skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This person has no idea what they're writing about.

Edited because my post was flagged (I'm not sure why). The definition of correlation coefficient is incorrect, which could have been attributed to a typo, except the author goes on to say "The bottom is, essentially, just stripping the signs away.", suggesting the square root of a sum of squared differences would be the same as the sum of differences, were it not for the signs. That's not how norms work.

The whole paragraph on interpreting a correlation coefficient is particularly painful to read: "... if the correlation is perfect – that is, if the dependent variable increases linearly with the independent, then the correlation will be 1. If the dependency variable decreases linearly in opposition to the dependent, then the correlation will be -1. If there’s no relationship, then the correlation will be 0."

For all its good intentions, I feel like this post hurts more than it helps.
The Fullest Look yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus
also, this video features a 486 cpu because linux dropped 386 support a while ago.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/good-bye-386-linux-to-drop-sup...
Food of the Ghods! Love the damn stuff.
QNX used to distribute a floppy containing the entire OS and a web browser, for x86. http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
I remember one inspiring story from a few years ago, a student who did janitor work to pay family bills before going to Harvard: https://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/us/from-janitor-to-harvard/in...

Hope colleges can prioritize students from underprivileged backgrounds. They might even be safer on campus.
Try clicking and dragging on the globe.

(disclaimer: I work for Stripe, but no one there told me about that feature)
Damn nice!
The variable of interest may not have a Gaussian distribution, but its expected value and variance generally are. Sure, there's some pathological cases, but the Cauchy distribution doesn't show up that often.
When I made that comment there were not many other replies yet. However I still remain unconvinced that this is not just another product of American hype media.
Eventually that too will be subject to eternal September. You can't win, unless you make your own and never share it.
Can someone offer a sensible reason for this policy? I am trying to look for anything that would make it not look like an outright political decision, but I can't.
How May Mobility’s autonomous shuttle ambitions backfired
I guess it depends on if noise and power are your primary considerations.

For some, they'd rather not see a useful machine take up space in a landfill, leech toxins into the environment, and simultaneously drive unneeded demand for the production of yet another computer.

I guess one would have to do the math and figure out what the environmental impact of a new Pi 3 B+ is.

Or they could figure out if the increased electrical cost of running an old machine over x number of years is greater than the expense of purchasing and powering a new Pi 3 B+. Where I live, I could run a 486 for a heck of a long time on $60, especially when you factor in that the Pi still needs to be powered, too.
Honestly, it's about time they tweaked their algorithm to favor newer content in many areas. I'm tired of getting five- to ten-year old pages when searching on contemporary technical topics or looking for a workaround for the latest Firefox weirdness.
What is the disposal plan for all the radioactive waste that natural gas fracking causes?
You can see what I have so far at https://diskatlas.com

I’m thinking of charging something like 5 to 10 dollars per copy. Then maybe in a year or so releasing a much enhanced version 2 that would have to be purchased separately.
You can't mention spurious linear regression without predicting the S&P500 with Leinweiber's price of butter in Bangladesh indicator.

https://nerdsonwallstreet.typepad.com/my_weblog/files/datami...
State of the World in 2020
Where do you find general data on how's the world doing now?
> 1) the price tag is inflated in the first place

Inflated relative to what? The cost of providing the education? Or relative to its perceived value? The latter ultimately dictates the price. Perhaps $70k is the point after which really wealthy people say rebel and refuse to send their children there, regardless of how small a portion of their wealth it is?

> 2) at many income levels that are too high to qualify for aid, $70k per child per year still really stings

I agree, which is why I wonder why the $70k limit for those well above the income level where it stings.

Then again, a higher top-level tuition depends a lot on the distribution of very wealthy parents whose kids attend Harvard vs the just upper middle class (there is a large difference between the income/wealth those two groups after all, bigger than between the middle and upper middle-class, given the exponential shape of the wealth distribution curve).

And perhaps the very wealthy (let's say in today's terms net worth in the mid 10 millions and up) already make significant donations to the University, so it would be meaningless to raise tuition to i.e. $90k in that case.
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> C# is ~ 4.5x faster on a single-threaded burst allocation test.

It certainly makes sense for Go to trade off allocation performance for latency--Go employs value types and stack allocation more frequently/idiomatically than C# and as a consequence it enjoys low, constant-time STW pauses. It would actually be pretty interesting if C# made the same tradeoff--it might make C# use value types more frequently/idiomatically as well. IIRC, this would probably drive less inheritance and more composition since I believe value types can't be inherited. You might end up with C# code that looks more like Go?
Does your interview process perform better than a coin flip? (50% chance of making the correct decision). If the answer is yes, you have a useful process.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6936580/Norway.pd...

