skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We really need to be more precise in our terminology here. "Sampling from a distribution" can mean a lot of things.

I know it to mean only one thing: Generating a value in such a way, so that if that process were to be repeated, the generated values follow the given distribution. How exactly this is done is irrelevant, as long as the distribution is correct. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-random_number_sampling.

> [...] it seems like they were trying (?) to sample from the binomial CDF.

This is technically unclear usage of terminology. You can not actually sample from a CDF. But it is clear that you are referring to Inverse transform sampling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_transform_sampling) – where you sample from a Uniform distribution and use that sample to generate a sample form a non-uniform distribution using that distribution's CDF.

> The code OP posted was just taking the ratio of two binomial random variables. It's not "sampling from a binomial", except (perhaps) in the sense that each of those random variables was the result of independent coin flips.

Once again: Since the Binomial distribution is the distribution of a series of independent coin flips, doing a series of independent coin flips is a perfectly valid way of sampling the binomial distribution.

> Based on the sibling comments, it seems like they were trying (?) to sample from the binomial CDF.

As they explain in the sibling comment, they generate two samples from the binomial distribution and compare them to each other the same way the original authors did. What they achieve by this is sampling from the same random variable that the original authors were implicitly sampling from. They then took multiple samples from that variable in order to get a feel for its distribution, to confirm their original point: That 3% is not an uncommonly big value under that distribution.

> Setting this aside, my high-level point was OPs calculation doesn't have anything to do with error distributions.

So I don't quite now what you mean by "error distribution". I assume you mean the distribution of the random variable that had the value of 3% in the article? If so, then OPs calculation does – as explained – have a lot to do with that distribution. It does not calculate that distribution, but it samples from it, which is a useful way to get a feel for a distribution without having to do any fancy mathematics or research.
This is a very useful hack, thanks. Unfortunately, my defensive scripting instincts do not allow me to use it on the "serious" situations.
I don't know Elon Musk gets out of bed in the morning, having blown $40 billion on Twitter when 1% of that would probably be enough to endow an institution like Arecibo for generations if managed properly.

I'm projecting my own preferences on him, of course, but still. He seemed to be more of a genuine space geek than he turned out to be.
As with any news, the idea is to create awareness and force THE to be more transparent. If you hadn't come across this article, and were perusing the THE rankings, wouldn't you wonder why some of the IIT's are missing (especially if you were planning to apply for admission there)?
> If you have spent any time traveling, you know this is a silly thing to say.

I know from my own home city, Seattle, that this is bad advice.

If someone comes here and doesn't do any of the tourist things, hike up one of our many many mountains, go to the rain forest, spend a day out on Lake Washington, or stop by one of the many Sea Fair events, then they aren't actually doing the things that locals also do.

Because, surprise surprise, locals around here also go hiking and camping and go watch naked bicyclists.

Go to the "touristy" parts of Japan, and they are filled with Japanese residents doing fun things! Feeding the deer in Nara is something everyone loves to do, so don't be elitist, go do it! The fashion districts in Tokyo are amazing, go buy an outrageous new outfit! Anyone who spends half a second looking around will see that plenty of people who live there have done the same thing.

Likewise, the large museums in different countries are all worth visiting. The museum in the Forbidden City has dioramas made out of gem stones, they are one of the most memorable things I have ever seen!

I agree, staying at an Air BnB in a "safe but not cool" part of a city that is still on a transit line is a good idea. Eating at local restaurants is a good idea, but wow, the author is so self assured that his way of doing things is superior.

I agree that if someone goes to an all inclusive resort in Mexico, then they haven't visited Mexico. I encourage everyone I meet to go spend a week in Mexico City (CDMX is one of my favorite cities!!!), it completely destroyed any lingering bullshit stereotypes I had about Mexico. (Fun fact: Mexico City has the second largest metropolitan GDP of any city in North America)

But, again, also, GO DO FUN STUFF.
The only scientific connection between climate change and CO2 are global circulation models. I've read the code of several of these. The quality of code is terrible, with so many obvious mistakes, unreadable functions, code copy between different models and what not.

