skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. It's vulnerable to all sorts of mishaps. You're now having to worry about data leakage between your treatment group AND your target variable. Casual inference without experiment data is all just a mathematical exercise to make a one size fits all approach to identifying relationships. Yes, correlation has weaknesses. But the name "causal inference" is grossly misleading. It's "well if we assume X, Y, and Z then the effect which we have already assumed is causal is probably around this order of magnitude". And hey, maybe that will help you identify cases where a confounding variable is actually the thing that matters. But you're not going to do better than just doing an analysis on the variables and their interactions. You don't have the brainpower to do this at a scale larger than pretty much all causal methods will begin to fail. It does not offer you the legitimacy the name implies.

I think it confuses far more than it helps.
LOL comment of the week.
Can you point the app to your own backend instance?
I think the parent commenter understands this part, they're just saying they think the values are actually much higher
Ask HN: What should the back button do after a queued Spotify song?
Suppose you add a few songs to your queue in Spotify. When the first song you added finishes, you hit the back the button. Instead of playing the song that just finished it plays whatever album or playlist you were in before queuing songs.

Is this the behavior you want? I’m asking out of curiosity more than anything else. I often see people make this mistake of trying to go backward in the songs they’ve queued and finding out that they can’t. Personally, I think it’s more intuitive to have the back button always take me to the song that was just playing. I want to be clear that I’m asking what you would prefer not what you think is technically correct.

Also, is this how things work in Apple Music as well?
> At least here in Europe MasterCard and visa are the only options. Amex and Discovery are really unusable here.

Depends on the country!

Amex is accepted in many places in Germany these days (though you definitely still need to carry another card, so it can't be your only card).

And Discover and Diners Club are actually the same network, so in the European countries that have strong Diners Club acceptance, you can usually also get by with Discover. (No idea about how good the exchange rates are, though; those of Diners Club in the other direction are atrocious.)
> Is it possible that another turn of the crank or two takes dark matter to zero?

Not sure about the Milky Way. But we already found galaxies out there that don't seem to have any dark matter; ie where their rotation curves match what you would predict from the ordinary matter alone.

Interestingly enough that is evidence in favour of dark matter: it's easy to conceive of mechanisms that can separate dark matter from visible matter with some low probability in a galaxy merger or near-merger. (Similarly for galaxies having more than the average amount of dark matter.) But alternatives like Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) would have a much harder time accommodating those differences.
And stopped having elections ?
That's the hard to believe part, it would imply housing costs on average are only up by 86%, but that doesn't seem to be anywhere near accurate in at least large parts of the country (all the ones I looked at least when we considered moving).
Like some other commenters, what is actually being represented here is hard to understand. Which is usually what nice visualizations are supposed to clear up over [CPI documentation].
I stopped noticing several years ago, it seems every place has all 4 on the "We proudly accept" window decal. But I do remember checking 10-15 years ago to make sure places took my Amex, because not all of them did.
That's a possibility. Another one is that they'll just pay. Microsoft's annual revenue has been higher than $100 BN each year since 2018, and it's going to break $200 BN this year. If they pay $29 BN over a period of 10 years, they will not feel it. What will happen though is that they'll create a precedent, and this will hit other companies harder than it hits them, so they'll come out ahead.
Is ListenNotes considered successful? I usually go there to search for interview episodes.
It's the company that now owns Diners Club (and is better known under that name in many countries other than the US), who in turn invented credit cards way back :)
> I don't understand how that's an argument for the length of the copyright either way?

One argument might be that, compared to other media, video games' continued availability may be particularly dependent on whether or not they become public domain.

If video game hardware quickly becomes out of date and old games lose their economic value quickly, then the copyright holder may not be motivated to put in the effort to keep the game available.

However, an archivist motivated by artistic or historical rather than economic value may still be willing to put the effort into keeping the game available if it is in the public domain.
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/difference-between-battery-an...

You are fundamentally incorrect and either do not understand what a capacitor is or are unwilling to use the correct language in an attempt to prove a point...which unfortunately undermines it. Additionally, smart grids are already capable of transitioning between sources and solar or wind with battery storage are more cost effective than fossil fuel generation today: https://cleantechnica.com/2023/04/15/wind-solar-power-now-th...
I know Asian Americans who are jealous about not having a permissive American-style upbringing. But in reality American kids just have different shit, like instability from parents getting divorced, or getting stuck at a dead end service job because nobody ever taught them to navigate the system.

America is brutal competition. Asian parenting at least prepares you for that.
Isn't it obviously because the measures only work if all adhere to it, just like blackouts in wartime or the rules in every zombie movie.

