skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flip side to this - I remember studying a series of papers in statistics/optimisation/machine learning with highly non-trivial content published between 1998 and 2008 by the Della Pietra brothers. I had assumed they were mathematicians/statisticians at some major research university. At the bottom of one of these papers it had some personal blurbs which stated they had both been at RenTech since 1995 working on "statistical methods to model the stock market", which surprised me greatly given the amount of research they output. I assume the content of those papers were applied to their strategies, in which case there would also be a good amount of people who would be surprised if they knew how advanced their methods are. I say this especially in comparison to the "quant" strategies I know many other trading firms use/have used, which are actually often quite simple. Indeed, at some places they seem to think any systematic/automated strategy is "quant"...
Not very familiar with this, what's FB's copy of Snapchat?
My mind immediately goes to local dive bars. I’m sure there’s more than a few folks looking for some distraction from a reality such as this...
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> The courses you list are mostly very necessary for well-rounded knowledge and ability to synthesize research and share knowledge (like in a team project),

I can only repeat what I said:

Look - I think I gained quite a bit from the well rounded education I got. And my general advice is that people should go for it. However, I also have the reality of experience: Most of my peers who have degrees are poor at writing, poor at communication, poor at ethics, and poor at business skills. I see nothing differentiating them from trade school folks in this regard - and these all matter in the work place.

> Linear algebra, discrete math & probability really are needed all the time.

Why?

One can understand O(N) enough to do over 90% of SW jobs without taking these courses. You just need a bit of dedicated instruction for it.

And while linear algebra is crazy important for some disciplines, it's simply not needed for over 90% of SW careers.

And I do think a good understanding of statistics and probability can really help you, I also see that most CS majors take this course and have forgotten almost everything they learn in it by the time they graduate. I think some parts of the SW industry are such where you really would benefit from it - roughly 25%. I also think that percentage will increase with time, so I would encourage everyone to learn it - degree or trade school.

Don't get me wrong. I spent over a decade in university doing math heavy stuff. I love it. I can also say from my experience in industry is that very little of this differentiates good from poor performers. Or rather, the main factor is motivation and internal drive. Those who have it learn it with or without a degree. And those who get a degree (even with a good GPA) but lack the motivation forget it ridiculously quickly. I still recall my shock in my first industry job where almost everyone had graduated with a good GPA and a top school and had forgotten most of their linear algebra, discrete math and probability within 2 years of working. And more importantly, they fought hard to avoid doing such problems.

If we were talking, say, electrical engineering (electronics/control theory/EM/communications), then I would heavily tout the degree. It's a ton more math heavy than a CS program, and it requires a lot more discipline to do that on your own, and I've not heard good experiences from trade school on those.
But cell towers require leasing land. This page says the average land lease is $45,000/year: https://blog.sior.com/cell-tower-leases-add-big-value-with-l...

Starlink satellites are expected to have a 5 year lifespan, so maybe tack on another $250,000 to the cell tower for a cost comparison.
Not that unique; the early Athlon64s were miles ahead of Intel, who'd gone a long way down the wrong road at the time. This feels very similar, but doesn't bode that well for AMD if they can only do this once a decade.
China could easily require filters on any receivers sold in China and ban the use of uncensored receivers.
Looks interesting, since it seems to focus on performance, are there any benchmarks compared to Phoenix/Elixir?
Rick says in one of his videos that he and some of his buddies have got old copies of the original source (separated) tracks, and they kind of pass them around between each other.

I find that pretty amazing given the litigiousness of some in the music industry, but there we are.

Side note: I discovered Rick Beato a few months ago and I've watched heaps of his videos. It's really fascinating hearing old classics torn down to their constituent parts. Here's one of my favourites of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynFNt4tgBJ0 (Boston - More than a feeling).
How Bernie can hack the Media to win in 2020
I actually think it's the worst.
AMD lags not because of hardware only. There is very weak support for drivers and libraries in software. Intel and Nvidia spend huge amount of money in supporting library maintainers and thereby creating a lobby.

For example, look into the list of supported GPUs in the Github repositories of popular machine-learning libraries PyCharm, Tensorflow etc. AMD and OpenCL is nowhere as compared to Nvidia's CUDA.
Have you tried using it with larger projects? You can easily lose a day waiting for dependency resolution to finish — it takes forever.
This is amazing - so much possible learning for aspiring producers.
I think that is fair but remember over half of the classes you took in the pursuit of a CS undergrad were not CS classes. Of the half remaining maybe half of them were truly vital? Even the example of building a microprocessor (or your own compiler as a right of passage) totally useless to 99.5% of practitioners in industry. That is a quintessential "hoop-jumping" class. Did you also learn the proper way to heat sand to extract silicon to make your own transistors? At some point we have to climb up the abstraction ladder and academia is always a rung or two behind and moves too slowly.

