skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you mute the account, the conversation still happens. So awesome if you dont like a point of view. Terrible if you're gay, female, muslim, or any other hated minority subgroup that gets stalked and slandered on Twitter. If someone is posting slanderous material on Twitter, and you mute it, it isnt a solution. Even if you block it, it barely helps.
High school (in the US) is so easy for gifted students that they barely need even try to earn a 4.0 and be the valedictorian.

Not all kids with good grades go on to do awesome things. But it makes sense that many of the best and brightest, the 'eccentric' ones, happen to have an easy time in school.
I happen to be European but with that said, I also get the feeling that many western European HN-users here seem to fancy the idea of having many small local service providers that have challenges providing anything beyond basic hosting.

And that totally fine, if you think European companies have no competitive disadvantage on the global market to being forced to use traditional VPS providers or build and set up everything themselves. But I imagine it'd be very challenging if other companies outside the EU can go to market faster, deliver better services for lower cost, etc. than their European counterparts because they can use American cloud providers like GCP or AWS.
In the late 80's/early 90's I worked for a tiny company called Alpha Products/Colorware. We built I/O hardware and sold a Color Computer drawing program called CoCoMax. CoCoMax was written by an outside programmer who approached us to see if we wanted to sell it for him. He would go on to make tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties over time. He also designed and sold (on his own) a CoCo3-based Genlocking video manipulator whose name escapes me, but it was well known in the video industry since competitive products cost 10x what his did. I hear that with that product he went from collecting cars to collecting airplanes :-)

The final version of CoCoMax for the Color Computer 3 was such an obvious ripoff of MacPaint that the owner of Alpha sat me down in front of a PC with a photocopied MacPaint manual and said "copy this manual but make it different enough so it's not obvious we copied it." BTW, our word processor was XYWrite if anyone remembers it :-)

We sold analog and digital I/O boards but at that time there was no obvious "winner" out of all the computers on the market. As a result, the company had its own I/O bus that these boards were based on. For each computer -- Apple ][, TRS80, IBM, etc., we sold an adapter that would convert that computer's external bus interface to our proprietary interface. So we had a line of boards with a single interface and you'd select an adapter depending on what computer you had.

By 1990 or so it was obvious that 90% of our customers were using IBM/ISA bus machines, but by keeping with our proprietary bus we actually avoided having to compete too directly with other companies making the same kind of hardware but designed specifically for the ISA bus.

Around 1992, I think, we dropped the "Colorware" part of the name as the TRS80 software had dropped off to a trickle.
There was probably some bias in the selection of the participants. I don't think 50 % of the average male population know "piezoelectricity".
I've bought things I didn't know existed because of push advertising. For example, ads for upcoming movies I didn't know would interest me. Songs I hear on the radio I never heard before and like and want to buy. Tools that make my life easier working on my car that I didn't know existed.
You forgot the square root on distance formula. Distance = square root of ((X1 - X2) ^ 2 + (Y1 - Y2) ^2 + …).

Consider the origin (0,0,0, …) to a random point on the sphere (~0, ~0, ~0, …). So Distance from origin = square root of ((~0-0)^2 + (~0-0)^2 + (~0-0)^2 + … ), which sums to 1 by definition of the unit high dimensional sphere.

Then plug in 1 vs 0 in the first place because we care about (1,0,0,0 …) and you get the correct answer = square root of ((~0-1)^2 + (~0-0)^2 + (~0-0)^2 + … ) ~= square root of 2.

Edited to fix typo and add clarity.
> OP was claiming that any third-party analytics are unacceptable

Don't put words in my mouth. I was not claiming that.

Third-party analytics _that bill themselves "privacy-first"_ are still not what any user would consent to voluntarily, so the "privacy" angle is largely irrelevant. What they should be billing themselves as is "not Google Analytics", which will be factually correct and somewhat relevant.
Not really...

Groovy was never really in the building and is just awful.

Scala is like a reimagining of the building that happened to find the old foundation useful.

Clojure is like a skybridge from the Lisp skyscraper across the way.

Kotlin is the only JVM language that's gained traction while aiming to be Java but better, the rest just happen to use the JVM, but calling them "evolutions" of Java would be deeply misleading.
STRONG agreement! I think if we'd found a way to co-exist with Neanderthals, we'd be faring much better with toeing around the edge of the great filter of Fermi's paradox[1]. The contemporary ability ("contemporary" as far as life history goes) to craft stories about human vs animal/nature has stimulated catastrophic growth and "othering" of nature in really significant way. Every religion and belief system would be affected by having a "bridge" intelligence closer to our own. (Not saying we'd have a history free of shameful treatment though.)

