skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg argues that Simpson's paradox is misnamed as "there's no contradiction involved, just two different ways to think about the same data"

Isn't this a bit of a misunderstanding on their part on the meaning of the word "paradox"? The fact that they're called paradoxes is that they go against initial intuition and _seem_ contradictory, not that they necessarily are. If anything, I'd guess that most of the named paradoxes turn out to not actually be contradictory because when something seems incorrect and actually is incorrect, it's a lot less likely to be interesting enough to give a name.
3,300-year-old tablet from Hittite Empire describes catastrophic invasion
How can you tell it's fake?
Well, pay attention and hold them accountable.

But Microsoft (for instance) certainly has incentives to avoid being the next Boeing or Volkswagen with respect to being excellent box checkers that end up missing the mark on the outcomes those checkboxes are supposed to protect against. It doesn't matter if C and C++ have fewer CVEs as such if Microsoft tools and platforms gain a reputation as being insecure or unsafe.
I’m positive something like this is the case. Yet it’s entirely orthogonal to the object hash in the user facing feature, which would need to be computed separately.
It's unbelievable, but unbelievable things happen all the time. This would be far from the craziest thing I'd ever heard as a news story.
TIL they have been sneaking versions of USB in while I haven't been paying attention. Even on hardware I own. Thanks for that.
Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead in US
>The hour before the Kitty Hawk flight, the two most informed people in the world on the topic of heavier than air flight were a pair of bicycle retailers and manufacturers named Wilbur and Orville.

Actually, this is quite false. There were many people working on flight with massive credentials and massive funding. That the Wright brothers beat them is part of what makes the story of the Wright brothers so interesting.
Wear clothes - I know that hermit crabs wear shells

Make music - I know that birds sing, and a quick Google search shows whales and seals seem to make "music" as well

Theorize - Depending on what you mean of course (but I agree with you about e.g. scientific hypotheses to be tested), but as an example apparently birds "theorize about the minds of others", again by Google search

Writing - Definitely a stretch here (and so I agree with you) but animals do leave chemical markings for others
If those files are shared on a shared drive/folder, then I don't think there is an edit history, right?
Before this, if you had an alternative marketplace, you had to accept submissions from other developers. You are still allowed to accept submissions from other developers, but are no longer required to.
This is obviously bullshit. What kind of records would “Bob” have left behind that the new IT dude would conveniently find - or even bother to look for?

It’s also unlikely that after 10 years of this, the person was put on a PIP with the perfect timing to be removed from it once bob left. And really the job made the employee test for ADHD and Alzheimer’s rather than just letting her go.
? I don't get your remark
> strawberries are especially filled with pesticides

Apples, peaches, grapes and oranges are also high up on that list..
Seems like you lucked out, because this never really happened for me. I wish this was the case! I have a ton of half-finished projects I could show instead of doing tests.
You're talking about a company that shipped MCAS in its new planes without training pilots on what it was or how it worked, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people.

So, an argument that this murder wouldn't be rational, gives me zero confidence that it didn't happen.
Use starlink.sx instead
Binary Magic: Building BitNet 1.58bit Using PyTorch from Scratch
What Do Crossword Puzzles Really Test?
GRML is a debian live image, much different from a netboot environment.
Look at https://ipxe.org/, boot firmware doing fiber over ethernet, iSCSI, HTTP; booting from virtually everything but NVMe over TCP.
> SQLite is self-describing, also. You open `sqlite3` and type .schema

My feeling is that xml and json is always easier to parse than SQL. What I often see is that a large amount of application logic is hidden in how the tables are joined or selected. In SQL this is almost always the case and of course this is often the case in json as well to some extent but usually alot less.

In the end it comes down to that xml was not the end all of integration formats, neither are its replacements. Actually being able to read and understand what you parse without tooling is an immense help.
Ask HN: Do you need a datacenter with cheap clean energy?
Do you need a datacenter with cheap clean energy? Hydropower for your GPU LLM servers. I am based in Norway. Contact me.
Why Downpour is a great alternative to doomscrolling
The iPhone revolution was that your phone used to be owned by the carrier, but now was owned by Apple, and Jobs got away with it.
They’re the same terms as those required for an alternative app marketplace.
I've never had such a thing but many years ago, not long out of university, in my previous career as an electronics engineer I was asked to design a simple amplifier before the interview proper. The interviewer explained, slightly apologetically, at the end of the interview that he did this just to sort out those who were good at talking but didn't have a thorough grounding in the basics from those who were well grounded but perhaps not so good at blowing their own trumpet. I was pleased to find that I passed that part with flying colours :-)

