skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was anecdotal because your example started as a story about your kids. The statistics you quote here are pretty much meaningless, so it doesn't change a thing. Let me explain why.

If the SA schools perform consistently higher, and assuming for a school to be "SA" involves a bit more then starting at 7.45, then you need to compare the performance of SA schools that start at 7.45 with the performance of SA schools that start at 8.30. There aren't any? Then there is no way to tell. Not via statistics, at least.

Your comparison of statistics changes way too many variables to make any conclusion.

There's simply no way to tell if an SA school might not perform even better if they started later. Especially since the statistics you quote are not objective but "top X", which if they're already near the top, you couldn't measure improvement even if it was there.

Similarly, without quoting the proper statistics, there is also no way to tell if the schools starting at 8.30 might not perform worse if you changed nothing but starting them at 7.45. The numbers you quote simply do not say anything about this.

(also you're never going to prove anything about an effect in highschoolers by quoting irrelevant statistics about elementary schools)

Either way, your numbers don't prove what you are claiming, yet you still hold to this claim. If your claim is not anecdotal, then it is simply wrong.
That's not really an excuse for an adult person.
"I’m also not aware of any calculator (or programming language) that currently works this way." [represent fractions exactly wherever reasonable to do so]

This is surprising to me!

Casio scientific calculators definitely do this, and have done for many years now. And Casio (it appears) also represents pi and square roots exactly/symbolicly, wherever it's reasonable to do so.
What does HN think of storing your backup of your pics on Google Pictures?

It's free and has unlimited storage for typical quality photos. Is there any downside to this besides privacy concerns?
Waybackmachine Link, as the site seems to be down: https://web.archive.org/web/20191015112241/https://www.scott...
There are interviewers out there that are far more knowledgeable than him and conduct genuinely interesting interviews with smart people. For example, check out Intelligence Squared podcast. It is true that Rogan's breadth of types of guests is probably unmatched.
"- keep reading another tab while waiting for a page to load."

Oh tell me about it. That's just about dead now. I mean, wasn't the point of multi tab browsing that I could do precisely that? Now I load Google Maps on my lethargic internet connection, go do something else for ten minutes, and come back and ... it starts loading when I open. This is on Firefox. Super sad.
AFAIK, the main difference between measuring (running) their device and measuring, say, the electron density of a molecule is supposed to be that their chip is easily programmable (in the computer science sense).
I doubt he is making much money doing standups in LA clubs. vs having a podcast with an audience of about 10 millions, which is more than most TV shows can claim.
I use gitbook and publish to https://til.secretGeek.net

Each technology gets its own folder. I add a new markdown file whenever I learn something new. Then I push to git and it is published live shortly after.
Scammed with Child-Pron and It Was Uploaded to My OneDrive. Will Police Knock?
PLEASE HELP!

Hey,

About two weeks ago i was on Omegle. I came across with someone who called herself a 25 year old girl. After chatting a little (text only) she told me that she was horny and asked me if I want to see some nudes."Of course" was my answer. She answered with a mega link. I downloaded it and it was freaking CP, 10 pictures.

I closed the chat, and deleted all of that shit. Next day it came to my mind that i have OneDrive enabled and that everything that is on my desktop is uploaded there. I know that Microsoft scans for CP.

I called a friend of the family (a lawyer). He told me that in our country it doesn't matter where the CP comes from, if you have it you're fucked.I smashed my hard drive.

Then i googled "Child-Porn OneDrive" and found a lot of articles where guys uploaded CP to their OneDrive-Folder and got jailed. Every day I see my self in jail. The only thing that calms me down a little bit, is one story which i found while research. In an article https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2019/09/police-official-facing-child-porn-charges-fbi-says.html it is stated, that a users OneDrive Account was deleted after he uploaded CP to it. Quote: "learning his OneDrive account was disabled". My OneDrive account isn't disabled. I still can access everything.

My Question is, and i hope anybody knows. Does Microsoft delete users OneDrive accounts if they upload CP to it? Or do they just report it to the police?

I am really paranoid. I can't sleep or do anything else than think about that shit. I hope that somebody knows the answers to my questions.
As far as I understand, the 2.5 days classical simulation gives you the total wavefunction, from which you can read the probability distribution. You only need to run it once. It's not clear to me whether the 200 seconds quantum computation is for getting (or rather sampling) the probability distribution, or for just one measurement. My point is, the classical simulation actually gives you much more data than the quantum computation -- you get the actual full probabilty distribution, not just an approximated sample of it (guess that's why IBM claims "higher fidelity").
Anybody understand the details of how they compute the F_XEB fidelity estimator?

