skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work on the algorithm for a widely used search engine and can confirm that this line of thinking has been very effective in improving our product over the years.

Rather than trying to generate hypothetical ideas for "how can we make our search better", we spend a lot of time analyzing our data to find where we are failing. Many of our biggest relevance improvements have come from tracking and understanding the types of queries where we consistently fail to generate results or user engagement.

I think it is a very effective approach, but can require some discipline and perspective. When you spend so much time focusing on the failures of your product, it can create this internal perception that the product is constantly failing and broken. So you do need to actively remember what you're doing well and how far you've come as a team/product.
Karmic Seeds: Half me, half you
I use an old inversion technique. Not sure where I read this, and I think Tim Ferris said it:

The last thing you want to do is the first thing you should do

There is always something mega pertinent on my TODO lists that I really don't want to do, and it calls out my name when I sleep saying: 'You really need to do this' and the feeling of procrastination makes you feel ashamed of having not completed the task. But it gets done thanks to inversion, and I proudly check it off as being done, until the next task I don't want to do comes along (and yes it will come along).
Would be more interesting to hear about the ones that don't.
Founders and executives "play a role" in outcomes. The future of any company pre liquidation is uncertain.

Agree with employee pools. That is the next step version for founderpool and it is literally the most requested!
Any aspiring authoritarian knows that once the public can be convinced everyone is hysterical and biased, it's that much easier to get the average Joe to throw up his hands and say "whatever, I'll just support the strong man who will help me get mine, since other politicians are just going to get theirs, and I certainly can't trust the media."
Tucker invented a story, regardless of his personal history, likely to deflect from the fact that he was recently named in a civil suit that details sexual assault by a Fox employee. Whatever your background, making things up for TV is not defensible.
EDIT: and if his personal history induces him to invent narratives, it's clear he doesn't belong in his current profession
Anyone know a good workstation story for AMD? I'd really like to have a development workstation with an EPYC CPU (like the 7302P) and a motherboard that actually supports ECC, DDR4-3200, and PCIe 4.0. All I can find are not-yet-launched products like the Supermicro H12 mobo. Whitebox system integrators are shipping older Zen-compatible mobos that don't have PCIe 4 and 3200MHz memory, and there don't seem to be any OEMs in the game (Dell, HP, Lenovo are all Intel-only).
This is like creating Zabbix in pieces and missing the best parts. Triggers, Alerts, and Actions.
Think if InfluxDB is "move-in ready" when buying a house. Sure you won't know the electrical and plumbing as well as you will a "fixer-uppper" in the long run, but you'll have a place to sleep a lot faster and easier.
Quotes around attribute values in HTML tags are not useless.
There is a delightful market of very small fanless boxes on AliExpress that typically just throws a 15W laptop CPU into an aluminum case. Turns out if you slap a couple pounds of aluminum onto the CPU, it will stay pretty cool. I have a small box with an i5-5200U (15W part) that includes two NICs. This runs as my router and firewal at home. It sits around 40C. It might throttle if I ran heavy workloads on it, but it's great as a small always-on PC.

Here's a search to get you started, and you can refine from there: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...
Firefox 78.01 on macOS Mojave: works fine.
Ask HN: Cold-calling companies to sponsor development of open source project?
Quick intro:

Since end of last year I've been developing an open source payment gateway for Ethereum tokens, called Hub20. It is akin to BTCPayServer, with the advantages that it allows usage of tokens like DAI (important for merchants that don't want to deal with volatility of crypto) or BAT which are growing in user base and are starting to develop an actual economy around it. It also integrates Raiden (a Layer-2 payment network, equivalent to BTC Lightning) to make transactions instant and near-zero cost.

The project was considered novel enough to actually receive a grant from the Raiden Trust, which enabled me to justify ~3 months of work. All in all, a good amount of work is done and I am currently even running one instance of Hub20 in production on another project of mine.

