skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper is also available at https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Lipsitch_et_al-2...

After a skim, I will say I don't understand why predictable or unpredictable does not explicitly address variance. That's my confusion.

The point may be how we differently value lives with or without faces. With reference to Schelling: "In many situations, people are less inclined to bear a particular cost or exert a particular effort to protect statistical lives than to protect the same number of identified lives."
>Booked a room at 1:45 for 3 hours, and was told to leave at 4.

If you are renting a hotel room by the hour, it is highly likely that the staff are poorly educated
Yeah. I know the ~same text as the post that became my current job kept getting posted many months after I was hired.
Brian Kilmeade Show
This one is especially bad. It's not hard to check your contrast to make sure it's up to snuff.
This is why designs usually require the voter to be able to inspect the paper ballot before finalizing it. Shenanigans like that would be caught, as the machine has no way of knowing how close the voter will look.
> BS.

Nah, typical Texas behavior, along with overregulation of voter drives and arresting anyone who tries too hard to do it. To deny voter IDs you typically shut down DMVs in areas you don't want getting too many of them.

> Why? Do you disagree that fraud is easier with mail-in ballots?

It certainly enables some kinds of it (like forcing your family members to vote a certain way) but also makes some kinds harder (putting the voting site in someone's house and intimidating anyone who drives up). It's very popular in most places it's been tried, and probably a good tradeoff anywhere with rural populations.
Any tips on how to find gigs teaching web development to students?
None, because it’s not common. All I know is that research shows that bullying develops and evolves by age. It’s not going to be as prevalent in early age Montessori schools as it is in middle school. Let’s also not ignore that a private Montessori school is also a filter.
Funny timing — the Future of Coding podcast (disclosure: hosted by myself, sponsored by Replit) just did an episode about Engelbart's Augmenting Human Intellect, perhaps offering a bit of the "more in-depth examination" Amjad was interested in.

https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/056

That paper (from '62) forms quite the contrast with MoAD (from '68). While the latter is quite specific, showing a lot of "features" that people tend to point to when citing Engelbart's influence, the former is arguably much more visionary. Doug had quite a lot more in mind than just pointing devices and video calling.
Alas, the young do not recognize how very far the window has shifted, because they weren’t around twenty, thirty, forty years ago.
Darknet Diaries
https://darknetdiaries.com/

This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network. This is Darknet Diaries
Big Oil is ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Aramco, Total, Chevron—companies of that magnitude.

Regardless, Vermillion is the only oil company that sued anyone and did it a few years ago. Where’s the evidence of Big Oil currently suing?
In America, but Not of America
I dont agree.

Zuckerberg is a bad example, he was truly lucky.

In my 20 years doing this, my experience aligns with the original comment this post is about. It's healthcare. Unless you can afford to float your household expenses including Healthcare for a year, you can't play in the early stage startup game. It's just simple survival, some of us have to work to survive.
In the 2020 election one House of Representatives race was won by 6 votes. Another by about 120.

In the 2000 Washington gubernatorial race the number of votes counted exceeded the number of registered voters and the margin of victory was less than the number of excess votes.

And even if it is just a local school board seat or dog catcher, it’s still a violation of people’s civil rights. What’s more is local elections usually have way more direct impact on people’s lives than federal elections.
Grocery store freezer sections are full of pizzas shipped half way across the country.

I imagine that these food items will be shipped in an appropriate manner as well, or they won’t be very successful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender is also a good read for historical examples; hints as far back as ancient Mesopotamia.
I'm gonna start using #ACCE55 to indicate successful login and #B00B00 on failure.
The Mark Levin Podcast
https://cumuluspodcastnetwork.com/pods/the-mark-levin-podcas...

nationally syndicated radio host, seven-time best-selling author and constitutional lawyer. Mark served in the Reagan administration for eight years, is currently president of the Landmark Legal Foundation and editor-in-chief of the Conservative Review.
By saying working hard and not getting in debt is a poor life choice you are proving the author’s point. There is extreme moral hazard in a blanket loan forgiveness.
Where is the evidence of suits by Big Oil? I didn’t see any evidence in the article.
The woman got HPV, which is so dead common I can’t believe that the guy was on the hook to disclose it.
Turing complete voting machines should never be part of a fair election. Yes it costs more to count votes that way, but it's also orders of magnitude harder to manipulate the audit trail.
Why? Profits are taxed to the individuals that own the company. Should a corp pay 40%+ in taxes and then the individual pays another 40% of what flows down?

Let's say a small to med size Corp profits 1M. Take away your theoretical 40%. Then another 10% for the state (CA as an example). Then 5% for property taxes. Then 5% for payroll taxes. You're now left with 400k that flows to owners.

From that you take another 40 + 10% in income tax and you're left with 200K.

