skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Limor is an amazing woman who has been very good to me. I honestly think she does not get enough credit for- A. having viable hardware manufacturing in the US and B. investing in good IP protection in China so that her products have never been cloned here. She has an absolutely uncrossable moat around her product line (at least as far as China is concerned) because of the massive knowledge base built by both creative, and technical professionals that it's tied to.
Having taught frequentist stats as a TA to grad students, I understand why frequentist stats seems not to make sense. On the other had, my prior on teaching quality, and my data on the relative difficulty of understanding the approaches says with near-certainty that your experience has nothing to do with the approach taken.

Having used Bayesian stats heavily, I'd note that the hard parts are not gone, they are just located elsewhere - in how to actually do the computations, rather than in how to set up problems. Each can be taught poorly or well, but given that MCMC is certainly harder than least-squares, it seems difficult to argue that using Bayesian statistics is easier. (Unless you're not just applying the methods by rote, and letting the computer spit out answers - and if you are, I don't know why you are better off with Bayesian methods. In fact, if that's what you're doing, please stop doing statistics and pay an expert instead.)
I recently moved from bash to fish. Re-training is was easier than I thought, especially not having to tap Ctrl+R every time I'm looking in the history (that one was hard wired). I wrote about my migration here:

https://anisse.astier.eu/bash-to-fish.html

One thing I haven't touched in my article: globbing behaves differently than the default, which means you have to quote your '*.ext' arguments when using find for example. This is fairly well documented:
https://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html#expand

I very rarely move back to bash, so I consider this migration a success :-) If you haven't yet, should try it !
Yes, instrumention amps are often used for low-voltage amplification...primarily because the topology enables the elimination of impedance-matched input termination with the distinct benefit of minimizing parasitic load on the UUT. Apparently, readily-available integrated instrumentation amps on the market are designed for relatively low-bandwidth applications as a quick DigiKey parametric search suggests, but the canonical topology itself isn't fundamentally bandwidth-constrained...which is part of the reason why I pointed to max GBW results from the search and left it at that.

No, that's not what I'd be looking for, especially in response to your question with the specific constraint of "an integrated version of a differential amp"; given the sensitivity of the in-circuit measurement application being considered, this effectively suggests integrated instrumentation amp. With your suggestion of what I should be looking for, how would you go about input termination without loading the UUT to the detriment of SI?

The author does indeed briefly discuss his prototypes and even released his Eagle design on GitHub[1] with still more notes.

For the record, I didn't downvote on first response, but your "oh-so-brillant-ones" snark may have earned one.

[1] https://github.com/wingel/diff-probe
The stuff used in woodworking is a resin, just heavily diluted, so I guess it's the same thing just with additives. I once forgot to close the bottle of it properly, and next time I tried to use it (months later) it was all dried down into a plastic-like hard stuff.
To reflect the snark right back: If you think Safari warrants primary support, ask Apple to provide ways to test in Safari without paying Apple for the privilege.

Microsoft got this one right when they released free Windows VMs for various combinations of Windows and IE versions.

Now, yes, it's fairly likely OP is already using macOS and they just didn't bother testing Safari, but if you want to be snarky about browser testing, be snarky to Apple first. They're intentionally making it difficult to test in Safari.
List of startups that make you go WTF
I disagree. I studied at CCNY in NYC and did internships at Stanford University and for Google's GSoC using my CPT, and then worked for a cool startup for 2+ years on OPT and extension. We then did the H1B lottery and didn't get selected so I had to leave.

It's not fun, but I don't regret it. I had a super good time in the US, learned a lot, and it opened my mind in many ways. I think if people are interested in spending time in the US, it's worth taking a shot, even with all that immigration struggle.
China has a very distorted market, which has limited Alibaba and Tencent's ability to expand beyond China.

