skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also hard to interpret correctly frequentist results.

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Misinterpretations of P-values and statistical tests persists among researchers and professionals working with statistics and epidemiology

"Correct inferences to both questions, which is that a statistically significant finding cannot be inferred as either proof or a measure of a hypothesis’ probability, were given by 10.7% of doctoral students and 12.5% of statisticians/epidemiologists."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9383044/

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Robust misinterpretation of confidence intervals

"Only 8 first-year students (2%), no master students, and 3 postmasters researchers (3%) correctly indicated that all statements were wrong."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-013-0572-3

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P-Value, Confidence Intervals, and Statistical Inference: A New Dataset of Misinterpretation

"The data indicates that 99% subjects have at least 1 wrong answer of P-value understanding (Figure 1A) and 93% subjects have at least 1 wrong answer of CI understanding (Figure 1B)."

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
“Why can’t we”

I wish the system actually tried to solve problems with well thought out solutions.

To answer your question: politicians don’t want to piss off the wealthy class. Americans at large are skeptical of taxes because they don’t see it being used for anything useful.
Proton is a honeypot and articles like this essentially prove that. What absolute nonsense.
Is Windows XP on its own really this vulnerable to connections over the internet? This makes it seem like you'll get infected within 10 minutes.

I'm sure there are plenty of vulns in Windows XP by now, but it seems surprising to me that a random IP is getting scanned + infected + exploited within such a span of minutes just because it's running an old OS.

It would actually be pretty interesting to see which vulnerabilities are used for this type of thing. Sort of the opposite of a 0 day, I suppose... very old, well known exploits. But to do that on a PC with totally stock OS software is impressive.
> RE market is about 10%+ of the entire GDP

Source? Construction, commissions, renovations and lending maybe. But all that keeps happening in a constant real-price model.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with people owning multiple properties. It’s not even a significant driver of the housing shortage. The main driver of the housing shortage is local zoning codes that forbid the construction of new homes, especially multi-family housing.
This is a difficult conversation to have, and not unintentionally so. I hope I come across as respectful and unpatronizing as possible (and apologize since I probably don't.)

While we have intelligent people discussing pie-in-the-sky solutions, barely-related tangential issues, and even misdirected injection attacks, the causes of the housing crisis are not only well-known to (honest) economists [1], but can be verified by looking at the market pre- and post-1970.

It's hard enough to tune in to the correct analysis in the cacophony. When once in a blue moon it comes from the bully pulpit [2], it still gets shot down in a sea of misdirection.

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/0...

[2] https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/obama-takes-on-zoning...
Reducing excessively before the DAC and high gain after the DAC is far more likely to result in quality reduction, due to quantization error. Having reasonable levels before the DAC and just the right amount of gain after the DAC (e.g., via an amplifier's attenuator setting) is the best possible scenario. So TFA's prior setup may have been superior in this regard, depending on how the digital volume control on the new speakers is implemented (i.e., before the DAC, or as a VCA after the DAC).

Where this breaks down is if the analog signal path (after the DAC) consists of something noisy after the attenuator. Passive attenuation (like built into an amp, or the master fader of a mixer, etc.) won't add noise, but something active like an outboard EQ would. The attenuation to set desired max level must be completely last (before power amp) to avoid noise.
I don’t see how those are trivially worked around in a country with a half decent government.

People are not just going to give their relatives title to their property. LLC’s can be required to name the beneficial owner.

The rent-to-own lease farce can also be trivially uncovered by requiring rents to be public, like real estate sales are in most jurisdictions.
Does anyone know of a nice "pedagogical" color space? That is, one optimized for teaching and learning, for correctness rather than for simple math? Where the space's highly-noticeable characteristics are actual features of human perception, rather than the usual mess of "nope, that too is a model artifact" (mostly from optimizing for computation). And full-gamut, well behaved out to spectral locus. And with at least somewhat linear hues and color combination. Sort of the Munsell niche, but full gamut, and this century.

I wasn't able to find anything even close, for a "maybe teach color better by emphasizing spectra?" side project, so I kludged. CAM16UCS as state-of-the-art for perceptual color, untwisted with Jzazbz for linear hues (it also sanity checked absolute luminosity), with a rather-unprincipled mashing down of CAM's IIUC-non-perceptual near-locus silly blue tail. Implemented as lookup tables. If there is any related work out there, I'd love to hear of it. Tnx.
Is this uncommon: Germantown, Tennessee banned (or severely limited?) billboards and loud signage long ago. We had a hard time finding any stores in this town for years.

https://library.municode.com/tn/germantown/codes/code_of_ord...

And based on this article billboard were banned in Alaska in 1949!

https://movia.media/moving-billboard-blog/why-are-billboards...
Materials and labor to build them, yes you can. Same for if they're not overly expensive or valuable.

