skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reminded of baking. The recipes for everything are all known, but there's still an enormous amount of skill and tacit knowledge required.
The problem is that the author is essentially claiming that running the regression for data not passing his eyeball test is, in itself, a misuse of regression...which is nonsense.
There are now $2B locked up in decentralised finance at Ethereum
It’s one day for the tech screen and one day for the on-site. Of course it’s more of you have to travel.
Argentina was a dictatorship when this question was being decided (1980) and still was when Argentina decided to invade (1982).
Teaching code reuse using Python Turtle
Agreed; or like saying "You don't need a map; you can clearly see where this road leads if you follow it far enough."
The way I'd say it is that the uncertainty of the value is large compared to the value itself. Just thinking about the causal mechanisms, drinking (binge or not) with other people could put you at risk if any of the other drunks are infected. But drinking alone might help protect you from covid, since it is a way to avoid other people.
For what its worth, NYC had large protests through all of June and saw no spike. Mask usage was also high through them + regular use of hand sanitizer (handed out by organizers in some cases). It would appear that spikes are a function of either indoor activity or large crowds without masks.
What is the difference between a "fan who positively impacts the community and is rewarded for it" and an "influencer who is paid marketing dollars"?
Dad told me he got a new computer. I asked how long he had the old one.

Apparently it was my old team fortress computer. So like 15 years.
Reaction wheels saturate and are therefore more suited for precise attitude control than as a source of sustained torque. Once they saturate you need to unload the accumulated momentum via some other mechanism. Thus, you do need a second propulsion system such as thrusters, light sail etc.
My friend who goes to USC says that this sort of bait-and-switch happened, with them updating their plans very close to the deadline when people had to make housing decisions.
Hi, I'm the lead dev on walking dream. It's hard to say right now what the "minimum area requirement" is, because there's an inverse correlation between area size and nausea (since more "redirecting" is needed in smaller spaces) However, I think it works pretty well in 9x9ft so far (but we need to see how it works for other testers)
In Irish, at least, the letters being familiar doesn't help when they sound totally different.

When I moved here, I arrogantly stated I was going to learn Irish. I'm humbled now.
Microsoft interested in buying Warner Bros' gaming unit
International students should simply avoid America all together. There are too many risks, consequences, and pitfalls to make it worth wild.
Most people hang out with people who are like them.
Yeah, I remember going to work with my dad (~20 years ago) at a datacenter for a large national bank. Power to the building was supplied by three large flywheels, which were in turn (usually) kept spinning by electric motors driven by street power. If they lost outside power, they had three diesel engines that they could spin up and clutch in before the flywheels spun down too far.
In fact, students admitted to Harvard this year will not need to drop out to pursue the plan you lay out. Harvard is giving new admits the option to defer admission until the following year. This decision was made, I believe, with recognition that the value of Harvard is in large part the social environment and connections you experience in person.
Insofar as "what happens when I do this?" goes, it neglects the null hypothesis. If you don't pay attention to falsifiability can you claim to be doing science?
If you have the aptitude for it, I'd argue that being constrained by clean, cold, infallible logic makes STEM subjects much easier, not harder, than the messy human whirlpool of the humanities and social sciences. Sure, it might be easier to get away with BS in those fields — but what if you actually want to learn something or make a tangible impact? No matter how you slice it, humans live in the world of "fuzzy-logic-based natural language," not bits and bytes. (Incidentally, this might reveal why some engineers struggle with things like UX, technology ethics, or algorithmic bias.)

I also have a mixed education of 1/2 CS and 1/2 Music. I found some of my music classes way harder (and often way more enjoyable) than many of my CS classes, despite the fact that the latter dealt with well-scoped problems.
I believe 386 did not have certain "atomic" instructions like CMPXCHG or XADD. So in order to support 386, the kernel had to have special versions of all locking primitives just for 386.
At least the scale gives you an idea even if not as immediately intuitive as you would like. In model railway world you have O, HO, OO, N and plenty of other scales that sometimes are not even a scale - track guages can be different in scale to the trains.

1:60 is the convention for planes which is not the same as the 1:64 scale used for die cast toy cars. But these are the standards we are stuck with.
Well it is convention for planes to be in 1:60 scale
This description really does sound like MLM:

> "A seed button will pop up where you can choose how much you give that creator on a monthly basis. You will receive a portion of all seeds given after yours."

https://beta.cent.co/
> Walmart effectively is the American version of social welfare.

