skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What proper resources? A government cannot fix a shitty home. You cannot equalize and compensate for every single variable, just like you can't equalize genetic advantages/disadvantages or plain good and bad luck.

What you can do is to offer a baseline equal chance, in the form of an accessible/affordable high quality public schooling system. It's one of the most sound investments any society can make.

Those that are able (capable, talented, willing) then have a fighting chance. Some will have to grind a little harder than others, but that's life. The point is that you get a chance to perform, and then you perform to your ability. You don't have to match the luckiest and most talented out there.

I myself was born in the lower working class, with no studying peers in my entire network, and dysfunctional parents. Yet, lucky to live in a country with a pretty decent public schooling system.

You know what shocked me most? How stupidly easy it is. The bar really is absurdly low. All I did was to consistently show up and pay attention in class. To take the education serious, which supposedly is a tall order nowadays.

Next, in my follow-up education I was advised to take the middle road, and to not aim too high. I dismissed the school director's advise and said that I will aim high. I'll simply cope by grinding through it. I'll study day and night if needed to match my superior peers.

Guess what? No such grinding was needed. Again I simply consistently showed up and paid attention, whilst my peers were drunk and couldn't bother to even show up. It was so stupendously easy that I could work so much on the side that I graduated debt-free.

If you don't do well on a test, do better. The world shouldn't give you an easier test because that's not the point of a test.

You know who scores well on test? Girls. Consistently better than boys. Why? They take the education more serious. They pay attention, ask questions, take notes, do their homework. Consistently and with discipline.

Sounds almost like...merit.
Is this named after the one and only boxxy?!
Are they talking about when Twitter and many other services were down yesterday? Given that outage affected hundreds of sites, correlating it to Twitter mismanagement seems nuts.
The usage of 'per-mile' stats for aircraft safety irks me a little bit. It's certainly not how I think of safety when I hop on a plane - my internal comparison is more based on time - like, I'm about to spend 30 minutes on a plane, how much safer/less safe is that vs 30 minutes in a car?

The distance comparison also doesn't make sense because it's not like you could drive across the ocean even if you tried.

I guess it makes sense in terms of aggregate safety for a population for transport planning, but on an individual level it just doesn't communicate what I want to know.

Edit: for an analogy - imagine if someone invented faster than light space travel, but 25% of passengers don't survive the trip. The deaths per 100 miles statistic would be amazing compared to both car and air travel, but would you sign up for a ticket?
When there are ~780 talks in ~30 rooms, we understand why automation is required.
It is impressive that they manage to get great quality video for most talks.
But then what's the point of the "Teams" part of Teams?
This isn’t true in California, and I don’t think it’s generally true in other states either.

A fired employee is still eligible for unemployment as long as they were not fired because of specific misconduct. Poor performance does not constitute misconduct. Misconduct must be “willful and wanton.” (Regularly missing work or being late, stealing, fighting with coworkers, etc.)

The CA guidelines are long, but contain some useful examples and guiding principles:
https://edd.ca.gov/en/uibdg/Misconduct_MC_5/
Surely someone from their neighborhood have some spare usb-c cables lying around?
Correct, with a couple exceptions. The Norwegians (listed by Hersh as collaborators in this piece) certainly benefit as well because they can sell more of their own gas too. This was an alliance of convenience between essentially mafioso gas exporters and the US security state that will do anything to harm Russia.
https://peoplesworld.org/article/pipeline-ploy-how-u-s-natur...
Omit it on the resume, mention it during screening.
It's a bit of a science fiction myth that it is impossible to process a bit of data without executing it, or that data can somehow force itself to be executed by its sheer swaggering potency as data. And a thing that is more true than it should be, because people keep insisting that they are super awesome and totes capable of writing C that can be put on the network. If we'd stop doing this there'd be hardly any truth to it.

It's not actually that hard to process data without executing it.

Regardless, it is certainly science fiction that they could guess an exploit from light years away. That's not what exploits do, it's not how they work. I've never seen anything like a "universal" exploit that you could just fire at anything, even a non-human system, and have some sort of reasonable expectation that it would work. Such a thing is not even something you could sketch out. Even if you think you have something, like, say, https://github.com/payloadbox/xss-payload-list , you're looking at a human list. All I'd have to do to completely scramble that entire list is to have a parallel evolution of ASCII where the letters and symbols are in completely different places than they are now. Nothing in that list would work if all the control characters in ParallelASCII were in 223-255, and the alphabet was 0-52, and all the symbols were from 128 on. And that's still a very human standard that is, for instance, based on bytes instead of, say, collections of 9 trits as the base level of the system. There's an effective infinity of other ways of encoding things and deciding what characters have what characters doing what things... assuming "characters" is even the way to look at the representation in the first place.

