skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
he was criticizing the idea of pull requests. You could spend a lot of time adding code and submit a pull request and the maintainer of the project gets to decide whether they want your code or not. If they don’t, then you just wasted all your time.
Starship isn’t too far away,
IIRC, in your thesis, the method of approximating Euler spirals is exact at the midpoint and has errors at the end.

Say if instead, one wanted the reverse - an Euler spiral approximation that was exact at the endpoints and was allowed errors in the middle. Do you have any idea of the best method to achieve that?

(So to make it concrete, if one had end points and end tangents that were compatible with fitting a spiral, which should define a unique Euler spiral segment. Let's say it's parameterized by turning angle rather than length.)
In the current environment, it's cheaper to borrow and buy to sell.
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Jd/Overview

Jd only packs int vectors, though. So if you're hoping for string compression then I don't know of any free solution. Jd heavily leverages SIMD and mmap. Larger-than RAM columns can be easily processed by ftable. I use Jd for data wrangling before making models in R. Of course, the J language is not for the faint of heart but it's really well-suited to the task.
Commerical flying should not be equated to amateur driving. Amatuer flying does not require a second person or many other safety requirements. Commerical driving does have higher standards on number of hours , certifications etc

Lack of adequate recurring certifications or poor standards does not absolve the driver of his responsibily towards himself and more importantly to others on and near the road, same as the pilot , inadequate oversight is not an excuse.

driving a 2+ton vehicle that at the typical speeds can be fatal or cause major injury you are responsible period. Same for any other equipment or a pet
I hope the same doesn't happen to NetBSD noticeably but also the other BSDs in general.
FYI open cv has gradient based image alignment built in, findTransformECC.

https://docs.opencv.org/3.4/dc/d6b/group__video__track.html#...
Stimulus Bill Transforms Options for State and Local Governments
I was designed to have an error under 40m. I don't what it accomplished.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/heres-an-example-of-...
How could we not know? Our own light would hurdle towards the singularity, let alone our mass.
Yes, but you didn't read the article.

> Now, you can still make an argument that the T cell component of immunity might provide some protection after a previous coronavirus infection. The current study didn’t address this directly, but after these results, it’s at least less likely that that’s happening. The authors make a note of this, and also note that pre-existing mucosal antibodies might exert a protective effect (which this study didn’t examine, either). But prior circulating human coronavirus antibodies, even ones that can bind to the current one – those it looks like we can rule out. Which is too bad.

It's interesting that your comment omitted:

> The current study didn’t address this directly, but after these results, it’s at least less likely that that’s happening.

Why is that?
For one shining moment, while the world burned, my life sort of worked because people were willing to let me take a wide berth around them without them glaring at me like I was some evil, hateful bitch for not wanting to be coughed on.

I don't want the pandemic to persist, but I desperately hope that the end of the pandemic doesn't have such a negative impact on my life as an individual with a compromised immune system as to make me wish it would come back.

I don't think that's an unreasonable thing to hope for, though I'm aware I may well not get it. I long ago got the memo that it's a shitty world full of shitty people and, no, this shitty world doesn't give a damn at all about my welfare or what I want. The world has been not at all shy about letting me know that.
You can dump all the money in the world into a project, but if there is zero ownership among those involved, including top leadership, then that money simply goes to waste.
Can anybody tell me why anyone would want to join a non-eng team?
Just curious - what do you use airtable for exactly?

When do you need a structured database with many collaborators?

Airtable and the like strike me as a database tool for dummies who want 'anyone change anything anytime', which is just a recipe for no one knowing who the hell is changing what and when anymore.
I don't like Chomsky in his main area of expertise of Linguistics. My post-grad work was in NLP, embedded within a linguistics department, and requiring a heavy background in formal linguistics. A fair number of faculty, while appreciative of his contributions to the field, held him in low regard because he & some of his main "acolytes" systematically worked to block any researchers in the U.S. working on ideas that ran counter to his own. Meaning more than a generation or more of advancement has stagnated in the US. Advancement in syntactic theory (his main contribution to linguistics) has tended to come from outside the US.

It's possible this has changed somewhat since my formal education, but it was the status quo for quite some time.
I think you have the chain of causality wrong.

The Ethereum network is congested because it has users. Ethereum has the critical mass and first mover advantage.

The clones need to be sufficiently attractive (10x ?) to break that hold, it's not a technical problem but an economic, marketing and educational one.

Scarcity is unrelated to network congestion or usage.
Because it's perceived as fast because users have been reading articles about how much faster the devs have made it (as in TFA).

If you can consistently put out these articles to prime your users, and have you software still perform at the same speed as your competition, then either the devs aren't doing much at all, or marketing is more full of it than usual.
I'm not a Foucault fan, and I used to hold the same opinion as you. But now I realise the exchange was, as you say, a "waste of time".

