skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> bit fields have always been the buggiest part of C compiler

Not in my experience. The buggiest part was the preprocessor. You don't hear much about preprocessor bugs anymore because the C standard doesn't dare change it, and in 40 years people have finally got them working right :-/

Personally, I had to scrap and rewrite the C preprocessor 3 times to get it right.
Simulations are fantastic, and often necessary for tricky statistics problems, however what you are describing is reinventing so much of the wheel using simulation that you are going to be spending multiple orders of magnitude extra computation to get an approximately correct solution. You also do have some conceptual errors in your plan.

For example

> Assuming the true rate of nurses quitting is X, what is the chance that a random sample of 200 nurses has the expectation of quitting >= 90%.

You have just described the Binomial distribution [0], which is probably the most elementary distribution you learn about when studying probability and statistics (even the Bernoulli is just a special case of it). There's no need to run simulations to answer this particular question.

There are also some fundamental misunderstandings with your approach:

> increasing until I get >95% chance that a random sample of 200 nurses has E(quitting) > 90%.

The probability of getting > 90% 'yes/quitting' (i.e. more than 180) if the true probability 'yes' is in fact 0.9 is only 0.46. You won't cross your threshold of 95% here until you reach X=0.933

If you wanted to construct the 95% CI from pure simulation, a better approach would be to sample 200 observations from a 0.9 Bernoulli random variable (just sample from a uniform, and check if it's less than 0.9), compute the mean of the samples, and repeat this 10,000 or so times. Then look at the empirical CDF [1] (fairly easy to implement in code) and look at the lower 2.5% and upper 2.5% values and you have your bounds (which will be the same as the ones I posted within some epsilon).

I do recommend, if you're seriously interested in understanding this, picking up a basic probability/stats book and work your way through it.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_distribution_functio...
Everyone with more than $2M in sales and larger companies have very deep data on it. The industry as a whole is very knowledgeable, it's very sophisticated.
I got, “All people are equal and their Creator, freedom, and happiness, happiness and happiness”, which is… happier.
We wanted to run our own e-mail server and use Mutt on one team, so we repurposed an old desktop. Took the cover off, everybody assumed it was broken.
Also, many businesses, products, features, etc never survive long enough to get to "the long run" specifically because people were building out automation, testing, etc.

Doing all of the best practices can mean your competitors beat you, just because they deliver "good enough" faster than you deliver perfection

It's not ideal but it's reality.
The thickness of typical copy paper in the US is 0.1 mm. I measure it by measuring the height of a ream (500 sheets) and dividing by 500. This bit of trivia turns out to be rather helpful for 3D printing.

Also, 0.005 inches = 0.127mm, so we're talking about slightly more tolerance than the thickness of copy paper.
> Sadly the licensing issues scared Apple off from adopting ZFS.

It was not licensing. ZFS is licensed the exact same way as Dtrace, and Dtrace is part of Mac OS / macOS.

It was signing a 'support' contract with Sun: terms couldn't be agreed to. From Jeff Bonwick (co-creator of ZFS) on the zfs-users list at the time:

> Apple can currently just take the ZFS CDDL code and incorporate it
> (like they did with DTrace), but it may be that they wanted a "private
> license" from Sun (with appropriate technical support and
> indemnification), and the two entities couldn't come to mutually
> agreeable terms.

I cannot disclose details, but that is the essence of it.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20121221111757/http://mail.opens...
Do the same people look better in casual clothing?
The majority of hedge funds fail within 3 years, having never reached profitability.
We're indie makers and just try to share our product as politely as possible :)
Almost Live has a pretty good satirical take on the Boeing cultural shift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVUeZ2HLYlM
I know off the top of my head 2 examples where code can be stored for research:

Zenodo: https://about.zenodo.org/
OSF: https://osf.io/
Lyrics are gold through this thing:

So a story about,
My life is going on
I want to make minutes and want to be there,
I am telling you, I’m in the city and bathe in the city.

Born from Western Hiladelphia
Because I have the biggest days in the game.
Sorry, meant ~150k!
FB makes so much $ it doesn't matter if they are not growing much anymore.
It was great for revenue. Hospitals got paid for using Remdesivir, which has no approved medical use anywhere worldwide and had a test on Ebola virus patients halted because it was killing faster than the Ebola virus.
https://www.cms.gov/medicare/covid-19/new-covid-19-treatment...

' October 22, 2020, the FDA approved remdesivir (Veklury) for the treatment of COVID-19 for adults and certain pediatric patients requiring hospitalization '

That stuff is lethal.
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/gilead-mulls-repositio...
The book M.D.: Doctors Talk About Themselves actually interviews someone who discusses this problem, and inadvertently illustrates a problem American policy ran into.