The entire narrative controlling trillions of dollars rests on code whose quality wouldn't pass 10$ bug bounty.

Quite like how the Fed economic policy which predicted transitory inflation was probably done with similarly bad models. Or how coronavirus spread models overshot and led to terrible decisions.

I don't trust centralized decisions done like that. They amplify expected errors into devastating proportions.
Imagine waiting 16 years for a PR :/
Oh please, AMD CPUs had lower clocks so to compete with Intel's (making up numbers to illustrate the point) 2.3Ghz where theirs was 2.1Ghz, they would call it Athlon 2300 or something to the effect.
They may have had a point that their 2.1Ghz was as good as Intel's 2.3Ghz chip, but it's not been straightforward, probably, since a 286.
(Edit, I meant to reply to the parent comment)
Surely you mean systemd-grepd -z nuts
Having worked in healthcare tech for over a decade, it's extremely common for healthcare facilities to send medical records over fax.

HIPAA and BAAs are for lawyers to argue about after your medical records has been exposed, and if attempts to remedy the situation deteriorate.
Are you maybe thinking of CPUs back when they were marketed by clock speed? Because GPU naming has always been a mess. In the mid 2000s for example you had the Nvidia Geforce 7 series with product names such as: 7800 GS, 7800 GT, 7800 GTX, 7900 GS, 7900 GT, 7900 GTX, 7900 GTO, 7900 GX2. They've been moderately consistent with "bigger numbers in the name = higher end card" but beyond that you can't tell anything meaningful without comparing the cards in a table.
> funny situation

Not really, it's expected quirks of ambitious PRC industrial policy which have historically been successful. Spam it until you make it. Inefficient on paper, but ultimately extremely efficient because the alternative is to have no indigenous options. Losing few billions out of ~100B worth of big funds over ~10 years is just cost of business (fast, cheap, good etc). It's about as inefficient as Intel insisting on divident payments + layoffs even with CHIPs. But in PRC, folks actually get punished / incentives aligned via anti-corruption / CCDI. Meanwhile, actual PRC semi capacity has increased dramatically in last few years, after leadership decided to stop halfassing post Huawei sanctions.

> some countries

Thousands semi shops closed down because that's what it takes to speedrun the ENTIRE semi supply chain, an effort no other country can even attempt.

> looking for work

US export controls just destroyed 1/3 of western semi revenues, there will likely be mass layoffs in west coming. Meanwhile PRC domestic semi industry just became a gold rush for non-American companies / talent and the incentive to de-Americanize US origin tech to create parallel semi supply chain to service PRC's 400B semi industry. There's a reason US Gov had to unilaterally announce these new measures on the steps of CHIP4 when other countries said they're not interested in proposed level export controls.
With respect; a lot of us out here know and used many of those the same way; we’re silently aware of the intent. I used to be that way. Over time feeling the need to fake it fell away; now I just mock everyone through muted indifference and a shrug, “good job at being a member of social life like everyone else” kind of energy.

Emotional archetypes are limited. You have borrowed others ideas because that’s how it works; you memorized such emotional states from others. Awareness of such emotional state is not yours alone.

See. That’s how you put someone down. Directly. Not through passive aggressive southerner classics. You’re far too obvious to those who have diverse real world experience and just come off as a cliche. But we silently eye roll rather than validate such antics through feedback, good or bad.
I kept looking for the other half of the post!

Did the poster have a gun to his head or something?

“Okay, okay, I’ve unlaunched the 12gb put the gun down, Linus.”
You can basically guarantee there are smarter criminal cops out there, using the same methods as this guy to steal nudes and sell them to other blackmailers rather than doing it themselves. This guy is obviously too dumb to be the first one to come up with schemes like this.
White people who don't want to date black people and lesbians who don't want to have sex with transsexuals already suffer this.
Ok, and?

