skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hit one of these getting my mail late at night. Pretty sobering knowing I'd have been dead in 30 minutes due to the temperature and no one would have likely been by to check because it was late. They can stick around even after most of the snow/ice has melted because of shadows that never allow sunlight to hit a particular spot.
The War on Privacy
Even those tiny orgs follow what I'm talking about, you're mistaking bloat for specialization.

The skills involved in figuring out what to build are entirely separate from the skills involved in building, and you are making the classic mistake of worshiping the skill of building to the exclusion of all other skills.

It is much rarer to know what to build than it is to know how to build.
Not exactly. Their user agreement gives you a number of outs, and ways to get a live human.
The statement is odd, at the same time, it's not outrageous for him to make in the sense that - lines of code notwithstanding - the underlying science i.e. the application of the product is the thing in question.

It's a pretty interesting case.

At least the core nature of the algorithm should be made public if we're going to use it for public inquisition.
Hey Adam - small world. We talked many moons ago. I think you ended up helping the folks at Kitsplit!
I also have quite a few clickbaity thoughts that look at ham radio in a much more optimistic light.

https://n0ssc.com/posts/583-millennials-are-killing-ham-radi...
Here's my take: Collaborating in the open and communicating the results of discussions and the rationales for decisions to the wider community who wasn't present for the discussions has a high time cost. It seems the core rust team has put a lot of effort into making decisions in the open, which increases freedom to collaborate.
I came here just to say this.
Is it slow to regenerate a single post even with Jekyll’s ‘—incremental’ mode?
At the end of the post, there's a link to an updated and larger graph that does have some cycles.
If that’s true than the most meaningful failure will be the one with the highest stakes, which is your own death.

Following from that first principle you rationally conclude you should kill yourself today.

Which points to a useful insight — when the real world does not agree with logic, examine your first principles.
This was my first thought.

Also, I didn't read the fine print but do you even need to create a new Twitter account? Do the rules say one guess per customer? All I see is "Tweet us the correct number."
No it is not.

The solution you are looking for is transparency. Perhaps the only thing I like about crypto as money (well Bitcoin) is the that every transaction can be traced back to the transactor (think about that buying and selling drugs).

Speaking as Finance Nerd I think all finance should be that transparent. There is no room for privacy in financial matters.

But that is one aspect of crypto money that is being deprecated by the people who invent it
I think it's certainly a more fair criticism to say that bitcoin adopters are consistent fools rather than hypocritical smarties. I would say that that isn't the case either, but it more honestly focuses the argument on the merits of crypto rather than mis-portraying its promoters.
>Referring to my job change as the company offering me charity is offensive and incorrect (I took a pay cut and worked hard to learn what I need to in order to be effective).

It was not intended as an insult, so apologies. But I still stand by my statements because I believe them to be true.

Other things that will lead to clearer views on this is your overall software skills relative to other people in the same position, but such ratings are also colored with the lens of bias.

As it stands though, the deal is still obviously uneconomical and therefore a charity or a gift to you. Nothing wrong with this and it wasn't intended as an insult.

>There are also examples of men at my company making fairly similar changes across organizations

If that's the case present your data! This will definitely help change my view point.

>I'd love for you to take a minute and consider why you approached my story with the preconceived notion that I've only gotten this opportunity because I'm a woman.

I have. It is not preconceived. The hypothesis was made based off of available data. Like I said, the business deal the company made with you is not economical, so there must be another reason why the company gave you such a one sided deal when they can get a better deal.

My assumption is that part of it is because of your sex and your looks. This goes inline with my anecdotal experience of working with women in engineering.

If your saying the exact reason why you were hired over say a new CS grad or boot camper is because of your domain knowledge and UX experience, then sure I grant you that as a major possibility. However it does not discount the possibility that what I said is true. You wouldn't know because you manager either gave you that deal subconsciously or he won't admit it.

There's really no avenue to determine either argument definitively. I propose not continuing.

As a side note, I've worked hard to get where I am right now. And no company paid me to learn software on the job. If they did it would be an act of charity and I would be grateful to them if they did.
In reality, there is no impediment to designating Google as a public utility other than the elected representatives making it so.
you are clearly very passionate about this subject. breathlessness aside ("if you think you are an audio professional...", "you _NEED_ to dig...", and implying that the massive amount of audio professionals who don't use linux are somehow out of touch with their actual level of experience (your first sentence - not sure if that's what you meant to imply)) -

zynthian has a nice website. it seems like a cool idea and I'm sure it has some great use cases. it's still a kit which strikes me as not pro-level.

more concerning is that it appears to have what I would call completely unusable issues regarding latency and jitter (5-20ms of latency is unusable for realtime audio), can you comment on this? how about jitter? what is your experience with it (and if you have any, what are your use cases?)

searching the internet for solutions here seems to show a lot of unresolved issues. I see the developers asking users to file GitHub issues as recently as a couple of months ago. I know very few audio professionals who are going to want to use something with this degree of maintenance / instability / unreliability.

how would you describe the ease with which you can interface the tools you describe with outboard gear using USB or MIDI e.g. audio interfaces, mixers, synthesizers, etc, compared to the apple ecosystem? which tends to be quite plug & play. one reason why it is so widely used.
Some framework is using extreme optimization tricks, so be careful .. and check the source code! :)

example:

"-d:danger : Turns off all runtime checks and turns on the optimizer."

