skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, photons are bosons (spin 1 not 1/2) as result they have very different statistics. You can get population inversion (e.g. a laser or bose condensate) where many of the bosons all sit in a single energy level. That's not possible for fermions due to the fermi exclusion principal (e.g. electron orbital shells).
What "ancient egyptian civilization" do you refer to?

4000+ BCE predates the Early Dynastic Period, so for that postulated event to have occurred you must be referring to something earlier, during the prehistory of Egypt.

The better reference is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Historicity .

When expressing a dream you understand to be non-realistic, please don't start "i always thought ...". Perhaps "I always fantasized ..."
Yeah, but I'll watch the videos anyway. Because they're free, I'm not obligated to pay attention to ads and uBlock Origin gets rid of them.
> If you believe lobbying is harmful to our democratic processes please present that argument directly.

Not OP, but it is easy to understand how lobbying is too close to a quid pro quo scheme. If a politician receives donations in any form, in order to push for legislation that may benefit the donors, how is it any different from bribery?
..but, unfortunately doesn't have text-reflow.

Yandex Browser has text-reflow and used to support uBlock Origin [and other extensions] too. Now it no longer supports installing uBO. So Android currently has two browsers, each of which is half useful!
I don’t think there is any research into finding “the true distribution” of intelligence. But intuitively intelligence should have a pretty skewed distribution with a long tail on the lower end where people with varying levels of mental handicap are skewing it, most people above average and a handful of people slightly more intelligent then the mode. This aligns with observation of non-IQ measures of intelligence like school grade or the SAT. This also works intuitively how we think of IQ. If you have an IQ of 70 there is probably something wrong, if you have an IQ of 130, you are probably just a normal person that might be slightly smarter then me.

The problem is assuming standard normal distribution as the true distribution for intelligence is simply bad science. Whatever the distribution truly is (if there even is one) it is not this one. And then psychometricians (including OP) use this as a point in favor of the validity of IQ as a good measure.
> As I understand it, this shields the email from discovery.

LOL that's NOT how discovery works
Wow “penguin III” thanks autocorrect
What’s the reason behind the inches vs millimeters distinction? I understand it’s just a heuristic but I don’t get what the underlying cause is.
> which is simply to say, black people still get profiled by cops even if they own a factory.

You'd be surprised. While basic prejudice of course exists, much commonplace "profiling" is simply driven by statistical signals that happen to correlate with various sorts of bad behavior. Socially aware minorities who wish to actively mitigate this part of the problem (which is otherwise the hardest to address, for fairly obvious reasons) might want to start dressing up with suit and tie when out in public, and driving cars that are nicely-maintained but not too "blingy".

Of course, this goes to show the extent to which police profiling is in fact about broader notions of class and subculture, and not limited to race.
As far as I understand, Invoke is pretty much local Fabric. Or rather, Fabric is a networking layer on top of Invoke.
There are middlemen extracting fees at every step
It's fascinating that the article ends with a very pessimistic quote, but the implication is clear: wiretapping was immune to policy solutions, but technical solutions have been far more effective at solving this problem.

> Futility was the order of the day. “Most experts believe that no matter what legislation is enacted, the unhappy outlook as of now is that wiretapping is here to stay and will increase,” Newsweek reported in an article on “The Busy Wiretappers” in the spring of 1955. The tumultuous decade that followed proved all of the predictions right.

Public-key encryption has brought wiretap-resistant communications to the mainstream through the Internet in a way that would've been basically impossible to do at scale in the analog world.
Some of the other comments here are discussing the extent and ways in which games do or don't succeed in modeling real conflict. Having read the article, I think that's missing the forest for the trees.

The thesis of this article is basically an analogy to the Sapir-Worf Hypothesis.

The games that are common in a culture give rise to certain patterns or abstractions, and those serve as a starting "vocabulary" for approaching conflict. Those patterns also embed, and reinforce, cultural assumptions about conflict. The nature of the rules of the game (e.g. perfect-information or not) is not really as significant as the vocabulary they give us.

So Chess gives us concepts like material advantage, and force-projection, and tempo. Those are concepts which still apply, to varying degrees, in games like Starcraft or LoL, despite those being real-time and having fog of war.

Like Sapir-Worf, we can argue about the extent to which thought is actually molded by the available vocabulary. I think it makes ideas quantitively more accessible, which isn't the same as qualitatively unavailable. I think there is some value in examining to what extent a certain cultural assumption pervades all our models of conflict, and what the consequences are of invalidating that assumption. The article mentions the finite-ness of conflict, I'll bring up another which is the bounded-ness of the area of conflict.
I would be shocked if OBD-2 is used for any key programming. They're almost certainly using a CAN bus (modern cars have both, OBD-2 strictly for legacy emissions testing and multiple CAN buses for everything else). Not that a CAN bus is any less accessible or more secure, but in almost all cases to do anything non-trivial over CAN like key programming requires the $20k dealer computer system (which is specific to every manufacturer and sometimes even model of car) or some serious reverse engineering chops and weeks of time to figure it out.
Straight man here. I have a solution to all this and it's the same solution many (though my understanding not all) gay men practice: anal sex.

