skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is so much of this, through many fields of science today. Incentives that corrupt and undermine the scientific method. And yet, many people will deny that there is justification in skepticism of say, relatively new mRNA vaccines.

Yes, it's good that science usually deals with such problems in the long run, but how is the average person supposed to trust that the latest scientific assurance, isn't 15 years away from being retracted like in this example?
Original Furbies can be remote controlled by infrared. The codes are available for Flipper.
A lot of the industry is suppliers to manufacturers, not just manufacturers themselves. Those will be hurt for sure as their whole business model is being the best at some specialized part of a combustion car.
These features were already added in version 3.39.0.
>Both seem problematic/inefficient to me, compared to having Uber being able to, for instance, reduce/offset their reportable taxable income to compensate for the cost of providing services to disabled customers.

And this is why the US tax code is a mile long with loopholes upon loopholes. It seems far more inefficient to me to get companies to play creative accounting than to give individuals some sum of money.
On some level it serves them right hiring Accenture for that.

I used to read https://thedailywtf.com/ and it was full of stories of consultancy project that failed in the most horrible and insane ways.
"Content Management – Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) was the tool of choice to update and revise the content that appears on the website."

If you want to blow a massive development budget AEM is a great choice; otherwise I'd advise you to pick a different content system.

This decision alone probably sunk multiple millions of dollars.

The platform license alone for their operating scale was probably a half million or a million. What you get with that license is... the world's most complex and difficult content management system, that you now have to develop your whole platform around. Since it's so difficult to learn and work with you basically need a full time AEM specialist team, which again blows your budget up potentially in the range of millions of dollars, and then continues to burn strong every time you need any kind of update.
Not who you're asking, but I take "very aggressive to the developer's benefit" with a mountain of salt, because everytime I've come across someone saying that the eventual comp was extremely poor and they were either deliberately lying or completely out of touch with the labor market.
In the linked article, Strong Towns doesn't say much about the nature of these deaths, but in other articles, (e.g. below) they explore how many of these killings are vehicle-on-pedestrian deaths, and how we've normalized blaming victims.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/7/14/new-report-ame...
Because you can walk in all cities and towns in Poland.
Not sure if this is how the toptal screening works, but a lot of hiring interviews will contain somewhat vague questions on purpose because they want to see how (or if!) candidates will ask questions to hone in on the real problem.

I learned this the hard way... a couple times...
> You are correct that they are powerful, but they wield that power rarely.

Define rarely? They issued over a thousand recalls in 2021.
Here's an alternative explanation. May be totally bonkers - you have been warned. :)

Perhaps the building itself is affecting you?

After years of trying to figure out some immediate family health issues, I eventually found out that my home office had huge amounts of hidden mold behind the walls. One of the downstream health effects of that is that I'm now overly sensitive to... stuff. There now are buildings, stores, corners of stores that I can't think or talk well in. I start forgetting words right away and conversation is hard. And through this I've met quite a few other people that are also hypersensitive to things and places, though with different symptoms than mine. Others I know get sad, or angry, or believe people don't like them, when in places that don't do them well.

This seems to have a lot of similarities: There's a place that your body doesn't want to go to beforehand. It takes a day and some to recover after being there. You feel like people don't like there. You feel like you have a hard time talking there. You been having increasing depression since you started going there.

Not sure how you would test this theory out. The building problem doesn't have to necessarily be mold. Could be something else that doesn't do you well.

Given that you have had good relationships with coworkers before, and these kinds of thought patterns are not your norm, I'd consider it most likely that the problem is not you.

If you are full of dread about going every time, and getting increasingly depressed, GTFO.

Good luck!
You have to look at kilometers driven per person, not just ownership.

Americans drive far far more than most other industrialized nations.

https://frontiergroup.org/blogs/blog/fg/fact-file-americans-...
Good for you mate.
I didn't realize aggregated info on this type of thing was so readily available. TY for including references!
small anecdote but the small startup i work for has been having a really hard time with candidates accepting other offers part way through our hiring process. We took some steps to make our entire hiring loop 2-3 days total and it has had a great improvement.
I did a poll of ~200 (University of Pennsylvania) undergraduates about 15 years ago, asking them (among many other questions) what percent of the federal budget NASA gets. The median answer was 15%, which is 30x more than the correct answer of one half of one percent.
I once experimented with using SQLite as a file store for small images (10s of Kb). We had so many images on disk, that a recursive ls command wouldn't complete in a single day.

At one point we even hit inode limits.

I tested out storing the images in sqlite files across a few directories. I also testing using tar and zip storage with the same schema. Turns out the blog post they wrote was right, and SQLite was indeed faster than our normal IO.