The interviewee says that the Reagan administration tried to drive down the cost of health care by increasing (as opposed to, say, lifting) the quota on production of doctors, with the idea in mind that more supply of doctors would drive down costs. And he goes on to say that the idea backfired by raising medical costs.

In the interviewee's mind, the problem is that doctors can "make their own work" -- with more doctors around, more medical care can be performed than was possible with fewer doctors, and so the cost of health care went up instead of down, making the policy a mistake. That is the beginning and end of his analysis.

No one asks whether the cost of particular treatments went up or down. If total national spending on health care went up, the policy is supposed to have been a failure.
The SpaceX part really happened: https://electrek.co/2016/03/22/elon-musk-spacex-solar-bonds-...
Of course $1T problem is ridiculous. That said, it's a big problem.
ARM is little-endian, and by tradition bitfield bit indexes are assigned from least significant (bit 0 in ARM terms) to more significant. b occupies bits 4-7 inclusive.
Not attacking you personally, but it's important to keep this stuff in mind when we make choices as customers. Consumers are cattle. Don't be like cattle. Use your money for good.

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The difference between you and North Korea is that nobody is holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy phones you can't root.

Which means that it is very likely that you volunteered for it. Unless somebody else paid for it, like work. Then that is their problem. I still recommend buying your own phone.

Why did you do that?

Is it because the phone is a particular brand that is fashionable and you want that to reflect on you when you use the phone around other people? Is it because it is cheaper to buy because the phone company subsidizes the phone in order to sell you spyware you can't get rid of and to lock in reliable monthly payments from you?

There are lots of reasons people do this. Maybe it's just ignorance. Maybe they tell themselves they don't have anything to hide. Maybe having control over the things in they own seems like too much work or too intimidating.

Because it is extremely likely you actually had a choice and your choice was to sell your freedom in exchange for shiny baubles.

You didn't have to do that. And you don't have to continue to do that. You have a choice. You have the power. You really do.

This is important because you have the chance to financially reward people that want to preserve your freedom or you can financially reward people that take it away.

This is the power you have. It is more democratic than voting. It also matters much more.
They DO pay the taxes! That’s the point. This district controls resources and Disney alone pays for it. If it is dissolved, the state pays it, and that’s the issue. Disney saves $1Bn in debt payment because the debt is owned by the district that they’re the only taxpayer of.
From his Wikipedia page you linked to:

> In 1996, he launched an unsuccessful campaign to elect Ernest, his Bernese Mountain Dog, to Congress.

I like this guy.
I didn't know that. I'm gonna try it now. Thanks for your feedback!
The solar system provides a whole house real time meter so we should be able to track down usage easier. We’ll see. We have two teenagers and a larger house and workshop, so, quite a few variables to figure out. We are converting the whole house to heat pumps. These units are state of the art and hit 370% efficiency.
This is exactly my situation. There is no recourse.
That's the whole point of 'right to work.' Allow new employees to freeload on the union-negotiated rates for the shop without requiring them to actually join the union. Who would pay if they got the benefits anyway? So the union gets defunded.
It was a 'support contract' between Sun and Apple not being able to be agreed to:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20121221111757/http://mail.opens...
> A simple deductive proof of 2+2=4 (say in Peano Arithmetic) is clear enough that I'd give it a very small chance of being wrong, easily less than 10^-9 but certainly not less than 10^-100. To push something below a probability like 10^-100 one would have to be unreasonably confident in things like "I haven't developed a brain injury causing me to be very confident in 2+2=4 and confabulating all other evidence as needed". Such a thing is absurdly unlikely of course, but a 10^-100 occurrence is far, far less likely still.

In the case of having a brain injury that makes you incorrectly think a simple deductive proof is true when it's not, then bayesian reasoning isn't going to fare any better. We're in hinge proposition territory where we can't reasonably doubt what gives the basis for reasoning. 2+2=4 by definition of basic arithmetic. The cost of doubting that is is to doubt any consistent reasoning, including probabilities.

> Do you sign? If you believe that there is a 100% chance that you drew a black ball, then there's a zero percent chance that you'll lose this bet. It's a free dollar, why wouldn't you sign it?

The only reason not to sign is because there's strong reason to believe they have a trick up their sleeve they can fool you with. But if we take something verifiable by everyone, like the roughly spherical shape of the Earth, or the speed of light in a vacuum, there is no reason not to take the bet. It would be a free dollar.

> We can do science in the face of the probability that we might be wrong about anything and everything, the key thing is to keep in mind the bounds – at least roughly – of the different ways that we can be wrong.

We can't be wrong about everything, because that would mean science was impossible. That would be the radical skepticism I was mentioning, and you can't use Bayesian reasoning with radical skepticism.

Which is why Kant had to come up with categories of thought to rescue rationality in the face of Humean skepticism. You can't give a probability to the liklihood of the sun continuing to undergo fusion tomorrow if the laws of nature could change on us at any time for no reason (tomorrow is Thanksgiving for the turkey scientist who is confident about continued survival Hume would say).
See also the booming Rep (replica) Watch scene, where $100-300 gets you a very passable knockoff PP that signals the same, especially from across the room.

