skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The background is of course that the NYT and other papers are involved in litigation and competition with Google and other social media giants for who gets the revenue from the informtion economy, particular around links and aggregations like Google News.

This doesn't mean that "big tech" isn't worthy of criticism or scrutity, but it can both be true that there are legitimate complaints about these companies and that traditional media outlets are going overboard with endless attacks on them due to external agendas.
eh, coming from a blue-collar job Im seriously inclined to disagree. shops with questions are good shops. questions mean learning.

>there are no true adults in the room at any organization.

Im an engine mechanic by trade, and ive worked in shops with no adults. theres no OSHA "days free" sign because management is well aware that people are getting hurt and doesnt need to call attention to it. These are shops with a high percentage of "fatal 4" accidents: flying objects, swinging objects, rolling objects and lack of PPE. disability rosters are usually 3-4 people deep. guards on machines are routinely off, or if present, dangling by a bolt. your senior-most tech is a temp. Most of the people you work with can remember at least one amputation in the past year.

The absolute worst Ive seen had a mechanical maintenance tech with 3 missing fingers (crushed that year) and a manager with a bone growth stimulator on his arm from a mangling accident at a metal lathe he wasnt qualified to operate.
Most mathematic problems, divorced from any other context, seem pointless.

But mathematics is the foundation for so many fields that it's worth coming to explore it.
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How soon are we getting GNU/NT?
We clearly disagree on what “bad behavior” is
iPhone originally only supported web apps. demand for native apps was so great Jobs was brought kicking and screaming into it if anything
Turing's papers on the subject formed part of the research for my dissertation project, which culminated in a Matlab simulation of the skin patterns he described with inhibitors/activators.

I recently converted it to JS and also Ruby, as an excuse for a few coding exercises. It's still a work in progress, but can be found here:

https://github.com/rai-hi/rails-skin-patterning

Demo here:

https://skin-simulator.herokuapp.com/
It's also the answer to life, the universe and everything. Which is nice.
Kubernetes (from open sourcing to about 1.3 or 1.4) is a second system mostly written by senior engineers (from several companies) with deep experience in the problem domain and strong architectural guidance, and a willingness to stop at “just good enough” and then let stuff mature. Kube was mostly “done” from a design perspective in early 2015.

Swarm was 2-3 people in the early days, without as much strong opinionation about what exactly they were building, which meant while it was a tighter, simpler system, it couldn’t evolve as easily.

I’m obviously biased - I was the first non googler to have commit on the repo. But it’s much easier to build something when you know upfront exactly what it looks like and you have a set of committed and experienced engineers with good leadership.
> given x->y, if you prove !y, you can conclude !x

But given x -> y, if you prove !x, you can't conclude anything. And kibibu said !x, not !y.
It's super easy to pick up for a weekend project, and the Discord community is active enough to find support when you have questions.
It seems like an education fail to me. Most people don't know the very basics of stats and we live in a world that's highly probabilistic.

It seems like something that should be taught alongside math from elementary school, not something you can maybe get an elective in in high school or college.
You can be humble and valuable at the same time. When hubris creeps in that's when things become problematic - not just for that person or team but for the entire company. One thing that I was thankful to learn early on was to assume that everyone else (in the organization) knows things you don't.
The UN has both, and has called the settlements crimes many times. A punishment could be handed down if certain states allowed it to happen.
If you can break up a reasonably-sized table (perhaps 120 or so) of numbers into their respective sums of cubes, breaking many types of encryption is arbitrary.
Was the author so excited by this finding that he replaced his academic page with just this expression?

Very interesting finding in any case!
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> investors or customers would expect a highly educated engineer ...

This is a WHO problem, straight forward to solve.

Find an esteemed, respected, pedigreed individual with a significant background in this space to serve your start-up in an advisory or consulting capacity.

Imagine someone on staff @ Cambridge > https://www-edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/academics.html
I'm saying that it can't just do that even if some people want exactly that. Personally I feel the optimal solution is a nation wide social support program but that will never happen in the US. Beyond that I'm as stumped as everyone else.
It astonishes me the amount of HNers that think their _personal anecdote_ is worth anything. Here is mine:

Big corporations fear regulation. I work at a small company and I am very certain I am compliant. I used to work at big company.

Wow! That disproves everything you just said, doesn't it?
They're not anti-tech, they criticize some companies like Facebook for their morally low actions and attitude. We should do, too.
Why did the shell scripts in my init system "suck balls" ? Init scripts worked wonderfully for me, systemd solved no problems that I had. What it did was add a lot of complexity to my world for no perceptible benefit. Maybe my desktop, that I reboot twice a year, boots up 1 second faster? Maybe? Probably not though, because the long tent is probably nfs mounts or something.

