skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - there is research supporting the point that "how many books are in their household is a positive predictor" not only of future reading ability but also a bunch of other things, but there seems to be no research supporting that "Growing Up Surrounded by Books Could Have Powerful, Lasting Effect on the Mind".

This is self-contradictory. Research that supports “X is a predictor of Y” which does not inherently refute “X is a cause of Y”, in and of itself, is research supporting “X could be a cause of Y”.
An interesting data point is that the highest salary ($206,000) also reports as"self-taught".
CAN and CAN'T in this kind of documentation should sometimes be interpreted as WILL and WON'T, or HAVE BEEN TRAINED NOT TO.
this is amazing. thanks for sharing.
It's all going to peoples SPAM-folders when I try to contact people.
That's a great question. I haven't directly seen any other surveys performed by "the other side" so to speak. But in looking at comparative data online (https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/utah-computer-programmer-... for example), our dataset seems to show a more broad range of pay (both lower and higher).

Anecdotally, I have been told by a couple former managers something along the lines of "the highest payed engineers in Utah are in the 120k range," which this survey shows is not the case.
I did this too! My exploitation of the loophole was aided by the fact that we were also allowed to use (an unspecified number of) paperclips to "balance" our designs. The result was a very dense square with the aerodynamics of a skipping stone. I also brought a traditional paper airplane which I was allowed to fly when my other design was predictably disqualified for general bad faith.
I wish a valuation column was added. Much easier to read. Now we have to intepret from the text. Not a big deal, but prefer it as a separate column
I wonder if anyone has attempted to use machine learning to try and build a realistic physics environment. I feel like that would be super interesting.
HN was really interesting because the entire purpose of the site was to engineer and moderate it in such a way that signal is inherently promoted and noise is downplayed. But the fascinating thing to me is that its users have evolved to post content that matches what HN's algorithms have considered "signal", despite it not actually being signal, and HN's algorithms and moderation haven't evolved with this statistically significant influx of faux-signal! The very goal of the site is put in danger by its own users learning how to use it, almost like natural-selection. Ironic!
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The main reason to adopt a belt is that you don't need to encode the destination (or destinations on an instruction that returns multiple values). Instruction cache pressure is typically a critical design constraint on VLIW machines which is presumably why they went this route.

Also, that simplifies the compilers job and ties into the spiller design, etc.
I find it more likely that plastic is just a dope material for cheap, durable manufacturing, but I do appreciate having another conspiracy to put in my pocket.
Show HN: Regression Buddy (math practice problems)
I started https://regressionbuddy.com last year. The idea is it's a site with math practice problems. It's more for if you already know the math and don't want to forget it. Each question has a corresponding entry in the appendix so you're never left hanging. New problems and appendix sections get added each post. A ballpark guess is it will take about a hundred posts, which works out to four years, to cover everything.

So far though there has been little interest in the site. Given how much work it will be to finish I'm afraid of wasting my time on something that is of little use to anyone.

I'm trying to figure out if I should let it go, to be perfectly honest. I don't want to but I don't think the payoff will be what I imagined.
It's estrogenic effects are readily apparent
Wow. You completely missed the point OP was making and instead did what he was complaining about. Incredible.
Not sure about pop music, but in the EDM world, I've always considered this as an artist actively considering how the DJ will use this track. For DJs that simply fade in/out of one track to the the next, they wouldn't care. However, for the DJs that actually beat match and mix tracks together, this added phrase at the head of the track allows for a much more seamless mix before the song "kicks in".
I would say it is entirely parents inculcating a love of reading in their children. Kids could live in a library, but if they never read they wouldn't receive any benefit from their environment. That was the issue I had with the article. The author wrote it in a way that suggested the mere presence of books produced an effect. I believe the presence of books offers no benefit whatsoever unless kids read them.
We've come full circle back to CB radios. 10-4 good buddy
I had the same thought - but I think perhaps its because it's focussing on less-developed nations.

Here in Thailand, they definitely don't have detection wiring in the road surface, and lights are definitely just on timers.

The difference here is, a) a good chunk of people ignore red lights anyway, and b) at night or other apparently less busy periods, they just turn the traffic lights off and it's a free-for-all of chicken.

Nothing that relies on the driver following an indicator (i.e. an in-car red light) will work here - most people would just put tape over it because it's annoying.
Gardening is a great way to escape distractions, especially if your main problem is electronic distractions. Even if you’ve got a smartphone in your pocket, muddy and/or gloved hands are a good deterrent to “let’s quickly check ...”
I don't know if I would agree that the majority can't be wrong by definition. I just find it an odd and strong claim. I suspect I misunderstand the point.

