skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It should say Laplacian in OP's post, not Laplacian Transform (if I am not mistaken).

Neither. It's "Laplace Transform".

> The Laplacian is a matrix of (partial) derivitives and is used for the equational conversion.

Bar the name, this is called Operational Calculus[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_calculus
I'm pretty sure it's rather that there are a lot of things that are in "we don't know that we don't know" category
In my highschool typing classes, 40 years ago, I remember seeing this symbol used to indicate omitted paragraphs ... in the same way that the ... is used to indicate a pause between sentences, the vertical version indicates a pause between paragraphs.

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Like this.

But .. I can't seem to find online examples. Its a terrifically difficult character to search for ..
Well, technically…

The GPL does not actually force anyone to give out source code. The GPLv2 requires to either give out source code to customers, or to give customers a written offer (valid for anyone, not just customers). It is this optional offer, which, being a promise, forces the giving out of source code to anyone in possession of this offer. Failure to honor such an offer is probably not a GPL violation, but a simple breach of contract/promise.

If no such offer was given, then the GPLv2 was violated, full stop. The Conservancy had really no need to ask for source code, since the GPLv2 violation occurred when no offer nor source code was given to customers. The fact that the Conservancy did offer the violators a way out by asking for source code is a pure nicety on their part, since they really didn’t have to.
https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/ (discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280558)
Yes, throughout High School. At that point I had become socially disconnected and didn't have many friends. There were a few people who stood out from the usual put-downs and idiotic comments.

The problem is that even when something physical actually happened, for example, the time when someone sucker punched me in the face at my locker in front of an entire full hallway of students, everyone blamed me because of my size. I'm 6'10" (was probably 6'2" to 6'6" throughout High School) and the school administration always assumed I started it because I was the big and intimidating one.

It was to the point where one time, someone who routinely attacked and insulted me actually punched me right in front of the main office, where there were giant bay windows so the secretaries and administrators could see everything. I barely retaliated by pushing him away and the ROTC teacher broke it up, and because the one who attacked me was in ROTC, I was blamed and suspended.

There was literally never a single time I was attacked like this that the principal didn't assume I was the cause. I'll admit I was a troublemaker and did a lot of stupid shit in High School, but I never initiated any of the fights I got in or the situations I was put in.

The constant put-downs from people and the fact that my home life wasn't much better affected me academically to the point where I stayed back twice and the administration shuffled me off to an alternative school where I didn't actually learn anything of use because they didn't want to deal with me anymore.

I was in High School in the mid-2000s and should have graduated 2007, so it's not like this was in the 80s. The administration was just terrible and didn't care.

But hey, 10+ years later and I have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and things have gotten a lot better. High School is a temporary, shitty time, and it won't have any bearing on your life afterwards unless you let it.
Drugs are rarely (if ever?) developed by academics, and cost a huge amount. Low estimates for bringing a new drug to market are around $500M+:

They found that companies took an average of 7.3 years to win FDA approval, at a median cost of $648 million. Only two drugs had research costs over $1 billion. Adding in the cost of capital at 7 percent increased the median research and development cost to $757 million—less than a third of the Tufts estimate.[1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/drug-pric...
This seems like it's probably very wrong.
They are mixing financial support/debt and grants it seems in the writing. Getting loans isn’t the same as getting money you don’t have to pay back.
QWERTZ largely maps to QWERTY with exception of special characters and Z/Y being swapped. QWERTZ can be bought in ISO or ANSI, though ANSI QWERTZ is hard to get from any sane manufacturer since everyone here likes DIN/ISO.
The split doesn't need to be permanent, you could always rearrange the top/bottom achievers in each group.
Delivery robots are being taught to map out their route in Real-Time
How do new emojis happen? A look inside the group that approves them
We don’t trust kids with the choice to smoke, drink or have sex. Hell, we don’t trust them to watch certain films. Why should we trust them with the choice of education any more than other choices that can screw up the rest of their life?
The long-term solution is still competition. IIUYC you mean that in the long term everyone else fails, and now they can raise prices.

But if competition is allowed to flourish, then the point of monopoly never comes.
Isn’t defaulting on student loans and not having the money garnished incredibly hard? If so, it wouldn’t be possible for more than a small fraction to do it.
Sometimes removing the problem is the best solution.
Great background for the whole of November 2019!

The CS80 is entirely too thin though hehe - but then again it s hard to replicate
Why is it such a given that bullies are dumb?

In both middle school and high school, I was bullied incessantly by kids who were doing just fine, academically. Some of them went on to be quite successful people. Bullies nonetheless.

