skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot do the experiments without math. We both know this. We must have a predicted value for an experiment. We must use math to create the experimental apparatus. We must use math to examine our results and to look for acceptable error bars.

Education is absolutely a finite resource. We have finite universities and finite educators. The lifetime required to attain an education is also a finite resource, as you simply cannot have a workable society while also requiring that everyone get a PhD in anything they have an "idea" about.

Limitations about. We must make choices against them. We could do quite a lot of particle research should we decide to disassemble the solar system and re-purpose it into an accelerator, yet I will gently suggest that this proposal will not achieve much traction.

However, knock yourself out. You can manage to join IRC and fight against classism by spending your time working to support the ideas of people whom you will not call cranks. Prove me wrong by doing it for the next ten years. Time isn't a finite resource, right?

You still will not engage with the most basic thrust of this: we cannot entertain everyone's ideas simultaneously and decisions must be made as to which are examined first. Anything but that is some form of -ism because you have a selection criteria that might ignore an idea.

So we are left having to come up with some kind of heuristic to examine some ideas and not others. This is the scientific method. Is your idea testable? And if you claim it is, what values will we measure that are different from what currently exists?

Propose your alternate method. Then, tell me how you are going to exclude the people who, say, want to glue crystals to engine exteriors to improve the combustion efficiency, without anything seeming even a trifle discriminatory.
False correlation. Take this damning quote from your second link:

> Data analysis from a 2013 study published in the journal Clinical Psychology Review shows that those who died by suicide were eight times more likely to be in debt.

Correlation does not imply causation. To illustrate the silliness when the related items are transposed the statement becomes absurdly false even though the logic remains identical: persons in debt are 8 times more likely to be suicidal. Nobody is claiming that because it’s preposterous and there is no such data.

Stress is not a mental health illness. Having debt is also not a mental health illness.
True, but a technology is only a means to an end, not an end itself. What sells is product.

You may have the finest tech on the planet—and that means precisely squat. What counts is putting bums on seats. Your seats. And keeping them there. Limps of tech are just a vehicle for that; to be used, abused, chewed up, and/or discarded on the road(s) to that end.

Apple could have done better; they certainly did plenty worse (Copland, Taligent, the first Mac OS).

As it turned out, NeXTSTEP proved it was indeed “good enough” to fit a pressing need at the time; and the rest was just hammering till it looked lickable enough for consumers to bite. All it was needed was a salesman to shift it—and Steve 2.0 proved to be one of the greatest salesman in modern marketing history.

That’s what made the difference between selling a tech to a million dyed-in-the-wirewool nerds, and selling tech to a billion everyday consumers. And then up-selling all of those customers to completely new worlds of products and services invented just for the purpose.

..

Want to created a whole new device? Hire Steve Wozniak.

Want to create a whole new world? Oh, but that is the real trick.

And Steve Jobs gave us the masterclass.

..

Had Steve started Be and Jean-Louis built NeXT, we would still be in the exact same situation today, and the only difference would be chunks of BeOS as the iPhone’s bones instead. Funny old world, eh? :)
Just the fact that we have to use throwaway accounts to discuss this goes to show the level of the debate.
> However, for many many services you have to rely on others to provide the service better than you could do yourself, as you are limited in time, money and other resources.

I do not criticized the fact of outsourcing when an outsourced service does a better job. This is normal and should be like that.

What I am criticizing however, is outsourcing even when local/home made/OSS solutions are a better and cheaper fit even considering SLA.... just to avoid responsibilities.

This is in my experience common, especially if the management has no technical background, no trust in his team and fear its upper layer.
I'm not convinced that Berman's map shows weeknight and weekend service massively better than the current one, which includes that info with the key. I find the symbols on Berman's map a bit confusing, and I suspect I would have to reference the key, negating their benefit.

On the other hand, citymapper, google maps, etc. make showing the "outside world" on a subway map less important than in the past, so perhaps it's time to reevaluate.

I think the current map really shines in lower manhattan, where the stops closest to the staring/ending location aren't always the best ones to get on.
Aren't there studies that show the suicide rate among married men is drastically lower than unmarried men? I really don't think it has anything to do with income (or at least to a significant degree) than it does with loneliness. Men's self worth is tied to his friends and wealth. It's hard to share your wealth if everybody else makes the same as you. So making more poor people "less poor" still wouldn't solve the problem among men not acquiring prestige or status that attracts people to them. It makes it incredibly easy to feel like a loser and ponder "whats the point?"
Twitter to test limiting replies to tackle online abuse
==The discussion is about how much, how big a problem it is, how much of it is because of us and to what extent we can/should do anything about it.==

This is today's argument, because nobody believes yesterday's argument that nothing was changing. This line of attack is simply the pivot. I clearly remember Ted Cruz running around the 2016 primary saying the globe was not warming [1].

