skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it's not a straightforward answer at all. I'm not even in medicine and I can intuitively see how unclear the answer to that question could be. Take someone who is a lifelong smoker and gets COVID and dies from COPD/Chronic Respiratory Failure. What killed them, the COVID or the smoking? This is probably one of the most elementary examples of how complicated determining cause of death can be, I am sure there are many many more that someone who is a professional in that field could cite.
I have all my passwords on my phone too (bitwarden)

But work gets its own separate password manager that only lives on the work computer and nowhere else. I’ll get fired before I even think about work outside of work hours let alone on vacation.
Libraries Beat Languages
Well it's not just seeming - they actually were liars, about the degree of confidence. As you said, too much time with politicians and PR professional liars!
Can you provide some examples where non-trivial legislative or regulatory policies were changed without such bargaining games?

By the nature of simply being an issue, you always have multiple power bases and advocacy groups staked out around a bureaucracy designed to do no more than it's forced to. If you have a better way to resolve issues than with this kind of postured negotiation, that would be wonderful, but it feels like it would also be pretty darn novel.
Remote Apple Events were super useful back in the classic Mac days - it used it for instance to dial up or hang up the 56k modem on the Mac that was acting as our router. It also made it super easy to write networked games in HyperCard.

I guess it lives on since enough people have some vital QuarkXPress workflow they can't abandon...
Where to start your product management journey
Just published the 7th Edition of '22 of the Product Hustle Stack Newsletter. In this micro-edition, we tackle the often asked question (increasingly as of recent) , where to start your PM journey...My keys:

1. Understand what product management is
2. Get an idea of what good product management looks like
3. Follow people and resources that will help
I think there is a lot of fertile ground in the area we're researching here. I'd be into talking more about where we can go, and how Nix is behind it.
The thing I don't like about the browser becoming that is that every web page will now have tons of prompts. Something we were trying to kill off with IE years ago because too many people just click "accept".

The thing I like about it is what you just said.
What I expected is a concise message of goals.

What I found is that my eyes glazed over.
It kills off microbes, does it not? We live in a high humidity environment. When we shut up the house and travel for a couple weeks, there's inevitably a high amount of mildew on our return. I have been contemplating running an ozone generator on a timer while we're out of the house for an extended period to combat this.
I like that. So sick of listening to AI doomsayers. AI will transform everything.
True, and SPY is only S&P 500. But you get my point.
not foolproof for a non technical user

you can improve fool proving by watching the db file for change and then uploading it

you can further improve it by checking if the uploaded file is the one which was there when you did download it last and only then upload your changed version

but yes, for many people that simple approach would be good enough by far I mean how often do you add new passwords?
A Costco mixed nut container. Eat the nuts, scrape off the label, and you've got something more useful than a typical packing cube. You can densely pack clothes in it, or use it as a catch all container for loose items. It's clear, so you can pick the items out easily (and the bureaucrats can inspect it), and it's rigid, so things won't get banged up. When you're at your destination, you can use it as a general purpose storage container. It also fits under your airplane seat so you can use it inside your "personal item".
You are aware that 30 years ago we used to write business applications in pure Assembly, right?
Interesting. My well water pump is 220v and draws quite a few amps. At least on start. I don't think I could run it off my "backup generation" (12amp 120v outlet coming out of my Outlander PHEV). It's also hard wired right to the panel.
IHG (Continental, Holiday Inn, etc) seems to have been hacked, their booking and operation systems have been down since early Monday, it seems impossible to book at any hotels, or to change any reservations. People in hotels have had issues paying etc.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/intercontinental-hotels-ihg-...
Yea KeePass (any flavour generally) + any of the sync tools works super well. Plus you do not need to trust the sync tool company to also be your password manager company :-)
You could make the same argument that we all should learn assembly language, because when our C compilers produce bad assembly we'll have to rewrite it by hand. But I haven't written assembly in 30 years, and even then it was just for fun.

As it turns out, having high-level abstractions means that in many ways it's easier to do automatic optimization. I look forward to automatic data-driven database tuning and query optimization.
It doesn't destroy odors in the air. It reacts with them to turn them into something else which maybe you can't smell. Moreso it can cause the creation of formaldehyde when it reacts with
some chemicals in the air.

It also inhibits the sense of smell and it can cause the accelerated release of VOCs from materials, which then enters the air.

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/air-cleaners-ozone-...

If it works for you, great, but it doesn't destroy anything.
I haven't used more than two PCIe slots for a long time now. My current asus mobo has ... 4 I think, and I use two: one for the evga gpu and another for a usb 3.0 card I had lying about.
Thielthink is a red flag
This is called moving the goalpost.

