skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original paper from Ahlskog & Oskarsson is about bias when applying three domains of determinants to measure political preferences.

It feels very much like the author Thomas Prosser has an axe to grind when he includes this study of methodology (in a subsub field of sociology) with the larger issue of replication.
[The machine] will not fulfill its destiny until you let go of the illusion of control. -- Master Oogway.
"read" is already used in the blog-post rooms and in a few other places for narrower interactions. It does support "glance" as a synonym for "look".
I love that the acronym for their company is ISP.
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I'd add one more in there for a tighter focus -- the lobby group "Americans for Tax Reform", which opposes all tax increases, and specifically opposes any effort from the federal or state governments to provide pre-filled tax returns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform#Oppos...
Everyone answers to someone - nobody is immune even if it looks like they are.
I feel like autoimmune, endocrine, and GI issues, and various combinations of those are the biggest frustration to people, along with complicated surgeries/replacements that we just haven't figured out yet. But those first three are horribly complicated and interrelated systems whose disorders affect probably close to a third of the population, maybe half. Just autoimmune thyroid issues affect about a fifth of women. Not to mention all thyroid issues, autoimmune diabetes, other diabetes, chrons, ibs, fibro myalgia, maybe long covid, etc. You are right to point out that many suffering from those conditions wouldn't even be alive without modern treatments and that we don't notice all that modern medicine can solve. But we also need to acknowledge there are many people for whom we dont have answers yet, and we are using evidence based medicine to say that because we don't have studies yet, there is nothing to be tried. I also think diet and lifestyle changes get undersuggested due to ebm. No one seems as eager to fund a study that tests a diet or activity to treat a condition as they are to fund investigation into a new drug, surgery, or diagnostic equipment.
When the organization is big enough there is plenty getting around it. Also there is a lot of wiggle room around the definition of "works".
Higher educations origins are in insulating Bourgeoisie kids from working class life.

As it became clear the people had lost belief in god kings, aristocrats began paying the church to educate their kids and confer nonsense degrees the proles could not falsify.

It was not hard learning guitar on my own. We create a lot of carbon mess for junior to get to an official guitar degree.

There is a whole lot of unnecessary LARPing deference to wealthy people who don’t do much of the real work keeping themselves alive.

It’s not a sustainable social meme to tighten the screws on the masses while handing their own kids the keys to the castle. 800,000 sworn LEO in the US, beholden to a paycheck and retirement account. None of the people at my local bank own that bank anymore. Why is my agency propping up someone else’s grandpa?
‘The casino beckons’: my journey inside the cryptosphere
I don’t even care what the “real-world” implications are; this is just an awesome way to think about Sudoku, and number sets.
https://archive.ph/SFhwq
Indeed no robotics, but it has sensors to monitor the inside environment and detect swarming (a beekeeping friend of mine said it important to see that, because you would want to 'catch' the swarm). The honey collection is manual, but seems much easier then in current beehives.

Just to give an alternative modern take on beekeeping. The OP solution is only for people having 1000+ hives ;-)

And neither I have any knowledge nor intention to keep bees.
What does this have to do with the example?
The list of places I'm willing to solicit is shrinking, since I only do business with people who accept cash as an option, even if I don't happen to be paying with cash at the time.

Merchants are free to make their choices, as are consumers. The problems really start when the government steps in and removes your freedom at the point of a gun.
> We know that the single best predictor of job success and performance is IQ.

Citation for this? As far as I know IQ isn’t a measure of intelligence (because intelligence is hard to define, let alone come up with a single number that quantifies it!)
While pointedly written, I’d like to see the rationale sustaining the wheat futures 30% rise.

Also, food shortages are largely man-made and ultra cost sensitive. The WHO was also sounding alarm bells… are all these people really one Twitter thread away from being wrong?
What you chose to do not not do on weekends or even weekdays is none of my business. I was just curious about where in the world Covid restrictions were still changing on a day to day basis.
So what is this then? [0]

[0] https://opensource.truthsocial.com/mastodon-current.zip
Political will, removing subsidies for farmers, logistics of actually shipping wheat, climate change, etc.
Correct, and to add on: Test kits are perfectly legal. There are also harm-reduction organizations like DanceSafe and Zendo that will help at festivals etc.
Yes, and the employer is going to be paying it either way, either as a lump sum or as wages while the employee is on vacation.
Yeah - I can cross my eyes on command because I clowned around as a kid. And I can actually get "Magic Eye" stuff to kind of work that way, it's just inverted... What I can't do is spread my eyes wider (I think the insensitive term is "go wall eyed") on command. I'm not cross-eyed at rest or anything like that, but the motor skills to widen the distance between my two pupils (The way you would when you're looking at something far away) just isn't well developed.
Did this kind of corruption all got started when the US Court declared that corporations are people

Not much precedence to go by in the history of mankind on that, specifically.