The screens were real Apple hardware, with newly reprinted Apple logos by someone in China.

point 20 "Høgsterett legg difor til grunn lagmannsrettens vurdering av at dei innførte skjermane ikkje er originale, at dei påførte varemerka er identiske med Apples registrerte figurmerke, at
varemerka ikkje er påførte av Apple, og at dei er dekt over med tusj som let seg fjerne. "

+ the fact he was billed for "Original OEM screens"
Wow. Hell of a good read. And smart points too.
I cant read this webpage it hurts my eyes. The font literally hurts. It not because I am a vi user... I am old. Also the EDEX-UI is the same way.
> At the end of 1980, a minister from the Foreign Office visited Stanley and proposed to an apprehensive audience in the town hall that the Falklands be given to Argentina in a long-term “leaseback” arrangement, similar to the one that Britain and China had for Hong Kong.

Glad Britain ended up taking a different route with the Falklands than what they did with Hong Kong.
I guess only a certain fraction of it is made in this factory and possibly just to Japan's domestic market.
AFAIK You can't hook up old ISA or PCI cards to a raspberry pi, and if you can, the x86 drivers and software won't work.
I'm getting the feeling that hotswap in this context doesn't refer to being able to plug/unplug the keyboard from the computer while the computer is on[1], since I've never seen a keyboard that wasn't able to do that. So, this may be a dumber question, but what's being referred to as hotswap in this context?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_swapping
PSNR is a terrible way to measure video quality. SSIM is better but not great. VMAF is good but it’s skewed towards the types of material netflix has.

Objective video quality is a tricky thing to do and you can easily come out with a codec that’s great at fine details in foreground people but terrible at high speed panning of water and trees. Depending on the material depends where you want the quality to go.
What about EFI?
Scruton seems primarily preoccupied with dour gatekeeping over what should be considered beautiful or what should be aspired to, as though beauty were some objectively measurable quantity, and anything he deems "ugly" was deliberately crafted to annoy him.
Essential versus accidental complexity.

Perfectly good code can be unclear because of the accidental complexity included within it. Memory management, error handling (especially in languages with less expressive type systems), configuring hardware/database/network connections, etc. Those things are important, but they prevent the essential portion of the program from being expressed on its own.

Type systems, a brief example: C versus Ada. Implement a network protocol where the data packet has specific n-bit sized fields with ranges less than the maximum for that size. You can easily do this in both languages. But in C, you'd either need to add bounds checking to all of those fields or risk letting errors propagate. That error handling obscures the essential portion of the program. In Ada, you make a type that is n-bits and only accepts values of the correct range. The errors can still exist in received packets, but the error checking is partially elided from the code because the type system itself can catch it.

There's nothing wrong with the C code, and there's nothing wrong (many will disagree with that) with choosing C to implement the protocol. But it will increase the complexity due to factors beyond the inherent, essential complexity of the network protocol itself.
If the field of impact investing has an opposite, I'm sure that automated production of bitcoin miners is a part of it...
This is a great idea. I've personally benefited from using Python as a way to experiment with other disciplines and wish there were more such resources out there.
Pages from Machiavelli and Rockefeller's private diary?
> the container will OOM right away

that doesn't really makes sense in linux-parlance. you should try and see which is the process that is actually triggering the OOM.

if you're able to do that then you can try and swap that with another binary.

you could try and build an hello world that does while(1) sleep(30); build that with static linking and boot the container with that -- it will probably work.

also, i should look for that page, but i remember reading a page about trimming away anything possible from an hello world binary and ending up with something as small as like ~60 bytes.
>To completely avoid risk your only choice is to to use old technology where all the patents have expired

EVC baseline is basically that, only using technology based on H.264 that are already expired or soon to be expired and patented techniques from companies that are giving it away to the standard.

In some way EVC is even more exciting than VVC.
Usually acetone doesn't work so well on the PLA the author is printing the keycaps in. There are other sprays or things you can apply to PLA for a good effect though - I'm betting any of the things used to make PLA food-safe would work here.
http://archive.is/rL8Tj
The Haas budget for last year was ~ $170 million, not all of that goes to capped expenses, but after you account for that it puts them just under the new cap (Williams, Toro Rosso and Alfa Romeo all spend less than Haas). Renault, McLaren (about $270 million each) and Racing Point (about $190 million) are all above it. There are also 0 teams currently under the cap who make their own engines (Renault is the lowest budget non-customer team). So in terms of budget the current cap really does push everybody down to about the same level as Haas.

Regarding ground effect, the new 2021 regs have already brought it back. They’ve simplified the wing designs, and moved a lot of the downforce to ground effect. It’s not the same level of ground effect that F1 had in the 70s/80s, it’s more like the current IndyCar ground effect design. But the result from a following car perspective is the same. Moving the downforce from wake generating bodywork to under the chassis. However the overall effect is less downforce and therefore slower cars on circuit.
Reminds me this hacker koan:

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong."

