skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I do like my Gazelle a lot, to add to the GPU issues: It is capable of running 2x 3440x1440 with the internal screen on, but not if one of them is used vertically. As in, it will work, just not rotate. Once you close the lid (and disable the internal display), it suddenly works. That is something that just amazes me. Does it take that much more GPU power to run a large screen rotated 270 degrees?
Both things can be true.

Linear regression is extra-special because it's a special case of several different frameworks and model classes.

I should have written that it's better (in my opinion) to think of logistic regression in the context of GLMs, at least while you're learning.

Edit: yes logistic regression is a special case of regression with a different loss function. But it's not nearly "as special" as linear regression.
> the display is nice even tho its only 1080p

This is absolutely crazy why are we still putting screens into laptops that would be disappointing on a CRT from the year 2000? How can you work with just a thousand lines?
That sounds like a particularly toxic relationship with QA. I've had quite a few positions where QA was very helpful.

In those cases, QA interfaced with users/customers and had a great level of knowledge of how people actually use the product, and often had a more holistic view of how the entire suite of features works together, compared to developers who had more specialized knowledge of various specific bits.

Now, I would agree that ideally developers should get lots of hands-on experience with how customers actually use the software.

And I would also agree that ideally developers should have a holistic view of the entire suite of software features, rather than being silo'd.

I definitely aim for those things as much as possible, but it's not always practical. Both of the things I listed above add up to a fulltime job, or multiple fulltime jobs if the product is large enough. Usually engineers are in short supply and working mad hours already.

I would also like to point out that QA engineers are really vital when it comes to developing games. I do not work in the game industry, but I have a friend who is a QA engineer lead. Games are complex realtime systems and it can take a LOT of work for those folks to find and come up with reproducible cases for bugs.
Oddly, I came across this story yesterday when I happened to be searching for information about making tea with a microwave. Most sources tell you not to, but the usual reason (the temperature might be way off) doesn't seem to make much sense. Surely if you have a thermometer and use a consistent amount of water, you can come up with a time for your microwave that hits the mark?

Which leads me to ask: is there a good way to make tea with a microwave? If (not hypothetically) I had a variety of samplers arriving in a couple weeks from teavivre.com by China Post, and that I didn't like using my old whistling tea kettle, what's the best way for a beginner to make good tea using only a microwave and (initially) a thermometer?
> The average homeschooled kid is much more likely to miss social cues, stumble through a difficult interaction with feckless ineptitude, or even parrot their parents own myopic stereotypes or falsehoods.

"The average homeschooled kid". Stereotypes. Hm.
I think you could still develop that culture within town centers and density wouldn't necessarily go away completely, but ideally you could find most of what you need in your neighborhood, ideally by just walking.

A dense urban core that is too expensive to live in, and requires a long commute, is not healthy or within a lot of people's lifestyle goals.
This channel has done an excellent job of analyzing the available data
[1] https://youtu.be/76osJupy_P8?t=16 and the latest [2] https://youtu.be/xu69Lkf9BYc?t=8
Kubernetes project proposes making using non-inclusive terminology CoC violation
This one appears to have a USB-C port. Is it usable for charging?
Nikon's first mirrorless cameras were announced in 2011, so around the same time as Fuji's X-Pro1.

While a lot of people mocked the Nikon 1 series (because of their strange form factors and handling), they were the only mirrorless cameras that had autofocus nearing DSLRs for several years. They were actually pretty good cameras.
Hey guys... we have done emulation before, and it's not nearly so bad.

Also, there ARM images for Docker. You don't HAVE to run x86-64 binaries.
You should email me to see my past school notes. They are self evident for how much bullshit school pushes but I think it might be a different experience than most people on here. I live in remote part of India.

Most of what people do here is just write down from book to a notebook word to word. The books are horrible too (some published more than a decade ago in subjects where relevancy matters a lot) with no clarification or update from the teacher. Standard examination is not useful atleast on a school level. Many schools allow people to cheat openly and some of them even change the written answers of students (they tell them to leave it blank if you don't know the answers). This happens till 9th grade. After which, schools have less power over grading but they still get to hand out some marks which they will do for every poor student anyway. The cut off rate is extremely low to pass (around 33%). And it's also blurry because you have reservation (affirmative action based on your caste) so the end result is different for each person.

To over simplify, take three variables. Assign 1x, 1.5x and 2x. Now calculate admission, job application (government), taxes, fees, etc rate for different people by multiplying by them.

Most schools run an after school program or similar where they help you train for the exam. Although, most of it is just giving out a sample paper to what will come in the school exams. Pretty much most students will go there if the school is rich or if it is poor, then they directly go to tuition under subject teacher.

Most schools in rural, suburban, etc are repurposed houses.

