skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m hunting tech debt at work, meanwhile there is immunity debt out there!
This is really wordy. Anyone have an alternative introduction to asyncio?
> But not once - not from word of mouth, or directly from them, or someone, ever, anywhere - have I heard a common sense way these guys make money due to intelligence, instead of due to a scam or due to luck.

Financial markets have a fascinating property: any well-known strategy that can be implemented at reasonable cost [0] stops working. This is because people implement it and the profit goes away. If Jane Street has a common sense strategy or three that makes money, they’re not telling you about it.

(I’m taking about actual market profits here. It is well known that you can make lots of money by charging fees on a lackluster fund as long as you can find investors.)

[0] The cost issue is real, and the relevant parameter is some combination of profit (revenue - opex), capex and risk. For example, one can make money (revenue) by being the fastest market on the block. But the revenue there is approximately bounded and competition has driven the cost up to insane levels, so it is not straightforward to do this profitably.
Which is interesting because Nixon pressured official to make "cheap money" :
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/1970s-gre...
This. I only watch science videos on YouTube nowadays
I think tiktok's "slice of life" short glimpses into how people live is dramatically more interesting than the bloated content youtube pushes at me, which is usually weirdos with fake sounding voices doing overly dramatized "explainers" or "reactions" about something the algorithm has identified I'm mildly interested in.

What you see in tiktok feels more "real" (even when contrived) than the overly produced content of youtube.
> Octopus is a word created in modern scientific latin by nonnative (scientific) speakers out of greek parts brought into English. There are no real rules there.

I recall reading that back in the day, there were criticisms that the neologism "television" would never catch on ... because it combined Greek and Latin roots.
How much electricity wasting for Google/Gmail's spam emails' backup, storage
Let's calculate yearly energy consumption for backing up and storage spam emails in Google/Gmail, which is a waste of energy (okay! using data for training their spam detection system)
I assume - approx. 5.4-6 mb spam email for every user and 2 billion gmail accounts out of there.
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add your out of envelope and electricity calculation to comment.
Waymo One is now open to the public in Downtown Phoenix
Why would I even want to flip a coin? I already have a bag full of pennies.
I'm so happy to see this. It should live on folklore.org. The librarians were heroes (loved the "pink slips", ha ha).

I was an engineer at the time — my manager had apparently heard a little bird and told his reports that we might want to go through the Apple Library and check out any books that looked interesting ... because we would likely not ever have to return them.

I grabbed Foley and Van Dam, maybe a few others. It was sad to see the library go but having only been at Apple for two years, perhaps it served to give me a taste of what Mr. Jobs at the helm would be like.
Making $420k with student loans is a pretty clear edge case, and we often find that trying to means-test these sorts of things winds up making things worse, not better.
Haven't tried it yet, but I like the features!
> How does agreement suddenly become less informed or less consensual because the participant gets paid more

Why shouldn't college professors sleep with their students? How does the relationship become less informed or less consensual? The answer is power.

Money is power, and too large of a power imbalance corrupts a relationship. Money is pressure, and too much pressure is coercive.
When my then 4 month-old was hospitalized with RSV last year, the medical staff told us the main issue with RSV in very young children (under 6 months) is that their respiratory system is still immature. That is, their airways are still very small and their coughs are less productive. This means that RSV symptoms that would be manageable for an older child can become potentially life threatening for the very young.

For example, if your toddler has a stuffy nose, you can help them to blow it. For an infant, you need a tool to suction their nose which can be difficult to do. That same stuffy nose might cause poor feeding and dehydration which on top of the general breathing issues caused by RSV can lead to a rapid deterioration in the infant's health.

Even with all the supportive care (oxygen, regular suctioning, a feeding tube), it took a full 5 days in the hospital for our infant to recover.

My first-hand experience with this seems to be consistent with larger trends as well. A recent CDC presentation shows that children age 0-5 months are hospitalized by RSV at far higher rates than any other age group. [1]

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
This is a great idea. First browser that implements this natively gets my vote!
People keep blaming reasonable medical practices instead of, you know, several years of global, immense stress? That has a definite effect on immune health. We KNOW that huge numbers of people are needing mental health treatment, so much so that it has basically overwhelmed the mental health sector, but we just ignore that when discussing why people are getting sick right now with relatively low interactivity things?
In SBF’s case, I think there was actually an academic failure: there was something very important that he should have been taught, but wasn’t.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/133725070407583334...

https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1299553547596431360

These are excellent topics for classroom discussion. What I believe should have followed is a stronger justification for using something like the Kelly criterion despite a personal near-linear utility function, on the basis that e.g. not going all the way down to zero asymmetrically preserves access to future investment opportunities, and similar grounds. I think plenty of people intuitively understand this.

