skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately, I think what we are trying to do is find out if a result is "surprising", as in it doesn't do what we would expect or it would do what we would expect, which is based on an emotional point of view from the perspective of the tester. Much like in art, in the sciences there is much left up to the muse, although in the sciences the dedication to rigor leads more often than not to a disregard to emotion or just assume that all utterances are by definition rational.

I would probably keep the p-value, or something like it, for the rigorous analytical side, but I would make the assumptions to be tested much more rigorous. I would want to know not only why the test should be surprising, but I would want to know if our level of surprise is going up and down over time. It may be, for example, that as we accumulate more knowledge over time we are less and less likely to be surprised (or maybe more!) and therefore we should expect the p-values that elicit a surprise or not to change.

But overall, I think there is not enough emotional soul searching over what it means for a mathematician to be surprised. And since that is the primary axiom over which everything else follows, and a lot of statistical papers don't really think this through well, there is a ton of faulty analysis out there. Garbage in garbage out.

EDIT:

To give another clearer example - Suppose we want to test if a miracle drug makes people immortal, to give an obviously ridiculous premise. Then in this case maybe a p-value of .001 is most appropriate because it would overturn huge amounts of medical knowledge. In this case though we need a judgement call backed up by evidence, in the sense of evidence to convince another such as in a law trial, to make a convincing case that this is the "correct" p-value to use.

I think there is a desire in science to simply say, "Through sheer logic I have found the answer and therefore charisma/politics/judgement have no bearing on my analysis. And therefore I cannot be disputed on such things". This is an emotional viewpoint that seems in contradiction to the evidence, and it seems a common enough viewpoint that I don't believe it's purely a straw-man argument.

But then if the politics do exist how do we get around them? After all, if we start making broad based judgement calls on what p-values should exist then how do we make sure papers are not disputed for begging the question?

I would say that the best solution would be to force statisticians to get a third party to give them an appropriate p-value. Then the science has quickly, as many things, become a social problem - how do we organize such a system of statisticians giving each other appropriate p-values such that it is accurate but not corrupt? Unfortunately, this sort of thing is generally considered a "hard" problem.
It is a person approaching 40 describing their workday with the same gravity that a 13 year old describes their day.

I know Parisa is working on hard problems that lack easy answers. This article makes it seem like everything is breezy and she just has lots of conversations.

Im kinda shocked that she or or comms team approved of this.
In calc:

$ calc

calc 2.12.4.1

> (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3

42

>

Literally pasted off the web page and verified in a couple of seconds.
I am a huge fan of Stallman.He is as close to 100% correct on software ethics as anybody has ever been. His contribution to computing has been immense. However, in a world where your social status can go down easier than it can go up, I think it's nearly impossible for younger, non-established programmers to live by these rules. We should push society, and the powerful, towards FOSS. But until that happens, the individual will not have a chance.
DOJ Investigating Auto Makers over California Emissions Agreement
You don’t think it’s even possible that the ability to have practically any itch immediately scratched makes it more likely people would pull the trigger on impulse purchases?

That’s practically the entire story of the consumer economy over the last 50 years.

And more demand is often a bad thing. More demand for meat is straining our natural resources, e.g.
Ah I realize how I misunderstood/how that was poorly worded, but I'm well aware of how i3 works, thanks.

This may come as a shock to you, but some of us prefer our highly-tailored pre-configured tiling setups to the ad-hoc interaction that is i3.
> lots of local updates in large tensors

It mean you have efficient "crud" operators? This interest me because I'm building a relational language and toy with the idea of tensors as the "table" structure, but get rid of that because updates...
building a multi-tenant system without having at least two tenants from the get go means you're still likely to need that rewrite. The chances that the assumptions you made for your first tenant meet what your next one needs are pretty low
Booterify: (Re)converting games to PC-Booter
Homeless camps are unsanitary which leads to horrible diseases; Drew Pinsky is trying to get action by screaming about typhoid fever and the plague. Its not simply a matter of compassion for the homeless, there is also a public health angle.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/1/drew-pinsky-...
I seemed to be focusing on replacing 42 with a visual equivalence, I even started with ４２ then felt it looked quite ugly.
> Americans handcrafting your fandom

As was mentioned, you can find a great deal of that at the Artist Alley of any sizeable fan convention.
Whether or not Microsoft has changed, I don't think this talk is has much bearing on that question.