As for teachers, mostly fresh college students, mothers and people who are waiting to clear their government exam or similar. The pay ranges anywhere from 4k-20k per month (upto $310).

Periods are stacked in the most unproductive way possible. No breaks and are very short - 30-40 mins with too much subject/context switching.

Majority of kids will be abused emotionally and physically at some point. Indian schools have a mentality of class punishment so you get punished for something you didn't do often. Typical physical abuse include beating palm of your hand with a wooden or metal ruler, making you stand outside with hands up in the air or sitting in a chicken position. There are of course some extreme corporal punishments. That includes stripping (only boys), making you run outside on the ground (45C+) for hours, telling other students to beat you for being bad and public shaming tactics.

Kids are also indoctrinated with politics all the time. I mean, we have an hour long assembly to repeat how much we are proud of our country and india number one in the morning every day.

Parents usually have no idea about their own kids and are toxic (reason - poverty).

Given economic condition of India, income inequality, social mobility and unemployment. I don't think a reasonable person would wanna go through this. It's not like you are likely to have a first class life easily even if you somehow pushed your way through.

I can expand more but that's the general overview.
Until we go fully digital this makes no sense. Brains develop in a specific way. We become more wise during our lifetime but we keep getting worse at learning. It's not as easy as "let's fix dying neurons". Society without death would be quite retarded compared to the one we have. Retarded i.e. one that is learning much slower.

You and your beloved ones are going to die. Just accept it. This is as big of a fact as gravity given our scientific understanding. It's not about magic cure. It's just that on long enough time probability of your pattern being destroyed goes to one, whether you are a living organism, a program or some handy-wavy. That's just physics.

And if you really want to fight biology, why put longevity over decreasing suffering? So far, I would argue, artificial lifespan extension increased physical suffering despite enormous progress that we made in terms of multiple forms anesthesiology.
About the fans noise and the microphone, Nvidia RTX Voice is great to remove noise. I wonder whether an open-source alternative for Linux exists. But if you work on windows and have a Nvidia RTX GPU, I can recommend it.
Still like these from the Winter Olympics Pro support.

Canon: https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2018/02/09/a-look-at-c...

Nikon: https://nikonrumors.com/2018/02/10/this-is-what-heaven-looks...
Yes, I absolutely agree, I hope to see more resources and work done in that area.
I'm really sad about this. It feels like everyone went full-frame without appreciating the benefits of smaller lenses and bodies. Olympus glass is the best in the industry, probably because they don't have to make everything so damn large. I've got Olympus lenses that cost $400 new and can't even match $2000 full-frame glass. Sure, I'll keep my kit forever, but it sucks to know I'll never upgrade any of it.
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Not own, but assimilate. Own the attention. GPL will have new perspectives after this is over with. For those of you who don't use Windows, try to uninstall the AV on windows 10. MSFT AV uses about 400 mb of ram on my Lenovo Flex 11 running windows 10. A bit of memory can be saved if you open admin powershell and run "Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring 1"
The benchmarks shown elsewhere here tend to disagree with that. I think at one point that was more true than it is now. Overall though they seem to be comparable enough to where it probably doesn't matter.

Also, the bindings have to exist which they don't with Perl for a lot of scientific uses (PDL is not a substitute for Numpy/SciPy/Pandas).

Don't get me wrong. I own at least 12 Perl books and have reviewed some of the latest Perl 6 (Raku) books and really really like Raku. There's not much wrong with Perl in my book (certainly not what most people claim). I've reached for it a few times at work and found it to be fairly pleasant to use. My biggest complaints about building complex data structures in Perl (yes it's much easier than C, but still complicated if you're coming from Python) and having to remember when something is "$" that in my mind should be "@" have all been fixed by Raku.

I just wanted to point out that your views about it being much faster across the board don't seem to be correct.
Aren't Fuji & APS-C lenses still bigger than equivalent M43?

