skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is giving me flashbacks to the whole STAP cells fiasco of a few years ago where a research group in Japan published a "simple" way to generate pluripotent stem cells. Everyone and their mother tried to replicate the result and eventually the paper was shown to be fraudulent. On the bright side, the larger scientific community acted as a backstop to the journal/peer-review system. On the other hand, the amount of resources expended to nullify this claim was probably enormous and is hard to quantify. Putting out bad data not only poisons the well, it also chews up lots of productivity cycles of everyone in the field.
https://exif.tools/http://choices.cs.illinois.edu/selfhealin...
Why business strategy matters for crypto
We've actually started a new bank explicitly to provide the banking infrastructure to companies like this that are good at owning the UX advantage. Our conviction is that in the long term banks will be disintermediated from most of their customers and there will be a general unbundling of banking services - you won't get your mortgage / small business loan / checking account all at the same bank.
Curious to see Timothy Chan develop some screaming fast C code using their method.
I'd bet you money that more people use them for that than use Super to manage windows. ;)
It's an arXiv preprint. If it were submitted to a journal I'd agree with you, but the fast sharing of new data is the whole point of arXiv.
I visited a retrospective of his art at the Paris Centre G Pompidou a few years back.

I am not a huge fan of contemporary art and I had to endure five or six rooms filled with ONE sculpture (some kind of an ovaloid with a small hole). Polished, unpolished, steel, copper, all the variations. It was exhausting.
Fundamentally, banks are scale businesses (much like most technology companies). Expensive to start, but once you've got the product / regulatory infrastructure in place your marginal revenue is really low-cost.
> Software salespeople need to bring in 4-5x of what they cost. Lawyers and consultants are often tasked with bringing in 3-4x their cost. Why should engineers be any different?

I'm not making the argument, but I suspect the argument is along the lines that (certain) engineers are actually creating the wealth, while the other professions you mention are some form of overhead, merely moving the wealth around (if you'll pardon the oversimplification/potential-strawman).

Although I see the merit to arguments of that form, as someone in what is a service profession (IT/Ops, which is even traditionally "overhead" or "cost center"), I'm acutely aware of the value (i.e. wealth) that services provide.

That said, I don't think a generalization like "all the professions are the same" (and fractionial-value compensation being fair is merely a matter of degree) is any more valid than engineering exceptionalism. Witness the popularity of terms like "rent seeking" and (earlier) "disintermediation".

> I know exactly how much money I've made my company

> As long as it remains a fairly reasonable trade, I'll be fine with it.

This is probably the crux of the issue. Anyone in a non-sales/transactional role doesn't have this information, which makes it exceedingly difficult even to begin to decide if it's a fairly resonable trade.

Besides the information assymetry (not that the company actually knows how much a particular engineer "makes" them), some of the sentiment among engineers may be due to the notion that, for them, the multiple is much larger than the 3-5x that you quoted above. Would any non-service engineers care to comment on what you think your multiple is?
I have a MacBook Pro 2015 and a Magic Trackpad 2 and get phantom inputs on both. Still, I’m an old TrackPoint user and I prefer the Mac trackpads regardless.
Speaking of styling things for novelty, there's also this

https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/text-styles
This post is. Uh. Excessive.

Posting from GNOME 3, where all my out-of-band shortcuts are on Super just as on a Mac. (Setting it up did take me a whole five minutes, granted.)
Is situation in bitwig better?
The criticism of your comment stands, regardless of whether you're talking about a section that is restricted vs derestricted.

Do people driving on derestricted sections self-select and have cars better able to handle the speeds? Does anyone in Germany only drive on restricted sections?

You comment as if the derestricted sections are just some racetrack in the middle of nowhere for which people self-select. No, they're just roads going from one place to another, like any other road. And Germany doesn't kick out citizens who don't want to drive fast, or offer easy citizenship for those who do.
Only if I predict the timing exactly right. I don't trust my self to do that.
Why so pessimistic? I'm about your age and I very much expect to retire and to retire well and to make sure that happens I have short, medium and long term financial plans and goals set for my self.
Are you running the latest firefox? Works for me, but I don't see anything special about it.
> We're having this little problem where society is becoming increasingly polarized and fractured into camps, which are attacking one another with greater and greater ferocity.

Like, e.g.: “Never before in history have basically 50 mostly men, mostly 20–35, mostly white engineer designer types within 50 miles of where we are right now [Silicon Valley], had control of what a billion people think and do.”?

So sure, some people mostly from SV control the company that sort-of makes the OS used on the phones. Phones made by (and having their OS further altered by) companies predominantly in Asia. Sold with extra crap from companies all over the world. All to facilitate dysfunctional behaviours engineered by ad-tech industry that's, again, everywhere from SV to Tel Aviv to Berlin.