I believe that Microsoft's foray into free and open-source software is simply a response to the increasing irrelevance of their operating system to many developers who no longer have any specific need for anything Microsoft has to offer.
This is a great announcement; it reminds me of the legendary story of Frank Nelson Cole wordlessly announcing his factorization of 2^67 - 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nelson_Cole
In my experience, it really depends on how the product fits their audience.

In general, I don't think most products can find good ROI when using Youtube influencers, simply because of 2 reasons:

• There's no easy way of leading people to links on Youtube. This means that even if you have a great ad, one that is super relevant to your audience, a lot of those people simply won't take the time to go to the video's description to click on a link. On Instagram, you can just put a practical swipe-up link on stories.

• Even when the ad is good, people want to see the Youtuber doing whatever made them click on the video. For this reason, ads are mostly ignored - and when you add this to the surprising amount some big YouTubers charge for ads, it really diminishes any decent ROI.
Thanks. Looking forward to learning it myself.
> Yeah but now, what?

"now, what?", what?

> What was learned from this?

That 42 is the sum of three cubes.

> Why did we look for a solution in the first place?

They did. I do not believe that you were involved.

> How is it important that a number can be a sum of three cubes?

People like things for their own sake. How is it important to have sex or drink a beer? Same thing. Also math has this uncanny tendency to turn out to be useful where you least expect it. Consider the primes. For a long time people might have asked the same question you are asking here, and yet now they are central in encryption and thus the digital finance market. Could not find a more capitalistic and materialistic use if you tried.
China says new digital currency will be similar to Facebook's Libra
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Please don't use code formatting for quotes. It makes the text unreadable on mobile.
That's got to be the shortest article on HN ever to make the homepage.
Doesn't K8s typically run on virtual machines? In which case it's K8s + VMs to get to the “datacenter operating system” model?
Refactoring Made Easy with IntelliCode
:)

Successful utilization of k8s, interesting metric, what is your criteria ?

>At what point in the growth curve?

I have seen properly staffed startups (in silicon valley) leverage the platform to pivot direction fast but overall I would say you need a large enterprise to support it. Ironically the large enterprise which could benefit the most wants to lay ITIL on top of k8s, call it agile and the methodologies conflict creating more issues than they had.

> Are your SRE shipping the new features, or running like a red queen to keep the product developers able to keep shipping?

Yes to both

>What development process or cycle has overheated with friction that requires k8s?

Upgrading k8s :)

>Where is that friction which k8s relieves?

What k8s relieves is once you get a pipeline getting product to production fast, the approval process from legacy ITIL groups being the problem ( I have yet to see an enterprise company use k8s properly though I have been to presentations where some claim to have done this )

If someone attempts to use ITIL and k8s you are going to have problems. Training people to NOT do this is the #1 issue in my experience.
It'd be interesting to see more ideas like this take fold (not specifically startup related, but just "rethinking what this space could be used for")

The Silverdome (former home to the Detroit Lions) was a skating rink on the weekends for a year or two. I've heard ideas of turning malls into senior living -- which would be a little funny[0]. As a guy who hates cold weather, I'd love to be able to walk to a restaurant without walking outside in February. I'm not sure if that would really work "in practice" (that was kind of the idea of the mall in the first place -- adding my bed to it doesn't really make it better and has a lot of downsides for the small upside).

I'm not really sure what the answer is[1]. I look at the 80s mall by my home and it's surrounded by 50 restaurants, on an intersection of an 8-lane and 6-lane road with thriving businesses all around it. Were it not in an excellent location -- the businesses bordering it area all doing very well; it helps that it's a mile and a half away from a brand-new, modern, mall and and a bunch of other popular retail/restaurants -- it would be abandoned like the rest. But it can't be doing anywhere nearly as well as a Walmart, Ikea, Meijer, Costco, BJs, or any other indoor retail establishment that would take that much property. In its current state, it hurts the businesses around it and abandoned -- all the same and its, at best, losing a lot of money.

[0] Aside from the two 80s malls in my area being surrounded by 2-3 retirement homes already, anyone who's arrived at one of these places in the 90s prior to the stores opening will remember the middle-aged and elderly men and (mostly) women "mall walking".