Related: a past comment on article "Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25104373

While recklessly creating new intelligent life is ethically nauseating to me, I also fear the status quo of NOT needing to consider these dilemmas. In my mind it's a clash between my visceral horror (of creating an intelligent being that is not human) vs a very real fear of global human extinction (of continuing on our destructive track without hard, global-scale conversations about our relationship/responsibility/entanglement with animals and other forms of life)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Great_Filter
Heat waves hit the poorest people hardest
Well with France making it illegal to use Google analytics, I expect many more websites to move forward with forcing you to login. They force you to have an account, which makes you agree to them tracking you, and they'll use you being logged in to track that. When they can use third party analytics it's not as important, but still obviously a plus to them to have people have an account.
There are AWS and Azure regions in France.

GCP should open one early 2022.
New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
The things is that markets adapt but lag behind. For a while the old prices are still in place while the money is being printed. Then, slowly, the market "notices" that the amount of money increased so the prices readjust. While the prices readjust - everything becomes more expensive. Your haircut is more expensive - so the hair stylists salary catches up. Your bread becomes more expensive so the farmers that produce flour also have their salaries catch up. Everything eventually catches up, except for the amounts of money that were allocated to savings.
Wouldn't most billionaires have most of their money in real estate and the stock market (e.g. with index funds or hedge funds or something of that ilk)? It probably was especially true in 2020, when it was so cheap to get into the stock market and the bailouts made it seem like inflation was inevitable [1].

I would think that most poorer people don't have stock portfolios filled with DIA or QQQ shares; the poorer people are much more likely to have a savings account, and inflation will probably hurt them.

[1] My parents made almost $100k by buying VOO shares at almost exactly the right time in 2020.
It is amazing how little things like that make a difference. It's a very popular feature with D.
It's not convincing if you look at it through the lense of a one-off cartesian hypothetical. But that is not a systematic understanding of what advertising is that makes clear the underlying interests and incentives that drive the process.

It's a process that by its nature perpetually transforming in the never ending race to compete for your attention, and the "bad stuff" is a reflection of the interests and incentives essential to the nature of what advertising is.
Can anyone help me understand a seemingly dumb investment choice I made in light of this? I put some money into the Schwabs TIPS ETF (SCHP), back in December. For the most part it's been a minor loser. Even today as the inflation rhetoric picks up the price is down 0.5%. Is it because people bought expecting inflation to be even higher? Or is there some lag or some underlying treasury thing going on.
The proportion of the risk premium paid by poor people to the total total interest rate decreases with higher risk free interest rates.
The whole point of inflation is to keep people from storing money under the mattress.

Savings are to be invested. If investments can’t beat inflation then you have a shrinking economy and no amount of deflation is going to get the wheels turning again.

It’s not that Keynesian economists don’t understand that inflation is a tax on money, it’s that they see the purpose and reason for inflation from a completely different angle than, say, Austrian economists.
Tinder Brings Back the Blind Date with New In-App Experience
I think you are underestimating the effort required to produce an suite of office products.

Libre office is a third option, but does it have much usage? Why or why not?

Could you sustain a development team capable of creating this with a limited market and revenue stream?
Ideally SMS first and then MMS would be free secure protocols with nice to use tools and no cost to use and everybody would use them. However they are not and most Europeans left SMS in the 2000s for instant messaging because of costs. Then we settled to either WhatsApp or Messenger or a combination of them according to the groups of people we meet with. Telegram is particularly good for large groups and is used especially by young or technical people. Any other IM is a rounding error. That FB owns both the major IMs is very unfortunate but people already voted with their apps.
People are motivated by the most diverse stuff you can imagine.

Sometimes people watch a movie that makes them cry and they decide to learn guitar just like the girl with cancer in movie.

Or they decided to buy a really expensive bike and now this is a big motivator for them to ride everyday.

Or sometimes people live in a cold place, they are shy and have feelings of inadequacy and won't feel good in a gym where they think people will judge them.

Or maybe they are from a minority and kind of don't feel welcome at the only gym in the backwards small town they live.

Of course this is a personal anecdote, but I found in my life plenty of people who were never motivated enough to go to a gym, to learn surfing, to practice jiu-jitsu until they become.

Change the environment, nudge a factor here and there, tweak an incentive here, and maybe you just did enough to motivate someone.
That’s a better take than mine. Good read.
I really need to emphasise, 'tech debt' does not imply 'without care'. Just to link to the last comment where I emphasised this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30286955

This is why I say it's fruitless to discuss this without making clear what concrete examples we're imagining when we say 'tech debt'. I'm almost certain that you and I are not thinking of remotely the same thing. 'Tech debt' is very different from plain old shitty code.
There isn't one

There's a German law which says all commercial webpages have to say who runs it.
Whenever this topic comes up, I think a lot of people assume this is some elaborate ML algorithm, but I believe it's really just "trending things go up, _sometimes_ categorized and targeted."