But I would not want such things to be taken very seriously unless you trying to fill a very narrowly defined post because it is all to easy to create a test that a good candidate would fail.
It's an anecdote data, but a lot of concert/animecon/othercon people around me knew of similar effect for years.
The opening acts and the last acts are the most sought-after acts for performers because they are the most memorable and on average rated more highly
To what end? Fake internet points just for the high score?
Or are these future scammer accounts building credibility?
I just don't understand ragebait, seems like a waste of everyone (including OPs) time, with no tangible reward.
Not sure what their motivation was to use the word "stealing" here - they are obtaining the output layer weights (mapping from hidden dimension to output), but it seems the hidden dimension size is the most interesting thing here. They could have called it probing rather than stealing.
That's how GM wrecked Opel. Every few years, management changed, and the freshly parachuted new guy from the US mothership needed to make a mark for themselves to be promoted. Cost-cutting was the only way they knew, because first they were Americans, and second, they had no long-term attachment. Of course, the relentless cost-cutting without consideration for anything else soon ends you with quality issues and unhappy customers. Market forces at work. Forty years ago, they made very decent cars.
> Or they simply don't want another site to deal with?

This, mostly. Some of the contributors make mostly small (but important) documentation changes, and for them "Git" is "Github" since the UI makes all of it seemless.

Asking them to create an account on another service to do the same will leave these new contributors scratching heads
Just look at "Date modified" I doubt the person doing this level stuff would take enough care to keep it consistent...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36242914

The counting subreddit has already had a bit of influence on the tokens.
Maybe their work has a policy against it, but surprising they never used their phone to take a photo either!
No, it's just that srht was built with this in mind. If I were the author I would talk to some srht maintainers or people that have projects in srht to brainstorm solutions for my issues instead of just writing a blog post and jumping ship. The author doesn't mention at any time that they tried to talk to other maintainers about these problems.
OpenAI Calls Elon Musk 'Incoherent' in Legal Filing
Mixing units is funnier.
I like the article, “Betting on Things That Never Change” by Morgan Housel. Check it out at https://collabfund.com/blog/betting-on-things-that-never-cha...
Unless you source the mass from something that's already orbiting, like the moon.

Since we're mostly talking water, any moon water doesn't have to pay the rocket tax to launch from Earth surface.

And for a recurring trip, it'd make way more sense to keep a larger transit ship continually in either orbit or transit, with smaller barebones Earth/Mars cargo/crew transfer craft at either end.
How was he "accessing the system"?
There are likely diminishing returns, depending on what you do in life, career, etc. Even the mythical 10x engineer probably doesn't need a 160 IQ. ;)
I can warmly recommend switching to a more customer-oriented registrar. Porkbun seems to be quite popular. Personally, I’ve had very good experiences with Dynadot. They both support glue records. Porkbun also offers phone support.

https://kb.porkbun.com/article/112-how-to-host-your-own-name...

https://www.dynadot.com/community/help/question/register-nam...
Years ago we were taught that the brain could not grow. You had what you were born with and after your twenties it degraded.

Now of course we are aware that the brain has plasticity. It can rewire itself, grow, learn.
Are you aware that I am not talking about my personal well-being, but the well being of society? I've never had a Facebook, and in fact I visit maybe 3-4 internet sites. I don't engage much personally as I think most of what is on the internet is garbage.

What I mean to imply is that large corporate internet activities are detrimental to society. If all I cared about was myself then I would not even be typing now at all. But I have seen many people negatively affected by corporate internet manipulation and I think it's a bad thing.
It's ironic that so many of you are missing the rigour, as that is exactly the thing that "undoes" the CAP arguments.

Anyway, if math is what you guys are missing, it's in this science-paper linked in the article:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359578461_Continuou...

This is a gentler intro to the concepts. You can also read my essay on why this setup works better than the often used semantics:
https://medium.com/p/5e397cb12e63

There's a specific section at the end on why CAP only applies to a very specific subset of SQL databases.
How AI is disrupting the demand for software engineers: data from 20M jobs
I recently did a study on how AI might be affecting the demand of software engineers.

I took a dataset of 20M job postings from big and small startups. I then used a ML classifier to classify each engineering job to the type of engineer it belonged to (ie backend, ML, date, mobile etc). In addition, I extracted the skills listed in each job using entity extraction. I indexed all of this to an elasticsearch cluster when I ran aggregation queries to see how the # of jobs changed for each type of engineer in the past year.