I would contend there are 6 classes worth of truly important information for practitioners to be equivalently informed as your top 20% CS undergrad.
.. at least until the abstraction "leaks".
When this happens, in safari go to web address 1.1.1.1 - this almost always triggers the connect page. Used to be a problem at my office for the open-guest network til we got updated wifi network hardware.
It's possible caring for your mother is building for the future by investing in life long care you help build a society which is better. I realise it's a huge hole of debt and is a societal non financial benefit but it's still a benefit. For example investing in mods to a house so it's suitable for a live in carer or to maintain an immobile person in the home means somebody else can leverage that investment in infrastructure when their time comes. Time spent caring for a grandparent may translate into deep memories for grandchildren about end of life and the whole life experience.

And of course I'm also aware from personal experience and friends experience it's soul destroying and leads to burn out and personal injury and probably PTSD and depression and stringent financial losses.
This is some great content. Build you own X helps you understand the internals of X.
Whatever happened to serving customers being the top priority? That’s how you make money - by selling something that serves people’s needs and wants.

In this case, Ubiquiti’s actions are particularly irksome because they’re changing a product after its sale to do something that would have caused many customers to avoid purchasing it in the first place if it had shipped that way — and without giving customers an easy way to turn it off.
I think a part-time job would be an overkill

I have trained many students to do biology, and I can teach anybody, without any education, to perform molecular biology experiments in 2 weeks.

I 2 months, they are usually able to generate scientifically valid ideas for research (although, usually not the best ideas).

Biology is extremely simple as a field, and a computer scientist will have no problem getting into the field (while opposite is usually hard)
Wow, no kidding? You’re saying it’s easier WITH a degree? Unbelievable insight

Now, if college were available as a choice to everyone, maybe you’d be making a point applicable to the people who could actually make use of the advice

But, alas, that’s not how it is. Even naturally gifted programmers born with the option go to school 9/10 times, because they have a choice and the choice is obvious.

Way to entirely miss the cause for the symptom
Unfortunate. They have a list of sites that use zotonic, which may help. I thought this one was impressive:

https://verafin.com/
That seems extremely unlikely. If a new architecture could offer that much advantage (a decade is massive in this space) surely there'd be some pressure to move. One could easily imagine Apple moving to ARM, for example.

Unfortunately, I think a much more likely situation is that x86 (/64) is only slightly hobbling things, and Intel are easily able to push past that with technical craftiness. As in many other cases, implementation trumps theoretical design.
They are aware of the limitations, read the carefully worded marketing on that page:

"When on target, they can prompt a drone to land safely on the spot or return to its point of takeoff, while cutting the video livestream back to the operator immediately."

Just because someone is making a product doesn't mean the product isn't stupid. I remember there was a mob making another anti-drone 'gun' which jammed GPS. That didn't end well for them.

Unless the target drone is actively being used in a hostile manner (as opposed to idiots flying where they shouldn't be), then removing the operator's control of the drone without establishing another means of control makes the situation more dangerous.
This is one of those things that I just thought was common knowledge. I forced my nieces and nephews to get familiar with the local bus routes before they we're old enough to drive. Having to plan a trip and look at a map do wonders.
I'd be interested to hear a plausible explanation for how this could negatively affect users in any way.
I have to imagine that the duty of clearing roads of snow and such will be an early problem set for autonomous vehicles to tackle at much slower speeds when we're sleeping.
Same, Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name came out sounding great. Very cool.
yeah, it's working but within its limits ..
>>>SSH credentials are POSTed via HTTPS to a free anonymous SSH proxy on https://teleconsole.com

>>>>Please understand that by running teleconsole you are virtually giving the keyboard to anyone with a link.

Does mean i'm giving teleconsole.com the keyboard too?
We changed the URL from https://twitter.com/foobartel/status/1189135552949317632 to the blog post pointed to by a tweet in the thread.
I met cmb (the lead architect of Ui.com) when he was starting up Pfsense. He’s good people.

Don’t be afraid to tweet him your thoughts on this and a link to this thread: https://twitter.com/cbuechler

If there is any chance in management making the right decision here then it’ll be because good people at the company have ammo to go back to management with.

FYI - I was about to buy Qty 22 unifi access points next week and Qty 44 unifi 48 port switches. Nope on that with this change.
Yes, that's naive. You need landing rights in every single country you plan to put a signal down in. There's nothing special about starlink; plenty of other companies have satellites that could cover those countries, but are not allowed to due to landing rights.

Here's some decent info:

https://www.accesspartnership.com/navigating-through-the-reg...
Author defines himself based the belief that news gives ppl illusion of caring ? lol

Its possible he doesn't have such ridiculous self identity. correct ? In which case my comment was not rude.
Also, don’t confuse prestige with pedigree. An undergraduate degree is the norm now, and prestige implies some outlier quality

“A students work for C students” isn’t a saying the other way around
And yet now there is a link at the bottom telling us to follow the author on Twitter. That's like swearing off pot for heroin.
Damn, I like their gear; who's the next best?
What are some?

