skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not holding onto laughably provincial notions of cosmogony

> it is just strange to ... only make passing reference to its progenitors

Which one is it?

Electronic music didn't begin with Krautrock, it began with avant garde composers pushing limits. Messiaen, Ives, Varése, Cage; all of this in the late 19th century to early 20th century. Krautrock itself is deeply indebted to its own stylistic progenitors in American minimalism, including artists like Terry Riley (as well as Germans like Karl Stockhausen). Assuming you're not trying to make proto-nationalistic strawmans in service of which scene was the "one true" progenitor, it's hard to do anything but to think globally -- otherwise, you'll miss the forest for the trees.

I always felt that part of the joy of Krautrock was in how it was able to rebel against American influence and conservative German mores while dialectically integrating its raw materials. But that's why I would caution against being too territorial about these things. It's why I warn against provinciality. Electronic music developed in parallel across the globe, much like all modern music.
I turn my old Macbooks into pseudo desktops as the batteries start to go. My 2012 MBP is my girlfriend’s “desktop” now.
Oh God, Spivak. The name gives me flashbacks to my first year at U of C. I arrived thinking I was smart about math things. That book humbled me bad. A tough beginning to four tough, lonely years.
> it's a testament to breadth of applications of modern machine learning frameworks.

More like a testament to the the breadth of applications of linear algebra. It is absolutely remarkable what we're able to compute and analyze in the form of y = A x (hilbert spaces are a wild invention).

But it really isn't a testament to modern ML frameworks in any way. The fourier transform has been easy to compute/fit in this exact way (fourier = linear problem + solving linear problems by optimization) by modern-at-the-time frameworks for over two centuries.
>> "... a backdoor targeting Linux X64 systems, a family that has been around for at least 3 years."

The point is that OS systems fundamentally depend on the trustworthiness of the contributors and the diliginece and bandwidth of the maintainers.

Both are examples showing that the diligence and bandwidth is not infinite, and can be relatively easily overwhelmed or outmaneuvered.

The UMN hack showed how easily the trust can be violated, and the netlab 3 year lifetime before discovery shows how easily flaws can stay hidden.

The saying is "many eyes make shallow bugs". In an ideal case and with systems that are small relative to the body of people maintaining and actively scrutinizing it, that's true. The reality is that the scale of Linux and most OS is now well beyond the set of people scrutinizing it. How much source code did you review before you installed your latest build?
I used to have multiple. Now, I have a list where I write down ideas for new projects, but I try to focus on only one at a time. I found that when I had multiple I never finished them, I was always flitting between them. Having one requires more discipline but is better for me.

I do have a couple of hobbies that I participate in, but I don't consider these projects, since I have no defined goals with them and can take them up at my leisure without feeling like I'm not accomplishing enough.
Ask HN: What enterprise CMS does your company use? Do you like it?
My questions:

* What CMS does your large business use?
* What is your role?
* Do you love/hate it?

I have been tasked with implementing a CMS and all the options suck. Sitecore, AEM cost $250k+, everyone hates Magnolia etc etc.

By "Enterprise" I mean something that non-technical users can understand, which scales across multiple languages, domains, a/b testing etc, able to handle 20m+ pageviews/month, integrate giant custom product taxonomies.

HN hasn't had a decent comprehensive thread about this for a while. This was what people were saying 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1925170
There are overrides to make empty messages or including otherwise-comments, but yeah... you have to do such things rather explicitly. No way you can do it by accident.
Chris Horner could have been another Lemond or Armstrong if his career had played out better. He did win a grand tour though to prove that ability.
What's Wrong with the OAuth2 Implicit Grant?
Vision is amazingly sluggish. Turning an incoming photon into a nerve impulse involves a whole mess of slow (and fascinating) chemistry, just to leave the rod or code. Once it does that, the resulting signal bounces around the retina and then a huge portion of the brain before it's available for "action."

The auditory system, on the other hand, is optimized for speed. It has a giant synapse (=connections between cells), called the Calyx of Held, that is specialized for extremely fast (sub-millisecond), reliable transmission between cells. They're really cool looking: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/213595.php?from=44...
> You don't even have to get the distance of these lines perfectly just make sure they are both in the same direction and neither boat gets the advantage.

Nitpick: that is not correct. If the shape of the course is a parallellogram, the shortest course between the short sides is perpendicular to those sides. Teams in some of the lanes my be able to pick such a course. For example:

________________________________

/A B/

/ /

/ /

/C D/

——————————————————————————————

A crew starting in the AB lane can row to D instead. That’s legal, if they don’t hinder other crews. A crew starting at C doesn’t have the option to row a shorter course.

It is very unlikely they won’t hinder other crews if they cross all lanes, but they might just cross lanes of a few much slower boats.

