skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It amuses me that the enterprise models are frequently less expensive than "prosumer" and NAS models. It's been a running gag for the last year on ArsTechnica that Seagate's Exos drives are frequently $150 or more cheaper than the alternatives -- each month they have to bring up excuses (another 3db of noise, another 2W of power) as to why you should look at any other drive.

The consumer who wants a 14TB drive is a freak, so the "prosumer" drives are produced in small quantities. It doesn't help at all that these are fragmented into different SKUs for specialized uses. I wouldn't even trust that these are made in large enough volumes to justify testing the firmware. The mass market now is data centers and clouds.
Yeah, with a bit of distance. I mean like if it's half a meter away from your speaker cables or amplifier, a switch putting out excessive EMI could couple noise in to that over the air. But it will do absolutely nothing to the actual data.

EMI can be a real problem especially for things like recording electric guitars, because electric guitar pickups are basically antennas and have to be exposed to be able to pick up the strings.
I have a self imposed rule about inventions, that probably applies to predictions as well. It's based on the idea that a patentable invention consists of more than just an idea blurted out by some manager (I was the manager when I arrived at this), but needs to be novel, non-obvious, useful, and reductible to practice.

These ideas are usefully applied as a self discipline, completely aside of the idiosyncrasies of the existing patent system.

Non-obvious means that a generally smart person could not have come up with the same idea by combining existing knowledge. Reductible to practice means you have to provide a recipe for actually making it. For all practical purposes, you don't know if it can be reduced to practice unless you've actually made the effort and discovered all of the gotchas.

In addition, a prediction needs a timeline. "An asteroid will strike the earth" is an empty prediction without quantifying the time scale in terms of something like a probability per year or an expected duration.

This is why I dismiss most futuristic predictions as not qualifying as predictions or inventions.

I think my rule also works for disposing with giving managers credit for "ideas" just for showing up at brainstorming sessions, at the expense of the people who are actually doing the work.
It’s probably the intent, tbh

A shibboleth, if you will.
I can grow a lot of food in that much space. The problem is plants need light which is cheap from the sun, but there isn't enough in my closet so I need expensive lights on all the time. It is much more energy efficient to grow plants in open fields and fly the results to me (and using trucks, trains and ships is cheaper yet)
wow, this is amazing, I wonder if std::make_unique<audio> would be better as it aligns the bytes as well ;-)
Great write up which also illustrates how deep DRM/closed systems are in cars built this century.

Until around mid 90's cars still had lots of relays and barely comprehensible wiring looms if you could get your hands on workshop manuals.

The sooner we go back to a BEV with the simplicity of a 1960's VW Beetle the better imo, not least so that the third world can get a look in.
The custom search engine is harder than you'd think.

Google's search algorithm is tuned up for searching the whole web. It turns out the heuristics you need are very different depending on the size of the collection.

When Gerard Salton was doing IR experiments with punched cards he was working with collections of as little as 70 documents and in that case you are going to be very concerned about recall and not precision. Maybe there is 1 relevant document and if you miss it you failed.

If you had 70 billion documents you might have 10,000 relevant documents and if you lost 60% of them you still have 4,000 documents. The end user gets more results than they can sift through.

Thus I always groan when I see a site is using "Google Site Search" because the relevance is usually worse than you'd get with the alternatives.

Connected with that is the tuning work: Google has sufficient data to tune up a big model for everybody but true personalized search eludes them because they don't have enough data from you to tune up a model for you.
Probably the Fellow Ode
Yes and:

I'm done with "hot takes".

Yes, we need rapid responses during a crisis.

Also yes, there will be both good and bad consequences to every action, or inaction.

But ffs give the dust time to settle before doing the after action analysis.

--

I mostly blame the popular medias for boosting and accelerating the human tendency for fear, outrage, blame. Knowing this about ourselves, that crap has to be toned down.

Writing this now, I guess I'm just repeating the "thinking, fast and slow" critique.
Russia already had too much shootings to expect that any further ones would improve things.
You really should read the book.

One problem case is policy, which is a subset of the actual law, gets embodied in code thus reducing the agency of people to something less than the law allows for.

There are many others, and the whole point of the book is to examine the means by which human behavior is regulated and how code acts like more than law.

By way of very brief review, we are regulated by these forces:

Money and markets. When we lack economic means to a behavior, we are denied that behavior. This is an active regulation in that behavior is denied, not possible.

