skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm also somewhat doubtful of cost-of-labour explanations. Wouldn't it be rational for some organizations to pay a lot more to get people to work longer hours if that's all that's going on? (It would almost certainly be cheaper to do that than to have the project take twice as long in total.) And why did many of the instances enumerated on the page happen in relatively high cost (for the time) locations, like New York, DC, and San Francisco, rather than in cheaper places?

As far as I can tell, for a lot of transit projects in the US, at least, the capital isn't there up-front to just pay more to parallelize things. The money is being raised by a long-duration tax so it comes in incrementally.

And then there's a second closely related factor: do we have the production capacity to switch from a five-year-project-horizon to a one-year one even if we wanted to spend the money faster?

It seems like it feeds itself, when it comes to cities and infrastructure:

- huge early growth spurs a big demand, construction industry spins up around it (this, I think, answers the "why did stuff happen in high-cost areas" question - high demand is what causes high cost, so in an area where nobody is demanding infrastructure, there's gonna be a lot less reason to build it)

- a lot of stuff, once built, will last decades or longer, and would be extra-hard and expensive to replace. so once demand starts to be met, and growth starts to slow, the construction industry gets less and less business, so it shrinks

- this is a limiting factor on new projects, but they're also seen as less urgent than the initial stuff (road widening is less critical than creating a road where there was none, say), so the slower pace is accepted.

- red tape also starts to develop, since in a new-frontier situation there are fewer entrenched powers to create regulations to protect things (whether or not those regulations are net-beneficial!)

That's my current pet theory, anyway: It's not that we've deteriorated, it's more that priorities, effort, and industry have shifted. There are a LOT of other things that happen far faster now than they did 30 years ago in 1992, after all; and unbelievably faster than they did when the Empire State Building was constructed. Sometimes it's harder to repair a body than to make a new human in the first place, if you will ;)
> uthor here. I do work in machine learning, my day job is as a machine learning engineer in a medical lab. Some, like me, think it is inevitable and coming very, very soon

Yet industry leaders like Yann LeCun think AGI is nonsense
Have you ever tried to explain associativity of boolean operators to a person with a law degree?
I like where you went with this.

1. The corporation itself is built on business metrics though. Everyone quantifies this way, it’s table stakes to portray oneself as responsible for a positive change in business metrics. You still must pretend they matter even if you know better.

2. What do you think about quantifying by the free market? Eg. the annual revenue contribution of a new SaaS SKU that you spearheaded.
I have seldom seen predictions about technology come to fruition at the predicted date. If they come at all (they usually don't), it's usually much later. Sure, some naysayers might have said "we will never solve chess/go/etc." but I think they were overall fewer than the people who thought it was right around the corner (and it was more of a philosophical argument than a scientific one).

Totally unpredicted advances coming out of the blue, yeah, that happens often. But as far as AGI goes, it's been predicted pretty much every year since the 70s. Being too conservative about extrapolation doesn't seem to be our problem. If anything, I think we're overeager.
Depends on the game!
> Never thought I'd see the day when Wacom would use their Linux support as a selling point.

I never thought any consumer-grade product would, lol. Also we recently got Steam Deck out in the market, so maybe Linux is really becoming a desktop OS...?
Why are EDR's from LE even a thing? If it's really such a matter of life and death, they should have a judge on call (i.e. a judge-type judge, with a robe and a gavel) to issue an emergency court order. So it's a real court order and not some simulation from a police department. Of course that can also be forged so this question is only about why judges are removed from the loop. If it's really a matter of life and death, wake up the damn judge. If that's too big a deal, you are doing too many of these "emergency" requests.
Ordered some things from walmart.com, half of it was third-party sellers. They were sort of transparent about it, though, and the quality was at least what I'd expect from inside a Walmart.
DOJ doesn’t prosecute “innocent” crime. Unless there’s a pressing political angle, they don’t bring prosecutions unless the wrongdoing rises to a fairly serious level. It’s not normally enough that you violate the letter of the law.
The very same, and this one is a few thousand miles away from the other nightmare, and is not blocking anyone else.
As I recall it’s a bitch making redis highly available in production. But maybe easier now if you find a good K8s operator for it or just use elasticache.
Reliance Jio adds highest active users despite gross sub losses
RTI: Road Traffic Incident, an updated term for a "car accident" or "motor vehicle collision".