In California, IYKYK, but so do the streeet thugs. $200k is a nice payoff for 30 seconds worth of risk.¹

[1]https://archive.ph/MY0Hb
(personally I don't understand what your saying / what the point is, but I'm also tired. I'm not GP btw. -- in what ways is it a nightmare for example? What's a real human and a not real human? "the clumsy folks of our blood" -- I don't understand, how are they clumsy for example)
It would be better if the device played the sound of someone aggressively having diarrhea. Then, the people outside wouldn't know if it were the person or the device.
A few years ago, I did a consulting for an IT agency and had insight into their code, including some projects done for the government. It was a worst mess of spaghetti code I've ever seen. For one of those projects they've hired people without any or little experience for cheap, and sold them as seniors for a crazy price.
Five tests of "I made a pot of tea" on the other hand were far less successful.

1. "I have made a teaspoon"

2. "I lived in a stain"

3. "I'm drinking tea"

4. "I have made a single potential"

5. "I made a basket"
> No, it doesn't. A continuous distribution is just a way of assigning probabilities to a parameterized set of propositions where the parameters are continuous and so the set is infinite. But for any given proposition in that set the prior is a number.

A continuous distribution does not assign probabilities to each proposition but subsets of them. To see this concretely consider the continuous Uniform distribution from 1 to 1.5. It will for all values of its support have a probability density of 2. Most people would not consider 2 a probability.

For continuous distributions, Bayes's theorem becomes about probability densities and not probabilities.
No. Perhaps a course out of the sociology or psychology or political science departments on the effects of computers and electronic information on social and political life in $COUNTRY might be of use. But the use of computers is a middle-school subject, and how to make them (go) is for those interested in such.

Some kind of basic understand of math, statistics and critical thought and how entertainment biases thought would be a win. Also Betteridge's Law of Headlines.
Any community colleges around that teach college level courses? That’s what I did when I ran out of options for math at my high school.
I was taught Haskell at university and I'm old. Looking at it's wiki page it's a 32 year old language not that much younger than 37 year old C++.
> You could even just be a layer on top of AWS and probably make profit from not many users, as long as you're cheaper.

Isn't Heroku exactly that?
A person is not required. A reputation is required.
The Acquisition of Amiga from Commodore's Perspective and Custom Chips
It's the bare-minimum staffing that's done in nursing, in addition to the bizarro pay scale.
There are rumours [0] that they are going to release a video of the overflight of the debris of the backshell and parachute. After seeing these pictures, I am looking forward to that even more. The helicopter is such an amazing addition to the rover, even when it does not carry any scientific instruments.

[0] https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1516821683679727617
As somebody with experience at NASA, this made me chortle. I would NOT characterize the average civil servant that I worked with as "devoted to the goals of the organization." That includes the lowest level field organizations. Unfortunately, for the average employee, it eventually gets treated like any other job.

It's possible this dichotomy works in theory only. Being generous, it's possible they just disagree about the goals of the organization.
We have the same problem in education; we've stupidly combined certifications (diplomas) with instruction. This is a huge conflict of interest for the schools.
Science is just another religion for many people. [citation needed]

That is to say, all of us have to take large chunks of our built environment as a matter of faith. My old iPad, for instance, is indistinguishable from magic.

I can explain technology and engineering as something you might conceivably build. But to explain why we built a data processing pipeline the way we did, and why the resulting image represents the appearance of a massive black hole in a distant galaxy... it's all noise.

People can believe that you think we need to change our ways to head off climate change. But you're not going to get them to join your religion of science.
So how do you order one in the United States? Preferably from Utah?
You can enable public file ACL access restriction at the account level and issue authenticated/signed links for file access if required for general consumption. The idea that your data layer shouldn't be open to unauthenticated read from the public shouldn't be new to people but persists with somewhat "easy" buttons to enable behaviors.

For static sites or other public access required files setting up cloudfront with an authenticated origin pull is pretty straightforward and in our case we use a terraform module to provision and secure the bucket/distribution. I think this come when you get dev/biz users with console access who are trying to "just get it done" when you are dealing with highly confidential or sensitive data, it's a recipe for leak.
538 has a strong background in polling, ostensibly, but they missed the real take away from the poll. The real change that needs to be understood is the reasons for soaring Democratic confidence in the scientific community over the past three years and if is it durable or specific to COVID-19.

The post's only graph of poll information shows a dramatic uptick in Democratic confidence in the scientific community starting in 2018 that continued into 2021. Republican confidence ticks upward for 2018 and downward for 2021. The overall drop places Republicans in roughly the same range as Democrats from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s.

