skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conversation is about "black swan but good" events and white is often used as short hand for good as opposed to black being used as short hand for something bad. It's pretty obvious what he means (even if "white swan" is most commonly used to refer to predictable major events and the term "black swan" not being limited to unfavourable events) so I'm guessing you're just being mean for no reason.

I am wondering though what exactly you think "black swan event" means and why you think that since your post here makes it rather clear you don't understand what the term refers to or where it comes from either.

Black swans are not at all rare and a "black swan event" is not called that because of the rarity of black swans. It's called that because "black swan" was at one time used to refer to non-existent or impossible things in Europe then when Australia was discovered they found out black swans are actually extremely common, a very improbable event given the data available beforehand. It's the discovery of black swans that was unlikely, not black swans, and it's the unexpectedness of their discovery that is relevant to the "black swan" metaphor. [1]

If black swans were rare seeing one would not be a "black swan event" because it would be possible to predict that one could be seen, just not very often, thus not having the required characteristic of being unpredictable beforehand. So yes, despite their post being easily understandable, the person you responded to did use "white swan" incorrectly, but your correction is just plain wrong as well.

Please if you are going to be pedantic try to also actually be correct on what you're being a jerk about first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
> avoids STL containers

I'm not sure I fully understand why some projects so proudly avoid using standard library features and e.g. favour a more manual approach to memory/data management. What are some good key reasons for this?

> avoids ... C++ headers

Same question for this point - but is it the same reason as for avoiding STL containers or something else?
I disagree. To me the piece is about enshittification as Doctorow defined it. It's not just a UX change that the author doesn't like but rather a UX change designed to gain short-term profits for its investors at the expense of its users (both readers and librarires).

Overdrive sacrificed its usefulness to its users to gain market-share with libraries, and it's achieved 95% penetration there. Now it's paring back functionality for libraries, hiding features that might enable them to leave their platform, and using its monopoly advantage to force them to pay more for features that were previously free and easy to use. The most apparent reason it's doing this is because it was bought by a notorious investment firm with a long history of squeezing as much money out of their acquisitions as possible before leaving them to die.

That seems to support the original definition pretty well. I agree that the word does a disservice to its definition.
It's time we all had discussions about evolving past this phase. I think it can be done.

I don't love everything Noval Harrari has to say, but I love his idea that money is a story we believe in, if we didn't, it would have no value, and it's a story we need rewrite if we want to survive.

Greed is not good, being a billionaire is unwise. Money is the root of much evil..or something like this.
There is a new claim or two of room-temperature superconductors published on Arxiv every year: https://nitter.net/peternemes/status/1684483863999827973#m... and yet this is the only one that sets the Twitters afire.

The reaction I've seen from most of the scientists has been pretty negative on the papers. The originals aren't strong papers. The chemistry has issues: https://nitter.net/Robert_Palgrave/status/168545015680691814... (unbalanced equations, starting materials have pretty different element ratios to final products). As for the main claim, note that LK-99 seems to be a poorer conductor than copper wire at room temperature: https://nitter.net/bedoya_pinto/status/1686848392616423425#m... which is the kind of thing that should really cause a record scratch and make everyone go "um, I think you did something wrong there"--it's something that absolutely would be caught in peer review.
No, it doesn't. What destroys trust in climate science is coordinated attacks from conservative think thanks. You people who think its the fault of them not acting like perfect logicians are delusional. Its is propaganda (clickbait or otherwise) which actually makes things happen, not reasoned arguments. Conservatives understand this is and that is why they tend to win even when their goal are clearly bad.
Don't fully disagree, but feel a counterpoint needs to be said.

> created so many insanely big problems through greed, and unbridled technological progress in the name of profits

Capitalism is an allocation algorithm that scales.

We haven't just created insanely big problems, we've delivered insane boosts to productivity.

Capitalism's outputs in that name of progress (the things that greed and unbridled technological progress have enabled) are now necessary to deliver the current living standard we have for the number of people we're supporting on this planet.

- Fertilizer-boosted and genetically-modified factory agriculture

- Mass manufacturing with global supply chains

- Global energy markets with worldwide distribution

- International capital flows

If we're talking about toppling the current system, then we have to admit that means losing its positives as well as its negatives.

Reengineering isn't complete when only looking at the negatives we'd avoid and the positives we'd gain.

It needs to also include the positives we'd lose and the negatives we'd incur by shifting to an alternate system.

