skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a good conceptual foundation is the difference between someone who throws buzzword solutions at a problem to see what sticks, and someone who can make a good tweak to get working a standard-ish idea that doesn’t quite work out of the box. Without understanding these concepts it is easy to get stuck spinning in loops on a complicated problem — where tweaking to improve one thing messes with another thing.

I won’t claim Bayesian is the only conceptual framework, but I found it particularly intuitive and straightforward — and gives you a lot of flexibility. Refer an earlier discussion on Bayesian approaches a few days ago.
Accessing this site, requires a consent. :)))
They are worth about 1-month salary, which is slightly under 10k.
Just from the power envelope (88W for the desktop vs 15 for the 8650u in the surface book 2, assuming it's configured to that setting -- edit: it is) the desktop part would be 80% faster, if all things were equal.

Now all things aren't equal. The mobile chip is going to be thermally limited, while a desktop chip has a huge heatsink and fan to it's service, and a lot of room to be "just warm". Despite whatever architecture improvements (and take those with a grain of salt, remember that skylake and its descendants are the most affected by the Spectre/Meltdown mitigations) you still have physics against you and the desktop part should be 50% faster simply because it can keep the turbos up and higher frequencies than a TDP-restrained mobile processor.

It'd seem that, today, only the AMD Renoirs are capable of pulling "desktop-like performance on a mobile budget". Let's hope AMD keeps bringing good chips out, and Intel wakes up and stands with something decent, unlike what they've been doing so far.

-- edit:

Since I was already editing: of course a Ryzen whatever is going to be also TDP-limited compared against other Ryzens, but AMD isn't really making the mobile parts completely equivalent to the desktop parts. So yes, calling a Renoir "desktop performance" is massively ignoring AMD "super powerful" desktop chips.

More reason to hope Intel gets up and starts giving a fight here. We need competition, otherwise AMD will turn the tables and will get back to a stagnant situation.
Was Elon Musk's Twitter post illegal?
5% fees on top of the true cost of delivery is enough for what is essentially an automated process.

Maybe it's not enough for "growth" and "engagement" and maintaining an engineering blog about their overengineered stack (I call those "engineering playgrounds") but guess what? None of those things benefit users.
So, audio stuff is still a bit of pipe dream, but I want to at least try at some point.

Easiest would be something like what OhMiBod puts out, which is basically just a vibrator with an RC band pass filter as speed control. We could generate audio to work within the sensed reaction range there.

Electrostimulation toys also use waveform input, since it's translating signal-to-signal basically, but that's a whole other huge discussion.

Finally, if you consider HD Rumble (think what's in a Switch Joycon or VR controller), those also take audio buffers since they can deal with far higher update rates than eccentric motors.
Oh no the text contained a conventional form of expression, let's purposefully misunderstand it to make some vague point without suggesting any actionable improvement!
"Thought exists without language, does it not?"
This is a very interesting question.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.” Wittgenstein

"How can dogs dream of sticks and walks and chasing squirrels?" Do Androids dream of electric sheep? :-)
You may want to read the books mentioned here. I found it so impressive, I bought a first issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
Banning (2005-2019) is a strange decision as well. Wow!
My fire department bought a new ambulance.

Emergency lights use a lot of power, as you can imagine. Even the LED ones. But we also don't want to idle on scene for a while.

So new ambulances (and engines, too) have a nice feature. Leave the lights running. Turn the engine off.

When the battery voltage gets low enough, the vehicle will start the engine, let it run til the voltage is better, then shut itself back off.
I'd say that is super useful as someone who

1) cuts and pastes into plain text files often

2) often wishes to take data from charts and munge it, although sparklines are probably too informationally sparse to bother.
You'd think so, but France has recently come out and said that they don't even plan to require 14 day quarantines for arrivals from the EU or UK.

