skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(apologies for the small tangential rant; it's a topic I care about :)

I have seen this view towards luck a few times — some variant of "make your own luck" or "put yourself in situations where you're more likely to be lucky", and similar.

I don't object to it by itself, but there's a subtlety that is often missed: it only applies to yourself, not other people. Or perhaps more accurately: it only applies to your choice of action, not evaluating others' results.

The reason I have misgivings is because I have seen it used as a cudgel; someone fails, and a person with this mindset is more prone to rationalize it, saying "oh, they didn't try hard enough" or "it was their own fault, they should be smarter about it."

No.

No matter how hard a person tries, they can still fail, and it may not be their fault at all. At least when it's your own self, you have more information to know if you could have done better. When it's directed at others, it's extremely dicey to make those judgements.

Someone more in tune with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune might be more inclined to actually help that person, rather than blaming them for things outside of their control.

It's tricky, because the "try harder next time" whip is useful, to be sure, but it also can be an enemy of empathy.
Portland spent well over a billion dollars on the Big Pipe. It helped a lot but there are still sewer overflows a few times a year. Better than after every rain in a city that gets 9 months of rain a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Side_Big_Pipe
Yes, burning fossil fuels is really inefficient. We should stop doing that. We have better options now.

And, climate models say we need to remove 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the air every year in 2050. It's really inefficient but there's already too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Is this also called an outlier?
I think people shouldn't leave rakes littered all over the ground. Perhaps by stepping on them I'll demonstrate why it's a bad idea, but I'll also probably take a couple thwacks to the head in the meantime.
Why exactly would the Burj Khalifa no be hooked up to the sewer system?
Great article!

Mildly interesting tangent: the author had a male teenaged babysitter back in the 1980s. I wonder how common that is these days?
Because Flakes are simultaneously discouraged and labeled as unfinished, yet used by many.

Some aspects of Flakes are a bit contentious. For example, official adoption of Flakes will mean Nix will no longer be a mono-repository. Plus, Flakes are tightly coupled to Git.

However, Flakes bring welcome improvements to longstanding issues. Most notably, package pinning and explicit versioning, which are problematic when using channels.
Don't forget that the lab leak theory contributed demonstrably to violence against Asian Americans.
Nothing you're saying is incorrect, but once they moved people to VDI's they then discovered they can cut costs by oversubscribing a cluster.

That CAD program that needs 16 threads for someone to be productive? But if the cluster is oversubscribed you'll get maybe 30% of the performance you need.
Honest question, how do you isolate their caretakers? And their families? And their neighbors? Also, this would apply to those with comorbidities.
Fair enough. I guess I was prompted to post a reply because of the claim that "the suicide rate is not that high". I had heard the 50k figure in another recent story and found it quite shocking.
Yes… I agree. However, I imagine one handwritten letter to a friend or loved one would be far more enriching for most people than 100 published blog posts.
https://www.techradar.com/news/macs-have-too-much-malware-ac...
We should legalize jaywalking, since it was an invention of the car industry to deflect attention from how dangerous their products were (and are) and is unnecessary for a functioning society. I realize you're using the example rhetorically, but still ... that is what we should do about jaywalking.
What sort of niche do you operate in? And what’s the ballpark MRR? You might find someone here.
This is a problem but the fact we know the real reason for the US pilots’ success was not carrots shows we (eventually) got the correct information.

So the question is - how does this happen today? Journalists investigating companies? Analysts giving insight into what is happening behind the scenes? Whistleblowers?
Diplomatic relations?? I don't think every international issue was solved by agreeing to throw money at an issue for a project that hasn't clearly stated how it will solve the problem permanently and all inside of a country with a relatively high location on the corruption perception index.
Especially prevalent in gun politics e.g. if you point out some arbitrary restriction on collapsible stocks or muzzle flash suppressors will save 0 lives.
Honestly, european common approach of "trial period" is better for this.

Details vary, but for example in Poland you can (simplified case):

1. Hire for fixed-length term of a year
2. First 3 months of that are "trial period" - you have minimal paperwork for firing during that time, effectively no chance of lawsuit (if someone brings a lawsuit that gets far enough for any paperwork to reach you, you have much worse things to take care of internally)
3. After the fixed-length period, if you're happy with the employee and want him to continue you switch to "permanent" contract. If not, the term lapses and that's it.
Forget 10k Steps. Here's How Much Science Says You Need to Walk
> but consumer QLC drives have now been on the market for five years: the time limit on those drive warranties is now expiring, with no sign of an epidemic of premature drive failures

The failure is not shown as an epidemic, it is shown firstly as a degradation; in forums under questions about why turned so slow the disk that find as answer to enable the RAPID mode (so using RAM cache), in other post as regrets about the purchase, and things like that.

those who know what kind of thing they are buying with QLC store disposable data, at time they do not fill the disk.
A simple bioactive sand filter would probably be sufficient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosand_filter
Why is that an uncomfortable thought? Most people don’t want or need a personal website. I know I don’t — what the heck would I use it for?
The plot thickens: The battle over books comes at a cost
The comment about hybrid meeting rings true for me. 5 people in one box and 3 others in their own is just a strange dynamic.