I'm very perplexed that the main article states that "𝑃(𝑥_𝑖) is the probability of bitstring 𝑥_𝑖 computed for the ideal quantum circuit", but Supplementary Information section IV.C seems to argue that if the "qubits are in the maximally mixed state" (i.e. the quantum computer doesn't work) then "the estimator [𝐹_𝑋𝐸𝐵] yields zero fidelity" since 𝑃(𝑥_𝑖)=1/2^𝑛 for every 𝑖 in this case. To me this doesn't make sense, since P(x_i)=1/2^n is clearly the probability mass function of the empirical non-ideal quantum circuit output distribution (and not the ideal one).

I've posted a question on the QC stack exchange: https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/8427/qu...
They are also very inefficient with resources during construction and operation.

Lastly they are the most dangerous to other traffic due to their high mass and high speed.
There's more than one similar city which had plans to drastically changed what cars are allowed to do, and when, and the story is similar: people go insane, usually shouting out claims like 'city is going to die' and 'commerce will suffer greatly' and so on (which if I'm not mistaken they do not have any proof for, also not from previous cities where the same happend), and the effect then gets axaggerated on social media.

From what I've seen what follows next is usually the same: the plans are executed, as long as you don't insist on driving your car to the store front in the middle of a medieval city, you're happy because the city became more pleasant and after all there's a ton of parkings, studies one year after execution show less severe accidents involving cyclists and pedestrians, no measurable effect on commerce and less pollution. (again: this is only what I recall from having heard and read here and there, I did not research this in depth so reality might be different)
Just a not that there is a way to get a bug report filed - call support, get the issue escalated because its not fixed, if they cant fix it it will go to engineering.

I have personally witnessed hundreds of support cases go through this various process, in some cases taking months of work (for communication mostly from eng to customer) of T2 support reps.

Now - is their current spend sufficient? Probably not, but Apple consistently ranks among the highest customer service ratings - so they probably think spending more here is a waste of time.
I can't help but feel Snowden comes off as a frustrated naive insider spilling details out of disappointment. Lacking perspective here. Most of his points are basically peter's principle, hierarchy failure, internal competition, all traits that made the response to national threats inappropriate before and after 9/11.

I really don't think that his actions were clearly thought out and he won't get a pass any time soon.
I run https://updown.io since 2012, a website monitoring service I created. I'm working about 5-10 hours per week on it. It makes about $6,000 per month and is still growing linearly. I also keep a full-time job alongside for now as an engineering manager. The key for me is to take time, make something useful, delight your clients, and don't try to become uber or airbnb.
In my view, at least part of the reason science has been so successful is precisely because it distanced itself from the emotional and spiritual. For those areas of life we have art and philosophy.
> Interviewing Nick Bostrom was cringe worthy. I don't know what Joe was trying to achieve - maybe forming an argument against the simulation theory? But it was so bad.

Bostrom really failed there. He simply did not explain the argument very well. Everything Bostrom said is clear to someone who already understands the argument or has experience with statistics, but it was not at all a good explanation for someone who doesn't have the necessary intuitions to understand why they are more likely to be a simulated agent.
JRE #917, which the parent said to listen to, is an interview with Crowder.
Establishing an Evaluation Metric to Quantify Climate Change Image Realism
He certainly spouts some "bollox" but I don't think I agree about "authoritative". He tends to show a lot of humility and asks a lot of questions rather than making statements
This boggles my mind. My flabber is ghasted.

Documentation is of paramount importance! How else will people build an ecosystem around your software if they can't figure out how to use it in a variety of ways?

I really hope this isn't some trend of just abandoning the commons, taking without adding back in.
Would you download random native programs and give them hardware access? Really?

The issue is exploitation of the USB devices being turned around and used to exploit the OS, or remain persistent in the device. Bluetooth has similar problems but also more.
in the case of computer equipment that needs replacement very 4-5 yrs (or less depending on compute and other reqs) you’re perpetually in a lease and this starts to become opex
There are multiple ways to disown companies.

One time tested way is nationalization, explicit by making the owner officials or by making the company leadership national government.
(Slightly different effects.)
Authoritarian governments prefer former, market based ones the later. (Second example is Korean Chaebols and their big influence.)

