skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you then agree that such an article should include Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine of 1943, or the internment of Japanese-Americans, or the Italian Empire’s massacres in conquered Ethiopia, not to mention all of Japan’s policies in Asia at the time?
I suspect that beyond a certain point on the wealth curve your wealth or growth of that wealth stops mattering to you. I’m sure their are those who continue working at it as it makes them feel valued- but it’s difficult to spend more than a few million dollars a year without being frivolous to the point of stupidity.

Which means you’ll have a lot of unmotivated money, or money that’s only interested in preserving a relative position on the economic latter - far from the meritocratic capitalist dream.
Great quip, but it's more complex. The Chunnel is delicate infrastructure, with neither a backup nor a short repair time if something bad happened. I have not examined their Dangerous/Forbidden Freight List for "bulk rechargeable batteries" - but such lists can change. OTOH, there are dense freight rail networks on both sides of the Channel, and similar for ports, shipping, etc.

Vs. you'd need to build a few thousand miles of freight RR in Siberia, Alaska, and other places "unfriendly to economical RR construction and operation" in order to ship from China to the US via rail.
This is spot on. Filesystems are more powerful, fast and scalable than people think.
> For read-only long-term filesystem-like archives, use squashfs with whatever compression option is convenient

Is there a way to extract the files without mounting the filesystem?
I disabled Windows Defender using Group policies when it was erasing data from my samba3 server. Group policy is the only way to control windows any more.
...and you shouldn't.
In the EU this is not the case.
https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/mathematics/irrational_numb...

> For many irrational numbers, relatively simple mathematical proofs exist which show that it's impossible to ever arrive at a finite solution.

LOL, what does that even mean?
Weren’t Soviet gulags a continuation of the tsarist variety?
Ah no wonder farmers there want to support climate change.
To the person who doesn't really have a valid point, it might be worth trying the tactic of pretending it's a "game", but that would be about as effective as a cat attempting to bury a turd on a hardwood floor.
P less than 0.0005 isn't much better because if that's the criteria then you still have to accept that psychic phenomena have been demonstrated in the lab.

The methodology is deeply flawed, given that you haven't stopped accidental p-hacking (publication bias) and deliberate p-hacking (researcher data mining, e.g adding endpoints after looking at results), which compounds to create fake results with astronomically tiny p-values.

You can only trust single, extremely large, canonical RCTs which were announced in advance, and in which you are confident there is no survivorship bias in terms of the possibility that this RCT would have been cancelled had the results been thought to be negative halfway through.

Epidemiology (victim of researcher p-hacking and impossible to deal with confounders) or meta-analysis of RCTs or single small RCTs or RCTs that weren't announced in advance (victim of publication bias) should be taken with a grain of salt. If you accept conclusions drawn from these things at face value, be prepared to accept anything, because the methodology you've accepted is proven to be easily capable of demonstrating any fake phenomenon as true.
Well, math is one of those things where (in most cases) anyone (...with the right knowledge in the field...) can verify the results (mostly) relatively easily and cheaply.

For physics, it depends.. is it just "applied math" (so, verified easily), is it a CERN-type (LHC,...) experiment (hard to replicate, unless well.. you work at CERN), where many many people process the data, or is it something that is done only in your "lab", and hard for others to replicate.

On the other hand, finding thousands of patients and running a study is practically always hard and expensive.
Following the story of a family who bought an eight year old ford ev. $11,000. Needs a new battery, $14,000 plus labour and isnt actually available because Ford have discontinue it. A bit scary. https://www.ntd.com/battery-replacement-of-familys-ev-ford-f...
And what was the period of time in which that information was unavailable in mass?
It's pretty disrespectful to signal (without evidence or elaboration) that researchers are not credible (or worse, broadly lying) in order to keep their research grants flowing. A hypothesis that turns out to be wrong is something both industry and government are obviously not going to invest further in. The people working in the field have skills to transfer to other departments and projects; these aren't the sort of scientists and engineers that are out of ideas or work to do.

It's also plenty obvious that there is no single, monolithic "current research direction" or even that this researcher's work was of fundamental impact when it was published - not to mention the number of people that were highly skeptical from the beginning.
I'm pretty sure this'll be rolled out in geos where sharing your account with 5+ people in different addresses is common.

They're not gonna come first at the people who use Netflix from two addresses regularly, there's no point to start from there.
Absolutely agree with tsimionescu
If we use Betteridge's law of headlines then it's no.