For it to be a capital expense they'd need to be large, sellable assets. For example, formwork? Jigs (except for something really exceptionally expensive perhaps)? Hand tools? Less-expensive-than-a-truck custom machinery? Not a problem to write off as a normal expense.

'Gigapress'? Yeah, thats a capital investment/expense.

The difference here is 'is this something you built/bought to get a job done' (aka an expense), or 'is this a large valuable asset (with a market value)'. It's a sliding scale with many exceptions.

Someones $100k snap-on set for example MIGHT be considered a Capital expense, not a normal business expense, depending on the circumstances and scale.

There is a pretty sizable cap too where you can do whatever and not worry about it too much, a bit over $1mln if I remember correctly.
I.e. "we don't want to."

We could require more disclosures and auditing and regulations of those workarounds. It's not some digital thing that could be hidden anywhere, it's trivially easy to monitor or seize real property.
The candidate was being considered for a management position, with a lot of responsibilities including creating a good workplace for their reports. This is something you absolutely don’t want to get wrong, it can’t be a “I dunno… seems ok to me” hire because it will literally set the tone for that department for years.
> - subjective Bayes is the strawman that frequentist academics like to attack

I don’t get what all the hate for subjective Bayesianism is. It seems the most philosophically defensible approach, in that all it assumes is our own subjective judgements of likelihood, the idea that we can quantify them (however in exactly), and the idea (avoid Dutch books) that we want to be consistent (most people do).

Whereas, objective Bayes is basically subjective Bayes from the viewpoint of an idealised perfectly rational agent - and “perfectly rational” seems philosophically a lot more expensive than anything subjective Bayes relies on.
Tangential fun fact: amps have a fixed gain, because it's hard to make a variable gain without distortion [1]. The volume knob doesn't control amplification, in fact it controls an attenuation stage, because it's easier to make variable attenuation with low distortion.

[1] that's why there were so many different "classes" of amps, they're all making different tradeoffs about how they're doing the amplification.
This is basically how income tax law works for trusts. The highest tax bracket is reached very quickly to quash the first order shenanigans that might result from more preferential treatment
MoR has become a definitive advantage at least here in the UK - to the point where I'm not sure any other arrangement currently makes sense for the kind of tech startups we often discuss here on HN.

For one thing we have the Making Tax Digital VAT reporting rules as soon as we cross our domestic VAT registration threshold (which is lower than £100k of annualised revenue within the scope of UK VAT so something a high growth startup is going to want to cross pretty quickly). To comply with those rules we need a 100% automated system for transferring VAT records from any services we use to collect payments into our MTD-compliant VAT reporting software. I'm still waiting for anyone to show me an easy and cost-effective way to do that properly with any non-MoR payment service provider. AFAIK none of the PSPs I've ever used has any documentation on how to do this, nor do any of the VAT reporting systems I've used since MTD came in. I'm not sure all of the approved reporting systems have the kind of API available that you'd need to implement this kind of data transfer even with significant programming/integration effort.

And that's only the easy case of domestic collection and reporting. Internationally there are several services that will accurately calculate the required tax for you based on whatever rules apply wherever your customer is and whatever they are buying (you hope) but again that's only the relatively easy part. You also need to handle all the registration, tax reporting, possibly specific customer invoicing requirements, and tax remittance obligations everywhere they might apply. Obviously that's completely impractical for any SME that isn't a tax specialist because no business at that scale has lawyers and accountants in every relevant part of the world to advise them and manage those relationships with the local tax authorities. In sensible places there are again thresholds for local sales where you don't have to do anything about tax until you're also doing a significant amount of business there that isn't going to happen overnight but who wants to try to work out everywhere in the world that isn't sensible like that?

Merchants of record usually charge pretty hefty fees compared to vanilla payment service providers but they're essentially a combination of automating a lot of pain and an insurance policy. Apparently the global tax system is now sufficiently opaque and risky that the market estimates the compliance overhead to be around 6-7% of all relevant trade worldwide.
The way I understand it, they had a bug that will run the CPU on higher voltage than the hardware can tolerate.

Those who pushed the limits physically damaged their CPU and these are now cooked. The microcode update will limit the voltage, which will result in degraded performance but will prevent damage under load.
> RE market is about 10%+ of the entire GDP, so we want individuals to park their money and use it as an investment vehicle as a part of the consumption cycle.

Hard no, that’s how we got here. When it’s part of the investment cycle, developers won’t build or build only ones that maximize profits, NIMBYism thrives, and it makes it so that the only people able to buy are the ones who least need it.

If you have enough money to buy a __house__ for someone else, then you have enough money to pay much higher taxes. This isn’t like buying a car for someone.

Btw, the GDP contribution is about 18% [1] due to price being propped by extensive construction on the supply side. This is by design, and we shouldn’t be encouraging it.

