skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, the result of an experiment has to be boiled down to a single numerical value, called the test-statistic. Typically the test-statistic is a (log) likelihood ratio. It is the distribution of the t.s. that must be considered when determining the significance of a measurement. Obviously the measurement itself only gives you a single value of the t.s., so you need to know the distribution to ask "does this result seem significant?". This is done by considering all the factors of random variation (statistical and systematic) that could have an effect on the t.s. Often, the distributions of these individual random factors are assumed to be Normal, but the resulting distribution considering all of their conspiring effects is very seldom normal distribution. Even in the central limit theorem, I think the distribution of the LLR ends up being something like a noncentral chi^2 distribution.
I dug a little further and it looks like you're correct, I had mixed up the concepts of triggers and input bindings after reading the documentation that claims:

> You can mix and match different bindings to suit your needs. Bindings are optional and a function might have one or multiple input and/or output bindings.[0]

However, there is some documentation explaining how to execute a function that does not have a HTTP trigger via HTTP[1]. The example uses the function app's master key though, it'd be interesting to see if that's a requirement or if you could use a key scoped only for invocation of the specific function.

[0]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/funct...

[1]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/funct...
I wrote a program on the iPhone once using Pythonista. It was a little slower to type but I found it kind of revolutionary.

I started writing it on the couch while watching tv, then finished it lying in bed. It was just such a relaxed experience compared to sitting up straight at a desk and forcing myself to write. It’s hard to describe.
Fortunately, this is trivial to correct. Just grab a complete set of Go sources and documentation, hop in your time machine, and set the dial for 1995...
Covid is the elephant in the room. But meanwhile the obesity crisis and the opioid crisis continue to worsen.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...

100k overdose deaths, up 25% YoY. About 3/4 of those deaths are opioids, which grew by 35% and seem to account for the entirety of the rise.
I... May have done something like this once in a scripting language interpreter to implement return and break.

Not in JavaScript. And using continuations passed down from above would have been the much more correct way to do things.
Here’s a paper describing a simulator that worked by similar means:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/384265.291063

It’ll help, but still won’t get you down to the 10-20x cycle overhead range that you need to claim success.
I don't know that compact discs were more expensive to produce than vinyl or cassettes. I'm sure they were at first, but costs must have come down drastically by the time you could buy big spools of RW+ CDs at Best Buy for $20.

CDs are smaller than vinyl records, so that brings down shipping costs. From a consumer's perspective vinyl records require a lot of maintenance: needles need to be changed, records should be kept free from dust.

Cassettes are small, but complicated. I wouldn't be surprised if cassettes are more expensive to produce than compact discs. It is interesting that while CDs overtook cassette tapes in the 90's (aside from mixed tapes shared between friends), Laser Discs didn't become more popular than VHS until DVDs. Maybe the difference in visual quality wasn't worth the effort to switch media until televisions became larger larger and sharper.
> The Keystone XL pipeline extension was proposed by TC Energy in 2008 to transport 830,000 bpd of Alberta tar sands oil to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

Is this oil currently being transported by truck or is it sitting in the ground waiting for a pipeline? Or something else?
It's a bit unclear how would I go with integrating MetricFlow with https://uxwizz.com for example that uses a MySQL database to store analytics data. From the docs, I don't really understand how it actually "understands" the underlying SQL database and how to retrieve the data I need. It feels like I have to write the query to get the data I want, but in a different syntax. Is there any point to use MetricFlow if you only have one data source?
Hacking the Linux Kernel in Ada – Part 1
> on maximizing your TC.

What's TC in this context?
My ISP specifically reserves the right to sell browsing data, Cloudflare and NextDNS have privacy policies forbidding them from doing so.
"In Europe"? Europe is made of many countries and all ISPs have a national structure (even if they operate in several countries) and they all decide to roll out or not ipv6 independently.
From a purely selfish European standpoint I'm not enthusiastic about that either!
Was the private sector really in control though? - asks the libertarian devil's advocate.

On one hand, "yeah prohibiting bad things is good, duh", on the other hand bad policies prevents building affordable walkable high density neighborhoods, providing cheaper medical care, providing certain services like hair braiding, and so on.

There's an optimal path in this. No need to resort to absurd counterfactuals. The root of the problem is that society and the people themselves are inconsistent. Their stated preferences don't match their actual preferences revealed through their actions. (Of course a big part of that is simply the bounds on human rationality. We are easily misled by our own biases, naive, exploited through emotional pressure, gullible, etc. Plus on top of all this we have problems with consuming the relevant information sources, filtering and processing the firehose of the Internet.)

There's no consistent preference from society for tolerating this and this amount of risks and harms in exchange for cheaper gas.

