skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aircraft carriers are gigantic and are designed to be stable. I’ve never been on the largest ones, but as a Marine I was on the Essex (a smaller carrier for jump jets and helicopters) and we sailed basically directly through a typhoon. The ship was pretty stable, pitching about 10 degrees from side to side. Enough to make some experienced sailors toss their lunch, and even if there was no wind, I think it would have been very treacherous to do flight ops with the deck pitching like that.

For fixed wing jets that need to land on deck… even if you ignored the wind that goes along with these conditions, I think recovering aircraft would be too great a risk. That does bring up the wind and visibility that (almost always) goes along with these extreme sea states, which would be probably just as hazardous as the deck pitching about to flight ops.

For basically everything else, I think the naval systems work just fine in bad weather.

In regards to rogue waves, an 85 foot wave would put green water on the flight deck of the carrier I was on, something that would be difficult to imagine for me. Aircraft on the flight deck are chained down with multiple chains, each of the chains having the strength to hold the entire aircraft down, so I can’t imagine losing aircraft, but flooding the planes with sea water probably wouldn’t be good for them.
Absolutely. The reason we use a judiciary system is to avoid a major problem of the mob: the most convincing voice is the one that the crowd listens to. You don't need proof, you just need to be compelling. That's the standard of evidence in mod justice.

Now, I'm not blind to the fact that the justice system in any country is flawed. That said, it's far less flawed than a group of people with metaphorical torches listening to the guy on the largest soapbox.
The simple banal answer is probably people know more about Coinbase than they do about Lattice.
The FDIC considers it a fairly important internal control mechanism for fraud:

https://www.fdic.gov/news/financial-institution-letters/1995...

To quote the most relevant bit (although the page is short and readable):

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"Vacation Policies - It is the FDIC's goal that all banks have a vacation policy which provides that active officers and employees be absent from their duties for an uninterrupted period of not less than two consecutive weeks. Such a policy is considered an important internal safeguard largely because of the fact that perpetration of an embezzlement of any substantial size usually requires the constant presence of the embezzler in order to manipulate records, respond to inquiries from customers or other employees, and otherwise prevent detection. It is important for examiners and bank management to recognize that the benefits of this policy may be substantially, if not totally, eroded if the duties performed by an absent individual are not assumed by someone else. Where the bank's policy does not conform to the two-week recommended absence period, examiners should encourage the board of directors to annually review and approve the policy followed and the exceptions allowed. It is important in such cases that adequate compensating controls be devised and strictly enforced. When it is determined, after thorough consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, that the bank's vacation policies are deficient, the matter should be discussed with the chief executive officer or directors. Comments and recommendations on the supplemental Internal Routine and Controls schedule may be appropriate."
Charters and Chartering: Immunization Against Foreseeable Project Failure (2001) [pdf]
I bought a Roborock S7 because of this issue. I wanted a capable vacuum with no camera. It's my first robot vacuum, so I don't have any points of comparison, but it's been excellent.

It's mapped the rooms really well and leaves perfect lines on the carpet - no ranom navigation or ping-ponging. We pick things up before we run the robot, but that's fine because it means the house is tidier.

I don't have a pet so I don't know how good it is at avoiding poop on the floor (apparently a selling point of vacuums with cameras) but poop on the floor is not something I would accept in my house anyway.
I've been following along the gc of oil.

It succeeds because it only solves the GC problems that Oil has (and I mean this as a high complement).

Oil is single threaded, code runs in loops that are well understood, and the code is generated from a strongly typed subset of Python.

The GC then is run only between loop iterations, so there is no need for stack scanning. You never have to worry about a root being in a temporary (from the point of view of the C++ compiler) since there are just a few locals in the function running the loop, and any variables local to the loop are logically dead between iterations.

Since a goal of Oil is portability, not scanning registers and stacks is very important. Getting this right when the GC could be invoked at any allocation is potentially intractable with mypy semantics at least.
Probably the biggest recent result: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04836 (author thread: https://twitter.com/SamuelAinsworth/status/15697194946455265...)