Now, the "Ask HN" part:

I really would like to keep working on this project to make it more useful to more people, but between day job/side project/family obligations, I do not have enough capacity in the foreseeable future to work on it unless I make it my main source of income.

I have compiled a list of companies that would be interested in a project like this - from ecommerce sites to SaaS that would like to reduce their costs with card processing fees, even "vice/adult" companies that could benefit from charging users without asking for their credit card - and I would like to keep working in this project if I find enough sponsors or businesses willing to pay a support/consulting contract.

I believe that what I am building is valuable and I think I can put together a pitch deck that shows why this would be interesting to companies. I just don't have the slightest idea on how to approach them without any previous introduction. If anyone has faced something similar or if has any tips (e.g, list of materials that I could put online to show/demo) I would be forever grateful.

[0]: https://hub20.io

[1]: https://raiden.network

[2]: https://btcpayserver.org
An image "is" not a matrix. Yes, the values of each pixel can be considered an entry of a matrix, but that's where the similarity ends. Unless the graph is very dense, doing convolutions on the image representing the graph is a pretty arbitrary thing to do. Graph CNNs exist and make a lot more sense in general.
Thats true. We would eventually want to grow this to support employees (think about building your own option portfolio) and student ISAs etc. We are right now emphasizing the community aspect rather than just the equity swaps because for founders, the value is in the network.
I guess he can’t use more than one CSS class.

<a href=/lovely/ class="button button-primary">Lovely</a>

That should trigger him.

This stinks of IE6 privileges.
(Copy-pasting my own reply to a similar question below)

Salt water is the worst. It takes a lot of effort to clean it all off and it causes corrosion all the while. Even the ones that do hit water, they get them out as fast as they safely can.

As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), SpaceX have only reused previously-wet fairings on their own Starlink launches. They don't risk potentially damaged parts on external customers.
Performance matters sometimes. If you're in a situation where performance matters, and the abstraction doesn't capture the expected performance, but you're subject to the abstraction's actual performance anyway, then the abstraction leaked in a way that matters to you.
Neat, I actually sold a wiki to Curse pre-Gamepedia and worked there for a short while. Not very happy to see a single company gobble up so much of the online gaming community.
MIT creates disturbing ‘deepfake’ video of Nixon announcing Apollo 11 disaster
This is awesome, the only thing I see missing is that the primary capital of a founder is potential, not equity. That's why banks and other institutions don't typically lend to startups. It would be nice to see that reflected in some way, as something of value that's counted somehow.
And here am I the doofus who works in Accounting Software often saying "I should have done something with fruit" when my work involves too much math for my liking.

I'll try to stop using that from now on, thanks!
Sarima Using Python – Forecast Seasonal Data
I remember using the course you have linked to some time ago - it was very useful. I noticed now that the course is sold on a subscription model. I don't remember being that the case. Would you happen to know when that changed?
> Well a matrix is a collection of vectors so

That's like saying "a matrix is a collection of real numbers, so anything you say about one applies to the other".

> You can certainly apply projections to images, I mean this is what photoshop does.

This doesn't seem to refer to anything in the comment you're replying to.
Why is there a Linux Tux logo next to macOS?
The very purpose of the community aspect for founders is to have direct impact on the outcomes of the participating companies.
Maybe folks on "the right" would do well to realize that there is no monolithic left. This mistake comes up time after time, with folks on "the right" mistaking hashtags for movements, mistaking flash mobs for cults, and mistaking alternative lifestyles for unified attempts to change the course of society. Race realism is not a left-vs-right issue, but a settled matter of science: There's only one human race, and race realists are wrong.
> Like javascript, it can be written poorly due to its loose roots.

I understand that bad code can be expressed in every language. But there is bad tooling too.

PHP clearly has a lucrative place in the world. But it remains a significant threat vector.

