skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"mission-focused" is anti-political-activism position, not a financial health position.
Makes every day seem like Talk Like a Pirate Day.
The places with strong tidal currents have a tendency of limiting construction to ebb and high tide, in other words lot of expensive waiting around.

Regarding the environment, under the sea it is quite fine compared to stationary platforms operating in the north sea or Mexican gulf(hurricanes) year around, so that should be easier.
OMGEEEE +1000 for the OP
True to a certain extent. People forget that Earth is not a zero sum control volume. We get a crap ton of energy from the Sun and the sun power most things on Earth in some shape or form (minus matter formation or radioactive material). The Earth uses around 23,900 terawatt-hours a year. The sun generates about 430 quintillion kWh every hour.
Delusional. 99% of professionals can come across as nice and respectful in interviews, and have no criminal record. How could you possibly anticipate "a willingness to take revenge".
Why US gun violence spikes in warm weather (dvl: 2022; rsr: 2020, 2019, 2017)
I didn’t mean a standard, more of exposing its primitive s with interfaces that are usable in other languages.
> You can't just pick and choose which parts of society you want to comply with.

You can't pick any parts. Choice has nothing to do with it. You serve the government, it does not serve you. You are a slave.

But you can pretend that you picked what society is asking you to do, if you like - that you picked how much tax you paid, that your government borrowed so many trillions, the way they spend that money, which wars they fight, etc, etc. If you don't believe me, try and change something.

I personally think that's an example of Stockholm syndrome, but each to their own.
The authors of a controversial meeting abstract linking ivermectin to lower mortality from Covid-19 have retracted the study, saying that the work has been widely “misinterpreted” and might be leading to patient harm.

The abstract, “Treatment with Ivermectin Is Associated with Decreased Mortality in COVID-19 Patients: Analysis of a National Federated Database,” was presented at the 2021 International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance.

According to the researchers, from the University of Miami, Covid-19 patients who took ivermectin were about 70% less likely to die of the disease than those who took remdesivir.

Ivermectin use was associated with decreased mortality in patients with COVID-19 compared to remdesivir. To our knowledge, this is the largest association study of patients with COVID-19, mortality and ivermectin. Further double-blinded placebo-controlled RCTs with large samples are required for definite conclusion. In the future, if more publications are published with the similar result to the current analyses, the certainty of evidence will increase.

Not surprisingly, the poster received a significant amount of attention on social media – both from ivermectin partisans and skeptics. At the time, the researchers tried to distance themselves from any firm conclusions about the work, stressing that they were reporting an association and not necessarily a causal effect.
And are there additional images in the probe's storage that will be transferred over the coming... years?
Buy lottery tickets instead (“startup equity equivalent”) and work for established companies who can offer the same. Startup employees optimize for workism (“mission”, trying to obtain meaning from their work), let them, optimize for quality of life and comp instead (many larger orgs have embraced remote and even support global nomads if you structure employment arrangement and finances appropriately).
"our EDDM vendor" seems to imply a third party getting the addresses to print (because there's no need to keep the vendor name secret if it's the USPS), but maybe they just thought it sounds better than saying "the USPS".
You're absolutely right. Therefore, we should prohibit this tracking by anyone. We definitely shouldn't expand it!
Would be cool if I could install some kind of linux on that old ipad 1 i still got laying around.
The worst outcome is those private entities treat my data as their property, to do with as they wish, without any accountability, transparency, or recourse.

In other words, the staus quo.
> Preserving cash flow is important. But you also have to do things carefully, openly, and with genuine care for the people who've believed in your vision.

So firing people who have actively worked on the vision is better than firing people who haven't started working yet? You seem to be taking things backwards.

This option is quite a lot better than the alternative.
Note: the research may be based on USA data but the thesis is of course scientific (universal).

> A... controversial idea is that heat itself ... might rev up conflict

> [David] Hemenway [professor of health policy at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health] said he had long been interested in the relationship between heat and higher crime given stereotypes about the north-south divide within the United States and Italy, as well as between the northern European states of Scandinavia and southern Mediterranean countries

> In 2020, he co-wrote a paper ... [using] reports from the Chicago Tribune[: t]hey found a 10 degree Celsius higher temperature was significantly associated with 34 percent more shootings on weekdays, and 42 percent more shootings on weekends or holidays

> Another recent paper ... in 2017, looked at violent crime in Philadelphia[: ...]violent crimes happened more often in the warmer months ... and were highest on the hottest days

> A striking study ... in 2019 involved placing university students ... in either hot or cold rooms and measuring the impact on a number of behavioral categories ... found heat significantly affects individuals' willingness to voluntar[y] destr[uction]

Very probably, this divulgative article from Issam Ahmed was written not on the occasion of new research, but on the basis of the recent chronicles.
It's not meaningless at all.

