skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. You could as well use a load balancer to proxy incoming requests to your own pool of backend "functions"/processes each linked to eg. nghttp2. Would have the benefit that your "functions" can be executed independently, or from the command line, like CGIs.
I like using SAVIHost when toying around with VSTs in standalone mode (if they do not offer one): https://www.hermannseib.com/english/savihost.htm
No, the kernel is just linux
That nonsense again. You are explicitly encouraged to sell free software. Take it up with the English language that "free speech" does not mean I get radio advertisements for free.
As I'd have expected, it seems providing an explanation does indeed reduce the likelihood the user will break the rules in future, and make them more likely to contribute in future.

Surprised there wasn't much difference between a human provided reason and a bot provided one though (and in fact, the latter performed slightly better). Wonder what the reason behind this could be?

> s.Our results show that controlling for other factors,explanations provided by automated tools or bots are associated with higher odds of moderatedusers posting in the future

Either way, I always make sure to provide an explanation why a piece of content was removed on any site I manage, with the sole exception of obvious bot submissions (since the latter are literally incapable of understanding feedback).
Even RMS, in the past, did not object to all proprietary code. For example games that are a work of art could in some ways be seen as something that might not be modifiable by the end use. He has changed his mind on a lot of topics over the years and I'm not 100% sure about his current thoughts on the matter, but he has definitely said that there are some things where it might not make sense to have software freedom.

However, with respect to the GamBoy itself, the issue is that when I buy a GameBoy, I am not able to inspect it, nor am I able to correct it if it is not not working properly. The GameBoy is not unethical in itself. It is forcing your customers to accept a "No user serviceable parts" license in terms of the software that is deemed unethical. Not being able to inspect the code to see what it is doing may have ramifications for the user -- perhaps not so obvious on a device that has no network, but it is where it starts.

One of the big problems with the Free Software movement, IMHO, is that it has been confused as being a software creation issue. It is not. It is 100% a consumer rights issue. One of the most important parts of free software is that if I did not give my software to you, then I have no responsibilities towards you at all. If I don't give you a binary, then I never have to give you source code. If you get the binary from somewhere else, I still don't have to give you source code -- the person who gave you the binary does.

This is about choosing a license that treats your customer well and about nothing else at all. For decades people have wittingly and unwittingly attempted to spin this as some frothing at the mouth religious issue. It is not. It is purely a consumer rights issue.
Worst.deal.ever.
5G is a transmission technology so end-to-end encryption isn't useful there. You need end-to-end encryption at the application level.
isn't this effectively like android now?
Yes, YC is amazing and I'll probably drop out when (if) I get in. At the moment I'm going to an Ok-ish UC (university of california) and hoping that I'll be able to prove to better colleges that I can bring in big donations later on :) and transfer there before I drop out so at least I'll be able to say "I went to X good college"
No, for like 13 years. May have been sending a patch or two a year, but nothing more. Been more active in my teenage years.
LXQT based Lubuntu has been perfect for a lightweight VM to me as I couldn't deal with the Tiny Core Linux's compatability issues with Virtual Box.

QT is the recommended framework for app development in Ubuntu Touch and other smartphone Linux OS; Postmarketos uses KDE Plasma.

All these would be in extreme trouble if Qt goes ahead with this plan.
Too much transparency can result in people "gaming the system" if the full workings are known.
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There are a ton of tutorials available, I’d suggest watching a few yourself, make sure it’s for the same version or one that’s similar to the one you’re going to use and that it shows modeling something a bit interesting.

3D modeling is a lot of fun and really not that hard to get started in as long as you get past the initial hurdle.
But you have to avoid generating nitrogen compounds... And if there's water vapor, also hydrogen to think about.

But a solar powered ozone generating ion wind propelled plane perpetually flying high up there certainly sounds cool.

It could also act as a communications relay.
It keeps saying "some lithium-ion batteries".

>a comparable energy capacity and cycling ability to some lithium-ion batteries

Is that just covering their asses, or does this only perform as well as the worst-performing lithium-ion batteries?
Neither am I a mathematician, but I'll try.

I think it is because of outliers and how diatributions can look like, if you only know the mean.

1. A single extreme outlier can move your mean far away from where you would expect it to be, seeing all the other values.

2. If you see the mean alone, you might thing values are around that value, but not even a single value has to be anywhere cloe to the mean. For example: 1 1 1 1 9 9 9 9 → means is 5. Pathological example, but you can mix the numbers however you want and there are infinitely more examples, where the mean could mislead you.