The idea that we got phone calls with video and that’s somehow bad is strange to me. This was sci-fi for a long time. Latency could be better, but you can beam a video to your friend around the world from a cab.

In terms of there being nothing more to explore, Google’s Project Starline shows what the next gen can look like, the vision pro is producing photo realistic 3d avatars, and civil engineering is giving holographic presentations.

Some of the slow rollout is just people not knowing what’s possible. For example, Teams allows you to overlay yourself in videos, you can hold polls, you can raise hands and take turns, you can transcribe the meeting, record it for others, get automatic attendance reports, and do much more than just a PowerPoint slides. This is just a general tech problem, tools are built for engaging communication but people still just throw up a few bullet points for half an hour.
Thanks. I just flipped through a lot of Dinosaur book (10th ed) and it's not hands-on, though.

Back in undergrad in the early 90s, our OS course was we spent the semester building a crappy x86 OS which could boot, run a couple of processes with basic I/O and simple signals and memory management. Even though it had nearly zero concepts relevant to modern OS's, it was so much fun. It didn't set me up in any way to be a serious OS designer, but it was the essence of programming a CPU and some devices, with nothing in between us. I'd love to experience that again. But I don't know where to find resources for the lowest levels: booting into a raw CPU and connecting directly to devices (including display and keyboard). To be sure, I can find plenty of OS texts on advanced memory and process management schemes and so on, but what about the lowest level?
(Facepalm) if only I know how to spell…
"Each site would have carbon-sucking vacuums that could eliminate up to one million tons of carbon dioxide annually. This is equal to the yearly emissions of 445,000 gas-powered cars."

Another way to put it is, if we could instantly build 10,000 of these facilities today (which don't exist and are supposed to capture orders of magnitude more CO2 than any existing plant) and ignoring the cost/emissions from the construction and operation, and they instantly stored their ~1million tonnes of emissions, this would almost be enough to sequester ~1/3rd of last years emissions.
Wearing masks also potentially has negative effects on children, e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9637007/

I think it's pretty clear that we didn't (and still don't) understand either the disease or the consequences of the actions taken in response to the disease very well.
Do you imagine these restrictions disappear when you host content using your cell provider? They have acceptable use and abuse policies too.
Sewers aren't really made in ways that make it easy to restrict their flow in a controlled manner. Storm sewers especially are designed for lots of unrestricted flow.

Even if it were possible, purposefully blocking flows so that they overflow into people's homes is an acute sanitary issue, especially when whenever you put a block, everything upstream is going to discharge at the lowest egress... If you're the lucky winner, you get not just your toilet overflowing into your house, but the neighborhood's toilets too.

Fixing this will be a big mess, but it'll probably need some amount of inventorying unpermitted buildings, allowing them to connect to sanitary sewers, and then auditing all unpermitted buildings to confirm where their sewage goes. Hopefully people built to make it easy/feasible to to switch to the proper sewer, but unpermitted buildings are what they are, I guess.

Putting colored dye down the drains and seeing if it comes out in the storm or sanitary sewers is a lot of work, but that's what it will take.
Check your DNS, there are issues using Cloudflare to reach archive.{is | li | today | etc }

Google DNS and others work where Cloudflare does not.
This just kinda sounds like the common trope of software engineers ignoring everything that isn't involved in software engineering, and then proclaiming that they are so much more productive for it.

I mean like yea, technically they get more "done", but only because they steam roll all their other legal responsibilities
More like at least 20,000 or more, plus whatever emissions it takes to construct, transport and operate the plants.
Insisting the lab leak hypothesis was a conspiracy theory worked to save lives?

I can’t see any effect other than destroying their own credibility.
In those 9 states Walmart has 312000 employees, so that's 4.6% on SNAP.

As other comments have noted there are income limits for SNAP. A single person working at Walmart full time would make too much for SNAP. So would a family of two with both people working at Walmart. It looks like same for a family of two adults working at Walmart that has 2 kids (who do not work). A family of two adults with no kids with only one adult working would be right near the boundary.

