skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dennis Rodman didn't break the law by the mere act of visiting North Korea and being friendly with Kim. As far as I can tell, the only time he may have acted questionably was a suspicion of bringing in some luxury goods (https://www.si.com/si-wire/2014/01/24/dennis-rodman-sanction...), but it doesn't seem like that case was pursued.
The Pioneer spacecraft speed anomaly turned out to be forgetting to account for the small amount of thrust from photons generated by the heat of the spacecraft (~1kph per decade).
yeah - I didn't see any examples on how to use this without react.
> If people save $100 dollars, what's wrong with adding $100 dollars to the economy,

The problem is they start to spend it (especially if inflation mindset takes hold in popular culture). Here's the velocity of M2 money

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

What happens if that reverts to the mean, like many things do over the long run?
I've looped my previous two bosses in on my job hunts. They were natural extensions of my career and personal development. For various reasons (geography, room for promotion, comp) there wasn't room to grow.

I recommend seriously considering telling your boss you are looking. Don't do it if you are at all hesitant, but ideally it fits in with career conversations you're already having.

And it definitely saved me a lot of embarrassment when an interviewer leaked that I was looking to my coworker, who immediately told my boss. That's not supposed to happen, but tech is small and people know each other.
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What does he mean by a 32MB TLB? Certainly there isn't an actual 32MB of on-chip memory dedicated to a TLB. So does it refer to the coverable amount of virtual memory? But that can't be true either, given huge pages. All in all, very disappointing thread. Does anybody have real references to what he's talking about?
Why not restore the tenants to a different environment that is not otherwise active? At Atlassian's scale you would expect them 1) not to be running all the things on one server anyway, 2) have some existing ability to move tenants between environments for legal or performance reasons, 3) have the ability to backup/restore single tenants, and so on. I am not arguing that the predicament they are in now is real, for them, now. But I have worked at much smaller outlets where this worked fine, not because they were smaller, but because they had that particular shit in order, which is entirely a matter of priorities.

Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, that Atlassian has to offer is rocket surgery-kind of hard... yet, here we are... not being particularly surprised at all.
I think that there's compelling counter-examples to the author's title, at least. The rest (about how trials shouldn't always be assumed to be independent etc) is interesting, but the title seems clickbaity and wrong.

The bit where they present their main evidence against the gambler's fallacy:

> So back to gamblers. What is the gambler's fallacy? Many have suggested to me that it's the tendency to think that a heads is more likely after a string of tails, despite knowing that the tosses are statistically independent. But this can't be right––for no one commits that fallacy. After all, knowing that the tosses are independent is just knowing that a heads is not more (or less) likely after a string of tails

I think "no one commits that fallacy" is plainly untrue. There are various games (Gacha games, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_game) where the outcome is random independent probability. In fact, due to gambling laws, these games have to publish exact probabilities.

Despite there being clear evidence, people will commit a combination of the sunk cost fallacy and gambler's fallacy and convince themselves to spend more money on more independent random trials because surely they're almost there.

We've seen similar things with lootboxes with published odds.

We see similar things with casinos that contain various games of true independent random probability.

They key difference here is between people rationally knowing that those odds are independent, and them being able to bridge that to their irrational belief that they're special, or lucky, or that they're "owed" luck. People are not rational, people can hold conflicting things in their head, and the gambler's fallacy is one of the common irrationalities a lot of people act on.
So tell people you’re married and wear rings, but don’t throw away your life to make “society” happy.
Probably since otherwise you’d just need a calendar or somehow know the date which most people do without custom code
I thought they were, but with an oversimplified model.
> I always joked that Republican presidencies would induce recessions that were far more of a positive environmental effect at the macro level than Democratic false advocacy. Nobody in the liberal circles every found that funny.

Funny joke. But it rings kind of hollow. Those recessions do little for long term environmental improvement because they channel investment toward the cheapest price (at the time) but highest externality sources of energy, like coal. People getting poorer and running their heating less doesn't help get us off fossil fuels.

Arguably the high fuel prices spurred by Arab oil embargo and the now the Ukraine invasion, coupled with higher fuel economy standards, real climate advocacy, and subsidies for renewable generation have had more of a macro effect on reducing emissions than any recessions one might attribute (fairly or not) to Republican presidents.
I've written a bunch of stuff that makes it easier for me to connect to cloud resources, pretty much useless for anyone else because it's tailored to my environments.

I've also written a crapload of data processing apps to scrape through or convert various data I've acquired from places.

