skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, no real understanding of how biology works? Let's discuss.

Creatures adapt to an ecological niche, often a very particular one. Water depth, current temperature, sand composition, mineral concentrations. Tide strength, water salinity. Many other things.

There's some give, some range where the creature can continue to thrive or even do better. But go too far over on any of those bell-curves, the creature is under stress. Particularly where reproduction is concerned.

The result of changes occurring for decades can be, sudden die-off when their operating parameters are finally exceeded. When their eggs don't stick to the surface they're supposed to stick to, or their embryo won't get past a certain point in development without another degree of water temperature.

Or just, something else got wiped out, something microscopic perhaps that we don't see and don't measure and now they have nothing to eat.

Never mind snow crabs. Coral reefs are particularly sensitive to light levels, water depth, current temperature, salinity. You raise the water level by inches, coral grows on continental shelves that slant, now the coral could survive if it was 100 feet closer to shore (or further away, whatever). But it's not there, it doesn't have legs, it dies.

Sure a new one will grow in the new optimal space 100 feet over (if the water doesn't keep rising anyway). But that take about like a century. In the meantime, all those creatures that depended utterly on that reef for survival for whatever reason, be it reproduction or camouflage or food or shelter, they die off catastropically.

Ultimately the human beings that depend on the ocean for their livelihood or food source, well if you are a rich westerner you just move or get a different job. But if you're a poor peasant scratching out a living on a shoreline, you just starve.

Does that matter? How many people are we talking about? 100's of millions.

So dismiss climate change, easy from an armchair in Idaho or wherever. But don't insult the intelligence of the rest of us with naive ideas about how silly and unwarranted the concerns are. Better to keep quiet. Or learn something, anything about how biology and the environment all works together and try to make legitimate informed contributions to the conversation.

That's my rant, my advice. I know most folks will just put up their ego shields, ignore anything that doesn't jibe with their guesses and wishes and continue to slander folks who do have some idea. That's another tragedy of all this: like a 12-step program, denial is an early stage. Eventually everybody will get through that, get through all the stages and come to understand the predicament our world is in. But we don't have time to do that nicely, let folks come around in their own time. Things are falling apart too fast, and maybe gaining momentum. There is some urgency to this.

So my best advice is, be still and let the grownups talk, if you don't have any real education in all this.
This is absolutely not a case nobody would have expected before? People end up under cars in accidents regularly. Imo any company that "found out" about this scenario through the cruise incident is guilty of gross negligence.
I've been using NestJS this year and (mostly) found it great for the use cases I've had.

I'd rather describe the HTTP to method call mapping of my controller with decorators than a bunch of "add endpoint" calls. I like that the HTTP to code binding is located right beside the code itself.

I like that I can separate my app up into modules and couple them as loosely or tightly as I need.

You can architecture astronaut with NestJS, but you don't have to! I wrote a queue module (to interface with a legacy queue system), using decorators to specify the consumer. Docs on doing this are essentially nonexistent. The NestJS based library I cribbed from spread the "find the object & method to call" logic across multiple classes. I distilled it down to a screenful.

As with all tools, you get some choice in how you use it. Want to go wild with dependency injecting a zillion classes with one method each? If you really want to, I guess you can. Want to be sensible, for your definition of sensible? You can do that too.
Most likely, but that isn't an excuse and it an incredibly stupid way to build an email client.

MAYBE give the option if for some reason I want to do it. But for it to be the default is a stupid idea. You cannot convince me there is a valid reason for this to be a thing.
Sign me up for a Thinkpad x series with this puppy and nixos
Not arguing the truth of that statement but I don’t see the connection between the quote and it.
I dread the day where my windows 10 machine will automatically upgrade to 11. So far I've been able to decline - even though the "no" button seems to get a bit smaller and better hidden every time. One day I know I'll wake up and it will be windows 11. It will always have been 11. There was no versions before 11.
What's missing is a catastrophic privacy event. People have been yelling from rooftops about how terrible losing your privacy could be, but the horror stories aren't coming true.