What is the claim "the majority are wrong/don't have the solution" meant to support? If I just emphasized on the "wrong" instead of "don't have the solution", apologies.

For Newton, he was always wrong based on his equations abilities to predict everything. He was just closer than many before that point such that it was undetectable for a long time.

Which is my point in asking. If folks are correct in their predictive and application based metrics, it is somewhat silly to belabor them being "wrong" in some absolute sense.
Those (apparently) are the input choices of the options on the upper left. The values update when you change the selections. Creative I guess.
You're making some valid points and I could try to do it trough my own servers or some other provider but it feels like Fastmail should be fairly reputable but I could be wrong.
Similar story from a university aero course that ended with a paper airplane competition.

There were some remarkable paper airplanes, making amazing flights, all sorts of research and time went into developing the ideal model.

One guy comes up representing his team and he gets out a piece of rolling paper and a lighter. Tears the tiniest portion off the rolling paper, sets it alight, and then follows it with his finger through the air as it took forever to land on the ground.

I believe the incident led to a rule change for later years.
"I'm told I'm not even old enough to be this cynical."

Don't worry my young friend: if you think, as it seems by your comment, that there was a golden age in the past where people was better, you have a lot of way to go in your cynicism.
No, it's just describing how they fit the new system around current constraints.
again, per my comment re: michigan attorney, he'd indicated it might be a 4-5 year wait, as things were backed up there. NYC seemed to be 10 years. but i don't know how common it is.

I've had people say "you should have gone to small claims court!" Except, the claim exceeded small claims limit ($5k). Perhaps I could have rounded it down and tried for small claims, which supposedly is somewhat faster, but how do you know ahead of time this will take 10 years to even appear in court?
I use mailinabox https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox on DigitalOcean droplets for my personal and work email domains. It’s been working great for months.
> have never actually driven a vehicle on the road.

More importantly, have never driven a _variety_ of vehicles down the road. I ride a motorcycle, it's clear most of these plans have no concept of what that's like.
That's very energy intensive. I hope your source of heat is carbon neutral.
Or the producer being lazy. It's amazing how much control the producer has over any decision the band might have wanted.
I wonder if we will ever know everything about how matter works or if it will be a long series of people who are merely less wrong.
A lot of things are getting conflated in this discussion. We are discussing the default search if you type a non-URL in the address bar of Safari. This is what Google is paying for, and while it ends up on a website with the limited ability to track that a website has, the sphere of data that Google has is just a tiny pittance compared to on a Play Store device (where they know essentially everything).

People are bringing up the Google Search app, Chrome for iOS, etc. Irrelevant.
Exactly. As my first lawyer explained to me long ago, the important question isn't, "Will I win?" It's, "Can I afford to win?"

If I'm 95% likely to win but it will cost me $100k and two years of stress to find out, then I'm going to have to care a lot.
Congratulations and big thanks to PG community & Contributors.
It has been my choice for all kinds of systems, OLTP, OLAP and Data warehousing. Its just get better with PG 11

I would love to see native column store format, distributed sharding support and in memory tables in future releases.
I grew up reading "The Ultimate Paper Airplane" by Richard Kline: https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Paper-Airplane-Step-Instruct...

I didn't have the right tools or expertise to build most of his planes (most notably rubber cement), but I do wonder how these planes stack up against currently popular paper airplane models.

He talks a lot about his invention (and patenting) of the Kline-Fogleman airfoil, which creates a vortex that influences the laminar flow and increases stall resistance.
As I listener, I would generally agree, and as a musician, I would definitely agree -- about myself! But sometimes it does seem to work nicely. For example, I'm not sure that a definite ending would have improved The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows".
> > > Generally speaking yes, but it's not clear when exactly that will happen (if at all).

> > It's still enabled by default in 12/master. I'd expect it to stay that way. But reports for v11 will obviously influence that.

> Sure, but that's a development version, and I'm not sure it'll stay like that at the time of release. I hope it will, but my understanding is it's enabled mostly to get exposure from the developers by default.

Its the stated intent to have it on in 12. We'd pondered disabling JIT in 11 since before the original commit. I rockthic think this is broadly analogous what we did with parallelism (except we won't forget to document the change, as we already noted it in the 12 notesnotes ;)).
I'm a bit surprised to see that GPU Mandelbrot is only at best x75 faster than (sequential?) CPU. Does Julia just generate really fast (multicore/vectorized?) CPU code? Does it also count communication costs? Fractal computations like that are extremely GPU friendly because they involve no memory accesses at all, except for writing the final result. I would expect at least two orders of magnitude improvement over a straightforwardly written C implementation.
For international companies it's common to provide a version in both German and English, with the caveat that only the German version is binding.
Is it even possible for any open community to be immune to natural selection effects?
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I tried for the longest paper airplane flight in history - from the top of the Space Needle in Seattle. Unfortunately, the plane hit the anti-suicide mesh, lost all momentum, and from there went straight down. I took the elevator down, walked to the plane, picked it up, and threw it in the trash can. (Don't litter.)
I will have to look through what settings Fastmail are using but this is a good starting of point. It's not from a "consumer" network IP block but I will look into the details that you have provided and see if it changes anything.

