skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poor management suffers from the problem on not fixing things if they do not seem broke. They will get Rick to overwork himself into burnout if it helps them.

When Rick feels betrayed and is belligerent because they are taking basically everything he is away from him (at this point this is his work).

So what could they have done? easy! They could have stopped rick from getting this far by actually managing him, having people actually look at his work and make sure he was actually collaborating with others. Rick would likely be a better and less stressed worker.
The Haiti vs. Dominican Republic comparison is interesting, but I think the Cuba vs. Haiti comparison is equally valuable - although I imagine it gets neglected in the USA because it makes Cuban socialism/communism look a lot better than free-trade-philanthropic-democratic-capitalism system that was applied in Haiti. Of course, if you include the Dominican Republic, the situation gets more complex.

However, the article's central claim (small farms destroy arable land, so large foreign-owned plantations are more sustainable) is invalidated by comparison to Cuba:

> "The reason why this does not occur in all countries is that larger farms benefit from economies of scale. Haiti’s small farms were too small to justify investments in labour-saving technologies. They were also too small for basic investments in soil fertility, like leaving land fallow. It’s hard to leave land uncultivated when your family must eat from a small plot. Finally, small farms create erosion through a tragedy of the commons. Erosion does not just affect your farm, it affects neighbouring farms. Investing in erosion prevention for your own land has little effect if your neighbours do nothing. Farmers on small plots, therefore, have an incentive to ignore the erosion problem and overfarm their own land."

So, why has Cuba been successful when it broke up the plantations and distributed the land to small farmers?
In addition, is it even fair to say, "Africa has a lot of desert." It has the biggest desert, but it's also a very big place.
If you work doing ML in production, you know how incredibly difficult it is to get an extra % improvement. The idea of exponential growth that accelerates into the singularity is a sci-fi concept that I have never experienced.

From the outside we've experienced exponential improvements in ML models, sure. But those didn't come out of nowhere. They are powered by massive efforts involving humans.

Personally I'm not worried about losing my dev job to machines in my lifetime.
Go to YouTube. Click a video. Delete the H in watch (or click me) and enjoy
Depends on the task...sometimes nawk ("one true awk") is faster than gawk. Mawk is almost always faster than either.

An older, but good article on that: https://brenocon.com/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-...
Self-checkout at supermarkets does 90% of the work. The 10% of work remaining is done by a human supervising the self-checkout stations.

And same will happen to development. Lots of tasks will be automated and less people will be needed as a result.
Note, I haven't actually poked around to see what your idea is, I'm going off of solely this comment, but...in my experience, the thing you're worrying about is the last thing you need to worry about.

Here's the thing that I find happens more. I 100% believe that your solution could be as good as you think it is, but you're STILL going to have a hell of a time convincing people of it, and weird, seemingly goofy barriers, are going to come up. "Self-evidently" good software/solutions mostly don't exist, even when they are that good.
Don't put every european nation on the same scale when it goes to mass killings.
Here the subject is Haiti, now please tell me how many voluntary mass killings happened.
I manage a small wiki, and would never just open it up to the bots.

But fast is relative, no? E.g., I still use snail mail extensively to keep in touch with my friends.
More exponential growth voodoo.
Let’s not forget that old arrow of causality. Perhaps men who are bad at sex are more likely to view porn rather than viewing porn making them bad at sex. Similarly maybe women who view porn are already sexually successful and are looking for ideas.

Male and female sexual function aren’t particularly comparable either. If a man can’t get an erection then sexual intercourse just isn’t going to happen. There’s no hard analog for women. That’s just one example, there are many others.

> and enhanced partner-reported sexual satisfaction (for some aspects)."

I read this as something like: women who watch porn are more likely to perform fellatio well.
That is very much not the purpose of HN, it's in

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Weekly Dose of Optimism #4
Right, but my concerns about an overly complex system coming in as a stand-in for a simple one are not.

The simple cost effective thing is not to engineer a complex redundancy system above and below to try to adhere to some misguided "separation of concerns", its to use the simplest, most effective solution which presents itself.

When you try to separate things which should not be separated in a software (or other) system, you get high coupling, low cohesion. Not everything should be attempted to be "de-coupled".
Unfortunately this article repeats the same misconceptions about imaginary/complex numbers and their role in physics as most popular articles do.

Imaginary numbers were invented too early, that is why the usual explanations following the historical development are so mysterious. The notion of Sqrt(-1) does not help to explain what they actually are.

