skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No offense but why are there still platforms where devs apply to companies? How can this work when you have significant more demand than supply?

Bonus question: Why relocate in times where even FAANG heavily hires remote people to the same conditions as their local staff?
One thing I wonder (maybe not a sensible question, I haven't really thought it through): A Kalman filter update is superficially like a HMM Forward Algorithm step, right? You have some belief, you have a new observation, and you have some new belief after.

Are there similar equivalences with other HMM algorithms for different questions? A Viterbi-like algorithm for the most likely path, for example, distinct from the series of Kalman-update argmaxes?
You can't really get a 5900X for $550, they're sold out everywhere. (I'm trying to buy one myself.)

The 8-core 5800X is available at MSRP, though (at least, I've seen Newegg stock it).
So give them your ID.
Unless there's a sharp cliff at the 48% that pass. Which would be expected.
Reminder that Linus is part of the reason you and I have a job in the first place.

How many people contribute to the linux kernel? Let’s see how quickly you get jaded after dealing with people refusing to read basic instructions.

Also, reminder that not every contributor is desirable. Linus has a specific vision and criteria for his project. It’s true he could use kinder language, but I imagine he gets fed up having to deal with this sort of stuff over -decades-.
IBM in Atoms
Or maybe let's revisit the charter of the NSA and make some major tweaks.
This is a community without video and livestreaming in 2021. Especially amongst long term usernames.

Multiplayer game communities - not the watchers but the players - are also one.

I enjoyed the article but realized reading it there are different types of community. The form discussed there is more business/promotional, which is different from HN or MMOs.
Show HN: A simple configuration management tool where you just use regular shell
Discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26351702
Did you really have to shoehorn all that into a discussion about Torvalds's notoriously heated communication style and advertise some random left-criticism blog to boot?
- because linearity, your observations can come from more than one distribution. (multiple sensors of different measurements with linear relationships between them)
One day in the not-too-distant future! We intend to build a big company here, and while that will certainly take some time, we are going to want everyone to find a calling in our mission, principles, and values. So please stay tuned!
You missed "rather terrible". The other day someone on our sales team did a presentation to the company, and they used the microphone on a $3 headset - I practically couldn't hear half the things they said because the audio was so muffled. This is someone who has calls with people all day!

If you record any audio or make calls with people outside your organisation, for the love of God, please invest in some sort of microphone upgrade. Even the $20 no-name Chinese microphones you get on Amazon are miles better than what is built into laptops.
I wouldn't recommend buying a 5900X for gaming; you're going to be bottlenecked on your 3080 GTX even with many fewer CPU cores. 5900X is a workstation-class CPU.
Successful communities without any video exposure started ages before 2021, eg HN.
I'm a bit amused that Torvalds is complaining about people submitting non-line-wrapped commit messages even though they look awful when displayed by git because they use a different tool to author them, while submitting line-wrapped comments even though they look awful on the github web interface with proportional fonts because he submits them by email. But of course, it's his repo and he gets to apply whatever style suits him best.
What struck me was the Mom’s comment that she thought he was passing because he kept getting promoted to the next level / grade. It sounds like her expectation was that if he was failing, he would of been held back and that would of been the wake up call for both of them.

I don’t think that is an unreasonable expectation. That IS what the rule used to be, if you didn’t pass you didn’t move on.

The thing is the rules have changed, so the old reliable “signs of trouble” ex. Your child getting held back don’t happen and so the problem gets missed, or the severity of the problem isn’t caught until too late.
Why Emotional Maturity Is Critical for Relationships
Do you have a link to more reading on this?
Yeah, this is likely the implicit comparison GP was drawing.

Which ASRock board did you go with?
Was he level-headed? Talking like that at work might get me fired.

It would be better if he just ignored the PR instead of making a scene.

Maybe I’m just sensitive
There was a lot of criticism, especially of the Web version, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26332944
Thank you! It's not something I ever talk about, but it means a lot to hear, even from an internet stranger.
Reasonable people can disagree on things like formatting, features, or the superiority of one interface/product over another... all fair game. And Linus’ contributions give him an enormous amount of credibility and leeway to have it his way. But when you treat people with such disrespect (ex. By calling them a moron), you lose all credibility and respect in my book. There should be no excuse for treating people with disrespect no matter who you are or what your contributions have been. I’m not surprised given his reputation, but I’m still incredibly disappointed
Those outsourcing companies have a reputation for providing cheap low skill workers.

What I described is a situation of basically converting reputation into cash. Once you're known for having "armies of above-average developers" and then cut back on employee quality, it's going to take a long time for the market to figure it out (and you can probably extend that time significantly with slick marketing). In the mean time, you profit margins are increased.
This practice endured from 6500 to 2000 BC. We’re closer to the last (known) such fire than the last fire was to the first. Amazing that this was happening for so long and we know so little about it.
I was extremely surprised, and disappointed, when Coursera started charging money for classes. It was really a revolution when it started.