Disagree; Walmart is a leech on the system, extracting the value of the labor of these employees without paying the whole cost of it. Many Walmart employees need to use real welfare programs in order to stay alive so they can keep providing discount labor to Walmart.
As Speaker Pelosi said: Don’t let a good crisis go to waste.
I'm the lead dev on Walking Dream: No doubt the player will "notice" they are being redirected in a small space, the question is if it's bad enough to induce nausea. Our goal is to be able to tell the player "you can just walk wherever you want in the game, but you'll notice some weird rotational shifting, however you won't get nausea". It's a lower bar that can still lead to fun gameplay.
How does this do on the "integration" part of GUI? Like is it easy to spin a "native" file picker on Windows/macOS?

(Sure there are native APIs for that, but bridging the gap is one of the point of a cross-platform GUI framework, isn't it?)
The chart referenced in this article was by the same author.

https://twitter.com/AmihaiGlazer/status/1277769775855235072/...

https://twitter.com/AmihaiGlazer/status/1279210404602712064/...

My favourite part is the discussion about what a vertical line of regression means.

https://twitter.com/AmihaiGlazer/status/1279905458812149760

Discovering a vertical regression line sounds like a beautiful prompt for a hard sci-fi short story.
Basic multitasking (CMPXCHG) and cache management instructions.
> since pretty much the sole purpose of it is to spot when "dumb" manufacturing process failed you a couple of steps ago

This is really not correct, a quality based approach to design and engineering will likely change your entire process (for good or for ill ... probably both).
> Anonymity is not a universal fundamental human right at least as understood historically.

In practice starting over was. For almost all of human history, no matter how bad things turned against you where you were, you could pick up and go somewhere else. You would have to start over from nothing in a place where no one knew you, but at least you wouldn't have to deal with having negative a billion social points forever because of some slanderous allegations that were all anyone would talk about in your home town before slamming the door in your face.

Which you're obviously taking away if someone can effectively move a thousand miles away but still can't change their name, because then any slander would follow you everywhere.

> I think a structure where people steak their reputations when attacking others by virtue of reputation not being a commodity would help "keep things real".

This doesn't actually resolve the asymmetry, because there are a great many people whose reputations aren't worth anything to begin with, or who are too young to realize that they are.

You also still have the problem that reputations are community-specific. If someone is a vicious extremist in a community of vicious extremists, anti-social behavior against outsiders improves their reputation within their community. They may regret it later when they grow up and tire of that lifestyle, but that doesn't stop them at the time. It may even make it worse, because once they've trashed their own reputation among reasonable people by behaving badly, they can't get a do-over and their best option becomes to continue to behave badly and stay in the community where that gets rewarded.

> On the flip side, a vulnerable person shouldn't be protected just because they're vulnerable. If they're being oppressed then they may steak their reputation

It's not about reputation in that context, it's about safety. Democracy advocates in China get arrested or worse. Any system that rate limits pseudonyms has got to be mapping them to real people to determine whether you have one already, but the existence of that mapping is the thing that compromises their safety when their oppressors use it to find them.

> or find someone else to do it for them

So you have a dozen Democracy advocates in China. None of them can use their own name or they'll be arrested. If they use the name of one of their compatriots, they get arrested instead, so how does that help?
Indeed! These inspiring stories give me a glimmer of hope in the future. It seems that a combination of low carbon demand by the end consumer and a desire to work on low carbon technologies by our brightest minds are disrupting the otherwise formidable capital of established high carbon tech.
Some of my friends who use the delivery service are immune-compromised. Feels like a win/win for them even if it costs more.
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That article says they're allowed to charge an inactivity fee monthly after a year of no use.
One might realize that you only need to grow your circle of competence so far before you're able to function reasonably well in the world, but you miss that in order to live meaningful life you have to live on the circle even as it grows.
> cost of a subscription + added hassle / downgraded user experience

you forgot the ads!

> it's unlikely they can keep up with Google's infrastructure.

A custom search engine for a specific scope of interests will very quickly get better than google.

Take YaCy, feed just HN into it and have it crawl 2 or 3 pages deep. The level of curation around here isn't modest. Take your own comments and have it crawl a bit deeper for those.

If someone without technical skills can make something like that in a few [low effort] days without any fancy hardware it should be easy to make the proverbial google killer.

