skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article doesn't pay off the title.

It doesn't tell us why comedians stopped being funny, or even that comedians stopped being funny: merely that comedians are sometimes funny and sometimes serious, and they move from one to the other often without pausing to announce the shift.
I've had humans literally drive at me with the express intent of seriously injuring or killing me.

At least with the Tesla it's just going to kill you through its own stupidity...
TikTok Shares Your Data With
To degrade signal to noise, such people need to pay you and others willing to relocate to such jurisdictions. You know, to make it less obvious who is evading extradition.

I wonder what the penalty is for accepting money to uproot your life because you have nothing to hide. Well, _had_ nothing to hide.
If the driver is doing their job and properly babysitting the car against these sorts of mistakes, then driving in FSD mode will be more exhausting than normal driving.

I've heard it described as being like a driving instructor, watching a very inexperienced student who mostly drives fine, but is liable to suddenly make extremely poor decisions.
I think this is likely.

Always remember that intergalactic travel is exponentially harder than interstellar travel and that is already brutally hard. We need only be among the first in our galaxy to explain the Fermi paradox.
> No software project cares what the calendar looked like during the roman empire. Sure, its quirky that OCTober is month 10 instead of 8. Doesn't affect anything at all.

I take your main point, but its relevance is at least somewhat more recent than the Roman Empire: I've seen engraved statuary that's only a few hundred years old, in France, that used abbreviations like "VIIbre" for "septembre". Still not of direct interest to a software project probably but in recent enough history that you might interact with it in scanned archive data.
"Don't drive a path through an object" seems like such a core function that a video like this is proof FSD is intrinsically broken.
Previously worked at Google in infrastructure but opinions are my own.

I am always frustrated/embarrassed at Google’s messaging of these things, but it seems to me like this tweet is trying to stir the pot for attention. The Pixel phone with unlimited uploads marketed at consumers is one thing, but this unlimited plan for universities assuredly contained terms that didn’t guarantee it forever and a large institution should be aware of that. I also don’t think unlimited is a synonym for eternally unlimited.

It also seems like it would be a bad idea to store frequently accessed experimental data in Google Drive and based on follow up tweets the professor agrees and doesn’t use Google Drive for this… so it seems like they are mad about a hypothetical.

I don’t think Google is always the most thoughtful with things like this but this seems like something to take up with their IT department and not a second Google Reader incident.
Would evidence of a prohibition against an inanimate object change your mind?
On Racialized Tech Organizations and Complaint: A Goodbye to Google
It's a popular little game that turns out to have a few interesting aspects or dimensions to it that people are now exploring. I would view it as perfectly normal and interesting HN content that will taper off when a new fad takes its place.
Yes because it takes a “FAANG developer” to afford an iPhone. Does 60% of the US population work for a FAANG?

How many developers are making “minimum wage”?
Tis only a pointer.
You know, if someone is astroturfing something around an Atari 2600 prototype, I want to know about it.

When and where and by whom was the cartridge discovered? The screenshots have an almost too pitch-perfect 19A0 vibe. I guess that isn't impossible for 1983, which is later than most of the best known Atari games.
Had to quickly go register a bunch of .xyz domains after reading this comment, being a graphics guy.
Cow Burps as a Metaphor for Life
Making money in PHP is better than making none at all!
I'm not sure I agree with your framing around emotion - it implies a subtle judgement around using emotion versus pure rationality. However, we all have to live with deals we've made, and we know that no humans can be purely rational - so holding that up as the preferred gold standard feels off the mark.

That said, the weirdest thing to me is that I can be aware I'm making a suboptimal decision and still want to do it. The experience of the gap between the rational and "emotional" choice is such a weird feeling!
Maybe not, but they certainly use art to dodge taxes, which could be framed as fraud, if they were not well covered legally.
Worldle hard mode is solvable but it requires being very careful, and basically never typing in certain words.

For example: bills,dills,fills,gills,hills,kills,mills,pills,sills,tills,wills

If the answer is any of these words and you guess the wrong words once, you are unable to guarantee a win (outside of hard mode you could try guessing words to eliminate many letters at once)

I find that constraint to be roughly, if not more, frustrating than commutativity (which doesn’t even apply to subtraction or division!)
OS X has insane memory management. One time I had a runaway process using 120gb of swap and never even noticed until I opened Activity Monitor to do look at something something unrelated.
To clarify, the sequential read bandwidth of a RAIDZN with M total disks will be M times the read bandwidth of a single disk. The sequential write bandwidth will be (M-N) times the write bandwidth of a single disk. These are optimal values. https://calomel.org/zfs_raid_speed_capacity.html

It's a constraint on iops in particular, not bandwidth, because writing a record to disk involves writing something to every disk in the pool. So if you have a disk that's taking a long time to write, the other disks need to pause and let it catch up.
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/ (Jamie Brandon)
If you're mute and start talking (or even if you just clear your throat), the Zoom app shows a pop-up that reminds you that you're muted. I can see why this feature may be useful for many people. Sometimes it's easy to forget that many people don't know how to use the most basic apps.

