skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I summarize this argument, that I also share as a belief, as thus: children should not be exposed to society until they are of an age, and of proper education, that they have the integrity and proper judgement to tell people to go fuck themselves and be objectively correct to do so.

I have come across many adults who skipped all the steps on this healthy progression into adulthood.
That's a good point!
I'll take that in consideration in the next update.
The docs have to be good. They are the creators, and their docs need-to and are comprehensive.
The norms shouldn't change because the pandemic isn't normal, but by the same token we don't address the pandemic using a normal seasonal flu protocol.

Fundamentally, due to the urgency of the problem, the certainty / urgency tradeoff has been shifted for this disease specifically; there isn't time to exhaust the space of understanding how masks, hand-washing, etc. impact this virus while people are dying from it right now. A practice that is low-cost and 50/50 likely to help with low chance of harm is worth doing.

This isn't the way we treat most diseases because most diseases aren't this virulent and deadly.
Extremely frustrating that HN is acting so terribly lately.
>A pandemic is a state of exception, and countries that acted swiftly, with utmost precaution in mind, dealing with an unknown threat, saved countless of lives.

Prove it. I want definitive proof that the measures they took saved more lives than alternative measures that might have been taken.
And yet, due to its design, it is still entirely plausible that there is no, or very little effect. We just don't know.

The reason institutions delayed smoking has nothing to do with RCTs and everything to do with regulatory capture and corruption. Even in the presence of RCTs (which wouldn't be ethical, of course) this still would've happened.

That RCTs have failure modes does not change the fact that they are the best we have in the face of confounding variables - they simply require good design. This claim about Tdap is not like smoking...we don't have the same understanding of the underlying biology nor the massive effect sizes from other studies.

I have read the Book of Why and Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems. There is nothing within those books to indicate animus against well designed RCTs. Rather he advocates, as I already did, for intelligent combination of sometimes sparse RCTs with the large N of observational studies.
They also own npm, which they also haven't done anything with yet, but the potential is there.
This appears to be fake; the press release uses a domain that isn’t used by Wal-Mart. The price of LTC has already gone down quite a bit reflecting this.

https://twitter.com/dogetoshi/status/1437411599074070528?s=2...

https://twitter.com/fintwit_news/status/1437416214863745025?...
If I had to guess, it's absolutely, 100% this. Litecoin has an immense potential to rally right now, and I frankly wouldn't be surprised if some investing firms were starting to recommend buying the dip on 'pedigree' coins like Litecoin or Ether. As long as you sell at the right time, it's effectively a money printer.
Luxury apartment buildings help low-income renters
Wait a minute... You guys don't test in PROD?

LOL... j/k. :P

Architecture design and Agile now compensate for the traditional compile/test procedures... DEV > STAGE > PROD

When it's practiced with discipline it works well, catching most issues prior to the system going down anyway on deployments to PROD :)
A lot of companies these days seem to have some sort of "Head of Blockchain" job title with no engineering reports and no ability to do anything within the organization except put out occasional press releases.

The recent news "VISA buys an NFT" seemed to be of similar origin.
It definitely is. But usually with games or complex animation, it's difficult to keep it performant in a VM.

"Late-era" flash files particularly so.
https://archive.is/Uy2g9
be nice if it could thumbnail `.webp` too
Just spotted, too late to edit, it should read “overestimating its abilities, in particular speed”.
APL is dominant in finance? What is it used for?
For beginner I'd highly recommend this new book by Jonathan Bartlett, Electronics for Beginners: A Practical Introduction to Schematics, Circuits, and Microcontrollers:

https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484259788

The book comprehensively covers the fundamentals of analog and digital electronics including the basic of amplifier topic that most of the electronics for beginners books ignored.

For electronics workbench typically you would have signal generator, oscilloscope, multimeter and power supply that can cost you some good money and they're not that integrated and programmable. For that I'd recommend this new many-in-one tool from Digilent namely Analog Discovery Pro that is better integrated and can be easily programmable:

https://digilent.com/blog/the-creation-of-the-analog-discove...

This new tool can perform many functionalities for testing and measurement purposes that are crucial for successful circuit design, analog or digital.

Together with the book and Analog Discovery Pro tool, you'll be loaded for the bear in your electronics adventure.
https://archive.is/vx1rk
Sure, fine, put in a generic "are you sure you want to do this" prompt.

But that's not what they have right now. What they have now is designed to promote and nag you about using Edge, specifically.

https://www.itsupportguides.com/wp-content/uploads/Windows10...
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>a totally asinine comment

Why not multiply by the probability that you don't die within the next 90 days from some other event, or the probability that the earth doesn't explode within 90 days.

The likelihood that you're infected is both too hard to calculate for a given individual to be useful and, based on current epidemiological models, close enough to 1 over the long term for unvaccinated people that it doesn't make much difference.

