skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every company aspires to build a differentiated product, but only a few succeed. While trying to understand the reason behind this, I noticed a few common ways many companies approach differentiation, and I realised it's tricky.

Wrote just about that.
They always claim that "your privacy is very important for us"
You pay a premium to let your devs work on what matters, the actual product, not tinker with devops tools for hours on end on something that has already been solved. Something to keep in mind is that infrastructure code has to be updated and maintained as well, with services that gets handled for you. It would be interesting to see how much of a difference in price it would make over eg. a year.
Where do you think engineers get their equations?
Reading it carefully, not really. The author is equally against anti-amyloid drugs as a solution to Alzheimer's--arguing that amyloid is at best a starting gun to the disease, and when it goes off, fixing amyloid won't reverse the disease.

Want to see amyloid defenders? Read comments on Derek Lowe's blog, and there's quite a few commenters there who are arguing that a better amyloid drug that actually clears out the plaques is needed (apparently not realizing that's what Aduhelm, and it still didn't work).
You're comparing apples and oranges though. We know that anorexia can generally be treated with cognitive therapy and help restore people to a healthy and comfortable body weight. Those same treatments fail when applied to people with BIID. And they way they cause harm is different as well, since failing to treat anorexia results in starvation. While refusing to treat BIID results in people taking dangerous risks to amputate themselves.

I don't see much of an actual solution to these issues in your arguments other than some hand waving about politics as some sort of root cause.
It's certainly true to some degree and it's pretty clear in areas like research.

That said, even with the sales example, the superstar sales reps I know are generally selling to particularly lucrative industries and, critically, they're supported by a lot of other sales and marketing people (to say nothing of product) without which they'd be a whole lot less effective. Oh, and a company actually needs finance people and backoffice people to process orders etc.

I don't doubt there's some truth to the notion. But people look at other groups even within their company and wonder what all those people could possibly be doing. And, guess what, people there are probably looking at your group and thinking the same thing even though you think you're ridiculously understaffed.
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But surely ML did advance a lot in recent years?

As the saying goes, science advances one funeral at a time, but it does advance.

It seems overall you can still have an optimistic point of view of science while accepting it does not work as well as it could.
Hardware Is Hard – The Journey of the AirGradient DIY Kit Production
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=burning%20ship%20fractal&sort=...
The difficult with backend is dealing with state. It's easy enough to provide a simple experience when dealing with stateless frontends, backends are a very different story.

You're right that we need better tools. I'm the founder of Encore [1] which is all about bringing the simplicity of Vercel/Netlify to backend development. Not by substituting the backend for a BaaS but by building a developer experience hand-crafted for dealing with cloud infrastructure.

[1] https://encore.dev
> being self-taught (...) and being a student isn't the same thing.

Are they not? If you're teaching yourself, you're by definition studying the subject matter, hence you're a student.

You're not a formal student but a student nonetheless.

> why don't self-taught people have to pay tuition fees as well?

That should be fairly obvious. Tuition fees are meant to (at least partially) pay for teachers (time, expertise), teaching infrastructure and ancillary structures to a formal education. Since you're self-teaching, you're providing all of those yourself. You could pay, but you'd pay yourself and that would be silly.

Note that I'm not arguing about the general point of the OP but rather about these specific points.
Deploying DMARC without breaking everything
Or better phrased: "How to get inclined to slash your own wrists".

Jokes aside, I'll give it a go, I do need some advanced Docker topics lately and I am sure Kubernetes can help me with some of my home-hosted services as well.
Why Does CGI Look So Bad on 4K TVs?
Anybody else have to read this twice? It says dogs in the Americas were from Siberia, then proceeds to describe them as "native American", even though it just said in the previous sentence those dogs weren't native to America.

I guess it continues calling those dogs 'native' because that is what modern Americans call the people who owned them. Makes for a confusing read though. I presume Canadians might say "First Nation dogs", which would make more sense.
You will be right under the assumption that all or even most academic careers end up with a tenure. Majority of PhD holders don't end up in that position because the positions available are very limited.
OP doesn't question the issue nor the necessity to fix it. He questions the solution.
A fast Rust-based cgit clone
We were far more fortunate that the mass administration of a leaky vaccine with no long term test data, didn't lead to utter disaster.
Math is not politicized in California. Math education, and the social applications of math, are politicized.
Sure, but there are jacks that can be purchased for home use that can easily lift a ton or two. If this was a thing, the battery would have to self-lift itself into place, or have home-installed battery swap station.
Yes indeed. The sexy world of academia. Fast cars and easy money.
The first two steps look like the GTD methodology, which I also follow. The point is to remove the cognitive load by putting all todos into an inbox for sorting later.
Cost for deeply decarbonized grids are cheapest if you have low carbon firm energy like nuclear. The LCOE numbers thrown around today are meaningless wrt systems costs.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...

nuclear plants save a fraction of their revenue in a trust that pays for decommissioning. for thr vast majority of plants this has been and will be more than sufficient. therr are exceptions but it isnt fair to dwell on them given the other successess.