It's a really basic algorithm that captures the equivalent of groupthink.
Chances are the answer is "yes". Not a knock on K8S necessarily, but version upgrades can be fairly impactful.

We're just now dealing with a recent K8S version change on Azure AKS and it totally broke the version of Istio we were on. And pulling in the new version of Istio meant bringing along new versions of some of the "stuff" that we use that's bundled with Istio - Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, etc. All in all, getting everything cleaned up and working with the new version has been a non-trivial exercise.

That said, that's all infrastructure stuff. I haven't heard any reports yet from any of the Application Development teams that their actual code broke as a result of this. But not all clusters have been upgraded to the new version, so time will tell.
Imaginary numbers are just a shorthand way of representing things in nature that relate to one another via the sine function, for example, charged particles in a magnetic field. You can bust out calculus to describe the motion, or you can use a convenient set of rules that represents the partially-solved equation.
Far more?
This administration has created a ton of money, but I also remember a previous administration going out of their way to literally put their name on the stimulus checks that were sent out following their trillions of dollars of stimulus passed...
Plenty of NDP functionaries (and some AfD too) were fined or are on parole for Volksverhetzung. Just because it doesn't usually escalate into jail time doesn't mean the law is not being applied.[1]

[1]: https://dejure.org/dienste/lex/StGB/130/1.html
Screeps is fascinating but I never got motivated to play it. :(

I use the Stanford pages [1] to link to interesting papers and I use Red Blob Games to explore interactive ways of presenting topics. The most recent update to the Stanford pages is from 3 weeks ago, about any-angle pathfinding [2]. But most of what I do these days is on the Red Blob Games site. I probably would've kept using the Stanford pages but they have a 100MB quota limit and I was running out of space…

[1] http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html may be the oldest surviving game development website, as I started it in either 1994 or 1995. Older than Google or Wikipedia or even Slashdot.
[2] http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/Variations...
You can think about it in reverse as well. A stable currency gives a clearer price signal. Inflation distorts that signal in opaque ways.

Which is why monkeying with how inflation is calculated usually means chicanery and tomfoolery is afoot.
Geomagnetic Storms Are a Drag for SpaceX
>come up with a "better" (performant, cheaper, easier to use, etc.) solution than GPUs for ML applications

you probably are aware but Xilinx themselves is attempting this with their versal aie boards which (in spirit) similar to GPUs, in that they group together a programmable fabric of programmable SIMD type compute cores.

https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/architecture-ma...

i have not played with one but i've been told (by a xilinx person, so grain of salt) the flow from high-level representation to that arch is more open

https://github.com/Xilinx/mlir-aie
Hey, I feel your pain. Companies are like children to a founder, and you have described the heroic acts you've taken to save your child. It absolutely sucks to be in your position.

I think it's important to warn "parents" (or future parents) to avoid this particular tragedy, which I think is quite avoidable. I want to encourage people to question the orthodoxy around cloud, that everyone is doing it so its fine, and worse is better anyway, yada yada. It may be insensitive to use your situation to illustrate the downside of cloud vendor lock-in, but my motivation is not to look down on you, but to warn others about this very real, very painful outcome that they court when they make the popular choice.
>The worker wants a pay rise, the manager wants a promotion, the CEO wants a better gig at the next company. None of that is a goal of making more money for the company.

This is quite literally the definition of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand.

"By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was not part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it."
U.S. Alleges China’s Hytera Stole Motorola Technology
>Track hits on a post-download URL

It will be mixed with downloads that come from organic search.

>This stuff is mostly meaningless.

I disagree.
Inflation favors the debtor, while deflation favors the saver. Obviously the world's largest debtor (US govt) will consider inflation to be desirable and necessary. Otherwise it would lead to a sovereign debt crisis if there are positive real interest rates leading to a US govt default.

Keep an eye on the Fed, especially before the midterm elections. The Biden administration will put an extreme amount of pressure to continue quantitative easing, even if the Fed is signaling that rate hikes are coming soon.
Maybe one day, for now typescript with node is still slow
If you are subject to the cloud act in the US then you are not compliant or in anyway can be compelled by the US to hand over data on EU citizens.

As a private individual I suspect you would not have much to stand on if the NSA knocked on your door.

Another way to be compliant is to not collect PII.
Research Efforts Seeks Diamond-Based Quantum Processors
> Intelligence is also highly context-specific

It's not though. It's the opposite, and that's what makes it interesting, and why it's being measured. The g factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

General intelligence is related to the ability to learn new things in general, no matter the context.

