skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not saying that the new idea wouldn't be right, but that there could be complexities the outsider would miss. I don't think anyone would disagree. But variables vs rewritten names (for example) would still be the right idea, it's just that the body of existing work hampers agile changes.

The way to deal with this is write the idea down with the blockers and benefits and work to enable it slowly. For instance, forgetting one of the three signatures needed would similarly doom you, so it's not all risk, it's also reward.

Almost any consultant deals with this constantly, in any industry.
Interesting, Dolpin emulates the Wii and Gamecube OS's to some degree, I would assume that would be necessary for the Switch as well. What would that have to do with ARM assembly however?
I hear the most dreaded criminals tend to breath air and a shocking percentage of them are found to be mammals.

Jokes aside, How do you compare an ICO to cash? Its more closer to an IPO process.. if you started allowing listings in the stock market backed solely by 5-6 nice LinkedIn profiles and some 'white-paper' I'm sure the exact same people will list their companies in the stock exchanges as well.. Unlike an IPO, there is no vetting process, there are no mandatory disclosures or oversight.

That is freedom from central control, sure. But, the cost of freedom is the risk that gets loaded on the part of the investors. This gap is wide open for people that are thus inclined to cheat and make a quick buck. I am not berating crypto, but, I have a lot of confidence in criminals going after easy money that doesn't have too many down sides.
> As far as I am aware there has not been any major push at the compiler level to speed up untyped code yet – although there should be plenty of room for improvements – which I suspect would benefit DataFrames greatly.

That's not quite correct. The major `source => fun => dest` API as part of DataFrames.jl was designed specifically to get around the non-typed container problem. And it definitely works. That's not the cause of slow performance.

I think the reason is that, as you mentioned, DataFrames has a big API and a lot of development effort is put towards finalizing the API in preparation for 1.0. After that there will be much more focus on performance.

In particular, some changes to optimize grouping may have recently been merged but didn't make it into the release by the time this test suite was run, as well as multi-threaded operations, which havent been finished yet, should speed things up a lot.

That said, this new Polars library looks seriously impressive. Congrats to the developer.
It's worth noting that the measurement thing is what binds us to entropy's cold embrace in the long run. There's no maxwell's demon type thing that could run indefinitely without eventually having to perform something non-reversable, unless there's some horrible hack we haven't thought of yet.
California is far from a monolith, though. Alameda County, where I live, hasn't been that bad, and has had a strong lockdown policy. Other parts of california have larger populations of anti-maskers. And the California prison system has been a complete disaster, largely because of incompetence and inhumanity in the administration.
OK, I'll bite. How do, "all the cases for the Raspberry have bad design"?

I have one of these Flirc cases: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4553.
It looks fairly nice, acts as a heat sink, so my Pi 4 chugs along fine without having to throttle even when using all cores.
The original plan was that it would be de-orbited aboard the Shuttle and put in a musuem.

I'm not sure what the current plans are, but the last servicing mission installed the Soft Capture Mechanism, and the current understanding is that an uncontrolled re-entry would pose an unacceptable risk to human life. So, it seems like there is still a chance to put it in a musuem.
I started embedded programming with 8 bit PICs and it had to be done in assembly or and limited c compiler. I hated working on microcontroller projects become Arduino came around (got my first one in 2011). With Arduino I could make some really cool stuff and not worry about setting up the the build environment on my machine. Arduino also just works on windows, Linux, and Mac which makes it very appealing to newbies. I love my original Arduino I made some many fun projects.
This is easily solvable. Manufacturers will take out umbrella liability policies to immunize them from lawsuits relating to self-driving failures. In order to price these policies, insurers will perform their own due diligence of the self-driving packages. The armies of lawyers employed by the auto makers will develop a boilerplate legal defense that will make massive lawsuits impractical, and most victims will settle out of court.

Alternately, your own auto liability insurance will include coverage for your car’s automaton, and again it will be priced based on risk. For most people, the premium will be lower than if they drive themselves, as the risk will be lower.
I don’t understand why people think this is true. I use it often with my business and it works great.
I fully believe that "Lyme disease" certainly exists.

I also believe that "Lyme disease" became a medical/medical insurance bucket for "We don't know what's wrong with you, and you're annoying enough that we can't just ignore you, but we don't want to spend any more time or money on you figuring out what is really wrong."
Would you mind pointing me at a resource that explains how J/Jd handle it by comparison?
Like that Mars orbiter that failed because it used imperial and metric units mixed together.

Made in the USA
I have some snake oil to sell you. I promise it’ll save lives and if it doesn’t, then it’ll at least enable me learn to make better snake oil, saving lives in the long run. I promise. It’ll also help me built faster-than-light travel, because I’m certain I’m in the right track for that, I just need to go faster with less red tape.