Chomsky doesn't seem to have read up on the issues Foucault is talking about, and he admits as much in an interview on the topic, about how he was surprised that he could not find /any/ common ground from which to build a conversation with Foucault.

This is more of a failure of communication on the part of French intellectuals, who use verbose language helps keep their radical tradition so insular.

So... it's what you would expect an exchange between the analytic and continental philosophers to be like. Chomsky takes the enlightenment humanism tradition for granted, and assumes he can find common ground with Foucault there, but Foucault had been working in a tradition where the humanism vs anti-humanism debate (e.g. Althusser) was front and center.

In fact, Foucault himself was on the anti-humanist side. (anti-humanism doesn't mean "evil", it's just an unfortunate
tongue-in-cheek terminology). What you end up with is Foucault trying his best to introduce Chomsky to the basics of a core part of the French intellectual tradition, more-or-less unsuccessfully.

What the debate highlights is the extent of the divide between continental philosophy and analytical philosophy. It doesn't make new ground.
Because viral theory is unproven and likely wrong. Much more likely that illness is the result of stress & conflict.
Name a topic...
What specifically are you thinking of?

The non-const global variables stand out to me, but I'm not experienced enough tell whether that would make a large difference.
Politics is an INTEGRAL part of organisations.

It has widely been studying in all social sciences and particularly in management.

Try to read books or articles of J. March or K. Weick or H. Simon ( I'm a talking about scholar with more than 300.000 citations each: they are the foundation of all social sciences) in their manuscript they talk about politics in organisation.

We study these in Management PhDs.

Enjoy
"bean-counter MBAs" holders:

Tim Cook — CEO, Apple

Satya Nadella — CEO, Microsoft

Sundar Pichai — CEO, Google & Alphabet

Katrina Lake — founder & CEO, Stitch Fix

Stacy Brown-Philpot — CEO, TaskRabbit

Jeremy Stoppelman — cofounder & CEO, Yelp

Tony Xu — cofounder & CEO, DoorDash

Jack Ma — cofounder & CEO, Alibaba

Susan Wojcicki — CEO, YouTube
> It really breaks the tidyverse

You may want to look at tidyfst.

> Are the programmers of data.table just that much better?

Pixie dust, R's C API (and yes, they're just exceptionally good).
Back to normal except for any unrestricted travel in or out of the country. Isn’t there a massive backlog of Australian citizens who have yet to be able to return?
Yes, my bad, I was referring to WiredTiger (still the same folks).
Rebekah Jones Tried to Warn Us About Covid-19. Now Her Freedom Is on the Line
Well this probably would have been over my head when I was looking for it (it still is now), but I have a much better ability to take it in after a few months learning how to generate curves for a personal art project (link in profile).

I cheated with SVG filters to get something like the effect I wanted but I’ll definitely be revisiting this to refine it.

Thank you for sharing!
New Zealand is an island nation, which gives it a pretty significant advantage when it comes to controlling pandemics.
Always interesting when a 'Rabbi' that supports an apartheid state feels like he has the standing to lecture POC about how they should perceive their lived experiences... No thanks.
Just for speculating in my case
> "What's the right length of time to hold a door open for someone?"

Such a simple yet thought provoking question.
Dying is 1 in 10,000. But about 10% of people who get coronavirus have some problems for months thereafter.[1] This is not well understood. "More than a third of them hadn’t returned to their usual state of health 2 to 3 weeks after testing positive. The older the patients, the more likely they were to say they their pre–COVID-19 health hadn’t come back. But even a quarter of the youngest, those aged 18 to 34 years, said they had not yet regained their health."

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2771111
It is extremely unlikely that there is any DNA left to extract.

DNA's half life is a little more than 500 years. [0] Any reference to DNA fragments from millions of years ago should be held with a lot of scepticism.

We're unlikely to ever see a Jurassic Park style approach.

[0] https://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.1...
I was looking at this the other day to learn OS stuff. Too bad, as it seems like a very nice design.

Does anyone have any OS course / book recommendations?

I've worked my way through the excellent MIT course on xv6 [0], but I'm not sure what to work on next. Something related to Linux or one of the BSDs would be nice to see how things are done in the real world.

I cannot recommend this MIT course enough for those getting started. The projects are set up in a very nice way (i.e. if you can't complete one tricky assignment, you don't need it as a prereq for later ones) and the code is very simple. They've also gone to great lengths to set it up in a simple way (e.g. using cross-compilation for RISCV on qemu). It's also a great experience to really understand OS, as you'll make mistakes that will leave you scratching your head until you realize you messed up your page table and yeeted your kernel stack out of your address space.