You started talking about speed, now you're talking about "expressiveness", which is a wholly different thing.

Stay on topic.
EL PSY KONGROO
I have been thinking a lot about your last statement. An anaerobic septic system would generate natural gas for you. Many less developed parts of the world use such systems to generate cooking and heating fuel. But, if you have modern appliances designed for clean natural gas you will also need a small scale gas cleaning system. There are no off the shelf small scale gas cleaning systems so you have to make your own.

Then there is the issue that anaerobic septics a illegal in most areas since they stink when vented to atmosphere.
>what about the prior probability of a good-faith statement in presence of a strong conflict of interest?

The definition of your prior would incorporate that.

>Having no ability to directly verify the truth, wouldn’t you require stronger evidence if you were to rely on that statement in your decision-making?

That is exactly the purpose of priors and Bayesian belief systems. If you could verify any truth, you'd not need a prior or Bayesian probability concepts for that.

In none of these cases do you change the prior after some evidence is obtained, You'd use the prior and Bayesian update to make a new belief, which is then the prior for making decisions as future evidence is obtained.

Retroactively changing the prior is demonstrably bad at reaching the proper conclusions over time. E.T. Jaynes "Probability Theory" [1] has detailed proofs of all of this, covered in the first few chapters.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/probability-theory/9CA0...
Hello frogcoder,
Yes, I use FK's for non-trivial systems. Personally, I believe in the enforcement of FK's via DDL as they document the schema and serve their intended purpose of maintaining data integrity according to the rules of the schema. Enforcing constraints and any other system constraint is part of system design.
From a debugging perspective, I would rather have the RDBMS return an integrity error when the layers using it don't follow the rules, instead of chasing down where the contraint was not enforced in every layer.
That's a shame. What was your product, and did you have any troubles with reverse engineering or did you not consider it?
Common Errors in Kubernetes Deployment
I think we’re saying the same thing, just had not confirmed it was all of Canada saying this for all pre-european civilizations within Canada.
It isn't me making these definitions. It means that a digital signal is encoded in a way that does not lose information from its original encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Lossless_Coding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lossless_compression_...

This is very common terminology.
Not starting with "Hello World"? Is that even legal?
The command in the Makefile should be "texi2dvi" or "texi2pdf".
Anyone else get the feeling this is malicious compliance on behalf of the insurance companies?

"Oh, they're going to force us to publish our prices are they? Well we'll publish so much data it'll take a herculean effort to make it readable to anyone that doesn't work in data engineering"
The Julia package ecosystem has a lot of safeguards against silent incorrect behavior like this. For example, if you try to add a package binary build which would use fast math flags, it will throw an error and tell you to repent:

https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/BinaryBuilderBase.jl/blob/...

In user codes you can do `@fastmath`, but it's at the semantic level so it will change `sin` to `sin_fast` but not recurse down into other people's functions, because at that point you're just asking for trouble. There's also calls to rename it `@unsafemath` in Julia, just to make it explicit. In summary, "Fastmath" is overused and many times people actually want other optimizations (automatic FMA), and people really need to stop throwing global changes around willy-nilly, and programming languages need to force people to avoid such global issues both semantically and within its package ecosystems norms.
Can you elaborate on how browsers treat .dev differently? its the first im hearing of this and it sounds interesting, thx.
Signal appoints Meredith Whittaker as president
If then statements you wish you had included in a Founder's Agreement
Does one need to? What kind of radio detection do chess tournaments deploy, and do perform it constantly around every player?
Typically the problem comes before the solution. If you start with a solution and go looking for problems, it rarely works out.

It was the same thing with blockchains a few years ago. Sure they solve some problems, but 90% of the applications people were looking at they provided no real value, it would just be slower and worse.
1+2+3+...=-1/12 by certain definitions...
I vaguely recall there being some early-days accelerometer-based webapps that absolutely destroyed batteries, because the high-resolution accelerometer checks required responsible throttling / debouncing. So gating it behind permissions makes some sense to me.
LastPass pricing model is what turned me off. I am happy to pay for services I use regularly, but I remember the pricing model didn't seem appropriate for what they were offering. The short cutoff period added insult to injury.

I checked out Bitwarden and it seemed like a better version of LastPass that just happened to be free. Their paid model doesn't appeal to me so I don't subscribe, but I would enjoy paying if they offered something that did.

(Off-topic: Bitwarden seems like an exact LastPass clone all the way down to the UI. Do they share a similar codebase or something? Like was one forked from an OSS version of the other?)
Hey, get back to work!

- your boss
>Are you're saying that unless other folks make as much money as you do, they should not be treated with simple human respect, because doing so points up the inequality in our society?

Are you putting words in my mouth?

Wow.

