skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are based in the U.K but the site also works for US based funeral organisers. We’re getting traffic from all over the world as we assume paying for a funeral is a challenge globally.

There is no minimum ‘target’ for a campaign all donations are available for the funeral organiser. Labelling a campaign a ’failure’ for not reaching a targets didn’t seem fair and I’m sure every penny is helpful.

‘The guy in the tree is creepy..’ lol coming from a place with small trees I never considered tree climbing as all that risky but you do have a point.

The site is named guidestick as we’re here to give people guidance through what can be a tricky process and the photo is an attempt at a visual metaphor for that support. I can appreciate the image might be a bit to abstract.

To make money we’ll offer additional ‘paid for’ features such as hosting details about the funeral (maps, email invites, memorials and live streams) eventually we’d like to offer the organiser a platform to plan and save for their own funeral.

We’re manually checking all the campaigns that are launched but we’re looking into better spam protection to protect donator. We suggest not donating to people you’re not in contact with.

Thank you for your time and feedback it’s really appreciated.

Do you think you’d use a service like this?
is a "ministamp" the same slang as "tab"? 15 tabs of LSD at once is beyond anything I've ever heard of. One tab of what i would take in college would yield about a 12-15 hour high. Granted, LSD has decreased significantly in potency over the years where marijuana has increased.
some hunch tells me this would put them out of business
They did do it for the original theatrical release. Movie listings published in the newspapers specified whether each showing was ending ‘A’, ‘B’, or ‘C’, so if you wished you could attend multiple times and ensure you saw a different ending each time.
As others have mentioned I did not intend to bloat by using the word 'machine learning.' Polynomial regression is taught as first concept in many machine learning courses so I figured it might be a good way to introduce newcomers to the field. Many of the posts currently available only show how to make another neural network for MNIST, but do not cover the background theory. I know that polynomial regression is a concept of statistics, but I would argue most of machine learning is too. That is the reason I choose this concept as an intro to machine learning (and consequently statistics).

Thank you for your feedback. I really appreciate it. I have added a paragraph on the normal equation (should be online anytime) and why you might/might not want to use it.
The problem is that the majority of earth's population is under-educated, if our economics system was conducive to education a lot of problems would be solved.
Also previously homeless, and got a job in software development through luck and good networks. I don't have anything at the moment, but wish you luck. It is possible, keep trying, don't give up.
It's that competition that brings down prices. If there was only one unique brand per product, they'd charge much more.
happy yule
Well, she does look smiling to me in the picture she posted...
Another one you might like is the Amazonism 'disagree and commit': https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/z6o9g6sysxur57t

I ( https://www.gwern.net/Timing#try-try-again-but-less-less ) see it as a kind of bandit as well, but specifically, Thompson sampling, because you can interpret groups of people with strong but inconsistent beliefs individually as collectively implementing a Bayesian distribution, and then individuals going off and following what seems to then like the most profitable opportunity is equivalent to Thompson sampling: https://people.csail.mit.edu/pkrafft/papers/krafft-thesis-fi...
What a terrible turn to combat online schooling...
The most surprising part of this story to me is that someone manages to make millions of dollars on bird feeders.
Merry Christmas all! I wish you all the best.
Its a glorious eye openning moment.

I practice vipassana, and my third retreat pit me against a very insane part of me, accompanied by severe muscular convulsions.

It all made me realize how little we understand about who and what we really are, and what ails us.

I wish more would find out
Off-topic but I'll take the opportunity to paste my favorite Maxwell quote (from James Clerk Maxwell, A Treatsie on Electricity and Magnetism, 1873):

"In the present state of science the most universal standard of length which we could assume would be the wave length in vacuum of a particular kind of light, emitted by some widely diffused substance such as sodium, which has well-defined lines in its spectrum. Such a standard would be independent of any changes in the dimensions of the earth, and should be adopted by those who expect their writings to be more permanent than that body."
Unlike the "pseudo-random" number generators used in software everywhere, here we have a truly "random" number generator (at least with our current understanding of physics).

Impossible to predict the next number - no matter how much information about the universe you know.
Probably down to whether routers can do NAT for SCTP, I'm part way through adding support for it in the firewall that I use.

Routing SCTP over IPv6 should be easier.
>We don’t need more evidence. The person in the picture is not smiling and their mouth is not open.

Well, she looks 100% like she is smiling to me. Her mouth is indeed not open, though, so I'll give you that.

Even if that's her facial structure, and she was consciously not smiling, she does appear to be smiling.
Ever heard pop quiz testing on material that wasn't part of the class or even the subject? Me neither.
This is a railroad signaling system. It's designed to fail safe, and that's not a buzzword. Any broken wire, go to red. Any broken relay, go to red. Any rail break, go to red. Loss of power, go to red.

