skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Associating wealth with discipline and virtue is a successful propaganda campaign with framing rooted in strict father / conservative worldview.

Per George Lakoff (full interview: https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10... )

The conservative worldview, the strict father model, assumes that the world is dangerous and difficult and that children are born bad and must be made good. The strict father is the moral authority who supports and defends the family, tells his wife what to do, and teaches his kids right from wrong. The only way to do that is through painful discipline - physical punishment that by adulthood will become internal discipline. The good people are the disciplined people. Once grown, the self-reliant, disciplined children are on their own. Those children who remain dependent (who were spoiled, overly willful, or recalcitrant) should be forced to undergo further discipline or be cut free with no support to face the discipline of the outside world.

So, project this onto the nation and you see that to the right wing, the good citizens are the disciplined ones - those who have already become wealthy or at least self-reliant - and those who are on the way. Social programs, meanwhile, "spoil" people by giving them things they haven't earned and keeping them dependent. The government is there only to protect the nation, maintain order, administer justice (punishment), and to provide for the promotion and orderly conduct of business. In this way, disciplined people become self-reliant. Wealth is a measure of discipline. Taxes beyond the minimum needed for such government take away from the good, disciplined people rewards that they have earned and spend it on those who have not earned it.
I'm surprised that nobody talked about the problems of scheduling problem, being NP-Complete, is all about finding heuristics to workaround this ultimate algorithmic hard truth.

And for multicore scheduling, job shop scheduling [1], it is the even harder version of NP-Hard (no pun intended). This is literally taught in senior year uni CS class, that there is no perfect solution to the scheduling problem, unless Cook-Levin Theorem or anyone of those NP-Complete problems are solved [2].

[1]: https://optimization.cbe.cornell.edu/index.php?title=Job_sho...

[2]: https://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~siuon/csci3130-f19/slides/lec22...
New tax rules on R&D expenses may lead to layoffs for devs
Not everything at Costco is a win price-wise, but if you do even a small amount of research you can find a number of items that are huge wins.

A pint of pure vanilla extract for $9.99. Dog treats at about half the price of pet smart or online stores. Kirkland brand Flonase is about 75% less than you can get at a pharmacy. Kirkland brand Claritin is ridiculously cheap, 365 tablets for under $20.

You very rapidly get back your yearly fee.
Having a Costco downtown and 15 minute walk from me is the best experience a human can get. I just stroll to get one item when I have nothing better to do.
The Predictability Trap
There has already been a dramatic increase in the number of manufacturers selling directly to consumers over the past few decades, both online and via manufacturer-controlled retail stores. Look at brands like Nike, Adidas, Microsoft, Apple, Le Creuset, etc.
Costco has barely any markup on the items they sell (sometimes absolutely 0 markup). They make up for it in membership fees.
Care to elaborate? A four-word rebuttal to a well-written, fairly detailed response doesn't really make your case for you.
I don't know what you find bad about the iOS keyboard. I don't think it's brilliant either but I find it much better than Android's.

> the buggy text selection (editing URLs is a chore, holding the spacebar to move the cursor is broken when you move too far...)

I'm right there with you on these.

> positioning the unreliable sometimes-available back button at the top left has made me drop my phone at least once.

As a person with small hands, I hear you. I miss the days of the original iPhone which was probably >90% usable with a single hand.

Even the discontinued iPhone Mini was too large - which I suspect has been most of the reason of its "failure". Comparing with larger phones, the smaller screen is a downside, and it came without the upside of actually being a single-hand device so it's more or less lose-lose.
https://archive.today/xeex3
Yes, per the article.

"Safe Work found that while silicosis cases could emerge in several industries, the numbers were "disproportionate" among engineered stone workers. Engineered stone workers also suffered a faster disease progression and were more likely to die from it, the report said."
Perhaps in specific cohorts. Most working class elders throughout history receded into the background once they became too old for manual labor. They weren’t pointing at a Schwab app trying to make us believe some number computed by logic and data structure that’s difficult if not impossible to verify, is the only justification needed for them to buy up all the land.
DRF falls apart very quickly when you get away from the "simple CRUD" use cases.

The Serializer mechanism causes N+1 query behavior by default with non-trivial models. This is exacerbated by the fact that they all run in sequence because there's no async support.

It's documentation is also pretty poor, IMO.

> There’s a vibe, or assumption around Ninja that it’s “newer”, or “like FastAPI”, or “the way forward”, none of which are objective benefits per se.