[1] Well, aside from the market answer -- which is, "abandon it because we can't make money on it" and "let the taxpayers deal with the blight". I have no problem with the former, but the latter frustrates me
Even when a woman does change her last name after marriage, believing that her maiden name is somehow secret information in this day and age seems about as secure as "what street did you grow up on?", or "what was your high school mascot?". The root of the problem is believing that security questions are a good practice to begin with.
That’s because there’s no amputation risk in white collar jobs.

There’s the risk of sinking the business by doing dumb things, but that takes a while, and many execs have made a career out of hopping from company to company, collecting giant paychecks and not sticking around long enough to have to deal with the consequences of their idiocy.
You need more precision. Try this in your browser console instead, using the new BigInt type in JavaScript:

(-80538738812075974n)**3n + 80435758145817515n**3n + 12602123297335631n**3n
In SQL: SELECT (-80538738812075974::NUMERIC)^3 + 80435758145817515::NUMERIC^3 + 12602123297335631::NUMERIC^3;
The other factor being "put the bigger, cheaper turbines closer to where the wind is blowing".

That has driven offshore wind farms, kite turbines, and placement patterns such that turbines can be placed more closely together without stealing wind from each other.
I have to hand it to New Bedford, it is a poor City and they know how to run an IT dept, esp. compared to what larger cities do. So they should give their IT dept a nice bonus and maybe educate other gov. entities.
numerology is not mathematics.
Ethereum development – protect your testnets RPC
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I've heard from some people who had this problem. It's not so much "avoid extra screening" as "ensure extra screening and do it up front".

If you sign up with name, birthdate, and address, maybe the system comes up with an 85% likelihood that you're that Manson. But if you check the box, you can add in data like place of birth and SSN which prove you aren't the infamous murderer, so the system (or more realistically, a human with override powers) can clear you. That's way better than being silently blacklisted, or having each interaction delayed until it can be separately verified.

Presumably, Manson wouldn't want to check that box because he'd be likely to get arrested, and if he did then the subsequent data would all just confirm there's a problem. It's not a great system, but it's a decent improvement on just making a decision without the extra caution.
> Docker (the company) don’t really consider any use cases beyond “fooling around on a personal laptop”

Much worse: Docker was never built with security in mind but the company kept pushing it as production ready.
Building a Figma to Google Slides plugin without a plugin infrastructure
Back in the day I learned d3 by reading a tutorial by Scott Murray [1]. It was perfect for me as it also covered the basics of javascript itself, which I hadn't used prior. It's written for v3 of d3.js, so a bit out of date now, I still wanted to give it a shout out - thanks Scott!

[1] https://alignedleft.com/tutorials/d3
Please don't criticize others for using features of the website you are visiting. If you bring a keyhole to view a landscape you won't get the full experience either.

Rendering pages is a matter that should be solved by the client.
It seems clear to me that the author just didn't understand the problem with P values. It's part of a larger problem of science journalism being done by journalists without scientific backgrounds. It's not their fault--even if you have natural ability and interest in both communication and discovery, it's hard to get an education in both.

I have the opposite problem: my abilities lie more in the statistics/science than the communication--I suspect the only reason that this explanation is being received so well is that I happened across an effective example by pure luck. The probability of me communicating effectively is probably P < .5. ;)
What? GPL forces SIGNIFICANTLY more control on users then for instance the MIT license.
Absolute freedom is terrifying: you could do anything, who knows what to do, who knows if it will work?

It’s much more comforting to focus on things like clean code, anything you can devise a set of rules for and read a big book about and then action the advice in the book. See, best practices say we should do this.
when a group of people decide together what 'properly' will look like in hindsight in 6 mos, you can end up with some interesting outcomes
I've bought a bunch of such (videogame-related merchandise mostly) items off Etsy and its a bit hit or miss. Some stuff seems to be legitimately hand made (you can often tell because they have a link to their instagram/whatever or even often include a handwritten note with your order), but it does seem like a lot of stuff is just dropshipped from China too.
That's what I've been doing. Hoping that satisfies my obligations under the license and makes most authors happy.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/sum-of-three-cubes-problem-so...

