skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Words have meanings. "Propaganda" isn't just funny stories; it is done for particular interests. You claim he's a propagandist, so you should identify which interests those are. Failing that, you could retract your vicious slur...
What tech stack did you end up using for the backend?
:)) no. Why do you ask?
The value of mentioning survivor bias and selection bias is to highlight that we listen to those who made it because they have wealth and influence and we want or are interested by that.

There is no way to prove founders are more talented or wise than failed founders because it's impossible to disentangle luck and chance from their talent, though they would tell you luck favors the well prepared.

One great source of data would be serial entrepreneurs. It's one thing to look at Elon who was luckily in the right place and right time for his companies. But what about a similar individual who had luck on their side and failed multiple times? Even Steve Jobs had multiple failures, but bounced back time and again with new funding and a new vision.
Alas, I have tried, we were not among the lucky.
I see you also made a 3d engine in SQL too. Absolute madlad.
https://observablehq.com/@pallada-92/sql-3d-engine

Nice!
Submitted yesterday!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25238651
Yeah, but I mean specifically like the background on that website - a gpu-accelerated wave animation of polygons. I could do that on my Android phone for years, but it looks like most windows apps for animated background simply play an mp4 file, which is not ideal.
I disagree with this. One thing we saw during the pandemic is a shift of shopping behavior, with new cohorts beginning to rely on Amazon & similar than did before. I would absolutely expect that the group of people buying scented candles during the height of the lock downs would be a completely different cohort of people compared to pre-lockdown.
What would be ideal for linux would be for KVM/QEMU to come up with "seamless" mode where your running windows app in a VM but it appears as any other app on the system not as a VM
A better question would be, why would Uber make the effort of maintaining a Microsoft Store conversion of their app? Is there really a need for an Uber desktop app? They built their business on iOS/Android already.
Networking just works.

Discovery via DNS is pretty standard too.

Mind to elaborate on what you would like to see in those areas?
How is there nothing to be alarmed about when the cause of the ice retreating is anthropogenic?
> The reaction of the Intelligence Community to many problems is to collect more information, even though analysts in many cases already have more information than they can digest. What analysts need is more truly useful information--mostly reliable HUMINT from knowledgeable insiders--to help them make good decisions. Or they need a more accurate mental model and better analytical tools to help them sort through, make sense of, and get the most out of the available ambiguous and conflicting information.

That seems to fit regular people and regular news these days. Too much "information"; not enough actual information; and too many biases.
These are absolute gems! I remember how bummed I felt watching the last video of the last course because it was ending.
From the page you linked: Issue 789719, that’s why.
Does anyone else find it strange that this thread is one the third page of hackernews despite being newer, with more upvotes and comments than the majority of posts on the front page?

I know the site isn't meant for political discussion, but other stories about tech companies censoring political opinions haven't fallen from the front page as quickly as this one.
A bit OT. I’ve been putting off learning how to setup and run k8s, and am unfortunately in a situation where I don’t have anyone at work to learn from.

For context I’m no stranger to what the shape of production ready systems should be and can fill in the gaps given enough time to research and educate myself, but I don’t do operational work day-to-day.

I’m bringing a project to life right now and can’t but feel like while tough to learn and manage, k8s would be a good investment to make. I don’t have anyone using it yet, so I just did the bare minimum to get my docker-compose stack up and running on a Linode box. It works great for making sure what I have now works in a remote environment too, and I had to do a decent amount of configuration rework to get it ready, which should be transferable.

Now I’m wondering, how will things like rolling deployments work? I want to decouple the monitoring stack from the application stack, how will I handle adding another physical machine to my setup? I’m sure more questions will come up like this as I run into them, but would be curious to hear initial thoughts from anyone here to help me make a decision :)
I would like to, but finding the optimal set of foundational building blocks is sort of an ongoing adventure, some of the needed pieces would probably be generally useful enough to fit in the core while you would need to add custom operations and types that are specific to your language.

Some would object to even calling this bytecode, as I'm using structs for operations. But serializing code down the level the VM operates on still has value, and adding encoding/decoding of operations is definitely possible.
Pop-up notifications from background processes only really became necessary once people started having a lot of internet-connected programs that needed to notify you of incoming things. Back when the only thing was your e-mail inbox, you didn't need a separate notification service.

Obviously then it was then extended for things like a long process completing, etc.

But back in 1990 or 1995, there's wasn't a need for something like Growl. Your e-mail inbox and the occasional beep and modal dialog did the job just fine.

To counter your "most things are obvious in retrospect" philosophy, you might be interested in the "multiple discovery" viewpoint [1] which says precisely the opposite -- that, extended to design, essentially says that the need for a solution becomes obvious to people at about the same time, and that people will solve it in similar ways because they're facing the same constraints.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
> Children like easy-to-follow directions. They don't understand nuance at all.

