skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is impossible to inference causality from raw data - that is data without any a priori causality models.

It's impossible in general to be certain of causality for humans too, all we see are correlations in data and we invent causal theories that explain those correlations. That's basically what machine learning does as well: compile sets of correlated values into a compressed representation (the neural net) which arguably qualifies as a "causal theory" from the algorithm's perspective.

I think what's missing is maybe one or two orders of magnitude more compression, which would basically be devising a better/more parsimonious theory. We've been getting progressively better at that over the years too, and combined with how hardware has been scaling, we're seeing exponential growth in effectiveness. This is why some are predicting artificial general intelligence by 2030-2035.
Do Java applets even work on the modern web?
I understand there's probably licensing and crap and all the things that are the reason we can't have nice things, but with the very very ... very ... large amount of silicon real estate these days and the "we have so many cores we don't know what to do with them", ... why not have an x86 core or two on the chip? I bet it can share the most of the caches, which are most of the silicon real estate these days anyway.

At least Intel could make some more revenue for a few years off of the Apple arm switch with some licensing.
Point #4 is totally on point!

I slice lots of apples to share with my kid and there is such an unexpected difference depending on the variety we buy. Some apples really benefit from being cut into wedges!
As a fan of Doom and several-times attended Quakecon (including the 2018 Doom Eternal walkthrough) it really, really sucks to hear people you thought were really enthusiastic decent people turn out to be shithead executives that are a dime a dozen.

I'm sorry for Mick and embarrassed for Doom.
My totally informal definition of monads is: "a monad is an island of stateful code in a sea of stateless FP code. On top of that we had some ".

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
> It's far harder to update multiple services to handle requests they should not handle, let alone update a deployment to allow those requests to happen.

I'm not sure I follow this. Doesn't this just mean that it is harder to make changes? Why would it be harder to make bad changes and not harder to make good changes?

> Walls make great neighbors, just like multiple services make teams great at complying with an architecture constraint.

I'm not sure I follow this either. Why would multiple services make teams great at complying with an architecture constraint?
Hugging Face Machine Learning Demos Are Now on ArXiv
I think I might have to try that in the near future. I'm running into issues compiling projects because my package repositories version of things are just too old.:(
I just counted how many distinct symbols are in five projects I've been working on lately. They use 30–50 primitives each. Across all of them, it is 56.
Accounts . Google service login continue

Ehhhhh

Just link to a publicly shared doc instead
There was a paper in 1993 about "APROL: a Hybrid Language" that combines an array processing language and a dialect of Lisp (Scheme) in a consistent and useful manner. Seems like April is much further ahead!
If an FBI raid is confirmation of guessing right, then could we brute force all top secrets by making guesses and seeing who gets raided?
The semantics of those words are not quite right. Yes a national park may sound like a "public" good. But it is privatized in the sense that there is an owner who looks after it. If international waters had an owner as diligent as the National Park Service things would be a lot different.
This is good. We need one for mangoes as well.
> that hospitals are the enemy in American healthcare

no, not every hospital is run this way. Many are, of course.. how can constructive engagement get past these shrill and urgent criticisms, and make positive change?
It's not floating around, that makes it sound like it maybe wasn't real. It was published by the financial times. It's real. He's trying to sell that tire fire to investors.
Depending upon the boss, there can be a delicate art to saying more-honest, less-flattering things.
Scroll down, it's hidden below the fullpage background image for a single search box
sure, and they are the eigenfunctions of a Sturm-Liouville operator!
Most likely. As someone who was deep into the hacking and phreaking worlds when I was a kid, I've often thought that I would have had a better career if I'd been busted for some of the hundreds of crimes that I committed as a child.
Indeed, I'm finding that a lot of people find a phone call scary or threatening, and are much more comfortable with a text message, or even an audio message. At the same time, a dinner offer should be great for someone close enough, but in remote work that is more rare to happen.