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
Oh wow, the dreaded carrier-grade NAT. I still can't believe that's a thing.
I am curious about downvotes. This stuff is historical fact.

I know someone else commented that my view is American, but the original article is about the (American) SEC... so... I will double down and show evidence from my home state: Pennsylvania.

https://www.psp.pa.gov/About-PSP/Documents/Pennsylvania%20St...

The whole idea of the PSP was to create a less violent force to control labor (compared to the companies' private security solutions).

The (downvoting) reader is encouraged to repeat this exercise for their own locality.
At least with a human you have a way to make your case or ask to speak to a manager. Of course they could deny you, but in my experience it is rare to be denied if you persist in politely asking.

Without a human to contact, you have no recourse. The email that you received denying your request for re-evaluation is no-reply@big.co, so you're stuck. It is a surprisingly awful feeling of helplessness. In fact, if a human on the other end of the phone were to say, "I'm sorry, it doesn't say why, but our system won't let you back in.", you would probably feel a little better because some soul heard you.
"Cancel culture" isn't choosing not to consume media. "Cancel culture" is actively trying to destroy it, like advocating lawsuits against Fox News, or deplatforming media hosts.

What you describe is how it's always been. Current "cancel culture" is nefarious as it actively tries to remove other's ability to access it. "Cancel culture" is authoritarian and undemocratic.
Note that the example here is forward differentiation and most machine learning these days is backward propagation
Stumbled upon this course a while back. I think some of the folks here could find the slides useful. While intended for engineers, I think it could be useful for other professions as well.
Senior director or Vice President (or in a team like you describe, ‘sales manager’ hah)
Personal experience has been the absolute opposite, and so has been what I've read. Please check hn history for no of times AWS customer service was said to be bad vs google
No shit, you arrogant cretin. I referring to the HN submission guidelines, which specifically uses the "intellectual curiosity" wording.
Nice project! I'd love something similar for Audible series and thought about making one too. The Audible recommendation system almost always fails to alert me when a new book of a series I'm listening to is released. It's crazy because it'd relatively simple batch query and would likely drive a lot of sells. Also I'm still not concerned about AI taking over the world yet as it can't even find glaringly solutions like that (presuming Amazon has an AI recommendation system for Audible... maybe?).
Narrowing things down is easier when you control for one aspect instead of multiple ones.

If, hypothetically, being trans inverted the expression of the gene for being gay, you'd have a harder time finding the gene until you accounted for it. By eliminating the possibility, you make it easier to find the gene you're looking for.

If you can't find the gene in the smaller pool of subjects, you weren't going to find it in the larger one. But if you did find it, you can learn how it affects everyone in a different study.
Occationally, there are a few places where you want arbitary high derivatives.
But in general there are specialized solutions for those (though very few things implement them. E.g. Jax's JETs and TaylorSeries.jl in julia implement taylor-mode AD. But those also need custom primatives)

More of a problem is first derivatives, but that you need very high accuracy.
Which doesn't occur in ML but does occur sometimes in scientific computing.
(Doesn't occur in ML cos we just basically shake the thing about a bit anyway)
More context https://dev.to/typicode/what-s-new-in-husky-5-32g5
Well it's wonderful that you overcame that.

But if someone who was 'White and Tall' was 'Homeless on Minimum Wage' then that would directly refute the logic that 'Being Tall and White is Easy Mode'.

Just the opposite, it would indicate that 'Being Tall and White is definitely not Easy Mode'.
Receiving crumbs of info as to WHY a service is down is interesting to some. These are also great for tracking postmortems (unless they take awhile, then it's a separate post).

Speculation is entertaining to many as well. Or perhaps this sparks an idea for someone (omg, GH is down ALL THE TIME, time to build a novel competitor!).

And given the crap state status pages are in these days (stop showing green when your site is down!), these are great for knowing when a service is operating again.

EDIT: words r hard
To start, take a look at the original whitepaper by the creator of Bitcoin (specifically Abstract, Introduction, and Conclusion):
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

The original intention was to create "an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party."

Although starting as a decentralized payment protocol, the idea of trustless decentralization turned out to be applicable to store of value and use as a currency.

