skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the questions prospects ask us in meetings is "Company X does this with product Y" when we present our product and talk about a feature.

One question I ask back is: "What is your experience with product Y? Do you use it?"

The answer is invariably: "We don't use product Y." Many prospects tell us about products they don't use, and these prospects are in pain which would make you think that they'd use anything to relieve that pain but they don't.

That's an important point. Many implementations surely exist and people are aware of them, but these implementations do not obliterate an important, costly, problem to dust.

Does your implementation obliterate an important problem to dust?

I disagree that there's nothing new under the sun. Sure, components may be the same, but so is guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, yet these components make so very different creatures.

I think your opinion is valuable, but getting more data is required: have you shown that project to your target audience? Do you have a simple use case. Just one thing that helps a user accomplish a task that would otherwise require time, skill, resources, or all of these? Talking with users is educational to say the least.

In the past, we used to spend months on a feature that would go un-noticed, and the prospect would stop us mid-presentation, call colleagues to the room, and ask us about a feature we hacked together in a few hours. Some things matter to you, others matter. An extreme view that is of course nuanced in real life, but it can move the project forward more than ignoring it does.
Thanks, seems like most is based on a leaked gov memo.
Economy of scale is different when you’re providing a cloud business because your costs (and hopefully revenue) are dominated by the head customers. Imagine a company whose business model isn’t profitable for AWS becomes the next Dropbox. Suddenly the tail can’t subsidize the head. And even if it could, the business is shot.

You always need the head to subsidize the tail (e.g. free trials). You can’t let the head become unprofitable.
If you want an overview of of the state-of-the-art open source networking stack, you can check this last year FOSDEM 2019 presentation by one of the developers of BISDN [1]. Somehow I don't think they mentioned SONiC in their presentation though.

I teach computer networking lab but for now we need to resort using dual boot Linux Switch Appliance (LISA) that uses custom kernel and another vanilla kernel running Quagga on multi-port Ethernet embedded PC. The good thing is that both LISA and Quagga use CLI environment similar to familiar Cisco switch/router IOS. I really wish there is an open source alternative offering that can seamlessly support layer 2 and layer 3 without dual boot, perhaps using Software Defined Networking (SDN) concept with an intuitive CLI.

Recently the new Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) has been integrated with 802.1Q since 2018 (bye-bye TRILL). I reckon any reasonably good Linux based open source layer 2 and 3 network OS player will be extremely popular overnight for enterprise, consumer and education. Together with eBPF this thing should be flying on the new off-the-shelf whitebox supporting 40Gbps multi-port Ethernet. Imagine a LAN or Metro LAN party with this beast :-)

[1]https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/from_closed_t...
Note that this is not for the liquid Soylent drink, but for the powdered version of Soylent.
Cognito? Lightsail? Redshift? CodeStar? Athena? Polly?

There are loads of AWS services that don’t follow any logic, they’re just distinct, easy to spell nouns.
I don't think you can trademark a generic work like "Bear" .. so long as the author isn't using the logos from that app or conflating its brand, it should be fine (IANAL)
Cool. I am sometimes posting for lurkers maybe someone gets inspiration
So he spammed all the piracy sites with a version of the book that turned out, after downloading and reading a third of it, to be incomplete.

As someone who has pirated things in the past and ended up being pissed that it didn’t finish/wasn’t complete/etc. I don’t think that would send me screaming to spend money on it.

Quite the opposite, what this is proving is that providing an intro to your work to prove to the customer that they actually like it (like Amazon’s “try a sample”) is hugely valuable.
yes and no. the usual rule is that you're allowed the "basic installation" of the OS and GPU drivers present on a demoparty computer. the fractal geometry example is a poor one since fractal geometry requires minimal shader code to generate, but if you were to trace a modern windows 4k demo it does probably run at least a few MB (if not tens of MB) of executable code between the shader compiler, the GPU driver upload process, etc.
There's definitely a demographic of that culture that comes across as having a very angsty, "hack the planet damn the man" attitude. A surefire way to stoke that anger is to involve them in any kind of process that results in profits being generated.

Zealotry is great when you've got ample time on your hands, but some folks have work to get done and bills to pay, i.e. the authors who's books OP is stealing...
There's Apple as well, and with the continued decline of Firefox market shares (both absolute and relative), their importance increases. Everywhere where Firefox runs, Chrome can also be installed, so you can just tell users to install Chrome, while it's not possible to do so with iOS devices.