In fact imaginary "numbers" are not numbers. They cannot be ordered by size.
Imaginary "numbers" are also not vectors in the geometrical sense. This is because you can multiply two geometrical vectors and get a scalar as result (scalar product). But if you multiply two imaginary "numbers" you get another imaginary "number", so this is different to a geometrical vector. In fact imaginary "numbers" are transformations or operators, because they multiply like operators/matrices and they act on geometrical vectors like rotation matrices. Group theory makes all that very clear: Imaginary "numbers" are just the elements of the group SO(2), the group of rotation operations in 2D (multiplied with a scaling factor).

Regarding quantum mechanics what the scientists showed is, that a theory which does break SO(2) rotation symmetry (so called real quantum mechanics) does not describe nature. That should surprise no one as the SO(2) symmetry (or equivalently called U(1) symmetry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_group#Isomorphisms)) is necessary to describe conservation of the electric charge. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_(physics)#Abstract_defi...)
I don't know, this sounds a lot like blub to me. "I've never seen anyone do anything with a charcoal stick that i couldn't do with my ballpoint." Or "I don't see why people like regex when code refactoring tools are so much smarter."

People say the same thing about Linux vs Windows in general, particularly the "for most users" straw man. We're not talking about most users, we're talking about users that care enough about a use case to put up with the time it takes to learn tooling.

If someone cared about things vim was good at (flexible, programmatic text editing), they'd be more likely to have switched to using it. The fact that your needs don't like up, that you don't appreciate the difference or don't care about it, e.g. because you mostly edit source files in a particular language well-supported by your IDE, rather than frequently needing to do one-off esoteric things to a wide variety of files with varying semantics.

Fwiw, i know vim well, have used it many years, and still frequently switch to an ide when doing things that the IDE was specifically designed to support.
This author is running on heroic amounts of hopium. That said, the first thing I see this replacing is not graphic designers, but stock photography sites.
You said this in the article too, but why does being better at coding competitions, where there are very specific rules and outcomes, mean this AI can work in the very abstract realm of software development. And forgive me if OpenAIs estimates of its own product it’s trying to sell isn’t exactly convincing. It looks like you were a former PM, and to be frank, until an AI can wade through confusing conversations with PMs to figure out what actually needs to be built, engineer jobs are safe.
Maybe our engineering jobs will consist of reviewing AI-generated PRs all day…
“Hurl unfounded and baseless accusations of personal corruption” is not the scientific method either.

Trying to pass off conspiracy theorist “disprove the negative” arguments as reasonable discourse is intellectually lazy, at best.
Why would she be playing me? I often get videos with the men's consent (when she's found a guy who, ahem, functions) so I don't think there's anything to play me for.
They're not? You can clearly see the teeth in the frames where they are visible in the raw. Teeth are just not commonly seen outside unnatural facial movements.
I like to drive a little slower to conserve charge/fuel, but it would be too discourteous to all the other drivers on the road, so I just go at the prevailing speed. If there were a separate lane for lower speed driving I would use it.
why do people write articles like this? is it just to hear themselves talk?
source? I always vaguely thought that high GI foods were bad because it would stress out your pancreas and lead to pre-diabetes.
One disadvantage of tar is that because it has no built-in support for compression it has to give up the very important feature of random access for a trivial improvement in compression ratio.

Anyway 7z can optionally do solid compression anyway. I've no idea why it isn't more popular the Linux world. I guess the only real reason is the CLI tools don't come installed by default.
It's extremely hard to imagine a meager disability benefit (if any) outweighs the surgery and recover and then living without the limb indefinitely. If you were really in it for the money, would you then hang out on a forum talking about the surgery and not the money? Why would you have a whole arm or leg removed when you could simply have a hand or some fingers removed?

Even if they were eligible for the disability, the implication that this isn't a real disorder ignores almost every aspect of its reality.
The problem with getting more and more specific about my experiences and expertise is you get closer and closer to doxxing yourself. Honestly, it may be time to retire this account again.

Also its worth noting that I am not claiming my experience is the end-all be-all. I am stating that, from my experience, I have incredible distrust for many studies that are published with 'amazing' results until peer reviewed preferably on disparate datasets.

My experience is based around outcome based studies of the effect of drugs/treatment/regimens in oncology and oncology adjacent fields. This includes drugs treated alongside traditional cancer regimens to assist with managing adverse events and toxicities.

Other fields may not have this reproducibility problem. Mine does. Even if the study design if perfect, and I can't imagine most are, the data itself can be questionable.