As if there’s a simple “spend lives now to save more lives later” knob.
If it actually someday achieves adoption as a currency that's used in at least many nations then the total aggregate value would have to be a significant amount larger than gold. I think many people have a very US centric point of view where they sort of take it for granted that their currency is used as a global currency standard for trade and is relatively stable and strong, but this isn't the case for many countries on the planet. So it's not entirely implausible that someday this sort of adoption could occur.

It is of course, still quite a longshot, but then again I thought $10,000 Bitcoin was a longshot and somehow it's at $60,000 now.

If this ever occurred this would likely be something many years off, but my guess is that a lot of the larger institutions moving in see this sort of possible incredible future return so they're putting small amounts in since it's a reasonably good asymmetric bet. Even if you think the actual chance for success is something like 20%, if you believe that if this actually did occur that it would give you 20X or 50X returns then it's still considered a reasonable bet, you'd just bet a small amount of the money you have. And that's pretty much what you're seeing the braver companies do now.
DeepL
Are domain names still important? I say yes, here's why
That’s actually not what made the connection for me. I noticed my son developed much more quickly than his peers and we stomach slept him. Also my friends got much worse sleep than we did, which surely meant so did their babies. My son hated back sleeping. He’d sleep 3 hours at a time versus through the night. So I looked up when forced back sleeping became a thing and it was strongly correlated to when autism exploded. I think there may be a Euro study. Then I read this recently https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/38/eaba0398

And I emailed the authors about my theory and they sent me the voles study. They can’t do a human study for ethical reasons. Maybe they can find a natural study ala Israel and peanut butter puffs but forced back sleeping is prevalent worldwide as it reduces SIDS. We were comfortable stomach sleeping my son with good air circulation because of this study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

Back sleeping may have adverse side effects beyond low sleep quality for baby and parents. Frankly, it’s well established that sleep matters a lot for all brains. It’s not hard to make the leap that reduced sleep quality during important stages of life might matter a lot.
This makes me even more curious about which genius put O and 0 next to each other on the keyboard.
Very interesting article. Got through the first few paragraphs until I got completely lost. This seems like something that should be submitted to an academic journal and OP should be in a research group or academia.
This is a really nice to have detailed write up of a common and vexing problem: how best to combine to curves for (insert your problem here).

A few years ago I faced A good many curve splitting and curve join issues when automatically building topologically complex shapes out of simpler bspline primatives — where things had to conform to various layers of constraints along the way.

Seeing something like this could have been helpful!

Ah, and because I can’t help myself, here is a sketch of the things I was building-together for this bspline generation/optimization extravaganza. Eh hem,

I’ve had much fun in related spaces...

Automatic differentiation of B-splines let’s you optimize (Newton style) Bspline curves and surfaces (and if efficiency matters not, higher dimensional bsplines I suppose).

The solver I made allowed you to compose constraints and objectives on the fly, and it would build and solve the newton system for you.

Then I tried it with interval valued control points. That worked too. Plus you get to use, e.g. Brouwer's fixed point theorem and simpler tests to exclude infeasible portions of the space. That was fun, but it needed help getting started when intervals where big. It needed a constraint solver to narrow the space first.

So I made an interval valued constraint solver based on minikanren, extended to handle interval arithmetic of course.
Worked beautifully.

As a demo I had it randomly sample the design space (to a point or to a finite interval) 1D at a time, let the constraint solver kill off everything made infeasible by that choice in the other design dimensions, and then sample the next design parameter. Carrying that through the design spec arrived at a random design quickly. Then the newton solver took over and generated the geometry. At that point I realized I didn’t need the interval Newton solver for my problem... the interval constraint solver was good enough and then the real valued Newton solver could finish the job.

(Of course it could also tile the space entirely, but I’d need some fancy compute to get something back for a real problem.)

Lots of fun anyway! I still think i should make something of it, as soon as I have time... ah well
Good point, but it raises the issue of checklists. If this area is too dangerous to tweak, how do you take care to avoid manual versions of these mistakes? Is there a step to search for words in the wrong case?

Usually you'll find that the new idea is good, in some contexts, but that exploring it surfaces new requirements and existing ones that were poorly understood. Usually there are things that aren't being done correctly now, that when documented and planned for, change the equation.

But the big benefit of outsiders isn't their ideas (though it often is), it's their ability to help cut through the insider problems. Usually insiders know what to do but are hampered by not only the difficulties, but the politics. Someone who doesn't know the conflicts can say that the emperor is naked, that doesn't magically clothe him but allows the tailor's who've been calling it out already to actually be heard and then the problem can actually be corrected.
> I didn’t get MB for self driving capability.

I wasn't referring to "self driving" capabilities. I was mainly referencing DISTRONIC PLUS®, Lane keeping assist(LKAS), Automatic emergency braking (AEB) and collision avoidance.

We owned 2 MB sedans and an SUV and all had the same issues.