Yes, even in 202x. I leave others to discuss why this is the case. I won't install PHP on a workstation just to run a Wiki. ^_^
Maybe I misinterpreted this:

>it will be boring to anyone but specialists, as the rest of machine learning ought to be.
Places that have big storms have these things called storm shutters, but I haven't seen a home that has it for thermal reasons. My experience is limited to the Midwest United States though.
This is one of the most founder requested features in YC and also Sam Altmans new fund, Apollo is doing it.
>mindless masses

Perhaps you meant this hyperbolically but I do not believe it to be an exaggeration.

>What specifically makes them captive

They are captive because of a combination of their ignorance and the network effect. If all of your friends are on Facebook for example you'll have to leave them behind if you delete your account.
Will JavaScript Take over the World?
Mpw – Building Classic Mac OS Apps in OS X
Let's be real, nobody is going to SWAT you for not telling your guitarist friend about software licenses. It's really a non-issue; if you want to get particular about such things that is certainly your prerogative. But if that's not your cup of tea, then just don't worry about it.
I wouldn't delve into AliExpress when there is https://pcengines.ch, all boards made in Taiwan and engineered in Switzerland.
> London's different. If the world economy falls apart I'd rather be in London than Dublin for job seeking purposes.

If the word economy falls apart, cities that are disproportionately engaged in finance and especially international finance like London and New York are going to be the worst places to be for jobs in the short-term.

A little while after the initial chaos and collapse, they'll be great places for rebuilding jobs, though.
Redux can be used in projects unrelated to React.
Speech recognition, google search engine, autonomous driving are just some of the areas we are seeing major advances in thanks to ML methods.

Expert system approach to search and speech reckognition never worked well.

Digital assistance predicting that it needs to remind you about an upcoming flight, going to work etc are other examples.
FDA Issues Emergency Authorization for Sample Pooling in Testing for Covid-19
Studies looking at Cardio ward outcomes when all the senior doctors go away to conferences found a similar thing

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/12/22/3725083...

One theory there was that juniors are more likely to "wait and see" while senior (more confident) doctors pushed their skills too far but that's far from proven.
Teaching Machines to Unlearn
DataDog per host pricing can be very expensive. Metrics are provided by many platforms. If you need logs too, you may look at Sumo Logic which got way cheaper metrics in typical use case.

Disclaimer: I work at Sumo Logic.
For those who still remember Graphite, the team over at Grafana labs have started maintaining Graphite-web and Carbon since 2017 and it is still in active development getting improvements and feature updates. It might not scale as well as any of the other solutions, but for medium size or homelab setups it's still a nice solution if you don't like PromQL or InfluxQL.

https://grafana.com/oss/graphite/
In many countries, e.g. France, excess mortality and COVID-19 victims match very closely. Sure there may have been more untreated cardiovascular events, but there were also a lot less accidents and it seems it evened out...
Bret Victor's Library
To Write Effectively, Control The Logical Sequence of Your Ideas
de-"riskifying" my startup right now during covid. this would reduce my pressure very slightly and at this point anything helps
You can use Prometheus on top of TimescaleDB. Timescale builds connector and entire workflow to run Prometheus on top of TimescaleDB and support Grafana in flexible way. Sorry for the promo :) check for details in https://github.com/timescale/timescale-prometheus
In theory, yes. However teachers need to adapt materials to their own style of teaching and to their audience. It can be very hard in practice to teach someone else's materials and have it be 'good' and engaging.

Think of it like cover bands. They don't play it exactly the way the original band does - they adapt it to their own style. So while the original work is 'done', there is still a lot more work to do.
That’s not really true though. Both PayPal and Authorize.net had a REST API when Stripe came out.
"Chapel" is another example. (It descends from a word meaning "little cape".)
They say the best time to start is 10 years ago. The second best time is now :)

It does take time, but many people do many of these things "naturally", even if not in a fully optimized way.
Disclaimer: I am a working student ("part-time" intern in Germany, more or less), should not make any difference though.

