skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone seems to be missing the point here. The SO post says:

> As we can see, even from the correct distribution, the likelihood is very, very small. Thus, it appears to be very unlikely in a certain sense that these numbers came from the very distribution they were generated from.

The person who asked the question is simply confused between likelihoods and posterior probabilities. The likelihood of d values from a Normal Distribution is defined to be the probability of sampling those d values given the parameters of the Normal. It is not the probability that those numbers came from that Normal Distribution. To answer the latter question, you need to say what other possibilities you're considering (perhaps some other parameter values) and use Bayes Rule. The other answers mention that ratios will be involved, but the way to see why ratios are involved is to look at Bayes Rule.
Of course in the human society there are no things that are simple single step problems. There is a problem and someone/something was causing it directly, but that cause usually had a cause of its own, and again and again, in a chain, branching indefinitely. So yeah, the cause of that manager making bad decision is his bad education and bad hiring decision by an upper tier, and the cause of his bad education was a bad teacher or mentor, and the cause of that was a bad education and bad hiring of the upper tier, and so on and so on. Indefinitely.
I absolutely agree with this. But I also think people need to go back to a lot of these single core computers and remind themselves or learn for the first time how much can be done on a for example 1.4 GHz pentium 4 running Windows 2000 with 512 MB of RAM. How many things were completely responsive while multitasking on a system like that.
This still gives me a paywall
> they would buy cars, lattes and pay tax on non-subsidized jobs, too

The point here was that your assumption of the economic effects of the subsidies didn’t include other meaningful factors.
That's exactly what I wanted to say further up but you summarized it way better in less words. I still think Spotify is great to discover music, but yes, there needs to be direct monetization outside of it!
What is going on with these AI chip ventures? I am afraid that they will not realize that one of the most complicated part is the customer facing software (drivers, integration with the existing frameworks) and many of these investments will simply fail because of that.
I've been following Oxide for awhile and it certainly seems like a really neat operation, but I hope they consider going downmarket someday too. At least around here a lot of the demand for self-host stuff is in SMB, and while undoubtedly it's a much smaller market it'd be nice if some of this innovation, openness and self-reliance was available even to those without super deep pockets. I can completely understand starting with the high end, there is much higher margin and a much better revenue:support ratio. But it'd be awesome to have 5-figure or even 4-figure options down the road that could be used. Might also, as with so many times, end up helping develop pipeline down the road. As it is just fun to read about.
The Crown, Season 3 Episode 3, tells this story.
> Can you expand on Pascal vs Go? What is Go missing?

Proper type creation (create a new type for integers less than or equal to 12, and greater than or equal to 1, for example)

Proper enum/ordinal types (Even C is more strongly typed than Go in this instance, because C enums are not just ints, and you can't supply an invalid value to a function expecting a specific enum).

Both these together demonstrate the much stronger typing in Pascal.
Two things come to (my) mind.

First, if the problem is broken URLs, does it make sense to try to fix that instead of not using them? Some odd blog is likely to (eventually) become ephemeral. What about Github links? How long will they last? That seems particularly appropriate for posting code examples. Are there other repositories on the Internet that can reasonably be expected to last?

Second, extremes in either direction could be avoided. Code snippets to illustrate a point are entirely appropriate. Complete programs (beyond hello.c from "The C Programming Language"), probably not so much. Even in the first case I'd suggest including a link to a program that uses the snippet so the curious reader can see the snippet in context.
Mediocre employees are easier to control which leads to a more predictable business that doesn't do much but also doesn't seem like a big risk to shareholders.

Plus since mediocre employees are easier to replace you can use layoffs as smoke and mirrors to buy more time for coming up with your latest grift.

Simply rehire mediocre employees laid off.

Repeat.
I think the logic here is: SQL is hard and most people don't know it well. So PRQL is perhaps easier to learn.

The same logic is applied to TypeScript vs JavaScript. Or C vs assembly. Or Nano vs vim. Etc etc.

It's a quandary though. SQL is clearly difficult for most people to get their heads around. It does require a different way of thinking about data, and you can get by with a minimal SQL knowledge for a long time, especially nowadays with ORMs.

But like so many other things, making the investment is worthwhile and pays off in small and large ways, forever (so far).
Kind of sad to think that a company just went bankrupt, while their employees were working on their own companies instead. No blame for OP. But what should managers do in challenging situations to prevent their team from losing focus?
Maybe a more specific way to put it is: you only pay for the (combinations of) types you actually use, whether that's in argument position, return position, or even a local binding. So if it's always Vec<T> it's not costing much more in compile time or code size, but if it's sometimes another type then you do now pay for both.
You are focusing on the generational trends, I was focusing on the individual.

