skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While on the topic of ODEs, I want to mention a really powerful ODE-solving system called Modelica.

There was an excellent introductory article posted on HN earlier this summer: https://marcobonvini.com/modelica/2020/06/29/all-about-model... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23690788

Here is also a video that's pretty good (explains for coders): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mvEUuc-sWE&t=153
Improving imbalanced datasets in machine learning with synthetic data
Use synthetic data and to improve model accuracy for fraud, cyber security, or any classification with an extremely limited minority class.
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The author also did another project named Noah that's like WSL on macOS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765184
Because people are often irrational.

Dilbert's pointy-haired boss resonates with a lot of office workers for a reason.

We've all had, or at least heard about, that boss who was utterly incompetent, who masked that incompetence in self-important blustering, and who were physically unable to listen to the rank-and-file.

Regulation is and should be there to deal with the abusers, and not with the companies that do, in fact, look out for the long-term welfare of both their employees and their customers.
I have a fully hardwired multi-room and outdoor setup (Klipsch speakers) using the Sonos Connect AMPs. They support this path pretty well. You can use Sonos Port with your existing amp as well, but it's a little overpriced.
Ferrari is currently #6 out of 10 teams so whatever they're spending it's not working.

https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2020/team.html
I disagree a lot with this article's opinions on PHP. It sounds like coming at it from the perspective of someone who hasn't used it in over a decade. Modern PHP with frameworks is just about as good as it gets for web development.

Edit: oh lol, this was written in 2002, alright, that confirms that.
Yeah all this talk like there is logic and reason that is honest. It's the way it is so the system can mostly stop people from learning, while looking like teachers. It will be endlessly discussed as though it is a natural phenomenon that is impossible to understand, when all it's for is a method of controlling those who work without choice. Simple to fix, impossible to take away from them.
No, it doesn't use any emulation.
Those HP microservers are popular but have issues

IME + Intel CPUS

No 6th bay for proper Raid 5/6 system

They take too long to release a new model

No support for 2.5/5/10gbe onboard

No support for Ryzen APU
The UK parliamentarian in me: “Hear, hear!!” bangs on table
exactly! And you're right, I should have used the word "complaining" rather than "claiming"
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Basically create a music library from an IceCast stream + demo
This is cool. I'll be taking a deeper look later. I need something like this for https://app.qvault.io
Very interesting. Is there a similarity criterion or criteria you apply when searching for systems that you can use as approximates?
One major problem I had, the store I worked at sold a range of laser printers. We had a cheaper one that was great for a student to print their reports, but it had a lot of plastic parts and thus if you did too much printing you could have problems with rollers and gears shifting. The manufacturer included the duty cycles on how many pages it should print in a single job.

The more expensive printers had Bakelite and Metal frames and parts. The duty cycles was so high you could basically run the printers for 24 hours without damaging anything. But the printers were a lot more expensive.

Take a guess which models cheap business men (and it always seemed to be men) insisted in buying even when we explained in detail why the cheaper printers should not be used in a business environment?
OK, I got it. I still don't see the problem. The examples include strings starting with whitespace (One of the multi-line strings), so that's not a problem. Single line strings start with the first character after the colon and a space. If that happens to be a space character, so be it. Strings are terminated by a newline, so trailing spaces aren't a problem. Quote characters are just characters with no special meaning in this format, so those aren't a problem either. Unless the library implementing this format has a bug, there shouldn't be any issues.
Henry Ford "killed" horses as transportation but horse racing is still a big business.
I feel like people aren't really parsing my words critically.

I specifically did not say that the US was worse off than MOST countries. I said MANY countries.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2020/06/08/the-glo...

There are almost 200 countries. Many of them are quite poor compared to the "developed" world and prior to the pandemic had severe social and even humanitarian deficits. The pandemic has been devastating there also. But they were starting from a more challenged point.
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> It took 7 years for the courts to finally figure that out

It was ruled illegal in 2015 by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

> inserting spying equipment in Google data centers

There is no evidence of this in the Snowden leaks or anywhere. Google would know if it had unaccounted for hardware in its datacenters. They put network analyzers on international links that carried Google traffic.

> they were intercepting hardware like switches and compromising it

For hardware shipped to targeted foreigners. We should expect our spy agencies to do this if they are even moderately competent.

> They used parallel construction with other law enforcement orgs as they leaked run of the mill criminal behavior (not national security related) so as to not disclose the real way they got the info.

Where is the evidence for this claim?

> The core concern I have is all this apparatus are tools of fascism and control of any dissenting voices including the opposing political party.

