skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see that as a problem, I see that as an opportunity for other people to offer something equivalent/better at lower price.Both the real and virtual worlds are and could be respectively big.If people try to "merch" the virtual lands so be it, it's one more reason to think of something more affordable for the masses.
I moved to Russia years ago from the US so I can confirm that the experience is worlds better and that many US institutions never really "modernized". When I left in 2016, I still only had the option to pay my rent with a physical check on my most recent place, and the previous had a "convenience charge" for paying with card, which had to be done in the rental office since their payment site never stayed up.

Some of it has gotten better I'm told by friends and colleagues, but for my bank, there's still no built-in money transfer option between the same banks or others, there's a requirement to us some third party service (with a non-trivial transaction fee) Card to Card transfers aren't really a thing, again relying on third party services to do the transfers (at cost).

It's not so much that the US can't do good things, but a lot of infrastructure/convenience that the non-US world enjoys is certainly possible, but the way that a lot of the infrastructure is built up and supported simply is because of a preference to offload such services to third party providers that just introduce an extra signup/process/fee.

I don't know the full details of payment processing and why it seems like the card to card transfers within the bank app isn't really widely done, or why the confirmation codes for online purchases isn't a thing or even why contactless was such a struggle for the US for so long (when I visited in 2019, I think only at the Apple store did they have a reader that worked with contactless pay...)
Declarative memory management (2019)
Yes. I think this is so common that Rust, positioning itself as an option for a systems programming language, has the #![no_std] macro to not link with the full standard library.
>Most banks and airlines I use rewrote their perfectly fine and fast sites and apps to reactjs and now they seriously suck. This is not the fault of react but more of this idea of tech people that everything has to be new.

I doubt they rewrote it just for the sake of rewriting it in a new framework, it costs money for no benefit. What's more likely, which I have witnessed multiple times, is that the original codebase was an unmantainable mess, hard to support and extend, with abandoned/unmaintained third-party dependencies, and fewer and fewer developers on the market who know the stack. Sometimes it costs as much (or even less) to rewrite the whole thing than to refactor the original. And when the decision to rewrite the codebase is made, they choose the most popular tools/frameworks so that it was easier to find new developers, and today it happens to be react and the like.
Anyone who reads this who also knows a community for Borderline people, I'd appreciate it! I'm one of the few Borderline people I know who sought out therapy (most actively reject it, choosing to believe the lies our mind tells us that our problems are the problems of others) and seeking a community of those so afflicted also in recovery.
That's where I always thought it came from.
I stopped my subscription for The Economist when in the electronic format it forced advertisements on me on a more intrusive way than the full page ads in printed edition which was easier to jump over. I did not want paper format (I already had a big pile, also why to waste paper when I have an iPad) and I got no response on requesting a (even) more expensive subscription without the watch and other useless adverts wasted on me anyway.

I buy it only occasionally now therefore cannot agree or disagree if it went downhill from before, looking at single issues from time to time look alright. I always liked its balanced but analytic style, helped to learn the events and mechanisms of the world.
Note the difference here is that your examples use multiple dimensions at once. Assuming Gaussian distributions are a good fit, most of the population will look relatively normal on a single variable measurement. It’s only on multivariate measurements where this stops being true. Though this is exactly what the mode expects. Plot a 2D cross section of a 9 dimensional Gaussian curve and you’ll see the center lose its density very quickly.
You can't buy replacement components for the Steam Controller. You also can't buy replacement components for their VR controllers, including for the thousand dollar Valve Index, which by the way also suffers from *drumroll* analog stick drift.
> Pretty amusing

Went to a doctor over issues with my feet. Got spammed with ads covering various health issues. Patient data tends to be protected in most countries, no one should have access to when I visit what doctor and I find it insane that Google gets away with using that protected information to sell ads.
I stood at an all hands meeting and heard the VP of HR say “if you know of any women or minorities who want to work for us, let me know and we’ll find them a role”.

This is a Fortune 50 company.

Clearly the same effort wouldn't be expended for either males or whites.

I was taken aback by how blatant they were being. And the statement was likely illegal.
> I think the big problem with Mendel is that the odds of him obtaining the results he reported are vanishingly low

Why do you think so?
Is this because N.I.N.A. Is already open source and has kind of already taken over this niche?
No. P values this low are very rare. I haven't checked any of the analysis with my own data, but the approach seems pretty legitimate.

Each is calculated in a different way, using mostly-non-overlapping evidence, so it's almost legitimate to multiply them together to get P<1.3x10^-18... Not that there's any need - each alone is very convincing.

