skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its confusing to me that this would be the case, when the Bootes Void alone is ~330M ly in diameter; and that's small. The Canes Venatici Supervoid is upward of 1300M ly in diameter; the LOWZ North 13788 void is potentially as large as 3000M ly; the list goes on. We've detected over 100 of these supervoids larger than the "End of Greatness"; and that's just what we've seen so far.

Obviously, supervoids are a part of universal uniformity, at a large enough scale, but I'm having a hard time rectifying that the scale we're talking about is ~300M ly, and not significantly larger, with the fact that there are, trivially, a large number of "300M ly windows" one could pick, anywhere in the universe, and see extremely different things. In some cases, an extreme density of billions of galaxies, and in others a number that is dwarfed by even the number of large bodies in our own solar system. Is this a situation where we just didn't know about these 300M+ ly superstructures when that scale was calculated, and it needs to be revised? Or we knew about them, the math would naturally allow for a level of deviation, and to this day they're still rare and small enough that the deviation is low? Or is there something about the math I'm missing whereby discovering any number of these, into the future, still allows that ~300Mly number to work?

More to read, I do believe.
It's the last thing they'll expect.
Paper published March 21st... the authors were a couple weeks late to publish & qualify for "free of precious metals", given the nickel market situation.

LME closed the market December 8th & undid the previous days $3.9B in trades, where market value over doubled[1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-18/behind-th...
I have never held a design job, but I think his teaching has made me a much better human whenever I am making a decision in the workplace. I look for the affordances in anything we are doing.
Kind of the same. I was too poor to participate in extracurriculars. I was lucky to have clothes on my back and food on the table and electricity to do my homework and run my hacked together computer. I still graduated valedictorian. No sports, no music, nothing. I was on the chess team as a senior because we moved closer to the school, and I was able to walk to school in only 15 minutes which was huge for me. I was already a senior at that point, and it felt silly to start joining extracurriculars at that point. I had more time than some of the rich kids who were in everything in addition to keeping their grades top-notch. Between my great SAT scores and being valedictorian, I was able to go to great university that I might not have been able to attend otherwise.
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Valuing something like breadth of experience and being a well rounded person might be considered one of the things that makes a western style education as good as it is. Compared to other types of university systems, for example the one in India which is extremely concerned with test scores and performance metrics, many people would consider the western one to be better (including many people in India who try to come to the US for their education if they can). Not saying it's the only thing that makes western education good, but I think it definitely plays a role.
Arguably Rocket League does need to be a viable live service game. Without a sufficient player base, there's not enough for consistent match making...or you get matched to players far outside your skill level. Neither experience is good. Titanfall 2 is a good general example of attempting what you describe. As many have pointed out, that simply doesn't fly anymore. Quake 3 was over twenty years ago.

There are many different attempts at business models in games. Splitgate started with your suggestion and has since gone free to play. Numerous MMOs have tried subscriptions and have gone free to play. It's a sad state of affairs, but for every successful Minecraft, Stardew, or Valheim, there's thousands of failed attempts.
> Doctors aren't financially incetivized to give better healthcare.

I think that's an overly nihilistic and not entirely accurate viewpoint. Good doctors get more patients through referrals, and once they have enough patients they can be more selective about which patients they take on. And they make more money. Bad doctors will lose trust and patients.

What doctors aren't incentivized to do is provide marginally stronger drugs. If aleve works a little bit better but tylenol is easier on your stomach, then is Aleve really "better"? If you actually need a stronger painkiller you can just up the dose. Medicine is rarely a black and white "best" situation.
The platform simply doesn't seem to be available for local authorities to use. So they have to cobble stuff together themselves with Wordpress, Drupal or whatever they have to hand.
Sorry, I'm not getting it. This all sounds like normal sandboxing. Also, if you don't trust your child processes to sandbox you can fix that with an intermediary process.
It's a very good run-through but it's not at all from scratch. That's my sole point. Didn't mean to be harsh, but their title is click-bait.
The original title is the "Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark," to follow this site's guidelines. The current editorialized title (though it has generated much discussion) is "Managers with MBAs are the best at taking money from workers and not much else [pdf]."
Ask HN: Have solar arrays reached a tipping point for residential?
I’m considering a solar array setup on my house in southern England. Has the technology improved and commercial viability reached a tipping point where this is easy to do and is financially worth it?
Hell, we could get rid of the PCIe connector to give it a nicer form factor. I think we're on to something here...
Which is what the people seemed to have been incentivized to do
Yep, that's aquagenic pruritis.
I don't understand why every council should have their own developer. Seems like most municipalities need a standard set of services (the parent mentioned garbage bin collection, but others like council tax payment also come to mind) that can be built once by the UK government and then offered as an SaaS to every council, allowing them to gain economies of scale and freeing up their developers (if any) to work on custom stuff that's too specific to be shared across many municipalities.
Potentially relevant FCC complaint from November 2018: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/111998371507/11_19_18_FCC_compl...

