skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider the scenario where you develop a daemon that does something, has no secrets that you worry about. You implement this concept of automatic logging of variables, and all is well in the world.

You leave. New person takes over ownership, doesn't notice the import. Urgent business need says "add this feature to the daemon" and now it's processing secrets. Now, you can argue that the person who took ownership should have read the code more carefully, but perhaps it's their 5th day on the job when that request comes in, or they misread the import as something else.

I suppose you could do a code standard of "variables that containe a secret must always have 'secret' as a prefix", and could then do pattern matching, but humans are going to human and make a mistake.

I'd probably lean towards opt-in, decorator/context only - maybe "@traceback_with_variables_can_log_secrets" as the name...
> How about merely building a business? Think small indie developer or Basecamp at best, vs Facebook and Amazon.

I think you're getting hung up on my qualifier of "big" -- really, I'd be very happy to make 250k yearly off of a project (a far cry from Basecamp's $25MM yearly revenue), but even ramen profitability is hard, let alone getting to quarter-of-a-million.
My mother went fully vegan after reading Forks over Knives, and she started having to cook two meals as the other household members (I became an adult and moved out years ago) refused to eat vegan.

A year later, mom is now the healthiest of us. Her blood work is perfect and she feels great. Rest of the family is in the same situation we always have been.
The thing is it's hard to measure the inputs and outputs of your body. And with the same inputs, different bodies will produce different outputs.

The thing about scientific studies is they're generally looking for something that works for everyone. If a small number of people in a small study have good results from a fad diet, and they can stick to it, that's good for them, but the study is going to show no significant difference between control and test.

The key is finding something you can stick to, has good results for you, and doesn't cause other problems. For a lot of people, that's easy, and for some people it's hard.
Bariatric surgery is more effective than the pharmaceuticals for long-term weight loss AFAIK. Non-surgical intervention is slow in every form: lifestyle change, pharmaceuticals, all slow.

Not going to name the drugs, sorry, but your doctor will know of them. He knows your situation better, so I'll leave it to him.
Don't forget about the 40-hour work week as part of the "horrible world for sleep".
It does a lot towards making you healthy though.
This is probably right. But I am surprised there isn’t a python library that is equally expressive.
This is why I feel GOG (DRM free game install files) is so important for PC gaming. I'm not sure what the solution is for consoles though.
Ruminating about the possibility that mainstream general computing is now coming to an end. I guess as long as we have Unix we will still have that.

But it looks like for the average consumer, they wouldn't really care as long as their needs are met, even if those machines are becoming more and more like appliances.
Try the 'small web', I'm enjoying gemini, https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
Many flagship Android phones have come with multiple app stores installed, typically one from the phone vendor such as Samsung, the Google Play Store and one from the network and yet 30% has stayed as a pretty consistent charge in a situation where there clearly was plenty of competition. It's a market determined price.

Steam, which operates on completely open desktop platforms charges 30%. Even Humble Bundle charges 25%, operates on open platforms and the only thing they do is marketing. Another 5% for running a store client and associated services hardly seems excessive. So nether arguing that open platforms would push down prices, or that app store competition would push them down has actually happened in the real world. 30% is very much validated as a competitive price. If the big stores did cut prices, this would arguably squeeze out the smaller stores and operators like Humble Bundle, reducing choice even more.

That 30% is charged to developers, not consumers so in this case it's developers that are the market.
It's absolutely still possible, but note that screen resolution has increased much faster than CPU speed - if you want software-rendered 320x240 like Quake II, or even 1024x768, you'll probably be OK, but if you want to go to full HD even modern CPUs will struggle, and 4K or higher is right out.

A common solution is to make a low-resolution texture (like 800x480), draw onto it with a software renderer, then use hardware rendering to scale it up to full-screen. You can even add filtering like faux scanlines or a convex CRT effect.
Neither of your points seem based on an accurate understanding of the financial markets.
LOL! Just one hour ago, a high school kid who grew up here in Silicon Valley was telling me about how ridiculously uninformed his local friends are about Southerners. This kid has visited the south a few times recently and has come back amazed at how friendly, smart, and mannered southerners are. (I agree with his assessment, but I've seen it myself often enough in my own travels that I lump it in with the many no-longer-surprising differences between reality and intellectual fashion. He was confiding in me, because he guessed that I would be one of the few who might understand.)

