skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I don't buy this - more people are learning to code than ever. There are infinite resources online, it has penetrated society's conscious that this is an easy way to get a really well paying job. And there have never existed as many people who can code ever before - Johnny will likely know someone who does it for a living. Johnny also consumes infinite amounts of software from birth.

I bet there is no data backing the Author's claim except - "The way I learned to doesn't exist so noone is learning anymore." I will refer everyone to go look at the numbers - whether it's CS grads per capita or SWEs per capita we are rising quickly.
Safeway is a nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there.
Does the cobra effect happen because people are greedy and cynical, or does it happen because the people already have contempt for those offering the incentive?
Implementing a simple program to run the quadratic formula on my TI was a lot of fun in school
How did you synchronize all the things? I think it'd be the single biggest factor; if you don't have to synchronize them frequently, or you have a brilliant way to synchronize them without relying on repos, multiple repos can indeed coexist. In my case however this resulted in lots of problems even when we had out-of-band tooling.
Right, and this a big part of the reason that houses are prohibitively expensive. If you could offshore them they'd be affordable.

Americans can't afford to buy things made by Americans.

Again we papered over this issue with decades of supressed interest rates but the ruse can't last forever.
So if the text was embedded in a static webpage that the client had to parse locally, that'd be okay?
Ah :) even tail recursion?
> While you write your application you're also writing the tools which make it easy to write and debug your application.

I wonder if the benefits of GToolkit would go beyond using it to extend itself through Pharaoh. Would it be just as useful for writing C++ applications?
Turbulence entirely due to gravitational interaction? Does that work? I guess I should watch it, but I can't take it seriously with the title "On the non-existence of dark matter" when there's so much evidence for dark matter. That's clearly unwarranted confidence in search of attention.

That said, if true, I think it more likely indicates that both MOND and LCDM have significant truth. The bar for a theory is "as simple as possible, but no simpler." If the evidence truly demands both MOND and DM, we just have to suck it up.
Matching communication styles with your coworkers is very important. I was once in a team with mostly non-interrupters and was unhappy (but didn't really realise it). I moved cities, countries (to a more interrupty place), and teams, and my new coworkers and manager interrupt all the time. I think the flow of conversation is much better, and we get on the same page faster.

Obviously people can change communication styles over time (see the article for an example), but sometimes people prefer things a certain way. And that's fine!

If someone's obviously not an interrupter, I try to consciously pause for questions and avoid interrupting. Learning about different communication styles and trying not to dominate is crucial too.
Agree with a lot of this, but what a sad situation if the best we can hope for in "control over what it does" is distrust my own device so much that I install firewalls to keep it in check. A much better version of this vision is FOSS.
Thank you for supporting Ukraine, but the problem is not in Ukraine. Ukraine is an example of what a global catastrophe is happening to humanity in general. You can freely kill people and steal ideas, launder money and destroy technologists. Unfortunately, the first space war is taking place in Ukraine.

I am well versed in startups and technology, so I have a big reason to believe that this is exactly the case. Unfortunately, the detailed answer at the moment is a problem for me, and much more bla-bla-bla is unacceptable. I gave the facts, everything is simple.
“Mona Lisa effect” applies to animals too
It is also good to highlight that the Algorand paper is from 2016 and their testnet was working since 2018.
No it's not. It tells me exactly nothing useful about the postgresml performance because it's impossible for me to rule out redis and the http server when factoring in performance. It's two hops, with a guaranteed delay that the postgres setup won't have.

If they wanted it to be a fair comparison they should have used FDWs to connect to the same redis and http server that the python benchmarks tested against.
The land in famously sunny UK presently used for ethanol crops alone is enough to provide 50% of their electricity.

At a more realistic 20W/m^2 (about what you get on a random spot in the UK on average) you can provide the net electricity for 60m^2 per household. At a more realistic penetration just the roof area of occupied buildings is enough.

The land use is a non issue. If you're really concerned about biodiversity just cover half of the golf courses. Solar farms are far better for diversity than pesticide and fertilizer covered monocrop grass.
This doesn't do anything to dissuade people from belief in racist ideas of genetic intelligence, or whatever else. Why are scientists gating off research and data, if they're so confident that the problematic conclusions are incorrect? Because the problematic conclusions are correct, the racist will say. Scientists wouldn't lock away data that disproved racist theories of intelligence, would they?

It's a fallacious argument, but one that will probably work on a lot of people.
It looks like it's a PostgreSQL extension, and probably not one supported by AWS RDS for PostgreSQL or Aurora PostgreSQL. AWS generally only supports extensions that ship with PostgreSQL (and maybe some limited third-party extensions?).
The lists of supported extensions are here:

* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/PostgreSQLRelea...

* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraPostgreSQ...
The site, last time I checked, doesn't work when you try to login, even outside of private browsing. It just constantly tries to load. My bill is on auto pay so I haven't had to bother in a year but remember having to open Chrome when I was changing credit cards.
Something I've always wondered: Right after the Big Bang there was a massive annihilation of matter and anti-matter, with just a bit of extra matter.

But the energy resulting from that annihilation did not go away. So where is it? No matter what form it takes, energy gravitates, so it should be able to be observed.
Ben Hoffman might have gone to the talking school. But, he's missing the point here.

There's two types of conversations in life.

"Brain in 5th gear conversations." Every word carefully chosen. And the second type, "Priority 2" conversations. Priority 2 is where both parties winging it and do their best via heuristic.

Most folk wait their turn during Priority 2. It's just the convention, nobody is in a rush.

For engineers, every conversation ends up being Priority 2 because their brain is gutted from coding. However, they need to get shit done, fast, and get back to coding. Hence the convention to interrupt conversations and get to the point.

It's a speed vs productivity vs margin of error triple constraint.

What Hoffman doesn't realize is the goal. Deliberately practicing 5th gear conversations forces you to concentrate on the material.
This is correct

ALDI's entire brand image is "lower price". That's why people go there.
Downtown Phoenix riders (currently Trusted Tester) are allowed in rider-only / driverless [1]:

> Downtown Phoenix: Now offering paid rider-only trips to Waymo employees and Trusted Testers.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/29/23323593/waymo-driverless...
It's crazy and destructive that we are still using the unix paradigm in the cloud.

In the 70s we have transparent network fileststems, and by the 80s I had a more advanced cloud-native environment at PARC than is available today.* The Lispms were not quite as cloud native as that, but still you could have the impression that you just sat down at a terminal and had immediate window into an underlying "cloud" reality, with its degree of "nativeness" depending on the horsepower of the machine you were using. This is quite different from, say, a chromebook which is more like a remote terminal to a mainframe.

I was shocked when I encountered a Sun workstation: what an enormous step backwards. The damned thing even ran sendmail. Utterly the wrong paradigm, in many ways much worse than mainframe computing. Really we haven't traveled that far since those days. Cloud computing really still it "somebody else's computer."

There's no "OS" (in the philosophical sense) for treating remote resources truly abstractly, much less a hybrid local/remote. Applications have gone backwards to being PC-like silos. I feel like none of the decades of research in these areas is reflected in the commercial clouds, even though the people working there are smart and probably know that work well.

* Don't get me wrong: these environments only ran on what are small, slow machines by today's standards and mostly only ran on the LAN.
Sub-question: what happened to Facebook "Apps"? The things that connected to an API for developers to create (mostly) whatever they want for info or entertainment.

I remember when people would hand me business cards advertising themselves as a Facebook App developer but that work has seemed to vanish without a warning.
Current versions of Teams have the option to use native notifications (on macOS) and have had this feature for some time now. FYI.
That sounds surprising to me. Do you have a source where I could read more?
White House rallies industry support for Internet of Things labeling effort
Whoa, explains why all the cognitive boosters are coming from Asia these days.

I know many many people dosing on custom peptides to keep up with the grind in game development these days.

If I had to guess,I think the cats out of the bag already, and we are behind.
Thanks, and never thought of that; will do!
I have a smart acquaintance who talks quietly under his breath as soon as his brain starts predicting the words you are about to speak: Brian the living brain Markov chain?

Instead I change my wording on the fly - I'm not actually sure he knows he is subvocalising and I've never had any indication he knows I am toying with his quirk (good naturedly - I like the guy).
Some people only but electronics they want, and hope to stumble upon surprising new food. Different people have different hobbies.
My sense is, if you catch someone being malicious in a situation where the power dynamic is so one sided, then be very careful before giving that person more power.
Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker
Very interesting architecture. Article mentions XGBoost but what if I want to run another kind of algorithm? How does PostgresML support that use case?
Colorizing b/w photos is one thing; these are limited representation of colorful reality.

Now let's colorize b/w works of Albrecht Dürer, or Francisco Goya.
See! If you give people handouts they become dependent on them!! /s
I agree with you that a cloud 2.0 architecture is needed. I don’t agree with you that you can’t run DOSBox in the cloud. You totally can. In fact, you can containerize a dosbox app and forward the output over websockets or tcp. I have files from 1990s and 2000s as well. I keep backups, as everyone should when dealing with cloud/internet/not-my-machine.
Germany’s forests are cold and wet.
Fuck T-mobile. I have stopped using plenty of sites that break under certain conditions, such as private mode or when blocking third party cookies. I guess it's a little more difficult to not use the T-mobile website if you're one of their customers though.
If you were to count in base π, would the diameter be a transcendental number?
That's exactly why normal people distrust science now
Currently the front page of http://www.kruhft.ca.

