skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember pre-covid thinking that the CDC was the only federal agency that had its stuff together, but early on in COVID they really came off as inept. They failed to stockpile PPE (masks and such) or even make provisions for procuring the same. Then they told us masks don't work (as you noted) before eventually flipping on that position. Then they bungled the tests (instead of going with the WHO test like the rest of the world, CDC rolled its own which didn't work and was much less efficient to process).

Still, I don't share the distrust of a lot of folks regarding their policies and decisions over the last year or so. I think they're probably making reasonable calls for the available evidence even if hindsight eventually proves them wrong. To the extent their critics are correct, I think most will have arrived at their conclusions as a matter of luck (e.g., someone who knows nothing of virology happens to hear some study or other that hints that the CDC may be wrong and bases their entire worldview on that study without any awareness of the counter evidence).
If there is, the thing your bike is locked to wont.
Not about the Tesla issue, but telemetry isn’t the issue here. Bad goaling and not being context aware is the issue.

For the type of situation that you mentioned, it’s common to design counter metrics or context dependent metrics. Define the “really important” situation, see how often people can use the necessary button in that time. Define your goals based on that ratio and you are on the right track.

The thing is, interfaces are limited. I think there’s a reasonable discussion around how important different features are, especially when they are rarely used in general.

Again, I’m not too familiar with Tesla, and it sounds like they made choices different than you think they should. But it’s not the approach that is the problem - setting bad goals or bad strategies is at issue.
Chick-fil-a only hires upper middle class kids whose wages don't actually impact their quality of life. If you look at reported wages, they don't pay better than other fast food restaurants in the same areas.
How the hell is it that product managers have the kind of free/unsupervised time to meander around learning this bit of technology and that while the actual developers are expected to account for every minute they spend in the time-tracking tool two weeks in advance, every two-week period?
> Undoubtedly, Nadella has been an exceptional CEO.

> With the right strategy and execution, Microsoft can become the first $10T company.What would I do if I were running the company?

I guess unfortunately they don't have OP has a CEO
How do you protect science from idiots? Is science going to stop working if some people think that bacon cures cancer?
actual "27" is very old standard you might see such as if you discover an unused road bike from the early 1980s deep in somebody's garage. It's quite rare these days.

27.5 is used for mountain bikes so the rim profile and tire widths are a completely different thing than old "27"
mc supports multi rename, for example try rename `*.foo` to `*.bar`.
Conspiracy theories aside, there are free non-US based ACME providers too.
Yeah I remember 20 years ago not knowing how to screenshot, but to be fair it wasn't exactly obvious that the Print Screen button meant Screenshot, and I don't remember anything in Windows telling me what the Print Screen button did.
But now the Snipping Tool is moderately obvious I think.
Exactly,slack is the space give to each car if the train to move before the next car has to. Starting cars rolling is the most energy expenssive thing the motive power has to do. So once you take the slack out on a single car it's pretty cheap to keep it rolling (Issac Newton to the rescue!) - then on to the next car. So a train starts rolling one car at a time as the slack gets taken out. Crazy efficent.
Psychology is inherently a part of this. As other commenters upthread mention they calculate things in terms of relative security and "it will take X time to break my lock, but 1/5 or less X time to break the lock next to mine." But that neglects the perceived value of the secured asset. If your bike is worth quite a bit more than the poorly locked bike next to it, it can be worth the extra effort and risk of stealing it. Similarly for storage units, if a thief has unimpeded access to the place and only has time to try one or a handful of units, the unit with the beefy lock probably indicates more valuable stuff inside than the unit with a normal looking lock.
Round1 runs real arcades in the US, but seems to fund them with ticket machines that are basically gambling.
Is Lisp Works compliant CL, such that any CL written in their IDE will work with SBCL too?
Right. Why do we care so much if everyone agrees?
I remember reading Marshall Brain's 'Manna' in the early 00's... sounds like the algorithmic overloads from Burger-G are here

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
Having 3 hours of overlap during the regular work day is going to be much easier than no overlap during the normal work day and people having to work early/late for meetings.
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No, it’s that the average person cannot make decisions about complex subjects.

This is not a new development: the boundaries of scientific knowledge - across all fields - have required a large amount of specialization for a while now. The barrier to entry is a PhD, and even then you’re only an expert in a small part of your field.

If you suddenly decide to jump in without context and make judgements about topics you are not qualified to talk about all while ignoring the state of the art, can you really expect others to take you seriously?

I think the real cancer is the rapid rise of distrust of subject matter experts.
Having a friendly face to bend the rules creates a breeding ground for iniquity. We can’t have both - and the current direction seems to be to prefer reducing inequalities, rather than having people help break the rules for others that they like.
Good questions. But the data doesn't back up your conclusion.