If Musk continues to (appear to) push technology forward (a big if) and simultaneously is vilified for Twitter's policy changes, we could end up in the peculiar situation where the left favors "science" and the right "technology". What a crazy world that would be!
No shame in that, since your service is even cheaper. Oh. Nevermind. /s

(In perspectice for 39$/month I can self host 1+ premium vps server(s) and run one or more of those https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#boo...)
nostr (https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr) seems to be a minimal possible solution. It doesn't seem to be much in use though, so I guess once that happens a few issues will come up.
Yes. And I hate that so so much.

I inherited an older Moccamaster, which does not have the timeout, and the newer one went straight to storage.
Unfortunately the old button without a timer is not sold as a spare anymore, or I would have "downgraded" the newer machine.
Accessible w/o cookies: [https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/27/boeing-lost-billion-dollars-...]
I used to make my projects open-source when I did not want to deal with them anymore. The plan was I am not going to change anything anymore, but the project is too useful to delete it, so someone else can make future updates.

But I do not do that anymore. I did not find someone else, instead more people send me issues and I have to spend 100x more time on the project than before I abandoned it.

However, now I work at an university and there you are expected to make everything open-source
I suppose, as a little context, I was rather discouraged with the recent interview process and so I took it upon myself to turn what would be a standard practice in our industry into a little bit of condensed art. The entirety of roman2 lives within roman2.c which includes a virtual machine, garbage collector, assembler, and compiler with a hand rolled recursive descent parser. I aimed to keep it all under 5k lines of C, with no external dependencies, keeping the source style similar to Crenshaw's Let's Build a Compiler series. The aim was to solve leetcode - like one would to gain new job prospects - but just with that of a custom language to prove that failing technical interviews is at least not a poor reflection of one's technical merit.

I'm certainly not trying to boast technical merit. I just find the technical process of hiring overwhelmingly complex
Thanks for linking that article, fascinating read! It's incredible how much an article from 2010 (over a decade ago!) can resonate with how I feel about social media today and easily put the vague discomforts I've felt about it into words.
They do say that most money in gold rushes is to be made by selling shovels...
This is a beautifully long-winded way of confirming that "Literature" is simply a genre that people confuse for quality.

The people who write books that get featured in NYRB and the New Yorker, that come up through Iowa, etc, are the people that know that genre well. So of course they're welcome critics of it.

If you like the stuff that NYRB features, then you'll eat up reviews by those same authors. It would be silly for NYRB not to invite those reviews. Every other genre publication does the same thing.

It's only a problem if you let yourself buy into the idea that this style of work is more than an upper middle class fashion.
I would open no offices.
Seems too easy to game.

If I were a far-right provocateur, I would claim to burn a Koran but have it be an empty book. Or simply burn a book without saying what the book contains.

Or, if the ban is on burning a religious text, I would use a paper shredder, or chain saw, or drive nails through it.

> “History has taught Jews what can come next when you start burning books,”

I'm from the US, where book burning is surprisingly common.

"Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, church youth groups coordinated book burnings and music bonfires to purge their world of evil art." points out https://religionnews.com/2020/06/17/evangelicals-perfected-c... .

A college roommate of mine was one - he burned his SF/fantasy books after a visiting preacher to his religious group encouraged them to get rid of an earthly thing they loved, to spend more time with God.

Here's a pastor recently "encouraging parishioners to toss books like "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" into a fire to denounce what he described as "demonic" materials. "
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pastor-holds-bonfire-bu...

There's been several Harry Potter burnings, like "In 2001, people held a bonfire in New Mexico to burn the [Harry Potter] books because they believed the novels perpetuated the idea of satanism." - https://www.polygon.com/2017/2/1/14474054/harry-potter-books...

In Poland too! https://people.com/books/harry-potter-books-burned-by-polish...

It seems that what can come next when you start burning books is have some Hollywood movies made about the books.

BTW, if people really believe the Harry Potter books are Satanic, then doesn't that make them religious texts?
Using AI to reduce concrete's carbon footprint
"Elon Musk on Political Neutral Twitter". Is there a "not" or "absurd" missing here? "Free Speech" is going to turn out to be a shitshow or "whatever Elon thinks it is".

And you just CAN'T talk about Fight Club.
Specialists are called that for a reason. They are not general practitioners and their time is extremely valuable. Access to them needs to be managed so that they do not waste their time on people who do not need their specialty.

The way it's supposed to work is that the general practitioner rules out a bunch of stuff, and then starts referring to specialists who can diagnose/treat the rare things.

In practice it's not quite perfect, but it's hard for me to think of a better way to deal with it.
Tailscale Authentication for Nginx
> A better UX would reduce the amount of time nurses spend using these systems. That productivity could be used to do more other work (like taking on more patients). I don't like this argument but it's easy to make in terms of cost effectiveness.

I don't think the companies developing the software care, because they're getting paid either way.