skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed the fact that "caused by mass evacuation that was not necessary for the most part" was a direct quote from the respective Wikipedia page, backed up by the data (see the WHO reports on Chernobyl etc.).

Of course, you believe that all data that contradicts your irrational beliefs must be just opinions by "fanbois", because to actually check up on the facts would mean risk shattering your strongly held but weakly backed belief system.
How do you explain results like https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01885, which uses LSTMs to do exactly what a Kalman filter would do except with less manual work?
Can this be used for rating systems in a game?
The Essential Role of Plain Language in Research Publishing
Invested in and made a fortune off Nvidia after reading various comments. Similarly Sold Tesla near the peak based on comments here.
> The flaw here is that by understanding more deeply what's going on with this analogy, we can learn so much more about the cosmos, like explaining the motion of planets etc etc. By not seeking an interpretation of quantum mechanics' observations, we limit ourselves.

But the sun being the center of the universe is a physical theory. It makes testable predictions. We can learn something about the universe from such a theory. On the other hand, most of the interpretations of quantum mechanics are metaphysical theories closer to religion than science. They do not make testable predictions or allow us to learn about the cosmos. They may be interesting thought experiments but they teach us as much about quantum mechanics as debating heaven and hell teach us about death.

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> Basically money, power etc..

None of those, personally. I'm sure that some people have benefited by finding business ideas and opportunities or new jobs but there are other ways to do this and it's hardly a good reason to spend time on HN.

> Also intellectual debate, I get more information, I feel smart as benefits etc. don't count in this context.

The largest benefit for me is being exposed to a mix of interesting ideas and being part of a corner of the internet that's quite a bit more civil. The effects that this has over the long run might be positive but they are also difficult to quantify.

It's okay (and healthy) to do things that can't be assigned a specific monetary value.
The "if" here is incorrect: this is not hypothesis, speculation or belief, this is the actual data from the real world.
I find retrospectives demoralizing. I don't want to reherse what we messed up the last 3 weeks every three weeks we allready know that. The constant pressure to "improve" makes you feel bad even though things are going OK.

Most painpoints are external to our team anyways (otherwise it would have been fixed) so why discuss it sprint after sprint.
I saw remoteStorage years ago and had the impression the idea was nice, but without a bunch of easy to set up hosting providers this won't work.
Legit ways to come up with business ideas (18+)
The learning alone is worth it.
I think very few things in my career have been as formative as this site.

Interesting bug troubleshooting articles, learning about new tech being released, learning about new zero days, seeing people post their work or see new ycombinator companies inspires me. I'm also able to see when AWS is down or Google shuts down one of it's apps before anyone else. All around good stuff.
if the mother is _reading_ Number Theory at post-grad level and the child is any randomer on the internet, then yes, something like that
what's a "column of charge"

It's an analogy, providing a correspondence between a column of fluid and a column of charge (the 'electric fluid').
I think, currently the data is self-hosted.
Any analogy we can build from everyday experience to try to explain quantum mechanics is as incorrect as any analogy a 17th century alchemist could use to explain a smartphone.

The maths is what it is and does what it does, and if you play with things at that scale you can build a new intuition, but it just isn’t like the macroscopic world.
> the excess can be siphoned off to stock owners instead of being reinvested in the school

Yes, but the excess isn’t siphoned away to random people. It’s paid to the investors in exchange for creating the school.
I've had it happen immediately a lot. Ubisoft and jimmyjohns both had issues with it.

I love when people argue that it isn't valid even after you contact support.

Generally a sign I don't want to do business with them.
I grew up going to bad schools, not as bad as the schools are now but nevertheless quite bad. I was assaulted numerous times and robbed (at knife point once, once by a gang of seven) inside the school. My school work was often stolen or destroyed. I was a minority in the school, and me and my friends were often shaken down for protection money. My little brother had human shit smeared on his school locker right in the hallway of the school. The captain of my swim team was stabbed in the chest at a school basketball game and required open heart surgery to survive. There was the constant threat of violence and retaliation for any attempt to report problems to the school.

I feel really bad for the kids going to schools like this. One-third of the kids ruin it for everyone else. They show up, don't do anything and make sure to pull everyone else down by being as disruptive as possible. They threaten the teachers and the other students. They destroy school property. They treat school as a place to hang out with others that simply prey on the physically weaker kids. This all happens right under the disinterested teachers noses. The most violent, the most criminal elements end up controlling the environment of the school.