You can point at other countries, you can bring up anecdotes, but the overall trends in the US do not match what you're saying. We're still in a scenario where crime rates seem to be decoupled from protest/decriminalization rates, and where store closure rates across the country don't line up neatly with areas that have decreased policing/prosecution strategies.

It doesn't matter how logical your theory seems when written down if it doesn't hold true in the real world. You can bring up any argument or example you like, but I'm still going to keep asking you about that broader trend. Either there is a component to this that you are missing that overrides the effect you would expect to see -- or the causal effect isn't there. But unless you're going to claim that the data is wrong, one of those things has to be the case or else we would see a strong correlation between economic health of cities and whether or not they changed police/prosecution strategies, and we don't. As best as we can see, stuff like homicides are rising in every city, and every city is struggling with store closures regardless of what they've done recently with their police forces.
More commonly known as survivorship bias.
I don't. My point is that we should always be aware of the financiers behind any piece of research, prescribed solution, etc. and teach people to think critically about this.
Language barrier would be something that you could filter on within 15 minutes of recruiter screen talking with the candidate.
For the last time, yes it is inherently less secure. You gain root access by disabling/weakening the OS' built-in protections against root access.

> If you can't proceed with a normal life after you root you phone you are NOT free to do so but instead get punished when doing so.

Freedom to root doesn't mean freedom from the consequences of rooting. Banking apps are hardly necessary for a normal life, and neither is rooting.
If you successfully request a chargeback, they will almost certainly ban you from using their services forever. It’s usually in their T&Cs.
I don't think it's so easy to automate. More likely we'll make it a community-collaborative feature.
And it carte blanch refuses to work in lynx or links too, even if the site behind an SSO login would work perfectly. Bah.
They hand those out because public bathrooms don't have any way to dry your hands.
I think I get what you're saying and there's merit to it. However, it appears to me that you are arguing against something the submission doesn't say. If I were you I would reread it carefully and without prejudice, because based on your comments here I believe that you would enjoy learning the concepts it's presenting.
> Along the way, everyone knew and when people tried to bring up concerns higher ups in the institution suppressed the knowledge.

As you are doing here. I don't see a name or any specifics anywhere in your comment. Of course not including any names or specifics also means you could be making it up for a good story. We have no way of knowing.
People work for Amazon from age 5 until they die? If you're going to be pedantic about a hyperbolic figure of speech, at least think it through first.
It seems there's debate on whether it can cross the blood brain barrier, with Wikipedia suggesting inhalation as the likely method of acquisition.

Which I presume means an upper sinus route directly to the brain, like with brain-eating amoeba.
Actually, the WWII example is Survivorship bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_the_milit...
I asked my teams UX designer what he thought about Tesla's change. He told me a story about how he tried to pull a similar stunt for his client, he thought it would improve the "sleakness" or some shit. He got fired...

This guy should too.
Embrace the ambiguity. People argue what it means for something to be a sandwich as well, and "tech debt" is just a tad more ambiguous. But as a metaphor and concept, it seems to be quite sticky and we've been talking about it for thirty years now, so I think people find it useful despite the ambiguity.

I recently explained tech debt to my 17 year old son, who is very interested in programming. It was difficult to come up with a crisp definition that captured what I mean by tech debt, but it was a good conversation.
This is not just limited to Telsa these days. Virtually all application / operating systems developers have become infected with the "let's change the user interface" disease. A long time ago, it was pretty much bog standard for all applications to have menus up at the top of the screen. Letters were underlined to indicate the keyboard shortcut, as keyboard users were still considered to be a significant part of the common use-case.

These days I'm lucky if there are keyboard short cuts for half of the functionality an application has. I'm now forced to stare at icons that don't give me a visual hint for what the keyboard shortcut might be. My iPhone expects me to know about brand new unguessable gestures just because I was forced to upgrade from a perfectly fine iPhone SE to a 12 because the screen died. An iOS update last night made my streaming music app stop working when the screen is locked and I had to infer what settings to change because all the help entries on the topic were for when settings were in different places.

I wish discoverability of user interfaces was still a thing, but clearly I am deemed to be in the unworthy of consideration minority. It's sad that things have gone so far backwards over the past 20 years that younger people don't even know what they're missing.
California's lemon law requires a car to be in service for at least 30 days in the first 18 months if the problem does not affect the drivetrain.
No need for shame!

"He did not wait for students to come to him; he made inquiry for promising youthful collectors, and when he heard of one, he wrote, inviting and urging him to come. Thus there is hardly one now of the American naturalists of my generation whom Agassiz did not train." - William James, Louis Agassiz, 1896.

https://archive.org/details/memoriesandstud02jamegoog/page/n...
Let me ask that same question from the other direction:

If you're a (reasonably proficient) C programmer, is learning to use Python worth the effort? Or is it just redundant education?