The UK border, despite their having the highest death toll in Europe, is similarly comparatively open compared to most other anglophone countries.
I can't resist: "you can't judge a book by its cover" ;)
I agree with this, it's much better to collaborate or collude when possible. The one exception is that corporations are absolutely my enemy.
It's more us digging around places like Aliexpress to find what's out there. We're just dedicated. :D
One that knocked me upside the head once was, upon remarking "That's going to take a long time, like a year" to accomplish something, as if that made it not worth doing, being told, "That time is going to pass anyway." In other words, you can either start working towards it now, and be in a better place in a year, or let that length of time discourage you and then, when next year rolls around, still be discouraged. So just start.
Perhaps I'm being pedantic, to the point, most Indian food is vegetarian, not vegan. They love their milk, cheese, and honey.
400 miles is possible but there isn't a 100% EV that achieves a 400 mile range under typical circumstances. Realistically you get about half that if you're doing highway driving and live in a place where you need to have the HVAC running all the time. Though, I think it'll probably get there within the next 10 years.
How about rephrasing this to: all data tracking that involves sharing a user’s data with third parties is bad and should be outlawed

Using user’s data within the confines of a web app is usually OK so we can put just small much smaller guardrails up to keep companies respecting the public good.

I generally just don’t like my data shared with third parties. A single web site can literally pass your data on to hundreds of companies (as discussed in the book on Surveillance Capitalism).
People say this (ads keep the Web free) but it's not true. What keeps the Web free is the altruism of the vast majority of people who pay for their server costs out of pocket. The long tail of sites won't reach the threshold necessary to receive a payout from their ad provider. So tracking makes Google money at the expense of users and most websites.

Example: my personal website costs me about $35/mo to run. If I put ads on it, Google would tell me I made about $5/mo, and then take that $5 for themselves because they have decided they don't need to pay out small amounts. So I basically get to pay to host ads for Google.
True, but here is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenberg_bible_Old_Testa... - an example of old font. Do you think a lot of people would have problems with reading this?
Antifragility

Or more specifically, just getting the term for it. I spent years trying to articulate in my own mind many of the ideas in Taleb's book, and once I had a word for it I could see it everywhere and actually start to change my life to take advantage of the chaos in the world.

Basically: you can't control what happens to you, but you can set your life up so that the natural variability of the world can be used to your advantage.

I can't do it justice in an HN comment, but it's one book and one idea that has changed my life.
Boo to all of the people on this thread who are hating on what you've built. Why can't you build a business selling emails, or automatically posting to GitHub?

If you hate getting spam emails, hit "spam" and get that domain blacklisted, it creates a natural balance where the quality of cold outreach grows. And I doubt real hiring decisions are being made from git commit history badges.

Kudos for going out there and adding value to the people that are paying for your products.
HN's lack of subdomain- & tilde-checking would make this work strange, I think.
> I tried many things. Reddit. Facebook Groups. Quora. LinkedIn. Direct Sales. Twitter. ... On the 21st of April, completely unexpectedly, a tweet of mine blew up big time.

"Fortunate favors the prepared." The highly random nature of internet karma should probably be more well publicized by now. If ten years ago, I gave myself all the blog posts I'd write over the next ten years, I would not have predicted correctly which ones would be most popular. Not that I write for the pageviews, or even write all that often. If you think of it as a multiarmed bandit problem, you kinda have to publish without a goal in mind in order to have enough arms to pull to find and iterate on the few good ones. This is why IMO, it helps to have a few input goals as well as outcomes.

AFAICT, content marketing is basically posting good stuff and hoping some of the traffic rubs off on your sales funnel. Like that Sparkfun rotary cell phone from way back when, though obviously it helps when you sell the parts to your ironic nobody-would-buy-this product online.

> I smashed my infamous $500 MRR goal. It was a huge mental barrier for me. The sad thing is that once again I was tricked. I was chasing this goal for more than two years, and now it means nothing to me. It's dead. Cold. Meaningless. Like it was never there in the first place.

