skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your whole first paragraph literally describes our situation exactly, same stack and all. Classic premature optimisation.

It’s made it so clear to me that so much of what you read on HN about the latest and greatest scaling tricks are only relative to a tiny tiny fraction of business.
Yes! As a concrete example, people spent all of the C19 trying to fly, learning lots about aerodynamics along the way (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation#19th_centu...). This culminated in the Wright Brothers making the final improvements that made it work. A century or two to get fusion would be quite efficient.
53 days over a lifetime and the only controlled for the basic demographic and location stuff (and I thank them for doing that, many people with an axe to grind don't even bother)?

That sounds so small it could be confounded by just about any spurious correlation.
I have a wide bottom induction wok and it's fine, but you don't get the advantage of having the sides heat up as well. So I find it easier to just use a cast iron or carbon steel pan.
Yes it's the same for us. He's 3 something now and his only interaction with screens is for calling the grandparents because they are at 2 days driving distance. We don't hide screens from him tho; I think that also contributes to him not being interested in screens too much.
the main problem is that you can get caught in an interviewing pet project, so it seems obvious for them, but not for you. Properly done, a code interview could not require clever tricks, but the problem is that it's just too easy to slip into that realm...
great book on this topic is friedan's feminine mystique (1963). She wrote about the spiritual crisis affecting a generation of young women who were more likely to be 'homemakers' than their mothers. worth reading at least the intro IMO for anyone who feels dissatisfied with their work / life / contribution

not sure how yang made this his topic. my sense of his random walk is 'had a job at yahoo' -> future of work -> UBI -> numbers guy -> times square -> ?

really miss the andrew yang policy bot on twitter though
The article gives fluvoxamine as an example of a useful treatment that the heuristic-following skeptic would have been wrong to criticize:

"(shame about the time she condemned fluvoxamine equally viciously, though)"
Unicode 13 uses 143859 code points. 21 bits can encode more than 10x of that. And there are not that many languages left to add. We are already debating elvish. I am not sure what would warrant extending the coding scheme if we are already on the level of fictional languages today. Also note that many things like flags or emoji skin colors, etc. are now done via grapheme clusters, which conserves code points.
I think most dads would know what a doula is
Doula is apparently a well established profession (I just learned that too!). A pessary is a medical device.

"Shemale" is a colloquial, somewhat demeaning term used mostly in porn.

I think it takes a rather special type of reasoning to assume that your knowledge of only the latter term is because the former words just aren't as important or useful...
I know in some areas like declining college enrollment men are definitely disproportionately effected, but can you be so sure for other areas that the article cites as evidence?

like more men being raised by single mothers, or declining wages - I imagine phenomena like this would be effecting both genders roughly equally? I do not know - but without knowing for sure, I am more skeptical of the article's premise
> women tend to be more interested in fabrics and fashion

Why? There are only two possible answers: Either there's some sort of genetic predisposition for women to care about fashion (quite a claim!), or that disposition is a product of the way we raise girls.

Given that we know our culture strongly associates fashion with women, and we don't have any evidence for some "fashion gene," historical bias in how we rear our children is simply the least presumptuous hypothesis available to us.
I was curious and used a dictionary on words I didn't know. You can try the words there!
That is either a homunculus argument, or an excuse to blame social phenomena on individual moral/ethical failings.
Zero-knowledge proofs explained in 5 levels of difficulty
Absent someone breaking really far away from the pack, that's a classic example of one type of "bullshit job" called out in Graeber's book... Bullshit Jobs. Zero-sum, ever-escalating competition. Militaries are another obvious example (we'd all be better off if every country's military spending were far closer to zero—but no one country can risk lowering it unilaterally, and may even be inclined to increase theirs in response to neighbors, which sometimes gets so insanely wasteful that you see something like the London Naval Treaty or SALT come about in response) but so is a great deal of advertising and marketing activity (you have to spend more only because your competitor started spending more—end result, status quo maintained, but more money spent all around)
I lived in a Greystar building starting in 2013 for three years in Chicago and one year in Sacramento before moving into a different rental company building in San Francisco. They were excellent, extremely attentive to problems. The buildings were well maintained. Not saying your experience wasn’t valid just that mine was very different.
No, I quit Reddit along with all other social media. This is the only place I post or comment anymore.
As the father of 18 year old who is not going to college and instead working as a carpenter, I don't think lumping 18 year olds with 25+ year olds makes much sense. Perhaps I have an antiquated view of family, but I don't feel his "independence" has everything to do with where he lives. I'm more than happy to have him around the house if it allows him to save money and live a better life at, say, 21.
You can use an in memory LRU cache of request orgin+count. You can also periodically take that data and do an INCREMENT against your DB to get fairly scalable rate limiting.
If you attempt something knowing full well it has a 100% chance of failure, was it really a meaningful action?
We use a secret manager on our cloud platform for key storage, manually rotate keys (for now), and store encrypted passwords on a separate db.
Really interesting piece. Without any particular evidence other than my own perception on the discourse of journalism over the last 20 years or so, I had come to many of the same conclusions as the author (the leftward shift in journalism is due to decreasing wages and so people who accept status or the projection of their own ideology as currency will disproportionately take those jobs). I think teaching (at various levels) has similar forces impinging upon it.
I believe that Facebook and Google collect more of my data than any other company in the world. And I know very well that they share all that data with US intelligence, because that's what they are required to do. That said, I don't see any problem in using another countries' app that might be doing the same thing that bigger violators like FB and Google are already doing. And, notice, I live in the US. For people oversees I can guarantee that this sentiment is even more common.
> Sometimes I'm annoyed that I can't use a wok,