I can see that learning Python is probably worth it for a new programmer, but is it worth it for a proficient C programmer?

[Let the flame wars begin!]
Just today, I deleted a directory called --process in my home. Most likely, I just forgot a -- or otherwise messed up a command. We'll see if it comes back!
There's that, and there's the fact that once you show up to the meeting it's basically open season for anyone with eyeballs to give their hot takes about design as well.

At least in a restaurant, there's not a line of people who've just finished your food who are about to tell you how you should actually cook it.
"Scientific misinformation" is such an incredible example of Newspeak.
Yes, absolutely this.

I don't think many people outside of academia truly understand how much scientific research has degraded over the years.

There are an extremely small number of fields in which the overall quality is still quite high (mathematics, etc.) but overwhelmingly the social sciences, medical science, etc. are wastelands of p-hacked, low-N, biased, poorly designed studies that can't be replicated (not to mention the outright frauds and absolutely rampant plagiarism).

Every intelligent person should be deeply, deeply skeptical of papers published in particular fields over the last ~20 years.
Anecdotally, I've never used or seen anyone use a pure NxN grid. It's always a series of horizontal or vertical splits (a tree).

I'll admit that this being Rust is likely the cause, but this is a simple binary tree. There's no need for backpointers or any troublesome algorithms or anything.

It's just a tad annoying that Rust pushes people towards crappy solutions by making the better solution _spooky and dangerous_ when said solution doesn't even involve the _spooky and dangerous_ `unsafe` keyword.
Mercedes EQA.
It’s not all fallback: it’s getting in the way of the actual fallback monospace/sans-serif/serif. The cargo-culting nature of this means that there tend to be one or two bad fonts in there, and sometimes some systems will have bad fonts aliased to otherwise good names (e.g. that’s why I say “don’t write Courier”, because although it’s fine on macOS and probably aliased to something reasonable on Linux platforms, Windows aliases Courier to Courier New, which is a terrible font).

I don’t want your idea of a suitable font, in general, because the default defaults (that is, the browser’s default value for sans-serif) are thoroughly good enough, and I changed my defaults, and by writing the likes of `…, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif`, you didn’t change anything for most people, but prevented me from getting my chosen default sans-serif.

Long font stacks are fighting a fundamentally unwinnable battle with small potential benefits, high uncertainty, and definite costs (normally mild) to people that actually expressed preferences to their user agent.
Email is pretty important. You really think a company would pay for Office suite, Notion and Gsuite? You are insane.

And CAL is not used for Office 365 sweeite
That's a pretty hard analysis to make. You'd have to compare people that 1) wanted to get vaccinated and 2) _could_ have been vaccinated if they were in the US instead of Europe and 3) died from COVID during the 2 month delay and see how many lives were saved. My uninformed guess just eyeballing the historical death graphs and vaccine rollout is probably low 5 figures range.
My take would be that precisely because we've democratized science there is now such a thing as a political preference on scientific matters. Which shouldn't exist, because science should not be in the business of adjudicating political preferences. And we now often have the worst of both worlds. Politicized scientists and a pseudo-scientific public.

discourse about values in regards to covid or climate is sensible. Do you want more freedom, more safety, fewer deaths, more economic growth? That's something every person has a meaningful position on. The safety of mrna vaccines? That's not a layman's question, and these factual technical questions are where misinformation enters the picture.

And the twisted thing about the debate is that saying this often creates accusations of elitism. But really, if scientific literacy is required to have coherent political preferences, what does that say about the right of participation of people in a democracy who are simply not educated or smart enough?
The amount of resources available to spend on research is finite. Distribution of limited resources is politics.

Historically, scientists either were well-off and independent (e.g. Ulug beg, Newton, Cavendish), or worked at the expense of very rich personal patrons (e.g. Tycho). This limited the number of potential scientists, and the amount of science done, quite drastically.

In 18th-20th centuries it was somehow overcome, when partly states, partly industries gave more scientists more resources. By mid-20th century, the system started to develop cracks, as science became increasingly driven by formal metrics, such as impactful publications. The metrics are actively gamed, but worse, since science is unpredictable, honestly checking everything and building a picture of reality became a worse strategy than going for a flashy if more weakly researched result.

I don't know a good way out of the current trap.
Abrasives always win[1]. Always. The best you can hope for is to make the abrasive less efficient.