Consider - what dataset would you use to identify if patients taking keytruda had a higher incidence of high blood pressure?

You can use data from an EHR, licensed for deidentified studies, but EHR data is a burnt down trailer park of questionableness and its use in studies has been laughed at in many conferences.

You can use data from individual enrolled patients (for a clinical study) but then the cost is extremely high vs a non interventional observational study using other data methods. The value of the data is likely to be higher, but since it costs more to collect maybe you are only in a few regions that may have a higher prevalence or incidence of this anyway. Troublesome.

What about insurance data? You can get it cheaply, if you have high blood pressure GOOD doctors are likely to medicate you with a drug meant to treat it, and you can get it across the country. Seems good right? And it is, as you can generally draw an implication of high-blood-pressure->treatment-with-drug-x. So for a yes/no study it can help, but what if the base condition causes high blood pressure and we want to tell if the drug causes a HIGHER amount of high blood pressure than others. Insurance data by itself may not be enough to tell this data.

So what do you do? You are stuck with no great answers.... and this is assuming your study design is perfect.

So you buy multiple datasets in some third party health marketplace, and someone gets the great idea to combine the datasets to increase the n value. Well, too bad those datasets have a high overlap. So you have attributed a higher power to the study than is relevent.

I hope this explains more about the concerns I have. Though, I suppose, it may mean that this account is now dead. I will have to think further. Anyway, hope you have a great day.
I don't know.

But - I'd like to encourage you for asking. That's a really good question. If more tech-minded folk asked questions like this, we'd be doing a whole lot better as a species.

My personal hot-take is that understanding how people get manipulated and coerced into acting against their own interests is essential to our survival. Think big tobacco tactics, big oil climate denial, manufacture of consent, kayfabe politics.

I don't know how - or even if - AI can help us create systems that offer protection against such manipulation. My hunch is that it's worth thinking about.

Some examples: Maybe AI can analyze vast amounts of data to manage pollution - soil, air, water, etc - in such a way that manipulation of the results is impossible. However, the institutions which manage this stuff seem quite thoroughly broken (Superfund sites, for example, or Deepwater Horizon, or pesticide buildup).

Maybe AI can analyze currency transactions to identify bribes, sinks in the money system where value flows out. However, we've seen many examples of this stuff coming out into the open without major consequence (Paradise, Panama, bank bailouts, CDS, etc etc).

Maybe AI could help identify those most susceptible to manipulation in order to help & protect them, rather than to sway their vote, turn them into 'useful idiots', and sell them stuff. That would be "bad" for the economy (and fantastic for society).

Maybe AI could help overhaul education - I think this is both essential, and terrifying. I won't ramble on though.

Best of luck man.
If you look back at far enough, quite a lot of development tasks have already been automated. There aren't all that many people manually "coding", or turning high level languages into machine code. That got automated early on.
Pretty strange to compare inspection times when the players know it's not counted, so they don't care whether they inspect fast or slow. It's like suddenly measuring the time it takes to walk up to the table.
Does PDF has a default password?
I get why these "Managers are so clueless!" posts feel good and are often well received. One thing that would help is if technical talent didn't naturally position leadership as comprised of people who are totally different from them, who intentionally strive to create an unpleasant counter-productive environment that makes it hard to create and deliver software.

I get the pain expressed here, it's real, and the problems are REALLY HARD to solve. Any one of these is multifaceted and cannot be solved by "management" alone. Asking VPs to code a feature every quarter is both unrealistic and silly. Complaining about too many managers, meetings and processes is common and fair, but not to say "if you have painful process fix it with this different, equally strict and brittle process" is naive to the point of funny. Saying "estimation is hard so don't do it" an incomplete answer, and railing against smaller teams or realigning people broadcasts "I don't really think about budgets, emerging needs or things above writing code".

So much of this can be addressed within the team; you can promote streamlined process that does enough to align without prescribing, you can add some consistency in who does what work to build more durable teams and form a consistent mission, you can estimate in effort not time. The author seems to think the ideal is achieving stasis and maintaining it; to me this is impossible and actually sounds like hell.
Making wars unprofitable doesn't prevent all wars. That approach is stupid.

However, making war less costly (for the victor) could well cause more wars. I believe that before WW I many a war of conquest was initiated by states hoping to profit. WW I was thought by many states as another great chance to profit, but it turned out that mechanization of logistics, and artillery, meant the toll of war was much lower.