Yet, I still believe coursera is amazing and I’ll buy some shares just to fund the idea. I guess that was the original intention of the market.
It is on Gog for $6, a real good deal.
https://www.gog.com/game/wing_commander_3_heart_of_the_tiger
I recently signed up for a course on Coursera. Maybe I wasn't paying attention or maybe I was tired, but I didn't realize the plan was a trial that would automatically start billing. It wasn't even a month before I received a bill. Their policy is no refunds. It's an easy mistake to make and many other apps offer refunds for this. It might seem minor but it got under my skin. I've decided to never used them again.
> But what purpose does that antagonism serve?

It's a good question. I am not advocating this behavior, just trying to circumvent his rants and see them as comedy.

Of course, the better choice is to not do this in the first place.
It's an arms race. I want better security, but then the attacks get better to overcome it.
It's a vestige of the old manufacturing days.
Everybody wanna be Google, but don’t nobody wanna pay no Google salaries.
Is this still true of GitHub's pull requests? Does Linus still not use them?
Why would I use this to my existing keepassxc workflow?

- does it have better encryption?

- does it support Android / AOSP with the same file?

- does it have a better browser extension for chromium?

- does it have 2FA support, too?

- Is it open source? What's the license?

- How are passwords online stored? What's the privacy policy regarding GDPR?

I hope you are aware that password managers are the most critical infrastructure on the web, therefore if any of the above points are not checked (or it turns out you actually don't encrypt anything or simply forgot to e.g. bcrypt pws online) then you can forget about it.

Users need to put a lot (a damn effing lot) of faith in you if there's no audit and no code and no proven track record available.

And sceptical people like me need evidence to see this is a secure and safe product. Evidence in this case can only be open sourced code.

Otherwise I would just use bitwarden and forget about it anyways.
I found these animations the most helpful to understand what's going on!
Often alterations of the Kalman filter are a good compromise. E.g. the extended Kalman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Kalman_filter

As you stated particle filters are computationally expensive. Also I found them more fidgety to configure for my application cases (in activity recognition).
Pokemon Go was the last game I really played and it was so incredibly fresh and had an experience I will never experience again.. crowds of people outside doing the same thing with servers crashing.

How rare is that?

I stopped playing it years ago when they changed the gym system from a stacked tower to some system where your guys would lose health automatically just by being in the gym. Took the challenge out of it.. I was a completely solo player and enjoyed the challenge of taking on a fully stacked gym tower by myself.

Just as well. It did a number on my phone's battery with their poor coding (e.g. loading graphical assets over and over through an uncached encryption routine or something).
RavenMUD. It's now running on ravenmud.com port 6060.
Migration doesn't square with the fact that valuable objects were found entombed in the burnt houses.
Needs a (2012)? But why surface this 9-year-old drama? The whole thread is a nothingburger
Those points are mainly true of back yards, not really front yards though.
Isn't some of this due to demographic/societal changes? For example, it used to be quite rare to go to graduate school. Now, something like 10-15% of the US population has an advanced degree, and I bet many of those people were in school after age 25.
Both are responsible. Clearly she is not mom of the year.

But promoting students as they fail all classes is just atrocious education. It’s warehousing.
The argument is cloud sw have better chances of remediating their 0-days compared to countless sys-admins/help-desk-admins
I read the whole thing. I love learning new things like this.
Teams ... is terrible. Doesn't matter the platform.
Perhaps the surprising bit is that a book from 1937 is still under copyright.
"GreatSchools [..] has updated its rating systems [..] to improve its effectiveness in providing information that minimizes inequity in educational opportunities."

Is this intentionally vague? How does updating a rating system minimize inequity?
This is probably not the cause, but XML allows using the string "true" and "false" to represent booleans. https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/datatype...
Felt exactly the same. I hope Khan Academy will evolve into what Coursera originally promised to become.
Depends on how it is used.

There are options beyond removal and a notice.
Hard line wraps are moronic, just like spaces for tabs.

It’s an abuse of the newline character, which is meant to represent a new line, not word wrapping. It also destroys the information of where actual newlines are placed. There’s no way to automatically strip out the newlines meant for word wrapping, while leaving newlines meant for new lines.

To use your words Linus: You’re a moron!
So basically not at all.
Facebook Locks Out Ron Paul Following Column Criticizing Big Tech Censorship
Nobody is doing free work for Linus. People including Linus are doing work on Linux which everyone is allowed to use for free. And which most people on Earth have benefitted from, directly or indirectly, to at least some extent.