Here were my findings:

1. The # of jobs for ML engineers and research scientists increased 70% from a year ago

2. # of jobs for frontend, mobile and data engineers all dropped 25% from a year ago, while backend engineers did a bit better dropping at 12%

4. Data scientist jobs and security engineer jobs did a bit better, both declining 5% or so

5. There seemed to be no correlation between tech layoffs and the demand for more AI engineers/talent.

I published my findings in more detail in the article. Of course correlation != causation but just trying to make sense of the data as best as I could. Everything I wrote is still just an opinion, but backed by some data :)
Human nature, and the rate of learning.
More discussion on the os2museum link last week:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600108
I have so far found it to be a very good filter, helping eliminate BS or candidates grossly exaggerating their abilities. I've yet to experience the opposite but I have hope.
That's actually exactly what the DMA is supposed to solve. So maybe you just need to wait.
We will see how long they can keep this facade up. I expect a couple of fines are needed to rein them in.
This is a fake story. Yes you can access computers through an RMM unnoticed. But you would not be able to change Excel and Outlook without the user noticing.

If he had RMM access, the IT guy could do other fun things.
If you are going that far you might as well think about sending a surrogate [1] instead. :)

[1]: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates
Doesn’t seem like luck if he actually finished his projects. Every undergrad has a github full of half finished projects. Seeing professional contributions to a widely used project is a completely different story.
It's as real as any other fake story.

If a story is bombastic, it's safer to assume it's fake. Reddit incentivizes OPs to get engagement.
The $100M Deal for Kickstarter to use Blockchain
> I leveled up a lot from working with engineers who are more senior than me

I also benefitted a lot from this. For me, the difference was learning design, not just programming - what to build, not just how to build it. And learning some taste in design, some balance, where you don't overcomplicate or do something too simplistic.

That took a couple of decades...
You can sell Reddit accounts.

Also points go up feels good.
I have a 4.99 rating with almost 100 stays, which seems to be telling me I don’t have a bad rap. In the end, it is my cleaners’ responsibility to leave my house ready for the next guest.
> threads with no search feature

If it's a mailing list then surely the mail is searchable using your choice of mail client?
How American Politics Destroyed the German Economy [video]
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Midjourney debuts consistent characters for gen AI images
Those aren't examples of Simpsons even taken together, but there was a famous (by which I mean it got a lot of press, including being written up in the Times and Post when it came out) study that showed that although every subgroup in Italian demographic data had lower CFRs than their Chinese counterparts, the Chinese group had a lower CFR when taken as a whole:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8791436/
Then why is it not more prevalent now that the FDA is owned by the food-producing cartels?
As opposed to HN, of course.
But would you accept their contributions if they were on gitlab, sourcehut, or some other server?

Because GP implies only github matters and that does not seem like truth to me.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39626657
What the hell is going on at Apple? It's starting to become really funny to see one obviously non-compliant malicious compliance attempt being made after another. Do they really not understand that they're no longer involved in the relationships between users and developers?
A number of GitHub repos are just lists of torrent sites and download links.

For example, this - https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/105156

Edit: Turns out the repo got taken down
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240311163832/https://fortune.c...
> What kind of records would “Bob” have left behind that the new IT dude would conveniently find - or even bother to look for?

Most business storage solutions have record keeping functionality, or at least the capability to turn it on. Audit logs, versioning, backups, etc.

Back when I worked IT, I had to pull old versions and access logs on a few occasions.
Hence why most European countries just mostly stayed with pre-paid, and operators have been trying to bride us with contracts for iDevices, or if that doesn't get us, contracts in disguise for pre-paid users as post pay.

I will keep using Android devices with physical SIM until it isn't no longer viable.
This is pretty much where I'm at.

If I want visibility and people to contribute, GitHub.

If it's a truly private project (dotfiles dump, esoteric highly personalized tools), self-hosted Gitea.

Everything else I put on Sourcehut.
yeah i think they're much less likely to look at it, unless they're already significantly interested in you as a candidate for some other reason. We're in a competitive marketplace and having a profile that stands out is definitely an edge
Yeah, I am all in for hustling but this post is way over the top, particularly for this forum.
This is such a crazy comment to read from my perspective because the answer seems so painfully obvious to me: of course it encourages creativity, and of course it boosts productivity.

Being able to obtain, manipulate, and reshare bits of culture like videos is a huge source of creativity. Even in the commercial creative world, being able to download a trailer, advertisement, or really any video with a particular effect and take it frame-by-frame to dissect and understand it is a powerful learning tool.

And it's valuable to be able to archive works that are likely to be torn down or that need to be accessed offline. As an example of the latter, I'm currently a high school software teacher, I often download videos demonstrating this or that and share the MP4s with my students since YouTube is blocked.
I just interpret this whole thing as "developer realises their preferred set of trade-offs matches host A more than host B, so they are switching hosts". This happens fairly frequently in various directions for many different reasons.

Slightly off topic, but related: I wish we could focus less on which git host is "best" and more on figuring out workable interoperability between them. Sadly, it seems less of a technical challenge and more a question of motive.
Gathering requirement & making sure you are building the right thing will always be a tough & important task for SW Engineers, no matter how good language models get.
This story is particularly awful as it perpetuates the stereotype of the "IT guy" being a weird ass nerdy spiteful nerd.
It could also be these are stored on a network drive and the IT guy is simply opening them up
half finished projects that you developed on your own don't hold that much value. They may pad those green stats, but those can be faked quite easily. It's contributions to projects with other contributors that really matter.
Don't you mean what is not going to change? I think you're missing a verb.

