skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're arguing with a rather minor point of my post.

Most construction workers I know aren't working unless they have hit a joint. The point wasnt so much about whether blue collar are doing it, but rather the convenience and ease.
Voter Action proved in court that Kerry won New Mexico, rather than Bush. The problems in NM were a subset of the problems in Ohio, Florida, and elsewhere. Make of that what you will. Walks like a duck...

Eye On Ohio: The Informed Citizen's Guide to the 2004 Election
http://hamburgsteak.sandwich.net/mirrors/EyeOnOhio/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_election_vo...

https://www.amazon.com/Was-2004-Presidential-Election-Stolen...

https://www.projectcensored.org/voter-fraud-august-2005/

https://www.amazon.com/Stole-Americas-2004-Election-Rigging/...
Are you asking if Apple and Facebook have benefits? Of course they do. Just not an equivalent package of so many amped-up ego-stroking elements, no. Those two are more of a walled garden and a fiefdom, respectively, where everyone is put in their place.
Nancy Leveson's _Engineering a Safer World_ (available for free here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/2908/Engineering-a-Safer-W...) is required reading, in my opinion. It talks about applying systems theory to reducing industrial accidents, using various case studies such as the Bhopal gas tragedy, which maps automatically to reducing outage severity and incident severity for tech workers.

The key insight it applies is that root-cause analysis to fix and improve situations is limited because choice of root-cause is somewhat arbitrary - it really depends on where you stop probing further. Engineers should not rely on root-cause analysis to identify failures in _the system_, only on failures of components. Nancy proposes alternative techniques instead to identify and improve broken systems.

The detail, quality and depth of her treatment makes it immediately practical and useful. My one complaint is that it is a bit long, and not all of it is easily condensed into short treatments - but I guess verbosity is the tradeoff for quality?
> Marriage has taught me to go even further than that. I now ask "are you telling me to get it off your chest, or you want help solving it?"

I may be much slower to adapt. My wife of (almost) 30 years usually starts with explicit “I am telling you this to just get it off my chest”.
Does anyone have experience working this into their blog/personal site?

https://writefreely.org/ and https://microblog.pub/ are two examples of what I'm thinking of, but I'm wondering if there are other options and/or ways to bolt the functionality on without being opinionated about your blog's implementation.

I love the idea that my blog could have Mastodon posts, that my posts are Mastodon posts, that replies are comments, etc. But I haven't seen too much of this done in the real world.
Rocket launches must have so much of these frequencies. Being at one was nothing like I expected after listening to the audio of launches on normal devices.
You can be as infuriated as you'd like, but I consider HN to be one of the more responsible and educated forums for casual discussion and the level of straight up conspiracy-driven misinformation on everything related to Covid is astonishing. From origins to vaccines to treatments (remember all of the threads extolling HCQ and IVM?), it's as sophisticated as you'd expect from people "doing their own research" in fields they don't understand and apparently aren't equipped to develop an understanding of.

There's no political or financial implications to whether Wiles' proof of FLT is correct or not, and the proof can be checked with certainty by experts in the field -- so of course they can come to a consensus about something extraordinarily technical. Unfortunately with Covid, every question has turned into a political shibboleth so there will forever be FUD promoted by people who should know better. How is the average reader supposed to weigh the probabilities of some esoteric question like what the potential presence or absence of IIS restriction sites means when it's being promoted by people with advanced degrees as evidence of an artificial origin, even though it's nonsense?

So I retreat to my earlier advice for those trying to form an opinion here -- look into the history of claims from the various scientists, and see whether evidence is guiding their claims or if their claims are guiding their evidence.
Interesting to see posts like this where people speculate on specific factual things, but they don't have any information about the specific factual thing.

This post is factually wrong about how Facebook works and what the goals are. Facebook does not "uses every nasty trick it can to do one thing: keep you scrolling".

I worked on the feed algorithm for Instagram and know how the Facebook feed algorithm worked in 2020. I read all the code. The #1 goal of the Facebook feed algorithm is to get users to post more. The #2 goal is to get you to engage in interactions like commenting and liking. Facebook cares about how much you scroll and would like you to do more of it, but posting and interacting is way more important. Facebook optimizes for more posting at the measured cost of less scrolling.

