skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can last longer but then die more abruptly, because they were designed with a more definite planned obsolescence and many people didn't bother to maintain them correctly before so the designers optimised for that. To make an extreme car analogy, it's like an engine that will last 200k miles with no oil changes but slowly destroys itself irreparably in doing so, instead of one that needs an oil change every 5k miles but will last 10-20x longer before only a mild overhaul with cheap replacement parts (mainly soft ones like seals) is necessary.
This so much. We need to accept that management is a skill not a status, and pay managers according to their ability, education & experience same as we do for everyone else.

A good manager is not ego-driven and is perfectly able to function when being paid less than the people they manage.

And then we can just give people more money and keep them in the role they work best at instead of having to Peter Principle them up to their level of incompetence or lose them.
For a better known, actually malicious one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
The system is flawed, push more people to the edge, then you'll get more violence, and need more police. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The solution I found to this is to use Pomodoro. I don't have a problem to keep focused after I start something, the problem is always not starting it. I force myself to do one pomodoro, but after the first one I am still not convinced I should keep working. It is incredibly unsatisfying, but because it is only 25 minutes, I can endure it. Then another one, and by the fourth I have finally understood a bit more about the problem I'm trying to solve and fog starts to dissipate enough that I feel a bit more motivated to work on it the next day. After I am finally able to forsee the payoff, I just ditch Pomodoro and keep working.
> I was "lucky" because I had a childhood diagnosis which really sped things up for me.

Really? Cause it took me a single visit to get my prescription. And they never checked my health records.
Zhao probably has a three or four sigma IQ, but the rest of the talent is still on a pretty long tail, and the beauty of markets is that in every single one of billions of trades, someone is always wrong. I am not in finance, but every person I have spoken to in finance clams up immediately when I mention anything remotely quantitative. It's not just because I'm being boring, they know they are playing a game of poker that is never not-on.

The most interesting exchange I had was with some derivatives traders, and I asked broadly what kind of math was being used at their bank. Was it graduate level, was any of it novel, and was it within the reach of programmers. The answer was "no, no, yes" and they wouldn't say anything else. I suspect the secrecy is creating an intellectual mean reversion, where you do a thing that works and run it until it is traded out, and then never say anything about it so you can cost your competitors the time thinking about it.

However if none of the math is novel, then current strategies are not information problems that need new science, they are work problems that piece together solved ones, and whose efficiencies come from competency in related domains. I could see how one could become seized by markets like that.
Sure but knowing that the efficacy of the flu shot has been less than 50% for most years of my life (in my region) it seemed like a coin toss not to get it but a 100% chance of feeling lousy if I did.
It’s not medication, it’s a drug. You’re not curing anything. There are cures but nobody wants the hard path.
Which is better/worse, the hack with a plan which is removed promptly or the barnacle that persists forever?

The barnacle did provide more lifetime business value after all.
This is either a joke or you don't know how your tools are made. I'm hoping it's the former.

The carbon in the steel serves two purposes. One, it alters the structure of the final steel. Too much, or too little and the metal doesn't behave right, so it's not fit for purpose. Two, it's a sacrificial reducer that keeps any stray oxygen from eating the metal during the heat and cool cycles (most of us call hot oxidation 'burning').

You're still going to need a little carbon to get the steel right and maybe to help catch a few stray oxygen atoms, but if you can heat the metal with something other than coal/charcoal, and you can provide another reducing agent, then you don't have to bathe the entire process in carbon. You'd just need enough to get the crystalline structure right, and perhaps a margin of error. And that sort of fraction could come from renewable resources.
interesting concept - would have thought the radar return from the twin , almost vertical, tail plane was more significant than that of any other control surfaces they may have been able to eliminate.

To be fair maybe they can eliminate that part of the structure later on.
I think they are suffering Monopolyitis.

Here's what happened to anything even decent at Microsoft: some shitty nakedly sociopathic MBA comes in and starts picking it apart for blatantly anticompetitive or monopoly protecting concerns, and the tech people behind it lose all morale and say "fuck it, it's a day job".

Here's what happens to anything at Google: some shitty "product manager" (toootally different that the microsoft monopoly MBAs. Totally.) comes in and says "how do we sell more ads with this". And... well, yeah same thing happens.
A consistent, pretty and modern neovim configuration (HardHackerNvim)
If they say something, it's defamation and reflects negatively on them, and anybody else and any projects associated with them. It's also potentially libellous.
Most colleges and universities have their own police forces, even my local community college.
In reality there isn't a distinction between "market-making" and what you would consider "beating the market". Market makers employ the same models and approaches as those who "beat the market", because market makers need to know when and where to quote in order to maximize profitability. And people who classify themselves as those that try to "beat the market" also provide liquidity, making them de facto market makers, even if they often take liquidity too. So, people in the industry don't attempt to draw a clear line between the two categories, because they are so overlapping in practice.
We can move over Stallman, kudos for all the work but being a horrid person is no excuse for engaging in public with him again
I can’t wait for the day we can unleash a future version of ChatGPT on the Voynich manuscript.
"If you send out armed police looking for a riot, they'll find one."