That’s all theoretical, though. The net gain on a normal course would be very, very small, and buoys will typically hinder crews that would try this so much that it wouldn’t be worth it, to start with.

Also, for the true nitpicker, “the right direction” can be difficult. Drawing equidistant lines on a globe isn’t trivial (I don’t think the effect will be large for a 2km course on earth, though)
There's a big difference between a publishing a fake article and trojaning the kernel.
DIY Wallpaper Engine in Python
It is hard to imagine progress in any technology that couldn’t also be used for evil. Better food production could feed bad guys. Curing cancer could extend the life of a mass murderer.

I don’t think we will stop evil corporations by preventing them from using memory safe and performant programming languages.
> Transmissibility (or Basic Reproduction Number - R0) is an intrinsic characteristic of a disease.

I'm not talking about the theoretical R0, which assumes an immunologically naive population. I'm talking about the real world reproductive ratio, R, including existing immunity. Estimates of real world R for influenza are are even lower than the 2-4 your source quoted. Eg, this paper estimates a median of just 1.3 for a typical year's seasonal influenza: https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471...

With COVID-19's R0 estimated at 2-3, it could easily be the case that our measures are sufficient to completely wipe out the flu. But not COVID-19: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

Re: measles, note that pre-vaccine, almost everyone got infected with measles at some point in their life, usually as a child. You actually see this in how effective the early childhood measles vaccination programs were: even though only children were being vaccinated, a small % of the total population, measles rates dropped dramatically(1) almost immediately. The adults had already gotten it and were already immune. So to wipe it out, we just needed to protect those who hadn't been infected: the new, uninfected, children born every year. The measles vaccine is attenuated live measles after all. So by vaccinating, we just get the inevitable infection over with in a controlled way, with the odds rigged _enormously_ in your favor.

1) https://ftp.historyofvaccines.org/index.php/content/graph-us...
It definitely is an opportunity. Most charging takes 20+ minutes and you have a captive audience the entire time.

A lot of Tesla Superchargers are in restaurant or hotel parking lots.

We use to drive Atlanta to Asheville and would stop at a Supercharger in Greenville on the way up, it was in a hotel parking lot and the hotel lounge was setup to accommodate people stopping to charge with an array of snacks and drinks to purchase along with the restaurant and bar.

I use to drive from Atlanta to Jellico regularly and would stop at a Supercharger in a strip mall within walking distance of shopping, a Starbucks, and three restaurants.

We went to Joshua Tree from San Diego recently and stopped to charge along the way at an In-N-Out.
How did you decide that this range exactly is unsuitable enough that we are better off we simply assume that the reality is the one that suits our agenda? IMHO that's a pretty good accuracy, significantly better than the "I feel like", "I want to believe that", "what if it's all about" or the "It's suits me better if" methodologies.

I'm not being snarky, I simply want to outline the alternatives I'm aware of.

I respect the accuracy of the PCR, it can literally tell us why people in India are dying off on the streets right now in thousands and we even cannot see the assailant through optical magnification. It can also tell us that it's the same thing that caused the exact same situation in NY and Italy.

It's amazing, much more intriguing than any other explanation that I came across.
Just to be clear, this is your idea of ‘using your brain’. Instead of creating rules for companies to make household products safe for kids, we should allow them to continue as is. Instead kids should be confined in playpens to keep them safe until the time they are ready for school. Even though the parents don’t know the danger exists and could easily place a toy with a battery in the playpen unknowingly making the whole exercise pointless. Still it’s best to deprive a children of experiencing the world by confinement them well beyond the recommended years in the false believe that it will keep them safe.

We should adjust our behaves to accomodate companies unsafe products, that’s using your brain.
Yes, of course you must maintain reliability while competing.

But I think that analogy proves my point. If Blackberry asked people what they wanted before they saw iPhone, they'd say "better physical keyboard phone" (faster horse). But after the iPhone took off they pointed to that instead (wait.. cars are better).
Also, in the article linked below, Al Worden described his transearth EVA on Apollo 15 in which he could see both the entirety of the earth and moon simultaneously in his field of vision (the only person to do so in history?). He regrets not having a camera, but he later had an artist recreate the memorable view of the moon behind Jim Irwin (included in the article).

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/i-was...
What's your point? Either way we're adding up largely arbitrary line items composing a very small minority. It makes more sense to look the areas that would impact the most people. To use your analogy, who cares if the seller takes care of that $40k line item of the other ones that need work add up to $250k? Great, I have a solid roof but what about my crumbling foundation...
The researcher also could have coordinated with Linux and other Linux leads, so they know which patches will be "bad". They all want the Linux review process to produce high quality code and could have suggested other ways to test the process.
For money or side projects?
Bayesian and frequentist results are not the same, ever
About 7 years ago, I got an invite to the highest level of two programs for a year (platinum? vibranium? i don't know.) I used travel about once a month for work, which is not nearly enough to earn those levels.