[1] https://www.nahb.org/news-and-economics/housing-economics/ho...
Have a friend in the props business. He sees AI scene generation software replacing almost all of the physical props business. Props use huge 3D space, racks and shelves 20+ feet high and data bases of lists and photos to show the renter.
He has already been impacted, but he is sunsetting his full props business and amassing photo archives, along with the rest. He expects a shift to one time fees for photos
It's Friday during both the summer and the Olympics for a topic that has been discussed a lot.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Do increases in suicide rates from social media addiction count?

There are emails unearthed from the early days of Facebook where utilizing addiction feedback loops were discussed to retain and maximize young users.

The Anxious Generation provides a lot of evidence correlating the rise of social media and a major increase in depression and anxiety related disorders.
> Surely you've seen enough of the free market to know that this is baloney. The instant that the walled garden is gone abusive apps (Facebook et al) will start ushering users away from it into their own, abusive paths as the only way to install.

Nah. Users don't grok sideloading.

Even on android where it's always been possible, it's a fringe phenomenon. And every app is on Google Play. In fact it basically killed Huawei in the West not being able to offer it anymore.

The only exception is the epic store but they do it to make a point. Not because it actually works.
> don’t see how those are trivially worked around in a country with a half decent government

Look at how people abuse rent controlled apartments. (All the way up to the current mayor.)

> People are not just going to give their relatives title to their property

This is literally what happens in places with such taxes. I wouldn’t bat an eye buying a house in my partner or a parent’s name if it saved 3x property taxes.
Why do speakers even expose a web api in the first place? It’s just easily available without any security?

Hope this person segmented this device away from other devices. The lack of basic security in the IoT space is astounding to me.
If you work in NYC, you pay tax in NYC, regardless of where you live. New York has agreements with most states such that you get a tax credit in your home state for what you pay NYC, but the big Apple gets first crack at your paycheck.

New Jersey has pretty much resigned itself to this situation and gets funding via property tax.
Unless you’re doing something like 1mil ARR it’s not worth the hassle, just use a Merchant of Record (e.g. Paddle or Lemon Squeezy) so you never have to deal with this and just focus on growth/product/etc.

Paying extra 2% is not gonna kill your margins. If it breaks your bank, just raise your prices by 2%.

(I’m talking about B2B)
Here's a video that shows the concept. Each frame shows the allowable colors for a particular brightness in Rec. 709 YCbCr space.

https://www.w6rz.net/chromacity.mp4
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190216
I’m a renter, and I would love that. That being said, majority of people in North America own their homes. Since looking at your property as an investment has been normalized, those voters wouldn’t really like that. Something similar is happening in China, where MoM the average housing is depreciating, and they’re trying hard to balance out the economy with incredible investments into manufacturing and tech. I’m not entirely sure how that would pan out in the west.
Section 174 is real bad
Yes but not when judging by life fulfillment or happiness. All tiger parenting does is instill a sense that the child is never good enough, or that they must work like crazy to be valuable at all to society, both of which are extremely harmful on the longterm.
idk if it originated it, but i-frames have been a term in fighting games for decades
I feel like the language is intentionally vague and intended to link the voltage issue with the oxidization issue. However, I would not feel comfortable knowing my chip may randomly become unstable way before the expected end of life.
> I say "cursed" because I have no idea what that means. What the heck is that shape??

Reminds me of frinklang.

"The most-commonly used, CIE 1931, is long known to be off by a factor of 7 from average human perception at short wavelengths, (compare it to the 1978 definition at 400 nm) and is arbitrarily truncated before the limits of human perception. In addition, no one perceptually-weighted curve is possible because the human eye is differently sensitive for photopic (bright-light, cone cells) and scotopic (dark-adapted, rod cells), or if the illumination occurs over narrower or wider fields. Many incremental improvements on these systems have been proposed, but none are part of the authoritative, oversimplified definition of the candela, making it useless for unambiguous definitions that can be agreed upon or binding to any party. Pronouncements of the CIE are in no way binding on the BIPM, nor vice-versa, and the CIE has a proliferation of "standard curves," which all disagree with each other. Agreements to use one curve or another thus have to be agreed outside the definitions of the SI, and, of course, parties can disagree on which curve to use. You can use CIE 1931, or CIE 1978, or the "CIE 1988 Modified 2° Spectral Luminous Efficiency Function for Photopic Vision" or the 2005 improvements by Sharpe, Stockman, Jagla & Jägle, or ISO 23539:2005(E), or something else..."

https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt
From my comment (emphasis in the original):

> abusive apps (Facebook et al) will start ushering users away from it into their own, abusive paths as the only way to install

> Do other users leaving affect you?

To clarify, I'm not an Apple user. I use their competitors in all categories because they're not really my style. (Yes, choosing something other than Apple is a choice you can make!)