Without more information on the distribution of family size and type among Walmart workers the Sanders numbers aren't very useful. To illustrate how much family composition can matter, I've known Mormon families that would have qualified for SNAP if the working parent had taken an entry level engineering job at Google, and no one would ever seriously say that an entry level Google engineering job does not pay a living wage.
Related: I've been using Total Commander / Windows Commander for quite some time. Still use it occasionally even to this day. If you're into orthodox file managers, check it out.
You're looking for a level of evidence that doesn't exist in any social science.

So I suppose I have to concede your original claim (now that we've narrowed it down): if someone somehow established a level of evidence that revolutionized social science and rendered all previous work meaningless, then they probably could get away with offending powerful groups.

Until then, scientists are wise to tread carefully.
that's crazy, i grew up in Daytona Beach FL until I was 12 and I don't recall anything like this. Ever. Maybe because it rains so much there the runoff is basically clean? Also, i've vacationed up and down the AL and TX coast and have never heard of a beach closed because of bacteria/pollution.
Um... it's famously a film[1] staring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.

I thought it was okay. It was obviously toned down a lot from the book to meet then current sensibilities which would not offend an audience today. Ironically, there's a comedy bit with Mickey Rooney[2] that probably didn't offend American audiences at the time but that has not aged well. I also thought they added a bit too much slapstick.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany's_(film)

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._Y._Yunioshi
> some people who want to, should be able to

And this is a terrible argument IMO. The idea of “It’s my device, it’s my right to do exactly what I want with it” is beyond dead and buried. There are lots of things people want to do with their devices that Apple doesn’t let them do. That’s literally been Apple’s philosophy for decades and at this point it shouldn’t be surprising.

Buy the Pinephone if you absolutely have some arcane use-case you can’t live without.
"More advanced networking" is an understatement given the lack of networking in v0.01.
Australia became a full on prison colony. They didn’t contain covid, they imprisoned their entire population.
This system proposes removing 30 millions tons per year.

A tree captures about 20 tons of carbon dioxide per year.

So this is the equivalent to 1.5 million trees.

Trees grow at about 800 trees per acre.

This effectively matches the space of 1,875 acres, around 3 square miles.

So in a way one could think of this as opening up more land for other things.
Hence why there is a replication crisis.

There are many claims can be proven that aren't social science, you're the one unable to show an example of a scientist that had solid evidence of something and ruined their career and artififially confining it IQ - one of the most contentious subjects you can look for. I'm sure there are falsifiable claims in social sciences too.

Maybe look into something like medecine or physics? Something falsifiable, following the sientific method.
Worked with a company that did stuff like that for a while.

My view on it (take it for what you will) is those companies exist mainly as a way for the streaming platforms to outsource and scale their quality control/checks.

The expectation from platforms like Spotify was basically that anything we sent over can go up without further review and that it added value to the platform, didn’t violate copyright law, was appropriately encoded, etc. If we let anything they rejected or later found issues with through, our status as a distributor was at risk.

I expect if Spotify had to staff and scale to deal with the garbage our users were trying, they would end up charging enough extra that you’d pay the same anyway. Basing that mostly on the fact that we weren’t really making much money.
Totally agree. Let’s keep this the one-sided echo chamber it was designed to be.
Hi there. Thanks a lot for your interest. You are very close indeed, but there is a very minor technical difference.

Consider a distribution of dogs. If you have a dog that is significantly different from the majority of the dogs in the distribution, then it is an outlier. On the other hand, if you have a cat, which does not come from that distribution, then we refer to it as out-of-distribution.

I hope it makes sense and please let me know if you have more questions.
Really trying to avoid being accused of writing an advertorial here…

But you can ask any friend from China to find you one.

If you don’t have a friend from China, you can go to taobao.com and search for 搪瓷杯. Not sure how the site would render in your region, though.
Dubai had some problems with sewage system capacity so using sewage trucks was necessary but it was not about Burj Khalifa. See https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52204/is-the-se...
I wish! I would have made a fortune.
The goal of these systems isn't to neutralize the planet's emissions (edit: by themselves). We need to both massively decarbonize and remove carbon from the air.

The goal of these removal systems is to clean up the last bit. That's because removing carbon from the air is very expensive. It's more efficient not to emit it in the first place.
I wanted to switch to nixos but current segregation between flakes and (traditional) nix features was a huge stop sign for me. Seems like this move is a good sign resolving this issue. Hope they bring things nice together -- features, doc, the community etc.
his, hers, theirs, its. No apostrophe. It took me 30 years to see this pattern.
At that point, they'll be actively trying to kill all of us useless eaters (eugenics is still very very big in 'elite' circles).
Whatever the problem this would appear to solve, it makes more sense to me that router company should simply build in a 256GB web server into every router so people can host their own site. Routers are expensive and what's another $20 on the price? Hell do a deal with WordPress to use their software like the router companies do with VPN software. They already add FTP capabilities for NAS drives.
I can believe that they can come with that... but `man diff` doesn't mention it at all, I can't find any description of the diff/patch format that mentions it, and I've literally never seen it. I do frequently get multi-megabyte single-line diffs though, which amount to just one or two characters changing.