I don't have kids myself, but I do remember how it is to be a child, having been one myself a while ago :D

I can assure you kids understand nuance quite well if they're explained things properly, patiently, in a friendly manner.
Thanks for the response.

1) I have always appreciated deserving ones. Undeserving ones making more is what pains me.

2) Responded to a similar question in the other reply

3) Great point. I was thinking on similar lines. But to my surprise, nothing happens to them. They somehow survive. I noticed that, during layoff only lesser mortals get impacted. (Either very low profile or very poor performers)
Well, no. In the best case you have a panopticon into their life. But since people will rarely give you that in real life, you do the best you can and always take what you observe with a grain of salt.
The rebuild doesn't appear to be using React or Angular. Keeping it true to 2007-style server-side rendering.
I think there are a million tricks and my top meta-trick would be to ask that question in the Beeminder forum. Just asking it will get you engaged with the community there and serve as additional motivation to stay on the wagon.

Analytics-wise it seems that if you stick around for 9 months to a year you become markedly more likely to stick around indefinitely.

Another possible source of tips: http://blog.beeminder.com/burnout -- about not getting overzealous about beeminding all-the-things right off the bat.
But what if those trackers is what make them financially viable?
What's the connection to tibush.com?
Yeah ok, but maybe, just maybe, accumulating wealth and gadgets isn't the be-all and end-all of life for everyone. If some people want to be in the rat race until 65 they're free to do so. I personally have better things to do with my limited time on this earth.

> Rather than just sitting back and enjoying the life/work balance and less working hours

What's wrong with enjoying life once your needs are met ? If I'm happy working 35 hours a week why would I work 42 hours a week ? If I don't want to buy the next new shinny toy why would I bust my ass for extra money that I won't need ?
5-7 years. Making 20%+ per year is not mythical and many people already do it. Kevin Pathrath, Katherine Wood, Emmet Savage, and Danny Devan are 4 that publicly share their portfolios and outperform. Warren Buffet averaged a little higher, and most of us know about other inspiring public investment gurus William O’Neil, Bill Miller, Richard Drihaus, and Jeff Neff.

I started investing 5 years ago with real money and won virtual investing competitions for the 2 years before that where the goal was to produce the highest portfolio values within a given set of time. I don’t remember how high I placed but I got a pretty ornamental gift certificate which inspired me to continue further. Other investors would read charts like they would tea leaves but my strategy was to find stocks trading below their company valuation with above average growth prospects. These prospects have a lower risk and have a higher potential reward.

At one point in my career, I downloaded the data for all 3000+ stocks into a MySQL DB to learn which metrics mattered the most and which mattered the least... and the results were surprising.

That 20% I quoted is from a stock and ETF retirement account. In a non-retirement account that had also grown quite a lot over the years, I allocated a conservative 20% of my portfolio to call options and that account is up 177% overall this year. But options aren’t something you try until you have years of experience, comfort, and knowledge with stocks.

Finally, I know the theme on HN is to disagree, counter, and dispute whatever the previous comment said but I’d like to receive some support if I’m going to continue posting.
I was thinking the same thing! I'm not sure what it would take to make /rom a FUSE based filesystem, to make it bootable. The current boot process involves the bare kernel mounting Squashfs to find it's init=/etc/preinit & booting from there[1].

Would love some theorycrafting on possible ways to work with DwarFS being a FUSE filesystem.

[1] https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/process.boot
He is constantly reading and relying on literary concepts to hold his thoughts.
When will non-creative folks realize that there is a difference between
8 words or concepts copied in series (derivative inspiration)
and
45 words or concepts copied in series (plagiarism)?

People hold about 8 sequential concepts in their working memory and can easily copy such a sequence without having the source material in front of them. If they have copied more than 14 sequential concepts, they are entering the legal grey area because they are clearly directly relying on having the source text sitting in front of them.

Kids learn in school that if you need to copy from a text that is sitting in front of you as you type, you need to cite it. Otherwise they are plagiarizing. Grown ups should be held to a similar standard and remember the value of human creativity that is unaugmented by copy and paste computing or AI spun word hash.
According to redditors, $5 million is considered to be a "fatFIRE threshold" which would yield $200k/year at 4% annual withdrawal.

https://old.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/comments/5g1jhd/what_is_you...
> But it's literally nothing new to anyone with any political knowledge

It's therefore even more surprising and alarming that generally available information still gets shadow banned.
Jesus dude, who crapped in your Cheerios this morning?
That's correct. I can't say too much about the details. It ended up working really well but wasn't used in production for reasons of internal politics.

