skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the proverbial final straw came when I delivered a dinosaur utility company it's first churn propensity score. Bit of background, my manager and their manager were non-technical and I had this thing running in evaluation mode for a few months with excellent lift in the top couple of percentiles. I had the statistics well grounded, and this thing was due to go in against basically nothing, renewal teams randomly calling prospects.

Anyway, before this thing goes live, I see a few managers printing out pages of Excel sheets and arranging them on a conference table to validate the model with literally pencil and paper. They didn't know what a percentile was until I explained it.

I handed in my notice the Monday following that weekend. Sometimes, if you're not trusted to do a good job, it's not worth trying.
Likely about the same fate as WWII German Rocket Scientists - Keep doing the same work for a different boss.
Why is it so hard for many HN readers to consider that cannabis might cause schizophrenia? There are tons of studies demonstrating a correlation, so it's not impossible that there is a causation too.
scala 3 is much more than this and has a modern syntax https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/guides/migration/tooling-...
> About the use of "calm down" as an instruction: while your sentiment is good (to reduce another person's anxiety), it's not always possible for someone to follow that when it is received as an instruction.

this is a pet peeve of mine. something i picked up when i was a counselor at a special needs camp was the idea that everyone (regardless of where you lie on any spectrum) has a unique sensitivity to criticism. it's important to NOT treat people how you would like to receive criticism, but to assess how you think they would best consume and digest it. obviously, this is extremely difficult on the internet and i'm just nitpicking but i had an altercation with my sibling earlier when they told me to 'calm down' so i'm still on edge about it.

i'm sure OP doesn't need to hear this but typically i find that a good alternative is to nudge someone into rationality. not to say that the parent comment is irrational, but when you simply show someone why they may be overreacting, they may very well 'calm down' all by themselves. if said person refuses to acknowledge your rationale, it's likely they aren't welcome to any criticism at all and won't be 'calming down' in any capacity.
This is interesting, similar issues in places like South Africa where RAMPENT theft from trains and of train equipment is common (equipment can often be sold for scrap metal value).

It can totally bog up commerce when these losses start to get high.

In South Africa one factor is that crime has in general very little consequence. I'm not sure what the prosecution and conviction rates are for these thefts here in California but if those are low enough there may be limited deterrent.
This is why I use antiquated banking. At least I have someone to contact if something goes wrong.
Mission is the big one for me. I refuse to work any longer for companies that make humanity and the environment worse. I'll become a bartender before I work for another company whose sole purpose is to extract wealth at any cost.
Yes, it's described in the application.
MH17?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17

I believe fedex also overflies many territories that might be hostile to US interests. I believe they continue to overfly Belarus, after most US/EU passenger aircraft have stopped.
Streaming services, especially in Europe, have already shown this.

First there was Netflix, and everything was on Netflix. Then a few publishers decided they didn't want to share their pie with Netflix, so they started their own streaming service and pulled their content from Netflix.

Next, you have multiple streaming services and surely, piracy goes up and the pirate just throws the pie out the window. Nobody wins.
Openbsd will run fine, even with TLS.
Ageism at it's finest.
And now it is bad drugs.. AFAIK the argument against most environmental factors was that schizophrenia frequency seems similar globally after accounting for ways societies handle cases.

Given the ethical limitations on this kind of research, I think a research group that wants to talk about probable causation really needs a cross cultural method to randomly sample and demonstrate active case prevalence changes and to run that sampling over many years.
They don't. People grow up to be like their friends, who in turn grow up to be like the general cultural sentiments among the adults they interact with. (Source: The Nurture Assumption.)
I would vastly prefer one of the last four people who received a majority vote (Biden, Clinton, Obama, Bush) over Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is a childish narcissist whose chief skills are being rich, ignoring laws, and promoting himself. I would leave the US permanently if he ran it.
For me, theory enables this to actually work in the sense that we know that structures are not random, i.e. there is some way to predict them and it is inherent in the composition (hand waving). If there is no theory linking input and output then predictions could just randomly stop working, for example.
I feel for you!

Quick question, what would you like your legacy to be? What words do you want people to say when they speak about you and the life you lived?
I switched to Apple when they dropped PPC for Intel. I've had just about every x86 Macbook they built, and have built a handful of high-spec hackintosh desktops.

When the M1 came out, I ran out and grabbed the cheapest one I could (8gb M1 Air) to play around with. After about 30 minutes, I decided to transfer my daily driver to this little passively cooled notebook. The next day I bought the M1 Mini to replace my overclocked hackintosh. My high-end x86 gear just couldn't compete with the low-end M1s.

I don't care what Intel and Nvidia say. I've used all their products. The M1 is black magic.
That wasn't shot down with IR manpads though. The likely suspect is a vehicle mounted radar based system.