Instagram does the same thing but at the time was less successful at it.
Quitfacebook.org: the best reasons to quit social media
Kinda. But there’s still two code bases: one for android (now would be web) and one for iOS.
the niche bass stages at EDC Vegas were seemingly more popular than the main stages lately

bassPOD and wasteLAND

I was surprised to see some genres not only have a resurgence, but be popular (and improved upon)
I haven't checked recently, but last time I visited the site there were some ppl that is consistently posting high quality content, but it is like 5-10%
The new report by pro publica and vanity fair is about as close to evidence as we are likely to get. The big issue here is that we didn’t get to hear real investigation of it until 2 years after the fact aside from whistleblowers with varying level of credibility.
Those ancient Britons get darker brown with every pop science article. Pretty soon they will be actively bending light and absorbing photons from their surroundings. Can anybody point me toward a scientific basis for the ever darkening skin color of these ancient peoples?
Sometimes the tinfoil hat mindset is appropriate but sometimes it also eats holes in your brain.
The Fast Multipole Method (1996)
As someone who struggles with depression, I definitely relate to that example. Part of the frustration is that those things are already voiced in my head. The other part of the frustration is that I've already cycled through worse and better periods, and in retrospect, the positive cycles leading out of my worst depressive periods always seem that simple - it always starts with something that seems stupidly trivial like picking up dirty laundry off the floor - which lends credibility to the voice in my head and which makes it oh so agonizingly frustrating when such a simple thing feels impossible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeOVbeh2yr0
Not to rain on the parade, but in Fig. 1-D I see by comparing the two graphs that the VLF is almost always turned on in sync with a bass drop or with the start of a new section of the song, which I think is correlated with people suddenly dancing more vigorously. I didn't read the main text, does anyone know if they address this?
No, it is their fault because THEY refused to yield. As they do all the time. Like at least once a day I see this. How many drivers do you think yield to me when they turn right on red?

It is FAR less than the law requires of them.

Oh, and since the idaho stop is legal in my state, they refuse to yield then as well. Breaking the law....
"Collected data disagrees with you."

Source? Also note the phrasing "illegal and unsafe". Strictly illegal behavior seems to be about equal based on the link I provided.

"If drivers really cared about the safety of road users, they be up in arms about poor driving standards,"

Which my comments advocate for.

Most people aren't advocating for tougher standards because they're afraid their privileges will be taken away. This appears true for both driver testing and calls for cyclist licensing. Just how the comments on this post are mostly about each side pointing the finger at the other.

Also, it's possible the drivers like to yell about cyclists doing illegal and unsafe things because they perceive more risk and want to avoid a negative result.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23021420/
The key with Mexico is that all traffic is unpredictable. The US gets into an unfortunate "local maxima" where the car traffic is relatively predictable so anything that deviates is much more dangerous.

Whereas free-for-alls like India, et al, are predictable in their unpredictability - you can't rest for a moment because everything is chaos.

There's also a tipping point when you have enough crowding that everything slows down.
And total market meltdown continues. Not good enough.
Yea, either direct (person with a rifle) or indirect (artillery/mortars). Ultimately obstacles slow, not prevent.
300k Americans die each year from obesity. Yet nobody seems to view this as an urgent issue needing addressing.
I’m not sure I understand but it seems to me you are just talking about eigenvalues in C.

That’s interesting but not particularly remarkable because eigenvalues are defined for linear transformations of any vector space over a field.
The article doesn't remotely fawn over Musk. Did you read it?
Yeah, I noticed that. A quick jaunt to the about section of the site explains everything I needed to know.
Exactly. Open fields and trees are not good insulators.
Investment, too. Investors want to see activity, and you're better off showing useless activity than none.

Plus, you don't grow to a tech behemoth (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, et c.) by running smart & lean. You might get bought by them that way (cf. WhatsApp, and maybe even Minecraft) but you don't become one of them. So if leadership/investors thought Twitter had a shot at joining the big-boy club, maybe that's why.
Lots of different opinions here, but:

My company has moved several "regular" websites to serverless. In fact, we just took the existing websites (which were often Django, sometimes huge ones) and dumped them into Lambda. The exact opposite of every "what serverless architectures are for" article you've ever read. And you know what?

It's awesome.

It's way cheaper than running it on EC2, and I never have to reboot a server or worry about their disks filling up or anything. Then when traffic spiked hard during the covid lockdowns? I did nothing. Lambda just handled it.

The only serious change we made to the setup was preloading a percentage of machines at all times to remove cold starts.

I'm not saying it's trivial (zappa, serverless, CDK), but usually one guy gets it working and the rest of the dev team changes nothing at all.
Neither is hate speech and calls to violence. But Musk has made it clear that he is a proponent of that kind of speech under the umbrella of "free" speech.
Not to be THAT guy, but Physx is basically reaching EOL. I'm sure a few mid sized studios who want to roll their own engine can still take advantage of the core, but with UE5 completely replacing Physx with Chaos and the "ballast" around the core (Blast/Flex...) being as useless as ever, I don't see the Physx adoption increasing.
It's a case of a MOT (major ongoing topic) a la Snowden in 2013. I know it's annoying.

We don't want to suppress the topic altogether because when significant new information (SNI) does appear, it's important to have a thread about it—and if we don't, there will be a user rebellion in the other direction ("I can't believe this isn't on HN, I guess it's not a news site any more").