The guy who had the original idea for the system, a former classmate of mine, later went on to start his own company, Quixel, based on similar ideas.
Their target group is different. If they would be interested in a desktop app, they would have done it already - and even with this, they wouldn't rely on a repackaged Android app.

I expect this to be the case with all the big players. For small app devs, if the cost is really near zero, maybe - but looking at how barren the Microsoft Store is, I doubt many would bother.
Oh, that's interesting — I hadn't considered that creators of web apps might choose to do this to make scraping easier. Generally, I've understood that exposing internal IDs is undesirable.

[1] https://blog.jiayu.co/2018/09/methods-for-obfuscating-sequen... [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/396164/exposing-database...
You can’t just count on proportion, because the cohort of people buying candles online in March includes a bunch of people who used to buy candles exclusively in store. If the previously in-store people were more likely to be picky or have different needs, there is a good chance that they would leave different ratings online. It’s hard to separate those effects. It seems plausible to me that someone who insists on buying candles in store is likely to be more picky than someone who buys online, (or based on my time in Candle sections, is already nose-deaf and need very strong candles), and thus would be more likely to complain.

The big question is what are they buying. If these reviews are coming from people buying the same brand/scent as before, then Covid related scent loss is the most plausible explanation (although I wonder why some one in such a situation would bother to leave a review....). But if these shoppers are buying new scents for fun or availability reasons, it’s hard to separate those who are losing their smell due to Covid from those who are just dissatisfied with a candle they purchased scent unsmelled.
All sorts of incidents have happened this way. Somebody even got arrested for pointing it out on some government website, once.
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Legacy, from Tech Leaders Who Knew Him Well
> Microsoft must release Linux/MacOS subsystem for Windows

Linux and MacOS do not have subsystems, that is an NT architecture feature.

Microsoft could, instead, contribute to Wine.
" Show" is 3% better than "NtwS".
I was recently moderated for the first time in my (fairly long) life by a social media site. I complained, and they restored it, but it was jarring. My general impression is that times they are a'changin' WRT moderation on the interwebs.
After listening to best softies of the 80s for 3 hours from my neighbors walls, yes please.

I also play guitar so to have a “jam box” would be great. Like a vocal box where you’re isolated but for really REALLY loud guitars.
> In the car-happy United States, the amount jumps to nearly five kilograms—or about the weight of a cat.

1.25 kg/tire/year is a totally unbelievable quantity for a passenger car tire to shed annually.
Author here :) I'm not sure low-spec hardware is necessarily the best use case for DwarFS. It doesn't necessarily use less resources than SquashFS, although it can create file systems that are smaller with much less CPU resources. However, it'll still need a reasonable amount of memory at run time to cache active, decompressed blocks.
It caught my eye too, but if this perception is true they do a pretty good job of faking it. I don't know if our clusters are "at scale" - the largest of them has about 120 nodes - but we have had very few issues in over three years of running production workloads on GKE.
"but most of all, samy is my hero"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)
I can't evaluate the entire book in one sitting, so I read through the section on linear regression. EDIT: Also read replies to this comment.

In section 4.1, Linear Regression, subsection "Normality":

> It is assumed that the target outcome given the features follows a normal distribution. If this assumption is violated, the estimated confidence intervals of the feature weights are invalid.

This is incorrect. Linear regression does not require the outcomes follow a normal distribution. Rather, it requires that the residual errors are normally distributed.

The next subsection, "Homoscedasticity", is technically correct but incomplete. A more general assumption of linear regression is stationarity. Heteroskedasticity is one, but not the only, way to violate stationarity. In my opinion this section should focus on stationarity more generally than homoskedasticity, because constant variance is a necessary but insufficient assumption.

In the following subsection, "Independence", I don't see any error. I think this would be a good opportunity to talk about autocorrelation of the residuals and outcomes, because this is why linear regression cannot generally be used for time series data. Autocorrelation (or correlation via an underlying temporal trend) both violate independence.

I generally like section 4.1.6. I think reasonable people could disagree on whether linear models are relatively explainable, but overall the technicals in this section are correct. Linear models are simpler to understand and very powerful, but they do break down when most of the correlative relationship is nonlinear (e.g. monotonic or exponential) or when there are too many features to capture.
Depends on what we’re talking about exactly. I’ve created twtxt (the format specification as well as the reference client) a few years back. Many other clients and compatible tools followed provided by other contributors. Sadly prologic chose to name his piece of software just "twtxt" as well, despite it deviating quite dramatically from the original idea.
I worked on a project with a major company that made scent related products. One of the big issues is users going “nose deaf” and no longer being able to smell the scents that they purchased and growing dissatisfied.
Isn't Anbox a Canonical thing?
Converting text to numbers via individual characters destroys any semantic meaning to the input. Which is why no advanced NLP tools will do such a thing. Basically, what they describe takes whatever meaning is in the title and throws it in a shredder.
Grok Normalization
He’s proposing changing fundamental design decisions, and then eliminating big chunks of the existing implementation.

