skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going further afield into tangent, I love the looks of these "subway diagrams" of the commits, but I keep thinking that as great as they look and as nice screenshots as they make what I'd love to see a Git UI do is something very different: take a --first-parent approach by default and use a drilldown/expandable view of commits past first parent. It would look a lot more boring in screenshots, but could be a great way in practice to ease people into the two dimensional git DAG without making it seem so messy/busy by default. Many projects it would provide a good "PR focused" view of the repository up front and center (without being reliant on specific PR tools/APIs, only that those PR tools create merge commits).

Going off to a different tangent: the vertical colored lines down the side of a list of chronologically ordered items to show reply threads was a visualization I first spotted in the early oughts or late 90s from a showcase of Microsoft Research Visualizations and so Microsoft Research has published research and had patents on it at one time. Those patents have all since expired, I believe, but it's interesting to note that it was on some minds even back then, which was neat, and curious to wonder what if a Microsoft product had embraced it earlier. (I recall the demo felt a lot like Outlook's email list and the impression was that was what they were trying to sell it as a possible tool to the Outlook team. Which seemed a neat idea for email visualization, though I think Outlook decided that strict temporal ordering wasn't necessary for reply threading that users were happy enough with.)
I think social media tech companies are going to on a long term downward trend. People are sick do adtech and surveillance capitalism. But everything else in tech will bounce back.
Ah, I do not think they are proposing a database of _predicted_ chemical reactions but of _known_ reactions.

I absolutely agree that enumerating reactions would suffer from combinatorial explosion (as opposed to chemical explosions, hoho). However there have been some efforts in what I know find is called 'computational retrosynthesis' (I think):

https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/computer-guided-retr...

Of course, any 'prediction' of a reaction relies on some model to give you an idea of how feasible it is to do in the lab, so I'm less worried about . There's the classic Derek Lowe post (that I've seen on here before, but still) about 'FOOF':

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
The BLS's records of the labor force participation rate alone are pretty intense. https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...
I lost. Much harder for my poor non-native English speaker vocabulary. On third guess when it said I had 89 options, I couldn’t think of more than one word.

A feedback: the “you lost” screen passes too quickly, I couldn’t read the word of the day.
you might like the DEFCON channel on somafm
Is there a complete explanation for this somewhere?

Asking for a friend, I obviously fully comprehend what you're talking about here.
My go-to for all color tees is: https://www.heavytshirt.com/ which wasn't in their lineup. I've been slowly turning all my other tees into rags as they get holes or stains so that I can replace them with heavy-weight tees. The quality is just ridiculously good, it can't be overstated.
That's a good point; I'm not a contractor. I doubt my total compensation comes anywhere close to $200 an hour, though. When I was briefly a contractor last year I believe the total amount paid from the contractee to the contracting firm was closer to $150 an hour.

I think my pay is normal for my title ("ML engineer"), location (Cincinnati), and experience (master's, 10 years in the workforce). Though I wouldn't turn down a substantial pay raise ...
Presumably extremely high, because we can't name a competitor and battery supply is limited by manufacturing logistics not supply/demand.
> Monopolies, by and large are formed (and broken) by government aid/intervention.

So natural monopolies and economies of scale are caused by governments?
Worth noting that the electric F-150 was designed and built in Michigan, where they have brutal winters, and are presumably aware of the effects of cold on EV systems, having tested these vehicles in the cold.
As someone who has gone through quite a few application processes in academia, I can say the results of this (subjective) survey:

> We followed up our research with a survey of 231 academics, asking for their attitudes towards discrimination in hiring to editorial boards. Although two-thirds of academics supported no bias, for every 1 academic who supported discrimination in favour of men, 11 supported discrimination in favour of women. Our results were consistent with the hypothesis that academics and journal editors are biased in favour of women, rather than against women

Do not surprise me at all, and qualitatively the bias favoring women has seemed to be true in my experience.

HOWEVER, it's very hard to give this paper any credibility when the authors are willing to casually drop a statement like

> As mentioned, the variance in intelligence is higher amongst males, and their
average also seems to be somewhat higher

On the third page. I'm aware there have been one or two studies to this effect, but a quality like "intelligence" is so amorphous, and any attempts to measure it are surely met with confounding variables, and even if treated statistically carefully is such a controversial topic, it really just makes me feel like the authors performed this study with a certain agenda / chip on their shoulder. You may notice that both authors are men.
Hi HN,

Zwift is a cycling/running virtual world game where you connect to a smart trainer so you can ride your bike indoors when it’s raining outside (and much more!)

The game has a number of worlds with fixed routes that you can ride but after a while that gets a bit boring.

Fortunately there is also a free-roam mode where you can control your direction by pressing a button to go left/straight/right.

