skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that he's "accusing" his own race of being less physically capable I can only assume that the same goes for other traits in other races. Have a look at who has been winning long distance running events for the last few decades and you'll quickly find out that people from a certain area - nay, a certain tribe [1] - in Kenya are grossly overrepresented. This is not because they're all using doping like e.g. athletes from the former DDR did, it is because they share a mixture of genes and culture which makes them exceed in this field. Going by the data it seems clear that people from certain areas in the world - mostly in Asia and Europe - share a mixture of genes and culture which makes them exceed in what you call "strenuous intellectual activities" [2].

You seem to be upset over his pointing out this fact. Why is it no problem to point out that these Kenyans are dominating long distance running - even NPR reports about this - but problematic [3] to point out that the Japanese, Swiss, Chinese, Americans and Dutch dominate when it comes to intellectual pursuits? I suspect this is because intellectual pursuits have a higher standing among the "educated" classes who tend to ruminate about these things than physical activities. In a way this itself is problematic just like the way many "educated" people look down upon physical labour is problematic - to use a term often bandied about by those same people. A healthy society needs both those who are more into physical activities as well as those who are more into intellectual pursuits to develop and thrive - this is true diversity.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/11/01/241895965/...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2019/01/11/ranked-...

[3] https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-problematics/
Why does this guy have so many subs? (clearvaluetax)
https://www.youtube.com/@clearvaluetax9382/videos

I don't get it.. 1.6 million subs, hundreds of thousands of views/video to listen to a guy in a suit talk about basic personal finance? Is it the Lex Fridman formula of the stark background and suit?
This so much. If I'm evaluating half a dozen different possible options for a product I'm not going to strike up a relationship with every single salesperson just to get the damn BOM line. Especially if they can't even get you a price without generating a full up purchase order which takes 2-3 days for no good reason.
> Has the Apple Newton really fallen so far out of the public consciousness that this wouldn't be obvious?

They ceased production of the Apple Newton in 1998 according to Wikipedia. and the most recent Palm product I've heard of came out in 2010.

PDAs are basically floppy disks as far as the wider public knows.
You really should read Bad Blood. Theranos misdiagnosed cancer patients.
Everyone knew an iPhone was coming, but the device itself was absolutely a bombshell launch.
What's the problem here? You would write the test (if you're doing TDD, which you wouldn't always do anyways because you recognize it's a tool and not all tools are appropriate for all situations). The test would fail because it doesn't compile, so you make it compile. Not compiling counts as a failed test, even fools get that.

Unless of course you're only working no trivial programs (based on your write up, not the case) or an absolute genius you must have at some point or another encountered a failed compilation and used that as feedback to change the code. This is no different.
Didn't FTX do something similiar in the US?
Weak institutions is what allowed the US to spread its military bases all over the world
In my experience cloth eventually gets stained and stinks after even relatively minor spills. The foam underneath soaks everything up.
The same spills are minor and easy to clean from leather.

Clearly ymmv, I appreciate you sharing yours.
Is it really so difficult to admit that you published an errata?
I made Recall[0] which is all about this. Managing tasks using a tree structure (like folder/files, no level limit). And dependency representation with DAG graphs. Give it a try, you might like it.

Unfortunately the project is currently paused since i can't figure out how to make it work financially (you can still use it though). The space is really crowded and most people don't really think about dependencies, so it's quite a hard sell.

I might open-source the project and continue with it in the near future but I'll need some validation that the tool is useful before I commit to that. So if you do like it, I'd love to have a chat :)

[0] https://recalllab.com
> You know, Pandas feels like Airflow, everyone keeps talking about its demise, but there it is everywhere … used by everyone.

Wait — did I miss the memo? What's replacing Airflow?
The correct answer is actually 4-6 year old cars. They are still new enough where you shouldn’t have major problems for several years, while having depreciated more than 50% of their original value. After 4 years, cars depreciate a lot slower.
Hmm? The Qing Empire, which both the PRC and ROC claims to be successors of, held both China and Taiwan for 250 years (until Japanese conquest of Taiwan)
It's a pretty big leap to look at the shutdown of AltspaceVR (which already has a successor) and MRTK and conclude that "HoloLens, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality are all but dead at Microsoft." There are a TON of other active teams/projects working in the area. This is likely the side effect of a consolidation/reorg in the division.
I prefer leather seats, but my wife prefers cloth. Her 225K mile, 18 year old CR-V’s cloth seats are pretty much mint, even after us raising two kids while owning that car (and the obviously significant overall usage).