It would be so convenient (and karmically just) if all the awful kids went on to be dropouts and losers in life, but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. Sometimes they’re smart kids, but they’re just assholes.
> The Laplace Transform ... decomposes a signal into both its exponential factors .. AND its sinusoidal components

This is the OMG moment from the video. I wish my teachers would have put it this way a few years back. It now feels like an obvious secret hidden in place sight but Laplace was a very abstract concept before
I love my new 34 inch 1440p ultrawide. I used to have two monitors. The ultrawide experience is just so good.
Lego Launches Braille Bricks for Children to Learn Braille
From their ToS:

>In addition, Content found on or through this Service are the property of GitRoyalty, Inc. or used with permission. You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, download, repost, copy, or use said Content, whether in whole or in part, for commercial purposes or for personal gain, without express advance written permission from us.

So anything obtained through this service is proprietary now. After reading this, it's clear why this doesn't work with the GPL.

If software obtained through GitRoyalty remained free software, I honestly might have been fine with it. But as is, no thanks.
“...over-monitoring is a harder problem to solve than under-monitoring.”

Amen! Too many times I’ve seen the assumption that if we’re logging something then we need to monitor it, and if we’re monitoring then we need to alert on it. And the end result is an operations alert email address getting 30 or 40 emails an hour that serve little more than at assure the systems are still running and increasing the chances that important alerts will get buried and ignore or not noticed at all.
Yes and no. Graal Native Image doesn’t work for spring, since some of the jvm functionality wrt. class loading don’t work yet (I think). Also native image has lower throughput due to the lack of profile driven code optimizations.
There is literally no reason to distribute an electron app when you could simply run
it as a web server using `npm start` and navigate to
`http://localhost:[port number]`. Electron is born out of a misplaced notion that
some apps are "special" and deserve a certain extra percentage of the users' CPU
cycles and battery life for a spot in a user's system tray. 10% of a user's battery
life multiplied by all their electron apps is not worth it when alternatives (like
starting a web server and launching the users' preferred browser) exist.
Newspapers were dynamite in their time. Before moveable type, printing anything was expensive and time consuming. It was typically done only by governments and the very wealthy. They controlled the message.

Then, along comes the ability to move type, and re-use your castings. Luther prises the faultlines in religion wide open with handbills. The English and the French end up having revolutions, promulgated by samizdat handbills disseminated throughout society. The abolitionist movement promote their cause through the same, and American dissenters publish their ideas to a malleable audience with cheap ease, resulting in another revolution.

Arguably, the last gasp of newspapers as the primary medium of movement was the First World War - and then radio took the helm, then television, and now, the internet.

It’s not so much that we’re unready for these media so much as we never will be. We receive subjective realities willingly - it’s how we form social bonds. All that changes is the accessibility of broadcast through the medium, and radio and tv were machines for centralised messaging, whereas the printing press and internet have allowed dissenting voices to once more gain a foothold in the minds of many.

If we follow pattern, we are in for a rough ride, but perhaps a better state of affairs at the end of it.
I find people's lack of knowledge about what makes Bitcoin valuable interesting.

The reason Bitcoin is valuable is because the work required to create one is significantly harder than Fiat currencies and it is one of the only truly scarce assets in human history (hard cap).

How much equipment do you need to counterfeit any fiat currency? Can you purchase the equipment for less than $10k?

Yes, easy.

How much equipment do you need to counterfeit Bitcoin? Can you purchase the equipment for less than $1 billion?

No, not easy.

You may think this is a trivial distinction but it has tremendous value knowing you have hard uncounterfeitable money with a hard cap.

The US treasury spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year fighting fake bills, that's only 1 of the dozen or so problems bitcoin solves. The second is that all the verification and security is done by the most powerful supercomputer in human history.

These things gives it its value.

Garbage company stocks, you can throw those in the trash if the central banks aren't busy helping pump them.

Hard money wins, soft money gets snuffed in the night.
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Depends on what you count Win95 as. It billed itself as a 32 bit OS, but it wasn't really. However, you could update from Win 3.11 to Win95.

To go from the DOS based Windows (95, 98 and ME) to the NT based Windows versions (Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP) required a fresh install.

Update: Actually, I was wrong: XP could update from ME - as seen in the OP.
There's nothing wrong with Disney or the entertainment industries as a whole (movies, music, games, books) that can't be fixed with a sustained campaign of old-school antitrust enforcement in the tradition of Teddy Roosevelt.
> You might not need this knowledge every day but someone who understands fundamental algorithms and data structures surely has an edge over someone who does not.

