skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Summary, data viz, etc here :

https://www.lancetcountdown.org/2022-report/
Maybe not any more: https://www.statista.com/statistics/250520/forecast-of-amazo...

Looks like Azure + Microsoft 365 has overtaken AWS.

The question is whether Azure alone has overtaken AWS…
Having a more centered economic distribution amongst children is a good one. It is non-sensical and anti-meritocratic to have a large enough skew amongst child starting positions as to render meritocratic testing irrelevant.

It's possible our declining academic performance is simply another artifact of rising inequality.
Cloud services now bring in more money than Productivity and Business suites. Interesting.
Vocal communication originated over 400M years ago
By that logic, firefighters should have been exempt.
"Employers don't know ahead of time which employees will leave and which will stay."

That is their fault. I used to work in a well managed company. It was never a surprise when someone left as career progression was always an open topic between colleagues and supervisors.

You don't know when people are going to disappear if they are crouching and ducking around every corner to avoid management.
https://youtu.be/1bO8zEaSuWg
I... did not need five more books to read, but now I do.
it's quite interesting.

It would be fun to try write that parser/ast library in a language such as haxe (haxe.org) and have it compile to the many target languages that it has - it makes it easier to try it out. When i get some free time this weekend, it'd be a nice fun afternoon hacking project.
I think a major counter point is how these tests can be improved upon individually without much improvement over other subjects. The first time I took the SAT, I went in totally blind and got 1320, a few months later, with a bit more practice with pre existing precalc, I was able to get 1490. I also had many classmate report similar trends of their score increasing as the number of retakes increases.
Prototyping in Python, then rewriting the performance critical parts in a speedier more difficult language is one of the most efficient paths a project could take.
The drawback is that most of the time, words are highly reductive and inferior to indirect and nonverbal communication. They are only useful if the issue is extremely isolated or about adding/removing things off someone's plate.

Virtually every time when an employee doesn't work out, it's because they used bad judgment. Feedback is useless for that.

So for example, you will ask them to write documentation and they might technically write documentation, but maybe they write it unclear and don't even recognize it as such. Now, do you want to teach someone the concept of "clarity" like an English teacher? No! If they can't understand what level of clarity is needed based on other code in the company or other cues, it is a manifestation of a judgment problem.

Of course working together won't be instantly smooth like a Swiss watch movement, and you can make adjustments, but there cannot be a big judgement gap. The employee has to be able to recognize what you mean by "clear" without a full blown multi-year English lesson. If they consistently think their work as a "first draft", to be double-checked always by you and given specific feedback over, that is a judgment problem. Massive time-waste.
Summary

Acoustic communication is not only widespread in land vertebrates like birds and mammals, but also in reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. Many of them are usually considered mute, but in fact show broad and complex acoustic repertoires. According to researchers, the evolutionary origin of vocal communication dates back more than 400 million years.

Acoustic communication did not evolve multiple times

So far, the scientific consensus favored a convergent origin of acoustic communication among vertebrates since the morphology in hearing apparatus and its sensitivity as well as the vocal tract morphology vary considerably among vertebrates. But according to the UZH researchers, the available evidence for this hypothesis lacks relevant data from key species so far considered non-vocal or neglected. "Our results now show that acoustic communication did not evolve multiple times in diverse clades, but has a common and ancient evolutionary origin," concludes Sánchez.
> Test scores are highly predictive

Any study in this area that doesn't control for socio-economic factors is near useless, because it mainly predicts that children of successful (ie rich) people will likely grow up to be successful (ie rich). This is almost tautological.
nah, just highlighting to readers that there's a whole recent thread with discussion and this isn't fresh news is all we can do really.

Mods will clean up things if it's closer to original posting date but a week out I dunno.
No, they're "flying" cars, not "rolling".
Neat! The thing that prevents me from using this is that I cannot reply with the alias.

If I receive mail at hello@mydomain.com and my client gets a reply from sweatysocks69@gmail, they will be confused.

Is this in the roadmap? Google supports this feature very nicely.

Otherwise, congrats on leaving beta! Beautiful blog post, details and docs.
Why would you say that? If you expect your tax bracket to be lower in retirement, then it lets you keep money you'd otherwise have to give to the government. And many employers offer (limited) matching, which is just free money.
Nice! I wrote a little parser for it (https://github.com/lgastako/jevko). It was fun. I'll have to play with building higher level formats on top of it.
yeah, we agree

I was referring to women dominated crazy corners and I don't have lived experience with man's equivalent job pursuit to say so I didn't speak about them
Most common example is probably motor vehicle accidents where firefighters (in concert with police officers) will secure the scene, gain access to the vehicle(s) if necessary, etc.

A lot of firefighters are also EMTs and paramedics. Both because in places with volunteer firefighters they can just work as EMS, and also because there's quite a bit of overlap in that if you need a firefighter there's a decent chance having EMS around would be beneficial as well.