Elsewhere on his site Alex describes his goals as 'humble' but that may be part of the psychological problem here; even he believes they're not the same as even modest success. $500 MRR feels meaningless because it _is_. Why does 500 MRR matter? If you borrow the OKR framework, perhaps he would reframe the Objective (goal) as 'build a business capable of sustaining my preferred lifestyle', and then the MRR target would have meaning as a key result?

The Objective/Key-Result framework provide two major benefits:

First, it gives you the means to tie your metrics to something meaningful, and the ability to fact check your assumptions. Make more money isn't necessarily meaningful, but 'quit my day job' or 'send my kid to art school' can be. Perhaps the $500 MRR goal feels meaningless because the lifestyle goal _is_ the real Objective, but the $500 MRR Key Result is insufficient to meet it.

The second thing it does is provide a process for breaking Big Problems into smaller ones. You'll probably need multiple strategies to reach any important Objective, and the KRs help you break them into smaller steps. Which themselves can be treated as Objectives with their own KRs. Using https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/business-of-saas#the-fundame... as a guide for how to break down the 'big number' can help, but there is no predictive formula for maximizing it.
And "Git Gardener" is just spamming GitHub to make yourself look busy. I detect a pattern here.
We're working on WebRTC now. There's still the issue of STUN server handshaking there but it's Peer-to-Peer after that.
Yeah, I just wish the quote were "folly" instead of "evil".
I would love use a Walmart grocery delivery service, but they use a 9 mile radius around their stores to qualify for delivery and I'm 10 miles away from the nearest store.
Yup, KITTEN is the short name for the working group. It's the IETF, probably best not to ask… :)

EDIT: I just realized it's probably a joke, the working group should be CATNG if it were using its acronym, so the next generation of a CAT is a KITTEN, presumably. As you can tell, I wasn't around when the WG was started.
BUTTPLUGS.

BUTT PLUGS.

BUTT. PLUGS.
Only a small number of programs and utilities that ship as part of Windows uses WPF. Windows has more WinForms-based GUIs in it than WPF-based GUIs.

It’s a far cry from the Longhorn demos of 2003 that showed the entire Windows UI been made with WPF, and Explorer itself hosting third-party applications’ WPF components.
> Fast-charging takes somewhat longer than filling with gasoline/petrol, but I usually also want a bathroom and coffee break.

It's more than "somewhat". I can put over 400 highway miles of range into my vehicle in five minutes with a gas pump. It takes 30 minutes to put half that into an EV. I don't want to stop for half an hour every 200 miles.

> This is not idle speculation. I own an electric car. Furthermore, the vast majority of my charging occurs at home, over night. The total amount time I have saved by not having to visit gas stations for literally months is significant.

It sounds like you don't have many days where your driving exceeds the range capacity of your vehicle. The technology in the article, and the post you are responding to, are in the context of long-distance highway travel. It's for cases where a vehicle must be recharged in the middle of a trip, even when it starts with a full battery.
People justified flagging and downvoting the story at the time because there’s some guidelines around “no current event stories that you could read about anywhere”

It wasn’t just downvoting it was flagging it for removal. All of them.
The Stammheim Deaths
Use temporary email alias? That's what I have been doing.
Most companies that make consumer hardware distribute their own apps, of wildly varying qualities. :)
Ah. Well, I'm glad I didn't finish it then.
Has a Nash Equilibrium for the first n-1 iterations if I remember correctly.
Do you think your premise is arguable? If yes, is it defendable?
Yes, primarily the noise. (Also the lack of dust, and the space/weight saved by not having a fan.) I have a fanless Streacom DB4 case for my desktop. I don’t plan on ever owning a PC with a fan again.
> replacing Sublime, Atom and the rest

Regarding Atom, I've heard some whispers around the internet that they may slowly wind it down in favor of VSCode so that Microsoft doesn't have two competing text editors. Anyone know how true that might be?
@mebr thanks for you question, we tested it on few external benchmarks and the MAE is:
61 on Shanghai A
15 on Shanghai B
133 on UCF-QNRF

We're continuing to improve our models and develop different approaches so expect those scores to improve over time.
> I've come to believe that everything wrong with religion comes from taking it literally

I don't disagree, but would only refine your point.

