skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s some negativity in this comment section, so I just wanted to say that I really like your product.

I’m glad you’re working on making it sustainable before spending more time on the open source version.
If we are serious about trying to "break the cycle", one obvious solution is to pay teachers more. Imagine if teaching paid as well as software development.
Afaik Mal makes interpreters, not transpiled Lisps like Clojure.

Notably, depending on the platform, transpiling on-the-fly may be feasible for scripting. Fennel, on Lua, does its thing pretty damn fast even on my horribly underpowered machine.
The Infamous SCSH Scheme Shell “Acknowledgements” (1994)
Ask HN: Helpful to see how many upvotes *and* downvotes your comment gets?
Currently, you can only see the net total of upvotes and downvotes your comment gets.

Displayed total = (upvotes - downvotes) + 1 (Since a comment starts at +1)

100 up, 100 down = +1
1 up, 1 down = +1
0 up, 0 down = +1

or

5 up, 0 down = +6
10 up, 5 down = +6
10 up, 17 down = -6
0 up, 7 down = -6

Would it be helpful to see if a comment engages a lot of people? Or how polarizing it is? Or if the comment is completely unseen and ignored?
Why does everyone think .orgs are all non-profits?

My personal domain is .org and has been for 20+ years. I chose .org because .com and .net were taken.

I don’t ever recall anything where anyone even mentioned non-profits in relation to my .org registration.
That link does not work, because there is no "A" record in DNS for dvdisaster.net. Here's the latest snapshot in archive.org [1].

It also seems to be available on Sourceforge [2], but that seems to be about 5 years behind what was on the now non-existent dvdisaster.net website.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180428070843/http://dvdisaster...

[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdisaster/
I'm not defending poor quality code. I'm looking for a way to avoid someone being insulted because they've written bad code. That's all. Do you ridicule or insult your current colleagues because they have written bad code? If you don't, why would you do it for the people who were on the project before you?
It is super simple for Google to resolve real identify of most of users and fraudsters. At least there absolutely no justification for Google not to detect fraud in cases where OP could do it using his own statistics.

Your browser by default leak your OS version (Chinese using older versions very often), locale (of course there is tons of users with Thai or Turkish locale outside of their home country, right?), fonts, etc, etc. Basically everything is can be used and actually actively used for fingerprinting. In cases of some proxies WebRTC can just leak your real IP. I wont even start on the fact that Google controls web browser that is used by 50% internet users and it's sent a lot of data to the mothership.

And yeah if you try to mess with Google itself by let's say mass registering accounts you'll understand how good they are at protecting their own infrastructure and money. At the same time why should they care about someone else lost money? So they don try to fix it.
oh that makes sense. my apologies, I am not particularly good at picking up on subtext on the internet. I personally don't really use a VPN at all, no particular need to since I personally believe that online privacy is an illusion that the government and corporations created to have a problem they could market a solution for. Perhaps a little tinfoil hat-y but I'm entirely convinced that there's no amount of encryption or misdirection that nation state level intelligence agencies with absurdly high budgets (and likely the collaboration of other intelligence agencies) could not reverse engineer or work around.
Try this?

https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee486/doc/chap5.pdf

Edit: standard deviation is just a fancy name for root mean squared over the sample offsets. The square is there to deal with the fact that there are positive and negative offsets. The mean is the whole point of the exercise, and the root is to negate the fact that we squared earlier.
Yep. I remember in college when I made that connection and realized you could create infinite "levels" of operation, with each repeating the previous one N times.
Some guys in Norway made an app that teaches algebra concepts to 5 year olds using pictures, as the game levels up it slides variables and numbers in.
In what world are the majority of asset sales untaxed? Look at stocks, bonds, bitcoin, homes, art, gold, silver... All assets and all taxable upon realized gains and losses.
There is lots of advertisement you can do without making misleading (or even downright false) claims.

Not that advertising mobile games or g-fuel is great, but you’re at least not pushing (dangerously) false claims on people and imperiling their privacy and security.
Community Memory Terminal
Hi Radford, I'm very happy that this paper got your attention, but I'm regretful that I did not represent your research accurately!

Indeed, in your thesis, section 2.3 is on "Priors for networks with more than one hidden layer." I will fix this in the next version of the paper, and as a prerequisite, I'd like to make sure I understand your contributions correctly.

Is the following summary accurate?

In section 2.3, you explored the GP limit for more than 1 hidden layer numerically, as well as some thoughts on the decay behavior of the GP kernel associated to an MLP with step function nonlinearity. You also considered mixing Gaussian and non-Gaussian priors in different hidden layers and finally mused about the infinite depth limit of the infinitely-wide MLP.

However, I could not find a rigorous treatment of the multi-layer GP limit (in the vein of Lee et al. and Matthews et al. (2019)). Does it exist elsewhere in the paper?
> limited supply and huge debt means doctors can command incredibly high fees

How does having a huge debt allow you to charge a higher fee?

