skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sort of like a post-hoc insurance plan

Actually a mutual insurance policy, since the insurers and insured are the same group of people.
Oh it’s still around. I just bought a 14TB external for my desk and god it’s loud.

It’s a bad loud too. Old 160MB Quantum SCSI drives have that satisfying crispy whine and that sound like some tiny hamster is changing gears around inside of it when it does a seek.
Sleeping at night is invariably achieved by dehumanizing the exploited. Chinese lives don't matter much, they are not Americans. Commies live on scraps. Such acts of othering make it easy to circumvent your conscience, this is the foundation of all war and crimes against humanity.

Then, of course, there are also the real bastards, those without conscience, who couldn't care less. They also don't care about American lives, or even their friends or family for that matter. The dumb ones end up in jail and the smart bastards end up running a company.

The rest of us just goes along with what everybody else does, we are too busy anyway to really reflect on our behavior. Need to buy more presents for the holidays!
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Being considered the go-to person means you are first in line to make small tweaks (and config changes in code).

This increases the change count.

If there is a review process where another engineer has to approve work, this exacerbates the gap, as the go-to person can get their reviews done quickly. If they're trusted, the reviews might not be thorough.

This increases the rate at which changes go in.

These and other factors suggest that it's hard to split cause and effect here. Being seen as productive increases change count :)
Getting LaTex running through wasm would be great. Tools like this, which just interact mostly with the filesystem, are a great example of what non-web wasm can do by simplifying the distribution process.
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The fact that a single category "dangerous" is so broad is a serious problem.
That introduces different problems. Applying MySQL replication logs is single threaded by default and generally doesn't scale as well as the master, so it becomes increasingly difficult to keep replicas from lagging.

As your database gets into tens or hundreds of TBs, now backups and restores take hours or days to complete. Any DR scenario becomes an existential threat.

For large tables, schema changes can take weeks. This often results in developers doing their own custom table sharding strategies, even though they might still be on a single machine.

I'm not saying that you can't architect around these problems, but operating a db at massive scale on a single machine isn't the obvious win that it seems to be.
Which reminds me of this story:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
Apple brute-forces it. They announce or decide to announce a release and do what's needed to meet that date. Netflix relies on people being driven to do the right thing with the consequence that those that don't deliver will be shown the door.
The way GA is promoted by the non-math world does not unify mathematical formalisms. I've yet to see a GA implementation that does more than reimplement rotations/quaternions.
> Same with South Africa and IBM during apartheid.

And same thing with the U.S.A. today! How do you think that this war-mongering country will be seen a few decades from now? My guess is that it will be seen in the same light as the British Empire of a century ago. True, they had very nice things "inside", but they were totally callous on the countries that they controlled for economical interests (e.g., India, South Africa).
Not yet, I'm busy making a 3D MMO engine/game from scratch:

http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=5959519327505901449

Also hesitating between Java and C for the reference implementation.

Also waiting for better hardware:

LoRa is too closed and Zero uses too much energy!

The radio + screen + controls PCB should be one HAT.

No point in using a IPS screen that small, better would be a persistent state screen like memory LCD or ePaper.

Also looking at using a smaller OS than linux... so don't hold your breath!
Despite what ShamelessC says about the skepticism of other physicists, I found Stephen Wolfram's talk absolutely fascinating. For the first time, some disparately related notions in my mind ceased to be so and now make sense to me in that they're integrally related in ways I'd not given much thought to previously.

Irrespective of whether he's on the correct track or not, his explanation of certain phenomena, energy for instance, made complete sense. His way of using analogies to describe abstract processes is superb. By that I mean he is able to present one with conceptually understandable mental pictures or images of difficult physics that one would normally only understand through mathematical equations.

It's a shame more physicists don't take a leaf [or do I mean branch - pun intended ;-)] from his way of presenting these concepts.
Yeah, $50 a month for liability insurance always felt like a really fair deal to me. Pleasantly tolerable fee for a day where my car hits black ice and physics takes the wheel
_All Is Lost_, the 2013 movie about exactly this, is actually a really great film.

Except for the first five minutes, there is only a single word of dialogue in the script: "FUUUUUUUUCK!"
EoCS is a modern classic in computer science and engineering, I am very excited to see a second edition.

First edition on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P...

