skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I don't understand is why power would be so relevant.

Doing the A/B test itself has a cost greater than just building the feature and releasing it (supporting two variants in production), and beyond that you also need to take into account the cost of acting on the results (i.e. if control wins what do you do? if it's a tie what do you do? best to budget for maximum possible effort, or the expected effort -- but expecting for the variant to win handily is budgeting for the minimum possible effort).

I've seen multiple businesses that always schedule around shipping an A/B test and context switching to the next project while the results stream in. Any result that isn't shipping the variant after x weeks is a huge inconvenience that throws off multiple teams, which means all those cognitive biases start to creep in and make it comfortable to declare loser variants as wins or ties.

While it's easy to write this behavior off as yet another way that groups make irrational decisions, I think the bit of truth in there is that sometimes, the cost of running the strictest, science-iest A/B test is simply too high. Power is a key part of how you reason that out up front, so you can make a rational decision not to test, or to modify your test to make the payoff worth it. For example:

* Let's set the goal metric for something higher up the funnel which is further from our true goal (more $) but happens much more often, so we can see the effect in 1 week instead of 2 months

* We really need to do this for [variety of business strategical decisions], so let's structure our experiment to make sure it won't cost us more than $X in a worst case scenario and find out in a few days rather than wait 2 months

> I now know that B is better than A.

You know that B outperformed A in the experiment. Checking statistical significance is like asking a trustworthy person "Are you sure?" and them saying "Yeah, I'm pretty sure". It's a percentage because it's sometimes wrong, and this doesn't account for the massive amount of real world factors that can still mean an experiment conducted with bulletproof math behind the analysis is still taking people down the wrong path.
Regular ethernet can do much better than .9 ms / ft, but it would indeed require some buffer size tuning to a level most consumer routers/switches wouldn't allow.

Or even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-through_switching
I live in Bellevue, but did not track that saga here. Can you link a news article or a discussion that could be made sense of?
Interesting. A case were my observation doesn't match reality at large. Where I live the private school teachers seem relatively well compensated. But I live in a mecca of sorts for private schools (Dallas's "private school corridor")
I never find google to be good for programming queries. I use you.com for all programming queries, and recently learned to use their Coding Complete app, it's actually great. This article doesn't do it a proper justice
in the financial press I see people saying the board should not accept this lowball, non-negotiable offer.
Sibling comments hit the nail on the head with "fair share".

Here's a video from 2013, that outlines exactly how much tax Warren Buffet is paying. You can disagree with Schiff on his other ideas, but this particular analysis is spot on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyv9uOozi7g
Static site generators exist to solve this problem. No need for server-side rendering at all.
The real problem with Dante is the buffering required, the wire speed is more than sufficient. Ethernet Packets are "best effort", making latency less predictable.

Let's say your original source could be heard by the audience. The audio can travel from source, to mic, be digitized, transmitted over IP, arrive at console, be digitally mixed, then transmitted over IP to speaker, then broadcast at an unknown distance from the source. How much latency occurred there?

The trick is to get the original source wave to roughly line up with the time the amplified wave leaves the PA speaker, otherwise weird echos are heard by the audience at best, and awful band-specific noise cancellation happens at worse.
If NASA had plans for a moon base, and also had plans to send things back from there, this might become an interesting launch capability - no atmosphere and lower escape velocity provides more flexibility. Run it with stored solar power and it’s self contained and needs no expendable supplies
Markets are like ecosystems, they are an emergent property of the aggregated activity of many participants. Yes, some of those participants will end up at the top of the food chain. But that's going to happen regardless of what you do.
So, this is his entree into politics? A way to drive money at federal-government scale the way he wants?

Possible.
Read their white paper. Looks like secure computation with extra steps.
The article suggests that the term "writing" is used in the broadest way possible, including image editing, etc
How do they perform? I run an older Mac Mini to do all my network routing, IP Camera recording, PVR, etc. I would expect they've got some decent graphics prowess seeing as how their sole job in life to capture and display video conferencing…
Twitter is a mob launch pad. It's ran by outrage addicted, sadistic, cruel bullies. It's as if all of the world's village idiots joined forces and became the ruling class in culture and speech.

It is Twitter that has normalized and promoted inhumane tactics like context switching, bad faith discussion, talking behind you to others instead of towards you (quote tweeting), screenshotting, obsessively digging through one's history, mob launches, and in some cases cancellations, death threats, etc.

No normal person engages with another person like this. They are tactics to use when at war, but this is business as usual on Twitter. Worse, it's richly rewarded. It's a place where brains and conversations go to die.

