skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has the slope already slipped? As far as I can tell Israel regularly conducts air strikes in Syria with a claim that they are against Hamas targets. The US waged war against Taliban b/c of association with Alqaeda.

I’m ask out of moderate ignorance in that I read the claims of Turkey and that of Sweden and Finland without a mechanism for deducing truth beyond various actors’ assertions.

While it would be optimal if Turkey did wage “Good Friday” peace to the extent that it is possible, it doesn’t seem likely since their position in the triad is that of GB, not the US. The non-NATO Nordics are more similar to the role of the US.
Time Warner merger led to censorship
Google is demonstrating this nicely now. It's become almost useless, replacing the query I actually typed with something more popular.
And when that doesn't happen, the results are likely seo'd junk. (The latter is not purely googles fault, it's just that smaller search engines aren't targeted as much).

Try looking up a phone number (by number) in google for a great example of nothing but spam results.
Ok I now recall some counterpoints I only heard from my family. In the local community, community workers do visit the seniors to sell off vaccines. So that indeed prove the government did not forget this part. But they certainly not enforce it. To think in other ways, if they should enforced it, maybe it will be even an earlier disaster.
Radar has poor resolution, which means it can't always differentiate between an object near the car's path and an object in the car's path. The radar can give false positives when there's a truck on the side of the road or a metal sign on an overpass. Then you have to use the vision cameras to figure out what's really going on. Radar also loses its "lock" sometimes, which can be an issue with cars braking quickly. The radar will say "no obstacles detected" when the car in front of you is slamming on the brakes. Again, you have to use the vision cameras to figure out what's actually going on.

The people at Tesla decided that the radar was creating more noise than it was helping with, so they removed radar last year. Andrej Karpathy explains it in far more detail in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bOwQdCJrc&t=7m
Pre-vaccine and before effective treatments and putting aside the initial attempt to pretend it wasn't happening/hush it up in the very very early days/weeks, it was a wise and impressive response. What worked and was smart then is not working or smart now. Things change.
Maybe someday she'll explain to you that errors in sample estimates depend only on sample size and not population size.
Why do you say GP is non-active rather than lurking? They do read tweets, see ads, and even have an account that they log into.
I've been using both DigitalOcean (~5years) and Hetzner (11months) and I can definitely suggest Hetzner, very good service and good pricing - plus they offer dedicated servers at very reasonable pricing (and even vSwitch! You can create private network between them - very useful when you need a beast server and another one not too powerful).
These are great!

How are you using the last one? I feel like fraction of tasks started that reach customer could easily become misleading: you want to quickly abandon tasks once you realise they're no longer viable.

In fact, the development effort should be partially about finding reasons to stop working on the thing, so you can toss it out as soon as possible, instead of waiting for the customer to turn out not to use it.

I would even say that canceling many started tasks is directly correlated with a quick cycle time, by Little's law.
Real banks practice fractional-reserve banking, where they are required to hold a percentage of assets as cash or central bank deposits. It's well-regulated and diversified. It's audited. Individual account holders' deposits are insured (FDIC in the US). This is all well-known and understood and reliable. Runs can still happen, shady accounting practices can still happen, and sometimes banks fail. Sometimes they fail catastrophically, and people can lose money, but it's about as trustworthy as things get.

Tether does not claim to be a fractional-reserve bank. They claim that 100% of the assets are backed by US dollar cash deposits. It's their entire raison d'etre. Except no one is enforcing it. It's not even remotely the same thing as a fractional-reserve bank.
> Too many people falsely equate "Bitcoin === Crypto".. or "a fan of bitcoin is a fan of all crypto".

It pretty much is. I can open the price graph for any coin and assume the bitcoin movements are similar. Small dip in bitcoin price? Alts get destroyed. Even ethereum gets destroyed.
I haven't really used them as such, no. Just used them in a few electronics projects.

I have to say though that waveshare's displays are of pretty low quality. They are designed to be used in electronic price tags in stores and as such will never see daylight.

I've used an old Kindle in sunlight and I had no issues, but if I'd buy a laptop like this for a significant price I'd want to be sure of course.
Maybe surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be an open source C client library for OpenTelemetry at the moment -- I'd guess that such a library would make introducing spans/traces in PostgreSQL a bit easier (although to be honest, I don't know/remember much about calling and linking to C++ libraries from a C codebase).

(note: there is a C++ client[1], although they mention that support for C is not currently[2] a goal of the project -- and I couldn't find any C implementations elsewhere)

[1] - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp.git/

[2] - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/tree/db6...
Got any beta slots to share?
Fun fact, playbook library actions don't have to be in python, they can be in golang or shell or whatever, so long as they accept JSON on the input and emit JSON on the output

I believe that's true of all the plugins, I just have personally tried it using actions and haven't for the other pluggable ones
> funded by some of the initial LUNA tokens.

