skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing you are correct, seeing as in a similar fashion I'd imagine there are a lot of people who have no idea what their 401(k) is even invested in.

However when going through the annual election process it generally makes it very clear how much you are paying out of each paycheck and what the employer contributes. Now whether people pay attention at all I can't say.
Twitter has entered the chat.
I think the UK also has non-toll exits (I think every country with a developed highway network does?).

The obvious solution is just to put the cameras on the non-toll exits as well. They tend to be spaced generously on US interstates, so it probably wouldn't be a significant expense relative to the overall cost.
Gaussian Processes - with Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
by Christopher M. Bishop
Would have loved a more practical example.
Make it so that at the third ticket in a year, your car is seized and sold off and your car debt becomes non-dischargable with a credit card interest rate.
I would posit that time spent building that network is more valuable than the equivalent amount of time spent blasting out resumes to random job listings. You can network with recruiters to find the right ones with no prior exposure to them.

For the most part, desperate employers are not the ones you want to work for anyhow. They're desperate for a reason. It's not like there's some scarcity of candidates now, especially as layoffs before more common.
If all the pesants are saying it, nobody gives a shit.

If all the blue checkmarks are saying it, people give a shit.

You cant tell the difference anymore.
That's both a slippery slope and a strawman argument

That’s just the messageboard version of ‘ur mom’. Ur mom is a slippery slope and a strawman!
Gox went under in 2014. Eight years ago. There have been tens if not hundreds since then.

If you're being "awakened" now, you've not just been asleep, you've been sedated...
I work on a code base that is a mixture of Go and C.

It's IO, CPU and Memory hungry, and it's distributed.

C is fast because it's close to how CPU and memory actually work. Go gives you 95+% of that plus easy to learn, easy to use language. A new person could start contributing useful features and bug fixes immediately. A senior person could get C-level performance.

More and more of our code is moved from C to Go, with very little performance penalty, but with a lot more safety and ease of use.

Our customers benefit, and our company makes more money.

In the end, that's what software is about.
Cloudflare is gradually encroaching on the world of useful services. One day I'll get the chance to use them at work!
This sort of rhetoric is suboptimal. It only seems persuasive because you consider cryptocurrency to be analogous in purpose to cash, but the person you're trying to convince likely does not believe this. If they did, then they likely would already see purposes of cryptocurrency other than avoiding regulation, via the analogy.

If you're going to argue through analogy, you ideally need to ensure agreement with the analogy. Since asynchronous discussions make this difficult, we often need to settle for motivating the analogy instead. Simply assuming it is usually not persuasive.
This article seems mostly focused on the business webrings, but what about the core idea?

I think it was probably doomed by sites not wanting outbound links, either because of pagerank, fear of loosing traffic, looking unprofessional, or the appearance of an affiliation. The inbound traffic was not worth the outbound traffic.
And insurance companies get that money from thin air? Isn't this "Exhibit A" for why health insurance in the US is unaffordable to many?
The 8-Hour Workday Century
Took a long break for writing, but it feels good to finally publish about the subject of working hours. It wanders through my mind every now and then, and I'm baffled that we've changed so much the way we spend our time ever since the Internet gained traction, and all the electronic devices, yet we still obey to the 8-hour workday unwritten rule. Feels like this century we'll have to adapt the way of working to our modern lives.
I’m fine with a world where the stupid and harmful reduce my tax bill.
Perhaps scaling is also a questionable goal. Without the imperatives of capitalism--aggregating large markets to exploit--how much need is there for these services to be so large scale? For individuals, 'network effects' are useful, but not infinitely so. There are diminishing returns.
> Randomness destroys the ghost in the machine as effectively as determinism.

I totally agree, and yet my encounter with academic philosophy was that most people with a free-will orientation see that randomness as precisely the origin of free will.

Personally, the only notion of free will that makes sense (and the one to which I personally hold) is the notion of agent-causation[1].

> it seemed to me that there might possibly be some way to get out of trouble by arguing that I wasn't responsible for my actions

The philosophical notion of free will is actually completely irrelevant here. The relevant questions are a) "Is social accountability psychologically effective and altering someone's behavior?" and b) "what sorts of behavior modifications are morally permissble?"

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories/...
Can you say your PIN? And if so, can a recording of you or a simulation of you saying it be played?
I didn't even know webring.org but used quite a lot own build webrings until the mid 2000s. Probably something like this has a chance again as google does not work anymore to find multiple niche sites.
It's insane - the laws are obviously made to be broken because nobody wants 100% enforcement.
fwiw voron00's mako builds and my builds are fully functional. I daily drove one a while back for fun.
Who is excusing it? I'm not! You have to lock SBF up assuming everything we have heard so far is close to the truth.

