skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the point.

So first, not all science requires an RCT. Dividing expiremental subjects into study and control groups is one way of doing science. It's not the only way.

In this case, this is a concrete demonstration of just how much variance can emerge from a "statistically neutral" process. The systemic flaws are part of the demonstration. What appear at first glance to be identical tools, inputs, and processes are in fact subtly different. The demo shows management types that their charts and graphs cannot always be relied upon to differentiate performance levels among staff. The system itself must also be scrutinized. If Bob's ad campaigns are outperforming Alice's by 20% in the first quarter, it doesn't necessarily mean Bob is a marketing genius and Alice needs a PIP.

A computer simulation would not have nearly as powerful effect on most people as a live demonstration using real beads. And the imperfections in the paddles is something that naturally arises when they're physically made, but would have to be tuned by the programmer building the simulation. Which would lead to questions about "just how did they decide what variances would come into play?"
> making things artificially more expensive for iOS users

Do you have examples of software that costs more on iOS than elsewhere?
Also effects human sleep cycles.
Where Amazon's first 21 employees are now (2020)
I don't agree with you but that was a good, honest answer which I can respect.
Making Shared Libraries with Go – Versioned Symbols
Students should have some advisor at the university that cares about them, that they meet with regularly. In the absence of that mental health counselors do help, but only if they are accessible to students who need them.
I have very different experiences:

At my workplace we're using Go with Lambda and Fargate for several mid-size and one large application. The costs (image storage, transfer ...) you're referring to are actually almost neglectable. Aurora is by far the largest in our stack.

On the other hand: Creating WASM is a big pain. I understand that Cloudflare and others promote it for their own business reasons, but from a developer/customer point of view docker or lambda are much more robust and simple.
> Yeah, if you don't like the fee, just make your own phone hardware, your own processor, your own screens, your own OS..

no, you just need a webapp.
That's why I put "trolls" in quotes. The amount of people who self-sort themselves into echo chambers is far more than the people who would freely admit they want to be in an echo chamber.
Yes Next, Nest, Sails, Gatsby, Blitz, Redwood - none of them became a leading framework like Django or Rails or Laravel has, which means being a Node developer and moving between companies or projects you'll probably relearn everything in a different framework.
For me this is just to chaotic and unstable.
It doesn't even make sense because it ignores the fact that we literally cannot reduce our personal footprints to a level that would prevent significant climate change.

There is no sustainable level of emissions. In order for me to reach net zero I'd have to sell my house, car, give up all of the food that I eat (yes - all of it - my oat milk has a nonzero footprint that is not capturable), etc.

The only actual solution is to institute a carbon tax so that we develop technological solutions to all of these problems.

Basically, you can't choose to go net zero as an individual.
>Still. why did this inner eye spawn in this head we are in? There are 8 billion heads, why this one?

I get what you are saying, but honestly that question doesn't make sense. You are this one because that is how your brain developed.. just like you physically look how you are because of how your body developed. To say "why am I how I am" to me is no different than "why do I look this way?"

>Can it be explained physically?

Well.. if I smash you in the head with a hammer, your "consciousness" would most likely be affected because I damaged your brain, right? Seems pretty straightforward that we can indirectly say that yes it can be explained physically. We may not be able to explain the details.. but seems like we can say it's just simply what our brain evolved to do. Just like how our physical looks evolved for various reasons / chance.
Just adding to the discussion:

I find this comment from Griesemer [0] on one of the github issues for enums in Golang quite insightful:

>> [...] all the proposals on enums I've seen so far, including this one, mix way too many things together in my mind. [...] Instead, I suggest that we try to address these (the enum) properties individually. If we had a mechanism in the language for immutable values (a big "if"), and a mechanism to concisely define new values (more on that below), than an "enum" is simply a mechanism to lump together a list of values of a given type such that the compiler can do compile-time validation.

Like with generics, I like the team's approach of taking features seriously, not adding them just because other languages have them, but actually trying to figure out a way for them to work in Go, as cleanly as possible. I think computer science, as a field, benefits from this approach.