I would argue that the identification of the Golden State Killer (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-08/man-in-t...) was pretty catastrophic for him.

Now in this particular case the magnitude of his crimes make it a little hard to feel bad for him, but once the method is established the only thing we have restricting its replication for more petty crimes is the discretion of law enforcement, and explicit legislation.
Human mental/optical bandwidth is insanely limited, when you see this playing out it makes you wonder how much of the world you actually see.

The NOVA episode 'Human Brain: Perception Deception' really shows well how much we don't see

https://youtu.be/HU6LfXNeQM4?si=KiQHNLNziNU6TA4a&t=535
>if you port your game to Linux, you can't be on Xbox

Thankfully Proton exists, so technically developers don't have to go out of their way to 'port' to linux :)

Its great that Valve started investing in Linux for gaming, as they are nowhere as misguided by greed like Microsoft is.
>Everyone, 24-7, is paying attention to something

Not to nitpick but that ain't necessarily so.

In meditation we study attention and do neat tricks with it.

One trick is a refinement of plain old concentration.

The other trick is breaking the habit of always paying attention to something.

That second one is especially neat.
can't seem to get past the "sign in" button in the modelling app using the appImage, so I can't really say I'm a fan of the requirement to login to even see the UI when it doesn't work :S

Edit: thought maybe you had to log into the cli tool for the app to work, but doesn't seem like it, it apparently doesn't share login state
Now it's bounded-length.
What are these shitcos you speak of?
Might be wrong, tell me if i am, but Blackberry, especially here in Ireland, was expensive because of the extra plan to get it to work with mail. I remember spending weeks trying to get my Exchange server at home to talk to Blackberry mail... Gave up and took me 5 min to get it working on Windows Phone with Exchange Active Sync, and later with the iPhone. And for Blackberry, i had to spend extra per month for it to get it enabled. I ended up canceling that part and staying with standard data and all went well on iPhone and Windows Phone.
I bet the startup that built these food delivery robots never even considered that they'd be possibly hijacked to deliver bombs. The threat is probably false but if you can't rule it out you have a problem.
It was easy to take lead out of gas compared to this.
New tech in the server space comes out slower than it used to. Moore's Law has almost dried up.

Fifteen years ago, you could assume that you would have 50% larger hard drives and significantly more FLOPS/watt with each year's new systems. Today, that trend has almost entirely stalled.

In short: servers used to have short life-cycles not because they no longer worked, but because they had so much higher operating expenses (electricity, datacenter floor-space) than newer models. That trend no longer holds; the more relevant question today is "how long will the servers work".
Windows needs new management.
How the hell do euros spend 5 years proudly bragging about their GDPR to the rest of the world and then go ahead and even consider something like this? I assume this doesn't directly violate the GDPR but even so it seems like an obvious contradiction to the spirit and intent of GDPR.
The 2016 epoch annotated in Figure 1 and language of Finding #1 are curious.

+/- 1 year circa that time, there was also the Swiss Leaks...and Panama Papers...and Bahamas Papers...and Paradise Papers.

Perhaps there's an argument in support of the prevailing steady state, but color me unconvinced that "the automatic exchange of bank information" was directly responsible for the transient response.
Just tested, and it is possible to get 0%. Yet the message will still say “not half bad!” I guess they’re technically correct, it was completely bad.

https://i.imgur.com/ESLd1WV.png
There is something weird in our cognitive systems about envy. Wonder why nature "invented" it.
Even on a fully paid license that I upgraded to Windows 11...I get weird adverts for xbox gaming, one drive, teams was pre-installed, and there's some weird cortana replacement called copilot. Every now and then I'll get another disruptive notification trying to sell me on something. I paid a lot of money for that license.

Never mind that every update will try and reset defaults and it shoves Edge down your throat at every possible opportunity, and you can't change the search engine for a lot of things away from Bing. Who exactly owns my hardware, Microsoft?