And today's humans, would, if they got to start as babies 20k years ago, learn all there was to know, about that world. And they'd start feeling bored. Maybe they'd try to build and invent things, just to escape the otherwise for-the-brain empty days.

(You somehow got it the other way around :-) I wonder how you formed your opinions / beliefs about intelligence? If it's ok if I ask)

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If, in your comment, replace IQ with "wisdom" and "knowledge", then it makes sense. A grown up human of toady -- yes, definitely unadapted, knowledge wise.
Doesn't this demonstrate the opposite of what you were claiming?
I go to the dentist every two months, and do everything they suggest, in the way they suggest. Nevertheless, things get gradually worse.

I also have multiple teeth being resorbed, a weird thing that the dentist says nobody knows why it happens, and it has nothing to do with dental care.

Take a look at some older people. They may not have lost all their teeth, but you can see the crowns and false teeth.
> Low-cost areas are almost all not places you want to live with a family, if you have a choice.

We live in an exception to this, but it is in a tech void so we have to work remote.
This is mostly wrong. Inasmuch as there is a grain of truth, it might be that inflation is a tax on savings that are held as government paper. If inflation is predictable, private assets are not affected. Some times back, I tried to explain intuitively here: https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/the-world-deserves-a-pay-rai...
I think there used to be an adage that if you can get enough members, you can monetize it. Twitter haven't exactly made no money but I can't imagine that there is any real trick here other than adverts - the same as most other "free" services.

Maybe they should try something more person like where people pay a certain amount of money to get exclusive content from the people they follow. Can't think of any other way I would pay for micro-blogging.
The enormous increase in money creation is very real, but it started in the last year of the Trump administration.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
> Might have been a problem in the past, but now you can point them to this article.

Background checks are frequently done by specialized 3rd party companies of varying levels of quality that don't communicate directly with the applicant, and have a lot of leeway to interpret if candidate was misrepresenting their past. You may not have the opportunity to point them to this article after being told a blanket "We regret to inform you that in accordance to clause 2(c) on the offer letter, we are withdrawing the offer of employment due to a verification failure during the background check."
>>"Na-Diné"

Only it is Na-Dene(because it is constructed word - just like Google, Meta, Apple, and Giigle, Mita, Ipple could be names of different companies - and in the case of article to something else, that is only in the head of author) and this and other mistakes are making me look on sapiens.org as entertaining article and not scientifically reliable source. I would suggest for everyone to read something else on that topic - this is close to the truth, but nothing new and can not be regarded as news.
Oh, I agree we don't have the same lifestyle, but I don't agree that everyone that "might" need a pickup (or an oxyacetylene torch) should own one because they might have a use for it 6 months from now.
It's per claimant. That would be a $15bn Equifax settlement.
Well, if they let me sign up without a phone number...
I dont think ownership of a red hat would be considered personally identifiable information under the GDPR.
Maybe they shouldn't have banned that user, after all.
Set up something like a pi-hole.
> My argument is that the person who made the division into two groups did so using the wrong line... This two group divide was poorly defined and should not have been made in the first place.

At that time, you called it a half-truth. You wrote "You can still spread it if vaccinated", dividing the population into the vaccinated and the rest. You were not arguing then that this particular line is poorly defined, and you have not done so since, even though you have frequently made that claim.

>...and even then blamed one group for the damage while absolving the other. [my emphasis.]

This is straw-manning again: Dhosek did not go that far. This is not as pedantic as it might seem, as any claim that this was implied would depend on the commonsense notions of net benefit that you are trying to argue against.

> Not at all. 'False' is a perfectly acceptable way to identify a factually incorrect statement.

But that is not what you were doing when you introduced 'false' into the discussion.

> But it is not factually accurate based on the division made by the original person.

Suddenly you seem to know exactly what Dhosek meant! Your argument seems to be "I don't know what you mean, but you are wrong."

>If both groups are capable of catching and spreading the virus, then there is no net positive in that context.

This is the crux of your argument, and its downfall. Unless you can show that vaccination, contact tracing, social distancing and mask-wearing have no causal and beneficial effects over the 'null hypothesis' of doing nothing, then it does not follow that they have no net benefit to society, except (or even) if practiced to the maximum and with vaccination providing complete protection. That's what 'net' means in this context (and others)! You would have to put an unjustifiably high weight on any deviation from the ideal situation in order to turn it negative.
Microsoft Joins Linaro, Arm and Qualcomm Technologies to Advance Windows on Arm
http://econbrowser.com/archives/2008/10/shadowstats_res
This essay, convinced me that people with no domain specific knowledge can cherry-pick ideas to support any BS they want
Hey, if the TI-84 is too slow for you, you can always overclock it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l06PlYNShpQ