skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is why won't they touch it. Unrealistic expectations of high returns kill deals too.

I'd be more than happy to start funding deals with high probabilities of low-to-medium returns. And I know for a fact that those deals exist at the small scale.
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That's correct. The court is partisan and the general trend for each justice is toward the more liberal. Note, however, that in the diagrams contained in the linked wiki article, no justice who starts above 0 (the "conservative" area) ever dips below 0 into liberal territory. Conservatives stay conservative and liberals get more liberal.
South Korea has studies that show re-infection after you get it won't happen in any meaningful way.
And for many of us, these 25 year old warts are a benefit...

Rather than just "fixing" json_decode and breaking backwards compatibility, old code still works.

The business doesn't care about the new shiny. When someone pays to have a simple site developed, they don't want to be paying a contractor in a year to have a bunch of stuff updated so the language it's written in is "more correct" or whatever the overriding reason is to change this. That is completely tangential to what they care about.

I recently went through "modernizing" a 15 year old, 1.93 million line php 5.x app.

We put in a shim for the mysql_ extension as it had been depreciated with 7.x, and fixed up maybe a dozen places where it was doing something exceptionally wacky and then tested like crazy and sent it out the door. Works fine.

The business doesn't care that the code is shit. They care that it makes them a million dollars a month and no matter how gross it is there's no defensible rationale as to why they should stop doing things that make them more money for the next 2-3 years while a team goes through and rebuilds the entire thing to be "more correct".

Something like pyenv/nvm/etc doesn't exist for PHP. You can just install the latest version and with very few exceptions whatever code/library/etc you find will just work. There's a lot more value in that in the real world than "fixing" json_decode.
Fair question! Different folks get different things out of it. Personally, I got into it a few years ago since I have some friends who are into it. It drew me in with all the spectacle, and kept me in with how compelling the long-term storytelling can be.

Lots of people compare wrestling to soap operas, with the overdramatic acting and the constant, several-times-a-week frequency of shows, but really the closest comparison I'd have is something like the current Marvel movie franchise - a silly, bombastic thing that somehow winds up being surprisingly emotionally effective (at times). Of course, much like how there are a lot of bad superhero movies, there is a lot of bad wrestling, but the good stuff can be really good.
The difference there was that the Dreamcast could play burned CD-R copies unmodded, while the PSX needed a hardware mod to break the protection against that, a significant barrier to entry. Later it could be done with a plug-in to the expansion port, but early PSX mod chips required soldering.

The Dreamcast also came four years later, which mattered; many more people had broadband connections capable of downloading a full CD-ROM in 2000 than in 1996.

That said, I agree with your first point - Dreamcast piracy really only became a thing after it was clear it would lose the market battle to the other consoles. Piracy didn't kill it, at most hastened the death by a few months.
You've made a cardinal mistake of not sharing the minutes right after the meeting or, even better, as a last point of the meeting itself. Would that happen, you could reply: "Well, this is what you saw and accepted before."
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I might be wrong but it would make sense to me that the second gen games (Gold/Silver) would share a far bit of code from the first gen (Red/Blue/Yellow). In that sense in this case, the code did infant live longer than the release of the first game.
Didn't everyone learn scientific notation in high school? It's pretty much exactly that, and you could put the coefficient/exponent into whatever bit pattern you'd like.
From the second sentence: "Good contrast makes it easier for people with visual impairments to use products."
Ansible is relying on SSH for security and does not use any homebrew crypto or protocols by default.
That's pretty much my dream setup (except for the 2060, I have no need for anything more than a low-end GPU).

I think some may discount Ryzen 9 because it's technically not "HEDT", but the market boundaries have changed over time.

HEDT used to include all CPUs more $400 dollars, all of which shared the same socket (for a given generation). Mainstream was on a separate socket and all below $400.

However, Broadwell-E and Skylake-X moved the top end of the HEDT from $1K to $2K, which meant that HEDT spanned a huge segment.

What AMD did with Ryzen 9 and X570 was to take the middle segment of that HEDT market and make it it's own segment.
A thread from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084773

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15359574

(Reposts are ok after a year or so.)
You know that higher resolution just means that the text is sharper, not that the font is smaller, right? :-D
My point is that the US never approached anywhere near the level of isolated lockdown/quarantine of China, and the protections get weaker by the day as people get tired, lazy, and complacent. It seems like the virus has already spread greatly, as confirmed by new rounds of testing showing far more infections while the death rate is stabilizing.
Maybe your particular development environment(s) don't use function keys, but I find function keys indispensable when debugging. Most debuggers I use have the function keys mapped for step-over, step-out, and step-into.