Finding a niche worth buying a subscription for is a different story entirely ofc. I imagine it could be bundled with something less ambitious that people are used to pay for that caters to the same niche.
Dark Forest analogy is totally misplaced. Dark Forest means that universe looks devoid of life but it's actually replete by it. The life is just careful to not reveal itself to strike first to kill and not be killed. IOW broadcasting information about Earth would be really stupid (too late, whoops!) But on Earth, US and China both know about each other, so there's no point in being "dark", they can both strike already.

I recommend Liu Cixin's trilogy Three Body Problem (third part being the Dark Forest). I listened to audiobooks.
The insane thing, is that I went into a Ralph’s supermarket the other week, and I counted a handful of people, that took off their face mask, to talk on their cell phones, while they freely walked throughout the store. They just let the mask dangle off their ear.

It’s like they’re not even trying. Or they are being completely oblivious to the dangers that they are the ones spreading this virus.

And since the spread has continued to rise, I’m wondering if the source of the spread is indeed inside of supermarkets. You have a relatively contained environment, where the air conditioning system can pick up the virus molecules in the air, and spread it around.
There is no such thing as a failed experiment. It sucks to be the guys who lost out when Sony decided they didn’t want to support their Linux base any more but at that stage they’d gotten what they want out of it. Sony has a history of engaging with the hobbiest community in a tight and controlled manner and their’s no reason to think they might not bring this on another notch in a later generation. Albeit in a tight and controlled fashion, but just open enough to get engagement, as is their way.
It’s simply unbelievable!
Ask HN: How to go from a idea to a Computer Graphics paper proposal?
I'm a bachelor student in the Netherlands and for my master in Game technology my university requires me to write down a proposal that I than can study for the masters for a full year if they except it.

The advice they gave me was to start implementing papers and talk with game companies to get a good feel in what kind of specific things I could contribute.

In my spare time I have made different tech demo's in Cpp and OpenGL, and specifically the challenge of drawing old anime kind of water color styles interest me a lot. So think about rendering the first season of Pokemon in OpenGL for example. I have tried to read some papers regarding these specific things but they are either very old and simple or extremely specific and way to much in depth for me to understand anything at all. So my questions would be how can I find what kind of papers are already in this field and what papers would be a good start to implement in my spare time? And how does one go from all this information to one formulated question for on the proposal?
When I applied to my MSDA program, I had to interview with the lady who would become my first year mentor. "Now, do it over again... on paper." That's what she'd say to anyone too confident in their outputs. She has a reputation for weeding out people who can pass the entrance testing and qualifications, but can't adapt. And what we do requires thick skin. You're wrong until you just happen to be right.
Ya, but with a security product there are important considerations and while we commented on areas where we fixed a bug due to something fixable, it was a pain in general.

Decisions maybe don’t belong in code but with a security product I feel there has to be some quality level of comments to explain why and how. Someone coming along later can’t be expected to be in the authors head and the author won’t remember all this stuff years later when it might matter or need to be rewritten.

Such a shit show
Scammers want cash, they don't want $1000 of Target merchandise that they have to figure out how to sell. Gift cards aren't quite cash, but they're easier to sell.
So I've never met anyone who actually believed the PRC's pretext for the extradition bill, and I'm kind of fascinated. What do you think "Chinese [PRC] law" even means? Do you think a judge in China could rule against Xi's wishes?

I think the extradition bill means "anyone can be extradited to the mainland at any time, to be punished in any manner for any reason, according to Xi Jinping's personal judgment". Do you disagree? If so, what makes you doubt that Xi has that power? Or do you agree, but think it's good for him to extend that dictatorial power into Hong Kong?

Finally, have you been to Hong Kong? To the PRC? How much time have you spent living or doing business there? You have a picture of the region that I'm afraid departs considerably from that lived experience.

ETA: And to be clear, you're saying here that you were born into relative freedom, and have chosen to use that freedom to advocate for a one-man dictatorship to impose further control over a precarious quasi-state with elements of democracy and a highly-functioning rule of law. This is apparently because you consider that dictatorship to be "leftist". I hope you're not surprised by the cool reception that you're getting to this.
The idea is interesting. How do we download the paper?
It’s all about the APIs though. PS4 is very friendly towards porting from mainstream x86
Pointing out that all the inflation that people have been afraid of for maybe two decades now keeps not coming isn't a dismissive Fed talking point. It's reality.