Most manpads don't pose a threat at reasonable cruise altitude. They're more of a takeoff/landing threat. There's a minimum warhead size to do the job and a minimum fuel required to get it to a given altitude. Anything that can reach an airliner at a typical cruising altitude is going to be vehicle mounted for the foreseeable future.
You could be onto something there, yep.
This is a huge issue for nuclear power generally. It is incredibly expensive to navigate the regulations. Oklo thought they were good and now they need to spend millions and millions more to apply again. (I’m assuming good faith on Oklo’s part). I really think there needs to be serious reform at the NRC.
Is this going to be an extra-cost option when shipping?

[ ] Saturday Delivery
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[X] SAM Protection
As another commenter pointed out, this is not accurate.
I'm not a scientist so maybe I don't get it, but it seems like code could be analogized to a chemist's laboratory (roughly). If a chemist published pictures of their lab setup in their paper, and it turned out that they were using dirty glassware, paper cups instead of beakers, duct taping joints, etc etc, wouldn't that cast some doubt on their results? They would be getting "nitpicked" but would it be unfair? Maybe their result would be reproducible regardless of their sloppy practices, but until then I would be more skeptical than I would be of a clean and orderly lab.
Agreed but LibreDrive is the system as a whole (before decryption, sure). I was curious about the persistent component of that system, the modded firmware.
In this case Schrödinger appears to have used his genius to justify his pattern of abuse.

Dirac, by all accounts, did not have anything like this sort of dark side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac#Personality

Yet Einstein referred to Dirac as "balancing on the dizzying path between genius and madness". ... without it being a dark side.
What usually happens: it disappears
I like trade schools like Holberton School
This is something you can hedge against, which is known as a sequence risk [0]. There are investment vehicles with built in volatility buffers designed to avoid this https://paradigmlife.net/blog/episode/the-volatility-buffer-....

That 3 years of cash on hand would be better off in some kind of investment and if you're worried, supported by a volatility buffer.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sequence-risk.asp
It could bounce back from a reflective surface somehow and hit a cockpit or cabin window, though you'd need to be flying really low or at an unreasonably steep angle to be concerned about that. They're probably just trying to cover all possible bases though.
>Median income households need to retire too. What’s your solution for them if not pensions.

The government redistributing wealth, i.e. Social Security. A federal defined benefit pension plan, if you will. And if it were up to me, I would take it even further and make it universal basic income.

> Pensions are supposed to legally outlast employers. Judicial failure to enforce that is evidence of a corrupt and politicized judicial branch that is actively waging class war against those with lower economic status.

Decades and decades of evidence indicate that the system does not work. But more importantly, automation and technology have obviated employer sponsored defined benefit pensions.

There is no value add from having employers in the middle of the wealth transfer chain. It is just extra paperwork and overhead and chances for corruption.

The pension funds invest in the same place as everyone else, the stock and real estate market. And then the government comes and bails out asset owners time and time again, so that the pension recipients get bailed out. But then why not hand the pension recipients the cash directly?
There are lots of viruses that persist forever. You can get chickenpox as a kid then die of shingles as a retiree. Measles might give you only mild symptoms then 6-15 years after reactivate and cause Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a fatal brain inflammation with all the interesting symptoms that implies (starting out with mood swings progressing into dementia, muscle spasms and blindness).

Think of this the next time some brain dead person starts talking about the "unknown long term effects of the vaccine" - we know what has long term effects, and it's freaking live viruses!
Blu-ray 1080p movies tend to be around 35-45GB per title. 4k movies tend to be around 70-100GB per title.

The disc capacity contributes a lot to disc authors tweaking codec settings to value quality above file size. Visible artifacts are fairly rare even on complex scenes. You could practically believe you're watching a lossless source.
The great ones also just leave themselves, rather than suffering the toxic culture on two fronts.
Translating lava lamps pictures into encryption keys
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1737161 seems to be where they are working on it.

Edit:
At least... I'm guessing. Regrettably the details of the bug is linking back to some internal atlassian mozilla seems to be keeping. Same with related bugs.

This is a little surprising to me, since all of mozilla's development tracking used to be on bugzilla. I hope this isn't a move to something more like Safari or Microsoft where issues vanish into an internal system with external updates ignored.
This sounds like one of those "bible code" things.

As someone who knows nothing about DNA sequences, what is the probability that two codes could be matched? (In a birthday paradox sense where you can go looking anywhere)
An interesting talk about someone who was able to reverse a lot of her MS symptoms with a change in diet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc
Kinda puts 9 months needed to get to Mars into an interesting perspective.

