skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The more bloated it gets the more stakeholders there are wanting it to get more bloated.

Or, as Oscar Wild stated:

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
According to this [1] stackexchange answer, Discovery was built for use by the US air force, but seems to have been allocated to NASA after the loss of Challenger.

It also states that Vandenberg was never used for shuttle launches, which matches what I recall reading. I don't think the sts was ever put into a high-inclination orbit.

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/a/38438
Great solution for this problem: Go fix it with $1'500 - which is a lot of money -, for something you paid and someone else is responsible for breaking it.
It's as if the animals are speaking a foreign language. But if we were able to talk to them, they would actually struggle to form a sentence (unless the translator AI made it look that way).
I've done some reading on the topic - and what surprises me is that none of the professional literature (that I've found), touches on this.

But for me as a reader of history, it's blindly obvious - in particular with the strategy used to treat PTSD, which is functionally group therapy with over vets with similar experiences.
I suspect that if you had access to a $30k laser cutter you'd be saying you could be awesome too, if you only had a $250k metal printer.
It seems like a negative feedback loop or something, nobody uses these sorts of features, so nobody implements them, and then the skills are less useful…
This makes me think about why new more accountable systems between companies sometimes fail in implementation. Sometimes the existing players are happy with the exploitable gaps in the existing system.
I'd heard similar stories as well. We both suspected that he had been unlucky to come across whoever it was. This was 2016 or thereabouts.
Now the subject of a Metropolitan police investigation [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67144607
I'm sorry but I've got to say it. Are you using ChatGPT for your comments? Because they seem uncommonly precisely written (as do some of the responses).
Many secrets about that place:
Legends abound of a lost city of gold, sometimes called "El Dorado," in South America. While many associate this legend with places further south, some tales and searches for this city have placed it within the Darien Gap. Over the centuries, various explorers and adventurers have ventured into the Darien Gap, drawn by the allure of this hidden treasure. Yet, the dense jungle and the formidable challenges of the environment have kept many secrets concealed, and no concrete evidence of such a city in the Darien Gap has ever been found. Still, the legend persists and adds a layer of mystique to this already enigmatic region.
Martin Odersky – Scala's Role in the Programming Languages Ecosystem [video]
Another perspective, my partner is a physician. She makes a pretty healthy wage, but that wage goes into paying off her $500k of student loans that got her there.
I often write my code pessimally in this regard so have a note in the back of my mind to someday use these in a few hot paths.

When I say “pessimally” I mean I usually check the unlikely cases right away and then put the normal case last:

Blah foo (something& arg) {

if (is_invalid (arg)) return blah(0);
if (is_inactive (arg)) return blah(1);

// ok do all the normal stuff
}

It makes the code clearer but slightly slower. I could always write a conditional for the hot path up front, but code is for human readers, right?

So when people say “this clutters the code” they are right, but most of the time you just don’t worry about it — it need only clutter a few functions in your hot loops, where you’re willing to rewrite it anyway regardless of how ugly it gets.

It’s like looking at the standard library source: super cluttered, but it has to handle all sorts of weird corner cases and is called a lot. Normal code can ignore all that in more than 99.99% of the cases.
You don't know why doctors don't build their own hospitals, yet feel you are knowledgeable enough to identify "hospitals" as the real villains of the whole system?
I guess when the aliens finally arrive, the important part will be to avoid hugging them.
Your `flake.lock` will have the specific revision as well, even if you're using unstable or a release URL, so as long as this is getting checked into git then you have reproducibility that way as well.
The bit I found interesting was how Xbox's hypervisor is based on that of Azure, rather than anything they did on the desktop, and that Xbox games are/were packaged up with an OS rather than relying on a single OS on the device, so a bit more like containers. Dave also said he's working on making ML workloads run on idle Xbox Cloud Gaming devices. Any architectural tie between Azure and Xbox had never occurred to me before.
Stineman interpolation [0] is an alternative that is quick and "dirty" imputer for missing values. Of course there are monotonic-preserving versions [1] of splines that are excellent as well.

For my uses, cubic interpolation is simply not of value when I have noisy points and/or unpredictable behaviour between points --- Kalman smoothers or Gaussian process/Kriging gives me both a good mean estimate between points and a sense of the error associated with the interpolation.

[0] https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1980-07/page/n...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_cubic_interpolation
> But those numbers have no relation to reality. The amount you would pay as a private individual would be something else again.

Exactly. The worst horror stories I've heard aren't of uninsured billing—self-pay individuals typically get a steep discount from what I've seen—it's the out-of-network hospital bills (especially pre-No Surprises Act) that consistently screw people over.

