skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone with degrees in statistics who now works in ML, all of these simplistic definitions are pithy, but useless. The reality is that the overlap between the two fields is so enormous that trying to come up with a clean separation for the two is a losing battle. To say that statisticians are uninterested in “the answers” (I.e. predictive accuracy) is foolish and rarely true. To say that ML doesn’t care about parameters (I.e. inference) ignores the vast amount of effort in ML researching topics like causal inference, feature importance, and yes, inference.

At this point I’m convinced the debate regarding what is statistics vs what is ML is largely just tribal warfare. The two parties are fighting over shared territory, and while both may have had some claim to uniquely identifying techniques and research, the lines have long since eroded.
Still 3 times cheaper than the Apple II.
That’s a good quote that I have used many times. Most used? Hard to say. What I find is that popularity is constantly changing. Example: we went through a good year or two of EVERY… SINGLE… TITLE… that ended in a question mark would have someone comment about Betteridge’s Law like what they were saying was somehow witty, insightful or novel when anyone who reads HN has seen it 5684269537 times already. That one was annoying.
Jennifer Sherman's book _Those Who Work, Those Who Don't_, is a fascinating (and depressing) exploration of what this means, and the social changes that happen when men (mostly former loggers) can't signal their virtue via this kind of blue-collar work. Check it out.
>as traditional sources of meaning have withered under the harsh lights of science and modernity, all wealthy societies have seemed to struggle with a crisis of meaning.

This is the root of the problem. Bertrand Russel in his The Conquest of Happiness says; My purpose is to suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilised countries suffer, and which is all the more unbearable because, having no obvious external cause, it appears inescapable.

This has now become true of almost all societies in varying degrees. All beliefs are questionable, nothing has any "inherent" meaning and there is always the tension of opposing viewpoints that need to be weighed and reconciled/accepted. It is all quite exhausting. Hence our need for "escapism" via Consumerism/Sports-worship/Celebrity-worship etc.
The conjunctive normal form can be exponentially large in the worst case as well, though, see the footnote in the article. In practice that is not a problem, since it suffices to find a formula in CNF that is satisfiable precisely when the original formula is satisfiable, even though it might not be equivalent.
In 2030, You Won't Own Any Gadgets
I've loved messing around with Markov Chains in the past, but the output of this seems more interesting... does anyone have any recommended resources for getting started with Natural Language Generation?
Compliance with South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act
"Yeah, but did you win the Putnam?"
Related: Why is there talk about banning Juul from selling its products in the U.S. entirely, but no such conversation about banning any of the big tobacco companies from selling theirs?

It's all about power.

There are so many things it would be useful to quantify and compare:

Does anybody know the difference between the percentage of non-nicotine users who begin smoking cigarettes and the percentage who begin vaping? It sounds like the percentage for vaping is higher, but how much higher? Is it as much higher as the risk of dangerous health complications smoking has over vaping?

Never mind the question of why nicotine addiction is so dangerous it must be prevented on a federal level, but alcohol addictions aren't? How much more dangerous is nicotine than alcohol?
Compiling for production and compiling for development are two very different processes, with the latter benefiting from less optimizations and incremental compilation. It wouldn't take two hours to test an idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

"The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (with the more recent time sometimes called Anthropocene) as a result of human activity."
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The first website you cite, Climate Depot, is severely biased toward right-wing anti climate science agendas, and has been classified as "conspiracy-pseudoscience" by Media Bias/Fact Check. They further comment that

"Overall, we rate the Climate Depot a strong Pseudoscience source based on the promotion of human-influenced climate denialism propaganda and the use of poor sources who have failed numerous fact checks."

I'm not sure how an anecdote of one climate prediction failing (your CNN article) is a rebuttal against decades of climate research and unanimous consensus from the vast majority of scientists.

As for Dr. Roy Spencer—his credentials are impressive, but he is just one scientist. The scientific consensus on climate change is established, and "nearly all actively publishing climate scientists (97–98%[3]) support the consensus on anthropogenic climate change"[0]. I don't particularly care for the opinion of one lone man.