Thanks a lot, always good to have a starting point.
It may have all that you need, but that sweeping generalization is far from true for everyone.

For example, things that I need that it does not have (last that I checked) include: filesystem-neutral nmount(), POSIX RT signals, the "new" 1990s dynamic PTY allocation system, a KDGETMODE ioctl on wscons, waitid(), fexecve(), and ACLs.

And then there are the things that would make life easier to not have to bodge around: const-correct ncurses API (available in ncurses since 1997), const-correct login_cap API, const-correct sysctl(), and no multiple evaluations in EV_SET().

It would be very welcome for it to gain all of these, but until then there is no "it has all that you need" realization on the cards.
CAM is expensive and requires some kind of replacement scheduling logic. I believe that branch predictors are still implemented as straight one-way associative RAM, often even without any kind of tagging and only true CAM in the CPU core is TLB.
Get a couple of the largest cities or states to ban them so it ends up making the most sense to switch across the board.
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That's a good point about potential bias (those making more are more likely to respond). It's my intuition from living and working in this area for a long time that the responses are pretty representative. The surveyed group (UtahJS slack channel) I think skews more toward the less experienced (which shows in the years of experience chart), so if anything the data may be skewed that direction.
...Get cars hacked.
Kind of a pedantic comment from you. The part of Pakistan they get that salt from is in the region of the Himalayas. Himalayas spans multiple countries and is a big region. So that person is not wrong, it is from the Himalayas.
This is par for the course in any large org - Google, Yahoo, Facebook are all in the same boat. It's just not possible for a single data infrastructure to be everything to everyone.
I'm not sure LSP can be formally enforced unless you encode the contracts of each methods and prove they are held. This is probably doable in many cases, but the current tools seem pretty heavyweight, as is the mental burden.

Regarding these years, I very much regret that subclassing won over interfaces / traits / typeclasses without inheritance.
Why couldn't they have used the leader/pathfinder approach with Mosquito-style aircraft being the bulk that followed the leader?

Wrt losses, recall that for the British the Mosquito loss rate was one tenth of the heavies. So much less problems with crews being killed. And Mosquito bomb load was almost as high as the B-17.
I agree, it should first beaten with a baseball bat.
Safe to consume doesn't mean biodegradable, likely it passes right through you.

Goobingling around I see a few biodegradable produce stickers marketed as "not like those other nonbiodegrable produce stickers" but that's not conclusive either.
Citus extension can help you achieve horizontal scaling.

Here are some of the success stories.
https://www.citusdata.com/customers/
Astronomers catch red dwarf star in a superflare outburst
Ask HN: Getting hired on an F1 visa
I'm a recent graduate in math (BS) and am working at a university lab as a statistician. I am on an F1 visa and have the option of getting an OPT STEM extension so I can work for 3 years total. I love my current job but I want to transition to industry and have a higher pay than what a university can offer.

How hard is it to get hired at a startup/company to do stats/data science/machine learning while on F1?

Are people at all interested in hiring someone who only has 3 years of legal presence guaranteed?

How common is it for startups/companies to hire a person on OPT with the goal of sponsoring an H1B later?

Would be grateful to hear HNers' takes on this topic. See my profile if you'd like to email me.
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If they are surviving commercial composting (high temperature) they are not biodegradable.
Agree on PITR being something that seems less approachable than it really is.

Use a tool like pgbackrest, and everything just works really well.
It requires a lot of work to produce reproducible/secure builds, see the original Pipfile design discussion for gory details:

https://github.com/pypa/pipfile
Sure. But there are also risks associated with exercise; you want to minimize those too.
We only know it affects Intel's fast and loose architecture so far.
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git bisect is cool, but this also works with like electronic circuits, AV signal chains, etc...
Huh. I hadn't read the statute before so I only knew about the two week thing.thats great to know. Thanks for the link. (Another person living in Oregon).
Sorry but I think this is a frivolous feature.
I don't want to draw too many conclusions from this but I did find it interesting that men and women are paid similarly. There exists a large experience gap which skews total pay but for the most part it seems things are pretty equal.
It's not as black and white as you make it seem. Being in the country unlawfully is not a crime, it's a civil infraction. Entering unlawfully (through something other than a border) is a crime, when it happens, but the subsequent stay is once again a civil infraction.

