skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That change isn't significant. Vaccines in the past have not had 100% effectiveness, and we all know that. There've been mumps outbreaks that were primarily among the vaccinated, despite that vaccine having a very high effectiveness. The reason they were primarily among the vaccinated? Vaccination rates were well over 90%, so even with a 90% rate of success the odds favored some getting the illness.

Cases were mild as the vaccine provided the expected protection. This is not new.
Not the commenter, this premise is a story line in Anthony Doerr's "Cloud Cuckoo Land" (2021). This knowledge is a bit of a spoiler, however.
What he is saying is that in the instance of a fraud concern, they don’t have people who can talk about it available 24/7.
In math we start with representations of what (mathematical problem) we have, operations on that representations and (mechanically) get the representations of what we find as result, which we then understand in order to apply to the problem. Actually, since (full) input is equal to output (we may be interested in only a part of output, but that's not important), the whole transformation is a change of representation.

Fully homomorphic encryption certainly looks like it, all basic arithmetic operations are still present, only the representation of them is encryption key-dependent. The mechanical transformation from one representation to another could be expensive, in terms of (chosen? can we choose e.g. an atomic operation which sums an arbitrary-length list, considering it O(1)?) operations. Does it look like our interest in transforming representations depends on chosen operations basis? Isn't what we're doing (when saying something is e.g. polynomially hard) proving dependencies between possible operations bases with non-self conflicting definitions?
I was a grad student in statistics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I was struggling; things just weren't clicking. I had an intuition that statistics and computer science would be a meaningful combination, so I started looking at CS courses. I took Charles Fischer's graduate course in compiler design using the dragon book, and it was as though the lights turned on. Everything made beautiful intuitive sense. It was as though I had finally found the academic discipline that fit the "shape" of my brain! Charles eventually became my PhD advisor. As with many other UWisc CS grad students, I am deeply grateful for Charles' impact on my life. He helped me find what I guess I would have to describe as my life calling. These days I'm working on challenging and interesting mathematical optimization software in the cancer radiation treatment space.
leave your home in the evening, arrive in the city where your office is in the morning. i did that a few times when i had to attend in-person meetings in a remote location that was just an over-night train away.
Agreed.

I don't know why but for some reason, more people feel like they need to be the main character in an adventure. Maybe it's TikTok or who knows what. Either way, I'm sure if some rando walked into their life and started messing with their work, they'd be quite miffed.

I live in NYC and I see film crews all the time. I love the fact that it happens here because it's one of those things that makes NYC so neat. But it's like the zoo. You're encouraged to watch from a distance but please don't jump into the animal's enclosure.
>Oh please. Stop trying to be a hero. It's pathetic.

This isn't much better.
Ok. Leave your cellphone outside in NYC for 4 hours tomorrow during the day.

I'll do the same in my small midwestern town.

We can repeat this experiment until you run out of money.
It should be noted Go hasn't spit out static executables by default for at least 5 years now (if not longer), and if you want static executables from Go it requires several arcane incantations (not unlike getting a static binary from GCC).

Basically every Go executable is dynamically linked against libc these days unless the builder goes seriously out of their way to get a static binary.
> business owner may philosophically believe in capitalism, but that does not make them a capitalist in the active sense

You've defined capitalism circularly to your argument. A steady-stage investor, whether a sole proprietor or outside investor in a business throwing off healthy dividends, is by definition not a capitalist by your book. Fine. Let's abandon the word for now.

The broader system of private ownership--the one we have in America. That doesn't require growth at all costs. Neither do outside investors. There are entire categories of outside investors who specialize in zero-growth or negative-growth companies. We can call it capitalism, as most people do, or private property or peanut malanga, the system and its mechanisms remain the same.

Growth-oriented investors need growth. And if you've spent your life around leveraged folk and venture capitalists, it may seem that's most of the capital in the world. But it's not. They're called alternative assets for a reason. The main universe of assets broadly accepts–in fact seeks-preservation of real value plus income.
Everything would have just kept going along? If he wasn't just a random guy and was actually supposed to be there, there wouldn't have been anything to worry about.
As is the President re: gas pricing.
Yes, that happens unfortunately. You have to make a choice whether you trust that person, just like any colleague. :/
Hah! An Accounting prof told me that I should double in Accounting because CS would be outsourced. I said something like "well, maybe, but CS is going to automate a ton of Accounting jobs either way, and the accessible Accounting jobs that continue to exist will require some programming. So I will choose my job maybe being outsourced over my job definitely being automated."

