skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who’s been involved in both, it’s not like the language you pick doesn’t make a difference, but I’d say that there are other factors that vastly overshadow it.

For example, one thing we were told when choosing to write in a lisp was that we’d have problems finding developers. It turned out to be true in that we received fewer applications, but compared to the same process with a more mainstream language, I’d say the applicants were on average of higher quality. So by the final step, we were approximately considering the same number of résumés in both cases.

But in the end, the language is not what has made the biggest impact. It’s been other, more universally applicable things, such as team dynamics and communication, clarity of vision and consistency in execution, process and planning, and a ton of other things where the particular language is not a factor.
> Government IT is outsourced at prices that could pay top salaries

Mostly, its not; a lot is not outsourced, and a lot that is is outsourced on personal services contracts at rates that even if there was no vendor overhead wouldn’t pay for a top-flight pay and benefits package.
idk about all that morality stuff. At the end of the day, my job has become a minimal part of my life. When you can sleepwalk and do a Good Job [1] and get paid a quarter million, why blink?

[1] I just probably saved my company my salary and change in the last month, for instance.
https://archive.is/qZTFC
This is exactly my point, I would rather enjoy those years than live like a hermit chasing something which may not even come to fruition.
I don’t know if you are a runner but 20k on the track is pretty hard mentally. I would prefer 20k on the trail where it really sometimes feels like no effort whatsoever.
Not sure about VSCode extension but I’ve used Typora for the longest time and they’re really good!!
This North American belief that financial stability has home ownership as a prerequisite is incorrect. Consider as a counter example Germany where much of the population rents their primary residence. Germans don’t feel marginalized for it. They save and invest. They raise children and participate in society and aren’t ashamed of being renters.
Super fun! Obviously I wouldn’t do this on purpose because it defeats the object of the game but if you watch this on an iPhone, you can pull down the Notification Centre and it’ll show you the title of the video you’re watching as part of the media controls. The title has the year in it.
Ooooh will look into adding tables
We can't take it for granted yet that it will be merged
The difference between the two scenario's is quite obvious. In coal ash it's highly diluted, in nuclear waste it's highly concentrated.
Travel apps- currently Waze/Citymapper. I have some sort of travel anxiety, dreams about missing trains, losing luggage. These apps have created an altogether more relaxing world.
"The idea that our primary worry should be that maybe in 300 years countries will be unable to handle this simple technical task that the US figured out in 1960s is bananas."

I suggest you open a history book. It is quite likely the same countries that exist today do not exist in the future and the same knowledge does not either.

Furthermore it is not necessarily about being unable to understand some physics and processes but instead that language and knowledge quickly "deteriorates" over time, e.g. the langauge today is vastly different than even 100 years ago - technical terms and the like shift the fastest, cultural ones the slowest, but they do all become obscured by time. Even a more advanced civilization may encounter challenges that have no logical correlation with the task of keeping spent fuel safe, e.g. intential security measures such as encryption/obfuscation/code rot/reliance on no-longer manufactured tools.

Anyways there is another objection you are fundamentally missing is that the timeframes are possibly un-sustainable in terms of time per acres. Sure you have storage for 100 years in dry casks (maybe some parking lot) but then must wait 100000 years. So you must store 1000 more times the fuel for it to be truly sustainable, digging giant holes in the ground is def not sustainable. Maybe parking lots are, but then you need to be sure your mountain of nuclear waste is stable (harder to do).
Very clean design, best of luck!
My experience is that it's neither the battery nor the software that fails: It's the phone modem.

Every single one of my Android phones stopped working as phones 3 to 5 years down the line. Couldn't take calls, the phone never became aware of them. Couldn't call anyone, not even emergency services, the phone never connected despite full bars. It's always the fucking phone modem.

I'm still using an Android, but when this one eventually fails (this one's starting to flake out at not even a year old, bought new...) I might seriously move over to an iPhone simply because every single iPhone I've seen others use has apparently never stopped working as phones. That's even if they fried a couple Lightning cables and whatnot.

I bought a phone, I expect it to phone. God damn.
yes I meant Lévy I don't really know what went through my head.

I also have to say that you don't need to have a strong intuition for differential equations even through they are very related. Stochastic calculus can be studied entirely in its own right.

And with respect to quantitative finance my experience is that while a candidate knowing about or having coursework in stochastic calculus is certainly relevant its not favourable.

This also depends on the exact job right, if you have to be pricing XVa products then you better have know Girsanov, Ito and what have you =)
Reminds me of: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

(There seems to be a lot of death-related stats in there, so beware if that's triggering)
Thanks for the share! Does anyone have similar recommendations ( books | links | videos ) on the history of statistical inference ? Would love to know more about the evolution of statistical thought all the way from Pearson, Fischer etc.