9-18, 15 f1.7, 45 f1.8 such a tiny tiny kit
There's not a lot of them and as a percentage of total jobs, it is declining every year. Projects should be determined by ROI and be forward looking. Focusing on urban areas where it we get bigger multiplier on our economy and is forwarding looking as that is where the jobs are being created. We have lots of people in rural areas with no jobs and we have urban areas which have labor shortages.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/rural-economy-population/emp...
We should fix health span first, not life span. I would rather live 80 like a champ to the last day and then just drop dead, then few more years on ibuprofen and friends.
Thank you. There is lots of room for improvement. Why everyone is so intent on defending the status-quo given its obvious deficiencies is mind boggling.
Tesla workers fired after staying home during Covid-19 pandemic
Re-creating some of Hey's features using Fastmail
A little steep on the body. A7ii with kit lense is ~1000.
A calamity, but not something that would cause the collapse of civilizations, or meaningfully impact military strength a century ago.
I understand why they're implemented, but IMHO they don't work. I don't even think that sprint planning works very well for certain functions. Even in a modern tech company with intelligent, motivated, hard-working individuals, its pure guesswork trying predict how long it'll take to implement some new system or code some new feature, or guess the length of a piece of string. As soon as the quarter is planned, suddenly you're committed to delivering your OKRs. I think that successful tech people tend to be optimic and confident. "Yeah, I think we could get that done in 2 weeks" people. Sometimes you get lucky, but more often than not, things are more complex and fucked up than you thought. The result is either extra work or a missed deadline (which means no bonus, poor rating or if you're in the US, getting fired). If you work your ass off and hit the target, that level of effort becomes the new norm. It's expected by your manager and even by yourself. Impostor syndrome is very real. You fight to stay afloat and blame yourself for the horrible complexity you keep running into.

I've worked at two companies that went from startup-mode to corporate mode. I've never experienced an increase in productivity or job satisfaction after OKRs were introduced. In fact, it has always been the opposite. Suddenly you're spending less time in first-person-shooter mode where you're slaying bugs and making progress, and more time in third-person watching yourself do your job from a fucking time tracking app.

Want productivity? Get all the people who want to monopolise your time into a room: product managers, security, incident managers. Let them decide what the priorities are. Not create 20 tickets that all have 'high priority ', but a single ordered list. Then you can just work through the list, and keep people informed about your progress via some stupid-simple ticketing system that doesn't eat half of your life. Rinse and repeat.
You can use something like Quixote. (Disclaimer: I wrote it.) Screenshot tests are always going to be brittle.
Managers.

I miss my testers.
I really hate that fabric got rid of roles in the new version. I want to be able to still do "fab task -R prod".
Sodium in hot concentrated nitric acid is very impressive. As you say, outside with a string-activated rig. Short term, it does kill vegetation. But long term, it's fertilizer.
As a former dedicated tester and now developer, I feel that dedicated QA may not be as useful in the way software is developed these days. I like to view TDD as "requirement-driven development". If you think of it that way, if you're not testing your logic completely, then you have incomplete requirements.

Having other developers peer review seems to be a better improvement on the legacy process of dedicated QA. This means that you can't just throw commodity developers at a project; you do need people with expertise. To round it out, you do need UAT and acceptance testing but those are still variants of requirement-driven development.
Maybe not, according to this: http://calpaterson.com/async-python-is-not-faster.html
TIL-rb a Ruby gem to help you manage a GitHub repo of TILs
Osama was CIA friend in past. Kindly don't stirr useless debate.
Great post about testing, it's pretty much all you need to develop a robust app.

BUT TeamCity UX is the worst UI from all CI systems that I have used. From first version of Jenkis to managed stuff like CircleCI. People hate is so much that someone added a Slack icon :teamshitty: at work.
From an individual perspective I don't think there should be any doubt that solving death is a fantastic goal. It's the threat that is poses to the system, threats to which we have no better tool than death.

Old age and death is still the number one tool for solving:
- empires and tyrants

- outdated societal opinions and prejudices (racism/sexism/etc)

- locked in privilege and wealth

- ossification of social roles

- stagnation within fields and industry ("Science progresses one funeral at a time")

We have no truly effective tools for these problems, except wait for people to die. I'd be much more supportive of ending aging if we had anything that worked.
Why can’t mozilla roll out a encrypted dns service in a form of a browser setting or plugin? Does the browser not have control over how the dns is resolved ?
>> I was a kid and everyone was shooting "full frame"

Ok, this is a little vague, because are you referring to digital or analog?

When I was a kid, everyone was shooting full frame, because, well 35mm was the de-facto standard for film. Although my first camera was a 110 format camera, which is a hair smaller than a 4/3 sensor today.
My G3X uses an IMX183 according to a string in the firmware image.
> With all due respect, I have personally had contracts with Comcast in the past and have experienced firsthand how well they honor those -- and I am certainly not the only one!

Consumer contracts? Because Mozilla having a business contract with Comcast is certainly not the same as you having a consumer contract - Mozilla has the resources to drag Comcast to court should they be found to ignore the agreement.
sure, as interpreted by a human being.

writing in general could be considered a programming language insofar as it's instructions to produce utterances in a literate human being. I suppose esp if we're talking phonetic writing systems.
Yeah he has one of those sites people think about when they talk about the good old days of personal websites with useful info. Though truth be told he always went a bit overboard on the salesmanship angle... but still useful.
> Strike Russia, who has many more nuclear warheads, and stronger anti-nuclear protection?