Tell a kid learning to program today "you should program in assembly because it's efficient, like I did back in my days".

Kid looks around and sees it would take him 3 days to implement a hello world in assembly, but only 3 seconds to do it in Python. He has a 16 core computer with 64 GB of RAM. Both hello worlds run instantly. So how does that advice make sense? Kid calls you a crazy old man out of touch with the times. Kid goes on running locally a 50 GB LLM to make it do a hello world and feels very excited about the future of programming.
Never heard of it, what an interesting read
Near info with video and images: https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/copler-mine-2
What's wrong with being an introvert?
I don't see how you can work assiduously at a full time job in fintech while also trying to launch a tech startup, and expect the startup to succeed. Unless you have some absolutely revolutionary idea with well-protected IP, someone else more dedicated will probably out hustle you with a similar enough idea.
> What would you suggest?

Go for it like your livelihood depends on it.
I see the more creative esolangs like this as beautiful and strange to think and code in; a formal play on language design. Not everything needs to be practical or a learning experience.
What happens if you don't return it?
There's no chance that this is blocked by data protection laws. This is looks exactly like the kind of case where data can be collected and processed without consent, since it's needed to operate the service and meet the contractual obligations of paying the musicians the right amount.

(And that doesn't mean that they could keep the data indefinitely or use it for other purposes without consent.)
Oregon did similar. Before their law almost everyone in the Portland metro used nice easy to curbside recycle paper bags. Then they all switched to plastic. If you’re going to force recycling make it easy. Those plastic bags are not and still can’t be curb side recycled and will end up in the landfill as that study found.
Yeah that's about it. They slowly made them prohibitively more expensive. I've actually had the same shopping bag for 27 years and have gone from being seen as a hippy weirdo to never being questioned. It was just normalised that you got bags free before. That should have never been the case in the first place!
For # 3 -- Back the, some people would not bother returning the carriage to get their coin. They just left them where their car was and moved on.

You saw this was decades ago :)

For the plastic tokens, almost no one in the US (at least were I live) would deal with these plastic tokens. I very much doubt that would be accepted.

Also we have deposits on bottles, most people here just toss the in the trash, not bothering to return them. I am sure forcing carriage returns would lose the chain many customers.

For it to work, every single chain would have to adopt this at the same time. Not going to work where I am in the US.
What about the burden of proof that you are conscious? After all, you’re just a bunch of neurons firing signals, and 100% of your behavior is readily explained as an automaton in a meat machine.
A comment has a green username if at the time of commenting the author was new. The colour remains. If you look at your first comments, you will see them green as well.

YCombinator founders have their own colours which are only visible to each other.

There are plenty of undocumented features like this one.
It is better for shops to just sell jute or cloth bags at retail price for carrying goods instead of allowing users to buy any type of plastic bag. This is how it is done in India in places where plastic is banned. Of course, customers can bring their own carry bags and avoid buying bags.
That's a good point and a legitimate reason to get rid of the pool, but I guess I was talking more about often-voiced worries that big artists are getting richer and indie artists are getting poorer due to Spotify's algorithm -- and those worries long predate the weird ambient stuff.
> "my business isn't producing revenue because I'm not full-time focused on it." I've fallen into this trap and learned the hard way that full-time focus was not the issue.

What was/were the issue/s if you don't mind me asking?
Environmentalists can also focus on environmental beauty - which is the primary rationale for reducing single-use plastic bags so they don't end up in trees and on the street. This is more of a hedonistic environmentalism but it's totally valid. We can also push for other big ticket items like better sewage control and highway runoff management at the same time.
My userChrome tweaks for vertical tabs: https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/88673880d373864eee1927...

Includes screenshots! :)
I had to start my own company because I couldn't get a job doing what I wanted to do. I kept being told that I didn't have the degree I needed. There are no degree requirements for CEO.
Not parent poster, but there's a long track record of these sorts of subsidies to big tech companies already rolling in money to go bust with little oversight, investigation, or prosecution.

The big one everyone remembers is the set of grants giving to incumbent providers to expand access to broadband (25 Mbps down/3 Mbps minimum) to everyone in the country - a promise that, despite three rounds of grants in the billions, has not materialized.[1]

[1] https://www.jsonline.com/in-depth/news/2021/07/14/weve-spent...
17th rank on GDP. Sure its worse per capita, but Turkey is not poor compared to actual poor countries.
The downside of using hidden flags like this is that most of the time you're just delaying the inevitable, as opposed to just biting the bullet now. Up to you to decide which is the least worst.
> a few decades ago we decided to move manufacturing jobs overseas because paying people who had families and bought "cars and lattes" here was just too expensive. Why reneg on that commitment?