The President exposed it today when he claimed that climate change isn't "a hoax" or "a big scam" like he claimed in the past. Today he said he is a "big believer" in climate change [2].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...

[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admits-climate-change-is...
Yeah so many CLI tools in Rust:

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
https://github.com/ogham/exa
Any science that doesn't have the luxury of proving by experiment is always on shaky grounds. I work in finance and have seen enough beautiful backtestings that perfectly predict the past but run into walls as soon as they go live, to take a prediction purely based on backtested mathematical model with a pinch of salt.
Don't be anxious!

Every company and team operate under different circumstances that might not be in their control. It's a company effort, not only engineering, to get in to a position where using public cloud or buy it of the shelf products is possible.

Having both skilled legal and sales + business colleagues is key but a luxury in these situations.
Meesho Happening in West World?
Social and messaging apps are great not only to promote, but to sell products.

This is already happening in India, where people buy over WhatsApp and Messenger.

Companies like FB-backed Meesho, enable people to act as resellers/dropshippers using these apps for promotion and sales.

Shopify provides something kind but for the web era, limiting social and messaging to promotion, not closing sales.

Do you see messaging apps as a new source of sales in west world too?
Hi, some questions...

The README lists 4 designers, including yourself. However the Bao project doesn't list anybody, so presumably you are the only designer. What exactly were the contributions of the other 3 people to warrant being listed?

At what point did the Bao project become "BLAKE3" and why?
Thanks for explaining the dynamics of these jobs so clearly.

So when you say, "It isn't all just being a jerk for being a jerk's sake.", you essentially mean that everyone involved is a victim of the circumstances? That these jobs naturally attract certain types of people on both employee and management side, trap them, and pit them against each other?
What are your thoughts on different techniques used to increase oral bioavailability of cbd in formulations?
Are you saying you wouldn't download a car?
Given that I literally gave half my genetic code to my daughter and she does not actually have any portion of my literal ears, kidneys, or eyes, I think you're overdramatizing.
"When analyzing cybersecurity events, the detection algorithm evaluates attributes against boolean expressions to determine whether the event belongs to a class. This article describes converting boolean expressions to finite state machines to permit simpler, high-performance evaluation. The open-source project Cyberprobe features this implementation. Conversion of rules to finite state machine (FSM) and application of the rules in FSM form is implemented in Python. Cyberprobe supports the use of millions of rules, which can be applied at greater than 200k events/second on a single processor core."
This is still poor design. I never had this issue with the previous Micro-B ports, presumably because of the tiny hooks on one side.

Does anyone know why those were ditched? If you want to keep it symmetrical you could put them on the inside of the port instead and just have tiny notches on both sides of the plug.

Or better yet, design the plug so that the process of plugging/unplugging helps clear out the dust, instead of just compacting it in. Perhaps the plug could have holes in the base so that dust pushed down the centre has a way out.
Well if we're going to still claim it's science, there needs to be a measurable range stated.

Being over ambiguous just to be right can be just as misleading as overstating certainty. (Think Nostradamus type claims.)
I have the same story with Gandi. Searching for a domain (several times even, on a .com) and was still available months later.
==Impossible to have a decent conversation without being labeled as a "denier" or "ignorant" by crazy lunatics==

You manage to victimize yourself while calling others "crazy lunatics." Do you see how you are engaging in the exact activity you accuse others of?
Regulating in general causes a lot of unintended side effects, but creating new liability is certainly one of the more effective ways of generating them.

In this specific case (depending on how cynical you are), you might see such a side effect as simply a potential unintended consequence, or you might see it as a potential opportunity for law makers to stealthily pass legislation/regulation they have previously failed to pass.

There’s no way to say that any changes will even come from this letter at the moment. But if you think compulsory phone number registration is a bad thing (and there’s plenty of reasons to be against it), then I’d suggest you pay attention to how this issue develops, as it would be the perfect opportunity to sneak it in.
When I see these articles, my first thought is, how are they so certain that they aren't getting chatter from classified satellites? e.g. X-37 flies an erratic mission profile, which could completely explain the intermittent nature of their signals. Who's to say there aren't undocumented higher orbit spy platforms?

Radiotelescopes are necessarily large and, afaik, all terrestrial as a result.
The NYT stated that the aircraft turned back towards the airport after it was hit by the missile. They said that it continued flying for "several minutes" before exploding and crashing.
>NO taxes till $40k-50k for a family

You're talking about quite literally like 80% of the entire tax revenue generated by the government. Income taxes we're devised because an industrial nation cannot collect property taxes on non land owning tax payers. As the cities grew, governments realized that they could only tax the wealthy and prominent land owners so much before they had to generate it in another way.
These twin studies control for ethnicity and cultural heritage.