For the 3 aforementioned points:

1. You don't need to trust anyone to verify payment transactions.

2. You don't need to trust any group (the Federal Reserve, the gold or diamond industry, etc.) for it to be a store of value. (which is, eliminating unpredictability on the supply side[1])

3. You don't need to have any particular reason, other than public adoption[2], for it to become a common currency.

Let's consider the fiat comparison to US dollars.

1. You need to trust financial institutions to handle transactions.

2. You need to trust the Federal Reserve to be responsible about management of supply.

3. The US dollar is backed by the strength of the US government and the US economy.

If all of these things were true (as it somewhat usually is), everything works fine. But fraud/backcharges/misc. happen, recessions happen and the Fed can be judicious about pulling certain financial levers, and it's entirely possible that the currency of the future becomes something else, like the Chinese Yuan, because of changes in world power.

[1] Bitcoins supply is released at a fixed rate, which makes it predictable, tying its value much more closely to demand than supply. This value eventually becomes completely demand-driven once the last Bitcoin is mind.

[2] The catch-22 of bitcoin public adoption - it's only useful if everyone is using it, but there isn't anything else that makes you want to use it. It would be like if it was 1776, and instead of introducing a US dollar backed by gold, you introduced the modern version backed by debt.

This is why the news of the past few months of institutional adoption is so monumental - it indicates a tipping point of the beginning of stable public adoption, a problem that is completely outside of the hands of the technical driving forces of cryptocurrency.
I went skiing this weekend, which you can do too with your tech monie$
Half of science was created for fun
It's pretty weird that they created this tool and configuration file, but neglected to allow configuring the tool via the configuration file. Most of the necessary pack build options can't be configured in the project.toml file.

Another downside to all this is it's still tightly wound up with the implementations of containers. Containers are not the end-all be-all of running software (most of what makes up a container is unnecessarily restrictive and annoying, and should actually be removed if we want more flexible systems). We need to focus more on the general abstractions needed to operate software components, not how specifically to run a container on a Docker daemon on a single host.
There comes a point when the demands of the business outweigh the value of the services they provide. For some of us that will include providing identification, particularly in cases where the handling of the identification is opaque. These cases are far removed from letting front line staff glance at a card to compare your face to a photo or verify the details that you voluntarily submitted on a form. The only times I have let anyone actually handle my identification for services directed towards consumers were for financial services and with my employer. The latter case was only because I knew how the identification would be handled in the transaction.

In the case of Blizzard I would say no and accept my losses. (Well, let's say Steam since I have actually dealt with them.) In the case of Facebook or Google, I would say no simply because I don't trust their motivations.
Note that this applies backwards also.
Of the 7 ADs demoed, only 1 was forward.
The other 6 were reverse mode.
All gave same result
If we are to be consistent, then a big part of the population must also be crazy.

If we are to be rational, we tread carefully, and don't call them so.

Alien believers are like "cult" members: small enough in number that's its safe to point out their craziness.
Something similar happened to me when I was using static site generators. In fact one that I was really enjoying even switched programming languages between 1.x and 2.0.

Since that time I look for the people and community behind the project, and try to find signs of stability and long-term care. After that I look at open formats rather than open and flexible architecture-chains. For example, I'd rather use my LibreOffice HTML template and simple PHP controller on a more monolithic (but open) platform than connect a bunch of technologies together to create a build process with a bunch of moving, quickly developing, interdependent parts.

Not sure it's the best answer, but it has worked better to use more monolithic software, even blogging software that's been in steady, if slow development since the early 2000s...
I think the bar for remediation procedures needs to be higher than "clear" to qualify as good customer support.
Remotion – A framework for making videos in React
I'm not aware of any interpretation of antitrust law that forbids networking at conferences.
Now’s a great time to take inventory of your life. Really focus on “health”. How is your physical health, mental health, social health and fiscal health? Keep in mind those 4 items are not completely independent and it’s a nontrivial multivariable equation to solve. But tackling them one at a time is a valid strategy, just have a plan.

Have a plan and follow it all the way through. Its detail should scale with its time length. For example if you want to get healthy, maybe plan out those weekly meals and exercise. Or you want a house, a fine plan for now is to have one in 2-5 years. Figure out how much, general location and what you need to do today such as how much money to put aside for it. Super detailed long term plans are not necessarily better because you can’t predict the future.

You can’t predict the future but you should know that freak events happens. Eyjafjallajökull, 9/11, fukushima, and coronavirus just to name a few. The recent pandemic has probably put this in perspective for most people but I’ve lost a few loved ones over the recent years, to seemingly unfair and improbable reasons. The next lesson in mortality is just starting and it’s okay to let yourself feel those emotions, even with other people.