Kubernetes is obviously overly-complicated. I’m just using it in a CI/CD environment and, in a month, have hit most (all?) of the issues mentioned in the article.

I don’t think it’s fixable. It’s the interesting to see an expert in this area come to the same conclusion for the same reasons.
If you’re into or follow alternative health people at all, you’ll probable hear one of them mention that “scents are going to be the next second hand smoke”. I have no evidence or opinion on whether that’s right or not, but I do suspect that scents are going to become another one of those culture war issues in work places soon.
Funny thing about it is that I've got a similar problem powering https://perl.bot/ (and the associated irc bot). I don't have as many installs as you currently but It's not far off and I want to add more compile time settings to them. I'd need to setup a full build server/system though because I need to regularly update them with new modules.

How opposed would you be to this being reworked to being able to be mainline kernel support too?
Ah, interesting - it doesn't work at all on my S20 which was pretty disappointing. I've heard something changed with the update to Android 10 on these.

The DeX client on Windows is interesting, I tried it briefly since I still have one Windows machine lying around. I think overall I still prefer the idea of having my phone be the brains and docking to effectively dumb terminals though, provided there are high-quality docks out there I can use. That's also provided the phone/software is powerful and flexible enough though... DeX isn't that for my personal needs, but some of the upcoming Linux phones/DEs might be.
That's why it is kind of pointless on self hosted environment, as you can't create an IP and a hostname that can be accessed from outside world. You have to manually do a reverse proxy to whatever ip has been added in the private network. If you use K8s on AWS or GCP then your services automatically are accessible from outside world. There were attempts to make Nginx or similar LB working with virtual hosts but never seen that working in practice. It seems like developers keep it enterprisey so that people keep using and be locked in to the cloud.
IME startups don't get a CFO until they're preparing to go public or be acquired. In the meantime you can hire a fractional CFO for raising rounds and day to day needs.
Citing a twenty plus year old manifesto with offers no guidance on how to reinterpret the idealistic view of “It is my right to modify” versus the modern day problem of “I must protect myself and others from malicious modifications”.

Stallman hasn’t been of much use for this, and his followers fervently cite his decades-old works each time I raise this point — but meanwhile, this is available today to any website accessed by any Apple Silicon MacBook, and it’s already deployed and in use in the (Linux) servers powering Azure Cloud, and it’ll probably reach the consumer Windows market in the next year.

Now what? After we get past “RMS told us this would happen”, after we blow off steam about “My ideals are being violated”, is there anything left to discuss and consider here?

I thought there was — for example: “Is it possible to reconcile the conflicting needs of safety and modifiability?” — but the prevalence of replies like the above over the past few weeks makes me think that I’m mistaken, and should simply let this go unnoticed until it’s too late and irrelevant what anyone believes.
Probably a lot of flagging. That’ll derank it quickly.

That said, use the /active page if you really want to see what’s spicy. This is top of the page there. I visit active before the front page almost every time. :)
The surprising brilliance of meal kits
Mad-Dog Everettianism, probability, and a little bit of Hume
Japan and South Korea see surge of suicides among young women, pandemic stress
I'm not sure if/when it changed on the site, but MySpace listed the time comments were made in the comment posters local timezone instead of the readers timezone. It was such a strange thing that I still remember it decades later.
You also have to factor in that there's a chance of OTA failure, and the failure probably requires a mechanic visit at the manufacturer's expense.
I identified his interest. Are you getting all the way through my posts?

> Horne's writings aren't about history: they're a form public of agitation so that "the USA will do less racist shit".
This requires fair bit of fiddling and never got it working properly. Kind of defeats the purpose of automated infrastructure.
You don't have to be root to read snapshots. It would be nice if every fs operation was a micro-snapshot (like an undo tree), but in practice frequent scheduled snapshots work pretty well. (If it didn't exist 15 minutes ago, you can probably get it back)
NYC Paid McKinsey $27.5M to Stem Jail Violence. Instead, Violence Soared
Where I live you can get a decent apartment for $600/mo. It may be in a poorer area, relationship issues pop up with your neighbors more often, and homelessness crops up more, the place in of itself is completely acceptable. I've lived in one of these slums too. They're not that bad and in a pinch if you have to, moving there will get the job done.
tom's looking a bit rough around the edges nowadays