Second edition pre-order on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-second-Pri...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/asia/australia-china-morrison... [...]Zhao had even more strong words Thursday, after the Five Eyes alliance -- of which Australia is a member -- criticized Beijing's recent expulsion of several Hong Kong lawmakers. "No matter how many eyes they have, five or 10 or whatever, should anyone dare to undermine China's sovereignty, security and development interests, they should be careful not to get their eyes poked out," Zhao said.[..]
Many good points in the article. And the starting point is brilliant:
> Extract more revenue from your existing customers

That is the only way forward for a company so used to growth. pressure on its current customers is only going up to buy new services and pay more for the old ones. Old strategies that new tools and a device that is with you 24/7 bring to new abusive levels.
No, it's not, as can be seen from the diagrams in the article.
IDK I've made PRs with multiple trivial commits within an hour. I've also spent over 30 hours on PRs with only 3 commits. It's a useful heuristic but doesn't map very well to work invested.
I know, but the point is to make the compiler more predictable, and therefore better. For example, CLANG doesn't have this issue.

And this is related to a possible security vulnerability, so it should be taken more seriously.
Whatever the service, it isn't the platform that Slack is. I would guess that a huge percentage of their db traffic is from apps and custom integrations.
Eating at McDonald's and watching porn aren't that dissimilar: once I'm finished, I always want to leave as quickly as possible.
For more info on the nautical origins of the word "average," check out this episode of The History of English Podcast:

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2020/04/06/bonus-episode...
I don't know if it used to be possible, but it certainly isn't now by default. If you give accessibility permissions to an app, then it can draw overlays, but otherwise apps cannot overlay other apps.
I just paid for 12 months worth of Skype subscription which I have used for just 2 calls back in January.

I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store.

Once I subscribed to New York times. The newspaper that was advertised to me for years in all Hollywood movies as a place where honesty and freedom are of highest priority. I had to spend an hour on a phone with their representatives to cancel it refusing to accept discount or a free subscription.

I don't trust many other companies. Especially if all my interactions with them are virtual and they are not specialized in information technology. At least big tech is quite rich to afford to think about users.

Each bank got their app and added some obvious features there: pay for utilities, for your phone etc. I want more progress here. I want to be able to see all my fees upfront in a clear format. I want to know my credit score. I want to be able to take this credit score to different organizations. etc. etc.

Big hope that fin tech will blow it up, but unfortunately start ups didn't deliver. There are some successful ones, but I think finance is too regulated for them to have a shot at a serious scale. Apple and Google have a shot at that and they will create a road for smaller companies.

The situation in Belarus is bad. And believe me I know. I was concerned as well about my device security. But to be honest at the end of the day it can't be Apple's problem. Belarussian government must be replaced by Belarussian people and Apple has nothing to do with that. And on top of that - what choice do I have. Android devices in Russia are preinstalled with Russian software while Apple's aren't. That's more important sign for me.
You could split traffic and look for differences, if you just want to catch regressions with a new cert.
Figure out a way to expose yourself to as many potential clients as possible, learn as much as you can about their problems/needs

Many wont want to talk to you, but some will
>My layman understanding was Epic had to do this to be able to legally challenge Apple in court

This is obviously false because there are other antitrust cases against Apple pending.
Not a mariner, but I'll guess for fun. I'd expect rows to fall at different times due to differences in weight or whatever. The ship was likely rolling between port and starboard. So I'd expect a roughly even split of which direction the container rows fall.

Maybe they even fell strictly in sequence due to how they were secured to each other.

There might even be a video of this happening, but probably not a real high-quality one in the weather conditions that caused this...
The CIA Is a Terrorist Organization
> the code itself isn't important. its about the functioning of the group, the velocity, and the ownership.

It isn't either/or. It can be all of the above, to varying degrees, that change over time.
Lost to some perhaps, however deaths of despair exacerbated by the situation surrounding this virus is a recognized and studied phenomenon.
Sigh.

>Later, with the A11, previously licensed PowerVR GPUs were also replaced with in-house designs.

They are, as of A14, and likely in A15 and A16, still licensed from IMG / PowerVR. [1] [2] Arguing the GPU is not from PowerVR because they have their own variation of design is like arguing Apple doesn't use ARM because they design their own CPU. They are still using tile based rendering, patented by IMG.

And for much of the M1 discussions, People want to trust what they want to trust, and believe what they want to believe. Even with science and tech.

[1] “London, UK; 2nd January 2020 – Imagination Technologies (“Imagination”) announces that it has replaced the multi-year, multi-use license agreement with Apple, first announced on February 6, 2014, with a new multi-year license agreement under which Apple has access to a wider range of Imagination’s intellectual property in exchange for license fees.”

https://www.imgtec.com/news/press-release/imagination-and-ap...

[2] In 2019 IMG's new CEO also went on record and said Apple has never not been a IMG client. Although Google results these days are generally littered with crap I can no longer find that pieces of information.
It would take a long time for one person to make PGM-created music (melodies, variations, chord progressions, rhythms, ABACA-type forms, etc) decent enough to be sort of satisfying.