For ~$500 you can get a dedicated rounded induction wok burner! It needs its own 220V plug, but if you really love wok cooking, they exist!

I am super sad that, at least in the US, I can't buy an induction stove top with a dedicated wok burner built in. :(
Unless you forget to hold the shift key as you drag.
People don’t like to talk about it because in public discourse it often turns into disparaging single mothers.

My dad worked in public housing and I used to do tutoring as a kid in the summer. It was sad as I saw the 10 year olds who I really related to grow up in negative paths, mostly because nobody cared.
It goes to China.
Clean the gunk out of your burners and it will light instantly if its seated correctly.
I actually made some friends over discord who ran mocks with me. Being a person who spent most of university partying rather than hanging out with the studious people, I didn't have much friends who had the same programming skill as I was.

Just look around, I'm sure you can find people with similar skill to run mocks with you (without having to go through some paid service that most likely employs desperate people ergo less qualified people). Plus, running the interviews yourself could be more valuable than going through one.
Agree, you can't be too careful, especially when you are frustrated and about to cut corners to save time
As the article itself states: In the words of my colleague Jon Amos: "Fusion is not a solution to get us to 2050 net zero. This is a solution to power society in the second half of this century."
Thanks for sharing - sounds like a real pain in the arse. I hope you make some progress with it!
I don’t give a fuck about all that. He can have consensual relationships with whomever he likes.

If I complete my life with as big a positive impact and the worst thing that happens is I have a divorce and sleep consensually with a few women who reported to me I will count it as a huge win.
Security experts declare all Proton apps secure after they pass their pentests
The sequel to the novel Ready Player One, predictably called Ready Player Two, begins by introducing an OASIS Neural Interface (ONI) headset, which paralyzes the body and directly connects the brain to the OASIS VR. To develop this technology in secret, the creator of the OASIS set up an "Accessibility Research Lab" to develop implants for various categories of disabled people, then moved on to develop the headset.

As a disabled (legally blind) person myself, I had mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it felt like we (well, the disabled people in the fictional world) were being used as means to an end. On the other hand, one of my unanswered questions from the first book was what the rise of a VR like the OASIS would mean for people like us; I felt that the second book provided a satisfying answer (in the fictional world, if not in the real one).

To be clear, the sequel was panned, for good reasons IMO. I chose to read it before looking at the reviews. I don't recommend it, but this comment reminded me of it.
For comparison, Covid-19 risk 2-18 months depending on the age. (2 months for people below 20, 18 months for 60).

From Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.
https://medium.com/wintoncentre/how-much-normal-risk-does-co...
If you find yourself feeling like the author (why so serious mane?) here's a tip, go on google dot com and type "$(theCityYouAreIn) standup comedy". This is where the real shit happens and has probably always happened. I go to comedy shows in my home city all the time and go to random open mics in literally every city I visit, always a great time.
A substantial population of men are also deeply concerned that a legal marriage will end in a costly, lopsided, and devastating divorce. It is no secret that women have the advantage in such proceedings.
Like "Howitzer" (~85/~55).
To do this, we can't just say "Chinese social networks are not allowed in the US", because that is not what China is doing. You need to outlaw whatever it is TikTok is doing that you do not like in the first place.

Facebook is not allowed to operate in China not because they are American, but because they do not want to comply with Chinese law.
Do you mean: have new readily-available parts been introduced in the wake of the current supply shortages? The answer is no.
Misinformation Is a Virus
Get a HEPA filter instead. Lots of cooking methods (especially involving high temperatures with fats) produce terrible air quality by themselves that you can only mitigate with either a prodigious vent fan or lots of HEPA filtration.