I want the lot of billionaire donors to have their and their company's finances and political involvement investigated and made transparent for the public. Keep them all accountable. But ofc SBF is worse than all the rest because of how bad his actions have been. The worst. But overall we shouldn't allow any one to have such outsized power. Don't make it legal to politically donate this much money to any one.

On the other hand, you appear to be excusing the Republican donor's. Your comments are saying "go after this visibly criminal (according to our justice system) Democrat. Focus on that! Ignore all the republican [and other Democratic] ones". Being as partisan as can be.

nobody9999 summarized my side perfectly as well.
How to do what you want to do by Dr. Paul Hauck seems to have defined my philosophy towards life by introducing me to the concept of self-discipline. It is a self-help book that has guided me for 20+ years, even when I had failed to follow it and had clicked with me.
Here's a clue:

1. You get surprise-fired, then rehired.

2. Your new CEO is publishing, unpublishing, publishing, unpublishing features in a coke-fueled frenzy.

3. And is openly talking about the company going bankrupt.

4. And is picking fights with US senators responsible for media oversight.

5. And is blocking ad agency representatives who are trying to explain why their ads are pulled and what should be done so they come back.

... you can't possibly be "strong and motivated" for this CEO, even if you were prior one of the best software engineers in the company and the region as a whole. No, you want to resign and move on from this train wreck.

But you see, if you resign, you don't get compensation. So you stick around and don't resign, but give zero fucks, and your goal is to kinda push your boss into firing you.
I think a big part of this is just how much flatter most of it is.

1mi+ visibility ins't so much anything with road design...it's just geometry.
Any plans to expand to Discord? Game developers and others working with non-enterprise users have the same problem.
One could also draw the conclusion that none of your accidents resulted in fatalities.
> You're not angered that you were advised to give this to a 15 year old with no upside even after he was hospitalized for 2 weeks as a result?!

I am being as honest as I can be with regards to our feelings on this. I can't say we are angry about that incident at all. I think I can say we are not happy about not having been provided with all of the information before he got his shot. Frankly, I don't even remember if the data was available (I do think it was, BTW). Remember, at the time, only about 700 cases.

Of course, the outcome might have had something to do with the lack of negative emotions. I can probably admit our position today would be massively different had we had to face a range of negative outcomes post-hospitalization. These can range from life-long afflictions to death.
Engineering solutions are best. A nice safe design where cars are away from people. Where turns are limited. Where pedestrians only cross at designated, high visibility areas, ideally timed to gaps in intended traffic flow patterns.

Arterial routes are necessary; designate them, build them accordingly. Add a small buffer between them and residential areas.

Time the dang lights on an arterial to encourage the most common flow to drive at the posted speed limits to continue hitting green lights.

Avoid red lights to 'calm' traffic patterns, that just encourages bypasses through whatever alternatives exist, which will be neighborhood streets.
The death of literary culture (2021)
It's been up for years. If you are super worried, I suggest buying his book which is ~90% of this in printed form. Called The Great CEO Within.
I think I had copy/pasted some code for a 3rd Person Follower camera and I just needed to mess with the negative signs to make sure left was left and right was right.

But yes, you can certainly get away with very little math even in 3d games.
I've just spent over two months looking for a Senior role in EU. I believe EU landscape is vastly different than US but I noticed similar trends. I had a ton of 'offers' on LinkedIn. I applied to few dozens. I got any kind of meeting with a recruiter with maybe third of them. Roughly half of those paid below the market rate. The other half I interviewed with further. Some ghosted me, some straight out told me no after take home assignment without a reason, some had assignment so ridiculously time consuming I just refused to do them. I got to around 5 proper tech interviews, got offers from 3, one being heavily underpaid(even though they knew what I asked for since the beginning). I was fairly picky as I aimed at the higher side of western salaries even though I live in Poland. I managed to get something well paid albeit really boring that I might end up changing in a year. Worth noting that I have mainly experience with .NET/Azure so that limits my options heavily. Very few companies want generalists besides FAANG.
We all like crazy designs like these because they are a breeding ground for innovation. However they tend to flop unless one of their innovations proves truly revolutionary.

Early personal computers and even laptops had interesting and varied designs before everyone coalesced around the optimal desktop, tower, and notebook designs.

A big part of the problem is software. If a phone maker puts out a truly unique form factor today, they are stuck in a situation where most existing software was built assuming the user is on a giant rectangle.
> do you use exceptions?

Exceptions, sorry.

I learned C++ in the early 90ies, but didn't like it much; I needed to do plain C for a few years at dayjob and several open source projects until I was fed up with manual error handling and go back to C++. At first with a "-fno-exceptions" policy (using something similar to GLib's GError), but gave up my resistance after a few more years, and now I enjoy exceptions very much. It's not perfect, nothing is, but everything else is uglier and so much more cumbersome.