In those cases the hospital would bill the insane number they officially ask for from insurance companies, the insurance company says "nope" and pays the portion they consider fair, and then the patient is (or at any rate used to be) on the hook for the remainder. If they were billing as uninsured the hospital wouldn't have come up with the insane number they started with, but now that's on record and that's the number they want.
My main point though was that these keys will probably be found in the future.

That's not at all what you said at first. You didn't say the keys would probably be found, you said with quantum computing someone will break the encryption, which is based on nothing. Here it is verbatim:

Eventually with quantum computing or other advancements, someone will break the encryption and potentially swipe the part of Satoshi's coin.

You are basing this on modern tech. Making the same mistakes of people of the past.

You aren't getting this. This isn't a "what if computers are faster in the future" scenario. You aren't going to brute force a search space of this size with all the energy from all the stars in the universe.

You are making the same mistakes of time, you don't know what is to come and the past has shown previous algorithms actually last LESS time than they expected. It does play into it.

No, I actually understand the search space of large key lengths instead of hallucinating a fantasy future. Even when DES was created people debated it being too weak.

You can go back a generation and read articles about cars so big they have their own wood shop, future cities full of flying cars and robot servants. That stuff was all more practical than what you are talking about.

This would not be a conversation if you understood what you are saying.

Let's simplify this because you are lost in the weeds and resorting to ad hominems.

Pointing out that you have huge misunderstandings is not 'ad hominem'.

Do you think it is a good idea that a currency has keys out there, that can be found either directly or with time, that have heavy concentration?

Is concentrated unknown wealth of a currency, the root of all financial systems and power, a good idea?

This has nothing to do with what I'm trying to tell you.

You originally said that "quantum computers will be able to break satoshi's keys" and I'm trying to explain to you why that is naive and uninformed.
> University "sticker prices" are often inflated to maintain prestige

Another function they have is to exclude the poor and naive. Richer and more worldly students probably have higher completion rates.

Median is more important than average. A 2 or 3 variable analysis would probably be even better. I'd like to see how costs actually distribute for all students.
It's a kind of demo of SingleFile and the self-extracting ZIP format [1]. The self-extracting ZIP format is an improvement when you want to archive web pages and read them without relying on an extension. The fact that resources are compressed also considerably reduces archive size.

I agree it would be "great" a complete website in the ZIP. I think this is technically possible, someone just have to code it.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile#singlefile
Plus there's a surprisingly high floor on the number of apis a large company needs for basic stuff like "set up new hires automatically in all the system needed"
it's inspired art
Dates and Times and Types (2022)
> But there’s no way I’d make ... firing decisions by gut instinct

Well the reason it's so important to hone your gut instinct for good hiring decisions is that you absolutely should have measurements for firing decisions (at least in the US); that decision needs be defensible with data under the scrutiny of a lawsuit
Doctors used to work mostly out of their own individual or small group practices. The regulatory and administrative burdens of doing this has forced most of them into working for large corporate health organizations.
Yes! This is important. It's a finding from 1964, nearly 60 years ago, and it is included in the Standard Model of physics.

One interesting thing is that unlike the other discrete symmetries, we haven't found a system that has a large Time-reversal symmetry violation. Not having a large enough source of T-violation is actually one of the major problems with the SM!

Related supplemental reading on the Strong CP problem:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/19/the-...
I think about incentive structures from an opportunity cost standpoint too.

Everyone has finite amounts of time they can spend on work.

Ceteris paribus, if you spend 90% of your time working and 10% politicking, at most companies you will be out promoted by someone who spends 60% of their time working and 40% politicking.

The parallel IC track that tech popularized solves this to some degree... but most non-tech companies don't have that track.
One simply can not just attach debugger to Firefox on macOS,

> At this time, official builds of Firefox 69 and later are Notarized. As a result, it is not possible to attach a debugger to these official Firefox releases on macOS 10.14+ without disabling System Integrity Protection (SIP). This is due to Notarization requiring Hardened Runtime to be enabled with the com.apple.security.get-task-allow entitlement disallowed. Rather than disabling SIP (which has security implications), it is recommended to debug with try builds or local builds. The differences are explained below.

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/debuggi...
> However, Dennard scaling also says that the power density of a transistor remains constant. As transistors became smaller, more of the die became occupied by transistors, causing more heat dissipation per unit area. After exhausting cooling options (think back to the TDP of those CPUs back in the late-90s/early 2000s), Dennard scaling died in the mid-to-late 2000s because of thermal issues.

Dennard scaling says that power usage per transistor per clock cycle is constant; not power density. As transistors became smaller, an x% reduction in transistor area meant an x% reduction in power per transistor per clock cycle, which allowed clock cycles to increase dramatically to consume the same fixed heat dissipation budget.

