jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
These kinds of projects are really cool. Relatedly I found myself wondering the other day if anyone has done any work on making hardware and software to interface with Smart Media Card.

Specifically in my case, I have a Korg Triton Le 88 ROMpler keyboard that has a slot for Smart Media Card and my thinking is that instead of buying a Smart Media Card reader and card and all of that stuff it’d be cool to open up the keyboard and solder a connector onto the pins that the card slot of the keyboard connects to, and then with a bit of extra hardware to be able to connect my computer to it so that I can expose files directly from the computer to the Triton Le and have the Triton Le see it as though there was a Smart Media Card there. And hopefully that way being able to make new sample files and load them without going through an intermediate step of putting them onto external media.

And also because with the right parts this solution would be more readily replaceable, whereas Smart Media Card is an obsolete format that to my knowledge is no longer being created so Smart Media Cards are hard to come by [0] [1]. xD to SMC adapters exist though [2], but again connecting the computer directly would be more convenient and either way I don’t use xD for anything else so don’t really want to buy xD cards. And the only memory card reader I have for my computer anyways is SD/microSD only also, because that’s the only kind of memory cards I currently use.

[0]: http://forum.vintagesynth.com/viewtopic.php?t=104354

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartMedia

[2]: https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32356606261.html
Profit/monetization doesn't have to be bad. There's nothing wrong with money being exchanged for a service and both sides are satisfied. The problem is when that monetization is based on something else than money (such as personal data) or that the company abuses their monopoly position to force people into an unfair deal.

The solution isn't to say "profit = bad", it's to break up monopolies or force interoperability and forbid certain forms of "payment" (such as exploiting and reselling personal data) that are deemed nefarious to society.
As I posted in the replies, the keyword is "compared".
They have another firmware bug that has been going on for years and years and was never fixed.

If you type quickly, it can lose the case of the characters in combination with the shift key.

Hold down the left shift and type CSMSDC. One of them will be lowercase (from memory it's the S). If it doesn't happen for you, either it's not a Sculpt, or you don't type fast enough. Once you can do it it'll happen every time.
> It's like people want collectibles but seem to have decided to cut off a big part of what makes a collectible valuable.

What makes a collectible valuable? I think it's just scarcity plus a group choice to value that scarcity.

I don't think this is new or unique to non-physical collectibles, other collectibles also follow a pattern of increased demand for scarcity.

Take baseball cards. We know that better players have more expensive cards, and the more scarce the card the higher the value, along with other characteristics of the card. Makes some intuitive sense.

But that's not enough for collectors who want some cards to have a very high value. So then there's this collective agreement that rookie cards are going to be worth a lot more, not just based on print run, but based on the ability of the whole group to point at it and say that's a thing we value.

Then we have condition of the card, mint or near mint or worn, those are all different values. Again it makes intuitive sense because it's based on quality in some way. But it's not enough, so ever more sophisticated grading mechanisms are invented, well beyond any actual value to someone observing the card. It's a difference the naked eye can't perceive, only experts with sophisticated tools. But once they inspect it and give their mark of approval, it's a new point of scarcity that everyone can value.

It's all just invented value for the sake of value, the main thing is that the group can collectively point at something scarce and call it valuable. Misprints are another example, where the value is obvious not coming from quality and only from scarcity.
Because it's not at all core to their general proposition of providing business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services?

They are a services company, not a speculative investment fund.
These days, there aren't many kids who only do Scouting...it's an over-scheduling comorbidity. For kids who resist over-scheduling, scouting seems to be one of the first things to go...because den and pack meetings are by and for adults, they never make it to a troop.

Or to put it another way, teenage apathy prevalence is probably pre-teen survivor bias.
https://xkcd.com/1495/
Thanks to too restrictive regulations. I miss the times of four-front-wheelers, gas turbines and vacuum-undercarriage.
How can it be clear that maybe X?
"with a single second’s worth of activity from just one per cent" So, at some accuracy level they modeled 1% of a brain.

However, while 'the most accurate yet' yet they did not model things like cell death and as ~10,000 neurons die a day it's still an important process even in adult brains. With children it's extremely important as over 1/2 of the brain cells your born with die by 18. Granted on a second by second basis cell death is not that important, but if you want to model a human brain vs say an abstract neural net then accuracy is important.

Sure, other things like cellular energy expenditure, hormones, orientation, gravity, blood flow, oxygen levels, immune response, might not seem important. But, again do you want to model a brain or make a fun simulation.
I do a fair amount of PHP (really, I run hhvm, but let's say modern php), and effectively nothing in that article affects me.

No one should be using mysql_* anything; no one should have been using it for years. It's deprecated. It throws warnings when run. PHP's love of forced backward compatibility causes some very interesting things to be remained.

Paamayim Nekudotayim isn't called that anymore and hasn't for a long time.

