skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a world where BTC is valued at 1M USD/coin you’d also expect a decent amount of day to day usage.

Citation needed.

(I don’t see why this should be true at all. If anything I’d intuitively think the opposite: If gold were $1MM/oz I don’t think people would be using it to buy groceries… Unless you’re directly talking about hyperinflation where $1MM isn’t worth a loaf of bread any more.)
> My wife is finishing up her PhD in American History and I can tell she's getting bored

[PhD candidate] is finishing up [gender pronoun] PhD in [field] and I can tell [gender pronoun]'s getting bored.

I just turned your statement into a template that works for every PhD candidate of the last 100 years.
I agree that grand ambitions in foreign policy are not necessarily desirable. But (and I think we agree on this) deliberate do-no-harm policy would be vastly preferable to what we do today, selling policy out to the people who get money or prestige from war.

To your other point, other commenters are already demonstrating how many people fundamentally don't understand Hanania.
After they’ve already imposed their biases and censored information.

It’s ok that I ran over your dog while driving blindfolded - I owned up to it after all.

Fact checking has no benefits other than imposing the biases of the fact checkers. Sometimes imposing those biases is “good”, sometimes it’s “bad”. But let’s call a spade a spade - this isn’t fact checking. This is bias imposition.
"She used classifications for personal shorthand on how she thinks about people."

I do not know how your friend did it exactly, but my main experience with people who are into astrology is different - they get told by the astrological models/dogma on how to think of people and combination of people.

"I cannot be with this person, he is a lion and I am [whatever]"

"Why are you together, your signs do not match each other"

In other words, they "help" by simplifying things. Avoiding thinking to make decisions. But in my experience that always hurt them in the long run. And it probably destroyed many relationships as people went with the simple astrological explanation, instead of a real analysis what went wrong. Or rather, it often went wrong, because of negative self fullfulling prophecy.
It is a big lack if you want to start a complex project, I cannot deny it.

But at the scope I code, it presents itself as a way for me to solve the problem by myself.
You could have learned all of this stuff at a good mid sized company.
because they wrote a whole comment about minneapolis being in indiana
Varies a lot by field.

Eg, in some parts of public health research and medicine you get your name on a paper by being the source of the data, whether you do any work or not.

Alternatively, you might put your name on everything any grad student in your lab produces.

There are also field-specific effects which push numbers up or down: it is easy to publish in medicine since there are so many journals and many do not have high standards (some do, but many do more).

In good journals in economics it is not uncommon for papers to spend years in the referee process so total publication numbers are low. (Bad journals in economics have much lower standards.)
Instead of being controlled by the government, maybe we should make it easier to setup a mail server for your domain?
Enabled directly by circumstances created by the pandemic, one year ago I (a heretofore lifelong Californian) moved my household from VHCOL San Jose CA to an M/LCOL semi-rural area in AZ. Had my move not crossed a state line (impacting payroll processes which my direct management was required to sign off on), my management chain would not have noticed at all.

The pandemic's normalization of remote work enabled this move (which otherwise would have been deferred until retirement) to occur with minimal risk to my existing W2 income stream, which made what would otherwise have been a somewhat fraught transition largely worry free. I am also grateful that the pandemic in its first 9 months also removed one of my primary pre-move daily-life stressors: a heinous twice-daily commute on massively oversubscribed south bay roads and highways (which was far from being the worst possible).
I just don't see the four programs that way. But that might just be the point. And that point is taken.
One nice thing about podcasts is I can listen to them while I’m driving, if I'm not in the mood for music. The same goes for when I'm walking. And although you can read on a train, I sometimes find I can't if the train is swaying too much. It's nice to have podcasts available at those times. And if the people on the podcast are speaking slowly, you can speed it up.
Whatever, better to block the spread of medical information from uninformed sources even if a stopped clock is right twice a day. Censor everyone without an MD for all I'm concerned. The misinformation is worse.
And also in 2018 against Roman Giertych - advocate of many opposition figures. Basically it's worse than Watergate (because in Watergate at least they used private funds to do the wiretapping while in this case they defrauded state funds to buy Pegasus licence to wiretap opposition before and during elections).

Sadly Poland is barely a democracy anymore so I'm not sure there will be any consequences. At least not as long as they are in power - because they fully control the prosecution office and just stop any lawsuits against themselves.
Couldn't you disconnect the steps? First, start loading contents of URL and if it's below N bytes, try to parse the HTML and then query it via whatever library you can use in Python for querying HTML documents.
For documentation, an approach that works for me is to think of all the questions someone might reasonably have about the software, and start with those as section headings:

* What is this?

* How do I install it?

* How do I use it?

* Is there a change log?