My 2015, 24K mile LEAF has noticeably more wear on the leather seat’s bolster.
Without a publicized motive, it might create a "stand alone complex" of copycats copying copycats without any unifying ideology between them. Each copying the other for their own personal reasons. I think school shootings work like this.
Hasn't deep learning answered the question of perception?

Like the breakthrough application was pattern recognition, and for low numbers of nodes (synapses?) you can see how it becomes more sophisticated as the net grows. Like it doesn't just explain human pattern recognition but weak nets model like chicken pattern recognition.
Plenty of places in the US that aren't safe for outsiders. Any major city has dozens of such areas, especially at night.
The form factor redefined the cellphone standard form factor. Apple would do the same for VR.
Back in my gearhead days I had great success using aluminum "rivnuts" on sheet metal aluminum fabrications like fan shrouds for the fan's fasteners to thread into.
The average new car is close to $40,000 right now in the US
No, I’m saying that food companies would act like media companies do if food was trivially replicable, and therefore the fact that they currently don’t is not an argument for anything.
If an Argentinian receives a SWIFT transfer of let's say 10k USD, it is forcefully converted to pesos at an absurdly bad, effectively asymmetrical exchange rate, basically less than 50% of the real value. In other words, if you try to buy dollars with the pesos that were converted for you, you will only be able to buy less than 5k USD.

And that's before taking taxes into account. When taking taxes into account, somebody who is paid 10k will basically end up with 3k USD, probably less.

Additionally, and this happens in every country, SWIFT takes days and fees are really expensive. Crypto is almost instant and fees much much lower.
This is not how investing works, it's that simple.

If you want bigger returns you will have to accept higher risks.

A single starting company is never an alternative investment compared to a much larger spread across a series of established companies.

Investors work with risk by having certain portions of their available capital earmarked for investments in particular risk segments. Typically a large chunk will be allocated in 'safe' (for want of a better word) investments, which may indeed be index funds, real estate or other such. Another portion may be invested in more risky but higher yield such as larger investments in a single blue chip stock that the investors feel good about. And finally there is the bucket 'gambles'. These are considered very high risk and are either huge wins or huge losses, rarely mid range returns, in fact (for the investors, not the founders) they'd rather the company gambles big than to end up playing it safe.

But if such a company is in a spot where it will likely lose it all and then a plan to end up returning the investors just their outlay is already a huge plus, and if they manage to make the investors look good by posting a return, however slim then that will be a much larger win: investors, especially those with LPs do not like to post write-offs not because of their own book (they pocket their management fees regardless) but because it will impact their ability to raise again.

I should probably write a blog post on this one of these days.
I feel like Zuck is just lucky. While some amount of luck (right time, right place etc) is involved in every bog achievement, Zuck seems pretty pathetic when compared to Gates or Jobs.

He is doing one thing well though - keeping Facebook completely in his grip, despite his shortcomings...
I think we both agree that diversity is good. I've made great friends through work, but not the majority of them.

My friendship group is largely diversified by having "graduated" the friendships from knowing them online to meeting them in person, or meeting people at festivals. So, maybe I appreciate workplace diversity less in that aspect.

If it's a common vector for one to diversify their environment, then it might be boon.

I do think the way it's currently done is a bit... Shallow, lazy? For lack of a better analogy, it reminds me of a fad diet. But that's not really a constructive criticism on the topic, since I don't know what we should do better either
Some of the fake reviews are much better. Here's one for "Seattle Metro Heating and Cooling Services," which doesn't exist. One of this account's other fake reviews includes a photo (https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113396308112481697373/re...):

> We had a weird circumstance where we were out of town for an extended time and our HVAC unit quit working during a massive heat spell. Access to the house had to be coordinated and the bill had to be paid remotely. None of that was an issue for Roy, who was able to get out and repair the problem super quickly and for a completely reasonable amount. This is our first time using Seattle Metro Heating & Cooling Services. The experience was so positive that they will be our go-to HVAC professional from here on out.
On the other hand, supermarkets don't accept USDT or Bitcoin because there's little benefit: it's easier to have their customers convert it to peso first. But if the conversion becomes more difficult, then a shop accepting crypto is now more attractive to those that have it.