I'm now on a few committees at the college and mentioned this conversation to him. He remembered it, even though it was may years ago. He laughed and told me that's basically what happened -- for a few years they had very low in-field placement rates because there are not enough personal tax prep jobs to go around and the larger accounting firms demanded programming skills for entry positions. The Accounting major now requires multiple CS courses and he encourages his students to double-major in CS.

On that note, I'm bearish on SWE compensation and bullish on CS research compensation over the next 10 years. For basically the same reason. We've been massively under-producing (good) CS PhDs because industry pays so well and the standard advice is "only idiots get PhDs when industry starting pay for folks who can get into good phd programs is 150K+".

Basically, "zig when everyone else is zagging" is pretty good early career advice.
Also from Wikipedia: While national definitions vary, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's real gross domestic product is commonly used as a practical definition of a recession.

From the Oxford dictionary (recession): a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters.

It's only now that we're seeing all this slimy lawyering about the definition of recession. "Well acksually, technically..."
> after it was pointed out to them they had bought a manuscript thinking they had bought the rights to the IP

Surely nobody actually believed that by buying a book you owned the IP to the work contained within.

> at that point onwards as anything other than a grifter

It was a grift from day 0.

The next chapter in this story will be the selling of the book purchased for $3mil for maybe $100k.
4th grade, way back in the mid-80's. There was a summer school program where they were offering to teach computers to kids on Apple IIe's. I remember it vividly... I'd wake up, get some cereal, watch some cartoons, then hop on my bike and ride down to the middle-school. There they had several Apple IIe's setup with their green screen monitors and a bunch of us kids. We were taught a little bit of BASIC and got to play with the Lemonade Stand game and then got to modify it. For some reason I just fell in love with that and getting to see my changes show up on the game. The following year, my parents bought a Commodore Plus/4 so my dad could do his masters degree. The Plus/4 was a crappy computer that had very few games (unlike the Commodore 64). So I used my experience with BASIC to write my own games. I learned how to debug and do the whole "trial and error" style programming. Been doing it ever since...
Its fairly common to have a codename for the show that you are working on.

For example "the dark knight" was Rory's first kiss(rfk) because the director's son had his first kiss (or so I've been told, I've not actually verified that)

Prince Caspian was TOASTIE (or something like that)

I think that casino royal was saville row, but that might have been an internal name
It’s interesting that most are taking the Reddit post at face value, even though if the transaction were by a fraudster, the fraudster would probably have no compunction about lying on the internet.
Wow, holy smokes. This is incredible, thanks for posting.
Yes, and El-Erian certainly understands that. He was using classes of analytic functions as a relatively simple example of things that had the properties he was talking about.

Generally speaking in finance things like price trajectories and timeseries like economic indicators are modelled as stochastic processes. Often a Wiener process with drift, and then jumps and jumps in volatility added as needed to capture the dynamics of the situation if required. So there's definitely no requirement to be smooth or diferentiable everywhere, and there is even less requirement for a positive 2nd derivative to lead to a positive slope/turnaround.
And you still shouldn't get mad at your employees. It's part of your job (not to mention basic human decency) to not get mad at your employees for something that isn't remotely their fault.
Do you think areas that want to put more into education should be punished while areas that care very little to invest in education get equal funding?

If an area does well to foster profitable trade and wishes to utilize that profit to boost education, I feel like that's a good thing and ideally would result in massive migration to that area. Especially with utilities of the internet that make it not only possible, but very much in practice to share teaching for free from the best educators.

If you force every kid to be equally educated, I worry you'll end up with a bunch of highly capable kids getting bored (because they're getting the same education as the rest of the kids who don't care) while forcing kids who don't care to painfully spend their entire youth on a useless education that they don't see value in.

Sure, we all want disadvantaged people to have better opportunities but if we're forcing them to have better opportunities it seems unlikely to instill the most important aspect of those opportunities, which is that the people utilizing them actually want them.

Difficult problems, for sure, but I struggle looking at todays kids attitude towards school and seeing how this is the best path forward. Even as recent as just a few generations ago you hear stories about kids giving up a lot in order to be educated. I imagine classrooms full of only eager students would have its benefits, and maybe those would vastly outweigh the detriments.
I find it hard to believe someone who codes doesn't know this.

Bits, bytes, words, doubles, floats, ints... This information is everywhere. Every coding book starts with this.
> Did I just run in different Tolkien circles than the author?

Almost certainly. Tolkien fans aren't a monolith, there's plenty of diversity of opinion. I remember seeing these screenshots of a Tolkien forum from 2000 and 2001 of people berating Peter Jackson in the most scathing terms. They were talking about how he's completely ruined Tolkien's legacy.

