skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think about about half of what Elon Musk says is unreliable.
Whatever textbooks economics/finance freshmen at good universities use these days. "Learning" from blogs, or worse, current event reports, without background knowledge is.. highly suboptimal.
Maybe we need a bigger collider. Earth would look cool with a ring around it.
Moon: a build system for the JavaScript ecosystem written in Rust
Doctors say they are the only profession that saves lives. Well they're the only profession allowed to save lives. And the only profession making money saving lives.

Charging for saving lives. Price discriminating to save lives.

What happens when they make a mistake in what someone is able to pay?

EDIT (I tried replying but can't yet): The basic solution to make medicine cheaper is supply more medics.

In Chile anybody who wants to be a doctor can go to some medical school and make a pretty decent wage (but less than 20x what an American doctor makes) and help people in some role, some specialty, if that's what she really wants to do.

No quota on helping people.

And they get better results, lower infection rates than American hospitals, longer life expectancy, and medical school is shorter and much cheaper, like night and day. In particular maternity care is like the best in the world--I can't corroborate that but I've heard that.

Lowest medicine costs in the OECD, blows every other developed country out of the water. America is the most expensive and Chile is the cheapest.
What makes it a better language than C and Rust? What is unique about it?
Exponential Organizations – Salim Ismail, at USI
Ok if you're going to be overly literal then substitute "seismic" for "very, very big and disruptive for many people". I think if we're at the point where you're picking away at my choice of adjective we might be done with this discussion :-/
If I'm reading the interview correctly, the regulation that is desired here is something that provides a stamp of approval on Tether's current "transparency". This isn't the same regulation that most observers want for stablecoins.

The rational thing to do is to require that stablecoins provide the same transparency that money market funds do. That means publishing a detailed list of the exact securities you've invested in, i.e., 50 shares of Acme Inc's commercial paper with maturity at the end of August (and CSIP #whatever). Money market funds are able to do this, so it shouldn't be challenging for stablecoins to do this either.

Furthermore, there is absolutely nothing that prevents Tether from providing this transparency right now (assuming, of course, that Tether isn't lying about its asset composition). If you're really serious about welcoming regulation, then you should start by doing that. By not doing so, you're only making me think that you want to poison-pill any potential regulation.
>the brexit question (good/bad?) is perhaps too diagnostic for me

Let me guess, saying that brexit is good is bad.
Honestly, there are just too many PhDs and too much glorification of PhDs. Academia is just far too inefficient as well. I have no idea where all the money that’s being moved around is going.

My other thought is that maybe companies that pay little taxes but hire a lot of PhDs should maybe be looked at. Corporations have been extremely successful in outsourcing training to higher education, online learning, and other learning avenues, all off of their books and timesheets.
How is the title misleading?
Whenever I look into attestation, there seems to be an equal mix of people saying that it will kill CAPTCHAs and an equal mix of people saying, "you know that it's not hard to automate a Yubikey, right?"

The same goes for privacy. Attestation requires hardware batches be made large enough to provide some privacy protection, and different people seem to interpret the implications of that differently. A couple of people have pointed out, this effectively means you can't revoke a single attestation token without blocking every single person from that hardware batch. It also means that using attestation signals still reveals what batch you're a part of, which is absolutely a fingerprint vector.

There's a lot of conflicting information I see about how this is supposed to be helpful, and I'm constantly wondering if I don't understand it, but I'm also constantly wondering if the push for attestation isn't fueled by a little bit of wishful thinking and willful ignorance of the downsides.

In this very comment section I'm seeing people claim that this could be easily implemented in Linux, but... how? If the point of an attestation token is that it verifies a human is involved in the process, then it kind seems like it defeats the point to have it in an Open Source implementation that any ROM/OS can be built around. Most other systems I've seen that work this way in the wild don't work in community-run codebases; indie browsers don't get to implement EME in a way that lets them stream Netflix shows.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I've never had attestation explained to me in a way where the claims around what it's capable of and why it can't be abused actually make sense. It feels like a really flawed DRM scheme -- okay, I'll log into a website and the website author will know I'm on an unmodified iOS client from one of X batches of iPhones. That's DRM, how is it not DRM? It's a system for verifying that a local client is unmodified, based on the faulty premise that bots/automation can't be used to send the request from the client.
How many were deemed the fault of autopilot. Many may be cars running into the back of them etc.
Distribution data shows people who aren’t tied to urban areas by employment are moving to lower density areas, whether that’s the suburbs or rural areas.
U235 was meant to be used to accelerate society via free energy. It’s being held in the Earth instead, steadily decaying with time. It’s primary purpose as been destroyed.