Doesn’t a debt weaken your negotiating position - you have less freedom to walk away for example because you need to service your debt.

It doesn’t work that you can charge a higher fee just because you plead ‘but I have a debt!’
That's a very good question
Likely the same contractual basis that granted the transferal of Network Solutions to VeriSign via acquisition, which brought along control over .com and .net. There are probably terms that allow for the control to be transferred via sale in some manner. Ultimately, either way, the US Government allows it to happen; they could intervene if they cared to and make the sale untenable.

It's such a good rent extraction business that Berkshire Hathaway has accumulated 11% of VeriSign. Last year VeriSign's gross profit margin was 82% and their net income margin was a staggering 47% (a level you never see from major public companies, outside of rare cases like Visa or Facebook).
Would Flutter be where it is today without hotreload? Hotreload was a suggestion form the Dart team, Flutter team tried it and where amazed.
University of Chicago study for you to peruse

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/female-teachers-can-transfer...
...yikes.
Yes good point, that is why a TLD which recognizes you as a non-profit would not be a good idea. You would probably be just fine with .org regardless of whether a more apt TLD is going to be created.
Dividend is 123456 and divisor is 37.

37>1, 37>12 but 37*3<=123.

Write down 3 (meant for 3000) and start again with 123456-37x3000 as the new dividend.

I wish the algorithm was taught by writing the full 3000 instead of only the digit 3; this appears to be a source of major confusion and to hide the underlying additions/multiplications.
Are you referring to Dragon Box? This looks awesome.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dragonbox-algebra-12/id6344441...
how is this different than homestyler?
Huh. I'm from India, and from what I can tell, maths is taught much better here than in the US, at least till 10th grade, after which it's no longer compulsory. It's actually taught in a very intuitive manner, and most students "get" it quite well.

Edit: the textbooks are freely available on the web, if anyone wishes to take a look. Look up "NCERT class 10 maths textbook".
I found this link (https://www.osrtos.com/) really useful 2 years ago. I don't know how up to date it is. In the end I went with a little known entry called TNEO because I liked Frank Dmitry's writup about it.

It's really hard to compare these things though. Zephyr is like a mini Linux complete with device tree, build system, configuration files and drivers. All of which you get to determine the correctness of.

Something like FreeRTOS can seem both much simpler and harder. It's mostly just C Source. If you need a stack or a driver, you get to own that yourself. But it's like, right there in front of you. No need to learn somebody else's favorite build system, etc. Do what makes most sense for you.

We went with TNEO because the ultimate feature we needed was aggressive processor sleep ability for power savings. I have not found any that solve this well out of the box. They're built for demo boards that stay plugged into the wall. And to be fair, there's a size-able chunk of IoT devices that sit near lots of power.

I asked a former coworker who helped me with TNEO (and before that he and I had worked quite a bit with FreeRTOS and RIOT as well as a lot of just no RTOS) how he's liking Zephyr in his new job. He said it was hell to set up and get working right, but the slack community around it had been helpful, but seemed to be nice at the moment, especially since they were using chipsets it was know to work well on. He did note that the power save story was no better than our previous experiences, but he's working on powered devices.
fake .orgs will be created which will create distrust about existing .orgs, and allow propaganda to spread

Why? It isn't in their own interest to ruin .org.
I'm quite fond of the idea of single stack, rtfm and drone are particularly interesting!

I really appreciate the shared libraries in rust for soc support and Hal's. It's quite nice
I've been coding for almost 30 years for startups to fortune 50 companies and they all have code bases with some level of messiness, f*'d up-ness. What an intro the real world when during a college internship for the bluest of blue companies I saw all manner of goto/macro/spaghetti contortions in a flagship product. If it were me I wouldn't let these guys comments bother me. If I had to say something I'd say "Awesome observations guys, you're so right .. WOW! I had no idea we have all this technical debt you're finding, THANKS! .. How long do you think it will take you to find all the rest of the bad code and FIX IT ALL.. Can you give me an estimate by the end of the week??" That should shut it down.
Thanks. This really drives home how insane the browser architecture is.

React would like to pause rendering to react to new events as they come in. However, there is no way for React to be told when there is a new event, so it has to poll for it. Unfortunately there's no way to directly poll for a new event, so it has to fake an event poll via inversion of control built on top of requestAnimationFrame.
'doctors can command incredibly high fees'

Doctors in Canada and Australia charge as much or more than US doctors (within the context of a universal healthcare system). This is the most absurd scapegoating. If you want to look for excessive expenditure, I encourage you to look at:

- The enormous glut of administrators including absurdly well paid CEOs which has expanded non-stop for the last 40 years.

- The absurd profit margins and profiteering by the medical insurance industry.