Of course that only works if the whole crypto hassle is still better than working with local banks.
Not sure what industry you're coming from, but in games it's quite common nowadays to at least try to stay on top of asan warnings and purge them before big releases. It's a very easy way to prevent crashes and bad behaviour that might bite you unexpectedly in the next build when memory layout shifts just right to make the use-after-free someone else left in there break some important structure in unrelated code.
Cloth can be cleaned with one of those portable fabric cleaners.
For programmers, it's a mixed bag. There are positions where a PhD is strongly favored or required, but for far more positions, a PhD is often viewed as a negative because of fear that they will be too blue-sky and abstract to do down-to-earth work.

There are positions (FAANG companies are infamous for this) that strongly prefer or outright require at least a degree, often in a subject viewed as relevant (nominally C.S. but math and physics are often considered to be potentially viable alternate areas). But other companies care far more about work experience, and may give little weight to presence or lack of a degree.

Similar comments apply to which university it was: some companies and some parts of the world are highly biased towards prestige universities, other companies and other parts of the world less so.

And then there are the certificates you mentioned. In my experience, those are considered to have some value compared to no degree plus no job experience, but otherwise not very useful at all -- and sometimes there's prejudice against certificates (where it's considered better to not have certification regardless of other factors).

So there's no absolute rule. But degrees from good schools usually help.

Canada has a strict requirement for engineers (electrical, civil, etc) to pass a qualification test of some sort, and I was told (by ex-pat Canadians) that it's not legal to do engineering work without that. Plus they get a special ring to wear to show their status (not kidding, I've seen them).

Scuba: I have "Rescue Diver" certification (search, rescue, first aid, etc), which would be required for certain diving-related jobs, and the next higher level of certification carries legal obligations -- e.g. it's illegal to panic and run away (swim away) from divers in distress if one has the Master Diver cert.

Short of that, I have met divers who don't like to dive with people who do not have at least the Rescue Diver cert (because "everyone in the party should be capable of expertly helping everyone else").

That's a pretty open-ended question. There so many areas of potential expertise in today's complex world.

Hmm, I just remembered a guy who collected certifications in, he said, all fields, not related to his profession. He had dozens, including things like HVAC repair. Unusual hobby.
No, I'm not familiar with them.
14 years is a _long_ time in terms of safety tech. I wouldn't buy anything older than 5 for this reason alone.
Ask HN: What should we be doing?
Congress just gave the military something like $75m-$150m to award to Microsoft to improve the hololens for battlefield readiness. It started as a high end niche business product. Demo'd well for the military. Business device shoehorned into military didn't work. But, if they can get it "military good" those enhancements will trickle down to business and eventually consumer use cases.

I generally roll my eyes at Military > Consumer path companies, but in this case? Not so much. Business > Military > Actual Military Usefulness > Mass Market is an interesting trajectory worth watching.
Rocket Exhaust Driven Amplification of Whistler Waves Frm Ground VLF Transmittrs
Are You Ready to Take Care of Your Boomer Parents?
I didn't believe this at first but it seems to be true

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274927/new-vehicle-avera...
I don't know. I am building my own computers for about 30 years, starting with Intel 486, and using them heavily. Couple of times I bought ECC memory, but most of the time - not. For the last 4 years I have 64G of non-ECC RAM. Maybe I had some problem with non-ECC memory during all those years, like sudden BSODs, freezes or some corrupted data, but never anything significant. So I honestly don't see a reason for drama here.
The Apple Watch was launched in the era of Tim Cook, though I suppose it’s more “ipad revolutionary” (nobody had done it successfully) than “iPhone revolutionary” (nobody had tried). I’ll also say the AirPods are the most quietly competent products I own.

One could also argue for the M chips, which were absolutely game changing when they came out.
Do you have any data to back that assumption? A dedicated humanities degree would impart skills beyond what a typical high school graduate had. This should translate to higher marketability unrelated to status/wealth.
This exact anecdote appears in The History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan, if you are into podcasts.
It's not the radiators, it's the transformator itself.

Shorted winding == complete replacement needed for high voltages, and a single bullet would be more than enought to break insulation on the winding many times.
This is a disingenuous analogy.

The likelihood that a person would attack four substations to rob a business is extremely low, and it's therefore reasonable to assume that their stated motive was a lie.

The likelihood that a person would even attack one substation for the same aim is still low, in my opinion.
Life is a choose your own adventure. Do what makes you happy and do your best to make those around you happy too.
These comments make more sense when you realise that bitcoin is more of a religion and way of life than a technology. Nothing can ever be bad for bitcoin because it’s an accepted fact of life that bitcoin _is_ the future.
This seems similar to the way command like arguments work on windows.

On Linux, the system call für spawning a process uses a string array for them.

