skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It helps when the engineers are given proper resources. I'm guessing there wasn't anyone in Marketing trying to maximize profits at the cost of game quality.

ET with double the ROM and six months of development time would probably have been an awesome game. 2600 Pac-Man (AKA "Flickerman") wouldn't have generated so many returns and would have been fun to play.

I showed up in late October of 1982 and was told that Marketing wanted the cartridge I'd been assigned on the shelves by Christmas. Even this completely green college drop-out knew that was utterly flapping impossible, yet there were people over in the Marketing building who apparently thought it was a reasonable request.

I had a guy from Marketing in my office asking if I could print out every possible 8x8 bitmap for him. He wanted to copyright them so the competition couldn't use them in their games. I pointed out that the bitmaps would have be printed in color as well, then told him the story about what the inventor of the game of Chess asked for when the King wanted to reward him for coming up with the game.

By 1984 (and maybe earlier than that) Atari was losing $2M a day. The new 5200 console was plagued by terrible (yet totally fixable) design decisions. Plans for next-generation (e.g., 68000-based) were being flubbed, but we didn't know that yet. Serial layoffs had everyone pretty demoralized (we usually found out about these from the San Jose Mercury News, often on the mornings of said layoffs).
Sorry, Apple will no longer help you set up a dial-up modem on your Mac
Is that stuff news? It's well known that FDA guys do favors for the industry and then go work in executive positions a few years later. Legal kickback for useful "friendships".

You should be also aware that the FDA hires external consultants to do some of their review/expert work, and the same consultants on the other hand are paid by the industry to write filings (for new drug submissions and more) that end up at the FDA for review. Complete conflict of interest in the open, and nobody does anything about it.
Task force to design an IRS-run free “direct efile” system
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I used to walk home from school past a neighbour who had a similar system.

The speakers were quite pathetic, so we figured out it was a recording pretty quickly. And so we took to running past the house again and again, triggering the barking noise to our delight.

A few weeks later, the system was removed.
I saw some of this strategy myself (in much more benign form):

In any job, when we are doing any monitoring of any process (technical or business process), and the numbers look bad we investigate until we either find and fix the root cause which might be a genuine problem or a problem with the monitoring.

If the numbers look dandy and the system ain't obviously on fire, we don't spend sleepless nights looking for the possibility that we are having both an underlying problem and a problem with the measurement at the same time.

You can see that given these incentives, and enough random variations, the system can drift over time, without anyone acting in bad faith or fraudulently.
Way back in maybe 2016 or 17 I actually did a program that used that dictionary (from the book) and Word2Vec to "translate".

It didn't work great but was pretty funny. I wish I could find the code now
What's the difference between cacao powder and cocoa powder? Aren't they the same thing?
He should’ve better used Thunderbolt 3 DAS chassis.
Even more: "created a Python package;
set up Poetry for dependency management;
set up a GitHub repository to host the code;
defined some pre-commit hooks to make sure we only make commits that meet certain criteria;
added a (fairly permissive) license to the project;
configured Poetry to allow uploading to PyPI and a test version of PyPI;
tested uploading the package to a test version of PyPI;
added Scriv to help us with changelog management and generation;
tagged and published a release of our project;
wrote a bunch of tests;
automated testing and linting with tox;
checked code coverage and got it to 100%;
set up CI/CD with GitHub actions to run linting and testing;
integrated with Codecov to get coverage reports in our pull requests;
created a GitHub action to publish our package to PyPI automatically; and
added some nifty badges to the README file."
Sorry if that phrasing was too mean; I've described many models that I judged to be uselessly complex as "numerical sludge" in the past, including my own less successful efforts. Do you at least understand my specific objection above? You're almost certainly a better biologist than me, but differential equation models get a lot closer to my real expertise.

The output of their model is the structure of the resulting phylogenetic tree. I believe the primary determinant of that will be the extent of overdispersion of transmission, i.e. the shape of the pdf of how many people you expect each patient to infect. For example, let's say R0 = 2 and each patient always infects exactly two others. Then all lineages will survive (at least initially, until a significant fraction of the population is recovered and immune). The phylogenetic tree will be as perfect a binary tree as the mutation rate and our sampling permit. If we cut off the beginning, then we'll see many descendant lineages.

Instead, let's say the spread is absurdly overdetermined, so that each patient infects either zero others (with p = 0.99) or 200 (with p = 0.01). Then (after trying the simulation enough times for the pandemic to finally get started) our tree will just be a succession of super-spreading events, with far fewer lineages.

I believe that by manipulating that pdf, we can reshape that phylogenetic tree to almost anything we want. I see no description from the authors of why they believe the pdf resulting from their choice of a contact network is the right one, nor any study of robustness to changes in the shape of that pdf. Am I missing something?
If you transpile it to js, you'll get empty file.
Comparison with Japan:

1. The price of drugs are regulated. There is no chance such a bullshit drug just combining OTC ingredients are allowed to be sold with such a high price.

