubble's reaction wheels JWST uses RCS thrusters to change its orientation. There are pros and cons. RCS is much more reliable than reaction wheels, a lot of satellites met a premature end because their reaction wheels stopped working. But RCS only lasts as long as you have fuel. They gave JWST enough for an estimated 10 years of operation.
Targeting for home invasion

Targeting for extortion

Targeting in general
The Sega Dreamcast release date was 9/9/99
On a Debian GNU/Linux or derivative:

apt-cache search jail

firejail - sandbox to restrict the application environment

firejail-profiles - profiles for the firejail application sandbox

firetools - Qt frontend for the Firejail application sandbox
Not the OP. I believe that's the case in the US, but here in Canada, there generally aren't any laws against it. There was a bill in Ontario in 2018 that banned reprisals against workers who discussed their pay, but it died when the governing Liberal party lost the election and the Conservative party did not follow through. As far as I know, the practice is not banned in Alberta either.
Congrats! It's been great to watch your journey. I've always recommended Codecademy to my friends who wanted to learn to program. I can safely say you helped three people get into the industry.
It could be worse. If nth delay is 1/n months, say, then the sum of delays is infinite.

Zeros paradox is at least just a paradox.
Sending elderly relatives abroad for 24 hour dementia care [audio]
It's not meaningless to imply that inaction is illegal.
If it's bad enough to violate US false advertising law, I imagine it violates that of most countries.
The tools and services I used to write, edit and self-publish my book
That is about the most "HN" comment I have ever read (or at least "nerd", in the positive sense).
PE teachers in the UK also teach another academic subject as a sort of standby....so no
To clarify. I don't think people would be riled up about individuals sending out these emails. Individuals are required to be legal, not 'ethical'.

The people who are riled up believe that University studies should be performed ethically. They know that IRB's exist to prevent researchers from doing unethical, but legal, things. In this case, they feel the harm caused should have been prevented.

Scraping data silently doesn't cause stress/harm to the participants directly, as they are unaware of any potential threat.

It's not "human experimentation should be banned" its "human experimentation should be heavily scrutinized to prevent harm to participants as much as possible. And definitely never cause harm to unwilling / unwitting participants".
The answers to the questions don’t depend on whether or not the user is legitimate or not. Not to mention cases where the user isn’t even sure of their account information or lost email, etc.
Copyright is supposed to be temporary. Instead terms have been extended to essentially infinite durations. The copyright industry has robbed us of our public domain rights.
> Answering with something boring enough to shift the topic of conversation to something else quickly.

I usually just say "I'm a web developer," then immediately shift the conversation to something about them. If they want to know more I'll tell them, but most people don't. I don't think there are any conversation topics more boring than web development.

It also avoids the terribly awkward conversation that starts with, "Oh, you do websites? Awesome! My niece/nephew/cousin/etc. needs one for her candle-making/essential oils/custom dogtag/etc. business. What's your email address?"
When your personal data is stored in company/government databases, never consider “if” your data will be leaked, but “when”.
Go has no such feature. Go's interfaces are a reference type which point to the runtime implementation. If that implementation is itself a pointer type, then that pointer may also be nil. Any language that has nullable reference types (including languages in which everything is a pointer like Java or Python) will have this problem.

EDIT: would really like to know why I'm being downvoted. If you disagree with my comment, then best of luck to you in rebutting it. :)
> “Less trust, more truth.”

What a neat platitude that means absolutely nothing. As a society, over, oh I don't know, like 15000 years, we figured out the the best way to enforce truth is via some sort of centralized institution: the court of law.

> They could, right. They sort of do—there’s the star thing that you can only do once per day. But guess what? They're a profit-motivated company. So if you pay Tinder enough, you can just send as many stars as you want.

Wait, crypto miners aren't profit-motivated? Maybe we should introduce Mr. Wood to flashbots[1] -- a "sub-network" of Ethereum miners (a fork of geth) who's entire purpose for existing is front-running (for a price, of course). Truth as long as you can pay for it -- got it. Web3 is end-stage capitalism and we've been down this road in the early 1900s. Yawn.

[1] https://github.com/flashbots/pm
You're joking right? GTK apps work just fine outside of "gtkbased environments". They have since the beginning. Some may not have the styling of their DE but they run just fine. I use Gimp and Meld all over the place, including on windows without any issues.
"One European financial official said that in the case of such of an attack, his country would not wait 10 days to act."

Since roughly January 2020, as a life scientist, my confidence in pretty much all of the world's governments' abilities to act quickly and/or in concert, in the face of an emergency, has gone from maybe ~60% to near 0%.
No other console tanked the Dreamcast.

The Dreamcast was fatally wounded as a platform because their DRM was easily bypassed. You didn't even need a special hardware dongle or modification. You could instead straight up download copies of games that were modified to work on the system. No point in supporting a platform that was dominating arcades but whose sales were getting obliterated by piracy at home.
Put it in a different perspective.