As a child, I didn't realize that this was unusual. I just believed that this Lord of the Flies style environment was what everyone was going through in school. My parents had grown up on farms and didn't understand what an urban school was like and so were of no help.

I learned very little in these schools. What I did learn though was not to be on the streets after school let out. It was a rough neighborhood, and it was simply not safe walking home after school. Fortunately, there was a large, safe, well supplied public library very close to the school. I would hang out there reading after school until dinner time, and then when the gangs had thinned out I would make my way home.

One thing saved me from this hell, books. At the library, seeking refuge from the thugs out on the street, I started reading and developed a love of learning on my own. I read every science and math book I could and decades of science periodicals, I asked my father to buy me paper so I could work on my diagrams and drawings of my ideas and "inventions" at home. Ultimately, I escaped Detroit, I went to MIT, and now I live a great life.

For whatever reason, not everyone has an aptitude for learning math and science on their own, but these kids could be helped if the schools worked. I don't know the solution, but many of the schools in these urban school districts don't work, the schools should be torn down, and everyone that works at these schools should be fired. It is an American tragedy and something needs to be done.
Apple has a series of free Books "Everybody can be creative". One of them is called "Everybody can be creative - Drawing". It has some interesting projects to get started with the Apple Pencil, (which you already own, you said). Get it from Apple Books
I only started my "technical blog" (heavy quote marks here) after four years of posting comments on HN.
> but the prize is: your deep net, instead of being an approximation of a function from Rn to Rp, becomes an approximation of something that can transform a function into another function.

Won't it be more like an approximation of a process instead of an approximation of a function? (I mean better described as that)
OpenStreetMap Queries
'Failing up': Why some climb the ladder despite mediocrity
One more question , I am more concern about database design also, e.g. Table designs and its relationship , data model like scalable
DB Design like , when we grow our features/Buisness DB should not be big barrier
At lower pixel or subpixel brightness OLED is still terribly affected by PWM strobing. Turn/move your head and you can see the on-off-on-off steps required for dimmer scenes or dark portions of a scene.
Applying with a LinkedIn profile is a mistake
Are those sources or collectors pieces?

We've got a lot of old books purchased second hand because historians tend to like old books, but none of them are primary sources used for research. All of the primary sources are coming directly from archives or inter-library-loans.
Yes. You need to understand both the material and the industrial production methods. The criticism was that Bauhaus only taught the former.
Big Tech Getting 15 Percent Discount to Hire Foreign Workers over Americans
> or met any wives on this site

The wife has negative ROI anyway. If she isn't getting me more money, a new job or another wife, there is no tangible benefit.

Also feelings, life satisfaction, love as benefits etc. don't count in this context.
hard to make in mass production? I think Ikea doesn't agree with that (i think Ikea designs are often inspired by Bauhaus, at least that is what they say here: https://injarch.com/archives/9326 )
Yes you're absolutely right that Bauhaus as a school was technical and a continuation of the Arts & Craft education. As you say though, their technical knowledge was around craftsmanship, and not in design for manufacturing (like we would refer to now).

The key example referred in the article is on a metal-working course taught by Moholy-Nagy. Students would handmade prototypes based on assumptions of what would be easier to mass-manufacture (like using basic shapes such as cylinders of spheres). But in fact products with those shapes were actually hard to make industrially.
Ah, so a 50+ years campaign? Yup, that can work if you can have a government with enough attention span.

Edit: don't get me wrong, _not_ doing that for children is evil. But, the results thus far do speak for themselves... And uncle Bob will not take being sent back to middle school all that well.
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PC-MOS/386 is FOSS now, but nobody seems to be interested.

https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501

TBH it was a 2nd string product in its prime, IME. DR's Concurrent DOS/386 was the premium offering. I supported it in the late 1980s.

This was around the time that a LAN of cheap PC-XT clones was becoming price-competitive with a big high-power 80386DX machine with lots of RAM and a bunch of dumb terminals on a multiport serial card.

The terminal vendors and multiuser OS vendors fought back with colour terminals and then graphical terminals. CDOS386 supported these. The basic PC design supported 4 RS-232 ports, so you could have an 8MB 386DX with one user on the system console and four users on dumb terminals, all of them able to run even quite demanding DOS apps including fancy stuff like graphical print-preview or a spreadsheet that could draw graphs.

The snag was that CDOS386 was not a DOS; it was a descendant of Concurrent CP/M. It ran DOS apps but could not use DOS drivers – it needed its own. So adding hardware was not a trivial exercise. Kit had to be chosen from short hardware compatibility list (and was therefore expensive) and drivers supplied as object files relinked with the kernel. It was not as simple as modifying CONFIG.SYS and rebooting – PC/MS-DOS sysadmin skills did not transfer over.