And I also dislike many things from Go, and I want "enums" badly too, but that's for another comment.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/28987#issuecomment-49679...
I understand that point and it has been a hypothetical situation that has been debated for years, and is only now getting closer to (possibly) becoming true. I think fears of it are overblown, as I have discussed elsewhere, because it both portrays Apple as helpless and portrays those scummy operators as being all-powerful. It also underestimates user resistance towards having to deal with more app stores that they wouldn't want to, and also underestimates the potential for smaller indie developers that alternative app stores and alternative payment processors could unlock.

That is my position, and I'd rather discuss it at a different place, but thank you for letting me know where you stand, and now you know where I do.
modulus.io

Back in 2015, I was on the bus crossing Bay Bridge and one my team mates said out site is down. AWS had major issues with infrastructure. I logged in to Modulus on my phone and took down all containers in AWS and brought them up on GCP. Our web app was back and running within a minute. It was intuitive, cheap, and cross cloud providers out of the box. I still can’t find anything close to that.
I was thinking along similar lines yesterday, although it was about patents: how things I value like science and software have benefited much more from collaboration than competition. And yet we have been convinced of the power of greed. Where are the works of these powerful people now? Turned to dust. All this chit chat about impact. Impact is about helping others. If your workplace doesn't encourage you to help your coworkers the best case is that you are building nothing.
If take a look at the begging system you will notice that there are several ways of approaching people to ask for money. My goal is to reflect some part of reality into the game, like intimidating, lying, appealing to the human side...

Anyways, thanks for the feedback
The Raspberry Pi 400 would be a modern day equivalent. It can run PICO-8, which is a fictional emulator that can make very constrained games, Sonic PI which is a live coding musical environment, and I think the Arduino building block software. Plus it can run Node and Python if they get deeper into programming. The computer is built into the keyboard, Commodore style!
I wish they explained how exactly the fact that protons are 5% smaller than previously thought actually affects our current knolwedge. Or it just doesn't?
And let me add to that: How specifically did that suit against a competitor leverage regulations that we should remove?
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I just wanted to thank you for this.

I ‘grew up’ on the YM2612 due to the Genesis being my childhood console.

As a rapper/producer these days - I’m always reaching back there when composing Beats - with the self-imposed limitations included, of course. Some prouducers still prefer an MPC2000 over a DAW.
Parse

(bought by Facebook, shutdown and later open-sourced after major community outcry)
In 2006, MySpace was the most visited website in the United States. Wikipedia cites a couple of sources, and I do recall this being widely reported at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace

Granted, the web was a much smaller place then, in terms of both users and revenue. But still, relative to its time, it was huge.
It’s possible to construct parallel (ish) pipeline processing in bash by using file descriptors above 2. See https://mywiki.wooledge.org/FileDescriptor . It’s part of why I always liked Ruby’s .tap() : https://medium.com/aviabird/ruby-tap-that-method-90c8a801fd6...
This experiment is something he did in classes etc so people could _experience_ the obvious idiocy in trying to manage individuals for system behaviour. His point is that ALL actual work is also dominated by system behaviour, just more subtly, and managers must focus on the systems and not worker performance.
One could choose a better host than Notion, but that's Notion's fault.
They have provided a convenient breakdown for their invoices:

3% payment processing

27% monopoly rent
While PEP/PrEP is not a cure for HIV infection it both prevents AIDS and suppresses HIV so far that patients are no longer infectious. This solution is real, proven and available and is applied in practice right now. The only practical difference between this and a vaccine is that the user has to keep taking medication.
> for about a decade

Oh, they've been complaining at least since I started in the early 90's.
>Jeppesen HOMEY/KXTA airfield/airspace charts

It never occurred to me that these would even publicly exist (unclassified, anyway), let alone that they'd be so complete.
Drew, fwiw, pointed out that Avery Pennarun (who is, frankly, phenomenal at distilling ideas in a given context) was right about a bunch of things except the TLDR.

Though Avery does hint that "output" itself is a function of values/principles execs ought to imbibe in their org:

> What executives need to do is come up with organizational values that indirectly result in the strategy they want.