Physics. The rules of the world permit what they permit. There are things we want to do that the world does not allow. The smarter we are, the less this regulation applies, but it is an active regulation in that a behavior is denied, not possible.

Norms. These are social regulations. They are not an active regulation in that they do not actually deny a behavior. However, consequences abound post behavior. Act like an ass and others may shun you as a consequence.

Laws. These are legal regulations. They are not an active regulation in that they do not actually deny a behavior. However, consequences abound, and unlike norms, they actually have real force in that one can be denied freedom, title, money and more.

The important thing to understand about code is that it is an active regulation, behavior may be denied, unlike law which acts post behavior.

And the real discussion starts from there with a case like I put above.
Elasticlunr, a full-text search library for Elixir
From the paper:

> During March 2020–January 2021, the risk for myocarditis
was 0.146% among patients with COVID-19 and 0.009%
among patients without COVID-19. Among patients with
COVID-19, the risk for myocarditis was higher among
males (0.187%) than among females (0.109%) and was
highest among adults aged ≥75 years (0.238%), 65–74 years
(0.186%), and 50–64 years (0.155%) and among children
aged <16 years (0.133%)

I don't get these numbers because the other original paper says the rate is 95.4 per million or 0.00954%, but that's well below the risk with or without COVID-19.

> We estimated a risk of 95.4 cases of myopericarditis per million second doses administered in
patients age 12-39 which is higher than the incidence reported to US advisory committees
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
> The funny thing is that if the people who worked on spam at Google were free to talk about it, I'm sure it would become evident that they know more about spam and anti-spam efforts than anybody else in existence.

That may be true, but I think one of the good points made on the OP is that it might actually be cultural constraints that keep them from solving the problem:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1477761335412809729:

> You might need to do a lot of manual spam fighting initially. That could be both the thing-that-doesn't-scale, and the thing that differentiates you by being alien to Google's DNA. (They must hate manual interventions; so inelegant).

Google has some very smart and knowledgeable people, but the things they do have to fit into certain boxes, which means there are some problems they just can't fix, e.g.

* Everything has to be automated at scale, which leads to consistent poor user experience (unappealable account closures initiated by inscrutable algorithms, SEO spam).

* You get promoted by building new products, not maintaining existing ones, which leads to self-defeating churn outside of core areas (e.g. abandoning Google Talk and squandering their position in the messenger market).

* etc.
The politics of the article were intemperate and confusing. The author complains about state regulation but blames the Biden administration? What?

Not very impressed.
Ah, but there were no bosses in stalins sowjet russia. Just some more equal comrades carrying the burden of leadership.
Maybe not back then, but I got distinctive usenet vibes back when I read Ender's Game (novel, 1985); nowadays I'd probably get reddit or facebook vibes. Not sure what parts of message boards concept existed in the 1977 version.
So you just need to set up two of these services, and have each monitor the other... Have to agree, it does feel like a case where rolling your own may be less elegant, but at least you'll know how the plumbing works (or if it doesn't).
Wow. This should be the top comment.
BMWs are better "driving machines" than Honda Civics. They're still a luxury car and status symbols. Things can be two things at once. Just as the Honda Civic will get you from point A to point B just fine, there's a phone less than half the price of a new iPhone 13 pro will do what smartphones need to do these days. You just look like old-fashioned and not very "with it" if you do.

Guess how well that phone sells?

Not very well. It sells so poorly that the manufacturer's announced they're going to stop making them. It's even from the same manufacturer but the paucity of its sales is what makes me believe a lot of people are iPhones for status symbols. I'm talking, of course, about the $400 iPhones SE (vs the iPhone 13 Pro which clocks in at $1,000). There are other differences too, but you will get made fun of, either to your face, or behind your back, for having a 'phone with a button'.

Just own up to the fact that you have a luxury phone.
This article mentions scientist named Mircea Corcioveci whose name doesn't appear anywhere on the internet except in this article.
Let's say it actually worked though. I.e., it was just production level audio equipment, rather than woo. Does that make it okay for them to sell it to those on a fixed income?

Not defending it, just seems weird to decry it for taking money away from people who can't afford it, when the whole positioning is "makes audio sound better". Decry it simply for the fact it doesn't work, not that people who can't afford it spend money on it.
I wonder if these sorts of things are actually bought individually (as in a consumer decides they should upgrade their audio cables, does the research, and chooses this pricy product) or whether they’re primarily sold as part of large expensive home theater/audio installs.

