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This topic is written about better elsewhere.

Here's an opinion piece in the Harvard Business Review in 2022: https://hbr.org/2022/01/we-need-to-let-go-of-the-bell-curve

Here's another article on the same topic from 2014: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2014/02/19/the-myth-...

Here's more press on the same topic from 2012: https://www.npr.org/2012/05/03/151860154/put-away-the-bell-c...

From a data science point of view, if you want to compare the fitness of different distributions to data, go ahead and do some fitness tests, like AIC or BIC, to compare distributions. Ordinary Gaussian outperforms skew-normal and log-normal in many settings where the physics of the measurements would suggest otherwise.

However, it matters what you are measuring.

Here's a summary quote that explains what this Pareto versus Gaussian stuff is talking about:

> "We found that a small minority of superstar performers contribute a disproportionate amount of the output."

That is very different than saying that employee performance is Pareto instead of Gaussian distributed. "Output" and "employee performance" measures two different things. If there is any big picture flaw to all of this: it is quintessentially Individual Contributor to conflate output with employee performance.

Another POV is that people who get fired from IC jobs understandably lament a lot of the details of their circumstances. One detail that comes up is that other people take credit for their work, which should illuminate how output and employee performance measure different things in a way that interacts in the opposite of what the article is advocating for.
Nah, this time it's "capitalism bad! Evil VCs want to make a profit on the money the invested. How dare they! Evil people" (the speaker literally calls people "evil" for this).
But they don't just self segregate. The law is wielded as a weapon for economic segregation which makes the escape the GP was able to accomplish exceedingly difficult. Also, you are insinuating that they escaped by dint of personal effort alone, when I suspect they had their own luck and privileges (as did I) in finding themselves no longer living in poverty.

The biggest problem with this entire thread is that it paints a black and white picture of the situation. As though by building more housing the only possible outcome are poor people doing drugs next to my kids' school. Guess what, there's already people doing drugs next to my kids school, even in "nice" neighborhoods. This is not black and white. You don't have to pull someone down to raise others up. I'm sorry the GP (and it seems you, via defense) believe that their escape means they are better than those who could not "care about themselves" enough to better themselves. What a sad state of mind.
The systematic, public aspect of the killings and the fetishization of maximal pain and suffering is the fucked up part. Few societies ever where public delight in unthinkable cruelty was so off-the-charts.
> But my understanding is that a diagnosis of anxiety or ADHD is not a career killer and will not usually result in a medical discharge.

I was in the Marines. In general, you cannot be lifelong dependent on medication. If you are, then you must be medically separated out or are ineligible to join. I always understood that this is the same standard that MEPS enforces.

The Air Force has a lot of luxuries that other branches don't have but I don't see MEPS using different standards for different branches.
Holy D*n. I think you are correct, and I was one of the early subscribers subscribed via Twitter Login (only option or something like that).
the reason prices drop is exactly the battery, not insurance or repair costs.

as most tesla owners will tell you there is no maintenance costs and insurance (if you are not a shitty driver) is not bad at all considering it is a luxury vehicle
and repair costs are also not that bad. the real issue is the cost to replace a battery fear of which drives people away from buying used teslas. this is true for other EVs, if I tried to sell you 2018 audi etron your first thought will be “that is a 7-year old battery in that car”, not “ain’t going for it cause of insurance and repairs.”

if tesla offerred lifetime warranty on the battery (or if battery replacement was like <$2k) the used tesla prices would go through the roof
It's a pop sci article. It shows off advances in our imaging capabilities and hopefully inspires a little wonder about the universe. I believe the intended takeaway is something like "neat! We can see a lot of stuff going on in infrared that's hard to see in the visible spectrum". The rendering of other wavelengths as red, blue, and green pixels is a very standard scientific visualization method for multispectral imaging, and the article makes it clear what choices they make to do so.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case, and I dislike Ubisoft as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't take this person's word for it on something like this. Looking at the author's Youtube channel, as well as "FandomPulse"'s twitter feed, they're both generally conspiratorial and very into culture war nonsense. If I'm going to believe someone's anonymous inside source, the reporting needs to be coming from someone with an actual reputation with a decent following.
One could make a regulation that account data cannot be lumped.
fyi Fidelity is also not a bank. They might be older, but they're just as much not a bank as Betterment or Wealthfront. Wealthfront gives you a statement from Green Dot, which is actually a bank. Charles Schwab and Chase are actual banks as well. Robinhood should not be trusted with more than beer money.
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Finally we can have this with s3 :)
Why does the architect of blob storage matter? The hash can be calculated as data streams in for the first write, before data gets dispersed into multiple physically stored blocks.
As someone without a lot of experience (in my first dev job now), would you care to expand on this? Does this mean that you wouldn’t have a function fn() that manipulates a global variable VAR, but rather you’d pass VAR like fn(VAR)?
I was conjecturing that the distribution would be closer to Pareto for everyone (including people who've never learned how to play chess), hence why I said that "active players" is a big caveat.