The alternatives to capitalism aren't just 'avoiding capitalism's problems' -- they've historically also been 'rampant inefficiency to the extent that it decreases standard of living.'

One reason I'm bullish on carbon taxes et. al. Adjust the incentives, and then let the best allocation model we've found run to optimization under the altered constraints.
Are you sure that language learning itself is actually a big enough market to contain so many competitors? My guess, coming from personal experience with this market, is not really. Far fewer people want to learn foreign languages than is popularly assumed online, and even when they do, it’s almost always English for business reasons.

So if you’re dead set on entering this space, I would focus on business-case uses for learning English.
That's the kind of heuristic rule that's going to come back and bite you when you try to scale up to half a billion attachments a day.
"I can’t believe you posted that comment!" That's metaphorical. Of course I believe you posted that comment, it's right in front of my eyes.
Because it is easier to keep a localized thing cool than something that is 100's of km long. That's why iceboxes are boxes and not ice ribbons and why most applications of superconductors right now are using them as coils for magnetic field and volume economy. For instance there is one grid component that uses superconducting coils as inertia free stabilizers, they can be used to source and sink current very rapidly to absorb transients in the load. This allows older and less stable grids to be used to transfer wind power because the power over time is a bit lower. Allowing those peaks unfiltered onto the grid would cause parts of it to go down.
I was impressed by this being an extra time endeavor.

It does show genuine scientific curiousity from Andrew and his team(they might just be along for the ride).

If more company bonding events could be live streamed/tweeted experimental replication attempts of novel compounds instead of happy hours.

The world would be a stranger place.
Maybe you're just used to seeing him in "on" mode (giving legendary conference presentations) and he's more subdued when doing everyday work.

It's a bit distasteful to virtually follow him around and speculate about his mental health.
ublock origin; google voice
I can't connect my fridge to a keyboard, mouse and screen and seamlessly use it as a desktop.

I'm doing exactly that with a Steam Deck. I'll be going out of town for the next few week and instead of carrying a laptop to WFH, I'm just taking my SD and a keyboard with me.
when people are struggling to pay rent and afford food, telling them that they need to decrease their living standards because they will be poorer in some indeterminate amount of time, is not very convincing.
> Last year, to stop this then-ongoing telemarketing campaign in its tracks, the FCC directed all U.S.-based voice service providers to cease carrying traffic associated with certain members of the enterprise.

I thought it was not permitted (under ITU rules) to refuse to carry selected traffic.

Years ago, I was getting robocalls from overseas; at least, the voices seemed to be overseas. I asked $SOMEONE[0] to put a stop to it, and they said that was illegal. But perhaps ITU rules only apply to international calls; or perhaps the ITU[1] has finally got off it's ass and done something useful, for a change.

[0] It was years ago; I imagine I asked my landline provider, which was probably BT.

[1] The ITU, as far as I can tell, is essentially a body to which governments that are members send representatives. They're supposed to be engineers; but they're there to represent their government's interests, not to improve the global telecom network.
China Set to Impose Mobile Device Limits for Minors
i prefer whuffie
I cant really understand your motivation...

Obviously, any company interested by someone with a PhD will check at least your subject... and even may have a look at what your work was. So it's not a company requirement to get a job.

So either it's to get a better salary (some companies base their offer on diploma for unexperimented junior)... or it's to pass through some immigration laws (you can work in the country only if you got PhD).

Which one ?

(Anyway, I really think that it's a bad idea: sooner or later you'll be caught... and will lost all that you build)
It's also a matter of total mileage and load. You're not going to want to wear sneakers if you're carrying 40 lbs over 50 miles of rough terrain in the next 3 days. You're going to want that support and extra cushion.
I suspect that very little, if any can be executed. No hard data nor first hand knowledge on that though.
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I agree but I also think that comedy is too risky for Netflix. Look at the Chappelle shitshow, and that was over something that was agreed on by ~100% of America 10 years ago.

There's always someone willing to crybully, so why bother? And, counter to that, if there's always someone offended, why not be Sam Hyde? Offend everyone, fuckit.
In fairness, climate change does not increase volcanism...
I wonder how many genuinely "old growth" forests are left in Europe and where they are.

This lists a few without much detail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_old-growth_forests
You remember that time "The media" tried to communicate nuance, and it worked?
The reason you don't is because you can't. People are not equipped to receive that.