I hope the offer gets accepted, it's not like he can make it worse. Or perhaps he should intentionally make it worse and sink it.
One risk may be that a lot of the blue hairs among the staff may choose to leave the company. Then again, that might be a positive thing for the company’s economic performance.
I think my comment is going to be lost in the pile, but hopefully you see it.

I'm 42, and felt very similarly, particularly after changing jobs with a nearly 100% increase in pay. I make a lot of money, especially for my COL area. I have a nice house, nice cars, kids are doing well. I felt a strong sense of something missing, and thought about talking to a therapist. I wasn't sure how to fill the hole. Began thinking about social work I could get into (doing something about poverty, equality, homelessness is high on my list of values), but haven't taken that step.

Then, I got a cancer diagnosis. It sounds cliche, but everything changed immediately. What I thought I valued was so wrong. I was so focused on the future; of being a grandparent, traveling, doing something as a volunteer...and then, WHAM.

Suddenly, this is what mattered:

Doing the dishes.
Driving around town.
Feeding my dogs.
Walking outside on a nice day.

I reached out to a therapist, against every bit of my nature. I always felt like I could handle anything mentally, but I just couldn't anymore. She has been immensely helpful, and given me mental tools (again, sounds cliche, but believe me - great) for dealing with things I was hitting a wall with. We talked about my change in perspective. Talked about living more in the moment, or at least, that was my take-away. Since then, I have been shifting my focus to the present any time I find myself ruminating on the past or future too much. Thinking about those things is pretty pointless. Of course, I don't make reflexive, bad decisions about the future, I just stopped constantly thinking about being able to retire, where I would live, what my kids' futures looked like (that probably sounds bad, but they're adults - their futures are theirs to make now), political bullshit of the day...

tl;dr: Focus on the present. Find out what really matters to you.
People usually overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in 10 years.

Perception is reality. This is true of how you see the world and how people see you.

Convenience is like sugar - it is sweet and addictive and adds less to your life than you think. Finding ways of doing things that build connection to your community rather than cut you off (Prefer farmers markets to grocery stores and grocery stores to meal-delivery kits) will give you opportunities for meaningful connections every day.

Oh, and try mushrooms, but take them seriously and have a guide you trust and respect sit with you.
we do a terrible job of corridor preservation in the states. lots of converting old rail right of ways to trails or redeveloping them. the utility of simply leaving them empty, especially in urban areas, is hard to overstate.

probably the example in the bay is the dumbarton line, which has been preserved and in a world where CAHSR wasn't politically compromised would be the route off of the caltrain towards the altamont pass. the altamont alignment is technically superior to the chosen pacheco alignment on all metrics (cost, speed, operational constraints), but pacheco was chosen due to lobbying by san jose politicians, who, suffering from a massive inferiority complex, demanded that podunk san jose's diridon intergalactic was on the main line and not served by a branch. that decision, btw, pretty much single-handedly compromises the utility of CAHSR. it severely constraints the tph into SF, makes the SF-sacramento trip uncompetitive, and adds billions in unnecessary infrastructure costs

another example is the vasona branch, which branches off the caltrain right of way around cal ave, and slated to be used for a BART line to los gatos during the early days of BARTs development.
Wow! That's a crazy thought. Eye tracking tightly coupled (i.e., in a ~realtime feedback loop) with PG/ML/AI seems ... powerful, or scary, or both. Something along the lines of a computer controlled lucid dream, sprinkle in a handful of whatever the equivalent would be of blinking banner ads, product placements, or subliminal messages, etc. and my mind spirals out of control imagining how that would play out.
It comes from Twitch [1]. While it often refers to streamers, it has transcended that. An andy is someone who is identified by whatever adjective is applied. So a Crypto Andy is someone who is all and only about crypto, basically.

Put another way: Andys are indistinguishable from each other apart from one defining characteristic. And those Andys with that characteristic are likewise indistinguishable and interchangeable.

[1]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/andy-slang
A good junior will at some point gather experience and become a good senior. Which of those aspects would you say change when they become a senior? Otherwise I don't see why this doesn't apply to seniors as well, a bad junior is unlikely to learn a lot while a good junior will make the most of their experience and become a great senior, so looking for the same things in seniors as you do juniors makes sense.

Checking for "senior" skills doesn't make sense however, everyone learns different things from their experience, if you gatekeep based on things you learned as a senior then you will miss out on a lot of experience in things you didn't experience yourself, it is much better to just test for good core attributes and value their years of experience based on those, as other than that there is no way to properly evaluate high level senior level skills unless they have the exact same skills as you.
At least on Airbnb, they do show the total alongside the nightly rate. The nightly rate is emphasized, for no reason other than that it's smaller - but the total is shown right next to it.
I think this might be the PCT application in question (same name as the founder, and about fusion): https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20... Discusses an "orbital confinement fusion reaction."