The author raises issues about things like @fopen(url) - no one I know, or myself, has ever done that. It makes absolutely no sense to.

PHP has autoloading/"modules"/dependency injection/a proper package manager/etc (article is from early 2012: composer was largely popularised from what I can see a bit after that).

The author complains about no stack traces - sure, there won't be any on a single file bad function name, but any time I've used a proper request library or anything best practice, I've gotten a proper stack trace with file names, lines, etc.

--

There are a lot of somewhat odd complaints or wildly strange, like "No Unicode support" and "PHP is naturally tied to Apache. Running it separately, or with any other webserver, requires just as much mucking around" which makes absolutely no sense to me. The author of this article even says that if you want to run two versions of PHP, you rebuild Apache? That's absurd.

> 'The “bunch of files” approach, besides making routing a huge pain in the ass, also means you have to carefully whitelist or blacklist what stuff is actually available, because your URL hierarchy is also your entire code tree'

None of this makes sense either: unless you are doing some seriously outdated horrors, you have effectively one /index.php router and a public asset folder for the webroot.
This discussion on HN may help you with your decision: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503959

tl;dr Desktop sw companies are about to discover a variant of Wilde's remark: the only thing worse than being pirated is not being pirated
This is one instance of censorship I just can't get riled up about. Probably because I remember the Atari 2600.
"If Android is brought to the point where it supports web apps built for ChromeOS there will be very little reason to develop native Android apps."

From what I've seen, the gap between a native Android app and web apps is getting bigger, not smaller. Among other things, the Android API includes:
1. A SIP-based VoIP protocol stack
2. Near Field Communications
3. Gyroscope and other sensors
4. Multiple cameras support
5. Speech recognition engines

Even if these things were available tomorrow to web apps, developers might still choose the native option because a) There would be millions of 'old' devices that only supported the native API; and b) There would be thousands of developers who were familiar with the native API
Very nice, I like that you opted for HTML5 instead of Flash. However I've no idea what you do or are trying to offer so why would I sign up for an invite? For all I know it may be an invite to spam.
DupDetector dropped the ball on this one. ;)
You can show that the max is a comprehensively better estimator than twice the mean.

This is one of the rare cases where you can outperform the mean by a large margin.

The standard deviation of the mean-based estimator, which measures its accuracy, will go down like 1/sqrt(n) where n is the number of samples in the finite set. This is the rate standardly seen in lots of estimation problems.

But the standard deviation of the max-based estimator will go down like 1/n, a much faster rate. That's one manifestation of the "weirdness" of this problem. It means you can get surprisingly good estimates of the number of tanks considering the small numbers of observations.
I would assume that men are disproportionately more unattractive than women meaning e.g. the 20% of "hot" men get their pick of 80% of women who are "hot". Just like in real life. goes reads mystery method
No, it's more like IE CSS expressions, except you can't run arbitrary javascript with it.
The same incentive for Stanford University itself to exist.
Why is it offensive? Long-term relationships report the highest happiness levels when both partners are of roughly equal attractiveness.
That's what happens when you f*ck with Rahm Emmanuel's iPad...
I've heard passing reference to this bug before, in the form of "you can't attach unlimited window.onload events", but I've never seen anyone run into it in practice.

Glad to see its fixed though. Wish I had a neighbor who worked for MS. ;)
The leak doesn’t provide much. The backlash of sending an email will instantly be way worse than what was actually leaked. Far worse leaks happen routinely from big names. However Facebook’s negative reputation would sway so far against it, you’d think Facebook had doxxed every one.

I don’t particularly like Facebook or any big corporation FYI.
The word "precedent" means more than court technicalities. AKA:

precedent adjective
1.
preceding in time, order, or importance.
"a precedent case"

So this IS a precedent, and it is an important and frightening one, even if some other judge isn't technically allowed to cite it.
I do the same. But using the BalanceViewer it's even more easily and informative (at least for me). And I hope other users will love it as well :)
Passive safety sounds like exactly the kind of thing you'd want to focus on when designing nuclear reactors.
This looks like the result of a bet gone wrong.
So, from the comments here and elsewhere, it's a Marmite thing. A majority seem to hate the design but a significant minority absolutely loves it.

That doesn't look bad for sales. I'd rather have a group of enthusiasts that love the product, and a group of haters, than have everyone going "meh". Firstly because many of the enthusiasts will probably buy the product, and secondly because controversy is free advertising.

Personally I do like the aesthetics, although I'm not in the demographic that buys trucks.
Trying to do that myself. I'm mostly detached these days but there's a few things that do hang around (Google Calendar in particular - haven't found a good enough substitute for it) and we're a little Google heavy at work, so I'm stuck with it there at least.
There doesn't appear to have been any work done to the captured model. The capture isn't going to be able to capture advanced shading techniques such as SSS for the skin or translucency in the hair or reflections and highlights in the eyes.
This is not a small task either, the meshes from one frame to the next aren't consistant, so it'd be difficult to map a shader to it. As with all mocap, there will need to be a lot of cleanup.
Yearly reminder that there is no Nobel Prize in Economics. It is the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences", established in 1968, to coattail on the prestige of the original.

