skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Corporate Executives often derive a significant percentage of their total bonus earnings when the share price goes up, so they have a huge incentive to

Doesn't that apply to any sort of action that returns earnings to shareholders? eg. if they paid out dividends instead of doing buybacks, executives would also benefit because they're shareholders.
Hello, see here for an explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_correlation_coefficien...
It's widely understood that the words "correlation" and "uncorrelated", when used in the context of statistics and not otherwise qualified, are shorthand for this definition in particular. By "otherwise qualified" I mean, for example, saying "Spearman's correlation" (in in the OP's abstract) to specify this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearman%27s_rank_correlation_...
That's a good point. Redundancy requires more cost and more expertise, but as a counter argument, AWS has had its share of outages lately as well.
Consideration is a hard requirement for a binding contract. Note however that consideration in contract law doesn't mean the same thing as in general usage: in contract law it means "something of value". So a contract promising to give someone a guitar is not enforceable, but a contract promising to sell a guitar for $100 is.

In general the likelihood that the parties have read the contract doesn't have any bearing on the enforceability of it. But most such contracts are also contracts of adhesion (roughly speaking a take-it-or-leave-it offer), and there are special rules for the enforceability of contracts of adhesion. The principle is that they can't be too surprising or too unfair. There's a fair amount of case law about where that line is (which I mostly don't know).
You can get heat pumps that work in colder weather, those are very common here in Canada. Certainly plenty sufficient for NYC.

You can also mix and match a variety of backup/supplemental heat sources (only some of which make sense in an urban context), and of course a ground source heat pump is another (expensive) option for very cold climates.
TeXMacs is also a great WYSIWYG alternative[1].

My current setup tho is org-mode + cdlatexmode + mathpix.el [2-4]. Then writing latex isn’t that bad.

[1] https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html

[2] https://orgmode.org/

[3] https://github.com/cdominik/cdlatex

[4] https://github.com/jethrokuan/mathpix.el
The Big Tech in Quantum Report
> Ultimately the quality of the audio

Going by the simplistic diagram on the page it looks like it bears some degree of similarity to planar drivers. That's an extremely good starting point.
This is exactly the same as a dividend, but the benefit is shareholders can choose when to recognize profits rather than being forced to when given the dividend. The double-taxation of corporate taxes and dividend income has made this the far better choice.

One gives money to shareholders directly, the other indirectly by boosting the share price. There is nothing nefarious about this. If a company has free cash flow and can’t find a way to reinvest to grow faster than the standard rate of return, then it should be given back to shareholders to be reinvested in the economy more productively.
+1. On top of this if you need to provide slos on availability, diaster recovery, respect regionalized requirements, even with a technical playbook just acquiring physical space gets hard and expensive real quick!
That was a joke about Python 3.
One option for Markdown-esque input and Latex output is RMarkdown. RStudio does a nice job of allowing you to write markdown, embed references, code cells, and visualizations. I used it in grad school and only rarely had to drop down to Latex to do something more customized.

https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/
Go to bars that play techno / house. Meet people. Add bars and people on Instagram. Add djs from bars on instagram. Ask for recommendations for other places. It took me about a year to break into the underground. Most important part is to meet people at events. Be a fun person, non-needy
It was about to start next week but was postponed by omicron.
I love the prototype fund! They spawn some crazy interesting and cool projects like Chatmosphere (https://prototypefund.de/project/chatmosphere/).

However it seems like many of the projects funded are stuck in the dilemma that either they get a new grant from somewhere or they stagnate/die. There seems to be a lack of sustainable development and a community, which I find sad. A lot of these projects are super cool, but not very well known or widely used.

Perhaps that's the goal. It is a "prototype" fund, after all.
Global warming potential can be calculated over any chosen time frame, some use a 20 year time frame [1]. One hundred years is indeed short term when some greenhouse gases have a half life of thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

!. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warmin...
My favorite deepfake is Sassy Justice by the South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM
Anyone have knowledge of how they make these decisions on which flights to cancel?

Guessing it’s a gnarly binary, linear programming decision. Even modeling this based on revenue is non-trivial due to scheduling concerns…
Want to take bets on how many more individual units are residential vs. commercial?
this is all stuff we’re going to figure out anyway, it’s already happening… replacing old appliances as they fail and retrofitting existing buildings will take much longer
China is a corrupt authoritarian dictatorship. They are not someone that countries with the rule of law should try to emulate.

I recommend this book if you want an insider’s view of how China really operates:

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982156155/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...
A gas furnace would require electricity. You need electricity to ignite and exhaust most natural gas heating. There are vent-free options. Not common for those to be installed and back to having your own option for backup power. Which can be propane or gasoline.
I’m the author. Most teams don’t work in this way in my experience. The key is how “milestone” is defined in the article.
One side benefit of using a password manager is that your internet usage is truly portable.

