skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Must vary from manufacturer to manufacturer - this is a Bosch that's now coming up to about 11 years old, and thankfully still going strong after a temperature sensor and heating element swap a few years ago.
> One doesn't know the real type of a variable until runtime.

In the program

def x(f):
return f(3)

what is the "real type" of `f` at runtime; say, at the instant just before the call to `f`? How can you tell?

If your answer is that `f` has type "function-like", then that's a much weaker kind of a type than even type hints offer, let alone a real type system.
> I got my gmail account early and was able to get my first name at gmail.com.

Same here. But my first name is so unusual that I have literally not found anyone else on the internet with my first name. Any and all searches for my first name (and nothing else) have results that point to me.
Because this isn't really about building a neat social network, it's about power.

People have tried to do what you said. Let's make a Twitter that's not controlled by the hard left! The result was Twitter's ideological allies at tech firms immediately banned them from every platform they controlled, and other allies ganged up to hack and destroy them.

You cannot start a Twitter competitor today, it's impossible, because:

1. The sort of people who found companies tend to be pro-free speech because their economic survival depends on having risky but correct ideas, and that naturally leads to a sympathy for free speech.

2. The sort of people who hate free speech are obsessed with Twitter/tweeting platforms specifically.

3. They are exceptionally aggressive. They will do anything, including damaging their own companies and even breaking the law in order to stop any other platform from becoming popular. They've managed to take over tech firms to a sufficient extent that they will destroy any attempts to replace Twitter, which they see as a key pivot point in their power over society.

The obvious solution: buy Twitter and fix it. It's too big to ban. This also has the major benefit of really, really upsetting Musk's ideological enemies. They'd hate him anyway and many are in powerful positions in politics and the media. Even the thought of losing Twitter to Musk has very conspicuously driven them into a frenzy in recent days, and such frenzies discredit them in the eyes of the general public, thus weakening their ability to move against Musk.
Would you mind Not trying to control people. It is one thing if it were spam and essentially the same message. It is another thing to be the way too are being, concerning themselves with how often someone wants to provide input on a topic.

You really may want to re-examine yourself, because that’s comment alone emanates a deep psychological issue with control. I very much appreciated the reply and input into why the states may be a factor. It is not your place to try to prevent me from hearing/reading what others want to tell me. It is a rather vile and reprehensible personality flaw.
I agree that DRM isn't ideal either.

Well, it's not that anyone is necessarily perfect. But the other major console players certainly seem better - if I bought a PS4 game a few years ago then I can reasonably expect to still play it on PS6 and probably onwards. X360 games have been brought back to life by MSoft.

Steam is generally pretty good yeah but it doesn't have the issue of consecutive consoles to deal with.
Ask HN: What are your favorite scientific essays?
It can give us an indication of how the growth rate depends on size

Except that what you've plotted there isn't the growth rate, but the absolute growth. Your argument for DK isn't convincing either, they claimed sth much stronger than that we can't assess our own skills.
You'd think that services should be aware of the security concerns in this inbound vs outbound distinction, but I've had cards where after calling the number on the card, customer service person actually instructed me to hang up and await a callback from them... Which almost always came from some other line with some other number...

OTOH in hindsight it could be because they don't trust caller id on their side and want to verify that the call is really made from/to a phone number that's on file.
I don't know what you're trying to tell me so I'll have to guess... you're retracting your initial claims after reading the data and anecdotes in those links?

Because from those links it sure doesn't look like rural areas are likely to have more than half the people on meth, or that you've managed to find any actual towns where everybody is on meth.
Like the “Brilliant Pebbles” concept by Edward Teller and Ronald Reagan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles
Polio vaccines? Bad example. Whatever good they did in the past, most outbreaks of polio in the world today are triggered by oral vaccine rollouts.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7049a1.htm

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/polio-outbreak-s...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/polio-cases-now-caus...
Oh, and you can probably scroll to 46:51 in that video I linked to.
"Disinfo" by who, exactly?

Mouthwash is a very American phenomenon though, AFAIK it's not used as commonly anywhere else in the world. Which suggests at least part of its American popularity is due to marketing.
> The DK hypothesis is "double burden of the incompetent"

The actual DK result (which is much criticized, but that's a different issue) was actually a pretty much linear relationship between actual relative performance and self-estimated relative performance, crossing over at about the 70th percentile.

(Because there is more space below 70 than above, that also means that the very bottom performers overestimated their relative performance more than top performers underestimated, not because of any “double burden” (overstimation didn't rise faster as one moved below the crossover), but just because there was more space below the crossover point.

