skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For studies like these, is there an accepted list of what to control for, or is that approach rife for p-hacking by accident?

E.g. controlling for family structure finds that children of divorce face statistically worse off than those with a stable two parent household.

Is it politically ‘okay’ for scientists to control for these variables when studying toxins or does the fact that poverty and dirty water pipes also correlate to divorce mean that they can’t?
WhatsApp and Twitter are not comparable. One is a public social media network, the other is a private chat app. One requires ad sales and massive moderation, the other does/did not.
Advertise.
The obvious argument, tried and cliché as it may sound, would be that SPA are anti-web. A healthy web must be indexable and searchable. It almost seems like the rulebook now for some newcomers is to start out with SSR, make use of the auspices of the open web that allow for easy and organic discovery, - and after a significant marketshare has been captured, erecting all types of of lock-in walls, including turning SPA.
> and if someone is searching on your site excessively maybe there's a problem with your UX (unless you're a search engine or repository of information).

I don't understand this comment. Why would you search something that *isn't*, in some senses, a repository of information? I would say almost every website needs to have search in some sense, and it's *because* sites function as a repository of information that they need this search. Think about e.g. Stripe's documentation, or Github's repository / code search. HN is also another great example—I search for stories or comments all the time to try and remember something I read about recently or heard about last week, but couldn't quite remember. I'm hard-pressed to think of a web site I use regularly that *shouldn't* have full-text search, if I'm being honest.
I've been a fan of SimulaVR for a while, but this sour attitude, trying to put Quest down by giving arguments for how superior SimulaVR is, is low.
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Who defines hate speech?
I was so disappointed when I learned what laser eye surgery really did.
Oh, so the Dutch government should expropriate their land?
Seems premature to start investigating former non voting government officials working in the private sector when we have sitting congresspeople trading stocks based on the legislation they are voting on.
A set of theories and techniques for the analysis of spatial configurations
There is no salvation. Whatever was Earth before human civilization is in a death spiral. What comes next is anyone's guess. Elites are massing wealth to get off planet, and when the mass migrations really start and mid income countries start becoming failed states on their path, I hope you are in a place that can hold you safe for the remainder of your time here.
It's a balancing act for sure, in both directions. It's very possible that a critical mass of Twitter's most-followed users could end up feeling pressure from their followers not to support an "unmoderated" Twitter.

Not to mention general corporate marketing presence on Twitter. Can't imagine there's much of an appetite among brands for a Parler-style "free speech zone". Twitter's content policies make it easier for brands to engage directly with users with the same UI and experience as any other user. That's valuable to them, and I imagine it would be hard to maintain that status quo and keep brand feeds free of racist, sexist nonsense or other hate speech.
If it’s truthful what is the problem?
Totally agree. This is exactly what I would do to debug a complex expression in a program: break out chunks into smaller expressions, assign their results to intermediate variables, then echo out or inspect those variables in a debugger. Once it clicks with users that an Excel cell is a variable, they tend to write more state out to the sheet so they can inspect it.
Defile what I defile, Lisa.
Total tangent, but you just made me realize how fast humans could have lost our fur in our past. This is a contentious issue in the debate between hypotheses of savannah and semi-aquatic ecological orgigins. But wow, it could have happened quick.
I think it would be better for this post to link to https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide
Without actively researching the question, I'd say where I am it's closer to the flip of that. Almost certainly the majority are internal promotions.
no one cares about medieval pigs, and it won't get clicks, so the video game angle is there to draw interest from more normal people.
Please don't give them ideas...
Since Elastic spitefully patched all of their client libraries to fail if the server is not a "genuine" ES server, I don't see what good a drop-in replacement with protocol compatibility would do.

Go client: https://github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/blob/3985f2a1554...

Python client: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py/commit/e72aa3e24...
...and not from the recovery partition.
Because they have enough applicants, some of who are qualified, that have a college degree that adding the filter of a college degree results in a reduction of the amount of work that HR or a manager needs to do to consider the resumes and has a higher percentage of qualified applicants in the pool of degree holders.
I think those days were easy to use within the zeitgeist. Even advanced versions of those tools would struggle against the data needs today which have become incredibly bespoke. My skill set extends all the way from my actual industry (finance) to the boundary of software development. I also have data, big data and cluster usage skills (slurm etc). I don’t use everything every day and obviously I cannot be a specialist in most of this stuff (I concentrate on finance more than anything else) considering the incredible range, but this is just the past 2 years for me.

I cannot imagine a less specialized future looking around today where some nice tool does 80% of my work. Not because the work I do is difficult to automate. But because the work I do won’t match the work other industries may do (beyond existing generalizations of pandas, regression toolkits and other low level stuff). There’s no point building a full automation suite just for my single work profile which itself will differ from other areas of finance.
Got it, thank you for sharing that. Typesense was at v0.19.0 around that time. Two prominent issues we had in that version were how we handled matches across multiple fields and how we handled "keyword stuffing".

