skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because 99% of the people don’t know what a port is.

And at the rate things are going, that percentage is only going to be going up. We're tunneling more and more over HTTP(S) -- lately, DNS over HTTPS has been unleashed upon humanity --, so ports as a concept are kind of an endangered species at this point.
Housing Booms is the United States longest running con. It makes no sense, and is so completely disconnected from reality it creates a separate one most American's participate: the housing lottery for retirement.
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Play store isn't part of Android. Even if it was only available to specific phones, that wouldn't make Android unfree.

Play store isn't open source at all.

Amazon was able to take Android and put it on their extremely popular devices with 0 support from Google, no play store. That's what I call freedom
I’m getting older and somewhat dismayed at how people want to punish others for their viewpoint. I am told I must be more tolerant by people who want to sack, ban and punish others for having a different point of view.

I would not support your colleagues stance unless your clients are breaking the law. The logical outcome of supporting every interest group would be chaos.
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I assume a lot of the imports are then purchases from foreign exporters by American refiners who have lined up foreign buyers of finished products? This is economically valuable activity, but it doesn't feel like a good measure of any kind of energy independence.
So what exactly is wrong Safari in terms of Web Standards, what is missing that pisses people off? I see lots of Safari bashing but I have yet to see a list of features / functions / bugs to back it up.
Publish the screenshots & drawings as a separate book in color. Sell it as an optional bundle for those who want it in published form. For those who don't care, Publish the book in black and white, with a QR code to open links to a web page with the screenshot & drawings. There's no way in hell I'm going to put in all that effort to earn 77cents :-( when other's are profiting much more. I'll rather give away the book for free. I can't believe in 2018 folks are still getting gouged to publish.
Magisk takes care of that.
The two are closely correlated in practice. The boom in prices incentivizes developers to build more, leading to a boom in number of houses, which eventually leads to a bust. So the pendulum swings again. Control engineers would describe it all as a system that's not very well damped.
Where is it against policy? I recently brought frozen water through e.g. Malaga airport.
Were would that go? The author doesn't seem too keen on actually soldering on the inside of the devices, and they all give analogue out. Maybe you meant an amp?
Floats that aren’t equivalent to ints: 2.5.

In some languages, similar constructs test membership in a list/range, rather than an inequality.
Is there any data on breastfeeding versus autism rates?
All existing code still compiles, just as before, with no changes. That’s backwards compatibility.
If you store a 2d array in a 1d one, it's natural to try/use x+200*y or such. With 0-based indexing it just works. With 1-based indexing, it's more complicated. If you do any modulus-based array access, 1-based indexing makes it more complicated. Basically, a world with 0-based indexing results in simpler math than a world with 1-based indexing, making it the better choice.
And when I was in high school 99% of people didn't know what a disk drive was, much less something fancy at the time like a pen drive.

Now everyone including grandmothers knows what a pen drive is.

And people are using a chat application 99% of the time. Anything they need to know to chat with their friends, they will learn, fast.

IRC did not die because it used ports and servers. That actually had nothing to do with its decline.

IRC was replaced by something without the feudal structure of founders, SOps, and Ops, and the medieval control they had over normal users, muting and kicking people off channels all the time.

It was a social issue, not a technical one.
I think I've had that experience. I wouldn't generalize and say it's "the current experience," and certainly not 50% of the time, but I can say I have had this experience at least once on every cloud provider that I've used Kubernetes with to any degree of depth. Something goes wrong, and it's outside of your control, you just have to wait for them to fix it (or sometimes I guess, you can just pick a different AZ and try again.)

It's almost just enough to make you wish for a Hybrid cloud. If you don't have Kubernetes experts on staff, you shouldn't be trying to manage your own Kubernetes on-prem. It won't be surprising that this is the experience 50% of the time – honestly that has to be why managed services for Kubernetes are evidently becoming so popular.

Managed services have these issues some of the time too, and if your managed service has those issues often enough that you'd want to talk about them, you better find a different managed service. I think AKS and GKE have had those issues, but they are rare. Don't know personally about EKS.

I think some people interpret the promise of managed K8s services to be that you don't need to have someone anymore on-staff who is the expert in how things might go sideways on Kubernetes.

On the contrary, you still need that person to be able to take advantage of Kubernetes with confidence, but maybe now thanks to (whatever vendor you chose for Kubernetes) you simply don't need to have an actual department of 6-12 of those experts focused on only doing that (managing Kubernetes.)

A result of using a real, stable managed K8s service should be that on a day-to-day basis, those people won't actually need to run around with their hair on fire doing ops things just to keep the business going. Automation.