I have sympathy for the poor doctors and nurses. Perhaps what's needed are security guards that can act like bouncers, to keep problem people in check until the real police can get there.

Edit: I don't live in the USA, so I'm used to police solving problems, not aggravating them.
For anyone who cares and read this far (and if so, I'm honestly surprised) I made a colab that demonstrates all this: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1xCZ24cLPNOqyJD0kUTO...

To wrap it up:

- X == r() * r() * ... == r(r(...))

- E[X] = 2^-n

- median[X] ~ 1/2 exp(1 - n) ?!

Anyway, I thought it was interesting - especially how the median never quite "catches up" to the value one might naively compute from the CLT. I think there's some subtlety I'm missing there.
> He isn’t exactly active on issues outside open source.

Have you not visited his personal website?
I've done this so many times. Each time is hugely embarrassing, after the realization kicks in. Any more, my starting assumption is that I'm wrong about almost everything.

Someone needs to invent a time machine, so that I can go back and slap myself before each foot-in-mouth incident.
More likely Citadel saying "look over here! We make money from this mysterious math prodigy and not from market manipulation!"
No covid vaccine prevents transmission of covid, there's not even good evidence that it reduces transmission. Anyone I know who was vaccinated at this point has gotten at least one other person in their household sick. Should I just ignore this because someone who had something to gain from shilling the vaccines told you otherwise?

I'm not against vaccinations as long as there is evidence that they actually work.
I can't wait to play with ConservaGPT.
Thanks! Those are more topical submissions than we would normally put in the second-chance pool. For that we're looking for more out-of-the-way stories, less in the flow of news or current affairs and of a little more deeper interest.

The other thing about some of those submissions is that they're a bit on the political side—not so much as to be off topic for HN (there's inevitably some political overlap [1]) but again, not the sort of quieter/curious story that we're looking to augment.

I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35319250 has more of those qualities though, so I've sent you a repost invite for it :)

[1] ;https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Quality of life has improved both work and personal. No terrible amphetamine-junky high. I’d say I’m free of big pharma. Are you?
there's a lot of insidious subversion in this message, i'll doubt that its your intention and try and explain it as briefly as possible

young people didn't need the vaccines, old people did. using fear, shame, and intimidation as a measure of public health was extremely nasty, should not have happened, and should not be repeated.

shutting down the economy to save the old people was a mistake, we borrowed money from people who aren't born yet and destroyed the economic future of our children. the resulting economic impact will have worse health impacts on those who are now young than the virus would have, as these two things are extrinsically linked

an age demographic was going to be sacrificed regardless of which kind of plan was chosen, the plan chosen sacrificed the young for the old and this is fundamentally backwards.
I looked into a newer faster charging EV, but they are ridiculously expensive. Current plan is wait until 2025 and start shopping used.
Yep. The way to break the cycle is to address whatever is pushing people to the edge, but that would [lower property values / give people things they don't deserve / invalidate the hard work I did to get where I am / etc].
Terrestrial and marine diversity is crashing. We're keeping people alive and the way we allocate resources means that's a bad thing. The individual human is more replaceable that ever before. The sheer scale of things unfolding, and the momentum of them is necessarily unstoppable. Most of what we've done is eking out extra carrying capacity, which has then been exploited while the net quality of life has actually not appreciably gained, while the things that can't be meaningfully quantified have taken a visible decrement. Did we forget climate change? Finite resources? Expectations for these advancements to continue as things get increasingly complicated and the likelihood of reaching the threshold where it all breaks down...

I'm certainly thankful we'll have 10 billion people to share that ride with. Misery loves her company.

It's all a monkey paw and we've been standing in place for a century.
Unless I missed something, wasn't FTX the exchange and Alameda the market making specialist that also had a prop book?
That is true to some degree. But I just picked the first thing that I could find related to that search.

But on going research is starting to point towards the possibility that these repository illnesses are doing more long term damage, especially to other organs and the brain. That said this is still very early days and it could just be something that looks promising at first but could be nothing. The paths being explored does seem plausible. More research and data is needed.

Reminded of Alzheimer's being linked to Aluminum, looks promising at 1st but turned into nothing.
It's hyperbolic (and this whole subthread thread is a good example of how hyperbole goes poorly on HN), but it' definitely a within-many-people's-lifetimes kinda problem.