* What license is it released under?

etc

At some point when doing that, the content starts to flow and it gets easy to just naturally edit the whole thing into a doc that makes sense.
Some of the vanilla JavaScript methods come from libraries, for example querySelector and fetch. It used to take a few lines of code and a callback to do a XHR in JavaScript, then it was replaced by fetch. In the older example, you can just use querySelector and fetch from the library then ignore the rest of the library.

You can also look for libraries that are short, for example Redux. It was much shorter than Flux but was so much better that the Flux creators recommended Redux.
Britain tech company OneWeb launched 36 communications satellites into space
Can Alexa tell the age of the person behind a voice? The internet is full of questionable things, like the penny challenge, and Alexa is just voice search. Teaching your kids to use Alexa and expecting good results is the real issue here. As a parent, this looks like a parenting problem to me.
Mandatory myth busting here: there is no subsidies on French nuclear which in facts yields billions in profit ever year to the French government, but a tons of subsidies on its competitors (and below-the-market-price access to nuclear electricity for them so they can “freely compete” with EDF. For those interested see ARENH).

There are compelling arguments against nuclear in France (namely the aging of the existing reactors and the industrial inability to ship new reactors because we've lost most of the learning curve after several decades without significant reactor construction) but imaginary subsidies ain't one.

I know Retric won't change their mind, but I hope other readers won't buy their bullshit.
> 4% of 3000 is 120 - that's a lot of studies.

Accounting for placebo is the minimum you should do, that doesn't mean that the rest of the study is well done.

> You're the one claiming they're the same - where's your evidence that napping causes the effects identified as caused by meditation?

You are the one coming with the extraordinary claim, that meditation does something fundamentally different.

> meditation is not just quietly relaxing, in fact it can be extremely difficult.

Right, meditation isn't even a defined concept, it is whatever you want it to be. In some practices it is strenuous as you say, in others it is just relaxing. Bundling all of that under a common name makes research around this topic even less trustworthy.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who thinks about this and have spent time looking in to it, and wish I had more to offer back based on that research. I'm currently testing Microsoft 365 with a custom domain as my solution, and for me so far, it's been going well. Setup was really easy, Exchange works well, and the collab stuff is looking promising. I also like the ability to mix and match licenses (to an extent) so that people who really only want email can have it, but I can have the Office suite since I can't fully live without it right now. I also want to play some with Guest access, which seems promising for creating spaces to share with non-family members who still want access to stuff.
Another thing to consider is one less dash, per employee, available for the dashers who might need the money. Perhaps there are not enough to be significant but if you dash by the office I bet you’ll notice.
I took what is probably the same all-day training course with my extended team at Microsoft about 10 years ago.

I had some deep qualms about this -- "this cannot possibly have any scientific basis, right? What is the point of this? How can anyone possibly assert that there are four basic kinds of personalities, that they respond consistently, or that they way they interact matches consistently?"

A colleague's view was something like -- okay, yes, stipulated it's bullshit. But what's important is that we managed to get 100 people into a room together to talk about how they like to work with each other. The "colors" are canned, not-quite-true insights that can jump start the conversation about how people like to work. We gave people some shared vocabulary, however limited, for talking to each other, and they then spent hours working with each other to discuss how their communication and work styles have strengths and weaknesses. So it was a good team bonding exercise because it felt like people would try to work together more afterwards.

I'm still a little torn about using a likely-false concept as a pretext for people to get together and connect with one another -- but there's plenty of this in human history.
For their "instant answers". The link results are basically bing.
I don't understand your point. What do you think the US should be doing about China? How do you even know Hanania disagrees with you on China, or on the need to respond to Islamist terrorism? Why are you in such a rush to label Hanania "dangerously misguided" when it's not even clear you disagree?

Is your position that we have to choose between complete non-interventionism and the hyperactive, incoherent, and sometimes incredibly harmful and unjust policy the US has actually pursued?
I'd suggest everyone setup a custom domain with SimpleLogin and start using aliases for every site. Also, use isync and goimapnotify to backup your email automatically. Then if Google or some other company shuts you out of your hosted email you can easily get back up on a new provider and not need to change your email address which almost every site you register on now requires.
https://merecivilian.com/apple-broke-up-with-me/
what does the engineers salary have to do with anything
Hershel operated 4 years and one month, but this was because it needed liquid helium coolant and it eventually ran out. Hershel was planned to operate 3.5 years.

btw. Hershel wast the first optical telescope placed in L2. It was also it was also the largest optical space telescope before JWST.
I was using a VPN to connect to my university 18 years ago (Cisco AnyConnect, iirc)

You're only "on" the school network when you actually connect the VPN client

Don't want to be "on" the network? Don't VPN

It's not rocket surgery :)
This is also why you should use aliases for each site you register for.
> There is no need to 'rip it out and replace the whole system' to use a heat pump; an air to air heat pump as used in many Scandinavian homes can be fitted at much lower cost without disturbing the existing central heating at all.

