skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an unsubstantiated article.

First, it oozes Sapir-Whorf: "Critically, the language one speaks or signs can have downstream effects on ostensibly nonlinguistic cognitive domains, ranging from memory, to social cognition, perception, decision-making, and more." Where is the bloody proof of that?

Second, nobody will deny that testing (young) students at predominantly English speaking schools will lead to biased results, results that don't generalize across all languages and cultures, but that's got nothing to do with the peculiarities of the language. Every language has its own idiosyncracies. But, there's enough research in other languages, and the basics seem to match.

Third: language is a small part of cognition. There's memory, attention, visual recognition, planning, learning, etc., and no reason to think that that's heavily influenced by language.

Fourth: progress in cognitive science is not hindered by lack of language, nor the subjects, it's the theory. We have no idea how cognition works, and adding yet another Stroop task but this time in some even smaller language isn't going to advance it an iota (Stroop task experiments have already been run in the Indo-European languages, Basque, Chinese, Japanese, bilingual Arabic-Hebrew, etc.).

Fifth: I would definitely discourage people from running experiments in languages they don't understand deeply. I've seen researchers run experiments in my native tongue with glaring agreement errors, and that just throws your subjects off.
> it's unlikely the pills will still be usable

Pills (and chemicals) are not SSL certificates: they don't cease to work at the expiration date + 1 second.
Someone in /r/nvidia in the US got one similar to the Ignor one, so it isn't clear if it will be regional or not.
That reminds me of payment processors. They usually have SDKs for PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, and maybe others. Often these just end up doing a simple HTTPS post of name=value pairs.

It is almost always easier and cleaner to use their HTTPS name=value post interface directly if they officially allow it and support it.

Often you are going to get your payment information from the user in that format anyway, such as via a post from your checkout page, or as a row of named columns when you retrieve on file payment information from your database.

In that case submitting name=value pairs mostly just requires translating the field names from your checkout page or column names from database to the names that the payment processor uses, plus adding a few more name=value pairs.

Going through their language specific SDKs often requires building up some ridiculous object oriented mess.
The comment I quoted says:

> when A's state lags or has moved on ahead of the event

That sounds like it can EITHER be ahead or behind. Specifically, I do not understand it as A's state can either lag OR be ahead, not that "lags" is a synonym for "moved ahead"
Sad to know there were circumstances that led to a 19yr old that was driven and astute...stuck in jail for so long. Sometimes the dice don't roll your way...

It seems our destiny is set before we are even born. Our families (parents specifically) are a big part of it. Im thinking parents should have 1 lesson imprinted on them at the mat ward: your #1 job in 15 years will be to steer your immature yet independent son/daughter away from life-altering decisions that have no "UNDO" button. Everything else is unimportant.

EDIT: to be clear, this does not mean helicopter parenting or not allowing them to fail. It just means understanding when adolescents are playing russian rulette without knowing it, and letting them know about it.(ex. joining a gang)
That's an awesome profile and article into his Redwood venture. Seems like he really cares about climate change and improving our odds against it through this.
“Hey little country next door, we must invade you because if we invade you nato will give you weapons and stuff and we don’t like nato being a barrier to our imperialism. Your only other option is to just surrender now to our extortion.”

A few months later, Commenters blame nato after extorting bully invaded. It’s all natos fault!!
I think the author 100% knew what he was doing by not mentioning QE directly at any point. It isn't just since 2008, the cut in 03-04 to 1% was basically why synthetic CDOs were invented...it is amazing that this happened twenty years ago, and there is still a "debate" about the long-term financial consequences of very low interest rates/QE.

Also, the issue with corporate taxes has been more to do with European tax havens. Places like Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg got very aggressive in offering corporations bilateral deals (i.e. bespoke deals on corporation tax outside the legal framework that applied to domestic companies). The US tax rate in the early 2010s was still 35%, it was only when revenue began moving offshore that the US felt the need to cut (not just the US, the same thing happened in the UK). The global minimum corporation tax deal is supposed to tackle this but, to be honest, the US should have cracked down on individual countries far sooner.
Values are multiple. You have to consider professional responsibility and weigh it against responsibility to yourself and your family as well, and most people would place those above all others.

This change is not "minor". Twitter employees have just had massive risk and uncertainty added to their short term career. There was some risk and uncertainty prior, because the company would probably have been doing layoffs, but a clearly impulsive, mercurial, uncaring and overstretched person is now in charge of decisions that affect all employees income, health insurance, etc.)