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
Thanks for the book recommendation! I’ve ordered it.
You have a right to be stupid, even if it results in your death.

> I'd assume having a seatbelt on as a driver significantly increases your ability to maintain at least some control of a vehicle in a collision

Not a chance. The g forces are tremendous, and you're just along for the ride in a collision. In my major accident, I had a lap belt on, but my arms and legs and torso flung about totally out of my control.
kappa architecture db(s), gossip protocols like secure scuttlebutt, garlic/onion routing protocols. I didn't really look at how "new" they are what with Ecclesiastes and all that.

But the question is great, what problem spaces are hot (or need to be!) and how can a deep understanding of algorithms and game theory solve them? How can we bridge the gap of large scale manufacturers with small scale production needs? How can we heal the wealth gap between us and the global south?

I'm hoping the answer involves at least a little category theory myself.
Clients think a large consulting firm like Accenture can throw more bodies at the problem or rotate out under performers if things start to go wrong.
You make a good point, except it's moot in this particular case. There is no mention of averages. The best candidates simply responded to the one with no salary range posted.

> The ads performed equally well in regard to total responses with the better candidates responding to the ones without salary ranges
You want a YouTube like service but no ads/monetization?

I'd love to hear about this business plan.
Exactly. There are many places in the world where getting around by transit is much faster and more convenient than driving. It's just rare to find a place in the US where this is the case.
As long as you're held accountable for your body flinging into others and injuring them, sure.
It depends on the stage of the investigation. if he was only a suspect then could he leave whenever he wanted. However, if someone is already indicted but it's sealed, then he would have been under watch without anywhere to go. Or he could hve been stopped and brought before a magistrate. HIs mistake was he waited too long, probably should have left in april before the evidence came out, not May.
If the mountain wouldn't come to Mohammed, Mohammed had to go to the mountain. You can't expect your colleagues to come to you, you have to go to them. If there are weird silences, why don't you break them by striking up a conversation? It just requires someone to say something and then others will join in. Bake some homemade cookies and hand them out. Everyone likes cookies.
People with Long Covid May Still Have Spike Proteins in Their Blood
You never have the thought, "I'm not being payed enough for this shit?"

Or, realized new hires with less experience are being payed more? Or that colleagues that are slacking are being payed the same or more?

All these feel like concerns related to pay while working. I've certainly had those thoughts and was genuinely underplayed for half my career
For most people who aren't independently wealthy, it's a necessary but not sufficient indicator of whether you'd enjoy the lifestyle associated with working in a particular job. And even if you don't need the money, it's a very clear indication of how much an employer values your time and expertise.
John von Neumann usually gets credit for this and numerous other details still faithfully reproduced in our pocket supercomputers, but he was summarizing the work of many others mostly gagged by Brits' Official Secrets Act.

Von Neumann doesn't need that recognition, having created several other still-lively fields single-handed. But the clarity of his presentation did make readers smarter, by making the profound innovations seem obvious. They were not.
An API for evaluating the quality of any synthetic dataset
he is a marketing genius to me, writing stuff that catching eyeballs that might end up selling more his devices, I feel the postmortem of the website project is really not the point(or true goal here) at all.
No. Purchase a plane ticket first. Then leave by car.
Yep. If it's bad, make it better. Whining about cruel europeans isn't productive.
ML can learn patterns that humans might not be aware of, so you there might be certain things that happen that show you will be on a mission to East Asia for a couple days.
Let’s share tech stack horror stories
That is a good point, I was under the impression that the drivers had some input into what they would be willing to drive for and competition would do the rest. But if Uber has internal caps, that would make some small towns just untenable.
Most of the thought-provoking ideas, arguments, and "formalizations of the nature of the human condition" I've encountered in my life have come from movies, TV, or forum posts. Books are great, but let's not pretend they're somehow objectively superior to other media. It's all a matter of preference -- some people find books and reading to be the best source of wisdom for them, and others (like me) find other media to be much better. It varies from person to person because art is definitionally subjective.
That's about taking a different line. Drivers will start as far out on the kerb as possible to make the overall turn less tight, allowing them to take that turn at a higher speed.

What this AI was doing is something that only works in sim-racing. It's done by humans sometimes in iRacing. Drop a wheel on the grass to make use of the fact that the sim will cause a consistent rotation (yaw) from it. Which can help turn a car into a corner.