It's all my wife and I do together. No pill needed! (Practice safe sex.)
This is always said, but it is never true.
The olds die, and the youngs become the old.

As Abe Simpsons famously said, "I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"
I was Chris's housemate at the time, the victim of the hours of 'sssshhhh sssshhhh shhhhh'. Interestingly, he rendered this mostly by drawing boxes in pov-ray -- I'm not sure what he used to make dimensioned drawings, but it was definitely not any of the modern CAD tools, and they were mostly for his reference.

But these days, I do highly recommend Onshape -- it breaks down a lot of the 'rules' that I thought I knew about CAD software. I started using it about two months ago; one of my clients uses it for real industrial design of some IoT hardware, so it is powerful enough to do real things. Before I started using Onshape, I thought that 1) all CAD software was a million billion gigabytes, and required stupidly powerful hardware for no readily apparent reason, and 2) had an annoying licensing model that requires you to jump through hoops to get access to the free tier. Well, neither of these are true with Onshape: I went from 'hmm, maybe I should try this for my personal projects' to 'constraining a sketch' in about 90 seconds ... on Linux ... in Firefox ... on my Shenzhen ThinkPad ... with an Intel GPU. I was blown away at how much it failed to suck.

Anyway, my suggestion on choosing software is: it probably doesn't all that much matter. What you want to learn is the CAD mindset, not the software. An experienced MechE once told me that if you are not careful, you can end up writing 'spaghetti CAD'. These tools these days give you a lot of features that are, in theory, more expressive, but in practice, can result in unmanufacturable parts or unmaintainable designs: be careful!
I think the question is more about whether you have the same ethical framework when dealing with other cultures as when dealing with your own, not whether other cultures tend toward different ethical standards themselves.
If you don't mind me asking, what city library do you use or recommend? This sounds interesting but I'm just unsure how to go about applying for one
Labels of various types that have specific places to print on the page is the issue for me.

There's a test page that can be printed that shows alignment. The docs say to try something if it comes out skewed, but if that doesn't work then to take it to a certified place blah blah. It's clearly out of warranty, so that's a no go.

I recently upgraded capabilities as doing more than could honestly be expected of a $99 printer. It has been well worth the expense of a higher model printer.

Outside of that, I still love my $99 Brother B&W laser with scanner for anything not specialty labels. I look at it like not getting upset that a 1980s Yugo doesn't get nearly the same lap times as a 2000s model supercar
I think that might be on purpose. Proponents of general IQ really want IQ to be immutable (i.e. mostly hereditary) and really don’t want it to be diverse and nuanced (hence general intelligence). I.e. they don’t want IQ test to resemble fitness tests. So they try their best to design their tests in a way that it stays consistent across time and exercise does not affect test scores that much. A test that actually measures a specific thing and increases with exercise (e.g. the SAT) is discounted as a factor.

In fact the foundations of IQ tests lies heavily on the eugenics movement which wanted to prove the superiority of able bodied white men. They actually started by assuming brain size correlates with intelligence (it doesn’t) and then set out and proved that on average white men had the biggest brain of them all (which is also false). The nuances of fitness does not help in this goals as one can easily just pick a type of intelligence/fitness which white men perform poorly at in general so their claim was that there exists a general intelligence to remove this nuance. Their current IQ tests are all set up to assume this is true, and hence you can see it in the results. If you can’t then you are not really measuring intelligence.
Show HN: CLI tool to check Certificate Transparency Logs
If it becomes really bad there's a good chance governments will step in and heavily tax offshoring or provide tax benefits for reshoring.
Built a QA department from scratch. Places are getting tight on the purse strings in general, and you can tell when software comes from somewhere that divested themselves from QA as a business concern. Ratios of 4+ to 1 dev:QA abound, and the depth to which QA departments can even do their primary business integrative functions suffers greatly for it.

The most irritating aspect I notice is the tendency for having to do the same project multiple times because requirements, and user/devteam communication isn't what it should be.

QA's increasingly are facing an uphill battle against information overload, that management and typical textbook PM processes are very ill-equipped to detect; there's also the fact that your "contract" QA departmemt, does not have incentive alignment. The most horrible devs can be endured by a QA group that cycles out QA's on a 2-3 month basis. The in-house QA group that logs in to the same steaming pile of low-quality crap will soon either find themselves motivated to trim waste or otherwise increase the efficiency and processes where they are.