3. The mean is part of the arguments to the formula of a Gaussian (bell shaped curve, normal distribution). The other is the standard deviation. So if you know the mean, you have already some valuable info on the bell shaped curve. You already know where its center is. That is, why giving the mean makes sense in that case.

Surely others can put it better or add lots of reasons.
It is true, but I last heard this a few years ago, and have absolutely no evidence. One of them has also since retired from the MET.
That's not the typical problem in AV's trolley problem, nobody argues (publicly) "the driver should always be first". You don't even need the driver to play a role, you can use an AV truck, train or drone.

"Your brakes are gone, you cannot decrease speed. You are on a collision course with 10 people who are crossing the street. You can slightly alter your direction to run over one person instead."

You can alter that as required, put a dog in the other lane. Or an old person. If you want to go deeper: put a light car in the other lane with the assumption that the driver of that car has a 10% chance to survive.

Give http://moralmachine.mit.edu/ a try, they've set up a few different scenarios. "None of this will ever happen, the car will simply learn to fly and avoid the accident" is not an option unfortunately.
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Working in Japan security breaches can and do happen, but when they do the government has the ability to fine said corporation or even force them to cease offering services for a period of time.

I get the distinct impression that US companies largely face no consequences for data breaches and when they do it's fines that equate to less than a percent of their annual profits. Unless something changes there is very little incentive to start taking this stuff seriously.
It depends on game/implementation but client wouldn't really roll dices on their sides. Someone shooting a bullet that does 5-10 damage would tell server to shoot bullet and server would reply "you did 7 damage"

Especially on an mmo, there is no point telling a player that his next fireball spell will also trigger a "random chance to put a burn status on target". The client would start casting a fireball, which takes a second to cast and in that 1 second duration the server would decide what is the damage and if the spell is going to apply burn and by end of 1 second, you would get that information so you can see the damage values and burn icon on enemy

It is better to keep clients dumb if possible
That’s what the inertial dampeners are for :)
One of the problems with them in their current form, however, is that while this is going on inactive sodium crystals tend to build up on the surface of the negatively-charged electrode, the cathode, which winds up killing the battery. Additionally, sodium-ion batteries don't hold as much energy as their lithium-ion counterparts.
Thanks. The whirlwind of changing benefits of various frameworks can be rather confusing. I do wonder how much this matters for most apps and at what cost of complexity it brings. But advancements in the field is a obvious good thing.
This is not my experience at all, and people without a degree I worked with were better learners.
Make it so only one entry per IP address? The script would very quickly run out, assuming they couldn't spoof (not sure how easy it is to spoof IP addresses).
tl;dr The author worries that Facebook data breaches suggest unfixable infosec problems at the company.

My response:

Data breaches are a secondary concern. Facebook has too much data for anyone to exfiltrate a large percentage of it.

The primary bad actor is Facebook itself, which can analyze and operate on all of that data (to share with governments, partners, or psychological experiments).
There's a universe of uses for batteries. Really depends on what you want it for.

For the average person using consumer products they are usually concerned with energy density and cost. Apart from electric cars most companies don't really care about no. of cycles, especially for phones.
I think the sentiment is very U.S. specific. The US seems to have higher education system with some peculiarities. They have the best universities but also some shady ones and it can be expensive.

Obviously if you just want quick vocational-type training, you don't need university level education. But then you should not be the one having problems with procrastination or self-discipline either. Most students in universities are there because they would not study or learn difficult or uninteresting subjects if left on their own. You also need to learn to communicate verbally and in writing with your peers. Knowing stuff but not being to able to communicate and work with others leads directly to low level jobs.
The words are chosen so that they sound dissimilar to each other, and they have an unamibiguous spelling and and pronounciation. They also ideally need to be words that won't come up in normal speech. The actual meaning is irrelevant.

So mega/giga would be undesirable as they sound similar, and beceause many people pronounce giga as "jigga". And "Ten" is just terrible, what is someone is reading out an alphanumeric string?
I think you're right in many scenarios, but in the VC/startup world it def. seems to matter. I've been relentlessly reading people's stories and have been looking into how to get internships at various VC/tech companies and it always comes down to: which college you're going to.

Nuro for example had this open house that exclusively invited Harvard/MIT students (i snuck in) and I'm sure there's a lot of similar opportunities that are open to kids in these colleges.

In the long term, I'm sure it'll fade away, but starting out matters as to where you will end up (whether you go to X startup or get to work for X VC)
Not at HN, where this is discussed, and also not considering that the article being discussed is hosted on a github page.
Interesting fact that might have affected his works and ultimately millions seeing them.