> Arguably the hypothesis that matches the data from the DK paper best is: "Everyone thinks they're average regardless of skill level"

If there was a perceptual nudge toward average relative performance, you'd expect a crossover at the median with a slope below 1, the nudge is toward a particular point above average.
Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss!
Santander.

I have an email address that I've only used for official things, and it was used by an employer as my contact email for pension savings with Santander.

I've had the address for 10+ years and never gotten spam.
The same day I got an email from Santander about being signed up for pension there I started getting lots of spam emails.
I always assumed that an ideal query planner would be in the best position to decide what plan is best based if it had real-time access to up-to-date data statistics and available indexes.

Adding hints might hinder performance improvements when migrating to a newer version of a database, as the newer version might have a better way to execute your query than what the hint is suggesting. You'd have to revisit all your hints when upgrading.
Great idea, I wish for you to succeed with that and do not be discouraged by negative comments here. If you love what you do, keep doing it, eventually you will figure out the missing pieces. Take a look if you still didn't at open source trading bots like Gekko.
And add a email subscription service, I would love to be notified about news and product updates. Good luck!
There are also multiple ongoing projects attempting to implement incremental parsers(1, 2, 3) e.g. for tree-sitter. To make editing SQL code more convenient.

[1] https://github.com/m-novikov/tree-sitter-sql

[2] https://github.com/DerekStride/tree-sitter-sql

[3] https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/lezer-snowsql
Year-long study shows time restricted diets offer no benefit
Apple geniuses in Atlanta beat New York to the punch, file petition to unionize
Because contractor work is categorically worse than salaried work, outside of very high pay grades. Bear in mind my prejudice is entirely based on my professional experience. Perhaps a magical land exists where this is not the case, but it's not the one I live in.
I don’t think that’s how they’d view it at all. In their eyes it’s all these “spurious” lawsuits they’re protecting their client from within legal means. Arbitration is expedient and much cheaper.
Quite gratifying to read that I'm not alone in this. I was really early into Gmail so have first.last@ and get a lot of stuff emailed to me that is exactly as you describe - not spam, just mistaken address. Hotel reservations, golf clubs, Republican party bullshit, hilarious copies of order receipts from gun shops...

(The last one of the above I replied to - it was an order for a rifle scope. I sent what I thought was an obvious joke email back asking whether it'd help me hit my neighbours' puppy at a mile range. The gun shop replied back suggesting an alternative scope... Moral: never apply UK style humour to US situations, especially not about guns...)
Enso (YC S21) Is Hiring Senior Rust Developer
All of my banking apps work fine on GrapheneOS.
If you want to play around with development for limited/retro-style platforms, there's plenty of choices of existing retro computer and console.

And even if you develop using emulators, seeing your code run on real retro hardware is more satisfying than running it on a 'fantasy console' on PC.
You're retreating from your original claim that Musk specifically pays people to "monitor and influence public forums" and in particular this forum. Now someone else pointed out that this is nonsense, you're retreating to the bailey of "wealth people manage their public image" which is a much weaker claim.
A couple of years ago at a work event we were in the Goodyear Blimp (grounded, unfortunately), and back then it was definitely a blimp. Though I vaguely recall a rumour that it might have been a different blimp that they'd repainted with the Goodyear logo. No idea if that's true.
So I just dived in to the Rebol cookbook myself, and I came across Rebol 3 implementations of some of the goodies from there that are originally written in Rebol. For example I stumbled upon https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/rebol-cr-auth/ and https://gist.github.com/gchiu/5288312. They are both quite cool. It truly does make me love Rebol even more!
Most of what I'm getting is pure spam stuff - nowhere near related to anything business.

I do get a lot of business spam to other email addresses I have on LinkedIn but that's all vaguely relevant (no I don't want a website building, nor am I interested in video marketing).
> you can simply weigh sides with probabilities

Absolutely.

And is most cases one side has a 60%+ probability. That should be your side.
Problem with databases is that they have the tendency to grow over time, so the statistics change all the time, and thus the optimal query plan.
Renewing cards, don't they just send you a new one in the mail when the old one expires?
What I don't like about statistics, or rather the use if them, is the tendency to focus exclusively on them instead of treating them as the tool they are. Statistical analysis is not the subject of the DK effect or paper, it is a tool D & K used in analyzing the effect, nothing else. D&K did put more expertise, research and knowledge into their research than simple statistics.

I hate it when people are "solely2 using statistics, and other first-principle thinking approaches, to understand well researched and documented topics. And I hate it if people use solely statistics to criticize research without considering the other aspects of it. Does it mean the DK effect can be discarded or not? I don't know, I think some disagreement over the statistical methods is not enough to come to any conclusion.