Because it was dumb, changing away from a path when you see it is a dead end is a good thing to do.

Also I’m not sure “we” (to the extent that there even is an “we” here, there are always winners and losers with these sorts of policies so I bet the whole country didn’t agree) ever intended to move high-tech manufacturing away from the US. I think we want to outsource the bad jobs and keep the good ones. Of course it is a game everybody is playing, we’re shifting our strategy to hopefully more effectively keep the high-tech stuff.
Re: Point 3 that would be cart left with a coin by a careless customer who didn't bother bringing back the cart to have their coin back.
Matryoshka
> I am just doubting (a personal opinion) that they'll actually work and calculating the wealth transfer happening here.

The goal is not wealth transfer.

If you want that, move to Europe.
Google cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Orange Kiwi" href="https://www.orange-kiwi.com/index.xml" />

yes just add this inside your <head>
Well even on iOS Chrome is a different app from Safari and Firefox. Mozilla has two different browsers — even on iOS where all browsers are "the same" Mozilla sees enough differences to have two separate ones.

You're just restating the premise. I think Outlook could make a case for just being a wrapper for Apple Mail. Valve could make the case that Steam's distinguishing feature is lacking on iOS. Again, there is some signal here but I've never heard anyone be able to really explain it.
Yes, it is pretty certain that no bitmap plasma displays existed at that time, because the drivers for them would have been more expensive than an entire desktop computer (due to the high number of rows and columns).

It is said that the display was an unusual plasma display and not a vacuum fluorescent display, which were much more frequent in the desktop calculators of that time, but it must have been an alphanumeric display with segments, perhaps with 16 segments per character.
Nothing as far as I can tell..
Just because you hired A doctor doesn't mean your company isn't liable. Otherwise companies would pull this any time they get sued.

And in your second case insurance companies wouldn't insure doctors that did that if they were liable. Assuming the diagnosis comes out bad.
You use it next time you come to store.
> I would describe German drug stores in the same way (except that they don't contain a pharmacy and can't sell over the counter drugs)

So, in the USA they are called "drug stores" because they sell... drugs. Prescription and over the counter. Are these really called drug stores, or using the German word for drugs, even though they don't sell them... because of their overlap with the non-drug business that the American ones have come to donate more square feet (and prob more revenue) to? Or for other reasons unrelated to USA practice?
I understand you - I am a bit older and did similarly, buying cassettes in the 70s

Yet, I miss the undivided attention of that first listening, listening to all tracks in sequence (picking the track sequence was an art in itself, creating an atmosphere across the album). Feeling the difference between Side A and B.

Those 10$ felt like great return. Exchanging tapes with friends, recording mixtapes, listening sit downs.

A lot of this is lost due to streaming in general. When you can get any song in history in a few clicks, it takes away part of the “mystical journey” of finding your new musical beat. More self reinforcing stuff, just like Social Networks.

About Spotify, I agree with the OP. Interface gets worse, price goes up, podcast content is irrelevant for me (but drives price up). I find it grating since I already pay for the Apple bundle which includes Music (which is somehow even worse than Spotify). If Apple had a better interface I could ditch Spotify.

Guess I must try Cider again.
I don't disagree necessarily but can you back that up for the people on the fence?
Thanks for this PSA, I feel dumb now. I just switched to a Linux laptop from a Mac at work and just mindlessly installed Docker Desktop like I did on Mac. Years ago I was a Linux know it all, but I've let myself go.
Go slow to go fast
This depends on the country. Some countries the expectation is you work your contracted 35 hours, and all the rest of your time and energy is yours to use as you please - including having a side-hustle.

The existence of all these side hustles in that case probably wasn't the reason the company failed.
I don’t understand how coin locks keep the carts better maintained.

With coin locks, customers are still “pulling carts through bumpy parking lots, wrestling them across the threshold of doorways in and out of the store, and forcing them up and down the curb.”

The only difference maybe is they are all being returned to a covered cart shed that is protected from the elements.

Then why blame the customer with all that stuff above?
Because Russia was already fighting the war in Ukraine, which is why Finland joined NATO ?

I presume the Mutual defence clause of the European Union played a role as well.
For injection molding? Or other types of molding?

Injection molding processes I've seen have super-tight tolerances. Something like plaster or sandcasting do not.
Plastic bags are far cheaper and even if they are not really recyclable, they have less of an upstream impact on the environment (a few grams of oil from underground vs a percentage of a tree farm that disrupts an ecosystem).

In the end reusable bags or boxes are the only sustainable solution regardless.
It feels like a jobs program for a LOT of people, ultimately. This is why the ceremony is almost sacrosanct.
The stark thing is just how liquid the flow is.