> increasing populations make things look more Gaussian - in all natural circumstances.

This is just not the case, there's plenty of "natural circumstances" where populations have non-Gaussian distributions.

Perhaps you meant a specific type of population, like chess ratings?
I'd be interested in seeing what you find there, but all I've found shows significantly distorted tails (not to mention a skew from 1500).
I was wondering this too, although for a different use-case. A couple years ago I was walking through a field/vacant lot not far from Centralia, WA and I came across what I think is a grave.

The (supposed) "grave" was roughly human-sized and human-shaped, the ground was concave, sunken in and deepest at the center, and it was encircled with stones that were slightly larger than grapefruit.

The reason I suspect it's a grave is because I stumbled upon a very similar-looking thing at a historical site in Tooele county Utah named Mercur cemetery.

With Lidar I could prove/disprove my grave theory, correct?
I think he meant Huntly, but unfortunately, we Indians have our own idiosyncratic way with English. The founder/builder is Indian (I'm Indian, and I know).
Can't they just make a good game?
In ancient times Hindus had a prayer mat made of kuusha or kaasha grass. Apparently the grass descended from the hairs of the boar incarnation. So this notion of a seat in worship is indeed very ancient.
There is a rail line that goes from Sacramento into the South Bay (ACE Rail) which is what you'd probably try to use if you could. Still takes 2.5hr one-way (which doesn't include last-mile parts), but at least you don't drive.

I used to take it going from Pleasanton to Santa Clara, and I remember there was lots of revelry on the way back home.
One thing I am having a hard time wrapping my head around is how to reliably integrate business logic into a system like this. Just hook up my Rails models etc. and have it use those?

Let’s say I’ve got a “widgets” table and I want the system to tell me how many “deprecated widgets” there are, but there is no convenient “deprecated” flag on the table—it’s defined as a Rails scope on the model or something (business logic).

The DB schema might make it possible to run a simple query to count widgets or whatever, but I just don’t have a good mental model of how these systems might work with “business logic” type things.
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I don't think you understand the numbers I listed. Read what I wrote again and try to think about the parts you don't understand, look them up, then read again.
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I have a soft spot for FORTH. I don’t know if it makes for elegant larger programs at all, but it’s really easy and elegant to bootstrap a port of FORTH itself, and then use it to perform more and more complex system tasks. That’s probably why it was chosen for e.g. OpenBIOS.

It’s the only language/environment where I can imagine starting from nothing but a simple machine language monitor, to quickly achieve a foundation for a full environment, which is wild… (and nowadays most likely only of academic interest).

Lately, I’ve taken a liking to embedded forth, because it allows me to, say, build layers of forth vocabulary to control I2C devices, potentially starting by even writing I2C
bit banging itself in forth first, and then progressively building higher levels of abstraction, but all of that completely ad-hoc and interactively on the forth prompt.

It’s a really great way to explore devices hardware-wise, without having to write a lot of boilerplate C or rust code on an external development environment.

Again, I don’t know if anything like that translates well into writing large, user-facing applications. Maybe the article will tell me?
Rest is worth quoting:

> The article wonders why, but the answer is obvious. The factual piece missing from the article is that sacrificial victims were drugged into semi-consciousness so they wouldn't struggle and disrupt the ceremony.

> This meant they didn't scream as obsidian knives were penetrating their chests and their hearts were ripped out to be offered to the gods. Obviously, the Aztecs considered the ceremonial experience incomplete without the screaming, and built death whistles to simulate the proper sound of agony.

Makes my skin crawl.
For such a controversial figure, he's directly created positive impacts in my life.
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the one simple one I can think of would be to specifically make depositor acknowledge “hey this is not FDIC ensured, do you want to proceed?”

probably still some percentage of people would fall for it and continue with the creation of an account but at least then this discussion here would be “stupid is as stupid does.”
Damn it, thank you for the link, sir.

Can we please make this SNS disappear?
Asbestos was once considered one of the best material for the industry with many desirable properties like high durability, insulation, flexibility, cheap cost etc etc. I don't think human has found a drop-in replacement for asbestos yet.
I have had the exact opposite experience.
Ask HN: Anyone using an LLM to filter email?
I have a pretty large backlog of unread emails. I was hoping to use an LLM to help me categorize. Most of it is spam ("marketing emails")

I would love it if I could use a local model (I am running ollama locally), but I would settle for a hosted model if needed.

Anyone here have a good experience going down this route?
> most people and so-called experts told us to “sleep train” our child

There does seem to be surprisingly large amount of advice which centres on being vaguely unpleasant to your offspring, it always puzzled me.

