skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that the actuaries who apply for data science jobs are a heavily self-selecting subset. Among the candidates who apply for data science positions, I think actuarial credentials are a strongly positive signal on business acumen (especially but not only in insurance) and a weakly positive signal on quantitative skills relevant to the generic technical BS or MS degree holder at the same level of experience.

I agree that the median actuary would do poorly in data science, mostly because they don't have the programming ability for it. But the median actuary isn't trying to be a data scientist, so that's not who you care about if you're hiring for a data science position.
Accelerating Compact Fractals with Tensor Core GPUs
This is a direct result of the governmental instability driven by having a partisan duopoly, FPTP legislative elections, and a separately elected strong President rather than proportional multiparty parliamentary system; the latter empirically results in slower complete cabinet turnover and more personal, partisan, and policy stability in cabinets, enabling longer term, more coherent strategy.
A GCP-secrets integrated config loader for Node.js
> Everything connected to a company network is having to be audited for patches and approved OS installs. IT needs to have root access to every system. Any system not approved to be networked will be isolated at the switch to knock off the network and that team's other IT systems will be knocked off too.

It's not wrong to do any of this (it seems to be the norm, actually) but doing NAC kinda implies you're thinking of your intranet as some kind of perimeter to secure which is ultimately not that helpful and makes people lazy and complacent because "our service is just on the secure network, amirite?".
No, that effectively enables scams. To prevent scams courts disallow using inability to enforce unlawful clause as a reason to terminate the contract. You typically buy goods, not contracts.
In their hunt for simple answers to complex questions people often forget that they are far too complex to be defined by 16 types of 4 colours.

That said though, MBTI did help me figure out a lot about myself. Discovering MBTI back in 2009 was definitely life changing for me and I've kept it in the back of my head since then, mostly to improve myself and rarely applied to others.

I've been in one amazing relationship with an MBTI type that is supposed to match with mine, and one awful relationship with a type that does not match with mine.

So it's not supposed to be followed blindly but it can help you out in life.
> I mined Bitcoin in 2012

You're the most reasonable crypto-enthusiast I think I've seen on this site but your position is tainted by this fact, for me.

I saw in a sibling comment that you suggest people not judge sub-cultures for their outliers - fair enough. Can I at least express concern for them? These people are getting scammed. Full stop. Not nearly enough is being done about it from within the crypto community and even from outside of it.
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29716186
I switched to DDG earlier everywhere this year and, honestly, I've totally forgotten about Google Search. However, I also run pi-hole, and unfortunately, the DDG top results are usually all sponsored and don't work, due to pi-hole. I don't begrudge DDG the click revenue, but I haven't spent time trying to set the whitelist rules.
What about operating costs and decommissioning costs? I imagine that it takes a pretty substantial workforce to run a nuclear plant, and decommissioning is a pain, but not too sure about wind.
>They also had no self-awareness to admit partial fault for the ban

Well, how about some charity here?

They expected profanity, trolling, porn, ads, bad content, etc. to be banned, not their legit submission. "Posting multiple times from the same site" didn't occur to them as an issue, and it makes sense, since they had already done that with no issue before.

>Post is also 8 years old so who cares?

Why, did anything change to render it obsolete? People don't get banned on HN anymore? The story stopped being amusing?
He’s not saying that wood heat isn’t practical or rational for you, he’s saying that the byproduct of smoke and particulate matter imposed as a negative externality on your neighbors is not fair.

I live in a semi rural heavily forested area where wood heat is an option. I definitely notice the drop in air quality when winter comes around. Part of the problem is that for whatever reason wood smoke from stoves tends to hang out at ground level and cover the area rather than rising away. I don’t get any benefit from wood heat, but I do suffer the costs…
This was also happening to accounts that did not exist 5 years ago.
”In other words, Erikson’s book might help someone with the empathetic and intellectual level of a five-year-old.”