Most people don't even think of these as a complex interconnected inseparable thing. They just want to "ban lead" or have a "small government" and so on.

The public-private separation makes sense in some contexts, but the line is not clear, and when it comes to politics there's almost no separation. It's about equity and oppression. History is full of examples of shifting preferences and increased equity and decreased oppression. (Monarchies, slavery, universal suffrage, gay marriage ... society as a whole changed its mind about these. [Yes, of course, there are reactionaries all the time, and there's no universal law that says that these changes can't be reversed or never will change back somehow.])

It's not about public or private, it's about who benefits and who gets exploited. Both the "everything is publicly owned and controlled" Stalinist USSR (and Maoist China) and the privately owned United Fruit (and both the Dutch and the British East India companies) committed crimes against humanity on an unimaginable scale (all while "democracy was booming" in both the Dutch and British societies.)
Wow your books section is really awesome. I had the same idea of a virtual shelf like that! Do you happen to have any code to share?

Unrelated, how do you read so much! I'm impressed by the quantity.
I'm not that enthused about where Qt is heading but it's arguably in better hands than GTK+, that's for sure. First, Qt isn't strictly tied with KDE - it has its own life by itself, without KDE libraries at all, and a vibrant ecosystem that uses it for automotive and cross-platform desktop apps.
Second, while the Qt Company has decided to stop releasing LTS releases as open source, KDE has a binding agreement that allows KDE to release Qt on a BSD license, were the Qt company intentioned to close it down(https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/). Since the whole LTS shenanigan happened, KDE has shown to be quite competent at maintaining its own set of patches for Qt5, which most distributions nowadays have adopted.

If Qt were ever to become closed source again, it would probably face a very strong competitor in a BSD or Apache-licensed fork from KDE. The Qt Company sells its licenses mostly to people that want to use GPL-covered Qt modules in closed source apps, so they really cannot let that to happen.
So if you view the replicates as slaves, how do you view AI? And what does that make programmers that are working on AI?
I'm not convinced that they're paying though the nose.

You'll easily spend a lot more in just salary costs trying to attain the same combination of reliability and thoughput on off the shelf hardware.

Most shops won't need it, but there's a reason many financial institution are still using these, and it's not because it's all legacy software due for replacement.
1) Literally yes in some cases, as others have pointed out.

2) I thought we were just talking about defaults? Firefox DoH lets you choose any server too
There isn't though. Exceptions are flow control. There's nothing particularly special about them internally in a JS engine. https://ripsawridge.github.io/articles/exceptions/
https://nutcroft.com/

Text-focused and blog-oriented.
> you are asking others to deal with a significant change to a commonly accepted standard behaviour.

For a JavaScript developer, that's just Tuesday.
Germany is one of the better countries when it comes to IPv6 adoption, and even then it's only about ~55%

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
I made a tool to help beginners learn HTML code from browser
Thank you! That's fantastic idea! Need to think how it can be done.

Right now I'm working on integration with HuggingFace Spaces. So you can publish your notebook there.

It is very good for learning. I have users that are starting to learn Python and with Mercury they build amazing applications shared as web apps.
Sometimes, especially if you're on the senior side, you need to set up a meeting so that you can answer questions. Junior folks don't always feel that they should be doing this, but being remote increases the friction of the usual solution of "asking when they bump into me at the water cooler" (though text chat is of course still available, in practice there is a class of things that it just isn't used for).

I've been mentoring a new team member hired during the pandemic, and one of the most useful things is that I set up an additional weekly 1-1 for which that new member "owns" the agenda. If they don't have anything to discuss, they just tell me in text chat and we don't have the meeting. On the other hand, it presents a great opportunity to raise those back-of-mind things
I work in this field (different experiment); despite the downvotes this is a reasonable question. Reposting my comment from above, since there is confusion here (the other sibling comments are incorrect).

In particle physics, sigma denotes "significance", not standard deviation. Technically what we're quoting as "sigmas" are "z-values", where z=Phi^{-1}(1 - p), where Phi^{-1} is the inverse CDF of the Normal distribution and p is the p-value of the experimental result. So, 7 sigma is defined to be the level of significance (for an arbitrary distribution) corresponding to the same quantile as 7 standard deviations out in a Normal distribution.
I once went for an interview, setup by a recruitment agency, in a town nearby. The job looked great, and it was a step up for my career. It was for a mature company that made software for the oil drilling industry amongst other things.

The interview went well, the coding test was good. Finally, I were just chatting with the CEO, and he asked "So you're ok with spending 2 years on site in Kazakhstan?"