You also have to consider your political values and alignment with the company's goals. I think a lot of people at Twitter also believe in the value of the "public square" which Musk purports to care about. But if you look at Musk's always hyper deferential statements in China, or one of his large investors now being the Saudi government, or his "solution" to the war in Ukraine, it seems that he has a much more favorable outlook on authoritarianism than the previous leadership. Twitter's not about to be a voice for the powerless but a megaphone for the rich and powerful. That has to weigh in on one's thinking about work.
Yes, since ADA mandates that accommodations must be provided at no cost to the patient (an unfunded mandate). Here is a tidbit from the article:

Participants described both financial and time-related challenges of accommodating communication needs. One non-rural-practicing primary care physician stated: “I took it upon myself to actually hire an outside service to do [sign language interpretation]. They billed the office. …Their bill was higher than what we were making, so it was a losing venture. …It cost me $30 per visit for that patient, out of pocket.”
Qt however is a framework touching large parts of the codebase. So most developers will touch Qt-rwlated code somewhat regularly. Charting code is for many applications a small part which in addition is often somewhat abstracted away.
They’re also incredibly slow and resource intensive. Just use Swift!
I interpret that as "I created the Gitea project" not I have written Gitea from scratch.
Would you like to talk about my process? I'm happy to share details.

All kinds of information is exchanged in an acquisition. The acquirer probably has an idea about how the company functions, which departments are key, which employees are key, and so on. They'll also have an idea about which employees or departments have been problems.

I am thinking of a specific example where my large company acquired a small startup. It had a sysadmin team of three people. This team had been identified as a point of conflict within the company - holding up projects and refusing to adopt automated process. It was already decided that the manager would be fired. My job was to determine the extent to which the employees were contributing to the dynamic, to determine whether they were open to change, and to assess their general competency. We needed to know how much of the existing team could be kept on to help.

I flew onsite for a few days. The story was that the acquiring company was gifting me to help their team, because they had been long complaining about needing headcount. I asked to be shown what people did day to day. I asked why it was done that way and I suggested new ways of doing it (how it would probably be done, post acquisition) and listened to their answers. I participated in their daily work routine.

As I recall we decided to keep all the employees. They had been marginalized by a bad manager and they ended up doing quite well helping out with the transition. The information I gathered helped structure the layout of the new team. Their old (fired) manager had not done a good job of assessing their skillsets or giving them latitude to move their platform forward.

Other times, I have identified people that needed to be let go. Sometimes it is clear that someone doesn't have the necessary skillset, isn't making meaningful contributions, or has some kind of personality conflict. I think we have all encountered someone like this in our careers at times.

The twitter process sounds chaotic and driven by a crazy timeline for sure. The scale is far larger. But, the steps they're taking to attempt to achieve this goal don't seem inherently wrong. Asking someone to bring a real sample of their work to discuss in an interview is a great tactic. If you asked me to design a process to hold these kinds of interviews at scale I might do the exact same thing.
"A Tesla Model 3 has a ~ 500 kg battery and weighs ~ 2 tons. With the drag coefficient of a truck being significantly greater and its gross weight amounting to ~ 15-20 times that of the Model 3, I'd say your 2 tons are way off. Sure, the truck will go slower than the Model 3, but still."

A truck should consume about 5x than what a Model 3 LR does. 5x 445 kg (actual M3LR battery weight) is 2225 kg.
Why must everything always be only one thing? Why not both?

The decline in taxes and interest rates mechanically account for 1.8% points of the 5.4% net income growth in the SP500 since 2004. This is not in dispute, unless you don't trust the numbers.

Outsourcing and cost cutting account for some of the difference between sales growth (2%) and EBIT growth (3.6%), or 1.6% growth. Basically if you only sell a little bit more, but your costs go down, you can take home more earnings. But it's not a given that 100% of this 1.6% gap comes from sweatshops, there have been some legitimate reductions to cost of labor domestically, unless you think literally nothing has changed about productivity in the last 18 years.

So sweatshops account for a maximum of 1.6% of returns, likely less, while taxes and cheap credit account for 1.8%. Outsourcing is not "the primary issue", mathematically.
Libel suit? Are we all going to court in our minds every day? All day? We're talking about personal experience and personal responsibility.
I think being "honest and ethical" is at its heart a useful strategy for organizing the collective work of individuals. It's part of the ethos required for building high-trust groups.

Individuals within a group want to understand the terms under which a group operates, and in particular, how to extract their share of value from the group and how to maintain or enhance their extractable share of value.

The more the rules of a group are perceived to be fair, reciprocal and consistently applied, the more members can trust the group and each other. This relieves the participants of significant cognitive and emotional burden, allows longer-term collective action, and reduces transaction costs dramatically.

