skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what exactly are they promising to do? Let's look at what they say in their terms of use:

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH HEREIN, THE LICENSED TECHNOLOGY IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS-IS” BASIS AND CONFIRM DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES. CONFIRM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE LICENSED TECHNOLOGY IS ERROR-FREE OR THAT OPERATION OF THE LICENSED TECHNOLOGY WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS AGREEMENT, NEITHER PARTY MAKES ANY ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED (EITHER IN FACT OR BY OPERATION OF LAW), OR STATUTORY, AS TO ANY MATTER WHATSOEVER. ... EACH PARTY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUALITY, ACCURACY, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

7 LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

7.1 Disclaimer of Consequential Damages. THE PARTIES HERETO AGREE THAT, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION IN THIS AGREEMENT, EXCEPT FOR (A) CUSTOMER’S BREACH OF SECTION 1 OR 6.2, (B) EITHER PARTY’S BREACH OF SECTION 5 , AND (C) LIABILITY ARISING FROM A PARTY’S INDEMNIFICATION OBLIGATIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 8.1 AND 8.2 BELOW, IN NO EVENT SHALL EITHER PARTY BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, RELIANCE, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, LOST OR DAMAGED DATA, LOST PROFITS OR LOST REVENUE, WHETHER ARISING IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF A PARTY HAS BEEN NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF.

Which is to say, it could tell you that Lovin McSpoonful is a totally valid CA driver's license, and you have no remedy if you rely on that to sell the 18 year old alcohol.
A great video, it makes some incredibly complex concepts seem simple.

Science: A theory is true unless it can be proved otherwise (don't even need to prove it is correct in the first place).
There are really good books out there for learning Mathematica. A foreign - but coherent - syntax should not be a dealbreaker for any professional or craftsman.
I know about GOL and other simple automata, I'm mostly curious about applications in image processing.
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And what is the problem with this? The local benefits in property taxes will be enormous.

I live in Geneva, Switzerland. We are welcoming rich immigrants.
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Anyone who doesn't agree with me just doesn't get it because they don't recognize how supremely intelligent I am

Where in the world did you get the idea that I think anything remotely like that??? Nothing could be further from the truth. But downvoting a post simply for mentioning Rand or one of her works? To me that's very clearly just ideological bias, which is what I was referring to above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBlptPM-pWE it was probably something like this, not ball lightning. Just an arc.
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Yes, that's my point. Treating a chimpanzee well, at a primate retirement center, is extremely expensive and difficult to the point where governments & scientific organizations have trouble and are trying to avoid having to do in the future. Nor are zoos cheap to run. And people are already having difficulty keeping their border collies occupied and treated in a manner consistent with their existing high intelligence. (Not that dogs in general are treated optimally - think of how many fat dogs there are, or how many have to be put down for 'behavioral problems'.) And you think it's a swell idea to make the situation worse? It's not.
They are the highly technical types that quite bluntly aren't ever going to be entrepreneurs because that's not how they see the world. They just do everything themselves. Not a bad thing, that's just what it is.
The 1999 vote wasn't to leave the Commonwealth, it was an explicit referendum on whether Australia should become a republic (and it would remain part of the commonwealth). Australia is a 'Commonwealth' in itself. Australia's movement away as a reaction of the monarch's use of power in 1975 was the 1984 Australia act where the references to the UK were removed from the constitution (Queen of the UK -> Queen of Australia).

It's hard to argue using the popularity argument. In Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand the monarch is near universally popular.

The argument for a sovereign head of state is a complex one, the Queen isn't considered as an ordinary family inheriting a lot, its a family which is essentially the head of state and the 'inheritance' goes towards running the country and the benefit of all.

I would understand the disdain from an American perspective, but there's a lot more to it than what is conveyed - the constitutional monarchy system of today isn't like the one 300 years ago, its a wonderful system - to many better than the US system of government, admittedly myself included (I'm an American Politics major if you think there's any bias).

Keep in mind the monarch is there by choice - through democratic vote. As for Australia the 1999 referendum wasn't the first one of its sort either.
eBay isn't even one of the top 10 anymore? How the mighty have fallen, if that's the case.
It would be during the first few months of operations :)
How so? You can see the build as a pure function. It consumes a binary blob but it doesn't make it any less deterministic?
I once went fastmail -> gmail. It's been a while, thinking about going back tbh.
>Matlab

That's true, Matlab does -- I was referring mostly to the others, disparate attempts at a cohesive solution.
It's so irritating when somebody tries to be friendly at the job

Wow, really? You honestly find it irritating when someone perceives you might have a mutual interest in something only tangentially related to work, so strikes up a conversation with you? Or someone likes the cut of your jib when they first meet you and suggests you walk across the road to the sandwich place together? Or offers to grab you an espresso whilst they're getting theirs? You find all of that... irritating?
As I understand it, Nixos runs their own patched versions of ld and the dynamic loading system calls in libc. The normal lib.so search mechanism is replaced wholesale with "thou shalt link against this dll and no other" on a per-execuatble basis. Multiple versions of .so's don't cause problems, because no executable is depending on a search mechanism it doesn't control.
It's not necessarily better to have fewer employees working longer. When I cut back to part time, I thought it ended up being a pretty good deal for everyone.