Is there a "fast fix" for treating anemia? Because if humans do get there and land on a surface, this will probably be required.
I think that's the rub; the VR industry is running into a similar issue that the Headphones industry has long dealt with, the reality of different body dimensions. 1 isn't an issue for me thanks to an improved strap, 2 isn't an issue due to, I think, my move to a rubber face wrap, 3 again was fixed with a new strap (though it just comes up onto my forehead rather than tilting), but 4 is the hell that I cannot think of an answer for. I may not have the issue, and maybe that's due to my prescription inserts or maybe it's due to the particular shape to my skull.
Why wouldn't you list vax mandates and general covid policies as responses?
I'm feeling like we're in a Cyberpunk universe, everyone will soon go around fully armed :)
Agreed. Ideally it would be up to 2% of related product revenue up to $500K per year or whatever so there was some kind of fallback cap or similar.
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One of the good things that I think happened from the pandemic is that more and more people are realizing that tying up your identity and sense of self-worth in your job is a bad thing, that's why I'm very glad to see compensation so high on this list.

Sure, everyone wants to work in a good working environment, but I think the idea that "nobody left because of the money" is finally being put to bed.

The fact is that corporations and VCs have always realized that business is primarily just about the money, and their ability to get people to work for their "passion" has resulted in people getting underpaid. I'm always especially amused when people are expected to have "passion" when they're working at like a bank or an insurance company.

You work to make money. There are plenty of opportunities for hobbies and volunteering for passions. I'm not saying you shouldn't enjoy what you do at work, but don't lose sight of why someone is paying you to do it.
"Please turn off all cell phones and other electronic devices, including energy weapons."
It will definitely get FedEx a discount on their reinsurance policy for freight service.

Picturing myself signing up for State Farm renter's insurance in a place like Portland, Oregon:

"Does your apartment building have a system-wide fire alarm? A barbed wire fence? A SAM site?"

What 80's futuristic action movie is all of this from?
Give it long enough and something irrational will just become rational. Especially when people have only ever experienced the irrational.
It can be more than just golden handcuffs. If you stay at a place for 4+ years you hopefully have a lot of clout and connections. That kind of situation can get pretty comfy.

Starting all over again kinda sucks. The older I get the less I look forward to doing the hustle to gain cred in new orgs.
I wonder with copilot would you just say "new function called" and it would make your block statement.
Real Artificial Gravity for SpaceX’s Starship (2019)
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There are collation changes between utf8 and utf8mb4. Specifically, utf8mb4 uses the (much better) UCA 9.0 algorithm.

But this implies that all indexes will have to be regenerated, if they contain a column that is utf8 and will be converted. As they sort differently, this requires rebuilding the index from scratch. Depending on data size this can take measurable time and effort.
Wireguard is performant, tailscale makes it convenient
I outlined my rationale for a 1-year sabbatical [1] in this blog post: https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue

[1] It'll probably end up being 8-9 months
That's fine. We absolutely need benchmarks comparing native x86 performance against virtualized performance thru Rosetta 2. A lot of code isn't getting re-compiled for arm anytime soon.

All I'm saying is this article is clickbait because it frames these comparisons in the dumbest way possible as if to say 1 processor is better than the other, with no explanation that these are not 1-to-1 comparisons. It is a complete lie by omission.
I grafted an electric power steering unit into my 240z. It was well worth it, the low speed maneuverability is way easier. I just need to figure out a way to use a speed sensor that will reduce the assist input at speeds higher than 10mph, this should give me the regular rack feeling back in the car.

It feel sketch to drive with a steering column that you put together yourself lmao.
I guess you could negate the outcome of this?

-> Leaving because of not learning stuff, Staying because of learning new stuff
-> Bad compensation, good/sufficient compensation ..

Although I imagine there could be less positive reasons:

* Few job opportunities / ..
> Resolving all these pointless dependencies has eaten up a lot more of my review time than you might imagine. (I’m leaving out all the times I accidentally visited the wrong libraries because they used some combination of “js” and “ethereum” and “cryptography” and just Googling is risky here.)
'Jump to definition' is a handy feature of Intellisense …albeit with a horrible default hotkey F12 (?)
And there are some plugins that can make it even better: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?term=Go%20to%20d...

Building the extension and running with breakpoints would maybe have been an easier way to follow the rabbit hole too
Why not? It's a loss to humanity's progress if all researchers make it difficult to find the code and data.
Yes! I find all of academia to have the same broken teaching method. Connect what you're teaching me to something tangible that I can relate to!
And I would suppose it will drive more citations. Which is a plus!
Yes when you read it in full without skimming. But when you put so many modifiers on a given predicate, it’s easy for the human mind to skip the one that changes the context. Another way to get might be “FedEx proposes defense against heat-seeking missiles”, where defense can get separated out. I’m sure even better writers could find a way that simplifies and reduces likelihood for comprehension error.
The poll should have an "I'm staying" option.
I can't help but marvel at how terrible the OpSec on display is here.