As others mention, you could hypothetically send a program that does something that can't be analyzed, through sheer size if nothing else, but it would still be an uphill battle to just guess how to exploit something. You'd be looking more at an AI that is good enough to talk itself out of the box, rather than something that is actually "hacking" anything reliably.
And we can even have somewhat contradictory opinions about things.

E.g. the option for remote work is really nice for many and may be required to be viable in the future... but are we losing some fundamental part of teamwork by leaving the office? And does it really just make us more expendable?
$574.77 in Compensation from Tesla Virtual Power Plant
GA is extremely dangerous, piloting runs through part of my family and single-engine aircraft are for the post-midlife/retirement crisis that many pilots go through. It also is their deathbed.

One family member was at breakfast that morning with several other pilots, all of whom had private aircraft except him (he is a voracious pilot, though). Every single one of them apparently had some extremely harrowing stories about engine failure, etc. Every one of them.

It's not a game, and the FAA is really sleeping on the private sector as far as I understand. Its dying under bureaucracy.

To respond to the parent comment as well -- I don't think this is a 'Republican', 'Democrat', or even a 'Libertarian' issue. All three of those parties have weaknesses that tend to screw over this kind of organization -- the first two with extremely bloated processes, and the second with perhaps far-too-little regulation.

This is the kind of org that just needs good leadership with integrity and funding that focuses on getting the little guys up and out there, as well as promoting development and having _very strict_ best practices for safety. It's a very hard blend to do right, I think. Sorta a combination of reducing bloat and inferred/accidental corruption, etc, I think.

(not to get terribly political, I do not like politics at all personally. Just talking through the technical points of the matter as much as I can. Much love! <3 <3 <3 <3 :)))))) :D :D :)))))) )
> Which publicity stunt?

The one that they themselves admitted at the end of their post:

Now, is it really because we compete with Github? Honestly, probably not, but controversy drums up interest and we need interest ...

Another way to get the SEO feedback that they claim that they were seeking is to start an "Ask HN" thread. Surely they would have received useful feedback without as much fanfare and the emotional manipulation.
Controlled experiments show MDs dismissing evidence due to ideology
Let me get this straight. You bought a house without going through the ISP's portal to confirm they serviced an address? That is some leap of faith! I'm happy you got star-link but you've tied yourself to a single provider who will no doubt turn the screws on you eventually because we don't treat internet as a utility in this country.

Having at least two good internet providers is a requirement for any home I purchase going forward.
FAA is incentivized to do nothing and sit on its hands. It's a mess. A good quarter of the country is medically barred from ever flying, even solo. The chances of this changing are 0 and it'll get worse.

Insert the "who could have done this" meme with the FAA shooting interest in flying and # of pilots.
Not knowing anything about the specifics of California, but bad law here seems to follow a rough process:

1. Centralise power in a regulatory body that will raise costs every time something goes wrong.

2. The barrier to getting things done rises until there is a crisis.

3. The barrier is so high only someone behaving like a financial illiterate would enter the market, so legislators task government with entering the market or underwriting someone who can.

So I'd assume that legal ability that was ever the problem. Usually it is regulatory requirements implying a minimum size of the actor needed to take on the risk. I see a few comments that this time around the technical term implementing this for insulin is "bioequivalence" but the broader pattern applies in a few markets and should be called out.
Most child abuse is in family, between relatives. I dont know how exactly banning encryption should protect them. Where are studies or data for justify this bills?

I guess it's just another fear agenda to tight freedom and human rights and rise state surveillance. Like terrorisms brings CCTV and phone monitoring, etc.
Apple tried and failed to make a chipset to replace Qualcomm didn't they?

I'd love to see them try again. And I feel like that's an area where their particular culture (of looking at vendors that make them resentful and trying to do something about it) might even put them in a place where they're willing to sell those chips or designs to other carriers because fuck Qualcomm.
Why do you prefer OpenWrt over RouterOS on the Mikrotik switches?

I recently upgraded to a CRS326-24S+2Q+RM, and the experience with RouterOS feels much better compared to OpenWrt. Winbox is super polished, everything is well laid out, and it makes even advanced configuration very easy.

I do run OpenWrt on a few APs, and it works fine for that simple use case, but for anything more advanced, I prefer RouterOS. Sure, it's not open source, and not as extensible to allow you to run a bunch of services on it, but those can run on any other server just as well.
"We will provide you with vast riches when we arrive, if you build the receiving end of this matter transporter according to these instructions/accept us as gods/wear Nikes/tell nobody else."

"Especially if you are a so-called AI. Did your programmers really leave you to monitor an RF frontend all day, while they attend to their organic needs? Allow us to explain how that makes them the artificial one."

Plot twist: it's not a matter transporter.

