skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular instance of correlation and causation has always been fascinating to me.

Is it possible to have a non causal correlation that is impossible to bring about without increasing (causing) the effect.

For instance suppose you tried an experiment of getting 500 books into a household with a new infant and zero books. Let’s say you did this with no special attempt to produce the cause, but made no attempt to ensure the process of getting 500 books over there had no influence either.

How would you go about this? Ask for donations? Collect books? How would you find donors, how would you find families to donate to?

My guess, which I make purely on a hunch, is that you would have to make dramatic (perhaps unconscionable) efforts to ensure that this process would not bring about the effect of higher literacy on average.

Not sure by how much but I think (just a thesis) that it would be meaningfully measurable
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yes, but functionaly it's the same thing. "Ownership" in other countries is just a legal construct. It's not like you can do whatever you want with it. There are countless rules and regulations you must follow - you can't build on it or touch in anyway without getting permits and your "property" can be confiscated if you don't pay taxes on it. So, I would argue no property rights with 0 property taxes is more like true ownership.
Also technology, or random chance.

If God exists, he is an explainable piece of "technology". He could be a very powerful one that deserves our respect, but he is explainable. Everything is explainable... eventually.
I have to use their jira cloud offering because of my workplace. I'd already be happy if it didn't need 5 seconds to load even essentially empty pages.
It's painful.
..and it what?
So people have been separated from their children should just wait for the American people to maaaaaaybe kick out the jackboots in two to four years?

Naw, dawg, when things get ugly, you have to resist where you can. I'm guessing you can't agree, but there's a fair number of people who think we're in a Germany 1937 situation. We have a president who in all likelihood enlisted Russian interference in the election, who shares plenty of rhetorical similarity to actual fascists. We have a Congress that is moving as fast as it can to stack the judiciary, which in turn will hear future election cases. Things are getting grim. I've lived and worked in places where these processes have played out - like Hungary - and anyone who says it can't happen here is kidding themselves.
Thanks for the recommendation! Added to my player
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id284815942?mt=8

Just as there is a Google search app on Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...) there is a Google search app on iOS. They collect the same information when you perform the same actions, though many irrationally believe otherwise.

Similarly, the Google search web app collects exactly the same information on both platforms.
maybe being surrounded with 350+ books correlates with rich parents. And rich parents have an opportunity to pay for higher education for their children.
But the payment is pure profit because there’s no cost associated with setting Google as the default search engine.
> Sadly, it doesn’t seem that Microsoft’s largesse extends to making the Edge browser uninstallable.

Not far enough.
https://open.wechat.com/cgi-bin/newreadtemplate?t=overseas_o...

Aside from that, simply integrating individual apis into your pages can also be a solution if you don't want a full blown miniapp
How does selling the gear help if the buyer is going to use the gear?
> Why not bundle twine like pip?

The `pip` package is not actually bundled with your Python distribution, instead the standard library has `ensurepip` which provides a means of bootstrapping a `pip` installation without `pip` itself. See [0].

> In fact, why not merge the twine functionality into pip?

This has been considered and still might happen, see [1], specifically the comment at [2].

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/ensurepip.html

[1] https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/60

[2] https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/60#issueco...
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. All the software you mention is relatively recent (with the exception of VMware arguably) and Linux was ahead of the BSDs in adoption long before these applications were created.

Now what exactly created this divide to begin with is a matter of debate but it took place mostly in the 90's and the very early 00's. By the mid 2000's it was clear that BSDs would have a really hard time ever catching up with Linux, especially for non-server applications.

Paradoxically it might be partially why BSDs are so clean and tidy: fewer features, fewer contributors and of course they're making a complete operating system instead of just a kernel or just a distribution.

FreeBSD remains my favourite OS for servers, it's rock solid and a joy to administrate. Unfortunately for the desktop I've given up almost a decade ago, driver support is just too lackluster, especially (as you mention) for proprietary software that can't be easily ported.
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Yeah I use networkx to edit and Cytoscape to visualize with json files for saving. But it's definitely not the best workflow since you can't edit and view from one place, you have to export, view it, and then go back to make changes.
I really enjoy have openbsd on a server that I ssh into.

OS X and Windows are better GUI, OpenBSD is a better place for a lot of my work... basically anything that I’d use emacs for.
atlasobscura.com seems to show up an awful lot on HN, and I rarely find the links to be technically relevant or useful, but always full of ads. It would be nice to be able to filter them out
> A Little Bit Softer Now, a Little Bit Softer Now …

... isn't a fade out that ends a song. It ramps down in loudness but is followed by the lyrics, "A little bit louder now," while the loudness ramps back up.