Yes, that was a very nice worded academic insult. Which makes the later sentence a bit hypocrite:

"When faced with challenges to his work, Erikson claims that we are attempting to make out that his readers are idiots. Nothing could be further from the truth"

Of course a psychologist is not using the loaded word "idiot" anymore. They still scientifically describe it and use more nuances. And in this case explains, how the poor readers were fooled by the big publisher. Ah those poor idio.. I mean, structurally mentally challenged persons.
I wouldn’t focus that much on the word “infinite.” It’s more like “unbounded” or even just “big enough that you’re exceedingly unlikely to run out of space.”
There is no legitimate reason why you would need to keep all your servers updated all the time just because you want to have your cert continuing working.

On my case, I was annoyed with an old vps for example because impossible to use docker or snap because you need kernels modules that you don't control in such a setup.
Let's do some math.

So, say you're paying me $15 an hour. Really, if you own a business by the time you pay for taxes, infrastructure, capital outlay and insurance you are really paying about $45 an hour for me to hang out and do what you tell me to do at varying levels of competency. You need to make that much more value from my labor per-hour or you are going to go out of business.

Say I have a piece of software that, because of a miscommunication between the developers who wrote it and the people who have to use the software (ideally this is what management is for but, lolz) has added 30 seconds to a transaction I do 20 times an hour. This means that, suddenly, there are 10 minutes of labor added to this task on aggregate an hour.

If you have a piece of software that wastes 10 minutes of my time, you just wasted $7.50 worth of my labor. But, of course, I'm using this software for 8 hours a day. So that is $60 of money wasted a day.

So, really, you thought you needed to make $45 an hour from my labor, but you just added $7.50 to the total. So, $52.50, and now you have a morale problem to boot: because the folks who are using the software are now accomplishing less than they used to for the same amount of work.
I did not get any email about login attempt, but deleted my old Lastpass account as a precaution anyways, and also received this error. No confirmation of deletion via email. However, I'm not able to log in anymore, and attempts to get master pwd hint via email don't work either, so I believe it's more or less deleted.
Ask HN: How do you force yourself to do boring tasks?
I've been struggling with writing documentation for a piece of software that I've been working on during the past months.

The task is so boring that I just can't put any effort into it. I've never wrote any documentation before, and always struggled with writing descriptive content. The last time I did it was for my internship report and it was so daunting.

Any tips? Thanks.
That seems to be very widespread, at least in the UK, because security (regardless of no. 4 in the fallacies of distributed computing). There may be different setups for staff and students.

You can probably at least use a free software client, though that may require extracting some configuration info from whatever proprietary one they distribute. I use openconnect when I have to use the Palo Alto GlobalProtect one, and it appears to be a better option than the proprietary one, judging by the continual problems and update churn I see. openconnect also works with recent network-manager on GNU/Linux. You may ignore the pushed configuration and only tunnel traffic for the campus net and use external DNS.

[I once had to use the Cisco corporate VPN to evaluate the HPC gear they were trying to sell use, and was told as an HPC system manager that I had to get an MS Windows client to do that; sorry, no. From experience with a local old Cisco VPN elsewhere (use vpnc) I looked around for a solution and landed on openconnect then.]
> The public health agency’s previous estimate that the rapidly spreading variant accounted for 73.2 percent of cases nationwide on Dec. 18 is now revised down to 22.5 percent

CDC estimates: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...

Original discussion from 73.2 estimate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29633002

Article that predicted this would happen: https://theprepared.com/blog/73-of-covid-cases-arent-omicron...
There are plenty of forested ecosystems where forest fires aren’t an issue…
You don't have to presume anything. The source code is right there.
Unexpected obesity, rather than tumors, in mouse model of succinate accumulation
Was a little surprised by your comment - I don’t think you’re aware of usage in subcultures, it’s not about grammar.

Capitalization or lack thereof can indicates tone - e.g yelling etc.