The editors and IDEs I use also generally use the function keys for code-search, goto-defintion, and symbol-rename.

For me (and I suspect many others), the lack of tactile function keys is a productivity hit.
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> Many conservatives are not apathetic, nor do they feel less threat.

But IIUC, the study is predicated on research asking about how much of a threat these people feel in the first place. That there are other, significant threats doesn't mean checking the box that says "I don't think COVID-19 is very serious" - or if it does, that's itself interesting.

That said, your post is still important because it's good to remember that even while there are trends, none of these groups of people are homogeneous.
Which year? I found 2016 MBPs awesome to click.
No way this is just a matter of paying a freelancer $50K. If that was it then System76 would have done it and someone would be rich from selling a closed source driver already.

And software doesn't even touch the problem that most of what's wrong with non-Mac touchpads is the universally lousy hardware.
That's a good point, it does seem consistent with that definition.

This other blog post [0] seems to use a stricter definition of lock-free which precludes any way to schedule threads which would cause progress to cease indefinitely. That seems to be what the ConcurrencyFreaks blog refers to as Wait-free.

Any experts in lock-free programming able to clarify things?

[0] https://preshing.com/20120612/an-introduction-to-lock-free-p...
I found it pretty difficult to read because it is so bright and uses lighter font color.
>> I get it that there a large portions of the military who don't show up to play when their widgets stop working.

Ya. Air Force and Navy are defined by their widgets. If the aircraft cannot fly, the air force cannot air force. If the ships don't float, the navy doesn't navy. That's the cultural difference. The army has trouble dealing with 100% reliance on anything. For pilots and sailors such reliance comes natually.
It doesn't "eat into your lungs", and the great bulk of cases are mild.
And then reset itself and stop, which I always found oddly satisfying
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Just curious, why would you pay $500 for AM4 board? Some specific hardware not found in cheaper models?
But it's not a hint to the compiler. It's stating a fact to the compiler. It'll stop compilation.

If I have a basket of fruit, all the items in that basket container are fruit. I can't put anything other than fruit in it. It's a basket of fruit. I know how to interact with the fruit due to its type.

If I am able to put dung into my basket, my fruit is spoiled and I cannot assume how to interact with the objects in the basket.

This is a PHP array without types at the array level. I can put dung into it and have no idea how to interact with it.

Or are you saying that a container of any type is perfectly acceptable? Did the other languages (C++, C#, Java) get it wrong?

eg. on this line can you tell me what the array holds and how I interact with it? What does array $operations hold?

https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/420a8b6209a4e62ede9...
The 8-bit floating point is even easier to understand, since you can list them all in a single page, and even visualize the entire addition and multiplication tables.
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Finding a working code for deep tech research
Dear all,

I would like to share a project I have been working on lately: https://cKnowledge.io .

I try to follow the latest trends in deep tech research (AI, ML, IoT) but often struggle to find working code samples. I also spend too much time trying to understand how to build and run such code, how to change it to work with my data sets, models and hardware, and how to reproduce results.

This motivated me to create an open repository where anyone can connect web pages for research projects with automated workflows, external packages, reproduced results, and notes about how to build, run and customize research code. The prototype is functional and we already indexed ~700,000 web pages.

I continue improving this site in my spare time and will be very interested to know your thoughts and suggestions.

Thank you,
Grigori
> I have the expectation to be able to tell it how to operate

This isn’t a reasonable expectation! Use the product as it’s designed! Work with it not against it!

> I find it tedious to remap lots of keybindings

Well don’t do this then. Why make things so complicated and custom?
I scroll for light-years because of my logitech mx master 2s which has a ball bearing on the wheel so it can go flying.

With a high refresh monitor it's just fun to scroll around!
Wunderlist founder announces a new productivity app called Superlist
Hm that is actually good point. But newer CPUs will pay off with their energy efficiency in comparison to older generations.
I have this to ask about this project:

1) how exactly are you planning to cooperate with upstream (meaning Peter Hutterer, meaning Red Hat)? Suppose someone does the work, then what? libinput has issues open for years, including issues that have patches, how are you going to make sure yours is not going to get buried?