If I can save 10 minutes of drudgery by spending an hour writing a python or go app, guaranteed I've done it
You seem to be implying that customer success is a customer support role. It isn't. Customer success is about helping customers get the greatest business value from your product. They are not going to be munging databases and wrangling backups. Support engineers (among others) do that work.
> "Always listen to your wife, she is always reasonable"

My father gave me one specific piece of advice that stuck with me through the entirety of the time I can remember, and it also helped me out quite a lot in life. The advice wasn't directly related to marriage or anything like that, it was about making major decisions in general. I didn't truly understand what it meant at the time, but once I realized it, it hit me like a truck and put a lot of things in perspective.

He said "Always listen to everyone's opinions, but always make your own decision."

Being a teenager at the time, I misinterpreted it as "listen to what everyone else says and then do your own different thing." A very typical non-conformist teenager take. But much later on, I realized that it meant something entirely different.

What he actually meant: "You should consider others' opinions when making a major decision, as it can let you make a better and more informed one. If you picked a decision that aligned with what someone else advised, that's absolutely fine. But, in the end, you own that decision and the consequences. You cannot hide behind a 'so and so advised that, which is why I made it' excuse. You are responsible for it, and you cannot blame people who provided their perspective for the resulting outcome."

Thinking about this piece of advice when making major life decisions helps me a lot. Both with pulling the trigger on it in a more informed way and accepting the eventual outcome.
the biggest silent majority..That would definitly make more sense but my shallow mind sticks to 'most', more poetic it says.

You see, if you pardon my jibber jabber, 'most' is statistic but 'majority' implies some political asset..
ITA Matrix is still available and is my preferred flight search tool. Still find the old interface much better than the new:

https://oldmatrix.itasoftware.com/
I had this random shower thought the other day that electric cars could easily have more than (powered) 4 wheels. Then I realized they are plenty fast already...
This is like... the weirdest post to bring that up on. DoJ announcements are some of the driest, most precisely worded press releases from any organisation on the planet. You could not hope for a better primary source.

When you read "co-conspirators", did you think oh, DoJ is biased, they're using heavily charged terms to make us feel a certain way? They aren't! He was charged with a conspiracy offence. That's what the people he conspired with are called.
[Sub-randomness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence ) (or apparently Wikipedia uses the term "low-discrepancy sequence" now) is one case where a random-generator is designed to make the gambler's-fallacy non-fallacious. And I think some simple computerized random-generators were designed sub-random. Some designers have argued that players find it more "fair" when the results of "random" rolls are more predictably evened-out; some players may want some level of variation/unpredictability, though extreme results (extremely good or bad luck) might seem unfair.

Also, say you're about to flip a coin 100 times. Then, your future-self advises you that you're 50% likely to get Heads on any particular flip. Then, sure, that'd seem to imply that you're going to get 50 Head's and 50 Tail's, so switching would often make sense as getting one result would tend to reduce that result's likelihood. In particular, you should be able to guess the last flip with certainty, as you know that you ought to get a total of 50 Head's and 50 Tail's.

However, if you're flipping a coin 100 times and estimate a 50% likelihood of Head's, then that's a different scenario. I mean, yes -- you're still working under the assumption that Heads is 50% likely, but it's not the same thing. You wouldn't know that the final distribution would be 50 Head's and 50 Tail's, such that getting one result wouldn't have the same implications.

Finally, "the gambler's fallacy" is named after a stereotypical scenario wherein a gambler who keeps losing argues that they'd be a fool to quit because they're "overdue" for a win. In that case, it does tend to be a fallacy. So if you come up with a situation where such an argument wouldn't be a fallacy, then presumably you're looking at something other than the gambler's-fallacy.
> What do they "like" about holding an NFT?

What do they like about holding Joe Montana's rookie card? Or a first-edition Charizard? Do they like having the physical card? Because we can do that with cardstock and inkjet printers.

It ain't my cup of tea in any case, but it also ain't my place to judge them for it or interrogate their motivations. If they want to collect Yu-gi-oh cards or bored monkey NFTs, power to 'em.
I’d be glad if everybody would help change the legal implications of the marriage contract, so that it would be safe and financially reasonable to get married. But that just isn’t the case currently.
Regology (YC S18) Is Hiring
It's like calling an LED array for space lighting a "light engine". Which they do.
Many answer!
An interesting question is why more people aren't eager to quit such shitty jobs. If you're going to get fired anyway, you may as well quit. The number of open jobs to compete for you is not low. That said, they aren't doing great at competing for you, so maybe that answers the question.
Why Airbnb Cleaning Fees Cost So Much
Investopedia disagrees

"Backwardation is when the current price of an underlying asset is higher than prices trading in the futures market."
This was a pitch of mine. Replace traditional lawn care with automated solutions. I would’ve distributed this to ~6 mowers. That was the easy part.

The hard part was making it look nice. The people that pay high prices for lawn care want it to look it a certain way. I couldn’t get over that hurdle.

I could but it would’ve been me driving over the already cut grass with specific grooming tools, and effectively negating any benefits of me over traditional labor.