[0] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2020/index.html
One of the DuckDB authors here. Can you open an issue wrt the import problem? Should not happen. Try setting a database file and a memory limit.
Probably because they're mobile and disconnected most if the time, so they don't have to advertise your availability status periodically. In the 2000s they mostly advertised that the user was away from the terminal. Nowadays one has the terminal in their pocket. Some of the old IM systems have a mobile status now. The busy status was ignored successfully then as it is now.
I think a lot of new cars come with it. Both of ours did, and it wasn't something we looked for.
Fantastic article from the man, the myth, the legend. He is a billionaire and wanted by the law, but supposedly he may turn himself in soon https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-03/bitmex-s-...

Article is superb. Explains very clearly the bull case for crypto and the macro environment we live in caused by the money printers. I agree that we are headed for an extreme outcome from all of this “free” money. Hold onto your butts!
> Why is this happening in the SasS world??? Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between?

The in-between for some software out there is "Guest access". Services like Notion, Miro and Mural have this figured out, but it is very disappointing that most do not.
> some experts predict that we will see more deaths this year as we attempt to resume normal societal activities while SARS-COV-2 continues to circulate.

Some 35 million Americans - heavily weighted towards the most vulnerable - are fully vaccinated. Unless something wild happens with variants, I think these experts are being overly negative.
systemd-oomd wasn't even developed by Lennart, Anita Zhang of Facebook contributed it.

Try understanding a bit more than just the name's prefix before getting so bent out of shape.
You can quote a million papers from your cursory Google Books search, it’s still poor English in addition to being vague and essentially meaningless in most contexts. In nearly every instance it can be replaced with “good” or just dropped altogether with no loss of information, appeals to authority notwithstanding. I’ve rarely regretted judging someone’s intelligence based on their use of “performant,” it has a surprisingly high SNR.
Show HN: Move your mouse automatically, never go idle on slack
To bad that simply isn't realistic when accounting for hundreds of millions of people. Not to mention the whole "freedom" thing.

Quit virtue signaling using conjecture and bogus stats (i.e. my way would have saved everyone!).
Not a single screenshot
What website did you used to find these good B list companies?
Extrapolating the objection a la “this tool is too advanced!” to AI-generated art is a curious thought exercise.

Yes, that art might be created by a black box unconscious neural network, but there’re still minds who: developed algorithms, had a vision of an art project, put together training datasets, set up the software, filtered output, and finally published the resulting art in some context (or set up a publication pipeline).

This further prompts an exercise in how a single human artist in some ways can be described as a neural network—that takes external reality as input, runs it through some layers (the lens of one’s mind) and produces art as output—and, similarly, might not always deserve the entirety of the credit: there’s inevitably someone with good taste (a curator, a mentor, a community, etc.) who “set up” the artist, who first recognized artist’s work, who pestered the artist to publish (or dissuaded from publishing work that wasn’t so good), who helped artist get published and gain the confidence to produce more art, and so on.
Genesis 1976.
For all of those, you’re probably looking at 2022. For some - enough that it feels much more like normal than it has in over a year - the middle of summer seems like a safe bet for most of the US.
His father was a pretty wealthy engineer and they certainty were among the richer people in South Africa.

However, his father didn't like him wanting to go to the US so he didn't pay for it. Musk had to work threw university.

Later his father invested some money into Zip2.

> He sells driving assistance technology as "Full Self-Driving". I give him full credit for his genuine achievements but I'm not going to ignore that he is also a con artist.

If you actually buy the car you see an exact description of what the feature does currently, what they think it will do in a couple of months and that you will get updates in order to get full self driving.

The money is not counted as revenue for the company because they have not delivered the features.

See from the website:

Full Self-Driving Capability

$10,000

Navigate on Autopilot
Auto Lane Change
Autopark
Summon
Full Self-Driving Computer
Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control

Coming later this year

Autosteer on city streets

The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions. As these self-driving features evolve, your car will be continuously upgraded through over-the-air software updates.
Even silly me as the CEO couldn't derail behemoths like Google or Apple with their inertia and their insane stashes of cash and assets. The people you listed are not geniuses. People who built them from scratch are. But those people were not MBA's:

- Apple - Wozniak, Jobs

- Google - Page, Brin

- Microsoft - Gates, Allen

HN's sentiment against MBAs is pretty justified. It's typically some non-MBA ingenuity that kick-starts those uber-succefull companies, not the bean counters.
Pass dtype = {"colX":"Int64"} for the columns that you want to read as a Nullable integer type: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/inte...
I think I understand, you're talking about the numerical integration, right? It's probably something of an academic question because you can just set the error to 1e-9 or whatever, and the convergence of that approximation is so good it doesn't slow you down appreciably.

