skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting article, but I am curious about the incident rates and comparison to non-Amish communities. Child abuse is surprisingly common in general and I don't see anything in the article that makes specific claims about its frequency compared to the population in general.

I see from their anecdotes that the culture seems like it tolerates it but there are lots of communities with power imbalances and social pressures that prevent perpetrator from being held accountable. Sometimes a perpetrator has the power or influence or reputation that will cause the community to not believe the victim or to prevent punishment. Is this more prevalent among Amish than among Catholics, or Mainstream Mormons, or Fundamentalist Baptists, or Atheists? The article doesn't even address that. It only makes a very generalized claim about 52 known cases across 2 decades, covering an unspecified population/region, and suggests that the real number must be much higher based on the anecdotes. If there was a link to any real study and I missed it, I apologize.

It is obvious that the Amish churches do not approve of child abuse, in doctrine or in practice. They differ in how they think it should be dealt with for sure, because they generally don't prefer outside courts for anything. Does this result in more abuse? Maybe, but I'd like to know the answer from a scientific analysis rather than an anecdotal one before I write off the Amish people in general.
> From what I can see Microsoft stack is used mostly by enterprises that are not engineering centric.

I'm going to counter this anecdote with my anecdote. I have spent roughly half of my time in the boring world and half in the HN "sexy" tech world. 25 years of programming experience and have had immense failures and some pretty good successes.

Unquestionably, the sexy tech people were—and to this day are—worse technologists than the boring enterprise software people. I have worked at two unicorns.

One of things I believe to be true (and which is probably offensive but here goes) is that the sexy work is a direct result of over-financialization of the sector. It's a form of signaling: "Hey, our business model is so successful we can afford this shitty niche technology and hiring too many people."

There is a direct correlation between people using trendy yet mediocre technology and comments like "let's be practical" and explaining why your software can be worse than it is, because those companies don't actually need technology. As well, the people that manage those organizations are not particularly impressive because they need large groups of people to scale. (It's also why people like a16z can have the gall to claim 10x devs is not a thing, because if it were, the SV model of get-big-quick and hiring huge amount of devs with big capital and unsustainable unit economics would not be a successful proposition.)

Since the late 90s, the governing model has been: "Hey, that's cool what you do. But have you thought about putting it on The Internet?". It's the Portlandia bird sketch but with Put a Web On It. Apply this to Big Data or ML etc. This model has been very good for growth, but it requires absolutely minimal technical expertise.
Yikes. I'm so sorry. I mistook your username for another one. That was incredibly rude of me to react like that without at least double-checking.

I had a long and frustrating back-and-forth with someone else some time ago where I pointed out what I believe to be several glaring issues with TS's type system (like the fact that `readonly` properties on object types don't actually guard against writes in most situations) and every one of my criticisms was met with the equivalent of "You're saying a type system has to be 100% perfect or it's completely useless". And even though it's the internet and I should know better, it just irritated the hell out of me.

Again, I'm really sorry for jumping at you like that. I think I'm traumatized over arguing about TypeScript... lol
I think, for a lot of people, "I don't have anything interesting to say" could more accurately be translated into, "I'm afraid of finding out something I believe is interesting actually isn't to anyone else."

Rarely do people genuinely think, and operate, as if nothing they could articulate will be relevant to anyone else. It's literally the entire purpose of communication.
20% of HN posts are unambiguous and don't need any clarifying comments, but 80% of the time comments are helpful: see Pareto distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution. It's fascinating too if not new.
Postgres Query Progress Bar – Monitoring Long Running Queries
Last I checked FHE was computationally infeasible for any realistic work load. Has that changed?
Dawn of humanity pushed back 30k years
I like the relevant quote from Pascal, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" mainly because it's allows me to feel smugly superior while procrastinating work.
At Defcon, hackers get their own private cell network: Ninja Tel (2012)
The image quality is good, but now I realize I'm experiencing "uncanny waifu". Authentic character designs bear two things in common:

1. Simplifications of reality(the actual artist training method would be traditional studies off life and photo reference followed by gradual reduction and symbolization to a style)

2. Symbolic meaning. Things like the style of eyes, clothing, etc are all meant to signal personality. This is stuff that current AI techniques don't really touch upon in any direct sense.

Since the ML method is built on interpolating off final results, it's going to lack in these qualities and produce something that is consistently an "average impression". Akin to asking the algorithm to generate mythical heroes by mashing up the various stories: you get a hero that is somehow the average of Icarus, Heracles and Achilles, which would be less of a character than the originals.
For a while I had a hobby project that would scrape real estate websites listing properties in my city. Goal was to try and figure out trends, pricing data, find good deals. Eventually the site added those features itself (heatmaps based on prices, for example)

With all that data you can do stuff like make heatmaps from pricing data, figure out the most attractive areas for certain profiles (singles, families, ...). You could then mash up that data to produce things like a "Walkscore" or let people indicate what's important for them (green areas, bars & restaurants, time & distance to other destinations, even crime levels) and then show real estate that meets their criteria.