I can only ever get FTE QA's to even deeply learn the business... I can't do that generally with contractors. So if places are doing away with QA... I wouldn't be surprised. And I don't think the upswing in software origin'd suffering from my perspective is just a coincidence either.
As most professional developers know, coding is only a fraction of the total software process. There is team planning, debugging, sales, support, teaching, management, etc. A startup might spend half its hours on coding. At a mature software conglomerate this may fall to one-fifth of the hours. Learning all this can take a year of more.

Its not what you see in most schools where it mostly coding. However thats improving as students put stuff on github in a turnkey state.
Any younger doctor has most certainly had sensitivity vs specificity hammered into them in med school.

I remember reading studies about doctors not understanding the stats years ago, but my wife assures me that medical education has over corrected in the last decade or 2.
“So dangerous” Really?

Those arguing that LEO internet satellites are an existential threat had better come up with a rural internet alternative if that’s their position. Because internet availability is a genie that’s not going back in the bottle.
I'm not discounting any of that. Definitely won't be easy and that's why I say about a decade before we really see a shift.
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As much as people want to pretend the pandemic is over, it isn't.

No, it's not over, in fact we're at our worst rate of world-wide daily cases since November 2021. Believe me, I'm both a pessimist, and one of the more COVID-cautious people here.

But in my region/anywhere I'd like to go, I can, and currently feel comfortable doing just about anything I want[1] - and have been for most of the past year (Sans Omicron surge).

> You can still go to a restaurant today, or travel, and co-working spaces might be open, but enough people are still reluctant to attend events that a lot of things aren't sustainable right now. I certainly wouldn't go meet someone at a restaurant for lunch right now, even though I can.

Sure, you may feel that way - but I haven't felt that way. So, for me, there are no practical restrictions on what I, or my friends can do. Nothing that I liked doing three years ago is unavailable today.

... And yet, I vastly prefer going into work over WFH.

[1] I don't feel comfortable licking doorknobs or getting into a moshpit, but I didn't feel comfortable doing that pre-COVID, either.
It's almost as if the people should form a more perfect union.
Not when you have a deadline and your stuff is behind, you don't :-)

Happily, it was better than that. Most of these courses were online, and you could just let the videos of actors working through scenarios run in the background and then answer some simple questions. The questions never varied and the correct answer was usually pretty obvious (e.g., don't pick any answer that includes hiding a body).
> The game of Go, is the big Chinese game of strategy. Warlords and generals from the past 3 millennia have played the game of Go. Surely this has also affected Chinese war and strategy?

One of the interesting things about Chinese history is that they expanded by getting conquered (multiple times), most recently with the Manchus who became the Qing dynasty. Given the time scales involved I don't think it is a deliberate strategy, but perhaps the reason it's worked in China does has something to do with their historical approach to war/strategy.
What we've found at the last minute so far has been small, but that doesn't mean that the only last-minute discoveries will be small asteroids always and forever.
No study or findings here, just an advert for a company intending to market insects for protein.
> you probably shouldn't be allowed to YOLO handling it

Exactly. If a company doesn't care enough about its users to even tell them what they are doing with their data (or in some cases even know what they are doing with it) then the user can't expect that company to secure it or to provide a valuable service with it.
Some people prefer working in an office because it helps them stay disciplined and keep a better work/life balance. Perhaps I’m just speaking for myself here, but I tend to get lazy and feel like my life has much less structure as a fully-remote worker.
Telescopes use long exposures. The satellites leave streaks and a lot of pixels would have to be deleted.
> and then there's better options than a chemical pill for those situations already

What are the better options? Male condoms have a "typical use failure rate" of 13%, and a "perfect use failure rate" of 2%. Which isn't really good compared to chemical contraceptives like the pill.

You can see numbers here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_me...
for long-term birth control a copper (non-hormonal) IUD might be a better option. You don't have to remember to take pills, and it's less chemically disruptive to the body. Or better yet a vasectomy if you never want kids.
If a government organization would want to use a Linux, how hard would it actually be? Is it a viable alternative?
The OBD port exposes diagnostic interface on most cars, either K-Line or CAN.

And indeed, many cars in the early 2000s supported key enrollment without cryptographic material using diagnostic tools, so it was only a matter of sniffing a dealership tool.

More modern cars from most manufacturers require cryptographic material from a central server to enroll keys. These systems are still often broken (look up XHorse for a popular product in this space) but generally require more in-depth physical access or complex software exploits to bypass the signing process or extract private key material from hardware.
Well if a big problematic astroid needs to be 3 times brighter to be detected due to StarLink (made up number) it can come 9 times closer without being detected. O(n^2) is baked in sadly.
> Under what circumstances would one use this over a condom?

I personally find sex without condoms much more pleasurable and I suspect I'm not alone. I would be open to using an effective and affordable form of male birth control in a committed relationship if it meant I didn't have to use a condom.