The creator of DRF also created starlette, which underpins FastAPI. If DRF works for you cool, but that doesn't mean the community hasn't moved on.
Sure, but how many of them are “I can trace my lineage to the mayflower” domestic terrorists and how many are citizens of immigrant/non-citizen parents?
You must have fallen for the marketing / naming then. Autopilot is basic adaptive cruise control and lane assist. Every car manufacturer has the same thing. Are you thinking FSD?
I Got Lost in Bangalore's Tech Workforce
Costco travel alone has saved me hundreds if not thousands of dollars in rental cars over the past year. Easily 40% cheaper than the competition.
> I don't get why the industry was not allowed to pursue low-silica engineered stone

From what I can tell, the law itself allows for products under 1% silica. Now where did I read that ...

"According to the ministers’ communique, exceptions will be introduced for the removal, repair, minor modification or disposal of engineered stone installed before 1 July 2024, as well as for products with trace levels of silica under 1%."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/13/engin...

Yes, that is a massively higher hurdle than natural stone has to meet.
Tesla famously.
Man jumps into Indian parliament, sets off smoke can in major security breach
Author here. Thanks for this thoughtful comment. Regarding your first point: yes, this is sloppy writing on my part. The Kalman Filter is always mean-square optimal among all linear estimators, but as you say, it is only optimal along all causal estimators when the disturbances are Gaussian. Nice catch - I will clarify this point in a future version of the paper.

Regarding your second point: yes, when H = 1 we just recover the standard Kalman Filter, and yes, when H grows large the estimate gets worse and worse, in the sense that the softmax nonlinearity includes more and more irrelevant data from the past in the estimate. The point is that in real-world problems, which are usually messy and nonlinear, we probably want H - the so called context length - to be large, because then we can take advantage of information we collected in the past to help improve decisions in the present. It just so happens that in the special case when the system is linear, this is more harmful then helpful. Here is one way to think about our result: imagine you have a Transformer which takes as input K-dimensional embeddings and context length H. You want to use this Transformer for filtering in some dynamical system. The most basic question you could ask is: if the system is linear, can you do Kalman Filtering? In other words, in the easy, linear scenario, can you match the optimal algorithm? If the answer is no, I see no reason to see why you should expect it to work in harder, nonlinear settings. We show that the answer is yes, when the system you want to filter in has roughly sqrt(K) states, and you design the embeddings appropriately. Hopefully this preliminary result will lead to a better understanding of how deep learning can improve control in the hard, nonlinear scenario.
Yes, Roy Kerr is the one to find the solution of GR equation for uncharged rotating black hole. The solution is called kerr metric after him. In contrast to say -Schwarzschild- metric as solution of stationary uncharged black hole (usually is what people refer to when they say black hole).
I still regularly call it Price Club.
Things are cheaper when you buy in bulk. I’m lucky to have a fridge and freezer.

Ironically the bulk store brands also tend to be higher quality. The downside is there’s less variety.
What are the telltales, for spotting those?

And how aggressively does Shopify verify/police them?
They are definitely not autonomous then. Seems like a distributed monolith.

Micro-services are supposed to be simple and independent, but they get crammed with more and more features and complexity and suddenly they just can't be maintained without breaking other parts of the architecture.
GM's Cruise robotaxi unit dismisses nine 'key leaders' amid safety investigation
The Case for Agile 2 (Agile is deeply broken)
> After all the pessimism in 2022 about inflation, rate hikes, weakness, etc. it's nuts how fast the market recovered, and now making new highs as if all that old stuff last year a distant memory.

The stock market is forward looking.

CPI peaked in mid-2022 and has been coming down ever since: https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...

Bond traders are pricing in 150 bps of rate cuts over the next 12 months, and they’ve been pricing them in for months, which has caused equities to rally: https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch...
It's a cute thought, and a good point. But the author is exclusively relying on "English major novels" for making this point (even though they ignore things like the very cool long chapters in Hunchback of Notre Dame that are about the Paris sewer system).

For many of us on this website, we'd probably think of Neal Stephenson, who might have long digressions about cryptographic schemes, or Lagrange points, or whatever other "cool science fact" might be tangentially related to the plot.

But the novel, as an art form, is effectively dead. At the high end of the market, it is at the mercy of the industry gatekeepers, and at the bottom end it has been given over to influencers; bring a guaranteed audience, and you get to publish your fanfic (names of characters having been modified to avoid legal action). There's no room anymore for genuine experimentation, and "good writing" is no longer the measure of a potential best-seller. Was that ever the case, anyway? Probably not.

I'd love to see an article like this, but focusing on how to bring the cool parts of novels into some new type of writing, rather than pretend that writing advice might actually affect the success of a novel.
It really varies by country and if you are in a city or not. There isn’t a European model, you will see lot of variance between Portugal, Germany, Greece, etc.
Is that one of the cases I mentioned?

Epic didn't target kids for micropayments. They optimized their microtransaction flow without properly accounting for how it would affect kids playing the game and took remediation steps after the lawsuit was filed. https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-ftc-settlemen...