Side note, I personally know one of the researchers on this paper and can vouch for his talent and credibility.
No personal attacks on HN, please. Maybe you don't owe Linus better (though why not?), but you owe the community better if you want to post here.

Also, "typical autistic savant type" breaks the site guideline against calling names. Please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21889883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21089837

Can you please not? Making an account to be anonymous on HN is fine in principle, but people sometimes start breaking the rules after they do so, and that is not cool.
> Expecting all Linux drivers to be GPL-licensed is unrealistic and just leads to crappy user experiences. nVidia is never going to release full-featured GPL'd drivers, and even corporative vendors sometimes have NDAs which preclude releasing open source drivers.

Nvidia is pretty much the only remaining holdout here on the hardware driver front. I don't see why they should get special treatment when the 100%-GPL model works for everyone else.
Because nothing that you've offered as a counter-argument has anything to do with how simple it was to use the device. The vast majority of users, at the time the iPhone came out, didn't care about "App Stores" or ad-blocking or anything else and none of those things detracted from the simplicity of the device.

Unless you have some kind of argument that actually addresses the premise that the iPhone was successful because it was the easiest smartphone on the market to use and had high discoverability, you're going to keep missing the point by responding with features that you wish it had when it launched.
Mark Zuckerberg New Decade Challenge
Yes, very expensive. However, less than 5% of people end up in a nursing home for a significant length of time (>1 year).

It would be nice if we could all live to a ripe age, enjoy many years of retirement maintaining mobility and a lucid mind and then suddenly die in sleep. Unfortunately, it doesn't always turn out that way. Hopefully by the time many of us get to be that age, euthanasia will be a mainstream option.
> But it is a problem that you can't reliably have out-of-tree modules.

That is the bit I'm trying to get at. Yes it would be best if ZFS was just part of Linux, and maybe some day it can be after Oracle is dead and gone (or under a new leadership and strategy). But it's almost beside the point.

Every other OS supports installing drivers that aren't "part" of the OS. I don't understand why Linux is so hostile to this very real use case. Sure it's not ideal, but the world is full of compromises.
> Reddit apparently isn’t in the business of deciding whether or not a claim is legitimate.

That's the whole point of DMCA. If Reddit took a side, they would now be responsible for the copyright infringement. They may be able to filter the most egregious one, but it's still a risk.
Do you know that FreeBSD is actually a usable modern OS these days? ;) I run a FreeBSD desktop with Nvidia drivers without any issues. OpenJDK works great, among other things. And it supports ZFS natively, and root on ZFS is the default installation option.
previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19299073
Please don't be a sealion. It doesn't make for productive discussion. Disagreement is one thing, but aggressively peppering people with questions until they get annoyed with you is not conducive to mutual understanding.

http://wondermark.com/1k62/
Ask HN: Simple SQL Reporting Tools for Windows
This sounds lazy...but please bear with me – are there any simple reporting tools available that will run on Windows that can talk to SQL Server? Sounds easy, I should be spoilt for choice eh?

I’m a grizzled IT veteran – I know all about relational database design, implementation, covering indexes, query plans, query optimisation, window functions – you name it, I’ve likely done it.

I just want a simple lightweight reporting tool (emphasis on the simple) that I can enter a SQL query into, and the query will run against a live data source (comparatively tiny data volumes by modern standards), and the results can be displayed either as a table, or as a chart.

That’s it – I would have expected this to be a solved problem by now; back when I was a young ‘lad, there were products like Crystal Reports, COGNOS, and so on, that could do this easily, and indeed, that level of simplicity is all I’m looking for now. I’m running a small startup and simply want to grab some basic reports, live, from our database – exporting these to PDF etc would be nice, but not required, screen-only is fine.

I’ve wasted a complete day looking for simple reporting tools, but nobody seems to do them anymore. I don’t want enterprise data connectors, embedded web servers, anything browser-based, scheduled reports, auto-emailing, pre-arranged sales-based conference calls, proprietary query languages, monthly subscriptions and so forth.

The closest I got today was linking tables from SQL Server into MS Access on O365, which almost did what I want, but adding new tables, and refreshing column lists is a frustrating pain. I tried Excel via “Get Data” – but it’s not really “for” this, and I don’t want to keep having to refresh data.

I feel like I want nano, but everyone only sells emacs :-) Many thanks in advance for any suggestions you can make.
On Namecheap they have a "save for later" button per domain in your cart, so you can just pile them up for later.

Never had even 1 of my "saved for later" being squatted, for several years now, so I really have to trust and commend namecheap in that regard.
Because if you're told you're supposed to "make it" since birth, and you don't, you feel like a piece of shit. Marginalized communities have been told the other story, every little thing is a win. Difference in expectations is huge, and source of all sort of bad things (like racial resentment etc...).