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[0]: Anderegg, William R L; Prall, James W.; Harold, Jacob; Schneider, Stephen H. (2010). "Expert credibility in climate change". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 107 (27): 12107–9. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10712107A. doi:10.1073/pnas.1003187107. PMC 2901439. PMID 20566872.
https://doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.1003187107
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parents are often helpless to deal with bullying in school because it depends on the teachers to actually do something about it.

all i learned about bullying in school is to distance myself from those idiots and subconsciously i probably also learned to avoid making friends. i don't see how that was helpful. i didn't experience real socialization until i entered university where i found actually like-minded individuals with common interest. and it's not true that there is less support when you are an adult. on the contrary. the friends i made in university were my support. i didn't have that before.

i am not complaining, my school experience wasn't that bad. but i seriously doubt that any form of home schooling would have been worse.
> As for hard evidence, we could use non-work screen time as a proxy,

To play devil's advocate, screen play time (i.e. video games) has inspired a whole generation of computer engineers to follow this career. I would argue that screen play time is essential to a child's development in the 21st century, and is just as valid as 'outside' play time or 'social' play time. Of course, all things in moderation still applies.
Wouldn't heat cause CO2 to bubble out of solution (and elevate pH)?
"It depends" <- 100% sure its this.
Has anybody reverse engineered the interface for Apple's camera modules, particularly the front modules with LIDAR?

They can be had for $10 a pop on Alibaba now, and they're much nicer than similarly priced webcams let alone LIDARs.

Seems like a part that's ripe for a raspberry pi interface board.
What Can I Do with Python?
> But, an important part of this is that you don't need these if you're ok with running on another cloud's infrastructure.

Same with kubernetes ;)
Indeed, one has to scale that probability by our confidence in the model itself -- so the probability itself has a wide confidence interval.

Ie., a more accurate claim is something like, `15x to 1500x`, with `150x` the best mean according to the model.

(Or even `1.5x to 15,000x` -- it would be useful to know).
Regardless of whether climate change is real or this is all a "green wash", the logical choice is to support ecological preservation and clean air initiatives BECAUSE it's nice to breath clean air and drink clean water.

I think it's really that simple.

There is very little incentive for us regular people to support heavily polluting industry unless it's required for self preservation in some way. Technology will also find good solutions for reducing the impact if industry is forced down that road.
How are you able to copy and paste the blurred sections? I can't even select them.
Funny how many times the same thing needs to be explained. At some point one thinks that people making this argument are arguing in bad faith.

> there's an hot summer

Didn't you notice that, lately, every summer is "a hot summer" and "warmer than before"?
Ok, that's a fair point. I'll say "very few people care".

Epic store is an interesting example. They are losing massive amounts of money. We will see if that is sustainable or not.

At least from a consumer point of view, this doesn't seem to change the price much: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/05/why-lower-platform-fe...
"Thanks dang"
Furthermore, if all of the events being pushed into your application are needing to be processed in a serialized fashion anyways (i.e. any financial transaction system), then you will find that a single thread is the fastest way to process those items. The moment you involve a lock, you lose the instruction-level parallelism game.

Threads are a huge mistake 9/10 times. I don't judge when the OS uses them, but for most of my applications I prefer to get everything into a nice ringbuffer so I can tear through tens or hundreds of millions of transactions per second with that single blessed core.

Most of this is meaningless if you use a database engine to serialize your transactions for you, but its still worth considering from an abstract perspective IMO.
This might be the best critique of big tech, if these results were to be framed this way:

- Algorithms are designed to give people more of what they want

- YouTube's policies are designed to protect people from bad things

- People want bad things, therefore YouTube's technology and policies will always be in conflict
This is anecdotal but I'm not seeing a glut in hiring new grads with CS degrees. It's everyone trying to break into the industry through bootcamps.
Most of the southern US had laws like this.
> What I don't understand is why people who argue against climate change stand to gain.

One of the larger problems is that to many people climate change has become a political issue instead of a physical phenomenon. Climate change is used as a lever to achieve political goals just like racial relations, gender confusion, migration questions and many other unrelated things. This has made it a political act to either affirm and reinforce anthropogenic climate change or relativise or deny it. Just like with the other mentioned issues this politicisation makes it much harder to come to rational conclusions and act upon them. The tactic of using one thing to try to force through other things - "climate refugees" (migration), "green new deal" (welfare state), "the great reset" (globalism) - only adds fuel to the metaphorical fire, making it even harder to act rationally.

Another big problem is that climate-related eschatology has a rich history of failed predictions which makes it rather easy to claim that the currently fashionable scenario will probably end up by the wayside just like all the previous failed predictions did. Add to that the exaggerated emotionally laden calls for action because "the world will go under/be uninhabitable in X years" (where X tends to be in the near, not far future) and the stage is set for the defence of any stance on the issue, from "everyone is going to die from climate change" to "the world will thrive like never before".

Christopher Hitchens mused about "how religion poisons everything" in his book "God is not great: how religion poisons everything" [1]. Were he still alive he could write a similar book on politics: "How Politics Poisons Everything". It would be a good read and it would not change the situation one whit, alas.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43369.God_Is_Not_Great
Am I correct that they are saying you get 0.1 of a CPU for $1.34/hr, but then AWS gives you 1.0 of a CPU for $4.25/hr.