Was featured on HN earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19492091

Lot of context there.
If I copy and paste this formula to Google, I get a different result
What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?
> The problem is that it means something different than the intuitive every day meaning

Yes that's my point. Using words that are hard to understand or only understandable in the context of P-values won't solve the problem; the problem being that the general public won't understand the subtle differences in meaning
LibreOffice Has a New Macro Team
Why is this even a thing? Is there any reason, historical or otherwise that limits password length? You just have to hash the password—then everything is the same length, right? Am I missing something?
view the source, wasn't really wordless
Actually, we can significantly boost single-threaded raw speed. We can't do this for the memory wall however, because the approach is based on MOS current mode logic (MCML).
We can build 20 GHz CPUs now with passive cooling, but they don't beat cutting-edge CMOS cores in memory-hard single-threaded workloads. They do reach 2-cycle add and like 3-cycle mul latency though. I hope someone just plops a RISC-V core with that kind of design down, which you can use with like explicit preloading into a tiny cache that gets 2 or 3 cycle load latency into registers.
I'm sure some computations could work well on that sort of very fast, shallow-pipeline core suited well for highly-sequential stuff like maybe SAT/SMT solvers and other inherently divide-and-conquer algorithms.
From my experience, this behavior is common when volunteers answer questions. Personally, I think this behavior that the author is seeing is because volunteer work is thankless and tiring (even with karma) and when you've seen a hundred questions and answered 20 of them the same way, it's easy to fall into the trap of feeling lazy or angry, and get aggressive either way.

This is the behavior I quickly learned to expect and brace myself against whenever I asked a question on IRC in the 2000's. I'd be mocked, the reasons behind my questions would be probed, and eventually I'd get an answer. I realized that If I asked an extremely specific question and, if someone probed, immediately provided full background, the mocking and probing would end, and I'd either get a shrug, or an answer.

This is not intended to excuse the behavior. I have just stopped being surprised when I see it.
In New Jersey, at least, the "convenience store" at many gas stations consists of a row of cigarette packs in the attendant's booth and a soda machine outside. We also have plenty of standalone convenience stores here.
Hitchhikers rejoice!
When you break fast and move things, Docker is invaluable. I have more than one product and something like Docker makes it tractable for a single person to support.

Still, I run it all on one server using Docker so there is a medium :-)
The author of the library seems to be unusually prolific in general, if you look at what their overall lineup of public GitHub repos consists of. They're like the Pascal version of Fabrice Bellard or something.
How to “safely” generate random numbers in solidity contracts
I guess only duckduckgo has the cajones to compete with google
> 'Everybody' is using docker the software

Not at all - thanks goodness.
But it isn't nonsensical: filtering your client base into qualified leads is sales 101.

You wouldn't advertise tax law services to 100% of the population. Nor would you want to high touch sales on 100% of the population for a sex scam.

I'm sure some amount of it is explained by incompetence, poor english skills, etc. But if that was a real detriment to sex scamming, it would have been worked out of the market.
This guy is one of my favorite TED speakers, and he makes a strong argument for exactly this: https://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjamin_s_formula_for_chan....
In Scala:

scala> BigInt("-80538738812075974").pow(3) + BigInt("80435758145817515").pow(3) + BigInt("12602123297335631").pow(3)
res0: scala.math.BigInt = 42
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28-80538738812075974%...
True, but in windy conditions, losing or leaving it behind might be a more likely scenario. Being able to retrieve it by pressing as button on a windlass or remote, then being free to attend to other things would be valuable.
> Mathematicians are interested in which natural numbers k can be expressed as a sum of three cubes.

Why?
If you are working in tech and can't think of anyone that big tech has spurned, you need to think about how it's changed the lives of most Americans in the past two decades.
Cab drivers: Uber. Small businesses: Amazon. Marketing: Instagram. Hospitality: AirBnB. Restaurateurs: Yelp. Teachers: Moodle/Blackboard. Journalists: Facebook.
Really can't think of anyone who might appreciate an anti-tech message?
These professions have been forced to abide by the new rules that tech has enabled. You can't intervene into people's lives massively and not expect them to push back.
Just the other day I ended up on this: https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-...

There is also that whole thing about kqueue/epoll vs Overlapped I/O which I think is pretty cool.

The more I read about Windows, the more I find the cool stuff is underneath, buried under a mountain of developer-hostile commercial choices, a philosophical rejection of the command-line that dates to the '90s, bad tacked-on security, sprawling and messy APIs, and a forever-incomplete UI wavering between garish and spartan. Once you get past all that (and all the terrible software built on top of it), NT is actually a very interesting system to play with.
> Amazon is running into similar issues too with counterfeit items and other scammers

amazon has been running into this issue for decades. it's a constant ebb & flow. this is not new information.