The whole lot really should have been written as three separate papers, with better written abstracts, and a metapaper, written by different authors, combining the evidence and comparing to the evidence for other hypothesis.
> Not out of laziness, just too many people for the size of the business problem

That sounds like a very common pattern: Got money so go on a hiring frenzy even if there isn't an actual and well-defined need for that.

One cause I think is that this is very good for careers: You hire below you, you expand your 'empire', and you become a much more senior and powerful employee as a consequence while projecting an image of impressive company growth.
You hit the nail on the head -- repeatedly.
Shit. I just bought my gf a Roku as a stocking stuffer. We were setting it up and it made her put in her email and phone number to verify. I was appalled; I was like don't put in your email! I'll return it! But she wanted be able to watch YouTube on her TV since Apple removed it without warning from her AppleTV device. My own Roku from a couple years ago works great with no idea who I am, let alone my phone number.

Someone said users tolerate it. I think this has a lot to do with corporations getting out ahead of the law, doing diligence on their own just in case one government or another comes knocking. Yeah, in the case of a streaming device they probably gain a bit of extra intel to sell if they have a phone number to tie to your viewing habits. But it's not just that. Google just asked me on one of my fake accounts to tell them "Charlie's" birthday, just in case so they don't serve me any illegal material. This is to pre-comply with whatever data the government of any country they serve might want.

Now, the problem with Amazon's hostility toward customers of its marketplace is of a whole other order. That's truly a situation where it's cheaper for them to sell rotten garbage to everyone and take returns than it is to make a transparent marketplace, and that's down to the laws of physics. They just make more money being a shipping company than they do a retailer, and the arbitrage between Chinese factory sellers and American consumers is ridiculous. You could design countless better systems, but none of them will ship lead-coated childrens toys as quickly or for as much profit.

This here's the last of the free internet that isn't dumbed down for consumers. This and the retro BBS subculture, and gopher and IRC and other things of that ilk. We're much reduced.

Personally in my own code / administration and training for the company I work for, I really try to make sure that the user experience comes first and there is no daylight between what the customer expected and what they get. This, however, is a minority view.
I wish this was the case but as an Australian citizen with one of the worlds best designed voting systems we still fall prey to mostly binary politics.

There are more powerful factors at work here. Some combination of exploitation of mass hysteria by politics, some amplification of that by modern technology/social media and some slow degradation of respect for custom and tradition that prevented such behaviour by politicians in the past.

The culmination of this is modern politics in US/UK/Australia, all of which are frankly embarrassing for intellectual citizens of all three but somehow staggeringly effective in elections.
Why do you think his odds at obtaining those results were vanishingly low?
Yeah, I would say a much bigger issue than algorithm questions in interviews are interviewers who assume all programmers follow a particular path (usually the one they followed) and discriminate against those-that-did-not-follow-particular-path.

Computer science is a massive field that people enter through many different and unique ways. If you're trying to gatekeep and force everyone to enter through the same gate that you entered, you should not be an interviewer.
Incentive structure. There is no incentive to favor users. Engineers are measured by KPIs that are decoupled from user experience. Managers have similar measures. Investors are concerned with value measured by quantities unrelated to user experience, especially when they want fast returns regardless of how people experience the product. As far as I can tell, there is no incentive on any side that favors users: just incentives that favor developers, managers, and investors. Users grudgingly get dragged along because they need or want the product, and given no alternative, accept it. That acceptance is misconstrued as satisfaction.
COVID deaths aren't perennial. Just look at Spanish flu, polio and smallpox once herd immunities and cure/vaccines available. Covid death is relatively mild if you factor in the effects is at most lasting 3 years (2020-2022). Fentanyl will kill way more than Covid for decades to come...way way more for those young demographics. You can choose to get vaccinated for yourself and your kids. You aren't able to do so with your kids "vaccinated" from Fentanyl. It takes huge parental care and upbringing (like eagle dads and tiger moms) to "vaccinate" from Fentanyl or other hardcore drugs. Majority of Americans won't do that. Nobody denies Covid deaths. People usually discussed on the risks of getting covid AND die vs vaccination AND not dying. Vaccine don't guarantees immunity. Just go ask your doctor friends how many covid deaths are vaccinated. I am 100% sure it is not 0% (from what I read is ~10%). Current situation is people who like to take the risk of getting infected AND dying prefer to have choice not taking vaccines. You can read up Singapore statistic showing a lot infected won't show symptoms ~80% and death due to Covid is way below 1%. Think of it as playing death from extreme games. Is it okay for communities decide to ban extreme games worldwide because dying from it is higher probable than those doing couch potatoes. Young children can get inspired to do so if you are thinking about "infection difference". At this moment, our countries are diverting huge amount of money for combating Covids. We aren't focusing enough on fentanyl deaths. Even Trump put effort on that compare to sleepy Joe and address the source of Fentanyl (big eastern country). Go read ASEAN countries how they deal with drug traffickers and addicts. Their results will put every western countries to shame.
No idea how these fakers get away with this all the time – must be something quasi-religious or so, at their fanbase.
Thanks
(spoiler: I'm the author of this text. I'm the author of the first version of RSS-Bridge, which has since been beautifuly expanded by the community).
Says Rusty Russell, who's pretty goddam scary himself. :)
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They expect it for free but it's not like the product can actually be bought.
there is only one reason the media rejected the lab-leak hypothesis - it was forwarded by Trump