There is a huge difference between knowing the fundamentals and having detailed knowledge about things you hardly use at the ready. For example, how often do you need to implement a sorting algorithm ? How often do you even have to make an informed decision on which one to use ? The one time you do, you can just look up the different options and their trade-offs. All you need to know is that these trade-offs exist, so you know that you have to look them up that one time when it matters.

> I've interviewed programmers before who couldn't explain what a linked list or a hash table was, and when you'd you use one of those over an array.

So have I, but that's the complete other end of the spectrum. You need a high-level understanding of these concepts, sure, but don't get bogged down in details when they don't matter.

Knowledge of these subjects also doesn't mean someone is a good programmer. I've worked with people who had very in-depth theoretical knowledge, but who I wouldn't let within 10 feet of any production code. Usually people with an academic background. They would write a beautifully optimised piece of code but forget to do any input checking, error handling, etc. They were more concerned with their pretty algorithm than with writing robust, production-ready code.

Also, writing the most efficient code isn't always desired. Code also has to be robust, readable and easy to maintain. In a lot of cases a slight performance improvements come at the cost of readability and maintainability.
This! In my hobby projects I start the development usually with Raspberry Pi as backend, even for db, as it forces to use resources efficiently and reveals problems fast. Only building/compiling is good to be done on fast machine.
Got bullied in high school because I was "the slim tall guy" and because my mother was a teacher in middle school of some of these bullies so they thought they could try their revenge on me.

They heavily verbally bullied me but never tried physical contact. Going back I think I would physically react early to stop the abusing because it prolonged for a very long time (3~years, until I was big enough that they probably thought risking my physical reaction would end very very bad for them)

As some other users said: teach your kids they have the right to defend themselves.
501(c)(3)s can write political articles. They just can't engage in overt political activity. For example, my understanding is that a non-profit shouldn't endorse a candidate and certainly shouldn't make political donations or otherwise actively participate in a political campaign. They're not prohibited from covering a campaign or writing about proposed legislation though.
> not being able to code without an IDE, frankly this is a red flag... that makes it pretty clear they don't write a lot of code

Muscle memory is real. Plus as a polyglot I find the context helpful for jogging my memory for how to do something in a particular language.

I had to google how to declare a variable in Go the other day, but I've written 10ks of lines. I'd had a break and was confused with Python. Oh well. I'd have failed on several of your whiteboard red flags.

Bar none, what I most want to see as an interviewer is someone's own code on GitHub. But I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever seen that after 10 years of hiring :-(
I suppose, based on the term "High school" that you live in the USA?
> I find it abhorrent that this thread thinks these things are unimportant. Just use a "Library". How about you know your stuff .

How about the fact that "your stuff" is not algorithm. In 99% "your stuff" is to pick the right library
The level of backwards compatibility in Microsoft products is very impressive.

Microsoft Office 2019 can open .doc files created in Microsoft Office 97 and upgrade them to a modern format, with zero loss (except for things like OLE objects, which are no longer supported for security reasons). My parent's computer has documents which haven't been touched in 20 years and they still open just fine.

Or applications written for Windows NT that still work - unmodified! - on Windows 10 thanks to layers of compatibility hacks. A true feat of engineering.

If you want to read more about the horrors of maintaining APIs that are backwards compatible with software written decades ago, I can heartily recommend Raymond Chen's blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
There are binary/discrete neural networks. :-)
You also need to add the costs of the losers.
as someone from south Europe, I am amazed for the love of donuts they have in the U.S.A, how can you be craving so much to pay twice for donuts? they are mostly pure sugars sweets isnt it ?
Econ 101 as part of Gen Ed leads to lots of half truths which are then taken as gospel.

Not sure why they would omit to mention the role of regulation in maintaining competitive markets? Is this done on purpose?
Be warned of doing business in Poland. You might spends years in prison awaiting trial.

Google Mr. Osiecki's case, a founder of a public mutual fund, or a case of Mr. Kluska, a founder of Optimus.
The author seems to be getting at that point: these two "Apple TV"s are more than two products.

Assuming for a moment that the hardware devices can be a single product, the apps just cannot be: each of them has wildly different behaviour on different apple devices, with different features, and different functionality depending on the presence of 3rd party apps.

As an end user I found this confusing at first, frustrating when I understood what was going on, and now I just don't use the Apple TV apps, even on my Apple TV.
Do you have any thoughts on a 32" 4k? I am struggling to decide if I should go with an ultrawide or just a standard 32"
What are some of the ways you can improve on the n-squared nature of these distance calculations at scale?