That would be a valid concern for unchecked domestic surveillance but not for what Snowden leaked.
Recycling is a cop out and companies should not be allowed to use it as green badge. What some of the people at recycling company did might be technically wrong but apple throwing away 1000s of working devices is worse
zfs works great, you have a lot of benefits on a nas like snapshots, scrubbing,...
Perhaps not Conway's version, but a 3 dimensional cellular automaton with 50-100+ states for each cell could very likely result in intelligent life over a large timeframe.

Greg Egan discusses a similar idea with his concept of the "Autoverse"
Basically arranging objects on a surface at right angles to each other, and ordering them into groups based on similarity.

https://www.curbed.com/2016/7/18/12215158/always-be-knolling...
Don't buy cheap paper.
Cells are fast and crowded places (2011)
I don't actually use it that much for note taking, so can't advise on that specifically. I do use it for things like taking a screenshot and marking it up, and sketching out design ideas whiteboard-style. It works great for that, although most of the time I just use it as a conventional ThinkPad laptop.

In fact when I use the pen it is usually with the display hinge in "laptop" mode, not flipped all the way around to tablet mode.

Either way, as long as you have the software support you need, the hardware works great. It is both a touchscreen and a Wacom tablet with pressure sensitivity. At least the pressure sensing works in native Windows apps - web app support has been more spotty.

For annotating PDF files, I guess you would need Acrobat Pro? Or would you use some other software?
I think it can go both ways (as shown by OP's situation of severely underestimating the work required).

If you have: excellent project management skills, can correctly estimate the required work, and have good clients who don't try to add "free" features half-way into the project, fixed-bidding 10-20% of the business value add can often work out better for you.

* Often that requires the client to have a good idea of how much they are willing to spend on the project, and how much additional revenue it's going to bring in (which is harder for smaller clients to do).

If any of the above is false, time-and-materials based pricing is often the better way to go in my experience -- it accounts for any "unknowns" in your estimation, and allows the client to add/change as many features as they want at any point in the project (it's easier to argue about a deadline getting pushed out than having to re-bid the project).
Brexit, perhaps?
> My personal view is that the natural birth rights in a social contract for a functioning society must include basic needs being met. People have to exist, they need shelter, food, medicine, etc.

The notion of positive rights is inherently absurd. Nobody is entitled to nobody's labor or resources except from their caretakers when they are a minor. This may seem like a needlessly harsh position but think about it: farmers can't be forced to grow food, doctors and nurses can't be forced into taking care of patients and nobody has an obligation to build anything for anybody just because "it is a basic right".

Making the government pay for it does not make more of it nor does it make it cost less. Unless the basic problem has not been addressed, that is scarcity, then any solutions is pure utopian bs. Why drugs and treatments cost so much? Why we can't build new buildings? Why do we insist on living in impractical over-packed big cities?

> Losses and deferments should be taken by banks, land/property-owners, and generally the 1%. You know, the people that bribe politicians with campaign funding.

Banning foreclosures will backfire very quickly. Where I come from a law was passed that banned banks from foreclosing houses built on native grounds / reservations. Result? Now no one has access to the credit needed to own a house and everything are in the hands of a very few corrupt individuals.
In modern organisms, proteins do most of the work, under direction of DNA/RNA control systems.

When we talk about the origins of life we need to assume simpler processes. It has lately been discovered that RNA molecules can operate directly as both enzymes and structure. Notably, RNA molecules have been lab-evolved that can transcribe and copy other RNA molecules, given a ready supply of amino acids.
Its really embrassing.
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The art world is fragile to say the least. Ensuring millenials keep tradition by supporting the art market is incredibly important as art influences our lives in so many ways that it can not possibly fit into a small box like this. As we become more digitally focused it's intriguing to not forget about important canvas and brushes.
Thanks for the data. I recently moved https://app.qvault.io from GH pages to Netlify. I liked the simplicity of pages, but Netlify had SSR features that I really needed :P
FastCGI apps can be fronted by a server that supports HTTP2, and if the server supports `Link` headers for pushing related resources, can get those benefits as well. Caddy is a good fit there with the push directive https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/push and the fastcgi transport https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/reverse_pr...

