skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nasdaq to Acquire Metrio, a Leader in Sustainability Software
It sounds like you may want to search for lower-maintenance friends.
A New Era for Ada/Spark Open Source Community
Anyone whith a passion for the Viruses and the Nords Leads may be interested in this project that is reverse engineering and emulating the Motorola DSP563xx
https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/
Mullvad is not small.
It's also important that people understand what "control for" means in an observational study.

Nearly all observational studies that you read draw their conclusions from regression analysis (or something, such as a ANOVA, which is a can be trivially implemented as regression analysis).

This just means that a linear model such as this is used:

outcome ~ b_coffee * drinks_coffee + b_income_level * income_level ....

Then, unlike in machine learning, researchers look at the value of the coefficients and most importantly the confidence in the coefficient value. In a simplified example:

years_of_life ~ b_coffee * drinks_coffee + b_intercept

Where b_intercept will represent the life expectancy in general. Then b_coffee (since drinks coffee is binary here) will represent whether or not coffee adds to your years of life. If it's negative it means drinking coffee reduces your life expectancy and if it's positive it means it increases it. In statistics we also look at how certain we are in b_coffee in terms of standard error and p-values. For example if b_coffee is say 5, meaning it adds 5 years to your life, but our standard error in this estimate is 4 (ie 95% chance that the real impact is between -3 and 13 years). In this case the p-value for this coefficient will be higher than necessary to conclude "statistical significance".

But suppose the standard error is very small, like 1 year, where we are virtually certain that coffee does improve life expectancy. To control for say, college education, we just add that coefficient to our model.

years_of_life ~ b_coffee * drinks_coffee + b_college + has_degree + b_intercept

The magic of regression analysis is that if, in fact, people that go to college life longer and people that go to college also drink more coffee, the our coefficient for b_coffee will change in this new model to reflect this. If for example it were to become negative now (with a low p-value) what we would conclude from this model is that coffee is in fact bad for you, and college is good for you and it just happens that a lot of people who go to college also drink coffee.

Just as even the most advanced AI is often just a lot of matrix multiplication with non-linear transforms, the vast majority of observational studies are drawing conclusion using linear models. In practice, as you add more variables to your model, you tend to get a lot of tricky to interpret results. Regression analysis is a remarkably powerful tool, but it is important to remember when you see publications this is what is really happening and there is a lot of room for subtlety when interpreting these models.
280 grams would be very bad. 280 mg, substantially better :).
> the track is the safest place to be! everyone's going the same way, the roads are meticulously well maintained, and there are no cops!

anecdotal, but in my experience with driving race cars : tracks are pretty far from meticulously well maintained.

perhaps meticulously documented; "T12s soft berm had been eroding for years, take a rain line around it.", but rarely meticulously maintained.

that said, maybe motorcycles have a different experience?
I think the 10x thing is about perception, I worked with Principal Engineers at AWS who designed products used by millions, and now similarly at Google, and they just have a ton of experience in a niche area and can leverage that well, with excellent communication skills and vision, but they are not 10x , i would say 1.5x at best. Now, if you think the senior guy on your team is a 10x-er because he knows all the little tricks of Ruby on Rails, or is parroting Martin Fowler non stop, or is the type of person who leave 20 comments in a PR about spacing , code style, etc... then yeah sure, each person can believe whatever. If you want to make the case the true best of the best don't come to FAANG, then I really dunno what to tell you. And regarding your analogy about other areas of life, software is different, software is not a single player game. And lastly, I don't care really, I worked with brilliant people on products used by millions, I feel lucky to work with them, and they too think the 10x engineer thing is a myth.
I know nothing about the parent or their experience [edit: and thanks to the parent for posting this]. I do know that commonly, people in positions of power (managers or people in the majority) believe the following but it's often not true; that is, the signal is always same, but not the reality. That is, the signal is meaningless as an indicator of the underlying situation, but when I find myself thinking it, it is potentially a signal that I'm missing something.

> "I ... have a positive influence." [note: not what the parent actually said; it's abridged for my example]

> "The Dev team took less than five minutes to round-table agree that she was fit for the position."

> "I asked for feedback from ..."

A cause is that the people in a vulnerable position, the people who actually have the experience and know if you are having a positive influence or if they are accepted, don't have a voice, a safe way to speak about their experiences. Just saying 'you are safe', 'I support you', etc., doesn't make it so. Just having a conversation doesn't mean you know.

A useful rule for me is that if everything I hear feels relatively comfortable, then I am not hearing nearly everything.