The person I'm replying to said "If you think this is NSFW, then I don't think you should be spending any time on the internet. The internet is not safe for you."
Speeding ticket is actually the perfect analogy of this kind of behavior. Thank you.
What I mean is bad localized effects in important areas.

Painting roofs sounds completely benign, but if it's as effective as other geoengineering methods, then there's little reason to think it doesn't have the risks of other methods.

(Personally I think those risks are probably worth taking, given climate tipping points.)
you benefited from your spot in what you describe as a wealthy high school, and we read into that better teachers, more extra programs, etc. (not a challenge or a criticism) in general though (i.e. not in public school), taking a spot in a program denies that spot to somebody else. The human capacity for a sense of fairness and rooting for the underdog on the one hand says "great, it's nice that it happened for you!". But in the types of equity/equality decisions that are being made in general, what happened to the other person who didn't get the benefit you got? what if she was "better qualified" or "more deserving" or "would have benefited society at large more"?
For people who are interested in alternatives to WhatsApp (like XMPP and Matrix) and need more than one good source for comparison.
Is the Startup Grind Necessary?
Its interoperability with C and C++ is top notch, if you're willing to work with libraries in those languages.
The police officer who did this probably justified it to himself as that.
Wouldn't you know it, the mercedes door handles from 1985 used slotted holes[1]. As much as you like them, Mercedes cannot transcend the technical abilities of the time.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/174693656016
Acer's monitor naming looks like a cat walked on someone's keyboard - KVbmiipruzx
That happened to my dad when he retired from a gov agency. He had an unusual situation and was held hostage for about a year, and eventually was able to retire with the intervention of a State Senator.
Stimulus wasn't one the stated goals. The stated goals were to help payroll with small businesses that were adversely affected by COVID19 pandemic.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/04/15/2020-07...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_Protection_Program - scroll to purpose
Someone else brought that up, I don't really know, but my phone says it's 'charging rapidly' if I plug it into my laptop, so I just assumed it'd be possible.
If you've got nothing to hide then you should just let law enforcement install CCTV in your bathrooms and bedrooms.
China fomo? Are these good enough to fill the needs of AI workloads of the datacenters which can no longer get the next gen NVIDIA GPUs?
NYC, LA, and Chicago are bubbles. They are not reflective of the rest of the US in my experience. They are much more cosmopolitan and are the top destinations for tourists, migrants, and other people looking for opportunities. You can find a little bit of the rest of the world within 30 sq. miles in those cities. I can't really say the same for the rest of the major American metropolises. Boston, DC, SF, Seattle come pretty close, though.

Where I do diverge in opinion w/ the article (and agree with you on) is the whole idea of traveling "like a local", as a lot of traveloguers like to call it. I think the best most travelers can expect is maybe some curiosity from the community they're visiting, but they'll never have the full local experience. Only locals get that experience. You could live in a foreign city for years and even learn the language, but you will always be an outsider to the people in that community. You will never gain the years of culture and context that comes with having grown up in the area you are visiting. The best you could ever do in that situation is accept it and be gracious and courteous to the people in those communities.
The State of California prohibits firing for certain causes and if you are fired for those reasons you can file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner and they're authorized to collect lost wages from your former employer on your behalf.
How could that be, if we be all the same?
Meanwhile the Swiss, making watches machined to an impossibly perfect degree since the 18th century: "I have no such weakness."
>> Do you truly think Alex Jones's speech inflicted a billion dollars worth of damage?

> I urge you to read up on Alex's conduct before, during, and after the trial(s).

Solid point. Fairness and objective inquiries into damages be damned, if you don't kiss the ring, you deserve the worst.

"Hacker" News endorsing outrageous punishments for not bending over far enough. I, too, recall the portion of the Hacker Manifesto, which read:

We are loyal subjects of the system, and we shall abide by
every rule of decorum which the King hath proclaimed. God
praise our rulers, who are wiser than all of us!