This year, I’ve had to work with different laptops (linux and Macs) and switch my browser up a few times.

I’m so glad I was already moving away from iOS’s built in password manager before my old mbp died and I had to replace it with a borrowed linux laptop which got replaced with my wife’s decade old linux laptop, which finally got replaced with an M1 air.

I can’t imagine the world of pain if only ios knew my passwords. The above hops would have been impossible!
Another perspective: Share buyback moves the decision of paying taxes from the company to the investor (plus avoid double taxation). With dividends, the investor will always get taxed. With share buyback, the investor can decide if he wants to keep his shares and not get taxed; or sell (with a profitable appreciation) and pay capital gain taxes.
Good point, although ideally the house would be wired to make it easy to connect that battery to just the gas appliances so that other stuff (lights, fans, refrigerator, etc.) wouldn't drain it much sooner.

Personally, I'd rather have the generator if I had the space, but this would be a good option for people in townhouses and condos.
My guess is that @grappler is more bothered by the performative visibility than that the new guy works as much as he does. It's a clear move toward politicking and away from real productivity.
Separate career from what you love. Spare time to do what you love, and what you love need not be grand. Create a block of time and see what you do: netflix, social media, video games, whatever. That is what you need to do, imho (for a while anyway, 1-3 yrs). Only after that you can find what truly nurtures your soul (and is socially acceptable as “that which i love”).
I’m the author. No, not intending programs. Milestones are smaller than projects in my definition.
I don't want to call JvN a terrible person. He is like many brilliant people who develop surveillance tech for masses. The moment the lives of these brilliant people are surveilled by others, then they claim "it is wrong". Same thing for those people who work for the govt agencies in developing weapons(say, killing by drones).
It's worth mentioning that one similar site is 15.ai[1]

[1] https://15.ai
The amount of electricity a gas furnace requires is trivial and not really relevant to this discussion. A heat pump requires many orders of magnitude more electricity. A 10kwh battery could power a gas furnace and a water heater electrically for a year.
I like the idea that Joel had: make untrusted user provided strings into a distinct data type that doesn't easily fit into the mold of a trusted, already-sanitised string type.

If you ever see an unsafe string usage being passed into a function that expects a safe string, without an accompanying call to sanitise(), that's very wrong (and won't work if the language is strongly typed) and should be recognised/corrected as such immediately.
Do you ever feel that way normally?

I've felt it a bunch of times, but I've worked through it with meditation (without drugs)...

I think psychedelics just bring out deeper parts of the mind. I don't do them anymore, but I used to, so I have some experience. I'm not a teetotaler, I still drink alcohol and smoke weed sometimes, but I'm done with psychedelics for the time being.
Why was he not fired?
Not everything has to be monetized, art can and should exist for the sake of itself.
The idea behind licensing as GPL is that you offer support, subscription, or relicensing. The problem I see is his target niche is crowded already, not that he's using GPL. Using AGPL would be better because you work around hosted services.
> Maybe it's different for people with AD(H)D than Asperger's, but I don't get it. There is nothing good with having a brain disability.

I don't really like the whole 'ADHD is my superpower' line either.

There are issues with the medicalization of neurodivergence, too, but nobody is obligated to feel like being neurodivergent is 'really a blessing' in their own case.
Though that’s the state policy, not the city. Shame though.
My intended point was that raising the cost of a procedure makes it less accessible.
> I thought the anti-Electron stance had been debunked a while ago

Nope.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...

> For the reasons suggested by Cochran, Hardy, and Harpending, Ashkenazi Jews had the potential for very high intelligence. They were mostly too poor and discriminated against to take advantage of it. Around 1880, this changed in a few advanced Central European economies like Germany, Austria, and Hungary. Austria didn’t have many Jews. Germany had a lot of Jews, but it was a big country, so nobody really noticed. Hungary had a lot of Jews, all concentrated in Budapest, and so it was really surprising when all of a sudden everyone from Budapest started winning Nobel Prizes around the same time. This continued until World War II, and then all anyone remembered was “Hey, wasn’t it funny that so many smart people were born in Budapest between 1880 and 1920?”

> And this story is really, really, gloomy.

> For centuries, Europe was sitting on this vast untapped resource of potential geniuses. Around 1880, in a few countries only, economic and political conditions finally became ripe for the potential to be realized. The result was one of the greatest spurts of progress in scientific history, bringing us relativity, quantum mechanics, nuclear bombs, dazzling new mathematical systems, the foundations of digital computing, and various other abstruse ideas I don’t even pretend to understand. This lasted for approximately one generation, after which a psychopath with a stupid mustache killed everyone involved.