But that’s a bit tricky when you’re riding hard and it’s easy to miss a turn…

So I thought: how hard can it be to automate that so I can build my own routes?

Out of this RoadCaptain was born!

With RoadCaptain Route Builder you can visually create a route by clicking segments on a map.
The RoadCaptain Runner then uses that route to interact with Zwift and controls the turns you’re making in-game.

With the latest release the app is now cross-platform and available for macOS and Windows (Linux _almost_ works) which has been a fun journey to get there.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
Could you explain what exactly you mean by "leverage" in this context? Does this just mean take out loans? I feel like interest payments really screw you on most loans.
SomaFM has always ruled, and will continue to rule for the foreseeable future.

Also, Starstreams is old-school and remains great. Easiest to listen to them via iHeartRadio app on my TV these days..

Mixcloud is fantastic as well.

And Mixlr is nice depending on the DJ.
You moved the for loop inside the inner function, rather than outside.
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Federation would make me almost instantly recommend it for a handful of cases, but in the meantime they have a lot of catching up to do in the privacy department.

Behold, the two five year old tickets requesting that they stop passing notification text to Apple/Google cloud messaging:

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/6954

https://github.com/zulip/zulip-mobile/issues/1190

For those who don't know: if you have an app and want to send a notification to a user, you use Apple or Google push notification services. In both cases, the notification is plaintext but transmitted via encrypted channel to Apple or Google, then transmitted via encrypted channel to the user's phone. But in each case, the push messaging provider gets to see the messaging text.

So companies that give a shit about your privacy send a token instead, that says "hey, wake up, something happened, fetch a notification." Apple likely doesn't do anything with the notification text, but it's a given Google datamines the hell out of it.

They also still don't have any form of e2ee. Here's another five year old ticket requesting end to end encrypted chat, where a bunch of people say "here's a long list of apps that support e2ee" and Zulip devs go "gosh golly how do they handle keys? Math is hard."

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/6096
https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/production/mobile-pus... has some more detail around mobile notifications.

Our plan is to add end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications, and we've got a design, but limited progress on implementation. One can follow the issue here: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/6954.
An interesting take from the post is that nobody other than Seafile is even attempting to cater to the author's requirement. Perhaps it is a very niche requirement? Alternatively, that implementing the requirement in a clean-and-perfect manner is either not possible with the current state of the tech OR it is complicated enough that nobody else bothers to do it given the lack of demand?

It seems that although Seafile's implementation leaves something wanting (I think Option #1 of never sending the key to the server may be a superior option), the sheer fact of the feature's availability trumps the sub-optimality of its implementation. The author also implies that the implementation is "good enough" for his (and presumably most others') use cases.
C is significantly slower at concurrency when implemented naively. It's as fast as languages like Go when implemented using the same techniques, which is not obvious and trivial to use like in a higher level GC'd language. GC actually helps out a ton there, for example look at the complexity of async/await in Rust which requires the notion of pinning.

Unreal packs its own garbage collection. This is a pattern you see quite often, GC is discarded because it's slow/the specific implementations don't fit the task, so an alternative GC is written to be used in a lower level language that doesn't require it natively. Contrast to Unity which uses C#. As for Minecraft, like I said originally you don't want to look at just GC for performance problems - that's a naive understanding of why languages perform poorly. Java is actually extremely fast and used in environments with tighter constraints than a game like MC.

https://github.com/gostor/awesome-go-storage#database

https://java-source.net/open-source/database-engines

Not a database but honorable mention, LMAX disrupter: https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/
You can't guess Y twice...
Me neither because I pay myself. But if I were an employee I would not mine my base automatically indexed to inflation. This of course will wreak havoc in the whole system.
> I'd be able to listen to (essentially) any song whenever I wanted.

For a while now I've considered this to be more of a curse than anything else because at least personally I've noticed that the constant hopping replaces genuinely paying attention with quantity. I now pick a handful of albums per month or pick an NTS session I like and re-listen much more.
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> What would be the benefit of having a browser with a new web engine?

It would be beneficial if it can be more easily modified and customized and the pieces can be taken apart and used independently or combined differently. Furthermore, some parts might be able to be made more efficient in some ways.

And then, actual progress and actual improvements can be made; to be improved would mean some things might need deliberately differently, etc. This way it can be one design mainly or only for advanced users who are assumed to know what they are doing, etc.
I was a google employee.

So, you're right. I started wiht a quota of 1 gpu and can make an instance, but if I request more quota it's immediately turned down (no human involved, afaict). It just says to contact your sales rep. I wasn't aware (wasn't the case when I worked there) they autoreject GPU quota increases.
However, the gap falls to 0.13 standard deviations (p < 0.001) when years publishing is controlled for.