It feels like windows is being managed by inexperienced MBAs who are desperate to use their heavily entrenched OS as an ad platform.

I stopped using the built-in Mail app though because it was pretty buggy. Search was useless.
I’ve been thinking about this, too. I have a few caps due to me grinding my teeth for so many years, so for me, the choice is between plastic from a retainer and little bits of whatever the caps are made of.
Well, ok, in hindsight I have to make an exception for Tesla here. They are famously flickery, and I do expect them to have a bug after the other.

But I really don't expect that from the cars that go around without a driver.
As a C# guy I liked NestJS as well. Like some of the things he describes as hating are the things I liked about it. I wrote a whole ass SAML server in NestJS, it was one of my favorite projects. NestJS is more than just GraphQL.
Well, "over the aether" works ;-)
Please see my responses above. There is nothing 'wrong' with my mental health. I went through a depression, got scammed, formed a support group, recovered and fought a corporation that profits from enabling extortion on a website that destroys businesses and individuals and charges thousands of dollars to 'rehabilitate' reputations.

There are numerous court judgements in the US that uphold the fact that ripoff report is an extortion racket. Google have known about this racket since 2009 https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/remove-page-from-google/

I am not a murderer, or pedophile or criminal and at least I stood up for myself and others. Because of the legal precedent that I set (and which was ratified in the High Court) others in common law nations can get content removed. I have been contacted by a number of people who said that in desperation they went to lawyers who were able to reference my legal precedent and get content removed that threatened to destroy their lives and livelihoods.
In San Francisco the current standard is 800–1,360 ft between bus stops depending on the grade. Street car stops are every 2–3 blocks. The MTA's spent years trying to cull stops because many are much closer than that, so no… walking to a Muni stop in San Francisco is perhaps one of the easiest things you can do in the city.

Edit: ca. 2008 the policy was 800–1,000 ft for bus stops and 1,000–1,200 ft for street car stops. On grades between 10–15% the standard is 500–600 ft for bus stops, and on grades above 15% the standard is 300–400 ft. Trunk routes have 24x7 service, and (I can't find it now) there are standards about the amount of service on the other routes but it's something along the lines of 80% of residences are supposed to have frequent service ~18 hours a day and reduced service in the wee hours. Currently the tightest headway I can find is 8 minutes for travel during peak hours along the busiest routes.

Muni is often inefficient but it can get you pretty much anywhere in the city (including places you can't walk to like Treasure Island) for most of the day.

Edit: For reference San Francisco is roughly 7 miles by 7 miles. So you're talking about transiting halfway across town.

Cars (with or without drivers) are competing for the same right of way as the bus, so more of them will simply slow everyone down. A 60ft bus can fit, what, about 100 people? A self-driving car can fit, what, 5? The current quantity of Lyft/Uber/Waymo/Cruise vehicles already has a negative impact on traffic. Put enough self driving cars on the street to make up for the capacity that buses provide and you're going to make traffic much, much worse.
There are two Microsofts.

The first one is extremely developer-friendly, and regularly pushes out superb, high-quality tools and frameworks—many of which are free of charge and open-source—and gives nice deep dives into tech. They also develop pretty interesting alternatives to the UNIX ecosystem. Some examples:

- the .NET ecosystem and languages (VB.NET, C#, F#);

- PowerShell (technically this is also a .NET language, but it has made Windows scripting so easy that it deserves a mention on its own);

- ASP.NET Core (again, part of the .NET ecosystem, but it is very far ahead of almost all other web backends (in terms of functionality, performance, and ease-of-development) that it also deserves a separate mention)

- TypeScript;

- Visual Studio Code;

- Visual Studio Community, the MSVC C++ STL, and the MSVC compiler, `cl.exe`;

- Direct3D and DirectXMath;

- WSL

- the Windows API, the Windows driver model, and the Windows ACL model.

Many more that I can't recall off the top of my head.