Attacking the Dunning-Kruger study only on statistical grounds looks like aprime example of the DK effect in itself...
I read a lot of papers on behavioural economics and psychological decision making experiments for university, like dunning-kruger, kahneman, etc and in my opinion the first autocorrelation article reads like a rebuttal paper but more informal, the approach is scientific even if it may be flawed. This is how knowledge advances. I disagree that it is anti-science. Challenging accepted postulations is good. Even famous professors make mistakes, I don't blame the writer for making an honest mistake. That's how we got this new piece of writing

Behavioural science is a pretty new field, its pretty easy to get abberant results or manipulate the results to show 'something' statistically. Many findings in earlier papers could not be replicated, or had applied statistics incorrectly, or showed different results when research participants were not white college kids.

This is a whole other problem within academia, the pressure to publish something even when there is nothing and perceived legitimacy based on the number of citations a paper has. My professor always said don't look at the number of citations, understand the method and the rebuttal, there were numerous low citation but solid papers showing flaws in famous ones but everyone who isn't deep into the subject holds the original assertion to be legitimate because its "famous"
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Most days feel like a constant struggle between having to do my work and people getting in the way.

After 2 years I still don't know what's the functionality of my PO, basically he just pass the task from the top to poorly written tickets that constantly miss information or does not take into account or business logic, this causes a back and forth between me redefining the tickets and having to explain to him, causing him to re-explain those changes up with constant delays and blockers.

My manager is part of another team and barely interacts with my work or me in any meaningful way, we have bi-weekly 1 on 1 that are constantly cancelled for lack of topics.
Your first example is just him being wrong, not lying. The second example is him being an idiot, I would not class it as a lie. Perhaps he thought he had secured funding and/or was high. Why is it so trendy to hate on musk? Just because he has money?
A place of morals! Well, lots of other people think Twitter is a place of immoral 1984-esque dystopianism that they want no part of. Those people have money too, and if Musk takes over and cleans house they might well turn up and start doing things that can be exploited for profit, like making interesting tweets about things.
GP specified that it was "the worst part". Was a Slack bot that shunned people from writing "guys" the worst part of the "censorship" you were subjected to?
Someone should do a study to link the quality of studies over time to the implosion of credibility of studies. At this point, because the cancer that has been pervasive in “science” for decades at this point has never been meaningfully addressed, only fools and those personally invested in “the science” take any “study” with anything less than a metric ton of salt.

It is a shame, but if “scientists” are unwilling to actually follow the scientific method, maybe they are not scientists at all, but rather just run off the mill con artists. And for those who are not aware, “con artists” is short for “confidence artist“, i.e., a manipulative person committing tricks, i.e., fraud, through their ability to instill confidence in their target that they are knowledgeable or have a credible expertise in a field … confidence tricks.
The Epiphany: From Individual Contributor to Engineering Manager (and Back)
Idk why caller ID spoofing is still a thing that carriers just let happen.

Email has had the same problem and we have since built solutions like DKIM to more or less get rid of most spoofing attempts.
Performers getting to control the payout seems like a winner.
> Most people have an above-average number of legs.

The arithmetic mean and the median are both averages, but the upthread comment was about the median and yours about the arithmetic mean.

> There's really no contradiction there; all it takes is for there to be a couple low scores pulling the average down.

Well, no, when what you are estimating is relative performance by score percentiles, and people's self evaluation is biased toward the 70th percentile, that's not what is happening.
> I "fail to understand" something you actually never did or experienced, right?

No, I have worked at a variety of large institutions that have millions of lines of Python. I work with it often. The use of Python is more about it being accessible for non-developers, which is why they also teach it in schools; and the need for a standard. It is the new "Visual Basic". Again, it is not more productive in all situations.
Unexpected light behavior may improve optical communications and sensors
GitHub's UI Based Conflict Resolution Can Cause Problems
Although what makes Yaupon interesting is unlike those, it is caffeinated like "real" tea is. These ones aren't (although some like Mormon tea may have other effects).
> Pandas does is notoriously hard to fit into a compile-time type system

What, mutate data with known structure? What exactly do you imagine is hard about this, let alone notoriously so?
Many databases are also used for executing dynamically generated SQL queries: ORM based, or BI/ETL generated queries. If you rely on hints too much, having good statistics is often neglected, and this will impact any query that cannot be provided with hints.
Yeah, that's what they quoted me when I contacted customer service to figure out what happened.
He didn't misunderstand the analogy, it's obvious what was meant. He's pointing out that comparing Musk's intentions to slavery is absurd, which it is. It's a crap analogy because:

a. Nothing Musk is doing or wants to do with Twitter is immoral.

b. Even if you disagree the scale is totally wrong, but in analogies the sense of scale matters.
No, I had the account for ages, then was randomly banned.
For me, it's a Shawn in Colorado who goes to bible study, renovates houses, and signs (me!) up for every Republican newsletter he can find.