Firefighters who aren't trained in EMS are not providing medical care, so saying "leave it to the professionals" is pretty dismissive in this context.
Wow, you've mentioned something that almost doesn't exist on the Web. The only hit on Google [1] says that dev is named Matthew Ford. I kinda enjoy these style of games - I wonder if there's any chance of it seeing the light of day again?

[1]: https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,6...
I found Bytedance tech blog wrote about this in Chinese
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/541082191
What's a videobeam?
That's funny I grew up as one of six children and my mother was a school teacher. Guess I have to go back to my HS and tell them they need to lower my scores because I wasn't rich enough.
Brave browser does good ad blocking by default on iOS and desktop.

uBlock and uMatrix are unable to block ads on Chrome/Chromium, it only seems to work on FF. I can't imagine how much worse things will get once manifest v3 limitations kick-in.
> The Cloudflare cloud experience is "being sold short by subpar documentation" right now because important elements of their ecosystem are being ramped up

Their docs are subpar because Cloudflare is just not interested enough in documentation improvements and is hostile to the people who are interested and who try to make the improvements.

I tried fixing a 404 in their docs once. This would have taken, you know, approximately 2 seconds with a real wiki or CMS[1]. What resulted instead was an excruciating back-and-forth that took 9 messages over a span of exactly 5 hours, ended in no fix, and a Cloudflare dev trying to "upperhand" me (in the vein of George Constanza's pre-emptive breakup—"I'm afraid that I am gonna have to break up with you"[2]).

Sure, Cloudflare team, there's nothing wrong, I guess, with choosing to believe in the delusion that a repo full of Markdown files and the GitHub generation's busted-ass PR-based edit workflow is an acceptable substitute, just like there's nothing wrong with writing your name with a pencil that has a brick taped to it[3].

1. <https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.mdc/c/BU09C48bmGU>

2. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aIG2EJzE4o>

3. <https://gordonbrander.com/pattern/brick-pencil/>
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use webpack for bundling and typescript for typechecking. not that far off from the typescript + babel workflow and way less overhead. just use tsc as a linter.

https://iamturns.com/typescript-babel/

and someone else pointed out that esbuild drops typechecking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33336803
my father who was a research physicist from the 70s+ lamented at his colleagues who got too distracted with programming their computers! For me it was great, I got to grow up with computers and electronics and a bunch of adults who loved these things!
How did the UK ever get to be this way?
IQ tests show the ability to sit down and do pointless tasks which an authority figure has told you are meaningful and you must guess what that authority figure wants you to do.

Extremely valuable skills for white collar drones.

Completely meaningless as a measure of actual intelligence though.
It's not 1980 any longer, and even the resume from that era has a nice table layout for ease of reference. Yours on the other hand looks like a first draft with arguably seome good stuff in it.

I don't care for a fancy resume, but it should at least look like you spent more than 15 minutes on it, and with the reader in mind.
Now implement this for an annualizing a forward rate on 5y5y forward. It’s a simple enough calculation.

((1+10Yrate)^10/(1+5Yrate)^5)^(1/5)
Where are you viewing statistics as having failed, precisely?

Lots of well-documented success in traditional manufacturing and logistics type things. The "AI winter" wasn't a statistical thing at all - rather, stats have succeeded where logical programming had failed. Branded as "machine learning" or "data science," sure, but I don't recall a time of handwringing over stats failing in between.

(And I've heard "train a model" a thousand times more than "train an algorithm" from data folks in industry...)
There’s a range you can improve on. If you are an idiot you don’t have a chance of improving that much, but mommy and daddy can buy you a 4.0 at a private school. Can’t bribe your way to a 1600 SAT anywhere near as easily as the private school game can be played. And this is another reason why I like SATs over grades - the poor can get a leg up over the rich.
I have some core memory - one batch in a small container, the other is wired and mounted inside a picture frame and hangs on the wall. Neat stuff
because they travel into the state from elsewhere to work.
Are you your own sibling?
Nice of them to write a useful tool for doing it, and I have never implemented it, but having done stego detection as part of CTFs/creepypasta puzzles, if the shannon entropy of the data in the LSB (extracted using cyberchef) is greater than that of the rest of the image, it probably has data encoded in it. Similarly, you can randomize the palette of an image to look for noise that would indicate encoded data.
This is what 18 USC 242 was written for. Allowing for punishments up to the death penalty for depravation of rights under the color of law. You’d need a federal government who would be willing to prosecute such a case however, but it’s possible.
My auto-generated config has been pretty solid

The only time the pre-push hook fails is if a line is too long and there's no "canonical" way to fix it (so it'll create a method chain for example, but it won't do string concatenation since there's N ways to break a string across lines)
> Grades are far more fuzzy but generally show an ability to stick with something over the long term and execute on projects.

