skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the context of this thread, you've really eloquently put into words something I've started to believe over the last few years. Please never delete this comment ;) I'm sure to bookmark it.

> It is the observations, the data accumulated in enough curious detail, kept preserved through painstaking work via the investigator and archiver, which provide material for abstraction to compact into greater expression: succinctness, clarity, and semantic power. But without that raw material, the abstraction is nothing but window dressing.

yesssss.
I personally use the multiple AP setup myself. No downtime with handoffs on any of my devices, and I most certainly do not have any sort of “mesh” system. If you can provide some references to back up your claim, I’d love to be educated further. Otherwise my personal experience suggests you are mistaken.
That's why cars keep moving to higher voltage systems. 375V on Teslas, 400V on the Polestar 2. I doubt that's practical for home appliances.
You keep talking about “optimal,” but algorithms and data are only good for optimizing, not for defining what you mean by “optimal” in the first place. Logic and engineering can achieve goals, but they can’t help you choose what goals to achieve.

The real world is big and incomprehensible, and we all have to choose optimization goals based on what limited understanding we have of the big picture - also known as the “system.” There is no math formula you’ll ever be able to find that can do that for you.

Optimizing a known goal, that’s the straightforward kind of engineering, the kind I said in the article maxes out at Senior Engineer. Figuring out what goal to optimize for is messy and uncomfortable, but it’s the only way to eventually solve the bigger problems of the world.

When I was in grade school, math was my favourite subject, because the answers were always right or wrong and you never had to worry if the teacher would disagree with you. It was comforting. It still is. But to grow up and have a bigger impact, we have to move on and learn about uncomfortable things too.

I can tell this bothers you a lot. It used to bother me a lot too. The reason I write articles like this is to explain the things I used to not understand, using words that I hope would have helped past-me understand sooner. Maybe it will help you too. If not, no harm done.
I thought this was already in planes, such as Dash 8 (Q400) -- noise cancellation, although for the general cabin, not the individual seat passenger:

https://www.flightglobal.com/quiet-revolution/31793.article

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA446777.pdf (see plots at end)
Massive frauds are predictable when it becomes profitable to participate. For example, right now in the UK, the government is guaranteeing certain loans through a Covid relief program. Predictably, banks are letting a high number of fraudulent loan applications through. The banks are participating in the fraud as victims, willing victims who expect to make a profit from it. It seems like the government is going to raise its eyebrows and "tut-tut" a little bit but basically let them get away with it.

https://www.ft.com/content/bbe858d9-8678-4d1a-84c1-a62ac426a...
Also allowing for stoop sales, "which is a Garage sale, if you live in Brooklyn" [1] :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFOPwL32UvI
> Programming functions happens in a limited axiomatic world that simulates logic.

You sure you're not mixing up "programming functions" with "powerpoint presentations" here?
Thanks. Just listened to this and thoroughly enjoyed it.
We want to know who we are; and that means knowing honestly what we have done
Acura RL was one of the first to have active nose cancellation, in 2005.
Thank you man! Yes, I need to improve my English actually
Syncthing (and SaaS equivalents like Dropbox) don't really qualify as backup tools because as soon as the file is updated on one device it's updated on all devices. Paid services usually give you a certain amount of rollback to cover the "oops didn't mean to save/delete that" case but even that won't help for something like ransomware trying to keep you out of files. Of course many backup solutions also have the ransomware problem, like plain rsync+cron.
Sources required for such a claim
It's technical people who don't know the first thing about running a business, and don't know how to properly value their time.
Renewables won't buy an industrial power user out of the grid, they need reliability. Also, location is more important than what the power bill is for most industry and commercial. You need a large plot of land for the power to run your average large power user.
Life pro tip, if you don't want to be seen as a "crazy" person, slap on a pair of headphones and activate your phones voice recorder. You can pretend to be on a phone call, record your thoughts, and no-one will be any of the wiser.
s/%3A//

Sorry about that.
I'm sorry you missed out on one of the best investments of the decade, but there is a lot of room left for this to run.

Tesla's coming FSD and robotaxis still haven't been priced in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx7BXih7zx8
I've thought about trying to start some movement, not sure how to spread the word, that each open source project on github should make a "thank you" issue and pin it as a place for people to say thank you.

AFAIK It's frowned on to say thank you in issues but it also sucks to have projects with 100s or 1000s of stars/forks and not a single thank you what so ever.

Medium has the "claps" but I think it would be even nicer when you clicked it it prompted for a comment.
There is, allocate_shared takes an allocator: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/shared_ptr/allocate...