The rendering engine of Safari is similar to blink but not the same. And more importantly, Apple has the money to finance WebKit coming forward, as well as the willpower as they love to implement things themselves. I'm not so sure about how well Mozilla will do in the future compared to Apple.
oh interesting! Yeah I actually hadn't been to their landing page in a long time, totally agree with your there (and feel like it doesn't do their actual blog product justice - to my tastes at least their blogs are perfect, low-key but elegant and very readable).
The AI effect: AI gets a bad rap because once something exists and is practical it's no longer called AI.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
On how "any latency is too much latency" when playing music together - I read that even a very large room, where musicians are far enough apart, can introduce noticeable latency and disrupt being in sync.

That impressed me about the low threshold of latency needed, if the distance of less than a hundred meters can be too much for sound to travel between players.

I'm hopeful that latency will continue to reduced, as much as technologically (and physically) possible. Real-time jamming over the wire will continue to improve.
Really cool, but I hoped to see C++ code for OpenCV, not python
So how do you add or withdraw money from Novi?
I don't think we're regressing as a whole, but current penetration is fairly low, so odds of moving to a company with IPv6 is low, and if you moved from a company with IPv6, you're likely to lose it.

Some ISPs consider it critical, but most don't. If they have enough IPv4 addresses, given that there's no high profile IPv6 only things, and that Happy Eyeballs is fairly well implemented, only a couple people are going to notice. Also, given the success some large networks are having with deploying IPv6, there's less pressure on IPv4 resources.

Happy Eyeballs itself is a compromise --- it hides broken configurations, so people who could fix things might not notice / be told IPv6 is broken, but it also hides broken configurations so people who can't fix things don't just turn off IPv6 forever, which leads to higher use when it does work.
Like the Tesla turbine, an engine with only one moving part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_turbine

(When I was a kid this thing was mythological and now it has a Wikipedia page. What a world!)
> No shit.

I think you could have gotten your point across without the rudeness. Talking to people like that creates a toxic environment.

I fully agree that there is no way I'm giving that info to FB. I noped out of running ads with them because they wanted my ID. My privacy is invaded enough by them, no thanks.
When to Assume Neural Networks Can Solve a Problem
What I think is different between video games and tabletop RPGs is that video games have the additional constraint of packing as much as possible in the least amount of text.

With the possible exception of visual novels, no player likes walls of text, efficiency is key. In tabletop RPGs, detailed descriptions are often desireable, and not only that but GMs have to respond to players. For example, a PC may decide to rob the NPC, because why not. And now you have a whole lot of stuff to deal with: how rich the NPC is, how willing to fight, what are his relationships with other NPCs,... Video games simply won't let you do things that are not programmed.

In the article, dialog is limited to 3-4 lines. One of these tells you what your next quest is "I hear there’s a mirror in the Fire Mountains that can block its flames.". And another one mentions a red dragon. It means you only have two lines to establish a character, and if you can do it in one that's better.
I didn't say that.

But if people are on unemployment because they were laid off, then are offered their job back and refuse to come back to work... that's a different matter.

The idea that some people seem to have is that we can simply pay everybody a living wage regardless of whether they are doing any work. I think we've tried this out several times in the past.
It looks like they go from tree -> sequence via prefix notation. I'm curious why Lample decided on this seq2seq approach when it seems that there might be models which could be more naturally applied to the tree structure directly [1, 2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07282 (an AST translation system)

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02907 (GCNN)
This is the story/source:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/maggie-stiefvater-really-its-...

Non-FB: https://www.thepassivevoice.com/a-story-about-piracy/

Author Maggie Stiefvater regarding her work The Raven King.
I would love to learn how unpredictability can be leveraged as a positive. Any tips?
Spotify finally removes its 10k-song library limit
The attempt at a “gotcha” is annoying. I can only speak from my lived experience as a white person who grew up on a reservation. I married a native, and almost all my closest friends were (and are) natives. Everyone I knew called themselves “native” or “Native American”. “American Indian” wouldn’t have been considered offensive (unlike “redskin”), but it really wasn’t the common parlance. The only place one would routinely see the phrase “American Indian” is on government paperwork, eg from the BIA.

This is one of those things you can find out for yourself: go to a pow-wow (non-native visitors are typically very welcome) and ask the people there how they usually refer to themselves.
The issue is that it's ratios, not fractions. 1:3. You take 1:3 and 1:3 and it's still 1:3 or 2:6. You haven't changed the ratio for this at all by showing it as fractions, it's simply being represented and presented without correct context.
Someone mentioned on this thread using CS to teach math. What you have just described here is the fact that the + operator can be overloaded.

Wonder if the kids can grasp that concept though.
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What are the economics of this?

Presumably you are paying web hosting fees out of pocket. If this is successful, what's the plan for when you no longer want to be that charitable?
True, but the point is not to produce a direct analogy--merely an existence proof.
> Folks like the OP won't support writers.