Just wondering.
Hiring? Sounds like a match for problems I find interesting.
Moral foundation theory is intriguing and crucially important.
It's quite funnny that a company arguing "we disclosed because we filed an esoteric (in terms of public disclosure) security filing" to demand that Krebs retract his previous story; maybe if he opens the front door and shouts "Sorry!" it would meet their level of communication?
Optimistically, the hackjob happening in the social and other sciences will be used to launch a deep examination of epistemic practices. This does seem to have occurred in social sciences to some extent. There are no sciences so rigorous that they couldn't benefit from it.
Is there any example of this ever working in practice in the history of computing? As in, we built a large, stable service with datastore X, but we were forward looking enough to make sure that we only "developed to an interface" and we successfully swapped to datastore Y without significant code changes?
you can really do a lot in terms of building structured query engines on top of a simple performant key:value store
I really want to like Fedora - it gets so much right. But: `yum` is the worst package manager I have ever used on linux by far, and that sours the whole experience. I wish I could get "Fedora with pacman/apt instead".
> He’s just saying that it’s the manager's job to do something about it when it occurs and can’t be resolved otherwise, else it negatively impacts the rest of the team.

Managing peers is not their job - the author tried to spin the lack of action by manager as poor management, but what if the manager has more context and good reasons for maintaining the status quo? IMO, this is management equivalent of tech debt, and hr is demanding that it gets addressed immediately without caring about other consequences outside their own narrow window into the org.
Hello

This is a great post; it hit home and I expect it'll come to mind many times in the future for me. It highlights an interesting problem very well.

Will, if you’re listening, there are two follow-up posts that I’d love to see – how (and how long) to execute the “be positive and generate excitement” strategy as the main character, and how this problem can affect companies and what leaders should do about it.

My experience is that if the EM tried to draft a better product roadmap than the PM had made, it would dramatically worsen the relationship (for example). Being "extra positive" while "leading by example" can come across as being a fake, competitive show-off who doesn't know how to lead by uplifting (especially for someone who is more talented than some of their peers). Not saying the advice is bad necessarily, just that it can be really hard to do well (or that perhaps I don't understand it), and I'd like more advice on the execution.

Even still, if one did this really well, it would mean good things for the main character's career at the company - no question. Stay positive, stay in your lane, do the best you can with the people around you, don't rock the boat, be inspirational - there's no question that'll help you thrive within a company (based on my observations, but counter to the intuition of a young programmer).

However, sometimes this goes from a few isolated problems to a growing culture of mediocrity that punishes pursuit of excellence, and it can be harmful for talented people to stay in those environments for long, as it saps them of their passion for quality that is both hugely valuable in the right context and drives meaning and purpose in their life’s work. How long should the main character stay in a context where good ideas lose out to bad ideas, and mediocrity rules?

Of course, allowing mediocrity to flourish is probably very bad for a company, especially when it pushes the best people down (and ultimately out). This post didn’t touch on how (and why) leaders should handle the avoidant managers in question, and I’d love to see one that does – getting the very best out of one's organization is one of the most important jobs of a leader.

Needless to say, I'd love pointers to extant pieces that address these questions!
Saying "Hitler rocks" is literally a crime in Germany and many other European countries (per §86a StGB / DE, for example).

Not complying with court orders for information disclosure is also either a crime or a serious infraction (Ordnungswidrigkeit), too.

As said, the guy got lucky he didn't get arrested like he should have been.
I've seen rumblings out there[1] that "whiteboard interviews" can be cast as "pre-employment tests" and litigated against in a "Duke Power" sense. Not to endorse that and I'm not sure anyone wants to hear that.

[1] https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1506870732889985025
The point is the economy is currently based on something hits the news, hoard hoard hoard, price explodes, empty shelves and high profits.

Happened to TP a couple years ago and is in process with microcontroller chips and will be happening soon with food.

People hear story on news, think there will be empty shelves, buy a multi-year supply of boxed Mac n Cheese, the shelves are indeed empty, more people think there will be more empty shelves, repeat.

I know a small time ham radio kit mfgr whom bragged about blowing the cost of a new house on a shipping pallet of '328 chips because he has to secure his supply chain if he wants to eat and everyone knows the shelves will soon be empty. Of course that has three effects: He has to store and finance a four year supply of chips, he total wiped the supply in his home country so nobody in that country can buy a '328, and he's stuck using a 2009-era chip until at minimum 2024, when his competitors will be shipping products based on early 2020's chips. On the positive side he gets to eat while competitors whom didn't hoard can't ship product. Of course the only reason there is a shortage is because he cornered the market before someone else did it.

