skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an excellent channel, I've watched a number of the videos and strongly second the recommendation.

Precision generally is an area of positive feedbacks just as you describe. I only know a small amount about the practices, but the ability to measure and control with high degrees of precision have brought forth a tremendous set of advances, microprocessors being amongst them, but hardly the only.

The pharmaceuticals industry relies on precise control over feedstocks, process, consistency, and logistics chain (especially where temperature-controlled distribution is required).

Metallurgy similary developed with control over the quality of feedstocks, temperatures, pressures, and overall processing, as well as the ability to directly assess outputs, crystal structures, and the like.

Microsurgery relies on tools, sensors, and measurement, as well as coordination amongst a surgical team.

Tunnelling and mining can now occur with phenomenal precision through solid rock.

That's just a handful of examples off the top of my head as someone outside the field. I'm missing numerous highly notable examples I'm sure.
This tweet contains a visualization comparison between linear correlation and “Chatarjee correlation:”

https://twitter.com/adad8m/status/1474754752193830912?s=21
shame on me, that news is three years old!
Yeah, it's a good enough friend that I deliberately tried to not interpret what was intended. In part because, as you say, it's a bit of a leap.

Instead, I chose to interpret that the news was surprising and perhaps a bit uncomfortable. And I know that when people are surprised with things like that, they can say things that don't quite make sense or reflect how they feel. So I just kind of left it at that.

But the noticing of it was more the impact that, on this end, it's another data point of not feeling understood. Especially when it isn't brought up again.
Why do people write comments even if no one reads them?
I saw this on forums and now on social media. People write comments that almost always get ignored or remain unread. On HN, comments that are way down the page have almost no chance of being noticed and replied to by others, and yet people write comments on HN.

Why do you think that is? Do you ever try to "force" attention to your comment by replying to top comments even if your comment is not relevant to the OP?
Money + kids
This isn’t true. Our fossil fuels were produced during the Carboniferous period, something which the planet is very unlikely to go through again.
This is exactly what happened to my last charger that failed. Both usb-c ports still work fine but the usb-a ports do not.
The lost talks from Linus Torvalds at DECUS'94
There is also something counter-intuitive - we are making better and cheaper batteries because we are using so many batteries and planning to use _so much_ more. The cost curve and the profit motive are wonderful things.
People keep picking up the habit? If that was intentional, nicely done.

And even if the pun wasn't intentional, good on you for picking up...
Hi, I'm the author.

This isn't a post about scrum vs kanban. It's primarily about the value of using a specific definition of milestone to encourage incremental delivery. And to highlight some of the benefits of delivering in this way.
That excerpt sounds too brief for me to know whether he was really making a point in favour or in opposition to bombing the USSR.
This is very obviously untrue.
1. Run at least 35k every week

2. Make a polished game with a very small scope and publish it. Emphasis on “polished”. I keep making pocs and never finish them because the scope and the polishing (ui, fx) gets daunting.

Also I’ve already started these two goals because I try to start my “new year” goals on a random day in December rather than starting on actual new year. I find I have better success rate that way.
> So are you arguing that South Korea

No, I'm arguing about Vietnam. Please try not to sidetrack the conversation.

Fact: Ho Chi Minh had huge popular support and would have won general elections, a fact the US didn't like at that stage and so they made sure it didn't happen. Instead, they propped up one of the most brutal dictatorships in the region, one so bad they had to allow its removal and the assassination of their puppet dictator.

They also destroyed South Vietnam, killing villagers, poisoning the land and bombing the hell out of North Vietnam.

And they failed because they were foreign aggressors.

Fact: the US doesn't get to choose the form of government of other countries. When they try to do it by military force, they are invaders and aggressors.

You can argue until you're blue in the face, those are the facts.
> I acknowledge no one cares about my hardships

Me taking the time to type this disproves that.

> Healthy, functional people are just looking for ways to get further ahead in life.

All other people are doing the same thing.

> Happy holidays.

You too mate. Hope it starts looking up for you soon. It's never too late to find happiness. It comes from where you least expect it.
not if the parents of the baby keeps saying that the baby could be walking any minute now, for the past 50 years. it's likely that this will take another 50 years to reach the success level.