First off, if you're comparing multiple offers with similar salaries, equity considerations may be a good way to make a decision.

Beyond that, understanding how companies handle equity compensation can tell you a lot about their culture and treatment of employees. There are companies out there that are eager to answer these questions because they give generous stock compensation and want you to know it. There are also companies that will obfuscate and hide behind misleading numbers. I once had an offer and asked for more equity, only to be told by the recruiter that the stock was about to split, so I'd actually get twice as much (this is absolute nonsense, to be clear, and a huge red flag).

Lastly, with regard to your initial question about compensation, asking these questions absolutely can be useful to that end. When you're negotiating with early to mid-stage startups, one of the things that you can negotiate is your equity/salary split. I once took a pay cut from the initial offer in exchange a much greater amount of equity than I was initially offered. That was because I found a lot of positives about the company and preferred higher risk and more reward (thankfully it looks like that is going to work out very well in my favor, but obviously that was in no way assured). If a company's giving you bad answers as it relates to equity, you may well want to try to negotiate for a higher salary in exchange for less equity, so your financial circumstances aren't tied as much to the company's performance. Understanding equity gives you one more dimension on which to negotiate, and the more things you can negotiate, the better off you are.

There is this prevailing idea in Silicon Valley that you should just ignore equity and treat it like a lottery ticket, and while I think that is very good for financial planning, it is otherwise awful advice. Just because you don't have full control over the way things go with equity doesn't mean that you shouldn't educate yourself on what can be a meaningful portion of your compensation.
> You can get all of those things at a non-startup.

I mean I've been trying super hard for the past 10 years and I haven't been able to find a workgroup at a large corporation that has a high velocity of execution and is actually innovating much. I'm personally taking a pay cut to go to a startup to hopefully find this.

I'd love to join Project Starline or similar truly innovative groups within large companies, but I don't have a degree from a top-10 school so startups are kind of my only way that I can find to get to an environment like that. Even with strong references from Staff Engineers at Google my resume just gets thrown out, haven't been able to secure even a first round interview with FAANG in over 5 years of trying. Maybe they're not interested in working with ex-oil industry engineers, or maybe my resume just really really sucks.

> you're missing a huge opportunity for exchanging hard labor for potentially high return. It's like buying a lottery ticket without filling in the numbers.

Sure, but my reasons didn't have "make more money" they had "decent-enough pay".

Also currently my preferred geography is Houston to stay with my incredible partner. Most of the large companies here have a lot people that I don't enjoy working with -- e.g. people who are outspokenly excited for an illegal immigrant to try to steal tools out of their shed at night so that they can legally kill them. So "great coworkers" is also a bit hard with "preferred geography" sometimes. Granted for a $250,000 role, we'd certainly pack up and move somewhere, but I haven't been able to get FAANG to even give me a first round interview!

The bottom line is that it's entirely possible that the best situation for me is to make almost the same money to work with what seems to be an incredible group of really, really, really smart people on some super cool technology. Yes it will be "more work", but with this should come more skill development. I don't have and am not planning on having kids, so I'm happy enough just going to pilates at 7am and working my ass off all day on something that I find personal reward in, and then doing my hobbies (sailing, beer brewing) on the weekends.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/249316529342833653/
I always just referred to it as "deterministic destruction." I think that's reasonable, anyway.
I sincerely hope that / means + not =
I have the same feeling. Using a SVG editor shouldn't be that hard (drawling lines, filling shapes etc.) but somehow doing anything in Inkscape is so confusing I was never able to do even the simplest task with it.
Man, I was thinking about this problem and came up with some weird solutions.

I've actually thought all this stuff has already been solved?

Is there a point in still trying to improve efficiency of sorting?

I can do that! I'd love such a challenge if there was a point to it!
This was the compiler I learned to code on - $20 was great for a student budget. If you click through the pages you can also find their database toolchest which is a great introduction to btrees and managing storage.
Unless I've been grossly misinformed those aren't added to the concentrate.
That's fair - to each their own. For me personally my favorite thing was finding those lines of "tutorial puzzles" that teach you how certain rules work, and suddenly realizing how other puzzles could be solved - I got goosebumps from that a lot of times. One thing can be said for certain, it's a great game - unfortunately not the best replay value though IMO, because you tend not to forget the puzzle rules once you figure them out (similar to Outer Wilds in this aspect).
Ok, I'm gonna bite the bullet and vouch for this post (I didn't post it though).

Yes, it sounds like alarmist conspiracy theories, but I'd like if someone brought some actual rebuttals or contextualisations instead of simply flagging the post.
A middle man doesn't necessarily increase prices. If you want to letter a package from the east coast to the west coast, do you forgo the USPS stamp simply on principal they are the middle man and thus increases your cost?