I'm all in.
How did they spend two years demonstrating they are fair weather partners? Was it the part where they locked workers inside of factories producing goods for America to make sure that the Americans got their shipments in spite of the Covid-0 policy? Or was it how China is actually upholding most sanctions against Russia, despite giving less than 0 f's about Ukraine?

IMO the real disaster would be a total de-link between Chinese and American economies. Neither country can currently engage in any kind of meaningful hostilities while 10%+ of their economies are linked in trade. Trade prevents war because war would mean decimation of their economies and lead to likely depressions, although I suppose the results of Russia's invasion and how their economy handles de-linking will inform this logic going forward
how does that happen? idk much about what's going on in the US, but the what now? how do you make math political?
this may be true online

people in live games are impatient degens, money will always be there with a basic strategy

add in a bit a leveling and you can print

source: i’m a degen whose loses all the time
Sure but OP claimed there are no cuts thus the only option is to stop hiring and do layoffs. In fact there are automatic cuts (via RSUs) and the follow-up approaches are hiring freezes and layoffs. I'm merely arguing that OP's point isn't valid.
Why is it that Perl never had strong usage in the GUI world? Seems like the object oriented nature of GTK and Qt, and all just generally would work well with Perl.

Is it that TCL/TK sort of filled that niche for rapid prototyping and development 10-15 years ago?
Interesting paradoxical conclusion:

“The findings reveal the irony that porn – a male-dominated industry that targets a male-dominated audience – is associated with the erosion of the quality of men's sex lives and the improvement of women's sex lives.”
Context has nothing to do with it. IP addresses are specifically called out in the GDPR as being one type of personal data. The fact that you're repeatedly using "PII", an American term, indicates that you are viewing this from an American point of view.
Yes, but look how cute they are.
Why do you think that is? (Serious question). My understanding in life science research is that as a rule, papers do not get reproduced, as there is limited benefit to the researcher. Why is the same not true in physics? What is so seriously flawed about life science research that is not flawed about physics?
My understanding is that it says that Siberian dogs populated the Americas at the same time as the first humans populated the Americas. It doesn’t explicitly say whether there were any dogs in the Americas before then, but there may not have been. Regardless, those Siberian humans came from Africa — still appropriate to call them Siberian in this context. For similar reasons, after a time, it becomes appropriate to label those humans after the Americas, and similarly the dogs that came with them.
It's a tough thing because say "Rick" worked on 5 things every day. 3 things he did very well and nailed, and the other 2 things didn't work right. As a team it's very hard to balance those two things against those three things and eventually come to the conclusion that you need to let the guy go.

In hindsight it's very easy to make a determination but hindsight 20/20, you're always second guessing if removing this person is going to help your project or totally doom your project.
Hexaflexagons [video] (2012)
They've already built a SPARC-size REBCO magnet, and demonstrated it at 20 Tesla for five hours.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-3240/mit-ramps-10ton-magnet...

https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusio...

It's pretty amazing that they did that without any engineers.
Off-topic, but I think the effect is even more pronounced with a binary rating (thumb up/thumb down) vs a 1-5 star rating. I've noticed that really bad or mediocre games will take advantage of the upvote tendency by advertising "90% positive reviews" in an attempt to trick people into thinking they're good.
...except when you run out of precision in an "unsophisticated" implementation as simias mentioned, then you'll eventually get smooth boundaries - which are just an artifact however.
Wow, sounds like the Pareto Principle is alive and well in the arena of Science as well.
A recent submission[1] reminds me of the series on flexagons—folded paper with more than two faces that can be swapped via a 'flexing' operation—by Vi Hart, whose videos on mathematics were quite popular on YouTube around ten years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart/videos?sort=p, https://hn.algolia.com/?query=vi%20hart

[1] 'folding' in a different sense: How to fold a Julia fractal (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32209192
See also https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep which contrasts ripgrep with GNU grep and others (from 2016)
I’m sorry but this isn’t a problem with “Rick”. This was first and foremost a management problem. Yes I know they fired the management too but the focus of the article is still on everything that’s wrong with Rick but you can see how management failed him. He was first a great employee who helped others but over time he was given more and more responsibility until he became a single source of failure and didn’t have time to help. They place everything on his shoulders and even encouraged it by giving him a production server spec workstation and not reining in his bad tendencies or corner cutting, which he might have been forced to do given the time pressure.

This is a scenario that’s all too familiar where management hires a great talent and then just uses that person to solve all their problems instead of actually managing and building a team that can handle the problems.

Management failed the company and Rick. The article author clearly failed to see that and focused entirely on the wrong root cause.