See also: https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind

and more to OP's incentive structure: https://docs.bittensor.com/

Latter two intend to beat latency with Mixture-of-Expert models (MoEs). If the results of the former hold, it shows that with a simple algorithmic transformation you can merge two independently trained models in weight-space and have performance functionally equivalent to a model trained monolithically.
From cloud computing to proptech: DigitalOcean co-founders raise $29M
I don't know, many of the major drugs, like penicillin, insulin, thorazine, birth control etc were developed without those hurdles, and not in the USA. But US gave us Viagra)
Have you tried running your own mail server and not having Microsoft or Google mishandle your email (an open protocol)?
Maybe in the 1980s. On a modern bike it is integrated into the transmission, usually on the drive sprocket. And then the signal is used in slightly different ways, with the odometer being accurate and the speedometer generally reading a few % higher than the actual speed. Some bikes may also use it for electronic engine/emission controls too.
An email is all it takes to 'own' one's mistake?

Wish I could email my priest instead of having to go into the confession booth each time.
The early aviation industry had a very substantial "move fast and break stuff" mentality. YouTube has plenty of videos of those folks. However "break stuff" usually meant smearing aircraft and bodies all over the landscape. Much of FAA's regulation is to try to prevent killing "too many" people. If the engine on your car stops, you can usually pull over to the side of the road. If the engine on your aircraft stops, you're going to be landing soon and hopefully not landing on a building full of people. And if you're really lucky when the engine stops, all the people sitting in the back can walk away.

The FAA is frequently called a "tombstone agency" - who only act long after fatal accidents and the bodies have been buried.
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Compared with Placidia's 3rd-base-baby origins, Theodora seems to have done a bit more Willing her way...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_(wife_of_Justinian_I)...
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Modern front-end development is extremely complicated. You need to figure out a pile of tooling, frameworks and libraries, and boilerplate stuff that's constantly in flux before you even get to the point of seeing "Hello World" on the screen and figuring out where you can add some CSS to change the color and font and move it around the screen. Even a simple project might have 50 different files you need to edit. Even figuring out where to get started is hard.

You know what might make more sense? Focus on Web 1.0 stuff. What tech was more common say around 2005-2010? Look into working with HTML/CSS/jQuery without any build tools. Create a folder with an index.html file, and put your CSS and JS in there with no other tooling. Figure out how to manipulate HTML/CSS/JS in there and being able to build a basic webpage there before looking into more exotic setups. Some elitists might scoff at this kind of setup, but the more important thing is to learn how to code. Eventually you'll run into issues trying to maintain that kind of simple setup and that's where you can start to look into CSS libraries and build tools and more.
So 3/4 of the main points here are in regards to hiring the right people...
Almost makes me wonder if hr teams/operations shouldn't be measured on just headcount but rather getting the right people in
>but if you see a US government site do this for example, that's usually why.

Do you have any examples that of US legislation that requires being able to reach a local employee? I can barely get state government departments to respond to me, and there are multiple states I have called during normal business hours that flat out say “we are too busy today, call tomorrow”.

The idea of a government in the US legislating access to a government employee is laughable, based on my experiences.
> If our testing were perfect such that we could detect all cancers early enough to stop, that would functionally be a cure, no?

no. being able to detect cancer doesn't mean people are getting tested twice a year for their whole life. for example, you wouldn't have routine cancer screenings for children, but sometimes they get cancer, and on those occasions it'd be nice to have better treatment options.
completely agreed. That they still exist is a damnation of our society.
The original sentence ended with "walking the plank"
only kind of, the suprising thing is they are way bigger than expected (or rather, rogue waves of a given height are orders of magnitude more likely than you would expect from just adding together the statistics of each frequency of wave). There's some other interaction or non-linear behaviour going on which causes them to occur with the frequency that they do, and I don't think there's a single model which actually explains them.
I don't work at Twitter - only someone who does would know the reason why. Being a Musk critic shouldn't give you a free pass to never be rate or search or visibility limited like anyone else when your account gets flagged for suspect behavior. His own colleague claimed it was likely due to bot-like behavior. Any speculation that it's Musk related is completely unfounded unless there's literally any evidence other than circumstantial speculation.
Thats a cool new idea for sure, go for it!
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That is true for Free Range which is basically meaning less, but Free Range is not the same as Pasture Raised

Normally Pasture Raised means

- at least 1.8 square feet of indoor floor space each

- continuous access to a vegetation-covered outdoor area in which to roam and forage

- at least 4 square feet of outdoor space each

- access to perching and nesting boxes

I buy from Small Farms also...
It already has far more utility than web3 ever had. So many people are already using this to get far more productive. Don’t know about the startups, but GPT3+ is already a success for actually productivity.
I moved off Pleroma to GotoSocial and it's been a good experience. Much more lightweight code and resource wise; a single Go binary using sqlite (postgres is an option).