I'm all for criticizing SV for what it does wrong, but let's not overdo this.
As a guy who does a lot of scientific data analysis and plotting, I'm surprised that no one brought up the obvious explanation; in the general scrum of final manuscript preparation, the data analysis guy mistakenly made a plot with the same data replicated several times, but shifted each time so that the plot looked plausible at first pass. It would require a lot of things to go wrong at once, sure... but with experience, you learn to count on a lot of things going wrong at once, especially just before something like a manuscript submission. :)

But that the authors, who presumably could check the raw data the plot is coming from, didn't immediately come back with this explanation, makes it sound much more likely that this is just fraud. Oh well.
In Europe, PSD2 and the Open Banking initiatives provide this. All retail and commercial banks are required to provide open APIs to Account Information Service Providers or Payment Initiation Service Providers (the former being read-only, the latter read and write). Essentially you're talking about a delegated access / OAuth-style universe for banks and technology companies. It'd be great to see the US adopt something similar.
No amount of anything mitigates a successful attack; otherwise it wouldn't be successful.
This is solved when the US goes metric (which is right after the UK goes right hand traffic).
Related, there's also Binging with Babish, a chef that recreates foods found in movies, tv shows, books, etc [0]. Including gems like Eggs Woodhouse (including the Iberico ham), Homer Simpson's Moon Waffles, and the English Trifle disaster from Friends.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw
I would make it more clear what the app does and that you should highlight text to format it.

I discovered that by accident.
> but the design for "persuasion" or addiction is really a big deal.

And remember, the actual term of the art here is "engagement". Every time you see it, think of "getting people hooked on your dope".
No kidding. Both parties are huge, and have a wide, wide variety of people in them in any event.
Performance Differences Between Native, Flutter, and React Native: Take Two
> spaces whose distance measures obey the triangle inequality

That would be a metric space, and a distance obey the triangle inequality by definition. The element of the space are otherwise quite arbitrary.

Unfortunately, Normed spaces are a subset of metric spaces which are much less general (in particular they have to be vector spaces).
It's a lot harder to get a license in Germany than in the US, and there's more of an expectation that you keep your vehicle in good repair. I could argue that the speed limit on the Autobahn is a result of selecting for more conscientious and capable drivers rather than proof that higher speeds are safe in general.
Which makes the situation worse. You can't tell what the port actually supports. For instance only two of the four "Thunderbolt 3" ports on the pre-2018 MacBook Pros with Touch Bar supported the full speed of Thunderbolt.

The Macbook has one port that looks the same but it isn't a Thunderbolt 3 port and only supports speeds up to 5Gbps.
Don't let Shia fool you, it's bœuf.
14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor
Certainly possible now that the OCC has opened the door to a "fintech banking charter". In the past I'd have said this was impossible as Stripe has little interest in finding itself regulated as a bank or in becoming a bank holding company.
This is precisely the idea of Farnsworth Spacing (used for ham CW): http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/x9004008.pdf
I've been told by people that have been involved with lobbying that it's way cheaper than you'd expect. Almost a million in the right congressional races can buy you a lot of stalling in congress.

My take on this remains what it's been for decades (offensive words, but I'm not sure what would fit better) :

"I'm not surprised that politicians are whores. I'm horribly disappointed that they're cheap sleazy whores."
US Banking makes ~175 Billion in profits per year.

There are few industries that even approach that.
this.

One of the projects I compile at work can take an hour running on 4 threads, jack that up to 16 and you take that down to not much over 17-18 minutes. That's a whole heap of developer time you just got back that would have been wasted on compiler swords.

The other one is running VM's/a docker swarm locally for development.
I can't tell if this comment is in jest or not, but we actually are starting a bank in the UK to be a platform bank for fintechs across Europe and beyond. Happy to chat.
Some of the lower attiny micro like attiny13 have only 32 registers and no ram !
All we have here is Mountain Dew and crab juice.
In fairness to him, the OCC (the national banking regulator in the US) has had a practical moratorium on new national bank licenses for most of the past 10 years. You can get a new state bank charter, but not a national one. I can't blame him for not wanting to start a bank in the US lately.
I just wanted to say (and the edit window is gone), although I disagree with you, I want to encourage discussion, even of controversial ideas (I know, I have plenty!). It's a shame you're downvoted.
As a profoundly deaf person, I encourage you to speak to an audiologist and get hearing aids. They make some that are practically invisible, and the newfangled ones have Bluetooth technology, which streams music and phone calls and stuff directly to your ear. It's a total game changer. Most people I speak to don't even know I'm profoundly deaf until I bring it up or until I say/do something embarrassing. :)

As for your suggestions, I like Ava. +1
Ask HN: Are there bootcamps for developers to become founders?
There are bootcamps for people to become developers in 3-6 months of time but are there bootcamps that help you become a founder?