The idea that it's just asset inflation and not inflation in the real economy is also wrong. The fact of the matter is that we now live in a world where raw capital is no longer a rare commodity, thus you can no longer get a significant return on a risk free asset like a bank account or a t-bill. In order to make a return you have to take risks with your capital and invest them in something value producing like a business.

You don't have a God given right to high interest rates. We've had a secular decline in interest rates for...maybe hundreds of years. That's just reality. Complaining that the Fed (and every other central bank in the developed world) is somehow screwing you by not creating them for you is foolish. The interest rate on your savings account is not important compared to the gainful employment by the populace that happens when we don't have too tight monetary policy.
If the exact same request is working in the browser but failing for the Python program, they're probably not tunneling all traffic on their computer through a VPN, but have only configured the browser to use a proxy. You should be able to make the requests library use the same proxy. IIRC, there's an environment variable you could set to achieve this without code changes.
Dad got taken for $300 from the fake "Microsoft Support" people. And then had to pay a local firm to fix & remove all the stuff they changed when he allowed them remote access.

He was a smart man. But as he got older he would lose patience with websites and just click on anything .. ANYTHING to get the popups to go away. Which had the inevitable result.

This is despite me telling him not to do that. And if his computer started acting up, just mail it to me and I'd reload it for him. But he didn't want to "be a bother" and his pride meant he would refuse to admit to himself that he had been taken.

Talk to your parents, be patient and explain it's not a bother, that everyone eventually gets affected by the scammers. And that you're more than willing to help them.
> Hopefully, true 80386 support can be reintroduced to the kernel in a way that keeps it properly self-contained and easy to support.

The merge which removed the 80386 support (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/743aa456c1834f76982af44e8b...) stated as the reason "[...] complexity has plagued us with extra work whenever we wanted to change SMP primitives, for years."

That is, it was not easy to keep it self-contained. Every new SMP primitive has to be implemented and maintained for all the architectures supported by the kernel, and the original 80386 ISA was too limited. Not to mention that the 80386 didn't honor the write-protect bit in the page tables while in the kernel (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/a5c2a893dbd4956a72fb261e87...), with consequences all over the kernel (https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/96d4f267e40f9509e8a66e2b39...).
keep the secret!
Even if it did I wouldn't fly it!

After flying some RC models myself the chances of crashing it are way too high and without replaceable parts... Idk, pretty risky!
Perhaps--I really know nothing about it.

However, if you allow yourself to simplify the problem, it seems there is really no physical difference from a food delivery and a ride. Pick up at one location, drop off at another--maybe with extra time required to get out of the car. In both cases, there is a limited allowable waiting threshold.

So if you can merge those work forces, you could attain higher utilization. The main problem I see though is that both sectors surge at roughly the same times, so it isn't quite as complimentary as you might initially hope.
Pattern Matching, Racial Diversity and the Grand Hypocrisy of Big Tech Media
Making "green"[1] energy more competitive is not the same thing as making it cheaper. Yes, providers my switch to more green energy if the cost differential is not as great, but that doesn't mean that the consumer sees any real benefit.

For the consumer not to be impacted, the critical step would be for the actual cost of "green" energy to go down. This is done by allowing coal and "green" energy to compete in a relatively unregulated manner[2].

[1]Scare quotes are in place to remind people that we are using a binary label to describe the ecological impact of an energy source, when in fact that ecological impact would be better described in scalar or vector terms.

[2]yes, I know the energy sector is heavily regulated.
It makes no sense that this article writes off DuckDuckGo as a similar offering and compares it more to Startpage.

DDG and Neeva are both based on Bing, and both integrate (or plan to integrate) many other search sources. Startpage only provides Google results supplemented by Wikipedia for some queries.

The one advantage Neeva might have is that it integrates personal services as search sources (like gmail and dropbox). Personally that has never been a pain point for me though.

A few months back I started working on a search engine (in my sig) based on the hypothesis that a better search engine can be built by curating vertical specific sources to provide higher relevance for niche search topics. I truly believe a federated data source search engine will be the future, but time will tell.
This wasn't a bespoke transaction between Walmart and The Fed. Walmart sells bonds on the open market all the time. The Fed just happened to be a buyer on that market this time.
Where can a developer buy one of these $500 ARM minis?