Yes, what's use of a superweapon if you can't make use of it?

From my childhood experience, some times you need to commit without reservations to completely hopeless, no chance fights, as the only hope for a way out. Strong adversaries often don't expect the weak to even attempt to fight back.
> The number pad is unnecessary.

I'd pay a 100 Euro extra to remove the number pad and center the keyboard and the touchpad. Having to slide any laptop to the right is so annoying (the space bar must align with the center of the body, no matter what.)
They're heavily correlated, and nobody is talking about just increasing the length of life without also inherently making people healthier. People talking about working on longevity are talking about giving you more years where you feel 30 or 40, not just more years where you feel 90.
Auditors work on assumptions, they assume that the document presented to then are correct and not falsified. If they cannot see that the document is falsified and didn’t see any indications that might raise questions either, how can they be held liable?

OTOH, why does a German company keep 2 billion euros in a Philippine account, that’s strange.
good idea, we'll add db connection string to credential details.

yes, we were also thinking about converting multiple csvs into multiple table, it's on the roadmap.

thanks for suggestions!
So you're going with the only difference being who's building the model. Interesting take, can't say I disagree much. Although I would say that regularization in econometric models is a bit rare because it distorts the coefficients which as you pointed out is the primary goal of econometrics.
> Why don't we see how valuable aging and death are?

Death is the greatest weakness of humanity, and to think otherwise is fatalist. We don't have to live eighty years at best and die. We can do better.

If everyone on this planet had solving death as their single-minded focus, we'd accomplish it within our lifetimes.
Implementing a Type-safe printf in Rust
Exciting! Are you doing this in your role as Latacora helping out startups with security challenges? (Update: apparently not https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1276212163582070785)

How is the Fly proxy implemented? Are you using rustls and/or any of the available ACME crates?

I've been wanting to implement tls-alpn-01 support for rustls (although it might be possible to do this just by mutating the ServerConfig over time).

Also interested to hear your general impressions of Rust so far (I think I read some Twitter grumbling...).
Entry regulations are fine, every nation has the right to decide who they want to see on their land. However, being treated differently based not on your personality or track record, but on where you hail from is... I don't know, but seems to be somewhat similar to what the current protests are about.

I guess there is no solution to that. You are right that a member of a nation (or a community) where people often cause trouble mathematically more likely to break laws. I guess it would be unwise to use this to minimize the risk to your citizens.
Even then...

If a lot of parents indoctrinate the kids to be conservative religious.

Another group indoctrinate their kids to be far-left.

Another group is anti-science.

Another pro-science...

When all these people vote, you still end up with politicians that actually represent the society.

Now if everyone is mandatorily indoctrinated in schools that teach whatever the government wants, would that be a true democracy? What happens when actual science turns to be anti-government, do you think the government would remain pro-science?
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As a homeschooling parent, we hear this trope all the time and it has not been borne out by our experience at all. My wife and I probably both have above-average social skills, but our kids are all well-spoken, empathetic, and kind for their ages, and we tend to have to help them unlearn the social "skills" they learn from their friends who go to public school.

And we're not really sticklers when it comes to behavior, we mostly just want them to not be rude and to think about other people when they do things that impact other people, and we have not found that kids who attend public school are especially likely to possess those qualities. (I also went to public school and spent a good part of my early adulthood unlearning crappy social behavior that was learned in school).
Blinkist honestly just never really helped me. I can't say I feel like anything really stuck.

The one way I thought about using it that would probably actually work reasonably well but I was too ADHD to stick with without structural support to keep me on task, would be listening to every single book in an entire category (there can be like 30 odd) and triangulating the core of the subject based off that. Taking copious notes on what shows up in multiple books etc.

That idea is basically the 'how to read a book' blinkist version. Though it kind of defeats the purpose of the nice quick summary I still like the idea. Maybe I should try it now that I could probably pull it off.
Computers demand formal precision, which is different from conceptual clarity. Every obfuscator (including optimizers) relies on this fact.

Good code has both formal precision and conceptual clarity.
I think it was a positive feedback loop across several data driven political outfits that happened to saturate into an exit eventuality. I don’t think our politicians are even in control of it. They just naively do what keeps working for them personally even if it involves skipping merrily off a cliff.
There's poor people in cities as well. This is more like should be invest in fossil fuels vs green energy. Cities is where the job growth is at. Propping up rural would be like propping up the coal industry.
>My dad just always told me that I was exceptional

I was under the impression that this runs contrary to current thinking.

i.e. Tell kids they're the best and they stop taking risks for fear of failure. Rather encourage effort & persistence.

Anyway...sometimes I think the whole elite private schooling model are the sweet spot. Actual effort goes into the teaching without the social isolation that (often) comes with home schooling.