* For them, a lot of my value is in what I know rather than what I do. Let's say it's half and half. So they were getting somewhat less of that first half (direct hands-on work) but darn near all of the rest (ability to solve certain problems or make certain connections instantly instead of spending half a day).

* For me, a significant part of my job's value is not salary but other benefits, plus the ability to tap into the collective resources of a team to get things done.

Thus, even though the deal was nominally 75% of the hours for 75% of the salary, each side was really getting way more than 75% of the value from that relationship (compared to when I was full time). In the end, neither of us were so easily or cheaply replaced. Employees aren't as fungible as many seem to think.
"It is humbling to go back to the labor market, hat-in-hand, asking for help. We did this when we hired you. We asked each of you to help us. You did not need us. There are plenty of great jobs. But we needed you. And thank goodness you came. We wouldn’t be here without you. But each of you was hired because the team before you failed to execute without you. And this is still true today."

Such a great perspective to have. More of this please.
>I think the issue is partly made moot by that not many people know Guile/Scheme in the first place, so they'd need to learn one language anyway.

But this language is not a DSL, but a general purpose language that has pattern matchers, HTTP libraries, XML parsers, data structure implementations, etc.

>Guix refuses to integrate proprietary software so its usability is diminished compared to Nix (and Guix has less software packaged than Nix in the first place, AFAIK).

Guix is younger, thus has less software packaged, but the number of new packages introduced with each Guix release continues to increase. I have all the packages most important to me and have been using GuixSD exclusively for at least a year now.

>Nix is a pretty good language for the task.

The problem with any DSL is that is not very extensible and developers must spend time maintaining parsers, compilers, etc. for a one-off language. Guix is achieving its velocity in good part thanks to using an existing general purpose language that new languages can be embedded within.
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Based on your DevOps experience, what's your opinion of Nix[1] and/or its OS? I keep hearing it solves a lot of pain for deploying systems, but I don't have any DevOps experience to evaluate it.

[1] https://nixos.org/nix/
JSON isn't a programming language.
Use of Metrics functionality is going to vary based on need. So if a system is using something such as Graphite, then the measurements sent should reflect that. This is independent of a particular library IMHO.

So when you say:

... if you're feeding them into something
like Graphite which does further processing,
you're averaging twice, and getting the
wrong numbers.

This would be an issue with sending Histogram, Meter, and/or Timer values, but I'd categorize that as a design defect. Using Metrics to send Gauge and Counter data to a Graphite-esque system shouldn't be a problem at all. For systems which do not have a metrics aggregator or when some need to be exposed to external agents (such as client systems), using the types provided by Metrics can be very useful.

As for using log files to "scrape out" system metrics, I realize this is a common practice yet is one which I am fundamentally against. What I've observed when taking the "put it in the logs and we'll parse it out later" tactic is that a system ends up with sustained performance degradation due to high log output as well ops as having to incorporate yet-another system just to deal with profuse logging.

Treating system metrics as a first-class concern has shown itself to be very beneficial in my experience. Persisting them is a desirable thing, agreed, and a feature point fairly easily met when metrics are addressed separately from logging.
If you understand how things work in the frequency domain, you can design them there and convert them back to the time domain (or leave them in the frequency domain, because if they're of any significant size, convolution is faster in the frequency domain anyway).
The issue is not that OEMs and carriers add custom stuff.

The issue is the interdependence between those modules, and that they can’t be updated seperately.

Why can’t the OEM customizations be pre-installed apps updated through a third-party app store?

Why can’t the OS be split into parts, with a driver part where the drivers can be updated, and a higher level part being updated by Google or Amazon?

Such a seperation would solve all these issues, without anyone – except Google – losing.
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I think the problem of most of the people who don't have a good experience with scrum is a misunderstanding of the underlying principles behind it.

Unfortunately this has become a cliché whenever someone criticizes scrum, Agile in general, etc.: it's never the fault of the idea/process, it's the fault of the manager/team for not understanding it properly or not doing it right.