Some sites in the US already show this but in other countries that's not the case, while the data's all there just to grab.

Most likely it wouldn't be legal and certainly not if you made money from it. But it's incredibly fun and hugely useful. Maybe that could get you started on some ideas!
The trick is to not want to be hired and treat the interviewers no different than your buddies. If you fail who cares?
> But now we increasingly have cheaper alternatives that are also censorship resistant

I really hope you're not referring to crypto.
I was referring just to your first paragraph, not knowing how the being you describe in the 3rd paragraph relates. I'm not a baptist, but I am a Christian, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I have learned for myself that God is real, and some good things that follow from it. We believe in an eventual literal resurrection of all people who have lived (spirits and bodies reunited), who will then be judged and inherit a degree of glory based on their willingness to obey eternal laws (choices). And that everyone will have the chance to know the truths needed to make an informed choice at some point. Our Heavenly Father is in control, and has a Plan for us, for which we can be exceedingly grateful.
HP-11c. Mine is probably new in 1985ish. I think on its 4th set of batteries. I'd love an HP-15c for the additional program memory, but collectors have driven the prices crazy. RPN is super-efficient.
Any large business that's remotely in competition with Amazon corp is (rightfully) scared by Amazon's use of marketplace sellers' data to compete with them, and don't host on AWS, because they're afraid of Amazon using AWS data(that they have complete access to) to compete with them. So this goes for almost all retailers, grocery stores etc.
Apologies for the slightly off topic question but can anyone point me to the best test/comparison of Alkaline batteries vs. the new Lithium rechargeable ones? Older rechargeable AA and AAA batteries were terribly short lived and so mostly useless but I assume Lithium ones are much better?
Almost all emoji are four bytes in UTF-8.
The Zyte article isn't inaccurate; it's just a simplified assessment of a complicated issue. If you'd like a more nuanced perspective on this, please read my guest post of Prof. Goldman's blog.

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/06/more-perspecti...
Can't you just hide nukes or do they emit some radiations that are visible through satellites?
Duracell used to be really good about replacing devices if their batteries leaked. They screwed me a couple years ago and refused to replace something (a $50 apple keyboard, I think they gave me $10 for it?). I went from buying exclusively Duracell for alkaline to now just buying Energizer Lithium for everything where it isn't specifically contraindicated (very rare).
Sounds advice, one which I am sure the Dutch government would routinely give to their citizens who visit to any country which gives itself the right to access personal information on the device.
That article is from 2014. Since then we have deployed dozens of GWh of grid storage. There have been a few small fires, but otherwise it's worked out really well. Lithium ion on the grid is nearly doubling every year, and in places like Texas. I'm having trouble finding a recent article, but this one from 2020 has 3x as many battery GW thank gas GW in the interconnection queue:

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/09/08/interconnection-queue...

And if you check out RV and boat forums, you'll find that small scale lithium ion batteries plus solar are enabling a huge change in power for these mobile applications, because it's just damn cheap these days.
I like to believe that HN has at least been partially successful in holding itself to a higher standard than the internet at large, through a combination of community guidelines, overall community belief in the guidelines, and thoughtful moderation.

You could, of course, say the same thing about personal attacks: They're endemic on the internet and to humanity, but we've mainly kept them out of HN using the above measures.

Lazy dismissal is often the top comment on any given post, COVID or not. It's harmful to discussion and I would argue antithetical to the hacker spirit: If we only allow perfect airtight products/proofs, we miss out on discovery and exploration. Perhaps some guideline to avoid lazy dismissals (or something along those lines) would go a long way.
Biden administration announces new measures to upgrade power grid
If looking for works translated into (fluent) English, visit the (Pessoa archive) site [ http://arquivopessoa.net/textos ]

click on the line that begins '7. Poesia Inglesa '
and it will reveal 6 links (e.g. '35 SONNETS') that lead to translations of Pessoa's work. Impressive.
Check out 'Project Farm' on YouTube for a couple more in-depth tests of AA batteries

TLDR:

Made in Japan = GOOD
Made in China = BAD
Yeah this is confusing me as well. Mass does not affect the velocity of a falling object. Unless the simulation is accounting for some air resistance too.
I also helped with a project once that used pgloader to migration an old MySQL db to Postgres, and I think this article may actually explain one of the issues we found. We had a UTF-8-configured table in MySQL (we also discovered in the project, that MySQL can have encodings set differently per-table, while Postgres sets the encoding for the entire database) with UTF-8 data, and when we migrated it into a UTF-8-configured Postgres database, some of the UTF-8 characters were silently corrupted. They were UTF-8 characters in both databases, so the corruption didn't raise any errors, but they were different characters, so when the data was read back out by the application, the text was different.