If you're getting power surges in signaling power, it's time to shut down, go to red, and not reset until someone has tested the system.
You think the government should demand private companies facilitate public protests?
Renaissance Princes Pursued Beauty in Science
"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."
If SpaceX can get anything near what they hope for the Starship launch costs ($2 million per launch/ 150,000 kg to orbit per launch = $13.3 per kg to orbit), the economics of space will be fundamentally changed. Building the cheapest launch capability possible has been a goal for Elon Musk's SpaceX since the beginning and you can see that principle at work in the decisions that SpaceX makes at each step in the development of its rockets. This could happen in 5-10 years, if there are not any large setbacks.

Who knows if SpaceX will price their launch capabilities at that price though.
Teaching GANs a Few Tricks
I find Pollock's drip paintings exponentially more aesthetic, thoughtful, valuable, and beautiful than that statue, personally.

That statue is a set piece in a movie of that society's history and mythology; it's historically interesting and valuable, but has little pure artistic or aesthetic value, in my opinion. But all art taste is extremely subjective, so both of our views are completely valid.
So you expect people to act counter to everything they've been taught in life? That shows a deep understanding of the human condition.
I'm also surprised at how convinced he was about taking care of the customers. The customer comes first: and it is the ultimate goal. It's what made Amazon successful. I remember my first problem with Amazon, a book that came in a bit broken (one angle was crushed), the customer support responded the same day of presenting the complain and they've told me to take it to the nearest library, which they had already sent the order to send me a new one. When I read that email, they earned it a loyal customer for life.
> Forced evolution, basically.

This is equivalent to what Plato advocated. His solution to the problem of people not willingly going along with it was for the state to keep it a secret. He was a bit more of a fascist than most people recall.
linkding is a fun and cute name. Please don't change it!
Modern VR motion controls are better. Much of the innovation in physics based gameplay and things like sword mechanics is happening in VR, because the controls are accurate, expressive and low latency. Wii had the idea but lacked real tracking (a smartphone accelerometer can do Wii gameplay better than Wii).
Yes, without exception. It's less noticeable on today's powerful systems, but it's still true. Text mode is just faster than graphics mode, at least on any system where I've used both.
>I don’t know enough about physics to understand how a multi-dimensional (above 4D) universe is different than a multiverse. I assumed they were one and the same concept.

Imagine multiple copies of the same 4D universe.

How about that?
Ask HN: How to teach kids about privacy on the internet
In light of the recent TikTok privacy discussion I had a conversation with my kids about privacy where they said, basically, 'we don't care, we want shiny' (they are 9 and 11). They know to not reveal their location, age or send private / embarrasing pictures to anyone, but the finer details of privacy are completely lost on them. So I have been pondering about how to make them really experience the hazards online that arise simply by not taking care of where you click, what you download, what information you share actively and passively and so on.
My best plan so far is to make a fake website (with credible name and content, but accessible only from our public IP), send the oldest an email supposedly originating from the site and promising free tickets to their favorite band concert. Then go from there, asking them to create accounts (to log passwords), answer all common bank security questions and maybe upload a picture with location data in it, all in the name of getting the free ticket. I observe if any of this ever gets discussed with me and then have a reveal where I show what data I have gotten from them and what i can do with it, as well as discuss telltale signs of scams / unsafe online environments, alternatively reward them for bringing it to my attention in time. It feels a bit a-holeish, but I think it will be illuminating.
What do you think?
How do you educate your kids about privacy and taking care online (if you let them online unsupervised at all)?
Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Arctic Sound Walk
Isn't that a default position itself? Who proved that experiments are necessary or that they settle matters?
Lets not blame tech, the root cause is the administrators are douchebags. Tracking because they can is their fault. Adding control because they can is their fault. Not doing their testing of their unneeded system? Not being responsive at the tech support level? All their fault. They neither need nor deserve the excuses and allowing them that rhetorical shield has only harmful results.
Or (8) let them start their own company! Founders are always exempt from social pressures inflicted on staff.
Merry Christmas from Spain! As someone else mentioned here, HN remains one of the few places I like to read everyone's comments and keep on learning.
> "calculate personalized risk scores”

Seems like they're trying to predict social outcomes. Red flag.

Also seems the technology behind this is a BLE Beacon - would be hillarious if someone dropped a rasperrby pi in the class in some corner that kept making web requests on your behalf the entire year.

Attending class is a choice - and that decision is best left up to the student.
C? All I had was a single book on MS-DOS, so I wrote batch files on paper, then executed them by hand.

(Not even joking, by the way - literally how I got into computers and programming.)
Generally, you need a guide. Someone more experienced who can spot things going wrong and bring you back. Something as simple being asked your name can make all the difference in the world. An experienced guide can help you through the effects and keep it on a peaceful path.
Read synaptic self by Jason LaDuex[0], the leading theory for the last 20+ Years in the neuroscience field is that our consciousness is a sort of a reverb of electric signals between synapses. Rather than engaging in decisional thought, we are merely reacting to our environment and we think our decisions are ours but instead it’s the reverb during the delay of the electrical impulse to our muscles. So when you think “ I want to get off the couch”, your brain has already made the decision and your thought is occurring while the electrical signals are traveling to the necessary muscles to move.