[1] https://www.tripsavvy.com/thmb/TUF10GAAaTV8l7NkWB5bXkZTQe8=/...
The efficiency of a truck combined with the flexibility of a train. Perfect.
That's what locals are, the last mile (or hundred mile) trains that get made up out of cars that have moved long distances already. Railroads hate thise trains. The money is in unit trains, all one commodity going from one place to one other place over a very long distance - the exact opposite profile of locals. Railroads started making this transition in the 60s and 70s as they shed branches and secondary mains and excellerated into the 80s and 90s by spining off shortlines that would focus on local traffic.
To be fair, cars normally don't "need" a backup camera, it is only really essential in bigger bulkier vehicles like trucks and SUVs.
I’d bet almost everyone who uses Instagram and/or Facebook has stories like that. It’s crazy how poor of a UX choice it is, and I imagine Facebook did it this way only because they’re so bad at spam prevention.
I think Chuck E. Cheese still has lots of locations.

GameWorks seems to have been a casualty of the pandemic, sadly.

Hopefully arcades (and not just barcades) will resurge a bit as the pandemic recedes.
No, but science won't have the opportunity to work when people are passing up vaccines for invermectin.
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Machines should work, and people should think while laying about leisurely.
The rivian generally seems very neat but even they started going down this road. If you want to adjust the directions of your vents, it through the touch screen
If decreasing crime decreases inequality, why did inequality rise while crime fell? Hypotheticals aside, something is clearly going on here that you are not accounting for.

> For example, if you would be paid $12,000 for a job, and $10,000 for not working, which would you select? Would your standard of living be higher or lower?

It's an interesting theory, but the problem with this explanation is that pandemic checks are too recent. Inequality trends were visible before 2019.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I think you're misrepresenting the first group.
The natural sciences offer a unique opportunity for an individual to change the world on their own. Institutions and peer review exist only to verify that the individual offered the best new model of the world.

Academia has been taken over by an advanced persistent threat of social sciences that are all completely corrupted. That corruption infects and touches every aspect of the academic's life cycle these days. Funding determines most research and doubley so the conclusions. The infection politicizes everything and rewards those who use scientific branding to support the establishment.
That's fine if the rules are applied everywhere, but the reality is that everything - even rules - are for sale. If there is a powerful controlling class that writes the rules that apply to the oi polloi but not themselves, how will you achieve equity?
Touch isn’t about design or fashion so much as it’s a cheap way of not having to design or assemble any physical interface at all. A full set of physical switches is a huge amount of cabling, switches that can break, a lot of assembly time.

Want to add a button only available on the 4WD model? Then you have to have a blank dummy button on all other models, or two designs. Want to add/remove buttons on the next model year? Adds a grand to the cost of the car and the physical layout must be done 6 months before production starts.

Touch solves all of these problems. It’s super quick to install. Easy to adapt to different models and between years. Few things that can break.

The downside? Useless when driving. Tesla easily accepts this tradeoff, and will likely continue to do so.
I think there is a bug in your program.

`1,1,2,3,5` gets the result "No Solution" whereas `1,1,2,3,5,8` correctly guesses the pattern. Its just a linear recurrence with j=2 which means you get 2 data points to guess the relation and 1 to confirm.
My everyday beater is a Thinkpad x250. Small, ligth, not exactly top of the line, but works for most aplications. Only thing I suffer is running Android studio in it.
I think you aren’t leaving any room for scientists to be mistaken, which is an essential part of the process. In fact, it’s impossible to prove you’re correct in science, only to falsify a statement.

Your claims have merit, but they’re stretched slightly too far. The best work is done among the chaos. And doing stellar work is often a lot more chaotic than it appears in camera-ready papers.
> The issue that plagues us is a lack of trust in long-standing societal authorities

Yeah, because there's no rational basis to continue to afford them that trust. You're describing the symptom, not the disease.
I haven’t ever encountered that, and would expect the limit to be rather long (certainly no less than 32 elements, probably far longer) if there is such a limit. What there is is whitelisting, only exposing certain fonts in order to reduce font list fingerprinting: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1121643.
Much of this was told to me in confidence (via their lab-mates, etc) I’m not going to betray their trust.
It upsets me that we've ceded control of a nontrivial part of our lives to a bunch of opaque risk scoring algorithms. No one knows how they work and even if they did they couldn't tell you because that could "help the bad guys". My mom just called me the other day and told me she got locked out of her Google account after trying to reset her password. Who knows what tripwire she accidentally walked into (maybe has to do with the fact that it's a big household that probably has 10 Google accounts on the same IP address). You can find it in a bunch of other places too. Discord will give you vague error messages when you try to sign up with a VOIP number that magically go away when you use a regular number. "Card processing error" when you use a prepaid card. Of course ReCaptcha won't even let you fill out a form if you have an IP address that has ever been associated with known undesirables.