It seems like this would be easier to sell as a line item on an already six figure home theater install (or seven figure house build), rather than individually. But I honestly have no idea.
Maybe their experience wasn’t representative of Ghana, but it was representative of recent history in Rwanda, Nigeria, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Chad, Mali, Angola, Eritrea, Somali, Uganda, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Maybe we shouldn’t pile on to people for sharing their life experiences.
Because you comments are constantly just boiled down to “it’s too complicated to understand”.

Look people left cities in the 50s because they didn’t like other people in cities. It’s a well known and established fact. It’s called white flight. And it continues to this day.
Lithuanian here.

It’s not inequality when instead of a cheap hatchback you NEED to buy BMW 5-Series or Porsche Macan. But you import a damaged one from US. And then you need a bunch of „used“ parts to repair it.
Base-T ethernet is magnetically isolated (transformers), not optically isolated. AFAIK those transformers are generally good for on the order of a few thousand volts of isolation. So they'll fix common ground loops, but I wouldn't rely on them to protect against worst case lightning strikes. For that you want fiber (eg 1000Base-SX), which is intrinsically opto isolated.

And yes, most anything from the "audiophile" world on the digital side is hokum - the entire point of digital technology is all-or-nothing error correction. At least it's easy to ignore, unlike having to sift through all the harder-to-falsify hokum in reviews when shopping for analog gear.
The most honest thing you can do about Africans, or homeless people, or problem children, or any other "subject" people, is:

Talk to them and write about them as if they were any "normal" person. How about this weather? How's your day going? How about those 49ers?

It's the same for writing, except that this won't get you published.
>NFTs are a great way to directly fund artists and creators in general

This feels like a weird conclusion given the issues encountered.
The Advantages of Piracy (for consumers) (2020)
You joke, but I think it's true. In 1940 the Soviets invaded part of Romania, we were forced to give up some territories.

They were supposed to get Bessarabia, but for some weird reason they also got the Hertza County, which has never been part of a non-Romanian state.

The only way that makes sense looking at a map is if someone lazily drew a straight line and the other side was too afraid to point out the stupidity.
Having just finished statistical rethinking, what do you recommend I read next?
Specially designed CPU you say? https://www.cirrus.com/our-technology/audio/hifi/

(The difference is that we're doing clever things with class D amplifiers to get the best sound possible out of a mobile phone, and charge a few dollars per chip. While it's technically a "specially designed CPU", really it's a proprietary DSP with the analogue front end on the same die)
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Thanks for helping to clarify!
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Like Regular LINQ, but Faster and Without Allocations: Is It Possible?
I am in audio and routinely sit in 400k+ listening rooms.

Those folks would be embarrassed to mention those rooms contained things as goofy as this. It's excessive and unreasonable.
I work hard for 8 hours a day and spend the rest of my time hanging out with my wife and kids, watch TV, and go out with friends. Do I need to jump off airplanes or paint masterpieces in my spare time to be considered employable? And who cares how much I enjoyed my random undergraduate degree two decades ago?

If this is the criteria I am facing at an interview, rather than all my work experience relevant for the position, then I'd like to change the title to "losers exist, don't work for them".
My biggest endorsement of Sourcegraph is that on Sunday nights I look forward to getting back to it on Monday morning to work with my amazing team and solve hard problems. I struggled with Sunday scaries at my previous job and I've had nothing like that at Sourcegraph.

I highly encourage you to apply if you have even a passing interest in Sourcegraph. Check out our handbook (https://handbook.sourcegraph.com) where we answer most questions you'll have. Or send me an email and I'd gladly chat with you about the company and how we operate.
Organic and regenerative are not necessarily the same thing. Organic can still rely on biocides and fertilizer input. Regenerative practices treat the farm, including the soil, as an ecosystem. Killing any part of the ecosystem by applying biocides of any type is antithetical to the practice. Once the ecosystem has been built there is enough biodiversity that pests problems are minimal.

I disagree with you that regenerative farming can't feed the world. Yields are as good or better than conventional farms. Fortunately, regenerative farming is more profitable so we are going to see a shift to regenerative regardless of the naysayers.
Ethernet usually has magnetic isolation through tiny transformers (oftentimes included inside the ethernet PHY IC) to avoid any issues with different ground potentials and such.
Grinding coffee is hard. It's very easy to get particles that are too fine, overextract, and ruin the taste. So some engineering is required to get a good result.