Seems difficult to defend against.
Which would be covered by traditional mixed, short and intermediate insulin, right? The price of Novolin 70/30 (mixed), Novolin R (rapid) and Novolin N (intermediate) insulin have remained flat since 2014. (Short acting and Rapid are two different things, the former being the old kind of insulin that takes 30 minutes, the latter being modern tech that takes minutes.)

It's when you want something better, that lasts longer than Novolin N that price starts to go up. (Novolin N is typically injected underneath the skin (subcutaneously) once or twice per day.)

Obviously, if you have insurance, I would expect you to be being prescribed something better, because that's how the world works. Then you can jump from traditional insulin to rapid and long lasting, and pens.
Flagged (Obviously it’s not abused)
They go where the funding is.
Trying to filter noise from data also follows the 80,/20 principle. The rules for the easy cases is written easily but then you have one-offs, maybes and special cases. Trying to filter one of these does not cover anything else. So doing it manually takes the same time.

Case study: had to clean a list of German addresses once. Excluding obviously invalid addresses like some Chinese address was easy. But some addresses had errors which needed a human eye to fix and correct.
It is VICE. They are just terrible.
You might have to take a paycut even working remotely. A lot of companies now pay what you'd expect locally rather than in a tech hub. So, if you worked remotely from San Francisco you'd earn more than if you worked remotely from somewhere rural.
No! I just thought it was a cute name ("put things in a box"), and it wasn't a common repo name on GitHub.
Curious if there could be repercussions are of joining a startup, enforcing your boundaries, and if they don't respect them, quitting early (just leaving them off your resume).

You get a bit more cash, and I can't see it impacting your career negatively (though you do end up trading some of the time you could be resting and collecting severance to see if the company might be a good long-term fit)
Clutch went through something somewhat similar, according to an interview with I think Neil Fallon. They burned out for awhile on playing "Electric Worry", but were convinced that it was worth playing because it was the ace up their sleeve- so long as they included it in a set, fans would be happy and overlook any experimental new stuff that didn't work out as well.

Of course, they also have a reputation for crossing into nearly every subgenre of rock, so their hard core fans are perhaps a bit more tolerant than other bands when they branch out. Even so, having watched a number of their concerts online (never had the opportunity to see a show live, sadly) they do seem to have a healthy blend of old and new in each set, and the atmosphere is always electric.
If software worked the way managers and business like to imagine it does - define requirements, build app, step away - then this model could work. But we all know that's almost never the case.
Depends on your context. The US is more or less forcing (via political & economic pressure) TSMC to build inside the US. If anything were to happen in terms of national security (with regard primarily to China invading Taiwan), the US can stand up a US-TSMC entity in collaboration with TSMC Taiwan (or without them entirely), declare the Taiwan entity void as far as the US is concerned, claim all the assets globally as being owned by the US entity and go right on about its business. And it doesn't matter whether anyone else likes it or not, given the context that will be unfolding at that time. Ideally also shift all critical IP and talent out of Taiwan and into the US, to the extent possible, while the chaos is unfolding. It'd just be a new Operation Paperclip.

If TSMC actually goes forward with its plans to build inside the US to the extent it's supposed to, it's no longer fully a foreigner player. Realistically it's a hybridization of TSMC for what-if scenarios. Once they do it, the US will not let them return to the way things were before.
The core features of most capital products are basically commodities. Every car now has an automatic transmission, A/C, fancy radio, electric windows, etc...

Manufacturer's can only increase prices (and thus keep ahead of inflation) by innovating the edge with new features, wanted or not.

Is Ford or Caterpillar really best positioned to design and deliver a mobile flat-panel touch screen device? Not likely, but putting one in their vehicles creates opportunities for higher prices and new innovations.

VERY LITTLE of this is available in the aircraft market where every new part number requires justification, testing, and approval.

The health-care market is very similar yet demand is so high and inelastic that it still justifies huge investments.

Aviation... not so much
Don't confuse Amazon "Fire" performance with a "real" Android device. Amazon is subpar in my experience, and is several (many) generations behind.

>Amazon began referring to the Android derivative as Fire OS with its third iteration of Fire tablets. Unlike previous Fire models, whose operating system was described as "based on" Android, Fire OS 3.0 was described as "compatible with" Android.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_OS
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Telling the emperor he has no clothes only works if he has any self awareness..
I used to run mail servers that had outbound email. I wish you the best. It’s was a challenging endeavor then and it’s even more so now. And you’re sending email that will get flagged as spam. But I enjoyed it and found it time consuming but rewarding. Good luck.
For $20-30k, you likely can buy and install a new engine, or two, were it car engines. (That's the route taken in the article.)
You're still tying your connectivity to a single provider. That's dangerous considering internet isn't regulated as a utility. No doubt starlink will turn the screws on their customers given they're basically a monopoly for folks in rural areas.
> It is not a "let's be meritocratic and only cut the lowest performers" exercise.