That said, if you're looking for a Tolkien fan who dislikes Tom - hi, I'm one. Fuck Tom Bombadil. He contributed exactly nothing to the story.
Anyone still using iFrames for data visualization?
Hydrogen production and carbon capture in a single step
My mom was a schoolteacher. I was in fifth or sixth grade, so after school I'd walk from my school to hers to wait to get driven home. Her school had an Apple II, and I'd tinker away on it.

One day, another teacher asked me what I was doing. I explained I was making a game using the random number generator. He asked what happened if the game produced the same number twice. I said that's OK because the RNG is more like dice than picking a card from a shuffled deck -- it has no memory of past numbers. His follow-up questions were strange, and I gradually realized that he must think dice actually do have memory; otherwise, how could you have "streaks" and "dry spells" and all the other superstition around casino gambling and betting?

This was around the time I figured out that there are some folks who get certain concepts, and others who don't. I happened to get the ones that made programming easier.
In 1st year and actually in 1st week at Uni. Having learned electronics by myself in High school I thought that I want to be an electronics engineer so I applied to such faculty. One of the courses was programming and the practical part of that course was to learn Pascal.

So here I am, 19 years old, never even touched a computer before, looking at a very bulky 286, with it's CRT monitor heavier that Sisyphus' stone, not even know how to turn it on (button was on the side, not visible from front) and yet I knew right there and then this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life. Love at first sight, still loving programming more than a quarter of a century later.
Uhh, you absolutely can disable telemetry, it's in the Privacy and Security section of about:preferences, see here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid . Disabling telemetry is also interpreted as a deletion request, so anything collected so far will be deleted.
> I recall from school the equipartition theorem-- 1/2 KT of kinetic energy for each degree of freedom. These things obviously have many degrees of freedom. So wouldn't they be "thrashing around" like rag doll in a blender at room temperature?

It's funny you say that, because the first image on the English Wikipedia page for Equipartition Theorem[1] is an animation of the thermal motion of a peptide.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipartition_theorem
I agree! an impish godlike figure that doesn't care all that much about the outside world and wants to sing and dance around in the woods? what's not to love.
There is a way and it's officially documented: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid just go into about:preferences
I was 11 when my cousin showed me that you could write `PRINT "whatever"` in this blue program called qbasic that came with DOS.

How could I ever stop?
Great work - this is remarkable.
An Internet where browsers suppressed ads by default would be a much better Internet. Yes, sites wouldn't be able to make money from ads. A subset of those sites would not be around; another subset would make use of patronage, subscriptions, selling something of value, "the person who runs this site has other sources of income", or some other model. And some additional sites would be around to fill the gaps.

("paywall circumvention" is a broad topic. I wouldn't want a browser, for instance, integrating "go get the mirrored content from another site" or "mirror paywalled content to other users", but things like "suppress specific popovers that also block scrolling", sure. If you don't want a user to have the content, don't serve it to them and then hide it.)
How is that prevented now? Also, a relatively common form of theft now is the human driver absconding with the trailer. Also, a self driving truck would presumably be generating high resolution 3d scans of any potential hijacker.
The Erik Prince? Mercenary and alleged-murderer Erik Prince? https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/blackwater-founder...

Now selling a low-end "secure" smartphone?

Weird change of business, right?
Obituaries celebrate a life, not a death
Don’t forget the how the entire character of Gimli the dwarf was replaced with some sort of clown.
> AlphaFold is amazing homology modeling

If it is homology modelling, then how can it work without input template structures?
I would love to do this, but the few times that I've tried to look up the company, there's no real evidence as to who it is. And I'm fairly sophisticated at that kind of research, I know most of the tricks- however, these companies do successfully hide their identity.

I did, one time, find the likely CEO of one of these companies, and I called his cell phone late on a Friday night to mess with him. However, I didn't really have 'rises to the level of evidence that you could present in court' type certainty
there's no AI here. This is just ML. All deepmind did here was use multiple excellent resources- large numbers of protein sequences, and small numbers of protein structures, to create an approximation function of protein structure, without any of the deep understanding of "why". Interestingly, the technology they used to do this didn't exist 5 years ago!
I bought the book a few years before the movies and couln't stand it the first time. Then someone advised me to read The Hobbit first. Good advice: not only I enjoyed The Hobbit immensely, but I was able to read The Lord later... but not comfortably.

I found some parts boring and repetitive and read them diagonally. Anyway, I did finish the book and was moved by some parts, characters and themes.

FWIW, it was a translation, so changes in the language along 1000 years could be a similar factor. I also agree with simonh in the influence factor: I chose the book because I was told that it was a centerpiece of geek culture.