Conceptually, it's similar to Apple always listening for "Hey Siri".

But the huge difference between these two cases is that most people will probably trust Apple more than Zoom, which is understandable.
The Falcon 9 should be pro-rated since some of the mission payload survived.

40 x $250k = $10m
1 falcon9 launch * (40 / 49) = $24.5m
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$34.5m
But that's just a convention. You're not explaining the phenomenon which gives rise to seasons or even what a season is. If some other culture decided to define equinoxes and solstices as the middle of a season then that would be another valid convention so to get to the root of the matter one has to define what a season is all about. The astronomical essence of seasons is the amount of daylight relative to darkness.
lol two of the sources are literally post graduate level efforts, ironic given your fifth grade teacher comment.

You don't know what primary evidence means. I've linked several sources that include indisputable, concrete evidence, including verified CCP documents, as well as eye witness, first party testimony that maintains consistency across accounts from entirely different people.

Describe evidence sufficient to your standards and provide rebuttals to the evidence provided. I know you can't and won't do either of these things, I'm just explicitly demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty you're employing to minimize the horrors of the CCP.

Your contentions don't hold up to even the most basic scrutiny or challenge.
In Temporary Residence
I did in 23 flips always betting heads, but raising my bet if I lose twice in a row. Also the first couple times I all-in for a streak of 2.
ok but you think it's reasonable to let them test their unproven software (which has already killed people) on public roads anyway?
The crow experiment as an analogy is so wrong I don't even want to read the rest of the article. It's a misunderstanding of statistics. We have one data point. To use that analogy, it's as if we performed one experiment with one crow once and are trying to deduce the difficulty.

I read a study on HN a couple weeks ago that talked about likelihood of self replicating protein strings forming randomly, and the summary is that it is unlikely for abiogenesis to happen randomly within a volume the size of the observable universe more than once. Now, there could be panspermia, there could be something non random about the process, there could be other types of intelligence, but until you show me an ongoing alien biosphere process I'm convinced it isn't common, and I don't believe we will find intelligent life anywhere we look.
Do I have your attention now?
Perhaps it's the very fact that dexamethasone was useful (and therefore used) that explains why you never hear about it.

Since you mentioned the political context, it's not necessarily just "something that works" that you're looking for in a political sense, but "something that works that THEY don't want you to have." If everyone agrees on it, there's no action, no wedge.

The fact that most people are going to recover anyway is also fertile ground for snake oil, as everyone runs their own uncontrolled experiment and declares success when they survive, and most do.
I would agree that the White House placed a ton of pressure on the CIA to come up with a justification to invade Iraq, but the whole thing smacks of them trying to cover their own asses after the fact. Yes, there were dissenting opinions, but the IC still signed off on the NIE, including the summary, and top officials at the CIA have their share of the blame as much as Bush and Cheney:

> On the other hand, senior CIA officials mentioned the uranium claim in congressional testimony at the same time, permitted it to be included in a December 2002 “fact sheet” on Iraq, and mounted only tepid opposition to inclusion of the charge in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Address, where it would become notorious as the “16 Words.”

If they knew it was a lie, and repeated that lie to Congress, pawning it off as just 'Bush lied, people died' (which, not saying that was your position, but that's what your comment initially came off as, hence my reply) absolves the CIA of the blame they justly deserve for their part in Iraq. But you're right that they certainly were not a rogue agency.
Maybe intelligent life isn't so rare, but technologically advanced intelligent life is exceedingly rare? It's possible that there could be planets where life emerged, evolved to an intelligent species that didn't have to compete for resources, maybe there were no large carnivores to worry about, maybe resources are even less scarce than they are here, maybe they developed a very collective culture and thus no concept of war, whatever - some scenario where technology doesn't really develop very far. It would never occur to this species to want to leave their planet to go exploring. They could be quite content to live this way for millions of years. We'd never see any signals from them.

When it comes to questions like the one posed in the fermi paradox we always seem to assume that all intelligent lifeforms would be very much like us with similar drives and culture. But it seems exceedingly unlikely.
There's been a bit of a brouhaha about this whole thing on Twitter. Emily Peck's article in Axios https://www.axios.com/male-economists-are-freaking-out-over-... characterizes that as "male economists piling on against a female economist and a female journalist" and one can't fault her for that - the optics are quite bad given that such harsh criticism is involved, and Twitter being Twitter does not improve things. But also, we're all supposed to be in favor of good science, so it's also bad when the NYT doesn't bother to report on what more mainstream opinion says, or put more unusual points of view in the right context. It's clear enough that this has made some people upset.
I am really excited to see this project. I can't tell you how many times my team at work has hit a limitation with pgbouncer and swore up and down we should just re-write it in rust.