I think the reality is both have their pros and cons, and it depends on your use case.
Can you really be that pompous?
Oh my - I didnt know. Will investigate, thanks!
There are hundreds of companies trying to solve the problem of monetizing journalism without advertising. What you're saying isn't technically incorrect but it's phrased in this blasé way like there are tons of options that work just fine and they just chose advertising. I have a feeling you're smart enough to know that's not the case and so you're resorting to a just plain bad argument that sounds ok if you don't look at it too hard.
not directly related but whats the closest to i3 on osx? I have tried Amethyst - it works but has quite a few rough edges and rouge app interaction problems.
I though the same thing! This would be a really cool un-lockable sidearm in Battlefield or Call of Duty!
> For some goods cost hiding is good because there is a mental commitment that is made by getting to the check-out process and fees are an annoyance but not a deterrent.

Good for the seller, maybe. I'll give up on sites that do this and look elsewhere on principle, no matter how deep I am in the checkout process.
K8s is a “datacenter operating system”, just like VMWare’s own VSphere, or Mesos, Mosix, etc. These solutions also compete for mindshare with mainframe solutions like IBM’s; and with “control planes” like OpenStack, Canonical’s Landscape, or (I think?) Microsoft’s System Center. This space is very, very profitable.

None of this applies to Docker itself. Docker is “just” a virtualization technology. Sure, Docker Swarm exists, but at this point it’s mostly used as a shimming UI for connecting the Docker client and daemon to the abstractions mentioned above, not a clustering solution in its own right. Swarm lost in the DCOS market. And the market for pure virtualization solutions isn’t anywhere near the market for DCOSes.
I was curious how that compared with prices of other goods/services so I found this: https://checkinprice.com/cost-of-living-in-bucharest-romania...

Monthly public transport ticket 14.55 USD
1 ticket to the movies (adult price) 5.70 USD
High speed internet per month 9.50 USD
1 month gym subscription 41.30 USD

Assuming that's accurate, other stuff is cheaper than US cities but not by nearly as much as internet service. I could go for a $10/month high speed connection.
Why doesn't this evaluate in Excel?

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

Returns 1.09785E+36
Would the sanctions prevent Google from licensing Google Play services to a European company, if said company intends to install the software on imported Huawei phones?
> So yeah, no different with what we do, since we're literally always building new things that haven't been done before.

"Where do people get the confidence to say that their work is so uniquely novel that it's "something that has never been done before in the history of the universe", that the field is obviously totally different from another field they know nothing about, etc. ?"
--Dan Luu

I think it is less that these things "have never been done before" and more "we haven't bothered to learn anything from people who've done things like this before". Same with parenting.
when they already don't understand big words like "statistical" or "significance".

They do understand what "significant" means, they use the world every day. The problem is that it means something different than the intuitive every day meaning when used in context of p-values. Using a word like "discriminable" might help clear things up since it's a word that doesn't have have so much meaning packed into it already.

It's like when a mathematician says that something is "almost always" true, they mean something very different than when a non-mathematician says something is almost always true.
I only recently heard what I think is a pretty solid answer to this question [1] that put it this way: We've pretty much got addition nailed down. We're pretty solid on multiplication. However, we are surprisingly weak mathematically when we try to put the two together; you can write down some extremely small math statements that baffled mathematicians for centuries, and for such statements that we have solutions for, they often get into very, very complicated math.

So you have things like Fermat's Last Theorum, or if you prefer, the Question: For a^n + b^n = c^n, are there any solutions with n > 2 for integers? Note how it's just multiplication and addition on the integers. There are simpler questions, but they don't get much simpler. There's no real analysis, transcendental numbers, imaginaries or higher-dimensional numbers, infinities, and so on, at least not in the question itself; it's literally so simple you can reasonably explain it to a middle schooler. It took mathematicians centuries, and the simplest version of the current proof is still PhD-level work to understand. (I suspect even a Master's student in math would have to carefully craft their entire post-doc education for the purpose of understanding this exact proof to be able to say they fully understood it, with no lemmas taken on faith, and I'm still not sure they could make it without a lot of independent study.)

You have things like "Can all of the numbers of a certain form be created via 'a^3 + b^3 + c^3'?", which sounds like it really ought to be simple. It's not too hard to eliminate 4 or 5 mod 9, but proving that it can always be done for everything else is beyond all current known math.

There's a lot of these sorts of questions in math right now. This is a particular single example of a family of very vexing problems.