The other is directly bestowing workers with ownership or equity, in the extreme converting companies into cooperatives.
This is not socialism, but communism. (Not to be mistaken with stalinism or maoism.)
JP hotel chain sorry that hackers may have watched guests through bedside robots
If we lost half our universities we would be just fine, probably better. Something positive could rise from the ashes of what has become an ossified and out of touch gaggle of echo chambers and far left political ideology. Universities have been less about their core mission and far too much about political indocrination and meaningless sports contests.
Are you suggesting that helmet not be the norm when riding bikes? Biking is more dangerous than walking, even if you did it on an isolated trail. Is looking cooler worth the increased risk of a traumatic brain injury? I’m okay with society thinking it isn’t.
It's somewhere between 10% and 15% of the volume: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

It's tough to get more precise, because there are trace fuels, as well as some products like kerosene that are used as fuels and solvents.
Interview Questions Organized by Priority
He even does this in an area he should be knowledgeable in: MMA. For example how he went on how you should destroy yourself in training, and always go 110%, while his guest (I can't remember who, maybe Firaz Zahabi the coach of GSP) said the exact opposite.
Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies
Can you clarify what you mean with domestic spying? Are you concerned about other people in your household having access to your Gmail account?
Advertising as a business model causes real damage to the open internet: advertisers censor perfectly good sites because they object to something in there. Slowly but surely, a wide spectrum of ideas and self-expression gets reduced to nothing but sanitized advertiser-friendly content. People can and do censor speech they don't like by targeting the advertisers backing the host.
Migrations always are somewhat "complicated". But cost-wise, I'm running my own domain with mail and a NextCloud instance for 3,99 € per month. Probably could get all of that even cheaper, but I like that webhoster. I recently switched my Contact from Google to NextCloud/CalDav, too, so I got rid of that tie, too.
It's not nutty to point out that the dollar is presently only worth $.05 what it was in the year the Federal Reserve came into being.
Saying that it evokes "white supremecy" is kind of a pathetic move.
Good question, my career is very important to me. It gives me an identity. I just can’t sit at home all day. I’m gonna die with boredom.
I can't imagine they'd survive the massive increase in insurance costs. I also can't imagine any one with a PE would put it at risk by working there.
It really depends. Go listen and to his interview with Adam Connover where he uses him as a foil to spout off a lot of nonsense about trans people and their agency.
The sandboxing of apps is a nice benefit, though. I can be reasonably confident apps won't conflict with each other and that they're interfacing cleanly and minimally with the host OS.

Perhaps not the best example, but I set up Wireguard recently. On Linux, this involves building and installing a kernel module, and directly modifying the host's networking configuration. On Mac, I can install it from the App Store, and I know any networking configuration is handled through Apple's high level APIs (I've built a VPN-based Mac App Store app before).

Alternatively, you might install Tunnelblick, a Mac app that wraps OpenVPN and is distributed outside the App Store. It'll end up running scripts like these, as necessary to configure networking on the host:
* https://github.com/Tunnelblick/Tunnelblick/blob/master/tunne...

Nothing in that script is crazy--it's all necessary stuff if you're not limiting yourself to the higher level APIs. But it doesn't take many apps doing things of that complexity for totally justifiable reasons before you start having issues.
I forecast that plastics' cleanup and recycling, a hard problem, will have a lot of money thrown at it by governments. Many new petrochemical plants are being built in anticipation of increased demand for plastics from developing countries. So it seems that the already-large problem of plastics waste, including microplastics, will continue to grow to the point of being overwhelming. In particular, we are poisoning our oceans with discarded plastics, choking sea creatures such as turtles which mistake clear plastic bags for jellyfish their main food. And, perhaps most insidious, we are introducing microplastics into our oceans' food chains with consequences unknown. I fear that this "waste product" will grow to be as damaging as that other industrial waste, carbon dioxide. What's the solution?
Rebuilding computing could really turn out surprisingly difficult: the first time "we" did it, hardware manufacturing was bootstrapped by the type of customer epitomized by "world market for about five computers" and then gently followed the price/demand curve until we reached cheap smartphones. If it had to be repeated, all the potential customers on the beginner-friendly end of said curve will have access to vastly superior legacy hardware. The kind of customer that was amongst the first who could afford computers in the original ramp-up would be the last who could afford increasingly rare remnant hardware after a supply chain collapse (the same problem that makes it impossible to bootstrap a domestic anything industry when you don't already have one, all the deep-pocketed buyers can afford superior imports). Basically "Saddam's PlayStation 2 supercomputer" turned reality.
What if the implemented solution is skipping the capitalism part and just going straight to corporatism? (Rule by corporate oligarchy.)

You have to make a really strong argument why it would be suboptimal - and without spherical cow level microeconomic lies.

Crony capitalism only causes problems because it is not transparent who rules, while generating waste from those that don't and fail.
Hadn't seen Elassandra before. Thanks for the tip.
I organize all my life with Notion [0], there is a lot of template to start with if you don't have inspirations or ideas. Also you can share your pages as a website !