For these limited-run products, you're paying for the product development to a greater extent than you would for a product that sells in the millions. Software is very similar, someone could use Wordpress off the shelf, but they have a bunch of ideas for how their thing should be different, and so pay artisans $300 an hour to make their very own custom blog. The $1700 coffee grinder is the same effect at play.
Google knows how to surface relevant results and they choose not to because they aren't optimizing for relevant results, they're optimizing for revenue or profit within some constraints (don't lose too many users, privacy, avoid actually terrible or completely irrelevant results).

All the various suggestions in this thread plus far more complex and insightful solutions are known to Google. Most of it boils down to using automated user feedback to improve or measure search result relevancy.

Google doesn't need to solicit user upvotes / downvotes to improve rankings. They can monitor user clicks on results in addition to analytics on the sites the users visit to determine which sites are relevant to which searches.

Google doesn't optimize for search relevancy.
that’s not a wild hypothesis, but a commonly used pricing tactic: anchoring. apple does it all the time with the ‘good, better, best’ framing of their product tiers. the ‘best’ tier is to extract surplus from the price insensitive, but also to make the pricing of the ‘better’ tier seem reasonable. the ‘good’ tier is there to capture the price sensitive, and also uses anchoring on the top two tiers to seem reasonable (it’s also highly marked up, but just not quite as much). the trio of prices are usually bunched around the desired average sales price (asp) for the product, and that set of prices work together to create the anchoring effect.

anchoring is used everywhere, from bleach to handbags to wine to cars and everything else.
Just set up a nice sound system and run records or CD's. If you're that into audio, then streaming is still a joke.
I grew-up in a family of soviet scientists. Fraudulent practice of putting name of some high ranking official on scientific paper(in order to get PhD) was rampant. However, most of those papers were D-grade papers that no one would read. To this day, Russian apparatus practices this BS. There are(were?) websites dedicated to exposing those papers.
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>You're correct, but there turned out to be second order effects that were not accounted for because we didn't know that much about it.

Everything does. People fall into the pattern of "doing things this way is bad for all of these bad reasons" and "we should do things this other way for all these good reasons" failing to recognize the full spectrum of effects of various plans and pretending that their hopeful solution for the future won't itself have consequences too. It's an optimization problem that has been turned into a polarizing morality problem which doesn't lend itself to solutions (largely because most of the moralizers have only very superficial knowledge of the issues).

>For example, chemical fertilization in the Midwest turns out to all flow into the watershed and dump out into the Gulf via the Mississippi. Which creates a dead zone for marine life. Which translates all the way down that food chain. It's a real problem. So much so that I'm surprised that the Gulf States haven't tried to sue the Midwest States for economic damages.

I wonder how much extra carbon could be fixed in the Gulf of Mexico if we left ag runoff as it is and put enormous aquarium bubblers at the bottom of the ocean around the Mississippi delta.

>Any "feed the world" solution really has to deal with the problem of "exactly how much of the world do we actually need." It sounds grim, and it is, but if the ecological problem is real and serious, it's a question that has to be dealt with.

It really doesn't. Unless you're willing to advocate for suicide or genocide, it's not a problem that food policy needs to be concerned with. People feel resource constrained in other ways and nearly all advanced economies have seen birth rates fall to below replacement rate. Overpopulation is the hot button issue of decades past and the dire predictions aren't coming to pass as growth rates seem to be doing a fine job limiting themselves.
Artists make art, gallerists make artists. My dad is a pretty great artist, he studied under Peter Prendergast, and Mike Knowles (professor emeritus at the Slade). Outside of the local art scene he is completely unknown.

My observations lead me to conclude that the greatest artists and musicians of the world are, like my dad, totally anonymous. Becoming successful in the way you describe requires a dedication to business, PR, sales and marketing. You often need to be a shameless self publicist, or extremely lucky, Van Gough died poor and unknown. Practising the skills required to become popular and "successful" diminishes the time available to practice your art skills. Even though you said you don't care about making money, earning recognition in art means making money. You could refuse to sell your art, but then no galleries would take you on, and no auction houses will mobilise their PR machines to promote you.

To sum up, I would:
1) Go to night school drawing classes.
2) Practice, practice, practice.
3) Find a degree course with a good teacher. Who you learn from is way more important in art than where, or what you learn.
4) Make art

Then, if you want to become a commercial success and be invited to soirees:
1) Study business, sales, the art of persuasion, social skills, etc.
2) Use connections from your art school to promote yourself.
3) ???
4) Profit.
Thanks for the link. I needed something like this a few months ago (I eventually built it using SVG).

Very cool tool!