We're now at v0.24.rc, and we've iterated quite a lot on improving relevancy since then, as more users shared their datasets with us and gave us feedback over the last 1.5 years.

If you get a chance to try out Typesense again in the future, I'd love to hear how relevance feels with the latest version, out of the box for your dataset.
>That don't even give application developers a choice in the interface.

Then you get the crowd of “indie developers” crying about how the platform has taken away user choice and that they should be able to use every API of the OS to do whatever they want, user-be-damned.

Apple doesn’t go nearly far enough and every “indie developer” working in adtech constantly cries about the entire OS should be accessible to every application developer on the planet.
What hand waving and moving of goalposts it that? All I stated was that it would be interesting to see a comparison of line count of Wireguard and the 3rd party tools needed to bring it into feature parity with OpenVPN to the line count of OpenVPN. My above comment just asked for references to studies doing just that which the comment I was responding to claimed to exist.
the reason for the expensiveness being that “industrial display panels” are specifically built to prevent the burning in of an image, as consumer tvs will retain an image if held on that same image for too long
>The attacks upon the preprint are the product of an epistemically polluted trust network. In this case, the network (I believe) is aligned with the political Left.

Because some equate a hypothesis related to the WIV with racism?
Honestly, I thought it had good discoverability when I used to use it a lot, and the syntaxes is just another syntax..

The problem came when they moved all the documentation to cloud, so you could get hopelessly stuck when you were trying to make something work and didn't have internet access.
Show HN: OneLogin and PAM/NSS on Linux
The people who decide bringing new life into this world is unethical will quickly be replaced those who think it _is_ ethical. I understand your reasoning, but "don't have kids" can never be the answer.
Less Than 6 Hours of Sleep a Night Linked to Serious, Chronic Illness
Even Texas, as bad as it is here as a citizen, has diversified it's economy past just oil and gas in the past 30 years or so.
I read articles, got more intrested, read the paper, found some procedural mistakes that threw red flags, looked for scientists in the field to see what they think about it and after all that I looked at his social media and got annoyed real fast that it was just another nothing burger by an angry person.
Fun fact. In Germany this decline is measured in nature reserves.

The petrochemical pesticides play a big roll.

Just forbid them.
I do a lot of the typical "self care" things: I wake up early (430-520am), go to the gym most mornings, read at home some mornings (standing, in my case), eat healthy, no alcohol, etc.

Things I pay attention to when I realize my sleep isn't awesome:

* I meditate twice a day, if even for 5 minutes. Usually 10-15 minutes.

* I start my "going to bed" routing a bit early... usually around 8pm if I want to be in bed by 9 or 930pm. I consciously disrupt ruminative thoughts during this: no thinking about work, no negative self-talk, no circular thinking. Wash dishes slowly, put things away, tidy up the house, etc.

* I have a few playlists programmed in Alexa for bedtime: piano sleep, Max Richter sleep, Dustin O'Halloran sleep. I rotate each night.

* If I'm really bothered or restless, I'll listen to a yoga nidra bedtime recording. Sometimes a voice & words will do the trick and quiet my mind.

* There are some "bedtime yoga" routines on Youtube that I've found helpful. I find it best to do it before trying to go to bed -- I do this when I sense I'm a little wound up.

* If I'm really, really still restless, I consciously disrupt my thoughts and count my breaths to 40. I start with deep breaths and then let them normalize into longer, but regular breaths. I never really make it to 40, I'm not sure I even make it to 20.

Thing is, I don't really have to do this very often. Good sleep kind of builds on itself, especially if you find the habitual routines and stick with it.
Mathememetics, the study of the spread of ideas that seem rigorous, but aren’t.
Don't count your chickens yet :

https://www.thespl.it/p/apples-sleeping-advertising-business

" For the past five years, Apple has been setting up for what will soon be its most profitable product line. It's not a new phone or computer: it's advertising. "

As some C-suite suit bonus will depend on that, you can be sure that the various protections will evaporate over the years.
> Why is the headline misleading? for reference, the headline is currently "Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second."

The "chip" is a CW laser, so it transmits no data.

It's a little hard to tell from the article + PR, but I think the result is a laser with a stabilized frequency-comb output suitable for WDM that has been implemented on a single die (which is still a nice result.)

Perhaps I missed that they implemented an entire transmitter chain on the "chip", but I believe the chip innovation is the continuous photon source, not the data transmission.
If I want to run a bunch services like apprise, n8n, strapi, jupyter notebooks, nocodb, appflowy and more... why wouldn't I run these in containers? Using Docker and the tooling around it makes it super easy. I don't spend weeks configuring every tiny detail just to get the darn things installed.