> That is, if your company makes widgets and one of your values is customer satisfaction, you will probably end up with better widgets of the right sort for your existing customers. If one of your values is to be environmentally friendly, your widget factories will probably pollute less but cost more. If one of your values is to make the tools that run faster and smoother, your employees will probably make less bloatware and you'll probably hire different employees than if your values are to scale fast and capture the most customers in the shortest time.

It remains to be seen if Avery ends up building a larger company than Drew. I'm willing to bet all of $100 in my depleting bank account that they will.
I follow an almost exact opposite flow. If I'm on a site/service that has a subscription, I check if they take in-app subscriptions and use that.

I have no desire to deal with endless dark patterns to get me to not cancel a subscription.
The issue is now you have a potential nil value hanging around in the code with no real reason for its existence. Three refactors and some moving around later and you manage to hit a runtime panic in production.
Yes, and it's insane.
This. Especially with the advent of technologies like WebAssembly, WebGPU, and WebXR, developers can now distribute real-time 3D applications like games universally via the open web, without having to sacrifice 30% to a walled garden.
>I disagree strongly with this. Do you really think, for example, we would have the James Webb telescope if it wasn't for government funded science?

Maybe not. But then again, is this particular example (as opposed to the army-research ones) really an argument? People could have gotten far more pragmatic scientific and technological bang for their tax-buck (as an opportunity cost alternative to the James Webb telescope).

(Of course if one starts with the premises that "our destiny is the stars", and that that's a realistic goal, and also that we don't need to fund on far more pressing earthly things in order to survice mid-term before we manage to even get somewhat close to that destiny, then not having the telescope seems like some huge regression. But those are a lot of premises).
They'd like this over in https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/
My interpretation of the GP's use of 'unique' here isn't specific necessarily to humans, just to conscious beings.

Still, if you take the set H of properties of humans and the set B of the properties of all other Earth creatures, you'll find that H is a proper subset of B. What makes humans 'unique' in the regard you mean isn't kind, but scale and combination.
More expensive as a one-time cost, but managing subscriptions through Apple allows you to pay once for a recurring subscription then cancel and use it for the remainder of the purchase period. Even one unintended renewal will wipe out whatever discount you got from a direct purchase.
I like how they're literally explaining that the actual cost for app payment processing caps out at 3%, and everything they charge on top is just pure profit margin.

Nice one Apple.
CTO of Sysdig discusses the creation of Sysdig and the future of open source
Cool! Anyone have resources on what has changed since then?
Apple allows “free apps” that are entirely ad-supported, never giving Apple a dime (aside from $99/year), yet they are consuming infrastructure: hosting pages, downloads, reviewer time, etc. Why isn’t Apple concerned about any of those costs? Simple: they make overwhelmingly most of their App Store money from the handful of developers that offer purchases. This also leads to perverse outcomes like Apple dragging its feet on scams that make them heaps of money.

Developers are literally subsidizing other developers, and it’s not necessarily the richest ones helping the poorest ones. Someone trying to make money on a $0.99 app is sacrificing more to Apple than Facebook does with their free app.

That’s why I find all these percentage and payment discussions weird: income is so insanely distributed that a lot of this literally does not apply to more than 80% of the stuff on the store. There are fundamental issues that need to be resolved too.
Could you elaborate? What do you learn from a success where everything you did went right? How replicable is a success like that?
Here is a nice list from Google https://killedbygoogle.com/
I randomly found this a while back, and I think it’s slightly simpler and more helpful: How Analogies Work

https://www.youtube.com/embed/n45D_zi3O5g?start=853&end=1450
I finished my CS degree 4 years ago at a state school with an average program. I formed a close relationship with one of the professors and we talked many times how there is pressure from the top to make things easier, to get better graduation rates.

Programming requires a certain individual that likes solving problems and learning. Not everyone is made to program. Currently, software engineers in US are some of the best paid individuals with just a bachelors degree. Frankly, if you are intelligent, can code, and learn math on your own you don't even need one. That kind of money drives more students towards CS programs.

In my programming 101 70% of students did not even attend the final. Then, next programming class was a better with high percentage of students passing. Eventually, when we got to class like theory of computation 80% of people failed to finish.