I absolutely guarantee we have more than enough wheat to continue to set new record levels of obesity; while I also guarantee there will be empty food store shelves in the near future.
What about the part where it says you can get access to it within 10 minutes, while the traditional banking industry takes 3 days?
Not a fan of Krebs but also not a critic. Litigation is expensive, and the purpose is to scare or bankrupt him, validity is irrelevant.

Will never use any product of this company.
So why is it row 4 and not row 3?
This is due to the warped incentives in Higher Education. Universities get more tuition fees from accepting more students, and achieve better in national rankings by having higher graduation rates.

Professors are stuck in the middle: asked to teach unprepared students, and forced to pass many who are not suitable.

The people it hurts the most are the students who are actually capable, and put the time in to excel.
good summary of all the relevant data and studies for the last 50 years:

https://www.amazon.com/Know-Debunking-Myths-about-Intelligen...
Yeah this is a good point. Another issue though is the SAT is a snapshot of your IQ, but also your general life state at one point in time. I think it's cruel to have that follow you for life, especially if you are going through difficulties as a teenager.
Crypto crowdsourced the Ukrainian war effort faster and easier than the fiat rails did. I don't even need to list a million other counter points that have been posted to every HN crypto post since time immemorial, but that was a de-facto benefit of crypto over legacy finance.
So spring wheat is harvested in the fall, and won't be planted for a little bit in the US, because it's just now starting to get to spring in many states. Winter wheat, which would be harvested this spring, should've been planted months ago.

So there's a gap in production, regardless of where they get their wheat from, I guess is what I'm trying to get at.
TBH my HTML and CSS is so rusty. I haven't built a webpage in about a decade! I love number 2 and number 2. That's awesome, especially sending a question to a friend. Love it.
But the hard sciences have also had problems with replication. It's worth reading the Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn; to some extent, science is socially embedded.
I do this with google maps even without an internet connection it shows roughly where we are in the US on a flight
I believe that paper predates the introduction of speculation-blocking MPKs. Could you build a single-address space OS out of those, without hitting problems with Spectre attacks? It's an open research question but my gut says yes. MPKs are limited so you may need an equivalent of swapping with fallback to page table based isolation, but it's worth noting that in a SASOS the notion of a process is unpacked, so you can then add on top newly defined hardware enforced privacy domains that don't cleanly map to any existing notion of a process.

For example all code from a particular vendor (origin) could share a single MPK whilst running, even if the failure domain for things like fault isolation is finer grained.
I'll bite.. while we all have unique experiences in life, I believe Sasha and Anne's positive lifetime experiences with psychedelics is neither unusual nor surprising, and not that hard to replicate.

1) It's not that hard to take low doses of psychedelics as regularly or irregularly as you'd like. They are extremely non-compulsive.

2) Testing is not so hard these days in many parts of the world. In my city there are at least a couple mass spectrometry machines available for free testing. Besides that, no need for powders from the internet; growing magic mushrooms at home is a simple project anyone can take on.

3) No we don't have a study, so like a lot of things in life we have to rely on more informal observation and anecdotes. A couple of other notable psychedelic old-timers are Albert Hofmann, Paul Stamets. I've met many "psychedelic seniors" over the years, and they've always been very bright, admirable people.

Personally, I've been using psychedelics for 30y, and while I can see that they aren't completely without risks, on the whole they are of great benefit and I plan on aging into becoming one of these psychedelic seniors myself.

4) Psychedelic use is associated with improved mental health outcomes:
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0269881114565653
- https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/5/2/article-p83.xm...

I haven't heard of the psychedelic chemist who had a mental breakdown, I think that's a myth. The biggest risk to mental health for a psychedelic chemist is ending up in prison.
The redisgraph functionality is really cool, it makes it an interesting choice over SQLite for small data science projects. The search functionality also is helpful for data science projects.

Does anyone know what this RSAL license’s impact is for internal tools (e.g log analysis)?
Working with classic Macintosh text encodings in the age of Unicode
The press across the board does a terrible job of printing retractions. I know that doesn't really excuse Krebs but most errors don't get corrected and those that do generally show up in a tiny column in the middle of the paper.

If you're Brian Krebs and are writing, editing and publishing this stuff yourself, I don't know that you'd have the bandwidth to be able to monitor and correct every new development in something you've written. The New Yorker has a staff of hundreds of fact checkers, lawyers and proof readers just to keep them out of court, and they too seem to have a difficult time with publishing corrections.

I'm not excusing either party, there are issues here that need to be resolved. But the expectation that any part of the press, be it publishing a physical newspaper or running a security blog, will spend much time paying attention to old stories for corrections doesn't match up with reality.
Idiomatic Rust here would use something like this, not that in this case it makes them performance identical, but it is more representative of real Rust code, and is slightly smaller https://rust.godbolt.org/z/brh6heEKE

EDIT: lol don’t write code five minuets after waking, the reply to this has far better code

(EDIT: incidentally, I was also curious about a non-extern function, but the compiler is seeing through all of my attempts to call a native Rust function with an opaque body here...)