Not getting paid for your work does not automatically entitle you to see your work used, or to ignore the standards put in place by those who would use it.

And yes, if everyone in Hollywood tried to contribute to every Tarantino movie, and showed up and didn't follow instructions, he'd probably yell at some folks too.
Can't help but wonder what else in human history has been lost to antiquity. And I wonder if in 4000 years much of this cultures written works would exist in a recoverable form to explain the artifacts left behind.
Jamie Mantzel is a guy living on an island off the grid in Central America. He’s a little kooky, but his videos are super interesting. He has lots of videos of his progress building solar powered boats and houses.

https://youtube.com/user/JMEMantzel
Jaded is not an excuse for abuse. That's like a parent saying that their children's bad behaviour is an excuse to abuse them. It is not ok to treat people that way, and no amount of being fed up justifies it.

Also I do not accept the idea that my job exists because of him, so I have to have deference. Again, this is an abusive way to look at things, and puts people on pedestals that they deserve respect, but we do not deserve it in turn.
The worst thing about Linus is that he's usually right.
I assumed you already saw the chart. The period of increase starts right at the start of Trump's term and it seems fairly simple to make a descriptive claim like I did.
indie games
Search engines are designed to give you the best result on the web today.

The Wayback Machine / archive.org is a snapshot in time of the web.

If search engines combined the current web and old web it would be an interesting experiment but possiblly a diff nightmare.

Maybe it’s something that could be a point of differentiation for a new search engine compared to Google.

For anyone wanting to take this on, maybe start with Common Crawl [0]

0. https://commoncrawl.org/the-data/
Kalman Filter Simulation:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~teammco/misc/kalman_filter/
> Was he level-headed? Talking like that at work might get me fired.

In my experience, this is very much a cultural thing.

The way Linus talks is the usual way that people talk at most of the workplaces I've been at over the years in Australia. However, we're not exactly known as a sensitive people. If something is crap, we call it crap. It isn't generally taken personally. It isn't seen as overly aggressive. If someone is failing to get a point, they will get called an idiot, but people will continue to explain. It isn't seen as a personal attack, just normal frustration.

However, when dealing with other national backgrounds, we're also expected to adapt our behaviour. The number of times I get a 'yes' answer from Asia that absolutely does not mean 'yes' is probably in the high double figures per day. Americans tend to expect the "compliment sandwhich" when you need to point out a flaw in their work, and will take it personally if you say that they've chosen the wrong approach. There's less of a divorce between the work and the person.
I hate it with passion. Clicking a photo on a café in the main view, horrendous because it does not actually open the photo, nor the overview on the café screen. Have to be on the photos screen for the photo to open up full screen.

Pressing on some place while being in other than top mode.

The back button experience.

And the bottom drawer, no idea when I should pull it up or down, or if I am currently in it.
The web wasn't that arcane or challenging to develop for - plenty of people without that much deep technical know-how managed with raw HTML and CSS, copy and paste and w3schools. Although most people weren't that creative, either.

If anything, web development is far more arcane and challenging now. No one just writes HTML, CSS or JS in a text editor anymore, the bare minimum expectation is to use complex frontend frameworks and NPM and compile everything from other languages. Compared to the sprawling, byzantine nightmare of modern web development, JQuery plugins were a breeze.

I think, it's simply the case that the web has matured, and more people are concerned with content than the superficiality of quirky presentation nowadays. Just as it's possible for an author to publish a book without knowing typesetting or running their own press, one can publish to the internet without knowing even the basics of HTML, CSS or JS.

And of course the web has coalesced around a set of standard layouts and visual language, as any media paradigm inevitably does, mostly because it has done so around a few standard frameworks. But then let's be honest, most Geocities sites kind of looked the same, too.
Maybe a bit of an aside, but community is such a weird word these days. It can represent a group of people who mostly only interact with each other (a remote mountain community) or a group of people that just have one thing in common (a data tool forum, the investment banking community).

These things are different and I think it matters. You say “members of a community” and it’s easy to imagine people who live within a half-day walk of the same river. But it’s not that at all, anymore. You used to be a member of a community. Now you can be in as many as you want.

There’s a trade off for that. Are the people on the forums I frequent going to show up at my wedding, my funeral? Will I watch their kids while they take care of their sick parents? No, none of that.