Even if these philosophies and processes are so amazingly great when properly understood and implemented, the fact that hardly anyone seems to be able to properly understand and implement them would be a fatal flaw.
You can sell securities to non-accredited investors if you have audited financials (basically conforming to public IPO requirements) and the number of people you do so is greatly limited. This stuff is more complicated than I'm making it seem, but small quantities, again with audited financials (minimum audit costs ~$10K) and this can be possible/legal. Definitely consult securities lawyers if you're considering doing anything like this.
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On (6) Coyote: I read it a while back (4-5 years), and don't remember much, but I really enjoyed the first two books as well. "The Madwoman of Shuttlefield", a chapter from the first book in the series which was published independently in Asimov's is one of my all time favorite short stories of all time.
The build is a source to binary function. How does one reproduce the binary blob? How does one know that binary hasn't been tampered with?
Correct, because you don’t even have the required data to fix the device, and instead are fully dependent on someone else.

A someone which has been proved to be unreliable again and again.
Ask HN: Fighting back ADD/ADHD?
I have been living a stressful life for last few years.
Last year, I started to see a steady decline in my performance at work and in general life. After a string of medical tests from
fixing vitamin levels to hypothyroid to depression to skin rashes : doctor has good doubts that I have ADD/ADHD. I simply cannot focus
enough on one thing at a time and I am too tired to move a thing. There is more diagnosis to be done whether this is linked
with leaky gut syndrome etc.

I moved around quite a bit in last 5 years. My lifestyle has been erratic: junk food,
working remotely in ungodly hours, no exercise and weight. Im kind of ashamed of myself on how negligent I have been.

As a first step - I have decided to take a break from work and bring some changes to lifestyle.
My family has been very supportive.

Any thoughts on how you faced this/similar health problem and bounced back ?
The sad story behind Kagi’s closing
My favorite version of this: "I wonder what will become self aware first: Mathematica or Stephen Wolfram"
Get a business account and order more than $49 at a time and you'll get free two day shipping.

Also, note that Amazon may take time to ship because they're sending it between their warehouses to ship from a closer location. For popular items they'll likely already have one near you, but for less popular ones they move it around before final delivery. So just because it takes time to ship doesn't mean it won't arrive as fast as other options. What counts is the expected delivery time, which is given when you order.
Just say ポッキー and you'll say it right every time.
Yes, Blume has produced fuel. If I recall correctly at one point he had a number of people with fuel conversions on their vehicles who were buying his gas through a kind of CSA (Community-Supported Agriculture) business. He's very practically oriented.

Part of what shifts the economics here is that the leftover byproducts of both fermentation and distillation are returned as inputs to the farm.

I also have to mention, at one point Blume had a contract with a donut bakery to collect and make fuel from all their old scrap dough. Sugar and carbs...
Can We Trust Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?
They still have (2), right? An image classification startup that provides services to other companies will see more images than competing firms, which lets them train their models on more data, which gives them better quality models than competitors. Ditto fraud detection, ad targeting, or product recommendation (within a specific vertical, at least).

It seems like it'd be hard to build a durable competitive advantage without either owning the user relationships or owning the data, correct? Such a company would be just an algorithm and some tools around it, which are relatively easy for a competitor to copy.
Doesn't say what kind of integration is required. The site mentions a plugin but not what system it's a plugin for.

If I have a custom site, what are the chances you could work with it without expensive customization?
Nix is actually a purely function programming language - you can embed function calls in it. This is used to great effect in various parts of nixpkgs - the entire thing is actually a program which returns the Nix package tree (but is not fully evaluated unless you explicitly ask for it).
> Though apps should still be run in a sandbox...

They are.

All these exploits are sandbox breakouts, in this case, by exploiting the IPC system
This isn't directed solely at you, but it's extremely annoying to hear someone make a great argument for something, only to hear someone else put them down by saying something like "But it's so obvious! Why are you wasting your time and mine by writing this?"

Just because it's obvious to you, doesn't mean it's obvious to everyone else.

Just because it's obvious to you, doesn't mean it's not worth talking about.

In this case, I've seen plenty of startups postpone hiring any admins until 15-20+ headcount, in the interests of cutting costs to the bone and being scrappy. Clearly to these people, the author's recommendation is not obvious at all.

If you think that someone's advice is bad and want to call them out on it, go ahead. If you think that someone's advice is so obvious that it's not useful, then just ignore them or downvote them. But telling someone on a message board to shut up because you agree with everything they said, just comes across as both rude and not useful in any way.
You imply that indentation isn't a part of Python's grammar...
I on the other hand have a mailbox that is not even 100 MB, but I would have to pay $40 a year just to use my own domain. That's also a bit too expensive for my low mail volume.
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Microwaves trapped in balls of plasma. Electrons accelerated fast enough to pass through sheet aluminum, but able to slow down and form a ball on the other side. Electrons accelerated to high relativistic speeds, producing nothing more potent than mere microwaves when decelerated.

I am no physicist, but these explanations seem really messed up. I don't think this guy got us any closer to understanding ball lightning.
With a CMS for static websites like DatoCMS [1] you can have the best from both words: edit your post from a good old web interface and publish a rock solid, stupid, static website.