Christo's father was a prominent chemical textile manufacturer in Bulgaria and Christo was probably exposed to fabrics and textile rolls very early in his life.
> Song and his team believe they may have come up with a solution to these shortcomings.

(Not sure what you're getting at here.)
I feel like headless blender could be kind of interesting...maybe someone should start a bug?

Edit: good thing I searched the bug tracker. Next step, Selenium for Blender!
Incidentally the Allwinner F1C100s used in this business card (https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871026) contains an ARM9 series core clocked at 900MHz alongside 32MB of on-die DDR1, is designed for dashcam-type applications (SDIO, LCD, USB2 OTG, no PHY) and the author of the linked article was able to buy them for $1.42 each.

I've long been curious about MIPS from a hobbyist/tinkerer/maker perspective and would be very interested to know what silicon I might select at a similar price point.
Related, from earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23371537
Recent context on sodium batteries: https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/a-battery-technology...
It reads a little like your are misunderstanding what is meant by “paid to go to university”. Danish citizens receive a grant called “SU” (Statens uddannelsesstøtte), which basically is a payment from the government for being enrolled in education. It is meant to be spend on food, rent, living, books etc

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_Denmark
Debt is how much (negative) money you have. Net worth also takes non-monetary assets into account. If you take out a loan to buy a house your debt increases but your net worth is constant.
Imagine a hospital where the only patients are either mothers, or babies. All the babies are in the age range zero to 2 months, and the mothers are in the range 16 to 40 years old (mostly). If you compute the average age, it comes out at 12 years old.

What has the average told us? It has told us nothing because it's meaningless with a bi-modal distribution.

For more info read up on the normal distribution, guassian distribution, bi-modal distributions, and the central limit theorem.
Ask HN: How do you maintain your mental health as a solo founder?
Hey everyone. Last year, I was (thankfully) fired from my job and decided to go full time on my side project. I've been doing 4 figures MRR which allows me to live well enough.

Thing is, back then I thought to myself "Great! now I can put everything into my project and improve it massively", but I found that when it was "just a side project" it was easier for me to work on it than it is now. The less I work on it the more pressure I feel to work on it which in turns makes me work on it less.

Luckily for me (or not?), it's providing me with passive income, but I have this nagging feeling that 'someone else would have done so much better than me'. When I had a co-founder on my last startup this burden was shared and also I had someone to be accountable to. Now I'm kinda lost in that regard and I'm doing everything I can to stay busy on other things and not my main source of income.

Has anyone been in this kind of situation? How'd you get out?

Kind of a plug but when I searched for a place to talk about this (and many other issues) I couldn't find one. I'm trying to see if more people need such a place, so if you do, you can visit https://solocity.net and sign up. It's not a product or anything just trying to see if there's a place for a community of solo founders that are interested in helping each other out.
I know incredibly smart and wise people without a degree, and I also know incredibly dumb people with a degree. A degree is not a guarantee for intelligence and wisdom, but it is most often a guarantee for vanity covering shortcomings.

Almost all knowledge (and more) can be learned for free on the internet nowadays. I'ts only for a specific category of professions where a degree is mandatory. I never expect a great professional to have a degree, because the real defining quality cannot be learned at a university. You cannot express what you are not. You cannot become an Einstein by doing 5 years of university, but they love to make you believe that shit.

I am not against higher education at all, but the term 'degree' is pretty worthless if you want to measure mastery.
> But the countries hailed for high gun ownership and low gun crime like Switzerland have some hefty gun control.

Middle of Nowheretown USA (and Canada for that matter) tends to have astronomically high gun ownership rates and astronomically low "gun crime" or any violent crime other than domestic violence and people who are known to each other engaging in fisticuffs over preexisting disputes. I don't think it's the mandatory class you need to pretend not to sleep though and bureaucratic red tape that's keeping people from shooting each other. It's the lack of a society and economy (victim supply) capable of sustaining a "large enough to show up in the statistics" number of career violent criminals that keeps violent crime and therefore gun crime low in both places.
Lots of anecdotes here. So I will add mine.

I did a 2 year technical diploma program and went to work as an electronics technician. I was good, got promoted fast, started fixing a lot of mistakes the degreed engineers were making. I got pretty far without a degree but eventually hit a ceiling because credentialism was strong at the company. So I went back to college, a good private college, paid for by my employer. It was hard, because I was working longer and longer hours since I was good and they counted on me, while taking classes part time. The classes I took taught very little and did nothing for me except that finally getting my degree I could break through the credentials ceiling.