OP bought the book?
But part of that is because they are part of the elite with the resource stockpile that comes with that status. If you are starting with zero or -30k then the math for community college ain’t so bad
So if this takes off I'm going to be at a disadvantage because I don't use facebook?
In the "Buffer A" tab there is a SAMPLE_COUNT variable. Turning that to 1 will probably enable you to run it on your potato of choice, as long as it has a browser.
I think it does hurt. Some wouldn't buy anyway. But the mindset has changed.

If you do the right thing, you're out say $30 for a book. If you do the wrong thing, you get the book and still have your $30. Some people don't care about others, and that mindset continues. (its kinda a Tragedy of the commons where the "common" is the market place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons).

DRM makes it worse, not only did you do the right thing and buy the book, now its not as useful as the copy someone "didn't pay for". So pushing people toward the free and better.
If you want something similar that you can self-host, try Yellow by Datenstrom: https://datenstrom.se/yellow/
Not a big fan of this pattern. I feel like the state of the application should be maintained in the usual way, with just some struct fields or global variables. It is easy for any reader of the code to understand what is meant by a statement like `bytesReceived += msgLen`. To observe this state, you can have a function that reads and exports bytesReceived, on demand and when/if needed. This provides for the best flexibility and maintainability of the system, since you will be able to change your observability stack at a later time, or have more than one of them, without changing the stats-keeping statements at the point where they appear in the application code. This also provides the best scalability and performance since you are able to aggregate separate counters from multiple threads, if needed, minimize or optimize locking, etc.

The problem is there are a lot of off-the-shelf observability frameworks for Go that require the pattern in the article: you emit a value to a hook function at the point of production. This sucks at any reasonable scale because you are now required to just take a global lock (or write a channel, which is the same thing) every time you record a value. This is a significant contributing reason why Go servers fall apart when given access to more than a handful of CPU cores.
My impression is it's similar to physical books. Libraries buy/rent them per copy and loan them out at an equal rate. So authors should get paid similarly to if a citizen bought it from the store. Except if the library already acquired the book, then them leasing it to you does not give the author any money.
I think someone in the comments of that thread said Maxis was the original publisher, and looking it up I do see Cinematronics listed as developers.

However, the taskman OP didn’t necessarily say that he wrote Space Cadet pinball, he said he “wrote/ported Space Cadet pinball, zip folders, . . .” My money is on him porting SC pinball, not writing it
Thanks :) We're working on a new one as we're redoing the whole UI. @danielschramm is writing it.
If you want to expose BQ directly yes.
Just wanted to write the same thing... after wondering why the phrase about who aided the KGB's disinformation campaign didn't make sense...
Whoops, should’ve gone with the BMW i3 as my comparison vehicle.
Article was last changed 16 hours ago. For me, it reads "I also wrote/ported Space Cadet pinball […]".

I am replying 14 minutes after you. Please explain.
Did piracy really kill OReilly's previous business model? I was sad when they morphed into a weird subscription service
One could explain the mistake to have different units on both side without fractions at all:

1+1=1

One shoe plus one shoe equals one pair of shoes.

Once they grasp that explaining the fraction issue should be easier.
I'm sorry! Based on context, I understood your post to refute mine to support sneak. And sneak and I have had heated debates about the Fediverse before, and you've stumbled into the latest one. :)

In the future, it would definitely help me and others understand your motivation better if you could even include one more sentence in your communication like "Just here for a correction: some instances are transparent..."

I will strive to be more charitable.
High-performance garbage collection for C++ · V8
Yes, in trigonometry sin^2(x) is commonly written to mean (sin(x))^2
Yeah I thought this article would be about companies that just barely make back their marketing spend, but then in the long-term reach success from being big/getting brand value.
> exceptional guesser

Considering neural networks are inherently maximizing probabilities and statistical descriptions of data, this should come as no surprise. This work has not dissolved the dichotomy between rules-based and statistical methods, but rather transmuted the syntax of rules-based expressions into a representation that can be exploited by statistical machines in a way that makes "guessing" more fruitful.

There are some examples near the end of the paper showing how the authors take an initially intractable expression and are able to simplify it with their approach so that Mathematica can actually perform the integral for them. It seems much more appropriate to market this method as a preprocessor for massive expressions to a more chewable size.
KDE Plasma Mobile Update April-May 2020
Why do/did you go for runtime reflection for all that? I thought you would use it for external scripting or mods or things like that, but not for eg serialization. I guess I am missing something.