2) if there existed a programmer both capable and willing to pull this off, wouldn’t it make sense for them to set up sponsorship themselves and cut the middleman out?
Care homes have seen the biggest increase in deaths since start of the outbreak
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Maybe but folks have been using vim/ssh since the days of vi/telnet. It’s not a problem under normal conditions.
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Might affect (dumb) uses that rely on the current increasing version number scheme in user agent strings and package/deployment scripts.
Yes, vaccines have side effects, just as any other medication or treatment does. Nobody has claimed otherwise.

The reason your comment is harmful is because you make implications that have no basis in evidence, but which serve to advance dubious claims accepted by a small but growing and very vocal group of antivaxxers that have had a clear negative impact on our society.

If you have some new evidence or analysis to add, please add it. If all you have is fear, uncertainty, and doubt, please don't throw gasoline on this fire.
I was something of a synth expert in the 80s. Built my own analog synths using Paia kits, used giant wall-sized modulars with rats nests of patch cords, programmed Arps, owned a few Korgs. Later I learned the Fairlight, hooked two of its channels up to galvos and did laser shows with it.

But I could never figure out the DX7.
If one was to be brutally fair about this, those so called "GDP" draining states, otherwise known as the Farmers who not only feed the USA but also sell half of their crop abroad, would be far better off as separate countries, with their own currencies and local banks to provide lending, rather than being the source of financial flows that prop up places like New York city.

And in this putative local warlord future that you're imagining for the US, I rather suspect ownership of food production will matter quite a lot.
You are comprehensively wrong. You are wrong about what the comment "essentially" does, you're wrong that they used anything as a "podium", you're wrong to quote them saying something they didn't actually say, and you're wrong to point out your personal problems with a commenter or their background, a point, again, amply supported by the site guidelines.
I've been seeing a bunch of these, too, but mine are almond farms and real estate ventures. Yuck.
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Linux is great on the server. It will never be good on the human interface because hardware and UX trends evolve and fragment faster the tiny user community can afford to support.
If you can reliably determine what companies and securities are fraudulent more accurately than the rest of the market and faster than government entities, then you can use this to make rather a lot of money as a short-seller.
For quite a few of the items in your list, the solution from liberals tends to be "Different government regulations" or "Different beneficiaries of government regulations". Which is quite different from more government.
Yup.

What you really want to know is "how problematic is the noise in this data"?

One way to answer it is to create your own FF sorts [1] and regress your Yahoo-derived factor returns against Ken French's (which come from CRSP/Compustat). If the intercepts are small/statistically insignificant and the R2's reasonable, then you're all set.

The big problem you will hit is survivorship bias in Yahoo!. My own research suggests that the quality is perfectly acceptable, provided you back-fill an unbiased universe (e.g. Russell 3K) from another source.

I'm actually surprised you didn't outperform the market with the survivorship bias. Back test must have covered a very small time period.

[1] https://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/data...
Scroll down here:

https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

There's a rack mount option for the Mac Pro.
There is a new, very nice sounding open hardware FM synth running on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA chip that I really want to build (by René Ceballos, creator of z3ta+) - https://www.futur3soundz.com/

But yes - it has 400 parameters, programming the sounds isn't going to be easy!

I wonder if you could use a neural network to map many parameters into a reduced set of useful controls. Advanced physical modelling synths can have the same issue - too many parameters to meaningfully control while playing.
To answer your question: yes, you imagined that—or more likely you read it about some other forum and it mentally hopped to HN.

Downvoting for disagreement has always been allowed here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574021
> a huge part of the various incentives at play here

Do you have any evidence to support this? Anecdotal evidence will not suffice here. Calling this a 'huge' factor demands empirical evidence.

So what justifies this assertion?
As someone who had never played with Linux before, I stumbled on 20.04 LTS somewhat serendipitously! I'd been thinking about digging out a 7 year old Dell 3137 (11") and putting Linux on it for a while, and I did about a week and a half ago. Throw Ubuntu on a 4GB USB, did "try" for an hour or two, no obvious issues, seamlessly switched to installation. Liked it so much I put it on a much newer 13" laptop after that. (Asus Zenbook Flip S with Intel Core i7-8550U processor.)

The 13" has some issues - battery life, though it's mostly a hardware problem. Known issue that the fingerprint reader has no working drivers. Has frozen maybe half a dozen times and I'm not clear why yet. Not like 100% hard freeze but losing most control - GUI and keyboard typically get funky, then unresponsive. Can still move the mouse pointer around but have to do a hard reboot to break the cycle.

But otherwise it's been really enjoyable. My only experience with Linux so far has been through WSL (the first version) and using bash/zsh on OS X. So many things work just as they do on Windows / OS X. And the most surprising was how well Steam works.

