skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a mashup of conflicting advice. Don’t optimize! Use SIMD! If you’re reading from disk you’re I/O bound! I am embarrassed for the ACM.
I think nitpicking is the wrong call here. Dwelling on the fact that Nature and Nature Communications are two different journals obstinately misses the point that Nature Comms explicitly "rides on the coattails" of Nature, in that they are inextricably part of the Nature brand.

They can't have it both ways. If being a journal parallel to and under the same org as the journal Nature is supposed to make Nature Communications look better, then low-quality content in Nature Communications necessarily erodes the Nature brand of which they are a very deliberate part.

Again, Andrew Gelman put it succinctly:

> The paper is published at nature.com. Nature Communications is an extension of the Nature brand. Reputational inference goes both ways. By giving this journal the Nature name, they’re leveraging the Nature brand. The converse is that if the new journal published a paper with serious flaws, the Nature brand loses.
I assumed the "mad" part was just some archaic term.

Curious whether it does actually mean something or if it is just a typo.
How can we be sure that this app store won't charge any charges or commission?
Using capitalization to distinguish public/private was still a terrible idea.
We Make Moral Decisions
Open Source DMR Amateur Radio protocol and reference implementation
For Montaigne, verbal jousting is the only way to reach truth
I'm still surprised at how many "Sweden is a success!" stories keep showing up on HN.

The country had TEN TIMES the per capita death rate of its neighbors (IE the countries you'd conpare it to if you want to control for everything except the pandemic response). It also still has the highest unemployment rate of all the Nordic countries and its infected count is rising currently.

Not only that, but Sweden is already a country of "lonely conformists" and have been keeping six feet away from their neighbors long before the pandemic. They would have been the ones where a light lockdown was appropriate and it still didn't give good outcomes.
This is a product that allows aspiring creators raise money for a paid newsletter product before going independent by preselling subscriptions to fans, followers, and friends.

It also includes a feature that allows users to browse through Substack newsletters by topic to inspire creators and to make newsletter discovery easier.
If I understand this correctly, even the DPRK related C# code is in English, they even use localization keys in English, interesting if the game itself was made in DPRK or China
New update on Motionia.js animation library
I'm yellow/blue blind in my dominant eye. This article rings true for me, although with different colour choices. For example, I didn't realize the halo thing was common, but I see it when looking at bright pink things.

The larger an object is, the more likely I can tell from that eye alone what colour it is. Mostly I err on the side of cyan - any colour near cyan (green to light blue) will invariably look like a single shade of cyan to that eye, so those colours are pretty much indistinguishable if overlapping like in the text examples. Eg: At night, the blue lights on buses and the green "go" light at intersections are the same colour to that eye - cyan. Until they get close (large) enough and then I can tell that they are different colours.

There is a huge difference when I do A/B comparison in either case, but when looking through both eyes simultaneously, I don't notice the deficiency at all. The brain decodes colour and fills in the blanks in unusual ways.
“True lies” – or what LLVM claims, but fails to deliver
This is an interesting article that reminds me of an offhand remark in this talk by an old prof of mine, Marty Sereno, that he thinks human language evolved from singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rconzwB422s From memory he thinks this because of the structure of the human voicebox, but I could be wrong and don't have time to track that little part down right now. It's a fascinating talk in general - Marty's a really smart and engaging speaker. I remember his PowerPoint-less and notes-less lectures with fondness - he just really knew his stuff back to front, having starting dissecting the visual cortext of monkeys and moved on to fMRI imaging, including writing his own analysis software from scratch.
The impact of these constellations on radio astronomy is arguably worse, not least because it’s harder for the average person to see the impact.

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3702/1

(They don’t just reflect radio waves, they broadcast them!)
>with a DAG, nesting stops being a first-class concept

This is what I was wondering about. Please correct me if am wrong. If tasks are indeed modeled using a DAG, then there is essentially no nesting, right? What we think of nesting in the traditional sense can just a bunch of small tasks with varying dependancies.
> Before we go any further, I’d like to acknowledge the reasons for this. If a remote attacker were to compromise your laptop, being able to trigger the YubiKey from software on the computer defeats the whole point of using the YubiKey.
I don't have great references, but I know that this has been researched in the past. For example:
"U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface for Parallel and Distributed Computing" [0]

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[0] https://www.cs.rice.edu/~alc/old/comp520/papers/U-Net%20A%20...
I have often found in chat conversations that if it gets too busy difficult questions goes answered or the discussion overtaken by some other question. Then, it can easily become a worse experience for the immediate asker..
The maxims are The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries¹, the third of which is originally from the Schlock Mercenary webcomic strip of November 1, 2009².