An 80% effective rate would seem a high wouldn't it?
So what do I do when I literally mean literally?
You are right. The assumptions I made are
- the definition of cache invalidation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31676102
- subsequently, by that definition, _make_ cache consistent in production is the harder problem

I understand if you disagree with these premises. And all these make sense.

Let's discuss the "cache invalidation problem" by your definition.

E.g. in its most generic form, a cache can store arbitrary materialization from any data source. Now when updating the data source, in order to keep caches consistent, you essentially need to transact (cross system transaction) on both the data source and cache(s). Usually cache has more number of replicas, I am not sure running this type of transactions is practical at scale.

What happens if we don't transact on both systems (the data source, and cache)? Well, now whenever the asynchronous update pipeline performs the computation, it's done against a moving data source (not a snapshot of when the write was committed). Now let's say the data source is Spanner, which provides point-in-time snapshots. On Spanner commit you can get a commit time (TrueTime) back. Now using that commit time, to read the data and compute cache update asynchronously can be done.

Now this does assume whatever we cache (the query e.g.) needs to be schematized, and made known to the invalidation pipeline (in the form of some control plane metadata). I think it's a very fair assumption to make. As otherwise (anyone can cache anything without the invalidation pipeline knowing at all), it's pretty obvious that this problem can't be solved.
Data from the impact (and future ones) will be put to good use:

> Over time, the team will collect invaluable data and work with micrometeoroid prediction experts at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to be able to better predict how performance may change, bearing in mind that the telescope’s initial performance is better than expected. Webb’s tremendous size and sensitivity make it a highly sensitive detector of micrometeorites; over time Webb will help improve knowledge of the solar system dust particle environment at L2, for this and future missions."
Side rant: What a crappy color scheme.
Robots are way better and you don’t have to bring them back home.
Same here. This was in the mid 90's though. Not sure what it's like these days...
tbh mobile interfaces aren't even nice on phones. I own a Pinephone and normal X11 apps feel like an improvement even with that form factor.
> Phillip Morris has used ISDS courts to prevent governments from taking measures to reduce tobacco usage, for example.

I believe the correct characterization is "attempted to use", not used--I don't think the company ever got a successful ruling.
So suppose this is a hash collision, I don't really think twitter is at fault here. Any solution you design has a false-positive rate. I am curious how they will resolve it though.
Now that's a worthwhile Wikipedia page.
the vision of fallout 76 was the issue. They took out all the interaction with characters and left in the junk collecting and base building, which for many players were the least interesting parts of fallout 4. The vision sabotaged the product.
To be safe, you also never want to pick an age so that you were under 13 when the account was originally created. Some services will lock you out for that too.
App to automatically translate Slack messages
> Consider the example of the polling station bus being targeted. Those people could have complied but because of their race were prevented.

I take it you are talking about the incident you mentioned in another comment, in Louisville, Georgia, in 2018, in which African-American senior citizens got on a bus to take them to an early voting center, and then told to get off the bus and it didn't take them there? (Did they end up voting in that election? Did the organisers find another way to get them to the polls?)

I don't fully understood what happened in that case, but from what I've read of it, it sounds like the bus was owned by the county, and someone objected to using a county-owned bus for a trip organised by a political advocacy group which was de facto running a GOTV operation for a single political party, and that led to the bus trip being cancelled at the very last minute.

That rule – (implicitly or explicitly) partisan political groups can't use county-owned resources at election time – in itself doesn't seem inherently unreasonable. Possibly it was being enforced in a biased way, but a single incident by itself can't demonstrate bias in the application of a rule. (And even if you had evidence that Jefferson County was indeed applying that rule in a biased manner, how do you determine whether that bias is racial or political?) So, I really don't think this particular incident is a clearcut example of "voter suppression".
You’re right. It was a huge mistake in hindsight
Relatedly, 9to5Mac got their Twitter account locked today for the same reason.

https://twitter.com/9to5Mac
DuckDuckGo, Google, and Android choice screens (2020)
I wonder how many years it will be before LTSpice isn't the best option out there for free circuit simulation. It really is horrible to use.
More specifically, the Brussels convention that underlies modern marine salvage law carves out military ships as exempt from salvage rules. Spain insists on being tone deaf and maintains that their treasure ships were in fact military vessels and that the cargo is therefore still the property of Spain.
> delaying performing the compute-intensive operation until an inconsistent sample crosses the reporting timescale

Could this delay cause a wrong reporting? Since the source of truth (the DB) could already received multiple mutate events of the data Polaris trying to verify? How do you handle this case?
The book that the author wrote "Don't Trust Your Gut : Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life" ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58490565-don-t-trust-you... ) is well worth a read.