Edit: Your DVs don't change the facts.
Believe it or not, some people can both push a (virtual) button and look behind the camera at the same time. We preserve stuff for posterity. My own experience tells me that my daughter has a lot more fun looking at pictures and videos from when she was a toddler and hearing the stories behind them, than when I just tell random stories without any "immediate context" (location, other people, toys).
Is Plaid using AIS?
Right. I believe the long term vision is to JIT for other architectures.
I recommend using websearch_to_tsquery instead of the cryptic syntax of to_tsquery.
The point is that CI workflow orchestration and clustered application deployment definitions are not config, at least not in the same way as “here is some hierarchy of definitions that change the behavior of an application.” These are attempts to create declarative DSLs that script workflow steps. In the Helm case specifically, the templating engine produces yaml because Kubernetes uses yaml for its manifests, and Kubernetes uses yaml for manifests because it provides a one to one mapping to the actual data structures used by the cluster manager. It’s way beyond config. You’re defining the entire state of a clustered application, including the infrastructure. Only the Values.yaml is config and I don’t see how that alone is all that complicated.
Productivity porn is a great name for it. For me, it's akin to a trashy gossip magazine - you know it's kind of trash, but enjoy it for what it is. It always makes me smirk when the videos themselves call out your last point, and say "you can't just think about it, you need to act on it, go out there and Carpe Diem!" and we all smile and nod and click the next video without moving from our chairs.

I hope I'm not coming off as too negative though, as I think they are marginally better than most types of content on YouTube. Especially the more popular channels such as Ali's may appear on people's feeds that have never once even thought about _having_ any sort of system, and for them it's a big win. Once you're past surface level though, they generally don't have much more to offer, but are kind of fun to watch regardless.
If your company is implementing and managing their own k8s clusters they are doing it wrong. Use a cloud hosted solution.
Coinbase ≠ the Bitcoin network.

Ask the fees it would cost if years you were buying from someone, 1:1, privately.
I don't know why you're being so hostile. It was in interesting revelation to me. And pretty surprising too since the last CEO was kicked out for far less.
I never thought I would see the day when someone "discovers" the way shell scripts were intentionally designed 40 years ago. This is why perl and later python uses # for comments.
True. As someone who just started aikido last year there are some moves that I would not attempt in a dangerous situation do to lack of mastery. However I have done ikkyo so many times from various starts that it could be used very effectively in a tense situation. Hopefully I never have to find out :)
The Carrington event supposedly took 17 hours to hit Earth, wouldn't the best option be to detect the CME and shutdown the grid before hand? I'd rather be without power for 24 hours vs 3 months or longer.
Given the topic, it would be good to make mirrors of these pages before doing anything else with them.
Why didn’t they release their version of airdrop for almost a decade after iPhones had it? Google just doesn’t seem to care about these conveniences.
>I can't think of any situation where that could warrant any kind of responsible decision-making.
Assuming the errors are random, 30% is still accurate enough to get a signal in an aggregate data set.
Today no starch press has a series of Manga Guide to ...

which are pretty great.

https://nostarch.com/catalog/manga
I work on trying to script each install. So if I need to repave, I have a documented, working script, and the source bits to work with.

I've preferred VMs for functional appliances for a while now. I like the isolation compared to containers. Though YMMV.

Right now, the hardest migration I have is my mail system, which makes use of a fairly powerful pipeline of filters in various postfix connected services. Its not fragile, but it is hard to debug.

I host it myself, as the core thesis of the article pointed out, you can be deplatformed, for any reason, with no recourse. And if you lose your mail, you are probably in a world of hurt.

The one thing I am concerned about is long term backup. I need a cold storage capability of a few 10s of TB, that won't blow up my costs too badly. Likely the best route will be a pair of servers at different DCs, running minio or similar behind a VPN that I can rsync to every now and then. Or same servers with zfs and zfs send/recv.

Thinking about this, but still not sure what to do.
correlation != causation. I can give you examples of rich countries that have lots of unions. Would you say it's the unions that made them rich?

You should look elsewhere for reasons why Brazil is relatively poor today. I guarantee you unions have very little to do with it.
For much of the history you are referencing there was no difference between the whims of society and the whims of the judicial system. We now have the separation of the two which opens the loophole I previously mentioned. Do you have any suggestion for how to address that loophole?