1. https://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Ma...

2. https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-11-01
https://dev.to/abhiprojectz/new-update-on-motionia-js-animat...
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I seems to me that GitHub's "social coding" is slowly turning things inside-out and upside-down.

At the beginning, you have a problem and you try to solve it yourself. If you succeed in doing so, great! Job done. The project is already successful at this point.

Next, you can take the extra step of open-sourcing it, because it might be useful for others too, and you might maybe benefit from the improvements, bug fixes or bug reports of others.

But if you start spending more time on dealing with emails, PRs etc. and it's no fun, just say no. Ignore people calling you "unprofessional" and whatnot. You owe them nothing.
Yes, I do have applications on Android, iOS, macOS.

I want more competition in app stores, I want places where adult applications can be distributed which is completely impossible at the moment. I want app stores that offer different models than what Apple and google do. I want Apple to have to improve their developer experience because of competition (the google play store is way simpler to deal with in my experience). Etc.

And you’re right, it’s a pain to deal with them.
He didn't but I would. Towards the end of the film, one of the interviewees claims the US is heading for a civil war. The solution? Turn off notifications.

Give me a break.
Thank you! I already notice how very different my three kids are, and being non conformist is going to be easier for some than for others for sure. The link you've added seem mostly for software tools that block social media, I think fostering a resilient / non confirmist personality is going to be the toughest challenge.
Flag it and move on. It's not good to attack the person even if they did it first.
Hi, thanks for your comment. I actually understood that he meant something like a hyperparameter search/tuning using cross validation (at least that what came in my mind).
We are trying out various ADHD meds for my son and every one is like a deal with the devil - it helps with some things, but leaves him twice as wired when it wears off, or makes him sleepy or keeps him awake at night. I hope in the future we can get more targetted treatments without so many side effects.
Forum: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
This is such a detailed description of the issues caused by red/green color blindness.

I've had some issues in the past specifically related to small red and green boxes. When you do some operations work you'll eventually run into a chart like this [0] and, during an outage, you'll undoubtedly not be able to notice a scattering of small red boxes in this type of visualization. Similar with line charts. Telling the difference between 2 lines on a graph that are not thick is difficult especially now that people have migrated to higher DPI displays.

[0] - http://status.ovh.com/vms/index_bhs1.html
The Digital Gold Rush Is Near
I admittedly haven’t tried this one (I guess I will), but this was also the promise of Goodreads, and Netflix since the DVD era, and it just never seems to work for me.

I have admittedly discovered a handful of great authors via Goodreads recommendations, but they’re big names I think I would have eventually found anyway (e.g. Brandon Sanderson), and I spent a lot of time adding books I’d read and carefully considering how to rate each one.

I’m actually broadly curious why these systems aren’t more effective. It seems like such a perfect system on paper.
What medieval Europeans understood about origin and relation of their languages
I am talking about Justice Loya [1].

By the way, the govt has been very active in making sure that they have their loyal representatives in bureaucracy as well as in judiciary. Recently, the Supreme Court convicted a prominent lawyer for a tweet criticizing them [2]. It is very easy for them to dismiss cases which might show them in bad light. Media has no independence either. Eg. the case of Punya Prasun Bajpai [3] who's show was blacked out and eventually cancelled because it was critical of Modi.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brijgopal_Harkishan_Loya

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/asia/india-bhushan-...

[3] https://thewire.in/media/punya-prasun-bajpai-abp-news-narend...
Reviewing your post and comment history, it looks like you are the dev director or cofounder of a no to low-code dashboarding tool that is thinking about going Open Source to increase adoption, so this medium will be the bulk of your exposure with customers and the net. Is this roughly correct from a 10km viewpoint?

My response is entirely around how the tool will fit in the overall goals, not about any specific tool.

Things I would think about from the perspective of how the solution fits the problem.

- Is it crawlable? Is it deep linkable? Is knowledge or discussions from 4 months ago valid now and would you want folks to be able to find them? If findability and linkability are important, forum or ticket systems are preferable over chat transcript logs.