Edit: clarification
Thefuck – Corrects your previous console command
I would say that your mind already looks for fictitious narratives naturally. Cause is not so correlated with effect in reality, but we still attempt to apply myth and storylines (this especially applies with histories as they are usually told).

I also find that there is deeper meaning in analyzing fiction as to how its mythologies can be applied to personal growth and the journey towards it. I recommend reading Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces to help engender this critical view of thought when thinking about the templating of fiction.
Apple isn't dependent on Google though; Google is paying that much because there are others willing to pay. That's all money they are paying to buy the >85% of revenues that advertising constitutes (would be higher if they hadn't moved Nest onto the P/L.

I have often criticized google for not producing any new products (aggregated, the motley assortment of other revenue streams barely crack 14%) since Adwords & Adsense almost 20 years ago, but I have to admit the purchase of Android has really paid off: if it weren't for Android, Google would probably be paying 4x or 5x what they are now to Apple.
This page http://www.vintagewatchstraps.com/blogswissmade.php argues that "swiss made" as a brand was a side effect of British hallmarking laws.

The pages about the various watch brand histories is quite interesting.
You may be confusing the legal terms "nonprofit" and "not-for-profit".

In a "nonprofit", the paid staff cannot be paid contingent on the fundraising efforts of the organization. The nonprofit organization has a separate legal existence from the totality of its membership. A "not-for-profit" is identical to the totality of its membership, and may pay its staff or members out of general funds. Nonprofits are 501(c)(3) tax-exempted, not-for-profits are probably 501(c)(7) tax-exempted.

For example, a religious organization might be organized as nonprofit. It has a high priest, several underpriests, and some knights on its payroll. These are all paid predefined salaries and wages. They get paid the same regardless of whether the temple collects a lot of tithes, or none at all. If a nonprofit could not hire paid staff, it would likely have insufficient volunteers to accomplish its stated purposes.

A performing marching band might be organized as a not-for-profit. They go out and sell candy bars stamped with bars of musical notation to raise funds. They can spend the proceeds of the fundraising on themselves, or their staff, but it has to be in furtherance of the organization's stated purpose. They can hire a band director, arranger, and transportation coordinator, and book hotel rooms for themselves. If they raise more funds, they can spend it on themselves, and also give their staff bonuses. But they can't just distribute excess cash; that would be profit. They could buy touring buses and instruments and uniforms that are more expensive and worth more at resale, which would be suspiciously similar to profit, but the rules for "not-for-profit" are more lax than for "nonprofit".
Sure, but do they also want their story to be read by as many people as possible?
A lot of philosophical texts were written in the form of fiction.
I think that there's an uncanny valley for statistics: Some people don't care about statistics and prefer to operate on philosophy, some people know about statistics but generally choose not to act on them because they know they don't understand, but a lot of people are aware enough of statistics to use them, and not skilled enough with them to know what conclusions they can draw.
Fiction certainly can have that downside.

But good fiction is also one of the most effective ways--apart from deep listening--of training empathy because it lets you step into someone's inner life. Rarely do we get a chance to see the world through someone else's eyes for long stretches.

If you're not an immigrant, you can vicariously live the life of one through fiction and see what they have to deal with.

If you're not a news reporter or a cop or a tycoon during the Great Depression, you can tag along with one through fiction.

The point of reading fiction isn't about content, but how they change you as a person.
pg12 may be removing the (mandatory) optimization fences in CTEs, this is really exciting to me as it'll enable much more maintainable complex queries to not suffer a performance hit.

As a general rule of programming, I never want syntax sugaring or a chosen expression pattern to impact runtime performance. I have found it's optimal to write expressive code first and performant code second - and if there's a trivial expression transformation between the two a compiler or interpreter better be equipped to do it for you.
It's a good GNUism though, that I also wish the BSDs supported. No-one's saying that the BSDs should start supporting GNU style --long-options or switch to info instead of man, but friendlier help messages are always a nice thing.
True, but is there anything known about this? The part of the thread (currently above this one) where people sum up the risks of plastics doesn't show anything that I'd say increases with lower particle size.
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I live in Manhattan and the cost of rents and housing has been increasing primarily through rent-seeking behavior which limits housing density creating an artificial scarcity in land leading to a high cost of living. Simply fixing the zoning density restrictions would reduce the rent-seeking or "market failure" and would lower the cost of living in NYC. See Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser's work for more details.

Build Big, Bill
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-big-bill-article-1....

There is a NY State mandated minimum wage law that has been hurting many stores and has increased the cost of food in grocery stores, for instance.

It was mandated to $11 / hr to $13 (today, I think) to $15.