But I can intellectually understand the value of opportunistic defection strategies that "cheat" the group, extracting both an unfair share of value (as well as some of the "embodied trust value" resulting in an incremental loss of trust across the group).

I have a personal commitment to honest behavior and I actively avoid low-trust friends, groups and choices. Possibly because I find low-trust situations too stressful and too much work, as well as morally horrifying (whatever that means!) I'd like to believe that I'm fundamentally a "good person" but I acknowledge that it might just be that I'm unwilling to leave the local maximum high-trust situation I've self-selected for throughout my life, or I'm afraid of the risks of defector strategies (or I'm just cognitively and emotionally unsuited to them).

Here's where it gets complicated, because organizations change, trust levels change, the signifiers of trustability change, organizations lie, sometimes organizations are specifically operated to trap and exploit high-honor people, and people have very different ideas about what constitutes "fairness" or "exploitation". I find it hard to criticize someone who chooses to use low-trust tactics against a low-trust or deceptive group.

It seems, looking around different cultures and organizations in the world that there is a huge variation in the principles under which groups function. Apparently "low-trust" is a viable option, although I'm supportive of the idea that high-trust brings a competitive advantage both for groups and individuals, and is worth building and sustaining.

I'm horrified that we seem to have reached some kind of tipping point in the west where a critical mass of elites (who already extract enormous value!) have decided they can extract even more value through high-order defection than by building modern and durable foundations of trust.
Has anyone implemented it in their projects?

So far we have been using charts.js for most of the tasks, might want to update to something new in the future? Might this be an option?
“Stay out of frivolous conversations with other captives. For example, discussions about government politics, street politics and prison politics only lead to arguments. Instead, focus on topics that sharpen others, like spirituality, history, business and legal issues.”

We’re all captives.
My wife is friends someone a DD sales person. I had no idea what her husband did for a living since I didn't know either. So we go over to their house for dinner and he finds out I'm head of a devops/SRE team and I got a DD sales pitch for close to 2 hours.

I've never wanted to excuse myself to the bathroom and just sit in there doing nothing all night more in all my life.
I always end up green with envy that people seem to have pre-existing conduits in their walls for running new cables. There's no way, in my old house, of doing this without some invasive smashing in to walls.
>Delta though is hard, since there always is an inherent race between getting the first full snapshot, and subscribing to updates.

Since the deltas include a version identifier for what they should be applied on top of, then you should always be able to safely start by requesting the deltas, then ask for the object. Buffer the deltas till your full copy is received, then discard deltas for previous versions until the stream applies to yours, applying them thereafter to keep it up to date.
My dad told me in the 90s to avoid injury because the family could not afford healthcare. I distinctly recall hospital bills being in the tens of thousands even back then.

I doubt newer cancer care, medicines, imaging, or other care would be cheap in any world, with or without insurance.
The writer talks about Ubik but does not mention the pervasiveness of corporate power/role in the daily life described (at least from my interpretation), this is well portrayed in Total Recall, also based on a Philip K. Dick story which varies enough from the movie to be read as separate work.

Short story not mentioned but is worth reading if one has not, Second Variety.
FFmpeg is definitely in one of the lowest circles of Hell.

I did figure out the very simple switches to convert WAV to FLAC. Mercifully I don't need it for anything else (yet).
Consider this:

> The difference between EBIT growth and sales growth (3.6 percent vs. 2.0 percent) can be attributed to an improvement in profit margins. In other words, costs grew at a slower rate than sales. Some of the improvement in profit margins may have come from sourcing cheaper inputs from abroad, enabled by increased globalization. Moreover, for output produced within the U.S., growth in labor productivity—i.e., real output per hour worked—exceeded real wage growth since the mid-2000s.9 This means that, for a given cost of labor, firms were able to produce more output, which would also likely have contributed to the improvement in profit margins.

Stagnation in real wages goes well beyond the mid-2000s. It starts in the late 1970s [1].

Another way to put the author's thesis is that interest rate costs have gone about as low as they can. Another part is by depressing real wages. The only way for profit growth to continue on this model is to further depress real wages.

Exponential growth cannot continue forever. Consider the metric of net profit per employee [2]. Why is it the employees cannot share in the success of the enterprise that simply cannot exist without them?

We saw this again recently with the averted rail workers strike. Rail companies were freaking out at giving 125,000 "essential" rail workers paid sick leave, the cost of which would've been 3-3.5% of profits.

[1]: https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

[2]: https://tipalti.com/profit-per-employee/
> There is no need to have 10Gb in bedroom

…until later in the home’s life when that bedroom is no longer a bedroom, for whatever reason. If you’re gonna do a project like this you might as well take it to its logical conclusion.