And it couldn't usefully run Windows. So as soon as Windows 3 came out in 1990 and the market started to move to Windows and Windows apps, that was largely it for Concurrent DOS, PC-MOS etc.

When DR was bought out by Novell, several forks of the codebase were continued for a while by OEM licencees, and it gained support for FAT32, USB and so on.

A branch of the CDOS codebase is still just about alive though. DR did a 286 version, but were screwed over by Intel. CDOS286 used a feature of prototype 80286 chips to multitask DOS apps, but this was removed in the final shipping CPU hardware. (Intel did not know and put it back but it was too late.)

DR just took the OS in a different direction and sold it as a multitasking real-time OS instead, downplaying DOS compatibility. It bundled a multitasking version of its GEM desktop, too, so it was a multitasking GUI RTOS, called DR-FlexOS.

This found a niche in electronic point-of-sale systems: EPOS, i.e. smart cash registers built around x86 PCs. It was later acquired by IBM who rebranded it as IBM 4680 OS, later IBM 4690 OS. (What a knack for snappy names Big Blue has!)

IBM discontinued it just a few years ago, but it is still sold by Toshiba.
God finally answers the prayers of a dude but says to him: “I will grant you three wishes but will give your neighbor twice what you receive”. “Alright”, man says, “I want a big house”. “Sure”, God replies, “the neighbor will get a house twice as large”. “I want five chests full of gold money”. “Done, the neighbor gets ten of them”. Man says, “Now, pluck out one of my eyes”.
RVK Newscast #78: More Than 10k Earthquakes over the Last Days
Marketing/ETH pumping like the bitcoin pizza story. NFTs will be nearly useless unless they become integrated with real systems; legal system, ticking systems, royalty payment systems, DRM systems (this token allows you to download to such-and-such MP3) Buying NFTs for huge sums might move the needle on such projects.
a) This comment seems antithetical to the post, by immediately jumping to the "How?" without ever stopping at the "Why?"

b) Video/Streaming is not for everyone. I prefer my technical discussions in text, with a few well chosen illustrations. There's nothing that makes my heart sink more than hearing "well, if you just watch this rambling, 2 hour stream of consciousness explanation, it will all become clear to you" (Worst of all, there are companies now doing this in lieu of manuals).
> “And if you think about what you are working on as you do you will occasionally find legitimately useful gems.”

This for me. I’m greatly satisfied when a problem I’m working is also a topic oh HN—even obliquely.

Otherwise, the question seems to put the cart before the horse—power, wealth.. these are positive side-effects of a life of engaged curiosity within a professional domain and good decisions, right place;right time, and luck. Not lighting in a bottle.
I don't know of a specific example, but Lisps have a pretty long tradition of coming with architecture specific assemblers. I'm sure there are many CL implementations that can target ARM.

The problem is any sizable Lisp needs quite a lot of stuff available at runtime. A trivial program would still likely[0] be a sizable blob with a memory penalty.

If anything, I'd say Clojure (cljs especially) actually bypasses this problem by leveraging a platform's privileged language. Purely theoretically, there's no reason why you couldn't have a mobile device built around CL. But if you want to target what's already out there, a parasitic design works much better.

Also, on the popularity front I guess it's a bit of a glass half full situation. Compared to other Lisps, Clojure is no doubt dominating. Among what I'd call "alternative languages" it's a tough call.

[0] Have to mention there's a lot of diversity in CL implementations so this is certainly not universally true. But I would assume this is true for something that has all the conveniences you'd want.
I guess that's cool but like you said, not at the same time, so it fails.
Question then is: why does scaling up from quantum become like the macroscopic world?

Just as scaling up from bits and NAND gates can become like virtual reality.
Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal
> That way, website will be pushed to remove the tracking elements so that they can remove the offending banners.

Don't they currently have the same incentive? (And mostly don't act on it.)
Building Production-Ready REST APIs in Go – Course Now Live
Quanta magazine always has clickbait-y titles, you can tell when a Quanta article reaches the front page without even looking at the source URL. Do they seem more popular recently to anyone else, or am I just starting to notice it now?
New website theme for open source PDF editor
Circonus Opensources Its Powerful, Patented Histogram Technology
The code is definitely not open source ready and it depends on a lot of custom infra (I've hacked it up in one weekend).
You can always download PDFs without logging in and automate the upload yourself if you want.
I'm making an online store builder with local shipping and payment solutions most used in my country.
My personal favourites for humans are HCLv2 and its close cousin UCL (from FreeBSD).