On windows, it's a single string. The string needs to be parsed by the application, making escape sequences in command line arguments implementation defined by the compiler/runtime/etc.

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/02/18/

Some examples are here:
https://daviddeley.com/autohotkey/parameters/parameters.htm#...
I actually am from the box/manual generation and never heard it called 'feelies'.. I remember to register some games i would have to look up charts or keys in the manual, or on page numbers
This is timely. We are launching a project that needs satellite input. This helps us cost it!
We used to drive these cars in the past though. Was makes them too dangerous to drive now?
Are they really? A small but vocal (and sometimes state supported) group of people are actually mad. Another group will mindlessly mouth such sentiment, but the majority seem not to care and just want to get on with their lives.
It would be a dream if they would sell Windows to a non publicly traded company "to concentrate on their core competence".
To whom? it's not adversial to me

Are you saying the US is an authoritarian government that enforce this view on me?

Is this why they can enforce their trade sanctions on everyone?
Assuming they knew how to use GIS software, or had even heard of it.
more Colossal Cave nostalgia: https://meheller.medium.com/adventure-3e663876d257

note that Willie Crowther was on the IMP team and probably wrote code related to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165014
Sadly, this was my impression of TDD for years. I always thought that writing every single test case up front would never make any sense. It was only when I read the original definition of TDD from Kent Beck that it clicked. I use it quite often now and it makes development a lot easier.
Japan finished 3rd in the medal count at the last summer Olympics. China and South Korea also did well. So the data doesn't seem to support your hypothesis.
Read this article and agree on many of it's points. Have been here for some years now. If you've read just one of Patrick McKenzie / @patio11's articles on Japanese banking, you'll understand too.
Something I stumbled across in the last day or two brought Ulf Grenander[1] and his idea of "Pattern Theory" to my attention, and I've been going down a bit of a rabbit-hole the last couple of days digging into this. Discovering David Mumford's work was especially interesting given that he is, as you say, a Field Medalist. Not to mention his also being a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of a National Medal of Science. Not to go all "appeal to authority", but if he thinks this is valuable territory, then it's probably worth a little bit of my time exploring it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf_Grenander
You are very confidently wrong, but still wrong.

>It's about risk of absconding

And putting up a bigger deposit obviously helps address that risk.

>Secondly, no, cash bail is not a thing in the UK

It is. In the UK it’s called a bail security. It’s not common, but absolutely a thing.

See on lexisnexis https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/guidance/securities-suret...

>Someone being arrested in the UK for extradition is not part of the UK justice system

Absolutely is, and the rules regarding bail are the same.

>Unsurprisingly, foreign nationals can't have their passport taken away by a foreign country, who'd have thought?!?!?

What? Of course they can. It’s not at all unusual for people bailed for crimes in the UK to be required to surrender their foreign passports.
> You can even run a permissioned version of it yourself, where you and your 40 permissioned friends mix their transactions for privacy, and everyone knows (through, let's say, off chain trust) that none of them are committing crimes,

Even if you 100% knew that all of the money was legal mixing is money transmission according to the government which means you need to register in every state you operate, register with the federal government, and have a compliance program, or you will get up to 5 years in prison. Hawaladars/various ethnic equivalents especially post 9/11 have learned the rules on money transmission the hard way, even when they literally "know their customers" in a much more real way than banks do. Here's an example where I'm from https://apnews.com/article/yemen-us-news-ap-top-news-mi-stat... - fortunately these guys were spared prison though.
Isn't binance a super shady construct without any real accountability? Becoming a bank would be ... quite a change to that.
AcKtUaLly you can slow down each separate oscillating atom using counter-phase laser.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling
Solid State Active Cooling at CES [video]
I can see many ways in which you could achieve much the same effect without the downsides.
Am I reading this wrong or are you really suggesting that vaccines were the cause? I knew a portion of HN was vaccine skeptical but this is something else.
They bought a whole bunch of these and other things... Too bad for the Taiwanese that all this kit is going now to Ukraine... Taiwanese weaponry backlog is growing month by month [1]. Another way China benefits from Ukraine-Russian war.

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/20...
I got a COVID test at a local independent pharmacy. This same "Right Way Laboratory" processed the results and billed my health insurance company over $500 per test.
Are they really laying off their best people though or just Leetcoders? Also as far as I am aware, only Twitter really thinks it should be a 200 person company or whatever, whereas these companies actually super overhired during the pandemic predicting a bigger long term trend than turned out to be. That's why these layoffs aren't really that big news all in all.