It can't be done in reality, because the effect on the car isn't predictable on a real race track.
The innovative business model of the American healthcare system today consists of a physician's office scheduling patients to see the doctor but getting nurse practitioners instead, yet charging for the physician's services. Doesn't seem legal, and isn't the care that patients have signed up for.
Not wearing a seatbelt is also a choice to force the healthcare system to support the person for 50 years after they break their neck in a preventable way. The choice is individual but the consequences are societal.
It's a complex matter. Subsidizing single companies, like say, a national airline, is explicitly forbidden, under the principle of "level playing-field"; but subsidizing an entire sector is typically not forbidden, as long as the market is open and subsidies don't discriminate.

In practice this is gamed in many ways, and there have been winners and losers.
Based on my experience, I'd say what happened here wasn't a deliberate decision on the part of the founders but rather a product of disorganization / disfunction in the company - probably recruiting has no incentive to avoid this type of thing, the engineers actually doing the interviewing don't have clear authority, and the higher ups don't want to take ownership.
Not wearing a seat belt is dangerous to others when you're catapulted through your windshield at 90mph into traffic. This is not the clear-cut case you want to make it out to be.
Every time I bring this up when Tesla bashing is going on here, I get downvoted. The hate for Elon here blinds people to statistics
The same happened to nuclear energy, despite the fact that coal kills 100x people yearly than total nuclear energy deaths.
Most of my career has been spent at agencies.

I think you're attributing malice to what was more than likely routine mismanagement.
Interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing!

>All the variations of the logo and design mocks are clearly overkill for a $15k project. The design team had time to fill and wanted to provide lots of options for you to pick from, as they typically would on a larger project. Those variations are an expectation for $100k clients, and you got the $100k customer treatment, but unfortunately not at a discount.

Oh, huh.

I was thinking about this as I did the writeup. It didn't feel at the time that they were spending excessive time on the logo variations, but I went back to the notes I took on our first call and realized how out of line all that early work now feels relative to their 30-40 hour initial estimate of the rebrand.
I was under the impression that the drivers had some input into what they would be willing to drive for and competition would do the rest. But if Uber has internal caps, that would make critical mass impossible in smaller towns.
I agree on that and we had similar observations on the job boards that we manage (each of them has mandatory salary brackets if you want to post a job[1])

Obviously, salary is not the only criteria for picking a new role, but by publishing it upfront, you quickly sort out the expectations (which leads to less churn at later stages) and also contribute to a more inclusive and fair job market.

Some other points that we got as feedback from the tech communities:

- publishing tech stacks & engineering methodologies is quite useful too

- it's nice if a company provides a contact person for questions BEFORE applying

- you should act swiftly and not let candidates wait for weeks for your decision

[1]
https://swissdevjobs.ch/

https://devitjobs.uk/

https://devitjobs.us/

https://germantechjobs.de/
This is bad because who ever controls the keys controls the coins. So really for all these clueless users, the exchange owns all the coins and you can’t prove otherwise.

And they don’t bother educating the user. Or suggesting best practice. That’s not in the users favour.
The rational actor model assumes that a person will behave optimally - using all information available to make and carry out the best decision possible for their goals.

I strongly suspect that a better model is that people instead of optimizing their outcomes instead optimize the ease of decision making while still getting an acceptable course of action. Most of our biases serve to either allow us to make decisions quicker or minimize the odds of catastrophically bad outcomes for our decisions, which fit nicely with this model. The fact is that indecision is often worse than a bad decision, and the evolutionary forces that shaped our brains are stochastic in nature and thus don't dock points for missed opportunities.
>> All the "cognitive errors" that we humans make are with respect to predicting the future. But we all know what we find appealing in the present moment.

I like to say that most human problems are a result of the conflict between short and long term goals. This is true at all levels from individuals to small groups, companies, and states. Many, many "failures" can be framed this way. I would say it's not even a problem of predicting the future (thought that is an issue) but of failure to prioritize the future over the present.
Possibly, but there are surely fewer companies eligible for making such a claim than there are individuals. Depends how automated you can make it I guess. And while I'm not one to get overly upset if certain compensation schemes are slightly vulnerable to fraud, you still need to maintain public trust in such a system for it to have long term viability, and individual- based schemes are surely more expensive to police/regulate.
Some years ago, I worked on a team "Ads Human Eval" - we had raters hired to do A/B testing for ads. These evaluated questionaires carefuly crafted by our linguists, and then analyzed by the statisticians providing feedback to the (internal) group that wanted to know more about.

So the best experience was this internal event that we had, where the raters would say that certain Ad would not fare well (long term), while the initial metrics (automated) were showing the opposite (short temr). So then we'll gather into this event, and people would "debug" these and try to find where the differences are coming through.

Then we had to help another group, where ML failed miserably detecting ads that should've not been shown on specific media, and raters came to help giving the correct answers.

