skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, first addressing the common complaints:

- Yeah, DAWs suck, poor example, let's ignore this.

- The title is probably not very well chosen, as some other commenters highlighted by focusing a lot on creativity on itself. The actual piece seems to try to focus more on making computers better platforms for the practice of creativity, not so much about the creative limits of computers on themselves.

- This is a technical crowd, and the piece is more about "what would be nice", so no point bothering that much on technical issues.

I actually agree with the main point, but indeed, just saying "what would be nice" is not that helpful. For the point on standarization, I think a better, more technical and actionable framing, would be to try to port the concept of type safety from languages to specs and APIs. While there's some kind of informal consensus on the main types that are used everywhere, if we could (yeah, this is a massive leap, but I'm only trying to illustrate the idea) pass "specs" into functions in type-safe languages, just like we can pass complex functions as parameters in many modern languages, and we could automatize to some degree compliance and testing, that would be awesome. So, not so much about standarization, but about a new abstraction level, making the interoperability of computational systems type safe. I think about something as common as urls, and I tell to myself: this is such an unsafe mess. Even if a spec is technically well defined, translating that into code is too much.

The other general point, moldability, might be better expressed as "accessibility". Making systems more accessible to users. But I think besides many poor software tools made in a rush for specific interests, we are already doing decently here when we really try. It's only that big companies that make the big products usually have too much inertia to continue doing certain things the same way they have been done in the last 40 years (most DAWs are a good example as many commenters pointed out), and smaller actors don't have enough resources to make complex tools that are much cooler than what we have. But on this aspect, I don't think the obstacles are that significant.

Oh, and on a final note, nice writing (even if it wanders a bit too much sometimes) and really beautiful design. Even the html is pretty readable.
If you think that’s trivial to implement, I’d love to hear where you’ve worked. Getting a change to the main .com at one company where I worked within a month was considered a rush job!
It happened the same with TV tuner for computers. Standard Philips tuner and radio chips, and custom additions plus a PLL from the factory.
Inversion of control means you have no control.
Video shows how to change gears on the stalk-less 2021 Tesla Model S
uBlock does not know the size until the file is requested. At that point it is too late, you have accessed the tracking file. That feature in uBlock is meant for people trying to save bandwidth/CPU. uBlock is great though, I would never browse the web without it.
20 Years Later: How the Mac OS X Public Beta Saved the Mac
No, you aren't the only one. It has become even worse now that Twitter will not render without JavaScript enabled. Unfortunately, I still do not know what Berkson's Paradox is because I will not enable JavaScript for Twitter.
*and South Korea. Maybe not an explicit attack, but if there is supply chain disruption due to tensions between china and japan not having contested sealanes (getting out of SK could be at risk) in your chip pipeline is probably a good thing.
Phthalates Threaten Humanity’s Ability to Reproduce
From Word Embeddings to Document Distances (2015) [pdf]
No, they are functionally the same.
Interesting blog-post.

I found some similarities with what occurred with Deepmind's Alphastar AI.

One of the weaknesses that seem to manifest in this piece too is the handling of unfamiliar scenarios.

The AI is very confused once it experiences something that was rarely seen in its learning data. Destroyer's big drones confused the bot quite a bit.

Deepmind solved it by intentionally creating agents that introduce different\bizzare strategies(which they called exploiters) in order to develop robustness against such strategies.
Hah yeah I just got back from 3 weeks there. Driving was quite the experience. Pedestrians literally care 0%, some biker didn’t even look crossing the street and hit us while we were going 15mph. Other drivers go for super risky single lane passes on the reg, etc. Ridiculous.
AFAIK, most DEs place virtual desktops horizontally or in a grid, and I'm actually not aware of any other DEs that dynamically add new desktops as you use them rather than statically defining them up front.
Agreed, this is better than the vast majority of machine learning papers that actually get published. The ablation section is particularly nice. It is really a major failing of the field that in most papers, it's entirely unclear what aspect of the model (or which particular hacks) are really carrying the weight.
Today's Cyberattacks Foreshadow Wars to Come
As someone having worked in the automative industry, I can confirm the latter part. It takes about 3-5 years from the start of a new design over going through all qualifications up to shipping a car with it. Even switching to a mostly compatible chip (same ISA, same pinout, etc) will take more than 1 year.
Not related to data, but nomads and semi-nomads might want to consider an external GPU setup. I tried it and really like it (though it is a bit of a pain and not for people who don't want to deal with drivers and such).