- The relentless rent-seeking by 'accreditation and certification' agencies like state medical licensing boards and subspecialty boards.

- And at this stage we don't even need to begin talking about pharma and device companies.
Bud, I really hope you can grasp more complicated algorithms than that if you have a PhD in computer science. It's one thing to call it unintuitive and not worth your time, but let's not be hyperbolic.
Yes, absolutely. The automotive electronics industry has been going strong for decades and has a well-established library of components.

Finding (or customizing) the right one is the hard part...
Namecoin is able to hand out arbitrary addresses rather than ugly ones. It's one of the earliest coins and predated the get-rich-quick goldrush.
Well and the old ugly code is known to work properly.
It is no wonder that uBlock is so popular.

Not sure I understand returning 0.0.0.0. What if the user has some other servers listening.

I return the address of some server I control that is bound to a local address, e.g., an authoritative nameserver.

Compared to the available solutions this is way too much work for "most people", however from a purist perspective a self-managed DNS approach is not under the ultimate control of a browser-authoring, extension/app-approving company/organisation or some third party DNS provider.

Whether that even matters is debatable.

As long as these easy solutions keep working, there's no incentive to try a different approach.
While I am also appalled, I imagine everyone has some fundamental misunderstanding about something that is 'obvious' to everyone else. Something akin to 'today's 10,000"
Branding is a moat. There's a reason Coke and Pepsi spend hundreds of millions on branding ads and I am sure they know there is a ROI there.
No I have genuinely tried to learn it and I have no understanding why I am doing any of the steps in the algorithm.
This comment surprised me, as I have a BS in math and Laplace transforms were not something I was required to learn for the degree (although I had the option to take courses as electives that covered them). My university offers a math degree intended for those who want to go into teaching that doesn't get any hairier than Number Theory for required courses.
Yeah,it's amazing, I've hooked multiple friends on this app. It turned my friend's girls math fear around, which is really important given that girls are learning to fear math from teachers who are themselves afraid of math.

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/female-teachers-can-transfer...
If you do code in any capacity not being able to understand long division is a huge red flag. In terms of difficulty it's somewhere between regex and being able to write a recursive function.
I don't think that's quite right.

"Legitimacy" is a subjective moral argument in and of itself, and is subjective, and likely to wind up on the wrong side of history. Hiter's annexaction of sudetenland was generally discussed through the lens of legitimacy in pretty mainstream conversations. Obviously history looks at his actions through another lens.

If Russia stops at Crimea, it might be an interesting footnote or a hard pub quiz question 30 years from now. If Putin sets his sights next on Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania, and the West lets him have it, it's going to be remembered much differently. By the way I'm not ominously promising future-Hitler. I don't think Putin wants the west, or any more than that, and I don't think any genocide is in the future.

But I do fear that he wants to rebuild as much of the former soviet block as possible, and I do think the EU won't stop him, which will itself be the final nail in the coffin of its legitimacy, and eventual dissolution.
fun: disable javascript and click at random on the list and see them all fail miserably.
It depends on the economic benefit they can extract and get away with.
>I won't need math, so I'll blindly trust this 20 year old 32 bit half precision floating point thing someone coded up in an afternoon before their holiday break.

Don't get me started on engineers who think floating point numbers can be treated like real numbers for equality testing.
Also worth noting that while VPN providers don't care what DNS servers you use, the geo-blocking protection features usually require that you use their DNS servers.
Nano-nonsense (2010)
NK doesn't need help developing this. NK has been hacking various cryptocurrency exchanges and websites stealing hundreds of millions of USD worth of crypto via their APT aka the Lazarus Group.
I really wish more people felt the way you do. You clearly have done the work to prove this to yourself. No one saying otherwise has done that work.

Two things produce conviction in people regarding technical matters: ignorance and experience. You clearly have the experience.

Tech needs more people like you.
But why not use the abs function or operator rather than squaring and rooting?

This is how I always find maths and particularly statistics - I always just want to answer ‘but why’ and then people lose interest in explaining after a while.
Maybe with the abundance of TLDs .com/.org will eventually be reduced in importance and seen just as another TLD with a bit of special history.
Im my experience there is so much variation between countries, between different regions within the same country, between schools within the same region, between teachers within the same school and even students' subjective experiences within the same classroom that I am generally skeptical of broad conclusions drawn between countries like that.
I would say that AMD should make their own mkl if they want to compete. It's fine that it runs on AMD, but it is, after all, a closed-source library made by Intel.