Ends the idea of free-will, but considering we are all just chemical reactions at the biological level, makes sense..

[0] - Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are https://www.amazon.com/dp/0142001783
Dumb question: In the code[1], the requestAnimationFrame() function is overwritten with a custom implementation using setTimeout(). From my understanding, this is done unconditionally, even if the browser provides the function (the reason is not a polyfill but having better control over the frame rate).

However, wasn't the whole idea of requestAnimationFrame() that it provides better timing guarantees than setTimeout()? So wouldn't overwriting with setTimeout kind of defeat the purpose of using it?

[1] https://github.com/anvaka/atree/blob/58680a99113cc40cd07c371...
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X Is an Absolutely Efficient Monster CPU
Certainly, but is that discipline you mean? Discipline is a good thing in general, but this isn't discipline - its imposed conformance.
VS Code Goes Online
Don't know that line, but the approach to London Bridge is overall far less congested after the improvement work over the last few years, despite far more frequent Thameslink trains.

It has follow on effects far down some lines as well, as problems at London Bridge would often cause delays far south of Croydon and up again towards Victoria (because Croydon becomes a chokepoint) for example.
I did not know about Poland to be occupied, but recall myself when Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) had similar fate for almost 50 years - everything related to Christmas was translated somehow to New Year and real christian celebration was effectively banned. I remember having strange remarks in school (in mid-80ies) when we had Santa Claus instead official DedMaroz in home secretly. Nothing serious anymore then. Next interesting time was in 90ies with re-independence, all it was converted back to very christian and churches were packed in Christmas eve. New Year was regarded as soviet thing for some time. Now we see some revival of more joyful new year celebrations and current agnostic president did not even go to the christmas mass. Which was small scandal but a sign of times also.
> I once took a “hero dose” of 1500 units, (15 ministamps) as my first dose - i used LSD 3 times after that.

Out of interest, why go for a dose that large? No judgement, I'm just genuinely curious.
>You sold non-retail unpackaged electronics on Amazon

Just to clarify: some goods were repacked in polybags, and labeled as such. This is explicitly permitted by Amazon's ToS for the cell phone category:

"Amazon product detail page requirements:
All non-retail packaging requires a separate detail page.
All non-retail packaging requires either "[Non-Retail Packaging]" or "[Carrier Packaging]" in the title. For example:
Motorola H12 Bluetooth Headset [Non-Retail Packaging]
Motorola H12 Bluetooth Headset [Carrier Packaging]"

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/200785030?...

This was for other products, not the tp-link products, which were all in retail packaging.
From where I stand, it’s much harder to find good devops profiles.
How about https://tinyseed.com
It’s very hard to have any verification that

1. What you’re buying is LSD.

2. What you’re buying if of high purity.

3. What you’re buying is dosed as advertised.

It’s a square of paper that may or may not have an illegal substance on it. How are you ever going to measure or test it. It’s a legend because it’s virtually unverifiable.
He was a prolific programmer and hacker, that is how he got his start.
It is reporting .coms as available that aren’t. I won’t repeat what I typed though as it was a bit rude.
This has definitely been my experience as well
Because it also means increased power consumption. If you're trying to run something off battery or solar, not using hardware that's more powerful than you actually need can be necessary for the project to be viable.
A large fraction of student borrowers are not repaying their loans, as documented at https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2019/10/who-bo... . In a private loan market, lenders would monitor how students are doing in college when deciding what interest rates to charge each semester or whether to make further loans at all. This would encourage college students to attend class and work harder.
Overridden, overriding
Thank you so much for your feedback!

You are completely right and I have updated the post. (should be online within a few minutes.)

> You cover a lot of topics in this blog post which have a lot of nuance and depth (e.g. random initial weights) that merit whole posts on their own.

I agree the post is quite long. The reason for that is because I wrote the initial version for Google Code In, a programming competition for high schoolers. It had to cover a list of concepts and I wanted to explain them well instead of just giving a quick introduction so it ended up being quite long.

It would definitely be interesting to write another article on symmetry braking some time.
Revenue, not profit.

You can make millions on just about anything. It’s not hard. Making a healthy margin is something else entirely.

3P sellers don’t really care. If they make $5,000 on $1.5m in revenue it’s fine. They don’t do any real work. They are just middle men. They just try to do as much as possible. The item doesn’t matter, the customer doesn’t matter. If their is a listing and they can sell against it and make a few cents per sale that’s good enough.