What grades show is how well the student presented what the teacher wanted returned. Generally, but not always, students that are more intelligent than their teachers and may even have a better grasp of the subject don't receive the highest grades. Grades are about obedience, not learning. The "best" students are children of teachers.
Open DDL, Terathon Math Now Under MIT License
11/10! Gracias for sharing !
> Most Linux installs are instances of something that are created and destroyed without a human ever touching them.

I'm not just talking about containers or managed servers, though. Most Linux desktop systems rarely or never have a user perform a PAM login in a situation where the mail message would be seen. (Opening a terminal emulator doesn't go through PAM; it starts the shell directly, and logging into X / Wayland might use PAM, but doesn't display login messages.) And, of course, it isn't relevant at all on embedded systems; a lot of those probably aren't even running a getty.

> A fully functional Linux system should be able to tell users if they have mail, for instance.

Hot take: storing and processing email shouldn't be a required function of the OS. It should be an optional feature, just like serving web pages over HTTP or having a graphical desktop.
Because professionals will charge you second house mortgage.
"At will" doesn't mean you can fire for any reason.

Even if you don't state the reason (which they did), it would be illegal to fire all black people from a company, because it's trivial to prove for a large enough company.

"at will" doesn't supercede civil rights act and other laws.
we really are in the nightmare dystopic vision of being connected to an engagement machine and more or less drooling our way through life... How many apps does the average person have on their phone...having something so hyper specific just seems incredible to me (as someone with nothing installed on it)
Central Asia identified as a key region for human ancestors
Summary

A new study on early human migration shows that semi-arid and desert zones of Central Asia may have served as key areas for the dispersal of hominins into Eurasia during the Middle Pleistocene. Central Asia is positioned at a crossroads linking several zones important to hominin dispersal during this period, however much evidence from this region lacks context for dating and climate conditions, making it difficult to understand these dynamics.
You should instead chide them for not emphasizing the fact statistics measures trends, not absolutes.
Frameworks shouldn't be changing the content you coded on the sly, that's just asking for trouble. Imagine trying to debug that.
> That said I prefer IQ over grades.

Why would any rational individual take an IQ test? IQ cannot be changed and whatever outcome doesn't change your course of action, being the fact that you have to work hard.

Low IQ: Gotta work hard

High IQ: Gotta work hard
Methodology classes didn't excel either.
Most of the evidence I see suggests that working through a test book at your local library goes a long way towards erasing most of the disadvantage associated with going into the test cold. Yes, there's some time involved but I'm pretty sure declining returns set in fairly quickly. There are clearly advantages associated with recognizing the type of questions that will often be on the test. But a lot beyond that is actually knowing the vocabulary and the various geometry, etc. material.

Now, if you basically don't know or have trouble understanding the material? I wonder to what degree some tutoring and even a fair bit of time are going to make up for years of poor school outcomes (for whatever reason). Some specific strategies are 1.) pretty straightforward--if you can quickly narrow options down, maybe guess and move on--and 2.) won't move the needle a lot.
Have you used it ?
Harshness is absolutely a metadata of language, at least as important as the dry content. If I say "pass me the salt", but do so with a loud and angry voice, far more is being communicated than the simple request to pass a salt. Phrasiology is part of communicating harshness. Failure to read language metadata is a judgment problem. With good employees, no matter the background, it almost never takes more than a few weeks to accurately interpret metadata. If they don't and they constantly fall back to "well, actually, a robot might not have understood it" and constantly expect disambiguation, this is an insurmountable issue.
The combination of Hello and Picasa was a productivity drug.

You had your deck of cards, a computer full of perfectly organized images, the opponent had his own deck. You would show some art work or photos, they would give their opinion about it, each round you would show x more works that you thought more suitable for their taste. The other player would take their turn whenever they felt like it. What they showed allowed further fine tuning the following selection until eventually you arrived at wanting to show works you didn't get to make. You debated the plan of action and the opponent waited impatiently for days, weeks or months for the follow up session.

It's weird that people still call it Google Picasa and Google Hello as google contributed nothing besides freezing it and shutting it down.
ask yourself why they implemented this?
A physical object with provenance is of significantly more historical significance.

A minted basketball card is actually even more anti-fragile than crypto. The crypto network may flop and cease to exist or be relevant. A card is a true artifact of sports history.
Decarbonising means moving away from sources of energy with extreme levels of CO2 output.

I like your thought on this, but it really is not that simple, however great it would be if it was. You get into issues of energy density very quickly, and hard industries requires lots of heat, which the conversion rate for electricity is very inefficient, necessitating other forms of energy source. It's nowhere near as simple as just "switching provider", you can't smelt steel with solar power.

