skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a whole subcategory of behavioral economics that can be summed up as "people treat potential losses and potential gains very differently". But what you're saying isn't the example that is being presented. You have A and B being equal partners with a loan from A to B of $1000. That's different from the kind of ultimatum style (with 100% certainty) game that is proposed.

I would say a better example is that A owns 66% of a startup and B owns 33%. They decide to sell the tech for X dollars. However, they are offered a 2X buyout if both of them agree to work for 3 years at the acquiring company. There's no "partial" offer though, it's both partners or neither. How is the 2X split up?

The contrived example fails because of the 33% and 66% wouldn't be assigned randomly.
Actually better depends on the criteria. A Volkswagen Beetle can be better than any of the listed cars if you consider the type of road an easy of repair.
Identify and Escalate Risks: A Practical Framework for Software Engineers
"But cancelling all student debt and then continuing to issue new debt to students that the university fails (i.e. by not putting them in a position to make enough money to easily pay it back) doesn't make sense."

That's one thing that never made any sense to me. I get it. I really do. But I've never seen any compelling, realistic answer to "And then what?". This only solves the problem of the HUGE number of people with crushing loan debt now. I get it, I really, really do. But... then what? What about the next decade? It's not getting any better.

The most important word in this is "realistic".
Definitely agree that removing the SAT appears to be related to the upcoming supreme court case about affirmative action. COVID was a good reason to delay it for a couple years. But schools are pushing it out further. That makes no sense.

It seems the SAT is increasingly considered "racist" because it reveals racial disparities in learning. What's next? Get rid of the driver's license test because it turns that white kids pass it at a higher rate than black kids?

Sam mentions that schools could down-weight the SAT but should still consider it. Why don't schools want to do that? My guess: if they have mediocre scores on record for a kid, then admitting him means reporting those scores to USNews. They'd rather not know that the kid has a score that would bring down their average.
It happens daily in the US... and they also shoot a lot of people: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings (about 1000 per year)... I would love to have a source with all killings by police (not just shootings).... I bet it is a lot more then 1,000 per year.
Bringing User-Customizable Shortcuts to Web Apps
Absolutely incredible! I haven't felt the feeling of insight after just reading 3 paragraphs in a long time.
Imagine how busted archived Twitter threads are going to look in 20 years. If linkrot in the early Web is bad now, how bad will “tweet-rot” be, after Twitter declines into disuse, quite likely fails as a corporation, and its CDN is scattered to the winds?

I couldn’t care much less about VC or crypto-bro brain farts like the linked post, although historians writing about this period probably will be, if only to write cautionary tales. But there’s a lot of deeply interesting expertise that’s been crammed into this godawful format, especially during fraught times like the pandemic and the current Ukraine invasion. I can only guess that the experts in question assume that Twitter will be the format with the widest reach, although I have to doubt that will always be true. If the Internet Archive comes up with a project specifically targeted at archiving Twitter threads as coherent artifacts, I for one would be happy to earmark a donation for that.
A DAO: “financial flash mob” or “group chat with a bank account”?
Democratic socialism of statist variety inevitably needs to centralize economic decision making, since otherwise the market "interferes". I can't think of any country that has ever tried it with good results.

(Democratic socialism doesn't have to be of the statist variety, of course, but that's a whole separate conversation that has little to do with Allende.)
Anonymous because I work there. I applied for a senior software engineer role and the interview process was similar. I got the job offer at the end of the process and they sneakily changed the role to "Software Engineer 2" from the "Senior software engineer" role mentioned so prominently in the job postings and the interview invites. No one bothered mentioning this in any of the many face-to-face and email conversations that I had with people/managers/director/HR from Canonical. I wouldn't have applied for the job if they had not lied that it was for a senior software engineer role.

Due to my bad luck and my excitement about the job, I missed catching this till my first week at Canonical. This was a big mistake and I should have done better. When I found out about this and spoke to my manager about this, I got some ambiguous answer about how they mention "senior" in the job description to weed out junior folks from applying and that "software engineer 2" would be the appropriate role according to their internal engineering career path. He and his successor both agreed to pass on the feedback to the upper management but I am not sure if they did and if the feedback made any difference.

I ended up continuing since the team and the work was good. But this is unprofessional and unacceptable.
APS systems such as Trophy can give tanks some protection against ATGMs like the Javelin.
There is no possible way that a commercial airliner can land on an aircraft carrier.
Dogs chase people and things for many reasons. Almost always it’s for play. If a dog has its ears and tail up, it’s looking to play with you, not tear you to pieces. Dogs have clear signals and behaviours that need to be understood.

> Dogs were bred to fearlessly attack anything unknown and that's exactly what they do.