(They might be overstating things with "secured a Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) International Patent." No such thing as a PCT patent. PCT's are just notice under a set of treaties that you might file an application in any of the 193 WIPO member states. No one ever has asserted a "PCT Patent." That said, PCT applications are examined, but the result is only advisory and countries often reach a different result when the examine the national phase filings.)
Great alternatives to Google are long overdue, you.com is solving it, glad people are noticing
Andy is a fairly new and derogatory/tongue in cheek term (from twitch, long story) that basically means people that get attention from jumping on someone else's creative bandwagon.

Basically someone else does the creation, and you become an Andy by trying to get involved without really adding much value.
People get touchy about the word "trust" in blockchain threads. Would it help if I said that the hardest part is creating a way to get the weather data on chain that the buyer and seller can agree on ahead of time?

Anyway, I'm obviously not claiming this can work without input from humans off chain. My point is that the infrastructure needed to get clean and honest weather data on to the chain (which requires human inputs) is much smaller than the entire infrastructure needed to administer weather insurance (which other than the previous part, can be done autonomously).
> recently confirmed as true, even by left wing publications

Sorry, the existence of said laptop, or all the wild conspiracy theories attached to it? You need to bound in your definition of "true" here a bit.
the wiki page is excellent, and clearly written by someone who was tired of all the bullshit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_2_(Sound_Transit)
Doug Crockford is a ray of sunshine.
Certainly he's somebody who took initiative. Did his personal contributions move the needle beyond getting the idea rolling?

I honestly don't know, but I haven't seen any evidence of that. But I also haven't looked that hard.

It seems easy to accidentally stumble upon stories of the other prominent tech founders moving the needle. But maybe it's all propaganda
Thank you. This post perfectly demonstrations my observation. I have never seen a physicist get viscerally frustrated because he knows some small minority of folks who use Newtonian mechanics in regimes where most other physicists concur it's a bad model.
One place where you can get a lot of food cheaply is Costco.

You can get a hot dog and drink for $1.50 and a whole rotisserie chicken for $5.
I love people who haven't read a lick of history.

Sure, Phrenology just died out on it's own. You got it.
Later, the article makes this statement:

> Billionaires in tech pay the lowest tax rate, an average of 17% of their income

That seems to be > 3.4%
Make it clear this is an un-substantiated claim by the company. This isn't print media another sentence costs nothing. "Amazon refused to comment on specific costs," "no details of absorbed costs were provided," or just use language like "Amazon claims X." This would require thinking about press releases instead of regurgitating them though.
He wrote about it in: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
An algorithm might help decide who to lend to, but the algorithm isn't actually lending the money. You aren't paying the algorithm back. Pretty big difference there.
> Staking that 1 ETH just got 10% more expensive because the opportunity cost of staking that ETH increased relative to spending it. Economically, this means that the system is going to drive out marginal stakers, by design.

I don't really get it. It's more expensive because you're making more money? Why wouldn't everyone just stake until they feel like spending? How does this drive out marginal stakers?

> But what I've been hearing from ETH holders forever

These are just people pumping their bags. No one actually knows how it's going down. Anyone who holds such alpha isn't posting it on Twitter.
There are few parts to this, but a lot of it comes down to non-interventionism and skepticism of the information provided. I can give a few thoughts that I hold to some degree.

I don't have a personal problem with Russia "winning". How could it possibly be "my" problem. It isn't impacting me and it not my responsibility.

I think that my country has a long history of intervention abroad, and it is nearly always shown to be negative and self interested in hindsight.

In past interventions, most of the information presented to the public is lies and propaganda, so I have essentially no faith any any of the reporting on the current war.

I think the US involvement in this war has resulted in escalated death and destruction, and prevented peaceful resolution.

If it were up to me (as a non-interventionist), the US would have agreed to keep NATO out of Ukraine, and thereby avoided the deaths that occurred. If it were up to me, I would have also offered this in negotiation for Russia pulling out of Ukraine after the war started.
I'd argue Trump has more immediate, impressionable supporters than Elon and his twitter like platform is a complete bust. I'd also argue people don't switch, they add. Rarely is someone popular on a single media platform, they tend to use to all of the vertices to engage. There would have to be a value proposition, one that persuades users, the name Elon in my opinion isn't a large enough selling point on it's own.
> I'd love to see what information justifies the rape of 25 women in a basement [1]. Or the widespread destruction of civilian areas, rampant rape and murder.

Any modern war is an information war more than anything... and I mean everything from the first world war.