since then, Biden's own security advisor has briefed him on the relevant proof (which has remained the same), but it was not broadly covered by the media

furthermore, the wet-market hypothesis was debunked in peer-reviewed science (and never had reasonable support from the start)

at this point there is literally no credible support for the idea that the lab leak data is incorrect
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778166
> Most banks and airlines I use rewrote their perfectly fine and fast sites and apps to reactjs and now they seriously suck.

Nostalgia might be staining your view here… I don’t remember any airline or banking apps that have ever been “perfectly fine and fast”.
> There was a movie where a guy got out of prison after a lengthy sentence and his words seem to ring more true to me each and every day: "The world got itself in a damn hurry and it seems there is no place now for a feeble old man like me"

Shawshank?
There's a whole bunch of problems with that argument, but probably the biggest is that the US did seem to pretty successfully stop Covid from sucessfully spreading there from anywhere in Asia - pretty much all the outbreaks trace back to Europe via New York, even in parts of the country very far from New York. Also, SARS and MERS did spread to the Western world and most countries did have plans in place to deal with them that informed their early Covid response, especially the UK and US.

There's even a really obvious reason why New York and London were hit first that has nothing to do with Trump or Boris - look at when Milan Fashion Week happened and what else was going in that region of Italy, then at the other major fashion centers of the world that'd have lots of travel to Milan that week. It's right slap bang next to the epicenter of Italy's big outbreak which had somehow gone basically undetected, with Italy consistently reporting zero cases a day or two beforehand. Like, the reason populist politicans seem to have played such a disproportionate role in making Covid so bad is because the media ignores any screw-ups that happen in countries run by the kind of boring techocrat they like - I personally have no doubt Italy would've been blamed for dooming the world if Berlusconi or someone like him was in charge.
> Meanwhile clang crawls along on its support for newer ISO C++ features, as the biggest contributors now have their focus elsewhere.

What did you mean by this? I am not an LLVM expert or anything, but I find more-often-than-not most of the new features I read about that make its way into LLVM are requirements needed due to clang adding things from new C++ standards. These improvements then benefit other frontends like the one for Rust.
Somehow zig has become the "new C" and Rust has become the "new C++" in the community, I guess. I don't think there is something strange about the recent days. Sometimes there are small waves about that and there have been in the past.
While it's true that asking an experienced surgeon basics of anatomy is worthless, please take into account that all surgeons at least operate on humans. If you take 10 random developers, chances are most of them worked on completely different levels and domains throughout their careers (e.g. embedded dev, backend, frontend, devops will have vastly different skills).
Why the Muon G-2 Results Are So Exciting (2021)
What are the most promising use-cases in your experience?
I think this is a "misery loves company" sort of thing. When you're depressed you don't want people to try to help you be happier, and you don't really want to be happier in a deep sense - you want them to be depressed with you so you feel less alone. I think the fair analogy here would be someone in a wheelchair trying to get other people to use wheelchairs so they have someone to share the difficulty with.
Don't like something? Take your money elsewhere, and make sure to tell why on social media, even if you don't have large following. Besides making bad practices unnoticeably less profitable this normalises caring about this. In the future we will see more business will see practices that you like as advantageous.
Really? In my position as a senior member on my team, one of the biggest mentoring costs is just teaching junior members how to search and find answers for themselves.

Yes, day to day I'm not copy and pasting huge blocks of code from Stack Overflow, but when I need an answer and I don't immediately know it my first move is always to search internally or externally for others who may have already shared it.

Why is being able to effectively search for for answers not considered good problem solving?
I’m glad you didn’t, completely on topic for this thread. I’m sure you’re speaking for an awful lot of people on HN, possibly a large majority.

If you would like to contribute more, Caslon has a great post here with advice. It’s more than a game though, we all come here not just for the stories, but for the high quality comments. Contributing high quality comments is a real benefit to others, whether your gamifying it or not. Having the discipline not to comment when you don’t have a real contribution to make is also valuable, you’re being a good member of the community. I commented on this post almost an hour after first reading it. I wanted to be sure I had something I thought was worthwhile to say.