It was amazing -- lounge access, free upgrades, free limos, free food and drinks, front of the line, expedited service everywhere, endless gifts (who doesn't need more socks?) It was a pretty good year to fly. :-)
One more to add, with enough population for you to care about:

"Driver/sales workers and truck drivers": 3.4m, 92.2% male.
What does it mean for Rust to be endorsing BigCos?
Yeah, I used to have multiples but realized that ended in nothing. Now I work on one project at a time and basically can either put everything into that one project or move it to the bottom of the list. This keeps me from just switching projects between 2 cool projects.
Only if using the BigInt type: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

all other numbers are floats
Building for the New Normal
A shame that the flight wasn't between NFO and MCO; I would love to book a ticket between Orlando and Tonga for only $166.
I too feel like a lot of people confuse Capitalism with Commerce. It doesn't matter what "ism" society operates under people will buy and sell and trade. The "ism" just describes how and where the bulk of the money ends up.
A covid tests doesn't test if you have something else. A covid test would not detect the flu or a broken leg and label it as covid. Depending in the type of test 1/3 could be false positive. If your theory was false positives are because of flu I'm not sure there is any proof to that theory but I would like to hear more.

All flu occurrences were not diagnosed before, this year or will be in our future lifetimes. Your doctor telling you its the flu and to get rest vs getting a positive for a influena A or B test and the percentage that a lab might make a mistake on those tests vs the % of time your doctor is wrong are two very different ways to think about your question. Usually the words 'AlWAYS' and 'ONLY' fail in a big population set.
You completely ignore the issue of consent.

The UMN has placed itself on the same level as those miscreants, because they screwed up in several different ways.

Finally, maturity is, in large part, knowing the difference between having a capability and exercising it. As an institution, the UMN has revealed itself to be immature. What they do about it now determines how they will be treated in future.
I fully expect that it wasn't their decision, but also presume that they'd have insight into why a decision like that would be made.

Also, it allows me to express my disdain at such a decision and if enough other people did too, said engineer has the ability to go up the flagpole and inform the decision makers that there are many people who are displeased at their decision.
That's a good one, and it's an 8051 core, which is incredibly widely used. So there are lot's of 3rd party tools & tutorials. And there are 8051 cores hanging out in all sorts of places, so it's useful knowledge.
If you are Newsom or Cuomo, you get enormous amounts of power.
Rampant amongst young kids in particular. Worms as well.
couchmate is looking good! Does it generate any revenue?
Many or most of the competitors would disagree it's not a race until KM 199. Only in boring flat races where the pack stays all together and there are no serious breakaways is that true.
If you want to see quite the videos check these out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV8_eUJ6C1w [ Acid Mix Detroit Chicago - New Dance Show 1989 ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz2wInkVkRU [ Techno Jam - New Dance Show 1989 ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aUAqboAvQM [ City of Techno (Detroit) - New Dance Show 1991 ]

Great examples of the racial diversity in the early scene in Detroit. I think this was some public access TV show?

Anyways speaking from living in Latin America the scene here is HUGE for techno and house, I would probably say the numbers here are bigger and more diverse than I've seen for the same scene in North America and balance out the melanation factor quite a lot
Rust doesn’t magically make your code bug free. The fixes/bugs you reference are highly unlikely to be all memory management related (eg use-after-free), and you can still do unsafe things in Rust even with memory.
Nobody said "deserve to be shot down", so the quote marks are at best disingenuous. Since I unambiguously referred to an incident reported when naval ships were on maneuvers, you imagine some entirely other time, place, and circumstance. I will leave my response to your speculative moralizing to the reader's imagination.
Good software isn’t built this way though so it won’t stick around. Analytics like these can be really useful but the companies with the best developers won’t get away with abusing them
To quote the great Hank Hill "Don't half ass two things. Whole ass one thing"
China was going all in with 5G ( due to population density and all sort of other reason ). So 5G iPhone as an upgrade was extremely popular. If I remember correctly China currently has 60% of WorldWide 5G Cell Site installation. They are basically upgrading as fast as they could.
Almost uniformly earlier is better. There are some specials but you're almost always losing if you wait.
The network has grown so rapidly recently that there is no hope of getting reward unless you have a purpose built farming rig, and that’s really devastating to the block chains longevity. The most compelling part about this crypto to me is that it could be farmed by anyone with their extra HDD/SSD space, but if there is no reward for the performance hit then the coin is much less interesting to the general public, who you need most for long-term acceptance of Chia.
Not the OP, but maybe you can help me understand the relationship.

As I understand it, uncertainty is a statement of risk. Explainability is statement of understanding how a system works to produce an outcome. None of the four NIST principles seem to conflate the two.