A much better story would be to tell it with a focus on management who was either too incompetent, too lazy, or both to properly build, manage, and grow/mentor a team.
For the science part of it: >100 years old scientific literature
All of this is true except for the part where no other manufacturer (other than Tesla) has a reliable source of batteries -- so they're subject to intense supply chain constraints that limit inventory drastically. And so they were unable to meet the consumer demand for EVs. Hence you simply can't even get a Ford F150 Lightning even though it looks like a great vehicle.

This all pre-dated the COVID related supply chain issues, BTW. Lack of battery supply is behind the lackluster inventory (and therefore sales) of all non-Tesla vehicles for over half a decade.

I say all this not as a Tesla fan, but as a GM electric vehicle owner. GM was unable to produce more then a few tens of thousands of Bolts a year -- not because consumers didn't want them, but because there was simply no way for them to get them from LG Chem. VW/Audi group has had the same issue. They're both not late to the game on EV tech or production, but very late to the game on battery production.

Being late to the game in this case has a huge cost. And various governments wasted time and money providing consumer subsidies for EV purchases thinking this would lead the market to magically "solve" the EV supply issue by increasing consumer demand when the issue that really needed solving was volume and cost of battery production.

If we were going to involve public dollars in getting EVs to market we should have invested massively in encouraging battery production. Some governments are waking up to this now at least.
People use rng generators to take decisions nowadays. Impossible to really exploit.
>The politicized approval process

What do you mean by "politicized"?

>Remember that the beneficiaries of those approvals are people who know the most about these chemicals and are motivated to avoid learning more or disclosing what they know.

That's basically the status quo for how every new product gets approved.
Religious flamewar is not allowed on Hacker News, so please don't propagate it. We ban accounts that keep doing this.

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Mathematical proofs can be wrong. People do make mistakes. But yes I think it’s less likely there is a mistake in a (reasonably) self-contained line of logical reasoning than a statistical study which has so many potential sources of both nefarious and accidental issues.
This paper would be more relevant if most science came down to evaluating a single p-value. Perhaps there are some fields of science where that is true, but I have not encountered them. I mostly look at molecular biology and infectious disease. Clinical trials in medicine come down to a single p-value by design, but don't fall prey to what he's talking about.
This is assuming your experiment was designed to test your hypothesis and that you model your null hypothesis properly. A p value means nothing anyway until you have both of these. Add to that the fact that many wrongly consider that a high p value disproves the original hypothesis.
Biden was literally boosted again in March. Has Covid-19 now, 15 weeks later. Fauci was double boosted in March and caught Covid 10 weeks later.

My wife, who is fully vaccinated + 1 booster is presently fighting Covid and due to her asthma we took her to the ER on Friday. The ER doc told her that she has noticed that vaccinated Covid patients she has seen seem to have less hypoxia issues when they catch it but almost all of the people she sees are vaccinated.

Maybe cases are milder if vaccinated, but really do we know this? How do you separate the difference between the variant causing a more mild case from the vaccine causing the variant to be milder. If a population is significantly vaccinated, but the unvaccinated have likely already contracted and developed a natural immunity, the # of unvaccinated, first time covid infected people might be rather small bit this is the control we need to measure natural immunity effectiveness from vaccine effectiveness on Covid variants spreading today.
yc and Dropbox realised that people would like to pay for it. in the same logic, a toaster is useless, I can always just heat bread in a pan no?
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Cool thanks will have a look.

Id be more interesting on where kubernetes (redundancy) fits into traditional redundancy ?

Examples:

1. Do i still need gluster/ceph or do i use the longhorn thing ?

2. Db replication? Do i use the usual solutions of master-slaves and clusters or does multiple k-nodes take that over ?

3. Webserver LB with failover ? Do i use LB from hosting vendor, haproxy or does kubernetes have its own thing ??

From what I can tell as a kubernetes-noob the value is:
1) Reproducibility
2) Reliability via redundancy
3) AutoScaling.

All of the abkve has to some degree a previous/current solution , so which do i give up/replace with kubernetes-tool ?

Sorry yes Im a k-noob
> Sending out company newsletters seems like a nice way to let everyone know what the company is up to. Not sure how you go from that to reminding lowly engineers of their "insignificance".

I agree with both you and parent.

I've enjoyed getting a monthly newsletter by email in past jobs, letting me know "hey so we just signed a contract with a client that is twice as big as the biggest one we've had so far". Makes sense - I'm not the one to be greatly inspired by something like that, but it's good for perspective.

I've also worked at a company where every single salesperson was allowed and encouraged to email all@company.com whenever they closed a sale. This was around 3 times a week.