But instead, nobody was able to explain to him why he couldn’t throw out the book on risk management, and he acted accordingly.
> small-time investors are being systematically fleeced

Anyone buying options in the hope of getting rich is a speculator, not an investor. While they might lose money, they aren't being fleeced.

> And if adjustable-rate subprime mortgages were the oppressive product of the Great Recession, options trading might’ve filled their shoes for the current downturn.

This makes no sense to me whatsoever.

> wide bid-ask spreads that incur immediate losses for options traders.

A wide bid-ask spread might give you bad fills but that doesn't mean you incur an immediate losses. You might even turn a profit!

> To be clear: losing in the market is one thing, but managing to be systematically fleeced at a time when all boats were rising

Again, claims of people being fleeced proffered without any evidence. Buying options has a different payoff compared to buying stock. News at 11.

> Within that machine, encouraging or allowing leveraged options trading on short contracts among retail investors should be considered nothing less than criminal.

I'm not seeing what is supposed to be criminal here.

There's no attempt to explain how options actually work or why people lose money trading them. All we have is handwaving and conspiracy mongering. But I guess that's totally on brand for Jacobin.
Engaging in play is not unique to humans, so assuming an animal is just fooling around is not anthropomorphizing anything.
Just in case I missed anything...
When you consider compound interest, it's not assuming you reinvest that money or anything. You just pick an index fund and keep adding to it every month for years and that's enough?
Maybe they are just confused about the whole thing, you know. :)
Sigh. Obviously we’re talking time here. The scale on the X axis, the interval that appears on the graph between two points, is different if every unit is a month vs a year. Months and years are different units of time.

IDK… nobody is really trying to figure out how to interpret the data. People were just commenting that “declines to X%” actually still means that it’s gone up YoY and not that it’s declining YoY and here you are yelling that actually it is declining because recently it went down. Which is false, YoY.
I still use it, even though I have to configure fonts meticulously, and switching from the default font is a pain (no ctrl+mousewheel trick, can only select between 5 preconfigured fonts).

It starts up fast and reads text comparably fast, and it works great with most console programs. It doesn't try to reflow text when resizing, which simply can't be done correctly. Most other terminals try to reflow and it is frequently a mess (last I checked is long ago)...

Another reason I like xterm is that it's one of the few left that support bitmap fonts, and on old low-res screens those are much better legible. (On more modern displays with DPI > 150, it starts to become difficult to find large enough bitmap fonts.)
Yet another example of designers not being happy until they've rooted out the work of other designers.
Yeah, meanwhile we all know that writing to variables on the same cache line from multiple threads is bad for performance; interesting to see here though that it happened within the JDK and how they found it.
@matwood it is a disaster for working people regardless as wages are not keeping pace with the effects of inflation.
That RAS logo is beautiful, stylish, intricate, and quite recognizable - especially with its clever use of telescopes as rays and of the empty spaces to remind one of celestial bodies. I have no idea why you think it's comparable to the simplistic unintelligible symbolism of the new OUP one.
There's no need for byzantine approaches to buying Series I savings bonds when you can get 1.5% real yields on TIPS.
> The only reason you’ve ever drank a coke is because of these ads.

This isn’t true in all cases. When I first drank a coke I was very young and wasn’t even aware of advertising. The first coke I drank was because my parents took me to McDonalds and that’s all they sell. Then I found I preferred it over Pepsi. Advertising had very little to do with my first coke, it was more contracts with fast food companies.
You and your friends are likely broke in comparison to the Chouinards.

It seems incredibly presumptuous to assume you know how the minds of children of billionaires work and what they aspire to have.

This calls to mind a scene in the series "Succession" that I can't find now. The father and owner of the company is considering selling the company and cashing out, and his children, who have all been fighting for years to become his key successor, are up in arms about it, despite the fact that they would all become cash billionaires due to the shares in the company they already own. The gist is that having billions in cash effectively makes you a nobody compared to the person actually running a multi billion dollar company. As the leaders of a global media company, you're somebody important, compared to just some schmuck with a billion dollars. Then again, these characters are all have deep insecurity living in the shadow of their father, and he plays them all like a fiddle to keep them fighting each other for his approval.
Just good nature and good nurture.
Plenty of people have got rich off options trading - but you aren't going to. Take a look at the front page of WSB sometimes, every day there are a handful of people who made 6-figures on long shot options --- and then dozens of people who lost everything gambling on slightly different sets of instruments.

It's crazy to me that we restrict actual casino gambling to such a high extent but sports betting and options trading are just a free-for-all.
Yes, it is nonsense indeed.