> I certainly can’t claim that the Jews were the only people being crazy smart in Central Europe around this time. This was the age of Bohr, Schrodinger, Planck, Curie, etc. But part of me wonders even here. If you have one physicist in a town, he sits in an armchair and thinks. If you have five physicists in a town, they meet and talk and try to help each other with their theories. If you have fifty physicists in a town, they can get funding and start a university department. If you have a hundred, maybe some of them can go into teaching or administration and help support the others.
Do you mind educating me with what that means? Does autism make it harder to understand abstract concepts?
Depends how is structured? Options for example don't earn dividends, so if you have options, you benefit from buybacks but not from dividends.
There are many milestones and at each one there are going to be people saying “but it’s not …” without really adding any information.

What we have now that we didn’t have before is the ability to draw a line around an area inside a test reactor and say we can, for very brief periods, get more energy exiting that area than enters it. This is major progress.

It isn’t a self-powered plant, it isn’t a plant that can sell power at any price, it isn’t a plant that is economically viable, and none of that is important to point out.

We have a baby taking its first steps being criticized for not running a marathon.
X axis is time and y axis is population of working age people, which can also translate to economic demand and/or output.
> What???

It makes sense if you see it as a hierarchy of priorities:

First priority: Believe in making open source / free software where other people can exercise the associated freedoms.

Second priority: Want to make income, it's difficult or impossible, but whatever methods are searched for to overcome those difficulties, the income goal is still secondary to the first priority. Dual licensing and trademark might both be rejected on that basis. Consulting would be fine.
There is an aspect of hackerrank-style questions that tests raw preparation, but in my experience interviewing people with customized/twist versions of these problems, nobody is just coding up a solution they memorized either. They’re composing ideas they already know, but this is exactly the skill we want to test them for anyway. I will grant that being a good test taker, calm under pressure and relaxed enough to talk through the solution, working methodically until the end, these skills do make a huge difference in interview performance. In my opinion it is the candidate’s responsibility to prepare for the interview environment as well.
This is great. I use an almost completely different stack of tools for all this (I’m a sucker for GUIs!) but I totally respect the elegance and simplicity shown here.

More importantly the underlying principles on what to monitor, and when to send alerts, are applicable across all sorts of different monitoring setups.

This has definitely given me a few ideas for updating my monitoring config!
If trees are carbon neutral, then fossil fuels are also carbon neutral - just a different timespan.

Burning trees typically creates an enormous quantity of particulates.
I will believe in the germs if you can make them knock on my door and say hello, but I won't look into any microscopes...

It's easy to use a bad experiment and not get results. Doesn't mean there aren't results to be had with a better experiment.
Not the op, but I recently added a 50amp circuit for an oven to my ‘50s era house (currently gas). There was a crawl space behind the kitchen, which was not insulated. The hardest part was getting the conduit measured, bent and attached to the house to go from the electrical panel to the attic. Then I drilled holes in the studs for the wire and fished it through and insulated the wall.

Worst case, you have an insulated wall that you need to tear apart. For pre ‘78 houses, do a lead and asbestos inspection before starting work. You would have to tear down drywall/rocklath, tear out insulation, cut holes in the studs for wires, put up new insulation, new drywall, and mud/paint the walls. You could do that in a weekend assuming you have the materials and tools starting Saturday morning.

Looking forward to a reply by op because I suspect their house is above 200amps because of the appliances and cars they have.
Weird that the National Park Service omits Alaska and Hawaii from their maps, especially given that Alaska has national parks that are larger than some entire states.

Ah, well.
That's not what I was implying at all.
CNBC followup the next day:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/16/lawyer-hometown-internationa...

> In a 2015 letter to Hometown International, SEC staff wrote, “We believe you are a shell company.”
org-babel allows polyglot programming, and then org-latex export.

Oh, and you've got magit[1] as a smarter git front-end to manage versioning.

I use zotero[2] for all of the bibtex management.

[1] https://magit.vc/

[2] https://www.zotero.org/
It’s still more expensive at the point of purchase, or renting in this case which matters a lot to people who often pay 30+% of their income in rent.
Like most languages, JavaScript has some landmines in it. The problem with JS as compared to other languages is that these landmines are plentiful in basic, frequently used operations, so it's easy to encounter all kinds of mysterious errors. If you know how to avoid them, you can mostly use it like a sane language and have a good experience. Hence "JavaScript: The Good Parts". Other languages don't really have a book like that.