Other tools exist, of course, but if you're going to be shipping around stuff that `git apply` or thousands of other tools can handle, it has to be in "the" standard format.
Netflix was known for being very fast to fire if you stopped producing. Netflix didn't even value Netflix employees beyond what they could produce in the moment. They leaned into the zero loyalty to employees model that US corporations rely on.

Read this article which is pushing this as a positive. Grep for "Tell the Truth About Performance" to see where they talk about changing what an employees job needed. An employee they recognize had done a good job for 5 years, but wasn't what they wanted going forward so they weren't even going to try and help get her the skills to do the new job, but just lay her off immediately.
Mexico is a failed narco state, set your expectations accordingly.
You sidestepped their point:

"Fringe ideas like this idea that we could have reached herd immunity in 3 months would have killed literally millions of people that didn't have to die. Especially true considering how quickly we were able to develop a vaccine."

Also, many prominent and credible scientists did support the lab leak hypothesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory
you might be interested in my opcode map for the 8080 in Dercuano (temporary online copy at https://dercuano.github.io/notes/8080-opcode-map.html ); it not only uses octal but also uses the digit order 0, 2, 4, 6, 1, 3, 5, 7 to bring out the structure of the instruction set better

datapoint's manuals for the 2200 instruction set use octal, but intel's 8008 manual uses hex, maybe due to some kind of misguided admiration for ibm
Ive always loved the idea of nix, but feel like I've read numerous, if not horror, at least uncomfortable stories about the actual real-world experience after the initial "setup yak shaving" is done - which is often exciting for "us", it's the new project problem solving part before it falls into the boring "work" part.

If I have an arch system now, how useful is it to use Nix or Homemanager on a non-nixos linux system? I dont really want to dump a working system and duel booting always has whatever you need on the other system.

Do you get anything when not using NixOS to manage everything? What good is it if half my system is installed by pacman, half by asdf-per-project and the rest by nix? Has anyone gone down this route? What is the actual lived experience of half-assing it?
Since we're talking about implementing it in usercode, as opposed to adding it to the language, we fortunately have the option to rework it (or have a couple completing implementations to see what works in practice).

If you're looking for those particular features, I'd recommend adopting go's `, ok` idiom that appears in several places in the language. A type like:

type Iterator[T any] interface {
Next() (T, bool)
}

Lets you write code like this, if that's more to your liking:

for current, ok := i.Next(); ok; current, ok = i.Next() {
// do things here
}

Which, really seems like a more go-like way to do this in the language as well (ranging over a function then becomes syntactic sugar for the above).
> Hence why there is a replication crisis.

Also, perhaps, why politicians and activists have so much influence on science.

Which doesn't contradict what I said at all, but confirms it: they do have that influence.

Requesting "strong evidence" isn't much of a solution unless you have some concrete ideas about how to obtain that.

> There are many claims can be proven that aren't social science ... Maybe look into something like medecine or physics

Social science is the field where politics trumps science. It's what I'm talking about.

Politicians and activists don't care about physics and everyone wants people to have effective medicine, so there's no conflict in those fields.
Loved this film for ages. First the Wally character, then decades later the Andre character. Film-wise it also took me ages to realize how carefully crafted it was; it comes off as casual at first but step through a few scenes frame-by-frame and you realize the depth.
I just started using flakes like a year and a half ago for my configs (easy nixpkgs pinning in git was worth it). No issues so far - take the plunge!
This license change is applicable to all their products.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/243797/ranking-of-the-mo...

Second most dangerous city in the world. You got lucky. It is foolish to advise people that Tijuana is safe.
Luckily, you can still use niv! I still am for certain projects. It works so well for what it does. Flakes give a little more ofc.
Amazing that you could use the 7B model for this. Going to try it out tomorrow. How good are the answers it gives in your experience?
Doesn’t that just confirm my point? The ubiquity made it unstylish.

Congrats on the new house by the way!
How is that better than having shared access to a remote git repo and your collaborator sending you a commit sha and branch name?

Note that I'm not suggesting you use any for-profit company's hosted git product.
Apparently they give up on trying to reclaim the mainland in 1991.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2021/04/25/20...
Impressive, but I know plenty of doctors who passed the USMLE and shouldn't be allowed within miles of a living human being. (Also, which step, 1, 2 or 3?)
why did they collapse

it seems like it was only two years from being the darling of wall street to bankruptcy

what happened