What you find annoying is empowering tons of people like me to run lot of software. I can try lots of software I wouldn't have bothered with due to ease of setup. I don't bork my host machine when I make mistakes. I just start delete the container and start over, with a few adjusted settings before build or compose steps.

1337 hackers can run circles around me for sure, but I have a freaking datacenter in 3 computers at my house. All of them are internet facing with Cloudflare tunnels pointed at the services I want to share or use away from home. It has never been this good.
Is Planck a loon?

> In 1900, Max Planck derived the correct form for the intensity spectral distribution function by making some strange (for the time) assumptions. In particular, Planck assumed that electromagnetic radiation can be emitted or absorbed only in discrete packets, called quanta, of energy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe#Solu...

How do you explain the zenos paradox’s place in reality?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes

What’s with the hate on Plato’s ideals? What is a “chair”? Draw me a “circle”.
> Are the people claiming that the farmers are being blamed for climate change saying that the farmers are the only or primary driver for climate change?

All the comments in this thread are replies to someone who seems to do exactly that by defending farmers "visiting politicians their homes with torches, threatening them and explicitly their kids, blockading highways with burning rubble, blocking highways with asbestos, using their tractors to rip out doors out of government buildings." by saying "I mean placing the blame for climate change on the backs of Dutch farmers was absurd."
Tell HN: Firefox Updates Too Frequently
First a disclaimer. Firefox is a great browser, and my #1 choice.

However over the past 2-3 months I've noticed that the frequency of updates has increased. Most of these updates are of minimal impact, and in sem-ver language, are often patch releases.

While that is good and all, I, for the most part, don't want (or need) to update Firefox every time there's a bugfix that (most of the time) doesn't even apply to me. As an example, this morning I was prompted to install 106.0.1 (from my current 106.0) because of a single bugfix that affects users with AMD Zen 1 CPU's. I am on an M1 Mac. So yes, downloading a ~100MB update would be 1) unnecessary 2) wasteful, regardless of how little 100MB is in today's perspective (imagine how much that would be in 2003).

Yes, updates have gotten cheaper as compute and storage has increased over the years. But still, they all involve ~100MB each time, and in my opinion are somewhat abused in modern development cycles. Nobody except the Nightly crowd really cares about getting updates for each and every commit.

I acknowledge that this has become a problem with most software in general, but that is an issue to tackle another day. In the meantime, I would appreciate a setting to only be notified about Major/Security-Related releases. Suckless updates please.
AFAIK it's ran via cron/systemd - so it should only affect login if the computer was off before login? And apt update / download should not impact a reasonable system (maybe something with really slow storage, like a microsd card, though?).
I personally like a lot of single use plastic. What’s the cheap alternative to keep food in an air tight seal from the factory to your home?

There is a lot of greenwashing around packing that’s more environmentally harmful to create because they decay when left outside. Except if both products are sent to the landfill then they don’t provide any advantages.
You're not going to be able to describe how voltages/currents work in an AC circuit unless you reach into 2-vectors / matrices. In Complex Arithmetic, we call it the "imaginary axis". But reach into Linear Algebra and you'd just call it a "2nd dimension".

When things oscillate (and AC current is oscillating), there's just certain mathematical properties that occur. It doesn't matter if its electricity, a spring/mass system, a bridge, sine-waves, music theory, Fourier Series or anything else, its all going to be represented by complex-math extremely elegantly.

Or, have a 2-vector linear-algebra representation, since its equivalent.

EDIT: I guess there's the differential-equations representation, but I feel that reaches into linear-algebra very, very quickly... or complex numbers. (E^(pi * i) keeps coming up...)
Don't they though?
Assasin's Creed odyssey actually has a "Tour Mode" where you can get a tour of Athens or other open world locations. They tried to make it accurate.

https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/9/10/20859403/assassins...

Of course then you get a bunch of historians on youtube complaining that this or that detail isn't 100% correct ... But thats just people
Maybe just link to your twitter post instead of making a text post here, and including the link at the end?

I always thought text posts were for Ask HN and Tell HNs, which should be labeled so people know what they are.
Hi,

I created this pam/nss-stack for OneLogin.

If you have an organization that uses OneLogin for user and group administration and you want to utilize this on servers, you can simply use this pam/nss-stack. This gives you the benefit of moving the administration for user, groups and access from your servers to OneLogin.

Hopefully it might be useful for someone.
And those red flags are…?

You seem to be criticizing the author of the paper instead of the paper itself, which, in my book, is itself a red flag.
Apologies, I misread; still enough to overwhelm current ABM systems with a single sub, even if you discount the rest, the bomber fleet, and any mobile or hardened ICBMs that survive the first wave.