- What is the nature of the requests and the latency they should satisfy. Is it, "Help! I am stuck!" Or, "How should we structure this support tool so that it also can edit the ticket taxonomy?"

Chat is great for dev teams with micro-blockers that can be satisfied by a 30-90 second transaction, where helping the person asking the question also ultimately unblocks you. Think a group of people that all need to make progress, where the laggards prevent the whole group from moving forward.

Things I would think about when how it affects you and your team and the other participants.

- How much will this change your focus. What kind of duty cycle will you check on the medium? How are you envisioning the interactions taking place, quality (question quality has a huge impact on outcomes), latency, number of exchanges, total time to resolution.

- How much time will it take?

- Who will be the primary participants, is it a community thing and community folks are answering questions, or is it just you at a 24 hour office hours in addition to your regular work?

- Will it be staffed specifically, or will other employees do rotations?

- What are your SLAs, SLOs for response times?

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Email, chat, forums and issue tracking systems all interoperate with group dynamics in different ways. Visualize and simulate those interactions, taking note actors and outcomes. Ask your existing customers how they would like to interact and what their expectations would be.

I have also gone through this exercise a couple orgs, it is org specific, customer specific and testing in production is one of the best ways. Don't commit to a tool before having actually used it in anger. Be willing to burn it down and try something else.

I hope this helps and good luck!
Love, care and a nurturing social structure wihle developing as a child is what keeps a child healthy. What I meant was that self worth is tied with validation from authority. A sense of inadequacy is always fomented and all the other nonsense of the social experiments we call schools.And at some point you need to wake up to the fact that in a way its just a big theater. That's why you have theories like Rousseau's social contract. You need to answer to the question why are we doing this again?
I mean even labor laws on the book are hardly enforced in the United States.
Look, I'm not saying I doubt that. If the tool fits your needs, more power to you. But that won't be the case for everyone. Eventually, some firms need to reach for the power tools that AWS has, or simply the reach in terms of reliability. Things like SQS, Aurora, Sagemaker, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Redshift, S3, Glacier, Lambda, Fargate, availability zone reach, raw EC2 + EBS.

It's about ecosystems. Heroku has a decent ecosystem, but nowhere near AWS or Azure. I find it far more likely that AWS and/or Azure will improve their ecosystems to attain parity with the gold standard Heroku (or Render for you) DX
in the small but which can scale all the way up. But you may find that a tall tale, and if so I would understand. The track record on the AWS/Azure side isn't great. But the latter did acquire GitHub, and I fully expect them to exploit that. I would be surprised if AWS lets them 1-up their incumbency through that vector without neutralizing it.
Coinbase Employees Have Begun to Take Severance Packages
Those who do not admit fail again and again. The worst thing is when people lie to themselves. Crafting alternative narratives and honestly pushing them. I have no explanation. One mistake is less than ten mistakes, no one trust liar. It is not smart.
This is crazy. Is this a virtual machine within Factorio? Made me thinking. Would it be possible to build a computer within Factorio and to then break out of it?
Quantum mechanics demolishes the first two bullet points, so in some sense, science has marched on and progressed past that naive ontic naturalism, and exchanged it for a humbler epistemic naturalism. The points become rephrased:

> that there is an epistemic reality about which all rational observers can know half of the ontic facts

> that this epistemic reality is governed by natural laws which are themselves epistemic

And so on. Crucially, there are no local hidden variable theories which can reproduce what we observe already; there are situations where there cannot possibly have been an objective ontic reality in the laboratory.
Size also. It's easy to spool dish wires out on the ground on the moon, hard to spool them out and keep them where you want in orbit.
Not only respiratory, but also gastrointestinal diseases like the norovirus.

They really are floating Petri dishes full of the most vulnerable elderly people.
Many Dell XPS 2-in-1 users hated them.

https://www.dell.com/learn/ap/en/apdhs1/videos~en/documents~...
>> It's pretty open

I disagree. It's the quite opposite. So many popular apps don't even get a notice before getting banned, let alone small indie developers trying to get some users.

>> why the hell would anyone use it?

Not sure about others but I definetly don't want a US company to put nose in everything I do online. Plus I don't want to give a 30% cut for a regional app that I can publish on some local platform for local users. And I would rather deal with low quality apps than popular apps disappearing every now and then just because Google doesn't like them.

>> do they have the authority to do that?