With on-prem, maybe just don't expect it to come like that out-of-the-box; if your whole team is still new at this they're going to need training and planning and ramp-up to get it to that stage. This is exactly how you get "it might be better for us to start with a managed k8s service."
What if it's not diet.

I read somewhere that Silicy has higher life expectancy although it's poor (probably worse healthcare) in comparison to North Italy.

Maybe it's not diet but the family values? Maybe being family focused increases life expectancy despite having not superior diet.
That's funny, I've set up the infrastructure for 3 startups with exactly that stack over the last year and a half, works wonders and is very flexible.
Perhaps I'm sheltered or naive, but it seems to me that in a well designed system you shouldn't really have to take two bus connections to get to your nearest light rail station. More like zero, or one max if you live on the outskirts. This is how it is in London, and while I realize that's not a typically sized city, it's not unusually dense either. I think that kind of system is possible anywhere, it just requires motivation.
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> I was looking for something like an ipod shuffle this week and it’s become almost impossible to find,

What's wrong with the Sandisk products?

EG Clip Jam: https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Clip-Jam-MP3-Player/dp/B00V...
It seems that book authors make almost no money across the world in this era (especially they put a lot of efforts into writing a book), I feel pathetic
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That's completely different. They are waiting for the best possible deals during an economic downtown -- something that they have always done.

They will continue to buy stocks.
They provided an itemized, timestamped receipt. (Source: Bunnie is a colleague of mine.)
Did anyone manage to build a SaaS product in Rocket yet?

Looking for ActiveMerchant equivalent in Rust.

How do you handle subscription billing?
Given that 9/11 style attacks have been mitigated with cockpit locks and guns are kept out with metal detectors what exactly are they trying to prevent?
Wierd, I can get the ebook from google play books but not for the kindle. Amazon is only selling the paper book.
I’ll happily pay the “apple tax” so I can live my life and not have to deal with all the bullshit you did just to listen to some music. Good lord. I’d rather experience the world then mess around with the tech that’s supposed to be helping me live better.
Yes, +1 for Windows phone! I found it much easier to use than the iPhone in general, apart from its lack of apps (which of course is what killed it).
Might want to mention fedora server edition (I think it is implied but people might not realize)
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The ending paragraph is interesting:

"For Liu, China’s rapid rise as a tech giant has not put his mind at ease. “Don’t always say things like ‘our country is amazing’ or ‘we are taking the lead’. Just work hard,” he said, referring to state media propaganda that has since been toned down in light of the trade tensions. “We still need 30 years to catch up with the US.”"
If I'm calculating correctly, Amazon demands $19.30 fixed cost + $2.29 dynamic based on total price. So at $99 Amazons percentage would be a lot less than 40%.

I put some similar data into another publishers system and it calculates roughly a third of a $99 book would go to the author. (softcover; 400 pages of which 200 are in color) Tax would further reduce the profit.
Also look to the foundations of Greek science and philosophy with Pythagorean female philosophers, 550bc - themistoclea, theano, myia...
buy a multi unit, you can have 1 or 2 rooms and rent out the rest.
I do this. I use Gsuite but not their email. I changed the MX records of the domain to the other email host.
As an owner of Bose QC35... yes.

The headphones themselves sound pretty good. But when playing over bluetooth sometimes compression artefacts are audible. The artefacts are caused by the bluetooth protocol for stereo audio itself, so you're going to hear them even if you play FLAC files.

Also latency is pretty horrible. 200 ms+, enough to be obvious.
I think you're mentioning the similarities but omitting all of the differences — radically different design, waterproofing, face ID, wireless charging, fast charging, etc.
I am saying that serial murders, mass shooters & home grown terrorists had patterns and footprints -- that should, somehow have been detected by their parents and physiatrists.

I do not know how to detect this stuff, but I feel morally responsible , for behavior of my children, for example.

Why should I not be partially criminally liable for their misdeeds?

God forbid, a child drinks alcohol or smokes some chemical substance, then gets behind a wheel of a car -- and kills a family going to a picnic.

I am not even thinking of more serious premeditated horrible crimes.

As I said in the beginning of my post, I do not know how to express this correctly -- but I feel that there is more role (and accountability) that parents and doctors treating mental illness/behaviors -- should bear.
Because he's an technically and politically informed citizen is my guess.

Do you think they can give privacy?
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Let’s say you launched a company, bootstrapped it to the tune of say $500k, have customers and business, then a VC comes along with “standard terms” trying to put you on a vesting schedule, for your own damn company... what is your response going to be? Quite likely it’s not going to be - “I run it by my legal department and they said Ok”.
More than that, inference usually refers to acts of decision making or evidence evaluation, like testing hypotheses or interpreting confidence/credible intervals.
> I enjoyed reading this. The whole time I thought however: that’s not an issue on my Apple devices.