There is also a good podcast episode with an interview by Steven Levitt with the author ( https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/75-self-help-for-data-... )

It might be of interest to HN types because it's essentially using loads of data to see what helps people.
I really like your response. Just wanted to tell you.
#D0661E - a nice brown doggie.

#CA771E - brown cattle.

#C10ACA - a purple cloaca.

#C017A1 - coital, similarly purplish pink.

Lots of blues and greens starting with #5EA... (Sea...). #5EABED (Seabed), #5EABEE (Seabee), #5EAD06 (Seadog) and #5EA by itself.

(I used https://hex-colours.netlify.app/, which looks like it was the original from another comment, and allows you to search pieces of words.)
Apologies for the jargon

ADI: Area Deprivation index

https://www.neighborhoodatlas.medicine.wisc.edu/
Thank you for posting this. I know that is expressed most succinctly with an upvote, but I wanted to reiterate, because you were able to express something I wasn’t able to quite put my finger on but have felt for a long time. I was hoping that the feeling that many new coders didn’t know what they were doing could be attributed to me just telling them to get off my virtual lawn; I can see that my fear is possibly justified.

The video is great too; I hadn’t seen that before, and it gives some examples of what happens when that generational transfer of knowledge is not carried out, not just within a discipline but also across a civilization.
Is Shopify the New WeWork?
JS build pipelines are an industrialized software shithole, & we're starting to look like the other worst offenders (python). relief is needed. js was, for decades, simple & easy & sparked joy. it can again. this proposal potentially liberates & eases enormous pains.

it also means we dont have armies of projects downcompiling to es2015 (unperformant) and/or cjs.
> But what if you actually do want your dependency list to trigger invalidation?

Let's do it.

E.g. in its most generic form, a cache can store arbitrary materialization from any data source. Now when updating the data source, in order to keep caches consistent, you essentially need to transact (cross system transaction) on both the data source and cache(s). So in theory this can be done. Usually cache has more number of replicas, I am not sure running this type of transactions is practical at scale.

What happens if we don't transact on both systems (the data source, and cache); but rather invalidate caches asynchronously? Well, now whenever the asynchronous update pipeline performs the computation, it's done against a moving data source (not a snapshot of when the write was committed). It can't be done.

Now let's say the data source is Spanner, which provides point-in-time snapshots. On Spanner commit you can get a commit time (TrueTime) back. Now using that commit time, to read the data and compute cache update asynchronously can be done.

Now this does assume whatever we cache (the query e.g.) needs to be schematized, and made known to the invalidation pipeline (in the form of some control plane metadata). I think it's a very fair assumption to make. As otherwise (anyone can cache anything without the invalidation pipeline knowing at all), it's pretty obvious that this problem can't be solved.
How is trans people existing political?
No, I’m not, any more than I am, through my driving, forcing people scared of being hit by a car to stay home.
The article offers a good insight of how indian bureaucracy and democracy functioned in India. Lot of representations, actual debate and discussions among the officials and the elected representative and finally a consensus. Ofcourse, Nehru was the most power man in India after Gandhi passed away. He could easily have been a dictator. But the way he nurtured indian democracy and its strong foundation is genuinely commendable.
Yea, the existential dread is real. I don’t understand all the people who are like, “just rest and vest, do side projects, etc” I can’t do that, it makes me feel like a worthless human faking my way through life. Extrapolating on this thread and the industry in general, really just makes me think this is a big fucking waste of time, and makes my skin crawl working with others who don’t seem to think this is a problem. Like, we didn’t evolve this far to fucking toil around on zoom calls and shittily written emails from passive aggressive narcissists. Anyways, uhhh yea — thanks for mentioning the mental health bit, I clearly have some work to do and/or new jobs to look for.
Indeed!

The current iteration: https://www.neighborhoodatlas.medicine.wisc.edu/
Interesting. Will you have built-in LSP support for most popular languages then?
YouTube Demonetizes the Act Man
I know. But I refuse give up the meaning of the word "equity" - which is not equality of outcomes, but rather fair, impartial. In the case of schools, that means fairly and impartially meeting the needs of every student. You can call med old fashioned, if you wish (I'm certainly old).
I mean they have a whole paragraph on gender, which feels like an almost completely irrelevant standard shoehorning of gender into a place it doesn't belong. I don't really see much to complain about here though and I'm usually the first.
As soon as a project is known internally as the one the B team was assigned to because all the “favorite” people went to the “better” project, it’s basically doomed. This has happened so many times, the game industry has enough people who should know better, and yet…
Latest versions of Mac OS connect to the Internet and gets apples permission before opening an app.

If you are on a high latency network, eg weak wifi signals, you'll be waiting 200-300ms.