I believe it was RMS himself who said:

We seek neither freedom, nor fairness. If someone wearing
black robes decrees something, you must bow down and
kiss their feet. It is thus written by St. Ignucious. Amen.

And from the notes of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club:

Irreverence for Institute Authorities shall not be permitted.
They are our betters, and we shall exclude anyone whosoever
shall trespass against their Virtuous Rules.

"Hacker" News is truly a blessed community. Thank you for the reminder that real "Hackers" are those who lick the boots of those who rule us, and that insufficiently enthusiastic licking is adequate justification for being destroyed.

Hack The Planet*!

[*: Provided the hacking is done in accordance with the dictates of our betters.]
I don't think the OE crowd is loading up their CVs with these concurrent jobs. And kids are the original social security.
"some random stranger in a remote datacenter going through some spinning disks" is too hard to correlate for average people. This is an invisible threat to them. If I give the person in the example a name and face, e.g. "Officer John Smith living next door and you talk to him everyday", they usually immediately become more vigilant.

I imagine that if the covid droplets in the air are visible, we would have a much easier time convincing people to wear masks in the beginning of the pandemic.
ByteDance, as a company, it actively looking to expand to new growth area. The original product was a news reader, then TikTok, also other video platform, it also publishes games, acquired a VR headset company Pico, developed the most popular Google Works clone. I think it is looking into something similar to AlphaFold, it is a big market. It is the never end mission of Internet companies with lots of money, where is next growth.
How to Hire for Director+ Roles?
> From the reviews it already seems there's not much point to AIB cards anymore

There is, because in certain parts of the world NVidia refuses to sell their founders editions, so AIB cards' all you can get.
The introduction seems questionable. Practically in every category that counted Americans were ahead. Artillery The God of War, number of tanks vastly outnumbering Germans and Sherman was as good as PzIV, Airpower, motorized transport. Most importantly logistics Americans had food, clothing, fuel. The way that intro is written it sounds like he is talking about Finland vs USSR ;)
I have been working on a kind of streaming data mixing thing for almost a decade. It's gone through several iterations of using WebRTC and doing other stuff. I am in the process of deploying a new version using some new tech but WebRTC is definitely in the mix.

What you just suggested here is something I had not considered. I am gonna abuse the shit out of this information. Thank you for sharing your experience.
This is the way to do it IMO. I've worked with people with kids and OE people. The people with kids aren't double-dipping dragasses.
Rhythms of the Brain (2006) [pdf]
I don't have experience with PG FTS, but I've used SQLite FTS5 and love it for its ease of use. Also I really like its NEAR() queries. I was a bit surprised that the post doesn't mention this capability and compare it with the other implementations (i.e. is it available and how does it compare performance-wise).
You can block the HTML element yourself with uBlock Origin's dropper tool.
I think the macro issue here is that another generation is waking up to the reality that wages have remained stagnant over the past several decades while costs of living has continued to skyrocket. Inflation makes this so much worse.

Of course, the ownership & political classes will do nothing about it - they quite like the way things are, as unsustainable as they may be.
Well I literally wouldn't pay money for an apple product these days, so maybe. Lol
Dragon Riders of CERN
Given that a lot of programmers put more effort into configuring their environment than they do into using it, maybe we need someone that teaches the lesson opposite to this one.
There is path-integral MD with imaginary time you can use to address quantum effects such as tunneling when you have protons in the system. But yeah, basically are still doing ionic dynamics and ignoring the electrons. The electronic effect needs to be "baked" into the ML potential when you are training the potential with DFT data.
See Mac vs PC ads. Still memorable and impactful.
I will get down voted to oblivion but if you consider yourself a x080 customer and don't want less silicon in a 4080 12GB or the price hike for the 16GB. You have a very viable option of just keeping your current x080 for free.
The 4090 is extremely good value for an extremely small group of people wanting ML or perhaps 8k gaming. Cards that will appeal more then a very select few will be released latter.
I do not know… it seems like Lufthansa messed up here.