The breakdown was not from there being too many transistors per square millimeter, but from the breakdown of the direct relationship of transistor size to power consumption per clock cycle due to current leakage. An x% reduction in transistor area no longer causes an x% reduction in power consumption per clock cycle, meaning operating clock frequency is now fixed at your ability to dissipate heat, not your ability to shrink transistors.
I've long been curious about plasma gasification for waste handling and your comment prompted me to see if that might be viable and I found: https://news.mit.edu/2021/inentec-turning-trash-into-valuabl...

Further searching on the company name has not been entirely encouraging but maybe I'm doing it wrong. There was a company called Changing World Technologies that I was very excited about that failed to deliver on its promises, so my enthusiasm is quite tempered.
The other thing interesting here, people rarely comparison shop pharmacies on price in the USA. If the insurance decides not to cover something people just assume the cash price is reasonable and what they need to pay. PS: if you are price sensitive, Costco and Walmart are better options than CVS/Walgreens.
Because the supply of doctors is artificially constrained, and so there is incentive to chase HCOL areas where they can get paid or higher margin patients/procedures.

Fun examples -

My dentist has a waiting list of like 3-4 months to schedule a cleaning, so if you don't schedule the next one as you leave, you'll be out of luck later. HOWEVER, if you opt for any of the elective procedures (ortho/veneers/etc) they have vast availability and can take you next week. Funny that. And this is the third or fourth dentist we've used in the city, after dealing with both negligence and worse overselling elsewhere.

In my condo there's a dermatologist specialist that makes enough money to own two homes before 40 and operate his own practice in Manhattan & in the rich suburb of his second home. He always seems to be home by 6, and the last time I saw him, he was wheeling one of those coolspa coolsculpting machines around in his newest truck..

My previous GP was great but she only worked 2-3 days/week.

My GI is great but while its hard to get in to see him, he'll get you booked for a colonscopy/endoscopy ASAP at the clinic he also owns across town.. and the followup appointment to read you the results. All about that ROI and $/hr maximization.
> I used to think we'd eventually get to capability based security, but now I see we'll always be stuck with application permission flags, the almost worthless bastard cousin, instead.

My hope is that WASI will introduce capability based security to the mainstream on non-mobile computers [0] - it might just take some time for them to get it right. (And hopefully no half-baked status-quo-reinforcing regressive single-runtime-backed alternatives win in the meantime.)

[0]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/docs/...
I’d love a small board that offered networking, NVMe SSD slots etc that I could plug a Raspberry Pi Compute module with eMMC into
Coal miners, car companies, and sears catalog were not consulted when their industry was disrupted. No one is entitled to a gravy train, especially when your entire industry is cartelized.

Middle men jobs, no matter how good, need to be on the chopping block if all they do is be extractive pests. They can't both be protected from the pressures of the free market, and not have any accountability from an improved service standpoint.

As for the actual workers, Doctors can charge what they like, but they shouldn't be able to limit the supply of doctors within the nation. That is NIMBY mentality.
Just to put it more succinctly: you’re in favor of angering all healthcare providers (doctors, nurses, etc) to make healthcare better.

I don’t know if the outcome you want is the outcome you’re gonna get with that strategy. Might want to consider the humans actually affected and how they might react instead of treating everyone as some faceless cabal of evildoers bent on pulling money out of your pocket.
> In preparation for the move to the cloud, the company spent two years working towards making all stateless microservices portable so that their placement in zones and regions can be managed centrally without any involvement from the service engineers

I'd like to hear more about how Uber organized the engineering teams over two years to make "stateless microservices portable".

How many teams? What were the requirements to each team? What was the timeline? How did they know it was completed? How was it prioritized along other business priorities of the teams? How long did they think it would take originally? Was it worth it?
Big if true.

Do you have a source you can point to? This is the opposite of everything I’ve heard or read.
Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RHLF)

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)
There's just no way it's true. A single cow can feed someone who eats beef often for an entire year.
No, you're quite right; I wasn't taken for a sucker. I think they ended because of the legal implications of marriage; I think the relationships would have survived, if there hadn't been contracts.

In fact, they've both survived; I'm now friends with both exes. But the contracts caused us all a lot of damage.

[Edit] I'm all for people having the same rights regardless of who their partner is. I'm fine with "equal marriage" in that sense; at the same time, I want to say "Don't do it!" It's like saying everyone should have the same right to walk into the path of an express train.

It's good for some people, apparently; it looks to me that a subset of religious-minded people have relationships that marriage contracts don't screw up.
I think basically my internal heuristic is “do I need someone to come HERE to help fix this?”