I know this from measuring it in my own kitchen, air quality would spike to worse than the worst city globally for hours without filtration or minutes with.
You'd probably be surprised to learn that the UK is not at the top of the list of countries with the highest tea consumption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tea_consu...
Given that quantum computers double in size in time it takes to complete one PhD thesis, it is not too far fetched to reach such capacity within a reasonable time. So far this "law" has held.
> I wonder what it would be like to work on something that takes 5 years to make

Organic is the best way I can put it. At least for software.

The largest project I've been on started in 1998 with a software team of 3 people (me and two others) and shipped V1.0 in 2003 with a team that varied in size over the years. Max was probably about 10 or 15 people. Total team size including electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, systems, technical writers, field service, training and QA was probably 70+.

It's like watching a child or a plant grow: you have this tiny kernel of functionality where you just need something to get started, not knowing how it's going to change and then guiding it in the right direction, growing all the time, as you figure out how to get where you need to go. Pruning the dead branches and rotten fruit and fertilizing it where it's growing right.
Then finally it's good enough to take to market. Then ship two major updates each year for 10 years.

It's fun in its own way, but I prefer shorter projects. I get bored easily.
This week: rainshowers with a slight chance of falling satellites
There are certainly some exciting projects happening in the fusion world coming up. It seems likely we will start seeing much higher energy outputs, I think for SPARC they are predicting >10x the energy produced as what it will consume (Q > 10).

My biggest question is with the crazy temperatures involved will we ever see one of these things able to run for hours at a time? With SPARC they are shooting for 10 second bursts, so that would double this breakthrough for the JET reactor. Even with the magnetic containment there are components in there exposed to millions of degrees Celsius right? That leaves us with some significant material science problems to solve.
I once lost first-place in a spelling bee with a word I'd never seen before (as a guy): "Leotard"

I spelled it exactly as it sounded: "Leatard" /eyeroll
You say "profit is always the priority" like its a bad thing. Aren't we all maximizing our profit? Isn't that kind of the point of being in business?
Sudden rise of more transmissible form of Omicron catches scientists by surprise
It sounds more like your friend has found a way to justify deceptively stealing/wasting time and resources by labeling people as morally repugnant.

Yes, it's legal to do, but isn't it a shade hypocritical?
How many hours does it take you to read a ~10 page research paper?
>The guy's work has directly...

The guy's money has funded people who work to do these things.
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But we weren't "heuristic following skeptics" with regard to the pandemic.

The RECOVERY trial basically tried everything that had a chance of working. Hydroxychloroquine was part of the tests and did very poorly.

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After the RECOVERY trial in June 2020, it was no longer about "what worked", the question was "what works better?". By the time Ivermectin became a discussion point in 2021, it wasn't good enough to just "work", you had to prove that it was at least as good as Dexamethasone + Monoclonal antibodies.

Its not about being a "heuristic following skeptic". Its about knowledge of treatments that do work and the tests they underwent to prove their efficacy.

The correct answer for Ivermectin was "Hey, we have this test with Dexamethasone + Monoclonal antibodies that showed efficacy over 3000 people. Where is the evidence for Ivermectin?"

Oh, you don't have evidence yet? How about we wait until you have evidence before you claim that IVM is more useful than the current Dexamethasone + Monoclonal antibodies cocktail?
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Monty Python was my introduction[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVHjg3AqIQ
Jeez, how do you manage to get any work done?
A sort of early nearly-robot; it's where punched cards were first used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine
Actual toxic gas (NO2) that is known to cause developmental delays in children, or electo-magnetic fields, which have been shown to do absolutely nothing despite decades of testing, and if you are still concerned, you can just have your child stand a few feet further back from the stove and any excess radiation will drop off to effectively nothing.

Gas stoves decrease air quality throughout the entire house. EMF drops off with the cubic law.
I only ever saw the word Kohl(cabbage) when I played Stardew Valley in German. Never seen or heard any of the other female-dominant words in my life
One thing I have read about though, is that, since unlike radio or tv stations there is no real regulator of who owns how many websites, conservative media networks are creating news sites for towns using a local contractor for local stories, and then having national or international stories be presented with a conservative slant.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/07/hundreds-of-hyperpartisan-...
Are you sure that's induction? I think time from hob off to to boiling water on induction is much faster (roughly half) gas. Starts heating pan immediately?