(Also, it isn't possible to suppress a topic altogether - users will just work around whatever automated restrictions we put in, and manual restrictions are inevitably partial.)

The solution is to allow the submissions that contain SNI and to downweight the ones that don't. By downweight I mean that users can flag the posts, and mods can penalize them.

This solution is imperfect because when there are so many raindrops coming in, we can't dodge them all - but at least the worst copycat/followup posts, the ones that just repeat what has been said elsewhere, shouldn't stay on the front page for too long.

More explanation here, with links to additional past explanations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509084.
shows a complete lack of empathy for "the other side"

I must have misspoke or I'm just not the writer I used to be because this is exactly the opposite of what hundreds of warehouse and shop people have said about me for over 40 years. (about 10% of that work is mentioned here: edweissman.com)

Why is this bad?

Because NO ONE is working the real problem (which is certainly not changing report orientation to leave enough white space for "out of the ERP system" notes). Everyone's dancing around it with semantics, jerry rigs, and workarounds. I.T. should be a trusted business partner. And unsupported's management should be putting them in a position to work the real problem. Instead, they're just another nerd who should shut up, put in a meaningless fix, and stop threatening their managers.

I have worked on warehouses and it is complicated.

Agreed. All the more reason to find out what notes they're adding to reports. Mission critical "notes" outside the system is a giant red flag. I'd rather work the red flag than make people happy. If it's important enough to put on a packing slip, it's probably important enough to be part of the system of record. A good old VSM should identify that and reduce that complication.
Ok, one small problem I have with this entire argument. This guy goes on TV and makes a bunch of (atleast) sensationalist opinionated claims, with apparently no evidence. And what does he cite as a clear indication that Tiktok is ruining our society and that we're doomed? Young people want to be social media influencers.

Let's leave aside his absurd assertion that this single fact is meaningful (it's probably not true, and it's probably not important either).

So what does this guy do, what does he aspire to? He's basically a thought leader. The middle aged equivalent of a teenage girl dancing on tiktok.
A way to deal with really perplexing bugs is to just carefully explain the code to an actual rubber duck.

"This code is obviously correct, right duck? Look here, this line first does x, then y happens and here... Wait a minute, that doesn't do z at all!"
How were you a principal engineer with 5 years experience and a senior principle with 7? Genuinely curious.
apparently they were playing VC with user deposits.

This is why regulations exist.
My guess is a tone issue. It’s hard to even tell that you’re saying you haven’t seen long term graphs - the first sentence comes across as sarcastic when followed by long sentences complaining about other problems.
She’s a creepy sociopath who will inevitably be photogenic and charismatic to the kinds of people who need protection from her.
You mean the guy who said he named his other co "Alameda Research" so it wouldn't sound like a bank, even though it basically is, might be shifty?
I blew through $150k+ on my startup and am back to basics AMA
This one's for all the struggling founders. AMA / any opinion's welcome.
I thought that little pinch faced woman was heading up design now?
Why can't there be a social media site that lives in locally optimal minima? One where there is enough ad revenue to cover costs but not so much that it leads to bloat. One where instead of trying to compete with the likes of TikTok and YouTube by maximizing time spent on the site, the goal is "can catch up with friends in X amount of time".
I think we are talking past each other. I agree that life is volatile. And it is very lucky to be able to even plan a few years into the future.

But I do not think Graeber's quote is applicable here. The exercise of planning future cash flow can help you increase the quality of the bets you place (and/or adjust your expectations). Singular choices have no guaranteed results, but the sum total of choices can be influenced by gathering information about the world and keeping your models updated, allowing you to make choices where the odds are more favorable to you.
For folks looking for documentation or getting started-examples, see:

- The tutorial: https://nbviewer.org/github/cozodb/cozo-docs/blob/main/tutor...

- The language documentation: https://cozodb.github.io/current/manual/

- The pycozo library README for some examples on how to run this from inline python: https://github.com/cozodb/pycozo#readme
Story: “It would be career limiting..."
> Conversely, Ebola isn't likely to mutate now

Can you explain why?
I love Java. And I'm working on c# right now at my job and I'm loving it too. This is happy news for me. When my enterprise finally adopts it 4 years from now. D:
Bigotry is also haram. Or should be. Yet it seems extraordinarily popular all over the world.
Silicon innovation and custom ASICs at Amazon [pdf]
Tutorial which I didn’t see linked in the README: https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog/blob/master/d...
The debt from the acquisition has made that situation much worse, however, not better. It's like he bought a car with a flat tire and promptly drove nails into the other three.

[EDIT] Better version: it's like he bought a car with a flat tire and financed the purchase by selling the other three tires.
as a person that works for a healthcare startup that relies on facebook ads, while I agree with how much it sucks as a consumer, as a business offering there is nothing like it.