The real issue here is industry is destroying our planet, and you nitpick the media because you can't handle the real problem. Bike shedding.
It can't be that. If it were, changing the packet send rate would have no effect, but it does have an effect.
The headline says “remote work” but then the article immediately talks about “asynchrony work”. These are two different topics.

Async work can, and often should, happen in the office is well. Synchronous work is often required in remote work.

A big stumbling block for remote work is the belief that remote means you shouldn’t have to interact with other people much. Some people like that idea, while for others it’s a big problem. Juniors especially struggle when their contact with other team members is forcibly reduced to narrow windows or very delayed responses to everything. Juniors shouldn’t be reaching for help at the first signs of struggle, of course, but some of the async work zealots push the concept so far that juniors are expected to be almost solo developers.

As someone who has successfully worked remote for years, I worry about all of these ideologic prescriptions for how remote work must look. Most of the remote work failures and return to office mandates I’ve heard about in local companies have their roots in unrealistic ideas about remote work, both from the company side and the employee side. Having done this for years I think it’s important that people are still available for ad-hoc collaboration and conversation in company chat, within reason. Remote fails quickly when people take it as an invitation to isolate themselves and check e-mail or Slack once or twice per day.

The only exceptions might be work that is highly repetitive and truly isolated, like an employee who can take an endless queue of similar tickets from Jira and do isolated work on the same tasks over and over again. Most engineering R&D work doesn’t look this isolated, though, so the model fails when forced on more traditional software development.

I’ve also experienced the opposite extreme, where managers go remote and feel obligated to schedule meetings all day long. I had a short-lived remote job where my calendar was over 50% recurring meetings before even scheduling time to discuss work with peers that week. Predictably, nothing got done at that company and they are reluctant to let anyone work remote now.
In my project (30+ members) we have team members located in multiple locations (6+ cities in 4 countries). And for the last 2+ years I am the only one working from my country. While our company is 500+ strong in this country, for this particular project I am the only one.

So interactions with the project team is fully remote.

I am sure even pre-covid many MNCs might have a similar structure with members spread across different location. Though coming to office, but project work happens remotely. Also have juniors joining the team.

It might be difficult for juniors to get started. But not impossible to handle.
Correct. The code shown is only good enough for RTL simulation. It won't help actually generate a chip with multiple read and write ports to a register file.
What's US-American? You mean American?

Is this one of those weird things where Germans try to dunk on Americans by calling us USians?
>In my experience, currencies have been of consistent interest in HN. At least, if you consider cryptocurrencies as such ;-)

Not to mention stories like this are due to the changing impacts of fintech and schemes being used in tech to replace cash payments
Related:

https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/introduction/index.htm...

https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Did not log off on purpose but I am logged off now. Also, cannot login. Cannot use the app at the moment. BTW it is a paid account.
For some kinds, you really don't have to worry that much, e.g. removing asbestos-containing floor tile by prying up (vs. trying to grind it away) only requires that you double-bag it when you take it to the landfill, and there's a recommendation to wet it down to prevent dust, and to wear a mask.

But yeah also there's totally unlicensed folks ripping lagging off old boilers in a t-shirt. No worries, they usually filter it thru a cigarette.
The concept of behavioral sink is very interesting, and while the conclusions are easy to relate to human societies I have always thought it abit shaky taking mice and rats for a complete models of human interactions. While animals, like mice, are very social I still feel humans are much much more complicated in our social behaviors. It would probably be hard to get permission from the ethics board to do the same experiments on primates.
OpenNIC is an alternative root, are you being daft or something?

ICANN has committed to a unique authoritative root and if 1.1.1.1 were to resolve OpenNIC addresses it would violate ICP-3 and RFC 2826

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/unique-authoritative-r...

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2826.txt
That is a great question that I have absolutely no idea about.
May have to do with https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NU?p=NU and vesting periods :)

A true computing thought leader. All the best Rich. My only complaint about you was not open-sourcing datomic and making it free for developers.
Romeo and Juliet, required freshman high school reading.

Act 1 scene 1:

....
SAMPSON ’Tis true, and therefore women, being the
weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall. Therefore
I will push Montague’s men from the wall and
thrust his maids to the wall.

GREGORY The quarrel is between our masters and us
their men.

SAMPSON ’Tis all one. I will show myself a tyrant.
When I have fought with the men, I will be civil
with the maids; I will cut off their heads.

GREGORY The heads of the maids?

SAMPSON Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads.
Take it in what sense thou wilt.

GREGORY They must take it in sense that feel it.