The probability used in the model presented is the probability that a random person in the UK will be infected given the same conditions seen in March of 2020 over a 90 day period. It's a useless number. Multiplying the IFR just destroys whatever useful information you could extract from the IFR in the first place.
The BV has to pay taxes. And costs have to be business related. Since when living from your own work is considered fraud?

There is a fundamental principle here, and that is the tax office considering that, unlike a permanent employee who cannot be fired and has almost no liability, an entrepreneur, despite taking all the risk and having non of the benefits, is judged that it should be forced into the same tax position. Where is the upside then?

This coming from the same tax office, that has enabled some of the biggest tax dodgers in the planet:

"Netherlands earned €25 mil. from Google's tax avoidance"

https://nltimes.nl/2021/01/13/netherlands-earned-eu25-mil-go...

"Forget about the Gates Foundation. The world's biggest charity owns IKEA—and is devoted to interior design"

https://www.economist.com/business/2006/05/11/flat-pack-acco...

"Netherlands world's 4th biggest tax haven"

https://nltimes.nl/2021/03/09/netherlands-worlds-4th-biggest...

"The Netherlands is still one of the world's main tax havens, coming in fourth place on Tax Justice Network's biennial ranking of tax havens. Only the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda scored worse than the Netherlands when it came to tax avoidance."
Lots of altcoins are fast and cost efficient. The reason they are, though, is because no one uses them, so none of the blocks are full and thus there's no competition to make your transaction in via fees/tips. It's the same way that tons of altcoins claim they scale 10x better than Ethereum because they only have 1/100th the volume.
If only we had actual Anti-Trust enforcement, because this is EXACTLY what they got wrist slapped for in the 90's
Ha, me too. And although I do look back on those days with rose-colored glasses… it did kind of suck having to futz with that stuff just to get a game to load.
“Options include reserve thermal power plants, battery storage or cables for importing electricity from other markets.”

Or nuclear. Sad that this isn’t seen as an option any longer.
It should just be a one-click UAC window probably "Are you sure you want Firefox to do this". But these dark patterns are common.
I find PyCon videos great.

But I think you are right, that videos about programming made explicitly for YouTube just aren’t that great.

Numberphile is great. Computerphile is … sometimes good. Which makes me think there is just something about YouTube that doesn’t lend itself well to programming.
How so? I'm not going to look up the price of Litecoin so let's use Bitcoin. Say they received those coins on Sunday, Sept 5th. How is the trader managing the ~14% drop the next day?

Edit: Looked up the Litecoin price because it was bugging me - that same timeframe was a 22% drop which it has yet to recover from.
https://archive.md/xHaTY
This. Sharepoint has to be a beast to work with.
HBOT is a widely used 'alternative' treatment for other neurological conditions. It's controversial, in part because there are very good reasons that it can cause neurological damage. This study is NOT a reason for anyone to run out and get HBOT. Even if the effect is real (and I don't think the study has enough info to draw than conclusion), you would need much larger trials to balance benefits and side effects.
Go's value proposition is that it has good bang-for-the-buck. It's fairly easy to write in. There's easier, but it's fairly easy. It performs fairly well. There are things that perform better, but it's fairly good. It scales fairly well. There's things that scale better, but it's pretty good.

If you draw all this out on the programming landscape, I think one of the reasons Go has succeeded as well as it did is that this was a poorly covered part of the landscape. There were languages that were much easier, but performed much worse, and languages that performed much better, but generally required a lot more developer effort.

I don't expect Go to ever top the charts on performance on a task like this, but it's often hanging around at only a bit slower, and it does that across a wide variety of tasks and on a wide variety of dimensions. It's not the best at much of anything, but it's pretty darned good for pretty cheap on a lot of measures.
I would say that the implied modifier applies to that particular phrasing, but "No matter how you phrase the question" presumes a wide variety of options where the implications may be very different.
This, you can find some real gems.
It's weird that we have higher late-summer electricity prices that we did mid-winter this year. But all things considered, energy prices do in fact need to be high in order to support faster deployment of renewables and CO2-neutral energy.

Sucks for everyone who has marginal incomes, but I'm sure we can make some adjustments to the safety net policies to mitigate that.
Let's try...
Fortran on Freightways
Fortran on Fibers
Fortran on Ferries
Fortran on Fast Lane
Fortran on Foundation
Fortran on Fences
My personal experience is that science is in fact done by committee in practice, although I agree completely that it shouldn't be.

The popularization of science I see as a problem but I guess I see it happening anyway because of dynamics in the scientific community itself. My sense increasingly is that shining a light on things, opening it up to as much transparent scrutiny as possible at this point might be the only way to get out of the problems eventually.
I'm in Trondheim, Norway. There are few flat spots. It is livable - livable doesn't mean mostly bicycles.