This is completely untrue and the complete opposite of how dogs evolved. Dogs were domesticated to live among humans in harmony. If you experience a poorly behaved dog, it’s the owner at fault. Some owners mistreat their dogs and/or raise them with poor social habits, causing the dog to behave aggressively towards humans. It’s learned distrust, for which you have people to blame. Good owners will treat their dogs well. Such dogs will not attack another person unless their owner is being physically harmed. I don’t know if you’re living in America, most dogs in North American society come from well-adjusted homes where people treat them as members of the family.

You can learn how to make friends with any dog. It can be taught. The fear you experience is learnt and can be unlearnt.
Where did you get your numbers? I'm so confused because the paper you linked doesn't seem to support what you're saying in the slightest. It really just seems like you hate dogs.

> [...] Dogs kill 25 thousand people a year

I don't see it in the paper and it's a HUGE discrepancy. Do you mean globally? Again where did you even get that number? The ONLY reference I see is this from a CDC paper [1]:

> From 1979 to 1994, dog attacks resulted in 279 deaths to humans in the United States, resulting in an average of 17 to 18 deaths per year.

Sooo... Less than 20 deaths per year, up-to 21 in the worst case estimate, in a country (USA) where ~34 million households have dogs. I'm seriously perplexed, dawg. Did you read the paper or just link to it assuming no one will even skim it?

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9182209/
I think that's a pretty bad summary of the concerns that were raised. Sure they are scanning your files on icloud, but there is a 100% reliable way to prevent that: just don't upload them.

In their proposal they would scan your files on device, which is fundamentally different. Initially they would not run the scanning when icloud upload was disabled but how long would that last for?
Herbert only wrote six Dune books - but he wrote many other books…

Jesus Principle / Lazarus Effect / Ascension Factor (trilogy) are very good and very thought provoking.
As an actual contrarian, I'm pretty certain the Fed is going to slam on the brakes hard in the next coming few years and we will switch rapidly to deflation/depression.

The wage increases are going to cause exactly this kind of panic and the Fed will be forced to act. They're reacting somewhat slowly right now due to the pandemic/war. As soon as we have those kinds of stresses in the rear view window though they're going to start to hammer on the brakes.

Be careful what you all wish for. I think its going to eventually be worse than 2008.
If they work as well or better for the purpose, then sure.
A better title: Why Aren't There More Dogs in Medical Labs, Sniffing & Screening Samples?

Quick answer: What major stakeholder or gatekeeper would favor that situation? Beyond obvious regulatory issues, dogs sniffing samples is not patent-able, high-tech, high-status, nor high-profit.
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Yes, the "media" is to blame. The media that did report on the spying. </sarcasm>

Blaming "The Media" is really a cop-out. Anyone who reads anything beyond entertainment news knows about the degradation of our civil liberties, rights, and privacy over the last 20 years. It's not a secret, and "The Media" isn't covering it up.

The sad, depressing, truth is that very few people overall care. Or they only care enough to say the disagree then go about ignoring it.

Personally, I've tried to bring awareness, I've donated money to the EFF and ACLU, among other things. At this point it seems inevitable to get worse. I just wish the government would offer access or insights into the data the collect.

If the government going to use tax dollars to collect all my data. They might as well turn it into a searchable service: "I know I email bob 20 years ago, I wish I could find that recipe I gave him". Maybe, they could email me with helpful things like "Y% of people in your area who google'd X, Y and Z had prostate cancer. You should talk to your doctor".
Taxpayers are the creditors for 92.6% student loans.

https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics#:~:te....
Real hackers use tshark :) [1] I try to get my students doing everything
from commandline, creating pcap files. When they finally see the GUI
of Wireshark they think they died and went to heaven.

[1] It's actually the capture part of Wireshark
Yep, but there's no place that provides the combination of user base, potential for engagement, and commenting on sentences.

Long form is a much better format for comprehensive ideas, but the "this is something I want to comment on" isn't there and the engagement on the comment and comments on the comments rarely exists in those formats.

Medium's "highlight" and "respond" functionality is a rather poor implementation of that desired ability (the discoverability beyond the "top highlight" is difficult for other users) ... and then there's that whole "upgrade to read more" problem.

And beyond that, there's the bit that twitter has a large number of users - trying to traverse Wordpress pings and comment moderation... ugh.

Unfortunately, twitter is the best place that offers users, aggregation, no $ needed, comment on sentence, and the opportunity for engagement of followers.
So more like 150%-200% reliable
Currently you are surrounded by average drivers. Why are you worried about them being replaced with slightly above average drivers?
Minimum runway length quoted for Boeing 777 take-offs is 2500m, plus a 240m runway end safety area (a sandpit it can plow into if the takeoff is aborted without remaining space to halt). On an aircraft carrier this might be shortened a little since the ship can steam into whatever wind is present, but compare that to the 333m long flight deck on the new Gerald Ford class aircraft carriers and the impossibility is plain to see.
> This biggest issue is one instruction spanning two cache lines

Even with fixed (32 bit) instruction lengths aligned on 32 bit, when we have to decode a group of 8 instructions you are facing this kind of issue.