The lack of an app store is a problem unique to China that led to WeChat and similar becoming omnibus apps, doing many things moderately well. This isn't a problem in most other countries, as our govts don't block Google Play and FDroid.
So does frequentist stats - they are just different axiomatic foundations and assumptions.
Companies want proven systems with a lot of available support/know-how. Employers want systems that don't need much training for new employees (at least on the OS level). Most private customers don't care about user-serviceability and upgradability and aren't interested in learning something new on the OS level - they buy cheap notebooks with Windows or some Chromebooks or even iPads.

Leaves the enthusiasts: the gamers, the self-employed and SMB in the IT and media environment, musicians etc. They would love upgradability, but they need the software and the ecosystems they (and in case of the self-employed and SMB their customers) are used to. That was limiting the use of Linux from the beginning. It limits the use of Macs for many as well.

So: Because of the complete ecosystem (knowledge, programs, drivers, proven reliability) missing, anything new would have a very hard time to get traction.

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This level of one sidedness scares me. It's just as easy for a Russian/Chinese/Iranian/etc citizen to say the same about US.

I'd say it's easier, if you take into account the ludicrous number of military bases the US has all around the world, the constant involvement in one or more wars, the infinite sabre rattling with North Korea, the unconditional support for what ever the hell Israel decides to do.

I don't think US is more or less naturally inclined to be an international bully, but they have the capacity and actually do it on a scale no other country can since the USSR dissolved.
That's just not true. I really hate the newer FPS style, with the clunky hitboxes and weird movement. I miss the accuracy and smoothness of the HL series, to me HL2 shines because of the gaming experience.

And also they ended it on a cliffhanger in episode 2 instead of concluding the arc at least.

And lastly after Portal came out I was so happy because it all made sense, I was sure Portal will somehow cross paths with HL so in HL3 you'd have a portal gun in your arsenal. So much potential wasted.
Surprisingly high "strike price" of 158.75 £/MWh https://www.lowcarboncontracts.uk/cfds/hornsea-phase-1 , more than Hinckley point C.

The prices are falling even as construction proceeds: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-auction-offshore-win...

"The majority of this was offshore wind, at prices of £120/MWh for projects coming online in 2017/18 and £114/MWh for 2018/19. Onshore wind and solar schemes supported in this first auction came in at around £80/MWh.

Today’s second CfD auction awarded £176m to 11 schemes totalling 3.3GW, of which three offshore wind projects made up 3.2GW. The 860 megawatt (MW) Triton Knoll windfarm off Lincolnshire is due to come online in 2021/22 at a cost of £74.75/MWh.

The following year, the 950MW Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) and 1,360MW Hornsea 2 scheme will come online at a cost of £57.50. The total 3.2GW will cost an average of £64/MWh."

This is a lot of wind power. We're already just at the end of a sixteen-day coal-free generation period. I wonder when we'll see the first gas-free day.
I think it's not only about their proprietary source code, but also about restricting code that can run on your computer. Newer Macs have trusted boot, where the T1 / T2 coprocessor makes sure that system software has not been tampered with before booting. And every release seems to go further into the direction of verifying the code you execute.

As far as I understand it, if the GPLv3 clauses would apply, Apple would have to allow anyone to run their own, modified version of macOS on their computer, meaning Apple would need to provide a way for people to circumvent / disable all the secure boot architecture.

Also, things like "Activation Lock", where Apple requires your Apple ID password to re-install the OS (a theft protection feature) doesn't sound like it would be easy to reconcile with GPLv3.
Is Apple XDR panel cheaper when compared to reference panels used by pros?
This new proposal is explicitly a simplification of the previous check/handle proposal. And for the record, there was a lot push back, but also a lot of support for the check/handle proposal. Language design is an iterative process.
A key take-away from this is that the author learned to code because he had a real incentive to do so - in order to create bots to get better at runescape and make lots of money as a side-effect of that. He quickly saw how knowing how to code gave him abilities that his peers didn't have.