I think the pathology of religions come from several places: the inevitable divide between the environment in which they were written and the current world and not refreshing that original view quickly enough with enough wisdom, the projection of one's ethics on to other people, and, like you said, mistaking the metaphorical for the literal when it is not adaptive (which is difficult as sometimes feedback can take decades if not generations to hit).

IMHO religions are like Swiss army knives. They've got a huge number of blades and tools. Idiots use Swiss army knives like a hammer and bang away and their problems. People that have only seen it used as a hammer miss out on its finer wisdom. And if one gets stabbed with it they're less likely to look openly upon the tool or kindly upon the user.
Clearly there is a market for it. I don’t know of one but it makes sense.
Bell's theorem, proving Einstein's intuition was wrong, and that quantum mechanics does have some sort of a spooky action at a distance, (this or that the moon is not necessarily there when you don't look at it). E.g. we have either no locality (cause and effect can't propagate faster than light), or no realism (things don't have a "realness" until measured, e.g. the wave function mode of particles), or superdeterminism (everything is predetermined, no free will, nothing is random, not even the random behavior of quantum particles that seem the most random thing in the world)
Mail it to them in a legal-sized envelope on dead tree carcasses. Harder to ignore, they'd print it anyhow for candidate finalists, and virus FUD is a non-issue. Send them an email copy as a backup or in-case they need an electronic version too.
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It is more regarding to impress your own customers than bosses (or customers of your boss). The former is about something you did right. The second is (in many cases) about asking for a raise. The last is mostly showing what a team (or even others) have done.

By the way, most jobs are not about impressing bosses. You can make a career just doing your work. The right people will notice, specially in small companies.
True but it will at least confirm that the battery is dead, as opposed to something else. I remember back when I was a kid my parents' car would not crank (you hear the solenoid engage but the engine doesn't turn) and nobody had any idea what it was (if you're not a car person and this never happens to you it might not be obvious especially considering all the other electricals still work fine on the slightly lower voltage). A voltmeter showing below 12V or a "low battery - <12.2V" light would've quickly cleared that up.
I had a previous employer that started counting commits. Doesn't matter what you do, if you had to spend you whole day interacting directly with a customer(or even at that customer location trying to figure out some issue), nothing mattered. Only the number of commits. Not even the commit size mattered.

So I started doing tiny commits to counter that.

I would gladly use this thing as a f* you before leaving.
I think productivity rewards focus - deeper focus on discerning the fine details of a problem and actively diving and driving.

Creativity rewards sort of the opposite. It's like letting your gaze wander and see what's around you. Capturing the ideas that fly by like butterflies in a net, and being their steward.

Try doing a side-project based on a whim and then expand it as butterflies collect.
All fine and well, just consider that Donald Knuth was talking about shaving off some cycles by carefully selecting machine instruction.

Donald Knuth, the same guy that got upset about being forced to use 64-bit pointers in a binary compiled for x86-64 even in programs where he would've been just fine with a 4GB address space.

He didn't exactly mean to say "omg wtf computers are so fast just use create-react-app", but that seems to be the general reception.
If all this is really what you believe rather than just being argumentative then how can you use any product. Usage and market share statistics are just as useful to JetBrains in that regard and you pay them for the privilege of being an “intermediate product”.
Next logical step would be having <youremail>+<secretKey>@gmail.com as the real email and <justyouremail>@gmail.com as spam box.
For me, this type of thinking does the exact opposite in that it has a chilling effect on finding solutions and correctly assessing reality.

While some of what Al Bartlett says is true, that unfettered exponential growth can't go on forever, other statements are misleading or outright false.