The weakest link in a chain ...
Huh? How does forgetting who you work for lead to better software?
I’m not sure there would’ve been any way Sony could’ve managed backwards compatibility with the PS3 on the PS4, short of building a PS3 into the PS4, given the vast architectural differences between the two. It’s only been in the past few years that x86 PCs have become powerful enough to emulate the PS3 well, and I have serious doubts that the Jaguar APU in the PS4 had anywhere near the raw horsepower required to emulate a PS3.

By contrast the Xbox 360 was built with a relatively simple tri-core PPC G5 which mapped to the hardware of the hardware of the Xbox One much better. The OG Xbox was just a Pentium III PC which no doubt made backwards compatibility with it much simpler (just need to virtualize an Xbox).

Microsoft has also had its own share of consumer unfriendliness, like the ridiculously expensive WiFi dongle for the 360 or how the current gen Xbox uses a proprietary expansion card slot for storage upgrades (contrasted with the PS5 which just needs a mid-to-high spec NVMe SSD like you’d put in a PC).
I saw omnigres mentioned on a shakti mailing list. Many of these concepts have been around with k (kdb) and some other APL-like languages for some time. But Postgres will give these concepts a much broader appeal.
Many (most?) releases auto generate the SSH server keys and set default configuration during OS or during SSH server enablement. Changing the server key protects you against the case that whoever made the distribution did it wrong - either used duplicate keys to other hosts, or intentionally compromised the key, or used a poor PRNG, or used a less desirable algorithm, perhaps for compatibility purposes.

That is not to say that any of those things actually happened; it’s just that the most paranoid/defense-oriented view is not to trust what the OS did for you, but to do it yourself.

A distro provider is incentivized to find a local optimum between security and compatibility and has no idea about your environment.

You have much more context about your environment- you know what you need to connect to, what needs to connect to you, and what ciphers, key length, and other configuration that you must support. Therefore if you take all that into account you might be able to optimize for security by disabling compatibility options you don’t need.

BTW this answer is pretty much the same when it comes to hardening any security feature of any OS. Vendors/distributors do a good job of hardening but you might be able to lock things down just a little further.
There's already a lot of variation in the proportion of dark matter to visible matter in different galaxies. Revising one galaxy doesn't change the statistics that much.

(However you are right that from a Bayesian point of view, the Milky Way is the galaxy we have the most data on. So should count for a lot more than a random galaxy.)
Omnivore looks pretty good. I should try it out.

I've been using and paying for this: https://mymind.com/

I like it better than any of the many alternatives that I have tried/researched thus far.
I said Communist Manifesto not Communist. Communist aren't only people referring to it. So can antifa. They paint most their enemies as Nazis.
The graph is referencing the Consumer Price Index.

I think that the official inflation numbers given are low to the point of absurdity. Time to dust off criticisms of the CPI... Most likely, no doubt, there's some political deflation of the numbers.
I recently completed a take-home coding test that solved all of the the cases given.

I was rejected because it did not pass a case I was not given and could not test against.

I hate the interview process for software engineering
This was back in the day when we went down from 4 recommended to just 1. After getting J&J + pfeizer booster + covid twice, I stopped following the current recommendations.

I can find you the links to 'not-recommending' (=countries stop using) the astrazeneca, J&J and moderna if you want.

I can also find you the link to CDC director saying that vaccinated people won't get ill and won't spread it.
CPI allows substitutions. So where the basket in 1999 included beef, now it probably only includes chicken.
Sounds like you're leaning on the arm of that chair a bit heavily. Care to elaborate?
That works as long as commercial companies can not somehow acquire such a digital commons and abuse it for their own purposes. GitHub for instance.
> The major surprise is that the 1K of ROM memory implements a simple ‘virtual machine’. This machine in turn performs the arithmetic and other calculations needed by the 141-PF.

This is reminiscent of Steve Wozniak's Sweet 16 VM, for the 6502/Apple II.

Wozniak worked on calculators at HP.

Maybe the technique was known in the calculator circles?

From info in the Busicom Wikipedia page, I'm guessing that VM might have been the brainchild of either Ted Hoff or Frederico Faggin, or both.
I think lots of European universities, where there is a high demand for CS/SE lecturers and engineers, may easily take someone with your profile for a lecturer (teaching-oriented) or (permanent) research engineer position (R&D-oriented). That is a good way to enter an academic career without a PhD, if you know where to find this kind of positions.

The UK and Scandinavian markets are quite straightforward and will not have any local language constraints. Hiring processes are also simpler, without requirements that are hard to meet for an outsider. The Netherlands and Ireland are also worth considering.

In the US, I think the market is a bit more competitive, especially at R1 institutions. Happy to provide more advice via email.
Sorry just checked, you’re right I mixed them up w 2nd gen.

https://a.co/d/g8IRO8W
Yes, but how is Mastercard encouraging me to spend more? In my day to day, it matters little which payment network I use since that’s abstracted away by the bank’s interface.
What opportunity does Mastercard have to target me?
Well, what do they do if you drive off with the car and they have your credit card?