Recurring meetings: This might be more personal preference, but I personally would go for scheduled meetings. Every day might be overkill though. Depending on the size of tasks, every other day will probably be just fine. Many questions will likely come up once actually doing work, so be somewhat available to answer them.

Growth: This is probably a lot harder to do remotely, and also largely depends on the previous experience of your intern. One important thing my mentor taught me early on was how to scope tasks, ask the right questions and when to say no to something.

When someone would ask me to do some report, I would always just do it and not question what exactly I was doing (Because for the most part, I did not really know). It turned out that often times the people asking me for it missed something that I had noticed right away but was afraid to ask. I would end up doing the report twice then.

This obviously comes with experience and once you feel comfortable with the systems used etc., but once you feel your intern knows their way around, encourage them to be critical of requests and always ask questions if they notice something that might be off.

Feedback: I would strongly suggest you do so. But also ask him/her, if he/she would like feedback. This also ties in with the growth aspect. You will need the first few weeks to identify strengths and weaknesses and once you notice a recurring theme, that is something you can give feedback on.

Personal example: I was always trying to finish my tasks quickly and more often than not there were subtle mistakes in there, which were always super trivial to fix, but they were there. In my first feedback session, my mentor told me that he was absolutely astounded by my speed, but would rather have me take more time and be sure to do it correctly than rush it. This is obvious in hindsight, but especially if you want to prove yourself, it might not be clear whether it is better to be fast or correct.

Some general things:
- Try to integrate your intern into your daily work life as much as you can. What I especially enjoyed was my mentor asking me questions about a task he had and was not sure how to proceed with it. Even if you do not get useful input at first, it helps your intern feel like actually doing useful work. And at one point he will likely be able to provide actual useful input to your day to day work, so its a win-win.

- This is often unavoidable, but please try to give him/her actual work, not something like "Sort these folders by ascending date" or "Print out 50 pdf's and send them to customers". This depends on whether your intern got hired for a certain project or just a general internship though.
So it's not just me being paranoid. If my luck is any worse and the worse possibility happened, I've already hit 5+ people and crashed my cars 5+ more times.

Driving is very very dangerous but not many realized it.
Nintendo Virtual Boy: 25 Years Later
The argument for using invalid HTML because many other websites implement invalid HTML is not a strong argument imo. Modern browsers are very forgiving in this regard but we and developers should still strive for consistency through explicitly defined values.
I can't imagine you'd have any issue. My jellyfin box has an fx6300 with an even older quadro gpu (600 I think), and it doesn't seem to have any issue running multiple streams at once.
I'm honestly not even sure if it's using hardware encoding on the gpu, or just cpu, but in Ubuntu 18.06 it worked out of the box with the open source drivers so I haven't messed with it.
Is this AI taking the place of preconditioners as used in iterative solvers?

Would an AI be able to learn how to apply multigrid methods?
Risky surgery can potentially kill you now and but safe you down the road.

You'd have to look just at people with planned surgery and those that would have had surgery in normal times but didn't and than look at their mortality over a timespan of years.
Here's the Daily Wire article (paywall, so here's a mirror):

https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/6/29/on-beha...

And here's a reasonable analysis of what it gets wrong: https://sciencefeedback.co/evaluation/article-by-michael-she...

Flagging it as misleading seems fair.

I cannot find the Washington Examiner oped in question.
I wouldn't be surprised if "so many" turns to be > 1 000 000.
Thank you for reaching out. It looks like the latest verification email finally.. well did it's thing.
I may be mistaken but seems like you can see the dust cloud moving south from NYC if you go to 9/11/2001 AM
Looks like all cuts are across HR/Sales.
seems like a key piece to achieving $1MM/year is working your way to a senior position (director+) and then negotiating for equity in the company. that's good advice, but definitely feels like you're taking liberties with the term "traditional employee"
I've been using openapi/swagger for generating my clients and honestly think it creates a mess of files and manually keeping clients up to date is not a huge task. I'm not sure that I buy into "your client libraries should be generated automatically" as a blanket statement.
This is so simple and so enjoyable.
Interesting. There are other fruit & seeds out there that develop strong exocarp or mesocarp (think coconut) and I believe it has to do with wanting the fruit to travel longer distances to encourage geographic spread. The plant probably "prefers" that the seedlings take hold some distance from the parent, so wants the seed preserved longer and taken away by certain kinds of animals (hairless apes!)