I'm not entirely sure why you'd want a custom allocator for shared_ptr, though.
I don't think the motivation behind Go's and C's austerity is the same for both language, so I wouldn't lump them together in the same argument.
Wow, that’s consistent!

iOS 14.2
Are you asserting that US governance cannot possibly be better than it is due to its size, or are you just arguing against the specific examples provided?
What portions of your returns are due to luck in your view ?

Also you said you entered and exited virgin 13 times. How do you time your exits. Are you willing to reveal your strategies or algorithms?
The explanation was a bit hand-wavy.
Here are two inexpensive 8x8 and 32x24 sensors: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32951451513.html

This person made a video about using them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xre5y_jYn8c
Wailord: Orca Quantum Chemistry Harness
That isn't what the comment said, though... they weren't complaining about a particular type of manager, or company culture, but the idea entirely.
How about vanadium redox batteries?
All newspapers sites should use Cassandra on the backend. It is columnar ...
It ambiguous whether the directions are copyrightable. The less useful and more literary the directions are, the more copyrightable. But paraphrasing to extract the technical useful directions escapes infringement.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html
Interviewing someone like yourself isn't hard at all... I've interviewed hundreds of people (which isn't thin air here on HN) and I've pretty much seen it all.

Generally speaking, in an interview, I'm trying to assess /what you can do/. Which is not "what you have done".

I've interviewed at least 2 people, who were hired against my recommendation, in different companies, that clearly fleeced everyone else. In both cases, the candidate walked the walk & talked the talk, but something seemed off. "Sociopath" is a term that is thrown around loosely but I think it applies to both candidates (one man, one woman). In both cases, they'd convinced most of the interviewers they were very strong in areas they'd never professionally tackled before.

I'm less interested in what the candidate claims to have done; that could be reality, or a well-rehearsed and "lived" fantasy. But by talking about hard engineering problems in real-time, with "curve balls", I can usually tell if the candidate has "the right stuff" or not. Even if it's just aptitude. I can train smart people who handle themselves well. But if the candidate can't field tough questions and unexpected (off-script) questions, that's enough for me to pass on the candidate at the level I'm hiring.
Gaslighting is about undermining someone’s perception of what is going on, and then using that to manipulate them.

Telling the parent that the GP is not making an argument that they are plainly making, looks like an attempt at gaslighting.

I did read what you said. It would be valid if the GP hadn’t written what I quoted.

The parent was responding reasonably to what was written, and you seemed to be trying to persuade them that the GP had made a different argument to the one they actually did, by denying the presence of the quoted section.
I see it less of complaining about long form writing and more assuaging concerned readers about a somewhat clickbait-y title.
Yeah, this article was lacking those and other details. Most every claim was made in a generic way that seemed to imply most any crop could be grown this way when in truth they are pretty much growing salad greens only.
One thing I don’t understand is this DCF rate is essentially decided by the government. It seems weird to me that all the government needs to do make the stock holders richer is to drop interest rates to near zero. That seems like creating wealth out of nothing.
> Japan’s government now owns sizable percentages or even outright majorities of all major corporations

Is it a positive or negative thing? (honest question, I don't have much knowledge in this area)
By AGI I meant Artificial General Intelligence. There is no stopping or meaningful slowing of the machine.
It's over fitting, not long tail, that is the problem. It ends up copying input instead of analyzing and synthesizing.
I get my real-time strategy fix from 0 A.D. [1]. It's free and open source, and has been discussed previously on Hacker News [2][3].

I've been playing for 5 years, strictly solo against AI in various configurations. I typically don't play for 3-9 months, then spend 2-4 weeks playing 0 A.D. with virtually all my free time. It's a nice sojourn from my usual side project, and a way to unwind after the day job and increasingly busy family life.

[1] https://play0ad.com/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638238
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17108843
Yeah but bleeding money due to abuse of a free service surely contributed to the decision to sell.

Microsoft had much deeper pockets, but if people start using GH Actions as free Lambda, basically... the gravy train can't go on forever.

I figure it would be a better medium for GH to throttle CI workflows to something more reasonable, like 1/hour at minimum.
Slightly off topic, but I need to vent: most services are still being built web first, without any kind of API.

From January 1st to send international small packets "it has become obligatory to transmit data, such as the sender's name and address and names of the contents, to the destination postal service in advance converted into an electronic format called Electronic Advance Data (EAD)." By and in itself this is a good thing.

So the Japanese post (JP Post) has put up a website to do this: problem, there is no API... Everything has to be done by clicking and confirming. It's not even possible to register shipments in bulk, they have to be done one by one. About 10 actions per customer per shipment.