Your issuer is only liable for the few hundreds of dollars that the rental car company has authorized; beyond that, it's still their (or their insurance's) loss.

The only practical difference is that you're not out that money on your checking account for a few days, which can indeed be inconvenient – but arguably that's not really the rental car agency's problem?
I know it was merged, but currently there is only support for statically-dispatched async fn in traits. I believe we also need dynamic dispatch to compete with the current style of `poll_X()` functions in the I/O traits.
These are probably real numbers, but the government lies deliberately to keep inflation adjusted payments down. Costs such as social security are fixed to inflation. A site I follow is called ShadowStats that uses the old government accounting measures to calculate inflation, and its interesting to see the difference.

https://www.shadowstats.com/
People have to stop treating LLMs and transformer models like they're the solution to everything. Never before had I seen so much jump on a hype by academics (I'm an academic too). Honestly it feels like mostly clout seeking and a way to improve citation numbers.
Because the IMDb for podcasts is built into the Apple ecosystem. It has ratings, reviews, category lists, best of lists etc.
I wonder which model was used for this? Based on the poem taking "10 seconds" to generate, I'd guess the free version of ChatGPT, meaning 3.5 turbo.

While I wouldn't expect Atwood's conclusions to change too much by using GPT-4 instead, I think it's interesting that even the majority of educated people and journalists outside of tech don't seem to realize that the best model is at least 10x smarter than the free version of ChatGPT, which is what they seem to be using for all their prejudice-confirming "experiments".

They also always seem to assume that if the output from whatever prompt they came up with can't reach X quality bar, that means it can't be reached by anyone else either with a different prompting strategy.

Not trying to throw any shade toward Ms. Atwood, who is one of my favorite writers, and I'm also not claiming AI will be writing as well as her anytime soon... just pointing out that if we want to really measure where we're at on tasks like this one, a more rigorous approach is needed.
Try Win10 LTSC.
I was interested in how you do authentication, but currently the 'Omni_web' link & readme is missing. Suggest you could use the pgjwt[0] approach for this for simple logins in the short term, but supporting OpenID Connect would be a larger engineering effort.

[0] https://github.com/michelp/pgjwt
What do I learn from that?

That you are nothing special. The computer is just doing what you do, putting one word after the last one. Picking each word more or less carefully, based on its own training and the audience's expectations.

It's doing it badly, for the moment. But would we mock a talking dog who stutters?

How is my life enriched?

Being able to see what's coming is helpful, more often than not.
Well worth the price plus it includes their other instrument sites.
your world view is too localised...theres no chipmunks where there are no trees...i dont understand why would anyone be against planting trees...its one of the four things to do in life for fucks sake: grow, mate, plant a tree, and die
More importantly, both Visa Europe and Mastercard Europe used to be cooperatives owned by various European banks, largely independent from their parent organizations in the US.

The European banks just sold their stakes in the late 90s to the US parents, because they supposedly didn't see a future in that business model...
Founders can be paid entirely in dividends. They can also choose what salaries to pay themselves - thus bringing down their taxable income bracket spread out over time.
i don't feel like this makes much of a difference, if any. the primary hindrance to any change and progress is NIMBY, as far as i can see in the US and in germany (and probably elsewhere, but those two i am most familiar with). multiple parties don't help there at all. multiple parties enable coalitions, but all that does is force parties to compromise on their goals. in the end they all just fight each other anyways without being able to progress much.

for real progress a complete overhaul of the electoral process is needed. i'd abolish the concept of parties wholesale. instead each representative is elected individually, and there is no party association that limits any of them on which issues to support. think of it as each representative being their own individual party.
My main beef with MathJax is how it searches for equation on the entire page and renders it in place instead of using something like a custom element. E.g. in TeXZilla you can write something like:

<la-tex>x = \frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}</la-tex>

In my own mathup library I have a similar functionality:

<math-up>x = -b+-sqrt(b^2 - 4ac) / 2a</math-up>

For MathJax to continue staying relevant it should probably do something similar (note that it is not that hard [1]).

As for the output. This is in large part due to the font being used. The default math font for me using firefox on ubuntu is indeed rather ugly. If you want something similar to the TeX output you can simply use the TeX-Gyre font face. In my documentation for mathup[2] I use Libertinus Math, which pairs very nicely with the other font faces on the page (Libertinus and Libertinus Mono). Aside: here is another example of why MathML is a superior target output then HTML+CSS as you actually have control over the font face.

And finally, as for the copy-pasting. You can download numerous browser add-ons that make copy-pasting formulas as easy as MathJax’s. I will admit this is a handy feature of MathJax, and if you want user to be able to copy-paste your expressions while not assuming they will download an add-on to do so, then MathJax is probably your number 1 choice.