I walk most places: There are walking paths and crosswalks lots of places. I have nearby grocery stores in a short walking distance (10 minutes or less). Lots of folks ride bikes, and an amount of those folks put on studded tires in the winter. I simply do not as it is literally an uphill battle and I didn't grow up in a mountainous region. I can rent a manual bicycle or an electric scooter and be safe while riding.

I can take public transport both across town and out of town. I have choices: There is a small tram line for some parts of town. Busses go both in town and between towns. I can take a train through much of Norway (from up north to Oslo) or over to Sweden if I want. Taxis exist, too, and they are clean. (Illegal taxis are here too, but I've never used them).

And sure, there are cars and they are convenient - and like the US, you probably need one if you live in the countryside. But I can get by just fine without a license, too.
Where were they when AT&T joined all of the Baby Bells back together? It was ok because the competitive landscape changed during the decades in which AT&T was broken up. Same here. Microsoft has nowhere near the power over general computing that it once had. What they did with IE back in the day was only a problem because of their dominant market position. Others doing the same from a minority market position would have been fine. Now that the majority of devices are running something other than Windows, it's more difficult to claim Microsoft dominates the market unless you define the market very narrowly, in which case, lots of other companies would also be in trouble.
Python deployment continues to be a pain. And it's primary domain is more in the data science/engineering side of things.

Also, in my experience, web devs tend to hate python as much as they do PHP. I've worked at two places so far where python wasn't allowed to be used in web services at all without a Very Good Reason. Choices were Node or Go.
Thanks. I hate it.

As the saying goes, we all have a testing tier. Some of us also have a separate tier for production.
The Analog Discovery Pro: Why Did We Make It?
+1 on Obsidian
I quite like the categorization on your site.
Do you have a background in tech or are you coming from a different industry?
Also, there were new pumping stations built after Katrina.
TL;DR: this looks like it is about methods to answer questions like "Was it event X that caused event Y?"

This feels difficult for a layman like me. Let's try to clear that up.

> However, as noted by Pearl, interventional queries only form part of a larger hierarchy of causal queries, with counterfactuals sitting at the top.

Regarding "Pearl", paper text cites:

> Tian, J.; and Pearl, J. 2000. Probabilities of causation: Bounds and identification. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 28(1): 287–313.

which appears to be this: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1018912507879

and appears to provide mathematical foundations to answering questions like "did event A cause event B" from observations.

Regarding the "hierarchy", this looks like a clear and very short introduction: http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~kaoru/3-layer-causal-hierarchy.pdf

From the very end of the paper:

> Causal inference is a tool that can have significant impact on society depending on its use. As such the authors are adamant that all uses of causal inference that could have negative societal impacts should be accompanied with the proper due diligence and fail-safes in order to minimize and even eliminate said negative impacts.

Does this translate to "Applications of this research might destroy society, please refrain"?
I like the "hospitals paid for by taxation" option, myself (with tweaks and caveats).

I can't fathom why so many people on this thread think it's a good thing for workers to depend on their employer for essentials like healthcare.
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Lots of history/etymology nerds?
I can confirm this. I’ve been implementing App Store subscriptions this week and last.

The StoreKit (1.0) piece is easily the worst thing I’ve had to deal with in building the whole app. But I’d still rather do this than try to build the whole payment infrastructure on my own.

Here’s to hoping the new API they announced this year will be much nicer.
I completely agree that scheduling has to be controlled by the customer (you) and having more context on the change helps. In AWS I can schedule the maintenance windows, and I know if it's because it's a major version bump or a patch, and I can talk to support if I'm concerned.

For me the major consideration is getting away from toil so I can spend time improving things that will move the needle. If somebody else can do a half-decent job, and there's a backup plan in case things go wrong, please somebody else do it for me!
I actually have a surprising amount of experience in Fortran, as both of my major "research" projects in college had to do with legacy Fortran code bases. The first was fitting a series of potential energy calculation libraries with Mathematica bindings, and the second was converting a library that did a particular kind of blur and glob detection to FITS datasets to C.

The second one was extra fun because the library was actually written in "FORCE", an extensive macro-extension of Fortran, for which we no longer had a compiler. All I had was docs, the original published paper, the original source, and a handful of input-output examples on substantial datasets

(for context, the datasets were essentially a 1024 x 1024 x 1024 array of floats that needed to be convolved with two different Gaussian kernels and compared pixel by pixel in an interesting way).
Firm raises $15m to bring back woolly mammoth from extinction
>>and lock-in BS

Microsoft has all kinds of ways they do vertical lockin, it is not has overt as say Apple, but do not think for a second that the company that promoted Embrace, Extend, Extinguish does not have methods to lock in users
Show HN: Enable ++x and --x expressions in Python
It's time for a nuclear expansion so we can transition out of our fossil dependency.
For exactly the reason, the parent post said, it makes all worker protection and benefits laws meaningless, and most people think these laws are a good thing.