I actively avoided adopting such ideas, I did everything I could to be kind to them, to pay attention to them and to show them love. For what it's worth my children have turned out, I believe, pretty well and as they've got older it's touching (and almost humourous) to realise that they are increasingly taking the same approach to me !
I imagine, for it to make sense, that the comparison is done at the last possible moment, before atomically swapping the file contents.
Which part was a disaster? High rise towers in Seoul and elsewhere seem to work after all, so if you're rejecting high rise towers on the basis that high rise towers didn't work in those situations, I'm not sure I follow your logic.
Traveling across the developing world, I have been astonished at how many women even in countries with limited English skills follow the Kardashians (and the young men follow Andrew Tate). Yes, on one hand celebrities are silly, but on the other hand they have a global societal impact that nerds like us might not appreciate.
> I had to change how I managed/my expectations ... when offshore teams were brought on.

Did you mean to say "lowered my expectations"?
Oh, wow, yes - he’s a GamerGate supporter and appears to have a massive chip on his shoulder about the mainstream industry. I’d really want a more reputable source for this.
The SNR for flash Lidar is really low because you spread the beam out over such a large area.

Most automotive Lidar already operate in a “photon starved regime”, ~200-300 photons per return[0]. If you spread that over the entire scene, your snr drops quickly.

This forces you into 1550nm, and a large detector array and high power laser at 1550nm is extremely expensive.

As for MEMS, it’s been a while but I think FOV/steering angle range , steering speed and even maximum beam power were concerns

EDIT: my Lidar friend Jake reminded me that the appetizer size is also an issue with MEMS- smaller aperture = less light collected = lower SNR

[0] https://www.hamamatsu.com/content/dam/hamamatsu-photonics/si...
Redmi phone after long iphone use, as an experiment. I used it for six+ months, made sure I get used to it before criticizing, then sold it to a colleague. The upside is, I got a new iphone instead and it felt like changing from new shoes to old comfy ones.
Most federal agencies tend to be colocated.

Of the 168 people who died in the Oklahoma City bombing, only 8 were from law enforcement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
Optimus should probably have LiDAR more than a car…
If nothing else you have to admire the balls it takes to fight the US for over a decade.
Is there a definition of “fixable” that people agree on? I had a Dell XPS many years ago where RAM and HDD were socketed to the motherboard, but the build quality was awful and the hinge attaching the screen to the body snapped during normal use. That part wasn’t “fixable”, but I felt like it should have been. I couldn’t have cared less about more memory at that time.

There’s the framework computer, but numerous reviews suggest that thing sucks too, even though it is “very fixable”.

Should all parts for every computer just be available at a big box store or Amazon? What if it became possible to attach more RAM via USB-C, like how the SSD can be expanded via the same? What’s the goal here?
"this has nothing to do with classes, which in sociology and related fields are strata which society can be analysed as being divided into"
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I used to root for this guy until he became pro-Putin.
I know we are talking about car type lidar, but the iPhone Pro has a type of one and gets a depth map of photos. So you’re shooting it everyone you are taking photos of.
asking for a friend: can i combine systemd and selinux with k8s?
GCP still doesn't have triggers out of beta last time i checked (which was a while ago).
What are the benchmarks that say Mercedes, BMW, and Honda have the best level 3 features.
Pretty weird how Hollywood corpos and lobbyists can convince the US government to prosecute a non-US citizen who's across the globe all while using illegally issued warrants to raid him.
Sorry, the assumption that sharing somehow precludes variety or innovation just felt inspired by some misunderstanding of communism, which is a very common trope in America.

> I'm saying that discovery comes with "inequality" in some sense, because it takes time to distribute and refine processes for making things.

Again, read the original source. Inequality and discovery isn't in opposition with sharing. Inequality in outcome and opportunities are very different.

All of human society produces enough food, and enough excess wealth, that we could "solve" hunger across the planet if we chose. That wouldn't require everyone eat the same meal, and it wouldn't preclude people going to restaurants or spending money on Michelin-Star meals. This wouldn't even prevent market-driven opportunities for farmers or chefs or distributors. Not everyone in the planet can be entitled to rare fish flown across the world, but for example, America has so much corn we put in our gasoline (and offered plenty of tax credits to do so).
Cactus? Never heard that expression
That's exactly the kind of mess we're hoping to avoid.