I'd bet that in that same time or less, you could learn to improvise equally decent stuff - probably far better - yourself on at least two instruments. If you've been listening to music for 5-10 years, you'll probably never 'train' a machine to know what music is as well as you've been trained.

Whichever way you go, if the product can't compete with the flood of stuff that's already out there? including production quality? I can guarantee you what people's reaction will be. Not pretty.
Like I said, there was a vocal minority. Did you forget that he was widely mocked for being so dismissive of an obviously very impressive product?
Singapore and the Middle East come to mind.

Imo, it's a good thing, since that mandates that the local municipalities have to keep maintaining the standards for the provision of services in areas with limited leases. On the other hand, areas with hands-off sales usually have very shoddy local services and shit maintenance.

My parents live in a relatively cheap area in a Middle Eastern city, where you can't buy the property, but only lease it for 99 years, yet the services there are far better than those in the more "glitzy" uptown areas with more expensive flats. It was the same story when I was flat-hunting in Singapore - locals prefer living in the HDBs while renting out the freeholds.
When will the Covid-19 pandemic end? – McKinsey
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and clang could any day introduce this behavior if it happened as a consequence of a newly added optimization or something like this. Most "weird" cases like this are in the end consequences of optimizations (that people really want and expect of C) combining in a way that causes them. It's not like compiler authors add those issues for fun.

C isn't friendly when it comes to this, UB is dangerous, but given the overall attitude of the ecosystem it's pretty pointless to complain about it.
This can have very good real world consequences. If this is true, then it makes sense to first attack a problem with SVMs and then if the results are encouraging, try to go the deep learning route if needed.
> Finally, the use of two structs is unnecessary. IntList is just a wrapper around a pointer to IntListNode. Why not just use a naked pointer to IntListNode like the gods intended?

So Say We All.
White box then or a bunch of
If by conservative you mean antisemitism, white supremacy, far out conspiracy, racism and hate speech: then yes they banned 'conservative' platforms.

That's trying to make a cultural war of broadly accepted, democratic values. It got nothing to do with progressive politics.

If you want to go full libertarian and demand Apple to give freedom to all these medieval hate platforms, you'll have to allow IS and the Al Qaidas of this world their jihadism videos too.
> So in our case insurance was damn near 50% of the shipping price.

How does that make any sense? The probability of loss is nowhere near 50%.
People on Hacker News are too easily impressed with the performance and the shininess of a new architecture, looking over the severe issues of Apple locking down it's platform and allowing less control over the device by the user. What good is a fast machine with long battery if I can't do what I want on it?
He and I were shipping our vehicles together, and when we declined the insurance he told that story.

awww, thanks ! :D
Yes, but he was also the only one who had the guts to stand up against Apple in the Apple vs Qualcomm Trial. If I had believed everything the media and Tim Cook portrayed I would have been completely on Apple's side.
Which reminds me of this (attributed to Bill Gates):

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
> https://gcaptain.com/mol-comfort-incident-photos/

"The bow section was towed most of the way towards the Arabian Gulf, but eventually burst into flames and sank"

So much awesome.
Based on the article, it doesn't sound like he was actually living in isolation. He just chose to surround himself with a crowd that enabled selfdestructive behaviors.
Interesting! I assumed “General Average” came from the mathematical sense, but it turns out it was the other way round. Etymonline has a good summary: https://www.etymonline.com/word/average
"Installing a development environment and connecting it to a device is a mess of broken links, poor integration and company turf wars. I managed to get a working environment on the third computer I did a clean install on."

Hmm different people, different experiences.
I work as an Android developer, an in general debugging on the devices works easily.

Android Studio works fine with my testing devices: Samsung, Xiaomi, Pixel, both on Windows and Mac machines. Just plug the device and Android Studio will automatically detect it.

Probably the last time debugging on the device didn't work was when I had a Nokia (6??). No matter what driver I installed, Android Studio didn't detect it. I gave up.
Have you looked at Western Digital’s My Cloud? It’s more or less what you described.
Thank you, I didn't know about this compiler option.

Checked that the code works as expected with this option.
One type of theft at choose and cut is often just cutting the top out of a much larger tree, and attempting to only pay for the size of what they cut.

People with 7-8' ceilings cut the top 6' out of a 12' tree bc they didn't like any of the younger trees.
Car insurance plans often cover a lot more than just the driver’s own actions and mistakes. Common line items are insurance for personal injury and property damage caused by other uninsured drivers (because good luck getting your medical bills paid by garnishing the other person’s wages), and damage from weather, natural disasters, falling objects, animals, and vandalism.
The second solution may not be obvious at first but the idea is that in the first solution you are finding the node that needs to be removed whereas in the second solution you are finding the "next" of a node that points to the node to be removed.
Maybe, just maybe... the person you think is a Top Performer is not actually the Top Performer and you are creating a fake correlation to their high number of commits and pull request. Maybe we need to define who is the Top Performer in the first place.
How to find files containing specific text in Linux?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/voter-rights-group-not...