Hoards of cash in drawers and bags?

Open laptops with logged in crypto accounts?

Maybe they only showed the few dummies on the team that didn't follow protocol, but all it takes is one idiot to ruin the whole "teamwork" vibe...
> The art and the stories come first

Yes, this can't be emphasized enough. I mentioned inclusivity to weave a narrative, and although one could argue that more recent characters like Luca are more of the checkbox-ticking variety, generally speaking the character cast of Monica's cartoons is mind-bogglingly diverse, far beyond "wokeness" lines. There's Chico Bento (a hillbilly boy living in a farm) and his gang, there's Papa-capim (a Guarani boy living in the rainforest) and his gang, there's Piteco (a pre-historic man) and his friends, Bidu (a blue dog) and friends, Penadinho (a ghost) and friends, Austronauta (a spaceman), Rolo/Tina (young adults), Capitao Feio (an anti-hero), Horacio (a vegetarian t-rex), Louco (a literally insane guy) and the list goes on.

In a single edition, you could go from one story about a dog talking to a rock (yes, the rock is a recurring character), to another about the grim reaper bringing people to the afterlife (yes, she's a recurring character too), to one about Magali's gluttony vs Dudu's aversion to food. There's so much going on in the cartoon's universe that it's hard to do it justice with just a short comment on HN.
The task is deceivingly simple.

You have a file and a bunch of memory and you need to make sure data is being moved from file to memory when needed and from memory to file when needed.

mmap() is one algorithm to do it, and the idea is that it is not necessarily the best one.

Knowing more about your data and application and needs should theoretically enable you to design an algorithm that will be more efficient at moving data back and forth.
I'm not really clear on why people are surprised about these thefts. Isn't train robbery a western film trope? Maybe we've culturally forgotten trains, but they're the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell. Train chicanery was even an integral part of the civil war.
By existing, you have agreed to the terms and conditions.
Yeah, that's why I wrote documenting, not recording. If it can't be accessed after the fact, I don't think you can consider it documentation.
Loved that part:
"Because the lava lamp wall is in the busy lobby of the Cloudflare headquarters, this happens all the time. People come and go in the lobby, walking by or stopping to talk in front of the lamps. Such obstructions become part of the randomness that the camera captures, so people partially blocking the camera's view of the lava lamps actually helps generate entropy."
i want to try the 400z.
That is a really interesting thought.

To me, this:
> desperately running from some profound dislike of themselves

sounds awfully close to a human universal. The folks in the article are literally running from the ordinary and I think part of what author is getting at here:

> To see someone, anyone, in this world is to witness someone engaged in a feat of endurance.

are the similarities they saw in the outlandish act of running around a city block for 52 days, 18 hours a day, and the ordinary experience of being alive and how the one illumines our understanding of the other.
Who advocated taking horse tranquilizer?
Back of the napkin calculation for electric oven/ac unit/clothes dryer (30 amp breaker @ 240v)

24A @ 240v = 5760w

5760w / 12v = 480A

A wire size calculator is telling me that would require #800kcmil size wire, which is over an inch in diameter, and it’s also an uncommon size. You could parallel 4 smaller conductors, but they’ll still be far larger than the #8 conductors you would use for 240v.

So no, 12v house power isn’t feasible. It’s far cheaper to manufacture low power transformers to convert 120v AC to 12/24v DC.
Even doctors are mostly exempt from medical misinformation, and Google isn't a doctor.
Basically, the safety analysis will have to show that it the risk to people on-board is mitigated. Ways the risk can be realized are basically by reflection -- even secondary and tertiary reflections of infrared lasers can be dangerous, since the beam energy is quite high and the blink reflex isn't triggered. Concerns would be things like glancing reflections off water, reflections off buildings, etc. Posssible mitigations would include having an independent monitoring system disable the laser if it would intersect the ground (likely required to mitigate hazards to people on the ground anyway), IR notch filters on the windscreens to prevent reflections from entering the cockpit (or laser safety glasses required in situations where it may be used), etc. This is generally the aviation mindset -- a rigorous exploration of what can go wrong (and sometimes, the answer is "not much", but even that needs to be considered and quantified) with multiple layers of mitigation to get the risk to acceptable levels.
This.

Employer might not have even known quitting was on the table if there is only a hint. Be bold and direct to reduce miscommunication and you'll be the one standing with integrity.
You have me hooked! Don't you think starting (some) development in parallel with the planning is a way to reveal some of the faulty assumptions as such early on? Isn't that preferable to discover that later?
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