Except newer iPhones requiring a dongle to use headphones.
I am still mad at Google for killing this project. Picasa was the best photo app EVER! It was also very commonly used among genealogists and in genealogy centers where visitors often have low computer literacy. The facial recognition was fantastic! As far as I know, it all ran locally. It was great to be able to just select a person and go through all of the photos with that person in them. Great for genalogy, too. I wish they would open the source code on this!
>> The assumption that train and test distributions are similar has served us
phenomenally well.

To clarify, when I say "the (entire) dataset" I mean all the data that one has
at the start of a research project. What I call the "training set" and the
"test set" are partitions of that dataset, used to train and validate a model.
The partitions might be chosen once, or the entire dataset may be split
randomly in training and test partitions during cross-validation, etc.

Now, what I say above is that the distribution of the dataset is known - you
can count the instances in it, etc. What is not known is the distribution of
data in the real world, where the dataset was sampled from. Most of the time,
there is no way to tell whether a dataset is representative of the real world.
Accordingly, there is no guarantee that an accurate model of the dataset is an
accurate model of the real world.

What's more, most of the time you can't measure the performance of a model in
the real world- because you don't know the ground truth. Again, you can
estimate- but you can't calculate.

I think, by "test set" you may mean the real world. In that case, I don't
disagree with what you say- assuming that a dataset is representative of the
real world has "served us well". But, who are "we" and what is our purpose? If
we are talking about machine learning research [1] then yes, that assumption
has served us well: we can submit papers showing results on specific datasets
and have them accepted, because everyone understands that this is the best
anyone can do. And it would be tedious and pointless to accompany every result
with a disclaimer about PAC learning assumptions- "this result is only
meaningful if we accept that our dataset came from the same distribution as
the real world" etc.

However, my concern is that all this only serves to obscure the fact that we
can't really tell how much real progress we are making, as a field. I am going
to side with the Great Satan, Noam Chomsky, on this one- our progress until
now can only be considered progress if we accept the definition of progress
that we have chosen ourselves, that of beating benchmarks and solving
datasets, both chosen completely arbitrarily and with no guarantee that they
have anything to do with, again, the real world.

Now we can have a big, post-modern fight about what is this "real world" I
speak of, if you like :)

___________

[1] I'm on the second year of a machine learning PhD, though I should say it's
symbolic, logic-based machine learning i.e. Inductive Logic Programming- which
perhaps accounts for my preoccupation with subjects the mainstream of machine
learning research today probably finds irrelevant.
Google takes a cut for the service of handling all the payment complications, including fraud prevention, refund requests, charge-backs, etc..

It's not like they are doing nothing.
Just as an example once when changing the hashing for users on a relatively popular site.

Implemented new prefix + hash + salt system. On login, if old system was used, verify and re-hash with new password system. Notify users to login after 60 days of inactivity. After 90 days, clear all passwords that didn't have the new hashing system, forcing out of band change-password process. Worked out very well in practice.

It helps to have a plan to deprecate older hashing approaches to passwords.
The author's published material is very well known (and appreciated); in a positive and paradoxical sense, "there's nothing new under the sun".

The content is also extremely technical. I don't think in itself is "easy" to comment (at least, not in early stages).

What's new, in a negative and surprising sense, is how little the author is profiting from the books.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: loneliness isn't the problem; it's our physical dependence on non-loneliness that is the problem.
> I paid (a very reasonable) $2k for a set of reference headphones and a suitable amp/DAC to drive them. I could have spent a lot more.

Have you done any blind testing against, for example, a $100-200 pair of headphones?
No kidding, Sherlock, and that's the point. Apple products work...together...and well.
Because they operate in another nation and are puppets to their government. What do you think will happen when the NSA asks for full access or when the US becomes enemy with the Netherlands?

Government and military cannot be outsourced overseas.
Here, I’ll be the first to provide a perspective from the other “other” side of this argument. I am a founder who once had a vesting schedule with a cliff (one year). I built the first version of a venture backed company as the CTO, we had backing from investors you’ve heard of.

The product went live and was even used by some people. Eventually I ended up in a place where it was clear to me I disagreed with the direction of the business and the CEO leading it. I for one am glad there was a cliff.

Because I left and when I did my co-founders continued to work on that business. As far as I know they’re still at it.

That was over six years ago. The code I wrote is likely of VERY little value in the grand scheme of things.

The value I added in thoughts, ideas, advice etc. is probably about as valuable as people my co-founders have had several dinners with over the years at this point. If I had walked away with 1/3 of the equity that would have put the other two co-founders in a horrible situation and would have been completely unfair of me to do.