Which were bought by users in a zero sum-game.

A ponzi is a zero-sum game where new entrants finance old exits. Just because the funding for the ponzi is done in a different currency doesn't mean it's not one.

You can't create a closed system that generates wealth, and when you're growth hacking with your users' money, you are running a fraud.
> I had this idea that China was run by engineer types who were fairly rational.

Why did you have this idea?
The population of accounts that tweet is going to contain a larger proportion of spammers than the population of active Twitter accounts. Presenting the former as the latter is disingenuous.
Decision making purely based on such metrics is wrong. It's management by numbers, and similarly like coloring by numbers, while relatively easy, will not produce great results.

At the same time, metrics do have a place. Even flawed metrics, like the ones this article describes can provide value. When used together with qualitative evaluation and thoughtful analysis, it provides a more complete picture of what is going on in a team.

Metrics such as these provide an addition perspective on a team. A manager knows what their team should be doing. A good manager should have an intuitive feel of what is going on. A manager should have a good qualitative idea of how their team is doing. If the metrics do not align with the other perspectives, something may be off.

If a manager believes a person should be coding, the person is not bringing up any challenges, is reporting progress, and they produced 3 small commits over the past month, it is time for a conversation to find out more about what is going on.
Irrelevant because for >99% of depositors (NOTE - not total deposits) FDIC insurance will pay them out in the event of a bank run.

For the vast majority of users - the difference in 1:1 backing and FDIC insurance is irrelevant. This is the reason you'll almost certainly never see a global bank run. It's the reason why we probably will eventually see a Tether bank run.
And I don't see a reason why a bot/fake account wouldn't set a real random location.
So, I totally believe some cats are intelligent enough to understand that a particular human vocalization is usually "aimed" at them. However...looking at the boxplots, the data is underwhelming. There is a huge overlap between the congruent and incongruent response times, even in household cats. If anything, this is evidence that fewer cats than expected notice the incongruence.

The alternative explanation being, of course, that very few cats care. And, really, in these circumstances, why should they? But the boxplots demonstrate that the effect here is marginal.
Wait till you find out what the US did leading up to Russia annexing Crimea.
So what are their values that make the first two acceptable but not the third?
Programming Is No Longer the Fastest Growing Job in Tech
I've personally ran into more breakages with RHEL than I have with bleeding-edge distros. I wouldn't consider them rare.
You would be better off using a spreadsheet updated with your own data points than price aggregators.

But that very website says the 24 hour low was $0.00001675 and the current price of $.00016 is 10x higher

The reality is that the lows on specific exchanges had more zeroes than that
When leading these are the metrics you should care about:

Oldest MR - this should always be less than 2 weeks. This should normally be less than 1 week, but its not worth caring about at less than 2.

Unfinished sprints - sprints should finish with enough time left over to cope for an incident in the week. The extra time should be used for planning and continuous professional development (CPD). When someone is trapped in overflowing sprints it means they are deprioritising and undercompleting work that will come back to bite you.

Track other metrics for at most 3 months each, ideally only a month or a single week spot check. This prevents gaming and obsession whilst letting you reason about more nuanced behaviours.
Do you think the value of Bitcoin will go to zero due to lost private keys?
Have my upvote. I concur. The article doesn't really "pwn" in the true sense of the word anyway but that's secondary.
CCPA applies to California residents. You are very unlikely to simultaneously be a California resident and an EU/UK resident. So discuss the law that applies.

If you are in the EU, your contract is with Discord Netherlands BV.
It sounds like you want simple and reliable. Any Ansible-alternative that you find is going to fail your primary requirement because it won't be as widely adopted, documented, and used as Ansible is. I'm not defending YAML but you might be letting perfect be the enemy of the good.
How often did horses breakdown? Do you see why someone from 1890 may think it is crazy to drive a car that frequently has a breakdown vs a horse?

Similarly, 130 years from now people will ask "Why would you want to drive your self when there were self driving cars available? And someone else will have to explain that FSD required close supervision and needed interventions between 1 or 100 miles, depending on the driving situations."
Exactly. Same as Apple waxing lyrical about privacy, all the BLM bandwagon jumping in 2020, etc etc ad nauseam
Ignoring that this can be addressed through regulation, would you rather have limited choice between private companies or a single entity that mandates what you'll choose whether you like it or not and also can use force to enforce their mandates?
So how do we measure it?
Kucoin and Binance

But other people are more willing to explain it
I do think there's a particularly unique challenge to Julia in that so many packages can theoretically coexist and interoperate. While it quadratically increases the power of Julia, it also quadratically increases the surface area for potential issues. That — to me — is the most interesting part of the blog post. How can we help folks find the "happy" paths so they don't get lost in the weeds by trying to differentiate a distributed SVD routine of an Offset BlockArray filled with Unitful Quaternions? And — as someone who worked with and valued Yuri's reported issues and fixes — how can I more quickly identify that they're not someone who gets joy out of making such a thing work?
Usable in direct sunlight?