Besides, the 'ospolitik' was more about building relationships and mutual respect than an attempt to affect the cost-revenue analysis of war.
In my experience the normal squashfs kernel driver is quite slow at listing/traversing very large archives (several GB+). For some reason squashfuse is MUCH faster for just looking around inside.
Defaults are one example of a nudge. One of Thaler's examples is having some default 401(K) contribution for new employees that's greater than zero. While I'm sure there are cases where defaults are less powerful than in others, the idea that defaults don't really matter certainly flies in the face of everything I know about the world.

You give another example of choice architectures though I'm not sure if that's a nudge in the literature or not.
The linked article is sensationalized an disingenuously mixes the author's opinion with straight reporting on the Science article[0] previously discussed here[1]. Science never suggests that anybody other than Lesné was involved in falsifying results, and even then it is careful to not accuse him of deliberate fraud. Neither article suggests who the second scientist referenced in the headline may be.

I suspect there was deliberate fraud, but this article doesn't provide any more evidence of that than previous articles.

> Since that 2006 publication, the presence or absence of this specific amyloid has often been treated as diagnostic of Alzheimer’s. Meaning that patients who did die from Alzheimer’s may have been misdiagnosed as having something else. Those whose dementia came from other causes may have falsely been dragged under the Alzheimer’s umbrella.

I think the author is confused about the controversy he is reporting on. Nobody is suggesting that there aren't elevated levels of Aβ in Alzheimer's brains. The controversy is only about the presence of Aβ56, and as far as I know Aβ56 was never used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. It should also be noted that this is only relevant to postmortem diagnosis, so even if they were testing for Aβ*56 it wouldn't have affected the diagnosis of living patients.

At the bottom of the article is a note, "Article written by Mark Sumner via Daily Kos". This explains a lot. Daily Kos is a site that got its start with sensationalized political articles. Now they've apparently expanded to subjects where they can do more damage.

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As I post the comment, the title of the linked article is: "Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on deliberate fraud by 2 scientists that has cost billions of dollars and millions of lives"

[0] https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32183302
Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540094
RNC is promoting Trump and his business, raising fresh concerns about neutrality
> Maybe that is the answer ?? The fact that the middle-situations(lamp apps with low-med traffic) tutorials dont exists means i dont need it ??

SRE for 15 years with FAANG (MAGMA?) scale experience; I would argue this, yes. That's a little over 2 requests per minute. If you're cloud hosting then you could get away with single tiny hosts for your front end and DB, like t3.small on AWS, and Cloudwatch alarms for monitoring. If you need extreme HA or burstability even with this low rate, a managed load balancer (e.g. AWS ALB) with a few target webservers will do the trick and let you swap them out as needed without taking down the site. A DB read replica will give you redundancy there as well. This is all 20-year-old tried and true tech. You'll set it up once and it will run for years without trouble.

Once you introduce Kubernetes you've got a whole 'nother beast to feed, especially if it's self-managed, and you'll pay dearly if it's not (like EKS). For your scale, it would be kind of like buying a full sized semi truck to haul stuff for a corner store. You'd be better served with a small pickup or minivan.

Of course you don't need an "at scale" excuse to learn new tech. In which case I agree there's a dearth of practical tutorials that aren't just "here's a Helm chart." Part of this is because managing a stateful service like MySQL on K8s is not straightforward; there's a lot of ways to do it, most of them are wrong, new ways get introduced every few years, and even people who claim they've solved the issue are probably sitting on a time bomb of their own making and have just gotten lucky.
Weird my comment mentioning the source got removed, it was just a link so maybe it got detected as spam

Here is the link of the article: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-su...

You have to be curious about who are their customers

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/will-the-ukraine-war...

The EU coming to subsidize them even more

And the fact that they are not profitable says it all
I think the implication is that ‘women don’t have facial hair’ and that’s going to be the reason for kickback.
> The visualization, explanations, pace, and approach was outstanding.

It was, but it was extremely enhanced by the background drum track being keyed to visual changes in the data. That really emphasizes focus on the key data points.
Ah, that makes sense. I'm glad you brought that up because I didn't even notice that I'm just used to adding -R to my grep commands when I need recursive searching.

I can totally see how that would be a small, but impactful difference.
People can host their own competitions with different rules, and do: Red Bull has their own format of competitions where inspection time is not included. However, under the regulations outlined by the World Cube Association, inspection time is required (except in blindfolded formats).
I believe most natural gas floats though, right?
Very nice. Kinopio's a nice product too.
Tonga Volcano Blasted Out Pressure Waves Close to the Theoretical Limit