He has a soapbox about limiting population growth now (in the US) [0], tied in to concepts of peak oil and other "dark green" talking points. This type of thinking misses the larger picture. The irony is that exponential growth happens all across the board, not just in population growth and energy usage but in innovation for more efficient energy usage and in finding alternative energy sources.

Al Bartlett builds a straw man argument, saying "technological optimists assure use that technology will always solve all of our problems ..." [1] but this isn't true. The argument against Bartlett's statement is that we haven't hit the ceiling on energy that's available to us. This is one of the first issues I have with this thinking: if we were to take his argument at face value, limit population growth, turn down our energy usage and try to live with what we have, then we're setting ourselves up for failure as every other country on the planet shifts to solar because it provides cheaper energy (yes, even to coal) and will only get exponentially cheaper for a good period of time [2] [3].

Here's some simple arithmetic [4]: The average US household consumes 30kWh of energy a day. The available energy falling to the surface of the earth is about 700 * 10^12 kWh per day. That means, at US levels of consumption, the ceiling on just using the sun for our energy needs is 23 trillion people. The earth's population is 7.6 billion now. Even taking Bartlett's estimate of population doubling every 40 years, that's over 400 years of growth.

This is zero-sum thinking and leads to all sorts of "us vs. them" mentality. My first thought is that these are the proto arguments for new forms of eugenics and other oppressive behavior. It also ignores the complexity of the situation of population in the US. I think it's pretty conclusive that strong public education and financial freedom lead to less children. In the US, we already are at sub-replacement but for immigration that boosts our population [5].

I would suggest you take Al Bartlett's advice and not let other people do your thinking for you [6].

[0] https://youtu.be/O133ppiVnWY?t=4042

[1] https://youtu.be/O133ppiVnWY?t=3640

[2] https://e360.yale.edu/digest/renewables-cheaper-than-75-perc...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law

[4] https://youtu.be/O133ppiVnWY?t=4070

[5] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_01-508.pdf

[6] https://youtu.be/O133ppiVnWY?t=3332
I want to point out the primary indices like the Nasdaq and S&P500 kick out poorly performing companies.

So they very well could go up x% per year if their managers felt like it. It doesn't really bound to the marketcap of its components, just their relative marketcap amongst each other.
I use my own domain and have a catch-all. I usually enter the domain name as the identifier. I.e. here it would be news.ycombinator.com@mydomain.test
Technically yes, but practically, cmder configures each shell it embeds (windows cmd, powershell, cygwing bash) to work with git automatically. So for the end user, ~=.
The statistics seem to say otherwise - https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/16/fewer-employed-in-marc...
> And you can’t block these

I beg to differ. I use AdBlockPlus (ABP) and I can block 99% of these banners, and proceed immediately to the website.
One can also use NoScript to block some websites that are full of crap/trackers (like techcrunch).
Can we derive function extensionality from self types?
This is some A-grade bootlicking.
Yup, that's a sensible conclusion. The article could be an expression of sour grapes bikeshedding.
The other context here is that IE was a competitive browser in its time: 1998-2001. The problem is that it won and then languished. IE had a lot of sway over how developers built things as the market share grew. Then it locked in users in various ways which starved the other competitors.

It took until Phoenix (now Firefox), for there to be something better that grabbed the attention of developers and those sick of being stuck with IE. It became Firefox and Mozilla hatched a pretty effective plan to steal market share. For all of Mozilla's recent failings, we forget (or weren't around to remember) the success of Firefox was pretty impressive as it was a grassroots effort.
I used to be like you describe, mostly because language-specific plugins were a dumpsterfire of hidden complexity, that really slowed down your editing experience.

While some plugins are brilliantly-designed, it takes a long time to learn how to configure one language plugin to your tastes, and that learning is generally non-transferable to other language plugins. (vim-go fits this to the T, ime).

https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale (along with the language-server movement in general) changed my perspective. I now do at least the go-to and autocomplete half of IDE things, now.
Not really, since the hash length is the same. You can end up with infinitely many solutions to a hash, there's no guarantee that the smaller one is the correct one.