Kaczynski-style anti-industrialism doesn't make for good discourse, but neither does Benthamite rah-rah-ism. Our increased material comfort comes at the price of a techno-panopticon and toxic consumerism, or as one astute observer described it, a 'boring dystopia'.
Taking Ritalin isn’t good for you. And you know it.

Take a real drug like DMT or LSD that might actually change your way of thinking.

That plus good diet and exercise, do wonders to the brain
Took me a moment to understand that by random()^3 you meant the output of the random function to the power of 3, not some temporary function which we name "random^3" since that's also how we build it.
It's more likely they'll mandate that ISPs block traffic to popular VPN services
I read the headline as "Ken Griffey's..." and was a lot more interested.
It wouldn't be beneath VICE to use sound editing to put bomb sounds into takes that didn't have them there to begin with. They quite literally have no journalism code of ethics.
Someone isn't always wrong on a trade.
Case in point, someone sells shares to fund their retirement, the counterparty buys those shares for the dividend return and/or expected capital gains. This happens all the time. How is anyone wrong in this scenario?
Unless there are significant anticompetitive forces in your industry, unfair compensation is simply not a stable state. Since the gaming industry is very large and many upstarts seem to find success, how can the prevailing wages be considered unfair? Everybody would have a profit motive to quit their employer and become a greedy exec themselves.
I wouldn’t compare technical writing and fiction writing as painting a barn to painting a Van Gogh. It’s a bit hyperbolic. There’s masterfully written technical docs and terrible Sherlock Holmes erotica. I wouldn’t compare the Holmes Erotica to Van Gogh.
I am compelled to point out that in one of the info pages, the site includes screenshots of a conversation with ChatGPT where the author claims to trick AI detection by generating text with a lower temperature. But asking ChatGPT, through the LLM interface, to lower the temperature doesn't lower the temperature. There's no mechanism for it to do so. It may have some (nevertheless real) placebo effect, because the LLM thinks it should behave different and assigns some vague "meaning" to "temperature" -- but this isn't a technical change to the model operation.
There is plenty of code I've written that's still out there doing useful things.

I'm sure some not insignificant parts of Windows, Linux, tools, libraries, browsers etc. etc. are fairly old code that just keeps working .. perhaps with fixes and improvements.

Good code lasts a long time. Technical debt is something you are continuously paying "interest" on. Just like any debt, sometimes it's a good thing and sometimes it's a bad thing.
I don't think "the right thing" is as black-and-white here as it is in other recalls. The article mentions several confounding factors:

- the airbags were manufactured in different locations over the course of 18 years, making it difficult to say that 100% of them need to be recalled

- it's not easy to prove what caused the issue in the first place

- the vehicle manufacturer should probably be the party responsible for the recall, not the airbag manufacturer (based on US law, not based on common sense)

So fighting this is certainly a self-interest of the airbag company, but it's not necessarily baseless.
I wonder if this will overcome the problem of traditional flu vaccines that they make people 4x more likely to catch non-influenza viruses: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/54/12/1778/455098
Twitter’s DM encryption is a modest security improvement over the status quo
> at prices delivered to consumers less profitable than what they realize

That’s not true, HFT firms like Citadel are required to improve on the national bid/ask spread. They are saving the consumers money compared to their orders being sent to NYSE or NASDAQ
Any statistics to back this up? It would be incredibly difficult to in aggregate increase the average lifespan of cars dramatically and consistently while reducing the long tail of the lifetime. So this claim smells like a negativity bias / rosy retrospection.
>Use HSTS
And break the site for invalid certificate authority
I've thought about this a fair bit over the last decade. Full disclosure: I'm a smartphone minimalist. I use so little data on my phone I don't know how much I have, it was 100M per month but I think the telco increased it because it didn't fit their plans. I spend $9.99/mth for my phone service.

We evolved to live in the plains of Africa. We evolved to live is small bands of hunter-gatherers who occasionally got together to have huge parties.

Our senses have enough bandwidth to enjoy special mushrooms and to avoid predators. But smartphones can throw far more information at us than that. And for some reason I can't fathom, when your phone chirps or shakes you MUST check it NOW.

I believe that we should look deeper at how these things might affect young brains. Just as THC is mostly harmless for adults, but royally fucks up children's brain development.

Not being a psychologist/neuroscientist I have no idea how to test this hypothesis.
But when will be ban XML?
> Our inability to do it so far doesn't necessarily imply it's impossible.

It's a fairly solid indicator though that it must be tricky or that the body is making some tradeoff.
Hindi has a word for it "jugaad". It means exactly this.
The rechargeable batteries still need to be replaced, and it's hard for non-Casio dealers to get them AFAIK.