That said, for casual encounters, this could be used in addition to a condom, just to "be sure."
So your point would be... what? Women already have birth control and still can take it. A male birth control pill helps prevent the opposite situation where she "forgot" to take the pill, or the small chance that a fertilized egg stays attached, henceforth putting the man on a financial hook. What you wrote here comes off as a case of "women most affected" since you're implying there's an asymmetric risk profile that doesn't already exist for men. Somehow having a more leveled playing field only works in long-term relationships? If anything, it's a greater benefit in short-term relationships since you can be assured that even if a condom fails the chance of pregnancy would be scant.
I didn’t realize people still took pills in committed relationships. My doc friends said a copper iud is pretty much the gold standard.

Thanks for the info.
The article (or, rather, the commentary in the link above on the article) talks about the fallacious notion of "market cap" in regards to cryptocurrencies. That is to say, e.g., multiplying the number of bitcoins in existence times the current market price is a silly metric because the entire market would never be able to cash-out at that maximum price.

What I was wondering was: is there a better number? e.g., is there a way to calculate the amount of USD put into a cryptocurrency across a timeframe? What I'm imagining is a metric like (sum of all bitcoins bought by USD purchase price) - (sum of all bitcoins sold by USD sale price) = amount of USD that has been put "into" bitcoin. That first glance, one might expect this number to equal zero, but it should be greater than zero because of the new coins created by mining.
Photographer Is Documenting Ancient Baobab Trees Before They All Disappear
You work for FB or something?
It might also depend on where in Russia specifically. Moscow and Saint Petersburg are its own thing pretty much, so I can totally believe that things have improved there. But imo the further away you go from those two largest cities and the smaller the population is, the worse it would get.

I lived in a city of about half a million people about 800 miles east of Moscow (still in the European part of it though, not past-the-mountains regions), and it was definitely still the case there as of a few years ago (because my dad moved back there a while ago).
Saudi Arabia Grand Prix to continue as planned after 'attack' at oil depot
That doesn't follow. You have to trust people to have taken the pill.

If the pill worked when you took it 5 minutes in advance of the act, you could both watch each other take it and find something else to do for five minutes. That's not the case.
It's already been happening and will increase for sure, but so far hasn't really affected salaries as far as I can see, U.S devs haven't felt a thing yet. If anything, salaries in East Europe went way up.

What I do fear is interest rate starting to rise and the implications of that on our industry but that's another thread.
iChat had multi-party video calls and virtual backgrounds in 2008. It blows my mind when Apple talks about multi-party FaceTime calls like it's a new feature.
> Terragraph is a wireless technology designed to meet the growing demand for reliable, high-speed internet access in urban and suburban environments.

From https://terragraph.com/product/

I don't think this is a solution for remote areas.
I hope this doesn't come off as unnecessarily combative, but the real solution here is to check, verify, double-check and triple-check when presented with notation that's unfamiliar with you.

> How do we solve this more universally?

It's not a universal problem. While entire cultures and countries /could/ invest resources changing (and more people experience confusion centered around any transition), it really isn't a problem for most. And when it is, it's unlikely to be a problem a second time. Once bit, twice shy.
> While basic prejudice of course exists

You can stop writing after this, you've already agreed with me that class is not the sole driver of material inequality.

"Subculture" is also rooted in an ideology not centering class, and as you've used it (and as you ridiculously asserted elsewhere in the comments "the right has always been working to address prejudiced attitudes"), I suspect here it's a dogwhistle.
IBM files IP lawsuit against mainframe migration firm LzLabs
The US SEC started a similar program in 2012, but with a smaller cut (10-30%). It's been quite successful, with $1 billion+ in whistleblower awards so far

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-177
There is no such thing as OBD-3 currently.

All cars sold in the US since 2008 use ISO 15765-4 OBD over CAN for emissions diagnosis, and almost all use ISO 14229 UDS for manufacturer/dealership diagnosis.
Open Enrolment and Mechanism Design
> If the atrocities were committed by Chinese/Indian companies, the media would have vehemently criticized those countries and companies. But, as long as US and EU are involved media seems to be silent which I don't like.

That's ridiculous. Compare Ericsson to ZTE/Huawei, for example. Of course it'll get coverage in the US media though, it's mainly the US DOJ that will prosecute those foreign companies for bribery - not their own governments.
I would update code as follow:

if (can solve hard leetcode problems) {

return moveToManagement(moveToFAANG);
} else {
// move out of developer roles

return
moveToManagement(bestBrandedCompanyCanGetInto).asynchronous(workOnOwnCompanyInFreeTime);
}

Even in FAANGs, there is a limit on how many engineers will reach the top level.

Check out Developer Hegemony by Erik Dietrich. I am an engineer at heart but this book convinced me to move into management.
Masters of doom goes through these stories in detail. Very good book.
Why not Matrix with bridges?