skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true, but then they are only trying to protect people like me from others who act out of self-interest and without consideration for others.

That's the whole rationale behind public health and hygiene policies (until recently that was taken for granted).
Reading this brought something to my mind that I had not yet considered. With the rise in popularity of esports, we're getting to a strange place where there is very professional gear for playing games, that is specifically suited to the high intensity, quick reactions of professional athlete. Whether you think that is an appropriate term is not an issue, people are getting paid for this and they play at a much different level that most of us plebes do.

But then you have people who play casually--and let me be clear here, even if you are very good and only play ranked competitive matches, if it's not your job, you're who I'm talking about--who get this same gear. They deck themselves out like the pros for what is, essentially, a hobby. Is that weird? I don't know. People who head out to the local basketball court typically go with only a Spalding they bought at Walmart. Folks who play a little footy on the weekends might buy shin guards, but otherwise just head out to a field.

I don't know where I'm really going with all this, it just seems odd that a person would say one should buy a keyboard that allows for 1mm actuation, when the vast, vast majority of game players wouldn't even be able to tell the difference.
> Do you think we are going to see more ICBMs repurposed for conventional strikes, possibly to avoid cruise missile defenses?

As far as I can tell this was more like a warning for the Westerners that next time those ICBMs will be carrying real nuclear warheads, because otherwise it doesn't make sense to use them in a conventional manner, the cost vs. combat benefits ratio doesn't make it worth it.

But, I agree, that impact video was really something, hope it pulls to sleep the opinions of those (very stupid) people saying things like "Russian nukes don't even work!".
> I think our obsession with innate mathematical skill and genius is so detrimental to the growth mindset that you need to have in order to learn things.

Absolutely. There's also a pernicious idea that only young people can master complex maths or music. This is a self-fulfilling prophecy - why bother try if you're going to fail due to being old? Or perhaps it's an elitist psy-op, giving the children of wealthy parents further advantage because of course no-one can catch up.
It assume it will severely limit its uptake.

If I had to pick one platform to build on, it would be linux. Pretty much every platform has the ability to run linux executables (via Docker, among others).

If this is a personal project, that's cool, but then I really don't care that much. On the other hand, I think an electron-like with something like Bun could be really useful.
That isn't a favour. The favour is finding the vulnerability and being nice enough to communicate to those who are impacted. If you as an organisation are shitty enough to view the reward for that a lack of punishment, nobody should be communicating that to you.
Considering that mechanical switches have to be debounced, how would that work?
HE sensors measure distance, if you measure often enough get velocity out of that. Linear switches should be able to do the same thing (I know almost nothing about linear switches so I might be wrong)

Edit: HE sensors not switches. HE naturally measures distance, but there are switches that have electronics that provide an on/off signal thus making the term switch not useful. If you buy a HE switch make sure you know which style you are getting.
It's an application of chaos mathematics to personality development. It isn't a rigorous treatment of such, it's a blog post, but it seems fairly reasonable.

Being a blog post and not necessarily intended to end up on Hacker News, shorn of any other context, the author never even used the term "attraction basin", which is the term you'd want to Google if you want to figure out what the author is saying.

If you don't know what an attraction basin is, then yeah, this definitely comes off sounding bad, but if you know what it is it makes sense. Attraction basins are one of those basic concepts from chaos mathematics that, once you realize what they are and why they are, you realize that the world can't help but be full of them in all sorts of places, including human personalities. The world is fundamentally iterative, so patterns that arise in all iterations are relevant all over the place.

Attraction basins are a good reason to expect in advance, sight unseen, that human personalities can actually be fit into a relatively small number of buckets relative to the conceivable number of buckets that could exist. In fact this is true of any generally similar set of entities living in a generally similar environment, including AIs (of similar architectures, not the entire space of possible AIs) and aliens, assuming they also have some sort of "species" categorization as we do. (Which doesn't have to be "DNA genetics", just, a bunch of similar being for whatever reason.) It doesn't tell you what those will be in advance by any means; it just gives you reason to believe that you won't in fact be looking at an "unbiased", uniformly random distribution of personality parameters, but that they will collect around certain attraction basins in general.
> They can it's just we don't give them the money and the ability to do so, for a whole host of reasons.

Which means they can't. Speaking in theoretical terms is entirely pointless.
"We have data on the performance of >50K engineers from 100s of companies."

Sounds to me like "we have some very common performance metrics on a huge number of people...the great majority of whom are old hands at gaming metrics".