For example, imagine a scenario in which a loved one comes to you and says they were sexually assaulted two years ago. It happened long enough ago that there is no hope to recover any corroborating evidence. It will simply be the victim's word against the perpetrator and therefore there is almost zero hope of conviction. Do you tell this person "just trust the judicial system" or would you help them achieve some sort of punishment outside of the judicial system such as getting the perpetrator fired?
> which language has standardized SIMD vector datatypes

C# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/simd and https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/hardware-intrinsics-in...
what does the green marker signify? What does the box at the top right do? the textbox spotted @ textbox ?
Turn eating healthy and exercise in to its own game for the kids.
The ramp video is fun, but i don't think it belongs in the same bin as other "optical illusions".

Yes, visual cortex failed, and it failed where a god would succeed (succeed in finding the simplest interpretation and making a sharp bet on that interpretation). But the most surprising optical illusions present a far lower bar which visual cortex then still fails to clear.

Often, they exploit what must be some specific implementation detail of visual cortex.

Often, they feel really weird from the inside. Sometimes they force competing interpretations, sometimes a single interpretation which turns out to be obviously wrong.

So i guess it's probably right to insist that an inference engine's optical illusions be a subset of its koans. At my level, the ramps are no koan, just a (funny and clever) lie.
This has the ability to be huge. Exchange points for gas discounts or off maintenance? Lots of other potentially game changing things could be added to the game mechanics of an automobile platform.
click the green dot to chat w/ that person.
Pithy, but wrong.

They might not be themselves differentiators, but they are indicators of a differentiated understanding of how to design a good Q & A site that elicits high quality content from high quality contributers.

Technology is no longer the only differentiator. We've moved far enough "up the stack" that there are lots of ways to differentiate in consumer internet beyond better algorithms.

Do Craigslist, Facebook, or Twitter have anything that's, in your opinion, "differentiated"?
Keep track of what I eat and drink then when I get certain symptoms you can tell me what recently changed in my diet that may be the cause.
I was a faithful Firefox user until there were just too many features Chrome had that either Firefox lacks or I just haven't found. For example:

* Takes up less vertical space - very nice on a netbook.

* You can use one address bar to search any search engine with just the keyboard. I used to have separate address/google and wikipedia bars on Firefox; now everything's combined into one bar.

* Sync lets me keep my bookmarks, etc. up to date on multiple machines/operating systems.

* I've noticed that load times and browsing are significantly faster.

etc.

As a web developer, I loved Firefox for its web development tools, but nowadays I've been able to find all the tools I need for Chrome.
Great looking site and product!!

As someone who is in the financial industry (creating investment models), it seems to me like the real product here you are selling is the Vuru grade. There are already plenty of other screeners out there -- I don't really need another (though I like your UI).

With that said, I would like more info about the Vuru grade and how it has performed. 10 yr, 5 yr, and 3 yr info isn't relevant anymore in the industry -- not without more information than you have provided. How many holdings per year? What's the turnover like? What's the peak to trough draw-down? How have the quantiles performed (e.g. how do those 90+ perform compared to those 10+)? If you showed me that since 2000, there is a linear relationship between the Vuru rank and annual returns, then it would be a product I could get into. On the other hand, if you show me that I have to buy the 900 stocks that are rated 90+, it's just another unrealistic academic portfolio.

My recommendation? Take the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and DJIA since 2000. Show portfolios on each made of 90+, <10, etc -- rebalanced annually and monthly. Show the number of holdings per rebalance period. What I want to see is that if I rebalance my portfolio of the stocks rated 90+ in the S&P 500 every quarter, how am I going to perform versus just the S&P.

I guess all I am trying to say is, please, please, please give me a REALISTIC portfolio and its performance (even if it is backtested) over the last 10 years and give me summary stats every rebalance period. I want to isolate the power of the Vuru grade and take out all the other noise around it.

Best of luck! I look forward to seeing how this evolves!
Absolutely not a marginal niche. If you could predict with reasonable accuracy when someone would get a migraine, all the migraine sufferers I've known would HAPPILY pay for that knowledge. When you're dealing with side effects like loss of memory, loss of vision, vomiting, etc., people would like to know when's a good time to stay home!
I'm 80/20 vegan/vegetarian so I should feel especially repulsed (I don't; got a real time mind filter in place for that - using it on online ads as well - very simple & effective solution) but still one has got to admire your jolly reaction to all the sushi hate here. A very sympathetic (insular?) trait, keep those interesting blog posts coming!
Sounds inspiring, but

>Time is often said to be our most limited resource, but it’s not true. We can create time. It takes the sheer force of will to do it, but it can be created.

Not really. We have exactly 24 hours each day. We can (and should) find ways to use it more effectively, and he explains that this is what he means, but it is definitely possible to get to the point where if you want to add something valuable to your life, you have to give something else equally valuable up.
No, it is not a mistake. http://neurology.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2007/410/3

All the best misstatiana.
ditto - sent to my girlfriend.