I run a (very) small tea business [1], similar to and inspired by Bemmu's Candy Japan [2] after I met him at a Hacker News meetup in Osaka. It's tiny, 100 to 150 shipments per month, but registering a hundred shipments by hand is not something I want to do. One unsatisfactory answer is of course to reach for good old Selenium. And it works, but I hope JP Post will not update its website too often... (unless it is to add an API, of course).

[1] https://tomotcha.com

[2] https://www.candyjapan.com
Are taxes such a serious constraint on company growth when funding is so easily available ?
Sounds like a kind of cyber-meme?
A possibility would be for Genode to actually go through their roadmap.

They had a "Use case: Genode-based network router" target for May, but it is still outstanding.
Off topic but I have to ask. Does anyone else wonder if there are backdoors in NSA projects like this? It seems like a way you could get a foothold into lots of interesting places.

Edit: Spelling.

Also, I recognize this particular program may not be the best target, but SELinux for example, or any of their projects. As for the "It's open source argument", if they provide binaries, do they have instructions for reproducible builds?
If you can get your hands on it, I highly recommend an old book by (Robert?) Thouless called: "Straight and crooked thinking", which identifies the form of several common disingenuous argumentation techniques, brings out the fallacy or dishonest rhetorical device employed, and suggestions on how to counter them (or at least spot them more easily).
I looked into building a vectored guided rocket several years back and remember discovering that it would land me in hot water with the ATF or some similar TLA. At what point does rocket guidance step into legally questionable territory?
> all the packaging is 100% recyclable, made of recycled plastic

eeek. It's my understanding right now plastic recycling... well, isn't. I wish they would eliminate the material completely.
Came here to mention this. I had to learn C++ over the past few months, and have been looking for an analog to Crockford’s book.
Definitely agree that I would like Either types far less if the language only tossed them token support (Java's Option comes to mind).
That looks really good!

Georgia has a very readable and slightly old fashioned look, is available everywhere (including Linux desktops once people legally add the Microsoft Core Fonts themselves) except on Android phones, but the substitute on Android phones looks quite nice too.

I still wonder if Gentium Book Basic (which, yes, looks great in PDF files; it is a beautiful font) can be salvaged on Windows devices if we run it through ttfautohint.
Throwing my old but reliable service in the mix, too: servercheck.in — I kicked it off with a Show HN about a decade ago, and it brings in about $170 MRR — enough to pay for the globally-distributed servers it runs on :)
I've seen some of these lower resolution ones. Is there any way to mount them as an array to give a high resolution image, especially with lenses for medium to long range recognition (like a monocular)?
The point is that humans have a basic ability to make specific coherent observations about themselves and the world. GPT can't do that except occasionally by accident in the middle of a muddle.
Are there no good results this would throw out?
I’ve noticed that.
Agreed.

Made even more magnificent by the amazing theme written by Hans Zimmer:

https://youtu.be/-sExd3yNG2A
Another approach to solving this issue is with a temporal database (standardized in SQL:2011); supporting a “valid time” in your query gives your user a consistent view of the database tables even if others are modifying it concurrently. It’s also handy if you want to keep audit records of the database (e.g. so users can see who/when/what changes were made).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL:2011
I don’t think this is even possible. Noise canceling works by creating reverse waves that hit your ears at the same time. You have to be able to calculate how long it will take for those waves to hit each set of ears and be able to direct sound at them.
I'd venture that you're looking at hundreds of people at harvest time for 720 acres of lettuce. I suppose the spikey nature of the labor demand is another reason why automation could be a better approach.
Second this one. I remember his very cogent explanation of RISC vs CISC.
Without a stoop, you wouldn't have stoop ball. And without that, what would kids do on summer afternoons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoop_ball
This is kind of an insensitive question. A decent chunk of us are non-binary, and somewhere in between.
When a language ignores a problem in the name of simplicity, every application now needs to choose some idiosyncratic way to solve the same problem without help. Mastering a larger toolbox takes work but it pays off.
These kinds of rules are common, but it also means you're only using a fraction of the expressive power of the Béziers. Why not draw actual S-curves? That way you're guaranteed an actual inflection point where curvature goes smoothly through zero, as opposed to two arcs joined. Why not explore control over tension by using curve handles greater than 1/3 (so curvature on endpoints is less) or less than 1/3, cranking up the tension in a way inspired by physical materials? Why not have the computer do the work of ensuring the joins are G2 continuous by construction, instead of having to eyeball it?
> This is Bezos’ genius.

His genius is gaming a readily game-able tax system for personal gain and public loss?