Writing a recommendation on LinkedIn, to me, seems like the most actionable thing one can do in such cases.
That's why you keep the old comments and write the changes within.

"If loop does something" #rev1

"If loop did do something, it now does something twice" #rev2

"If loop doesn't do something, it does something three times" #rev3

"we loop three times because we processing supervariables" #rev4

And you have an wrong illusion of documentation. You don't need ascii diagrams. Why not a scribble in a sketch book? Whiteboards and photography exist. And the method above doesn't require you too redraw. You've already got the first and last revision. Besides, during an documentation cycle of your projects life-cycle is where you update all documentation.

> you'll either get less refactors, or outdated comments

If so, you're not disciplined enough. If your project is to be handed over down the line, more documentation is better than any and any documentation is better than none.
Somehow they have too much regulation to allow competition to build out but also not enough regulation to not be absolute shitheads to their territorially captive customers.
The cable cartel specifically has never overbuilt due to the fact that outside of mergers and other unnatural growth they made towns sign exclusivity agreements back when all these systems were was a means of accessing porn and HBO, but once they got broadband faster than DSL they were able to pummel the previous telephone providers into the ground before doing regulatory capture enough to prevent any upstart from possibly building fiber lines or whatever without besting them in hand to hand combat.
You sure this is about bribes and not about taxes?
Yes, didn't work, stop acting like an asshole. It is very common to check for deficiencies, if people with ADHD had it then likely they wouldn't be prescribed meds before the deficiency is fixed in the first place, you questioning others like this is just making their life worse.
Wireless Industry Feebly Trying to Kill CBRS Shared Wireless Spectrum Effort
I pay for software engineering work done in Africa and sometimes South-East Asia.
I don't think you really supported your idea that collectivism and taxes are the most effective method.

Why do you think that everyone taking personal responsibility to maximize the good they do is inferior to taxes and government directed good.

I believe the opposite.

Relying on the government is used as an excuse for personal inaction - essentially outsourcing altruism to 3rd party. People think, I shouldnt have to help anyone or do something as simple as pick up litter, because I already payed taxes for someone else to do that.

I would argue that it is better for people to work well paying jobs, take individual responsibility to support actions they believe have the most benefit.

The inverse is that people dont optimize income, pay the minimum tax, and have no individual control or responsibility over what it is spent on or how effectively it is.
Get ready for CBDC, surveillance of every transaction and economic unpersoning then.
I walked 7 miles to school every day, both ways, some uphills, some downhills, sometimes to karate, sometime barefooted, and sometimes in the snow … literally.

Now, I am fearless.

We don’t need to be scaring our kids into cowardly submission if they are trained in common sense and defensive protection.
I think it moved to the obituaries...
Not to take anything from Rust, but there are decent web frameworks that are fully type safe (modern ASP.NET is my favorite, although it's not the only one), with a fully-fledged ORM (build up some experience with LINQ and you'll be missing it on every other platform), background worker threads, etc. So there is middle ground for those unwilling to try Rust yet.
This place needs more dialectics
RF-Pose: Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals
I don't know about this one, but there's been at least a couple projects mentioned on HN in the last year or so that I suspected were probably more valuable to non-US intel efforts than they were to their ostensible users.

(And one of them appeared to oops while juggling a sockpuppet account on HN to help promote -- which was a little suspicious because that tactic seemed incongruent with the goal they claimed. I suppose, with that project, the non-US intel value could've been intentional. It's much easier to imagine a lot of people being motivated to follow Area 51, just out of curiosity and the mystique, and not seeing any harm in it.)