The dose rates are barely above background already in most of the area around Fukushima. I'm with Elon in that I will gladly eat vegetebles from slightly elevated dose areas because I belive the science that says damger starts at 100 mSv acute/300 mSv annual. Getting an extra 40 mSv in a year is not uninhabitable.

civilian nuclear power has pretty much nothing to do with military nuclear so not sure I follow your point there.

And for the record, here's the full Too Cheap To Meter quote, from a Science Writers Dinner in 1954:

"It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter, will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age"
I always hate to see it as well, when companies degrade their product for the tiniest bit of extra profit. It's the classic one-less-olive-in-airline-meal story. Remember when a Big Mac was actually a big burger? It's a very small burger, these days.

Netflix is somewhat ahead of this slippery slope here, in that when they started producing their own content it was third-rate from the start, very much quantity of quality. They were always going to fall off a cliff once subscriber numbers stopped growing, since eventually existing subscribers will tire of the crap they try to force-feed them, and decide the service isn't worth the price.
Time for a B+ language?

There is so much more to remove: 1 loop statement is enough, loop {}, enum should go away with the likes of typeof, etc.

I wonder if all that makes writing a naive "B+" compiler easier (time/complexity/size) than a plain C compiler. I stay humble since I know removing does not mean easier and faster all the time, the real complexity may be hidden somewhere else.
Fuel diversification is important too. That's something Germany seems to have forgotten when they went all in on natural gas.
The perverse incentives still exist outside of capitalism. People, including scientists, do not like to admit when they are wrong. There is no incentive to retract a study. Bribery and corruption are not a trait of any particular economic system. It is easy to make criticisms but sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
>They were not harangued for being anti-science or conspiracy theorists.

This is not the least bit true.

There was a PBS interview with one of the scientists on President Biden's Covid advisory council who spoke up about how disappointed he was with his colleagues in public health who would not speak out against the mob on the efficacy of cloth face masks to protect against an airborne virus.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/do-masks...
For one person, a small amount of money is life changing motivation.
I'll definitely review your service but in the meantime you should know my desktop (macOS) Firefox is freaking out on your website and is scrolling it in a janky manner and it keeps one CPU core at 80% for good 30 seconds after switching away from the tab.
I think people confuse “the process of science” for “something that is”. People think science is a thing instead of what it is - a method/process to discover objectively true things. Or at least prove what is objectively false within our shared reality.

A lot of things look like science and use the word “science” in them but don’t use the process of science to make their claims to truth. This is useful because how can you argue with “the science”?
The only safe thing you can do is strip the copy restrictions immediately upon purchase. Or just be OK with the fact that you are really renting an ebook when you "purchase" it.
"The results revealed a twofold phenomenon. Among men, a higher frequency of porn use and increased porn use over time were associated with lower levels of sexual self-competence, impaired sexual functioning, and decreased partner-reported sexual satisfaction. In contrast, among women, higher and increasing frequencies of porn use were associated with higher levels of sexual self-competence, improved sexual functioning, and enhanced partner-reported sexual satisfaction (for some aspects)."
ok so in this case I would probably expect them to say:

the requirements are unclear - that right there is them having an idea how they are going to be able to give you an estimate, by forcing you to be clear in your requirements. That would actually be an engineer being honest.

or

there is a history of changing up requirements on issues like this, I can give you the estimate of what it will be with the current requirements but if the requirements change, as in my experience they are likely to, then that estimate will have to change as well. - this would also be an engineer being honest.

Both of those honest examples aside if the engineer replies no I can't make an estimate and I never will be able to it is probably the engineer being a bit pissy. And I know definitely one or two guys who would exactly behave in this manner.

unless you are dealing with the first time implementation of something that there is only mathematical theory backing it and no previous implementations in the world, I have a hard time seeing how you can construct a situation in which an engineer cannot come with an estimate AND cannot find a way to figure out what they need to come with an estimate (more specific requirements, research on the matter). If they can't figure out at least one of those things I'm going to think it is probably a limitation on the part of that engineer.

Finally, I am an engineer. Although I tend to be one of those arrogant guestimaters, which is a failing in my personality.
You can decry Western Capitalism without lauding dictatorship with a communist twist.