I really think this tech is the future, and I’m glad there’s FOSS solutions to get hobbyists 90% of the way. The last 10% is going to be the real struggle for a startup.
Spam overflow? Is that stack overflow?

And... I'm guessing w3school?
There is an option to add Windows when you click through to customize.
> The sum of these [anti-crypto] articles appears to me as "propaganda". Does anyone else feel the same way?

Funny, I would consider all the unending pro-crypto stories to be the propaganda (someone coined a term: "pro-bitcoinism"[1])

What I've noticed is that the vitriol is almost always instigated by the crypto crowd (especially the bitcoiners), that will lash out at anyone or about anything that doesn't have total loyalty to their "movement". Not exactly an inviting crowd, and certainly doesn't reflect well on cryptocurrency as a whole.

> I for one, take this perceived negative bias as a confirmation that Bitcoin is a genuine threat to the existing financial system.

And the other side perceives that total loyalty/belief as some sort of cult. Turns out both sides are right...*and* wrong - just not for the reasons they think.

[1]https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pro-bitcoini...
If anything deserves to be patronizing, it is probably high-energy physics. The reader should not expect to truly understand anything, or be able to deduce anything, after reading the pop-sci explanations of particle physics experiments.

Analogies have the problem that you never know where they stop, and so you can't safely reason any further from what you've been told. It is bad if you walk away thinking you know more than you really do.

If you're not reading the math, you're fundamentally in the business of being told simplified stories made up of lies we tell to children. If anything, the article that makes you feel like a 5th grader is honest. As far as I'm concerned, it might still be talking up to me.
I'll go ahead and have my last word:

- A clearinghouse cannot halt a market

- A clearinghouse's job is to ensure that trades settle, which requires adjusting collateral, which is exactly what they did

- A clearinghouse does not honor a trade, the buyer and seller (via their brokerage) do; if there's an increased risk of the trade not being honored, the clearinghouse raises collateral requirements

- DTCC controlled the situation the best they could from their end by raising collateral requirements, which is basically all they can do

- A market can be functioning perfectly fine even if clearinghouse collateral is at 100%

- A clearinghouse doesn't definitionally know what the outstanding short interest is; short positions are on broker's books and it is the broker that reports that data to FINRA, not the clearinghouse

- A clearinghouse preemptively "dealing with" with all outstanding options positions (or any position, for that matter) that they (there is not just one clearinghouse) know about boils down to collecting 100% collateral

- The OCC clears options, the DTCC (by way of the NSCC) clears equity; the data that the DTCC has regarding options is presumably very limited

- A clearinghouse is not going to require 100% collateral because somebody on the internet believes there's going to be a short squeeze

- I don't exactly know what you think you think they "don't care" about, but if you're implying that a clearinghouse requiring high collateral to deal with brokers not being able to make good on a trade because of activity on that broker's books is somehow rigging the market, you've completely lost the plot

I think you misunderstand what a clearinghouse does.
Russia says flagship of Black Sea fleet badly damaged by blast
It's used on Facebook, Messenger, Workplace, Instagram and soon will be rolled out for WhatsApp web.
I made a text box that shows the unicode code points that make up the input text.

https://verhovs.ky/unicode-debugger/

https://github.com/verhovsky/unicode-debugger

It's probably not completely correct and there's probably issues stemming from the fact that text in web browsers is UTF-16 not UTF-8, but I've used it to quickly figure out that someone's input wasn't being parsed correctly because the spaces were actually non-breaking spaces for example. It can be used for noticing when some text has a letter that looks the same but is actually a different letter than you think (homoglyph attack) or to see what makes up an emoji.
The problem, as always, is credibility. If they're not careful about the credibility of the aggregate blocking signal, this would become another tool in the SEO scammer toolbox as they use sockpuppet accounts to downmoderate their competitors.
I once wrote a fusker for a paid porn site I realised just had its shit hanging out in the open. 4 days of runtime and I had a collection that left me wondering what the hell was wrong with me.
We will look back on this moment in American history as a tipping point. I’ve said this before, but these solar panels are a blazing metaphor in the story of climate change.

A little heavy handed? Possibly, but I very much believe the election of 1980 was the deciding factor in climate change. Jimmy Carter told people to turn down their thermostats and aimed to wean America off of foreign energy. In the fall of 1979, there was still a possibility of a future of renewable energy independence. By January of 1980, that light began to dim. Reagan, dear friend to industry, ruthlessly pursued deregulation across the board and doubled down on petroleum, coal, and gas. By the end of the Reagan Bush era, any chance we had to start the slow painful transition away from fossil fuels was long gone.