From a quick search, I think it's British. As an American, I'd never encountered either the acronym or the expanded form.
Arms race with the penis.
Only the President has absolute authority to declassify at will. And her major crime wasn’t mishandling classified materials. It was destroying evidence that was the subject of a congressional subpoena. She probably did it because she realized that by comingling her personal and official business, she exposed her embarrassing (or worse) personal affairs to being disclosed to Congress. Look how much political damage Podesta’s leaked emails did to her. Imagine every single email she sent and received for several years.
Modes of CTO Success and Failure
Am I alone in just never answering my phone? Like, ever, for _any_ unknown number. Seems like that alone solves a certain class of problems.
The Unskippable Opening Credits for Severance
From a Bayesian perspective, it's difficult-to-impossible to evaluate the probability of these events without in-depth knowledge of genetics and/or epidemiology, and they could easily be highly correlated.

The alternative explanation to the lab leak is that the lab was studying factors like infection through ACE2 and furin cleavage sites because they were things considered likely to happen on their own, and were worth preparing for. Studying and preparing for possible mutations is what gain-of-function research is for.

Also, half of the bullets sound like filler. "An outbreak of a novel virus occurs in a city" is definitely filler, and I'd estimate that P( "outbreak of a novel coronavirus occurs in a city with a virus lab that studies coronaviruses" | "an outbreak of a novel virus occurs in a city with a virus lab" ) is probably not that far from 1.00.

And at the end you seem to be proposing the fact that they haven't faked a zoonotic origin is evidence that it was lab-created? That sounds backwards.

When faced with sourceless, pointless suffering, there's not much else to do than clean up the mess and prepare for if it comes back. A person or group of people to blame gives them someone to direct their anger at. If there's a villain, then it's possible to get revenge. People are motivated to create and believe explanations that give them someone to blame, so such explanations deserve more skepticism than others.

The creeping escalation is fun and dramatic, but here it's mainly serving to puff up the amount of evidence at hand.
After the dotcom crash, out of work folks noodled on their own projects for a while, and eventually a bunch of scrappy startups formed (or pivoted) that became the web 2.0 wave.

I wonder if something similar might happen now in China.

Would anyone be able to tell if open source activity from users in China increases? That might be a decent leading indicator.
The awkward timing of Fedora and Go releases
One obvious thing I'd do if Officer Bob from the Podunk PD asked me for anything, is say "let me call you back", find the published phone number of the Podunk PD, call it, and ask for Officer Bob. I'd of course tell him I was about to do that, so he could arrange to receive a call from the PD front desk, or at least have them confirm that they had just talked to him. So the crooks would have to intercept that front desk number too, if they wanted to fake it. That would at least slow them down a little more, I hope.
> When I take myself to the doctor no one can tell me how much anything costs.

Not an American so asking out of curiosity - don't hospitals have price lists?
Two pages is fine. It’s very easy these days to add a “see LinkedIn for more details” disclaimer.
Fascinating article. I'd heard about ducks before, but the complexity is really telling.