Despite what the law says, corporations are not people. There’s always more work and you’re replaceable. Always working isn’t a personality or hobby. Figure out that work life balance. It’s okay to say no and it’s okay to quit.

It’s okay to quit. Sunk cost is a thing. Despite how you might feel you’re still young, there’s still time but don’t waste it. A bad job, a bad relationship, a bad investment is worse than none.

tldr: Invest in index funds, friendship, family and yourself.
Assume you‘ll use Amazon Route53 as your DNS provider. You‘ll pay per lookup after some free-tier so doubling your TTL from 5min to 10min halfes your cost [1] . Sure, it‘s ~$0.40 / million requests but if you have a TTL of a few minutes and a often-accessed site you‘ll have some requests per day.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/?nc1=h_ls
Most people don’t read many reviews though. Just the ‘most helpful’ and the review tally. Worse, the store search results pages use the review scores to rank apps too.
In medical school my wife had a classmate who was actually a year ahead but was re-taking anatomy because he slipped on some ice, hit his head, and was going blind. He wanted to relearn anatomy by feel in anticipation of total vision loss.

I have a friend who slipped on some ice and broke his femur! This was 5 years ago, he was an avid cyclist but he still has issues today that affect how much he can ride.

Unexpectedly slipping on ice is no joke! That being said, if I can't xc ski I go for long runs all the time with microspikes and trekking poles. So the gear to be safe (with common sense and knowing ones limits) does exist.
It's a good thing I didn't get that memo, nor anyone to tell me that backend web development wasn't its strong suit, because I built an entire platform of services with it and an EDA. As I worked on my projects, I wound up crossing streams with developers who had moved from Node, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, and Go.
I looked for restaurants, groceries and cafes around Silicon Valley (which I'd think would have a higher than average density of crypto holders).

There were 2, and both appear to be out of business.
So the Soviet Union killed the whales for no reason at all and China is killing sharks for soup.

https://fee.org/articles/why-the-soviets-slaughtered-180-000...
> I hope in america public utilities are not only controlled by the government. Because where I am from public utilities can be publicly or privately controlled. As long as they are all playing by the same rules many private companies have made lots of money providing public utilities.

Water/Sewage and Trash are typically run by the city/county government, although it is common for the actual work to be handled by a contracted company.

Power, natural gas, phone, and most others is almost always a private company.
even if it's not completely transparent and can not be used in a window, it could still be useful as a wall material to let some of the daylight into the house.
Why wouldn't they have a tactical improvement?

It's a lever attached to the bottom of the rifle.

It allows:

1. The stock to remain in-line with the bore of the rifle.

2. Additional leverage to control recoil.

3. Quicker and more intuitive return of the weapon to-shoulder after running or changing magazines.

4. The wrist to remain in a neutral position when depressing the magazine release button.

The Sten, BAR, and the PPSH were pretty much the last generations of fully-automatic rifles to use a horizontal grip configuration, and in both cases, (Soviet and Western) weapons designers converged on the pistol-grip for subsequent designs of the autoloading light rifle, despite substantial differences in design between the M16 and the AK-47.

Why did they make the change? All three of those weapons (Sten, BAR, PPSH) were in widespread combat usage at the time, as were horizontal-grip semiautomatic rifles like the SKS, M14, and M1 Garand/Carbine (as well as a variety of horizontal-grip bolt-action rifles). Why not keep the same configuration for the next generation of rifles so that soldiers would be using the same basic setup that they had originally been trained on? Why did the StG 44, AK-47, Thompson, and later the M-16 all make the switch? Even the Swedes started adding pistol-grips to the BAR in the twenties.

Horizontal-grip rifles just don't seem to be as well-suited for controllability of fully-automatic, or rapid semi-automatic fire.
> only recently did we get steeled hulled container ships with vastly different hull profiles

The hull shape of a steel hulled windjammer is not vastly different from a modern container ship of similar size. Very similar length/beam/draft ratios, both have pretty "boxy" hull shape midships. The big difference is the bulbous bow, which doesn't make much of a difference at the lower speeds a sailing ship spends the vast majority of its time, and of course the stern with the propeller.

> Biplanes worked great for most of the history of aviation

To nitpick, if we consider the age of flight to start with the 1903 Wright flyer, biplanes were mostly obsolete by the mid-1930'ies. So about 30 years out of a so far total of 118 years.
Netflix: The New Outlet for US Progressive Politics?
Blockchain topics have become a proxy war for Keynes/Hayek poorly framed as a technical discussion. I think most people who are passionately against crypto hold that view for non-technical reasons and more related to monetary policy. Which is valid, but suckers like me used to think questions like yours were posted in good-faith. I'd answer questions such as upgrades to PoW/PoS, TX rate limitations, side-chains, multi-sig, etc. After enough down-votes for factual answers you realize it was never about the technology.