What about: if they want to signal modernness and inclusiveness (regardless whether they actually want to be modern and inclusive) they had to get rid of the logo?
There's no need for byzantine approaches to buying Series I savings bonds when you can get 1.5% real yields on long-term TIPS.
Edge (the version that was killed) was able to read epubs. I quite liked that feature. Now I just use an e-reader or pdf
I call this "the great MBAlization".

It's the reason every furniture is beige, every company turns into an advertising company and even creative industries like Hollywood can only make superhero/franchise movies.

Risk aversion, margin squeezing and exploiting established consumer bases as much as possible.
Why? Seems pretty intuitive to me in a time where everything is encrypted.
Not an industrial designer, but is there any reason this couldn't have been changed out by one "10x" designer in a dozen iterations over a few weeks/months?

It's a bottle cap with a valve in it, after all.
That's not autism at work, whether he is autistic or not.

If anything, this study would predict greater risk aversion: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29846850/#:~:text=This%20stu....
The option contracts you wrote are forcing you.
Scan codes should be the main solution, not arrows. Keyboards that change the actual key placement so badly they can't be used are very very rare. Needing several buttons in addition to the movement keys is very very common.

Even if you're worried about weird layouts, the biggest issue you'd see by far is keyboards that don't have arrow keys!
England has about 2% of the area of the US, so from a US perspective, it's quite small.
Ahem, we don't "beat" our designers with metal poles anymore due to climate change.

We only use artisanal free-range wooden spatulas to deliver "corrective encouragement" in a carbon-free manner.
> This just seems to be a mismatch of expectations. The Republicans won the election in that they are going to have more seats than they did before. People are saying they "lost" because they didn't win as much as people expected. To use a sports analogy, they won the game but didn't cover the spread.

They under-performed very, very badly. It's like eking out a narrow win because (somehow) the sun was always in your opponents eyes and the wind was always at your back. Sure you got a win, but a win of that magnitude means you suck and will probably lose badly in the future.
> Rebranded in 1999, according to Wikipedia. I would think the old logo looked really bad on the web at the time, with monitors being 640 × 480 at 256 colors, if you were lucky.

Now this is just silly. By 1999 most web users had at least True Color displays at SVGA if not XGA. While VGA resolutions with 256 colors were a design consideration those users were not the norm.

With that said, the old SGI looked just fine even at 256 colors. The shape was distinctive and it was all grayscale so 256 color palettes had all the colors needed for the logo with little noticeable dithering. There were even good 1-bit versions that were very distinctive.
Twitter information security chief Kissner to leave
Yes, but you might think it will appreciate less than other people do and expect to make money by selling calls on average.
Prices good, delivery time was terrible. Would not recommend.
I tried to pursue this topic to the antipodes but I only found an antipus.
Well i see where you are coming from, the point of bug bounties is to reduce risk to the company not neccesarily to reward effort of the researcher. There is a sense that a bug where you have to be NSA level of skill to find is less likely to be exploitted than a bug that every script-kiddie is stumbling upon.
Interesting, I was thinking of a way to support many CRMs integrations without building all of them in-house
This is very worrying. I have two old Pixels (2 and 4) with plenty of personal data, and none have been updated for years now. I am sure other people too keep their old phones around and won't be getting updated either.
How Twitter ads is ingesting and storing advertiser credit cards
I can get the prices for goods online, and then get them delivered to my house. Getting the CPI more often seems entirely feasible to me if we really wanted to.
That may not fly on HN.

You didn't get the memo that TikTok is evil and everything made in China is bad? (with the possible exception of RISC CPUs, because reasons?)
Is this a niche where I could use "octopodibus" ?
Yeah, this article had me pissed off at Steve Jobs. You know what else pissed me off? Putting usb ports on the back of the iMac where they are hard to reach. Steve did some good things and some bad things.
One of the reasons I like Linux and its window managers. Not only are current Windows themes limited, they also are inconsistent. It hurts my eyes to look at title bars staying white when everything else is in dark mode. That actually gave me a reason to purchase a WindowBlinds license and relive the 90s skinning craziness.
> Or more easily, are there any industries where this is not the norm?

porn?

Or in general, any business with highly mobile customers/employees and narrow profit margins.
In the US, you don't get the government on your side without money and connections.
Minimalism is also a tradition in logos. A logo needs to serve many purposes, one of which is being recognizable even under poor visibility. Many national flags are the height of minimal design, because one key goal for them was to be seen in battle so you knew where your side was.

Modern technology has different reasons for a similar purpose. Resolution may be poor because of your screen or network rather than battle smoke, but the idea is similar.

The OUP logo isn't a battle flag, and could afford more detail than this logo. But OUP is a living entity. Its history is important, but so are its ongoing contributions. They don't want people looking at their books and thinking, "This logo is very old-fashioned; maybe the book is also out of date."