I'm not sure I fully appreciate the evolutionary pressure in the bird's "arms" race, in that the female duck chooses mate despite violent competing males. Up to 40% die in the violence -- would that not put evolutionary selection in favor of females that lack resistance?
I've lived in both countries. While Americans are very strong believers in democracy, Americans trust their government much less than than people in smaller countries. It may be directly related to the problem of empathy at a distance. There are things that I would trust the Australian Government to do that I would not trust the US Government to do, not because I think the Australian politicians are more competent or trustworthy, but because the United States population is 13 times greater, making a human connection between politicians and and constituents, keeping trust and accountability is an order of magnitude easier with a population that's an order of magnitude smaller.
I think it's going to become more common. With Steam Deck and accompanying improvements to Proton, and Chrome OS supporting it too, the year of Linux on the desktop is starting to become less of a joke.
Hmm, more personal abuse, still no content. To paraphrase your comments so far -

"I don't care if what you say is factual, facts don't matter to me at all, here's a bunch of things I made up about you that I don't like"

This is basically low-effort trolling.
3/10, must try harder.
Is the price difference worth having a Windows license and dual booting?
In a past lifetime I was a big user of Fusion. A limited version is these days free as part of DaVinci Resolve. I think the paid version is only $300. Quite a good deal for such a powerful tool. Fusion can be used alongside with its friends After Effects, Nuke, Flame
> Okay but if I depend on A and A depends on C and has it pinned at 1.5, but I also depend on B and B has C pinned on 1.8, then I get 1.5?

No, you end up with the highest explicitly required version. So 1.8 in that scenario, if I followed. (Requiring 1.5 is declaring support for "1.5 or higher". Requiring 1.8 is declaring support for "1.8 or higher". 1.8 satisfies both of those requirements).

> if the constraints on C across various transitive deps are > 1.5 and > 1.8, and 1.9 or 1.10 exists, I probably want the last version of those.

By default, you get 1.8 (for reasons outlined upthread and in the blog post & related links), but you have the option of getting the latest version of C at any time of your choosing (e.g., 'go get C@latest', or 'go get -u ./...' to get latest versions of all dependencies, and so on).

Also, you are using the word "pin". The way it works is that the top-level module in a build has the option to force a particular version of any direct or indirect dependency, but intermediate modules in a build cannot. So as the author of the top-level module, you could force a version of C if you needed to, but for example your dependency B cannot "pin" C in your build.
Probably worthwhile to consider it as familiarity bias -- as claimed by the article, the male researchers missed the vaginal shapes, so it's not just anthropocentricism.
Same here (Western Australia) and it's closer to $2500 than the $200 mentioned above.
Between he publicly deciding to abandon BitKeeper and making git there were a few months. I imagine he would start pondering it right away, even if only to get a feature list to look in a replacement.
I gotta say that I can remember seeing wacom support in GNOME and KDE settings apps since forever it seems like (2004? 2005? I'm getting old I think). I've never used one of their devices, but the brand has lodged itself pretty firmly in my mind for the goto artisticle input methodology, just because of their Linux support.
1 Big thing: Democracy is good for your health
> I feel like torrents and filesharing isn't going to need much fact checking. Unless you're perhaps talking about lawsuits or something where you might end up getting sued for your words.

torrentfreak.com is a current example of a long running blog about filesharing/torrent related news that constantly gets things wrong with no fact checking. Their articles are fine when they're about legal cases, new copyright laws, or actions of governments. But when they report on the goings on of non-mainstream streaming sites or private trackers they're almost completely fabricating their articles - believing the words of any "source" that sends them info without doing any sort of validation on it.
Tiflash, Yet another columnar storage engine based on ClickHouse
Yeah, same company and same class of ships. The ship that got stuck in the Suez had gotten stuck other places previous and might have gotten stuck afterwards too faik. Huge ships played a part in the bottlenecking of LA/Long Beach also.

In the last time years, all of the largest shipping companies have built ships that are essentially way too big, just to save some marginal amount. A big part of this is that these shipping lines mostly don't have to pay the downside of this absurdity.
The ReMarkable E-paper tablets use Wacom technologies (battery-free pen, etc) on a tiny Linux platform. The result is the best digital writing experience I've ever had.
I figured that had to be the case. Thanks!
When I was at Facebook, they had network to my desk, and it often worked; with 802.1x too (certs automanaged by the corporate spyware). You could get a usb nic out of a vending machine if you had a poorly specified machine that doesn't have an ethernet port. If the vending machine doesn't have a compatible nic, the helpdesk probably would (they did for me, my corporate issued macbook had usb-a and the vending machine only had usb-c nics; I had been using a personal 10/100 usb nic for some time, but needed 1G for something eventually).