He has apparently tried to correct his friends' misconceptions a few times, and has been equally amazed at 1) how wrong their ideas of southerners are and 2) how nothing he can tell them has any impact their thinking as they crow about how superior we are to those contemptible southerners, who aren't "tolerant" like we are. (One more LOL for the road....)
Great article. What do you think of this paper? https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10893

This type of research makes me optimistic about possibilities for generalization in the future.
Worse, Japan's bonds were 'backed' by its manufacturing industry - much like US ones are 'backed' by its tech and military. S.Korea and China are eating Japan's lunch; this can't be good for the country.
You're all wrong. The correct way to diet is totally different than what you think it is. You'd have to be a complete idiot to do it one way when another way is obviously more scientific. I once dieted a third way and it was way more effective than the second way, but it wasn't as healthy. You just have to look at the facts. Anyone who isn't doing the right diet - like I've been doing for years now - just doesn't understand how the human metabolism works. It's sad, really, this stuff is just basic. Stick to what's natural and you'll be eating in no time, trust me.
Same. The beginning is fun but then it get too hard for my taste. I don't have enough time nor motivation. It looks like many people appreciate the difficulty though.
A woodworker would have more off the shelf tools if they were equivalently cheap/good/fast/efficient as a custom tool. Physical objects can’t be so freely copied as a software library.

I do agree fully that programmers should strive to understand every layer, and building your own tools is a great way to get experience that helps with that. Yes, left-pad is unnecessarily granular abstraction. However, in each domain, we inevitably depend on other software, and that breadth of that graph is part of the reason for why you can accomplish so much with so few people writing software.
Yeah me too. I knew one guy who seemed to eat nothing but potato chips. Like 3 bags in one go...
I'll just respond with most of your horseshit assertions with one statement: India isn't a unified secular democracy (at least constitutionally) because of Britain, but in spite of it. As for India being a member of the Commonwealth, it was by Nehru's insistence that it be named the Commonwealth of Nations, and not the Imperial Commonwealth as Britain intended it to be.
This is classic Hardship Theology which rests upon the tenet that things must induce some hardship in order for there to be benefit. Reality has no such restriction.
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Indeed - but then the person asking should better look in the systems/browser settings; this has nothing to do with the website.
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I think being a digital nomad implies working a remote job that's not tied to your location? If you work odd jobs you're just a regular nomad.
"You have to actually read the article before commenting!"
My AMD APU begs to differ.
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Keep in mind this is more than a decade ago. Sharding was almost certainly state-of-the-art and exotic back then (hell, it's arguably pretty unusual in the wild even today, even if a lot more mature of a concept).
> This is a low dimensional bias. If there is increased risk of default from high A & B & C & D but not high A or high B or high C or high D, then the combination or parameters is what matters even if it is not easy to explain.

However, even if we expect that a non-obvious combination of parameters will matter, we usually expect the hyperplane of our predictions to be at least a little bit smooth in various ways: monotonic or curved instead of jagged, small changes in input should cause only small changes in output, etc. Not just to make it easier to understand, also because the kinds of processes we study tend to behave that way.

For regions of high density, machine learning does exactly what you say it does: generate high-quality predictions or categorizations, even if the particular path that led it there is nonobvious or weird. But these models are generally not sensitive to how they categorize or predict unusual combinations of inputs and as to predictive quality for those edge cases, all bets are off. A very simple case is polynomial regression, which can be tuned to perfectly fit the training data but outside of the training set might oscillate wildly or go to infinity -- and this isn't really the result of overfitting, it's just what polynomials do.
My impression is that studies find that any diet can help people lose weight if that’s why they began it - hypothesis is that it’s the change and increased attention that works, not what you change to.
Mobile === Smartphone, like it or not.
Robotics founder here. IMHO the problem with notions about general robotics is that it doesn't exist: robots are very specific if they are any good, at least if you measure success as cost vs. effectiveness. This is unlikely to change greatly due to physics demanding specific and greatly disparate automation solutions for many tasks.
Am I missing something or the existing tests in the repositories both in age and rage aren’t covering the specification?

The other languages could be used for the "proof of concept" implementation or with which the additional comparison tests could be performed, but having C as the most important version is unavoidable.
Probably you haven't read the conclusion: "I’m off to eat more potatoes!"
I love wood sailing ships, and I think it’s pretty amazing that you can get people to sponsor you building and sailing them in current year. Of course, from perspective of actually fighting climate change, the idea is beyond silly, but what really happens here is that you’re selling to people the idea that you’re doing it for the climate, you’re selling the feeling of doing good, and people can spend lots of money to feel and signal that. I applaud the people behind the project, and my only worry is that stunts like these are going to distract from and remove the steam from efforts that actually push the needle.
There has been more research into psychedelics in the past 5 years than in the preceding 5 years. Johns Hopkins, one of the top medical schools in the US, opened a research center dedicated to psychedelics last year. Moreover, they report

“In 2000, the psychedelic research group at Johns Hopkins was the first to achieve regulatory approval in the U.S. to reinitiate research with psychedelics in healthy volunteers who had never used a psychedelic. Their 2006 publication on the safety and enduring positive effects of a single dose of psilocybin sparked a renewal of psychedelic research worldwide.”