[0] - https://www.notion.so/
Further up I was specifically referring to non-fuel usage and specifically rejecting the notion that extracted == burned.
Because it is way too much effort with questionable return on investment.
So, does EJB still have a place in this new cloud-native world?
But the really weird thing is that, any ratio that is close to a simple fraction like (say) 3:2, but not quite, is in fact a much less simple fraction, maybe 67:23 or something.

Yet we don't need the simple ratios be entirely exact, they can be off a little and you get used to it and it's fine. That's why equal temperament even works.

So our brains like simple ratios but also like ratios that are almost kinda like simple ratios but not quite. How does that work? Isn't any ratio close to a "simple ratio" when you leave some wiggle room like this?
I would guess that one factor is Hollywood acting as an incubator for up-and-coming writers - the article hints as much.
How it should work is that you search for an app, press GET, and it appears on your machine. I’m not sure what issue #1 and #2 are caused by (they’re certainly not common on a factory install with a normal iCloud account). I’m also not sure why the cloud icon appeared instead of downloading it straight to your machine. That’s also definitely a bug.

For #3, here’s how I’d explain it to someone who hasn’t used it before (you may know this already): your Apple ID is tied to the “purchases” you make across the App Store, iTunes Store, Books, etc., so that you can access what you’ve bought on a different machine. If you buy a paid app, it gets added to your Purchases list so that you can download it on another Mac without buying it again. This ties into Family Sharing so that up to five other people living in your household can use it too. Free apps also get added to the purchases for syncing purposes across all your devices. The cloud icon indicates that you’ve purchased an app and are eligible to download it for free.

TL;DR: you got a strange series of bugs that probably haven’t been seen by anyone else all together
There is a real lesson here about just how cavalier the American government - and to some degree the public - is about civil liberties, but that isn't the biggest problem.

The problem here isn't even so much the government is being shady - that has happened before, it will happen again. I can understand people not feeling threatened by constant snooping even though I disagree.

To me the real problem is how effectively the government has kept this subject from creeping into the public debate. The scary part is the secret laws and precedents that elected officials aren't allowed to even tell their constituents about. Government officials are not reliable; this is far to much unaccountable power even if people involved were allowed to discuss what is happening.

Why aren't the not-technically-interesting parts of this wiretapping program legal for government agencies to talk about? If they need to be hidden, why not go straight to the logical conclusion and classify a bunch of other laws?

Democracies can't handle this level of secrecy. The whole thing is going to fall apart one way or another - the path America is going down isn't stable at all; something is going to have to change radically. Either the intelligence agencies will gain supremacy over the government, the government itself will go rogue or the secrecy will have to end.

EDIT I'm going to bed before I see the whole video, but around 1:46:00 - the bit with J. Clapper. Case in point that the whole system of checks and balances can't work.

EDIT2 And around 2:10:00. Barbaric stuff; it is like centuries of accumulated Common Law and parliamentary legal tradition never happened. People need to be able to occasionally talk about this stuff in formal setting.
How fucked is https and cryptography if this turns out to be true?
Put it on github, I'm sure I will not be the only one interested in it
Since plants absorb certain wavelengths of light, and LEDs produce certain wavelengths, it can be more efficient to grow plants with solar charged LEDs than with solar directly.
Have you considered starting your own business out of an office? That’s more than enough money to support yourself and do what you want.
> That site can't even render HTML properly, and verbal means using words. That's the primary definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/verbal

There exists separate legal dictionaries precisely because words take on new meanings in a legal context. Searching "verbal agreement" brings up numerous legal blogs and sites discussing what you are calling "oral agreements". They are likely interchangeable in a legal context.
This all assumes we survive the unix 2036 apocalypse.

/s I mean it apparently is so bad they sent time travelers back in time to try and fix it. (Google: John Titor)
Curious what in app purchase plugin you use for Cordova. The one I'd been using has been abandoned.
Boeing expects 737 Max to fly again by New Year
Yeah, I used to have a similar setup then. That was 10 years ago, though.
you focus on the individual - and what of outcome, effect, and ends?
It requires a lot of pampering, but I quite enjoy using it and discovering it's possibilities. I am using it for the startup project which I work on, that has search feature very similar to Instagram one. Do you have any other suggestions for search engine that is flexible enough? I don't want to couple things too tightly by using zombodb and similar stuff.
I had the same issues running i3 on top of Ubuntu, but Manjaro + i3 (https://manjaro.org/download/community/i3/) ships with a nice GUI for managing this stuff.