It's hard to know what the practical impact of mastery over this combination would be, but I expect there probably would be some. Mastery over addition and multiplication have practical consequences that would require a series of books to explore; you have to think that mastering them in combination couldn't help but be practically useful.

[1]: I think it was a somewhat recent Numberphile video, but it may also have been a Terence Tao lecture. References solicited if you've got 'em.

[2]: https://youtu.be/wymmCdLdPvM?t=209
> They need to discover better ways to reject apparent events without relying on the other detectors.

They already have plenty of these. Comparison of signal arrival times at multiple detectors is not even close to being the only criterion they use. It's just an important one that is not mentioned in Hossenfelder's article.
> Let's say your data really does fit a straight line, but the later data points you get are really high variance. Intuitively, including the later data points will make your estimated parameters more noisy than if we had simply thrown them out.

> So in this sense, 'more data is worse', because your model assumes all the data points are the same, but the later points you collected are actually worse (noisier).

The first example in the paper makes it less-than-obvious by writing in formula form that the error noise variance increases with time, but what's described is essentially this picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroscedasticity#/media/File...
So it's intuitively easy to grok that if the more recent variances are bad enough it's probably better not to use them at all (or to properly downweight them like with MLE or GLS).

The described result is a bit more subtle though. The classical results are that with heteroskedasticity, OLS is not an efficient estimator [1] (you could do better with for example GLS/WLS), but it's still unbiased [2] (the estimated beta's are centered around the true beta's) and consistent [3] (the probability limit of the OLS beta is the true beta by the Law of Large Numbers). These are what the paper calls "robustness" of OLS in the first example. The consistency of OLS even with heteroskedastic errors is what makes it surprising that adding more (true!) observations can make your estimates worse. Intuitively most people expect consistent estimators to get better with more observations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_estimator

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_of_an_estimator

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_estimator
Lowest number that isn't 4 or 5 modulo 9. There are numbers that can't be expressed, the open question is whether all other numbers can be expressed
You can test it by shrinking the Epiphany's window while running its latest version on desktop.
Isn't it dangerous to drive children in a car?
In your experience, what is the strongest point of evidence leading to the successful utilization of k8s?

> the company has a marketing team driving new development that needs to get to market fast

At what point in the growth curve? Are your SRE shipping the new features, or running like a red queen to keep the product developers able to keep shipping?

What development process or cycle has overheated with friction that requires k8s? Where is that friction which k8s relieves?
Not at all. I'm a NYT subscriber and so much content is filled with perjorative attacks against tech, tech workers and tech companies. 'Big Tech', 'techbros', etc..

The tipping poing was the Trump victory. Before the election the NYT and other mainstream media outlets were trumpeting how much better/hipper the DNC was at using social platforms to organize voters than the Republican party. If Clinton would have won, this characterization would have remained and anybody complaning about Russian interference in elections would have been branded a McCarthyist.
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What exactly do you think "this" is?

/~drew is their personal page and they probably hid it all to put this little gimmick as their homepage. It's commented out for easy reversal once it sails its course.
FWIW: It's actually not. They've literally said they are trying to take big tech companies to task before.
They don't actually try to hide their goal.

I'm not sure why you are trying to do it for them.

I'm also unsure why folks think they haven't had specific goals/slants in editorial picking/writing in the past. This is not a new phenomenon, for any newspaper.

I happen to think this kind of thing has been fairly destructive to the credibility of newspapers over the past 20-30 years, but what do i know.
Any writeup for how this was found? Any interesting algorithm or was it just brute forced?
(One of) The authors previous finding was for 33, and he had a paper on that, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.04284.pdf.
P-values are just a symptom of a much larger problem--the incentives of being an honest researcher don't exist, and the incentives for appearing to generate results are massive. Picking on p-values is like attacking Toyota for contributing to pollution. The problem goes beyond one company and one country.
I could get behind this. But it has to be different from current mall fare. I hate chain restaurants. Food courts tend to be sandwiches or fried crap passed off as ethnic.

When I lived in Boston there was a place in Chinatown called the Eatery. When you walked into the main room it had probably 15 different stalls, all with different types of Asian food. Everything was made to order. A mall converted into something like that I could get behind.
Because if you have the option of getting the loan through Stripe or a bank that offers a loan with a regular APR, you may want to compare which is a "better deal".
That too, but also combined with having to balance that the people who did this before also did it in a different time with different resources and also have selective memories.
You thought of using an obscure Unicode character before you thought of spelling it out? Well the good news is that you really do belong here on Hacker News :-)
Just downloaded it and I have some pretty specific/opinionated requests already :P

I like it when the config file is explicit - as in that there are no defaults outside of what is specified in the config file. This way it's very easy for a new user (like me) to edit things like keybinds, colors, etc. without having to basically recreate the default config to then edit it.