That being said this code will also be a no-op instead of... something worse, if the vector is empty, so, they're not directly comparable, but they weren't really in the first place, as you mention, so...
I've noticed that too. I went to the ER with a dog bite and the triage nurse was keen to know if I was a medical doctor before she looked at it.
Krebs doesn't claim there were two people anywhere?

Ubiquiti hangs this entire argument about this on using slightly different wording to refer to a person in two places in an article.

But if you read the article, he reports the facts in a literal linear timeline fashion, attempting to use what appear to be time-correct monikers.

IE He literally says (see the screenshot)
In January x happened
in March, a ubiquiti employee said something
in November, a former developer for ubiquiti was arrested and charged.

He never says the march and november people are different. He is reporting exactly what happened.
They claim he knows they are the same person, and should refer to them as such but they literally don't even provide any evidence of this either (ie that it was Krebs source).
It wouldn't help them (because what krebs says does not seem wrong or untrue), but they don't prove it either.

IE even if krebs knew they are the same person, the above appears to be a totally accurate rendering of the story. Krebs is only required to be accurate.

Did a Ubiquiti employee say X in march (or did Krebs have good reason to believe a ubiquiti employee said X in march)?

Did a former ubiquiti developer get arrested in late november?

Yes? (AFAIK, yes)

Okay, case over.

The fact that they don't like his reporting doesn't make it untrue, and if they want to show it's untrue, as I said, this filing does a bad job of it.
Either you meant that time, which in light of public health numbers is obviously not a good example for the argument, or you meant some other time. If you care to specify some other time, we'll be happy to consider it. If you want to forget about USSR and nominate some other time and place, we'll be happy to consider that.

I make "absolute" or even "hyperbolic" statements because I'd like to learn something. If I'm wrong, some example to that effect may easily be provided. In doing so, I'm letting someone else win all the internet points because I care more about learning than about internet points. As you observe upthread, a statement in such form can be shown to be wrong "with barely any effort". I invite you, if you please, to expend that small amount of effort. However, absolute statements can't simply be assumed to be wrong. Absolute statements exist that are absolutely true. "Any living human will die if deprived of oxygen."

I grant that you've already expended a smaller amount of effort, to somewhat imply that you yourself (or perhaps others not present in this thread?) believe that less regulation of labor markets leads to higher pay, but in the absence of any relevant example that implication is itself suspect. We know that some people believe silly things, and some other people claim to believe silly things that correspond to their particular psychological commitments (this seems common in the context of religion), but those beliefs and claims do not prove their silly objects.
Agreed. Kuhn is really worth reading - one of the greatest books of the 20th century.
> Political will

Of who? Don't the farmers who grew extra wheat want to sell it? Or are you talking about governments preventing wheat exports (I know that has happened in the past).

> removing subsidies for farmers

Not sure how that is germane. What do you mean?

> logistics of actually shipping wheat

That's a great point! Shipping from the Black Sea ports to Egypt/other ME nations is surely cheaper than sending wheat from India/Aus/USA to those areas.

> climate change, etc.

Sure, that's a threat to wheat (and food in general) everywhere and will be for decades. Do you see it as particularly acute/relevant to the current situation? I don't.
I disagree with this. Academics don't have too much trouble wading through research and synthesizing results. Laypeople so rarely interface with actual research that the quality of an individual paper is not going to contribute to an overall opinion of academics. Virtually no layperson is forming a coherent opinion of academic research based on an in depth understanding of the replication crisis.

Further, the criticism of academia as being full of egg-headed elites who are completely disconnected from the public need has been around for decades - far longer than the current systemic funding and tenure problems.
Honest question: Is Google Maps much better than OpenStreetMap in India?

I have the luxury to live in central Europe, and here both are much, much closer in amount of detail.
This is pretty much the direction of all specialty database providers (MongoDB, Redis) are moving into. Everyone wants to be able to query datasets across enterprise. I bet is Redis Stack will soon querying against support Parquet or ORC files. Then connector to traditional databases like PG, MySQL, Oracle, etc.. Throw in some AI modeling. In a way, this is a marketing play to stay relevant in the enterprise space.

Redis as a pure in-memory store (caching) engine just doesn't make as much money as "analytic system". I don't have a problem with this as they have to make money somehow.
The article was not about Afghanistan.

But we can talk about how the U.S. is creating the sanctions in Afghanistan. And we can also talk about how Russia is using Crypto to get around sanctions.

All crypto does is make money for the gatekeepers of crypto and profit off of war, sanction, and fear. Crypto solves zero problems, it only profits off of the problems governments create.
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