Yes but it's not practical in country like India to enforce it. Free speech and what govt can regulate about internet are different things as far I've seen.
> The state-overseen apparatus you might next jump to is a nightmare to me.

Markets have to be overseen by the state to some degree, because free markets rely on certain conditions being met in order to work optimally. One of these conditions is that the companies in the market must be competing.

> You would be ok with different tax rates for different size corporations?

You mean like how individuals are taxed at different rates dependent on the size of their income?

> A committee / agency to decide what is or is not an oligopoly?

We already have that: the court system. I'm not describing anything new here. Competition law in the US dates back at least to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.

> So, someone coming up with a new app that does something never done before, that would be a monopoly or oligopoly, right?

Having a monopoly by itself is fine; you just can't leverage that monopoly to artificially inhibit competition.
This is possible. When I was diagnosed, it was autism masking ADHD (apparently the other way around is more common though) because I have all the ADHD issues with everything except my special interest. I was told that ADHD more commonly masks autism though, so it's certainly worth exploring the possibility.
> Oh, and high paying: it was like 3x my previous salary, but not high for SV standards.

This was before the company was viewed as completely morally bankrupt. They pay probably the highest in SV now to make up for that.
WeChat mini-programs don't actually run as native code on the phone though. They're much more like web apps running on the WeChat back end, with WecChat acting as a browser to access them. Roblox does a similar thing, with interactive games from third parties running on the Roblox servers in the virtual environment. A third party app store where you install native code apps on the phone, directly accessing phone OS services and consuming local resources is a completely different thing, right?
> What you quote doesn't deny "no compatability" of the author

What I quote shows that the author knows and acknowledges that he's describing a classical construct. The question of "compatability" (sic) is not even addressed.

> I didnt say it was THE unification theory of QM and GR, you somehow inferred that

I did not. Here's what I wrote: "This is not unification of QM and GR, it's a classical construction". Not the absence of any "THE", whether capitalized or not.

> I could add that quote and it would change nothing as far as I'm concerned what the authors stance is

Because you do not understand what the author is saying. He's presenting a purely classical model which displays some features (in particular charge quantization) also seen in quantum mechanical ones. That does not make it a quantum theory, any more than the discrete eigenfrequencies of a vibrating classical string make a classical model of vibrating strings a quantum theory.
> The relation between the two books resembles that between, say, Manual of Surgery and Frankenstein, or Teach Yourself Romanian and Dracula.

Wtf?
How does having Chinese shareholders(in minority) make an app Chinese?
Yeah, because fuck your employees and customers. Right?

Backups do nothing against contemporary ransomware attacks where the MO is to publish stolen information if the company doesn’t pay up.

If you’re a hospital or say a school district “never pay” is simply an unconscionable attitude.
I Know the Math Says So, but Is It True?
Chat works when there is an existing relationship between both parties. Doing random support over a chat channel would take someone with patience better spent elsewhere.
> I thought India was a democracy with free speech

The First Amendment is radically unprecedented and unique, in its text, judicial upholding and cultural backing.

While India technically has freedoms of speech, in practice it is heavily regulated [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_expression_in_Ind...
This video is delightful.

Cruise ships are disgusting - on a public health, environmental, and labor law axes. (Probably a few others, too!) I love seeing them being dismantled.
In addition to the issues other people have mentioned, Python benefits from a large standard library in a way that Rust doesn't, because Python scripts don't require a build step.

So it's easier to use Python than Rust for a little bit of "glue" in a place where maintaining a pile of dependencies would be inconvenient.

If you can just stick a single .py file in a git repo somewhere and arrange for it to be run, that's a big gain compared to having to maintain a list of dependencies and arrange for them to be installed and so on. So it makes a big difference that you have access to regular expressions and tar files and whatever in that situation.
A common approach in rendering engines to convert screen space coordinates to objects is to render a second image with light and shadow disabled where the color uniquely maps to an id. You then can uniquely identify 24 bits worth of objects without needing to maintain a KD tree.
Dash positions say otherwise
TechLead on YouTube. The most advanced programming concepts you’ll find on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/c/TechLead
> It has to do with edge detection. The signals from receptors in the eye are used not only to detect color, but also to detect edges. In fact since color is detected largely by differences of spectral response from nearby receptors, the edges are important because that's where the strongest difference lies. The color of a region, especially a small one, is largely determined at the edges.

Aha! So that is why I have the hardest time with line charts even when I distinguish the colors in the legend just fine!