"Apollo tested several fuel types and found that if the corrosive effects of mercury on the spacecraft could be controlled, and they could keep the use of mercury secret, the ACE could seriously outperform its competitors indefinitely. To date, no other electric propulsion thruster can match the efficiency or power of the ACE, and leading experts in the plasma and fusion fields are convinced that Apollo has made a miraculous breakthrough because they all assume that the ACE uses xenon as a fuel source."
Bought myself a Nintendo Switch Oled just to play Hades. Probably the best game i've played in years
I remember my friend laughing at protesters in Hong Kong waving the British flag; they had experienced more democracy under Chinese rule than they ever had under the British.
Ah ok, so you are clearly familiar with linux. :-) Your comment made it seem like you were a Windows user. If linux mint cinnamon works for you, that's great!
Not CORBA - RPC preceded it by at least a decade (at least on Unix and possibly VMS). You defined an interface using a description language (XDR) which generally produced both client and server code. edit: there was also a utility "rpcgen" that automated a lot of stuff.

Sun RPC was (at least I think) the most popular version of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_RPC

The generated code looked after all the marshalling/unmarshalling of your types, did the connection handshaking etc. You had to have a service running on your Unix machine (rpc.bind?). NFS used to use XDR and some variant of RPC to work but I am not sure it does any more.
What length can a Linux network interface name have?
It’s worth noting that engineering is now close to if not the most common undergrad degree for mba graduates
> I may have been involved with those guys at some point…

I would be interested to hear more.
Selecting for students whose parents can afford formal music, art and sport lessons is selecting for wealth. Having extra-curriculars you can document costs money and time.

Poor kids are getting 'well rounded' by spending summer break at work, saving enough money to survive the school year.
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Is this linux GRO, or LRO? I've found that GRO is can be less efficient than LRO, but its been 7 years since I paid much attention to Linux performance..
Had they remembered to connect the ground reference for the Bus Pirate, they would've had a much easier time reading the data back :)

OTOH: how is that even legal? I can't fully grasp how privacy is perceived as a sacred basic right in the US, but then they have dealers tracking people's cars for repossession purposes...
I'm sorry I should have said it uses diffie hellman key exchange. And you are correct it can be mitm. I see that as its primary intrinsic weakness. (Password entropy, storage, are separate problems)

I would contrast this with the weakness of keys being that if the devs keys are compromised so are all the other servers he has access too. (I can memorize my passwords, or write them on a note card. Say what you will about that, it's out of band.)

In light of that the question as to what's best is your threat model. Poor opsec per dev or an upstream network sniffer.

Thanks for all your input all over this thread. I'm revisiting my convictions.

Would you disagree with I've said?
> when I finally quit emplyoment for good.

Tell me more...seriously
The sibling comment correctly explains why the article doesn't say what you thought it did, that the US had been giving aid to Ukraine since 2014 and only in 2018 specified that none of that aid should go to a particular militia.

The real reason the US didn't arm Ukraine was that it didn't want to provoke Putin into escalating the conflict: https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-ukraine-russia-we...
I wondered if they would find a sim card or other cellular subscriber info in the cellular modem. I'd also hope they could tell if the modem was being activated and transmitting when they powered up the device, and maybe drove it around.

As for VOD, maybe it underreported miles driven because the gps stopped working in areas with poor signal.
Was it not "open to all" who could pass its admissions tests before? I suppose the skilled wordsmiths at the New Yorker thought "open to all" sounded better than "drops its admissions standards".
Is the Maps application getting the position data from GPS alone or rather from accelerometer plus earlier good reading (using GPS or cell tower known position) or some fancy sensor data merging (Kalman filter)?
It's a trade-off. I'd rather live in a democracy and take my chances with Covid-19 than live under an authoritarian regime. Even authoritarians are correct at least twice a day.
LGR did a video on the system here: https://youtu.be/TUS0Zv2APjU
Thanks for the explanation. This is one of the few times when the explanation makes the joke much funnier.