Also: When I use Facebook's feature "show data that others have uploaded about you" (or similar), it is full of this guy's stuff that was provided to facebook (and attributed to me) by businesses this guy has relationships with.

Nothing I can do to remove it.
The problem with such deceptive behaviour is that some people do fall for it and think these sites are some kind of benevolent enterprise. I don't really understand why 'reputable' brands continue to work with them?
Results sections typically do not try to make any inferences about the population at large, only the studied sample. They are also stated in the language of statistics - because the results failed to statistically uphold the "TRE is more beneficial" hypothesis, the correct interpretation is that the result is "not 'more beneficial'". In other words, the result "does not confirm that TRE is more beneficial for the sample".

Although the authors don't make a claim about the population overall in the Result section, they may be more optimistic about future research in the Discussion section of the article - I haven't accessed the full document.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blockchain – Hopes, Promises and Alternatives
Seems quite reasonable to argue that superficially plausible "debunkings" by people that apparently misunderstood a paper are more harmful to scientific progress than people casually referencing the scientist's names as a meme or insult. (And I say that as someone who didn't think the DK "debunking" argument was totally without merit)

What's more harmful to medicine: a fashionably non-expert contrarian who doesn't understand the appropriate null hypothesis making a superficially plausible statistical argument that actually the trials suggest the drug is harmful to wide acclaim from laymen, or people casually referencing or even being administered the drug without reading the original trial writeups for themselves?
Odd that nobody ever complains about peanut butter not being dairy based.
Science is in deep crisis. It's only utility today is supporting industry and some public infrastructure. Social sciences are a scam, being economics the greatest racket amongst them all.
People speak of "the algorithm" as if it were an animal spirit or American god to appease and to implore. I suppose this is our zeitgeist. Your explanation helps give me and others a conceptual grasp on the nature of the thing, so thank you.
I have a theory that CPU architectures implicitly have something I call the "architectural weirdness budget", which is the extent to which you can get away with design decisions in the architecture or ABI that differ from the existing established consensus. Any time you do something a bit odd that means that existing software has to do awkward things or might not be no-changes portable to your new architecture, you're spending a bit of your weirdness budget. Some examples:

+ HPPA's upwards-growing stack

+ SPARC register windows

+ PowerPC's slightly oddball varargs ABI

+ CHERI capabilities are massively spending weirdness budget

+ these days, being big-endian is spending weirdness budget

Doing a few odd things is fine, but if you blow your weirdness budget entirely then your new architecture is in danger of failing because you've cumulatively made adoption of it too expensive for the existing software ecosystem. So you need to be careful that you're spending it on things that really matter; if something's not a big deal, do it the same way everybody else does. (Certainly some of the things in the list above are deliberate choices for things that are, or at least seemed at the time, important. But nobody tried to do all of them at once!)

Of course if you're a pre-existing dominant architecture like x86 then you get a lot more freedom to do weird things :-)
If you write more code that is untyped than typed, you are harming whoever comes after you. Untyped code is an absolute dragon even if it is properly documented (which it practically never is). Glorifying "productivity" and putting it above the greater good is essentially everything that's wrong with the world, at every level.
The SMTP standard allows you to add a "suffix" to part of your email address that is ignored when delivering the message.

I never give out my raw email address, I use:
- name+twitter@gmail.com for twitter
- name+amazon@gmail.com for amazon
- name+hacknews@gmail.com for HN
etc

Makes it very easy to track down who sold out me email -- and filter on it.
Somewhat related to your idea, they seem to have some success with parasitic therapy with things like Crone. Introduce a "harmless" parasite (worm) and the body's immunesystem to trigger it. Not sure how long they keep it in the body, seems to be mostly for a longer time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy
I experienced the “hey guys” Slack chat bot in one organisation, had the org leader confirm that it’s a policy, and subsequently quit.

I’m transhumanist, pro changing your identity, can easily handle gender fluidity, am thrilled that both Haskell and Rust ecosystems are so welcoming of transgender. I used ‘they’ as gender-neutral singular pronoun by default for decades just to not reveal people’s gender arbitrarily. But no language policing, please.
Something like $(hex(hmac(secret_key, service)))@domain could solve that. It would also mean service can't pretend to be another-service@domain when spamming you.

Though who knows, maybe hex addresses will look fake / malicious and trigger a ban anyway.
I'd leave IT if I could find a place to rent that's not sky-high. Even much of the country-side is quite expensive and hard to afford with a regular paying job, assuming you could find a job in those kind of places in the first place. IT is the only thing I can do and still make rent, but I'm so tired of it.