More US states are legalizing possession of so-called magic mushrooms.

I’m not seeing a conspiracy here.

(It’s also worth pointing out that academic research isn’t “the media.”)
Iron Mike always came across as a curious mix of boxing scholar and brutal power in interviews and fights at his peak; it wasn't really a suprise that he carried that desire to learn over into other areas.

Fascinating if flawed man, a real icon and always interesting to listen to. His auto-biography is eye opening.

I'm glad he seems to be more at peace these days though for his sake I wish he'd give up the ring...
Red-Hat seems to think so,

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/rawhide/system-a...
Maybe those good ones were few and far between. I had the misfortune of supporting some of the clones, and finding myself in front of one was always a much more unpleasant experience than a PowerMac G3.
Back when ISPs etc. would give you free (2-20 MB) storage, we'd use them for hosting personal websites, or just storage space - sometimes we'd register xx new/duplicate accounts, and we'd have a couple of hundred megs for storage.

Anyway, I blindly hosted a lot of personal stuff like that from 1998 - 2008, and never cared to do any backups.

But then one day, it was all gone forever - searched through my old email account, and found probably 5 remainder emails that the company was shutting down their services. Pictures, old demo songs, old websites, etc.

And these days - it could all happen again, if google ever bans your account (so go ahead and backup everything)
You proved your values, then should have priced it as well. Some company probably acts nothing if you don't voice out. It's not comfortable but aren't you feeling not comfortable with others are getting higher pay as well?
Ok..?

I’m not talking within the US where someone could move to the higher COL city and get paid more for the same output (if it made financial sense, after living expenses etc) but about people who can’t move countries because they’ll never get a visa for instance.

How is it fair, then, that a SV engineer gets paid 200k to produce software, and her colleague in Turkey gets paid a tenth of that for the same output? It’s not because they’re producing less valuable code, the company sells the product for the same price to anyone anywhere.

But the Turkish engineer is basically told by the company that because she’s stuck there and she can’t move elsewhere, then it’s normal to get paid a tenth of her SV colleague.

How is that fair?
This says more about the author than about Tyson. He takes Tyson hostage as an unwitting totem for the 'uneducated intellectual' in order to stridently indict the scholar class that he clearly despises. The author also shoehorns Tyson's genuinely incoherent statements to fit his narrative. In short, the author had an agenda and a consequent myopia. Drivel.
I share your view of the likely future, but unfortunately it seems very unlikely to me that the open source community is going to unite and prevent this in any significant way. What's happening might give a boost to open source hardware and that would be wonderful, but I don't think this hardware will have much of a chance of being economically competitive and capturing a market.
You haven't read the conclusion: "I’m off to eat more potatoes!"

Listen, if you change your diet drastically it is possible that just reducing amount of salt in your diet is going to cause drop in amount of water in your body and reduce your body mass.
This surprised me. And being surprised is a good reminder that people are complex, and unexpected, and we shouldn’t get too confident in our assumptions about others.
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Hmm Indonesia may not be the best of examples ?
https://www.theweek.co.uk/103382/is-indonesia-becoming-a-sha...
> What is this whimsical company, and how exactly does it make money?

https://puri.sm/products
Come on Marcan, work on ARM's GPUs instead.
Frankly it humanizes him, and that’s an important exercise and insight to carry from day to day.

That’s what I got out of it at least. But it’s also a quote from the article. No one is asking you to do it; they were asking the author.
> Maybe their timing was off by a mere 6 months for example.

First job I had (1995) was "Classified Ads on the Internet" - back then it was expensive to host a website and hugely expensive to add CGI (I think Demon wanted maybe £300 a month for that?) and the money ran out after a year. If they'd been able to keep it funded for, say, another 2-3 years, until home internet was more accessible, I think they'd have been in a pretty good position to own UK classifieds on the web (at least for a while.)
>Just eat a balanced diet with less calories and do exercise.

That's the easy way.
Probably she isn't eating just potatoes?