If this was possible then every company would say:

"We don't want to have to bother to pay your vacation days, sick leave(for as long as you are sick), maternity/paternity leave(up to 12 months in most European countries), or to have to give you a permanent contract with limited termination grounds, so 'choose' to become Freelancer that works 40 hours a week for us or we will fire you".

It's true there are some people who like to work as you describe, I know some myself, but experienced software developers are a outlier case who are in an extremely fortunate position, not something the law should be optimised for at the expense of the majority.
Not sure I said Typescript is the next big thing. It's a thing now.
Holy shit I noticed that lately

and thought Windows stopped doing this
I don't really care to debate semantics here. It felt clear to me that the context of "everyone" was the ML academic community. If you have a different take, that's fine.
Modern Japanese is interesting here. It also doesn't make use of spaces, capitalization, or much of punctuation for that matter.
The zfsonlinux developers complained a while ago that some API they were using became GPL only and I think they had to write a wrapper in GPL to get around it.

I'm on mobile so I can't give you more details but you can probably find more if you look in that direction
I recently started working in C++ again and my experience with C++ package managers were pretty dismal (I tried vcpkg and Conan). Just trying to setup a PoC project with only two dependencies took me multiple days and neither Conan nor vcpkg worked. And this was on an Intel MBP so not exactly some exotic platform.
(102.4 ± 7.3 to 109.5 ± 5.8, p=0.004)

106 is well within a standard deviation of both of those. In fact, 109.5 is only one standard deviation away from the first, and the reverse is almost true. How do they get p = 0.004?
The Nintendo Switch is probably the closest to something you can give to little kids without too much worry in the current gen. Used previous gen Nintendo gear (2DS/3DS/DSi) might work even better, though at some point peer pressure to get something newer will probably get too difficult to resist.
> how can one be sure that this 20% gap is a guaranteed design advantage

It's no guarantee, but in my experience, Zig is a language that lends itself very well to composability. I imagine that instead of adding features to stdlib, anyone who needs "extra features" in their threading system will find it quite easy to implement their own as a library outside of stdlib that can easily be swapped in and out in A/B tests for the library consumer. If some feature or another is REALLY wanted in the stdlib for some reason it would probably be easy to drop it behind a comptime-flag as part of a type constructor function, which won't compromise (runtime) performance, teeny tiny hit to comptime performance.
Probably for the same reasons why Litecoin was designed over Bitcoin. Transactions are posted faster and it has more transaction capacity per second.

Bitcoin is inherently transaction-limited (as is Litecoin and all currencies designed in Bitcoin's image). One megabyte per block. Six blocks per hour. Approximately. That works out to about 1 - 2 transactions per second in practice, on average. For about four years it has almost constantly been maxed out for transactions-per-second. The surplus are shed by making them too expensive via the transaction pricing mechanism.

Generally, transaction fees to send Bitcoin remain reasonable for large purchases (typically 0.10 - 1 USD) but during times of congestion the fee pricing mechanism can lead to prices as high as $50 to get a transaction in the next few blocks reliably. While such periods are generally very temporary at a day or two long, it does tend to scandalize and upset newcomers, understandably.

Litecoin's design has more inherent TPS capacity, it isn't already at its TPS limit as it isn't as popular, and it confirms blocks faster. It's generally more suitable for lots of small, low-value transactions in a retail setting. It also has the most infrastructure around it for any cryptocurrency besides Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Bad idea. I think this bit near the top shows that the premise is incorrect:

the adoption of Pull Requests as the primary way of contributing code has created problems. We’ve lost some of the “Ready to Ship” mentality we had when we did Continuous Integration. Features-in-progress stay out of the way by delaying integration, and so we fall into the pitfalls of low-frequency integration that Continuous Integration sought to address.

PRs and code reviews don't need to cause major slowdowns. You should be able to commit multiple PRs on the same day when you need to, and if a single PR takes more than a couple of days, that's probably a sign that you should split the work into smaller chunks (probably using techniques from elsewhere on martinfowler.com!)

There definitely are times when you think "argh, I just want to fix that one comment / typo!" without bothering somebody for a code review. But where is the threshold where that's acceptable? Changing one line of code? One function?

It seems very clear to me, and I'd be very interested to hear arguments against this, that there is no threshold and you should always get a code review (assuming an established codebase with multiple developers). Edit to add: I could see maybe making an exception for specific non-code files, like READMEs.

The reason I don't want a review is not because I don't want to bother somebody -- nobody really minds being asked -- it's because I'm embarrassed at the silly mistake that slipped through! In that situation, pushing the one-line fix without review is a bad habit, and I need to be honest to my colleagues and ask somebody to wave through the quick fix. And if that happens a lot, I should slow down just a little bit and try to avoid making those little mistakes so often.
You are right, 'relative' was not the correct term there.