Apple settled a similar lawsuit.
Google Obviating Geofence Warrants?
Would you be offended if I animated that scene? It is really well described?
I refuse to read any creative analysis of Moby-Dick that doesn't take a serious stand as to WTF was going on in Melville's head when he wrote Chapter 94, A Squeeze of the Hand. Or is it just meant to be a hidden treat for the freaks whose eyes didn't glaze over during the whale-facts portion?

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/775/chapter-94-a-squ...
I'm biased, but I'd recommend exploring Typesense for search.

It's an open source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone, optimized for speed (since it's in-memory) and an out-of-the-box dev experience. E-commerce is also a very common use-case I see among our users.

Here's a live demo with 32M songs: https://songs-search.typesense.org/

Disclaimer: I work on Typesense.
When a vehicle has a defect that can pose safety issues, a recall is issued. I don't see why we should handle software defects differently from hardware defects.

I understand the point you make, but this is entirely semantics and is not a real world issue. Tesla owners will receive a notice of recall that will clearly state that there will be an OTA update, they will read it and move on.
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You don't have permission to access "http://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Pres..." on this server.

Judging from the 409 comments right now it seems I am the only one have this problem?
How did one failed novel become ruin?
Sure, This was in the UK and this was in the years of 2000-2005 -- secondary school.

I had acne, was overweight ish, disabilities and wore glasses and computers. Im 34 now.
I've used QnX and a home grown clone that could do this. In... 1991. Erlang can do it too.
On the over promising and under delivering topic, one of my favorite is a site listing some of Musk’s promises and grandiose statements.

https://elonmusk.today/
Wait, at the end of 2023 we're still allowed to blame covid? Anyway, Portland has been going downhill way before covid, I witnessed it with my own eyes, from early 2000s when I seriously thought maybe it makes sense to move there, to late 2010s where it got seriously scary and you couldn't get through downtown without being harassed repeatedly by beggars and witnessing all the decay. And it's not just drugs, drugs are a symptom, it's all ckmplex of disastrous policies, that yes, affects other West Coast major cities too.
It only worked because it had to, given phones just had keypads back then. As soon as qwerty-with-your-thumbs was available, everyone abandoned T9 and never looked back.
I hope so. There is one more middleman we need to kill. People buying stuff off alibaba, adding their logo/branding to it and selling it for a "first world price".

I want to pay what the people in china is paying + cost of shipping/handling.
Sure, you're right, it's just not really relevant here.
From the reports in this thread, it seems that front-line Apple employees presented with a reasonable-looking (even if forged) "proof of purchase" can re-enable a device registered to another person's account. Perhaps, that yanks it from the previously-registered account.

That's my best guess as to what happened here.

The alternative, that the thieves fully compromised my account via obtaining my Apple password and circumventing the various secondary checks via my other devices, seems very unlikely to me.

There's been no evidence of unintended account accesses – like the confirmation challenges that pop-up on other devices. Unfortunately, Apple seems to lack the user-reviewable log of all authentication events that others like Google offer.

The sorts of compromises that would have revealed my password – like a keylogger on one of my primary Apple devices – should've shown up as other attacks on targets of more value than a single street-snatched several-years-old iPhone.
This is the biggest reason I love Costco. If you need something they're selling you'll only have a couple options, all will be at least decent, and it's usually obvious which one's for you.

E.g. I needed a shredder. There were two, a smaller one and a bigger one. I got the smaller one without needing to think or comparison shop because I know it will work for me (absolutely no issues in 6 years) and it's a decent to great price.

On the very rare occasion I get a dud, they happily take returns. Last winter I returned a two year old fridge and they didn't even ask for evidence of my issue
A diverse workforce, and thus diversity of perspectives, thoughts, and opinions, is a major competitive advantage against a monoculture that doesn’t value diverse thinking.
Doing the homework and showing up to class do wonders for academic performance. Many people (me included) have learned this the hard way.
Tooling and PPE are part of the problem but not all of it. People who clean up job sites are also getting sick:

> "We actually not only saw people who were directly cutting and grinding the stone, but we saw people who were just sweeping up the work site after the stone had been cut," says Rose. "They were exposed to the silica particles that were suspended in the air just with housekeeping duties."

So, basically everyone needs to wear a P100 all the time when on site until the site has totally been cleaned up. In a manufacturing environment, if you're on the floor you wear a mask and there must be a dust collection system and tools that perform dust collection or mitigation. In this case that'd be water saws.

Read the threads here, a lot people don't like wearing respirators. The outcome isn't surprising.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/02/7660282...
How are you planning to monetize this? You mentioned you are spending around $2K just to run it. Is there a commission strategy or ads? Or populate with your products at one point so you sell your own thing?
> If you think of the current Israel occupation as the latest colonizer in a long line of colonizers throughout the history of Palestine, then the victimhood makes perfect sense

The Muslims are the colonizers. Israel is just taking their land back. Who built the Temple Mount the Dome of the Rock is sitting on?
Basically, this professor is whining about “compelled speech” in the form of a DEI statement in your job application to become a professor.

