skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a world where one can do so much computation, I would really like to see more adaptive control techniques.

The I in PID is the only adaptive part. You can think of it as an estimator of an additive term that arises from e.g. friction or forces due to gravity.

But what about estimating e.g. a multiplicative term? It seems we should be able to do much better than PID, but without needing to commit all the way to a model-based method or reinforcement learning.

I wish there were some materials for how to move just beyond PID, but textbook treatments of LQR or MPC cannot even handle the I in PID.
> There are a lot of comments in this thread and the first page contains only the first subthread. To read the rest you need to click More at the bottom of the page, or like this: (Sorry for the interruption. Comments like this will go away eventually.)

dang, since there are a lot of comments in this thread, you tell us about the next page link, thanks a lot... why don't you tell us about the flag link?
It's a great question, and I'm inclined to ask the same one. My answer is that indigeneity is somewhat of a red herring. Empires have existed for as long as changes have been produced gradually by cultural exchange and gradual migrations as you point out, so the boundary between indigenous and not seems porous to me.
Some quick misconceptions I want to get out in front of:

- Right to Repair is NOT about asking people to repair their own devices. Customers should be able to repair their own devices, but they should also have the options to purchase new devices or seek repair services from a third party.

- Right to Repair is NOT just about a few companies. Most major manufacturers in most industries fight against consumers being allowed to repair their devices or seek repair from an independent third party.

- Right to Repair is NOT about making manufactures re-design products to be easier to repair. The onus is on owners and independent repair providers to acquire the equipment and skills required to perform repairs. Right to Repair seeks to protect owners and independent repair providers from legal recourse for repairing a devices.

- Right to Repair is NOT about making manufacturers provide parts or repair services. It seeks to protect consumers and independent repair providers from legal recourse for distributing parts and schematics essential to support repairs. Those parts and schematics may be purchased from the manufacturer, purchased from a third party supplier, developed independently, or sourced from used devices.

- Right to Repair is NOT a partisan issue. Neither the Democrat nor Republican party have strong stances on the subject and lawmakers on both sides have objected and supported it.

- We do not currently have Right to Repair just because independent repair shops still exist. Most shops in the US/Europe can only offer very limited services due to the existing legal landscape. Some of them have to perform questionable or even outright illegal actions to secure the parts and schematics necessary to facilitate all but the simplest of repairs. Right to Repair seeks to undo this problem by granting legal protection for repairs.

- Authorized repair programs (ARPs) are not a substitute for Right to Repair. Such programs do not exist for the benefit of device owners. The FTC has found no evidence that ARPs improve quality or safety of repairs[0]. ARPs usually put cumbersome restrictions on independent repair providers in exchange for meager parts catalogs at exorbitant markups. They exist to extract money and control from independent repair providers and encourage consumers to seek alternative services or replacements directly from the manufacturer.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/nixing-fi...
Who is the target buyer?

Is this to compete against Nutanix / VCE?
who cares, it's not like you're going to use it to send textures from one thread to another
To quote the unabomber manifesto:

> 13. Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals) or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems. (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. ARE inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology.)
(2020). Not saying that to be pedantic but want to distinguish the post from one announcing a new result that hasn't yet sunk into the CS world.
Since the design philosophy behind USB-C is "it must always seem as though it should work", I think we'll need something like the old "tube testers" a few of us still remember.

Decades ago, when your TV was behaving badly, you would take the back off (unplug first!), pull the vacuum tubes out, and take them in a bag to the nearest convenience store. They had a "tube tester" the size of a washing machine. You'd plug each tube into a connector, one at a time, press the "test" button, and the needle on the dial would show good/poor/fail. The body of the tester was a cabinet containing replacement tubes you could buy (and which you could even test right there).

We might need to start using USB-C cable testers. Plug in a new cable, get a good/poor/fail analysis of each potential USB-C feature, then you mark your cable yourself with some labeling scheme.
Does Microsoft make any attempt to explain why someone would want to switch away from Chocolatey and use this? Until someone can make that case I'm sticking with choco.
The market is currently "dictating" that I have to do business with Amazon no matter how odious I think their practices are. They're almost as hard to avoid as Google at this point.
It's not uncommon, science does not hold the ultimate truth of the world, it's a complex system based on intuition and beliefs and politics. Medical responsibility is highly complex and it does not follow the same rules (thankfully). In Europe, courts have been compensating people who got multiple sclerosis induced by the Hep B vaccine for decades even though there is no evidence of a causal link.
>We are not innocents, but we are not the perpetuators either.

Of course you are perpetuators. Where did your computer come from? For most it came from the largest polluter on the planet by nearly double.[0] Most likely your shoes came from there as well. The point is the consumer is buying the stuff that basically outsources the pollution.