That would mean that for 1.0 CPU on Akashlytics, I would need to pay $13.40/hr versus $4.25/hr on AWS. The cost savings claims on their pricing is deceptive at best since it is not comparing apples to apples.

I don't see how this makes sense unless you are looking for < 1 CPU, but then there are places like Digital Ocean which is likely more cost competitive there as well.

I am totally open to being wrong though as Blockchain seems like something so many smart minds are working on, but the solutions where it makes sense over not using Blockchain have so far not been apparent to me.
>People don't want the new normal to be like in California and New York where rolling blackouts are the norm due to unreliable green energy

Huh? I live in New York and we've never had "rolling blackouts."

I can't speak to California, but in New York, no power failures due to "green energy" have ever happened here.

The few (half a dozen in the past 55 years or so) significant power outages here in New York have been due to regional grid failures and local failures due to severe weather events and/or equipment failure[0][1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_in_New_York

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy#United_States

Where, exactly, in New York are "rolling blackouts are the norm due to unreliable green energy"?

Somehow, while living in New York for the last 50+ years, I missed that.
I used to be a cigarette smoker who went to juuling and eventually "quit" (I still cave to a few puffs of e-cigs every month or so when I'm with someone that has one).

I agree if you have no intention to quit, juuling is much safer than continuing to inhale smoke.

But you might want to be careful using it as a smoking cessation tool. I smoked about 7 cigarettes a day but after I picked up juuling the sheer convenience of not having to go outside, being able to use it in bed, etc. got me up to 1-2 pods (equivalent to 1-2 packs of cigarettes) per day in nicotine consumption.

My lungs caught a break by vaping but my nicotine addiction was uncontrollable. I eventually used nicotine gum to quit and it was absolute hell. I suspect it would have been much easier if I wasn't so used to a constant stream of nicotine 24/7.
This looks neat! The license is unclear from a quick glance of the Github so I won't be reading any of the source available, but I will be sure to try it out as a user.
There are not too many people. This is a horrible thing to say. Which ones are the extras?
The UK has in the past couple of decades massively expanded its wind production, somewhat expanded its solar, and not quite completed one nuclear plant. Coal is almost entirely phased out, its use is zero most days.

(gridwatch is currently broken but you can see that we're now gas-with-some-renewables if you look back a few days: https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ )

The key to getting this to work in other countries is to exclude the coal extractors from the political process.
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To push it out in to space like Voyager requires a lot of thrust, so I bet that's the reason.

As far as I can find, it's kept in the L2 point mainly for temperature reasons.

Not an expert, but this is what I gathered from https://space.stackexchange.com/q/23238/13952 and https://space.stackexchange.com/q/38408/13952

From what I can tell I don't think that it's very uncommon that these things are designed for 5-10 year missions and that everything else is just a nice bonus. I don't think anyone expected Hubble to survive as long as it did for example, and even the Voyager program was originally designed to be finished in the 80s and I don't think anyone expected it would last this long either.
Which parts of agriculture cannot stop using fossil fuels? As for transport, the only thing that cannot run on (hopefully green) electricity using current technology is long-haul flights, which frankly we can do without; just go back to using ships and use videoconferencing for the rest.
Ask HN: Why isnt there a faithful Linux remake of the macOS desktop environment?
Ask HN: What has happend to the Core Infrastructure Initiative?
When Heartbleed was disclosed in 2014 the industry woke up and noted that a lot of the Internet relies on old, unreviewed, and buggy code.

The Core Infrastructure Initiative was founded to fund audits and improvements to core open source components.

Looking at it 7 years later, not much seems to have happened.

The last announcement on https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/news/ is 3 years old and pretty vague.

The "full list of grants" linked to on https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/faq/ returns HTTP 404.

The Open Crypto Audit Project is said to have received a grant to audit the openssl code, but their home page https://opencryptoaudit.org/ has not been updated for 6 years and no results of the openssl audit are shown (if it ever happened).

Do we need the next heartbleed until the industry wakes up again for a short moment?
Great one.

More broadly is always some version of "couldn't you just do X?" in response to any new product.
Gold deposits have also been known to originate from reasonably modern (read last 2 billion years) impacts.
Reminds me of a couple of threads I saw recently where people were creating their own in-game scripting languages with Godot's Expression class. I keep wondering how far one could take this.

[0]https://old.reddit.com/r/godot/duplicates/msodaw/finally_got...

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk2f2gPFH80
"Did you win the putnam?" is also an old, old classic.
Power2Gas works at grid scale, but I agree that it's cost should come down a bit more. Right now it's cheaper to shape the demand side in most countries than to invest into storage.