Looks like making a joke at the expense of people-in-power has always been funny.
Continuing the thread, my favourites are the sequence of telescopes named "very large telescope", "extremely large telescope" and "overwhelmingly large telescope"!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco...
your comment makes sense from a layman's perspective of logic and economics. but in the industry you'll find most doctors actually do not want to see patients for revisits and would rather a pill or injection solve the problem in one go. unfortunately due to biology this is rarely the case, and managers/pharma reps/business dev are keen to capitalize on it- not the overworked doctors.
This is part of the story, but it's not all of it. Newspapers and paid cable have had ads for as long as I can remember, even for paying subscribers. So do some tiers of paid Hulu. Paid versions of Windows have started to see more intrusive in-OS ads, and we see ad-supported versions of the Kindle put on the market even though the original Kindle had no ads.

I signed up for a popular online magazine just this week and even when I'm logged in, I see ads begging me to subscribe.

Finally, of course, most of the popular services (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google) don't even offer an ability to pay instead of viewing ads, so consumers can't meaningfully express this preference.
I was reading a review of it in Mathematics magazine recently.
Playing the numbers really does seem to be the root of the issue - I've definitely seen occasions with too much focus on mantra-driven accountings practices (playing around shuffling beans from capex to opex), rather than on what actually mattered...

In one case, they wanted to just shuffle numbers between columns in Excel, and there wouldn't have been a business in a few months, as they'd have trimmed all the spend that meant there was a viable and competitive product to sell, and made the monthly outgoings higher than takings, all to make the spreadsheet look nice...

Maybe business managers need to be taught more about innovation and how to get out the way and enable it as a value creator? Or maybe we need to better condense what really matters into a single college class - cutting all the bean counting and financial tricks and focusing on the useful lessons instead?
Pearson had a 50% stake, most of which was sold to the Agnellis. So now, the Agnellis and the Rotschilds are the largest (and, together, controlling) shareholders.

Board members like Lady de Rothschild and Eric "you have no privacy" Schmidt publicly supported/donated to the Hillary Clinton campaign. The Rotschilds were invited by the Clintons to spend their honeymoon at the White House. The rest of the board reads like the attendees at the Bilderberg Group and the Council on Foreign Relations. The very definition of elitism, and collusion with the governments (Schmidt, Alex Karp, who is also on the board, there are also Sirs and Baronesses). "Free trade" - yes, reserved for the multinationals, Most definitely not mom-and-pop, small/medium business oriented anymore (which they used to be, before the sale).

The fact that they (probably still) have superbly written articles should not disguise the shift in their political stance.
When I was younger I had a career in restaurants. One Friday I ran a sloppy joe special and a crew of construction workers ordered 15 or so of them. The next Friday they came back and asked about it again and so began a regular thing of making sloppy joes on Friday. This went on for the better part of a year until we got a new manager. When the staff was packing up the order he screamed "you are putting in way too many napkins!", the waitress objected and ended up putting a pathetic number of them in the order. The guy who picks up the order asks for more napkins, the waitstaff inform him that we can't give him more due to this new policy.

That was the last time they came in for sloppy joes. We lost a $200 a week order over fifty cents of napkins.

This plays out slower in large companies with more complicated products but I always think back to that guy when I see stuff like that.
One thing that might explain this is how different the pressure is between different professions.

My best friend is a surgeon, I work in tech. We both experience pressure but in ver different ways:

1. If he is having a bad day, the impact on his patient life is immense. If I have a bad day, I can always fix it the next day

2. When he is done with his surgeries and comes home, he is "done" for the day. Aside from operating on one more patient - which is unrealistic - there is nothing "more" he can do. On my side, projects can lasts weeks or month. There is always one more bug to tackle, one more behaviour to implement, one more user story to consider.

As a consequence, it's quite easy for him to work part time: just operate on X days instead of Y days, the outcome of his work (Quality of Life for his patients) is not directly impacted by this choice (arguments could be made there).
On my side, moving part time definitely has a direct impact on the outcome of my work (Delivery speed of the project).

In other words, I think it is easier to work part time on jobs where the outcome consists of a lot of small independent tasks, while it's harder for jobs where the outcome is a single bigger unit.
Even after official support ends, it will continue to be in use for a long time.
Rare genital defects seen in sons of men taking major diabetes drug
This comment might be more true to the title than the article.
Based on this MIT press release stating that controlling for socio-economic factors test score was still significant in predicting outcome in college. You want to challenge that you need to come up with data.

18 years of growth differences cannot be made up by "exposure to things" from age 18-22. It helps, but it does not resolve it. If someone is truly smart they will score well on the not-very-difficult ACT/SAT without any test prep in the first place. These are stupidly easy tests by international standards. Just suck it up and recognize that at the high level that these schools operate at, if you are below a certain score range, you are not ready, regardless of how many "opportunities" you are given.