Lufthansa official twitter account clearly said: “Hi David, Lufthansa is banning activated AirTags from luggage as they are classified as dangerous and need to be turned off./Mony”

So are you saying that official Lufthansa twitter account is some low level employee? So I should not trust messages posted on their twitter account?

I fly Lufthansa a lot and I follow their twitter account thinking that is official account to update me rafting different rules (COVID, etc.)

If they made a mistake that is ok: they should imeditatelly tweet again and said that. There will be no “crazy media”. But nope - nobody even customer service (I call them) did not know.
NPS is a tunnel service similar with Ngrok, it’s a reverse proxy used to access local service behind the NAT/Firewall. If you are running self-hosted service like Lomorage at home, and you are outside and want to access Lomorage, then you can use NPS.

However NPS need to run somewhere with public access, there are lots of service providers there, fly.io has a free plan without binding any credit card, and it supports docker deployment, and the servers runs in datacenters around the world so that the service can be deployed close to the users.
TikTok was not the first company that came to my mind when I read that comment. I see way more ads on Instagram, Twitter, not to mention YouTube.
True… but the world keeps moving regardless. The growing demand doesn’t stop once the permit is issued, so if we can’t build these fast enough to keep up, other potentially more polluting forms of energy will fill the void.
A lot of people are under the misconception that Apple cares about the hacker demographics. They don't. Apple's primary target demographic is Instagram influencer-types.
I'm not sure what you're talking about... but I can tell you that 99.9% of veterans and active duty have stories plural about extreme punishment to themselves or those they served with.
In some communities "Go f** yourself!" is code for "see ya later!", also.
I, personally, will not be using WebAuthn by choice. I have a password manager that provides similar benefits, with universal compatibility. If forced, I will find a password manager that provides a simulated WebAuthn device.
That 12GB 4080 had compute bit above 3090 ti.
But memory bandwidth between 3070 and 3070 ti.

If it the cache hit rate is similar to Navi2 of similar size. It would have effective bandwidth similar to 3090 in 1440p and way above any previous gen card in 1080p but at 4k it would be around 3070 ti territory in terms of memory bandwidth.
So a great 1440p card natively and to those who are willing to use DLSS to upsample from that to higher resolutions.
> He thought that the publicity of "not cooperating with the system" (or whatever) would be more valuable than the cost of losing the case.

Sounds like he won. I can entertain a thought that given he's not going to pay it anyway, he actually wanted the fine to be as high as possible.

> Whatever the reason, he did this to himself

I don't think folks are pitying Alex Jones here. If he exploited judicial system to gain more publicity, this undermines the system. If judge/jury got emotional and gave him a "fuck you" fine, we shouldn't celebrate it, even if the guy is a total asshole.

> Don't treat the courts as a show. They're not. There are real consequences

It's not a show, and yet he got one. I'm not so sure about "real" consequences. Most folks seem to think that there isn't a difference between $500M and $1B fine.
Oh my, the mention of DJ Delorie brought me back memories: That's the famous DJGPP C/C++ compiler which along with Allegro library was the bomb to develop MSDOS games back in the day!
What do near queries do?
> The only reason why this product is still surviving and still works is due to literally millions of tests!

So basically the same strategy as Hwaci with SQLite, except with precisely opposite results.
Was curious, Quick Google.

Walmart has about 4200 stores (the vast majority of which are or include grocery stores these days) and 2.3 million employees.
While there is a movement to serverless codeless whizbang cloudhosting....I think it's over represented on HN. There's still a ton of Enterprise IT that's hasn't made the transition, and it's often being managed by green staff.
My parents used to have a simple approach to traveling on the Greek Islands. They would buy a Lonely Planet Greece guidebook, then go to the dock in Athens and look at the signs for the ferries. They would only go to an island that wasn't listed in the book. Worked like a charm for years and years.