The gist of it is that, if you want to combine the mobility of an ultrabook with the power of a desktop, you can mostly have your cake and eat it too by putting your extras (GPU, spare hdd, cat5, optical drive etc) in an enclosure with its own power supply. This only became possible due to usb-c being fast enough to act like part of the bus.

In theory, it's awesome - take your laptop out and about and use it like a laptop, then take it home and have a full desktop worth of peripherals, without having to plug in external monitors and stuff every time. In practice, not all cards/laptops/enclosures work together and you'll likely spend some time trying different combinations of drivers and settings. There's a forum[0] dedicated to this that I found highly helpful. I have mine working and I do like it, it is a lot easier than bouncing back and forth between a laptop-for-mobility and desktop-for-power and having to share everything over distributed tools, but it took a good month of futzing to get it running stably and to get it to reliably swap drivers when plugging/unplugging.

0: egpu.io
Hmm, something is wrong with this. Surely Backpage's catering company isn't in trouble too? Or their hosting company, etc.? Their ISP?
>It was super significant in that it was evidence that Reddit employees have the ability to edit messages with no audit trail and no governance.

Uh, this was already known by then, though. What made it significant is that it happened to be spez.
Douglas Corrigan
Okay, I googled it. A non-hostile site hosts a definition here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5HS8GWIec) linked at the bottom of the page shows the attack in action.
"This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers."

Category: Malware

That is the warning I'm getting on this link at work. Of course I don't think you are trying to malware people, but might want to look into that on why people might not be able to access your site.
The Mathematical Pranksters Behind Nicolas Bourbaki
I'm comparing against GP's suggestion "to build a fab". Point is, SMC and TSMC fabs will be online faster than a direct fab investment.

> science

I believe science has access to more compute than it needs. I could be wrong now, but last I checked, a few years ago, the huge computational clusters (both public and private, e.g. @ pharma companies) were under-utilized, especially on legacy-hardware-that-is-still-pretty-damn-good, and scrambling to find ways to engage with outside clients to fill out capacity.
Re 1) Where should you put the code to initialize the SDK? Code that ideally should only be ran once in the entire lifecycle of the page.

For Firebase, will ES modules help with code splitting? The new Svelte kit framework is built by Vite (runs on ES build underneath).
> In my world, more and more companies learns from past issues/failures.

Welcome to earth! We don't do it that way here.
1000% agree! Mindustry's model is my favorite so far. I get all the benfits of open source software while still supporting the developers by happily paying for the convenience of Steam integration.
I hope it can help others in the process of learning how to build programs !
Ctrl-f supercharger, found nothing.

I agree that VW and other manufacturers are going big on EV platforms and cars, but (in the US at least) until there is a viable competitor to the supercharging network, I will go with a Tesla.

It's like iPhone vs Android in the early 2010s. "It just works" is actually worth a lot, vs all the quirks you'll have to deal with for the non-Tesla alternatives.
I'm not sure we should be so quick to fault them. The unemployment rate when the pandemic really started building up steam was absolutely staggering so a lot of people quite reasonably expected a severe recession along with severe contraction of consumer demand to follow. That we didn't experience one is a minor miracle (and printing of a ridiculous amount of money).
I assumed as much, but wanted to provide info to people who might not be aware while also making a bit of a joke myself.
I think my ideal would be work-from-anywhere, plus travel to the office for maybe 5 days every month or two. It would be the perfect balance of in-person collaboration, AND allow me to live somewhere affordable.
If you want to try it yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlVM9xqGKx8

Plays Für Elise on a radio placed close to your monitor while you play that video full screen.
Years ago, we were shooing a documentary in Valdez and needed the quintessential bald eagle shot. After looking everywhere, we asked the locals where to find them. They said the dump. We got our shots.
Try writing evented code in Python or Ruby. It’s very hard because most libraries in those languages block all over the place. There just isn’t much run in the middle between these paradigms.

Any time you spin off a new thread or process, it’s going to eliminate that nice continuous call stack (though there has been some work on this). That’s not a JS issue but more an issue of async programming in general.

I’d love to see JS unify web workers with BEAM-style lightweight, managed actors since they aren’t incompatible. In the meantime, I’ll take the minor pain around async for the massive performance boost relative to other scripting languages.
That's an interesting point, but I'm not sure how well this works for e.g. communication with low latency harware?
Definitely this. The fact that you have managed to keep yourself going investing for 15 years is impressive. Put some of what you did on the resume / CV and it will be much less empty. What types of models? Did you you data analysis? Those are things that might get you into a Data Science role of some sort somewhere. Something like Kaggle might be a good way to hone some of those skills and make it to someone's radar.
I agree. I probably see that "I also choose this guy's dead wife"-style comment dozens of times.