The one thing that I've learned is that humans are not going to be replaced any time soon by AI, and I've been telling my folks, friends or anyone (new-born luddities) - that automation is not going to fully replace us. We'll still be needed as teachers, evaluators, fixers, tweakers/hackers - e.g. someone saying - this is right, and this is not, this needs adjustment, etc. (to the machine, ai, etc.).

Maybe machines are going to take over us one day, but until then, I'm not worried...

(I've also understood I knew nothing about staticics, and how valuable linguists are when comes to forming clear, concise and non-confusing (no double meaning) questions)
I think that's a little uncharitable: If even a handful of people (regardless of location) are harmed by causes that we don't accept as normal, those are tragedies and we'll broadcast news about that tragedy 24/7 and use enormous institutions to move heaven and earth to eliminate that harm. If thousands of people are harmed by causes that we do accept, that's life as usual. That might be obvious, but it bears some thinking about.

About 19 people in the US have been killed by Takata airbags in the years since 2008, and we've spent $24 billion recalling vehicles for repair, because that's a risk that we don't tolerate.

100 people will die today in cars - probably more than 19 people in the next hour, it's going on rush hour and people will be tired and in a hurry - and it's just another Thursday. Also, close to 19 veterans will commit suicide today. We accept that as normal, and I feel strongly that we shouldn't; consideration of that outcome should enter into the public consciousness as we consider the ethics and justifications of military recruitment and our involvement in conflicts across the globe.

Where the deaths happen doesn't really matter. I think it's more about a human ability to name and blame an antagonist: Takata. 9-11. Firestone. Putin. Covid-19. Katrina. Comparatively, 'car culture', senelescence, social and cultural reintegration, and other issues are diffuse to the point of being pervasive and and human brains have a hard time running the numbers on the risk analysis.
No mention of ergodicity economics, which resolves a lot of this. Reinforcement learning was mentioned, which resolves all or nearly all of it.
Also, for comparison, the US military budget in 2021 was $700-800 billion.
Between this and Coinbase, the DOJ is firing on all pistons.
I have not read this article but what fascinates me in this context is that it is very difficult to estimate how many works have survived time at all and how many are lost? Most historians assume only ~1% has survived. Written works are better conserved than music and everyday language.

I stumbled over this information in the book "Offline!" by Thomas Grüter, a highly recommended read, by the way. Among others, it tackles the question if future historians will know more about our time than we know about the past.
The question under dispute is what is to be done.

Removing guns from law abiding citizens is preferred by one vocal faction, rather than imprisoning criminals who use them in committing crimes (and who usually don't possess their guns legally).

The other faction says that removing guns from law abiding citizens actually increases crime[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/AnneMarieWTHR/status/1549484122497843200...
To be pedantic, the peak time period for witch-burning was in the Early Modern period (15th-17th century), not the Dark Ages (5th-10th century)[1].

In the Dark Ages, church and civil authorities often took the position that witchcraft didn't exist, while later on they tended to give the idea more credence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
Why not Fiverrs?
This is what makes statements like "trust the science" so sickening. Science isn't religion and it isn't always honest
All debt is somebody asset.

Public debt is a private asset.

https://realprogressives.org/back-to-mmt-basics/
Anytime you think you need to invent a file format for your application, please save yourself the trouble and use sqlite. It'll handle consistency, searching, updating, OS-specific quirks, everything.
I agree. But I don't think most HN posts are particularly longer than most Tweets. Many can be fit in 2 tweets in fact. If you're going to make strident, blanket posts (like the ones armchairhacker talks about), Twitter is probably a better medium.
Turkey: Ukraine grain export deal to be signed in Istanbul
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol
America is huge and lots of it isn't densely populated.
> There hasn’t been a substantive change to how representatives are selected in our country in about a century,

This is false, by the way; for one significant example the gradual elimination of multimember or overlapping house districts as a means of hyper-gerrymandering for partisan and/or racial purposes (including the law finally prohibiting it entirely) was well within the last century.

> but for much of that time we were a functional democracy.

Arguably, for much of the past centry even less of a “functional democracy” than today. The combination of the structural duopoly of the electoral system and the unusually long political realignment if the 1930s-1990s where the salient political divides didn’t map to the divides between the two major parties–which produced a lot of bipartisan legislation and gets people to falsely describe it as a time of low political polarization, when it was in fact a time of very high polarization but where the polarization didn’t map well to the major parties–also meant that it was often impossible to have a meaningful voice on salient issues by voting, which contributed to considerable political violence, that really dropped as the new political alignment solidified in the last couple decades of that period.