When will this product ship?
> “In a sense, the market is going to take that as kind of bullish.”

I mean everything is a bit oversold right now on negative emotions, both in the crypto space and in the stock markets.

There's probably going to be a positive bounce just because markets don't move in straight lines.

There is always the chance that something else explodes due to stress tomorrow and hits the headlines and crypto and/or stocks start melting down again (nothing is ever a sure bet), but it feels like we're closer to hitting a point of selling exhaustion and an inflection point of negative sentiment.
> I never worked in a large company

I don't want to be rude, but it sounds like you don't know what you're talking about.

It often goes far beyond "insurance." A lot of this stuff is performative. Some people simply aren't good at executing, and many managers are focused on appearances and increasing the size of their kingdoms. Most can't allow themselves to be fine setting a roadmap and having it execute smoothly. There are all sorts of other perverse incentives and absurd behaviors I could go into, but the notion that it's all completely rational is silly.
That means that 20% of the posts that I see, as a lurker, are generated by bots. The bots are having a huge influence on conversations, and that's important to know.
What do I care about start to finish time?

The only way to shorten that latency would be to have so many employees that they can all spend all day just waiting to pounce immediately on their inbox. It's just the same or worse waste distributed differently.

A developer with a full pipeline seems the most efficient to me. Let there be 15 projects all in different stages of progress.

It's fundamentally not a synchronous process and I say a mistake to try to make it one.

Edit to address a sense I'm getting from several comments at once, that I may be a manager who doesn't understand or care about developers:

I AM the developer (& sysadmin) with a bunch of fresh and stale projects and it doesn't bother me at all. I always have work to do but it's not stressfull because that is about your boss(es) not about the number of open items. If anyone tried to say all that stuff needs to be done yesterday, sure that would be a problem. But all they really are is a spectrum of priorities. Some are just ideas little more than stubs for possible future interest, some would be nice but may never be justifiable in a strict easily quanifiable sense, you can't bill any customer for the hours, and yet would still be nice, would be one of the things that sets your product apart and attracts the customer in the first place, and some have normal priority, and when something high priority comes along, it simply displaces the rest. It just requires a boss who doesn't say that every single new item is always the most important.

That stack of available projects, and the age of half of them, doesn't bother me at all. Half the time, a different project is as good as a walk in the park for the reset / fresh look factor when stuck on something.
Have you considered doing payment processing, then the output goes to the users preferred payment method? So say my customer pays with a CC (via stripe or braintree on your end) - you could pass that payment along to PayPal, stripe, crypto, etc.

To me, that would be a useful alternative because all I'll need to do is enter my CC info, or preferably use apple pay which is much faster than me needing to ensure I have paypal, zelle, etc. installed.

I'm probably in the minority here, but I know for older people paying by CC is going to be easier than using an alternative payment processor.
Not based on any actual measurement of excess mortality.

They're citing a machine learning model that tries to correlate various other measures (like GDP/capita, unemployment, etc.) with mortality in some countries, and then extrapolates to every country. That model spits out ridiculous numbers for China. A normal statistician would look at that and say, "This model doesn't generalize well," not, "1.7 million people died without leaving a trace."

The best actual measurement of excess mortality in China was published in the BMJ (formerly known as the British Medical Journal).[0] It found that in the initial outbreak in early 2020, there were just under 5,000 excess pneumonia deaths. Almost all of them were in Wuhan itself. In most of China, there were actually negative excess deaths, because the lockdowns reduced flu and car crash deaths.

0. https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n415
For some projects I just have some shell scripts, and a function which executes remote commands on servers. Work pretty good tbh.

But ansible playbooks work fine too. Just don't use anything but hosts-file + a playbook
I think the fear was that subjecting a PCB to the vibrational stresses imposed during launch could possibly crack traces or solder joints. Even with P2P, they spotwelded where they could. Whatever the reasons, the equipment proved to be reliable. I don't think there was a single comms failure across the entire program.
Any more, whenever a company I use goes public or is acquired, I start looking for the egress. I'm happy that the founders of whatever it is got a nice payday, but I don't expect their creation to continue being worth using after that.
I can't say that I've never used the first three to spot people with absolutely no useful output, sadly they are pretty good metrics for that.
The motivations I have seen were:

- If radar/lidar fails, vision needs to work. If vision works, radar/lidar are not needed.
- Sensor fusion is hard: outliers in radar data ended up hurting more than the non-outliers helped.