I feel there is a mental resistance in me (and may be others) to feel ready before they can start a company. There are a lot of skills involved in starting a company. I am looking for something like a Toastmaster but for Startups where you can learn skills and have a group that support you in starting a startup or small business.
If this is fraud, why on earth would you claim something that (theoretically) that is:
1) a holy grail of any field of science.
2) likely to attract a lot of attention
3) likely to be disproved quickly.
4) likely to result in you being compared unfavorably with Fleischmann–Pons?
The way to make it palatable is to couple it with equivalent tax cuts, to make it revenue neutral.
You've thrown out quite a number of different topics, and some of the questions you're asking might also lead anyone who can contribute to a discussion about speed limits being set at safe speeds to admit to having committed what is currently a crime because of an incorrectly calibrated "limit".

With respect to the engineering safety of the sudden 30mph sign (which I assume is in a rural area on an otherwise small highway); yes that sounds like you're describing what is typically called a "speed trap". A real traffic safety engineering standard SHOULD call for a clearly posted and graduated reduction in speed as approaching the town at a /bare/ minimum. However, a true engineering solution would isolate the town and the highway entirely. The point of the highway is to be a high speed transit corridor and it is inefficient and unsafe to route such a thing through a dense residential or commercial area. Instead there should be an exit system that leads off to a side path for such a town. I would prefer an actual barrier that encloses the typical route and possibly caps or bridges over it (maybe with a park) for existing situations that have developed in days with less good planning. In any such cases a designated detour route should also be constructed such that it is possible for "oversized loads", emergency response teams, and post disaster travel to route around failure in the now enclosed sections.
If you define a/0 to be a value, then you can ask whether (2 + 1)/0 = 2/0 + 1/0. This is not meaningless since both sides are defined. If you define a/0 = 2, then the equation is false.

Using "infinity" (which is not how it's actually done in math) requires you to rule out the possibility of operations like infinity - infinity.
I build a system once for a furby-like product that was designed so that the voice talent could listen to all sorts of speech snippets, and, crucially, play them back over the exact same hardware as the final toy's. These 'golden ear' folks would pick the best (heavily compressed) speech that would be used in-product.
Sorry, I was sort of vague here. Basically, I had to give $105,000 (half) of the 401K to my ex-wife, I had to pay her out for potential values of my stock options and RSU's (have fun valuing those!), I had Smith-Ostler riders attached to any bonus income, I had three more years of spousal support ($1800 per month), legal fees to pay, etc. I used the 401K to pay these things, so technically, I did get half, I just had to immediately use it to pay it all to my ex-wife.

Yes, I kept the house, which was my separate property with a community property interest, since it was purchased in my name only before we were married. I cannot afford the house, so I am trying to play the foreclosure avoidance game and give my kids a nice place to live that provides them with some continuity.

I also had $1700 in child support (this is two kids, with a 60/40 custody share) that I offered to give her more money in the settlement if she would agree to $1400 instead. She agreed to that, and then before that judgment had even been processed, had me back in court to get $1700 per month, which she did, since the court will use whatever Disso-Master spits out. She owns her own business, and of course her personal and business accounts are mingled, so there is no way to pinpoint what she actually makes, but it was at least $3,500 per month part time when we were married.

But none of that matters if you earned a lot more than your spouse. Divorce is no joke, especially if you are the high earner in the relationship. A lot of people are under the assumption that if you split custody, you don't pay support or the support is a nominal amount. This is absolutely not the case. The court (in CA, at least) looks to maintain the children's standard of living DURING THE MARRIAGE until the child is 18 or emancipated. This is the case even if your divorce left you in very different circumstances.

That's just child support, which is only one of the many costs associated with divorce.

(I want to make it clear that I have no problem with paying _reasonable_ child support, but I'm sorry, the current child support calculations can leave you with an egregious amount of support payments)
Your own, personal, surveillance capitalism golem
Then it sets an I/O pin that pulls the reset switch.
sheep/lamb

Captain Pedantic, checking in: it should be "sheep/mutton" and "lamb/lamb". Lambs are baby sheeps.
Cached:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180813200145/http://accu.org/i...

Additional material for data-oriented design:

https://github.com/dbartolini/data-oriented-design
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749330
I am unsatisfied with their explanation for discontinuing EPUB. "Too costly" is a subjective judgment, and they did not reveal the objective measurements or methods they used to reach it. A pack of gum is costly if you already spent all your money on something else.

With the knowledge of what they do continue to support, I suspect that some of the costs they are paying for maintenance are the result of poor architectural decisions. If all book formats had a common source format, supporting any particular book format would be a matter of maintaining a compiler/converter for it, which could be a large initial cost followed by a lower recurring maintenance cost, shared across all books in the system. However, open sourced, community maintained programs are readily available, along with proprietary commercial offerings with paid support.