Which prompts the thought: with all sorts of geopolitical tensions going on right now -- as much as we Internet-age techies can be global citizens who extend fellowship (through HN, open source, research communities, companies, etc.) -- maybe we should try to be aware when actions we are considering doing would stray into delicate global balances that we don't understand. We don't know enough to know everything to avoid, but maybe sometimes we can guess, so it seems worth the occasional thought.
IME your rust apps should use native frameworks. Cacao for iOS, Dioxus for web, etc.
It’s doubly strange when you realize there’s basically a single species of banana that we all eat.
> For me it is interesting to watch how deep learning is piecewise solving philosophy of mind

Indeed. It shouldn't be surprising though, given we've already been through this with vitalism and how "life" arises from matter that isn't alive.
> My girlfriend was led out into the street barefoot and only in her underwear in full view of our neighbors; I was led outside, handcuffed and only in t-shirt and sweats in sub-freezing temperatures.

> Each home was searched by 15-20 agents in full riot gear, causing further damage in both homes besides the broken front doors

> I was very surprised how forceful the search warrant was executed and how rough we, both unarmed senior citizens, were treated.

> Even my phone was taken, leaving me in Rachel with two broken doors and no way to communicate or call for help.

I don't care what the hell he did, this kind of abuse is not acceptable. It's no wonder Americans have lost respect for law enforcement: the people enforcing the law are often committing worse crimes than the supposed criminals.

Taking his electronic shit I get. But not letting the poor woman get dressed? That's just a bunch of thugs having a playday with their toys.
"...a phone call away" for cultures and ages that prefer speaking to texting. :-)
No real standard library. You have the web API or the Node API to work with, and both are inconsistent.

The language is very permissive, making it not only easy to shoot yourself in the foot, but in the head as well. There is no easy way to say that your code is semantically correct because JS will allow it to digest anything. So, unless you do thorough review, bad code can easily get through.

Dependency hell if you're using NPM.

I'd be happy if the community was focusing on implementing some kind of default set of libraries, instead of adding syntactic sugar now and then on top of JS. I remember switching from Java to Kotlin, and the collection API was a real pleasure to work with. But in JS, everyone wants to use their set of libraries. Creating a starter project will get you hundreds of dependencies that you can never vet.
I'm not a crypto user so I may not understand the ramifications, but while I can see why "imminent death of crypto" headlines seem like clickbait, is it fair to say that this is the end of the crypto exchanges? This is the end of the your average Joe investing in crypto because they saw a cool ad during the Super Bowl?

I could understand how that would translate to "gone" in the practical sense. There will still be the true believers and get-rich-quick believers and criminals, but it will be completely out of the public's view. No more ads and stadiums and F1 sponsorships.
Borůvka's Algorithm
Zig 0.10.0 allows tabs. I think 0.9.1 also allowed, but I'm not 100% sure.
That a non periodic signal eg something which is nonzero only in a short span, requires a infinite number of periodic functions i.e fourier series/transform to represent is better considered as a limitation of the basis, it simply cannot represent such, only approximate it by a signal with a infinite period, which is not the same as non-periodic to mathematicians.

The definition of the signal implies its expression both in fourier and spatial basis exactly, with no uncertainty.

For this to have an interpretation as uncertainty requires that the functions themselves have that interpretation.
The global war on terror has been ongoing for 21 years and began on the 15th of September, 2001. It will end when there are no more terrorists or when voters decide to reclassify terrorism as a criminal issue again. In the interim, the government has granted itself additional war powers and suspended certain rights.
> A deflationary currency that lost 75% in value in a year

I don't know, my BTC is still worth one BTC.
To be clear, Bitcoin was never meant as unregulated money, it was meant as an non-manipulatable supply of money. Nothing in Bitcoin is incompatible with government regulation of your computers or behavior.
Monkey see "communism", monkey downvote
i would say that it is just begining
Bageera: We Failed
"I'm surprised you didn't hit any trees running through that forest with your eyes closed."

"Which specific tree do you think I should have hit?"
People expect a noticeable bump in performance at every pricepoint, otherwise why buy a new GPU?