It's still rough around the edges, but is actively developed and has an engaged and welcoming community.

https://gotosocial.org/
>Anything that you cannot immediately tell what it is made from, basically. So a hamburger is HPV, piece of meat that you have cooked is not.

Both burgers and steaks are made from beef cattle; aren't they? I don't really understand why the prior preparation steps required to turn a steer into a cut of beef are not processing steps, whereas the relatively smaller actions required to grind a cut of meat and shape it into a patty are.

An omelette is a HPF but a boiled egg is not? It doesn't seem like a useful metric.
well, you should have, and that's on you.
What makes you think WhatsApp is centralized or has any single points of failure?

What makes you think that dedicated infrastructure run by the train people would be less centralized or more reliable than that run by Facebook?
It is touted as a perk but mostly it isn't worth the cost of shipping + repurposing them. The concern is usually company data, but if you trust your employees to wipe the laptop correctly then there's really no problem with letting them keep it.
Spend more time with kids, study language, exercise, watch movies and tv shows I don't have time for, listen to podcasts, cook more sophisticated meals, maybe translate movie/tv shows subtitles for others.
How else are you going to get hounded by your alumni association? I finally shook them after probably my 5th move out of college, then my Mom (of all people!) gave them my new address when they called her.
> 2. Cost. There is a direct cost (like remarking everything), and indirect -- all the chaos and errors because of mixing up units. To foot the bill is hard sell in Congress.

Maybe for things like road signs where a lot of travel and labor would be required to change everything. But for most commercial products, you don't have to change everything all at once or make some kind of big retooling effort. Company would just have to pick a day, and from there on, instead of printing "16 fl. oz." just start printing "473 ml" on the package.
I've been very unimpressed with ChatGPT's performance on technical problems. I asked it to solve a problem in heat transfer, and I was initially excited because it gave a detailed answer, explaining how to set up and solve the problem using the Heat Equation, leading to a complicated integral followed by a closed-form expression for the answer.

Problem is--when I actually looked closely at the results, they were wrong: filling in the known initial and boundary conditions gave nonsense, unphysical answers. I then asked it to solve a couple of ordinary differential equations, and both answers were wrong.
Id like to see Lattice work on the usability of their product as well. If they don’t fix that the other 85% of the company will lose their jobs too.
> Tocharian is a language, we don't know who the "Tocharians" were as the linked paper explains in the abstract

We do know that the Tocharians were a people [1], as they were identified as such by writings in Sanskrit, Greek, and Persian. But the Tocharian language is too late (400-1200CE) to make any connection to the Tarim mummies, which date to 1800BC.

However, the Tocharian language has distinctive features that suggest that it branched at a very early date (3000BC [1]) from the other Indo European languages, which would put its "origin" date far earlier than its attestation date, and possibly (though not provably) associated with the Tarim mummies.

The signals point both ways, and as you say, this was a diverse part of the world in ancient times, so it's impossible to know what language they spoke given current evidence. They could just as well have been multilingual.

> It should be noted that research in this field is extremely politicized within China even by local standards.

Yeah, this is very unfortunate, but common across Asia as countries form post-colonial national identities, but in doing so force complex questions about history and human migrations into the service of very simplistic nationalist identity narratives.

You see this particularly in India, where the nationalists in power reject (without basis) the entire notion that the Indo-European languages originated in Central Asia (i.e. Yamnaya culture). This is of course not to excuse the biases of colonial scholarship, which had its own serious problems in how it characterized linguistic and archaeological discoveries, allowing them them to be pushed into service of colonial nationalist narratives.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocharians

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites#/media/File:Indo-Euro...
> Black coffee can keep hunger at bay for a LONG time for me, while even a small amount of white bread or processed sugar will turn on all the "feed me and don't stop" signals.

I drink a lot of coffe, but with sugar. I've tried slowly quitting sugar in coffee, but that only made my stomach ache and drinking it was very unpleasant. Without coffee, I would have to make some other caffeine providing solution, without it it's too hard to focus on coding for me (I can live without coffee just fine, I go cold-turkey for two weeks every year, but it's holdiays and I'm away from computer, so no need for coffee).
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Mastering the Dark Pentrade (2021)
Rephrasing or defining something doesn't make it circular because it's not an entailment. If B can be used to define term A, then B isn't a logical conclusion of something being A, it's just synonymous.

e.g. "Make you want to eat more" is still the operative difference here between a bag of potato chips and a bowl of lentils.
The Triumph of Safari
Why is this a problem? The point of screening is to find and treat the most common forms cancer before they become advanced.
Keeping the Wolves Out of WolfSSL
Jedi invest wisely!
Corporate fleet buyers purchased a lot of Thinkpads over the years.
I found the linked Politico article to sound a little less alarmist. The title should probably say "concerned" and not "scared" which implies some kind of imminent danger.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/01/we-better-watch-out...