So...if you are going to work for a company that values credentials then you need the degree and I think it is better to go straight from high school to college instead of doing it the hard way like I did.
I've worked with a guy that didn't finish his studies (started working out of university/ during 1st year and completely neglected it until they expelled him). He was surprisingly good though as in he had a solid theoretical foundation, knew the inner workings of a compiler (this was relevant for the project we worked on) etc.

Also at my former company there was a principal computer scientist who was quite proud that he didn't have a university degree; I didn't work with him much but he was obviously fairly accomplished, career-wise. So that worked fine for him.

Most people are not like that, though; even though in theory you can study everything by yourself nowadays, I find that in practice people who didn't go to university often tend to have a fairly narrow & shallow field of expertise ("narrow" = don't have experience with many different things/ often focus on one language and a few sets of related technologies; "shallow" = they often don't understand too many layers of abstraction, and get completely lost if they need to go too deep). This is perfectly fine at the start of your career, but as years go by (like, 20years in, when you're still only mid-career) I can't imagine this working too well; unless maybe you switch to management?
Hey!

Science Advances has an Impact Factor over 12.

Publishing in this journal is a career making milestone. Our university prepares a press release for anything over 10ish. To get into Science proper you need resources that almost nobody has, including years video editing experience and dedicated staff to produce the rotoscoped videos Eric Betzig shows.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23375064

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You are given money (5.435 dkk monthly after tax) for attending university in Denmark and pay no tuition. This is in stark contrast to most other countries.
The comparison might be emotional unacceptable at a time like this, but I think its worth using all that studies that exist on human violence in order to understand human behavior.

Predicts markers in this topic, ie traits of people that allow someone looking at a set of data to make a prediction about who end up killed by the police and who doesn't, would not list racism at the top. If I attempt an simplified meta analyze on the research, I would list at the top gender which the human brain determine at an exceptional speed. Second are social economic status symbols and signals. After that and in third place I would place in-group association with either minority or majority groups, ie the result of racism, homophobia, xenophobia and so on.

Prediction models don't have a narratives. You get a set of data and after that you should be able to make risk profiles that match future data sets. If given 1000 people in a given area, a prediction model would pull out risk profiles of who are more likely to end up being killed by the police. Statistically over time the risk profiles would then match the outcomes. Those with lowest risk profile of getting shot by the police would, if we follow the above ordering: female, high status, and part of a majority group. Highest risk would be male, low status, and part of a minority group.

What we want to do with such model is a separate issue, including if we want to apply it to the current events. I would note that gender, social economic status and in-group association all effects how the brain perceive threats and get amplified in threatening situations.
I don't have a CS degree (or any degree for that matter), but I did review a CS degree program requirement and class materials. They do cover important stuffs. It's just that it doesn't take 4 years to learn them.

Required classes for a CS curriculum I reviewed were: discrete math, data structure, algorithm, computer architecture, programming language, operating system.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527500 disagrees.
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For context, the author Chris Olah is a researcher at Open AI, who I think is one of the most clear and thoughtful writers in the space. He has a lot of articles on understanding ML models, and pioneers new methods of visualizations and interactivity to improve understandability of these models. If you're interested in the field I would highly recommend reading some of his articles on his blog or on distill.pub, a publication that he helped found with the express purpose of improving clarity of ML research.
You made the right choice. I just graduated, and can feel the effects already with my offers. More importantly, I made many valuable friendships, connections, and learned a ton of theory while publishing papers - all much harder to gain in the real world. Have a great time, and good luck!
Despite all that, Japanese IT data security is a joke though. They all talk the talk here but most systems I've seen are held together by sticks and glue on the backend. If I didn't live here I wouldn't dream of giving my data to a Japanese firm.
It is quite common where I live (France).

Personally, I've been working for ~9 years now, I worked for my first employer for a bit more than 5 years, my current job being the second job in my professional life. And I have a few friends still working for my first employer and who started there at roughly the same time as me. IIRC, my team leader actually started working for this company the same years I was born.

In my current job, I think I'm the only one in my team without the "5 years reward trophy".

At the same time, I've seen a few friends switching jobs every 2 to 3 years, but it tends to be more an early career thing and they settle after 2 or 3 jobs.

You have people who are jumping from job to job, but it's not the majority (at least for profession like Engineering, fields like Retail or Logistic is another matter).
Completely field dependent. What is your field?
I'm late to the party, but wanted to say I really liked the slight tilt on the wonderful floating buttons, with their gentle shadow and floaty-but-satisfying animation.

Great page and excellent attention to the little details that makes it feel like it was made with love :)