I have nothing against vegan diet. You just need to know what you are doing and be committed to be balancing the diet yourself. Meat is an easy choice that gives everything the body needs plus some stuff that it doesn't.
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I have most of my Signal contacts also belong to a group on Signal. When I see the message for a contact’s verification number changing, I ask the contact in the Signal group if they got a new phone.
In that case you'll be interested to hear about the situation in China, where the biggest of the many android app stores has less than 30% market share. And what are the prices like? Bloomberg headline is "China's App Store Fees Make Apple's Look Cheap" and describes 50% as a typical rate.

"Now, a handful of Chinese developers have started the fight to push their revenue split down to the global standard." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-10-08/china-...
Thanks for the information.

It's nice of you to point out that 4x4 matrix is projective in nature, and I understand that GA could potentially be more performant for its more compact usage of numbers.

But to really make it popular and understandable, a "simple" version of GA that handles translation, rotation & non-uniform scaling would really help, without the group thoery concepts, even better, make it in the context of a scene graph hiearchy, with a unified operator like "multiply".

Also is it possible to collapse a series of such transforms in a single versor like you can do with matrices without going into dual quaternion stuff? In generic game developemnt, translation, rotation, and non-uniform scaling are all extremely basic things that cannot be handwaved away or "too big".

Also, why the need o a dual(e12, e02, e01) to represent a point when in vector it's just a (e0, e1, e2). This is just counterinuitive. This is what I mean by "quickly gets complicated" and it feels nearly as opaque as cross product in vector math.

Just explaining my experience digging in GA for a couple of weeks.
Ironically, I have a bachelors in Linguistics. There is a world of difference between knowing something and internalizing it.
Coincidentally I have this exact model (9350 non-developer) and it runs (Ubuntu) Linux great.

Laptop is completely silent, all the hardware runs flawlessly, battery life is after 5 years still pretty good, just overall great experience.

I honestly don't remember if I had to at some point disable something in BIOS ...
>Exercise can get you a few hundred extra calories burned a day, which will have an impact.

Not if the increased appetite after the exercize (and the "I exercized for now I'm entitled to some nice food") gets you to gulp more at lunch/diner....
Being able to rapidly lose weight and then re-gain it does not give the impression that you know how to lose weight “effectively”. That’s how standard crash diets work.
Really?

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/re...
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Like many other here I looked at a lot of options and ended up writing my own, because spending time finding the right solution (if it existed) was more effort than just doing it myself.

Inspired by https://github.com/giuseppeg/xm I ended up writing a absolutely minimal no-frills PHP snippet to turn the PHP file itself in to an html page.

https://github.com/gnyman/piss / https://blog.nyman.re/2020/10/11/introducing-piss-a.html

Doing it yourself is of course not an option for most people. But as the author and many other commenters here, programming is a hobby so the journey is as important as the destination.
Despite the costs of using a “too big” symmetry group (I’d say overparameterization), I bet it’s hard to beat the performance of 4*4 matrix multiplications, since the computation is so uniform, vectorizable, and perfectly sized for e.g. SIMD. Even if there are fewer math operations with another representation.
I suspect that “going to a vegan diet” means introducing additional foods, but only things that are vegan.
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> Infact, most of the high ranking people in his cabinet are self-made men like him.

We hear a lot about how the current government is less corrupt and less dynastic. But their actions say otherwise[1][2][3].

[1] https://m.thewire.in/article/politics/bjp-congress-political...

[2] https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/electoral-bonds-contro...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_of_Kafeel_Khan
You’re right. But it does have unexpected side effects and other consequences.
I think we're mostly on the same page.

> Personally, I don't think critical thinking skills can be taught in a school via a curriculum en-masse. It requires a personal approach tailored to each individual's needs based on their upbringing and cultural context.

Upbringing and cultural context are certainly heavy influences. But it is totally possible to teach / develop critical thinking skills in students. Instead of focusing on memorizing facts & information, we should focus on the techniques used to break down problems, seek evidence, extract alternate readings & motivations, etc. Easy. The problem is this stuff isn't taught in school, and if it is, it's only brushed over as a particular topic and not part of everything. This stuff needs to be embedded in the core operating system of our citizens.

Putting the fate of liberal democracies aside. I believe the economic activity lost from the under development and under capitalization on the potential of our populous is significant.
>why not copy the diet of bodybuilders that get lean for a living!?

Because bodybuilders (a) also have strong wills in dietary matters and everyday regimen, (b) tend to follow complex diets strictly, (c) tend to get supplements, including non-healthy ones, (d) also do hard exercize to go along with the diet, (e) getting lean is basically what they do 24/7.

So, yeah, if (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) being the same for someone, then it would be a good idea for them to follow a bodybuilder diet...
I've never been able to articulate why I got good at coding when I was very young. Growing up in a chaotic household coding gave me an area of life that I could control. This seems obvious to me now.