Most unlawful residents did not enter unlawfully, they overstayed on visas or in some other way went from a legal stay to an unlawful one. These people would not be committing a crime.
MS Office is just one of many applications that I need to use. I use loads of EDA tools that either only exists for Windows, or Linux.

I have been a user of LibreOffice since it was called StarOffice. It is dog slow, still has an ugly UI, crashes etc. But for many things it has been and is good enough. (and keeps getting better). Unfortunately, customers wants to use Word-specific files, Excel-specific files with macros and whatnot that just don't work in Libre. Google does not handle these files correctly either. It is not a fault of these alternatives, but a world where people don't realize that they are being locked in. They use the features of the tools they have to solve their problems.

(I guess this became a bit off-tangent)
Maybe Instagram should be focusing on some more low-hanging fruit before going after something like this, like, I dunno, an iPad app? It's been since 2010 that we've had iPads and they are not a fad...
Hudi sounds a lot like event sourcing but at data warehousing scale - a change log backed up by a snapshot of the latest updates.
> you cannot force anybody to either undergo an abortion or not undergo an abortion

No one is arguing for forcing someone to do anything. Forced abortion or non-abortion would be the opposite of having reproductive rights and bodily autonomy as human rights. Every human rights advocate are against this and rightly so.

> but there's no way to implement that "out" without imposing on the rights of somebody else

There is. It is called paper abortion, or simply the concept that naming yourself as a parent to a child should be a voluntary act by an adult. Conception is no more a promise of support than conception is the promise to give birth to a child. We don't say that women have made a promise to give birth to a child just because they had sex, so it seem strange to say men in contrast does make such promise. The only promise of support should come from society at large to give every child the same possibility in life regardless of how much money their parent or parents has.

Human rights. Human liberty. Choice and freedom. Not about forcing someone to do something against their will. The benefit of adults that want to bring a child into the world compared to adults that are forced by culture or law is very striking and as the article points out essential progress in society.

> If you have two woman in a childbearing group, then the one who is pregnant has the option to terminate or continue the pregnancy, while the one who is not pregnant does not have these options

Just a side note, but I don't think there is a legal system that I know which would force the other woman to pay child-support against her will. The child-bearing mother can't write on the paper that the other woman is the child's second parent, and instead the law forces the non-bearing woman to voluntary request to be the second parent. It is indistinguishable from the process that reproductive rights for men would be, and operates as a clear example of how it would work in practice.
> What screaming (or the university equivalent: bad grades)

Grades are both an expensive signal, and an adjustment to an incentive gradient: Opportunities to send the signal are limited, and their use is constrained by both written and unwritten rules.

Giving someone a bad grade and a way to do better redirects whatever value they place on grades into doing what you asked. It's like a performance bonus, or cheese at the end of a maze.

Screaming, however, is nearly pure signal. A relatively cheap signal, if overused. The only expense is trading off your reputation, in exchange for immediate attention. If you're screaming at The Outgroup, you have no reputation to lose, so there's no value to the signal.

To get the people outside Planned Parenthood to listen, you'd have to incentivize them the way grades incentivize a student--or at least give an expensive signal that you're worth listening to.
I think it is important at any age. I've been reading on a Kindle or iPad for years. My daughter recently bought a physical book for me and I had a hard time reading it. I've never had a difficult time diving into a book, but reading a physical book after using a kindle for so long made immersing my mind into the book quite challenging for some reason. I bought some other physical books the other day to see if the issue was just the story I was reading or if there is indeed an aspect of reading physical books that has atrophied in my brain after using electronic books for so long. If the latter, that would be quite concerning to me.
If a large company is known to be litigious with respect to non-competes, it almost doesn't matter if they rarely get judgments in their favor. The rational thing for an individual leaving that company is to either find a job that doesn't violate the non-compete or wait out the length of the non-compete.
QEMU sounds like a rather heavy way to do it.
it does but only while the page is active. As soon as you switch tabs, apps, or your phone locks the data stops
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Ok, I'll check it out. Thanks!
H2O is deadly in high enough doses.
The fade out is basically stupid because it has to be replaced with a proper ending when performing live.

I've almost always preferred the song endings from the live version compared to the fade-out on the album.

An electronic volume fade out is not appropriate to serious music; there is the diminuendo, but that's an instrumental technique.
Every time this point comes up, ultimate conclusion isn't the CLI is bad or can't be improved, but the VT220 and similar emulation that's holding things back. Any person who has developed a terminal emulator can attest to that. There have been and are attempts at a much better CLI, but until we drop the legacy baggage, we can't have nicer things, at least in a sane way. But if we do that, we don't really have enough incentive to use the newer tools. Its a catch 22 after all.