I can think of a handful of questions that need to be answered besides just saying "middle man bad".

What's the cost of delivering dozens of vehicles from the plant to a dealership vs delivering one off vehicles to a house? Or the cost of an OEM having their own employees distributed to answer questions on a vehicle. GM has more than 4000 dealerships...would sales decrease because it would be less accessible to customers to see, test drive and service vehicles?

I don't believe the current dealership model of huge lots, tens of employees is efficient. But I'm not so certain an OEM handling everything themselves is optimal.
yep.com is remarkably similar to fairsearch.com, another search engine built by ahrefs which advertises a revenue share. In fact, “Read the story behind Fairsearch” and “Story behind Yep" on their respective home pages both link to the same blog post. Also, both websites have identical 'bot' pages (https://fairsearch.com/fairbot and https://yep.com/yepbot).
With the accessibility of ML these days, I'm less convinced that spam protection is that hard, if you have a little bit of patience. The spam I get is repetitive and bad, and I get enough of it that I think I could get a workable model simply by using Gmail's spam tagging to train it.
> I thought that this corresponds perfectly to my poker example. If it doesn't, and it means something completely different, ok, sure. I'm not a mathematician. I can't even read the notation that's used in subsequent part of the paper.

I think you understood his point very well. I just think you're making a mistake in trying to recast his claim from "imperfect information games" have this property to "this narrow subset of imperfect information games" has this property. Both imperfect games with an opponent and imperfect games without an opponent have the property of needing to play as if you are in multiple subgames, because the definition of the problem is that you don't know which subgame you are in. His claim was that the policy in one subgame could influence the EV of another subgame - and in this problem, it does. I believe you're thinking of the EV of the envelope when you think you are proving this game doesn't have that property via calculation.

To see his claim applies to this game consider the case where P(Switch)=1. Being able to calculate the EV of the envelope's contents is a bit different from solving the subgame. Here, we have two subgames E1 and E2. We can know a priori what the expected values of envelope's contents in E1 and E2 are. But if you change your policy in E1, it changes your expected value in E2. If you doubt this, remember the core of the paradox again - choose to always switch and your EV is no longer the EV of the envelopes. Ergo, the EV of the subgame E1 is dependent on the strategies and policies of another subgame, E2.
And with this one, currents - mainly ebb and flow - are caused by the gravity of the moon pulling on the oceans.

But yeah, it will have an effect; the other question to ask is, how significant is this effect, and how does it compare to other forms of power production, e.g. fossil fuels?

The global warming caused by fossil fuels has a bigger effect on the oceans; with decreasing salinity due to the melting of ice caps / glaciers, the gulf stream is slowing down and will eventually stop, causing distribution of heat across the planet to stop, causing the northern seas to cool down and the southern ones to heat up.
At one time I had a diagram of our database schema. Every table with its columns and data types was in its own now with arrows indicating foreign key relationships. Each table was color coded and then then grouped into related areas of concern (user tables over here, retailer tables over there, etc.) We had our print shop print it out at the largest size they could (about 3x5 feet) and hung it on the wall. We referred to it all the time, but it was a pain to maintain as the schema changed and overtime it became too much of a hassle so we stopped updating it. I think the same thing would happen with a system diagram. It sounds good and is helpful, but over time it won’t be maintained and will be abandoned.
I hadn‘t thought about that. If it‘s more efficient to go the H2 > electricity > heat pump path, then, of course, burning the H2 for heat directly would be a dumb idea.

I also never heard of oil or gas being burned to drive a generator which in turn heats the home using a heat pump. I would have guessed that the losses during conversion are so high, especially when done at the single-home scale, that it isn‘t worth it. Do you know of any such systems as you describe that are in operation?
Oh dear. You're about to be kicked off so many lawns.
The ability to collect taxes was shorthand for "the right to use force to compel you to do things as they see fit".

Amazon can not compel you to buy from them, and Amazon can not throw you in jail if they don't like you as a customer.

Mining personal data and using it against the interests of the individual is bad in both cases, but it is far more dangerous when done by the State.
Honestly that make you look like an ass.

You can "login with GitHub" on GitLab, and the minimum you can do for an open source project that is given to you for free is to make a tiny bit of effort to respect the maintainer choice. Really I assure it's _that_ easy, even I did it a few days ago.

If you are not capable of clicking on three button to login on a platform and say "thanks" to a maintainer on an issue that is already there, but have the time and energy to complain on HN, I'm not sure I would want you as a user.
Think they meant “building codes” as in “what are you legally allowed to build on your own land”. Laws governing structures and how they are constructed.
Having just finished a couple of presentations recently Pixabay [1] has been the go to source for images and some clip art. Then Fiverr [2] for bespoke artwork and also for fixing one of the presentations to look better than I could achieve on my own within a limited time frame. Happy to hear what others do!