Their wifi was pretty ok though. I went a month or so without noticing that my personal usb nic had stopped working after an macOS update (needless to say, I'm not a fan of macs after experience using one at that job).
i was surprised when i installed Linux and without doing anything a Wacom tab in the system settings was there and the tablet just worked without having to do anything, same with my printer just works straight away unlike Windows i still have not printed in color on my espon printer just refuses to do it.
Is Firefox still a common target for development? I thought their marketshare had fallen below 1%?

I stand corrected, it's hovering just under 4% on average per https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2021...
If you've set up a local-only controller, avoiding cloud nags, and poked around via SSH on their boxes, you'll realize it's nice, solid, hardware but the adoption process is a brittle and buggy mess. The controller is Java and Mongodb and picky to install but fortunately someone is making dockerfiles for it.

I think it's still an okay value but you need to watch your flanks.
Here's another vote for 3Blue1Brown's series on linear algebra [1]. Spending a few hours on this series will easily save you dozens of hours when going through a comprehensive LA textbook.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
Newest psychedelic drug is sound?
and why did they think a company who is there to make money would give you a device that will print you money... and not just keep it for them self's...
I have long suspected that what makes roundabouts safe is that they feel like they aren’t. People speed when the lanes are wide as well. There have been some people experimenting with optical illusions that make highways feel less safe than they actually are, such as forced perspective to make obstacles off the highway look closer, which encourages the drivers to slow down and pay attention.
What is your threshold for 'knowing'?

Evolution by natural selection has been witnessed in modern times. Is there some reason to doubt the fossil record evidence that life has repeatedly developed from simpler forms toward more complex? (Albeit repeatedly as changing conditions caused some mass extinctions.)
But it costs as much as a tablet computer.
So does maritime law override any contract between the ship owner and cargo shipper or does it just mandate that it is included in any contract?

Also does the local pilot bear any responsibility?

>Ever Forward ran aground on March 13 outside the Craighill shipping channel in Chesapeake Bay as it departed the Port of Baltimore with a pilot on board.

From another article...

>The Bay pilot aboard had control of the ship at the time it ran aground. Investigators are still looking at whether it was a mechanical issue or operator error that caused it to leave the channel.
What makes you say it is poorly coded and implemented?
He also worked on Clipper apparently. But this patent seems to use public-key techniques for escrow, which Clipper didn't... probably because Clipper was hardware and couldn't handle the cost of those operations.
President’s pardons are part of the presidents powers as defined by laws. I would have no problem if Mr President pardoned Hillary for her misuse of classified information, etc. This is not ethical from my pov but it is legal.

Edit: I would also have no problem with Mr President pardoning the NSA employee from the parent post.
Pretty close phonetically!
Not exactly what you're talking about, but I've seen a few RaspberryPi + iPad + External Keyboard setups where they either use the iPad as an external display or VNC into the Pi from the iPad. IIRC you can power the Pi via USB C -> PoE on iPads with sensible ports on them, so you don't need an external battery or UPS.

Again, not what you actually want (I share your pain/longing), but damn if it isn't starting to get close.
I LOVE this.
I also saw this (Naur's piece) linked to in that thread; thank you for submitting it, and it's rather a shame it didn't get many upvotes. It is definitely front-page worthy. I just sat down to read it, tonight.

And wow, what a treat it was. I thought I knew what is argument was going to be (that theory building is the primary task of programmers) — but the plot twist I did not see coming was the argument that it is inherently a part of the programmer's mind, and cannot be separated from the mind! And wow, was it well argued. Went in for a lesson in engineering, and got schooled in philosophy too.
I am currently building exactly this.