We only caught this, because thankfully, we had written a manual checksum script, which looped through every table, read out all values from each row into the application, and hashed the results, then compared between when the app was connected to the source MySQL database vs the destination Postgres database. We ended up having to massage and fix those silently-corrupted characters.
Savile Row constraint modelling assistant
Can't we all just agree that none of these solutions are perfect and you might actually have to change what you do depending on the circumstance?
I think the main issue with AA Alkaline is the proliferation of cheap low-self-discharge NiMH cells (aka: Eneloop, but also Energizer and other brands have good LSD NiMH available).

A huge number of appliances seem to be designed for the 1.35V NiMH chemistry now. Perhaps a random TV-remote still prefers Alkaline but most seem to work fine with NiMH.

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Buying a pack of 20 NiMH cells and rotating your collection between charging / discharging states is cheap enough and effective. Its like you have "infinite" AAs since you can just keep recharging them.

EDIT: A few years ago, Alkaline was still needed for TV remotes. But most Low-self-discharge NiMH now lasts for over a year without self-discharging away. Sure, not as good as Alkaline's 10-year life span but surely 1+ year lifespans is good enough for your TV remote? Its not that big of a hassle to reach recharge your NiMH once a year is it?
> FB actually claims that every fact is false

They may, but the standard for deciding a motion to dismiss is to assume every fact actually in dispute is resolved against the moving party, if they would still prevail in that case, then their motion is granted.

(Note that there is a distinction that is easy to get tripped up on between “facts” and “conclusions of law asserted as if they were facts”, and it is not unheard of for a a motion to dismiss to center around the other party providing conclusions of law without supporting facts rather than actual facts.)
> And the ruling on broadcasting licenses for streamers was relaxed a lot, it's required if you had more than 20 000 viewers on average over the last 6 months, only very few german streamers are affected by that.

That doesn't make it any better. You have +20k viewers on avg last 6 months and the government doesn't like what you are saying for any reason, they revoke your license. If this isn't a control over freedom of speech (and I'm not saying freedom to call violence on people or anything here), I don't know what is really.
Facebook is just obviously not a monopoly. There's TikTok, Snapchat, Twitter, Reddit, and many other social networks. At least 5-10 billion dollar social networks have been created while Facebook exists.

Allowing them to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp were probably not wise decisions. But it hasn't stopped others from competing
I think the big fear is that an omicron variant will emerge far more lethal if you allow it run rampant. Even though it kind of already is so maybe thats a moot point now.
PCIe is a packet switched network with point-to-point routing, firewalls, and link aggregation. Everything is done on dedicated silicon because it simply can't be done in software -- forget having a cache miss, the PCIe bus itself might be the mechanism to serve the cache miss. Or ship a bunch of 400Gbps ethernet traffic... speaking of which, picking a bandwidth fight with PCI express is probably not the best move ever :)

> 16 port, 10 Gb ... 320 Gbps bandwidth in the whole switch

That's a nice switch. Expensive, but nice. Let's do the math on a modern low-end consumer CPU:

PCIe: 20x 32Gb/s x2 = 1280Gbps

Chipset: 8x 16Gb/s x2 = 256Gbps

Display: 4x 4x 12Gb/s = 192Gbps

...and if we compared the switch to a CPU in its own price bracket, this would go from silly to ludicrous.

Look, I'm not asking for a battery of 400GbE ports on every laptop, but USB can deliver 10Gb/s across a few meters for a few dollars while Ethernet wants a few hundred dollars to ship the same bits over the same distance, and that's unfortunate.

People keep trying to make excuses for Ethernet, but I don't think it deserves their efforts. I think something's broken in the consumer networking industry -- it feels like they gave up on consumers entirely after 1GbE, and I think we could all benefit if someone breathed some life back into that corner of the market.
I have a very difficult time finding this to be applicable to the PG piece.
This seems like something that could be done client side instead. But maybe not an option for psql CLI
North Korean women pay a heavy price as Kim turns on ‘black market breadwinners’
On the other hand, if such a browser has a button to enable such access of “subnet 192.168.0.0” AND such button is NOT accessible from chrome:// URI AND NOT accessible from JavaScript, then this feature of preflight-ing a request for accessing such private IP subnet MIGHT then becomes a palatable and acceptable approach to mainstreaming this feature.

- Somehow, I get the feeling that such a button will be foisted using chrome:// or made accessible using JavaScript … by the Chrome development team.
If you post that data on a public domain, that is publicly available. It's like writing that info on a cardboard and putting it in the town square and then saying 'why you people steal my data!'
FWIW I tried to visit the website linked in your description but your certificate is invalid since November.
For looking up relevant further material, this is called a 'homograph' or 'homoglyph attack'.