So you either have to cut the instruction group (and thus not take full advantage of the 8 way decoder) or you have to implement a more complex prefetch with a longer pipeline.
And these special cases can be handled in these pipeline stages.

> It also means you cannot tell instruction boundaries until you directly fetch instructions

I mean, AMD does that on x86, with 14 instruction lengths.

It can be done for RISC-V, it's much cheaper than x86, and it takes significantly less surface area than a bigger cache to compensate.
If best effort is good enough and your use case doesn't require robustness, reading out of host /proc certainly works. Tracking execs with hooks in the kernel's internal exec mechanism with a separate indexing step at startup is worth the extra effort for use cases that do require accurate data, such as security observability.
The FBI also has a way of "discovering" CSAM on the computers of uncooperative informants/suspects.

https://www.pilotonline.com/nation-world/article_b02c37d2-ca...
Maybe strange question; but which diff and merge tools are not targeted at developers?

Edit: what->which
You're not breaking anything to me. Leaching commission off 1.5m+ houses in the scarcest real estate market is a hell of a lot more lucrative than having or using skills to contribute something
True; I was thinking of normal Wi-Fi cards.
The whole "police dog" is a supreme court approved way to subvert the fourth amendment: https://reason.com/2011/02/18/four-legged-warrants/
New pitch-calling device a big hit with Rays battery
It is, but that largely benefits the middle class (which has much better access to debt), not people living paycheck-to-paycheck.
There do exist corporate positions with a high degree of autonomy and as-needed coordination. I have one of them right now. I will be sad to ever let it go.
Education doesn't scale. Great professors don't scale. The endowment is used for funding the tuition of people who cannot afford it.

And, to the degree it does scale (Edx, coursera) well endowed universities were at the forefront of putting classes online.
Comma specifically says that it is not L5 and will not be L5 anytime soon.
The point is that the remaining pie should be split evenly between the two parties, because they both have equal power in creating it.
All of these questions are tangential to the unspoken racism in this thread.

So what if Swedes mined their own iron? Did you read the rest of the essay? My point was about overall mutual enrichment in Europe, on the back of colonialism. There is ample material outside of my link that detail it further. Arguing that the victims could’ve armed themselves better, still doesn’t prove Sweden’s “innocence”. They mined their “own” iron to make “advanced” cannons to help the colonising kingdoms kill natives and enslave them.
GitHub – asciinema/asciinema: Terminal session recorder
Not the guy you are talking to, but I would 100% be in favour of AI-drones if it was shown they made fewer mistakes than human operators.
Unpopular opinion but … as a lifelong Dune acolyte, I think Chapterhouse is favorite one after the original…
What's all that javascript for?
Really makes you wonder why the Safari team won't add features because of privacy/tracking or seriously limits the few privacy preserving features[0] it has while the apps get free range (...well for a $99 developer fee).

[0] See my rant about storage being capped at 7-days irrespective of the users interaction with the site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30402242
Can confirm, I got through; so I am not sure what you did to upset the book reviewers in London, but I wish you the best getting that misunderstanding addressed
Opinion: The Senate accidentally agreed to move our clocks forward
Does Western Europe have insanely high housing costs?
> Cancelling student debt is good if it's tied to fixing the problem going forward, which means not offering it, or having the colleges be the guarantor, or ISAs, or something.

What do you tell the upper middle class families that didn't buy a bigger house or pad their investment accounts so that they could help put 3 of their kids through schools? My parents spent at least $200k on undergrad education between me and my siblings (UVA, Cornell, UW-Madison).

Did they make the wrong decision? Should they have saddled us with debt? At 10% (ie: S&P AAR) that would net $600,000! When America becomes a place where you're punished for having invested in your children, it becomes a place where you will no longer want to live.
I wish it worked better in MacOS. Still my favourite tool.
In Germany you study for free.

There was a video (perhaps even from kurzgesagt) which describes how critical it is for our society to allow as many people as easy access to knowledge as possible and not only for obvious reasons but also to increase the chance for all of us that the hidden genius is finding a cure for cancer.

You can even study for free in Germany as an non German. You know what happens? Those people might stay in Germany and make Germany a better country.

Imagine a world were we compete globally with the best education system. Let's allow more people to shape our future.
It's pretty well hidden and involves quite a few steps. I think you should be able to follow the same steps as in this Firefox Nightly guide: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/01/you-can-now-install-any-ad...
>for a constant number of defects per square inch

Is this assumption true?
I use pdb to debug via the CLI and don’t face any problems. I default to the CLI for debugging and try to look for GUI alternatives only after nothing works.
> But what does this CSAM scanner do? It only catches already-produced pictures of CSAM.