Now imagine if he tried to learn java by attending a class for it - i.e. sitting there for an hour listening to some guy explain how a for loop works. Chances are he would be bored silly and never get anywhere with coding. I think its important for people learning how to code to have a genuine motivation behind it - have something you actually WANT to build. Don't just learn it so you can get a job.
No need for shame, but there is a more subtle dynamic in play, sort of a tragedy of the commons.

Gaming is the commons.

If all the games are max money, least effort, that commons will be shallow, sort of dull.

If all the companies are doing low effort works, that commons will be shallow, dull.

A dull commons will sell through well, but will not tend to attract everyone it could. It is a smallish, but high profit commons.

Hold that thought while I relate an experience.

A product I used to manage came in colors, and standard black and white.

It was observed most of the sales and money were standards, black and white, and oddly, one mint color. The rest all did sell, but in much smaller numbers.

When that data was seen, sellers immediately quit buying anything but black, white and some bought that mint.

Everyone sold less. And they sold less of the standards than usual.

Turns out what attracts buyers to the product is a variety. Gotta have interesting colors on display. When they are there, part of the display, more buyers consider the product overall.

They still tend to buy the standards either way. But they buy more more times per unit of foot traffic past the display, so to speak.

Max sales actually happen when there are both a fair number of interesting colors, those colors change every so often, and that is done in tandem with the standards being available.

Going back to gaming I think the parallels are obvious.

Many will just pick the few big hits, but a diverse and interesting set of games is what gets them to be a greater part of culture and more people consider and stay gaming.

There has got to be effort there, even though it may not directly improve revenue on a effort / title basis.
Why shouldn’t they? They’re providing a service that people pay for because they find more value in taking the flight than an alternative use for that money. Presumably, the value of that trip is largely uncorrelated with the type of aircraft, provided the inflight experience is bearable.
they can still do both, modern squad action multiplayer and traditional story driven single player can coexist, call of duty and battlefield made a point of doing that year after year. the rest is a marketing problem, being able to reach both audiences with the correct message
Aha. Thanks for that.

At least we get diversity in our shells. I quite like that, it reminds me of the UNIX days when every OS was slightly different at the shell level, with different command line options for simple commands in Solaris/IRIX/HP-UX and those myriad of different IBM systems.

Can't have it too easy, can we? Or else anyone would be able to do our programmer jobs!
That's true. The U.S. is indeed a great place to live, and the people are really friendly and treat you as one of them (at least in NY and CA). But unfortunately the immigration laws are kafkaesque and designed to keep immigrants out, and the current administration is making it even more worse.
Very similar to a three-hour mix I often listen to while working: '3 HOURS BLADE RUNNER 2017 RAIN THUNDER & MUSIC with BLACKSCREEN'
https://youtu.be/ArCqlpGVcIs
> They'd rather HL3 be an urban legend than a disappointment. That's better for their image as experts in their craft

Sorry but I doubt they're even thinking about it that hard, at this point this post nails it [0], Valve just doesn't care about making any sort of experience that isn't maximum profit for minimum effort and isn't based around a in game item economy.

It certainly isn't out of worry that they'll disappoint their fans with a dated gametype. They look at Portal 2, a beloved game as a huge waste of their time. They're not a company that makes money from art, gameplay and storytelling anymore they make money from virtual items.

But don't be sad, plenty of companies still care about telling single player stories in videogames: Nintendo, Guerrilla, Rockstar, Kojima Prod, Naughty Dog, Sony Japan Studio etc

The concept isn't as dead as Valve believes it is.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20099167
Are they rating their algorithms for explanation? Not sure the performance but I want to try it.
I've learned tree searching and tree pruning when trying to write a bot finding the optimal way to play OGame (was about 14-15y old).

Never really manage to write the full bot, didn't know English well enough and the resources in my language were poor ;-(
Inside the UK's drug buyers' clubs
Similar story here, though I was more into the IRC servers used by runescapers to communicate, and creating IRC bots and the like
Supply Chain Pros Reveal the Questions Asked Before Blockchain Adoption
People really do not want to run their own email. I used to, and have my own domain, but these days I pay a small ISP to manage it.

