skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transitioning away sounds easy: https://hey.com/faqs/#if-i-don-t-like-hey-can-i-export-my-em...
I can reformat whitespace, if I care to read through a piece of mis-aligned code, but that's not at all the criticism here. You missed my point entirely.

This is like putting wooden wagon wheels on an F1 race car, and then complaining that people should appreciate the sleek lines of the car and stop commenting about the wheels.

The code posted on GitHub is wasting the effort and the talent that went into this algorithm. It's optimising for brevity, something utterly useless, over utility, which is essential.
Not saying the trend will continue, but brain drain isn't a new phenomenon to Taiwan specifically, with a reported one-tenth of Taiwan's semiconductor engineers not just working mainland companies but living there too. Despite risks, the pay, no language barrier, and a purposefully generous immigration policy (full residency rights to all Taiwanese) help.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/Taiwan-loses-3-0...
Like the nuclear agreement, where only a small subset of countries rushed into having nuclear weapons and restricted others from having any, and now it is extremely unfair to other countries to not have the power but others do and enjoy having the weapon superiority.

No international agreement will survive war, they are just used to suppress and bully countries.
Not sure I agree. Most coding is maintenance. Far better to adapt to whatever the coding style convention is.

I also believe that formatters should be "light-touch" and not have an opinion about every last thing. At that point I start thinking, "if you so smart, why don't you write the bloody code!"
This detracts from the point of the article. The author is not writing a program, nor is he aiming for "perfect correlation". He is noting a series of observations and proposing some connections between them, as is often the case with writings about society. If we take a level of rigor that works for sub-100KLOC algorithms running on dozens of cores and try to apply it to millions of interacting neural networks, each with 100 billion neurons, there will hardly be any writings about society.
that is steep . but nowhere even remotely near to the lock-in that apple has in its ecosystem, so not sure how it s relevant
Generating literary style parodies of _Harry Potter_ using GPT-3
Wikipedia’s sources are Wikipedia’s. I’m asking you to post some specific links here in the discussion so we can discuss them. We already discussed your last batch of Wikipedia sources and found them inconclusive and lacking. If you’d like to discuss specific links, then link me to the specific original source and we can look at them. I am open to being convinced, but only you know what sources you’re finding so convincing. Simply saying you already posted them is a dodge because we already discussed the Wikipedia page you linked, but you don’t say which sources in that article you are referring to. Please clarify so we can all be on the same page together.
Climate Change in the Age of Numbing
Wow, I find it amazing how some innocent founders find their posts/tweets/etc blocked, ignored or shadowbanned and somehow, if you're someone, you get attention everywhere for free.

Doesn't seem very fair. I thought at this point hacker news' spam detectors would flare up and stop bumping everything 'Hey' to the top.

Not trying to put on a tinfoil hat but, there is simply no way in hell to get this level of PR and attention unless a significant portion of all Hey activities have been carefully and methodically planned for weeks and months.

I deal with the same difficulties myself and the App store mafia cut is a real problem but I just don't think I'll ever be able to trust them again with such aggressive PR tactics.
Very frustrating working in Xcode because it doesn't support a code formatter out of the box. Some extensions do a passable job but randomly break when I have multiple versions of Xcode installed.
A completely irrelevant one
>And regarding removing the bar allowing more people through, that's not true either--it's not like colleges all of a sudden have more seats available. They'll still only admit the same number of students, and they will still select for the best students.

But white people tend not do as well on the SATs, but they do fine with GPAs.

Now they can let more white people into the school and they don't have to explain the SAT discrepancies because they aren't measuring for that.
The only choice there is is what registry you cede the control of your traffic to.

It does not matter if it's ccTLD like .io or something else like .xyz, or some kind of second-level domain like github, gitlab, facebook or whatever.

Would it matter if news.ycombinator.com got shorted to news.yc? I seriously doubt it. Still it is already shortened -- try putting into the "address bar".

One can argue that TLDs lost their meaning already, because it's easier to google the brand than to guess what funky suffix they choose to have.
VPN users get IPs from a small pool, so little entropy. The larger pool you select IP from, the more unique is your IP.
My firm blocked .xyz at the DNS level for malware frequency.

So, probably not.
DHH complaining about Apple's IAP fee's whilst also hiding their $999 premiums
Probably because it's easier to quickly grow a free product/platform and then add monetization on top, than have users pay for access or endure a worse ad-cramped experience.
Someone explain to me why MS was forced to allow competing browsers and today Apple forces you to use their own browser engine?