We’ve sliced ourselves so thin. There are benefits and costs to that. Any niche interest I have, I can find 100 people to talk about it with. I don’t have to worry if my neighbor is into it. I don’t have to worry about him at all.
If I called a coworker a moron on a PR, I would be disciplined or fired. We have a zero tolerance for disrespect in our workplace, and I do not think that his status as a 'superstar programmer' should allow him the privilege to call people names. Even if he works for free, it is not ok to think of and treat others this way.
What if neither position nor momentum are fundamental, though (which, as I understand it, is the “default” for the math behind QM)? According to my understanding of the uncertainty principle, neither of them have values until their values are collapsed (whether it be through many worlds, pilot wave theory, or what have you).
i've always just thought of kalman filters as continuous time/space equivalents of hmms, replacing multinomials with gaussians.

so yeah, you can do things like e-m to learn the parameters of the observation and state update models from data (just like fitting an hmm in the fully observed case), or given state and observation models, and past observations you can predict future state given current state. (what it was made for, where state is the state of your rocket given the physics of motion and all the noisy sensors or whatever, which if you think about it is like a viterbi search for the best fitting path through the continuous state space)
I suspect (worry?) that a lot of folks miss out on the other thrill of physical CRTs... an experience that is as close to zero latency as is physically possible.

This article breaks it down in wonderful detail: http://renderingpipeline.com/2013/09/measuring-input-latency...

The TL;DR is that on a "modern" stack (USB, display buffering, etc) with a 60hz display you're looking at over 100ms of input latency. You can roughly halve that with a 120hz display.

But it won't ever touch the sub-16ms latency that's possible with a "retro" 8/16-bit console hooked up to a CRT display.

A lot of those games were garbage, but damn... it felt like your brain was wired directly into the machine. A very very cool part of the experience that is being lost to time.
The “domicide” theory reminds me of how Japan historically treated architecture. Because of frequent tsunamis, earthquakes and other natural disasters, plus the influence of Shinto and Zen Buddhism, a preference for impermanence developed. Hence even many “historic” buildings are actually rebuilt from scratch every so often. The essence of the building is not seen to be in its pure material form, but rather its overall concept. An interesting response to the Theseus Paradox, for sure.

The Ise Shrine is a good example:

The shrine buildings at Naikū and Gekū, as well as the Uji Bridge, are rebuilt every 20 years as a part of the Shinto belief of the death and renewal of nature and the impermanence of all things and as a way of passing building techniques from one generation to the next. The twenty-year renewal process is called the Shikinen Sengū. Although the goal of Sengū is to get the shrine built within the 20-year period, there have been some instances, especially because of war, where the shrine building process is postponed or delayed.[16] The original physical purpose of the Sengu process is unknown. However, it is believed that it serves to maintain the longevity of the shrine, or possibly as a gesture to the deity enclosed within the shrine. Historically, this cyclical reconstruction has been practiced for many years in various shrines throughout Japan, meaning that it is not a process exclusive to Ise. The entire reconstruction process takes more or less 17 years, with the initial years focusing on project organization and general planning, and the last 8 years focusing on the physical construction of the shrine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Grand_Shrine

I can’t find any links on the concept in general but here is a somewhat related one:

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/how-japan-makes-houses...
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26364569
I don't either. My theory is people grew up and now have AD influence.

Companies willing to run ADS in a non curated venue get traction the others do not.

People talking freely will say thing the company may not like. That is no big, unless they make it so.

They will also say a lot of other things, including stuff the company likes.

And that is where the traction comes from.

The Internet natives hate corporate bland and prefer real discussion.
This is hilarious study. This is like Zuckerberg calling us dumbfucks.
Especially if it was written in a type safe language like Swift.
Seems strange that eBay would delist these though, given they still list items like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Cast-Iron-Jolly-African-Man...
as well as books like "Little Black Sambo". Seems like they are more interested in following the latest trends than purging their platform of objectionable content.
Fair enough! Appreciate the discussion anyway.
haha so it is happening... CRTs are for gaming, in the same vein LPs are better for music, and valves are better for amps, etc, etc
That's more an issue with your mental model. These aren't points, they are fields with potentials.
Torvalds solved low hanging fruit problems (reimplementing a version control system with a permissive license, implementing a toy OS with a permissive license) when computer science and programming were niche skills, and for that he's become a highly paid celebrity with a cult following that forgives him for anything. It's so embarrassing to see people celebrate abuse years after the fact, I honestly cringe at these threads. I pity people who relish the idea of being attacked by someone they respect and I wish we could all just move past this dumb hero worship culture.

P.S. please add a (2012) to the topic, this is NINE years old who cares.
Such dark patterns are not allowed under GDPR, which says it must be opt-in, not opt-out.
I've actually seen plenty of "not everyone needs to learn to program" articles.

https://www.google.com/search?q=not+everyone+needs+to+learn+...

I'd like to see analogous skeptical articles about community building.
It's not a guarantee but I'll trust Google for application security over Microsoft every time.

That said, it's not the question. The question is if a company wanted to switch away from Microsoft here, what is their option? It's not an inherent statement that one is actually better, but that there is an option if one feels burned by Microsoft here.