> I got Mercedes because when there’s a serious accident, I have a very low risk of death

I definitely get where you're coming from. There just isn't enough data available for Tesla yet from the IIHS. At least from their latest report dated May 28, 2020. I hope it comes out soon.

What I do know is that the Tesla Model 3 scored high (if not the highest) marks as tested by multiple orgs such as NHTSA [1], Euro NCAP [2,3], IIHS [4].

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2020/TESLA/MODEL%2525203/4%252...

[2] https://youtu.be/z3cqj5AAP5I?t=27

[3] https://www.euroncap.com/en/press-media/press-releases/euro-...

[4] https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/tesla/model-3-4-door-se...

The Tesla Model X was also "The First SUV To Receive A Perfect Crash Test Rating"

https://mashable.com/2017/06/13/tesla-model-x-safety-rating/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hnctrWc_g4
We'll see if CentOS replacement projects survive. If they do, these changes aren't necessarily as awesome as author thinks.

While the new approach looks good (benefits mentioned in the article), you are eternally on an unstable distro. Not everyone likes that. CentOS replacements would benefit from both CentOS Stream and RHEL, while CentOS Stream would get benefits, but also more issues related to it being a "Fedora for RHEL".

The improvements also don't mean Red Hat had to pull the rug under CentOS 7 and all its users. For that reason alone I'd ignore CentOS Stream but last time I installed CentOS because I choose to use it was more than a decade ago so I can't claim to be a user of that distribution or falsely claim that I'm going to switch to something else.
>I think inflation is definitely higher than reported.

I don't, and it's pretty straightforward why. You can argue about how high inflation was over the past year and about technical details. But if you think it's significantly and systematically off and has been for a long time, then it would compound and make a big difference.

Back when my sense of "normal" prices was established, a pound of spaghetti was a dollar. The official total amount of inflation in the last twenty years was a little over 50% or a little over 2% a year. I'm confident the official figures are in the ballpark, because if inflation had really been say 5%, then spaghetti would be twice the price it is.

Car prices are also a useful benchmark. A Honda Civic EX is a pretty standard unit of transportation. In 2001, it was $17350, and in 2021, $25495. That's an increase of about 47% vs. official CPI went up about 50%. And notice that we're not accounting for any sort of improvement in the product, such as all the safety equipment, more horsepower, etc. So you can't complain about "hedonic" adjustments.

A funny thing on the Wikipedia page on Shadowstats is:

"Shadowstats has not changed its $175 per year subscription fee since at least 2006"

If there's so much inflation, how come the price of reading about it hasn't gone up?
Coffeeshops here in NL only accept either cash or plastic.
There are 3+ Billion of Android Smartphone alone, and that is excluding the Tablet, SmartTV, Server, and other gadget making the number much closer to 4 Billion.

Intel's number wouldn't even be half of that.
I don't expect them to ever work properly. Basically, if you care about good Wayland user experience and proper desktop integration, you should be using AMD or Intel GPU already.

Waiting for Nvidia to fix this mess is pointless. Nvidia will be DOA as long as they refuse to upstream their driver or to support Nouveau to begin with. And they didn't show any interest for years.
Previous discussion from 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26403857
Ah, but the land is a fixed cost.

Although I see it was built on land without discussion with the landowner.
Some of us are graduated in Laws and have Master/PhD in computational forensics, language interpretation

Simply getting the context of some words make a whole difference. And that just to extract the verdict.

Language and humans can do many things that, sometimes, go long away from logic...
I noticed this in your job listing:

> Challenge: Potential candidates will be asked to do a coding challange by picking up a small issue from the open source backlog

The candidates who are fixing the issues, get paid? If so, I think this should be clarified.

Also, there is a typo in the word `challange` should be `challenge`
> You’re paying into a pool for the neediest to use.

Yes, that's the definition of insurance. Insurance company takes money from everyone (say, for car insurance) but only pays out to a few (those who crash their car).

As any insurance broker will happily tell you, the smaller the pool of people you belong to, the higher the premiums because they can't spread the risk as wide. Thus, a 100K+ employee company can buy health insurance for their employees at a better rate than a 4 person startup.

The optimal group size for an insurance pool is: everyone in the whole country.
Maximum pool size, risk is spread as widely as possible, cost is minimized.
I wish thise links would work in the mobile HN app.
Still waiting for KWin to support adaptive sync and then I'll be switching to the Wayland session.
If you want to pass the interview, get an adderall script. You will crush leetcode.
Maybe I'm just too indoctrinated by reddit at this point, but someone would really have to give me a lot of real world evidence counter to not only the examples where UBI and other programs targeted towards the poor have benefited the economy. But even just to counter the pretty basic logic that more productive members of society helps the economy, and more money in the hands of people spending money, not hoarding money, means a better economy.
Repealing Section 230 won’t do what anyone wants
A nice API might be all that you need. That and maybe something like https://lowdefy.com to easily put a UI in front of it.
So basically be like Crystal [1]?