If you are looking to downsize - the first places to look are both ends of the bell curves for well-known metrics, both ends of the pay curve, and upstream from the worst of the bad decisions, drama, and tensions.
It might be a "scheme" the school and the state quietly approve. Students living in the community should be more likely to set down roots with employment, social groups, or marriage. Brain theft, instead of brain drain.
The V-2 (Aggregat A-4) was not an ICBM. There were plans for an ICBM called A9/10 but it didn't leave the planing phase.
This just demonstrates that you dont understand how sexual selection works. For men, yes, aesthetic appearance is a considerable (main?) component in initial attraction, which is further tempered by compatible personality after that initial connection. For women, social value is the principle signifier, which is then tempered by facial symmetry, not demonstrating socially unacceptable habits and having sone degree of physical security, but the latter is the most variable across cultures.

Handsome men are largely irrelevant.
I Am a Strange Loop tangentially covers this.
Oddly the art is largely Japanese in style, not just the musume (e.g. "girl") images but that first one.

Between that accident and the year 2000 there were about 60 criticality accidents causing about 20 fatalities

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ml0037/ML003731912.pdf

After a software project failure that overturned my life I got interested in the quality movement, Deming, Toyota Production System and all that. I was also interested in nuclear energy, actually opposed to it at that time, an opinion I have changed.

Before the Fukushima accident I became aware that Japan was leading the world in nuclear accidents, especially this criticality incident

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...

as well as the comedy of errors at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant

which I could summarize as "makes Superphenix look like a huge success"

Causes floated for that were that (1) Japan was more aggressive at developing nuclear technology post-1990 more than any country other than Russia (who is making the FBR look easy today) and (2) the attitudes and methods that served Japan well in cars and semiconductors served them terribly in the nuclear business. Workgroups in a Japanese factory, for instance, are expected to modify their techniques and tools to improve production but takes detailed modelling and strict following of rules to avoid criticality accidents.
Removed Show HN
I don't like bad comments like this.
This looks like it's mostly an org problem that doesn't seem they controlled for. I've been part of several orgs that enable meaningless work. They insist you document everything and that you make a big deal out of trivial work. If people don't feel they are meaningfully contributing, they probably won't invest as much effort, and this is incidental to how an org is structured, how many engineers are assigned to a project, and how the processes work... and working from home just means you can get away with doing less. In other words, I wish this study also measured overall satisfaction and other things like stress, because I think that gap comes with a cost to the employee's overall wellbeing. Using a computer in the office or at home has no functional difference.
and worth it
I am going to guess (based on vocabulary evidence) that the person you responded to is British. You should be aware that the UK education system does not work like the US system (where you get general education including history before going into a subject-focused college degree program at 18). You're more likely to start the subject-focused program at ~16 (and possibly be aiming your focus in that direction earlier than that), which means the general studies curriculum has to be constricted.
Ok, we've replaced 'announces' with 'plans' in the title above. Thanks!
I think it's about that ecstasy in losing yourself in something that can sometimes cause you to lose your life.
The shape of the cows is exaggerated, but not by much - many breeds of cow are just incredibly rectangular in profile.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5475e650e4b0df...
> For times tables, have you developed any intuition around it?

I've tried different approaches.
4x3 being 3x4

But somehow I end up miscounting and giving the answer for 4x4 or be off a digit every-time.

A good example was that I was at a brewery last night.

They didn't do pint glasses but glasses of: 1/4, 1/2 and 2/3rd's.

I thought 1/2 was more than 2/3rd's so I ordered a 1/2 rather than thinking I was getting more.

However I was unable to visual how 2/3 is more than 1/2 when 1/2 is half a pint, or half a glass.

My visual capabilities are great at others but just couldn't formulate the equation of 2/3 is more than 1/2.

Very simple stuff, but it just doesn't meld.
GitHub also had a global code-search for around 1 year now, even with some additional search-operators like programming language. grep app has already existed before GitHub added that feature tho.

I think there are some differences in index-size, search fuzzyness, etc. between grep vs github search, but not 100% sure about the details and which is better for what.

Example Query:
https://github.com/search?q=System.exit%281%29%3B+%28languag...
Agreed, Israel is not even a good ally, they commit industrial espionage against US companies and instigate regional conflicts by leaving their pants down as an excuse to start a war

What’s another suitable country to be a stationary aircraft carrier in the Middle East though
From the "Bonus: reputation" section:

> As we've seen over the past few years, loudly proclaiming something, regardless of whether or not it's true, even when there's incontrovertible evidence that it's untrue, seems to not only work, that kind of bombastic rhetoric appears to attract superfans who will aggressively defend the brand.

What does by Dann Luu mean by "loudly proclaiming something, regardless of truth, [seems to work]"? Let's try to make the claim more precise and testable.

Since I'm interested in the broader claim, let me "carve out" (put aside) Dan's specific point about attracting superfans, which I find persuasive. With that said, here are some attempts to reframe the broad claim:

Reframing #1: "Some people are persuaded of false things when a company loudly proclaims them." Yes, this seems obvious. But it isn't particularly useful in guiding action. The claim doesn't say anything quantitative.