Russia has little to fear from ABM. North Korea is probably a bit grumpy about it.
I think it's a fantasy of the elites. There is no planet B. Not in the time frame we talk about. By far.
You plug in your phone, indicate file transfer is ok (on your phone itself, which I assume must be the same for windows) and nautilus gives you the option to browse it.
A sour attitude definitely wasn't intended. Meta has some misleading marketing and we wanted to correct that. Apart from that we're just comparing our products, as the Quest Pro (unlike the Quest 2) does indeed intrude on our niche.
> classical physics becomes non-deterministic

Is the nondeterminism very large relative to the loss of precision from quantization? Or could this just be numerical imprecision?

> quantum mechanics becomes non-linear

I thought one of the central ideas of quantum mechanics is that space is discrete? Or am I misunderstanding what the Planck length is?
Do you take your notes in handwriting with the pencil? Do you have them converted to text or do you leave them handwritten?
>is there really that serious a lack of information in the world's general populace on how nuclear war would likely play out given the capabilities of all the delivery platforms?

Of course there is. There's a serious lack of information in the world's general populace in pretty much everything. Most people have at best a surface level oversimplified understanding of most things and then probably a few things they're reasonably well-informed about, and nobody's an expert in everything.
It's wrong if modern pigs are the result of modern breeding and breeding techniques. Modern pigs are often (usually? almost always?) purebred, for instance, which isn't something you're going to get with pigs that wander around the woods herded like sheep.
thanks?
Hmm. Yeah. Let me look through and try to fix that. Very weird. But thanks for point it out!!

[Update: I fixed the ones I could find.]
I'm not sure what reality you live in, but I had decided long before I told anyone at work and they still kept misgendering and deadnaming me regularly without me magically getting them fired. The only solution really is to switch jobs and never tell them your prior name.

The only exception to this is very obvious malice. Everything else is more likely to get you fired if you complain to HR than them.
Oh come on. Fun read.
> Sink or swim, let the eagle soar or faceplant.

This is not how high-achievers are taught/educated. They do strive for mastery and continuous improvement, but not in a "sink or swim" way. The difference is that effective tutoring requires individualized attention.

Effective mass instruction is driven by completely different dynamics, but these are not really "sink or swim" either, more about very direct, continued reinforcement of somewhat basic "lessons" that are to be effectively committed to memory, more or less verbatim. (Think of the way "memes" spread and advertisement campaigns are run; mass education that's truly optimized for raw effectiveness is not very different from that.)
No, it's the real thing. Go to the paper. But somehow, copy-paste added typos which I am going to try and fix.
I would've thought that by 2022 everyone would have finally realized that the "OK hand sign emoji = white supremacist secret hand sign" thing was literally a 4chan troll job. people still don't actually think white supremacists make the "OK" sign with their fingers as some kind of secret signal to each other, do they?
It still has to be in the right place.

Of course there is a footprint very close to the launch point where you can shoot down a missile aimed anywhere. A missile with really high acceleration should be able to do it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_De...

but it's got to be very close to the launch point which the enemy probably won't let you do.
Nonsense

It could have just as easily driven innovation towards efficiently working those kinds of plots, reduced topsoil loss and degradation (reducing fertilizer costs), reduced requirements for pesticides (lower costs again), and improved yields driving down prices.

Especially now with accelerating agri-robotics developments, mid-sized farms like that can take best advantage.

That kind of comment shows that you are using zero knowledge of growing, farming, or that complexities of soil chemistry and soil biology even exist. Not helpful. If you have some such actual knowledge, show some. Sheesh.
Boomers ruin everything by retiring? I thought the story was that they were ruining everything by not retiring, thereby not giving chances for younger workers to move up.

Anyway... think about driving a car down the road. You're never more than a few seconds from crashing. (How long can you keep your hands off the wheel before trouble comes?) But you don't crash, because you keep steering. In the same way, we're always headed for collapse. Hopefully, we keep steering.

But you can look at this on two levels. On a societal level, yes, we're headed for collapse, like always, and hopefully we keep steering well enough to prevent it. But on a company-by-company level, a bunch of companies are headed for collapse (like always), and some of them will not prevent it (also like always) due to short-term greed or incompetence. (Maybe short-term greed is a kind of incompetence?) As I said, this is like it always is. Companies fail because they don't manage this kind of intergenerational knowledge transfer. It happens, it has happened, and it will continue to happen. That's not "systems collapse", though, unless one company fails that is so critical that the system can't adjust or recover.
Perl is preinstalled on pretty much every Linux and MacOS since time immemorial, and it's pretty much guaranteed to stay preinstalled for the foreseeable future.

Python3 is up and coming, and eventually it will get there, but old machines must die before it can reach ubiquity.
I won't upvote because it currently has 166 points.
No, definitely not. During the Cold War more than 600 nukes were exploded in above ground tests (thousands more in underground detonations).