People might be OK with a quasi-managed solution where you pay a fee to the cloud provider to route in and out through a non-spam IP, and the provider does regular updates and configuration on the home server.
> how many people have success with linux

This includes me. I successfully develop commercial-quality stuff for Linux servers, also embedded for ARM devices (using Debian kernel so far). But the desktop is different.

> usually already present on the system

The hardware is just too diverse. I have following USB devices plugged into my desktop right now. USB 3.0 DisplayLink monitor: proprietary protocol, still experimental support on Linux, chip vendor only supports Ubuntu, monitor vendor doesn’t support any. Logitech C920 web camera: microphone, auto focus, on-board h264 codec. Logitech G700s: a mouse with 7 extra buttons and horizontal scrolling. Microsoft LifeChat LX6000: 2 way USB audio, OS volume controls, a couple extra buttons. Also wireless adapter for xbox gamepad: 6 analog axes, many buttons, two vibration motors, two way audio.
If it gave them a 1% cost advantage, airlines would be happy to have mechanics on scissor lifts or in buckets.
Nicelear dispatchable energy can be argued is cross subsidising the intermittent wind...
I tend to agree, and I think technically I am liable to get fired. What I would like to understand is the kind of problem this could cause for the open source project I hypothetically contributed to this way.

Can they claim ownership of my code, request it removed, cause any kind of problem or nuisance to the maintainers?
I acknowledge that this is a classic HN comment, but a git repo on a VPS with Unix file permissions meets all of your criteria with very low effort.
That is generally a good thing about cloud applications that you are forced to bundle everything. Most of the software I run on AWS could easily be transported to Google, Microsoft or some other service.

Sure, there are exceptions and optimizations for specific services but overall it did increase portability of server applications quite a bit. Maybe the times were you just need that legacy windows 2000 server encapsulated with 7 firewalls and proxies are finally over.

I usually prefer to host my stuff on private servers, but people unreasonably want to put as much software as possible into cloud providers. I think the reason for that is more often cocaine abuse and wanting to be hip instead of technical/financial arguments, but it is what it is.
I hardly think this is surprising - countries that use the same reactors for power generation and production of materials for weapons are going to have some cross subsidies of some kind.

What I find surprising is that nobody ever comments on the fact that the UK literally operates US nuclear missiles with warhead designs heavily influenced by US designs. Not to mention the lack of permissive action locks on the UK weapons...

Edit: I should have been clearer that I meant was discussion outside of the UK about these issues.
A PR move isn't worth anything unless they actually follow through. I suppose many people are skeptical that things will actually improve as PR is often all talk and no actual action. Not saying that's the case here, but it certainly is difficult to trust a company purely by what they say for PR these days.
I don't want to use any of those scissors. I want slim, plain, metal-only scissors kind of like this:

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B001U57C50/

I hate plastic (grips), I hate uneven grip holes, I hate protruding elements, I hate uneven blades, I hate blunt blade tips, I hate safety features.
As a 20-year Linux user, I must say that many points are valid, but yes, there appear to be at least as many FUD items on that list.

My pain points, when trying to build a HTPC:

- Proper video support (like GPU offloading or vblank syncing) is haphazard at best.

- Font management is a pain. Not just the antialiasing, but adding a custom font and making sure all apps can find it.

- Audio support is a mess; pulseaudio creates as much problems as it solves (for example last I checked, it did not support IEC958 passthrough over spdif).

- Bluetooth connectivity appears to be a desktop-environment thing, so good luck logging in with your BT keyboard.

- Zeroconf service configuration is archaic (for example, advertising a Samba print share so that local machines can find it, or advertising a DLNA media source). It requires hand-editing xml configuration files.

Still, for all its flaws, it still beats other commercial offerings in terms of productivity.
Relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/opinion/canada-immigratio...