This gives a visual impression.
The $5.5B they've raised is only $15 per American.

If this is a service people spend $500/yr on then they'll recoup it pretty quickly I think.
Fair arguments, esp cart coming before horse security-wise
An interest question is given a random real number x in [0-4] range say, what is the probability there will be a fraction of quality > 3 (for approximating x) for denominators < n.

(restricting n to make the problem easier to say 2048)

Might be a fun programming project (or interview question ha ha) to monte carlo this.
Sundown Town Map
> Cloud providers have hobbled growth by overcharging

Just stop there.

What the author (and I!) want is for my computer on my desk to have a seamless integration with the Cosmic AC in Hyperspace.

The problem is that the transition point costs me money and the amount is generally unknown or unpredictable.

My laptop or desktop have a fixed price and then I get to use them infinitely. Until that becomes true for the cloud, it will always be hamstrung.

(There is a secondary argument that progress in computing has been held up by the fact that UPLOAD speeds basically haven't moved in 20 years--but that's for another day).
For anyone reading, do not get stuck in this situation. Use https://www.pci-proxy.com/ which will allow you to switch from Stripe to your own merchant account to any other service you want at any time. This has been a life saver to me when dealing with significant cardholder transactions. They handle all of the PCI-Compliance for you.
Still trying it, no `:norm`, no `:g`, multiple cursors in VSCode are so much more powerful than this, and already do 90% of what you want to do in Vim in the first place.
Gotcha--I'll have to run the numbers on pixel sizes between the Mini 2 and Air 2S at various heights; I'm sure that the Air has a much nicer camera, but it would be interesting to see how big the difference is.

I've actually got my commercial license test scheduled for the end of the month! I'm hoping that it might help me get permission to run surveys in areas like national forests or parks that are otherwise pretty much off-limits to recreational flyers.
This actually makes me feel more confident in the system. I as an average citizen, would prefer if an advertising company did not have access to a giant database of genetic information. (I also don’t want Bezos to have access either, for what it’s worth).
The point is you don't need those hops if you use postgresML.

It's like if I told you to move to a place where you can walk 5mins to work, and you tell me it's not a fair comparison because right now you have to drive to the station and then get on a train and you're interested in a comparison where you walk to the train instead. You don't need the train because you're already there!

You don't need the network hops exactly because the data is already there in the right way.
I don’t know if jccalhoun is Satan, but they are definitely evil. Proof [1]. Refresh that page to see other proofs of their evilness.

[1] https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/evilfinder/ef.cgi?said=jccalhoun
The Internet Archive’s launch event of the Democracy’s Library project is being streamed on YouTube [1]. The collection itself is at [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQDvS8RBgwg

[2] https://archive.org/details/democracys-library
Yeah, while I myself can deal with Power Automate / Powershell, the average company layman user still can't even do an index match formula, so there's no way they are going to understand anything that complex.

I've done what you have done and demonstrated the pasting into grid view. But this requires a perfect placement of the cursor and also the slow as f*ck row-by-row validation+commit to the database is outright comedic.
One thing I've recently started doing when a file related error happens is to retry the command with strace and see which file the program is trying to access
developers: i need six monitors to work
also developers?: I can't wait to code on my tiny phone screen

not for me
Iran's government moves to criminalize VPNs (2021)
A comment on the original post brings that exact continued fraction up, the author responds: "the continued fraction sequence 3 7 15... is the continued fraction analogy to the decimal sequence 3 1 4 1 5 9 2... etc: they are both guaranteed-to-exist sequences of successively better approximations for pi that come from the real value of pi. Neither is a way to derive or compute pi if you don't already have the exact value."

So it's not a sequence like the Wallis rational expression or Taylor series approximation, so it's not very helpful in saying "where 355/113 comes from." 355/113 is a good approximation of Pi, and if you engineer your continued fraction to include the best approximation without going over at each step, it will be in there. Doesn't tell you why there's a nice accurate Pi that has such a high "quality" measure.

That is, the 292 showing up in the continued fraction is still (arguably) a surprise, or at least left unexplained.
i always thought that elasticsearch would make a good host for a ML enabled datastore. building indices and searching them are similar computational paradigms to training and inference and the scaling framework would lend itself well to both computation heavy training and query/inference.

although i dunno if it has good support for lots of floats. and i guess all the ml code would have to be java.
The space shuttle could be used to steal satellites. I don't think it was ever used in this role or in the related role bringing any satellite back down but it was in the mission profile.

I wonder if there were any missions where a foreign spy satellite was captured inspected in orbit then sent on it's way?