Is there a definitive list of the largest industries in the world, when we think in an abstract sense (i.e. energy, transportation, communications)? Barring how challenging it would be to calculate, of course.

Or maybe a list that aims to encompass all major industries via abstraction? i.e. WhatsApp and Starlink could be layers in the “communications” bucket.
A starlink satellite only covers a small area. That's why they need 4,000 just to provide bare minimum service.
The story is about a woman who is not eligible to take advantage of any of the benefits mentioned as she is younger than the eligible age
Curious to hear how this change could harm any customer. Judging by the vitriol and strong language in this thread, there must be some grievous harm telemetry causes that I am not aware of.
Just don't go to Brazil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-9KPe3nwaQ
I gave it a try with Megadeth's Holy wars[1], was expecting something like this[2] but got very deep audio. Not sure why but perhaps it's because bassist David Ellefson uses pick which gives the percussive sound and it suits to Megadeth.

Any parameter I could use with spleeter to get a similar output?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d4ui9q7eDM

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWkykQHsJ-Y
At some point, I began skimming, but this article doesn't even seem to list the worst stuff.

I archived the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide (and started Street Life Solutions as its replacement) I part because of a string of murders. Someone was setting tents on fire.

There was also a deadly Hepatitis outbreak disproportionately impacting the homeless population and other things that factored into my decision, but some of the backlash against the homeless in California literally includes murdering some of the homeless.
What about iridium? They didn't want to make it?
And people will drive safer if we make the roads more dangerous, no doubt.

Safe driving is useless driving if it doesn't get you where you want to go. And risk goes up slightly more than linearly in travel time.
Apple is moving to ARM, the most recent iPad Pro outperforms its laptop line (last I saw, at least), they've spent a fraction of what Intel, AMD, and VIA have invested into x86_64, and basically every major Apple leak mentions that they're investigating moving the Mac line to ARM in a generation or two.

A new architecture can offer that much advantage; x86_64 wasn't even the third most-performant implemented ISA when it was released, and every other ISA makes gains far faster than it. SPARC and POWER are still competitive with it despite having 1/1,000,000th the amount invested in them, and in just a few years and with comparatively nothing invested into it, RISC-V is starting to rival a portion of the chips (though not the upper line of them yet).

It "won" because of backwards compatibility, nothing more.
This is great. Thank you! I extended the notebook with an example of downloading a youtube video, extracting the audio, then feeding it through spleeter.

Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/gist/shawwn/0f286f5d4bc22e...
omg if I saw a 46 year old climbing around a playground by himself, I would... keep my child close to be sure.

Is that the right reaction to have? I think it probably is.
Go to tamales point and see the tule elk before they are gone
Does this suggest a serious danger to any hypothetical interstellar ship? If the density of such kilometer-scale objects is such that disk of our solar system intercepts them by the dozen, there is one fuck of a lot more solid matter drifting through interstellar space than I have ever seen suggested. Sure, as Douglas Adams said, "Space is big. Really big," but still: if you imagine traveling even a very modest fraction of C, this begins to make the Millenium Falcon in the asteroid field[1] look like real science.

[1] https://youtu.be/c8deRYotdng?t=133
I don't think that's the heart of the question. My question is is better for innovation if two companies have equal market share or if one has a smaller market share? I trying to argue that it is better if one company has a smaller market share.

Case 1: Netflix. Netflix caused innovation in the movie rental industry. But when Netflix first began it had much smaller market share compared to blockbuster. Would Netflix innovate again? Sure, but I doubt it would do anything revolutionary again. Most likely it would grow stagnant, once the new market stabilizes between hulu, HBO, disney, amazon etc.

Case 2: Apple. Apple was the underdog in early 2000s and that caused then to innovate, while Microsoft had grown stagnant. Today both Apple and Microsoft sort of have similar market shared and they don't really compete with each anymore. Microsoft shifted to cloud, and dropped windows phone. Apple keeps doing what they are doing with marginal upgrades to iphones, and mac. I don't really expected to come up with another "iphone" level innovation any time soon.

Case 3: Amazon. No big company is really trying to compete with amazon this days. I don't see Google or Facebook coming up with own online stores. It just not worth it to compete. While they are a lot of smaller online stores.

Case 4: Automobile industry. Sure they are new car models each year...but it is nothing revolutionary. Simple marginal upgrades over last year model. It was not until an underdog (tesla) tried to gain market share that we have seen any sort of innovation from them.