A CLI that connects to an SQL database, or allows users to upload .tsv, .csv, .xls files and then run plain English queries against the data source.
Something that has changed is there were factories and farms that employed a lot of people. Wasnt easy to get out.
Straw man? You think I'm presenting a concept not previously presented and discrediting that concept in an effort to discredit the thing previously presented?

I don't think I'm saying what you think I'm saying then. That was my actual view on edibles!

There is a similarity to consuming alcohol, where one would say "know your tolerance level". There are even charts for what that tolerance level might look like! Something similar should be just as prevalent for THC "if you weigh X consider consuming Y". Sorry you had a bad experience, in 2014.
A local pilot was in control of the ship at the time...

>The Bay pilot aboard had control of the ship at the time it ran aground. Investigators are still looking at whether it was a mechanical issue or operator error that caused it to leave the channel.

https://chesapeakebaymagazine.com/container-ship-aground-out...
FreeDMO Gets Rid of DYMO Label Printer DRM
Chinese tech firms spark outcry after dismissals rebranded as ‘graduations’
There are many variants of Occam's razor, but one commonality among them is that it is for comparing hypotheses that predict the same data (namely, the the simpler one should be preferred).

But in the case of COVID-19 lab escape versus zoonotic origin, the latter doesn't predict that the Chinese government and EcoHealth Alliance would attempt a coverup of the virus origins, so we really aren't talking about two hypothesis that explain the (same) data, and therefore this isn't really an appropriate candidate for the application of Occam's razor.
Many Teens Report Physical and Emotional Abuse by Parents During Lockdown
In America, you spend a few hours in the hospital, and then for the next year you receive separate snailmail bills for each procedure, medication, machine, instrument, outsourced clinic, and every doctor who happened to pop in to greet you. All in unpredictable, exorbitant amounts. And any of these bills may be sent to you again even if you pay.

If you're well insured, you still get all the fun reading material, but they say "amount you owe: 0.00"
I understand you, I just disagree. Maybe a conscious selection by user for post activity would be appropriate, but the current algorithmic solutions we see on mainstream platforms are trash. The default view of your 'friend feed' should be flat and unbiased.
Aside - this is a great example that shows how bad Google search has become. Seeing only the comments here, I tried to search for "pgpodman" not realizing that it's from this very article. Google only returns stuff about podman. Searching for "postgres pgpodman" only gets articles about pgAdmin.

DuckDuckGo gets this article as the first hit - top 4-5 links are all relevant.
> General Average, a fundamental maritime principle that goes back millennia to the Code of Hammurabi in 1755 BC, at least.

Sorry? What does Hammurabi's Code say about this?

Law 238 apparently says that sinking and refloating a ship incurs a penalty equal to half the value of the ship, but that doesn't seem to bear much relationship to general average. It doesn't mention loss of goods and the penalty amount is not related to the loss amount. And all of the penalty falls on the ship operator.

Law 237 is much closer, but as far as I can see, to the extent that averaging is relevant to this case, the law explicitly rejects it:

> If a man hire a sailor and his boat, and provide it with corn, clothing, oil and dates, and other things of the kind needed for fitting it: if the sailor is careless, the boat is wrecked, and its contents ruined, then the sailor shall compensate for the boat which was wrecked and all in it that he ruined.

( http://www.general-intelligence.com/library/hr.pdf )

> If a man hire a boatman and a boat and freight it with grain, wool, oil, dates or any other kind of freight, and that boatman is careless and he sink the boat or wreck its cargo, the boatman shall replace the boat which he sank and whatever portion of the cargo he wrecked.

( https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Code_of_Hammurabi_(Harper... )

This makes ship operators personally liable for the full value of lost cargo, if they are "careless". I don't see any provision dealing with the (monetary) losses associated with the necessary (physical) loss of cargo.
My driving school had us drive 25 minutes just to use a roundabout situated in a small suburban town. Gave us the occasion to practice both roundabouts and highway driving in the same session.
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