Reframing #2: "On net, the accuracy of a population's belief goes down when a company loudly proclaims a false belief." Maybe, maybe not. I would expect it largely depends on what happens next; i.e. whether there is some kind of response. Here are two kinds of reactions that favor not lying. First, getting caught in a lie can damage brand reputation. Second, lying calls more attention to an issue which would have otherwise drifted out of public awareness as the news cycle churns. These depend on how much credibility people assign to the organization and their claims.

Reframing #3: "On net, it is in an organization's self-interest to loudly proclaim a falsehood about its quality." Maybe. It depends on many factors. This is the most interesting public policy question! If such a tactic works (see reframing #2 above), it is clearly a negative externality (a downstream effect than an actor does not feel directly).

How does wise public policy address externalities? One classic way is to internalize the cost -- by making the actor feel the pain themself. In #3 above, one way to internalize the externality would be to impose some penalty or cost for lying. How to do this in a targeted, effective, non-delayed, and legal way is non-obvious to me.

By non-delayed I mean temporally-immediate consequences provide better signal to correct a decision. This isn't just human nature; it is fundamental to the credit-assignment problem in reinforcement learning.

The problem of delayed feedback goes deeper than just credit-assignment; it has to do with fairness too. Often, the decision-maker isn't a monolith: the leadership composition changes over time. It may be impractical to punish one cog in the system without imposing a cost on the rest of the system, many of whom had nothing to do with the decision.
Assuming you don't have the ability to separate traffic, you don't really gain anything. Cars have to be able to drive in the same lane, so the tracks have to be level with the roadbed and asphalt gets torn up very quickly along the tracks.
I currently run a Keychron K15 Pro and can easily remap my volume scroll as a mouse scroll (U/D or L/R or any combo). I can even have it on a different layer so it's volume control most of the time. In fact, I use the knob to control keyboard LED brightness on a secondary layer.
Your friends shape your microbiome – and so do their friends
Criticizing that the article I posted doesn't contain rates is understandable.

Nevertheless, in the same amount of time that it took them to write a shallow dismissal they could have googled the raw data and shared a link. They didn't provide any sources whatsoever for their own claims.
Trying to understand an existing IoT codebase is scarier than reading Lovecraft.

Out of curiosity, why were you using SSH reverse tunnel for IPC? Were you using virtualization inside your iot device and for some reason need a tunnel between the guests?
>every other article

On a quick count it seems to be more like 1/10. Maybe just ignore them and read something else?

I'm interested in the AI stuff personally.
If you honestly believe that Python is already, right now, in practice, as fast as C on all tasks and nobody need to even consider the matter of performance because the Sufficiently Smart Compiler is already a reality that we can count on, you and I are too far apart to ever come to any agreement on this matter.

Best of luck in your engineering endeavors if you ever end up in a place you need high performance code. You're going to need a lot of it.
> That IEEE published this surprises me

I find your reaction to be a positive sign. The sign that IEEE is willing to push envelope of knowledge (as of 2018). One can't push it without taking a risk of publishing something wrong, possibly very wrong.

I don't have any opinion on this topic, it's not my field of expertise. However, it's the first semi-technical article about quantum computing that I can follow along and understand.
Chinese Video Creator Hetongxue Violating MIT License
I got one of these shirts in high school for a bug I found & thought it was the coolest thing. It's funny & sets expectations – https://x.com/hacker_/status/863057296309485569/photo/1
ideas are only one part of a successfully functioning sociotechnical system. The bike intersections won't work if users behave differently (just like how automobile traffic is terrible if you get different driving styles mixing).
A lot of very experienced people in the Python world are taking uv very seriously.

Sometimes if you reinvent the wheel enough times you eventually get a round one.
"make sense to use them in a conventional manner"

When you run out of cruise missiles you might switch to ballistic missiles. I don't know about the state of Russian missiles, but looking at storage sites Russia seems to run out of quite a lot of equipment [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@CovertCabal/videos
unfortunately GrapheneOS only supports a very limited number of phone models.
Leveling Up Fuzzing: Finding More Vulnerabilities with AI
Rationally yes, but it’s the same deal with the carbon tax where people smell elitism and start seeing red. At least the Canadian version paid out a dividend, and we all know what’s going to happen to that one come next election.
>The solution is made clear then - just learn how to not be mentally ill! Again, convenient. But not really reflective of reality.

And you know this because?