I understood that heat pumps work more efficiently in homes that are a) well insulated, and b) where the heating system is designed to work at lower temperatures (bigger radiators/underfloor heating and appropriate pipes). Whether or not a & b are must-haves or nice to have I'm not 100% sure about - I guess it depends.

(see e.g. https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/advice/in-depth-guide-to-he... - Designing and operating your heat pump system)
> Siri, on the iphone can give very similar result

Do you have any evidence for this? I have yet to see a Siri result as flagrantly dangerous as this.
Domains are still controlled by the government.
Sorry but there was enormous international pushback against it (curiously this is when they started calling French Fries "Freedom Fries"):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governmental_positions_on_th...

I'm sceptical that the population that was "tricked" back then wouldn't be just as easily swayed nowadays. Political affiliation is largely an emotional matter to a great mass of people, and rationality has a limited role in it.
When designing a dogfooding process try not to have 50 engineers do the same thing 12 or 120 times a year. For example, having engineers in kitchens fulfilling orders, having engineers perform store management tasks, and having engineers run a full day of deliveries will probably provide more insights even if done less frequently. I’m pro dogfooding, but put some thought into making sure the entire app is being dogfooded. Finally, when running a dogfooding program in your company be sure to communicate the importance of focusing on your customers and and cultivating customer empathy.
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I played about 3/4ths of bandit. I'm curious your play style: do you google specifically the problem (NOT the literal bandit problem ("bandit24 solution"), but the general solution needed, i.e., "how to recursivly decrypt") or do you read the man pages trying to find the solution?

It felt like I was basically decoding the problem, then turning to google for the answer, and it kind of felt like cheating. But that's also how I'd operate in the real world, so I guess it's not cheating?
Yeah I just meant the national (polish) press. I thought fox news was bad but visiting relatives in Poland it was wild to see how much stupid propaganda TVP is spreading.
I wouldn't say that. I would argue this is a lot more like the WW1 relationship to WW2. The events are related to how the Chinese leadership feels pressure from their public to perform and stand up to adversaries.

In short, China's leadership today has pressure to right historical wrongs. We, as Westerners, should work to understand them so that we can make sense of their behavior as a nation state.

China has two major historical enemies with wrongs that the leadership can stand up to:

(1) The UK for the opium wars (and the 100 year fallout).

(2) Japan for WW2 (and, you know, the whole genocide / killing babies for sport thing).

When the CCP does anything involving these two nations, you can always assume the history and the pressure on the leadership is a factor.
Thanks for the reply and the thoughts. Interesting to hear that you're having a similarly hard time finding answers.

I've come across these concepts of "sagas" and "process managers" that sound maybe like what I'm trying to do. But it seems to me like all it might need to be is a background process that issues commands.
>> The “Big Five” didn’t come from a theory but through statistical analysis of
thousands of personality questionnaires consisting of hundreds of questions.
These reveal five properties that are relatively constant over time: Openness,
Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism.

How these Big Five "properties" where derived is that people thought there was
some pattern to questionnaires about behaviour and they ran a PCA on it. They
noticed that PCA tended to bring up five principal components, so they
interpreted them as five dominant personality traits that are shared by all
humans.

This is not very good statistics: they basically used PCA to identify latent
variables. But PCA cannot find latent variables. There is some criticism of
this, but very rarely because "The Big Five" is basically accepted truth by the
psychological community nowadays. In 20 years from now they'll probably debunk
it and then hold up some other "model" of "human personality" and then the cycle
will repeat.

Here's one critical paper:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19946599/

Whence I quote:

Consider, for instance, the personality literature, where people have discovered that executing a PCA of large numbers of personality subtest scores, and selecting components by the usual selection criteria, often returns five principal components. What is the interpretation of these components? They are “biologically based psychological tendencies,”; and as such are endowed with causal forces (McCrae et al., 2000, p. 173). This interpretation cannot be justified solely on the basis of a PCA, if only because PCA is a formative model and not a reflective one (Bollen & Lennox, 1991; Borsboom, Mellenbergh, & Van Heerden, 2003).
"Founded in 1968, Reason is the nation's leading libertarian magazine. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, politics, technology, culture, policy, and commerce. As the magazine of free minds and free markets, Reason exists outside of the left/right echo chamber. Our goal is to deliver fresh, unbiased information and insights to our readers, viewers, and listeners every day."

https://reason.com/about/

Political: Unverified;
Sensationalist: Unverified

(Edit: small "l" libertarian does not equal political party or affiliation)
I would argue this proportion is a lot smaller than the number of websites that think they do.
Those cyclists have tons of disposable income.