It was also popular for site-spoofing by sending links with these cyrillic character to lead people to a fake bank/search_engine page, until that became widely used, and then owners of the tech-stack (browsers, registrars, dns-operators, etc) shut down this attack vector mostly.
Cybersecurity conferences 2022: A rundown of online, in person, and ‘hybrid’
If it is the only speed, technically it is neither fast nor slow, is it?

In the 80s we had 2400 bauds only and we liked it.
Blackmail. "Dont win against our team or we will leak your data" being the threat.

China definitely wants to have winning teams when they are hosting.
If I'm being completely honest, once I discovered all of the manipulations and lies Christianity perpetrates on its people, everything else I hear about the religion I take with a heaping pile of salt, including wisdom I might, in a vacuum, accept.

My thought is usually something like, "Yes, and how did this 'wisdom' help earlier Christian leaders control their followers?"
I don't see how introducing a new major release would fix this? people would use the old version (because of the breaking change) for a while still, you might even end up in a python2/3 situation.
I really wish they do this in a new, major version release. But they dont seems to be keen on releasing 9.0.
The favorite schematics I've worked with on complex embedded parts were where the EE would do breakout pages where the common reference pins were collected together by chip and/or by major subsystem (interface pin blocks, power, bus, peripherals, eth-comms, etc).

In a diagram like this, some side index of topics where a hover would light up multiple pins tagged with that with that topic might be interesting.
Google interview ~17 years ago
On what basis have you “earned the right to refuse the orthodoxy of arrogant white liberals?” Genuinely intrigued. Cause to me that sounds like ur trying to say you’ve earned the right to be a bigot. Bigotry isn’t a right to earn but a choice to make.
Anecdata, I recently had to replace batteries in several smoke alarms. 3 were Duracells and 2 were Rayovacs. All Duracells were from 2016/2017, i.e. assuming they were installed right away they lasted around 5 years. Rayovacs were from 2010 and 2011, despite both brands being rated for 5 years. It is possible that old Rayovacs were installed around same time as new Duracells and both lasted around same time, still makes for an interesting datapoint.
I feel stupid asking this question, but isn't the browser that parses css? i understand minifying css, but what does parcel's css parsing refer to?
I recommend making sure you are good with Guesstimation to start (The book of that name by Weinstein and Adams). Be sure to create your own questions and attempt to answer them. Watch some TED talks and try to use mathematical skepticism to criticize them. Doing all this should make you comfortable using mathematics as a tool. Once you are in that frame of mind, you can explore and have fun with the other topics as ably listed in the other comments on this page. Think of math as a faithful toolkit to explore the world. Once you start to try to describe the world in mathematical language, the more proper tools of mathematics will make much more sense.

Also, keep in mind that pretending things are lines is really useful. See the secant method.
I've not seen AA or AAA sized lithium rechargeable batteries but modern low-self-discharge NiMH AA and AAA cell batteries are quite good today. The Panasonic Eneloop brand are generally widely available and good value for money. The AA size Eneloops are generally around 2100mAh and the AAA size around 900mAh.

The only downside to modern NiMH batteries today seems to be finding a good and easy to use charger which will properly discharge and/or cycle the batteries without requiring a human to fiddle with it or understand charge rates and when to discharge the cell prior to charging.
In truth, if both experiments are done independently, (so not to affect each other), and we measure how long it takes the two massive objects to hit, and both objects are allowed to move each other, then the pull from a feather moves the earth slightly less than the pull the bowling ball has on the earth, so technically they will be slightly different times.

But that difference is not really measurable and probably barely calculable - though I'm sure someone on here may do that.
Does anyone know of a good rechargeable battery comparison test? I've noticed that some 18650's are just crap after a couple charges, and some dinky AA batteries last forever after many charges.
I agree with everything you said above and that is exactly how we have always had things at my place of employment (work at a small ML/Algorithm/Software development shop). That being said, the one thing I really don't understand is why Notebooks are essential even for EDA. I guess if you were doing things in Notepad++ or a pure REPL shell, they are handy, but using a powerful IDE like Pycharm makes Notebooks feel very very limiting in comparison.

Browsing code, underlying library imports and associated code, type hinting, error checking, etc., are so vastly superior in something like Pycharm that it is really hard to see why one would give it all up to work in a Notebook unless they never matured their skillsets to see the benefits afforded by a more powerful IDE? I think notebooks can have their place and are certainly great for documenting things with a mix of Markdown, LaTeX and code, as well as for tutorials that someone else can directly execute. And some of the interactive widgets can also make for nice demos when needed.

Notebooks also make for poor habits often times and as you mentioned, having data scientists and ML engineers write code as modules or commit them via pull-requests helps them grow into being better software engineers which in my experience is almost a necessity to be a good and effective data scientist and ML engineer.

And lastly, version controlling notebooks is such a nightmare. Nor is it conducive to code reviews.