Looking forwards to where the project goes!
Deregulation is about privatizing any possible profits a system might make. The goal is almost never to improve consumer outcomes, but to line the pockets of wealth donors and benefactors. Whenever someone argues for privatization, just follow the money.
The entire point of passing in a String, according to the article, is to "force you to be aware that you will have to allocate".

But you're saying that an extra hidden allocation doesn't matter and you shouldn't have a "hangup" about it? Trying to follow the same rules as the article seems reasonable to me, not a "hangup".
> free markets

You cannot "free market" infrastructure that is expensive to duplicate and uses up scarce resources.

A "second grid" that is 100% reliable, for example, would be terribly wasteful of the physical space required to run it.

In addition, "free market" didn't give us universal electrification to begin with. Why would you assume that it can run it?

At this point, we have run the "deregulation" experiments in California and Texas (and elsewhere). They have failed.

Critical infrastructure needs to be managed by a political process.
Psychology of Amazon's Purchase Flow
OK, the next 3 months are no more dangerous for you than if you hadn't spent the last 12 months doing it. What you did in the past has no bearing on the chances going forward. I'm not sure if it's more clear to say it like that or not. Clearly, humans have a lot of trouble speaking and thinking clearly about statistics.

The next three months are no riskier than your first three months were. They don't become more risky because they will add up to 15 months total -- once you've already finished the first 12 without incident.
Very interesting development, mainly that it posed no threat of causing a cascade of space debris since it's in such a low orbit. That feels like an important aspect for considering the acceptability of so many objects from one company/entity in orbit, especially considering the existing cost to astronomy.

So we've heard from SpaceX about their LEO sats, but what about other ones further out?
Atomos space tugs can’t happen soon enough! https://www.atomosspace.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhO3rvMTx9QIV8...
9 * 6 - 3 = 51 and 28 / 4 + 0 = 7 will cover everything and allow you to determine the = position.
If you bet a dollar every time, you'll average $0.60 of growth every click no matter how much money you accumulate. That is linear growth, not exponential.
Datacenters should be able to stay online even with a full power cut. If your datacenter can't go days without mains power, you need to move datacenters.
In which five different paths lead to methods
"On your doctor take, you do know that the other author of this post is a licensed and practicing Physician, right?" --

Your observation is indeed much more interesting than the whole article, since it shows a reasonable (and not a caricature with zero value) heuristic. You are saying that I (who may or may not be a physician, but for argument's sake let's say I am not) should not have an opinion that is different, when discussing the behavior of doctors, from the opinion expressed by a licensed and practicing physician. Valuable heuristic?

As for the article itself, my problem with is was not on the problems that reasonable heuristic can generate, but with the useless caricatures.

A doctor who does not visit any patient and simply gives aways a couple of aspirins, is criminally negligent. A doctor who does not call for an MRI for any common symptoms (think headache) that may have been caused, among many other possible causes (dehydration, stress, tension etc.), also by something much more serious (brain cancer) is using a reasonable heuristic, which sometimes may go wrong because for very aggressive cancers, a couple of weeks of delay in starting treatment or having surgery can make the difference between life and death.

A personal case. I went to a doctor with a dermatitis and the doctor recommended, guess what?, a topical steroid cream, which is recommended by dermatologist like a barber recommends a haircut. The heuristic is, dermatitis of unclear origins --> let's try a steroid cream. After I did a bit of research on my own (5 minutes, maybe less), I found out that for my conditions the steroid cream should be absolutely avoided since it makes the condition worse.
The question is and I let you choose the answer: (1) was the doctor using a reasonable heuristic?; (2) was the doctor incompetent and/or an idiot; (3) was the doctor negligent (there is some overlap with (2))?
Should I wait for the opinion of a "licensed and practicing Physician" or I can have my opinion?
What's crazy to me is that 50 years ago, losing 40 satellites would have been a significant portion of all satellites ever launched. Today, it's a temporary setback for a company that launched nearly one thousand satellites last year.
Not a far-fetched request given they already have ways to replace the horn via the exterior speaker.
I don't really care about what causes it. The exact start and end dates of the seasons don't really matter, nor do they need to be consistent. Each season has things associated with them like fall has leafs turning orange and falling, or snow in winter.
A seatbelt isn't given control of 2 tons of steel moving at 70 mph.
I think this is a recent problem - I've only seen this occurring in the last month or so, I think.
> Atari XP is offering a proper physical copy of Aquaventure to pre-order on the Atari XP site, which will ship sometime early this year.