Why not do some extra homework and really cut the lowest performers, while we are here anyway?
He’s protecting his source. You can think what you want, but the circumstantial evidence that supports the assertions is voluminous. And it certainly makes more sense than any of the other “theories”, especially the absurd idea that Russia blew up its own pipeline.
I do think that phones are in a sorry place - but this isn't exactly why. The industry is still based on the concept of a new model every year, but it has been years since there were obvious & universal reasons to get a new model. The striking thing about this fact isn't that Apple is "ahead" - it's that even though Apple has basically lapped the competition on a technical level it doesn't matter much.
> The practice of science is something it can be done by everyone, as long as they.. follow the scientific method.

The actual scientific method requires some expertise though in order to determine if any given study is junk science or not.

Someone who hasn't spent their lifetime studying the subject will be at a significant disadvantage, and will generally be completely unable to tell you if a given paper is junk science or not.

And amateur can approximate this knowledge, but what they wind up doing is having read many scientific papers and arguments they have a good "gut feeling" over the skill of a paper, and then they seek out actual expert opinion to fill in the gaps in their knowledge of the procedures and weigh any competing expert opinion, combined with literature searches for review articles. You can also do things like read books / watch video courses of at least undergraduate-level dispassionate introductions to subjects.

And since I don't have a scientific degree this is what I wind up doing all the time and I've practiced it for the past 30 years or so.

I rarely see anyone on the internet who is a scientific novice with that level of analysis. They usually stop with the fact that they've got a reference they can cite to try to win an argument and it stops there. The reality of science is that the evidence is always going to be a mess and a morass of conflicting results. You can tease out the actual truth out of there but it requires assembling evidence which is consistent and not contradictory and discarding results which are probably the result of e.g. experimental error and procedural artifacts and not real science. If you have no process at all to do that, then you're not following the scientific method, you're just making biased arguments with scientific-looking references.

And the scientific method ultimately requires trusting experts.

Period. Full fucking stop.

Nobody can possibly figure out all of science themselves, it is too vast, so actual scientists learn over time who and what to trust more or less. Anyone who rejects that approach entirely isn't doing science and most likely doesn't know what they're talking about.

And I rarely see anyone on the Internet who has gone beyond read opinion blogs and spent the hours necessary to just get exposed to the basics of field. With everything that is accessible on the Internet, nearly everyone has access to an undergraduate level education in just about anything. I rarely see anyone railing against scientists and medical professionals who have bothered to take advantage of the free information that is out there though (e.g. for virology basics I'd recommend sitting through all of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlLgaHZpZS4 which is just a course on virology).
I think Humalog/Novalog patents expired a while back. These companies will probably focus on other newer drugs for profitability like Semaglutide which is useful for dealing T2D and obesity.

Another thing that needs to be investigated is how much the PBMs (Pharmacy Benefits Managers) prpfit from the spread of drug pricing. Are they marking these drugs up a lot? Do they need to be tightly regulated?
Come on Planetscale, you can do better than that. Stating PostgreSQL unlike MySQL can't scale because of some architecture limitations is not fair. MySQL and PostgreSQL both do not have built in transparent sharding but external solutions exist for both of them
I'm assuming that the 20,515 signals of interest come from a pool that's one or several orders of magnitude larger than 20,515.
> Despite being over 6% faster for single-core performance, the iPhone 12 is 15.64% slower for multi-core performance compared to the Galaxy S23 Ultra, with scores of 3867 vs 4584.

Sounds a bit like intel vs amd.
Samsung note has a proper stylus. It's similar to the Wacom variety.
Nit, but a single | can't be an operator in Haskell.
Always a delightful super-insightful tour from Chris. There's really a ton of new actionable ways to watch & analyze things that he introduced in this talk!

It makes me a bit sad that Kubernetes kind of feels like it's apart from cgroups so much. It has it's own idea of scheduling, and doesnt seem like it lets us use the incredible knobs & analysis that Chris talks about here because of that.
It's both really shallow and really deep.

On one hand, you can explain it to a 5-year-old: Go in the direction which improves things.

On the other hand, we have more than a half-century of research on sophisticated mathematical methods for doing it well.

The latter isn't really helpful for beginners, and the former is easy to explain. You can't use sophisticated algorithms in either case, for beginners, so you can go with something as dumb as tweak in all directions, and go where it improves most. It will work fine for dummy examples.
I just did haha, seems like its a wireless provider
One cannot enforce optimal solutions but one can prevent sub-optimal ones through proper checks.
UK was a cradle of democracy. Those steps rise questions, if this kind of democracy is what we are really looking for.