At some point amd needs to take the software side seriously. Same goes for GPU.
Somewhere in Europe, I think Italy, has a great garbage collection system where the garbage is thrown into bins in the street that deep into chutes underground where there's a network of tunnels to collect the trash. From an outside perspective this seems fairly simple to upgrade into an automated system. The chutes could have door locks installed to hold the trash, then install train rails in the underground tunnels, and when a cart stops by a section the door is unlocked and the trash falls into the cart. You can also have a sensor in the chute that detects if there's trash there so the cart can continue without stopping if a threshold isn't met. The cart would also have a fill sensor so it knows when to return. This same system would better used for garbage and recycling on the same line, just separated by different round trips.
> Also in the states, engineering students ask the same question about Laplace transforms. ;-)

Laplace transforms are wonderful because they protect you from the differential equations that would otherwise await you if were foolish enough to take a step outside the S-domain.
Looks awesome. If only some of these features were built into the actual site...
Back in health care policy class we did a breakdown comparison against systems in other developed countries. The US system was 2x as expensive, and the three heads of the hydra -- drug companies, insurance companies, and hospitals/doctors -- did a remarkably even job of sharing that factor of 2. While it would be unfair to say that the "step on the training pipeline" hustle was entirely responsible for our current situation, it would also be unfair to point at the other two heads of the hydra and say that they were entirely responsible.
The claim as I read it was that most financial censorship befalls innocent accountholders. But while there are countless examples we can find online about people wrongly censored or accused, actual fraudsters don't go complaining on Twitter.

Fraud is a huge problem. The usual reason for why we can't have nice things--a high-trust civil society--is because of bad people. Because no system is perfect, our transactional and legal systems have to balance administrative efficiency and fairness. The more you try to be fair, i.e. improve your accuracy (fewer false positives), the higher your costs (less efficacy at stopping bad guys and/or more resources need to be expended); the more you aim for administrative efficiency (lower costs but better at stopping bad guys) the more fairness will tend to suffer (more false positives).

Now, it's entirely possible that there are more accounts wrongly closed than closed for actual fraud. Personally I would doubt it, but would still like to see data. That notwithstanding, it would still be wrong to characterize such a system as arbitrary simply because of that skewed result; it could just be a manifestation of a high efficiency but low fairness enforcement mechanism. Maybe it is arbitrary, but I doubt it.

I had never heard the phrase "financial censorship" before. Perhaps a better term here would be financial blacklisting. The EFF's page, https://www.eff.org/issues/financial-censorship, conflates a ton of individual issues in a way that I don't think is constructive. Everybody trying to shoehorn their issues into the free speech debate tends to obfuscate problems and potential solutions; and I suspect it will one day backfire, harming traditional freedom of speech in the process. Before I even read the EFF's issue page--and definitely so, afterwards--the very phrase "financial censorship" brought to mind Citizens United v. FEC. Keep going down that road and there's no limit--I could just as well characterize murder laws as violating my free speech.[1]

For the record, I protested in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco when Dmitri Sklyarov was arrested way back when. I do take these issues seriously.

[1] In fact, IIRC not long after Citizens United the very same conservative justices upheld the criminal convictions of people who gave to a charity and advocacy organization implicated in funding terrorist organizations. The juxtaposition of the two decisions seemed to me to evidence the inconsistency and hypocrisy of the conservative's free speech crusade; such inconsistency and hypocrisy is inevitable once you start to characterize everything that's incident to speech as speech itself.
I didn't understand why it worked (a comment here pointed out that it's just division-by-repeated-subtraction which does make sense now). But I was still able to perform it, during the time when it was relevant to my life.
Stop trying to profit from human misery!
>I asked her if she was ok, and she said she didn't understand why she had to sit in the lecture learning Laplace transforms when she "only wanted to be a primary school teacher"

What university did you attend that Laplace transforms were part of the standard calculus curriculum, let alone a requirement for primary school teachers? From my experience in the US, universities typically offer different sets of calculus classes based on the major. Undergrads in business school might have to take a simplified calculus class or two, but the content is not as in depth as the calculus classes required for STEM majors. I learned about them in a signal processing class, not from the math department. I can't think of a single reason why a primary school teacher should have to study them.
They could have just added a captcha.
That's absolutely not true. It's the reason movies like Coco are still on Netflix and not Disney plus. You can't just renege on a previous contract because you started your own streaming service. These things take time.
You might look into AirVPN, they have a strong no-log policy, independent ownership, transparent list of all servers/load, guaranteed minimum bandwidth, up 10 (iirc) port forwards with optional dynamicDNS, p2p welcome. Current Black Friday price is 64 EUR for 3yr which is much less than Nord's "deal" which looks like their usual price to me--and crypto is accepted. They also financially support various projects such as Tor, EFF, and host some open-source mirrors.
My guess would be "Joy Division"[0], meaning women brainwashed (or forced) by the state to sexually satisfy high-ranking officials as well as occasionally distinguished guests.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kippumjo
That's only because most internet users don't even know what a domain is.
Reminds me of the components talk at RailsConf https://railsconf.com/program/sessions#session-810