A few of them are really hard to avoid, though, like the fact that JS has both "null" and "undefined", and these two values are sometimes treated as the same and sometimes treated as different.
I think that depends on context. Sometimes, in a technical setting correlation just means dependence as an abstract concept, and this includes non-linear dependence. Similar how in financial circles, volatility doesn't mean standard deviation, but in colloquial settings it does.
Hooray! Payments! I hope they figure out how to get more DRM in there too!
Er, *change, not change.
Any decent IT team will backup, replicate, shard, to different locations, and not rely on a single datacenter.

As said in the blog post, with the cloud you will get the same thing that you can pay your inhouse IT for 3 times the price.

For example, lots of people are thinking that by just using 'the cloud', your data is safe / replicated to multiple geographically separated areas. But no, it is not automatic, it needs to be configured like that with the associated costs. If you lose an ec2 instance, it will be lost in the same way as a node in your personal data center.
AWS US-East-1 Outage: Postmortem and Lessons Learned
For those that didn't read it, I recommend the thread on bandwidth costs from 5 month ago this article links to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930151
There are basically two options I see. One is implementing a general greenhouse gas tax and charge the shit out of people who use gas heating until they upgrade to more efficient systems. And the other is to mandate new builds comply with efficiency ratings.

The first option has the benefit of being generalised and applying to everything. But it hurts in the short term. The second option has the benefit of being a painless transition for everyone but could result in sub optional choices being made by the government.
Terra Becomes Second-Largest DeFi Protocol, Surpassing Binance Smart Chain
which is why share buy backs and dividend payments are the exact same thing (except for the tax implications).
This culture, whatever it is, has had a personal impact on me. Many great people that I truly and deeply admired growing up, the reason why I am the person that I am today is because of historical figures. People need to learn how to forgive, look for the best in people and let go of decades old misgivings of a person. They changed the world. They inspired a whole generation. Anything that they did in their personal lives pales in comparison. If you want to go with this route, literally every person's great great grandfather was sexist in 1920s by today's standards. People need to understand the era, the context under which they operated. I am pretty sure my thoughts today are going to be outdated after 50 years. This is a dangerous slippery slope of wokeness that needs to be strongly codemned IMO. It's one thing to raise awareness, another to deflate historical figures because of some shit they said 70 years ago. It is toxic, futile and against your cause.

"That's not activism" - President Obama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM
Your figures show that commercial and industrial consumers consume more gas than residential consumers.
The Space Station Race
The old joke about the dentist saying this "may hurt a little" suddenly realising the patient is holding the dentist's testicles. "This may hurt a little" says the patient.
It has nothing to do with "span" though.

It's not even slightly about the time spent paying attention. It's about the object of the attention.
Terminal interface to search the LLVM-C API
Also worth looking at the cited and related paper with the same author:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12327

This follow-up paper presents a related measure of conditional dependence that has a "natural interpretation as a nonlinear generalization of the familiar partial R2 statistic for measuring conditional dependence by regression."

The follow-up paper also provides some additional interpretive insights, I think.

My intuitive impression is that both of these are important developments.

I also have a very vague suspicion, based on the form of the function, that the correlation measure has some interpretation in terms of mutual information involving rank transformations of random variables.
That sounds great to me, but I don’t see apartment buildings here in NYC being built with induction cook tops. The ones with electric ranges have the crappy ones under glass the switch on and off instead of having variable heat. They’re useless to cook on.
This seem like another law written by people who own brownstones that will make life shittier for people who rent.
I guess that’s part of it. I don’t think the technique is necessarily a problem by itself, because it is often very easily traceable. However, it is annoying if the things being composed are not standard well-known functions, but user-defined ones.

A good example of what I mean is here (fresh on my mind because I was looking at it yesterday): https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/js-p...

Somewhere this file defines an exported function called `icon`, but it took me way too long to find where and even longer to see what it was actually doing.

This might not be idiomatic JS code, but I’ve definitely seen other popular packages have similar code (especially internally).
Build my DevOps training platform and on-site training centre.

Develop a portfolio of mentees.

Replace contracting with income from the above :-)
Why do you personally care about eliminating CO2 emissions?
I think all anyone is talking about here is awareness of the likelihood. Sounds reasonable to me.
IBM's already had an enormous slide from undisputed #1 so I don't think they seem unstoppable by any means.
These 3x calculations for cloud almost always ignore a real TCO calculation for a real organization and real app deployment and rarely compare capability, flexibility and recovery which have real value, but have tough calculations.
Trust The Process.
You would probably also be interested in The Construction of Social Reality by John Searle (1997), which is not exactly a reply to or an extension of Berger and Luckmann but a parallel work rooted in philosophy rather than sociology.