For example - What’s up mf! (greetings) vs. What’s up MF! (fight/challenge)
Take a look at Zoho's workplace suite. Comes at a fairly low pricing and privacy focussed.
Yup, that's in the book I linked.

A lot less storage is needed than most people think. We only need about 3 hours worth of storage. That's a lot, but it's feasible.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z
People valued democracy as a process over their personal opinions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_meditation
I guess that makes sense - in the EU a masters degree is usually required for a PhD which is not the case in the US. That accounts for 1-2 years at least.
128 + 3 in another
It's been my experience that Google has heavily deranked or outright delisted the long tail anyway. Almost all results are either major media sites, reddit, github, similar large sites, or blogspam. Older sites are often outright delisted, newer sites usually just have some sort of huge deranking penalty that often makes their results unfindable, unless you are able to search for an exact quote on that site. It's really bizarre, there are a TON of extremely valuable content-rich niche sites out there that are far better than, for example, the Wikipedia treatment of their subject, but Google search hates them.

I am actually quite puzzled by what they choose to index now or not - for example, you'll find that a lot - but not all - of HN comment pages are not indexed or delisted.

So it really doesn't seem surprising to me that Google search can fairly easily be beaten nowadays.

EDIT: Well, in my quest for an example of a delisted HN comment page, which I have run into before, I found something even more curious: a page that does appear in the index if I search by title, but not if I search by some of the page contents (eg site:news.ycombinator.com my username and the word 'eliding') reflected in the Google cached version of the webpage.

EDIT2: I checked on DDG and searching on site:news.ycombinator.com for amezarak eliding does turn up the comment that Google can't find.
Wonderful, now we'll have NaN issues, and precision issues where 0.3 can't be truly represented. Did I mention floating point trap, and hard/soft float ABI compatibility? Linux apps like calling gettimeofday() frequently, and now it will be slower, esp. when the processor doesn't do floating point natively.

float128 is even worse - it doesn't exist on some ABIs or exist in some other ways, e.g. old Power/PowerPCs used an IBM format. Do we limit them to their own ABI (extra burden on distros), or use double in which case apps expecting 128bits will have quite a surprise.
I have a friend who's tremendously into astrology. After years of arguments etc I had a moment of enlightment when I realized she practically uses it more as descriptive model rather than predictive source of truth. I. E. She used classifications for personal shorthand on how she thinks about people. From that perspective, there's a sense where a summarizing framework is beneficial.

Almost every high level executive I met that's actually genuinely good with people, subscribes strongly and uses a personality model - whether it's the Disc model or four quadrants or whatever. The fact it has no scientific backing has no bearing in them "knowing its true" , but it also doesn't limit it being a useful if self fulfilling framework. And though we can accurately argue that system is stacked in what it rewards, these are leaders who genuinely do care and do well by their team. More than anything, it makes me introspect what does it mean for a model to "work", because I deeply believe that these models are pseudo scientific garbage, overly simplifying and random bs's confirmation of existing bias... But I've also had tons of personal anecdotal evidence they "work" or "help" - again, not just in self fulfilling or pegging into square hole way.
bah, world domination just sounds like stress to me :)
Proper HTTP Server Benchmarks for Golang, Node.js and Python (2020)
Without experience, an engineers understanding of a problem space is suspect.

In other words, the difference between a good engineer and a bad engineer often comes down to experience and understanding.

My guess is the company is also taking note of the engineer's attitude and reaction to this experience requirement as well.
Woot! Super cool. Thank you. That like also refers to https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist. Will check them out.
I guess that's what happens if you're a competent parent. I had the opposite experience, my failures as a parent have highlighted my own parents' failures that I had previously thought were normal.
Seems like a great way to assist the engineers in just finding new jobs...
A lot of businesses host their own email, if not on Linux then using Microsoft Exchange (see e.g. [1]). While that is being somewhat decreased by the cloud trend, I don't see it going away, as those businesses generally like keeping their independence.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26362178
Those are some of the reasons taxes are complicated, but not all of them. In the US the tax compliance industry has directly lobbied to keep the tax system as complex as possible so they can keep extracting rent for doing bullshit work.