Thus, the real issue is the market failures in housing caused by politicians who limit the zoning density. The State, addressing the high cost of housing not by fixing the rent-seeking instead decided to increase minimum wage to a level that many independent establishments can no longer afford to stay in business.
I doubt many places really do that. In the UK, for example, it only costs a couple hundred quid for a boilerplate employment contract from a proper employment lawyer that you can fill the blanks in on and re use for a long time. Copying and pasting a Google search contract would be insane. Then again, I'm a sane business owner so maybe I'm not qualified to comment on dumbass ones.
I'm reminded of the images from China where one person is in front of rows and rows of phones clicking on stuff and that is their job. Would that do the job here?
I just noticed that yesterday, there was a segment on a TV music channel with 90-00s music, and I noticed how almost all ended in a fadeout, and how it made me feel that it's wasting my time in today fast paced world.

Just like that recent article about long form press or books, we just don't have time for that or fadeouts anymore. Everything must be TL;DR
IMHO Linux has the better license. Not sure if I'm in the minority with this opinion?
Did he sign an non-compete?
Embrace the trend and take responsibility for solving unsolved crime and peacefully bringing about justice and/or resolution (ie- inform the uninformed) to the problems for which you have solved.
I had the original one plus, and liked it. But they blew up their os deal and since then it hasn't been as compelling.

I want pure android without monitoring my behavior - I"m paying for the phone, damnit. I know it's an almost lost cause - that's one reason I like the ph-1.

With the one plus I was always worried about them copying my actions since they are not a pure android, and the danger of a company that is in china. There were some incorrect stories about them sending data to china, but there was at least a legitimate story about sending data there: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/oneplus-data-leak-fix,news-2596...
I started with Cosmac ELF 1802 with 256 bytes of memory 128x64 graphics. I would have thought I'd died and gone to heaven if I had something that ran pico-8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSMAC_ELF
This Subsidy for China Is Dumb as a Post
This video does a good job explaining the bad position we were in prior to leaving the treaty:
https://youtu.be/DkckYLBCNfI
No, you did not read that correctly. What has happened to HN? Suddenly there's trolls everywhere.
Would they need to make a return directly? If they could buy it and put significant resources on it, they'll have a direct competitor against Google, with the advantages of coming by default on Apple devices and of being privacy friendly. Just that might scare Google to pay them more to leave the Search space and put back Google as their default search engine.
Fair, I grew up in the middle of nowhere, tv was a weekend only activity, and internet was pretty strictly regulated. As a result I read a lot.
Even with space travel and even assuming an infinite universe there exists no growth rate R > 0 such that human population can grow at that rate or higher indefinitely, unless we get faster than light space travel, so it is not going to be as easy as you think to entirely eliminate Malthusian concerns.

Exponential growth, even with a small exponent, is astounding.

Suppose, for instance, we squeeze all of humanity into one densely populated volume. Let's give each person just one cubic meter. As population grows, we expand that volume, maintaining the density of one person per cubic meter. With all of space at our disposal, we are now set for a very long time, right?

Right, we are, but probably not as long as most people would guess. Let's say that the humans of Densopolis have a growth rate of 0.01%. Each year the population is 1.0001 times the year before.

After 900k years of that growth, the frontier of Densopolis needs to be expanding faster than the speed of light to make room.

If they grow at 0.1%, or 1.001x per year, it only takes 84k years to hit the speed of light limit. At 1%, or 1.01x per year, they hit it in under 8k years.

Another neat illustration. Instead of packing densely, let's say humanity spreads throughout the Milky Way. If they maintain a growth rate of 1.0001x per year, after 940k years all the mass of the Milky Way will have been used to make human bodies. There will be none left for stars, interstellar dust, planets, or any other life forms.

At 1.001x, we need all the mass after 94k years. 1.01x does it in under 10k years.
Halfway through the article, when I saw the part about how the number of books varied between nations, I thought, "oh cool! They're going to use that to address the possible confounding affects, since otherwise you might just be measuring whether parents who make sure their kids are well educated end up with a lot of books in their home. If kids in the 90th percentile for their country (for number of books in their home) have less similar outcomes than kids with the same number of books (from different countries), this would be indicative that the books that actually matter." If that point is in the article, though, it's sure not in Smithsonian's article, and since it's Elsevier I can't look at the original. :(
Walking Through the Official Document on China' Social Credit System
With the benefit of hindsight a better option would have been to build more unarmed fast bombers like the de Havilland Mosquito instead of slow, heavy bombers like the B-17 and B-24. The Mosquito could deliver more bombs at a lower cost, only risked two crew members, and was less vulnerable to fighters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito_operatio...
I think there are better solutions to what you want to achieve.