The thing about U235 is that it has no such purpose. It is a tool that can be used in all kinds of ways. If humans were better, we could have power all of civilization in an age of abundance and peace, until unlocking a more portable fusion energy source than the sun. Unfortunately, most human beings lack that desire. It was used to blow people up instead, and brought us an age at least without large scale world war.

Crypto is being used in a greedy, speculative way. It doesn’t need to be. It could also run an entire world’s economy absent corrupt intermediaries. Fundamentally it will not change human nature, but it makes guarantees that anyone can verify. Which is desperately needed in a world of otherwise unaccountable money.

Just because people wield a tool poorly does not change the nature of the tool. These things have no emotions, they just exist. And bitcoin as a tool is an incredible invention. I just wish more people could appreciate it for what it is.
It must be my years of reading shoddy economics studies that created that bias.
I am not sure what is misleading in the title.

What is missing however is the percentage of crash per amount of cars registered with and without assistance equipment and per brand. I have no way from this article to know if it fare better or worse than other brands and/or traditionnally operated cars.
> Too many professors think their research is so much more important than anything else they hire postdocs for peanuts.

Thanks. This is my point. If you want to manage a team of PhDs, especially in STEM, figure out a research agenda that allows you to do that in a fair and reasonable way.

If you want to do things that are uninteresting to anyone outside of one tiny (likely incestual) sphere of grant-committee-political-influence, then do those things with your own time. Don't drag others into it.

BTW: if no one wants to fund this work then what jobs are the post-docs being trained to do?! And if post-docs aren't being trained for useful jobs then why are we taxpayers funding these ostensibly trainee positions?
The fertility thing is far worse than that. Modern society is actively teaching women that their value as a partner comes from things which they would normally select men for. Ambition, money, etc. So women are gaining things men don't really care for, while losing the things men do select for. On top, their higher socioeconomic status generally translates into a smaller dating pool, as they select equal or higher socioeconomic men. The surface of the bell curve only grows smaller as you go further.

And the answer to this? Trying to shame men into liking something else instead of being honest and admitting women are sabotaging themselves listening to the "work is life" mantra.
Is there a comparison with other top car models?
It's misleading because it doesn't fit their Agenda.
It's an adaptation to an environment where nothing you could do or say would earn you a raise, ever. Never get more money to take home, exploitation in the workplace. In comparison comparing for pennies on flour is fun, it's entertainment.
Was this headline written by an unpaid teenage intern? It should be obvious that '273 crashes' is meaningless without a comparison to how many are expected among other similar vehicles.
That depends, because a person can over do exercise and be drained, have a lot of demands on their time, or be in a high stress situation.

By contrast, someone who is living a more sedentary life could possibly have more time and less stress, thus possibly be more focused on greater sexual frequency. Their abilities, socio-economic status, or access to women are other factors.
Actual barbarism would impair the functioning and productivity of society. The harm in this case is so negligible that it does not matter.
IPv6 takeup has now reached 40%
Baikal is MIPS, I think, but yes also TSMC.
Dogs will also follow the gaze of a person, which is unique to them, as far as I remember.

Cats will shit on your pillow if they are unhappy with the environment for some reason. That's particularly disturbing.

I have a cat and three dogs as pets and it's interesting to see how they all interact with us and with the world differently. Even the three dogs are unique. They are all different breeds and very different in size, so it's interesting to see what they have in common and what is unique to the individual dog.
Most professors do not have >>1 postdoc in their careers, because most of us teach at less research-intensive (or entirely teaching-focused) schools that have no postdocs at all. The way things work now, even to get a liberal arts school job requires you to do a postdoc first (at least in my corner of STEM). Anyway, professors at research-heavy postdoc-having schools could get away with more than one. But certainly the status quo is insane, you will hear no argument from me.
Yes I understand that the securities law in the US has not yet evolved (and indeed has no way it could) to cope with ERC20s yet.
EU is after Apple in terms of Appstore - they want to force Apple to allow different stores. Then FF for iOS (the "real" one) could be distributed this way.
Academia is a pyramid, for every PhD position, there are fewer post-doc positions, far fewer permanent staff positions, and even fewer professorships.

For most people, an academic career is a dead end. So, reduce the number of PhD and post-doc positions and increase the wages.

Universities have been doing the opposite. E.g. some Dutch universities stopped offering relatively well-compensated employee PhD positions and replaced them by bursary positions with far lower compensations. The primary motivation was that they could hire more PhDs for the same money. That maybe works when there is a recession, but when there is an ample supply of jobs, many good candidates will just choose an industry position instead.