This is a much smaller gap than I would have expected.
Here is the patent in question.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10773602B2/en
Universities are in trouble. I know of three that are unable to hire
for senior and middle positions. They've been advertising for
months. Here (UK), Brexit is partly to blame, along with post Cov19
fatigue, and aging population with many retiring. As I've said in
other comments, the main problem is that academia has become hideously
corrupted by "professional management" values leading to de-skilling
as good people leave.
Rocket.Chat uses their own E2EE scheme [1] which is different and arguably less secure than the one in Matrix [2]. As I understand it, this is simply a bridge and will defeat the purpose of the advanced E2EE algorithm in Matrix. I recall looking at Rocket.Chat when setting up chat servers for my corporation and dropping it over their poor and slow to adopt E2EE implementations.

[1] https://docs.rocket.chat/guides/security/end-to-end-encrypti...

[2] https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm
In my anecdotal experience working for a public university in the US. All VP level or higher admin staff were women and about 3/4 of our department heads were Women.

My university was probably an outlier. But it was funny doing our yearly diversity training and getting to the section about Women's underrepresentation in management.
..Almost as if there's an interest in keeping a permanent underclass of "wage slaves".
Which works until it doesn't, unless you are part of George Carlin's big club that we all aren't in.
Everyone did move further from SF. That's where all the bay area sprawl came from. That farm land got filled in with housing, so now there's not much countryside anymore.

People then moved even further away, causing the sprawl to spread out even more. We're well on our way to being a giant low density megacity as a result.
Please for the love of his noodliness, stop passing notifications in plaintext to push messaging providers. This five year old ticket is embarrassing: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/6954
I don't feel like that is accurate at all. The most valuable assets by far are successful companies. While it is true that they are owned in large part by a "few" (relative to the total population), that few changes often. We've seen massive changes in wealth in just the past decade alone, particularly in tech.
Truck also has insurance cost, and coat (energy, higher insurance) of using an overlarge truck for driving when you would have used a smaller car one otherwise.
Why does it have to be ‘mythical’ and ‘lowly’ and why should that matter? Managing is a different role than engineering, even though there can be overlap.
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I didn't swear at them, I said what the american response is/should be to such a statement.
I don't use it often but I'm a big fan. I think just like how you don't look up whether someone is using outlook or gmail when you want to email them, IM and video calls should not be bound to clients. It's stupid that I need MS Teams to talk to someone, when all my stuff are on another platform. Matrix is fixing that.
It’s wild to see the discoveries being made in ML research. Like most of these ‘discoveries,’ it makes a fair amount of sense after thinking about it. Of course it’s not just going to spit out random noise for random input, it’s been trained to generate realistic looking images.

But I think it is an interesting discovery because I don’t think anyone could have predicted this.

One of my favorite examples is the classification model that will identify an apple with a sticker on it that says “pear” as a pear—it makes sense, but is still surprising when you first see it.
Was DALL-E 2 trained on captions from multiple languages? If so, this makes a lot of sense. Somewhere early in the model the words "bird", "vogel", "oiseau" and "pájaro" have to be mapped to the same concept. And "Apoploe vesrreaitais" happens to map to the same concept. Or maybe "Apoploe vesrreaitais" is rather the tokenization of that concept, since it also appears in the output. So in a sense DALL-E is using an internal language to make sense of our world.
This is the most interesting aspect of Wordle to me, and the fact that hard-mode pretty much breaks it along with leading to random no-win situations basically ruined Wordle for me. Sure, I can just play it without hard mode - but then my friends and I aren't playing the same game.
Interestingly Google detects these words as Greek. I know they are nonsensical and not actually Greek but I'm wondering if any Greek speakers might be able to provide some insights. Are these gibberish words close to meaningful words? (clear shot in the dark here) Maybe a linguist could find more meaning?
Unintuitive to biased humans. The solutions may actually be super intuitive/efficient, and we just can't wrap our heads around it yet
Exponential growth in a constrained system. A microphone next to a speaker.
With maintenance, cars last about 20years unless they get extremely high mileage.
This post is titled "Economic Pessimism Growing in U.S."...
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Something to this effect. Use borrowed money to buy more assets.

In reality, this is terrible advice if you can't service the interest. It's a scheme that worked in a low rate environment, but likely will no longer be viable.
Historically, that's when a revolution or regime-change happens. This is something the richest of the rich have either forgotten or mistakenly think they'll be insulated from.

Like the line from Titanic when the extravagantly wealthy Calvert is trying to buy himself onto a lifeboat – "Your money can't save you any more than it can save me."
First, a point of terminology: uncountably infinite refers to any infinite cardinality other than countably infinite, so if the number of probability distributions is at least the cardinality of the real numbers, then it's already uncountable.