Being kind to folks is basic knowledge. Everyone knows it. The article is obvious. It's not telling anyone anything new. Why was such an obvious article written? For what purpose. Certainly not to teach engineers to be nice to poor people. That's obvious... no need to teach them.

It was written to make you feel better about yourself and your relative position to the people you step on everyday when they clean your toilet because you can't clean it yourself.

>I'm not telling you what to do, think or say, but I hope i never meet you.

How ironic. Being kind is basic knowledge. Yet you say something like this while purporting to be kind... even though it's quite obvious we are unlikely to ever meet. Why waste energy to say something we both know? Why did you say something so obvious?

You said it to be mean. While pretending not to be mean. Why? Because it makes you feel better.
> multi product travel agents

But that’s how travel agents currently work? I guess they just lack snazzy modern apps.
The fact that it has a niche doesn't mean it's good for everything.
Give the corresponding housing crisis in the Bay Area, one wonders if the solution is to "simply" start converting office space to living space until the corresponding demand for office space recovers from a combination of increased demand and decreased supply. Now I'm sure there are all kinds of challenges to doing that, engineering, zoning, other practicalities, but it seems overall reasonable to me, though perhaps someone with a better understanding of the situation might enlighten me.
The IRA addressed that ruling by formally stating that CO2 and other greenhouse gases are pollutants. This grants the EPA the authority that SCOTUS said they were lacking.

So, you should have said the EPA "could not do this, but now they can."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/climate/epa-supreme-court...
If you are a member of the Sierra Club, now is a good time to consider revoking your membership. Natural gas is a great source of energy and as we will soon see in Europe, not easily replaced. Europe faces an economic depression because its supply natural gas has been intentionally cut off. This is not a serious proposal today.

Cancel Membership here: https://donotpay.com/learn/cancel-sierra-club/#:~:text=To%20....

> To cancel with Sierra Club directly, send them an email with your request at member.care@sierraclub.org. It is recommended to include as much information as possible, such as your membership ID, account information, and anything else considered relevant.
Surprise Eero Hardware End-of-Life
I tried to get a heat pump this summer when I got AC installed. The AC systems all worked with my existing furnace, but the dealer didn't have any heat pumps that could supplement my existing furnace. It was a sad moment for me when I had to give up on that.
Isn't that efficiency highly variable on outside temperature?
> So, the C style they use is: function types on their own line and spaces between function names and their parameters?

Having function return types on an extra line is actually quite useful, because you can easily grep for the function implementation with `grep ^foo -r .`

This works quite well, even on huge code bases.
Are they going to pay to have my gas furnace replaced with a heat pump and buy me a new range? (as a side note: I prefer gas ranges over electric and induction in my cooking experience) Otherwise I'm going to freeze and go broke in Upstate NY.
There are apps for turning old phones into dashcams and security cams, too.

Why waste an old phone?
See also https://simonbyrne.github.io/notes/fastmath/ for a similar story in julia, where ffast-math is now banned for C/C++/Fortran dependencies
High-NA EUV
I went with an Intel 7260HMW BN for $20. Dual band with Bluetooth 4.0.

USB 3 can trash your WiFi/BT spectrum as many device manufactures provide inadequate shielding. I got some foil tape and carefully lined the inside of an external drive enclosure and fixed some intermittent WiFi issues. FCC should scrutinize USB devices more, I thinks. Probably wack-a-mole though.
I guess this is a good time to yell at everyone that's not building within an hour of the ocean. How dare all of you that don't want to pay $5000 per month rent!
I don't know of any gas furnaces that do not require electricity for the blower.
serious question, is there any benefit to a password manager if you are using the Apple ecosystem via your Keychain across devices for password management with pin and faceID?
the main security improvement of a password manager is to make fishing harder by only making the auto fill work iff the domain matches

the secondary improvement is by making it convenient to use and in turn discourage people from putting their passwords on sticky notes
> most home users don't actually need more lanes -- just more slots

Indeed. I really don't understand why they can't have x16 slots instead of those useless x1 slots.

My current motherboard has two PCIe x1 slots, running either 3.0 or 4.0. Plenty of bandwidth for lots of stuff. But they're useless because every expansion board has a x4 or larger connector. Previous motherboards have been full of useless x1 connectors as well.

I know there are exceptions, but x1 is certainly the norm.
In general I agree with you. Pretty much any regulation meant to target the rich ends up coming back to bite the middle class somehow. That being said, after thinking about it for awhile, I have really struggled to come up with a scenario where there is negative consequences for common folks caused by more regulation of private jets. Worst thing I can think of is the disruption of aerospace jobs that it would cause.
I’m not sure when this was published. But Johnson has been a well-known politician in the UK for at least 10 years. I’m not sure he’s ever really been thought of as forward-thinking. Maybe, if you’re being charitable, he’s moved the UK centre-right a bit greener.
> I'm not sure what features you mean. Most things I can think of for long form content are right there in HTML.