[1] https://crystal-lang.org/
You may be interested in https://sandstorm.io/
And their shitty build quality. Even a model x has the fit and finish of a cheap Korean car from 10 years ago
I don't see people going out of their way either. I know it's not explicitly stated, but there's a bit of a subtext of getting something for nothing in these articles about turning laptop screens into monitors. I can see the appeal of $50 + something you already own becomes a small high DPI monitor. For me personally, and for what I assume is the majority of the contributors to HN, I see the computers in front of me as a distributed system, each with different capabilities. To dumb it down to two or three screens attached to one computer is a downgrade from the cross-platform multi-screen environment I can build if each of these screens is attached to its own computer.
I am not sure what this does. You enter a repository (e.g. https://stargazersmap.com/#facebook/react) and it shows some grouped (by count) map results. What exactly am I seeing? There was no visible explanation/about page. Is this a map of where all the people who starred the repo came from? How would you know their locations?
I believe with the 470 driver series that's coming out soon things are looking a lot better[1][2].

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-4...

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-4...
Moral Mazes:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/45mNHCMaZgsvfDXbw/quotes-fro...
What is the point of doing all that? Like what value do you get from knowing the 'Dark Patterns' ?
Everyone has character flaws. Not everyone has musk level character flaws. People who think he’s a dick (people like me) are louder about it that about other things in reaction to people who want to overlook those flaws and worship the guy as Mars Jesus.

If you think the only motivations are envy/political/ideological, you are just underestimating the number of people who don’t think like you.
Completely agreed. I see too many people jumping on the "Capitalism is the root of all evil" bandwagon too easily without critical thought. Like you, I see our current problems arising due to the usual historical culprits of corruption and shifting balance of power within a system of government. All systems of government are subject to these forces and while it's true our current system is clogged with crap, it's not capitalism we should be blaming.
The only winning move is not to play. Fight for liberation.
Why? In more recent times in America, the New Amsterdam colony prohibited adulterous sex with heathens.
Stop the comparison to planes just because it's named autopilot in both cases.

There are always 2 highly trained professionals in a cockpit and both are familiar with emergency situations because they regularly train for it. They are in constant contact with ATC that keeps other planes far away from them. In case of a crash or even a deviation there are entire agencies all over it with sometimes international investigators present. All communication is recorded.

A driver is not only alone, they can have very poor skills in general which were last tested 40 years ago. They are on the road with dozens of vehicles around them, tightly packed and often separated by less than a vehicle width between them. If a crash occured there may be a few police officers present that pick up the pieces and fill out forms to satisfy the insurance.
Thanks LOL

I'm using the Materialistic app since a long time, that I totally forgot about that.
Yes the former is exactly what I mean. I've reread my comment and definitely see how it could be misconstrued. I didn't mean to cause confusion, but it was just the shortest way to express that idea.
Thanks for the reference. I had a quick look now, and I wish I knew about this when I wrote my thesis. For the most part, it seems to cover the standard spline literature (Farin, de Boor, etc), though it goes into more detail than usual about the nonlinear splines.

I didn't find anything in the book about this curve fitting problem specifically, though it's possible I missed it.
I've been having trouble finding the answer to this. How close to it's intended target did it land?

Thanks
Not sure, why you attack him with such malice. I don’t agree with Chomsky in a lot of topics, still I believe he’s one of the large, great intellectuals of our time.
Listen to his sentences when he talks ... I would have a hard time writing so eloquently (and he just speaks them).

By the way, I assume you mean “Language” not “langue”, or did you want to refer to the social consensus on how signs are applied. The later is not so much Chomsky but de Saussure. Chomsky started in the 60s with Competence/Performance ...

Language is hard :) I know and Chomsky contributed a lot in understanding it better, even though he didn’t reach you it seems.
I see now that I was too terse with my initial comment. Cedarfjard explained it well.

> there are people who think that the costs could be less under such a system, and thus that a change would end up ”costing nothing” as contrasted with ”costs going up compared to the current system”
They work in the one I use: “Octal” for iOS
An interesting side point is that the graph optimization approach used here is somewhat similar to modern graph-based visual SLAM

The graph in the article can be seen as a factor graph. VSLAM systems usually have a (kind of bipartite) factor graph with vertices/variables that are either keyframes or ‘good’ features, with edges/factors between features and the frames that see them and between adjacent frames; each of these edges are the factors in the graph. This structure results in very large but sparse graphs, and there are factor graph optimization libraries that take advantage of this sparsity (e.g. g2o or GTSAM.) These libraries also use specialized optimization techniques for some of the nonlinear manifolds (e.g. SO(3)) that arise in SLAM problems.