[1]: https://www.datocms.com
True enough. Maybe I've not seen enough of what is in a Nix packaging script.
I think the point of the article is that you shouldn't wait till it is a problem, you should address it right away. Controversial may not be the right word, maybe "overlooked" is better to describe it?
I keep my money as cash, in a vault that I had to design and build from scratch in my own home. It's probably not secure against robbery, but it's how I have to store my money to avoid the fact that all the banks are being robbed blind all the time. When I do actually have to transfer money to someone, I go to a bank where I keep a zero-balance account, make a deposit and physically stay there until it clears. Then I initiate the transfer, and as soon as that clears I immediately withdraw any leftover funds from the account and go back home to put it in my vault.

If someone had seriously proposed this as a way they use traditional cash + banks, you'd be laughing at them.
A little art and plenty of science. The kernel matrices can be broken down logically once you know what the numbers are operating on. Considering a 3x3 kernel, the center of the kernel matrix is the origin pixel, and the kernel elements around the origin are the neighboring pixels in their respective directions and distances.

The identity kernel is [0 0 0; 0 1 0; 0 0 0]. For every input pixel, the output is the original pixel value. Don't change the pixel value based on what is around it.

A simple blur kernel would be 1/9 * [1 1 1; 1 1 1; 1 1 1]. The output for each input pixel is the average of the origin's pixel value and all of its neighboring values, with an even weighting. A less dramatic blur can weigh the origin pixel higher than the neighbors, such as a gaussian blur. This will result in the output pixel being more similar to the origin pixel, than to it's neighbors.

Edge detection like [-1 -1 -1; -1 8 -1; -1 -1 -1] can be understood by multiplying the origin pixel value by 8, and subtracting off all of its 8 neighboring values. If the values are all fairly similar, lets say all gray, your output will be black. 8A - 8A = 0. So it "punishes" pixels that are similar to its neighbors. When a pixel is different than some or all of its neighbors, you will be left with some value > 0 at the output, which detects a change from its neighbors: an edge. Horizontal edge detection: [1 0 -1; 2 0 -2; 1 0 -1]. Ignores the pixels above, below, and center, but accentuates the differences between what is on the left from the right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(image_processing)
> The alarm clock wakes me up at exactly 7:20 in the morning. I go to the toilet, wash my face, change my clothes, no time to brush my teeth, I take my key and run straight to the factory.

Perhps consider setting your alarm to 7:17 and brush those teeth.
They actually do accept bitcoin.
>> some algorithms from the 70's and 80's that aren't widely available as open source

What would be those (if you got a minute)?
from 5 people only one will be a quick learner, even if they all say they do.
it's just not just the language that you need to learn, basically you mostly also need to learn things about the product.
No. Most people would advising avoiding an office manager for awhile. The idea is that the company should only be doing important things and important things are worth doing by the key people.
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Checksums!
Please, do not build awesome features
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It's far more complicated than a simple TNT equation. If the nasty stuff is the radiation, that isn't directly proportional to the size of the explosion. Each test was unique, with specific bomb designs that produced more or less proportional radiation. Later bomb designs were in fact much 'cleaner' in that they produced proportionally less radiation than an equivalent number of "Hiroshimas". The largest bomb ever tested (the russian "czar bomb") was also likely the cleanest, producing the least radiation per kiloton. (Interesting fact: The czar design was changed at the last minute to reduce its yield and radiation potential in light of the american tests.)

And even the total amount of radiation is also beside the point. The real nasty is the amount of radiation dropped onto and into people, the fallout. Bombs high in the atmosphere produce far less fallout than those on the surface or close thereto. Then one can get into square-area v volume maths that explain why fallout in rain (concentrated into 2d on the surface) is so much more deadly than fallout dissolved in ocean water (diluted into a 3d ocean). This is an important distinction when talking about the post-tsunami radiation events.

If was a horrible series of tests with little regard for local inhabitants, but that is no excuse for false equivalences.
I think that they don't do too drastic changes. There are certainly checks in the compilation process to not accidentally link to /usr/lib/ libraries, but I think the main problem of finding libraries works with a simple compiler wrapper adding needed -Lflags (for finding libs at compile time) and RPATH entries to binaries (for finding libs at run time). There of course may be "hacks" made to gcc/libc but I don't see a reason they would be essential for functioning.

One notable thing Nix does is hardcode a path to a specific dynamic linker (e.g. /nix/store/HASH-glibc-2.23/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2). All other dynamic libraries should be referenced through soname+RPATH.
Don't do a google image search for "teletext". About 1.5 pages down is a goatce in teletext. Ick!
I recently read the graphic novel version of Graveyard Book. Would highly recommend that as well, it is quite well done.
You can use `builtins.toJSON` and `builtins.fromJSON` to inter-operate with JSON.

They don't handle functions or infinite datastructures though.