Cheers
> What I'm challenging is that if a team has spent three months building a feature, you a/b test it and find no effect, that is not a good outcome.

That's a great outcome. At one company we spent a few months building a feature only for it to fail the test, now that was a bad outcome. The feature's code was so good, we ended up refactoring it to look like the old feature and switching to that. So there was a silver lining, I guess.

The key takeaway was to never a/b test a feature that big again. Instead we would spend a few weeks to build something that didn't need to scale nor feature complete. (IOW, an MVP/POC shitty code).

If it had come out that there was no difference, we would have gone with the new version code because it was so well built -- alternatively, if the code was shit, we probably would have thrown it out. That's why its the best result. You can write shitty POC code and toss it out -- or keep it if you really want.
To put this in perspective, ringwoodite in the mantle is estimated to hold up to 1% water. If estimates are correct this implies it holds three times more water than all of the oceans on the Earth's surface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringwoodite
http://www.hpstar.ac.cn/upload/files/2020/2/fab59e098740ea9c...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL09...
Government tells Chinese handset companies to get Indian equity partners
Show HN: HabitGrids – Track habits with GitHub-like calendar heat maps
Huh. Is Google Inactivity Manager something one could use to safeguard against the failure modes of their push to 2-factor auth? As in, set it on shortest possible check-up period, so in case you break your phone and forgot where you put the backup single-use 2FA keys, all you need to do is log out from Google account on any other device, and wait a month or three, and you'll eventually get your account back?
Britain’s Economic Malaise
https://archive.is/pwp8s
> But the solution to that is fintech and regulation, not crypto

Why? Now we have a trustless, decentralized, tech solution, why do you still want the "guys with guns" solution?
If I could control the software and swap out the parts, I would probably still be using my iphone 4, the first device I felt got depreciated out of existence long before it stopped being useful.
Optimal slicing is indeed a hard problem, since what is ”optimal” also depends on what you’re optimizing for. Bigger slices more easily lead to higher short-term throughput and more developer flow time, but less collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and predictability.

You meantioned ”sprints” so sounds like you’re working with something Scrumlike? I worked in Scrum teams for ~5 years and have now worked with Kanban for the past 2.

For me, Kanban has really solved much of the ”puzzle everything together at the end.” Instead of sprints we structure our around stories (goal of the original scope is ~2 weeks). Before we start, we slice the work inside the story into less than 1 day tasks (or as small as feasible). This allows us to have a high-level plan on the APIs, migrations, frontend, and backend work. Each story can then have 2-4 people working on them (depending on the level of ”natural concurrency” the tasks offer).
> a remote, unpopulated area above ground?

European countries and other denser ones may want to know where it finds those.. and as if we are not in a big change that will start a lot of instability, conflicts and migration.
I don't know, if tasks have that many internal dependencies, maybe they should be separate tasks, and then don't pick up a task when it has unresolved dependencies. But sure, reality happens too, I don't want to say that what I'm describing is perfect.
There's rain and there's rain.

Once my Google Nexus 4 died because of rain. Normal rain was no problem ever with it, even to make calls in a rain. But one day it rained very heavily with a wind so strong it was hard to walk against it. It felt like being in a carwash for ~ 10 minutes.

I was waterlogged up to my underwear. Nexus 4 was in my pocket and died. I put it to a bunch of rice and let it airdry. After it dried, the phone acted weirdly.

Lesson learnt: if the product doesn't specifically indicate a high level of water protection level, consider it not having ANY protection. "Resistant against spills" and other handwavy marketing mumbo jumbo has zero substance.
> "That sort of thing isn't the FBI's style though."

True. That's more like something the CIA would do.
I wonder. Following the latest advancements afforded to total surveillance as well as never before possible profiling-depth of people based on everything they've ever done since their teens, how will this change gov-level secretive organisations? Would someone like Ellsberg be weeded out even before his first interview or would he be detected and neutralized at the very first step outside the lines?

Gov can now scrutinize candidates for secretive organisations en masse for even the lowest positions and effectively weed out anyone who's ever shown even a hint of dissent, morality or adherence to principles who've proven to be any kind of risk against total obedience.

Gov can now also monitor employees' every heartbeat, every step, sleep patterns, stress levels and every spoken word (literally true for all of these), let alone their actions.

The risk of getting someone like Ellsberg past the door, let alone at any meaningful level, can now be crushed at previously unthinkable values.

How would these improved, airtight, secretive organisations operate and what would be the consequences? It feels like all these advancements in tech placed us on a one way superhighway towards returning to empires, aristocracies, eternal ruling classes & eternal commoners.
Landlords leaving the market sell to people who previously had to rent and can now own their own house. Since many landlords leave at once, people can buy houses cheaply. Where is the problem in my logic?
Binging “obama whistleblower crackdown” returns some pretty conservative leaning and conspiracy looking websites.
Thanks for sharing that!
I think that is a brilliant way to identify and attract potential talent.
Everyone is doing 1on1s wrong. I think
Started in Europe too.
I tried an online shop dealing in a very particular hobby of mine...got the end - 5 10 15% tip buttons.