If these bike computers make things even 10% easier, why not.

I have an iPad, it does nothing my iPhone can't do. Still , I use it so much it's more than paid for itself.
Do you remember what thread that comment was in?
The title of the reason article is: The Study That Convinced the CDC To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science

And a quote from the article: For these and other reasons, Zweig argues that the study ought to be ignored entirely: Masking in schools may or may not be a good idea, but this study doesn't help answer the question. Any public official—including and especially Walensky—who purports to follow the science should toss this one in the trash.

They weren’t simply technically correct — they were being quite cautious about clarifying that only this study is under question.

> Given that Reason is a political rag, and I doubt very much their intent was to further scientific discussion on the issue

That’s exactly the kind of thing “fact checkers” shouldn’t be factoring in. What Reason says elsewhere should have little to no bearing on what they say here, beyond a question of less or more scrutiny.

This isn’t an issue so much of malice, but the inherent political bias provided by these self-declared independent arbiters of truth. It’s a nonsensical setup.
Could we not use the word "censored" where there is no censorship going on?

And no, responding to an article's facts and questioning those facts is NOT censorship. We see that claim all too often these days, and it's absurd.
Has anyone considered that this is simply a viral stunt created by the gossip website (which I'd rather not name) in order to promote itself?

Even if the commentary isn't fake, it's just one engineer within a huge organization. For those upvoting this story, shouldn't our outrage/attention be directed elsewhere?
That's exactly what they said?
What’s your explanation for the difference between New York and Florida?
iCloud anyone?
That sounds like every company everywhere.

Engineers are usually far removed
3 pinned tabs with my emails and calendar plus 8 or ten working tabs that cycle in and out quickly.

In addition to making things hard to find and bogging down your machine, tabs impose a cognitive load. Thats one of the reasons I'm building BrainTool. If you suffer tabs overload it might be worth checking out. Here's a recent post/video on Browser Hygiene:

https://braintool.org/2021/12/08/Clean-up-your-tabs-with-Bra...
Save a click:
https://twitter.com/klivdahl/status/1475220450598924297
Here's one thing to consider:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_theory#The_two_princ...

Ordinary humans can predict what inferences their interlocutors will make. Their interlocutors know this. Therefore, both parties use this to communicate just as much as they do overt utterances. This being so, they can mislead with inferences as well as they can with overt utterances. This is not called lying, but ordinary users of language do not consider it less morally inculpating. In fact, they may consider it worse inasmuch as it leaves them less recourse when it is discovered.
I agree with most of the GP's points and I don't think of them as defeatist, but rather a call for realism when dealing with people (versus data, which have no ego to bruise). It's very hard to devise a system that rewards individual achievement without ever falling prey to classic human flaws. The good news is that science over time tends to be self-correcting, and all that requires is a commitment to shared principles and methods, combined with enough anarchy that no one individual can screw up an entire field (Trofim Lysenko being the most extreme example, but any bureaucracy can accomplish this).
OpenWrt uses musl for some years now.
Round 2 post-quantum TLS is now supported in AWS KMS
> The events are related to how the Chinese leadership feels pressure from their public to perform and stand up to adversaries.

The Hong Kong public disagrees with this, and does not see themselves as 'adversaries'.
I would categorized HFT eng on a different category (they, historically, always are outside of the typical SWE)

They make 200k base but have 0.5M bonuses (or more depending on the HF perf).

That FB eng that got return offer for 300k? Most likely just the only one. Probably not because of elite but because of niche skill (SME/PhD in a specific field that happened to be relevant). Probably skipped I3 to I4. Majority (95%) of FB I3 won't get close to 300k.
There is no need to have a contract. Many small businesses just hire people and give them a piece of paper saying what they will get or orally tell them how much they will get.

In the event there is a contract, unless the contract specifies compensation for terminating employment, the employer can always just terminate the employee for the reason of “this employee is no longer worth $x per hour/year to us”. Barring any other union agreements of course.
How is this different from Zettelkasten? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
The issue of fact checking is the centralisation of truth. Errors of fact checking have a much higher impact on society than the influence of news sites. Secondly, we can’t assume all fact checking will be honest mistakes forever. Someday someone will be down right corrupt and will abuse this power.
That is fairs and true. :) Thanks!
> yes, the C/C++ pre-processor does suck in many ways and is masochistic if you're not careful, but it's also incredibly flexible.

Why not just use it as-is for Rust ? There are plenty of non-C/C++ things which use cpp. X11 uses it for config files (.Xresources for instance afaik). I think that polkit or something like that uses it too for its config files. I've seen it used in Java.