Pushing too optimistically a story to the public might make them feel that it's closer than it really is, and possibly modify public policies that would otherwise not have been modified.
Google: Washington’s Birthday is December 24
Ask HN: How to increase your executive presence
I work for an automotive company (traditional)
I am a senior manager leading a product development team of 70 and am also technically inclined.w are working on some cutting edge technologies.
My next level is an Executive position.Not much importance for technical career path in this company. For this role, I need to increase my visibility and executive presence. I am facing challenge in this transition. How can I change my perspective in that direction? Any pointers and inputs can be of great help.
That's exactly what you do in R when you use Rmarkdown
SEQUENCE OF ANY --there I maximally compressed all the comments
Signal is just as insecure because they can push any code they want to anyone they want to spy on.
People start to care on the edges (e.g. social networks), but there simply isn't enough abuse wrt email yet for opposition to register.
How likely is it that you have a competent IT team? If they are competent, are they also fast? I may not care about having a scalable, redundant deployment if it takes 3 years to get done.

It’s tough to recruit a tech team and keep it running. Worst case scenario the team leaves and your stuck with folks who don’t know how anything works.
Ask HN: Are there any studies that compare expression/statement based languages?
Specifically whether one is easier to write correct code in/mental strain on the programmer.
Can you explain more? I don't see it that way, but it might be we're defining things differently. Milestones are defined in a specific way within the article, and in that way they don't seem orthogonal to me.
Write at least two hours per day.
Well, maybe that was a bad choice of word on my part. I don't think of the majority of humanity as being judgemental assholes. Most of the people that I actually interact with are nice and understanding, because everybody's got their own set of problems, and we can use all the mutual understanding we can get. But there are certain people, especially in positions of authority, that are able to turn their ignorance and lack of imagination into /my/ problem (teachers I had decades ago, or grandboss at previous job, for example, which is part of the reason I am currently /not/ employed). I'm really complaining about systemic problems, not individuals.
False. They would have rid themselves from the French sooner or later. They had the will, and the French were foreign invaders. The age of colonialism was over by then; it was a mistake of the French that it took them so long to notice.

They ended up getting rid of the mightiest army in the world, after all.
We wish you a nerdy Xmas
I agree with everything you’re saying. Not sure about NYC but where I live I could use solar entirely if my heat was electric.

(But I do hate electric stoves and ovens. Gas ones heat much faster and much more easier to control the flame)
Would you say we're at the "transistor" stage of nuclear fusion production?
Thank you - this really helped me.
I feel your pain mate.
Someone did this at an university. They replaced my name in the MIT license with the name of the institute. After I let them know that this is not OK, they reverted it.
What name calling?

You’re missing my point entirely. Ho Chi Minh claimed he admired the US’ freedoms. Then once the North was established, his government enacted brutal land reforms that even the communists said went too far.

What I’m saying is words are cheap and Ho Chi Minh never admired the US’ freedoms (maybe theoretically?), they were just empty words to try and get a powerful ally on his side.

That’s clearly a factual statement when you realize the VCP has zero intention, even today, of giving the people of Vietnam the same freedoms you claim Ho Chi Minh so admired, almost 60 years after taking power over all of Vietnam.

And yes, the Phoenix program was effective because it used the same tactics against the communists they used against villages in the South. It's pretty rich seeing the North call out the US and South foe those tactics - truly the pot calling the kettle black.
"Loud pipes save lives"

ugh
You'd be surprised how many scientists throughout history were motivated by the notion of better knowing the nature of god.
Hi, I'm the author. I'm not intending to describe working in sprints. You can implement the ideas behind this article with sprints, kanban, or something else entirely. Using sprints doesn't do what using milestones does.

So what I'm hearing is that that wasn't clear. Since a few people said that here, I'll make some edits to clarify. If you have any suggestions as to where the confusion is, I'd love to hear it. Thank you!
The Intel 4004 had 2250 transistors, and it was designed to work in concert with support chips, unlike a modern MCU. A quick search doesn't turn up any known models with fewer. 1500 for an MCU might be possible, but it'd be a tight squeeze. Registers and multiplexers chew through transistors rather quickly.
How much did all the upgrades cost (both before and after tax credits) and how much lower is your typical utility bill per month?
Someone do data
My only counterargument would be that a lot of technology starts out requiring some rare or expensive element to function, but through improvement is later able to transition to some less exotic replacement.
>The Soviets defeated the Nazis and nobody outside the Anglosphere questions this fact

Stalin and the Soviet's top general admit they would have lost badly without lend lease. Stalin was publicly begging for the US to open up a second front. You unironically fell for post WWII Soviet propaganda that they did everything themselves, plenty of communist sympathizers were happy to help spread that message as well

Stalin- "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war"

Zhukov - "People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own."