1. LaTeX. I can still compile my docments that I wrote 20 years ago...

2. The thirst for profit/quick releases over reliability (except for a few examples like LaTeX)

3. The existence of open source software as the one antitode to all software being horrible

4. The obsession with creating new things for the sake of creating, instead of for the good of anything
I picked 'sight'.

But there is laundry list of features that some animal does better.

Humans on whole do everything 'ok'. Humans have a lot of features, and for each feature they aren't the 'best', but on aggregate they do them all together on average better. They are one animal that combine total features better than any single animal.

Guess my point, is when it comes to 'mind' people are still thinking humans are divinely 'exceptional'. But really, it is one more 'feature' that the human animal does best, but that does not mean other animals don't have the same feature, but scaled down.

Seems like people complaining that 'bees' aren't intelligent are just trying to keep humans propped up on a pedestal. When really, it is one more feature that is scaled.
There are a couple of ways to look at it:

1. If another player(s) are able to start and freely operate as a competitor then talented engineers will have more options for employment and each entity will have to compete on both price AND quality in order to win business. This requires continued investments.

2. If the original player is able to use regulatory frameworks, lobbying and other tactics to enforce a monopoly, then the state has a duty to break them up to ensure competition.

Option 1 is more free market where the problem solves itself. Option 2 involves use of the government to both create and resolve the problem.

I don’t personally take issue with either because the solution is still competition. Whether Lockheed, SpaceX, a Boeing breakup or some company we haven’t heard of gives it to us isn’t a big concern. We just need competition.
Q: Do I want to actively antagonize contributors while torturing myself?

A: Yes, use SCCS.
I don't feel like picking it apart to be honest. There's an assembly line of stories just like this coming out of reddit, and it's not worth engaging beyond "that's obviously fake". They all have peculiarities that point to creative writing exercises.

The fact that so many people in this thread immediately suspected this to be fake is pretty telling.
Well what i can say is that there's always the possibility that you find true happiness somewhere you don't expect. It's gotta be somewhere you don't expect cause otherwise we'd have it by now! And since you can't expect it, you can't forsee it. But it's there, waiting for its moment.

I came close a couple times but I held on and eventually found things. One thing that keeps me on is wanting to fix things. It can be difficult to witness the ugliness of the world in perfect detail through the internet, but i believe it's actually better than it ever has been, and it's only improved because people like me decided to make it that way. You're just past 50 and you've worked some incredibly important jobs, corporate culture feels dime a dozen these days but that doesn't mean anything about your actual self worth. I can't even imagine all the knowledge and experience you have now! Learning one thing isn't just one thing, it's learning about the world, learning how to learn, and about all the things connected to it. Your knowledge is much more general than the words on your resume.

I can't tell you how to fix money, i know that's an extremely difficult problem for a lot of people and I've seen it hurt. But i can say that you must be an incredibly capable and knowledgeable person, who has true potential. The kind of thing that doesn't happen in a job, but in a spark. The kind of spark that you don't even know exists until it does. I hope you're doing okay friend
> the person was put on a PIP with the perfect timing to be removed from it once bob left

Pretty sure the PIP was removed because OP raised their concerns to HR.
All kinds of things get censored, downloading YouTube videos helps counteract that.
Would love to hear more about this! Are there arm compatible images?
It’s probably fake, but it’s not unbelievable to me that a spurned tech savvy incel type could be this petty. I have seen rejection hate flow for years.
"It has always seemed to me that efficiency and skill are the driving forces behind many traditional Japanese woodworking practices. They tend to be very efficient in using metal and wood, paying for this efficiency with greater skill requirements for the tools and techniques"

Sounds like Ruby (which comes from Japan). The metaprogramming can be really efficient, but it requires skill to know when and when not to use it.
Ask HN: What are some Android apps that enhance what your phone can do?
What apps do you use that make your phone feel more like an actual computer?

For me it's apps like

Phyphox

Engineer's Companion

Sensors multitool

Wifi analyzer

ConnectBot

Termux

TotalCommander

FFmpeg Media Encoder
and other things like storygram, thefoodygram, picturegram, etc.
The only way this would have happened is if Dave Cutler had never left DEC.

Microsoft had already been the biggest commercial UNIX vendor with Xenix, and obtaining the architect of the VMS kernel gave them a brain trust that IBM could not match.

I don't think that Dave Cutler would have been happy as one of several contributors to OS/2 as it slowly grew out of the 286. I think it was dead the moment he walked in the door.