I played Torchlight (2009) and it actually streamed it from my Windows desktop... magically. Then I played Torchlight 2 on the laptop itself and it runs great! I didn't try any really modern games, though.
Thanks. Taking on malloc and being competitive with much less code (mimalloc is around 6k, and it is the smallest I know that is still competitive) would be a great feat. Would be interesting to follow the development.
I don't particularly think it's surprising that results from the study of structure end up applying to other disciplines. The wonder of the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" is really that we've managed to find those bits that line up the best between mathematics and other fields.
https://xkcd.com/1570/

The important math for understanding the foundations of finance and business isn't advanced math. It is accounting - primarily addition, subtraction and simple algebra or calculus 101 for things like interest calculations or discounted value modeling. This basic math also underpins the "fundamentals" of business used in objective, common-sense investing - the kind Warren Buffett is fond of.

Also, "stocks" and math are a classic "the map is not the territory" situation. Math describes stocks and business performance very well but does not define it. A machine learning algorithm trained on historical price data in concert with differential equations of 1,000 variables will historically do no better at investing than buying and holding index funds.

Technical Analysts "quants" would disagree, but alas: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-02/after-qua...

So the thing to focus on isn't going from math -> stock trading. It is to learn accounting and business and basic stock market concepts. Eventually a math background will help, but it's support not the foundation.
I think one of the most interesting methods of business fraud detection is Benford's law. It has been found that natural transactions do abide by this law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
The area where these bats live encompasses Yunnan, Guangxi and Guangdong. I quote:

"Shi, a virologist who is often called China’s “bat woman” by her colleagues because of her virus-hunting expeditions in bat caves over the past 16 years, walked out of the conference she was attending in Shanghai and hopped on the next train back to Wuhan. “I wondered if [the municipal health authority] got it wrong,” she says. “I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.” Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from animals—particularly bats, a known reservoir. If coronaviruses were the culprit, she remembers thinking, “Could they have come from our lab?”"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...

> Bat caves in Yunnan are full of potentially dangerous coronaviruses, but the farmers living close to the caves are already immune to the strains they're in frequent contact with...

They're not going to be immune to newly evolved coronaviruses.

>... so the only way for an outbreak to get big is by long-distance transportation carrying the virus somewhere else.

All it needs is for someone who is infected to travel to the nearest population center.
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Try talking to the guys who keep "improving" location bar. Maybe that will keep them busy for a few releases.
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Any firefox equivalent?
oh X windows, how you haunted my youth. Don't worry, you only need to buy like 11 manuals to make sense of it. :)
The top shell and the bottom shell are thin aluminum but the rest of the laptop is plastic. The bottom assembly is a plastic body screwed into a thin aluminum shell. Unfortunately I don’t have a link but there are reviews on YouTube where people subject it to the “twist test” and the laptop body creaks and visibly twists under light manual force.
I'm pretty aware of the issues with past implementations of line sharing; a competent regulator would be required to iron out these issues. Of course, network neutrality requires a competent regulator as well.

Pricing was a big issue in the past --- where the 'wholesale' per-line tariff charged to the competitive carrier was more than the retail price charged to incumbent customers.

I think, in most cases, new install breaks other user types of issues are related to poor records of which line is used by which customer; that happens within the incumbent as well though (when I got ADSL2 installed, one of my neighbor's connections went out, and pretty soon there were three AT&T trucks on the street to work everything out). That particular issue could probably be solved by allowing the incumbent to manage all the installs and monitoring for install-time customer steering.

The federal mandate no longer covers line sharing, it only covers line leasing for copper telephone service; wherever your premises is directly connected to, if there's space for competitive equipment, the incumbent must make it available. Of course, most telephone companies have moved customers to remote terminals for better speeds, and there's no room for competitive equipment in the remote terminals; and a lot of telephone companies are replacing copper networks with optical networks, and those aren't covered either. The whole concept got submarined by the insistence that it apply to telephone networks and not cable or other "new technology" networks, and then deciding not to apply it anywhere in light of court cases that applying to one and not the other was unfair.
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Crashing on NixOS with "libsecret-1.so.0: cannot open shared object file".
If you have a newer (2015+) MBP with Force Touch, that's actually configurable! Go in System Preferences -> Touchpad -> Point and click, you can choose between "Light", "Medium" and "Firm" clicks. You can also enable just touching to click.

Also, you can just use the bottom part of the trackpad exactly like you'd use a button, it ignores touches if you just rest your thumb on it. Works really well.