Without the lend-lease the Soviets starve and run out of ammo around 1942 and get routed. GDP numbers don't tell the whole story, the Soviets were able to give the US a wish list of high value items so they could focus on manufacturing things they were best at. Almost all their planes used US provided fuel
Intent is a red herring, especially when the actions of an organization, rather than an individual are being considered. More important are the actions' consequences and the organization's propensity for repeating them.
The author of this article appears to be ignorant of the concept of Broad Autism Phenotype (BAP). Many people who say they have “a little bit of autism” probably actually have BAP, and read that way, what they are saying is sensible. I think the author of this article is accusing others of speaking in an ignorant way, yet they seem to me to have some of the same ignorance they accuse others of having.
This is pretty close to what you're looking for, assuming you're in the US.

https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/NationalTransportationNoiseMap/

Also for those interested in the data side: https://data-usdot.opendata.arcgis.com/
If Paul Davis is around, I'd be interesting in hearing their take on the subject given their experience with Ardour (which is open-source GPL, but official binaries cost money). As far as I know, Ardour has done this for at least a decade, so I assume it's been reasonably successful.

Edit: it occurs to me that Paul is probably asked about this frequently, and maybe has already said some words about this, so any relevant links would be useful too
CTE's are indeed nice, but can also make your queries substantially slower, at least in Postgres
One is a world where its possible and legal. The other is where it's not legal and very difficult.

Sucks that end users can't "hard fork" and fix their shit, but I can't fix planes either, we all pay for our choices.
FWIW, the rest of the world where Christianity isn't a major religion, Christmas isn't special either. In Japan, people perceive this as a fancy Western festive event, just like Valentine's Day but there's no holiday. Our real seasonal holiday is a New Year Day and it's common that people work at late night in Christmas to prepare for it.
Theres generally no memorization required for leetcode style interviews, its about having a strong background in algorithms and data structures
There is no better time to get into CDs. Lovely, expensive CD players are piled on shelves in charity shops, CDs are piled next to them. It does take some time to work out what to buy, but the best approach that works for me is to buy a few that I know I will like, a few from artists I've heard of but never listened to and throw in a few completely random things where the artwork appeals to you.

Various artist compilations are great if they are another artists music as a retrospective and can lead you to new artists you will never find on streaming services by yourself.

CDs have the same appeal as vinyl for me, I put on on and listen to it complete, unlike streaming that encourages chopping around and skipping tracks.

If you don't have room for a full blown stereo or you like to listen at work, a retro portable CD player is a great investment. I have a Technics and really like them for sound quality compared to the new, cheap ones on ebay. The classic technics players with car oriented anti skip are perfect for desktop use.

Used CDs can be damaged though, once the reflective surface on top is damaged the CD is likely junk. Take them out of the jewel case and hold them up to the light. The odd pin hole is fine but large holes mean the CD will be unplayable.

Like a lot of thrift shopping, the key to picking up quality items is being a regular. Be nice to the staff and they'll be nice to you.
There is no mistake in the definition and this is all elaborated upon in page 4 of the article.

Quote: "
On the
other hand, it is not very hard to prove that the minimum possible value of
ξn(X, Y ) is −1/2 + O(1/n), and the minimum is attained when the top n/2
values of Yi are placed alternately with the bottom n/2 values. This seems
to be paradoxical, since Theorem 1.1 says that the limiting value is in [0, 1].
The resolution is that Theorem 1.1 only applies to i.i.d. samples. Therefore
a large negative value of ξn has only one possible interpretation: the data
does not resemble an i.i.d. sample."

You propose Y = f(X) = (-1)^X*(1+X/10) as your functional relation, which is measurable if X is discrete and indeed if we let x_n=n, then the limiting value of the estimator will be -1/2 not 1.

However, this is just a particular value of the estimator on a particular sample of (x,y). The theorem is an "almost surely statement", which means that it fails for a set of samples with 0 propbability.

Indeed, if we actually picked a random sample of (X, f(X)) with your f, then independent on the distribution on X, since X is discrete, we would expect to see many ties (infinitely many ties as the number of samples goes to infinity). This would mean that |r_{i+1}-r_i| is 0 for all but finitely many i and so the estimator would be 1.

This also covers the case of f being a hash function as mentioned before. Worse yet it only has finitely many different values so once again infinitely many ties.

The way the estimator is defined, it will take care of the (X, f(X)) case fairly easily as for a typical sample you will get x values that cluster and for a measurable function this implies that the resulting values will be close together and so the rank differences will be small.

This discussion probably wasnt included in the abstract since its fairly simple measure theory which most experts readimg tje article will be intimately familiar with
Why do people with autism inform everyone they know of their diagnosis when they get one? Every time I can remember someone telling me about a new diagnosis, it was for a terminal illness.
Hi, I'm the author. Totally agree with you on this.