You say this as if it's bad to identify people who are distributing or collecting known child pornography. Are you recommending that companies implement technologies which go beyond this by not depending on a corpus of existing materials?
I'm concerned that the majority of "should we fix college or should we circumvent college" conversations don't bring up one of the scariest parts of our current economy: STEM jobs are the main viable path for economic stability and freedom.

All of the conversations I've seen implicitly assume that this is good, and that the solution to farmer workers (or other low paid workers) escaping poverty is to train them as software developers.

We really need farm workers, and most of them live in poverty. I love having more engineers, scientists, and doctors, but we desperately need non-STEM work to be a viable option
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect? Although that's more about how news and social media are unreliable sources of information on all topics. I've heard "Engineer's Disease" or "Engineer Syndrome" used to describe the tendency of so-called technical people to think their expertise generalizes to topics in which they have no experience.
And then whenever any policy that would reduce the profits from stock trading is floated, it's shouted down on the basis that "it'll hurt your retirement". A very cunning trap.
Ask HN: Does anyone know what numbers make gun violence national news?
Backstory: My family is in Arkansas and they just texted me to let me know there was a mass shooting with one dead and 24 wounded. Early local news reports say multiple people were shooting into the crowd at a car show.

Question: I was kinda stunned this wasn't on the front page of NY Times or Wapo or Fox? I don't expect it be the very top, but when does a mass shooting actually become national news? What is the criteria?
> Say you go buy a Fitbit, is the manufacturer going to tell you how the protocol works to communicate with it? No, they’re going to give you an app, that may or may not track usage data, and that they can decide to stop supporting whenever they want. If you want to write your own, you’ll have to reverse-engineer it.

I agree 100%.

Wouldn't it be nice if protocol documentation was mandatory? I understand why it's done this way (because 99% of consumers wouldn't care and it allows them to change the protocol later), but it's really annoying to have to reverse engineer everything.

It's funny too, I bought a fitness device a few years back (Lumo lift by Lumobody tech) and the app doesn't work since the company got acquired by another. If there was documentation, someone might have stepped up and written a replacement app or something to connect to the device.

At this point, this kind of puts me off from buying any kind of hardware tech from a startup that might not be around for a few years, since it might just turn up to be another tech paperweight.
Wikipedia, Google Docs, Microsoft Word... they're far simpler systems, but still useful for everyday edits
I wish Servo project would have continued to enable a real browser.
120 dB of dynamic range -- meaning one pixel is ~20 bits hotter than the one next to it -- sounds pretty amazing. I had no idea modern image sensors were capable of anything close to that. Is that the correct interpretation of "dynamic range" in this context, or is there a more specialized definition that leave some room for handwaving?

The last time I messed around with digitizing video, you got 8 bits of each R/G/B component and you were happy about it.
It’s a combination of supply side issues and demand which remains heavily tilted towards goods (vs services)
I can think of two examples that worked fairly well: Allende and Morales. It's debatable to what degree they were democratic socialism or social democracy (given they both exist on a fairly ambiguous spectrum) but both nationalised various industries and promoted social justice and growth of cooperatives.

I suppose you could say there's central economic decision making in the form of regulation and nationalisation, but this contrasts with the kind of economic planning that's been proven to be disastrous in Marxist-Leninist countries.

Hopefully Gabriel Boric will prove to be another successful example.
It's been interesting to check the situation occasionally on sites like flightaware. Definitely a lot of traffic rerouting through Turkish airspace.
You can try out a subscription to safari books online by O'rielly. They have a lot of learning paths that contain both books and video courses that cover various development and DevOps streams.
In many ways it was (and is). Many research projects are government funded and produce FOSS. The entire industrial/academic space surrounding the development of Unix, sharing of source code tapes, and the emergence of RMS and GNU were running primarily on government funding. The long-running jokes about Linux and beowulf clusters were echoes of the actual government funding driving many activities where FOSS interface with computational science.

Now, you might have the mistaken idea that science or other R&D funding is easy to access like ticking a box on a tax form. No, you need lots of bureaucratic support and so to work under government funding is to get a job in a university or other research lab that is equipped to chase, win, and collect government funding. Your position is "soft money" and depends on either you (as a principal investigator) or your boss engaging this constant struggle to win the next contract that keeps you from losing funding and your position. Some of this money splashes around to student workers, graduate students, postdocs, or interns. A lot is spent on more permanent, full-time faculty and staff as well as other infrastructure and administration.

The big shift I have seen in my ~25 year career is that the industrial participants in this environment have shifted from being primarily government-contract focused to being consumer-focused. The whole cloud/internet revolution has brought these new corporations who no longer depend first and foremost on government grants from the science or defense research complex. Earlier, we also saw shifts with enterprise, B2B-focused corporations and vendors, but I think they often had more overlap with the traditional government funding sources and also blended in a little more.