And there's the pain-in-the-arse, bean-counting Microsoft that justifies adding advertisements, crapware, and generally enshittifying what used to be a superb OS, pushing for software-as-a-service, changing the UX of Office programs every version, not being able to settle on and develop one nice unified UI toolkit for Windows, and (probably therefore) pushing laggy Electron apps like the XBox store, Teams, etc over well-programmed native/.NET ones.

I use and develop on Windows because I grew up on it. I don't want 'an OS as an IDE'. I want an IDE that does an IDE's job well, and I haven't found anything better than Visual Studio's debugger and profiler.

I am torn. Linux is still broken for even slightly edge-case use cases (laptop + monitor of very different pixel densities, and hence different scaling ratios; both X and Wayland fail horribly at this whereas Windows eats it up in a heartbeat). I game regularly and am not keen on virtualising or using Wine/Proton (I am convinced there is a performance drop in the general case), and MacOS is a non-starter for me.
I've been in this situation, and it's something that seems to get tweaked every week.

They definitely pushed the "aggressive" lever up a little over the last month.

I think it's one of those cases where it's sort of obvious it can calculate trajectories and speeds much better than a human, so it's a safe manoeuvre in theory, but it "feels" bad as a passenger.

Same thing for where it can see that it can squeeze through a tight "lane" but a normal human driver would probably wait until the oncoming traffic had passed.
The only story I've heard was that employees were allowed to buy shares of the company just before the IPO. Several employees took out loans to load up on MSFT before the IPO.
"everyone seems to be happy reviewing diffs, rather than the actual code?"

The split view does show the actual new code, just with extra empty lines... so sure it is a bit distracting if a lot of lines have been modified, but it rarely comes that far.

My beef is more with some team's habit of doing too much work in a single pull request. Large diff are just a symptoms of that. I find that it is much more likely to introduce bugs and hard-to-find changes in behaviour in large changes. If you later find that something broke, finding what caused it in a large PR can be a real time waster.
Does the US publish something similar?

> Global billionaires have effective tax rates equivalent to 0% to 0.5% of their wealth

That's terrible
Your argument seems to be based entirely on your disagreement with some European nations about what the age of consent should be. Why is your opinion more correct than theirs? Why is it obviously wrong for a 40-something year old to have sex with a 16 year old, but if the latter was two years older it obviously should be fine?
So sad.

We, I mean humanity, need an example that L4 self driving is possible.

When SpaceX showed that private company can access space and build a product in the area world changed.

Startup founders, investors, government changed their opinion and many space companies were created and trying to do things that they would not even consider before SpaceX: Astra, Rocket Labs, Planet Labs, Firefly, etc

(Great book on the topic "When Heavens went on sale": https://amzn.to/46NRx9l)

If we get one example of self driving as a product on the roads, it may have the same effect. We are going toward self driving winter and unless Cruise, Waymo or similar companies will do the impossible new iteration will happen in 10+ years.

It is mentioned in the text that in Q3 GM spent 700M on Cruise.

Not that many companies in the world:
1. have similar level of talent as engineers at Cruise
2. can spent similar amount of money
3. are willing to spend them

And we need all three.

There are so many corner cases that without large scale as close to the real life deployment as possible...

I feel very sad.

P.S. Worked for 3 years in a self driving company, till our division was sold :(
I saw a Phoenix demo recently and yeah, looks productive.
He shall be happy that he lives in a democracy. /s
The book is also interesting.
I guess I don't typically think of things like Go's context when considering DI, but it serves conceptually the same purpose. My beef is more with the DI frameworks, I suppose.
Recent and related:

NASA's Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37963826 - Oct 2023 (48 comments)
After months/years of hearing bees but never getting stung or one fly up their noses, p sure the elephants would call the bluff and learn its fake.
ACeP is the multi-dye tech. Basically, there are two ways of getting color one-ink: you either get a normal monochromatic e-ink screen and place a stained-glass checkerboard over it (which sucks, and is called CFA/Color Filter Array), or you make it so every pixel has black dye, red dye, yellow dye, purple dye, etc.