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.
Another one is handwaving that a distribution is normal when n > 30 because "central limit theorem!"

Amateur statistics is full of magical numbers and thresholds where everything "just works" :)
here it is!

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.ht...

i was off by a bit. the binary is 45 bytes and prints the number "42" (plus a newline).
A lot of comments can (and should) be replaced with good naming. Sometimes the only reason to introduce a variable or function is to name something. The advantage is that it is harder to not read a name than it is to not read a comment, and it is more obviously a bug when we try to set a variable, or make a function calculate, something not agreeing with its name.
“About US$2 million was earmarked for the protest movement in Hong Kong, but has now been frozen as part of a general overhaul and restructuring by a new agency boss.”

so the funding doesn't really give out?
This happens in NJ as well. One of my colleagues from NJ showed my a letter from their utility giving them the option to switch to solar/wind.
> It's interesting that people see genetically modified yeast producing hydrogen peroxide as "natural" -- but not regular hydrogen peroxide.

If the yeast started producing too much hydrogen peroxide then presumably it would just die. Unlike when someone adds too much chemicals to a pool, which is common enough that probably most people have experienced it.
Now that it boots, time to bring up a Kubernetes and deploy a Spark cluster
I see that you haven't tried it.

Note: read for comprehension.

A container may OOM from kernel memory alone.
On a related note, this just reminded me that back in college, whenever I felt like taking a break from working, I would suggest to my smoker friends that we take a "smoke break" despite that I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.

(In hindsight I probably shouldn't have been encouraging a harmful drug addiction, but it was more tongue-in-cheek than anything.)
Coal mining also often employs processes that pose the risk of water pollution. eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_mine_drainage

The difference is that human activities can be changed through regulation. The chemical byproducts of a combustion reaction cannot.
We're rolling out more broadly (and in more languages) in the coming days! For now, https://stripe.com/us should do the trick :)
See also: Bryan Berg, world's greatest card stacker
https://www.cardstacker.com/
there was no EFI. it was BIOS as far as your eyes could see.
Disclaimer: Not exactly what you are looking for but very close and might suit your needs or spark your interest anyways.

I've been playing around with datahike[0] a lot recently. It is a Clojure Datalog based DB like Datomic[1] and in fact mimics its API and behavior, but will by default just write to a directory (not a single file last time I checked) and (will?) support other back-ends such as PostgreSQL. Checkout the repo for more information on the differences.

These DBs are not exactly graph DBs (like for example Neo4j) but modelling and (recursively) querying graph data is very much a straight-forward use-case.

Schemas are attribute based rather than record/collection based, so you get the kind of schema flexibility you are used to from graph DBs.

Another interesting fact is that these are 'immutable' or rather value oriented by default. In simple terms: transactions are additions of facts rather than mutations.

Datalog is the primary query language which has really interesting/nice properties. It is worth checking out just for that fact. In Clojure these queries are just normal Clojure data-structures. One of the Clojure linters clj-kondo[2] even ships with static analysis for the soundness of these queries.

[0] https://github.com/replikativ/datahike

[1] https://www.datomic.com/

[2] https://github.com/borkdude/clj-kondo
So the whole refer your friend and get a free loot box angle
Do you think this is meaningless to the author?
An employment process which prohibits common methods of job searching might well be found anticompetitive and hence unenforceable. Or straight-up illegal.
How many weeks does it take to encode a 1-minute video on an average (non-gaming, I mean without a huge fancy GPU card or an i9/Threadripper CPU) PC?
And by focusing on them and declaring this story to be a horror story, we miss out on an important part of the story too.

This isn't just of academic interest to me. A lot of my friends and family didn't feel much like celebrating America's birthday this weekend, and I completely understand why. But wallowing in that sadness and anger leads to defeatism. I would rather see us embrace the totality of America's history, so that we lift up what we ought to do more of, and remember that, in our attempts to build a better country, we do not fight alone.
They have inveated in manufacturing, Solar, Nulcear and a number of other areas to the extent where they are now world leaders. You can debate relative merits, but if you rank countries it certai ly is doomg better than most.
Upon first reading, I thought this meant baggage claim carousels
Oh my god this is the best thing ever. I want to save this as audio to listen to.
Take a look at how Samsung handled OLED screens. They had an immeasurable advantage over almost anybody early on, but they did not want to destroy their LCD screen business which was still making good money, and they only made it on scale for small smartphone screens, and their own tablets/laptops which did not compete with their own OEM sales.
> If you're a hammer manufacturer, then you should absolutely

> concern yourself with whether or not you're dealing

> business with ethical consumers.