We've all been in situations where someone invites us to be open and frank (especially your boss!): How do you respond? You know that many say it without meaning it - because it's polite, or it's in the HR training, or because they don't seriously considering what they are asking for. You know that some even say it to trap you, and some say it because they want to openly and frankly tell you something - and they do, ignoring what you said and then going on a rant. Some mean it but then can't handle it; they hear something disruptive to their worldview or needs (such as a stable, stress-free team or family), and react poorly, ignore it, or they bury their alarm and carry it around, associating it with you, degrading the relationship. Really, how often do you hear that invitation and then actually speak openly and frankly?

Now imagine that it's about a highly inflammatory topic which has yielded bad results throughout your life, about which you carry a lot of trauma. It might be a relatively new experience to the person in power, but to the vulnerable person it's something they've dealt with daily, they have ways to cope without dealing with it afresh all the time, and they've tried that conversation many times with little success. Just imagine your boss invites you to speak openly and frankly about politics or Donald Trump, and you might have an idea.

It's not hopeless, but there is an art and there are techniques for making it work, and plenty of expertise is available now that can guide people who are truly serious about hearing uncomfortable things.
Not under "race", but CA law lists "ancestry" as a protected characteristic. I'm having some trouble understanding how caste discrimination is anything other than ancestry discrimination.
Should it be ignored until it's confirmed to be sampling bias?
This is so cool and so cute at the same time! Love it! Maybe an alt mode could adjust speed according to the frequency of making a "tschk" sound. :)
I don't care about private endowments, that's the business of donors. There does seem to be conflicting opinions on whether tax money (student loans) flows into endowments and, if so, that should be immediately shut down.
Two things:

1 - Them sending you a teeshirt is a form of advertising. They're hoping you will wear it and be an advocate for them in your social circle. This is a reasonable thing to spend money on.

2 - Engagement. They're trying to keep you engaged in what they're doing, this is valuable too.

Of course, you don't want them spending all their resources on this, but a certain percentage is absolutely a good idea. This is why you should care about non-profits statements about % of funds that go towards the charity vs overhead.
This is really interesting to me.

I found myself wondering if some of these methods could be applied to probability densities as a way of quantifying intuitive notions about modality. My guess is this has already been applied but I'll have to look it up.
I thought the "modern" approach to this was like with ORMs like diesel (in rust)[1] et al.:
Have a directory with all DDL-migrations (sometimes generated, sometimes explicit; sometimes one-way-migrations, sometimes bidirectional) and let the application do the migrations itself when starting up, according to a migration version number in the database.

Completely obsoletes any other tools and makes building up a new database (e.g. for test instances etc) an easy order. Are there cases where this can't be applied in new projects?

[1] For an example, see https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/tree/mast... in combination with https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/blob/mast...
> "one hydrogen cartridge is assumed to generate enough electricity to operate a typical household microwave for approximately 3-4 hours."

So, let's oversimplify and say that a typical household microwave consumes 1200W continuously. That's about 4.8kWh over 4 hours.

Given current Lithium battery energy densities (18650: 200Wh/kg) then you'd need 24kg of lithium batteries to supply the same amount of energy.

The cartridge Toyota has developed manages to do this for 5.5kg. Not bad, but not a paradigm shift, considering you have to build a logistics network to refill the cartridges.

> In its press release, Toyota acknowledges that most hydrogen is made from fossil fuels and so not exactly green. But it thinks that it'll be generated with low carbon emissions in the future, and that the cartridges could help with some of the infrastructure issues.

If we could all stop shilling for "Green Hydrogen" that would be great. Batteries can be charged today from low-carbon sources, and the electric grid is already present in most places you'd drive an EV, and certainly more places than have a preexisting hydrogen cartridge distribution network.

> However, Toyota seems to be pitching the cartridges for personal and home use, but it's not yet clear what you'd use them for.

In a world where Lithium batteries exist and the technology has far more R&D investment, what would you use these for? Why is Toyota still throwing cash into the hydrogen money pit?
There are 200+ million Dalits in India. These are the people which were previously called “untouchables”.

I work in medicine, many Indians work with me and most are Brahmins with a few Christian Malayali from Kerala.

I think the Malayali have shown it is possible to escape the caste system and to have success.

However I am worried Dalits have been at the bottom and treated as such for thousands of years that it has effected more than just their psychology. In a high population density area with food insecurity there will be high baseline stress, malnutrition, and starvation. Those will cause epigenetic modifications to DNA which are (surprisingly) heritable. Over thousands I imagine these effects will produce behaviors which are going to be hard to overcome.
Ah, happy to see a fellow car enthusiast :)

Well, I'm not from North America. I'm from India.

But I do know a forum here with 100k+ car enthusiasts:

https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/team-bhp-reviews/

In case you were wondering, 6 cylinder diesel BMWs are infact very popular in India. All powered by the N57 engine. Couldn't find too much with the older M57, but to be fair BMW sales really picked up in India only after the F10 5-series was launched at around 2010, and I'm not sure if they ever had the M57 engine.