As for what uncountable cardinality they form, it's the same as the real numbers [0]. Roughly, a probability distribution is determined by the countable collection of real numbers P(X <= q) with q rational. That means the cardinality is no more than R^Q, which is isomorphic to R. (the cardinality is at least R due to, say, uniform distributions on [0, x] for x real).

[0] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3698864/why-does-th...
Would you comment on arbitration services? AAA seems to be legit, while National Arbitration Forum was a front for a collection agency.[1] What about JAMS?

[1] https://www.wallacefrancis.com/the-great-arbitration-scam
> Eventually will lead to a revolution.

I doubt it.

1) That's why the west are pushing for forms of government surveillance disguised as Covid tracking, or anti-terrorist surveillance, or anti-child-porn surveillance, or whatever flavor of the month the current "enemy" happens to be, to make sure they can see it coming and stamp out any potential public dissidence before it hits the elites.

2) Unlike the French or Soviet revolutions from a couple of hundred years ago, which saw the deaths of the elites, the elites of today can travel to remote places using planes to distance themselves from the angry mobs, and rule their empires remotely using the internet. Huge game changers compared to the past.
It's not completely redundant. You can't make a naked CNAME record (technically you can, but things will break in mysterious ways), and there's no standardised means of dynamically updating an A/AAAA record e.g. to match a virtualised load balancer (e.g. AWS ELB). Vendors have non-standard extensions to work around this, e.g. Route53 has the ALIAS virtual type (which presents itself as an A/AAAA to the clients); I wrote some cron+dig hacks in the past when that wasn't available (e.g. with ChinaCache).
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What does "senior and middle positions" mean? Are you talking about something that has the potential to be a tenured position, non-tenured academic positions, or non-academic positions?
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As with the other question, above - I think this paper proposes a database of known (experimentally verified?) reactions, rather than predicted ones. Guess they should have been clearer.

RMG predicts likely reactions based on chemical kinetics, which might also make a useful database itself - or link to the experimental one, of course.
> But we can improve through practice, it's pretty simple.

So simple as to be trivial. As applied to education (it was all the rage a couple of years back), Dweck's work is either unfalsifiable or just truisms.
Excuse a question from a total statistics illiterate:

> Using a transformation of the h-index as our indicator of research output, we find male research output to be 0.35 standard deviations (p < 0.001) above female research output. However, the gap falls to 0.13 standard deviations (p < 0.001) when years publishing is controlled for.

What does this mean? What does "years publishing is controlled for" means?
here's a secret: these things aren't constant. Everybody has been a 10x engineer for at least one day in their career. Everybody has also been a -10x engineer for at least one day in their career. Most of us spend our time sliding somewhere between the two extremes depending on our mood, how interested we are in this particular part of the project, whether we're distracted by health issues, etc.
Mayhaps when it hits $15 they will be paying for the true cost to society.
So the econony is promoting unproductive HODL over productive contribution to the real economy
It's not a small thing, it's a huge thing. The way the entire UI is structured around this one difference is great, and makes for a completely different (and much, much better) experience.
That's part of the fun! My current strategy is to never use "H" in my letter-elimination guesses, and never use "E" if I've already matched "S" and "A". I learned my lesson after winning on a 50/50 guess on one of the SHA_E days.
It got way too easy and boring to use the same word. It's common amongst my friends to have multiple guesses queued up based on what the first word clues give them. I usually just yolo it and for once my awful memory works for me - I can barely remember my first guess from the previous day let alone the subsequent guesses so every day is a brand new game with a different strategy every day.
> Student debt is mostly held by the richer half of the US population

It's mostly held by the federal government.

It's mostly owed by the richer half, but that's misleading when it comes to impact.

Sure, households in the bottom half of the top quintile have twice the average student loan debt of those in the bottom quintile, they also have more than 10 times the income. The average student debt in the bottom quintile ($25,030) is about the upper income limit ($27Kish as of 2020) of the bottom quintile, while the average in the bottom half of the top quintile (80-89th percentile, $51,380) is a little.more than 1/3 the lower limit ($143K in 2020) of the top quintile. (And the upper half of the top income quintile actually has a lower average student debt that the bottom half, or the whole of the next highest income quintile, not just a lower average student debt to income ratio.)

The share of households with any student debt and the average household student debt-to-income ratio decreases consistently with household income.

See, https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/average-stu... and https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/household-income-...

EDIT:

To directly answer your question:

> Serious question: would it do more good if instead of giving money to people with student debt, you gave money to people without it?

Would it do more good to relieve 75% of bottom-income-quintile households (student debt relief) or 25% (anti student debt relief)? Clearly the former.