Isn't that a double standard?
If you are familiar with Fourier transform, then

Fourier transform: sinusoidals

Laplace transform: sinusoidals + exponentials

Here is nice video explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2y7n6jw5d0
User generated list of books you should read
I understand the obvious utility and desirability of such a device, but I can't help but feel it's sad.
SimbirSoft Is Among 2020 IAOP’s Top Global Outsourcing Companies Listing
Hmm that's a bit disappointing.. I feel like Ive and Cook could be wrong on this one. If desktop/mobile is an appropriate parallel, then it seems like they've decided to undercut their desktop machine to have the "ergonomics" of a mobile device while still not being mobile. If the VR headset is a stationary experience, then what's wrong with having a hub sitting around nearby?
If I had 2 knives in my kitchen that behave quite differently, but achieved the same goal as efficiently, as long as you know how to use them, then I would be tired of cutting myself. I would drop one really quick.

If you are not a restaurant, and eating polenta is fine for you, and make you save time and increase fun, then go for it!!

My business is not programming, is to provide a service.

I understand the right tool may make a tremendous difference in a big team or someone coding full time, but not for me.
Was the "Theory of Government Procurement" ever been the goal of social science?
It has no history for Americans. It's a completely obscure reference that no-one had heard of a month ago and Trump almost certainly didn't make intentionally. Anyone who pretends otherwise is either deliberately lying or deranged.
search for "Introduction to Signals & Systems"
Hi there! We're using Auth0's defaults but will happily take a look to see if we can make things a little less onerous for the casual user.
Can anyone recommend a good overview read of this whole thing? I seem to have missed it all.
The Federal government handing out money to peferred towns sounds horrific.

Especially on Juneteeth.
In the US we've decided to take the worst approach possible. The economy's been blown up while we're not actually getting the disease under control. Places like Taiwan and New Zealand are basically entirely reopened outside of international travel.

Here you have these deliberately evil governors not allowing local officials to impose wearing masks in public despite evidence that they're making a huge difference. Florida's seeing thousands of new cases a day. Yet they're still "reopening", so you have a ton of disease spread, while a lot of folks don't actually want to go anywhere and participate in the economy. So it just ends up prolonging the pain.

Meanwhile, theres absolutely no leadership from the Feds, besides using it as excuse to waive basically all environmental regulations so corporations can poison the water supply.
They always failed on mobile where the 30% were also in practice.
Particle physicists update strategy for the future of the field in Europe
Yes that's why credit card fees were cut by law in the EU to ~0.3%
The entire .xyz domain is blacklisted[1] on Wikipedia. You can't even link to a .xyz domain on Wikipedia (at least English Wikipedia) without requesting specific exemptions.

They have an exemption for abc.xyz by putting it on a whitelist for example.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#...
How to never lose another memory again
> Pretending that you're Edison when all you did was to enable an already-obvious use case

Not sure if you were aware, but your analogy is more fitting than it seems on a quick read. Sir Joseph Swan was an early inventor of the lightbulb (he, like Edison wasn’t the first, but his was earlier than Edison). Swan had moderate success with his lightbulb, but Edison’s proved to be superior in the market and ultimately won.

In that analogy, I think Luna is Sir Joseph Swan and Apple is Edison.
Fuck Microsoft. I recently updated Windows and had to go through an unskippable ad for Edge. After the ad, I had to go through an unskippable setup process for Edge, even though I don't use it. After I got through that, I had to tell Edge not to make itself the default browser, unpin it from my start menu, where it was added by Windows, then remove it from desktop, where it was added by Windows. I'm a paying customer, and they're plastering their shit all over my computer, just like they did in the late 90s and early 2000s.

Don't be a fool and think Microsoft has changed because they give away VSCode and have added features to Github. This isn't a goodwill measure, it's a lock in measure. They're quietly trying to lock in engineers into their platform, just like they're trying to keep gamers locked in to their platform.

They're trying to look like the scrappy little guy competing against Apple, but this only after their Windows App store has failed to do anything. They wait until their hand busts before tattling - if the Windows store succeeds, they happily go along with it. If it fails, they talk about how great a tragedy it is for the American consumer.
My world view (or more like a cosmic view) is this: Space and matter are fascinating phenomenon but the truly fascinating things happen between the two. Empty space and time are quite boring until you put matter in it.

The "Let the output of your program be the input of mine." philosophy was really good. Web applications do the exact opposite. All of the interesting shit is missing.

Keeping parts of a thing in separate places can be necessary at times but it usually is not. There is the layout of an article website and there are article in it. The articles with their videos and images are separate things as much as browsers are separate things from web pages (perhaps even more so).