One advantage of FastCGI is that it's inherently easy to scale horizontally and load balance because it basically forces the apps to have no state. This is one of the big benefits that PHP happens to have for that reason.
It’s funny though. Everyone has free health cover, so they should worry less about failing.
It’s the aggregate cost of doing business that’s being criticized though, not the reasonable cost of one or two things in isolation. Like saying this new municipal bond will only cost homeowners the price of a latte a day. You can afford that, right? Yeah, but the thing is I don’t buy twenty lattes a day which may be what the current bond obligations add up to. Now you want to make it twenty-one. The aggregate cost is what’s crushing. It’s where we get the idiom of straws breaking camels’ backs.
How does JavaScript generates random numbers?
Sorry - I wasn't even thinking of UK. And UK is very different in this area for sure!
"Hooked would
'sell' three engineers to Apple
(including a longtime employee who served as Chief Technical Officer) and continue
operating the less technical aspect of its business"

No wonder they left. If they were up for sale anyway, its no surprise that they cut all loyalties loose – that's exactly what the company did. And career liquidity plays heavily in the favor of engineers right now.
>the Supreme Court denied certiorari

They denied the original appeal over copyrightable APIs. There was a second trial over Google's fair use argument and the jury ruled for Google. Oracle appealed and the Federal Circuit ruled against Google again. That decision was appealed to SCOTUS on January 24, 2019. Google's petition challenged both decisions by the Federal Circuit: APIs are copyrightable and Google's use of the Java API wasn't fair use. Certiorari was granted November 15, 2019 and arguments were planned for October 7, 2020.
During pause you can use that time to drag the forward people (including host) back to the oldest guest so people can "manually sync" if they ever choose to.
Yep, and the thing is, this is better for workers too. We get more competition in the marketplace, and workers get paid more because their employers want to retain them, because workers have the freedom to go work for a competitor anytime they want.
Although we also know that Amazon wouldn't be such a big success without all the NDA's. There is no knowledge dilution because of this legal setup and this secrecy of real innovation in Bezos company has given him a three year advantage with AWS on Azure around the corner and Google cloud in Silicon Valley not to speak of Apple.

While you could rent GPU's in 2015 from AWS the competition could not deliver a GPU without calling it Alpha until the end of 2018.
It's very easy and very well tested so it's probably secure. Installing GApps is a really common step when loading a custom ROM onto phones. It shouldn't be any different here.
In fact this cheered me up.

In these uncertain times when life has all of those negative attributes amplified for almost everyone I actually felt excitement and happiness that I am not the only one who has been loathing such bullshit linguistic practices all these years.
I attended an F1 race in the V10 era. And my god, the noise! It's like the sky was being torn to shreds. The sensory experience is/was definitely a huge part of being a live spectator. I've been to a few other kinds of races, and nothing ever really came close to that. Just the raw power/pure violence of those cars coming out of a turn with that ear splitting shriek is just phenomenal.

That being said, the booz fueled americana tailgate party weekend that is the indy 500 is pretty high up there in great times. But the actual racing was waaaaaay super less entertaining.
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>"Inside the shelter, there wasn’t room for everyone who sought its refuge: On average, more than 100 people were turned away every week."

Amazing.

We live in a first world country, where most of the the U.S.'s population and its businesses pay (in aggregate, collectively) what amounts to absolutely staggering amounts of tax money to its various governments (City, State, Federal), and yet, and yet:

>"Inside the shelter, there wasn’t room for everyone who sought its refuge: On average, more than 100 people were turned away every week."

To anyone that works in Government, at any level:

Please explain to the American People exactly how this is possible, because this phenomenon does not only exist solely in Phoenix.
Building a Wikipedia competitor that nobody asked for? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol?wprov=sfla1
Can you spot the difference?

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Hooked points to evidence showing its former employees (in particular its CTO) retained Hooked technical information, accessed it while in Apple’s employ, and gave misleading statements about how much of it they had retained. But showing that the employees had the information is not sufficient to establish Apple improperly acquired or used it...

Hooked relies on circumstantial evidence that in its view generates an inference of trade secret use sufficient to create a triable issue of fact as to that element: its former employees were assigned to tasks at Apple similar to the work they did at Hooked and within weeks one of them produced a detailed plan for a recommendations system much like Hooked’s version. Further, an expert opined that the source code for Apple’s recommendations system was similar to the source code for Hooked’s. That evidence does suggest the engineers drew on knowledge and skills they gained from Hooked to develop a product for their new employer – but California’s policy favoring free mobility for employees specifically allows that. [pp. 6-7 of the court document linked above]

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Waymo points to evidence showing its former employees (in particular its lead engineer) retained Waymo technical information, accessed it while in Uber’s employ, and gave misleading statements about how much of it they had retained. But showing that the employees had the information is not sufficient to establish Uber improperly acquired or used it...

Waymo relies on circumstantial evidence that in its view generates an inference of trade secret use sufficient to create a triable issue of fact as to that element: its former employees were assigned to tasks at Uber similar to the work they did at Waymo and within months one of them produced a detailed plan for a LIDAR system much like Waymo’s version. Further, an expert opined that the schematic for Uber’s LIDAR system was similar to the schematic for Waymo’s. That evidence does suggest the engineers drew on knowledge and skills they gained from Waymo to develop a product for their new employer – but California’s policy favoring free mobility for employees specifically allows that. [Anthony Levandowski's recurring dreams]

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One of my friends made a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle[1] of the CNCF Landscape for a laugh (all sold out). It was fun and challenging to put all the pieces together, especially because my children were a little confused with the various logos.