In your use case you have a limited set of hashes you are comparing against, but I'm thinking of the more difficult use case of comparing every image against every other image (the context is ML training and weeding out overly similar examples so that overfitting doesn't happen, not related to CSAM). This quickly becomes untenable if you get, say, millions or billions of images.

"Don't do that" is one answer but are there any other ways you have come across to mitigate that?
More info on Spring support for GraalVM native images: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/wiki/Gra...
Yep, the Guardian/Observer in the UK are operated by a non-profit, the Scott Trust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited
Unfortunately that kind of punitive punishment will deter genuine cases from be being filed for fear of penalties .

Also it is hard to measure the actual minimum cost required. Cloudflare might have retained a top class firm to fight this, perhaps they could have been represented by a very affordable one person shop as well. What cost should the court award ? Former means cases against people and companies with resources will be very difficult for fear of losing, later does not solve the problem of economic incentives
The Universe Might Be a Giant Loop
See the thread on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21444900 for more details on why the Right to Communicate and the Right to Filter are not mutually exclusive.

The TLDR:

- The Right to Communicate describes voluntary communication between multiple parties that want to communicate, not the ability to force someone to listen to you.

- The Right to Communicate is not a right to access to every single private platform or community, any more than the Right to Modify is a invitation to hack 3rd-party computers.

- Nevertheless, it is valuable to have a right that guarantees access to encryption, including encrypted metadata, and that enshrines a right to create, distribute, and host communication tools, including websites.

If it's not clear to readers that filtering content includes filtering content sources, I'll look into making that text easier to understand. But I do know what the Right to Filter is intended to mean, because I wrote it.
Ultrawide experience has been great, I use it at my home office and 2 screens at the company office and the ultrawide offers much more readability and productivity.
Well, shit, I guess I'm old, I remember it being free all my life.

Actually; it looks like this was introduced in June this year:

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventr...

That's a huge shame as there's not many attractions in Coventry really.
> It becomes a medium where candidates can convey competency

I really struggle to see how regurgitating something someone's read/heard about something they didn't invent/modify conveys anything beyond memory.
No, that language is in both GPLv1 and GPLv2 (in GPLv3 it’s “anyone who possesses the object code”).

Yes, it’s one of a list of alternatives. The GPLv1 and GPLv2 sole applicable alternative to the written offer is to send the source code together with the compiled code; i.e. to all customers, in the box. Which they presumably didn’t do, so I don’t know why you bring it up.

(GPLv3 adds the allowable alternative to point to a web page or similar where the source code may be downloaded. I.e. you don’t have to waste money by shipping a CD, you can just print the URL on a note or in the manual. But this was the GPLv2, not v3, so it’s not applicable here, nor has anyone said that any such URL was provided.)
I’m not saying to give them the benefit of the doubt. I’m encouraging you not to, saying if you find something they’re wrong about or lying about shout it from the rooftops.

Note this study was national news in the US when released and quite thoroughly discussed so if there are flaws you could either find them yourself or google for them.
I believe that building a full blown OS requires dedicating so much time that this overhead due to the language itself will not be significant. On the other hand, without the sufficient experience with the language itself, it's easy to run into problems that will consume a significant amount of time
The High-Stakes Race to Build the World’s First Flying Taxi
> Most weapons found are weapons used in the wars around jugoslavia.

I was talking specifically about the claim that the weapons(automatic weapons, granades, etc) are sourced from Baltics. Which is obviously BS unless you can provide a reliable source for the claim.

All the things you are talking about are a complete non-issue in Baltics.
Detection Free Human Instance Segmentation Using Pose2Seg and PyTorch
I am unconvinced by this. There are economies of scale that you're denying yourself by acting like so.

Imagine having an Intel broken up, for example.
I grew up in eastern Europe in the 90s and 00s - the whole conversation about bullying is really foreign to me and it really stands out how common it seems to be in the US and to a lesser extent in the UK.
The Spring team and Graal folks are working on full support. I believe the main angle is to ensure the annotation-based model will work smoothly[0]. Another is to introduce a fully-functional model (Spring Fu/Kofu [1]).

Bear in mind, a lot of what Spring -- Spring Boot in particular -- gets charged with is beyond its control. It's an entrypoint to the vast Java ecosystem, much of which is also incompatible with Graal native images at the moment.

[0] https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-fu

[1] https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-graal...
Immediately thought of Microsoft and their horrible stack ranking. Sounds like a way to get overly stressed children.
Is there a 32bit Windows 10?
Perhaps possible to go all the way.

Would be cool to produce some files in the first Windows like a picture in Paint 1.0 and then upgrade it again and again.