Another way you can contribute is through voting, especially if you vote based not on agreement or disagreement, but on insightful or informative contribution to the debate.
8.5 % of Omicron infections are in unvaccinated. The unvaccinated are about 25 % of the population.

About 90% of Omicron infections are in the vaccinated. They are about 75% of the population.

If Omicron spread equally among both vaxxed and unvaxxed, you should see percentages that represent their fraction of the population.
You can, you just have to email the mods.
SA will always be Something Awful for me.
It is written by design to outrage, the reaction just validates that "latent racist patriarchal structures in science" (arbitrary wokeism speak) are indeed "present".

It is a power play game by attacking ("subverting") the legacy of the "father of sociobiology".

It is akin to Nixon or McCarthy wielding the axe of the "communist threat" and enjoying the squeals when it hits a vulnerablity in the establishment.

SA is just delivering the fodder for the outrage game played on Social Media (esp Twitter).

Are you not entertained i.e. engaged?

Edit:

On one side one could address her concern without using terms like "scienctific racism" as an (ideological?) gap between "sociology" and "biology".

On the other side one cannot just simply redefine technical terms like "normal distribution" in statistics.

What she probably was trying to articulate is the methodology: in order to find your ancestry "genetically" you can only compare relatively.

For example: When a genetic test company claim you are 42% "West Asian" they compare your genetic makeup to a (more or less) arbitrary model of their "West Asian". It is very speculative in its qualitative terms but at the basis quantitatively: how many variations to you have in common with this model?

There is a great talk about the methodologies used in paleogenetics for anyone interested in the particularities. [1] At the end you are left with a lot of more questions you never thought about and wonder about the complexities and intricacies involved.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk65TbJRN_A
One need only look at sibling rivalry to see how desperately humans require the attention of other humans.
> the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence

Cuttlefish teach us that the "secret" about intelligence is that it is all around us. What blinds us to seeing it is that we only recognise it easily in things that look like us and act like us and appear to share our values.

Once you have spent enough time in cuttlefishes world to appreciate their intelligence, and beauty, you are a cross cultural explorer who can travel to all kinds of other worlds and see them for what they are - intelligent kingdoms as complex as ours, only different.
Note that there is some dubious stuff in the paper... Figure 3 B for example is deceptive... Drawing ellipses onto principal component analysis charts is never a rigorous way to know if something fits in a set... You are only visualising the first two components - and for all you know, the point you're querying might be miles away in the third axis that you aren't looking at. High dimensional data is high dimensional for a reason - conclusions you make by throwing away most of the data aren't robust!

Despite that, I still believe the overall conclusion of this paper is backed up by very strong evidence.
In my field, we typically just use plain bibtex files. With a proper bibtex file and a decent journal latex template, the template should do the vast majority of the work towards formatting the bibliography the way the journal wants.

Typically there are some remaining warts (both due to suboptimal templates and to limitations of bibtex itself and its community/ecosystem like the address vs. location conundrum, those who have found it will know what I'm referring to), but often they are insignificant enough to just deal with them in the typesetting stage, and when they aren't they don't require much manual work, to me it's not even near the top in the ranking of inconveniences of publishing a scientific paper. And I'm not sure this kind of software would solve such nuances anyway.

Some years ago I tried several of this kind of referencing software, including Mendeley and a couple others (not Zotero because at that point it was Firefox-only IIRC, which was a red flag for me, I'm particular about using the browser I like) and to be honest I found them more trouble than they were worth, although seeing the general positivity here towards Zotero I think I'll give it a try now.

Of course, fields that use Word instead of Latex are a totally different world where probably nothing of my comment will apply.
I think GP is referring to the unlit, relatively low-contract LCD screen that was only readable in bright light conditions.

The SP was better, but only somewhat: it had a button for front-lit lighting so the image quality was still pretty mediocre. I presume to save battery life, since a back-lit would have lead to much more light loss.
Ok you’ve told me other groups use it but you haven’t refuted the argument in the least.
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It may be something that 'feels' better while not making much impact on the situation, however providing fleeting temporary relief in the moment of being heard and feeling connected.

I guess if there's nothing that will help then temporary relief is good.

However I also guess than in many situations there are things that can make lasting positive impact, if they can be found. Finding these positive impactful things requires action though not just listening.

The art is in knowing when to listen and when to act
That would be a good assumption in general to be fair. Those going to that kind of public school would be a tiny percentage of the population.

Roald Dahl wrote extensively about "fagging" and all that went with it: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoir...