skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar experience doing my math minor. All the way through Caluclus classes and Diff EQ and up until the first half of Linear Algebra, everything is plug and chug. After the first half of Linear Algebra when proofs started making an appearance, I came to the realization that proofs are another type of mental activity entirely. Survey of Algebra, Basic Real Analysis, and even the dedicated proof writing course I took were all exponentially harder to pass.
When I was struck in a developing country in March-April during pandemic, I was glad for AMP to minimise data and save costs. I am saddend that hn does not recognise the different (poor) parts of the world need quick/bloat free websites.

Yes, ideally all webdevs would make the non-AMP page bloat free. But as you know many a world pages are horrible and load tons of trackers.

Why is there is clear hate - AMP can be used for good and bad.
A friend of mine is working on this to try and build an online community : https://thinkfloat.net/
I thought it was strange even when it was on the front page.

Seems like a project that is 10 years too late. Nobody downloads music files anymore. Everyone streams...

If Bandcamp invested in making their app a legitimate alternative to Spotify, we could maybe go back to buying music, though.
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Wow. That is pretty amazing. I have 15" 2018 mbp and it throttles if I look at it wrong ;-)
That's the kmutil manpage section about it:
https://twitter.com/comex/status/1328800304318603265?s=20

That work doesn't seem to be complete yet however in the latest beta.
As someone who tried to use git to do this for large sets of data, I'm very glad this exists. Will be trying this out in the future.
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Anecdote: I was an ADD kid in the 90s Undiagnosed, but intelligent and bored and distracted easily. So much so, that during math, one other kid and I were sat outside the classroom in the hallway, and with very little assistance from the teachers, given worksheets on base-5 math. I essentially taught myself what different bases are, what digits represent, and so on.

I thought of this the other day as I listened to Radiolab do a thoroughly piss poor job of explaining binary, as part of a larger discussion about computer memory and the relevance of 4096 to a computer error.

I mean, they spent a lot of time talking about light bulbs going on and off, and then how, if you represent 2, you flick one bulb off and another on, but if you represent 3, you leave the first bulb on, etc. They did finally mention powers, but not in a generic sense. They didn't ever mention that binary is "just" base 2 math like normal math is base 10.

It seemed so contrived. I know they were trying to explain it to the layman, but it seems they actually made it more conceptually difficult.

I haven't been able to rant about this and here seems like the best spot.
Very good point. Spent a year myself on an MVP. That I abandoned bc I didn’t enjoy the industry.
FYI from the site, as I'd no idea

"GCompris is a high quality educational software suite, including a large number of activities for children aged 2 to 10"
Apple has no problem with the camera bump on an iPhone, but won’t do it for the MacBook. I wouldn’t even mind it on the laptop.
I conceded the point that there's no law, but am trying to make the point that from a pragmatic policy perspective it's a trivial point that isn't helpful.

Union security clauses cut both ways; they also require employees to join said union as long as the contract is active. You can't perform the job and be non-union.

"If you don't like the job, don't take it." It's like the argument when discussing child welfare policy where one side says "Don't ask society to help; if you need help, don't have kids". Or in healthcare policy, "Don't want high medical bills? Buy better insurance." While true, it is just a way to elevate above the actual problem without providing a satisfactory policy solution.
I don't know about that, most default forum views start with the most recently updated thread. Stuff that doesn't get any traction quickly drops off, but at least it gets a look vs. places like reddit where new content requires support from the subset of folks that look at /new.

The thing I really like about forums is that you can have long-standing threads that collect a conversation in one place vs. repeating the same conversation over and over on places like reddit. Build threads in particular, where you can see someone take a remodel or build from ideation to planning to execution/correction to completion are extremely rewarding and educational. Those don't exist on reddit, people have to build that off-site and just link to it.
And the Facebook UI really hates conversations. There are only 1-deep threads, if a post has hundreds of replies you see maybe 5 (Facebook will say they're the "Most relevant" because probably the amount of Likes) and you have to click "Load more comments" dozens of times to try to read all the responses. Add to that people just commenting with their friends' names (tagging them) to notify those friends about the conversation, because they don't know about the "copy link" or "Share this comment" features...
It is? I mean, that was my PhD, but I don't recall anybody ever using AFM for biology. Huh, apparently now they do.
If you want that corner to be expanded to the full internet, install ublock origin.
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A vulnerability report was recently released by Trustwave about how a popular Android application, GO SMS Pro, is using a sequential value to generate URLs for attachments. Naturally, I made a webpage that sends you to a random attachment from someone's text message.

There's some explicit content so I recommend using a VPN and NOT doing this if you're in an office or on a work machine.
> For rent-to-own drives, we purchase an 8-TB drive from Amazon

Last I heard, Amazon still can't ship a hard drive properly; I would recommend a source that won't put the hard drive box in a much larger box with a garnish of air pillows, so the drive can rattle around and likely end up damaged.
Yeah so far the performance is very close to my 10 core iMac Pro I use for day to day development. This is on a MacBook Air with no fan, and so far I haven't felt the machine even get warm even when compiling _and_ also running tests or importing data in other processes.

This is when running a decently sized Rails monolith w/ PostgreSQL & Redis, so a fairly typical modern Rails setup.

It's seriously impressive.
I train models for niche use cases where I haven't found any pre-trained models for. It's not great, but with PlaidML/Keras, I make use of my current MacBook Pro's GPU (AMD 5500M). I get a speedup of about 2x over using multi-processing with all cores using TensorFlow.
5) e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3 ?
I hope they don't use Lighthouse and PageSpeed blindly - as the score does not correlate significantly with perceived load time and performance, and is also easy to game!
There are plugins that help automate the easy stuff and provide lots of bang for the buck. I took a day a while back and got my local gaming league’s Wordpress site down from something like 6.5 seconds to 0.99 seconds by switching hosts, removing heavy plugins, compressing images, and lots of caching. Totally doable if you are mostly static content (which should be all news sites).
GCompris is a high quality educational software suite, including a large number of activities for children aged 2 to 10.

Had not heard of this before & will definitely be checking it out.
I believe https://github.com/rust-lang/const-eval/issues/20 is the entry point into this kind of thing. As you can see, there's a lot of discussion. If it ever lands it'll be farther out.
That's great. It's your choice and I would happily use poetry to contribute to your projects. But why change pip? We can have both ways. Pip+pip-tools has been around for a lot longer and it's been working very well for freezing dependencies. Even better than npm/yarn.
Why don't you span a ceph cluster across your servers and combine all these 8 TB drives into one big pool. Then you could sell it as cloud storage with freely configurable storage sizes.
I thought it was triggered by audio volume, because ads are typically louder and more consistently loud. Maybe it was a combination. Not so sure how well it ever worked, though.
"Working backwards" is a completely valid method of proof, used all the time in automated reasoning. If a student successfully reasons backwards then there is no issue, it is a proof.
Transpiling is not the same as emulation.
Really expensive rates
Why financial literacy matters more than ever
Unified memory is pretty normal on non-desktop systems and has been for a while.
I concur. Not sure why OC got downvoted but I do have a whitelisted Piehole at my home gateway in which to ensure that DNSSEC is clean AND that DNS nameserver is a well-known vetted one.

And DoH is harder to block once they go port 53 or https “incorrectly”.
Pens are fine for math. I often used a fine point gel pen in college. However, you have to have a high degree of confidence in what you're writing. If you make a lot of mistakes (either actual mistakes or just wrote down something incorrectly or with a misspelling), then pencils are definitely better.
I am sympathetic to the idea that mobile sites are terrible and Google wants to make that less terrible.

But AMP as a solution to that seems to be completely misguided. Worse, I suspect the continued push for it demonstrates both a lack of leadership and the sort of ego-driven corporate politics where no one wants to admit they're wrong so just keep doubling down until you win.

AMP still breaks for me on iOS in completely fixable ways. I have poor eyesight. I use higher default zoom. I suspect this is the reason why AMP rendered content doesn't fit on my screen and I can't scroll to the part that doesn't fit. It's super-annoying.

On iOS you can force touch the link to render a preview and get the non-AMP version. There's no way to get that by default and that is a completely ridiculous situation.

I, as a user, should be able to opt out of this crap.

The fact that Google forced this down people's throats by giving AMP content ranking preference is an utterly stupid decision by leadership. It risks antitrust action, government investigations and all that entails.

If you want to prefer sites that load fast, that's fast. If you want to prefer sites that use a technology that you created and control that's completely different. This is a textbook example of abusing your market power. I'm sure the executives found legal advice to the contrary. If so, such advice ignores just how malleable government action is and the negative PR consequences.

Reducing that search ranking boost is a step in the right direction but it never should've happened in the first place. You can't turn back time of course but that ranking boost needs to disappear entirely. Immediately.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149969
Perhaps you're confusing rsync.net with tarsnap? When I compared services for my personal off-site backup I came across Tarsnap and their AWS-based infra as well.

I ended up using rsync.net with borgbackup.
This is like the lifting body aircraft NASA worked on in the 60s[0]. Their downside was high landing speeds which made them dangerous and hard to fly safely, but with VTOL that problem is mostly eliminated.

Edit: That said, I just read the article and his proposal seems completely infeasible to me barring some sort of massive technological breakthrough. I don't think supersonic electric flight is impossible, but I don't think it would look like what he described and I don't think it has any commercial relevance given the current state of technology and its likely future developments.

[0]: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-01...
Yeah I think people will need to dissect parts if they did that! But the point isn’t you need to critique V8 but that you need to critique how “good” OOP software is put together not beginner level explanations.
Crude ideas are like snakes and the more you struggle against them, the more allure they have for others. Or just use some Nietzsche quote, I don't care.

People disputing the marketplace of ideas want to be authoritative voices in my experience. If we had been a little more relaxed in the face of objection, we might have fared better.

Anyway, if you are correct, we would need an authority on truth and I see a lot of problems already. Frankly, literature is full of examples why this is a bad idea, but don't let me stop you.
For the most part, just a matter of practice. One advantage that it has is that you have less incentive to make multiple simplifications in a single step. Copy a line, make a rearrangement. Copy a line, combine two like terms. Since you aren't re-writing everything that is unchanged, there isn't as much of a cost to showing your steps.

I did get a rather funny look from a professor in grad school when I turned in a fully typeset document on a timed take-home exam.
If their skill is to create popular videos, they did not had much choice. It is not like there would be other popular video services that would compete.

For many of them, it is youtube or nothing.
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Skepticism which, admittedly, author pre-loaded for us in the first few paragraphs.
Same origin loading also allowed Google to take over the top of your page, hijack swipe actions (to send your visitor to a competitor), and so on. Some publishers may value moving away from AMP to prevent that sort of thing in the future, despite perhaps a small cost in performance.
App Store is not a separate market. It's separate business as stated by Apple lawyers and judge agreed on September 28th. EU judges need to firstly define this as a "new market", which will shock the whole industry.
I'd be curious about comparison with https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow
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That's unfortunately much more into the medical field, so I'm not really sure where to start. I only really work with single celled organisms.
It will give put in the list and with a priority score.
I can't quite put my finger on it, but discourse forums always look very cold to me. Like an enterprise feedback aggregation where you're not sure if anyone will reply. It doesn't feel as explorable and cozy as older forums.
Let's assume the situation were reversed. Do you think the pundits would stick to the "No, fraud is not widespread and there is no evidence" mantra? Or, do you think the anomalies presented would be scrutinized with the precision of an electron microscope?
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I've noticed that without the benefit of blockers, pages load quickly and then progressively degrade as intrusive assets roll in. I hope this change punishes that behavior as well.
Good deal for who? The local guy living in a tin roofed house in a village in Indonesia, or the white guy that lives in Bali and flipped it for 6250% or so? The right thing to do would have maybe been help the guy access the market and take a commission, even a large one at 20-30%. Otherwise it's just taking advantage of someone. I'd prefer to live in a world where "good deals" aren't considered screwing over someone else.
Thanks! Between this and rete.js, I'll have my hands full.
yes because it is a developed country so expect lots of death there.
Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service launches on iOS as a web app
I didn't know how well you could be paid as a software engineer, and I didn't try to maximize compensation in any way.

I did a masters of comp sci in my late 20s, and instead of going for FAANG internships, I took a role that was similar to what I was doing previously (Dev Infra/DevOps). I was stubborn and thought "Why would I be an intern? I was managing two teams at my last job", but didn't realize that FAANG interns actually made equal or more money than I did, and an entry level FAANG offer was much higher than the role I had accepted. I just didn't know, and I had nobody helping me.

So, here I am, mid-30s, making less than my peers at a trading company for the same work because I didn't come from FAANG. This is actually a big reason I'm ready to quit tech. It just doesn't seem worth it. A little over a year ago, I was hiring someone, and the internal recruiter slipped up on a phone call with me while talking about putting together an offer. They mentioned what an indirect report of mine made as a comparison. His base was more than my total comp. After that, I pretty much checked out for a year and did the bare minimum.

At this point, the only way for me to increase my comp is to move companies, likely to FAANG, and from what I hear, I'll be 'down-leveled' coming from outside of FAANG, and in a similar position I'm in now. At most non-FAANG companies, my next comp package will be driven off of my current one, so I'm pretty boned. It feels like the only option is to get competing offers from multiple top-tier companies, which I just don't have time for. My day job is already super draining, so I'm not sure how I'll have time to prep for interviews to the level that will get me those multiple offers.

That's a lot of text to say I'm underpaid, and have been for most of my career because I didn't know what I should be getting paid.
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Calling a 15U mini-refrigerator-sized computer "pint-sized" is a bit much.

I mean, sure, classic minicomputers were approximately in the same size range and were "mini" compared to mainframes, and this is tiny compared to an HPC supercomputer (in the same footprint range as a DGX) but "pint-sized"?

We'll probably end up calling this new category something like "mini-supercomputers".
Good news, the person who was actively pushing people down the stairs no longer owns the house.
Firefox and the Amp to HTML plugin
Or, you know, turn off DoH if you use a pihole. There is no problem to solve here, or indignity to get upset about. If you run a custom DNS, don't have DoH running. Done.

"But users won't know ho-" if you are so far from the norm that you set up pihole to act as DNS level adblocker, then you most certainly do.

There is no problem to solve here.

"But what if browsers stop offering the choice?" why would we talk about "browsers" when this is about Mozilla's Firefox? The entire reason you're using it is because it keeps you in control, to the degree where if you think you know better than the browser itself, just open about:config and get to work.

There is no problem to solve here.
Well it’s kinda up to you how you construct your arguments but you’re not going to convince a lot of people without tackling the nuance that exists in the real world in favor of some kind of theoretical idealism. Otherwise you’re perilously close to constructing straw men.
Thanks!

DVC is closely tied to Git. We've heard people find that quite heavyweight when you're running experiments.

We think we can build a much better experience if we detach ourselves from Git. With Replicate, you just run your training script as usual, and it automatically tracks everything from within Python. You don't have to run any additional commands to track things.

DVC is really good for storing data sets though, and we see potential for integration there: https://github.com/replicate/replicate/issues/359
This is because it's trivial to create a subreddit, which gives you just about everything a standalone forum could want except self-hosting.
I stumbled right over the first sentence of the article:

> It slowly became clear that one day Apple’s processors would come for Intel.

Yeah, that became clear sometime back in 2005... but what does that have to do with the matter at hand?!
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Not sure if this is mildly better or severely worse
Wouldn't be the first time.

"This stone [a black conical meteorite] is worshipped as though it were sent from heaven; on it there are some small projecting pieces and markings that are pointed out, which the people would like to believe are a rough picture of the sun, because this is how they see them."

"A six horse chariot carried the divinity [the meteorite], the horses huge and flawlessly white, with expensive gold fittings and rich ornaments. No one held the reins, and no one rode in the chariot; the vehicle was escorted as if the god himself were the charioteer. Elagabalus ran backward in front of the chariot, facing the god and holding the horses reins. He made the whole journey in this reverse fashion, looking up into the face of his god."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus_(deity)#:~:text=The....
this may be the fastest macbook pro ever but it will also be the slowest arm-based macbook pro ever. While I've never owned a mac, I've been mac-curious for a long time but I think I will wait a couple years before I seriously consider switching.

(and with new video cards, and new consoles, there are too many things vying for my money right now anyway)
Integers can't represent all real numbers either. Integers can represent more decimal numbers, which tends to be what humans use. But that doesn't make integers more exact. It does mean that integers will probably more accurately reflect the precision of your inputs. (But that presumes that your inputs are entered by humans, and not floats coming out of a sensor that produces readings as floats.)
I just want to mention this, and you may have already done it - make sure you get a second opinion on the diagnosis. With the constant advancement in treatment, many previously terminal diagnoses may be survivable today and you want to make sure the doctor isn't missing any of the new treatment options.

I think stage 4 used to be considered terminal, but there are patients who survive it now. One that comes to mind was the mother of Gary Lincoff (or was it Paul Stamets). She had stage 4 breast cancer and is in remission after her trametes versicolor augmented chemo regimen. So there's stuff out there which is still in trials that could extend his time even further. Stuff like the trametes versicolor can even be available to you without a prescription.
There's a lot to that, but I'm actually half decent at the politics. I held a fairly senior role previously, and still play the game pretty well. I'm just underpaid and pissed off about it, to the point that it effects my performance.
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No, but they might hold a company liable for intentionally suppressing the ability of any customer to maintain their products.
YT Premium still supports creators while Ublock Origin denies creators one of the easiest ways to be compensated for their work. That's a pretty big difference.
Same. Placed my order for the 16GB version. It is about time to replace my 2015 13" MBP. Works, bet gets too slow for DaVinci Resolve and Pixinsight.
I work at an Alphabet company, so at work I use Chrome. Lots of internal tools are really buggy on anything but Chrome, so I have little choice. There's lots of copy-paste of URLs, including fragments, and it's really jarring to have the text suddenly change right after a mouse-up. It's surprising and unpleasant. And of course the browser tries to modify the selection between mouse-up and copy to make sure I get the whole thing, so now the software is not doing what I told it to.

It seems harmless to show the full URL and not bait-and-switch the text upon interaction. I don't see it as the browser's job to protect users from their incompetence.
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Blimey apple is so hard onto us poor honest developers. Why don't they give a Mac to every human being so we all got equal opportunities to code?

(That would actually be a great thing to do, but 2020 reminded me hardly that we don't live in a fairytale)
You just need to make sure the video sections are stored in a concatenatable format (like mpeg or m4s), and then you can literally use cat.
Sorry, I won’t take your online coding quiz
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