Were it me, I'd have at least hinted at its prior logo. To me, the problem with the new one isn't its minimalism, but its lack of personality. You don't need a lot to have personality; the Twitter logo is very much theirs. Even the Facebook "f" logo, dull as it is, at least has a letter linking to them. (A circle isn't an O; it might even have worked better if it were an O with the same theme.)
one that I often hear foreign speakers struggling with is “hair”. 1 hair, 2 hairs, a whole head of hair. seemingly, if it’s countable it follows normal rules, if it’s not, it goes back to singular form. but then it could be absolutely correct to say “the many hairs on my head”, an uncountable which retains the plural.

English is an absolute mess
If you had the survey in hand you could point to it. Proprietary information is not news and exists even in academia (cf. scihub).
Yes, exactly. Control groups are incredibly important for ensuring good quality of clinical studies. It's a technique that solves multiple "calibration" problems, including:

- being able to draw causal conclusions

- being able to adjust against placebo effects

A lot of clever people have tried to come up with ways of doing away with control groups. But ultimately, the best we can achieve is to stop early, as soon as the trial has a clear outcome. I do perhaps think this has become more common in recent times though, so perhaps the study you were involved in was at a time when early stopping wasn't really "the done thing".

But it still beats "studies" done 100 years ago, when you might give someone a cough mixture, see that they improved (if they died, let's just ignore that), and conclude that it was the cough mixture that did it!
That's quite the retcon.
Not that I'm denying your claim, but if there's that little oversight on the allocation of funds, I fail to see how any of these orgs not get looted before the opening bell rings.

If any exec could just cut (likely many) six-figure cheques for what really amounts to personal expenses while overseeing a project that is allocated too few funds, is way over budget, and over time, then what keeps these orgs afloat?

To reiterate, I'm not saying I don't believe you, I just don't really understand it.
I don't think this was a major problem in the 2008 crisis.

John Corzine's MF Global was a well known case in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Global
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This convo reminds me of MDX -- https://mdxjs.com/ -- allows you to mix JSX with markdown, popular for making documentation pages for design systems.

A lot of the limitations of MD mentioned here are alleviated by allowing arbitrary JSX, which of course is optional for users who want something more basic.
One caveat on this - most residential systems don't have fans that are designed to go up to MERV16.

High MERV ratings put more load on the blower equipment.
> We should be seeing planned obsolescence as a national security risk and set tariffs so high these planned obsolescence stuff goes away.

The concept of antagonistic nations dividing a single planet is one of the things we could get rid off in order to make it easier to build an Utopian society.
I think J-Pop in general tends to create interest through composition (fast and complex chord changes, syncopated melodies with lots of movement) compared to Western pop, which tends to create interest through vocal performance. The characteristics of J-Pop mesh really well with Vocaloid where the voice itself is not that interesting to listen to but you have more composition possibilities for fast tempos or wide pitch ranges that wouldn't be possible with a human singer.
> [...] and give you curt service

I might actually prefer that. The fake smiling creeps me out.
There's a difference. In the "hygiene hypothesis" model—the one where your immune system weakens without exposure—getting a cold makes you less likely to get the flu. That doesn't appear to be true. In reality, since the cold and the flu aren't biologically related, one does not confer immunity for the other.

That's not to say the "hygiene hypothesis" is completely false. There's good evidence that exposing children to low level pathogens early and often helps reduce autoimmune conditions like allergies, asthma, and arthritis. It just doesn't effect viral response.
Grat experiences, thanks for sharing. You experience with directors is a clear example I suggest of where their desire to control obliterated the autonomy and ability of the team to function effectively. Mature and self aware senior leaders restrain the natural impulse to control.

I'd love to learn more, maybe even write a teaching case study if you're interested.

Write me at info@brettmacfarlane.com

Thanks again for sharing your experiences.
https://www.eng-tips.com/forumlist.cfm not exactly like HN but definitely geek land this ME
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person
i'm sure SBF is very smart, i just meant more like "How would this guy get access to that kind of capital"
What kind of APIs are you writing that don’t involve db lookups or calls to other services?
I'm very curious how autotuned/melodyned vocals are not "real vocals", but vocals that have had EQ applied to them, or have been compressed or flanged or post-process reverberated or delayed, are "real vocals".

Perhaps there is also a standard mic for Vocal Realness. I assume it must be a SM58; it is, after all, well-known that having a low-pass switch on the microphone lowers the industry-calibrated Realness Score by at least 250 mSpr(ingsteen). More if it's on.

edit: A friend also pointed out to me the inherent Springsteen ceiling of computer-reproduced audio. And you know, he's right, I'm going to go find a chamber and hire some monks for the true realness that only an authentic Gregorian chant can provide. Denon sells them in twelve-packs, you know.
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked"