skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The scientific truth is that we have no data either way that can even begin to address whether one group is innately better than any other. The reason being that we have no way to separate out the impact of racism and history from innate ability.

I'm sorry but this is blatantly false. "Innately better" is a vague and inflammatory term, but if you define the measure, we can use straightforward statistical techniques to find correlations.

Simple example: East Africans outperform others in long-distance running. In sprinting, west Africans outperform.

We can separate confounders out because we have large data sets. You don't have to just try to compare populations as a mass. We can, for example, look at performance only of black people raised in white families. Or rich black people. Or white people raised in black families. Etc.

Taking the example of IQ, which is the most important statistical measure in these discussions, we can also look at poor populations with high IQ, like Jews (at certain historical times) or various groups of people from East Asia. Vietnamese boat people are a great comparison. It has to be explained how they were so successful despite facing the very similar or arguably worse challenges (e.g. holocaust) as other population groups.

Or look at subgroups of black people, like Nigerian immigrants to America, who have generally better social outcomes than average whites.

All this has been studied to death for decades and many conclusions are well-supported by statistics (at least as well-supported as lots of noncontroversial findings).
You can just check your Apache/Nginx logs. No need for some elaborate system that gives info to third parties.
They have the worlds largest stockpile of nuclear weapons… nobody has adequately been able to explain how NATO or someone else would invade such a country.
Ideally, he would have just said 'I don't want your help I just want to complain' ... but part of his frustration is probably due to a feeling of lack of control, in addition to needing a prescription. Having a child step in and provide assistance will likely amplify that emotion.

Sometimes people just want to complain. I know I've complained and then been surprised/annoyed when people actually stepped in to help (because I really just wanted to vent my irritation and move on).

Next time you feel an impulse to assist I'd recommend just directly asking the person whether they are just venting or whether they would like your help.
I feel like I’m reading a rough draft, not a deeply thought out piece of writing. There are some nuggets of good sounding information in here, but the author doesn’t really go very deep.

Chad Fowler had an interesting slide in one of his talks (circa 2009 I think) where he had a graph of something like frequency of errors produced by working code versus number of changes to that code. Code could end up in one of four quadrants:

- frequent changes, lots of errors: suggesting that the domain was still being discovered or there were quality issues

- frequent changes, few errors: suggesting the domain was changing or growing but quality was good

- few changes, lots of errors: suggesting that the code was not adequately maintained or even understood, perhaps poor quality as well

- few changes, few errors: this is the “legacy” code that works hard and costs less to keep running

Clearly it’s a good thing to have that “legacy” code, by this definition, but I remember that he listed some downsides as well, but not the downsides that the junior dev who wants to rewrite then whole system comes up with.

Edit: I think it might have been "Measuring & Analyzing Things That Matter When You Have Too Many Things To Keep Track Of"

At 36:00, he talks about a ruby gem called for Rails "Turbulence" that measures code complexity against number of modifications
https://vimeo.com/38252887#t=2160s

He also references this article by Michael Feathers: "Getting Empirical about Refactoring" https://www.stickyminds.com/article/getting-empirical-about-...
Just add water
Neat! I guess you’ll be advocating for whatever the next advancement in USB ports is becoming mandated as soon as it’s available, too?
Typical sidecars pivot to allow a motorcycle to lean normally, so it's still countersteering. Rigidly-attached sidecars are used for some kinds of racing; those fundamentally steer like cars, though the "passenger" typically shifts their weight quite a bit to optimize handling.
I had a similar experience in sixth grade. Completely insane.

On the other hand, it taught me early how life actually works.
LastPass breach could've been stopped with a 3-year-old Plex update
> I don’t think I’ve ever paid attention to a blurb in my life.

Dan Simmons writes like a hot-rodding angel and I will be disappointed if his tombstone does not say that verbatim.
This reminds me that the San Francisco ones, if I remember correctly, are in a part of town that's been famously devoid of foot traffic since the pandemic.

San Francisco might be receptive to the concept, but it would have to be close to where people live, rather than where office workers used to go.
> is something that can't be justified except by terrible people.

I have bad news for you about the people commenting in this thread.
To be clear, I would claim some of the "obvious" cases where misalignment of existing organizations / institutions and society at large, and where there have been reasonable policy fixes advocated for years include:

- unpenalized externalities, including carbon emissions, and other environmental effects

- clearly broken tax law which allows some enormously profitable companies to pay very low tax rates

- political donations protected as "speech"

- partisan gerrymandering

These are cases where we made systems with rules, in which agents have incentives, and where the combination of the design of the system and the incentives on participants can cause meaningful harm to the public. In many cases, transparency is meaningfully hindered, and "explanations" of particular outcomes are obscured. Several of the structural issues that AI alignment people care about are present, but the harms are already happening, and yet we seem unable (and AI alignment folk seem comparatively uninterested) in addressing them.
Curious that you’ve put ketamine, a well known anesthetic used primary by the vets but recently also used in depression treatment [1], in that list of “harmful tools with no practical uses”.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine-assisted_psychotherap...
I have made my own theme for Zola (https://www.getzola.org) based on Tufte CSS. It was mostly straight forward, I believe I more or less recreated the structure on https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/. You can see my website on my profile, if you are interested.
> Three decades of experience in the field, and unfortunately, I don't have quite the brooding disdain for Microsoft. Their stock has lined my pockets, their employees have treated my respectfully when we've worked together, their products do what they're advertised to do.

"They've lined my pockets and treated me nice so anything they do is all right by me."

> Something tells me you're under 40.

No. But during my three decades of experience, I actually grew up.
Why couldn't that have happened in the browser though? We have plenty of mechanisms to block and/or delete cookies.

Essentially, now we're at a state where consent banners exist, slowing down all sites, and there are like four states: a) they look compliant, but are ignored by the website provider (the EU itself takes this approach), b) they are flat out ignored (a lot of companies still take this approach) c) they aren't compliant (tiny "no" link, huge "yes, take my firstborn" link) d) they're compliant and are paywalls (buy subscription or accept everything under the sun).

d) is what we're probably going to end up with, so you either pay or you accept tracking. More and more solutions offer that as an option so adoption will grow. Most people accept tracking (stats that I've seen say that those paying are like 1/10,000th), so what have we won exactly by doing this dance?
https://pypistats.org/ tells you about pypi fownload stats
> it's not picking your battles, but it is letting the others

This is the literal definition of picking your battles.
The Surprising Reason Europe Came Together Against Putin
The regulation says nothing about a cookie banner. Instead, it says companies cannot track you unless you give consent.

If you don't like cookie banners, which are indeed really annoying, you should be turning your ire to the companies that wish to track you. They are fully-functional solutions that allow anonymous tracking without installing cookies on your computer - no banner needed then.
Teachers are people and so subject to bias, favoritism, and just plain malevolence. They also can be bribed.
Same here but with caddy-docker-proxy which I found a bit easier than traefik.
I have no inner monologue (and find the whole idea of one utterly weird) but I’m certainly at times highly introspective. But those introspective analyses are no more linguistic than my thinking about, say, math or sex or programming.

I don’t know if it’s related but I only recently realized (in my 50s) that some people hear the sound of words when they read. Also utterly weird to me, and I imagine it would massively slow down reading. OTOH the big insight for me is that that is probably how some people are able to take pleasure from reading poetry or puns. For me poetry often feels like “annoyingly written prose” unless read aloud.
this is... not it. it's a weak replica though
Okay. Why?

Some of the public funds come by way of Pell Grants. What's so terrible about poor kids getting a top-tier education?

Other mechanisms are research grants. You don't think it's in the public's interest to incentivize graduate students at top institutions to do socially beneficial research?

Help me understand what your objection is to federal policy, and what you wish federal policy were instead.
You have millions of tutorials that are about a few pages long, I'm pretty sure it got its programming skills from those. But we are already at model size where the model can keep an entire tutorial page in its context, there is no extra benefit here from expanding the context size, it would need similar tutorials but much much longer and expansive to get better than it is now, and there just aren't enough humans to write all of those.
Sure, but having read a large chunk of educational literature I'm not aware of any alternatives with fewer distortions from parental aid. Grades correlate more highly with a good home life than test scores do, for example.

As long as we have "prestige" universities there's going to be some form of skills testing, and no one has ever designed an un-gameable test that can be administered nationally. The question we have to ask ourselves then is how we can reduce game-ability and I doubt we can make improvements that are more than incremental.
> a way to circulate the elites

Thr proper terminology is Sovial Mobility

> arbitrary things like sex or race can’t work

They work as a litmus test-> if you are massively excluding someome, probably something in the process is fucked.
Interestingly I feel the same way about coding interviews, which HN seems to hate. I feel like studying and doing well on my coding interviews helped me get into top companies that otherwise would probably pass over my decidedly non-elite resume.
It is a common rule to always prefix "male" with "white" when trying to criticize men, otherwise you end up lumping in all non-white males and criticizing them too. Obviously a gigantic faux-pas in the modern days, you could end up being accused of racism while all you wanted to do was vilify men.

I'm actually surprised the parent didn't feel the need to be a bit more specific to avoid all criticisms: cis-white-male is usually the accepted term. Take this with a grain of salt though. "Cis white male" has the clear inconvenient of including disabled cis white males, which we can't do if our intent is to bash on an entire portion of the population. I've seen more and more the thankfully more precise term "bodyabled-cis-white-male" being used to fix this problem.
Apparently, it's all about feathering the throttle. Very nice!

Near-perfect landing, super smooth

Score: 96.5 point landing
Speed: 1.1mph
Angle: 0.7°
Time: 45 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 43.7mph
Max height: 256ft
Engine used: 73 times
Boosters used: 37 times
https://ehmorris.com/lander/

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I see it took you about seven months from "Initial Commit" to its current state. How did you stay on track all that time?
A grown up man spending 14 hours a day playing games is a very bad sign. It's ok for a few months, provided one has some money, but not a great long term strategy.

Yes, it's hard. But you don't fight depression with endless gaming sessions. Quite the opposite, really.

I feel incredibly stupid playing multiplayer games during business hours because, well, who am I playing against/with? Either children or lazy bums.
One can't file a lawsuit against test-optional schools for discrimination. In the end, test-optional = test-ignored
> Maybe you and I actually can't "handle the truth", as the Nicholson line goes

This comment is entirely about the examples/analogies.

Note that different people interpret that character’s line differently. Some people agree with the character that strict rules and discipline and walls and tough characters are needed to maintain the peace (“the sheepdog protects the sheep against the wolves” analogy that is common in police/military circles).

I personally see that character as having a god complex. In the movie, he walked around with an entourage of sycophants and enablers, he lied to investigators, he created a crime by telling subordinates to “handle” the whistleblower, he arranged for the crime to be covered up by altering logs at the airport, and he chose to withhold his actions from the military court until his ego was challenged.

Every time that “you can’t handle the truth” scene is invoked around policing, it is the perfect example to confirm my bias against people who would choose to give sheepdogs all of the power they demand.

And the analogy of sheep/sheepdog is an interesting tell because sheep are very far removed species from sheepdogs, but sheepdogs and wolves are the same family if not the same species. The only thing that differentiates a sheepdog from a wolf is action. If the sheepdog starts to selectively act like a wolf “to keep order”, then they are closer to a wolf than a sheepdog.
It looks like it might be more interesting on what industries or problem domains those most cited AI papers were focused.
Anything that reduces e-waste, yes.
The GC iterations they were talking about were during incredibly high throughout. Most users would not notice this. It's not some general indictment of Go.
> the data

Keep in mind that I attended in the 70s. Nothing stays the same. I have little idea if Caltech is the same today as then, and rather doubt it. One obvious change is their mission statement has changed drastically. In the 1978 "Caltech Information for Students" pg 105 it says simply:

> The primary purpose of the undergraduate school of the California Institute of Technology, as stated by the Trustees, is "to provide a collegiate education which will best train the creative type of scientist or engineer so urgently needed in our educational, governmental, and industrial development."
This comment is a fantastic example of the meta-battle which the tech industry has been waging. They have worked very hard to change the very questions in the privacy debate. In their terms, collection of the data itself is never under debate; all debates are framed in terms of how they are allowed to use data. In this case, the failure isn't the law or the company's compliance with it. It was the collection and retention of the data in the first place.
> Yes I don’t give a shit about homework, I understand the material which is why I’m slaying each test. I hated that about college. We are adults. I’m paying to get an education, why the fuck is homework 20% of the grade? It’s practice, for people who don’t get the material.

So what you're admitting is that you are willing to not to do required parts of your job because you don't feel they're important. If you go out into the workforce and become a lawyer, what parts of your job are equally willing to blow off because you don't like them? Billing clients properly? Procedural stuff like filing answers properly?

You're basically arguing that your unwillingness to do the assigned tasks not be held against you.
Polish (and Hungarian) governments have a long track record of not following the EU laws. For them, the EU is more of a piggy bank to draw money from, rather than respecting values.

In this case, delegation to local DPAs is hurting privacy regulation across the EU.
AFAIK the fastfloat benchmark is a single translation unit anyway. Whole program optimization and LTO buys you nothing there.

GCC and clang are both conservative with instruction set withou march option.

I'm often disappointed by MSVC codegen when examining it in godbolt, I'm not surprised by the results here.
> Would it be good if it was computed by hand on paper instead of through AI?

Yes, as long as that is based on clear reasons why the decision was reached. (Unless this was a quip meant to mean "matrix muls with pen and paper are not AI!", personally I'd say they are, the same way bubble sort is bubble sort on paper and in code.)

[1] on the topic "why":

> For example, it is often not possible to find out why an AI system has made a decision or prediction and taken a particular action.

As far as I know, there are some rules around that (especially social scoring), but the regulation was/is targeted to lay out rules minimizing the applications in similar risky areas that do not have those same rules yet.