There is no add network that reaches more people, and gets more clicks, than the facebook add network. We felt it hard when Apple mucked with them, as well did a lot of other startups. So while I understand the "privacy risks", I think it's equally foolhardy to ignore the positive impact it has for many businesses. It accounts for more than 1/2 of total revenue, for sure. If it went away, something would fill it's shoes for us eventually, and quite frankly I don't think that replacement would be any better for humanity.
From Twitch, interview with Wintermute CEO (another big crypto MM) - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1647004406?t=1h39m38s - had no idea this coming either (who got hacked for $100m recently).

Later in the video Martin Shkreli tells Do Kwon that prison isn't so bad.

Interesting interview.
I was wondering if firing at the teeth would be a good tactic. Even a space one tank wide would make a big difference.
I'm perhaps dating myself a bit, but I remember being caught off guard the first time I walked onto the dancefloor at Fabric (a famous nightclub in London). They'd put mechanical transducers under the floorboards and hooked them up to the audio feed, effectively turning the entire dancefloor into one giant subwoofer. [1]

It was absolutely a gimmick, but a tremendously well-executed one. Being literally lifted a few millimeters into the air when the bass dropped was such a visceral experience that I'm still surprised it wasn't widely copied in other venues.

[1] https://youtu.be/ijwxsIV8Iac?t=100
This wiki article provides good clarity, especially the "obstacle negotiation" part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstacles_to_troop_movement
Read about the arbitration rules you agreed to. Likely similar to: https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html

Arbitration costs money (usually split between both parties). If you feel like you have a case and are willing to put up an additional $500 to $1000 you might get your assets back.

I think the bigger thing for Adobe is that invoking arbitration might force them to engage their legal council and you might find them much more willing to give you your assets back pre-arbitration than to pay their legal team to represent them.
I want to learn synthesis, but want to make pop songs as good as "Closer" by The Chainsmokers, any idea where to start?
This reminded me to uninstall the Twitter app, just in case they build in new shenanigans like these now.
It's about the form rather than the point. The point is fine.
I have used NativeAOT before, and it does not enforce static linking. "no dynamic loading of arbitrary assemblies" refers to .NET assemblies, not the native dynamic link libraries they are compiled (using NativeAOT) to
Pros and Cons to Homeschooling
Is homeschooling really better?
Tornado Cash is pretty successful.
On the EQ, there's a really tight frequency band, near the top of a kick drum, that you want to boost to get that chest-thumping feeling that really gets people into it.
Sorry: https://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/
And people who knew what they were actually talking about were pointing out that it's unlikely anyone would have voluntarily left Jane Street as early as he did. But they were largely ignored.
Free $peech
Sound advice, but that ship has sailed. This is an existing lambda that I'm refactoring so I need to be able to "go through the front door", as it were. Once I become more familiar with the code, I'll be able to test individual pieces are you're recommending.
I nitpick for the README: consider converting examples from images to code blocks (you can even directly copy-paste them into the code blocks and they should retain their formatting)

Otherwise: yes, please. I love the idea.
Peering into the Invisible Present
That's an easy stone to throw when you are fighting a war on foreign soil. Particularly since the allies struggled to oust Germans from several fixed fortifications in Europe.
Heh, right. I believe I like to stay with that point anyway.
How is it disingenuous to use assumptions for modeling?
If everybody walked into their bank right now to withdrawal, they couldn't cover either.

Right?
Zoom Announces Mail (With E2EE to Other Zoom Mail Users) and Calendar
Zoom Mail and Calendar on the way.
My reply is just a guess. A poorly-quantized saw wave will have “bit-crushing” artifacts at higher frequencies, which can imply the existence of a frequency that’s too low for the speaker to handle.

The video link is to a video showing bit-crushing effects applied to saw waves (and others), along with the audio. Headphone warning: it sounds pretty gnarly.

https://youtu.be/Tv5c8gPYwFs

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoacoustics#Missing_fund...
They actually mentioned FoxDot in their comment, so they're already familiar. Plus, FoxDot is no longer being actively developed.
Ask HN: What's possible to make cables durable on ends where the connector is?
At least in theory, maybe something our machines can not produce.
> If your compiler can prove you dont need bounds-checking it will remove the check and the performance would be the same

and in practice that is a very big "if"
Not necessarily. A lot of analog front ends have a highpass filter around 8-20 Hz (the audible threshold). I don't really know why, it might be to prevent DC drift so that there is no asymmetrical distortion in the signal fed to the ADC, just speculating. But I do know a lot of systems just won't capture <20Hz.
Not knowing anything about the engineer in question, no two people's experience over a given period of time is equivalent. Additionally, levels differ wildly at different organizations.
Unfortunately, even most Android phones also are being made without a headphone jack nowadays