I know that the difference between raw web site and EPUB is some OEBPS metadata and a ZIP program. The difference between EPUB and iBook is a conversion program maintained by Apple. The difference between EPUB and Kindle is a conversion program maintained by Amazon. The difference between EPUB and PDF is hairier technically, but conceptually it's just non-reflowable fixed page sizes and fonts, which are theoretically handled by CSS "@media print" directives. The difference between PDF and print depends on the printer, but for self-publishing it's mainly just getting the page margins correct between the digital and print PDF versions.

Testing is a branding issue, not a technical burden. You don't actually have to test Adobe Digital Editions support, if you warn people on download that some EPUB readers are not fully compliant with the EPUB spec, and therefore will not render correctly. It's the IE6 problem all over again. If you support only the readers that are currently popular, there is no incentive for their maintainers to move any closer to a standard that would make maintenance easier for you in the long run. You provide the book, not the reading experience. That is the responsibility of the reader.

Mainly, I'm just pissed that they axed EPUB, but still do iBook and Kindle. That is implicitly supporting closed, proprietary formats (or embraced and extended formats) rather than open standards. We have already been there once.
The UK isn’t exactly metric. Perhaps imperial measurements like Brexit will die out.
So many measurements are daft units: road distances, trousers, the nutty papers still use Fahrenheit.
Dry goods are in 450g units, and milk is sold by pint in ml.
Not all cards support monitor mode. I have some recommended cards at the bottom of the README.md file.
That is exactly my point. Now you have to disambiguate a poorly-chosen symbol.

The theorem doesn't need the stipulation that c != 0 since you have already excluded c from the domain.
Hmmm, I'm alway really surprised when people comment on threads like this.

How much time did you take to do this, I can read code, but I simply can't casually take a look at code like this and say, hey that's cool, hey that's interesting, I have to concentrate and go line by line, a more debugging state of mind.

There are programmers that can sort of skim read code which just amazes me.
OK, got it. But do see John Graham-Cumming's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17751464
Some companies (not just car financing) did this i. The past as a cost savings feature.

Think big retail stores or insurance companies with high cash flow coming every month through the bank.
I think your criticism is right. In that line I was thinking about the feature selector, which does pull out 4 of the individual stocks -- these capture more than 50% of the variance in the full set. As you pointed out, that description isn't quite right for the PCA line, which uses four hybrid components.
I enjoy solving complex problems, and it is great working with a strong business team that is able to sell those solutions for the benefit of others.

This often leads to even more interesting & complex problems, and the market provides a decent feedback loop about what is and isn't valued.

If you don't like complicated problems as an engineer, you may be in the wrong role. If you'd rather deal with people, you could look into becoming a sales engineer. If you want more say in the product and direction of the business, you could consider joining a smaller company where your voice will likely have more weight.
> workers get all the fruit of their labor rather than a fraction of it

Be careful what you wish for. Risk is important, and if the "fruit" is zero, that's undesirable, too. We're seeing this in a microcosm of the "gig economy" with Uber pushing risk (and other externalities) onto drivers.

I believe that was part of the parent's point about running a business and "hassle". I think it's debatable whether that necessarily costs the vast majority of labor's output, as the parent contends, but I doubt it can cost zero, as you contend.

I'm ignoring capital (tools or even borrowing money) on purpose, in order to avoid the communism tangent.
I'm not sure when you last tried Tor, but it's not that slow these days. I first tried Tor several years ago, and it was so slow I couldn't understand how anyone could bear to use it - but I tried it again recently, and (to my surprise) for general browsing at least, it didn't seem to add any noticeable lag.

I wonder if Tor has finally reached critical mass and is ready for more widespread use?
I decided I can't say as much as I originally did, but I've observed first hand, in a close relative, how the Mayo Clinics misdiagnosed and mis-treated a problem for three years. It was only a chance conversation with a business associate, who had a family member who was expeditiously and effectively treated for the same class of problem, that resulted in my relative seeing their doctor and getting that effective treatment. Only, in three years, a lot of systemic and chronic damage had been done.

This treatment was, is the standard first course of treatment for my relative's circumstances and symptoms. It was perhaps unusual for Minnesota, but not some rare condition -- hardly.

The Mayo Clinics continue to have a stellar reputation. However, I've observed what I consider gross incompetence on their part, along with apparent closed-mindedness to... what? Effectively interrogating the case and actually researching what the rest of the world does about it?

I'm not free, on a personal level, to go into the details.

But I learned that you can trust no place, based solely on their reputation.

And reputation seems to breed arrogance and dismissiveness that is counter-productive -- outright harmful.