2. Since there is no bullshit expensive drugs, doctors don't need to worry about it. Rebate is prohibited, but even if it exists, you can't prescribe the drugs you can't use.

3. I'm not sure about the quality of pharmacy in Japan but they regularly call doctor when they have concerns about the prescription and they switch to generic drugs on default unless patient strongly object not to.

4. Universal Health Care. The govt regulate the insurance so it's either all covered by insurance or nothing.
The EU has a few fabs which aren't focusing on the cutting edge but older, industrial grade chips like Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Bosch.

And there's new legislation encouraging investment in the cutting edge stuff.
Opening credit to a network not affiliated with Visa or MC would be a huge change. It is hard to believe this would pass into law, but perhaps it is an opening salvo in a negotiation with Visa and MC.
A solar-powered Army drone has been flying for 40 days straight
I'd love this scene from Margin Call. I'm not familiar with each of these economic crashes that are mentioned, and I'm curious about the percentages never changing....seems to be very true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtFyP0qy9XU

It's a great scene and line that's always stayed with me.

"It's certainly no different today than it's ever been. 1637, 1797, 1819, 1837,1857, 1884, 1901, 1907, 1929, 1937, 1974, 1987, Jesus didn't that fuck me up good, 1992, 1997, 2000, and whatever we want to call this, it's all just the same thing over and over, and over again. *We can't help ourselves*. And you and I can't control or stop it, or even slow it. We just react. We make a lot of money if we get it right, and we get left by the side of the road if we get it wrong. There have always been, and they always will be *the same percentage of winners and losers*. Happy fucks and sad sacks, fat cats and starving dogs in this world. There may be more of us today than has ever been, but *the percentages they stay exactly the same.*"
So your answer to my initial question is “Yes. I believe that it is a reasonable assumption that all of the evidence of a gunshot is carried away by the shooter.”

That’s a fascinating position! Based on how difficult it is to find any evidence whatsoever, would you conclude that gunshots are essentially inconsequential 91% of the time? If I believed that, I would advocate for the legalization of recreational firearm discharge in populated areas, since obviously they rarely actually cause any noticeable issue.

Edit:

A tech company going “Beep boop loud noise! Give us more public funds for our technology that we refuse to explain!” is not the same thing as an actual report of gunfire to me. As for what I expect the police to do? Nothing. Literally nothing at all, anywhere at any time. They’re not obligated to, and in my experience, that’s what they usually do. Nothing.

I forgot to add “witnesses and complainants” as something that could be considered evidence of gunfire, but I’m assuming they can also be carried away
It looks like a Televideo terminal, maybe a 925.

The Consumer and Coin-op engineering folks used DEC VAXes for development. (The Home Computer Division used Data General MV/8000 machines, which were actually not that bad. The MV/8000 is the machine described in Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine, by the way).
End of an era? I setup my first modem (on a PC) in 1983 and stopped using modems except for travel in 1995. Probably stopped using modems altogether in 2003. I've owned two Macs since 2005 and haven't used a modem with either.
> ...whether they (still) have the innovation gene in their DNA.

I attribute many (most?) of Facebook's prior successful pivots to having better intel on emerging products and segments. By using stuff like a VPN product (Onavo?) to surveil their users.

How's Facebook going to get that kind of intel now?

What's informing Zuck's pivot into VR? Hunches? Reading back issues of Wired and Mondo 2000?
SUN also shiped GNOME with Solaris so i imagine they also had some money invested there.
There is a growing consensus that private insurance is an outright scam. Many people also know there’s plenty of shadiness on the Pharma side.

But a __doctor__ enabling this kind of predatory behavior? Financial harm, rather than bodily harm, may not be against the text of the Hippocratic Oath and the various laws it has inspired, but I would argue it violates their spirit.

There are doctors who have done far worse things like assault young girls and prescribe chemo for patients who don’t need it, but they are in jail and (hopefully) will never practice Medicine again.

I guess the absence of laws against the behavior highlighted in OP means the doctor did nothing illegal, but the failure to prevent it is a systemic one. This doctor unambiguously betrayed the patient’s trust, and we need laws to prevent such things from happening. The Medical-Industrial Complex must be broken up.
California renewed it for next year
Everything you say is so true and the last line is the way its always been:

>research costs money, and a few people have control over most of the available money, then we’re (scientists) going to have to spend a lot of time convincing them to give us some of what they have.

Definitely, and I think it pays to be very adaptable whether you are operating with an academic approach or not.

Institutions that have developed over sometimes hundreds of years can be hard to beat. I wouldn't want to stop that kind of progress. But I think there should be alternatives, and I do think a lottery has its place.

>I need money to just do. Approximately a million dollars.