I sent them a message: no more custom from me until the buttons go.
I gave them the link to an alternative source i found.

Still no reply.
And yet, nothing changed, as the dead bodies all over the middle east caused by direct US warfare or indirectly instigated color revolutions illustrate. The public forgets, and the machine still functions by the same rules and mechanisms as it always did.

I think the machine will come to a halt only by its own increasing disfunction, similar to the UDSSR.
>Alchemists were quite a secretive bunch.

But they'll surely tell it to their wife and kids at some point. And somebody should leak the recipe.

>Isaac Newton

Oh. :D
What have you done..!?
Maybe change your perspective to be less sour about life, stress kills!
Yeah, I can't understand how Americans can live that way, having to calculate the tax in their head, or adding the fees for everything and all.

In Europe I go to a supermarket, and if something has a 1€ price tag, I only need a 1€ coin. Every price includes VAT,unless the seller is B2B, since companies don't pay VAT. And in those cases, prices must indicate N€+VAT.

And the tips, that stupid model of calculating the percentage and stuff is new, copied from the US. At least in Spain it's common not to tip, or at most round to the next euro and "keep the change"
Resenting someone's good fortune helps no one but certainly hurts the resenter by blinding them to what (could have) helped the other guys attain said good fortune.

Yes, Reddit had standard Web 2.0 features but they had to build it and have it working when the masses arrived. Yes, they were helped by YC but they had to go out and market themselves to the people running YC. Yes, they were alive, if barely, when Digg suicided, but give them credit for being around.

To me, the key takeaway is not to resent their success but to keep doing the little things that matter, stay in the game for as long as you reasonably can, and wait for the pack leader to falter.

In fact, some pols make careers out of this - e.g., the October Surprise aspect of US elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise.

It take hard work to get lucky.
I agree with your analysis, but the process might be the most valuable thing here, getting rid of lead.
For what? Android won't provide lifetime updates.
> The simple truth is that people die everyday and dealing with this stuff is normal for most any institution of note.

Correct. The problem is, the tech SaaS companies like Google, which increasingly become critical to people's day-to-day life, are not "institutions of note", and in fact they do their damned best to avoid and weasel out of "dealing with this stuff", or account recovery support in general (or any support "that doesn't scale").

Maybe in a decade or two, when enough bereaved families (and people just breaking their phones at a bad moment) will end up cut off from important assets because of a broken/nonexistent account recovery process, that the public pressure will mount and tech companies will be forced by law to actually provide support.
> Like others have mentioned in the thread, the people who will most likely want to take over these subs are going to be some combination of bigots, cranks, and the severely deranged. That doesn't seem like it will do good things for user participation or advertiser attractiveness.

So why would Reddit do it?

More likely, Reddit will pick moderators who are extremely advertiser friendly and who will squash "controversial" viewpoints -- as we've seen on other sites/ services, those "controversial" viewpoints are things like the precautionary principle, biological sex, free speech, free assembly, freedom of conscience, etc.

What supports the argument that it will go to "bigots, cranks and the severely deranged"?
I love how costs are immediately passed on to consumers and employees, but profits remain and should never be allowed to decrease ever for shareholders
Ahem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn ;)
It's doubtful people have access to population-level base rates either, in which case they would also arrive at the wrong answer, no narrative needed.

But why do you point the finger at narrative instead of a simple lack of data? In the dog example, those questions are absolutely good ones to ask, so long as the data can be found.

One reason to reject this mental opposition between 'Bayesian reasoning' and 'narrative fallacy' is because narratives are essential to coming up with good conditions on which to split the population in the first place.

'I would ask whether they have children, because children like dogs and therefore it's plausible that families with children have a higher rate of dog ownership' is a reasonable narrative that justifies collecting an extra column in your dataset.

Granted, one shouldn't accept that story uncritically without checking against the actual statistics. But narratives themselves are unavoidable even when you're doing statistics correctly!
That would've been speculative with a dash of poetic license I presume ? Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Hume proposed any mathematical model in this regard. Would love to see some references. Thanks
Ask HN: Are disappearing messages on WhatsApp deleted?
I have a suspicion that disappearing messages are not deleted but rather only disappear from the UI.
If you read the WhatsApp docs on disappearing messages carefully, you will notices it does not claim that the messages are actually deleted.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what's actually happening with the messages?
> but this and the USB-C issue strike me as misguided, policies from people who aren't qualified to to make the decisions they are making, and aren't listening to experts.

You do realise that the EU gave the industry (i.e. the "experts") the task of defining and agreeing on a standard for charging cables? The manufacturers worked on this and agreed on USB-C, all except one US based fruit company.
"But CBP says it can only process so many people in a day."