Personally I don't see any real cause for concern. It's not like there's one singular place of the moon where all the resources are, and a foreign base will be setup there to shoot down approaching landers. It's expensive and difficult to do anything on the moon, so I feel it's unlikely the resources will be dominated by any one country for a very long time.
Just curious, what do you use the numpad for?
Florida put queues and business hours on its employment assistance website during the pandemic. Not sure if they've lifted them. But for a while there, it was a excellent deterrent for would-be applicants!
Color has extremely little effect on radiation performance: https://www.bestheating.com/info/does-the-colour-of-your-rad...
I sympathize with your disappointment, but I'm honestly not surprised by what happened. I never expected much to come from it except for introducing a few more people to light manufacturing.

The reason is that the people who were already going to do this (actual mechanical engineers and machinists) had a path forward: buying used CNC machinery and starting up in their garages. And many of them did/are doing this, but it's not the kind of thing that's discussed unless you are on a manufacturing forum, which HN definitely is not.

Part of the problem is that if you're going to make a living doing it, you need professional quality tools that can run all day, every day. "Maker" level tooling won't do that.
The "US Cancer Death Rate" talked about in the article is measured in deaths per 100,000 population, not deaths per detected cancer. So we are comparing apples to apples, but finding and treating cancers earlier could be helping to result in fewer deaths.
> [...] the Java solutions could be understood even by dullards like me.

This is 100% the type of person that came to mind when I read the OP. I'm sure we're all sick of the term "gatekeeping" but when folks consider it a plus and not a minus when their code is intimidating to others, it's really appropriate.
Pasture Raised is the more important Labeling, I agree Organic and Free Range is meaningless
Were you part of management? I worked in an unlimited PTO and PTO was never discussed directly with the person, but management discussions often mentioned it, particularly if it was above average. I've often wondered if this was more an exception or more a rule.
My claim is that this work is simply worse ensembles wrapped in a biologically inspired claims, and that arguments made in support of it by the author compared to other approaches are simply not sound.

By looking at it through that perspective, the issues with the approach become evident, and are fundamental in my opinion.
Cerebras will be the cheapest way, I think. Let's do the math.
Yeah, I don't get the lust for blood that people have like clockwork whenever layoffs occur and the CEO is forthright about taking the blame. Would it be better if they handled it like Elon [1]? I don't recall people wondering aloud if Elon took a pay cut when that happened. Do we really think this is preferable to layoffs like Lattice, or Coinbase, or Stripe, and wish this style was more of the norm?

[1] https://www.kron4.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2022/11/tw...
+1 on the bloat, though i would primarily blame sloppy code and cheap fast pipes.

On complicated scripts taking a gigawatt to render, I would like to point out that in the good old days that was all happening too — just not in your browser. Inefficient PHP and CGI scripts, massive Java frameworks. Today, still the majority of complexity and heavy lifting is kept away from our browsers. It's sobering to think that most of the gigawatts we burn on our phones, do not show up on our power bills...
It's probably the biggest one.

I was CTO for a healthcare network.

Weight loss was the primary focus for population health - because the data massively supports this.

SDOH [1], falls prevention and other stuff, while important, take a far backseat as far as overall health impact.

[1] https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/social-deter...
> the bank could save money by only needing to have support available at certain times.

You don't need live support to run a website, you can experience this on most websites that have live support available if you go to their site at 1am local.
I wonder if you have more context or numbers. What companies are you thinking of. I remember companies like WeWork and Coinbase dropping in valuation but what more traditional Saas companies have run into this sort of hurdle?

I'd argue that ARR is still a good measure just not the growth at all costs, w/e it takes to get toe 100M ARR/Unicorn status anymore. After all, sales is sales and if you don't have repeatable sales you probably don't have much of anything.
If you are interested in this topic, I recommend _The Wave_ by Susan Casey. She covers both rogue waves and big wave surfers.
Besides a slight bin the Ryzen U and H chips are largely the same, and you can easily limit power usage w/ a tool like https://github.com/FlyGoat/RyzenAdj to get similar power consumption. The advantage of having an H/HS laptop though is that their cooling solutions tend to be much better...
Didn’t know we were holding Catholic rites as de rigeur here