I'm a lot worse off than that.

It would take $10 million to build the kind of lab I need, to deploy the full one percent of my findings.

So I would have to accept the situation, being likely to settle for less than one percent and focus on that.

And to potentially scale up from there I think I'd have much better luck by personal meetings & communication with money people compared to what results I could expect from issuing scientific papers. Where I have had some good luck when reaching a commercially viable milestone.

But that's seriously a lot of money so I would have to really be ready for some high-touch sales.

>Who is going to give me a million dollars without a proposal as to my plan on how to spend that?

I know what you mean.

And I'm at the other end of the spectrum, without a PhD. Making outright grants even more elusive today. I would have to be very persuasive about how I would return their money, and in multiples rather than just margins. So that would be a lot of explaining to do.

Which is why I built my first lab 30 years ago entirely from recycled materials.

There wasn't $10 million forthcoming back then either.

I'm glad I didn't wait.
Once elderly become bed-ridden from a fall it's very hard to recover.
On the other hand, maybe social media should be a little bit boring.
This quote came to mind when seeing the title but I could not remember the source (read it in high-school, I think before learning formally about derivatives). I'm glad someone found it.
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Right across a strait*

An amphibious assault against a prepared enemy is never easy or straightforward. China doesn't yet have the necessary logistics ships to be able to supply a beachhead so Taiwan should be "safe" for at least a few years.
You can use pyproject.toml for the tox configuration too:

[tool.tox]
legacy_tox_ini = """<tox.ini content here>"""
Like if Ted Kaczynski made a video game. Would he make a good game with an anti technology message or a game so bad you never want to play any game again. Curious how he would approach the problem.

Actually are there any video games we know were made by prisoners? Seems like they have time to kill.
The Recurse Center explains why they stopped giving feedback to rejected applicants:

https://www.recurse.com/feedback
I think of it like a PC entering s3/sleep/suspend. The data is there active in memory the CPU is just no longer scheduling processes, it is only maintaining power and signaling to keep essential services online. Our consciousness is the software where our personality+subconscious is analogous to the kernel, behaviors are useland processes,our PNS+medula are drivers and memories are data.

When we make things they are reflections of us
Yep. Especially given big glass doors and squirrels that quickly realize barking dog behind the glass door poses no danger whatsoever, so it's ok to proceed with their business.
PyPi is adding support for GitHub OIDC for publishing packages soon, so there will be no need to generate API keys - you can just grant your GitHub Actions permissions to publish to PyPi.

https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/issues/10619
There is probably a Chinese story a thousand years older than this one.
You propose that English, German, Chinese (presumably Cantonese, Mandarin et al) and any other language that can be named is incapable of nuanced expression, is incapable of expressing meaning, without newer language-technology?
And you also suggest that the word bipolar is extreme?

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It's difficult to even imagine how anyone expressed logic to compute before Unicode! /s ;p ヅ
The word "if" is going to throw a disc with all the heavy lifting it is doing in that statement.

If Facebook can solve all these huge technical hurdles they need to do so in an affordable device. Then they need to develop the operations capacity to actually build and support them. Then they need to make a compelling experience that normal users would actually want.

Facebook does not have a history of executing on those things. They also don't look like they're making any moves to be able to execute on those things.
Great points. Thanks for doing that research. I should’ve done it myself and I am embarrassed that I did not.
9% would be a lot, if we had strong evidence that SpotShotter was the source of hard evidence leading to a gun seizure, and not simply legal pretext for frisking people who the police think look suspicious (or, more accurately, would otherwise like to target but lack admissible evidence to do so).

It's the same problem that Stop and Frisk[1] in NYC had: you can make the contraband recovery numbers look fantastic, if you're willing to sweep peoples' civil rights under the rug.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...
"I was able to get consistent performance using a striped RAIDZ mirror pool with four SSDs and a hot spare"

That doesn't make sense. The author is not using raidz. In ZFS terminology, he's mirroring two striped vdevs (like raid10), plus using a hotspare. And that is a bad choice, as he gets only 16 TB usable, and the mirrored stripes could fail with certain combinations of two drives failures.

Instead, he should have set up a raidz2 across 5 drives: 50% more usable space (24 TB), can tolerate any two drive failing, and it would give him higher performance on sequential I/O.

I have a raidz2 pool across 6 spinning rust 18TB hard drives, and my server can handle 900 MB/s sequential reads, and 700 MB/s sequential writes (benchmarked locally). It it was built on 5 SAMSUNG 870 QVO SATA III SSD drives like the author, it would certainly get to 1.5+ GB/s in both sequential reads and writes. In other words the bottleneck would shift to the 10 Gb/s network (1.25 GB/s). For comparison the author discloses his writes are limited to 700 MB/s (over the network, so his bottleneck is not the network link but local I/O contention).