There is another reason why this election from 40 years ago meant so much. 1981 was when the first research was released by NASA scientists (James Hansen, et al) showing causation between CO2 release and warming in the upper atmosphere. [0] It’s laughable to imagine this paper hitting Reagan’s desk. Rather than forming energy policy, research like this was buried. Moreover, the cover the Reagan administration provided the coal and gas industry gave them the time they needed to form a robust disinformation campaign. Plastics recycling? SUVS in every garage?

In January of 1980 we were already headed towards 4C of warming by 2100. We just wouldn’t realize it for another 30 years.

[0] https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha04600x.html
To be fair, there are people in this thread making the opposite argument as well.
> Criminals never cash out at that scale

Of course not; that's what hole-in-the-wall restaurants that inexplicably stay in business despite having next to zero customers are for ;)
Most recently, I've been building a small server for myself to track my day, todos, and just act as a frontend for some easy scripts (eg. just a direct line to running date to get timestamps). It's been a joy to use htmx and flask and just crank out features quickly.
Out of curiosity, what's the relevance of the classification in the context you present?
Autistic people have to obey the law just like anyone else does. As a community, we should do all we can to help dissuade or prevent them from doing things that would be illegal, much like we hold a child's hand when we cross the street to keep them from running into traffic and being hit by a car.
The Cacoward levels are so good that SoBad on YouTube is playing _the runners-up_ and still encountering awesome levels like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drKn_EzQxg0, with that super cool concept starting after 1:27 (but don't skip to there).
A lot of people talking about "firing" in this thread. That's not how Atlassian operates, to their credit. It probably comes from their Australian DNA.
My conclusion at the time was that it was not, strictly speaking, a bug. It seemed to be a sharp edge that was WAI.

Considering it again now, I do think it's essentially a bug, but it seems to be a known thing at this point. What I described is the same issue addressed by this unmerged patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/9/18/739 (see discussion here: https://lwn.net/Articles/814535/). And it's mentioned in the article in this HN link:

> Those dentries still take up valuable memory, and they can create other problems (such as soft lockups) as well.
This! All of this so much!

Coincidentally I read about insect hotels recently as well and also on the topic of cleaning them and also that many commercial ones are just completely inadequate (wrong type of holes and materials and such). I figured out that our yard actually already provides perfect insect hotels. Those leaves I didn't get to shred and put on the compost pile before the weather was too wet? Perfect for certain types of insects. The birds think so too as they rummage through it every spring.

What I will try this year is taking some of the firewood and drilling the right size holes in it. The good thing? I can just burn it in summer in the pizza oven and not worry about cleaning up. I'll just take some new logs and do the same thing. And all the kindling, which is just branches that fall from the trees all the time anyway get collected in a big pile. Perfect insect hotel. By the time I start using it in summer, they'll have moved out.

I also compost in place for most flowering plants. E.g. my Hostas. I do take the flower stems out so they don't stick up and "look bad" but I just break them once of twice and leave them in place. Doubly so for the leaves, those of course just stay in place. Perfect compost for the new Hostas next year without having to actually spread compost everywhere. And it probably doubles as an insect hotel as well.
ASRock 4X4 BOX-5000 Series mini PC with AMD Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 U-Series processor
It is a complex problem but it’s one worth solving. Just spit balling but I think you could reduce some of the difficulty maintaining it by shifting it away from ops to development. Keep the disaster recovery level database backups for that rainy day but make customer level backup/restores an integrated feature developed and maintained like other services.
They have races with highly aerodynamic, low friction "cars" covered with solar cells. It's fun, not practical.
I'm a software engineer, i make decent money. Every two weeks I pay $125 to have a cleaning lady come by and clean the house. She is self employed and very nice.

It is SO NICE for my partner and I to have a week where we can just kick back and not worry about keeping the house clean. Highly recommended!

That being said there are some pie dishes in the sink right now I CANNOT. GET. CLEAN. My hands hurt from scrubbing haha
Because it is defamation. Anyone can talk about their lives, but when you start talking about someone else without their permission to make money..I am actually pretty sure there is a already a law against it.
> Surely actively undermining the security of ones country is a serious offense.

The information he shared in North Korea is widely available online. Perhaps unethical but I wouldn't qualify it as a serious offense.
Unfortunately Ive seen a few other FOSS projects go the same way. Troll/bad-actor management is difficult and time consuming and takes a toll.

Thanks for all the fish!
That's not completely true. As soon as it costs more to mine a Bitcoin than the value of a Bitcoin is worth, nobody's going to mine it anymore. Why would anyone take a loss on that?
What alternatives are there to get cheap easy SSL certificates?

Let's Encrypt has no competition because Let's Encrypt needs no competition: it works, it's cheap, and competitors can't really provide any advantages for its target audience (mostly people who just want a cert).
Even if the decision was merely day-of-week based, that doesn't buy the key characteristic the author values (I assume): the kids will accept the Algorithm's ruling