The article can be a separate file. Like an iframe but as inline text. No <head>, no <script>, no <style> but if it has any of those they are ignored.

The other perspective also works. The data for a physical object could be a single file. One or more images, videos, docs, the meta data. Say a product, its price and description can be put inside the image file and be made accessible as a js object/json. Standards can be created, adopted and popularized. If the picture has one or more cars the meta data can have all the usual properties of a car with standardized key names. This seems chaotic and undesirable for large shopping platforms but if an object has a description, contact information and a price it can be sold. Setting up a small store could be as simple as dropping images into a page. One would want to parse out some of the meta data of course but there can be much more data available.

It makes reasoning about the website much more like we reason about the real world.
The emperor’s clothes exist in a super-position of both existing and non-existing. When the tide goes out, this results in the wave function collapse of the super-positional state of the emperor’s clothes, thus demonstrating the observer effect on textile systems.

Just a joke. It means that you can’t tell who lost their shirt til all the bubbles are drained from the pool, and we’re left with ourselves, each other, and our new shared reality.
I really hate the trend with having infite scroll on blogs/news sites. I just scroll to the bottom looking for the comment section and suddenly I'm on a completely new, unrelated article? It's like forcing information into my brain, or someone suddenly placing a newspapper in your face.
"Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21127795

"SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22337057
> My jaw is on the floor. How did you get so much malware and such poor hardware?

Because I have relatives that click on every link they come across. News websites, especially foreign language are full of links to malware.

Solution is to give them a $400 iPad Mini, $900 MacBook Air, and now there’s even a $400 iPhone SE. There is no comparable laptop to a $900 MacBook Air in fit and finish. iPhones and iPads also last many more years than Android counterparts. I can’t even count on androids to get timely updates (I know, I tried out Nexus and Nexus 4 or whatever back in the day.). I’m still using an iPhone 6S Plus, and there are iPhone 5S and 6 floating around for the elders to use also.

There is no alternative to an iPad. And it’s not expensive, and lasts years and years. And Windows machines are designed to have poor hardware. The consumer level HP/Dell/Lenovo is designed to sell at such low prices that they have to pre install malware that you then have to spend time to get rid of after buying it. I’m not interested in that.
That's a big difference. I can't use a cheap shared hosting and managing a VPS (os updates, database backups etc) is too much for a small blog. Node.js is fine but it turns out after all these years, php is still the king in crud,blog,cms type of application, which is the 99% of the websites out there.

As for the members feature, wordpress has tons of "membership" plugins. Still though, Ghost landing page for members[0] does a great job explaining why i need this. Excellent design and copywriting

[0] https://ghost.org/members/
I had an idea for how to deal with that sort of harassment. There's no point in the harassment unless the harassee knows where it's coming from. But revealing that would allow Wirecard to be caught. So you have to play a game of "WHAT'S THAT? I'M HARD OF HEARING! YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK INTO THIS MICROPHONE!" And make public pronouncements that you don't know who's harassing you. Could make a good premise for a comedy. Willful ignorance.
One had corporate leverage of Canonical, and the others, well that is what FOSS is all about.

One gets what they are willing to pay for, via work or monetary contributions, otherwise just take what others have decided to make for them.
It's funny how Microsoft is becoming more developer friendly than Apple nowadays.
Forgot to nest a query – or “how we ended up email spamming our users”
I recently launched a product, called Thankbox.

Product idea is really simple - you can set up a Thankbox (like an online card) for someone and share it within your group of friends to put messages, images, gifs and cash in it. You then send it to the recipient.

We wanted to add a feature where the recipient could respond to everyone who had left messages on their card - a kind of "Thanks so much for your kind words" type thing.

We rolled it out to production. The first time it ran it spammed everyone who had ever left a message on any thankbox with the response. Luckily we just launched and we didn't have that many users.

I thought it'd be a learning experience worth sharing, though, so I wrote up a Twitter thread about it to share my embarassment as a learning experience.
This reminds me of the video released a year ago - https://youtu.be/9fa9lVwHHqg

Next thing you know there is an AI detecting crime and killing the criminal without making a mess.
Lots of open source software has gone for decades with the following license, without the wrath of god falling on them:

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

It seems to me like you could just cut the paragraph starting with "Permission" and the words "and this permission notice" from the next paragraph, and you'd have the same protections, but for a closed-source project.