> But Canada’s hospitable attitude is not innate; it is, rather, the product of very hardheaded government policies. Ever since the mid-1960s, the majority of immigrants to the country (about 65 percent in 2015) have been admitted on purely economic grounds, having been evaluated under a nine-point rubric that ignores their race, religion and ethnicity and instead looks at their age, education, job skills, language ability and other attributes that define their potential contribution to the national work force.
Coming from Java I agree: that's what tends to happen, but I miss it when I don't have it.

It's helpful habit for services especially because most of what you're doing is local to a request anyway and you want to "undo" or "drop" things. Exceptions in services are great because they actually preserve situational information pretty well and a catch+rethrow is pretty good for annotations at different levels. Err/panic are so poor at capturing anything of value by default. They require a ton of diligence to be useful.

The nice thing about being able to catch exceptions is that I can kinda define what operations are "atomic" on my terms.

Presumptuous example disclaimer.

For instance, if I'm processing a set of files with records, I'll probably have a substantial error domain around the processing of a record, of a whole file, and my whole program. I don't want to babysit each byte read.

Now, I admit, this does require you to write code that didn't pollute your state with partial work. Unwinding from a frame/function should leave everything in a known place.
I think to a large extent it is first mover advantage, but that's not something to be taken lightly. They invested in developing an internet distribution platform at a time when broadband penetration was relatively low. I couldn't get anything other than dial-up internet access, and Steam seemed more of an inconvenience than a revolutionary idea.
A lot of these people were quite young when RuneScape was popular.

I would also appreciate at least a small effort to not glorify their actions...but what are you "calling out"? 13 year olds who botted some gold 10 years ago?
But programming already has zoom levels. It's called abstraction.
Oh my god! I've seen so many videos with Yanis, and I also knew that Valve had a Greek economist in their midst, but I never linked the two. A lot of things make sense now.
I'd appreciate the suggestion of one of these options
Tl;Dr Google scans your email, not only for targeted ads but also for your own (possible) benefit.
I did.

My manager had no issue with it, but legal has been nothing other than ambiguous regarding the consequences faced by the open source project and its maintainers.

They are very clear about how I should not be doing it in the first place (of which I am very aware of, and which is not what I am asking).
> No data was lost, it is not destructive in anyway.

Except in the way that the guy may[1] have lost customers or revenue due to the downtime. Being offline, even without data loss, is very destructive for many businesses.

[1] I don't know anything about his business.
Microsoft still has soft power, but the benefit of the platform goes beyond just control. Consider that millions of people who wanted to play Valve's games had to buy a copy of Windows first.
It will be interesting to see the UK, a nuclear power, hindered in maintaining their last nuclear delivery capability by consumer environmentalist groups refusing to cross-subsidize in this manner. Interesting, in the sense used in the Chinese saying "may you live in interesting times".
> as far as I could tell was dedicated to the public domain

I recommend everyone to read this regarding that matter:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/ay0w64/one_hour_on...

I don't think Jason really understood what public domain means when he released the game into public domain. Once people started using his work as PD work, he started to complain, file DMCA requests, etc.
Put another way, do not treat Github/lab/Bitbucket as file hosting. As a repository it's fine, because it is assumed you have a local copy.
I'm not following? You'd still need a government sanctioned distro.

Simply downloading Debian from a valid mirror isn't the same.
It might be an old wives tale but a dab of corn starch will help clot the bleeding. Best though to not cut too deep.

Unrelated but I recently learned they use lasers for parrots to trim the claws while coterizing.
> The one and only thing that you cannot do is offer a commercial version of CockroachDB as a service without buying a license.

This is dishonest and deceptive. One other thing you cannot do is use their code and incorporate it in your open source project.

They used to provide an open source parser for postgres' sql syntax. Now it is closed source for 3 years.

I don't mind the license change. Lying however is not a good way to behave with customers or open source communities.