[1] pixabay.com

[2] fiverr.com
You have to be careful what you ask for - I certainly like pretty pictures myself, but one of the reasons that Juno is so successful as a scientific mission is because it was kept to the barebones and managed scope so aggressively. With Juno ($1B for an outer planets mission) we got Flagship mission-quality science for a New Frontiers price. There's a good interview with Mark Wolverton on Planetary Radio that discusses how this happened.
I think more importantly - other than the whole "police who receive expensive gear and training stand around for an hour letting someone run around killing children" of course - is that the police have now explicitly threatened this woman with criminal charges if she keeps talking about how they stopped her going in after her children - again, while they stood around letting them get murdered.

Luckily as the police chief said, none of the officers were injured, and they can investigate their actions once the parents "get over it".
That $179 price includes 24 newly made games (by that I mean not just tossing some retro roms on the device) by various developers, including some bigger names.

I'm sure those developers are getting a cut of that for compensation for their efforts. Wouldn't be surprised if at least $40-50 of that cost is just going to the developers of those games. Assuming there's 24 developers, that means they're only getting between $1-2 per device sold, that's nothing huge.
The 7th Guest
I've read that time moves a tiny bit slower on Earth than it does in space and that it affects satellites. I wonder how much difference there is for something like the Voyagers, which has been in space since the 70's, and us on the ground.
So best as in least terrible?
I've found that the scheduling quanta with chaos mode are too high to hit concurrency issues in a reasonable amount of time. And IIUC --num-cpu-ticks is not randomized. So if something happens below that tick quantum it's hard to hit.

I wonder if a) rr could randomize the cpu ticks as well, at least in chaos mode, b) profiled code could somehow hint to rr that a certain instruction would be an "interesting" scheduling point.
... or your kids do, because the police are letting them get murdered?
Sounds really cool but I wish there was more info. Like how it works, before having to dive into the documentation.

For example the name makes it sound like there's a raspberry pi involved but the about didn't mention it. IMO it would benefit from some more screenshots or one of those animated gif demos.

Edit: I see the docs explain it and there is in fact a pi involved, but normally the docs would be something I look at after I've already decided I want to use it, just saying :)
I believe the solar panel part, but not on the microwave power beaming; has that been proven to work already? How efficient is it? What is the effect on anything flying through or being near where said microwaves are received?

Solar panels in space is the believable part; rays of concentrated energy being sent back to earth is what I'm skeptical about. Besides, solar panels have a limited lifetime; I don't believe space solar panels are a cost effective solution to solving the energy crisis.
Apple rumored to enlist Hollywood talent to make content for its VR headset
Similar in a way to the fascia in an animal.
You’re talking about crypto. I’m talking about p2p.

There’s some overlap, but it’s very much the latter that I find interesting and worthwhile.
It's been my experience with startups that there are different classes of shares, too, and it's generally stacked so that the founder's shares can retain their percentage of the company while everyone else's can get diluted down to nothing.
That definition of vice is so broad as to be useless. Literally any human activity could be a dependency economically, physically, mentally. Also, sports can easily be something "to manage something suboptimal", e.g. I'm sad because I have no friends therefore I'm going to join a soccer league. And now that I mention it, you've gone and created a dependency on soccer for your meeting new friends.

People take drugs sometimes just for fun like any other activity and aren't trying to manage every tiny bit of their life min/maxing, optimizing every activity.

Moralizing "drug" use in the way you suggest is pointlessly minimizing and judgemental.
Theoretically a proper tool would be able to generate this on the fly - lots of tools to do this on the database side. I’m not aware of many good tools that can do this on the application side - perhaps someone can chime in with some platform specific examples?
Hm, this looks like the busybox open source cars. Is there a distro with like a window manager? :)
This fucks me off no end. As someone who eats vegemite, to find a full meter of shelving dedicated to Marmite in various formats almost everywhere is very frustrating. For long shelf life goods what's the downside of just providing more options?
Ask HN: Optimizing established functions/code, like QS. There's still a point?
Greetings. Apologies for the title, but it's length is rather limited.

I'm asking, because I've seen the article about google's simd based quicksort, and because I've actually thought about this recently.

I've neglected to pursue this problem, because I was thinking that there's no point to it anymore. I was thinking that everything solved to best efficiency already anyway, so why bother?

Am I wrong? Is there still room for improving efficiency/performance of at least some functions/algorithms out there?

If so ... what should I tackle? To make this easier, just assume I can improve literally anything, as long as there's still room for it, and throw the challenges/problems at me! :D

Thank you!
That just doesn't make any sense. You can't even rent an apartment for less than $3,000 in SF, let along think about buying the average $2M house. What is the discrepancy? Maybe these folks all ended up buying their houses 30 years ago?