Admittedly, I think I see those more on obviously humor subreddits (r/jokes) or smaller subreddits. I'm actually happy that places like r/science delete comments that are simply effortless jokes.
Oh, that makes so much more sense. Thanks so much for clarifying!
If you have code in say store.js it will triggered whenever the file is imported the first time.

I also trigger init code from my entry point (eg: main.js).
The series of tweets for me just wasn't illuminating and I didn't get what the actual 'paradox' was given the graphs. But my issue was more that the graphs weren't clear in pointing out what I should be looking at.

Wikipedia was much clearer for me, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson's_paradox , but ymmv of course.

Another good statistical foible to be aware of along with Simpson's.
People without business degrees tend to consider more variables than simply optimizing the business for profit extraction at any cost. No guarantee, but that's what an MBA trains people to do. For some reason, doing that causes all kinds of social problems that were completely unanticipated by philosophers in the 1800s.
I just love the positive vibes of this post, feedback received, and OP’s replies. It just makes HN a happier place!
They can train the bots based on on those games though, right? Seems more like a flaw in the training data than the principle.

I am not sure if the training is done live or not--that is does the algorithm learn based on each game against a real, live player? Or do they just train the model offline, then allow players to play against the static model?
The survey details are very confusing, the terms change from the legend to the table, but I did not notice that the border chosen seperates Minnesota from the Dakotas. The Dakotas have relatively few I meant.
One of the benefits of wfh is that we now do not work on the corporate network anymore. Since we have discovered code together features pairing is so amazing. You get to work together on the same problem. Not needing to sync over git, one person can work on the large line and instead of calling out small things to fix the other can just in place fix them. It is amazing.
Maybe you should tell that to rms instead of throwing anecdata at people who disagree with you.
I've always wanted to try Auth0 and I've heard great things! I would love to hear if anyone has had a positive experience with Auth0 as well.
> How much more productive will employees be if they don’t have a dedicated office and if their commute time was like 15 minutes instead of the 2 hours someone from Silicon Valley may spend?

Yea, i'm very pro-WFH, but i've built my life around it. I own a house with an office. I can't imagine trying to WFH on a couch or some desk in my living room while my wife cooks/watches TV/etc.

With that said i still hope people see more chances to WFH, and can start buying/renting homes with this in mind. I have a three bedroom house, turned into 2 offices 1 bedroom, and it worked wonderfully for my wife and I during these WFH times. My wife fwiw was not a WFH person before Covid, but she is currently, and she has adapted quite easily with a dedicated office. One of her coworkers however lived in a tiny apartment with two children and no office. Her QOL was miserable.
As far as I know Samsung in Texas is not yet a done deal. They're requesting complete tax abatement for twenty years in addition to the inducements offered by local governments and I believe they're waiting to see if they can pull it off. Their current facilities in Austin have remained closed since the big snow storm.
What to look for when hiring a B2B tech copywriter
support for hidpi maybe? not sure about the current status
Many countries, including the US and UK, have indirect elections for high offices. Are they also non-democratic?

Personally, my answer to that question is yes, but I’m willing to apply principles equally. Again, this is beside the point of what I was asking, as I’m not trying to get into an ideological debate.
Anything placed at geosynchronous orbit will stay up there effectively forever. There was nothing up there until Humans placed things there. Therefore, there was no previous Earth based space faring civilisation.
So cue the US telling developing countries "hey you can grow coffee instead of coca/opium and make a good living", a large number of farmers growing coffee, the supply gets flooded, prices drop and the farmers switch back to the coca/opium harvests that no doubt made them much more money anyway.

The circle of life.
>1. Nowadays we can represent the essence of this approach with FUSE and SSH/SSHFS.

These suck hard against 9p and factotum. Not even close, Linux and BSD's are jokes against what you can achieve with plan9/9front on networking whole componentes. You can run remote processes seamlessly.
Technically, if you use it mainly outside France, they can legally charge you roaming. It just happens that until now Free Mobile doesn't seem to control that.
Eagles can take down small drones that invade their airspace. They are also used to being mobbed by smaller birds.