Exceptions seem inappropriate with writing non-blocking/asynchronous code, because where do you throw stuff when the caller is not on the call stack, but instead wants you to invoke a completion callback... but on the other hand, I don't want to implement two different kinds of error reporting - just look at the C++ standard library, which sometimes throws exceptions, sometimes uses std::errc - no, I wanted one single way to wrap error conditions, and I decided that std::exception_ptr is the way to go. All my error callbacks take an std::exception_ptr parameter, which they can then rethrow eventually, or pass on to the next error callback. Yes, I hate std::exception_ptr because it allocates memory on the heap, I despise implicit dynamic allocations, but everything else is uglier and so much more cumbersome. (I repeat myself.)

Error handling is dirty, no matter how you solve it, but C++ exceptions, with all their disadvantages, allow me to just consider the problem solved and go on with writing real code instead of keeping worrying everywhere. It just works.

I know many projects and corporations have a strict "-fno-exceptions" policy and will not change their minds like I did - that's a matter of personal taste.
The COVID-19 fatality risk for children is very low overall (0.002% estimated by the CDC). Those deaths have almost all been in patients with severe pre-existing health conditions such as obesity. For pediatric patients without pre-existing conditions, the death rate is virtually zero. So from a public health perspective it's most important to focus vaccination campaigns on those at greatest risk.

https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-052273

https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fijpo.12920

To be clear, I am not telling anyone to avoid vaccination for themselves or their children. Vaccination is a good option for the vast majority of patients. Talk to your doctor.

And ironically, school closures and lockdowns during the pandemic actually increased the rate of childhood obesity. The purported "cure" was not only worse than the disease, it actually made the disease worse by placing children at greater risk.

https://www.cureus.com/articles/107920-increased-incidence-o...
I'm not sure anyone would believe this when the other narrative is simply more fun. If we're going to frame events using narration we have to be cognizant that spectacle wins. A fun story is going to trump a boring one every time. It's Memetics 101.
In certain countries of the EU, boosters are not approved for younger people.
It seems intentional to me, since Musk just mentioned shuttering unnecessary microservices and nothing is worse than a supposed know-it-all deciding they know how to mess with critical infrastructure in prod.
How about fines that scale with income?
Huh. I was about to complain that this breaks with web standards, but apparently it's being proposed as a standard feature: https://github.com/WICG/import-maps

Interesting!
EDIT: I wasn't kidding when I said I can play numbers and statistics all day.

When you say "VAERS notoriously undercounts", I think you're probably referring to the flu vaccine (where we would have historical data), but I don't think it's fair to say that would be true for the Covid vaccine.

Specifically because at the onset of this new vaccine, people are much more likely to report that a death happened after a covid vaccine. There is a segment of the population that has never trusted the covid vaccine, so they are a lot more likely to report a death after vaccination of a loved one. Also as the vaccine is new, there's probably a lot more data gathering around it because scientists would definitely like to know if the vaccine causes death. Lastly, it's an event you're much more likely to have talked to with your loved ones before you passed away, than with the flu vaccine.

My family knows I got a covid vaccine. My family has no idea about my flu vaccine status.

Lastly, and most importantly, the numbers for those are not intrinsically linked. There's not actually any implied causal link in any of those numbers "VAERS Covid/Flu Vaccine Reported Deaths by Days to Onset all Ages". They are all just correlated. If you want to look for a causal link you'd have to compare against the total number of people who got vaccines on that day. And then compare against total number of deaths for the whole population.
Agreed.

The knowledge gap between "normies" and "crypto-aficionados" is pretty large.

Which is, of course, why so many crypto "businesses" turn out to be scams of one sort or another -- the asymmetry of information makes most folks easy meat for scammers.

To point up this asymmetry, go ahead and watch this[0]. The lack of knowledge WRT crypto-currencies (let alone smart contracts) among the hoi polloi is striking in comparison to those who are in the know.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/crypto-decoded/ (Recent NOVA episode).
Be aware that since Omicron virtually all of those are dying "with" COVID, not of it. Examples collected from the Milwaukee coroner's office:

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/six-recent-covid-deaths-...

That's why the age skew is so high.
Any Subsonic music server works well with this: https://github.com/simojenki/bonob
been boycotting it for years. so makes not much of a difference for me. I prefer watching premier league anyways
Yes, people at the typical small or midsized company you found on LinkedIn know they are not really special and are not going to be fooled or won over that you redesigned your resume just for them or that you talk about how inspired you are by this company you just found out about today. You either are a match or you aren't. If your work experience is 90% backend and 10% frontend, it won't make any difference to tweak and fudge your resume to make you look like a frontend developer. It will come out in the end anyway. Better to focus on applying for the backend jobs that you do qualify for, or if you really want those frontend jobs, try to make your case in the cover letter or in some other way.