Cutting edge theories of depression link it to alterations in the reward learning system. There is some evidence that training persons with depression to attend to certain aspects of the reward learning mechanism can reduce depressive symptomology [I am involved in this research]. But speaking more broadly, cognitive behavioral therapy, one of the most successful non-pharmaceutical treatments for depression, involves people "learning how not to be depressed" by unlearning problematic patterns of negative thinking and coping with negative events: first by recognizing what those problematic thoughts and behaviors are, and working to adjust those ... to move you out of that basin.

The main issue with this article imo is that it does not consider the meta-problem: how the reinforcement learning system can be altered by experience as well.
Yes, they forgot that part, so there will be further energy losses (at least 70%).

They also have to up the repetition rate
from once a week to at least 1k /s.

Note that ASML lithography machines accurately dilate and irradiate molten tin droplets with lasers at ~ 50k /s.

https://www.asml.com/en/technology/lithography-principles/li...
And they got what they payed for. A great result for all involved.
For more context, this is an out of cycle Postgres minor version release as a result of issues identified in the prior minor version release that occurred on November 14th.

These threads provide more details:

https://x.com/marcoslot/status/1857403646134153438

https://bsky.app/profile/marcoslot.com/post/3laywltkea226
> but one with a little chernobyl plant and black particles.

Now I want one. Where did you buy it from if you don't mind me asking?
Interesting observation about the maximum lifetime of a bubble:

> I believe that, appearances to the contrary, the quantum computing fervor is nearing its end. That's because a few decades is the maximum lifetime of any big bubble in technology or science. After a certain period, too many unfulfilled promises have been made, and anyone who has been following the topic starts to get annoyed by further announcements of impending breakthroughs. What's more, by that time all the tenured faculty positions in the field are already occupied. The proponents have grown older and less zealous, while the younger generation seeks something completely new and more likely to succeed.
Thank you for this. I personally appreciate the easy to download GPX for my Wahoo. For reference, I've been using [0] to get around the city since Google Maps sucks here. I also really like the routes suggested by [1], but their mobile app is super buggy.

[0] - https://cyclers.app/

[1] - https://www.cyclestreets.net/
If those are "minor" shocks then is it only outright war that counts as instability for you?

If so then what countries in Europe (sans the Balkans) or East Asia do you think are less politically stable than the US?
My opinion is yes, because in reality the alternative is none of the things you mentioned will get a single dollar more than they would if we don’t do it. Call me cynical but if the alternative is the same, I would rather have human knowledge increase through space and scientific exploration.
From the Guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
> So perhaps if anybody has a “right” to make jokes in poor taste about the “Demon Core”… it might be the Japanese?

> I’m not here to be the humor police, or to say things should be “off limits” for comedy, or that it’s “too soon,” or make any other scolding noises. Dark humor, in its own strange and inverted way, is arguably a sort of coping mechanism — a defense against the darkness, a way to tame and de-fang the horrors of the world.
At a time when predators are hunting down our brethren, when entire crops of fruit have been lost to changing climate and our youth are starving, is it really time to send our bravest and most adventurous people out into the plains of Africa? We should solve the problems we have up here in the trees first!
Well I wont disagree with you, since it is possible that your experience was different than mine.
That's true for an individual, but if you're looking at a population then you're seeing a situation where we have zero other solutions that are actually effective at curbing obesity. The only "natural" way to solve it is probably to overhaul our entire culture, redesign our cities and neighborhoods, et c., and that's not happening.

Skinny people move to the US and get fat. They're not skinnier back in their home country because they've got greater willpower or are harder workers, but because they aren't in the US. If harder work isn't why skinnier countries are skinnier, we shouldn't expect it to help us out of our problem, and indeed, we have nothing else we've studied that is terribly effective over time, and certainly nothing cheap enough to deploy on a large scale.

Again, yes, for an individual your perspective is the only thing one has (well... until these drugs) but looking from a policy level, it's useless.
When NASA performs experiments and learns something, that knowledge belongs to the American people.

When SpaceX learns something, that knowledge belongs to SpaceX, and specifically a trashboat named Elon Musk.

I'd rather spend 10x more and have the American people benefit. And your assertion of SpaceX's supremacy makes you look like a corporate simp.
Like a 51% attack.
If you benchmark that you'll find uv spends microseconds getting the virtual environment up and running - that's its USP, they've invested a huge amount of work and ingenuity into making virtual environments so fast to create that you no longer have to think about that.

(Mainly through tricks involving hard links)
Part of me thinks he'd laugh his ass off at the memes.

Hell, when the accident happened, he said, "Well, that does it."
i agree with your sentiment, but it bears pointing out that no one brandishes their underwear in people's faces screaming that they must wear the same ones, or use the political system to privilege people of the same underwear and punish others etc etc

fwiw me personally i'm all in on uniqlo airism, there is no better underwear and if i could force everyone to wear them i would (for their own good, of course)