If you gave me a nickel for every time a prospective employer asked me to write stuff I rather don’t feel like writing like “why do you want to work for Widgets, Inc?,” I don’t know if I’d need to work anymore.

I just think the whole debate is a little overthought. The dude is comparing it to Soviet loyalty pledges…no, I personally don’t think it gets to that level.

From the school’s perspective, it’s simple: they don’t want to hire professors who are going to be grading based on their biases and prejudices. They don’t want math professors who are like my calculus professor who told the whole class his preference on boob sizes. Gee, I wonder if that guy graded men differently than women?

A DEI statement is like a bare minimum pulse check to make sure professors aren’t going to get the school sued for discrimination.

I can perhaps be convinced to agree with the idea that college bureaucracy has spiraled out of control. That said, the 100 people in Michigan’s DEI office is a ratio of one DEI administrator for every 500 students. Michigan is a huge school, those administrators may actually have a lot of work to do.
Oh what I'd do for that. Even just in a decent biking distance would be amazing. Ours are all in the distant suburbs.

What city has one downtown?
> I really dislike large stores. They are so overwhelming. I find the average grocery store in the US to be way too big.

Some retailers actually intentionally make the stores overwhelming and disorienting since they believe that it increases sales.

I worked at Walmart for one summer during my undergrad. We had to re-shelve a ton of items, moving them from one aisle to another. It made no sense to me. I asked the manager why we are doing this and he said that moving items from one location of the store to another forces customers to stay longer in the store and walk through more aisles while they search for the item that they want. They actually want to make it slightly difficult to find something since it forces people to spend more time in the store. The manager said that the data shows that the longer people are in the store, the more that they buy, so they try to make people spend as much time in the store as possible to increase the likelihood they make an "impulse purchase".

(Granted, this seems to confuse correlation with causation, since time in the store isn't directly leading to people buying more stuff. Surely people who buy a lot of items take more time to get the items, but I personally think forcing people to wander around the store is mostly going to just annoy people, myself included. That said, there is apparently a large enough percentage of people who may buy more because of this, and some retailers make that apparent tradeoff to increase sales.)
Every single thing I have stated, every single thing, is taken directly from reporting done by independent journalists in the West, referencing Israeli sources. You can pretend all you like - it's painfully obvious that YOU haven't taken the leap to look beyond your personal echo chamber to see what's being reported in the wider world.

And you prove that by not checking or referencing the many copious references and links to NEWS REPORTING that I (and I'm sure others) have given. You haven't tried to address any of the items I brought up (which themselves are just a small sample of a bigger body of work). Instead, you make up silly things I did not say, pretend I said them, and then exclaim fake indignation. That's possibly why you feel sick ...

If Hacker News can "tolerate" that from you, it can certainly handle my attempts at highlighting courageous journalism on here.
I live in a small EU country, and we had the same issues here.... we solved them by municipalities building fiber (usually when (re)building the roads, because it's cheaper then) and ISPs just renting it out. There's actually EU fuding for that and ISPs aren't forced to invest where they don't want to (but have to pay rent to the municipality).
I know quite literally nothing about this situation, but I will offer one comment, which may or may not even be relevant.

The security community are right to be skeptical of changes such as this, the NSA has shown time and time again to have influenced design and standardization processes for their own benefit, it’s always been under the premise of “oh this makes things more secure” and it does superficially, then a decade later someone figures out we got had, again.

So standards are great, security standards are important, but the freedom to be skeptical about why and who are driving changes and just going your own way until it’s clear, that’s paramount.
> I'm currently not storing the image files, so that reduces the cost as well.

I wonder if someone catches on and replaces all your image URLs to the fuzzy testicle egg cup[0], will that negatively impact reputation?

0: http://i.imgur.com/32R3qLv.png
My point of reference is Prague: small stores, but a lot more numerous than most US cities.
You can. Aliexpress.com
> All the people who were cutting engineered stone with unsafe methods, are now just going to be cutting granite and other natural stone with the same safety practices that led to this being banned.

> I really don't get it.

Before engineered stone took off like crazy people were already cutting natural stone, working as stone masons, working at BGC quarries (stone mining, crushing, grading, delivery).

After engineered stone became fashionable the rates of silicosis in under 35 year old tradespeople spiked in a sharply noticable way.

After the engineered stone ban things will likely return to previous levels of "it happens but it's acceptably rare".

For whatever reason ( . . . insert theory . . . ) engineered stone manufacture and cutting is much much much worse wrt health issues.

For whatever reason your desk bound rational rule of thumb doesn't track against the data.
What does direct for this mean?

Isn't this already the case with electronic intermediaries instead of brick and mortar ones?