HCL suffers from only having a reasonable implementation in Go, however.
Agreed. I'd say the link should be to https://docs.toit.io/, which at least attempts to answer the question "why does this language exist?" (the most important question).
Original title "Circonus Contributes its Powerful, Patented Histogram Technology to the Open Source Community" (was a few characters too long).

"Major contribution creates vendor-neutral industry standard for the interoperability, mergeability, and seamless analysis of histogram telemetry"

"Histograms are a data structure that allows users to model the distribution of a set of samples – for example, the age of every human on earth. But instead of storing each sample as its own record, they are grouped together in “buckets” or “bins” which allows for significant data compression and thus superior economics. This compression of data allows for extraordinary metric transmission and ingestion rates, high frequency, real-time analytics, and economical long-term storage. Histograms are also particularly useful in handling the breadth and depth of metric data produced by container technologies such as Kubernetes.

The key to solving the interoperability and mergeability challenges of histograms is in the definition of the bin sizes or “boundaries.” Without standard bin sizes, there is no way to merge histograms together without introducing significant error that carries into the subsequent analysis of the data."

https://openhistogram.io/

https://github.com/circonus-labs/libcircllhist
In principle it is possible, but there would be some limitations:

1. Postgresql supports indexing to make regex searches faster from v9.3 (the current version is 13): https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/pgtrgm.html . However, it makes them faster only in some (simpler) cases, in others we are back to plain old full table scan.

2. Speaking of full table scan, it is not that bad of an option, the average list of file paths for a torrent file is approximately 6 KB, that's 300 GB per 50 mln torrents, that's completely within reach of some VPS providers (like BuyVM). Still, up to a few minutes per one pass.

3. So, unless I find some efficient technology for regex search in large volumes of text, I would be able to implement only "offline" search (submit query, receive link to search results in 5-30 minutes, depending on server load).

4. Another option would be to provide listings of files for downloading as csv files (torrent_id, filepath) and let user to use command line for searching (or some text viewer/editor, though most popular ones still load all contents into ram). Compressed size would be around 1 KB per one torrent file, that's near 50 GB per 50m torrents.
Hulu also allows you to type a short character sequence from a website instead of using a password.
This is infuriating. Then you need to go through a password reset to be able to recover the account and some websites don't even bother to tell you how many characters you're allowed to enter in the password field, leading to a whack-a-mole type of situation where you reset password -> check with a lower number of characters -> issues -> reset again and rinse and repeat.
The Linux kernel doesn't rely on the filesystem for swap files insuring no more overheard than swap partitions. It bypasses the filesystem and is told what blocks it can use, that's why some filesystems do not support swapfiles as there is additional plumbing to be done.
Yep, it's basically the same thing. I've done it because it's chrome only, and there's no way to send articles from mobile.
Why Does Typography Matter?
What about a rogue datacenter technician that plugs usb devices into a few servers? Or a wiring contractor that installs a pcie card on your servers while they're conveniently powered off during the weekend while they upgrade something?
Sure, the $5 wrench attack makes sense to steal data from an individual's laptop, but keeping undetected persistent access to some servers/networks is, in many cases, much more valuable than a one-time data dump.
Whenever SICM comes up here on HN it receives a lot of admiration. One thought that a lot of people have is whether there would be advantages in trying to do something like that in a statically typed language. Have you thought about types and SICMUtils?
Dwelling on Roads Not Taken Can Create Bumps at Work
Thanks for the feedback!

I think most of the unique points are mentioned on the landing page in the "What's different about userTrack?" section.

The main gist is that userTrack is primary self-hosted, so the product's goal is aligned with the customer's goal. A platform like Matomo for example, earns money by providing a cloud solution, which means that anyone who chooses to self-host instead of using their service will reduce their revenue. This also leads to them making it harder to install and maintain the self-hosted version and they also provide some features only for the cloud plan (session recordings, heatmaps). Most of the other open-source analytics platforms that you might be referring to are pretty simple and usually only provide basic visitor stats.

tl;dr: ease of installation, automatic updates, human support, highly performant/well optimized, unique interface and features, very affordable compared to alternatives with similar features, bootstrapped.

Apart from this I am also trying to promote self-hosting as much as possible, thus I am continuously looking for and promoting different ways to reduce 3rd party dependencies and making it easier to do so.