If a highly skilled and more valuable employee is making 2x his or her peers then this type of disclosure reduces the companies ability to retain said employee.

For instance, now everyone will demand a raise and the company will potentially have to lay off some employees to ensure a higher salary and same profit.

Alternatively, the most qualified people may leave. There are times where smaller companies may pay much higher for the right people in the right positions.
>Full disclosure would likely lead to one salary for every person in that role.

Why? We have existing systems with full transparency (e.g. CA state employees) and this proposed trend has never come to pass
> If they overcome the anticheat hurdle and reach 100% of top games running with decent performance, there are plenty of people who have a computer that they use exclusively for video games and web apps that will gladly forego paying for Windows.

Windows is essentially free these days. You might have to pay for it once (and I got my Windows key from a grey market site for $15), but each Windows version update has been free after Windows 8.

Any gamer that buys a pre-built computer will end up with Windows by default and isn't likely to wipe it to install Linux. And even the ones that build themselves are still likely to use Windows just because that's what they're used to.

The overlap between PC gaming and Linux enthusiasm isn't as big as you think it is.
> they lose both type safety and performance

I guess you think generics is a magic pixie dust that has the exact performance envelope as non-generic code?
Memory safety would be a large selling point in my mind.
I think you are abstracting the personnel too much from your analysis. Clearly Apple, for example, persists and thrives in a world with such dynamism. The difference is one of talent, and the internal organization therein.
Not to defend the CEO but nearly every one of the negative reviews bashing the CEO has the following characteristics at the top of the review:

* Does not recommend
* Approves of CEO
* Poor business outlook

I find it difficult to believe that dozens and dozens of people bashing the CEO on glassdoor all just happened to misunderstand and click "Approves of CEO". This looks like an automated and/or coordinated attack.
In case the link doesn't work for some reason switch to another Invidious instance: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=Xo7V4PPHijs
UK: you may discuss your pay to see if there's any discrimination (gender etc). (Maybe in other circumstances too, I'm not sure)

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/77
I doubt this happens - in the USA you can find the owner for virtually any property and high income areas don’t necessarily see more organized crime
Another benefit you get from using gmail is that it's do much simpler to give someone your email address. You just need to get the part before the @ correct, they won't misspell the Gmail.com. I moved much of my email to Fastmail with my own domain. However, when I rented a car earlier this week I gave them my Gmail address because it's just so much less painful especially since the clerk and I could barely understand each other with nearby noise and masks and plexi glass between us. Happens all the time.
Description of the radio programme/podcast:

> David Baddiel explores why some people are choosing to send their elderly relatives abroad for 24 hour dementia care.

> From soaring costs to reports of staff under pressure, covid concerns and neglect in some homes, deciding where in the UK to house loved ones who need intense support poses a huge dilemma for relatives.

> David Baddiel, whose father suffers with dementia, hears how some people from Britain and Europe are choosing to send their mums, dads and partners as far away as Thailand for dedicated round the clock support.

> Peter Brown runs a care resort in Chiang Mai - the mountainous north of the country. His 31 dementia patients are referred to as ‘guests’ with care tailored to the individual. Meanwhile Martin Woodtli runs a nearby ‘village’ where 14 people live in Villas with round the clock personal carers. He set things up after struggling to find care for his mother in his native Switzerland.

> David hears from relatives who are attracted by both the type and the cost of care in Thailand. One of them, Michael Williams from Bristol, talks about the pain he felt leaving his mum to be cared for thousands of miles away for the first time. Meanwhile, another relative reveals how he’s seriously considering joining his wife to live in one of the villas she's just moved into in the Chiang Mai care ‘village’.

> At the moment, there’s a quiet revolution around catering for foreign nationals with dementia in Thailand, but its not the only place. It’s also happening in Mexico, where people have begun moving their loved ones because they couldn’t find suitable or affordable care in the United States.

> David asks if the phenomenon will catch on, and whether more people will be attracted in the long term to the option of sending mum or dad to live out their days abroad.
Here's one more thread.

Ask HN: Is this CCPA-related spam? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29539266 - Dec 2021 (4 comments)
Oh I read that alrigt. I think you may have missed my point...
We had to sell half our NES games and pool together Christmas money from 3 brothers to get an open box genesis from the BX. Ah, military brat life :)
Lessons from a Remote Worker
Drawing is not as essential, though, nor are musical talents or athletic abilities. The prerequisites for teaching should not include those, unless the person is to teach one of those fields. Language and STEM are foundational to learning and achieving in most every discipline.
If you're judging value by pay, math and chemistry and (and pretty much anything STEM) will kick philosophy's ass. If you're judging value by abstract value, haven't we left the territory of your argument? Aren't you saying we should only give people pragmatic skills and go light on the other stuff?
I tell people that I program internet shopping sites. It uses words that almost everyone knows and is a succinct description of what I do. No one gives me grief about it. If someone starts on a big tech rant, I'll sympathize with them and tell them to stay away from the MMAAAN[0] as much as they can.

[0] Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Netflix