Besides that, universities have gained a lot of administrative staff over the past decades. Plus some universities spend hundreds of millions of Euros on fancy buildings. Sure, it looks nice in PR material, but they could've also built something functional and use the remaining money for better salaries.
Wow, this is very similar to my own behavior. I always suspected it's related to financial hardship in my teen years, but this removes all doubt.
Exactly. Functional programming has been around for quite a while, it just recently became the FAD of the day, just search youtube for "functional programming in javascript". This will fade away in just a couple of years.

F# is an interesting language and yes, I used it at work a couple of times. However finding a programmer who is into that is hard and the HR "partners" will kill you because people like these can't be treated as cheap replaceable resources. So it was F# prototype -> C# production. Attempts to introduce a new language or a tech stack usually failed because the decision makers (managers) were concerned about "how many people can I hire within a month" than anything else - nobody was fired for picking Java, C# or JavaScript (TypeScript) for the next project and staffing accordingly.

Languages like OCaml, Haskell, Lisp (whatever flavour you pick) or Prolog will never become mainstream. Should they even? My favourite is one of them for my general hacking or research projects; not sure I'd like to use it in a corporate job (which I have right now). Small efficient team in a tech start-up? Hell yeah! Mainstream mundane programming? OMG NO! Horses for courses. Hearses are not mainstream vehicles yet all of us will need a ride in one occasionally. Does it mean they should become popular and mainstream? :-D
Just brainstorming, if the chip is large enough you could just plop a reader down on it.... not as convenient as RFID but then you could sell a reader which reads info off of bananas, e.g.

Why the consumer would want to read info off of a banana, great question, but.
Yeah and like rich kids have impunity, poor kids have excess punishment meted out against them. Scapegoated a lot of the time.
Discrimination: the quality or power of finely distinguishing

The word has taken a negative connotation in recent usage, but every association, intimate or otherwise is discrimination. Applying the term "personal preference" is a euphemism. That one prefers one set of traits over another necessitates that one discriminates between the substance and value of those traits.
I agree. The hard thing is that anything that involves "Freedom" gets mistaken as some crazy-libertarian ideology. OR worse, it gets derided as something from "freeze peach" incels.
"Tesla vehicles made up nearly 70 percent of the 392 crashes involving advanced driver-assistance systems reported since last July"

"Honda reported 90 crashes during the same time period involving advanced driver-assistance systems, and Subaru reported 10."
Can't read the article because I'm poor, but... Is that a lot? How high is this compared to non-autopilot cars? How many of these are fault of the autopilot? Where are the stats coming from? What counts as a crash - is every one of those fatal, or does this include running into a pole while parking?
See, for example, Brazil:
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/brazil-demand-u...
The author correctly reports a scientific debate inside of science amongst scientists.

Particle Physicists can pretend this is just a political problem all they want, but if more and more other physicists are convinced the field is entering a desert there will be no new accelerator. Maybe even more importantly, if students learn about the true state of the field they will chose more interesting things to study.

Human time and effort is limited, and scientists don't go around and devote hundreds of thousands of person years to rule out random hypothesis. Effort at LHC level is only devoted because there is a very very good reason to band together to get this done that convinced many other scientists (who in turn helped convince funding bodies). LHC has been a huge success on its own terms, but its results are simultaneously a massive problem for particle physics as it stands right now.

Not a problem for science, just a problem for the field of particle physics, which will need to adjust to the current reality rather than holding out for more data.
Don't get me wrong, we are mostly on the same page w.r.t. salaries and what not.

> BTW, what is your university's pension plan like?

Postdocs get the same pension plan/401k plan as any other faculty (postdocs are indeed research faculty). You are also an employee of the state government, with reasonably good health insurance and other benefits. It can't compare to private sector (especially tech sector), but compared to a lot of other businesses, it's fairly good. (Also a downside - lots of bureaucracy from the state legislature).

EDIT: 401k is 5% mandatory contribution, with 8.5% match by the university.

My comment about school teachers was mostly about the salary making them "broke". Lots of people live just fine on that ($50k is about $25/hour full time. Median earnings in the us is around $42k last I looked). Tech is an anomaly.

Now, again, don't get me wrong. I'm not a fan of postdocs, academia is a mess, and I want it change. But I really just wanted to point out that the "simple" solutions are not "simple". They require coordinated action among many stakeholders, and lots of dealing with squishy humans and their emotions.
> I was never saying I was the top 5%.

I could have guessed that

> And what position or school is that?

Talking to a woman who isn't your mum is usually a good first step.

> I never researched and never wrote that I researched.

Yet you claimed as universal truth that women fight tooth and nail for the top 5% of men.

Why not just say "In my limited, biased and provably wrong opinion I think dating looks like this".