Not terrible - however, everyone in the company was also officially encouraged to "congratulate" any such "successful sales" emails with "encouraging words" such as simply adding "Congrats!" and hitting "Reply All".

The head count at this company was around 400.

I wish I was kidding.

I think I lasted 3 days before I created a filter rule in my email client.
Ad 5: more data doesn't help if the main problem of your research is that your data is shit. People benefit from generating tons of shity data because they get more money, which looks good on their resume. If their results are shit, they simply write "more data is needed" and they benefit even more from the call for more data.
An NYT article says, "a few epidemiologists say the city should be encouraging gay men to temporarily change their sexual behavior while the disease spreads"

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/18/nyregion/nyc-monkeypox-he...

The spread of monkeypox has ignited a debate within the New York City Health Department over whether the agency should encourage gay men to reduce their number of sexual partners during this summer’s outbreak.

Inside the department, officials are battling over public messaging as the number of monkeypox cases has nearly tripled in the last week, nearly all of them among men who have sex with men. A few epidemiologists say the city should be encouraging gay men to temporarily change their sexual behavior while the disease spreads, while other officials argue that approach would stigmatize gay men and would backfire.

The internal divisions peaked when the health department issued an advisory last week suggesting that having sex while infected with monkeypox could be made safer if people avoided kissing and covered their sores. Several officials at the agency were outraged, saying the agency was giving misleading and even dangerous health advice, according to several epidemiologists within the department and a review of internal emails.

The advice on safer sex was not medically sound, said Dr. Don Weiss, the director of surveillance for the department’s Bureau of Communicable Disease, in an interview. He believes the department should advise those at risk of monkeypox to temporarily reduce their number of partners, saying, “We’re not telling people what they have to do to be safe.”

His concerns are shared by some of his colleagues, emails and interviews show, indicating growing frustration and pessimism within the ranks of the health department as the window for controlling New York City’s monkeypox epidemic — the largest such outbreak in the United States — quickly closes.

Monkeypox has been spreading globally since early May. In New York City, where nearly all monkeypox patients are gay or bisexual men, there were 618 documented cases of monkeypox in the city as of Monday, though Dr. Weiss said that the true number of infections was far higher, because testing has been limited.
The strategy favored by Dr. Weiss, who has long played a frontline role in the department’s response to disease outbreaks, has received little traction within the department.

In fact, the agency in a statement Monday argued against such an approach. “For decades, the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community has had their sex lives dissected, prescribed, and proscribed in myriad ways, mostly by heterosexual and cis people,” the statement said.
As a non-Indian, what does this mean?

“Sunnyvale is an apt name for a city in the heart of Silicon Valley, at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area, where the sky is always blue and largely cloudless. The burgeoning population of Indian techies has earned the city its new moniker ‘Sooraj Nagari’, much the way neighbouring Mountain View—home to Google’s global headquarters—goes by the name ‘Pahar Ganj’.”

Also, uh what? The 1960s were dominated by hippies, which are more like Luddites outside of drug use, if you consider LSD “technology”. The 1950s and the early Space Age much more align with a tech utopian vision

“Silicon Valley owes its ideals of technological utopianism to the culture of the 1960s–a heady belief that tech is inherently a force for good in the world. “
a browser is useless, you can always send a request through curl and read the html.
Minor spelling point, it's "lay people" not "lee people".
If you want to start playing with this now, my C preprocessor Cedro (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28166125, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31193138) will insert the byte literals for the compiler:

https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/cedro/202106171400/#bina...

That’s the same that `xxd` does, for instance, and it works with C89/C99/C11.

The advantage is that since it uses the same syntax as C23, it is easier to switch to using the compiler: just remove the Cedro pragma `#pragma Cedro 1.0 #embed` and it will compile as C23.

The source code (Apache 2.0) and GitHub link are at: https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/
And if I recall correctly Ford was the only US vehicle manufacturer that did not request a bailout in 2008.

That was impressive at the time and it made Ford look like solid well-run company that planned ahead.
I argue it's democracy. (That can save Nations and presumably companies)

Imagine voting for the CEO. Imagine voting to allocate budgets. Yes there will be a lot of pork barrel- but it might just work.

I mean the idea that companies are like single cells / autonoma so they don't have to be democratic leads us to silly ideas like trying to put in place rules for not abusing the electorate.

I mean if a boss is sexually harassing all the female staff and then asks for their vote at the next manager election, you won't need HR intervention to get rid of him.

I have no idea truly how this might work, but I do think that if the employees of a company voted how to run it you might find some unusual outcomes.
No, it’s offer your own science or STFU. “I simply don’t believe the science“ is not debate.