CFA tech is what E-ink's "Kaleido" line uses, whereas ACeP is used in the "Gallery" line.

Gallery Plus means, IIRC, they have 7 different dyes in each pixel (and takes 10ish(?) seconds to refresh, with the latest model). There's also the Gallery 3, which is an 8" screen that has ~4 dyes and can actually update the screen in a reasonable timeframe for interactive use.
It'll only show ads if you don't pay for O365. And Google do the same with GMail.

I am paying for O365 family so none of my family get that. And I think I paid £59 for it last time with some voucher scamming. That gives everyone, 6 people in my case, 1TB storage, all the office desktop apps. I don't think that's a bad deal, especially compared to the shafting you get from Apple these days for icloud.
Funny you say that. I was watching the Apple iPhone keynote, the first one, and one of the things Jobs mentions is it runs Mac OSX.
Many people confused Windows Phone with Windows Mobile, which came with all sorts of baggage of bad experiences. So I agree with GP, that dropping the Windows name would have been a smart move
If you don't make any assumptions about the underlying distribution you're associating with the risk, it can be anything, so I'm not surprised you haven't found an explanation. For example, the risk could be dependent on previously values, dependent on unobservable data, completely independent, etc. etc.

If you make some basic assumptions about independence, along with some others that I may not understand so well, you can start to grapple with the idea that you should be decreasing the amount you wager on each round as you're hedging against risk. If you make a mistake in your probability estimation in your favor, then great, you win more, but if you make a mistake against, it bites you and you lose more than you would have thought.

In the extreme, your "deflation factor" is 0, meaning you wager nothing so you're completely hedged against risk.

In terms of the video you provided, he talked about using a sample of 10 to estimate the probability but notice he didn't even mention the variance of such a limited sample. I don't claim to have any deep knowledge of this but Evan Miller's "how not to sort by average rating" post comes to mind in order to get some handle on this particular setup [0]. From the Miller post:

What we want to ask is: Given the ratings I have,
there is a 95% chance that the “real” fraction of
positive ratings is at least what?

Miller advocates for using a lower bound Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter. Again, I'm pretty naive when it comes to this stuff but I suspect this is exactly what would be wanted when trying to apply the Kelly criterion in the example from the video you provided.

The reality is that risk management is a big subject precisely because the risk model can be complex. The Kelly criterion is meant to be a starting point for complex real world examples, not the destination.

I also found a post that has a nice graphic for deflating the Kelly criterion [1], so maybe that might be helpful to you.

[0] https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

[1] https://nickyoder.com/kelly-criterion/ (just above https://nickyoder.com/kelly-criterion/#theory-vs-reality)
If it's decaying, then presumably you're clenching your teeth and damaging it over time. So the retainer is working and protecting you from the certain (as opposed to hypothetical/not-yet-proven) harm of tooth degradation.
what's $30bn to someone with $260bn? that's like the average person buying a mac, or maybe a cheap car, except less important because Elon Musk doesn't need the other 7/8 of his wealth to survive on

I sincerely do not think Elon Musk is that stupid. you don't build Tesla, Paypal and SpaceX with the kinds of decisions that have been made at Twitter, and I think it's quite silly to take the basic assumption that no one ever buys a company to deliberately destroy them. why wouldn't that happen?
Instant Pyridines
A total tangent, but it is always fun when two totally separate things you're doing connect in a weird way. I just installed some node library and then I see this unrelated blog post that is written by the creator of that library.
Yeah the PNG embedded 'drag and drop to restore your config' is brilliant.

Reminds me of Fireworks which Adobe killed off (after putting out a decent update or two to be fair) which used PNGs for layers and meta ala PSD format.

But its more analogous to a 3D modeller suite like Blender or Maya but with theoretical feature such that you could take a rendered output image and dragndrop it back into the 3D viewport and have it restore all the exact render settings you used instantly back. That would be handy!