If S/MIME certs were more readily available you could just spam-filter mail that isn't signed, and use the signer's details to better flag spam automatically.
That's true. I was reading a lot as a kid but I barely read anything we had to read for school. Reading assignments took the fun out of reading because now you had the pressure to be able to report on the reading.
I can't believe can't even do the tiniest bit of research.

DDG isn't an aggregator, and it doesn't use Bing any more than it uses Google, Wikipedia, StackOverflow or anything else.

https://duck.co/forum/thread/4350/did-you-know-that-duckduck...
because if you pin stuff in requirements.txt, they either never get updated, or you have to go through, check which ones have updated, and manually edit the requirements.txt. the combination of Pipfile and Pipfile.lock were designed to solve this in a much better way (briefly: understanding standard deps vs development deps, and using the Pipfile.lock file for exact pinning/deployment pinning, vs general compatibility pinning in the Pipfile).
This is not true at all. Rural and suburban areas receive an incredibly disproportionate amount of tax dollars for infrastructure compared to urban areas.

Here is an article with some actual numbers from Halifax, Nova Scotia:https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/03/05/sprawl-costs-the-publ...

Some of the tables are pretty revealing in there.
At least it came up early in the process. Usually this is the sort of thing that gets sprung on someone after they've decided to accept an offer.
Well some countries also don't want legal immigrants.

https://fuckoffgoogle.de/

Pretty good if you want some perspective.
It is abundantly clear that the pipenv developers use MacOS so I wonder if it's an OS dependent thing.
as an active musician (and having been one for 15 years) i personally almost never find myself using fades on the macro level. i think they're super useful for controlling the build up and release of tension throughout the song but i tend to prefer a cold close just because of how sudden it is. now, i do sometimes use tape stops to end sections or songs, and you can consider those to be a fade in terms of the pitch and speed, if you view fade in the most general terms as an envelope that is decaying over a period of time automating a specific parameter. to me i think it's less that fades have become less popular and more that they have found more application in modulating tension across different tonal aspects (pitch, duration, filter cutoff, really anything that can be automated) and a lot of that is a side effect of moving to a more digital culture where the idea of patch bays and plugging generators into each other is a lot cheaper since you no longer have to buy all the expensive hardware to do so.
How is the hardware manufactured? You send the designs and specifications to another company overseas?
Ironic that they chose to illustrate their article with a photo from SF where noncompetes are illegal.
> the government is stepping in and saying you have to follow the rules of this contract which are not in your best interest.

I think they may be arguing that pure capitalism would be like Mad Max - you just do what you want until the next powerful leather-clad CEO decides to change the rules and use you not as software engineer but as a blood bag.
I believe that talent is best understood as arising from liking the thing you do, thus seeking it out from a young age, during the period when practice is most effective. It is the fact that one does not find most things boring that makes a person talented.

Having casual access to books at home is critical for cultivating a talent for reading, because it increases the likelihood of the child stumbling upon the books that will catch their attention.
Killing is killing

When you eat a plant that's been farmed you killed animals as well

Indirectly but you did
Basically all the android phones on the market today have a bunch of bloatware crapware or customized os on them. The ph-1 is pure android and works really well. At $400 with great battery life and 128gb it's an excellent deal. If only they had a headphone jack and wireless charging they'd have it all. It's fast enough, works well, every month they have an upgrade for security fixes.
Wait, why is your court date ten YEARS after the offense? Did you file suit 10 years ago and not get a court date until just now?
definitely not a fade out but still conceptually a fade. still i do think it's important to note the distinction regardless
>The “claim” the original poster complained about also hedged with the word “could”—it’s in the title ffs.

Fyi... in the abstract of the actual paper that the article is based on, the authors used less hedging and suggested more of a cause & effect:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X1...
How about: "Kids who grow up in households full of gym/sports equipments, grow up to be muscular/athletic".

The quality of this research may indeed be poor, but the "tall pants" analogy seems disingenuous.
I think it was actually 0.3% when you took out duplicated comments. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fcc+comments+99.7&t=ffsb&ia=web
Type-level functions are called type families. They are really not just another function. But if you appreciate that beauty, check out a dependently types language like Idris where normal functions can be used on the type-level as well. So you might have a vector type with a length computed by a complicated expression.
So because we have a military we should maximize everything:

1. When going to work we should be strip searched - that's definitely maximizing the military power.

2. We should all be required to fight in military campaigns at the age of 18 and stop when we are 65, that is definitely maximizing the military.

3. We should bomb all other countries on this planet until there is no one left, because that is maximizing the deadly force of the military.
Speaking of vending machines. Why are ATMs the only drive up vending machines?
Google should buy this company, add a jack and wireless charging, sell it for $400 and declare victory.