Instead Nvidia is offering more flops at much higher prices, with much lower usability. So sure a 4080 has more flops, but less memory bandwidth than a 3080 at 1.7x the price, and that's after the lower end 4080 was cancelled.
The worsening climate crisis is likely to cause war so it’s good to take actions which reduce the severity of the climate crisis which is likely to cause war.

For example, by reducing the carbon footprint of the military.
This is a comedy website that uses rankings as a method for delivering jokes. Hope this helps.
There will be another go around - at least one.

Next time will be different(TM) There will be a new breed of crypto entrepreneurs(TM). There will be a new generation of smarter, more savvy, sophisticated investors (TM). Everyone will wear crisp white cotton this time. They will be blonder, or darker, or more vegan.

The wheel will spin again, some people will steal some money off other people who will loose everything.
Conveniently dropped the ‘free’ I see. Whenever I interviewed with companies and they mentioned free meals or fridges full of sodas as a perk, that was a red flag. Companies like IBM and Microsoft had on-site cafeterias and coffee shops usually with subsidized pricing and it never came up in in interviews.
I will agree that you are conflating and grossly oversimplifying a number of related but different issues. As a result your conclusions are just not valid.

Does the educational system make age-inappropriate almost inhumane demands on children? Yes. Do many kids have attentional and behavioural issues that are not ADHD? Yes. That can be improved without medication? Yes. Should these be distinguished from true AHDH and treated differently? Yes. Should kids with ADHD try non-medical interventions first? Yes. Should kids who have clear diagnostic markers for ADHD and who respond well to stimulants be prescribed stimulants? Hell yes. Should psychiatrists try to weed out non-ADHD people looking for legal sources of speed? Hell yes. Are the fields of psychopathology and psychotherapy problematic? Somewhat. Are they "right"? Not exactly, no. Are they "wrong"? Not exactly, no. Do they relieve suffering? Sometimes, Do they create unintended consequences? Yes, more often than we'd like. Is the whole field conducted in bad faith? No! Is it a work in progress? Yes. Are there bad faith practitioners? Yes. Are there incompetent practitioners? Yes. Are there competent practitioners acting in good faith? Absolutely yes. Are there reliable signals to tell these apart? No, unfortunately, no. Is there an epidemic of performance-enhancing prescription drug abuse in the circles in which you run? Apparently so, and I've heard this elsewhere. Is there performance-enhancing prescription drug abuse in the circles in which I run? Not to my knowledge.

Life is complicated. You do no good by mashing all this stuff together and disposing of it with simplistic conclusions.
Given they've literally just deployed a copy of an open-source website, I'd guess it was a mistake rather than malicious: possibly someone who was testing out vultr's hosting or perhaps someone trying out docosaurus (given your website is listed in their showcase as open-source: https://docusaurus.io/showcase). Easy enough to imagine someone running through a deployment process that intelligently recommends a domain to register for them.

If malicious, it's probably not about the site content and rather they're sending out emails pretending to be you.
The bug when exiting the subtask menu in the demo should be fixed now.
An IT guy found career happiness owning 78 camels
Another headline ending with a question mark:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/will-crypto-recover-heres-wh...

I think we hit a paradox.
Yet they are sprints by definition. There is no pause to evaluate the work, fix past mistakes, globally plan the system, understand how it will fit when applied.

Scrum only has the part when you get your head down and code. Finished it? Good, let's see what is the next task, get our heads down and code again. "Sprint" is a very apt name.

(Of course, that is because the activities that actually bring product quality got somebody specialized on them. You can't find a best portrait of the Western management culture looking at management, disenfranchise the workers that actually know how to do things, bring somebody with no skin on the game and plenty of conflicting interests to make all the decisions.)
They’re probably running crypto companies now tbh
Now this is the kind of important tech/nerd info that I come to HN for! 10/10

Notes:

I'm only familiar with several of the varieties on this page, but I definitely agree with the rankings. We used to buy Gala, Fuji or Juici, since there were the cheapest at the store and we didn't know better, but once we tried Honeycrisp we never went back. (Cosmic Crisp also ok but not as good. I'd also rank Envy a bit lower.)