You said you have a background in CS right? Cool, you are using a training set of 2005 songs and now you are trying to analyse all the music in the world. Your training set is insufficent, personal anecdotes are not data, and there is enough noise on the internet for you to add more pollution on men/women dynamics.
yup. deeply regret my time as a postdoc. especially the last few years in the pandemic have been the absolute worst work experience in terms of culture and job satisfaction. it's killed the passion for research i had at the start.

the worst part is that i think this experience has completely tanked my confidence.

now id take a jr python dev job in a second.
>The current structure is a holding pattern for absorbing the large population of PhDs who can't get jobs.

Indeed. When I originally wrote my parent comment [0], it was about overproduction of PhDs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25082474
This one from The AP [0] says Tesla’s figure and its crash rate per 1,000 vehicles was substantially higher than the corresponding numbers for other automakers that provided such data, though Tesla is the only one that does it real time and "Other automakers, by contrast, must wait for reports to arrive from the field and sometimes don’t learn about crashes for months." There's quite a few more details in there, the comparisons make Tesla look worse than the others, though I'm not quite sure by how much when you consider all the differences in reporting?
(this might also be in the WAPO article, I couldn't read it)

0: https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-5e6c354622582...
Why? A human driver and a computer “driver” that is misleadingly marketed are two, totally different things.
Toast Q1 2022 Earnings Review: revenue growth at all costs?
> A lot of applications' first KDE4-based releases were missing features as well. I remember that my favorite app at the time, Amarok, took a long time to reach feature parity.

KDE4-based Amarok was its own trainwreck. Released without support for dynamic playlists based on hard filters because FUZZY FILTERS ARE THE FUTURE. And it managed to trash its database twice on my system. It's the music player that made me stop using a dedicated music player program.
For completeness here's where that was discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11667494
You're out of your fucking mind if you actually think that.

Once it is implemented in windows it will quickly, if not immediately, be followed by locked bootloaders on any device available in brick and mortar stores or the big online sellers and being locked out from using attestation if you are not using an OS from Apple, MS or Google. We may see a brief window where some select linux distros get to grovel to MS to get signed, but that will quickly go away.
Maybe sell a footnoted version at twice the price? Footnotes can scare regular readers.
That number really says very little if it's not expressed as crashes per distance driven. The article is paywalled, so it's hard to say if the clickbait title is substantiated in the article itself.

As always, if the headline sounds juicy, put your skeptical spectacles on.
Wow, that sounds a lot
Apple has 12k+ engineers, I doubt they won’t find a few thousands to just do it.
> An ML that competes with rust+tokio is an exact description of haskell.

Haskell only exceeds rust+tokio in terms of overall code elegance and succinctness.

When it comes to performance, rust+tokio is going to be much more performant by default as there will be no GC, no hidden traps with laziness, no subtle memory leaks etc.

Sure, a Haskell wizard will be able to reduce the gap further and solve issues but it is going to be difficult to consistently beat rust+tokio. By the time said Haskell wizard makes changes to the code, the famed elegance of Haskell is going suffer as the code will be littered with strange incantations of strictness annotations, possibly some C-ffi and other magic. This will not be the beautiful Haskell that you learn in textbooks. Only very few people know how to make Haskell truly fly. If you're one of them, then you're lucky!
Isn't Amazon doing something like this with the gamification of their fulfillment centers?
A new discovery over some time period is a reasonable expectation. For example, if we discover nothing in the next 1000 years we would have to conclude that there is no longer any point in trying.
Do they make up 70 % of driver-assistance cars? Or how much? It's like saying 80% of bad search results are google results, if google had an 80% market share - it says nothing without the comparison
Europe is. Miners are all in Texas I believe.
A "crash" in this case is any crash where the automated driving aids were in use less than 30 seconds prior to the crash. So for example, if the car realized it couldn't deal with something 29 seconds up the road, gives a 10 second warning to the human that the human needs to take over, and then the human drives into a crash, this would count as an Autopilot crash.

I'm no Tesla fan, but that's a bit disingenuous.
>I'm sure they would love to be able to filter men by height. There's also plenty of people who would like to filter by race.

I don't see why you shouldn't be able to filter by everything. In real life you do filter, so why not do it online, too?

>I'm not interested in dating trans women or gay men but I see their profiles all the time, because they set their profiles as "women seeking men".

That's nasty.
How do you define "increasingly substantial"?
ClickHouse and their story on Benchmarking previous releases
Am poor as well, can't read the WP articles coz of my location.
How will you know what the bottom will look like?
Ben Goldacre's book 'Bad Pharma' has a good discussion around this, especially in terms of caveats and gotchas to watch out for with such studies.

It might be more 'lay person' than you are looking for, but it's an excellent read for myriad other reasons, so you wouldn't be wasting your time (IMO).
https://wapo.st/3mS7whs <- "gift article" link, no account required