Then how fast it is. Utterly terrifying.
For how long does it fail? Because I have not seen any availability issues with OCSP stapling (including must staple in the cert) using Let's Encrypt.
Yes, But for "confidence in inputs" the difference doesn't matter.
Oh, ok. I guess because it's fading, but I think there's also a revival. Anyway, what's the connection with robots?
Thanks for being very clear about the presence of affiliate links.
An international, multi-goverment task force is no solution for the routine wire fraud that impacts most consumers. Due to corruption, incompetence, and political disputes, the countries where most of that fraud originates won't participate in a meaningful way.
Are you actually looking for advice or hoping we will validate your feelings about wanting to go out on your own? Because there’s not enough detail here to actually offer any actionable advice.
Reformatted for readability (indent code blocks with two spaces):

from tracks
group album_id (
sort {-milliseconds}
take 1
)

Editorializing:

Data query specification is all about getting the details right. This does not look simpler than the corresponding SQL to me though. All components must be present -- scope, group, limit, order.

SQL, for all its faults, is generally succinct at incorporating the required details. The PRQL sample here is succinct as well, but to me at least, not differentiating.
No, we are attributing feelings to an overglorified spreadsheet. I understand it, we have empathy, but AI is just responding to an input the way it have been trained, like other piece of software.
I think it’s a great system.

Reminds of a big festival I went to in Germany. Beers were 5 euro and came in a sturdy plastic mug. Bring the mug back and get a euro back. 5 mugs and a free beer. I’ve never seen a place so clean after such a large party.
Good for PHP that it's getting more and more traction (attention) lately. Bad press is still press & PHP is quite not bad nowadays, when you start from scratch.
“Contemplating this would lead into an [apparently] ridiculous rabbit hole” is not really a good heuristic for understanding what’s true about the universe. It doesn’t need to be convenient to human intuition.

Consider the alternative: some special types of biological cells produce consciousness and that’s it? Probably not one such cell, but probably not 2 cells, but once you get up to ~human brain count they’re definitely conscious and then they actually appear conscious-ish in their behavior all the way down to insects.

That’s a much more ridiculous claim than that all matter is conscious to some degree and there are certain arrangements of matter that demonstrate higher or lower levels of it.
> Thick plastic bags are “not what consumers demanded when they overwhelmingly voted to support California’s bag ban at the ballot box when the policy was challenged,” Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) told reporters recently in reference to Proposition 67, a 2016 ballot measure that would have negated the 2014 law.

The word "overwhelmingly" apparently means 53.27%[0] in a state that is an outlier politically compared to the rest of the country (the 2016 presidential election there was 61.73% to 31.62%). It's fascinating to me how little effort there has been on the east coast to oppose and overturn these kinds of laws, probably because the political faction that would be expected to oppose them loves passing off videos of people leaving stores without bags as shoplifting videos to play into the "blue cities and states are legalizing shoplifting" narrative.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_California_Proposition_67
Today I learned another reason that despite appearances Baltimore is not a "major metropolitan area". I'm not being sarcastic, it really doesn't have the economy of one.

But I also wonder if it's just the very largest cities that have easy 24 hour pharmacy access.
This is from the perspective of designing a custom system for doing a particular business function, and its software and hardware are interlinked parts of the whole design (as would be e.g. a cloud platform if that was used for it), and it makes all sense of always considering them together as that enables valuable tradeoffs of one vs another instead of assuming that "this hardware must be powerful&efficient for any system" and "this software should run on any hardware". The software isn't intended to ever run on any other hardware, so in that context questions like "running the software on worse hardware" are meaningless as the software is not an isolated component meant to be deployed somewhere else on unknown hardware, it runs exactly on the hardware you want, and if you can save $5k of software costs by spending $1k of hardware costs then you should do it just as eagerly as if you could save $5k of hardware costs by spending $1k of software work. (Which is quite different from mass market software, where you have to consider small runtime savings multiplied by vary many different consumer devices running the same software)

But for many companies building such systems (custom line-of-business software is probably still the largest part of software development happening in the world) it's highly probable that if you can "bail your poor decisions out" by just buying RAM, that's is far more efficient than rebuilding parts of software - a saved man-month of engineering can buy a LOT of RAM; a terabyte of it is probably in the range where it's not even particularly worth trying to carefully evaluate the options as a well-staffed meeting or two discussing the possibilities can be more expensive than buying a few RAM sticks more.
I remember the brown paper bag being an iconic part of American movies, when I was growing up. What happened to that?
8-year-old is now the youngest player ever to beat GM in classical chess
How to Monitor Keywords on Reddit with Golang?
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This is what chargebacks are for, although a year after the payment might be too late. Wonder if suing in small claims could work?