Solution: make this country slightly less "dog eat dog" and you'll solve a LOT of social issues almost overnight.
Easily? Any proof that it had been done?
I've detected broken memory chips thanks to BTRFS checksumming finding errors, luckily before it had a chance to corrupt any written data. So if anything, a properly checksummed filesystem makes non-ECC RAM less dangerous.
This all is heavily dependent on how you align your day to day life. If you set up your work and living situation along the LA Subway or BART or Seattle's Link Light Rail then you'll always be able to get there faster using those services. Even in NYC you can end up in places that are a bit of transit wastelands that take longer to get to than by car.
>accept less pay at the top.

For a second there I thought you we're being serious!
Also if you do manage to commit suicide no one pays out on life insurance or pension.

Best option I think is to start with nothing and end with nothing. The above problem is void then. That fortunate bit in the middle needs to be distributed to your children then if they need it.
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There was me and 4 or 5 others renting a huge, cheap Sydney house. My girlfriend and her best friend (early 20s, involved in uni politics) were fighting, and there was a couple in their 40s that had split up, he (a playwright) wanted her out immediately, and she was being hilariously cruel. I came back from visiting my parents to find everyone fighting with each other. I'd just gotten through Herodotus, with great pleasure, but the Melian Dialogue was too much, too in-my-face, sickening.
Kent has admitted (many times) that snapshots are one of the more difficult features to add in a reliable and safe way, and will require significant work to do right, especially for what he wants to see them do (I assume "really damn fast and low overhead" is a major one, plus some other tricks he has up his sleeve.) So he has intentionally not tackled them yet, instead going after a slew of other features first. Reflink, full checksum, replication, caching, compression, native encryption, etc. All of that works today.

Snapshots are a huge feature for sure, but it's not like bcachefs is completely incapable without them.

There was a very recent update he gave in late December (2019) that mentioned he's actively chipping away at the roadblocks for snapshots.
You may be confusing living will with a last will and testament.

It may be helpful to think of a living will as "health care directives". So that now, while you don't have dementia, you can spell out your wishes and who has the authority to act on said wishes, when you can no longer make decisions.
> But, going with the biggest most stable vendor is usually good. If you bought IBM hardware in the 70s you can still buy new hardware that supports your software. If you went with their competitors - not so much.

For 20 times the cost of commodities x86 that you should have bought by doing the right thing.

And this 20 times the cost will very likely also please your own competitors because you will yourself be less competitive.

That's how you finish with entire airline industry or bank still running on COBOL with no possibility of migration.

IBM itself is very happy about it however.
Seeing as wealth is rarely in the form of cash, and you need to pay taxes in cash. You would need to sell the wealth, creating income, which in turn is used to pay the taxes. So it seems right.
The minimum wage in Denmark is 0.
Sadly, relying on Python's signal handling is not enough to get robust profiling information the moment your code is spending a significant chunk of time outside of simple Python calls. This is because signals don't get delivered to the Python level until the interpreter comes back from C land, and it's possible to get stuck in C land even with pure Python code.

To wit:

$ python -m scalene trace.py
f1 1.3852 312499987500000
f2 1.2420 2812499962500000
f3 1.5018 1.5
trace.py: % of CPU time = 33.66% out of 4.13s.
Line | CPU % | [trace.py]
1 | | #!/usr/bin/env python
2 | |
3 | | import time
4 | |
5 | | def timed(f):
6 | | def f_timed(*args, **kwargs):
7 | | t = time.time()
8 | | r = f(*args, **kwargs)
9 | | t = time.time() - t
10 | | print('%s %.4f %s' % (f.__name__, t, r))
11 | | return f_timed
12 | |
13 | | @timed
14 | | def f1(n):
15 | | s = 0
16 | 17.99% | for i in range(n):
17 | 81.29% | s += i
18 | | return s
19 | |
20 | | @timed
21 | | def f2(n):
22 | 0.72% | return sum(range(n))
23 | |
24 | | @timed
25 | | def f3(t):
26 | | time.sleep(t)
27 | | return t
28 | |
29 | | if __name__ == '__main__':
30 | | f1(25_000_000)
31 | | f2(75_000_000)
32 | | f3(1.5)
A photon doesn't need to carry a UUID for people to conceptualize a difference between a photon going through free space and being absorbed and re emitted. The parent comment asks the right question, what is being meant by "the same" is required to know before being able to say the discussion makes no sense.

Taking your first literal interpretation as the only way the discussion could have value is no more helpful than this exchange:
"I'm going to the store, do you want the same hot dogs we have in the fridge?"
"That doesn't make sense, the store can't have the same hot dogs we have in the fridge".
(Unless you've switched jobs for a pay bump)

Meager pay increases outpaced by housing, medical and insurance increases?
https://fs.blog/

This website is big on mental models and how they help you think better.
OnePlus makes great Android devices, but what about the security concerns?
It is difficult to change personality traits, we are quite stable