Also, since I'm an i3 user, I'd like if there was the possibility of navigating windows using directions instead of in a sequence, and to create layouts on the fly by doing splits and resizing. Maybe this is already possible by writing some code in the code though?

Nothing too important, but thought I'd voice my initial thoughts. Thanks for your work!

I'll go ahead and plug my dmenu equivalent[0], since that's also something I use when on Windows and which someone might find useful.

[0]: https://github.com/jerwuqu/wlines
For anyone still reading this, I found this interesting article summarizing some of the subject:

https://www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=780...
Ah yes, the classic "Facebook already knows everything about you so why not just use them for every facet of your life to prevent other companies from doing what Facebook does with your data" defense.

1- It's an opinion piece. Opinion pieces are never expected to uphold the same levels of journalistic standard as reporting. It's understood to literally just be, one guys opinion. Some are good. Some are bad. Take with a grain of salt, call me in the morning.

2- Explain to me why Facebook deserves to be trusted and this guy is making mountains out of molehills? Do you genuinely believe FB is a misunderstood good actor here, or are you just annoyed about something else? (the NYT, "anti-tech" journalism in general, the rise of anti-corporation sentiments over the last 10 years?)
They were erected and expected to produce their own mini-city and mini-community, which they did faithfully for some years as they filled a niche that is otherwise unavailable to suburbanites.

That's dead on. All of the other things that malls were "supposed to be" were marketing and to the extent that they occurred, existed to feed the "mini-city/mini-community" which were the rent-payers who were there to sell their goods to the largest audience they could have available to them given the technology of the day.

They were the non-Internet world's answer to Amazon with a lot of the same problems. We drove 15 miles to the mall a few times a year for holiday/general shopping -- it was the only "hope" for handling Christmas in one trip (on the 24th of December where you could lift your feet off the ground and have the people all around you carry you to each store). Plus a nice play area where Dad could fall asleep while the kids beat each-other up and mom had time to get all of the shopping done[0]

I live next to two malls. One is an 80s, still-alive-but-barely, mall that will likely be on this site at some point. The other is a brand-new, outdoor mall with a variety of non-commercial attractions (live bands spring-fall Fri-Sun, a mini-splash pad for the kids and a larger play area). If I couldn't walk to the nice mall[1], I wouldn't visit either. Neither of them have any stores I'm interested in -- I've probably spent a total of $50 there in the 7 years since it's been around. It's hard enough to find things online with a search bar, let alone walking through miles of stores who don't make enough money to employ the staff required to provide the service that warrants the higher cost.

[0] Yes, that's an intentional exaggeration of gender roles for the purpose of being silly, not offending; my parents were nothing like this.

[1] When I moved here, it was a lousy par-3 golf course. This is a little more fun to walk to, and it's really neat listening to (some incredible) local bands for free, but a lot less fun to live next to at Christmas.
Going strong since 2011, although Ember is aimed a lot more toward quiet business productivity.

What some see as constraints, others see as consistency. It's more typically seen in "dashboard apps" but it's also great when you need to quickly spin up a new site and don't want to have to configure anything. I know movie studios in LA that use it for those kinds of promo websites, because of the fast turn around time.

Another thing that is cool about Ember is the community-driven process- if you have a good idea for Ember and the energy to make it happen, it typically will happen. Makes you feel like you can make a difference if that's your thing.
Do you disagree, though? Facebook has shown itself to be an irresponsible and malicious steward of the data it already has — some of which we didn't even consent to giving it. The launch of a new product seems to me a very appropriate time to remind people that hey, Facebook may not be the company you want to trust with this.

Is it a "bias" if they're right?
I'm sure current-Bill is too busy enjoying his billions to worry about things like that.
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How about "A man and a dog walking on a sandy beach?" https://taken.photos/photos/man-dog-walking-on-sandy-beach-3...

This is the state of modern AI. Mostly it's still utter garbage.
I really think HNers in this thread are overselling the so-called "lack of regulation" that airlines and jet makers operate under. My father worked in the industry for decades, it is highly regulated to the extent few industries are more regulated (medicine, perhaps?)
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Scaling is an issue with any company, but judging by a friend's description of working there, there's almost certainly a large company culture / attitude factor as well.
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It's nowhere near as big of a mistake on the EASA's part. You don't understand how international regulatory and standards bodies interact with each other.

There are explicit agreements between the EASA and FAA in order to reduce duplicated work (https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=88965)

This is extremely bad. It it will be bad for any US regulated product used in EU markets like food, medical devices and equipment, pharmaceuticals, among others.