The second one sounds to me like the real reason: Sensor fusion is not trivial and if it doesn't work correctly, you'll get the worst of all worlds.
I noticed no solution was offered.
Some metric ton s usually better than no metric
Love the original KSP! Sad as I am to hear about the delay, I’d rather they take the time needed to polish the game instead of rushing it out the door. Looking forward to the release next year!
it's not like they'll have different user account behaviours for someone living in California at the moment, compared to someone living in the EU.
> There is no possible way that trillions of new bitcoins could suddenly be created.

There absolutely is: fractional reserve banking. Exchanges are already operating that way. They offer loans, savings accounts and everything.
New Math for Tech Startups
Sure, it's merely an idea that is believed, like the Greeks believed that the night stars were heros, or Galileo that Jupiter had satellites, or Newton that F=ma everywhere and that God had set up the solar system.

Some of these theories work, others don't. Nobody had a truly solid reason to believe them before it was clear they worked (in the case of those that did). Scientists all believe things they have no strict reason to -- when they're wrong they're wrong, and when they're right it's a scientific discovery.

Planck had no reason to postulate the energy packets when he came up with them. He described it as a move of pure desperation. The explanation (such as it is) for why this worked wasn't developed until decades later.

I don't personally believe Turing machines reveal much about the human brain, but you're verging on a more general claim about how science should be performed. That to hypothesize, work within a model, or even get something out of it you need to already have a precise description of the phenomenon being described and "why" the model might work. None of that is required though.

To be clear this all applies much less to "bread and butter" science. What we're faced with here is a process that has no convincing description.

To convince people to give up on computational models of the brain you need to convince them that it doesn't work. Nothing has been revealed by it in 60+ years. It's never predicted anything. Neurobiology and pharmacology at least have some results to show about a real brain. What you're basically engaging in instead is philosophy -- "pure" math is distinct from the empirical world, what if the whole universe, science requires this specific method, ... But it's better if we can dismiss a scientific idea on scientific grounds, rather than philosophical considerations.
Yeah, 300x, 500x, overnight, eventually we’ll be talking some significant money
What's the trading volume
rabbits are just prey animals and that shows in their behavior and attitude, whereas cats do a lot of predation themselves.
If I report an issue to AWS, AWS actually takes action. If I report an issue to DO, DO sends my report to the bad actor and my problem becomes worse.

They may all be guilty, but some actually try to do something. DO does nothing and does not care.
> A language with static types would have made it easier to build correct software

This claim is repeated often, but numerous attempts have failed to demonstrate that this is generally the case in practice (there have been a couple of studies showing an effect in very specific circumstances). Static types might indeed assist with correctness, but they are not the only thing that does, and in some situations they could come at the expense of others. I.e., even if types were shown to significantly help with correctness, it does not follow that if you want correctness your best course would be to add types.

Given empirical studies, the current working hypothesis should be that if static types do have a positive effect on correctness, it is a small one (if it were big, detecting it would have been easy).

Note that Matlab, the workhorse of scientific computing for a few decades now, is even less typed than Julia. That's not to say that Julia doesn't suffer from too many correctness issues (I have no knowledge on the matter), but even if it does, there is little support for the claim that typing is the most effective solution.
I don't think anyone's going around using shares of Citibank stock as currency, are they? Because that's one of the many criteria that need to be true for that comparison to make any sense.

Blows my mind because stablecoins could be so easy-- hold some cash and hold some US treasuries. Pocket the interest. Become rich.
What is the proper definition of "active"?

It seems like everyone is arguing about different metrics and it makes more sense to discuss different, specific measures that might fall into a range of behaviors that are "active" in some sense rather than focusing on which definition of "active" is somehow the best one.

What would be more interesting would be to adapt this and answer several different questions about the proportion of spam among accounts with different metrics of activity to see how things change. For example, does the percentage of spam accounts go down a lot if we lower the bar for "active"? How much & how fast?
I use a similar set:

- Time between idea first recorded and idea in production.

- Time between idea merged to main branch and idea in production (in some places this is negligible, in others where ideas spend most of their time hanging out -- done, but collecting dust).

- Time actively spent on task over the time between work started on idea and idea merged to main branch. (This is "flow efficiency" in lean terminology.)

Other than that I use the DORA metrics too. I measure defect rate by looking at proportion of merge requests that fix defects, because mostly that is a stable distribution.