[1] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory...
The entire discussion on the link obscures the fact that saas companies are providing a real service. Even if you don't want the product to be updated, staying abreast of security patches, external api changes, OS changes, client changes, browser changes, etc is real work. Self hosting requires the person hosting to do all the ktlo work.
i do wonder what fraction of the audience in HN also thinks of F# as a secret weapon
Can you explain or provide a link? Thinking about it all seems pretty straightforward to me so I'm curious what I'm missing, what's the complicated part.
Yes but before you can make that call you need to have a reliable estimate of how costly it will be to rewrite the system. This in turn requires a through understanding of the current behavior of the system, which means you will have to study and understand the code anyway.
In the context of the article, it seems that this wording would suggest

> "Both men and women without full time jobs are more likely to divorce."

but this is not supported by any evidence that I could find. Indeed, it seems that unemployed (non-employed?) women are actually less likely to divorce, and that divorce rates see a linear, positive correlation with the hours worked by the female partner in male-female marriages.

Of course this is a correlative and not a causative factor, and likely is confounded by e.g. social norms and economic factors, so I don't think it says much. More recent results find that divorce (inversely) correlates more strongly with economic success, which also correlates with single-income households.

In any case, the available data suggests that a more nuanced opinion than "Gender doesn't matter for anything" would provide a better explanation.

N.b., the data I found was either from countries with a historical patriarchal bias (e.g. Iran, Türkiye) or rather old (before 1990) so it's possible/probable that these trends have shifted over time. If so, however, they are not under active research as far as I can tell. This is not my area of expertise so I might have missed some critical keywords in my search.

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/2249...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.12629

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/019251385006003...

https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1008691

https://jwsps.alzahra.ac.ir/article_4434.html
I never realised they gave away cards for free, and always assumed it was because it was ideally suited to the demo tracker format.

Edit:6000 cards just for the demoscene seems like a lot to me though.
Its better to design, implement, and use local-first software: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
could it be they have more spare time to find new partner while the wife is away from home whole day?
A computer undergoes the most electrical stress when turning on, and doubly so for any components that also experience physical stresses such as HDDs and fans.

One of the quickest ways to kill a HDD or fan is to make it spin up its motor from idle frequently as a consequence of power saving policies.

Personally, I never turn my computers off unless I know I won't be using them for extended periods of time (say a week or two). The power bill savings aren't worth the decreased hardware life.
Would love a way to use any of these in Linux, especially Lunatic Fringe and Flying Toasters
You don't need an app to enter the store. You need an app to shop at the store. Presumably many classes of person enter the store for various non-shopping reasons without needing the app. It's not beyond the bounds of reason to imagine that for the non-shopping purpose of returning an unrelated item you may not need the shopping app to enter the store -- or, indeed, to imagine that for the product return flow the shoppers' entrance may not factor into the equation at all.

(I don't have a horse in this race, I just don't think you can usually apply the transitive property to the real world.)
Interesting but I hope the takeaway isn't demonizing folks that are depressed or anxious, or having a thought-police toxic positivity style company culture.
Love it! It's like a cross between Flappy Bird and Asteroids. Nice tutorial at the beginning, too.

Just managed to get a 98.5, which I think was mostly luck.
> Every rail line devoted to moving people around is another one that can't be used for high efficiency freight transport, resulting in freight being moved far less efficiently by trucks.

Movements of people tend to be in certain time windows though, and there's no particular reason why freight needs to move inside those windows. And if there are lines operating at capacity, it's not like the US lacks the land to build more...
> arbitrage opportunity for lower-ability legacy students

Is that generally true or is that a stereotype?

Legacy students also had a higher average SAT score than non-legacy students, at 1523 for legacy students and 1491 for non-legacy students.[1]

[1]: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/9/8/2025-freshman-su...
Probably. As a general rule, though, we use actual hardware where possible. There have been differences between real hardware and emulated machines, such as floating point issues with m68k in qemu, for instance.

At some point, though, some of these kinds of builds will move to qemu and friends.
Yeah what I mean is it would be a shame if it weren't a real lifeline, just one that sounds good for PR.
> if the interview process is so broken

Hiring is guessing. Firing is knowing. If the hiring process worked, we wouldn't have layoffs like we do.
Strange, I did get a confirm on my android on Firefox
How do you deal with guaranteeing this approach doesn't break users with non-default settings and preferences?
The above link is for home Teams.

Your company should be using teams.microsoft.com ! :)

So your comment makes no sense.

We as IT admins may just want to keep track of Edge updates and extensions and not want someone running months old Firefox all sneaky like.
> Why the need to bring it under control?

So that EU bureaucrats can feel a sense of purpose in their lives.
Lobbying? Please describe