Some people latch onto whatever they can to gain power to exploit people.

Using failed dictatorships to prove 'communism is worse than capitalism' (which in the West we heavily curtail, but only to the point where we avoid uprisings against those holding power) is exactly the sort of shallow, illogical thinking you seem to rail against.

Communism fails because it doesn't account for human greed; it assumes everyone is onboard with improving society. Capitalism succeeds inasmuch as it panders to human greed to the point of evil and ignores the vast majority whom it fails.

Mind you, anarcho-syndicalism is where it's at, you can expect to wield supreme executive power just because some water tart gives you a sword ... /montypython
Very cool stuff.

This is a bit of a tangent, but why are the captures all toothless? Is there something in teeth that makes it hard to capture them? Or is it a conscious choice to remove them? I have the same question regarding the eyes.
Many breeds of modern dogs are incapable of thriving on any diet. They've gone through millennia of artificial selection, so all bets go out the window. You can't assume a modern dog is well adapted for anything other than convincing a breeder to perpetuate it.
What is the source for your belief? Something unscientific perhaps?
This is part 2 of 3 in the DMARC portion of my current security series covering the weirdest year of my career in 2012. Overall security series will probably end up being 7 or 8 articles based on my current outline.
Offshore outsourcing of everything is as bad of an idea as vertical integration of every single aspect of your business.
SPARC's 2025 timeline is a joke. They haven't even started hiring engineers yet, let alone building the thing because they still have no idea how to make a big enough REBCO magnet.
I suspect this is likely to be met with significant kickback, but I'm glad there are people publishing and researching ideas outside the cutting edge, yet easier to get grants for, ML/DL stuff. Not to mention that many researchers have noted the dubious quality of many papers in big ML conferences and no I don't believe they complain because theirs didn't pass peer review.

Reading about CS research here, as well as in other media, has become akin to TV zapping and always ending up with the same type of show on every channel.
Yeah but that's true for basically every politico-economic system. Should we go into lysenkoism or mao telling people to kill sparrows, or Sri Lanka stupidly banning non-organic farming, or the EU ending nuclear and adopting coal?
They also grow their own trees for the rubber required to make tires ! Next level !
I’ve never seen KPIs in academics, is that a thing now? I’ve seen KPIs in tech companies who like to model Google.

There is a lot of funding going to universities, and a lot going to specific projects. I think maybe the main model for research funding generally is that funding doesn’t just appear, people have to go ask for it in the form of a grant proposal. Those grants typically once granted go 40% to the university anyway. Universities, for their part, have been absorbing money for larger and more expensive administrations for the last 30-40 years, and it’s out of hand. Most people I know practicing science feel the opposite of what you said - that less funding should go to the university and more directly toward funding research.
Yes ! :) shamelessly quoting myself :
"My favorite theory about Space and time is the one from Don Hoffman. To summarize, space and time are parts of our interface to interact with other conscious agents , just like our senses of smell, vision, sound. But it is just that, an interface, created by millions years of evolution, and does not shows the true nature of reality, which could be completely incomprehensible to us. Like electricity is incomprehensible to a cat, evolution, which is very power thrifty, provided cats just enough effectives ways to survive and reproduce the way cats do. Same for us.
this is very summarized, his ideas goes much farther, for him the base of true reality could be consciousness :
https://youtu.be/oadgHhdgRkI
and
https://youtu.be/ds-7sMfJDUw
"
Yeah, my notes from online courses and things all go into org-mode documents. Still plaintext, but with the convenience of inline LaTeX math and executable code snippets. 20 years from now the in-line Python or R might not still run, but the output gets saved into the file at least.
There are still companies out there handing out physical checks??
> "learning how to live as a deaf person"

This is what repression looks like. Before coming out, while you try to live as you assigned gender - that's living as a deaf person, pretty literally as derealization and depersonalization are kind of 'deafining'. As with deaf kid - you fix the body, not the mind, so with gender dysphoria you fix the body first.

Maybe it's just me, but fixing identities scares me much more than fixing the body. There was studies in which trans people were asked if they would want to be consent with their assigned sex (i.e. trans woman to be happy as a man) - most don't. After transition almost none would agree to change it for 'no dysphoria, assigned sex at birth'. 'Fixing' such people sounds like a very cruel and scary idea.
Though they are usually worthless, I always look at these collections of language learning resources. This is a good one!