But I suspect that it's more a question of which books were read by kids at a certain time. Will it be a popular book in this category in a thousand years?
Because BEVs which they will eventually get will have range of +-50km, which is much less than their current ICE cars for much more money. Is it really that hard to grasp it?
Could it be that social media is giving us a glimpse of what unfettered (direct) democracy actually looks like?

There are at least a couple flaws in this viewpoint: that social media is mostly controlled by a privileged few, and with enough resources an individual can gain more votes (if you consider an account as a vote). But social media is basically letting everyone have a voice in the conversation, and the result is kind of gross sometimes.

In other words, maybe its undermining our current system by actually being more technically democratic.
Corporate software engineering killed my love for the field for a while. I did math for a bit, but always ended up coming back. I realized that the soul sucking (but well paying) job is a means to an end. I'd take half my salary to develop algorithms and play in compilers all day...but unfortunately there's all of 10 positions a year in compiler fields.

A lot of people tend to do stuff like gardening or woodworking and for many this stuff works. I tried it, but I always said "damn I could design something to do this for me" and I never "got" it. I couldn't finish graduate school because I have bills to pay and you don't get classes paid for unless you sell your soul to the university. They offered me an insulting $14,000/year to be a graduate student. I might've considered it for $35,000/year. So here I am, in purgatory, because I love computer science but my day job just wants me to throw together another CRUD app.
Can someone ELI5 for me?
Telescope Rule (2008)
Side question - mind sharing a bit about your story? Some questions popped immediately to mind when I read your comment:

Which came first? Trucking or the CS degree?

Why trucking if you have the degree required to get a job sitting behind a computer vs sitting behind the wheel?

What're your general thoughts about the two industries/jobs?
Good to know. Never tried Julia myself but I see a lot of Julia posts here. I'm also aware it has a really interesting foreign interface with Python, never saw anything like that before.

> Maybe because it’s developed as a core part of the language.

Always thought it was strange how libraries and packaging never seem to be considered part of the language. My favorite example is Scheme: a beautifully minimal language but with no library support and the result was endless fragmentation due to unportable implementations.
Yeah Jackson even explained that in one of his interviews. Bombadil doesn’t really contribute anything to the main plot of the books or the character development of the hobbits. He’s a mysterious interlude that never appears again or has any effect on the plot development or outcome. It just wasn’t possible to justify giving him precious minutes in an already long movie, and would likely have confused audience who hadn’t read the book yet.

But I’m also not aware of anyone who actually dislikes him, as the article asserts.
Lattner wanted it all: a language great at system programming, scripting and web framework and building apps. It's very ambitious and unheard of, but so was LLVM, so who knows, maybe he was onto something.

8 years later, it's safe to say it's not the language of choice for the new kernel or driver code, not the one for the hot new web framework and it's not replacing Python.

The only thing it's got going for it is that it's the only officially supported choice for making iOS apps going forward. Ultimately, no one uses Swift voluntarily, and that's a bad sign.

I write all of this with sorrow, I was cheering with joy when Swift was released.
We're talking about the context of this "study". If people are asked which toaster they want to take home, the vast majority of them will have a kitchen where "grey, steel, white or black" works the best, even if they prefer another color. They're not going to redesign their entire kitchen for a particular toaster.
1 is the capitalist way while 3 is the socialist way to distribute goods. The first works best under normal market condition, as it encourages economic growth, while the latter works better under special conditions where the scarcity is severe, unavoidable and caused by temporary factors (such as a war).
Technically they can say whatever they want, but you can also just ignore them.
> The problem is as long as you can use any currency X to buy Bitcoin, simply printing X and using it to buy Bitcoin will inflate the price of Bitcoin as well.

That's a tautology.

If you print dollars, you'd inflate the BTC price because dollars are less valuable, so the BTC/USD exchange price will increase. In a vacuum, with no other variables, Bitcoin's value by itself has remained unchanged.

This is why in theory Bitcoin is seen as an inflation hedge (though not in practice for a ton of reasons). If dollars get inflated, Bitcoin rises compared to the dollar.

The market is always relative to something else.
> main problem is that we are rewarding companies for being disloyal and offshoring in the first place, now they win again with free money after raking in profits for decades. We should have some funding for smaller companies and R&D but also massive tariffs to force companies to bring manufacturing back

I'm no corporate apologist but the current mess is the result of a government policy designed to encourage globalization. An American company that builds stuff here will always be at a competitive disadvantage versus a foreign company that builds stuff using dramatically cheaper labor.

So I don't think it's really correct to think of these subsidies as "rewards" - it's done strategically to keep American manufacturing alive.

I would suggest that the real alternative is not to fund the smaller companies, but to simply nationalize Intel.
I spent over half an hour on the website the other day just playing around. Really fun concept