Among car enthusiasts in India, the 530d is perhaps the most coveted sedans. (535d and 540d were never sold here. North America gets plenty of cool cars which aren't sold here).

Here are a couple of great reviews of the 525d and 530d with that engine on the aforementioned forum:

(530d)
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/official-new-car-reviews/1074...

(525d)
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/official-new-car-reviews/8261...

Other owner reviews that I could find:

(530d; I personally felt this was especially well written)
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/long-term-ownership-reviews/1...

(530d)
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/test-drives-initial-ownership...

(X3 30d)
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/long-term-ownership-reviews/1...

(X3 30d)
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/test-drives-initial-ownership...

(X3 30d)
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/test-drives-initial-ownership...
What Only the CEO Can Do
That's how I am. I don't like responding ASAP, but the alternative is no response at all (or suddenly responding six months later).
I think anecdotal evidence is almost literally what "partly" means.
On my wishlist ;)

Does he shave? How about something "vintage"...
https://merkurshave.com/merkur-safety-razors/
I'm afraid there is none. Also its better if people from the west do not try to draw parallels with their experiences and culture. It simply doesn't match. This would help you understand the caste system and once you do, you would literally see it in any place where Indians live/work. The revelations would be mind boggling for sure.

For ex, if there are a bunch of Indians in a work place and a few of them are from lower caste, they will not be invited for lunches, dinners or any socialising event by their upper caste counter parts. Implicit untouchability.

I have read that in the US tech companies this is far too common and since their white (only white specifically. Because they don't care about what their black/asian/latino colleagues think.) colleagues don't understand caste, there are no repercussions for any discrimination.
Google is so morally bankrupt at this point they have no idea what is right. The far left has given everyone the impression that standing up to this nonsense is racist
This is likely the only reasonable counter to my opinion so far. That said, is caste of a racial nature? To my understanding it really more of a social construct more tied to ethnicity.
Social media tool that schedules months of content in minutes
As a Dalit myself, I wrote a Dalit 101 for non Indian audience.

https://thelit.substack.com/p/dalit-101
Toroidal Sliding Puzzle => chefkiss emoji
> I agree that if anyone was to do just one overnight train trip in the US, they should do Chicago and/or Denver to Emeryville.

The other routes I've done are Charleston -> Savannah, Fort Worth -> Austin, Boston -> Chicago -> St. Louis, Boston -> Portland, St. Louis -> KC, and many trips to every stop on the Northeast Corridor. They were each interesting in their own way, but I just like trains and for a more general audience I'd say the Zephyr is really on a totally different level.
Just shoot me.
There's a "How programs are measured" link on these pages which show measurements:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

:and these pages:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

:and these pages:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Isn’t the dust just going to rain down on you as soon as you turn the fan off?
The biggest change that I personally mourn is the death of cheat codes in games. They're all but nonexistent these days, and if you want even the most reasonable gameplay tweaks you have to hope it's both on PC, and mod friendly enough.
We've also had Peking -> Beijing
Paid Search Engines Are Dead on Arrival
As commonly implemented, it’s certainly a less-skilled job with a lot of banal repetition, tedious procedure, and not much scope for or need of original thought.

As one familiar with the Indian education system (which is heavily rote-based and does not generally encourage understanding-based learning, especially before the tertiary level) and the mentality it produces in comparison with the western mind, I would say (and please don’t misunderstand me; I’m making a dispassionate assessment of why it might be so, not whether it should or should not be so) that this is actually a pretty good match, and it would not surprise me—nay, I would expect—to find Indians and especially Indian women fitting in better into that style of QA department than into other fields such as development; and when you have a large fraction of people who think in such-and-such a way, it will tend to be self-reinforcing and -perpetuating. (This is also a significant factor in why these sorts of effects in how you think as a whole have a habit of lingering for a generation or two after transplantation into another country.)
That's not a coincidence. The mathematical structure of both puzzles is essentially the same. The moves in both puzzles form a non-abelian group, which is the source of the challenge. See http://web.mit.edu/sp.268/www/rubik.pdf
Because for us Westerners this form of discrimination is, well, invisible. It is based on subtle things we don't see. It stays within a group, that to us, seems completely homogenous. Plus, how many Westerners actually are aware the Indian caste system exists at all?

men discriminating and harrassing women? Sexism, check.

White discriminating people of color? Racism, check.

One Indian being a dick to another Indian? A personal thing between those two people. Only that ot is not, it is so much more, we Westerners just don't see it. And since we don't see it we have a pretty solid chance of intervening on the wrong side, if we intervene at all.
Okay, what DEI talks have they not cancelled in that case? Might show their biases.
Yet unlike compilers, they don't handle obfuscation well.
Obviously this is HN and not r/Livestreamfail, but the vast majority of Super Fans are not buying courses or supporting the development of content.