Most of the good resources I already know of, but I found from this list a slowly-spoken German news podcast for learning German. There are some other nice links in here for other languages that I take an interest in. I'm now listening to the US Foreign Service Institute's Greek pronunciation recordings.
In biology and some parts of chemistry, I would say yes 80% of papers have a wrong conclusion (experiments are ok but not interpreted correctly) or completely wrong. But in other fields it is not the case. I'm pretty sure mathematics are much better. Physics it will depend on which branch some are closer to science-fiction anyway so are not verifiable, but most physics is good quality. It is hard to consider science as a whole because it is absolutely not an homogenous lump and practices in reviewing, publishing and peer pressure are radically different.
I wrote my PhD in LaTex with the simplest template I could find online (luckily someone had put one up formatted for my university's engineering department and I didn't have to mess with it almost at all).

But once I was done, I wanted to blow off some steam and started writing a silly little tabletop RPG. I decided the rulebook would be text-only for portability with box drawing borders and ASCII tables and stuff, so I spent the first week or so writing a small ASCII typesetting engine in Prolog (because logic programmer).

And then automated the ToC and section numbering .

And then I spent more time writing a vim syntax file so I could read the glorious ASCII with syntax highlighting.

Here:

https://github.com/stassa/nests-and-insects

I'm still looking for ANSI/ ASCII art contributions btw.
So? This is a thread about culture and governments, not race. If you want to have the race argument go find another thread.
I'm not saying it's irrelevant. But it's standard practice to put the (YEAR) in the title of HN submissions of older articles. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32211063
An illustrated encyclopedia of people at the airport
I actually freelanced on a project 10 years ago which was exactly that. Don’t take its failure as proof that such an idea cannot succeed, but the major headwinds were that most research is pretty difficult to explain (and scientists are not selected for their ability to communicate with Lee people).

Also remember that Kickstarter found it necessary to write a blog post “Kickstarter is not a store“, because people were expecting projects to return fast, reliable, tangible results. By its nature, science will be even further from that revealed preference of funders
> The data we have suggests that the battery will retain 80% of its maximum capacity for about as long as the rest of the car is expected to survive.

How long is the rest of the car expected to survive?

I rarely do long range driving, and my commute was short for years (a couple miles each way) for about a decade before we switched to work from home a couple years before the pandemic, and I'm not interested in travel so my usage is not going to up much when I retire in a few years. I anticipate a need for at most 100k over the rest of my life, which almost certainly will be less than 25 years.

Would a current EV be likely be able to handle that with just reasonable maintenance?

I'm currently driving a 2006 Honda CR-V that I bought new and could probably reasonably keep driving another 10-15 years. That's what I want out of an EV.
Probably a cyber attack by Ukraine in response to the bombarding of Odessas port.
Given how much zero carbon warm water we need, it's easy to see zero carbon thermal pollution as a feature rather than a bug.

https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/workshops/nucogen/presentations...
The downside is vendor lock in. What will you do when vendor will ban your website?
The book “no limit theory and practice” continues to be the most valuable poker book I’ve read.

That said about 80% of that book and 95% of anything written about poker before about 2019 is irrelevant to today’s games.

People never intended to play game theory optimal in the past; it was a war of “leveling” your opponent into making the wrong move. You would make money by playing an “exploitive strategy” meaning, you would make decisions that are not game theory optimal but do exploit your specific opponents tendency.

These days that doesn’t work beyond micros (or small stakes at a brick and mortar casino.)

Solvers, both the software and theory/knowledge have evolved so quickly in the last few years that the game has radically shifted toward simply playing an unexploitable GTO strategy better than your opponents.
Eh, we know diabetes is often reversible with careful diet and there's plenty of amyloid deposits in that disease.

Evidence is mounting that amyloid is the downstream result of whatever actually causes these diseases.
The same can be done with sssd. Plus you also have sudo, pam,groups and more tied with it.
It’s not just “lost in the noise”, it’s functionally insignificant. These outlets will do whatever it takes to try and draw a forced parity between the sexes.
That is true, its just not as widely used as I would have hoped.
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32209345 (272 points | 12 hours ago | 412 comments)

I'm not sure which source is better.
This makes a lot of sense, except that driving with a trailer isn't very enjoyable. I bet the aerodynamics would suffer too
No need to be childish.
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When I was getting into web development I used a combination of Anki and git to help me quickly learn and retain skills. Figuring there might be demand for a product that uses the same strategy (without the requirement that you already know Anki and git), I created SkillPress.
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I am out of the loop, but surely this would be politicized math education? Which is absolutely different from mathematics research and not related to reproducibility.
Oh, thanks very much for letting me know. We'll have a look.
Windows screenshots from a version 2,5 years out of support. ಠ_ಠ Not the best first impression.
Arrogant and superfluous comment. If it’s still me and only me watching then netflix should not care.