I do tend to focus on milestones first, because even if you're focusing on problems, using milestones to focus on what's next can sometimes be helpful. But if you can get to focusing on problems directly, that's even better.

For many organizations, there isn't the latitude to do so, so I've found this works within project-focused cultures better.
Among those binary formats, this one benefits from the ubiquity of OpenSSL (see asn1parse) for debugging.
The purpose of the small gas tank was to qualify for California subsidies and ZEV credits. California doesn't want to subsidize anyone who might buy a PHEV or BEV with REX and then run it 100% on gasoline.
The possibility has been engineered, though the mission profile does not rely on this.

JWST does have a docking ring: https://www.space.com/3833-nasa-adds-docking-capability-spac...

Deets on station-keeping http://www.ai-solutions.com/Portals/0/AI%20Docs/Technical%20... (PDF)

NASA's official FAQ deems servicing does "not offset the increases in mission complexity, mass and cost that would be required to make Webb serviceable, or to conduct the servicing mission itself."

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html#serviceabl...
Not at all an inappropriate question. And I'm always glad to talk about any of this stuff and hopefully help in any way that I can.

Side note: Vyvanse has been life-changing for me as well. There's a simultaneous grieving for what could have been all those years, with excitement about what's finally possible.

To your main question, I had the exact same question for years. And I see many people articulating the same sentiment, online and in person. In fact, several years before my diagnosis, I saw a far less-qualified therapist about a diagnosis. I firmly disagreed with her principles in how I should answer questions. In hindsight, my disagreement was correct. (As a basic example, if I was able to learn how to make eye contact - no matter how hard and extreme it was to teach myself, and how much effort it now takes - then that is not an issue/symptom in that therapists mind. I know now that is completely wrong, given how masking works, especially for adults.)

After that initial meeting, I suspected the diagnosis would come up negative (it did). And I was left to consider for several what would be the point in getting a diagnosis from someone far more qualified.

By the time I decided to actually seek out a far more qualified professional to do a far more thorough assessment, I was very clear on why a diagnosis was important: I needed to understand if I had multiple symptoms to address individually (irregular sleep, executive function issues, anxiety, social challenges, etc), or if that collection of symptoms would be better worked on if I understood that it may actually be one thing - autism - and should be approached as such.

So, for me, the utility was because I needed to know what I was working on, in order to work effectively on it. For example, executive function issues stemming from autism would be approached differently than "you just never learned how to prioritize and start things." Or, social/emotional issues stemming from autism are approached very differently (ie: I may start at more basic and fundamental places, and fill in very different knowledge gaps) than if I was neurotypical.

That said, I know of people who don't have official diagnoses, and they're okay with that. Some have fully adopted the diagnosis and researched how to approach it. Some haven't and have chosen to recognize that they're different. And both of these paths seemed to work for these people. For me, I would just much rather know.

Let me know if that helps or if it begets any other questions.
Why are so many of the comments on this thread not available to downvote?
There is no answer that fits everyone.
I wouldn't try to take the hands off from the technology - Elon Must is still the key engineer at his companies.
Instead trying to build yourself as an executive, try demonstrating more leadership skills to your peers and superiors. If you hear a good feedback from your surroundings (give it a few months), it may be a good opportunity to talk to your manager.
Additionally, it is always good to look for mentors. Find someone you appreciate and ask it. You will be surprised how much extraordinary executives will be happy to assist you.
One last time: in the struggle against colonialism, the colonial power is always in the wrong and the locals struggling for freedom are always in the right (within the context of their struggle, of course -- they are free to fuck up afterwards as is any nation's right to self determination).

The US sided with a colonial power and was therefore wrong.

They also destroyed the country in their alleged attempt to "save" it. They were savage about it. Brutal.

Please stop it with the sidetracking attempts. We're talking about Vietnam, whether the US was the aggressor, and whether calling it the liberation of Saigon makes sense.
Don't they have auxiliary power backups? I'd think that critical utilities like gas and water would invest in a few generators so that they're independent of outages in other critical utilities like electricity. Most supermarkets and offices do, and they operate on a much smaller scale.

Only time I've had the water go out during a power outage was when I was in a house on well water. Otherwise, the pipes still have pressure. Gas furnaces won't work because of the blower, but the gas itself should still flow.
Your interpretation was incorrect.
My father, who was born in the early 30s, used to regularly bring up his memory of the introduction of nuclear (fission) power and how it was oft-quoted as going to be "too cheap to meter".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter
The difference: today's event relied on the animation to show planned mission phases.

And was accompanied by confirmations that those phases had in fact executed according to the plan.

The live shots of the JWST and solar array deploy were bonus.

Clear skies would've been nice. A good flight beats that though ;-)