[1] https://www.etsy.com/listing/854562986/cncf-landscape-puzzle
The last time I saw someone talking about LCGs, they warned that some people might be tempted to use them as an RNG but they are rarely fit for that purpose.

For one, they tend to behave more like shuffle than like random. With two dice rolls there is a 1/6 chance of getting the same output twice in a row, and so games lacking a good RNG would truncate the output of an LCG to get reasonable output.

If the seed is PRNG, and regenerated every time, then I suppose that avoids this problem.
I did not work in the hottest topics in Machine Learning (and not in computer vision) as I cannot find rooms for innovation. I did publish several papers in 2nd-tier conferences and submit papers to journals. Near the end of my graduation, I started to find jobs in the industry. I have been shocked when I saw some employers will target authors who published in these big conferences even for non-research positions. (It sounds like discrimination.) I always wonder if my research profile will meet their requirements.
> Raising the minimum wage creates more unemployment.

Does it? In the US, Washington has the highest minimum wage of any state. And Seattle has a higher minimum wage than the rest of Washington:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...

And yet Seattle had a lower unemployment rate than the national rate pre-COVID:

https://www.deptofnumbers.com/unemployment/washington/seattl...

Seattle's minimum wage ordinance was introduced in 2015. Seattle's unemployment rate has fallen from 10.3% 10 years ago to 3.0% pre-COVID and is now at 7.9%:

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LAUMT534266000000004?amp%253...

The main problem everyone has at the moment is coronavirus, not a decent minimum wage.
No idea if stil true, the following happened 4-6 years ago. I had a Sonos connected to my Mac and I started digging around to figure out how it works. I eventually found a simple open URL on the IP of the Sonos where I could see in plain text the output of a `top` command running on my mac.

Those devices collect way more data than what is described in the article.
And, around we go.
The issue with that to me is the concern of memory leaks. With PHP/FastCGI, it's not a problem because after every request, the memory is thrown away. You just need to trust that PHP-FPM itself doesn't leak.

But that said, I do use https://reactphp.org/ occasionally for certain types of tasks (like running a websocket server) and that works great too, but it takes extra care to make sure not to use blocking IO and to take more care of memory management.
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I'm still using FastCGI! It works well on Dreamhost.

The Python support is not good! In theory you just write a WSGI app, and it will work under a FastCGI wrapper.

But I had to revive the old "flup" wrapper, since Dreamhost has Python 2. I downloaded an older tarball and build it myself.

Use case: I parse thousands of shell scripts on every release and upload the results as a ".wwz" file, which is just a zip file served by a FastCGI script.

https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.8.1/test/wild.wwz/

So whenever there's a URL with .wwz in it, you're hitting a FastCGI script!

This technique makes backing up a website a lot easier, as you can sync a single 50 MB zip file, rather than 10,000 tiny files, which takes forever to stat() the file system metadata.

It's more rsync-friendly, in other words.

I also use it for logs in my continuous build: http://travis-ci.oilshell.org/jobs/

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Does anyone know of any other web hosts that support FastCGI well? I like having my site portable and host independent. I think FastCGI is a good open standard for dynamic content, and it works well on shared hosting (which has a lot of the benefits of the cloud, and not many of the downsides).
dhruv so dumb
pip is a packaging system, and it ships out of the box with Python. It may not be the best one around, but there certainly isn't a lack of one.
But then equally why would these problems be solved by private enterprise?
Why would using private enterprise allow these jobs are going to be done better?

These are fundamentally unanswered questions in this thread.

We would have even less visibility than before - I got no idea how Microsoft delivers Windows or how a private hospital is tracking performance wise? But a government gives me some kind of mechanism to see this.

Government acts as an imperfect (as you have carefully detailed) intermediary between those the service provider and service recipient the citizen.

And it is only as imperfect as the system is designed, there are adjustments that can be made, slowly sure, but they can be made.
i see. ok.
I admittedly haven't personally used Tinder, so do correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have learned from reading about it and listening to others who have used it, Tinder seems more like the high school mating pool. Which is to say that you get everyone who happens to live within some geographic area thrown into a pile and leaves you to sort through the mess.

The upsell from colleges is that they filter out the "undesirables", for lack of a better way to put it, and bring the desirable people together from around the country and even the world. The more entrance requirements placed on the students, the more desirable the school is to attend for access to the highest calibre mating pool.