The cliff did its job. You vest to protect all parties and because it’s just the right thing to do. Take it from someone who walked off the “cliff”.

I’ve started multiple companies since then. Each has had a vesting schedule and a cliff for all founders.
I still have one here. Manually inserting control codes in Wordwise Plus! So much more satisfying than any modern word processor.
> you do pay the significant cost of having to satisfy the borrow checker

Right, but this is presumably a one-time investment while learning Rust, much less of an ongoing hurdle.
The one change that actually made this problem go away was adding a secure door to the flight deck. A box cutter isn’t going to be a threat to pilots behind that door.
Someone mentioned in HN that a bus every four minutes is a very expensive subway train. I think I agree. I think this is the situation for most New York MTA buses at peak hour. These buses should be in a dedicated track on a subway, not sharing lanes with traffic.
Yes, no more and no less.
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I am sure there are interesting insights and lessons and details if you're into game development, but the book is about a game engine - and underlying hardware of the same era - that is 25 years old.. So, caveat emptor?
Very happy to see this published. I bought the book on Wolfenstein 3D and read every single word of it even though I don't much care for Wolf3D - the book is inherently interesting.

I immediately ordered the physical version. It's a pity that the profit is so incredibly low. I'd consider just selling it for $69 or $99 or whatever. I'm not sure it would make such a difference in term of sales - the people who can read this book are in a very nice industry after all. The PDF can be sold at a much higher margin for accessibility for those who really can't pay for the physical book.
Yeah but fuck 'em
Interesting.

About this time last year I had an optimization problem involving linear combinations of Voronoi cell centroids and I basically used random search (I can't remember why differential evolution didn't work).

I don't know much, say, Keras, but I think I understand how to implement backprop-like behaviors with Autograd. Maybe even sandwich concept-specific models between fully-connected linear+sigmoid layers to give them some oomph.
I think that, for long-term security, we need to have devices that are resilient to orchestrated sabotage by the vendor. The current approach by Apple is great, until Apple is compromised in one way or another.

I have some idea for how this could be done (TPM-resident signing keys on each device, which have to sign all binaries before they can execute). I might end up writing a blog post about the idea.
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Given this disclaimer at the top of every article, that sounds a bit inappropriate:

> Disclaimer: Just like most other posts on this blog, you don’t actually need to know any of that to be productive with React. This post is for those who like to see what’s behind the curtain. Completely optional!
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> Shame Maplin closed because now I have to order parts off the internet and WAIT.

Local electronics shops are indispensable when you get a whim to make a curious solution to your particular problem. By the time the parts get to you, you just can't help but think how much easier it would have been to just buy something and just feel dumb.
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Ok, drop the 'almost'. GC can be as 'free' as eg stack allocation (which nobody seems to mind to much).

See the comment by kibwen (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18551218) for some good pointers to more concepts.
All of the comments so far are about the author’s cut. This is the second book he’s written, with the same situation. Clearly it’s worth it to him. You should just consider it a hobby project, and he’s giving readers the option to get a full color print copy of the book.

The first book, Game Engine Black Book Wolfenstein 3D is fantastic. This goes back to an era where one person can read the source code for a game and understand what it actually is doing at the hardware level. It would be fantastic for an entry level computer science class or someone who just wants to understand how a game engine works. The exhaustive color illustrations and images, the reason why the author makes no money, make is so much easier to grasp the concepts. If you are an experienced developer or someone who can understand complex topics just by reading text and formulas, the this isn’t such a big deal.

Can’t wait to read this new book.
Tear downs support this. Medium quality at best.
I'm curious what pattern you're trying to illustrate with the '06-'08 home values compared to now, and why 10 years ago is something you consider "normal". The market crash showed that the valuation of homes from '06 - '08 was anything but "normal". And Zillow data definitely shows that median home values are quickly approaching 2008 levels, with a more natural and stable climb this time around.
Satisfying the borrow-checker usually ends up implying that either:

a) you used .clone() everywhere and therefore are probably modifying something and failing to propagate the modifications to where they need to go; or

b) your design is inherently better, saner, easier-to-optimize, etc., than one which doesn't have to satisfy the borrow checker.
Why most subscription businesses leave money on the table?
> APPLE IS A SYMBOL OF PRETENTIOUSNESS AND IGNORANCE - YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW YOUR PHONE WORKS

Is this guy for real? I don’t know the nitty gritty of how most of the things I use work, I’m only concerned that they work. Sounds like sour grapes.
Nix runs way slower on Windows, since it caches by hashing all source code on each compile.
> [...] lots of great, high paying engineering and manufacturing jobs came out of that program.

That's a pretty bad excuse: leaving the same money with the taxpayers would have funded jobs that actually did something people wanted enough to pay with their own money.
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