However, I am also taking into account about 200€/ton CO2.
I'm trying not to be inflammatory. China is a totalitarian regime, they have no check and balances keeping them from using all this power they've been amassing to accomplish any kind of goals they have. It's completely different from the US or any other democracy, which have these mechanisms in place to undermine themselves once they start to do evil stuff with their power, and I'm not saying that it's OK to democracies have this kind of power. There's no stop button for China and I wonder when will we (I'm not American) change our standing against this.
We will become poorer one way or the other. One of them is definetly still the worst outcome, poor and boiled to death.
I guess the start of it gave that impression in particular. It is great you are giving so much of your salary to charity, but the fact that is the first thing you write as an explanation of why you do what you do does send a signal.

I also have a feeling you are trying to explain to yourself why the things Google is doing is not bad. So you twist things a bit here and there to make your point.

In any case, you are not in a position, I assume, to influence what Google does. Google is on a path that a lot of us do not like. We do not like being tracked and we do not like profiles being built on us. We want that to stop. You try to convince us it is not so bad, but the feeling I get is that you are just as much trying to convince yourself, but obviously I am not you, so this is just based on a feeling.
GitHub confirmed using all public code for training copilot regardless license
Really like this, congrats on the launch!

To the people moaning about Electron apps... you're not the market. To the people moaning about $100 price... you're not the market. To the people moaning about Mac-only... you're not the market. To the people who missed the value-prop COMPLETELY and think some free taskbar widget is the whole idea... you're not the market.

IMO if you're managing 10+ people and have 10+ meetings a week (i.e. are an executive, founder, or otherwise in leadership), and this helps you get even 10% better at meetings, you'd do it in a heartbeat.

The fact is that in most startups and even larger tech companies, meetings remain one of THE most important decision/collaboration fulcrums that exist. One might say that "being better at meetings" is one of the most important things you can do as a leader.

Final comment to the naysayers - I'd like to introduce to a little startup/email client called Superhuman. I'm sure these naysayers were posting all these negative hot takes on that too. And the naysayers were wrong then. Because they aren't the market.

Congrats guys!
But Ctrl+Cmd+Space already brings up the emoji picker no matter what application you’re in. The analogue for Windows is Win+. or Win+;. The touch bar isn’t so unique for its emoji capabilities.
> you're now obligated to prove that your product works

And that's a bad thing?
> I had a doctor outright scold me for wearing a mask to the hospital here

This is HIGHLY irregular. Right before the 2020 summer all Swedish hospitals started with corona security measures: you could not enter the hospital before talking to someone (in full protective gear) and at the very least having your temperature measured. If you were allowed inside and masks were available you would be required to wear one.

Source: visited hospitals and care centres multiple times with sick family members.
Yes, add to it that when Bezos start selling shares - because he does not have it in cash burried underground or mansions like Escobar - it will turn out it is not billions people think about it will be a lot lot less.
The Great Chinese Famine resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people. Distribution was one of the biggest problems, and that was when the CCP was actually communist.

Maybe it's just not feasible to effectively govern over a billion people. Even though I strongly disagree with it, I can understand why Mao wanted the Cultural Revolution; splitting up a country is far less desirable.
No, it's not: You can see Hera as a note-taking app entirely dedicated to meetings.
It's easy to take notes in meetings, capture highlights or next actions that you can then either export to other tools or easily access in your future meetings.
It was mostly a political change rather than really impacting data collection and actual science, but it was still a hugely wrong decision by the right.
The biggest change in football over the last 30 years is the "rising tides lift all boats" of globalization, which has produced a much higher caliber of player pool overall - more athletic, better trained, better coached at all levels, and - as you note - optimized by efficient markets.

The 22nd best player on the pitch in 2021 would probably be in the top 8 in the same match in 1991, and the gap between #1 and #22 has significantly shrunk in relative terms.

"Artistry" requires a domination of the discipline so you can then focus on the product without fear of failure to execute.
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This is super frightening in the sense that the people behind that seems hyper connected at very high levels of power.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
Non-relational's quiet revolution in databases
There are some contact lens cleaning solutions that are weak solutions of hydrogen peroxide (2-3%). (For overnight use only obv.) I tried some of this stuff in my ears and it seemed to help.
"640k should be enough for anyone"

-Abraham Lincoln
BBC in ice age still ending shocker.

Absolutely no one (afaik) disputes there was once an ice and now there isn't.

But there is a long way to go to prove there is anything we could have done about it or that if we should even try and get back to that climate.
It's a really misleading saying because of the ambiguity of "implies". It's true if you interpret "implies" in the mathematical sense - i.e. "proves". But it's not true if you interpret "implies" in the normal sense - i.e. "suggests".

Correlation does not prove causation, but it does suggest it.
...and you know, also something humans routinely did for hundreds of thousands of years without ill effect (called winter time).