I met a guy who graduated after trying to obtain his BS in CS for 7 years. He still is not employed in the tech field.
Python is plenty popular and so is C#, and when you're looking at a batteries included full stack framework you have ONE popular choices - Django or .NET. For PHP it's Laravel (sure, you have other options like Symfony but they are niche), for Elixir its Phoenix.
How is it a good thing for Node to have 5-10 competing frameworks that have similar adoption?
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Interesting, why is Nestjs used by so many online casinos? Is that random or is there some specific feature or approach used that is particularly valuable for that use case?
I don't know why every day isn't Vegan day in American prisons.

One might imagine moderately intelligent planning would move food costs even lower than they already are (for example, no meat substitute products, but instead things like bean patties). The management of various religious diets would become much easier as well. The head of the state DOC and the governor could take credit for spearheading a healthy eating initiative that improves the well-being of inmates and reduces recidivism, acts responsibly with taxpayer dollars, safeguards our environment, etc. Bonus points for crops grown locally or by the prison itself.

The latter isn't that uncommon: for example, Valley State Prison and the Central California Women's Facility (very close to one other in Chowchilla) are surrounded by orchards that are partially worked with prison labor, and whose produce goes to the entire state prison system.
Yup. Wish more developers would realize this.
It's still used ... so, no?
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>Methane, by contrast, is mostly removed from the atmosphere by chemical reaction, persisting for about 12 years. Thus although methane is a potent greenhouse gas, its effect is relatively short-lived.

I was off slightly, but not an order of magnitude.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jan/16/greenhou...
Those people are quite wrong. An unstable unit of value like the gold standard makes bans on usury even less meaningful because you can get into deep debt-deflation even with 0% nominal rates (see "liquidity trap" for what that looks like). Investment cycles can be driven purely by equity investment, although there might be an argument that debt-driven cycles are worse. Anyway, the well-known workarounds that spring up when 'usury' is banned - basically ways of rephrasing 'interest-bearing debt' as 'senior equity'- leave you with practically no advantage over simply having well-designed bankruptcy laws.
Scientists reveal what they got wrong during the pandemic
The difference is .04 femtometers and a femtometer is one quadrillionth of a meter.

So, I'll be sitting down for a little while.
Windows doesn't have argv at all, it uses single string as cmdline arguments.
Interested in learning more/working on this. Any reading you recommend beyond the blog post you linked?
What about lougly objecting to a biased interpretation of published scientific findings? Of course that requires critical thinking.
Despite the hyperbole of articles like this, the US still allows a larger total number of immigrants per year than any other nation in the world. Over a million people a year - basically the same as all of western Europe combined:

"In absolute numbers, the United States has a larger immigrant population than any other country, with 47 million immigrants as of 2015. This represents 19.1% of the 244 million international migrants worldwide, and 14.4% of the United States population. ...

According to the 2016 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, the United States admitted a total of 1.18 million legal immigrants (618k new arrivals, 565k status adjustments) in 2016. Of these, 48% were the immediate relatives of United States citizens, 20% were family-sponsored, 13% were refugees or asylum seekers, 12% were employment-based preferences, 4.2% were part of the Diversity Immigrant Visa program..." [1]

That's roughly 3,200 new Americans every day, 365 days a year. 1/5 of the world's migrants come to one country: The USA. I personally think this is something to be proud of. We are still a nation of immigrants and though the Trump administration did try to curtail immigration, the system is still functioning and relatively robust.

Now, what to do about top international talent avoiding the country because of radical right wing politics that demonize immigrants and conservative lawmakers that consistently try to prevent people coming? I think that's a solution with an obvious answer.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_St...
Human eyes have about 25 stops of computational dynamic range (about 7 stop without the stuff the brain does), cameras only win because they can do crazy long exposures and are not continuous video cameras like eyes are.

And camera's photos are at most 14 stops. I look forward to a world one day where digital cameras can do the full 25 stops without all the computational tricks the human brain does, it's going to be cool! Also looking forward to 10 and 12 bit displays to start becoming standard with the HDR push in consumer video. Maybe one day we will get a 25 stop display too!