I think these name problems are pretty common everywhere, though: even in Korea, where bureaucratic tasks are quite streamlined compared to Europe, foreigners whose names are too long get dashes in their official ID. Which official name goes into bank accounts and stuff. Pity the poor souls whoese bank ID doesn't match the telecom ID used for online and mobile ID verification during transactions...and during taxes.
I wonder why a 20km channel would affect birds if plants aren't so affected.
Don't forget Blue Cruise from Ford.
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Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/opinion-the-antitr...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1uFUph
I reckon it's probably not that bad, there are big surfaces that are almost normal to what would be incoming radio energy. Stealth shapes tend to reflect energy in a completely different direction from the source.
> Is there any reason you can't enforce that restriction on your side?

I'd like to set IAM permissions for a role, so that that role can add objects to the content-addressible store, but only if their name matches the hash of their content.

> Or are you saying you want S3 to automatically set the name for you based on the hash?

I'm happy to name the files myself, if I can get S3 to enforce that. But sure, if it were easier, I'd be thrilled to have S3 name the files by hash, and/or support retrieving files by hash.
Gmail was in beta for five years, I don't think that label really means anything.
Could you use a meta field from the object and save the hash in it, running a compare from it?
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I'm very thankful for this tool, it is powerful, doesn't stand in your way and does the job.

It is as others have said, lightwight due to it being build with Qt. The interface is mostly intuitive, and utilizes screen space properly.

If you need an open source SQLite editor, this is a solid choice.
a lawyer next door to your right is sitting and saying “I am now using AI for million things I had to do manually, however I do not see how AI will revolutionize anything else now that we’ve ‘hit the limits on what is currently possible’ - feel bad for software devs who will never get any benefits of this cool new tech…”

a college teacher next door to your left is saying… :)
No, there’s a class system for laser safety

The rating is for you to stick your eyes right up to it for a long period of time and still be fine
I haven’t ridden the ACE train before, but this can be a major benefit for those commuting from the Outer East Bay and San Joaquin County. Plus, I heard the seats are like Caltrain’s, which means it’s possible for commuters to get work done on the train.

There’s also the Amtrak Capitol Corridor for those living annd working along the 880 and 80 corridors. I’ve taken this a few times before during my college years, and it’s a nice, comfortable ride.
Economists look at inflation in many, many ways. I don't think anyone that's reasonably well informed, especially economists, misunderstands the cumulative impact of price changes.

Economists that make monetary policy decisions look at recent inflation trends + projected inflation because they are tasked with price stability, which requires them to often respond to shocks well outside their control (war in Ukraine, massive government spending, tax cuts, covid-19 pandemic, etc.)

I was trading and researching fixed income and inflation markets (and implementing in multi-billion dollar portfolios) years ago when you had inflationistas claiming the Fed was going to cause double digit runaway inflation. At the same time, you had people claiming the Fed was not doing enough to support markets.

No matter what monetary policy makers do, it will be pretty much universally mocked by pundits and especially anyone that wants to talk their own book.

Academic economists don't really focus much on any particular reading of inflation, unless perhaps they have their own axe to grind about how it is measured or responded to.

Monetary policy can't change the past, which is why they evaluate current and expected inflation, not what happened in two years ago. Just because prices increased dramatically in 2022 does not mean the Fed or any other central bank should aim for deflation.
> "We see right through the unshowered soul living in a car by the beach, or by the Walmart, or by the side of the road. But he’s there, and he used to be somebody"

Do we? No, we don't, not at first, not until we see it enough times to become desensitized to it, and we eventually realize the state/city/population ultimately doesn't care about these people, so we adapt those beliefs too, whether we want to or not.

I watched that happen to many colleagues, friends, family members, and even, regrettably over time, myself.

If you mention the homeless crisis to many people, many of the typical urbanites and suburbanites that populate every major city that is overflowing with homeless and open drug camps, the same people who vote for it to continue and for it to get worse and worse, the ones who vote to fund programs that clearly are making the problem grow and worsen rather than improve, they get very defensive, almost angry that you're bringing it up. Why on earth are you bringing up this topic? Quiet! And if you do talk about it, you better share the acceptable opinions on the subject, anything else is verboten. It's a strange social pressure, completely devoid of humanity.
Note that with the Work Number, you can at least freeze your file, much like a credit report. Employers will still submit information, but potential employers (or lenders, or anyone else) will not be able to access the report.
I once designed and configured a satellite-microwave hybrid network for a large US customer with field offices around Borneo. I’ll never forget making the leased line handoffs back in Jakarta. I had exactly zero experience doing this so I googled around and read that BGP is what you would use to connect between our OSPF/UBNT net and their IGRP/Cisco corporate WAN. When asked to configure BGP on their routers, the guys from Tata were like “what do you think you are AT&T or something?” We did kind of feel that way until one season of lightning strikes took out most of our AirFibers.
When you say pro-Putin, do you mean actually pro-Putin or just for ending the war in Ukraine?

At this point I feel like the people protesting the Vietnam war would be regarded by the current online zeitgeist as “pro-Mao”.
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