For the big 5 products, steel, plastic, cement, ammonia and icantrememberthelastone, you have a bunch of processes that require energy densities that are fundamentally different to residential tier appliances etc that can be provided by solar, wind etc. And for some of these products, which are integral to worldwide economies, there really aren't feasible replacements.
When you look at an older artifact (tool, airplane, source code), and ask yourself: Why did they do it this way?

A lot of times, they just made things work. They didn't understand the optimal solution or they didn't have access to resources to implement an optimal solution.

Airplanes up until the 1960s (and some beyond) had very few automatic systems because there was simply no way to automate them (aside from some mechanical computers and small amounts of electronics). The aircrew were physically moving control surfaces (sometimes with assistance) or as in this case, physically moving a knob that rotated a valve.
Why do firefighters have no effect on tourism? Without them you can not run a city. Same for many other jobs like garbage collection.
I think that would make things more partisan, not less. Those hundreds of judges are not going to have the time to study the case in as much detail as the assigned judges, so their decisions will be based on a quick cursory reading, and their justification won't be on the record to be reviewed by higher courts. While motivated reasoning is always a concern, I would expect it to be more common in decisions made in this situation.
SQL will always exist as a lingua Franca for data because its declarative nature lets anybody immediately start using a new database/data tool just knowing basic SQL. At the same time, it’s far from perfect for all use cases - it can be much easier to write certain queries imperatively than declaratively.

I can envision a future in which databases are primarily used imperatively while still supporting SQL for those who want to use it.
in September of 2001 I found myself stuck in Stockholm for a few days. I did a lot of walking around in a bit of a daze. I was walking around thinking "Well, at least not much happens here" and I turned the corner to find myself at the place where Olof Palme was shot.

Later, I went to the Vasa museum. It struck me how recently that was a state of the art war machine.
Your statement isn’t entirely incompatible with the one your’re replying to.

Sundar may think that “more productive” is a technology statement, which would reflect a serious lack of product vision.

He may even think he’s focusing on people despite having exec planning sessions all framed as “technology that lets people do ______”.
Video games may bring cognitive benefits to kids, study shows
Who's saying that test scores are uncorrelated with college graduation, which is largely dependent on passing further tests?
Your attitude and mindset is honestly what's keeping you from actually getting a job again. Your prior "experience" literally did nothing to prepare you for a modern job in software/tech. Your constant rants / posts / unwillingness to listen to others from your many many posts, is more evidence that you want something handed to you instead of actually spending time yourself learning new things that will actually get you a job. Stop using HN as your venting ground and instead work on being an adult capable of self independence.
Running the typechecker independently of the bundler is really common in TypeScript. Typechecking takes time, and blocking on it to transpile and bundle your JS doesn't really add any benefit. Most build systems run the checker in parallel because it cuts down on build time. Plus, Webpack doesn't really do transpiling or typechecking for you — your loaders do. Webpack's loaders can't really check your types because, without doing a lot of extra magic, they operate on one file at a time. If you use Babel with Webpack, for example, Babel just strips out your TypeScript annotations and calls it a day.

All that aside, it seems like Turbopack was literally developed with Webpack's maintainer, who claims it to be a "rust-powered successor to webpack" (his signature is quite literally on the homepage[0]).

[0]:https://turbo.build/pack
> This quarter Microsoft Cloud revenue was $25.7 billion, up 24% (up 31% in constant currency) year-over-year.

Literally all those numbers are incorrect. This is what the actual press release says:

> Revenue in Intelligent Cloud was $20.3 billion

Not $25.7B.

> increased 20%

Not 24%.

> (up 26% in constant currency)

Not 31%.
I cannot see how, if the issue was a simple mapping update like this, it would have taken years to come up.
>Biting off the hand that feeds them.

You forgot to mention that the hand doing the feeding is attached to a body with another arm that’s picking the hungry masses pockets.
Tutoring and extensive exam-specific prep can boost scores. They are not necessary for getting a high score.
>use webpack for bundling and typescript for typechecking

This is my point, that's what I'm doing. Webpack does the typechecking and the bundling together, you don't get broken bundles when the typecheck didn't succeed (unless you really want to, you can configure that too).

>and someone else pointed out that esbuild drops typechecking.

yes I know, these "faster" bundlers all drop typechecking which results in these unfair comparisons. Then I always end up spending a somewhat large amount of time checking these tools out only to realize that they are not doing a fair comparison.
Hey, at least you're self-aware. :)

I think most of us programmer types struggle along similar lines; I can exert myself for short bursts to tick the extravert boxes you mentioned but it is tragically unsustainable.
Google is getting deeper into silicon, both datacenter and device. That R&D has substantial capital costs which I think are still included in R&D top line.
The same happened in CA with some stores being open and others closed. Why was Home Depot open? It made no sense in terms of spreading the disease . It was just arbitrary BS.

Closing the beaches was stupid too. If there ever was a safe place then it was the beach or state park wheee uou are in the open and the window blows.