All they got to do is convince the state legislatures.
Couldn’t this just...still be happening? Wouldn’t this general average concept only provide better cover for a secret bribing system?
It's more than a little silly. A viscous fight with someone you hardly disagree with indicates that you either don't believe in their ability to execute, or that you're more invested in the power than the policy. It's a bad look.
mid stream randomly, you get thrown 30+ seconds of ads, great if you were having a conversation with the host.

then if the stream breaks, refresh, new set of ads.

pop the popout player, ads.

It's totally rooted. The suits run the show and they're milking the cow. The only reason they're going so hard at it, I speculate, is that they're being hit by big DMCA fees.

I can't otherwise explain with logic why they'd run ads literally on DJ streams with thousands of viewers.
May want to edit your post - I believe you meant 300K QPS, not 300 QPS :) But yeah, that’s very impressive to handle that much load without sharding! Though it is a cluster of 12 instances, each with 96 CPUs and 614 GB RAM - those are some seriously beefy machines.

Slack are getting 300K WRITES per second, though. Which does mean you have really no choice but to shard - read replicas are nice for scaling reads, but do nothing for writes, and that’s A LOT of writes.
Why link to a fork instead of the main project? https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
I dunno, the first one sounds like random dissonant noise to me, the second one is a bit less grating to listen to still not what i would enjoy though or what i would really consider music. Not quite what i had in mind.
I’d guess really not much considering the thriving dark web drug markets.
404s for me.
Not quite patterns, but I think writings of Jakob Nielsen and his company Nielsen Norman Group may be considered as applying to ‘dense’ interfaces by modern standards—as he's mostly known for his work from the 90s and 2000s. Their priority for the past twenty years is web, but not just casual-user sites, and IMO the principles are universal. Also he and the company have an ongoing series of criticism specialized on corporate intranets. BTW, a persistent theme is that interfaces should be tested on users soon and often—even if just with a few users and a cheap methodology, that's better than no testing.

This is the main collection of articles: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/

And there's a tag for ‘design patterns’: https://www.nngroup.com/topic/design-patterns/

I've been meaning to re-read Nielsen's classic ‘Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity’, which I have in print from mid-2000s, translated. It's likely to be a rather intense return to the past, considering how both the design space and my understanding changed over the years.
I would be skeptical about thinking of networks this way without empirically verifying it yourself.

The only useful trick I’ve found like that, is that a stack of linear layers with no activation function is equivalent to a single larger layer. Sometimes it enables some clever optimizations on TPUs, since you want one of the dimensions to be a multiple of 128. (I haven’t actually used that trick, but it’s in my back pocket.)

But thinking of an entire model as a single layer seems strange. A single layer has to have some kind of meaning. To me, it means “a linear mapping followed by a nonlinear activation function.” So is the claim that there exists a sufficiently complicated activation function that approximates any given model? Because that sounds an awful lot like the activation function itself might be “the model”. Except that makes no sense, because activation functions don’t use model weights; the linear multiply before the activation does that.

So it quickly takes me in circles. I don’t have a good intuition for models yet though.
WebRTC really isn't that big. Google's implementation just is targeted at their needs. If you are doing it for ingest you just need

* Basic SDP library, ICE-Lite, DTLS, SRTP

If you ship RIST you pretty much end up with the same thing!

If you go with WebRTC you have implementations in lots of languages as well (not just bindings)

* Go, Python, Pure C/Embedded, Java, Rust, C++

Also WebRTC could let you do SVC or Simulcast. It would be a lot better for scaling if the uploader sent all the different quality feeds (and let congestion control ensure they don't oversend).

I really feel that there has been a concentrated marketing effort that has hurt WebRTC on multiple fronts.

* Google oversells what they have done. They bundled up a bunch of existing protocols. That doesn't get as my promotions/awards though. It also helps them control the standard. If they paint 'Google WebRTC === WebRTC' then they make a change and everyone else has to play ball.

* WebRTC competitors want to paint it in a bad light so they can sell $x
> I put in the effort on chasing down the money more out of principle than hopes that I'd get any significant money out of the deal.

Right, I'm just wondering what due diligence looks like before you go to the effort of putting a new affiliate program into effect. Like 'is this a real product, do they actually sell things, and deliver them.'

Their 'find us in retail locations' lists GNC as a retailer, and GNC lists "Keto Burn capsules" as their only product line carried from KMK. I... am suspicious of that.
> y(x) = \sum_{(x_i, y_i) \in L} a_i K(x, x_i) + b.

HN feature request: parse inline latex math please