My best guess for the continuing air force interest in a shuttle like platform (the x-37) is for exactly this reason. not bombs but satellite capture.
If I decide to not interrupt, automatically I tend to atleast let them know I have something to say that is SO important.

I will tend to change my body language (become eager) or just mouth something (aa). Online, I unmute myself.

I think its the only solution I have to demonstrate my intent to interrupt without actually doing it.
Little toy questions like this might make a good use case for the replit app. Might try this at the bar tonight.
You said you’re right ~60% of the time. Have you ever experienced a big misassumption about where the person is going with it?

I find that most gains from this style are unwound when you discover 10 minutes later that there was a critically missed assumption and you have to redo parts of the conversation. (Or worse you never realize and then build a whole project with different ideas in mind)
Governments have many ways to get information about people from tech companies, though. Legal, illegal, quasi-legal, in aggregate or about individuals, direct from the company, or through interception. Sometimes the companies volunteer it, sometimes they are required to share it, sometimes a government just takes it. Not thinking of only the US here. I assume if Meta, for instance, has data about me, the US Government and maybe even local agencies have access to that data somehow.
Also, I looking forward to a post with the technical details of my project, which may help you understand why there is no patent or why such conclusions. But need to wait for my editor
Ask HN: Any books that focus on understanding hypothesis testing?
including probability distributions, confidence intervals, p-values(hacking (https://xkcd.com/882/) ), sampling and methods of conducting experiments? would like a book that explains intuitively and directly instead of having me extract them from examples.
There's a big difference between science and social science. Or science and medicine for that matter. They are different domains that require different models of reasoning, which come with their respective sets of limitations.

There's a reason you don't see a crisis in e.g. physics, where their hypotheses are leaps and bounds more testable.
Bank of Japan announces emergency bond buying
Do they need "user retention"?
As a software engineer working in an astronomy institute, it's nice to see the excitement around the outputs of this project. It's pleasing to see an intersect between people enjoying the image, and discussing some of the technical details.
I had those “Pullman Towns” in mind. This type of system opens up obvious opportunities for exploitation, but so do our existing prison systems. If we ever did replace prisons, I think it would involve something like this.

Since Amazon Prison is so close to life already, we might all benefit from thinking about how to solve its issues. As the legal system necessitates lawyers, a digital prison might need digital advocates programmed by the prisoner‘s representatives. Could we design a digital jail that could both monitor the prisoner and share privileges?

As software introduces more restrictions on our lives, we could benefit from something like an AI “Freedom Box” that represented us while interfacing with proprietary services. People have already made AI lawyers to suggest options. Maybe these could merge with security software to allow us to navigate whatever future prisons we build.
There is always the fire option... or nuclear
Sequence hacking!?

What about the sequence where the denominator starts at 113 and keeps
doubling, the numerator each time being the one giving the least error.
Posthog. Not exactly a secret but perhaps still quite unknown.
Wealth and happiness more connected to each other than previously thought: Study
Import duties don't just depend on the classification in the nomenclature. It also depends on its value and its origin, which also are sometimes really hard to determine. The origin isn't just where the product is shipped from.

As for the classification, it gets complicated. Sometimes it goes beyond what the product is at the moment of the importation. Say you're shipping fruits, well depending on whether they're for eating as-is, or for juicing once imported, the classification (and thus the import duties) will be different. It's also hard to classify a product that's hybrid (like a ceiling fan with a LED light, is it a fan or a pendant light ?) or a brand new kind of product.

If you have a doubt, you can ask the customs to find the right origin or classification for you, though you might not be happy with the duties they apply. But mostly, it takes weeks to get one and I've seen companies doing their declaration just the day before their shipment arrives.

And even then, different customs officers might classify the same products differently even though they work in the same economic union.

> Companies often pick the lowest duty or tax rating they can get away with

I've seen companies picking the highest duty when they have a doubt, thinking they might get less in trouble or at least don't have to pay the difference if they get caught. Because when they do, the customs can audit your whole import history, and make you pay the difference for every product misclassified (iirc they can go back up to five years) and that can be devastating.

In general, from what I've seen, the task of product classification is so hard that no time is spent trying to optimize sourcing or the nature of the product to pay less duties. In a company the department in charge of customs declarations is always seen as a cost center. The only example I know is Converse importing their sneakers as slippers[1].

And not only is the problem complicated, but some of the most important documentation is only available on subscription. The EU has an open-data policy and a most data on duties can be found[2]. But the World Customs Organization makes you pay for a lot of essential information that can't be reproduced[3].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-converse-sneakers-...

[2] https://circabc.europa.eu/ui/group/0e5f18c2-4b2f-42e9-aed4-d...

[3] https://www.wcotradetools.org
Will the downloading browsers obey a 304 response?

Can that be edge cached with a future GMT expire date?

Alternately a 302 response to trusted local mirrors?