Most of the innovation today happens at smaller companies, and they eventually either succeed and become the next Apple and Google, fail and go out of business, or they get bough by the big companies.
We thought this bear was out cold. We were mistaken
As I say, show me a product I can buy that delivers on the promise, then it's interesting.
Did somebody sniffed what kind of request they use to send the data to the mothership?

I have one of their devices here, I will be pretty glad to use some spare network capacity to send them a few thousand fake crash report per hour. That's what they want, right?
It's not just Zuckerberg. The problem is centralized social networking platforms. Twitter, Facebook, and others.

Here are just some of the consequences of centralization:

https://qbix.com/blog/2019/03/08/how-qbix-platform-can-chang...
This is completely false. Which new technology do you think starlink satellite have that others don't? They're actually significantly less sophisticated than many older satellites. The only difference is they're planning to launch such a large number of them, but that has nothing to do with the payload technology.

There are plenty of others that will/do give good throughout globally by that time, or sooner.
Is this more of a CMS or a full MVC Web framework?
Yea that's rich after the avoidance strategies she used.
My point is that it’s better than coding bootcamps or otherwise being self taught in CS.
The argument is not "too hard to draw a line, so we should not do it", it is "too hard to draw a line, which means it is arbitrary, lacking in legitimacy, and prone to corruption."

Engineers are a powerful class of people with the opportunity to swing their weight around on political issues like this. Some believe this opportunity should be seized for good, others believe it is just a soft form of tyranny, an undemocratic exercise of power. This is particularly true when in your own country, where you ought to use the power of the vote to make a difference.
Spot on.

Anything that will impact your life will be filtered through.
This account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's against the site guidelines and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which ideology they're battling for or against. It's not what this site is for.

Breaking the site guidelines will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> It will basically fill the RtlpLowFragHeapRandomData array with 0x100 random values.

add esi, 8
cmp esi, 100h

Won't it actually only fill it with 0x100/8=32 random values?

call _RtlpHeapGenerateRandomValue64@0
and eax, edi
and edx, edi
mov _RtlpLowFragHeapRandomData[esi], eax
mov dword_6A2F83C4[esi], edx ; I assume this is RtlpLowFragHeapRandomData + 1?

Also, as an aside: why the extra and instead of storing the return value from RtlpHeapGenerateRandomValue64 directly? Also, why the mov edi, edi at the beginning? I assume it's a 2-byte patchable NOP, but is marking security-critical heap functions RWX a normal thing to do?
You'd need to flood those countries with cheap receiver hardware without it being intercepted by the government, and then provide connectivity to those receivers to local users over a decent size area - larger than your usual WiFi hotspot I reckon.

If there existed a local tech community with the chops and determination to successfully distribute the open internet delivered through this cheap receiver hardware to local users - all in an environment of very limited privacy - I'd be really surprised.

Maybe in China... not so much NK.
Facebook copies features into WhatsApp and Instagram like “stories” which are posts that disappear and cannot be saved, a core feature of Snapchat
The idea here isn't if one should consume mainstream news and make decisions on what is relevant.

99% is irrelevant
Decision fatigue
Generally crap stuff
Unhealthy
Chips away on your perspective

Better to vet individual publications and consume at really moderate rates, for example, the economist, pointed out in the paper.
Dozens of Boeing 737NG jetliners grounded worldwide due to cracks
Different than your examples. But I just finished making my own "Mostly Printed 3D Printer". I'm a software dev but had basically no experience with Arduino or anything else related to the project. It made me feel like when I was a kid on Christmas with a new large Lego set. One of the most educational and fulfilling projects I've done in recent memory.

It was good timing too because the motherboard on my 3d printer just shorted out. I didn't want to pay the full price ($115) for a replacement board. So I bought an open source board similar to the one I used for my MPCNC. Since I had just put that togheter I knew what I was doing even though there was limited help in converting my particular printer available online.
Do you remember what the titles of papers? I'd like to read them.
Can you detail your distro and the tool you used to tweak? What settings worked well?
More ISP competition would be a good thing, especially outside cities. But it's hard to see how Starlink's costs, even with cheap SpaceX launches, could ultimately be lower than land-based ISPs where last-mile fibre is already installed. I guess Starlink might be successful in markets where last-mile fibre is not available. So it seems like a good thing but Starlink making a lot of money will depend on land-based ISPs being useless.
Mikrotik is pretty nice although the gui is not user friendly as ubiquiti.
I’ve always assumed Melodyne uses FFT bins.
I've always been that way. Before the cell phone revolution I kept a map in my car that got used way, way, way too often. It just never stuck.

I was quite the bike explorer in my youth too. :shrug:
Now we have Facebook and Netflix for passive consumption.
Is that why all dell intel servers seem to come in 2 cpu only configs?
Firefox has a separate password manager app - Lockwise[1].

[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/lockwise/
http://archive.is/Hdi1H