What if their idea of ethics doesn't align with your idea of ethics? What if all left/right wing people are banned from using a tool? Or some other arbitrary internal measure of ethics? You're only willing to follow along with this line of thinking whilst it aligns with your interpretation of ethics.

> [..] you're either going to end up being complicit in some

> really nasty stuff, or end up drawing a very arbitrary

> "line" where you stop being apolitical.

Being neutral doesn't make you complicit. The moment you take action (for either good or bad purposes), then you become complicit.
Internships definitely help (GAFAM uses them like extended interviews for full time offers). I also think it helps that my gpa was ok (3.05) and the school i went to (purdue) was highly ranked enough and big enough that we had entire recruiting teams come out to our career fairs which is where I got my first internship. Some companies even sent out employees for an entire week to our campus to do interviews for internship and new grad hiring.
True, but before you visit that website, you don't know anything about how the site was implemented, or what JS is going to run, or whethere there will be a big autoplay video advert, etc.

When you visit a gemini URL, you know how it's going to serve you a limited capability, text based document, styled according to your own rules.
The GUI does not display all options. You most likely can use csrutil to disable it, see the “Platforms State of the Union” WWDC talk.
> You see videos all the time about how "Trending" tab or whatever other recommendation section on Youtube favours established/mainstream content.

Allow me to humbly suggest that -- regardless of the truth of this -- perhaps videos recommended on Youtube aren't the least biased evaluation of Youtube's recommendation engine.
A: You have a finite number of strings a > b

B: Each has a finite number of ways of spellings.

A x B is like, a large number. It would take a lot of type writers and there might be new ways of spellings, new desitnations and new places to abandon... ehh I mean leave.
Visual Studio has this. It's called "Annotate".
> First, it's not necessarily wrong to fit a linear regression to data that might not be from a linear model, or that you know to be nonlinear. The data could be linear enough in the region of interest for the line to nonetheless be useful, for example.

Yes, very good point! Likewise regression is not robust to log transformations, but we still use log transformations (depending on the data) because we may be able to tolerate some loss of information. If the nonlinear correlation is bounded below some tolerable amount it's okay to use the linear relationship on its own.
I read your comment as saying a "top tier" STEM degree is a more reliable proof of ability than some other STEM degree, and I was using "Ivy" as shorthand for "top tier by American reputation" -- granted, inaccurately, but it's common to do so.

And if you were saying that I still disagree. It's not that a math degree from Stanford isn't a good indicator of ability, but that it's not any better an indicator than one from Cal Poly or for that matter Arizona State.
tangential, but it seems that, in an effort to be pithy, your comment elides way too many independent clauses, and covers way too much ground across the sentences written. it's like trying to cross a canyon on dust, rather than a bridge.

concision relies on omitting unnecessary words, not whole phrases and sentences. i'd be hard-pressed to restate anything said here with any level of confidence.
Does anyone else miss having this level of motivation? And that's not an isolation effect on me, I gave up on trying fun things like this for a long long time now.
Social connections sure. But how about simply having the name on the resume? You could do it online and still get the name. Although with enough class years of this, the name will stop signifying the social connections, and might start being worth less.
I spotted this over the weekend, nice work zzzeek! The technical details still evade me somewhat but it seems we can now run a big blob of synchronous code with async around the edges. How deep are the changes required to sqlalchemy? Do you just need to add some wrappers around going out to asyncpg?

EDIT I'm interested in this because the last time I looked, running sqla with socketio looked like it wasn't going to be fun. Then my words were "if I can't have sqla, then what's the point?" - so we used Hasura to do the bulk of the donkey work instead. Boy do I miss sqla when I'm in that part of the system though.
Looks interesting but I have 3TB SSD or something close to it. How would this help me? I guess I'm trying to say space is not a problem for me. When I run out of space I move my documents to another drive. More specifically, my storage needs are modest and I organize everything into Downloads, Pictures, Videos, Code and all my space is usually taken up by one of those folders. Reducing the need for any kind of space analysis.

I can see this being useful for some people that want to re-organize how they use their disk space but you'd need to add some heuristics to the software to make it useful for such use cases. For example, if you group all images together and suggest to automatically move them to a single folder or a set of sub-folders in another folder I can see that being useful.
You pretend like you have solved things here, clearly you have not. Please stop trolling
For the record, I fully support this attitude to life. Doing it for its own sake is totally a virtuous pursuit.
Honest question. How is that any better than a small laptop? Is the price point that makes the difference?
What if they donated to a charity of your choice instead of paying you.
Was it just a gaffe when Federighi mentioned you couldn't install alternative operating systems in his recent Daring Fireball interview, then? I admit I could have misunderstood him, but it seemed like that was what he was saying.