I'm just someone who feels the need to represent normal Apple users inside the HN bubble.
> it's trivially easy to monitor or seize real property

Anyone who owns property should be horrified at the notion of making it “trivially easy” to seize real property. That turns this into electoral toast. Its only utility is in distracting from zoning reform.

Also, the homeownership rate is 65% [1]. Second homeowners aren’t the problem.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
I can agree with that in principle, however it shouldn’t take months. If there are multiple levels of middle management here, issues that arise in a probationary/grace period should be addressed and course-corrected. You have that period post hiring, not in a drawn out review process.
This is the most puzzling thing I have read in a long time.

In my current job, I manage offshore teams. I have hired a lot in the past couple years because we have grown a lot and turnover tends to be high for entry level positions.

I don’t find hiring particularly emotional. You are basically looking for a skillset and a mindset compatible with the work environment. I agree that you are indeed trying to build a relationship but that’s a professional one. The essence of it is evaluating the candidate ability to do the job. There is no tension here. You are not looking for a friend.

I mean if you find it hard to politely tell someone you are not going to offer them a position when you don’t believe them to be a good fit, you are probably doing something wrong.
That helps explain why the "volume" as represented on disk in the debug bundle as "attenuation" and was measured in negative dB.
Got it thanks
The microcode update will probably be automatic but it might also be distributed as a bios update.

Realistically there’s no way to tell if you have an affected unit or not (Intel hasn't provided any information that would help). Nor is there any guarantee that the microcode update will prevent future issues. It appears that there is both microcode and manufacturing issues at play here.
There have been some interesting projects, like PHP on .NET [0] They have a version of Wordpress compiled into a NuGet package for Asp.Net Core [1]

[0] https://www.peachpie.io
[1] https://www.nuget.org/packages/PeachPied.WordPress.AspNetCor...
I'm curious on why European people allow such heavy regulation. They really think that the Europe can enjoy their prosperity with little innovation for years to come?
On the software side, garbage collection was well explored by academia for more than two decades before the JVM brought it to wide commercial adoption ca. 1995.
You can do Non-Union OSS as a US company as well. I’d say the most annoying thing about the EU is their minimum transaction to start filing is very low compared to US Nexus rules.
> People here love to complain about this rule but they generally don’t have any reason to justify themselves other than “it’s bad for me personally”.

Actually the justification is pretty simple.

Tech startups are the future of the country and the world. That’s how much of the wealth has been built in this country for the past few decades.

And there’s no other country in the world that taxes this way, which means that every other country has an edge over the U.S. now when it comes to tech startups (or frankly, any startup where the majority of the cost is human capital).

It’s even worse in Tech because it’s so easy to work remotely so there’s no loss to establishing a company in the UK for example.

Finally, if a country does impose a certain taxation disadvantage to itself, it’s usually a trade off against some benefit. But it’s also hard to see what the benefit is here because the government is still getting the same money over a few years span.

So it’s dumb because the impact is entirely negative. That’s why no other country has done such a dumb thing either.
This runs in your laptop? Very interesting.
Have a look at https://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Profiles. Funtoo had a very different way to configure your version of the distribution, especially if you are used to something like Ubuntu. It was a spin on Gentoo, I think later diverging a bit more. And it opted against shipping systemd (ever) and wayland (until tested, say the docs), which is a minus for some and a plus for others, but certainly rare.
> (Also, homeownership is 65% [1]. Second homeowners aren’t the problem.)

Is there a breakdown on what portion of this 65% own multiple homes? Personally, I’m not a fan of anyone who has more than 2 homes. One primary and one vacation or rental. Why does anyone need more than that?
It’s really impressive growth. Especially since they only have the iPace and not the zeeker yet. I’m really curious how much they will scale with the iPace.
So here's a sort of hard-nosed answer: probability is just as well-defined as any other mathematics.

> Consider the statement p(X) = 0.5 (probability of event X is 0.5). What does this actually mean?

It means X is a random variable from some sample space to a measurable space and P is a probability function.

> If so, is it falsifiable? And how?

Yes, by calculating P(X) in the given sample space. For example, if X is the event "you get 100 heads in a row when flipping a fair coin" then it is false that P(X) = 0.5.

It's a bit like asking whether 2^2 = 4 is falsifiable.

There are definitely meaningful questions to ask about whether you've modeled the problem correctly, just as it's meaningful to ask what "2" and "4" mean. But those are separate questions from whether the statements of probability are falsifiable. If you can show that the probability axioms hold for your problem, then you can use probability theory on it.

There's a Wikipedia article on interpretations of probability here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_interpretations. But it is pretty short and doesn't seem quite so complete.
> I thought they were talking about the kid who gave Trump a haircut.

The same kid who also injured two bystanders and murdered a third?