Best option is a watch with a common battery type (e.g. CR2016) and accessible battery compartment.
Batteries are in the top, if not the top, failures in an ICE. The role it plays is different but it’s definitely still there and is even replaced as it starts showing signs of aging.
I disagree with your premise. There’s masterful tech docs and terrible fan fiction. Comparing one to a barn and the other to Van Gogh is meaningless.
Couldn't you just run it on Airflow / Luigi / Keboola / Dagster / Flyte?
I haven't had much luck with that. The most recent example I'm thinking of, with ChatGPT 4, is I asked it a question and it's response included something like "can be set up by following the documentation". I asked "What is the URL of the documentation you refer to above" and it said "I'm a LLM, I can't do that."
It is frustrating to see a trend of public tax-funded police doing less (especially in cities), while organizations that can afford to are hiring the same officers 'off-duty' or creating their own forces

Doesn't seem optimal or sustainable
Jepsen does find stuff with everything. Thus you have to know what is being discussed is serious and blatantly bad, or just the usual "wow distributed is hard".

Which is why his papers are so great.

But the MongoDB one was "wow this is bad".
Oh yeah I didn't pimp my own book, "Agile V2 Coach's Field Manual" on amazon. Hard copy only.
It simply redraws the shape from the last point.
There is a trick to get better performance out of 3.5, examples specifically in Q&A format. You basically have to show it how you want it to act first and then ask your question or whatever. It can be a pain to craft a good prompt but the really important and amazing thing is that the knowledge it gains from the examples is transferable to other similar tasks! So you don’t have to answer your own question, just show it how you prefer questions to be answered and then ask the question you want the answer to (or tell it to perform the task you want it to) and you can reuse the prompt for other questions.
Lead poisoning came before asbestos fwiw
They probably should be taken to a facility that’s better equipped for them.
From [1]:

> We're not sure, at this point, that the vaccine protects you against getting infected. We know for sure it's very, very good, 94 percent, 95 percent in protecting you against clinically recognizable disease, and almost a 100 percent in protecting you for severe disease.

I'm looking at this paper[2] released in the Lancet in Feb 2022 and very, very few of the efficacy figures against severe disease show 100% effectiveness, nor anything like it in the vast majority of instances. I could be reading that big table wrong though, but the findings section has this:

> For severe COVID-19 disease, vaccine efficacy or effectiveness decreased by 10·0 percentage points (95% CI 6·1–15·4) in people of all ages and 9·5 percentage points (5·7–14·6) in older people. Most (81%) vaccine efficacy or effectiveness estimates against severe disease remained greater than 70% over time.

so I don't think I have, but happy to be corrected. The figures are certainly higher against alpha, but not 100%, that's quite an overstatement, in my view.

[1] https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/CPT/date/2020-12-10/segment... Chris Cuomo interviews Dr Fauci

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... Duration of effectiveness of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease: results of a systematic review and meta-regression
Regarding standards, the Terse Executable (TE) is part of the UEFI Platform Initialization Specification https://uefi.org/specs/PI/1.8/V1_TE_Image.html now.

From "Beyond BIOS" https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501505690...:

"The advantages of having TE as a subset of PE include the ability to use standard, available tools, such as linkers, which can be used during the development process. Only during the final phases of the FV image creation does the tool chain need to convert the PE image into a TE. This similarity extends to the headers and the relocation records. In order to have an in-situ agent, such as a debugger nub, distinguish between the PE and TE images, the signature field has been slightly modified. For the PE, the signature is “MZ” for Mark Zbikowski, the designer of the Microsoft DOS† image format, the origin of the PE/COFF image. For the TE image, the signature is “VZ”, as found at the end of Volume 1 of the UEFI PI specification:

#define EFI_TE_IMAGE_HEADER_SIGNATURE 0x5A56 // "VZ"

This one character difference allows for sharing of debug scripts and code that only need to distinguish between the PE and TE via this one character of the signature field. Although the development and design team eschewed use of proper names in code or the resultant binaries, the “VZ” and “Vincent Zimmer” association appeared harmless, especially given the interoperability advantages."
Wasn’t avx-512 disabled rather shortly after alderlakes release?
Sure, it was to specifically mention the account numbers and banks involved in some edge cases instead of saying something more general like "transfer to the bank account of person x".
It does uncover a vulnerability about Trezor that allows attackers to fake a Trezor without the user knowing it. It should have been defended via attestation, and software downloaded from the official website should have checked the attestation signature so they know the firmware hasn’t been tampered with.
The point is it’s incredibly hard to get the the good work. It’s not bad, if you can survive the insane competition. Which most, by definition, cannot.
Anything is possible, but this would be extremely difficult. You can't program an off-the-shelf unit to emulate itself. The flashing sequence is a hardware function. There is an actual button that determines whether the system is coming up in flash mode or run mode after a reset. To fake the flashing sequence you would need to have a custom chip, or a custom PCB, or you would need to rewire the stock PCB so that wire went to a different pin. Not impossible, but very hard.