I can say I understand how my brakes on my car may fail to work because it's an explainable mechanical system with known failure modes. However, that's different than the statement about the uncertainty that the brakes will work as intended. In the latter, there is a statistical probability that gets translated to a risk statement. I think one needs to have an explainable system in order to arrive at an uncertainty risk statement. They are both related to quality, but speak to different aspects of the problem.
Technically physical reality is also a neural network.
> Regression is part of ML for sure.

> ML is a discipline that has existed for several decades

If you're going to say regression is part of ML, you can't say ML has only existed for decades. If you define it with that expansive scope, it's existed for centuries.
Wow, I didn't realize they have a website. They're also on the iOS Podcasts app which is how I have always consumed the feed.
Netflix Does to Shuffle: Inside the Play Something Feature
If you were by yourself, that would only shave a fraction of a second off your 5k time. However, getting out in front of a big mass start also helps you avoid getting caught in "traffic", which can really bog you down.
I would say the single biggest issue right now is the cost of an LTE modem and service. Cursory research shows a fully integrated modem is on the order of $44 at small quantities. Obviously cell phone manufactures get that number way down but they also manufacture at very high quantities.

It looks like service is on the order of $0.50 per month per device, plus $0.33 per MB. That's not prohibitive, but it would mean the device would likely have to have a subscription of at least $19 a month.
I definitely wasn’t being clear there. I meant those 30% or so of retirees that depend entirely on social security.
To complete the TL;DR:

Further down for "dust" and not just meteorites:

> between 4,000 and 6,700 metric tons of space dust falls to Earth each year

> The total dust mass input before atmospheric entry is estimated at 15,000 tons/yr (from the study itself)

Where it came from:

> The team found that more than 60 percent of the dust probably originated from Jupiter family comets, which are herded into orbital periods of less than 20 years by the giant planet’s gravitational influence. About 20 percent of the dust likely came from the main asteroid belt. (yes that leaves 20% unexplained)

How reliable is it:

> ...a geologist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, who was not involved in the research, is impressed by the study but cautions that its estimate cannot be the final word.

Tiny sample size, methodology but also randomness had a big influence. A study that improves upon previous ones and is just one of many more to come. As always, a headline of something taken randomly by a press office from a long line of study points that actually need to be looked at in context and together. It does seem to give a good estimate about the order of magnitude to a casual reader like me though.

.

I admit even after reading through some details I can't say if the first number is part of the second, or if I need to add them? They do talk about "meteorites and dust", so they counted two separate things? On the other hand, the first number for "meteorites" has the dust in the same sentence ("With clean sampling techniques and accurate ages for dust deposits, the researchers calculated around 5,200 metric tons of micrometeorites fall to Earth every year"). I'm confused. Maybe I should not have started with the article but with the actual study.

Reading that study (linked in the article), the 5,200 is a complicated product of a lot of measurements and statistics (you see it in the abstract already) - and they say "dust" in the context of that number.

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Given that both numbers are close and the uncertainty is large I won't spend any more time trying to figure it out, the magnitude is the same and it's all I think one can take away from this as a casual reader. The really interesting stuff probably only interests few and is all the many many details of how they did it exactly, for example "The errors are derived assuming that the number of influx particles follows Poisson statistics" => from the study, one of hundreds of important details that the linked article compresses into something easier to read, but with quite a bit of information loss.
DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information
I have quite a few, though I generally try to make sure they overlap in some regard.

Right now, I have:

1. my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/iamdavidwparker where I teach programming tutorials.

2. my website for my programming tutorials: https://www.programmingtil.com/

3. my product to help YouTubers/Podcasters with content creation: https://www.useproducer.com/

These three all overlap a good deal. I work on Producer or ProgrammingTIL's website, and I can generally use that code/parts of it for my YouTube videos.

Other ones:

4. https://www.listenaddict.com/ - my covid project last year. More or less automated now.

5. https://www.codenameparker.com/ - my portfolio I just refinished

6. https://www.davidwparker.com/ - my blog which I'm currently redoing in SvelteKit.

edit: formatting
> This questions are inconvenient, so they'll go unasked by the media, let alone answered.

Literally an infinite number of questions go unasked by the media. Often because they're a pointless waste of time.

I'd say if leading virologists around the world looked at it in a lab and agree it's not some mystery illness, most media will go with that. At least the reputable ones not fishing for cheap attention from paranoid conspiracy theorists.
Let's not forget that the 70% rate brought in less than 1% of total tax revenue. (One reason that democrats suggested lowering the top rate in 1981.)

Those high rates encouraged all kinds of unproductive investments to take advantage of loopholes built into the law. Where people couldn't get around the rates, there were deadweight losses from economic activity that didn't occur. Even if someone thinks it is morally ok to take that much of someone's income, those kinds of high rates hurt the economy.
I have all the dhp mp3s archived somewhere if you want one