Halogen and resistance hobs are less responsive though.
Did you factor in the inefficiencies of the power distribution grid and the heating element of the kettle? I'd say the journalists are just repeating what they've been told by the scientists, and the scientists factored inefficiency in on a calculation similar to your first.
Turns out people can do both bad and good things and are hard to reduce to a single number on a linear scale from bad to good.
If they have information that would help make a good decision, you can ask them. It's not so easy for them to ask your bosses for the same. If they have information that would have been helpful and didn't share it, who screwed up in hiring and/or training them?
It's definitely on our roadmap...when we get to it largely depends on the needs of our early customers but know that we have it in mind!
Why even link to the tweet?

https://vimeo.com/336117214
That, and there is no way to know that the people who he stole it from through anti-competitive practices wouldn't have funded even better things with it.
The 2fa here relies on push notifications, not on phone numbers by my understanding.

> I don't think Google has any particular interest in our security. Why should they if we're not paying them? As a cororation, it doesn't make any difference.

But so many of Google's actions do show that it cares about security, from the high-security mode for journalists and other at-risk populations to this very post, so perhaps your premises are wrong?
Safari Team Asks for Feedback:'Safari Is the Worst, It's the New IE'
"I weep for my gender."
> Around here none of them signal

It is not always safe to remove one hand from the handlebar to signal. In fact, in a lot of urban spaces, it's downright dangerous given the bad quality of the streets. Another reason why cyclists don't signal is when they notice a car too close or too aggressive. In this situation, it's best to have full control of the bike.

The cyclist is not a threat to your life. At most to the exterior of your car. You are a threat to their life. They don't want you to crash on them or the other way around. Give them space and it should be fine.
There's a comic strip I saw once about how to detect people pretending to be girls on online chats. Ask them "what do you think of [I can't remember the word]?" and if they go "Huh?" you know they're pretending to be a girl. The word was a word that meant decoration on windows, but I can't remember what it is...
I'd really like to see that broken down year by year. 18 is rather young to be living with a partner, and not at all out of the norm to be living with parents (many 18 year olds are still attending high school, others are in junior college, others are working and possibly saving up to move out).
I keep wondering why the car reviews don't mention how bad the software can be (like having to wait ages for the system to boot).
I've seen millions of dollars spent on infrastructure to support what Heroku could do for a few thousand a month. Not to mention the egregious dev heartache caused by having to work against it. Anyone who argued it was a waste of time and money just "didn't get it" apparently.

I'm a huge fan of all the cool container stuff, queues, stream processing, all the weird topologies for apps built with node, Golang. I'm with it, kids. But for an MVP, just use Heroku, GAE, a Droplet with SCP for god sakes.

If you need to do something more complicated, growth will tell you.
Thanks for that info. Statistics, misunderstandings, lies, benchmarks, database benchmarks...
It's less like not having shoes and more like not having top of the line custom Nike track shoes, but just a set of New Balance you picked up for $100. If that's your excuse for not exercising, then you'll never exercise. The point is that you don't need a restaurant kitchen to put good food on your table. The quote is from this article, by the way: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/weekinreview/14bittman.ht...
oh that's interesting — I assumed the bar was being able to loosely define the words.
> If a PR team was going to

I think you need a PR team if you're going to start writing replies like this...
Sure, it can be a great arrangement. It will slow down his dating prospects though, who can host if a relationship gets serious is a common discussion in dating.
If you have a paywall, a subscription works a lot better. If you don't, ads have a better CPM than donations.
Wow, it's like you're suggesting statutes of limitation on bad reputation? That's like depending on a populace have the memory of a goldfish for that to work. Oh, wait. Damnn, you're genius /s
I think its more that they are dropping out and playing Xbox than dropping out and watching the kids.

I'm not sure I blame them. If I had no prospects of a wife or kids, I'd quit my job and argue with people on the internet in my dad's basement too.
Isn't it more of the navy and air force involved in the arctic? It doesn't seem to be an ideal place for ground forces.
I never got why people care about boiling water so fast. It comes up too when people talk about induction stoves. I mean, you are cooking, not waiting and watching for the water to boil. You are probably working on sauce for your pasta while the water is waiting to boil anyhow, or could find a hundred other tasks just in the kitchen alone to occupy yourself while this entirely parallel process continues in the background. I don't care that water takes 4 minutes or 14 minutes to boil, I'm spending the same 30 seconds hands on time with the pot of water in either case.
Socrates got executed for his speech. "Cancel culture" has been with us since we invented social groups. Monkeys ostracise members of the group on a regular basis. Why do you think "so and so got in trouble for saying something offensive" is a new phenomenon?
I think this is thoroughly expected.

Imagine you have a set of legal words (legalese) and then you have a set of scientific words or statistical words (all cants) and you show the sets to those not associated with those sets… we’d see similar results.

It’s neat to find these oddities but that’s all it is, linguistically.
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>I didn't see how much energy was put into the system in order to generate the output 57 MW

It's in the article: 500 MW. Scientists hope further experiments move into breaking even and later having net gains.