You linking to a BBC website is very interesting because they were the first successful mass propaganda machine distributed all around the world via radio.

Even more intersting bit what the BBC doesn't report. The same things have happened in every war where the western forces and allies have been involved, and the real information only comes out, if ever, after it becomes irrelevant. If it comes out while it is relevant, we know exactly what happens to those who are responsible... look at Manning and Assange.
The article notes you can choose your level of PRESSURE when you sign in -- perhaps trying to leave with a higher level of pressure selected would get you angrily berated, while at the lower levels you'd just get a mild chiding.
The coding cafe version.

1. Upon entering you must write and demonstrate one failing test

2. The manager asks you if you want someone to pair program with you

3. You are not allowed to leave until the test is passing
Maybe. Or you enable people who need these services but have no access currently to get them. Most likely both.
> This is actually something I'm trying to avoid given the emotional/morally questionable aspect to using a start up temporarily while I find a better job.

No need to fear misleading them, just say you're only looking for contracting opportunities at present. Whether they take you up on it is up to them.
For the masses. Not for people who know how to think. It gives people a false sense of confidence and arrogance when they tell you they know how to research
It's a square and rectangle situation. Republic is a subset of democracy.
Wow that's an impressive portfolio! I don't know why exactly, but I really like time machine. I'm not sure if it's a usually disliked piece of software, but at least for me it makes back ups so much easier. Especially for my girlfriend who is not very technical.

Thank you for your work!
> I think that quote is fine if you read 'how much people are willing to pay' as meaning the whole order book (as it were) - i.e. how many people are willing to pay how much.

It's really not though.

If I give you the full detailed order book of a secret product and ask you to set the price we should use as a company, you won't be able to do it. You need at least a rough idea of the production cost first.

If people will buy 10x as much at $100 compared to $200, then we should probably price at $100 if our cost is $40, and we should definitely not price at $100 if our cost is $120.

If you want to set a price off of one data lump, you need to replace the revenue numbers in that order book with margin per unit.
Have heard a lot of criticisms of Musk but first time I'm seeing racist. Congrats you win the reddit award.
Is Ethereum PoS yet? Simple Yes or No.

That's what people are complaining about they are years behind on what they promised.
We don't use a fake name on the PO BOX. It is the vendor (like Amazon) that gets a fake name (and our po box).

The post office (quasi-government agency) knows who we are.
You can still buy the 20 piece chicken nuggets. They cost less than the five piece package (so the cost of nuggets 6-20 is actually negative).
Yes. I have 64GB of memory, yet I get these errors for filename lists that should take less than 0.1% of it.

At least GNOME file manager does not give up.
These types of videos have a very wide audience. Redditors love them.
It's a nice thought, but 43 billion dollars is a helluva price to pay for an intentional sepoku.
Not a threat. If Musk can’t fix Tw, then the share value will further decrease, so it’s just rational for him to then sell. And good for him to be honest about it from the start.
What you replied to said nothing about annexing all of Ukraine. Almost all evidence suggests Russia expected they would capture Kyiv and Ukraine would capitulate quickly.
Show HN: Hacker News reader focused on readability
Thanks for this link, I was not aware of this company before and they look like an awesome waterblock company. Good USA based alternative to EK (with less selection obv.)
We recently threw out everything we thought about surveillance, privacy, liberty, and learning through experience when it comes to our kids' access to the Internet. They now have no phone. The computer has a whitelist of sites it can visit and a few ports open for some games. It only gets used with the door open. I disable the Internet completely between the hours of 10pm and 6am. I am looking into even more big brother solutions. It's all theoretical until real stuff goes down. I'll admit to having thrown away my personal principles in regards to freedom and privacy to try to protect my kids.
Rox Filer is what Nautilus should've been.

Blazing fast, good console/terminal integration, RoxLib.
That seems like an insanely good opportunity for people with actual actuarial expertise to profit off any retail investors/gamblers in the market btw. That seems like a market that would professionalize extremely fast.
And yet...

points

Arizona Ice tea. Unchanging price, changing costs.

I think what everybody is missing is the 'tends' qualifier. Price tends to rise with increased demand; price tends to drop with increased supply. It's true, but simplified, and can be influenced by a near infinite amount of other factors, like most other behavioral laws.
the statement asserted has nothing to do with any specific party at any specific point in period. This is an example of progress during an era of which, apparently, free speech was unquestioned. The past accomplishments of the Republican party much more closely mirror the current Democratic party due to the Southern Strategy, but again, not relevant to the point being made.

> Progress for progress's sake isn't always progress

then it's definitively not progressive, isn't it? Conservation is a reactive stance, not an active one.