That's right, a 6-HDD raidz2 matches the write performance of his 5-SSD raid10 setup. And that's because the write overhead of raid10 is 100%, while the write overhead of a 6-drive raidz2 is only 50%.

Edit: Oh and the strange performance issue that he noticed "disappeared" after a while is most likely due to cache recovery. The drive can sustain writes of about 490 MB/s for a little while then it drops to 170 MB/s, but after idling 5 minutes it can recover the initial speed. See https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-870-qvo-sata-ss...: "As we noticed with the 1TB model, the 8TB model’s cache recovery mechanisms work similarly. After letting the drive rest at idle for 30 seconds, the 870 QVO gains back 6GB of its cache. It recovers fully with 5 minutes of idle time. "
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The Matrix project lead posted here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252836) and addressed the things I am saying in this comment.
P.S. See also Wikipedia on the Postal Clause:

> The Postal Clause was added to the Constitution to facilitate interstate communication as well as to create a source of revenue for the early United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause
Just milk and cacao powder is good too, though both milk and coconut cream contains some sugar.
This map looks like a surprisingly good proxy for GDP, aside from China being really high (mostly attributed to users somehow associated with three Chinese companies?)
How many new drugs is Japan developing? From what I can tell, a fraction of what we do. The free market is pretty damn good at that.
I would definitely object to any system that required a car to creep along every block and regularly make a simulated gunshot sound. It sounds prohibitively annoying.

And how often would it have to be repeated?
> An event like taking over a state or national capitol or especially a military response to such a takeover could easily trigger a revolution.

Again I fail to see how occupying a building ends up being a take-over. Even if someone captures the White House, it does not make them the president of the US unless everyone else agrees with it.
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Why does this scenario presume that people are running? Even with this technology, it seems exceedingly unlikely that police are arriving on the scene within seconds of a possible gunshot; it's much more likely that they're corralling bystanders and frisking them.
> RCTs are used to establish causality and are as much “proof” as you’re gonna get in science.

No, they're not. The real "gold standard" in science--the standard that prevails in, for example, physics or chemistry--is a controlled experiment. Not just a "randomized controlled trial", but a controlled experiment, where you can actually dictate exactly what state the things you are going to experiment on start out in. And the eventual output of controlled experiments is a predictive model--a model that can predict, accurately, what will happen if you run further experiments. That is what it takes to truly "establish causality".

But in most other domains, including the one under study here, controlled experiments simply cannot be done and predictive models with any kind of accuracy simply don't exist. The correct response to that unfortunate fact is to realize that we can never achieve the same level of confidence in these other domains as we can in domains like physics or chemistry where we can do controlled experiments. Unfortunately, the response "science" has settled on instead is to pretend that it doesn't matter--that because we can't do controlled experiments in these other domains, the universe will somehow magically lower its standards of what it takes to achieve the level of confidence we want. But the universe doesn't care what we can or can't achieve.
I doubt you could do it just based on point cloud data.
From screenshots I've seen from some users this has happened to, the "Delete this Tweet" button they offer you in those circumstances comes with a statement attached saying something to the effect of (paraphrased, but not too far off from the actual text) "Deleting this tweet amounts to an admission that it violates our terms of service" or somesuch similar, basically saying that they're incapable of mistakenly flagging a tweet.
I don't even want your data. I use no Google Analytics, don't collect anything not required for operation of the services, and also don't sell the non-existent data to anyone.

But the thing is these laws keep escalating. Now it's apparently illegal for EU companies to use any American services _at all_ because your IP must be protected? Even though that's required for basic operation of any web based service? Even though there is little to nothing dangerous the other side can actually do with this information?

For example, Cloudflare services are absolutely essential for cost-effective delivery of content. As far as I'm aware, there are no EU based competitors with pricing in the same order of magnitude. It'd make my company non-viable if I couldn't use it.
I think we’ve reached an impasse. I’d just like to point out that advocating that companies not give police access to our private lives except when forced to by a warrant is basically the exact opposite of “pre-crime”.
> reproduction is not a state concern

But population growth rate (or decline) is absolutely a concern of the state, and reproduction is a significant contributor to that. In fact, one could argue that if a state has an interest in providing health care (including things like contraception) then it must have an interest in reproduction too.
No I meant it is running around outside. Often literally around because there are fruit trees in the garden around the exit from the house, and there's a big glass door where the dog can see outside. The squirrels learn pretty quickly that we don't want the dog to actually catch the squirrel (who knows what it has eaten and what diseases it may have), but to the dog it's hard to see squirrel just going about its business right under his nose...
Number of base producers you have isn't correlated to the rate at which you produce bases.
> But a __doctor__ enabling this kind of predatory behavior?

Systems that reward, encourage and enforce sociopathy eventually end up promoting sociopaths to all levels of power and authority at the top.