SAMPSON Me they shall feel while I am able to stand,
and ’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.

--------------------

This is straight up "this is how I'd rape women from the "enemy's side". But yet, no howls from ANYONE about Shakespeare. Even though he was writing to what amount to "Days of Our Lives", or an episode of Jerry Springer, he's viewed as some enlightened literary artform.
Oh fun we are having a semantic debate now. I guess nobody wins.

I think a little dose of media literacy is needed here. Obviously scientists aren't literally "refusing to accept", "rejecting", or "don't believe" this data is accurate. Rather "disbelief" in this sense is a normal phrasing used in media to describe the sense of surprise or shock on the part of experts who didn't expect this to happen. One scientist said it was "unheard of".

Yes the article is replacing that with "disbelief" in the figurative sense, but we all know what that means. It's not clickbait.
isn't it interesting how the words "cab" and "taxi" don't any appear in stories like this anymore. Don't they still exist? Aren't they cheaper?

I've never understood the appeal of Uber or Lyft, and now in the era of surge pricing I really don't understand it.
It's bad in the sense that it indicates artificially restricted output such that either fewer people can participate in the market or that people have to do with less than what a competitive market would allow.
I think that some people have a revealed preference that new treatments not make it to market because it would enrich the already wealthy, even if that means progress is slower.
Yes, we dont agree the experts are experts.
I am happy with a Mi Band... 4. Tracks steps, sleep, heart rate and exercise, relays notifications, allows me to find my phone, lasts 2 weeks on a charge. And it's not going to be a disaster should I lose or damage one. The Mi Band line is top bang for buck. The thing that's putting me off from buying a newer model is that they got rid of the capacitive home button. For me swiping back is just not as quick. Sometimes to check time or step count while my hands are busy, I just tap it with my nose :^)
tragic opportunism to throw partisanship in with the upset

"do something now" is fine to say but the Devil is in the details, as they say. Actions have re-actions and ripple effects. Wise management is what got "us" here today ?

humble yourself then work with all your might, seems appropriate now
The lifespan of everyone reading this has decreased by several decades.
Well sure, that's what Lightning port adapters are for. Which allow you to connect both traditional analog devices as well as USB digital audio.
I think the gatekeeping is relevant because almost every time in recent years that the general completely unvetted, often actively ignorant public has gotten an in on the scientific/R&D process, it has been a disaster for the field.

NASA can't take risks and seriously innovate anymore because even intentional explosions will be passed off as failures, we all experienced the sheer madness of the covid years, similarly anything nuclear brings complete randos out of the woodworks claiming absurd things about its dangers.

Not having some amount of gatekeeping just lowers the bar too much and introduces so much more noise.
Your L2 charging wire is low on copper, please replace the entire cable.
Absolutely Hunga Tonga. Water vapor has an amplifying effect. See:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq2299
https://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/

https://www.space.com/tonga-eruption-water-vapor-warm-earth
> and if it's not in the catalog, I can't request it do be added

If its not in the catalog requesting it from the library isn't really doing anything for you but give you false hope of it appearing. Wouldn't you rather know your request isn't going to be fruitful ahead of time instead of thinking your request is doing something when its just going straight into the bin?

And, can you really blame the library from not wanting to have to maintain two lists of digital requests, especially since those digital requests will probably be delivered through Libby and requesting through Libby will actually notify you when its available, and let you know if its an actually requestable title?

Imagine going to a restaurant where they didn't have a menu you just asked the server for food and maybe eventually they'll show up sometime with food for you without ever telling you if they could even serve that dish. Somehow you'd prefer this model!
Customers report missing deposits from Wells Fargo bank accounts
Yeesh, I grew up playing these games, but I am glad I nuked my Steam account. This looks like some fantastic heroin right there!

Fun story - I once managed to “hack” the original BG1 by playing a little halfling thief. Around 10% into the story, there is a possibility to get an rinvisibility cloak, fast walking boots, and a little -1hp/s poisoned dagger. On every map I would break the hearts of all my friends and disband the party once and for all! Then I would zoom around the map, stabbing every monster one by one. This would pool all the XP into my little dude. Then I would reunite all of my old friends once again. They were very useful as dumb slow mules for all the valuables and treasures and whatnot.

Sarevok literally did not see me coming.
Which papers predict that? That’s a new one for me.

Around 2010 I remember reading a prediction of ice free arctic by 2020. It used to go hand in hand with the polar bear panic.