Those on super fast internet don't notice, and think it's a problem with you, but no, it's Apple.
I've always thought that Dwarf Fortress was a great story engine without a good game engine and Minecraft was a good game engine without a story.

If someone could simply combine the two it'd be amazing.

Sigh Another pipe dream because of the insane difficulty involved.
Bisexual is sexuality, not gender. Since you asked. It’s not super complicated and they’re completely different things. A bisexual person likes both men and women. That has nothing to do with gender of the person who is bisexual.
I too could never afford to enter the startup game. But the conclusion that those who enter the game and succeed are simply the lucky coin flippers does not follow.

Zuckerberg was not "truly lucky". He succeeded where My Space failed. And where the mighty Google failed too (do you remember Google Plus?). It's very comforting to say it's luck, but it just isn't.

Also, just so I'm not accused for being a Zuck fanboy, I don't have a Facebook account, and I consider Facebook a borderline evil company, and Zuck quite slimy. But just a lucky guy he is not.
You might get a pass on #cafebabe if your local baristas don't speak 1337.
This is a fundamental aspect of human life that most people do not understand. My kids all walked long before their first birthdays. Why? For the same reason my lower back hurt so much before they turned 1. I held their hands and we practiced walking for hours upon hours.

Mozart wrote his first symphony at 8. He was also playing piano for courteseans at age 3. All at the behest of his father, to support the family. If you, you personally, played piano professionally for the next ~5 years, do you think you could write a quick and dirty symphony? Of course you could.

Anyways I find this basic truth to be incredibly liberating and hopeful. There really aren't any superhumans, just people who've spent more time playing guitar, learning about + coding , racing motorcycles etc. (there are but statistically irrelevant to me)
Stephen Wolfram has really grown on me over the last 10 years or so. He came across as obnoxiously arrogant for the longest time (so much that I still (defensibly) refer to "A New Kind of Science" as "Stephen Wolfram is a MF'n Genius Even If He Does Say So Himself").

These days, he live streams Mathematica design reviews on YouTube and Twitch. The conversations are fairly balanced and he clearly has a decent eye for designing the best god damn computational notebook system on the planet.

Admittedly, campaigning to name what could possibly maybe someday be the next big upgrade to physics after himself ("the Wolfram Physics Project") while he's still around and it's still in development is MIGHTY BOLD. But there's some really really interesting outcomes from the work that they've done so far.

If nothing else, it's a slam dunk proof of how physicists already think of "the speed of light" as actually "the speed limit for causal interaction". You essentially get all of the implications of both special and general relativity out of modeling causal interactions without even attaching it to any sort of specific physics.

I love that he wrote this essay (typical Wolfram long form essay that takes multiple sittings for me to digest) using puzzles and games as the subject of aforementioned causal modeling. Super fun, and also insightful!
How is it off base? Also generation in the context of this article refers to generation as in Star Trek rather than a numbered generation as per se.

Sunny Cove is a name of a microarchitecture whereas (say) Alder Lake is the codename for intel 12th gen which includes 2 microarchitectures one for the big and one for the little core.
When I worked on this was a few years ago, so NFC wasn't a viable option at the time. I think even today, some research would need to be done on how widespread support is, we can't guarantee everyone has a brand new phone. but I agree NFC would be worth serious consideration now.

When considering robustness of support, one nice thing about the WIFI approach is in theory you can fall back to just a web browser. So basically any device could be used for provisioning.

And the audio method, would probably support a great set of devices. We didn't actually consider ultrasonic, just an audio codec that was in use at the time and doesn't sound awful.
This feels like enormous de-bloating of the developmemt experience at zero cost to the language.

A pragma at the top, "use typescript" that the browser could handle would bridge 98% of the rest of value while not overcommitting the language to a specific cause.

This is all free cheap easy wins. Easy.
>Can they explicitly define what they mean by “a woman” ?

Nope.

And I'm not trying to be glib here either, this segment of society literally claims that a woman is whatever anybody wants it to be while at the same time demanding special treatment for anybody who claims to be a woman. It doesn't follow any rules of logic at all.
So what? Someone made progress in an area I find interesting. That's much more useful to me than yet another comment that is crapping on someone else's work.
US Seeks $4.3B for Domestic Nuclear Fuel
I've been out of school for a while, what does m^(1+o(1)) mean?

Isn't any constant trivially in "o(1)"? So m^1000 is in this class?

Or are they using it informally to mean "a very small number"?
Vermillion: $5B

Exxon: $440B
Since recent versions, macOS now phones home and gets apple's permission over the internet before allowing you to open a binary. This is a synchronous blocking operation.

If your ping is 30ms, you don't notice it.

If your ping is 300ms due to say weak wifi, you do notice a 300ms wait when you open an app.
Lobbyists Are About to Scuttle the Nomination of a Popular Reformer to the FCC