If the answer is no, then maybe call a friend.
C4 is very interesting and I think tackles certain problems related to software architecture really well. It sort of turns the lower levels of an architecture, which is mostly hardware and system software, into broad abstractions and focuses the effort on the stuff that sits above that in the stack. Which turns out to be surprisingly suitable for today's cloud-based/containerized scalable approaches.

Related, Archimate is also very good and there's a lot of overlap, but grounds itself more into the infrastructure bits. I've used some version of diagram approaches similar to Archimate in the past to really great effect to deconflict systems and data sources and demonstrate how all the stuff we're buying and gluing together supports specific business and user workflow needs.

Comments here about how this stuff all gets out of sync with the codebase are absolutely correct. But I've found that they can be excellent tools for use when you need to analyze a complex system or communicate systems and plans to a larger group.

It's surprising how often there isn't really any form of cohesive documentation and just sitting down for a couple weeks and drawing boxes with lines connecting them can unblock and simplify failing and frustrated efforts to move forward, especially when teams are working in the same playpen.

C4, Archimate, UML, whatever are really just good constrained diagramming languages you can use to capture specific things you wish to communicate, analyze, or memorialize. I think they aren't very good as preplanning and design tools.

Many of us suffered from the big UML push days where every facet of a system down to class definitions were supposed to be laid out in excruciating detail by some chief architect's office before a line of code was laid down. Madness like "we'll just generate the code from the diagrams" caused millions to suffer. When coding actually did start, those thousands of hours of planning usually were just ignored and the developers just did what they wanted anyways.
>Amazon comes across to me as having a toxic work environment. I'm super wary of them bringing those habits over.

Now that sounds like toxic behavior.
Was funny.
Fun fact: In German the words for knowledge ('Wissen') and wit/joke ('Witz') share the same root.
I can't help but wonder what's next, and in what ways they will attempt to squeeze passengers more. Charging more for window/aisle, starting to play adverts over the speakers.
One Notebook
> Quite likely she will be punished for it, directly or indirectly.

Not at most modern companies in the real world.

Jobs have already been so hyper-specialized that you have minimal staff "managing" large portions of the company, amortized over a large number of locations / amount of business.

Consequently, if a job task is taken off their plate, there are innumerable additional tasks to backfill the free time.

And critically, tasks that are probably more intellectually fulfilling than the lowest-hanging-fruit rote tasks that are automated.
Likely copypasta.
The distinction is between legal search (as in the article) and tresspass (as in a neighbour's incursion).

The latter is covered by airspace rights: 49 USC 40103, and US v. Causby.

<https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/40103>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Causby>

Those might be limited by harassment or stalking principles.
Where does a line cook's use case fit in it? From what I know, uber eats sends a order to a restaurant, an employee manually punches in the order on their POS system, and the order ticket goes into the kitchen
I've seen some cool results when asking GenAI (here it was ChatGPT) to create code based upon a sequence diagram and vice versa. The goal is to have an abstraction to generate code from. Or at least build the 80% of the text for something to be a seed for generating code.
I got a medical bill for $300 from collections a couple months ago.
JP could have purchased rocks and pretended it was nickel from the very beginning.

Where is the Epstein client list?
> versus inflation
The idea may be compelling, but the math doesn’t add up: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01589
> Believing that this actually protects you from the provider is wishful thinking.

Indeed. Besides, there is a whole genre of research and practice on the introspection of virtual machines.
Internet Throttling Woes
This is also happening with my (old) Mercedes SUV.
> Ask somebody in the building industry to visually communicate the architecture of a building and you'll be presented with site plans, floor plans, elevation views, cross-section views and detail drawings.

Well ask an architect to visually communicate “how the building is going to work”, ie, where do pilots go, how security works, how long will the waiting line be. What happnes to people missing the plane after they go through security. Then we’ll talk about those software diagrams.
I find that conservatives most often quote "Nineteen-eighty-four" as a comment on "politically correct" language. But when asked about "family values", "obamacare", "right to work" and other conservative double-speak, they often don't feel like those apply.

My point is not that conservatives use more double-speak/newspeak then progressives, rather my point is that this is used and applied across the political spectrum, and even in the military ("enhanced interrogation", "collateral damage") and corporations ("restructuring", "cost engineering").
>History lesson: no, WWI veterans didn't get the attention they needed.

Where does Carlin say that WWI veterans did the proper attention?
He said with the name shell shock maybe Vietnam veterans would have, because 50 years the same name for the same problem without proper treatment could have get the publics attention

>This is wistful conservatism wrapped in a shroud of comedy.

That is your interpretation and not necessarily the truth, especially since Carlin can hardly be called a conservative
I remember reading a post here on HN, where someone who was undergoing an ACL reconstruction tried to investigate all the costs involved.

His post had a detailed breakdown of all the costs.
Here's the post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5814728