Everyone misses compile time reflection because it solves many use cases easily (like serialization) without having to go for a complex solution or incur in performance penalties of runtime reflection. In contrast, I doubt many people care about general runtime reflection which I’d expect to be a mess in C++ and most likely not as fast as people wanted.
Yeah, Amazon's ebook buying experience is about as seamless as one could ask for. I do not think the ebook buying experience has anything to do with why paper books are still around.
You absolutely can trademark a generic word for specific circumstances. That’s why I can’t set up a computer shop called Apple. It was also the subject of many lawsuits between Apple Computers and Apple Records.
How to Scale an Application Security Program – Parts One and Two
Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
Mozilla is largely a for-profit corporation.

Their end goal is profit. Same for their execs: maximize their own profit individually.

Once this is understood it's easier digest PR bulshit.
Hi, author here.

I'm a fan of KakaoTalk and I specifically include them in the visual: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q...

I think you're referring to where I quoted Ben Thompson, but he was speaking in a specific sense: that there it nothing like WeChat in the sense of being an OS for an entire nation (not simply being a super app). More context around the quote is here: https://stratechery.com/2017/apples-china-problem/

The quote is indeed a bit dated though, I'll grant that -- is KakaoTalk that dominant in SK now?
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The Many-Worlds Theory, Explained
ERC tokens have existed for about half a decade.
> Not to mention that their browser has been the pioneer on telemetry.

That's patently false. It pales in comparison to the telemetry sent by Edge:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/study...
Sublime Text 4 dev builds (with public download links for Linux, Windows and Mac) are announced on their Discord [0]. If you're using Arch, or just want a quick download link to the probably most recent Linux build, see [1]. I believe a valid ST3 license is required.

[0] https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/sublime-text-discord-server/...

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sublime-text-4-dev/
Remember the Fire Phone? Android without Google didn't go so well for Amazon.
I think you implied an analogy between your phone carrier and Twitter / Wikipedia that doesn't hold water.

Your phone carrier is a service provider that is constrained by the FCC. Twitter is one of many broadcast sites one could go via a phone carrier. But the US, to my knowledge, has never recognized anything approximating a right to broadcast. Not even freedom of the press implies freedom to spew signal over the airwaves, for instance (because the radio spectrum is finite and shared).

Freedom of the press has never implied freedom to use someone else's press, and telecommunications hardware providers aren't in the same category. If your phone carrier cuts you off, nobody on the Internet can read your signal; if Twitter cuts you off, they've merely taken their megaphone out of your hands.
That'd be evidence for CGPGrey being wrong, then. But I'd still love to see statistics on what proportion of people found the existence of the Redskins to be offensive.
It would be simpler to have something like a google drive / dropbox where you allow access to store things on there to specific apps. Then you allow the data to be retrieved by another app. If the storing app does an export (say in csv format) each time you make changes then the data will always be available for another app to use.
I think requiring an app to use a specific external database probably wont work because app developers have specific needs for each app, perhaps xml or key-value pairs etc. The app is then relying on a third party to provide the performance / latency they need. If a universal database could be chosen I would choose sqlite since that is available on phones.
Designing My Side Hustle
I don't know if I necessarily buy some of this articles arguments. It mentions the effects of stay at home, such as increases in deaths of despair. Wouldn't that also have gone up because many of those might've been caregivers or breadwinners of a family? And for the domestic abuse (which imo is the worst), a lot of those victims were already undergoing mental abuse since that's largely a precursor to physical and these reports already should've been happening because imo mental abuse is equal to physical, it's just that people are less likely to report this behavior. It just has such long lasting effects. I can't back up either of those claims, so maybe I'm being dumb, but those two takes seem a bit strange. The stats on cancer or heart related treatment seems to be backed up though, so I can't comment on that.

The real issue with all of this is that the Trump administration is incompetent and American government in general is reactionary and only promotes policies that are selfish. Its been known for years that people have no safety net, just put on NPR and like once a week this comes up, and it's always been known that small businesses really aren't racking in the cash to stay afloat for a long time without money. The government just needs to step up and support people, with health care for all, with long term financial assistance, and they need to increase taxes to do this. They are sort of doing it now with checks, but that's going to go away once the pandemic is over and everybody who is not in tech or generally upper middle class will go back to being on edge because one disaster will eff to their lives.

You also can't blame this on epidimiologists. They provide their assessment and policy makers have to weigh those options with all the other ones and come up with a strategy. That'd be like be like blaming the person who came up with the hail marry when it is a coach's decision to use it every play.
The need for space colonization must be argued for, not assumed
It makes perfect sense, everyone knows:

0^0 = 0

1^0 = 1

0^1 = 1

1^1 = 0
> “By using specific math problems as a test to see where machines succeed and where they fail, we can learn how neural nets work.”

XOR and Spiral benchmark was studied in neural networks since 70's.
Not even that it’s about signaling. A Harvard education is no better than the other top 50 schools but it signals elite status to future employers and clients.