The "influence-buying grift" jobs are usually classed as bullshit anyways, so that source of the complexity doesn't change the assessment.

There are potentially valid policy goals served by various tax incentives, but it is still worth considering if there are different tax incentives or other regulatory approaches that would create fewer bullshit jobs. With the political problems of raising taxes, government often choose to offload the costs of policy goals onto the public via creating bullshit jobs that cost more overall but avoid the need for tax increases.
The theory is "more serotonin and then something something less depression." SSRIs definitely increase the amount of serotonin in the brain. Why and how and if that's what helps is a mystery.

> Why boosting brain communication can help alleviate symptoms of depression, however, is unclear, she says.

> “We know to some extent what [these drugs are] doing, but we don’t necessarily know why this works for depression or anxiety,” says Edwards.

> Antidepressants quickly increase concentrations of these neurotransmitters shortly after someone starts taking the medication, says Christin Drake, a clinical psychiatrist at NYU Langone Health. But patients generally don’t start to feel the benefits for several weeks. The reason for this lag time, and what’s happening during this gap, is not clear.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/how-antidepressants-...

Part of the reason you can tell that we don't really know very much at all about the mechanism of action is that individual patients often have to take a little grand tour of the available medications before they find one that even works on them. Why does this SSRI work for Patient Bob and that SNRI doesn't? Nobody really knows, it's just informed guesswork.
Is the lack of an essential unifying framework to foreign policy surprising in a democracy like the US or Great Britain?

To a first approximation Russian foreign policy on large issues like the Ukraine is whatever is in Vladimir Putin’s head. Similarly Chinese policy is driven by Xi Jinping. For those states the “unitary actor” theory is reasonable to the extent that Xi and Putin are themselves rational.

In the US, U.K. and other multi party democracies a hypothetical “bipolar actor” theory is going to be a better approximation to the truth, given that control alternates between Democrats and Republicans, or Labor and the Conservatives.

Surely this cannot be a novel insight to people in IR?
Idle Champions is fun but the numerical scaling on that game is whacky. It only takes like a month before you're doing 1 googol (1^100) damage and little dwarves or gnolls or rats or whatever drop a similar amount of gold. They say it's to differentiate effectively between linear and exponential scaling, but the end result is just whacky.

It's the only game I've ever played where your damage output is most effectively measured by the size of its exponent
That seems to ring true, but - it also seems a bit defeatist, don't you think?

"Never question a scientific superior?" Not parsing that concept, please elaborate.
I use Migadu–it has some drawbacks[1], and every time it's mentioned on HN someone chimes in with a horror story, but it works great for me

Alternatively, if your family is on the Apple ecosystem, iCloud custom domain email works great, the only issue being that you get a limited number of email addresses per user and it doesn't support wildcard addressing.

[1] https://www.migadu.com/procon/
got it, thanks! Do you ever interact with the Tab Strip itself, and if yes, for what cases?
> it's pretty strongly correlated with the much more respectable Big Five personality traits

Well, two of the MBTI types have a strong correlation (defined typically as >0.5, in the MBTI case around 0.7 in both cases, IIRC) with two of the Big 5 traits. But that’s...not so great a reason to lean on MBTI.
Yoga means many things. There are systems that are developed over hundreds, if not thousands of years, which are systematically designed to elevate certain things in the practicioner, it's just not stretching, but can contain many very specific movements and breath techniques that open up certain channels in the body that would be hard to work with otherwise.