I do agree it's what he's good at, but I disagree about it being "genius" and question whether it's worthy of praise.
They also estimated we would have flying cars 20 years ago. These sort of estimates are highly inaccurate. Even then, do we just ignore the average people for the next 40 (your median) years?
I'm convinced that most people just hate text and that everything we're complaining about is just part of a larger move of the entire internet away from text.
Amazon did real things during the dot-com era and that didn't stop it's stock crashing 90%.

Tesla is doing real things and is a great company that I'm sure will be profitable and do well in the future.

Doesn't mean I don't think that it's stock price is still inflated by 10x right now.
It creates money out of nothing, which is distinct from wealth.
One advantage of talking to someone instead of writing is that they will perk up and catch anything wrong or suspicious you say. This could be as simple as a factual inaccuracy, or as subtle as an emotional misapprehension. Of course, you need people in your life who can deal with hearing something wrong in a fruitful way for this to work - but if you have them, it's a very valuable benefit.
> question is whether it uses less electricity to desalinate and flood irrigate, or pay for the electricity to allow ultra high density, water efficient farms

Nobody desalinates & floods fields, surely. (That's what you do if you live before the invention of water-pipe, or have a use-it-or-lose-it quota.) The Israelis are I think world leaders in growing stuff outdoors with minimal water, delivered directly to the roots. And indoors, they have greenhouses, just not the same design as in cold climates obviously.
The need to turn differences in reading and opinion into a no holds barred psychological fight is genuinely toxic. You and I have read the same post differently, and your attempt to villainize me as a gasligther is not something that should be accepted in polite conversation. Knock it off.

Furthermore, if you're going to accuse someone of gaslighting, then do everyone the favor of actually paraphrasing their arguments correctly. It is deeply hypocritical to run around accusing others of gaslighting while misrepresenting their arguments.

> You said: “GP’s argument wasn’t that the Scandinavian model is better”

What I actually said is that their main argument is that other countries are plainly run better. You can tell because that's their first sentence. Yes, they point to Scandanavian countries as an example, but their core argument is that "the US is more poorly run than other countries".

Furthermore, you can tell that their core argument isn't about Scandanavia, because they spend most of their post talking about New Zealand. If their core argument was about how great Scandanavia is, then they probably wouldn't have spent their entire post talking about New Zealand, now would they?
I was raised as a pretty conservative American protestant and went to religious school where a lot of our study covered history (as recorded in the Bible) of Israel and surrounding areas. As a result I felt some connection to it; I suspect this phenomenon is a driver behind the American religious right's unwavering political support of the modern State of Israel.
I’m arguing that the examples by themselves don’t tell us anything about how the US could be managed better, or even if there is anything the US could apply that they are doing.

I don’t preclude the possibility of learning from other countries, but I think it’s meaningless to say that just because a small country happens to be running better right now, there must be something it is doing that the US could be doing that would help.

It’s possible that there is, but there is no prima facie evidence of that. If someone wants to make that argument, they need to explain what is being done better and how the US could adopt it. Otherwise it’s just nationalism.
One can praise without the boss having us do so.

Really, it’s about noticing and acknowledging good work or behaviour.
Isn't the asset wealth being created at the expense of interest income from cash holdings (e.g. savings accounts and the like)?
Whoa this is awesome, what kind of engine size do you use?
Morality is not real, he is a genius at this.
Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles - Lex Friedman

https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA
There are brand new immigration protocols coming with the introduction of a points-based system. Plus the "Home Office will continue to refine the system in the light of experience and will consider adding further flexibility into the system..." [1]. I read that as points for various characteristics could vary quickly. Also the option to apply for the EU Settlement Scheme remains until mid-2021 if someone moved very recently.

Sure, that's just two avenues that jump to mind. There may be many more less orthodox routes that appear as the dust settles. We're witnessing a major shift in the status quo.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uks-points-ba...
The only question then, is what does that unskilled labor do as an alternative?

As a side note, the labor is generally migratory so they move the the next crop that needs harvesting.
Doh. Yes, I fat fingered micro-op for macro-op.

With compression you avoid the cost of having multiple instructions to fuse. I don't understand this. RVC is only a 16b 'abbreviation' for a subset of RISCV instructions. It's ultimately the same instruction.

Also, RVC is an extension; it isn't base and Andrew Waterman's thesis [1] doesn't even mention macro-op fusion. FWIW, the A72 uses macro-op fusion [2]. Neither architecture ruled it out, but then neither architecture was anticipating it. It's just a microarchitectural optimization.

No, the x86 (1978) certainly wasn't designed with macro-op fusion in mind. Instead, macro-op fusion (2000) was developed by Intel to improve x86 performance [3].

[1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p...

[2] https://techreport.com/review/28189/inside-arms-cortex-a72-m...

[3] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6675376