Also, best cider I've had is from Honeycrisp apples.

Red/Golden Delicious are tasteless garbage. Granny Smith is ok for particular dishes so I'd probably rank it a bit higher.
> AFAIK all Baltic states have a minority with limited rights, so they are far from true democracy.

It would be interesting to see any reputable sources claiming that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are "far from true democracies".
> I'm not sure what you mean by "being a royal asshole politically". And yes, i'm pretty sure gp knows what destroyed his good-will with many, everyone knows

He tried to sway a foreign election to help himself. Understandable, but it was irrespective of the policies - he is being given some onus for the outcomes of the administration he helped empower. He became a single-issue partisan - not going to a u.s. prison being the issue. After all he had done, it was sad to see. Stuck in the fricken embassy, he lost either perspective or integrity. Faulting him for creating an opportunity to criminalize whistleblowing is implying that he knew that that would be the outcome. Indignation won't save him, or the bob woodwards of the world either.

> do wonder however how things would look if he leaked the other way around

There is a continuity of government, so I think he would have been screwed. His only chance was hoping that the new administration would throw a wrench in the gears and the DOJ would be told to drop it by the AG.

> now that the american left has been morphed into the same warhawks from the bush era and pretty much rolled back the entire public perception grounds gained regarding government surveillance after the NSA leaks

There were gains? The public awareness was a gain at least.

> it's being exported and done with a heavier hand internationally in places where you don't have the first amendment.

These posts are all tangential to area 51, but what are you talking about?
Even a well-run exchange would not make the magic beans worth anything.
No idea of the specifics of this outage but Solana and USDT is a turd sandwich. It's a bad protocol with a worse asset.
That's probably why the article says the reduction of metastatic cancer is only 72% versus 100%.
I think you're making the argument that GP's experience isn't necessarily unusual conditional on being black, male, etc.. It's not the point that I was making. I was making the point that GP's experience is unusual for people in general, or for HNers in general.
I occasionally sprint stairs. It's less impactful on the legs than flat ground sprints.
Just want to point out that (as of 16:44 UTC 17th Nov) there are 52,268 words on this page. So far no-one has called anyone a Nazi. It's fascinating and good that people care about this stuff. Software engineering would be very boring if there wasn't room for opinion.

My opinion is that if you were to summarize the original article to only one of its words, it would be the lovely word "boffin". The right amount of boffinry can be a rewarding and beautiful thing. Sometimes though "C'est magnifique mais ce n'est pas la guerre".
Oh wow. What would be more appropriate in a collectivist culture? Avoiding the message and instead go over to their house to do the things suggested above?
APL derivatives (like q) seem to have a niche use in the finance industry for processing time series data. I've played around with J (another APL derivative) and it was interesting. I could see it being useful for certain types of problems. Probably hard to use it on a large team though since it's so hard to read.

In R I often use the data.table library and the style of programming that encourages feels similar to how J made me think.
"National security" is a spell with the power to negate the Constitution's effect.
TL;DR: The US Government can't ban TikTok using censorship of speech, so they can/should do it via economic controls instead.

Nothing really new here, economic controls are what the previous administration tried to implement, and are most likely to try and use if the government wants to try another round at blocking it.

Can't say I'm in favor of that, but then I like my huehuehuehue birb videos.
USDT != USDC
No, it's not loaded (charged with an underlying meaning or implication), unless you're bringing along your own associations.

But it _is_ a careless misuse of a word that has a specific definition. Frankly, I can't remember the last time I saw it used properly.

It means "to manipulate someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity". It's from a 1940s film where a husband convinces his wife she's going insane, by manipulating the lights in their house.
See my comment, indeed, I still think is useful for lets say a woke Mastodon instance that wants automated non-woke speech removal. Which is fine, the other side can come up with something similar as well.