Needless to say we both agreed that it was a wasted interview and that the recruitment agency should have mentioned the Kazakstan bit...
Another datapoint for getting it in writing:

I attended and then later worked at a graduate program in a high-demand niche of computer science. When I was a student a company rescinded an offer that had been signed months before and left one of my classmates scrambling at the last minute.

Several years later I taught there and found out the employer was still blocked from participating in the program's recruiting events. Had there been a handshake instead of a written offer it would be unlikely that they would have maintained that block for so long. The written offer was also referenced when communicating with the company in question, students, other programs in our niche, university administration, and especially other recruiters.

Needless to say, no student has had a similar issue since.
Maybe someone here has access to the related paper and could share it with the community.
It's not on scihub yet.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abg4055
Updating Life
Choose a public DNS that supports ECS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDNS_Client_Subnet
I think a lot of egos are running the VC business than actual investment analyst.
I've been a fan and user of David Seah's calendar for 3 years now.

https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/

I keep a pdf and screenshot version on my desktop and phone. For date ranges, I use the excel version.
I think maybe you're confused by the definition of equality here. We're not talking about absolute equality of outcomes for everyone. We're talking about equality of outcomes between people of equal ability. For example, if two people of equal ability, one black, one white, have equal opportunity throughout their lives, we would expect that on average they'd end up with roughly equivalent outcomes. (Note that the fact that one can imagine some benign circumstance where that doesn't happen doesn't change the expectation---it's a statistical expectation over the entire population.)
the strong nuclear force doesn't really deal with chemistry all that much - you need to crack the nuclei of atoms to release it...like, ya know, nuclear tech. You're gonna have a tough time separating something's protons using a hot plate and some chemicals, and its not really chemistry.
> we would have world-class catering for lunch every day

I'd like to point out that this is not the case for every Silicon Valley start-up: the three start-ups I worked at (CollabNet, Aeluros, Ardatech) were incredibly frugal with money (exception: salaries were competitive).

At one of the companies, the CEO and I took a trip to Safeway to buy soft drinks for customers. When we got back, I walked around the office telling everyone the soft drinks were _not_ for them, only for customers.

At another company, I had to make a compelling presentation to the CTO to buy a $1.5k printer. "The Linux workstations need a PostScript printer!" We bought the printer, but he didn't like parting with the money.

Being frugal doesn't guarantee success: my CollabNet stock was washed out in later rounds, Aeluros had a fair-to-middling exit to Broadcom, and Ardatech had a good exit to Google. But it's good to keep an eye on the money.
> - record every video conference

This is dumb. My last company didn't allow recording for the most part due to data retention, which is as good a reason as any for me, but my new place does and I don't understand it. Recording a meeting means that the best way for information to be shared is in a meeting, and I fundamentally disagree with that. Most of the meetings I go to could have been an email. Of those, the email could be pretty short. If teams are communicating in smaller, more frequent chunks, meetings, and the recording of them, wouldn't be necessary. Besides, it's not like you can interact with a video, but you can with a Slack thread or email. Don't force recording culture. It's dumb.

I worked remotely for five years before the pandemic, and helped people adjust to being remote since I was seen as an "expert" at doing it when everyone suddenly stayed home. The biggest aspect to my success, I would argue, is that I don't treat it like remote is different. Of course it is, and there is something to be said for being together, in person, but high quality audio and video make for a pretty good replacement for most of the interpersonal interactions from before. So my ritual load didn't change, just the means of participation. We still have daily standup, we still chat a lot, and instead of sitting around a table in the office working, we sit on a Zoom - and we don't record it. It works as well, if not better, than before since people can work the hours they want without the drain of a commute.
Computer proofs – the future of mathematics? [pdf]
As a Canadian, I can't agree more.
Is it just me or do they all look super off? I definitely believe that they do not exist. Them existing would actually be surprising.
We have a group optional eod meeting daily where anyone with any last minute questions can ask them to anyone attending, but also if no one has questions socializing is welcome. Friday people talk about their weekend plans. Monday people talk about their past weekend. Sometimes people actively show off their pets. It’s fun and the fact it’s optional (like truly optional, someone who rarely attends them just got promoted) makes it best of both worlds imo. Rarely lasts more than 15 min, and fun convos can take 45 with people dropping when they want.
See, IMHO a "binding contract" isn't worth the paper it's written on if violations of the contract are undetectable. There's no brand image impact if there's no evidence.

And if I was an intelligence agency trying place spies, Cloudflare would be among the first tech companies I'd target.