Amazon has created a horrible race to the bottom model and they don’t care either because they benefit as well.
All those multi-function pins! That implies a boot-time setup where you tell the system on a chip what each pin is supposed to be doing. Lots of bit field constants to construct. Often more trouble than hooking up to the pins.
What are your skills?

Do you have a CV? Please post a link to it.

I can hire you for remote work if the skills fit (Web and Javascript experience).
Chill, sprinkle some dill on those potatoes man
It sounds better than "we don't like your kind here, piss off".

Compare this parodic press release: http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2017/12/07/improvements/

> In our quest to improve our service for you, the user, we're making it worse.

If you're doing something good, you announce that you're doing something good. If you're doing something bad, you announce you're doing something good.
Is the cheap quartz movement that it comes with insufficiently accurate?
Every year our President and Accountant spend 2-3 days dicking with insurance plans for our 15 person company. It's not the end of the world but it's definitely a distraction they don't need.
Agh! Same thing happens to every anonymous chat app on show HN. It degraded into “your mum lolz” and “<a href...>” etc.
تنزيل ماسنجر لايت 2020 اخر تحديث للاندرويد Messenger Lite
Part of this tutorial shows you how to use spotify API (among other APIs). https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/apis-for-beginners-full-co...
This is an amazing Show HN. The best bit was “I did this because I'm lazy” I suspect not somehow.
I did wonder why those chips were so expensive? I have a super limited knowledge of hardware so I was unable to figure it out exactly.
Thanks again and I can’t wait for more write ups.
I think we're in agreement regarding Amazon: They don't take an active role in policing their marketplace. They have a "report this listing" mechanism that essentially bans a seller outright, with no effort to validate the claim. They just assume it's legit by default and the seller is always in the wrong. But to be clear, the brands are the ones taking action (and thus the defendant in these lawsuits), Amazon has essentially no role.

It's my view that Amazon themselves should be taking action on behalf of both consumers and sellers to ensure that: 1) products are authentic, and 2) consumers can get the best prices possible even if that's from an "unauthorized reseller"
If you like that, Good Omens (the series at least; not read the book) has a bit where it is suggested the M25 is effectively the shape of a demonic curse, designed to cause misery to everyone traveling on it.
Intel deserves this pounding after decades of disingenuous business practices that only served to sandbag everybody except Wintel.
Great points! You’re absolutely right: NACHA says that there are limits on how late a transaction can be revoked, but enforcement is entirely legal and procedural and not encoded in ACH itself. My guess is that things like that really get resolved with a Rolodex and a quick call to the relevant FDI.
I'm well aware. Of what the press is, as defined by the Constitution.

And my point is that such an argument is wrong, and furthermore dangerous. If you allow the government to control what Facebook can or cannot publish, well you're now saying the government can control the press.

If it's a monopoly, deal with the monopoly. Being a monopoly doesn't revoke constitutional rights.
I am curious about the advice at the end:

> Torres said she encourages customers to verify the seller is legitimate before placing any orders.

How? Is there some way to verify that a seller on amazon is legitimate among the slew of fake reviews and stock mingling in warehouses?
On the street? Probably. Online? Peer reviewed drugs!

>3. What you’re buying is dosed as advertised.

This is 100% true.
"Because quoting it (the OP) but leaving it (the parenthetical statement) out of the quote...
This isn't about the number of brands, but about confusing marketing, which in many ways is bad for true competition, because it confuses the buyer.
If they link their github profile to show, the commits you see are what they allowed you to see. So you’re not really seeing what they do when “nobody is looking”.
I'd advise against seeking gaming positions instead of going for more 'boring' sectors. There's cut-throat competition for any position in gaming while you have to scour the earth for boring things like Axapta specialists (meaning someone with sysadmin background + a little practical experience), Sharepoint site admins and other gruntwork. Opposite of sexy but a (usually) well paying job with options for consulting work.

I'm lucky enough not to have had to go that route but if I ever find myself long-term unemployed, that's my plan-B.
Iran Reimposes Internet Blackout in Various Provinces, ILNA Says
What the chain of comments you're replying to is arguing is that art is more than just something that follows some (your) definition of beauty.
I think unless a profiler is telling you it’s expensive, then there is almost no chance you’ll guess it correctly on a modern CPU. I’ve done it a couple times, but I’ve been wrong far more often.

Why are a few hundred raycasts per frame expensive? In detail? I was doing a few hundred raycasts per frame back in 2008 at 60fps. So all this talk about expensive raycasts strikes me as “someone hasn’t tried it.”

Physics engines are so advanced that it’s mind boggling just how much work goes into their efficiency. There are legions of programmer-physicists who have spent their entire working careers just getting another 5% efficiency out of their algorithms. I could buy that 100k raycasts at 20fps might be expensive on modern machines, in specific circumstances. But 100? No chance.
Show HN: A fun word guessing game made with word embeddings