That said, there are other things you can do. Since the derivatives of an Euler spiral are easy enough to compute analytically, you could do Hermite interpolation with a polynomial of arbitrarily high order. I've worked out how to do it for quintic, which is pretty tractable, but I'm sure it could be done even higher. That definitely meets your stated goal (precise at endpoints, sloppy in the middle), but the order of convergence of a quintic is only moderately good compared to the higher order polynomials in spiro.
Rust projects takes longer. If memory safety is not a concern, I'd advice stick to Modern C++.
Triage with Me – 11 Issues
After more than 10 years working as an architect, I recently made the switch and got my first job as a frontend dev at 39. I have always been coding, also during architecture practice (there is a lot of coding going on in architecture!), so that helped. Also, my experience with design and leading teams in as an architect was also a plus. I got into "modern" frontend development about 4 years ago, and have been working on side projects during my free time. That also helped, a lot. So, I'd recommend you start there. Work on personal, side projects, also as a way to see if you really wanna do this.

Worth mentioning: I got a BIG salary cut, as expected. After all, I am starting almost from scratch. But working remotely and having the autonomy is invaluable to me. Glad I switched.
ibus works with Gnome out-of-the-box. On sway/wlroots, you will have more luck with fcitx. I don't know which tool works best with KDE.
What you say is logical when considering things generically, however I’m struggling to remember a decision that Nintendo ever made that was based on what other console makers have done.
Hmm, I thought Linus famously didn't use project infrastructure, no project management, no bug tracker—just emails and patches. Linux hasn't suffered.

I'd wager Minix suffered from its original license (not really open source or "free" software) and Tanenbaum not being an egomaniac like Torvalds (for better or worse).
The device that reverses CO2 emissions
Flutter is no longer a cross-platform framework – it is something more
In the HN echo chamber OO may well be out of fashion but in the job market it's a different story.
I totally hear you. However, i do not see a clear solution to the conundrum that many non-unicorn, non-VC funded small/midsize companies face:

Your company is profitable but has slow organic growth in revenue/profit (single or low double digits). Everybody has more work on the table than is actually doable. To keep up with demand, you can hire sporadically one person in this department one in that... If you're numbers are good, maybe you can hire in the single digits per year.

Since salaries (especially in the tech sector) are rising much faster per year than your growth or inflation for that matter, you must pay much more to the new hires. This creates a salary gap in your team and leaves also less money for yearly salary adjustments for existing employees. Also since I hire only few per year, i cannot offer a meaningful Management career path, nor can i promote every Dev to a architect or principal. After all, to keep the business running, I need devs that do Dev work.

In the current artificially inflated tech market (thanks to easy money), if I job hop i can increase my pay by 20%. However which normal company is able to regularly increase the salaries of all their employees by that percentage and grow head count? Impossible.
But when we elevate from PoW to PoS the whole point is that compute power won't matter anymore. So a more appropriate analogy would be that if 51% of horse carriage drivers wanted that cars shouldn't be able to drive on roads, then cars shouldn't be able to drive on roads.
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Roblox: 'We paid off our parents' mortgage making video games'
I suspect Don Stewart might be able to do it in Haskell.

That's basically by knowing enough about GHC to carefully trigger all the relevant optimizations.
For compute as well? Maybe once ROCm is actually supported by their newest cards, but this two-year lag on compute support does not inspire confidence. Neither Navi nor Big Navi are supported -- the last card with ROCm support is Vega.
Can someone summarise the article please? I'd rather not accept Spiegel's privacy policy
I have this idea I’m rolling around and to make it non-capitalist it does need to be funded in some way.
Assuming this product fulfilled a human need what is the financial paradigm shift (I mean, who pays for anything these days?)?
Now there's a PR up for Rust-based stdenv![0]

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274
"Polars is based on the Rust native implementation Apache Arrow. Arrow can be seen as middleware software for DBMS, query engines and DataFrame libraries. Arrow provides very cache-coherent data structures and proper missing data handling."

This is super cool. Anyone know if Pandas is also planning to adopt Arrow ?
Women and girls with autism are believed to be much better at hiding their social awkwardness and display more socially accepted behaviour. This leads to more anxiety and depression, which makes correct diagnosis even harder.
I dont have an answer to your question but as there are here people with a lot of knowledge will like to add another question:

How do I learn not to over-engineer solutions?

This is the feedback that I received on a couple of homeworks from some non-FAANG companies.

What can I read or what to learn to have this skill of doing simple solutions?
Can you explain what you mean by germ control? Covid is primarily transmitted by sustained exposure to aerosols. Much of the disinfecting we are now doing now is essentially performative.
Thanks for those ideas.
The impossible task of blocking disposable email signups
Would be good to elaborate.
Mostly, because it's easier to program in C# than in C++, and there is not much of a loss of performance (and worth noting that C# has `unsafe` keyword if necessary). In the past Ryujinx did use RyuJIT provided by .NET for JIT, albeit now it's using a custom JIT because RyuJIT was too slow for the way it was used by an emulator.
Buy on local bitcoins for even cheaper transaction fees. You also don't have anyone keeping track of what you bought it at.