It’s the same kind of advice I’d give to anyone who buys e.g. an iPad Pro - you might not think you need a cellular model right now, but that one time you do need it two years from now you’re gonna be very glad that you paid the extra ~$100.
Why is Eigen/Dense included if you never refer to anything Eigen and just take it as a duck-typed template parameter?
Corporate tax does not help or hurt labor.

Corporations do not pay taxes - their customers or their employees do.

The only way that a corporate tax is better for the worker than not a corporate tax is if that money will be better spent by the government. We cannot show this to be true, because very often government funds are utilized to fund programs and projects that are primarily ideologically motivated instead of mere improvements to facilities and entitlements we all use.

Additionally sectors that have largesse of government spend (Medicare, military procurement, California HSR) start to morph to maximally abuse procurement bureaucracy and obtain monopoly power rather than provide service.

These problems are solvable to be clear, but it doesn't strike me as obvious that the money Amazon makes is spent better by Congress than by Amazon in every possible case.
>For reference, the amperage leading into the house is typically around 100A;

where is this typical? in my experience, typical is 200A service for residential. is mains service amps dependent on provider/region/etc?
As a native English speaker I'm just now realizing the same.
is there something wrong to evaluate your worth? and explaining your worth through the things that you have done (recently) is in my opinion one of most direct ways to do so.

no one wants your code just for fun of it or it beying extra nice and smart. code is neded becauae it creates value.
I have 1gbps fiber and it's extremely rare for me to come across a server that supports anything close to that bandwidth. At 10gbps you're able to upload 500GB/hour. For home use this seems extremely unlikely, even if you're using this as part of your job. Even my 4K surveillence cameras only require 20mbps each, that's 50 4k cameras to saturate a 1gbps line.
... right up until you realize that your app has to be cross platform
I don't even know what to say after reading this, besides maybe that I would probably prefer dying over living a year like this. What an abhorrent way of treating a human being, or really any being at all.
Yikes, autocorrect really jumbled my second paragraph, which wasn’t very clear to begin with.

I’m contrasting the caped with the *levelized cost of storage, which though it can be measured in $/MWh or $/kWh, is measuring something completely different than the capex. And the levelized cost of storage is the relevant figure for comparing to electricity sold on the grid.
There was an Italian equivalent version of this. I don't remember the name but it was grey and blue, and it was sold circa early 90s. It had the exact shape and look of this: https://www.etsy.com/listing/694191660/vintage-1992-tiger-2x.... but without the 2xl logo.
Loved how Italy was rebranding everything

I had almost worked out myself how it worked by playing those special tape in a normal recorder.
Twitter has been publishing about their architecture and all the updates to it for years and years, and given countless presentations on it. https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/
Linux System Call Table – Chromiumos
Yes saying that what a 3 month baby wears doesn't matter that much is so extreme.
If herbicide resistance requires more than one gene, a solution to that is to just add those genes at widely separate places in the plant's genome. This would make horizontal transfer of the entire working set of genes unlikely.
I'm a native English speaker and luckily I've never found the need to pronounce gitea. In my head, it'll randomly either be "git-tea" or "git-e-ah".
Estimation Anti-Patterns. and How to Fix Them
Bleach. Clorox sells lots of it.
But it goes beyond companies.

Rich countries have had very myopic development strategies for the past thirty to forty years. I could blame incompetence but I think it’s mostly because it allowed some happy few to make good money and they don’t really care about the citizenry at large.

My own country in Europe decided they were going to bet everything on high-end services and R&D while outsourcing all production. Apparently it wasn’t obvious to them that when you don’t produce you lose the culture and knowledge base necessary to do good R&D and that the countries they were outsourcing to would develop and stop relying on us.
Covid: Lost connections between brain nerve cells may explain cognitive symptoms
> That true, but again most of the talk is focused on lithium ion batteries because that's presently the most effective option.

"Most effective" varies between use cases. LiIon is fantastic for drones and personal electronics, but the reason it's used for cars is that Elon Musk is a very capable salesman and he bet on it — ten years ago, when Tesla was a cute startup but not a manufacturing behemoth, most of the talk I remember was still about hydrogen fuel cells.

I think used car batteries are likely to be a significant part of the global power grid because there will be enough of them, and it's a good reuse option before they need to be fully recycled into new car batteries.

If they're cheap enough to use directly in this way (and they seem to be already in some specific circumstances), great. If not, doesn't matter too much, there are too many alternatives for me to worry about it.
This could well be a handout from HR at several jobs I've had.

Aside from the dark humor, it is a shame that we do not recognize rehabilitation in this country and focus on punishment.