If you publish a book as plain HTML scrolling becomes impossible, as any tiny movement will catapult you numerous pages forward. You can't bookmark a scroll position either and neither can you link it. If you split the document into multiple HTML files, you complete break the ability to search across the whole document. Performance also breaks down with long form documents.

There is of course .epub, which fixes some of those short comings, but epub is not part of the Web, not supported by any browser and requires a separate app. So it really doesn't fix the fundamental problems either.

There is also 'link rel=next/prev' that in theory would allow working around some of those issues as well, but that hasn't been supported in any browser as far as I know.

If HTML would be any good at handling documents we wouldn't still be using PDF all the time.
Nope, it still links in crtfastmath:

$ gcc -Ofast -fno-unsafe-math-optimizations -fpic -shared foo.c -o foo.so
$ objdump -j .text --disassemble=set_fast_math foo.so

foo.so: file format elf64-x86-64

Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000001040 <set_fast_math>:
1040: f3 0f 1e fa endbr64
1044: 0f ae 5c 24 fc stmxcsr -0x4(%rsp)
1049: 81 4c 24 fc 40 80 00 orl $0x8040,-0x4(%rsp)
1050: 00
1051: 0f ae 54 24 fc ldmxcsr -0x4(%rsp)
1056: c3 retq
Oh we definitely need better algorithms too! But I’ve imagined that we’d want something like GPT-3 but for sensor experiences. So the way GPT-3 can ingest lots of text and predict a reasonable paragraph as a continuation of a prompt, we could have a system ingest lots of simultaneous sensor data in the form of LiDAR, cameras, IMU data, and touch sensor/skin sensor data, and then given the current state of those sensors it could predict what in the world is going to occur next, and use this as input to an RL system to make a choice of action. This seems to me to be both a useful system and one that could require a lot of compute. And that’s still probably not a complete AI system so there’s probably many many pieces required.

Looking at it another way, the human brain has wayyy more compute power than any of our current portable computers (robotics really needs to do most of its compute at the edge, on robot). Every robot I’ve ever worked with has been maxing out it’s CPU and GPU and still needed more compute.

When you look at Tesla’s hydra network for their self driving system you get an idea for what is needed in robotics, but just as we saw GPT-3 improve with network size, I suspect a lot of the base systems involved in a hydra net could improve with network size. And I suspect that there’s still more advanced stuff required when you move beyond a simple task like driving a car to a more advanced general purpose AI system. For example the Tesla self driving system doesn’t need any language centers, and we know GPT-3 and similar networks are large.
In practice it's not going to push it over the line, especially with modern heat pumps, which having amazingly good COP even at very low temperature.

Gas-fired heat pumps might still be more efficient (or might not), as one is also effectively capturing and using the waste heat from the generation of work from the gas.
I Joined Coalesce from Snowflake
-26°C is only -14.8°F, but your point stands, they’re getting better at lower temps.
McMurdo is not at all self-reliant. Everything from food to fuel, from clothing to electronics, from tools to entertainment comes from outside. It is the exact opposite of self-reliant, it is completely dependent on the outside world.
and here I am wanting a modern computer with regular PCI slots to use old hardware
The "chaining one hash of a JSON file into the next one" makes me wonder if this system could be implemented on top of a DVCS, which is _also_ maintaining a tree of changes to files connected by hashes.

Some other things that jump out on a first read:

* seems like any entity that controls 500m + 1 units of value can make themselves block producer (by voting out anyone else) and can't ever be removed (because they control a majority). Until the project achieves significant uptake, the creator of the protocol is that entity; instant rug-pull potential.

* signatures would prevent a producer's compromised Twitter account from maliciously updating the ledger, but seems like an attacker could freeze up the network for at least one cycle

* the current producer's signing keys are a bug-bounty piñata
Specifically in domains where I have insight?

Backyard pizza ovens like (like Ooni) are going to explode in popularity really soon. Similar if not more than Traegers.

Homeschooling curriculum/resources. Huge uptick since Covid that might be here to stay.

Kit/manufactured homes. Huge demand for prefab home options that don't suck. We're seeing this with tiny homes and upscale ADUs - someone who brings the costs down will control the space.

Mala - this flavor profile exploded in popularity in Asia. It's currently really hard to find good recreations in the US consistently, but I would almost guarantee the first chain restaurant that offers a decent mala fried chicken sandwich would basically print money for themselves.
Worst possible formatting for code examples. Did the author even look at the rendered page?