That's not to say that some people aren't capable in other ways and will do just fine in life, but these schools are not for them.
As Matt Levine has rightuflly said:

"What’s odd is not that insider trading law is about theft; what’s odd is that it almost looks like it might be about fairness, and that people think it is."

"One thing that I often say is that insider trading is not about fairness, it is about theft. Whenever an insider trading case is announced, the prosecutors will make a little speech about how financial markets have to be a level playing field, and how the insider traders are cheaters who got the answers before they took the test, but it is all nonsense. Financial markets are not a level playing field; some people will always have faster computers or better resources or more money to spend on research than others, and they should have incentives to find out information that other people don’t have. But more important, the level-playing-field stuff is just not the law. The law doesn’t say that any time you trade on material nonpublic information it’s illegal. The law, to oversimplify a complicated area, makes it illegal to trade on material nonpublic information that you obtained in violation of a duty to someone: It’s illegal for corporate executives to trade on corporate information for their private gain, or to give that information to their buddies in exchange for a personal benefit, or for outsiders to obtain information in confidence and then betray that confidence by trading on it. The real issue is never whether the trading was unfair to the people on the other side; it’s whether the information was misappropriated from its rightful owners."

So how do you make sure the rightful owners have access to the same information?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-13/you-ha...
I have mixed opinions about all the MBA hate on HN.

On the one hand, as an engineer who has reported to and worked with many MBAs, I totally get it. In no way does an MBA give someone any ability to effectively work with or support teams they wouldn't have been able to lead pre-MBA. But unfortunately an MBA often gives people the _belief_ that they can do so.

On the other hand, as a Harvard MBA, I loved the material and program. It was 20 months to recover from burnout, learn from brilliant and passionate professors, and broaden my knowledge in directions I would have been hard-pressed to pursue on my own. When I grew in my career to lead organizations of hundreds and thousands, and had to navigate a larger commercial context, my MBA made me much better at that job.

The MBA was originally intended to equip high-potential, early-career contributors (specifically engineers!) with the skills and context they would need to someday become an organizational leader. And it still can be! Unfortunately though that's no longer the standard trajectory, and I don't know that that's for the best.
For those where the two collide. Otherwise there usually is not enough motivation to pay for a personal CRM :)
> the gpt architecture is well known and has had a few independent implementations. We know it's real

Wasn't the claim that all the secret sauce was in the model?

Also there are systems with a lab in a box style similar to Theranos they just didn't sell themselves as miracle machines capable of identifying everything from a drop of blood.

> But what you get from the API now is not generated or tweaked by humans.

From what I get from the other answers the API basically returns some random crap unless you fine tune some heat parameter. So it isn't surprising that it returns a different answer with every query. I don't know why this is done but I just hope nobody tries to use a system with random output for anything important without first putting it through a human filter.
Eh, you definitely need to understand the business aspects of a space to innovate in it. SaaS was a huge change in the business model but not really the underlying technical stuff. But I think it's a lot easier for someone technical to learn these things than for a business person to learn the tech.
I much preferred the print CSM to their online version. With the print I knew what to read front to back. With their web version it seems less organized. Stories remain for a week or longer as new ones crop up. It’s hard to know where to focus.

The economist model is much better. A dedicate weekly edition you can read front to back with daily articles posted outside of that.
Over what timeframe, though? The whole "optimize for next quarter and ignore the next five years" issue is pretty well-known.
Most public company equity sales are subject to blackout periods where you cannot sell (usually prior to release of financials) because it is presumed anyone with equity compensation views material non-public information as a matter of course. Selling in those dates is subject to liabilities for the employees.

That said if your equity management system doesn’t handle this for you, you have other problems.
I wonder if China had any choice in its Covid strategy. They used the only tool they had, e.g. their control of the population.

When they had a vaccine, it proved of mediocre effectiveness. So they could not rely on it as the main strategy. And they still can't, obviously.

The (still called) Communist Party is very aware of its citizens' opinion. When pollution became a constant muttering, they acted vigorously, so that no "green movement" arise.

The Party has a huge power - but it is expected to deliver, otherwise social unrest ensue. Not being able to control a pandemy is unacceptable, since the dominance is justified by the common good.

The control of the Party on the Chinese population is ambivalent: very real and quite fragile altogether. The Party knows that very clearly.
Oh really interesting. Any good guides you know of how to implement AuthorizedKeysCommand with Redis for example?
Now he does employment for evil