1: https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/2292#issuecomment-...

2: https://runarberg.github.io/mathup/ - Note, I haven’t updated the software to target the newer MathML Core, so many expressions will not work in Chrome. You should definitely use MathJax over my library.
They won’t pay unless they have to. If they did, the shareholders would sue.
It's also useful if your transformations aren't bijective. A lot of hyperreal proofs look like (a) Push your real-valued problem to the hyperreals, (b) Prove something interesting, and (c) push some subset/transformation of that interesting thing back down to the reals.

As a very concrete example (eliding details for obvious reasons), to prove Kőnig's lemma you can (0) Start with a connected, infinite, locally finite graph, (a) Embed that infinite graph in any properly nonstandard extension thereof, (b) Use the transfer principle to find an infinite "hyper" path (no longer a path because it's indexed by the hypernaturals), and (c) Project that back to a standard path in the subgraph induced by restricting to the original infinite graph. That is precisely the infinite path you were looking for.

Not that Kőnig's lemma is hard to prove with standard techniques per se, but it illustrates the point.
> ... originally CEO of Red Hat.

When he joined Red Hat, he was widely known as having turned around Delta Air Lines fortunes.
Ask HN: Businesses built on Tableau / Domo / existing BI platform?
Has anyone built a business by creating a data set (from public and propriety data) within Tableau / Domo / other and reselling it?

For example, pulling demographic data on population aging and selling access to that data to senior services companies (pharmacies, hospice, etc) via an existing BI tool? Data like this is available via census and can be enriched via propriety or in-house surveys etc to create a unique data asset on potential customers.

I've seen companies that create industry benchmark data and resell that but I've never seen it done off the back of an existing BI tool vs. building your own.

Thanks!
it should go back to the previous page. sites shouldn't fuck with the browser's built-in functionalities.
Only a couple disgrunted seniors that hold tight their ideologies (mostly from the IT sector).

Teens/kids don't care about that.
IDK what notices they provide, but:

The copyright statement that prints on boot and indicates that it is licensed under the GPL has been stripped, violating section 4 and 5.d (now claims to be "Copyright (C) 2022 CYCLE Logic" with no mention of "Copyright (C) 2010 - 2020 Sergey Kiselev", and with no mention of the GPL).

If you do request the source code from them, to their credit they do give it to you, but they code the give you has all (edit: most) of the copyright header-comments removed (violation of section 5.b).

And generally, in neither the binary nor the source code indicate that it's based on book8088 (violation of section 5.a).
Does it allow substitutions for country of origin? What if it was primarily US-made goods, but now reflects lower-cost imports?
>like you'd probably already been ignoring the other rules, playing down the whole thing on a subconscious level. Something like that. It makes perfect sense to me in a weird way that's hard to describe the precise causality of

Yeah I get what you’re saying, something like sunk cost, or inertia, though not exactly, as you say.

To me, leaving aside the positing here of extroversion, I think the strongest correlation was something like an iq test, or critical thinking test.

At the time of the “you must get injected, and if you don’t you’re despicable, and if you refuse we’re going to hold you down and stick it in you” campaign it was entirely clear, if not well before then, that the actual risk of the COVID infection itself to anyone in even reasonably good health was far below being injected with some experimental gene modification thing.

I think most people above a certain iq percentile looking into the method of proposed action that was presumed to be effective, which of course wasn’t, thought “WTF why would I want to experimentally modify my genes in response to this? That seems insane.”

Then there was the outright lying in claims being bandied about. The initial studies in no way showed that it stopped infection, transmission, or death. But that’s all you ever heard.

In December 2020 I saw a short news report from a hospital in France I think covering some of the earliest injections. Somewhere towards the end of that report it was said “It’s a vaccine just like any other vaccine.” WTF I thought, that’s exactly the opposite of what it is, it is a “vaccine” completely different from any other.

Then by July 2021 the buzzwords had shifted to calling things like serious heart issues (any heart issue, is a serious issue) mild. “Oh they’re just having some mild heart issues, no biggie.”

It was a completely egregious, evil abomination all round.

Back to the correlations, it didn’t really follow iq linearly like income or health outcomes or other socioeconomic data tends to, it was more the reserve of the far extents of the bell curve as shown in the mid wit bell curve meme.

Using level of educational attainment as a proxy for iq, not a perfect correlate of course, those with phds were indeed the least likely to fall for the injections among those with post secondary degrees according to the data I’ve seen.

Then a somewhat separate matter was those who were put in the ghastly situation of being made to choose between their livelihoods, or seeing their family, or whatnot, and being injected.

I can see some high iq critical thinkers making tough decisions under that level of coercion.