Which means that from CBP's perspective, the system is functioning properly.
I understand and I applaud you. It’s a good life you got going there (it seems). I’m just personally grabbed by the question “what is virtue” in a way that’s hard to shake. I can come off annoying and I try hard not to.

Have a great weekend.
> Of course you expect something. Why are you running this test over all other tests?

Because it has the best chance to prove/disprove your hypothesis. That's it. Even if it doesn't, all that means is that the metrics you're measuring are not connected to what you're doing. There is more to learn and explore.

So, you can hope that it will prove or disprove your hypothesis, but there is no rational reason to expect it to go either way.
This week in KDE: nicer digital signing in Okular
Dingo: A Low-Cost Open-Source Robot Quadruped
NASA's Curiosity Captures Martian Morning, Afternoon in New 'Postcard'
Most math we're taught is used constantly in life and is not comprehensible absent education....

Percents, fractions, what the word "average" means...
I'm not sure there's any short quote that summarizes it. But as I read him, thought is composed of ideas, which are themselves "no more than the compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing" of other ideas. And ideas are very simple things, fundamentally based on impresseions like awareness of the colour red or of pain. And these ideas relate to each other in terms of "only three Principles of Connexion among Ideas, viz. Resemblance, Contiguity in Time or Place, and Cause or Effect".

I think equating his 'ideas' with perceptrons might be anachronistic. But it does seem to suggest complex and abstract ideas are composites, built of networks of networks of simpler ideas, the connections between them being of a simple nature as well, perhaps all boiling down to nothing more than many stacked layers of basic sensations being present or absent, plus how they are sequenced and associated.

It's not completely revolutionary; much of it follows Aristotle. The particular emphasis on 'ideas' and their 'connexions' being everything to thought, is perhaps original to Hume. This is in essays 2 and 3. Makes me think of Leucippus and his atoms. Not really our atoms, and yet still uncanny in their resemblance, especially with so little to go on. Disclaimer: I haven't read it in some 20 years besides skimming for the above quotes, and I'm not a philosopher.
> If I could choose between feeling like a 55 year old and a 25 year old, why would I pick the former?

Theoretically, you are wiser at 55. /s
Smaller businesses, and even many large corporations, consider the fines and penalties of violating local laws as a cost of doing business.

That is to say: Conduct business, if you get fined or penalized for it then note it down for future reference. It's cheaper than hiring an entire legal department to trove through cryptic manuscripts only relevant to regions measured in tens of square miles. Usually.

Obligatory IANAL.
We are still unable to properly recycle plastic. Nuclear fuel is a very well known product carefully crafted, nuclear waste is a corrosive mix of very different things, mainly everything near the reactor that isn't fuel (pipes, concrete, clothes, machinery...) that gets contaminated and you can't do anything with it except store away in a radioactive landfill. The used nuclear fuel is already being processed and reused. But we can't do much with a contaminated piece of steel except turn it to small pieces and store the more contaminated in a concrete brick, no "gasoline" to extract there.
Rewriting Reddit (In Python and Web.py)
Everytime I see the word "entitlement" bandied about, it almost always smacks of entitlement. The user of the word ignores or is ignorant of the various layers of assumptions about the arbitrary nature of the system that is rigged against the average person by the ruling class.

You may be lucky enough to have found a way in the system, but it's not "entitled" to point out that the system is bullshit. You are entitled. As if "starting a business" is some fundamental law of nature like breathing or shelter. Most people don't have any other choice than to be an employee. It's like calling serfs entitled. Sheesh.
Wouldn't just adding each other partner or a few trusted relatives as recovery email work as well?
He is not a Twitter bro though. He has developed software extensively. He is a PL researcher, a professor at BrownU, now working in computing education.
Please point me to this law. Unless you are in a mortgage, no law requires you to hold homeowner’s insurance, and you can absolutely self-insure, to my knowledge.

The same is not true for auto insurance in most states, though most also have an option to self-insure by putting up collateral.
The New Yorker has a short overview[1]. The ACLU has a more complete list[2]. The American Prospect and Cato Institute have some articles if you search around, but I'm not a huge fan of their work.

1: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/obama-leaves-tr...
2: https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/leak-prosecutions-obam...
Book value accounting only works if you have matching regulatory or matching duration capital for the original loan.

Mortgage banks drove the UK bankrupt cap in hand to the IMF in 73 with far far less of a rates delta than is happening now.

Edit : there was a similar breakdown of society as is happening already today almost everywhere , back in 73 in the UK. The main difference is that the banks managed to put much more of the pain onto the common man since then.
Ask HN: How do you learn to read open source code bases?
You open a github repo of an open source codebase. Then what?

Which folders/files do you look at first? Is there a way to learn this?