This feature seems almost exclusively a feature for people in the ISP-monopoly-friendly United States.
I don't think it's always true, but in my case because the open source versions have more and better functionality, more flexible design, better documentation, are already known and used by thousands of people (easier on boarding), and maintained by a large community. It's true it has some functionality we don't need, but a couple megabytes of memory is pretty cheap relative to all the other things.
> Child porn is the usual excuse, and then, after a while, you can't see sites that mention Tienanmen Square or Ukraine any more.

Has this ever happened?
Expanding horizontally doesn't solve land price values -- prices will still be higher in the dense centre

The solution is to make better use of valuable land by encouraging (or enforcing) high density
France/Germany, the US, South Korea / Turkey are launching new MBT programs at the moment, whether or not you believe the entry into service dates of 2035 for the Franco-German or US programs or not.

Not to forget that the existing models are constantly being upgraded.

That being said, shiny and impressive is usually enough to get expensive and job creating military programs of the ground, isn't it?
>From a purely selfish American standpoint, I'm not enthusiastic about damaging the environment in the United States so that Canadian oil companies can sell it to Europeans.

Keystone XL goes south to Steele City. Helping also move Baker, MT oil. Not really a total Canadian thing.

Keystone XL has nothing at all to do with Europe.
That’s the problem. They had 0 need of scaling. It’s premature optimization 101.
How do you know it’s so popular? And popular with who?

Do you know of any developers who otherwise use text-based tools and who switch to visual programming just when they work on games?

Personally, when using visual programming UIs, I instinctively look for some kind of “edit source” function. It just seems like a waste of time to use the mouse to browse through menus and constantly reorganize the board.

My guess is that visual programming is simply more approachable and more appealing than text-based programming when you’re just starting out and you’re intimidated by the unfamiliar conventions of coding. It’s easier to learn when the the language itself looks like the teaching tools (such as flowcharts). And I bet that more people start out by writing games than any other kind of software.
There is plenty of refining and export capacity in Texas. It would have an enormous impact on investment in oil production and therefore future oil prices in North America. Pipelines are much cheaper and safer than rail and would lower the cost of production and therefore the cost of the final product.
Goto is super helpful in C for error handling. But yes, let's continue parroting the same old rhetoric.
Are bad managers behind the 'great resignation'?
That's a terrible causal relation.

Run a KT decision analysis. The iPad will never come out as the device you actually end up writing code on if you're honest with yourself.
How is this different from offering a default search engine provided by a "trusted partner"?
Not to be all depressing like Marvin the Paranoid Android, but I happen to think "life" is overrated. ;) There are so many billions of other extremely interesting cellular automata rules besides "life" too, so don't stop once you get bored with life! ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAA67a2-Klk

The really interesting and efficient and deeply physics-related cellular automata rules are reversible (which the Game of Life isn't).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing

Reversible computing is any model of computation where the computational process, to some extent, is time-reversible. In a model of computation that uses deterministic transitions from one state of the abstract machine to another, a necessary condition for reversibility is that the relation of the mapping from states to their successors must be one-to-one. Reversible computing is a form of unconventional computing.

Due to the unitarity of quantum mechanics, quantum circuits are reversible, as long as they do not "collapse" the quantum states they operate on.
> That's programming language work for physical theory

Well, that would be insanely valuable since it would open up theoretical physics to machine-approaches (AI/ML). I know many are disgusted by this, but I'd love to see a PhysicalTheory-fold equivalent of Alpha-fold chew throw all modern theoretical physics and rank all theories on a possiblity-probability score or sh like that, since the amount of stuff a human would have to go through is already too much...
But it’d make some guys richer! I’ll bet they’d like that.
I don't really understand how you can use "standard deviations" for a single value. Aren't deviations used across a set of values?
https://kaszkowiak.org

Static website generated by Hugo. It's still Polish only though! I'll translate it one day :-)
I have an LG SoundBar and a couple of other IoT devices that do the same. I have a similar setup on pfsense as you do on FireHol.

The correct answer is not to support hardware that does this, in the future.
To be even more clear, the enemy was equipped with spear, helmet and shield, while both the victorious warrior and the dead warrior had none of those.

Instead of those, they both had identical swords and scabbards.

Taking into account this very obvious difference in the military equipment, I cannot understand what prompted someone to state that the fallen man belonged to the enemies.
Yes, I use ipset on openwrt to block all known public DoH IPs. That is still not enough. You need custom DNAT rules to forward all queries to port 53 to your local resolver (at my home at least, Google and Garmin devices insist on using their own DNS servers)
What about making the choices you want each day - and doing the very best you can for yourself, and also those around you?

I don’t mean just monetarily. Doing the best you can ethically, morally, etc.

I realize some of that is subjective - but “don’t let perfect get in the way of good”.
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