Just wanted to clarify that a bit ..
Let’s say your an aluminum refinery. Would you rather process these propellers or raw ore?
The title is actually:

"Unexpected obesity, rather than tumorigenesis, in a conditional mouse model of mitochondrial complex II deficiency"

But it's too long for HN.
- We plan to do the MP in Germany or the US, so most doesn't apply. Especially for a first product I do not want to have to deal with a language/culture barrier on top of everything else.
- Yep, we have the mold costs factored into our BOM estimates.
- Re; distribution, we plan to ship out of our own warehouses directly. DHL Express prices are fairly reasonable if you have a large volume.
Ask HN: Smartphone as a Bike Computer Replacement?
This really surprised me... cyclists will _regularly_ spend $400+ on a cycling "head unit" that is just a dumbed down smartphone to give them turn-by-turn directions, record data from sensors, and work as a HUD.

The only advantage of a head unit is they have an ANT+ radio, which is a superior protocol than BLE for data gathering. Nowadays, nearly every sensor has dual mode BLE/ANT+.

Shimano has ETube Ride, which is about the closest thing I can find to a replacement, but it lacks a critical feature to be able to import a route. It does connect to BLE speed/candence/DI2 transmission however, but does not connect to a BLE heart rate monitor ironically.

Other apps like Strava will do routing, but only connect to BLE HeartRate sensors, and don't connect to speed/cadence/DI2 (electronic bike transmission).

It seems like nobody has the whole package. Am I missing something? Just seems like an obvious hole in the ecosystem a startup should have filled by now.
This is an interesting walkthrough.

It would be nice if the code blocks were more distinct from the comments; some combination of indentation, vertical space, coloring.
Because Bing makes no promises on privacy, has worse UI/UX, is owned by a generally looked-down-on company when it comes to anything related to privacy or user-choice.
I saw this while taking a smoke break in the middle of playing "Bandit." It's definitely making a lot of concepts (especially ssh/ssl usage) clearer and more intuitive through use. I look forward to playing the other games there.
FSF ShoeTool [video]
Kyber and Post-Quantum Crypto – How does it work?
Thank you! Are you referring to this course or something else?
https://palousemindfulness.com/
>Given that most people write about old accounts, my original suspicion

No - there are now reports of same thing happening with recent changes to password

https://twitter.com/Valcristerra/status/1475734357805572098
So fact-checking has become a new way of distorting and censoring articles that have credible sources but seem to disagree with the overall bias of the platform (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

Maybe one should just go back to the age old saying: 'Don't believe everything you read on the internet.' Given that even these so-called 'independent fact-checkers' can also be wrong.

Who checks the 80+ so-called fact-checkers? Or the 'trusted news initiative' [0], which Meta (Facebook) is part of?

[0] https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative...
Yeah, that is definitely a possibility and I've already heard rumblings of it in the alt-right orbit. Bannon is a little bit there.

The way I see it, there is one and only one climate change solution: develop alternative sources of energy that are cheaper than coal, oil, and gas, and can scale more easily. Nothing else will work. If we can't do that we should prepare for much higher CO2 levels and all that comes with it.

The good news is that solar/wind plus batteries could actually get us there if those costs keep falling rapidly as they have over the last decade. In the longer term I would not totally count out nuclear fission or fusion, though in the short term I think it would take too long to scale up the former and the latter is simply still R&D.
> I don't understand why heat pump solutions in the UK are so expensive. An air to air heat pump from Samsung can be had for a thousand pounds and installation for another five hundred here in Norway

Hot air heating is missing in discussions in the UK. I don't know why; I speculate that it's because it got a bad reputation in the 1980s when it was fitted to new build houses and is perceived as ineffective. Certainly the conversations I've had with people all go "I ripped out the hot air system and replaced it with (conventional) hot water radiators and a gas boiler and the house is toasty warm". The draughty nature of UK housing may also be a factor.

What's the situation in Norway and other countries? Is hot air heating widely used? In what kinds of properties do you use air to air heat pumps?
M/KB for 2D windows with AR passthrough should handle it I think. I'll think about some solution for people that want AR passthrough turned off.