Eagles have actually been trialled as an anti-drone defence [0]. Although this isn't actually a good idea in the long run. A serious attacker could flood an eagle with a drone swarm, or make drones (e.g. explody, sharper blades) designed to hurt / kill eagles. It also takes considerable time and patience to train an eagle compared with the ease with which drones can be replaced.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-35750816
Frankly, your thoughts don't matter because you don't have the expertise to judge.
I don’t remember where I heard it but I recall some stat that child sexual abuse reports are just as common in public schools as they are in religious organizations
I use Svelte + TypeScript in my personal projects, what issues did you run into?
You could do the same with Android as well. Most major apps want to support both platforms and will have needs for devs with both skill sets.
proof of work may be superseded at some point (e.g. by proof of stake). Not even mentioning the Lightning Network which is going to help a lot...

Avoiding Bitcoin because we use coal to produce energy cannot be more wrong. The problem is that we produce energy with coal, not that Bitcoin uses energy to be mined. With such reasoning, then let's forget about smartphone, laptop, car, planes, house heating etc. and just go back straight to prehistory. Each of these things pollute the planet, let's not deny it.

And if you think that BTC is not worth this energy waste to get rid off USD dominance (among others), then it's maybe you're an American enjoying USD dominance. That's of course a very biased view.
A lot of senior engineers would refuse to do a fizzbuzz. I'm really not seeing the problem here.
They acquired LGTM (https://github.com/marketplace/lgtm) not too long ago, so expect this to happen.
> I guess this would be true even if the correct complexity was say,
O(n^2 * ln(n)

Yes you're right it would be true. We can see this by just constructing a sequence of algorithms A_i that are implementations of the putative optimal O(n^2 * ln(n)) algorithm except artificially slowed down by ever smaller polynomial overheads. But the hypothesis I'm describing above holds that no such O(n^2 * ln(n)) algorithm exists.

> Waxing theoretically, there is some integer-valued function f such that optimal matrix multiplication is...

The hypothesis I'm describing is that no optimal algorithm exists. Instead, the claim is that there is an infinite sequence of ever better algorithms (specified by ever longer sets of instructions, and with ever larger constant overheads).
OneWeb #5 launch and live stream
“Ignoring State Guidance” was pretty much one of the main themes of 2020 and likely will be for 2021. Which is one reason we can’t seem to claw our way out of this mess without throwing people under the bus to die.
Healthcare is consistently ranked as a top 2 priority amongst Americans polled and has over 70% support. It even have majority support amongst republican voters. This is a false equivalency.
Work as a contractor. You can earn more than 100k, or well your LLC can. If you work a lot, you can make 16k a week. If more normal work day 2k-4k a week. You would have to deal with bureaucracy, taxes and administration though. It’s hard but there’s no artificial limit

Source: I’m a contractor and work with other European contractors
I was rafting in Montana last summer and we got the treat of seeing several osprey and eagles during our trip. Such cool birds of prey!
Growing App Ecosystems
Positive exp with auth0, though if you can afford to control this stuff yourself maybe I'd lean that way.
I agree with you. I think the lesson we're meant to take on the value-based pricing is you can have complex pricing if it is aligned tightly to the value perceived.

It can be very natural. Look at Stripe's pricing. It's a nightmare to explain, but makes sense when using the platform.

I like that way of thinking; it has a lot of resonance and power.
They'll have managed to totally wipe away any personal attachment people have to the space and even further treat people as commodity labor units. Just keep moving, don't stop working, and no space is stable or at all personal.

What is the quote again?

"Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. " -- Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
I believe transformer based "VRMs" (they are actually unregulated) like these https://www.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2020/05/2020-... is the future as a way more practical way to deal with power supply of few hundred Amp chips.

16 phase buck controllers are greatly, greatly impractical, and the only reason the industry is stuck with them is that nobody was brave enough to do serious research into making responsive magnetic based DC-DC, while everybody knew that such thing should be possible.

It's interesting curiosity how Taiwanese made it an industry trend out of multi-phase bucks because people who were making first PCs in Taiwan had rather subpar electronics engineering education, or were basically self-taught, and designed computer boards by trial end error back in nineties.
[From memory, so take with a grain of salt]

a) tooling and familiarity

b) it's leveraged for modularity, composition and access control. Normal unix basically has no modularity and little composition beyond piping to stdin (which is of limited applicability). And of course no useful access control mechanism to speak of. The last 5 decades mostly just added layers of shitty hacks that don't work and that no one understands anymore (by contrast e.g. the original unix ownership and permissions model was misdesigned but at least possible to grasp).

Plan9 does substantially better in both regards via clever use of a proper union file system (which incidentally makes another horrible hack superfluous: symlinks). If you want your shell, or some other executable, to find some executable, you mount it into its /bin -- there is no $PATH. If you want some process or user to have access to a resource (file, device, server in the network, ...) you mount it into their filesystem. This gets rid of a lot of problems and special purpose solutions.