What kind of animals live, or lived, in wild citrus' native range? Now I'm curious. [EDIT: Himalayan foothills... Macaques? Elephants?]

Or it's selected for particular animals as spreaders? In wild grapes, for example, most are adapted for bird spread (small dark acidic berry, high up in a tree on dangling shoots) but there are a handful of species (vitis labrusca "fox grape" for example, and vitis rotundifolia aka muscadines) that have adapted for mammals and they are quite different: larger berry, lighter colours, strong smell (think Concord), lower acids, slip skin, and a tendency to "shell" (fall off the vine when ripe). They also tend to grow wild in shadier moister areas, e.g. the underbrush where foxes and skunks and racoons etc. will grab them, not birds.
Russia report reveals Kremlin’s “symbiotic relationship” with cyber criminals
Yes, I have developed a risk management plan that address like bankroll management and risk of ruin. After the big drop in Dec 2018, I learned a whole lot about hedging and diversification. I’ve recently been learning to quantify that stuff with metrics like Sharpe Ratio etc.
An interesting side-effect of the social network aspect of Bloomberg is that a lot of middle office employees need to have Bloomberg accounts as well (at least on the sell side) in order to communicate with their clients (they are basically paying 25k/person for a glorified chat app). That was a big driver for the Symphony project (a consortium of sell-side banks getting together and building a federated slack clone).
> So what is the difference? ... The developer experience for Adyen is decent.

That hasn't been our experience at all. In our case (a few years back, they might've improved in the meantime) Adyen experience was pretty lousy. Not especially bad, but average - considering many payment gateway APIs were as bad.

In contrast, Stripe was (at the same time, and continues to this day) miles ahead, a pure developer delight. Properly documented, with working API wrappers, working examples, correct API responses. It just worked as expected and was easy to understand.

Unfortunately I don't recall specifics with Adyen as it was a while back, but I know we were pretty unhappy with it. To this day I've never looked at it again, while I recommend Stripe to anyone in position to use it.
Funny you say that. "Deriskinga nd monetizing future founder potential" is literally on my whiteboard.

We are exploring ways to structure the pool with a portion of it in cash/capital. more coming
By catching the farings, SpaceX pockets $6m per launch. If they catch them, they can reuse them 5+ times. If they get dumped in the ocean, they might be able to use them a second time, but the salt water degrades them so more than a couple launches is unlikely. So each time a faring hits the water, it costs SpaceX $500,000 – $1 million dollars or more. At 22 launches per year, that adds up in a hurry.
Aren't chief doctors (or how they are called) also responsible for money and biased that way?
with_drop: Rust lib for using a closure as a custom drop function
There's quite a difference between social media interjecting its opinion into your private, personal conversations and whatever the clergy at your local church back in the 90s would have said. They would not have even had visibility into say, what you might be talking about at the local pub or hanging out with your neighbors. A local newspaper might pitch a story, but editorials were clearly labeled and there were often competing newspapers in most towns. Statistically, police brutality isn't a problem and far more people suffer from the effects of too little policing than not (see murder rate in Chicago or Juarez). In this era, we suffer from magnification and amplification of the marginal. A thing that does not occur very often, statistically, can get blown completely out of proportion. The power of social media is the power of propaganda. Propaganda has been used throughout history to start wars, revolutions, religious battles, etc. It has the ability to shape the perception of reality in a way that has heretofore been unthinkable. Facebook alone has an audience and reach that no TV channel or newspaper has ever had. Quantity has a quality all its own.