Probably not if they can't find and make a deal with the copyright owner.
> People are some of the worst drivers around

1 fatality per 100 million miles driven is relatively good, to be honest.

This seems to me like a good argument for the public funding of electric rail lines instead of self-driving cars that perpetuate all of the problems personal vehicles are responsible for.
We drive significant distances each year and I need to be comfortable when I drive. If the wheel alignment is out, it's an irritation having to continually push the wheel to centre and I get it fixed. If something in the load is continually rattling or squeaking (hate polystyrene) then I pack it so that it doesn't. Distractions like this are tiring and potentially create distractions.

I love the idea of fully autonomous driving where I can sit back and read a book or watch a movie, but I cannot imagine what it would be like driving a car where you are not actually driving, but have to be constantly on your guard in case it decides to do something unexpected.

Driving with constant attention is fairly easy, I would imagine not driving, but having to continually monitor ready to make split second would be exhausting.
The pop-up notification thing was likely because I was on Linux. It would generate a toast which was an "important" window, which would then steal focus.

The suggested content was very jarring, basically it worked as if someone had highlighted me in a post; but they had not highlighted me. Teams gave me advance notice that this might happen by telling me explicitly that they'd be suggesting content I might be interested in.

I found a blog article about the functionality here: https://office365itpros.com/2020/03/26/teams-trending-sugges...
This depends on the distinction between a player having infinite plays (in which case the optimal strategy is to bet their minimum infinity times), and the player having a finite number of plays but considering the optimal play as that finite number of plays approaches infinity. It's not intuitive, and in retrospect, I think I could have explained it better in the post.
Ok, I'm confused... you went through a bunch of awesome solutions and you found them lacking; but the modest price of inlets is unacceptable?
If Tailscale works for you, then you don't need Inlets.

I like to have several environments on my laptop, each with a different Ingress and Let's Encrypt certificate, accessible from the public Internet whether I am at home or at Starbucks.
If Grandma's mac has 4G of ram, she can do it too!
The entire concept of a "season" is invented. Quantizing a continuous natural phenomena into descreet bits is something humans do with everything, and we nearly never do it rigorously.

When is it "night"? At what exact moment in time does it become "night"? Nobody knows, nobody cares. It's still a useful concept.
> SpaceX could already have $250,000 per Starlink satellite cost and $15 million per launch cost.
> over 6.4 PB

O.o I guess I never really think about the scale these systems operate at.

Actually, considering that, the fact they give you 15GB on a free consumer account must add up to at least many hundreds of PBs?! I guess storage is cheap and/or targeted ads make a lot of money!
Just circling back to this thread- looks like the move was by the FBI after arresting the culprits... Who was a former YC alum. Thought the timing was funny and that you should know.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30260787&p=2
I would assume that it's because your comment reads like an advertisement, since it name-drops (and links to) a specific mixer rather than just saying "It seems that a coin mixer could have been used..." Is there anything novel about this particular mixer? If not, why link to this one specifically?
Facebook market cap falls below $600B, threshold for antitrust scrutiny
For what it’s worth, there’s bias in the other direction too. I’ve only used Teams once: an intro for a role I wasn’t seeking and wasn’t particularly well defined yet, so we didn’t do much other than have a quick chat. I found it ridiculously painful to use the software, compared to Slack and Zoom (both of which I hate in different ways), or Google Meet (which is otherwise excellent, except why does it need to melt my entire computer?).

You’re used to using it, you know its quirks, capabilities and workarounds. That’s an important bias to recognize too.
Of course, I don't know the future, it was just a hypothetical question, not a mathematical definition. My point was just the answer is not zero because the alternative is human driving and human driving is also not zero deaths. So, at some point we will have to make some sort of trade off that will involve some number of deaths. Unless you are suggesting that the likelihood of deaths should literally be zero before we start rolling out in public?
40 sats makes up about 2% of the current fleet - so a rounding error in cost and time.

The important part of this news is how those 40 sats deorbit and leave no junk either in orbit or on earth.
I'm fairly sure ELRS is going to eat everything else, it's already better than all the alternatives, even going by just bugs getting fixed more quickly and ignoring price, availability, range, features, etc.

Also, if you add a GPS to your quads, Betaflight can already RTH them fairly well (though more "disarm while the quad is flying towards your head" than "RTH", but still). With a compass, INAV can bring it back and land it fairly accurately.
Isn’t that retail cost of launch? Since they own the spaceships it should be 1/2 or less of the retail price.
> it’s certainly kept around because people found new uses.

Yasure that's the reason? I mean, sure, it's possible... But my money is on the "how they've always been" / "the original constraints made sense at the time but they’ve been forgotten and all we’re left with is the end product" mentioned above.