So yeah, I'm going to go ahead and continue to believe that these EULA's are definitely not written with the user in mind.
Are you suggesting that nuclear reactors could have never been developed independently, and that the nuclear bomb was a necessary precursor? It sounds almost as if you're giving these deadly, weaponized drone swarms a pass because it's possible to do non-deadly things with drone swarms as well.
I agree that having this tethered to a stationary hub inhibits the scope of this being a device which can be worn anywhere.

If anything I could see the iPhone acting as the hub (for the first few generations at least) in the same way the iPhone is the hub for the Apple Watch. Not sure what protocol they would use to communicate, Bluetooth doesn't have the bandwidth and Wifi is still a power hog.
That’s not how it works if you take part in the market. You are worth what a company is willing to pay you. This is an artifact of supply and demand.

It doesn’t matter if I am providing 40% more value if I can jump ship and get a job that pays 40% more.
China Suspected of Hacking by the Australian Government
Depends on the tradition you are coming from. In machine learning it really is just that. A synonym for continuous-valued function approximation based on training data.

You may say it's only regression if it fits your favorite framework, like giving confidence values or goodness of fit etc, but that's not true in general. There so many variants, like Bayesian probabilistic regression, nonparametrics, neural nets, random forests etc.
I think of Laplace as being the non-passive approach:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_control#Controllabili...
I can assure you that these websites are not using any fancy features.
It does make an effort to solve the problem. It currently uses a time based approach in which tokens are credited to a publisher based on time spent by the user reading the article.

Also there is a threshold of some seconds before any tokens are accounted for an article. So basically click baits won’t account for any tokens because the user might quickly close the article.
China took Japan's model and instructed it thousands of local banks to make loans for productive investment. So China financed a shit ton of companies and people to start building.

It most certainly is a lack of money that prevents building.

The best thing you can do for building is to give smart people a lot of money and get the fuck out of the way.
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Robinhood user commits suicide after misinterpreting statement
The irony of Microsoft also running a closed ecosystem on XBox? If Apple is forced to individually negotiate with developers, they can and will.
No, and there is no way to do that since domains are controlled by mx records, not email addresses.
Modern guided missiles are not essentially different that these drones. I guess the main difference is that these drones are intended to be cheap and disposable, while having a much shorter range.
China still buys jet engines from Russia, they’ve had 35 years to create a fighter jet engine and they still can’t figure it out. Not everyone can solve complex issues.
International agreements are not perfect but they are still necessary. They are more or less holding in the chemical-weapons area, which has really nothing to do with restricted technology.

Humans can (and must) agree to be better than frightened animals.
This is really interesting. Does anyone know of any other instances of behavioral traits having a direct link to an animal's appearance?
If you have an electronic circuit, you can model each element with a differential equation. E.g. voltage across a capacitor is modelled as the integral of current, voltage across an inductor is dI/dt.

This is a useful fact for a simple circuit in a classroom, but the differential equations for any circuit with more than a few components soon become insanely complex.

With the Laplace transform you (more or less) replace an integral with 1/s and a differential with s, plus some constants derived from the component values.

Then you can simplify for s, and use the Inverse Laplace Transform to convert the final expression in s into an expression in t.

You have now solved an insanely complex differential equation with some basic algebra, and your final expression in t - with component constants, and some exponentials that appear after the inverse transform - accurately models how the circuit responds over time.

There's also a related fairly simple trick for converting the s-domain representation into a frequency/phase plot which tells you how the circuit operates in the frequency domain.

And another related fairly simple trick for converting the continuous s-domain into the z-domain for DSP calculations over a sampled time series.

Because the same theory also applies in other domains - spring/mass systems, and so on - you can use the same technique there too.
Ive is right. Thin (aka chic aka sexy) is on-brand for Apple.

Glasses you can wear all day outside are a marvelous way to augment human capabilities. A bulky headset that only works with a desktop or game console is a niche product.

VR gaming is mostly compelling to people who are sexually unfulfilled. Apple builds products that are desired by attractive rich people, which is key to having premium brand pricing power and therefore high profit margins.
I would not characterize that as just "clicking a security box for non-notarized apps".

A few days ago I downloaded a non-notarized app. The dialog that I saw baffled me and it took me a while to recall how to run a non-notarized app.

You have to right-click on it and clock on "open", something that should be equivalent to double-clicking, but isn't. That's harder than clicking a security box. Someone with no knowledge might never find out how to run these apps.
I think it’s pretty obvious? You describe the situation as if it has been discovered as a law of physics to which all humans are subject.

Change the system... honor open source principles.

If ivory tower thinking means, improved state of affairs, then.. ok... ? Call it whatever you want haha.
Not that I necessarily disagree with your opinion, but generally minimizing collateral damage is a good thing.