The real Super Fans have an unhealthy obsession with an online personality and think they are going to buy a friendship, or a girlfriend, or some other reciprocity. I worked in this industry for a bit. A lot of times big donors will dump their life savings or steal a family member or relative's credit card (Which is why the rate of chargebacks is so high). The companies pushing this have all the data and know exactly what's going on, but market to this demographic anyway.

IMO it's no different than a Casino taking advantage of someone with a gambling addiction. It's not a "Passion Economy" it's an economy of exploitation and social dysfunction.
we are what we do: qualities are just a characterization of known behavior
JVM can. I have JetBrains set up to use them.
It sounds like they didn't cover lifestyle factors, but I'm wondering if you even could. Over 7 years, does 170,000 participants means people lying or not remembering things properly cancel each other out? or would the data be too muddied to tell.
I didn't used to, but after seeing how noxious communities get when you normalize the kinds of reflexive confrontationalism and assumptions of bad faith you find online I changed my tune. I haven't seen a single place improve once people start treating and talking about structural discrimination as some sort of original sin that individuals need to repent and seek absolution for. It's generally much more useful to focus on individual behaviors people are engaging in and pointing out the ways in which they are helpful or unhelpful at creating an inclusive community.
One would assume speed testing website would use `Cache-Control: no-store`...

But alas, they do not, lol. They just use no-cache on the query which will not prevent the browser from storing the data.

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/8112dd9346dd66e8.png
I really liked BrowserQuest, a "massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment":
https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/
Something can be both. Incredibly low-skilled and easy yet valuable.
I agree that MacOS seems to be missing some basics out of the box. Especially the lack of native support for tiling windows was annoying to me as well. I'm using https://rectangleapp.com (the free version) now for this, which works well for me.
I drink anywhere between 0-5 cups of black coffee a day. By cup I mean a standard size coffee cup you'd find in any store. Sometimes I'll throw in a cappuccino (double espresso) because I'm feeling like having one. So far I've lived through studies telling me I will live shorter, and studies telling me I will live longer.

There seems to be an unhealthy neurosis/anxiety built up around staving off death as long as possible - the number of articles on HN, companies started around longevity by people who are, to put it bluntly, scared shitless of dying, is disturbing. You can't lower your risk of dying. If enjoy a cup of coffee, then enjoy a damn cup of coffee regardless of what studies say.
can we stop shilling for green electricity? we know batteries are not charged from low carbon sources today
Does a chess server count? Lichess is in my opinion one of the greatest success stories as a fully free (both libre and gratis) project that competes with a closed and paid for profit competitor, while being funded by donations.

https://lichess.org
It may be a little hard to do this though, the athletes often weren't aware they were doping and to what degree, so you don't really have a good way to split them into doped/non-doped cohorts to do this sort of analysis.
> And before someone asks "But what if it's .. instead?": Yes, they controlled for lots of things

On Reddit's /r/science board, there's a base rule that "criticism of published work should assume basic competence of the researchers and reviewers".

I think it would benefit HN if we all made the same assumption.
Using a Container Registry as RAM
The researchers themselves state they're not sure if coffee is good for you or it is indicative of other lifestyle factors.
That has nothing to do with it. There's no tolerable level, but more is still worse than less, and GP's point means more people with a direct vested interest in calling for change.
Even directly in USA Google (and other companies) employ very many Indians. The stats that I can find about Google say that in their USA offices 42% of them are Asian, and out of those the general tech industry stats tell me that roughly 40% would be from India, so caste might be relevant to something like 15% percent of the workforce; and I have no stats on caste distribution but if I guess that disadvantaged castes might be 1/3 of that i.e. 5% then that is a larger group than African Americans which are 4.4% in Google USA.
The combination of Svelte’s DX and performance is truly unmatched and unlocked a lot of doors for me as a developer too.
Small nuclear reactors produce '35x more waste' than big plants
Does an API similar to vmsplice exist for Windows?
Being interviewed for a tech position means showing the four levels of tech talk
> I hope I was able to show, too, that I don't consider Rust the perfect, be-all-end-all programming language. There's still a bunch of situations where, without the requisite years of messing around, you'll be stuck. Because I'm so often the person of reference to help solve these, at work and otherwise, I just thought I'd put a little something together. [emphasis mine]

As you can also see from the table of contents at the top of the article page, it goes through a great breadth of topics. And you can use that table of contents to jump to the afterword.
It just makes sense in the airplane and internet age to revisit these names.

I knew the names "Pekin" and "Pondicherry" were (bad) attempts at Romanizing the local pronunciation. Since this was done in the 1600's, there was no way to have a local native speaker record himself saying the correct name and replay it back for Europeans ears.
The “easiest” way to start making $300K/yr is to buy a SaaS business