It should also be emphasized that jobs at famous organizations that you might legitimately have heard of already or been inspired by are going to be very competitive even if the salary is low and you far exceed the posted requirements.
Is this only for SMS 2FA or can they no longer verify OTP codes from an app like Google Authenticator or Authy as well?
> Regardless, if I want an emoji, I will type the emoji. If I typed ':)' I want ':)' not some stupid yellow face.

But are you sure that you didn’t really want `:slightly_smiling_face:`? (Auto-complete to passive-aggressiveness)
> How do you teach people to effectively use a profiler on code with pernicious caching?

Profile the function that is called if object is not found in cache ? Have pluggable cache with plugin that just doesn't cache? That is not hard problem to solve.

> They get really uncomfortable six months later when I'm reporting 2-3x in code that can't be optimized further. And in each case everything was made more difficult by the people ahead of me chumming the waters

Well, they delivered (I'm guessing) 10x improvement in a month by adding cache. Caching is entirely reasonable first step and it can be good enough to be last one.

And frankly ability to use profiler and knowing some architectural optimizations seems to be pretty rare skill.
They believe it's safe, because _they are_ safe in their modern SUVs. It's pedestrians, pets, bicyclists and other road users that they put at risk.
When AWS was starting?
Almost all European countries (perhaps all?) have changed policies about further boosters. For example in Italy the first booster was recommended to everyone and required to prolong the validity of the vaccination certificate, but the second (Omicron specific) is only recommended to the same categories for which the flu vaccine is recommended yearly.
I wonder if he mentions running from a different directory and running as a different user to highlight how annoying the effect from the environment is, as USER and PWD are part of the environment.
Well, at the peak of the epidemics, there was a whole industry devoted to claiming the most bogus things and preventing the people with the highest risk / benefit ratio from taking their shots. I made fun of the most hilarious of them too.

That did not make me any less scared of the "oooops" moment.

This will get worse (myocarditis today, menstural cycles tomorrow, maybe strokes and cancer later ?), then worse (vast number of people completely loosing faith into their docs and letting a much worse epidemy settle), then worse, before it gets... well, before life goes on and we mostly forget, as it has ever done and as we ever did, I suppose ?
> Did they not have a CFO or any finance people or accountants?

Perhaps not?

"If you take a look at the about FTX page, it shows six senior team members: the CEO, the COO, two leaders on tech and two on compliance and legal. Something is missing. For a company managing billions of client funds, $16 billion according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), is it not odd that there is no Chief Financial Officer (CFO)?"

https://www.ledgerinsights.com/ftx-warning-signs-no-cfo/
Doesn't every single large broker frontrun this way? That's what I was told by former wall street programmers.
You don't need to use a delivery service. It's true you need to set up SPF/DKIM/DMARC for many peers to accept mail from you, but then you can deliver the mail yourself directly.
I always say if you can text and drive at the same time, it's because you're not driving fast enough!
There is nothing in these theories.

If you want good information you don't go to youtube videos. There is a huge crossover between gold standard videos and a lot of other fringe and hate group ideas so I'd really suggest you don't watch them.

Just the wiki article on the Gold standard is going to be much better
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard

If you really want to understand read any editions of economics by samuelson from after 1980 that textbook has been in print and updated since 1948.
in same vein as parking fines... great sources of permanent income with a mask of 'we care'
My state has a super speeder law at 85mph (on 65-75mph highways) this results in 90% of vehicles going 84mph.
Blueprints for Intelligence – visual history of neural networks – 1943 to 2020
As someone with a lifetime of fighting with the executive dysfunction end of ADHD, I very much understand what Schopenhauer has saying. I can know what I need to do and have the willpower to do it, but the door to the cupboard where the willpower resides is locked, unlocks randomly, and nobody knows where the key is.
Natasha Leone (famous actress) talks about getting endocarditis and it was serious as well. She was very vulnerable to it because of some behavioral factors. My impression is that myocarditis is not as serious as endocarditis though.
Hylang is a great way to dip your toes into Lisp style languages IMHO since you have the entire python ecosystem at your fingertips. It was very eye opening to rewrite some scripts in Hy. I'm not sure if I'm ultimately a fan of lisp, but I had a lot of fun learning Hy a while back after discovering it in another HN post.
Probably, but having to type six keys just to open a code block is probably painful.
Show HN: Use Slack Emoji on GitHub
I think this comes from the fact that we give a lot of leeway to the definition of "supply" and "demand" in common economic talk. "I'd totally buy a Ferrari for $500" says nothing about the supply or demand for Ferraris.

Economists pull demand curves out of their asses when the only verifiable facts are actual, concrete sales.