Creating strong environmental regulation locally but allowing products from polluting countries just displaces the problem ( and jobs btw ). Tariffs solve this, quickly. I think this is where your democracy comment comes in. The mob doesn't want to pay more so they fight this type of legislation or executive order and thus are perpetuators of the problem.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/270499/co2-emissions-in-...
Does neovim, or vim for that matter, offer any out of the box support for remote work like Emacs has with tramp-mode?

Asking because maybe it's time to try NeoVim out, but it'd be a limitation for my work if I had to go through extra hops for editing remote files and running remote jupyter kernels.

I suppose it does, so I'd be grateful if vimmers out there would share their favorite solutions.
I haven't looked into the theory of it much, but wouldn't the local minimum also be the global one?

In your example, even if the first row is more poorly compressed with one filter, could future rows "catch up" the loss? Unless you have a specific counterexample, I don't think it can, because the filtration operates before compression and there's no feedback as such.
> It's amazing that the iconography of a religion so ancient and "exotic" is so significantly shaped by European culture.

It's more an instance of convergence and mutual influence. Hellenistic philosophy (read: immediately after Socrates) went down a few different lines. The one with the largest influence in the West was the Academic line, concerned with empirical observations and theory making.

But another major line was about how to live well, and focused primarily on ethics and the virtues. Today, the most well known school in this line is Stoicism, and this approach to philosophy really has a lot of overlap with Buddhism. The Bactrians were extremely well primed to be receptive of some "wisdom from the East" (like the type Pythagoras was supposed to have received) that covered a lot of the same topics as Hellenistic philosophy.

By the time Buddhism was meaningfully re-introduced to European academics (starting around the 17th century, but culminating with Schopenhaur in the 19th), several writers once again remarked on the similarities between the Hellenistic and Buddhist traditions.
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The evidence is that there was enough asbestos in the talc to cause cancer, and multiple executives at Johnson and Johnson knew, and people who used it got cancer. I'm not sure how you could believe the people who unknowingly inhaled asbestos and rubbed it all over their babies do not have standing.
Wholeheartedly agree.
Graph theory is probably one of the most relatable, accessible theories available.

It is a fantastic tool to discover algorithmics, as you can visually apply your thinking.

FWIW, I personally wrote my master thesis on small world graphs, (_ie_ Kevin Bacon, 6 degrees, that kind of graphs), building structures to add properties to such graphs, and it is, without a doubt, the best memory of my cursus at the university.
I don't think the pandemic is the same as the other isolations mentionned. It's like the worst of both worlds: you can't see people face to face, but you aren't cut off from the incessant social media and all. You have to take further steps to either achieve a "real isolation", or to ensure that most of the time you spend on the internet/social media/etc is quality time that doesn't just makes you more anxious.
The best way to prevent someone else from deleting your data is to own it. For anyone looking for alternatives to Google Anayltics, here are a few self-hosted options:

Matomo, open core with a broad feature set: https://matomo.org

Countly, open core with web and mobile tracking: https://count.ly

Plausible, open source with a simple feature set: https://plausible.io
I'm familiar with the concept. Does this mean that attestation to a different root of trust than Oxide will also be feasible, and that this is just a default?
"Only" 2048 CPU cores per rack is actually not that much by nowadays standards - its 16 U of 2x 64 core CPUs. Perhaps is could be more U if they used the lower core counts but e.g. higher frequency per core SKUs but I don't think they do. (And the picture kind of confirms it). They use 2U servers though so they are able to use lower speed but bigger fans and have more expansion cards and 2,5" form factor drives perhaps.
The of course have to fit storage, which needs lots of CPU PCIe lanes for all the NVMe storage and networking (probably 2 or 4 U) and power conversion to power the bus bar and more somewhere. They probably use the 42 U+ standard 19" racks to fit in standard customers DCs. They also don't have such a high power budget as custom DCs for cloud providers do.

1 PB of flash is quite a bit but you could get perhaps 5x as much with HDDs probably (even with a relatively low density of 40x 12 x 12 TB). The problem really is I think, they wouldn't be able to write the HDD firmware in Rust in time (or at all, because no HDD manufacturer would sell an HDD to them without making sure their proprietary firmware is used). SSDs don't necessarily have this property as they are much more like the other components of a modern server.
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If you truly believe multinational conglomerates are the pinnacle of innovation then you may be right.

But from my perspective they acquire because they can't innovate internally.
Packages have names like "Microsoft.WindowsTerminal"? Is it vendor, period, OS, then the name of the package? Or something else? I'm already confused.

Even when Microsoft is incredibly late to a game, they still manage to recreate the proverbial wheel while happily ignoring tons of lessons which everyone else already figured out.

Also, apparently this doesn't even handle compiling, so this is only a tool to install pre-compiled packages. And there's a whole list of "Scenarios" that looks like an "action" list that came out of a meeting where managers did most of the talking.

Oh, Microsoft.
I have so many questions
Multiple cursors is for quick small editing tasks where you don't bother with a macro.
Greenland just looks bigger in the maps
Better questions would be - why does one man need so much farmland? What is he going to do with it? How much more is he planning to buy? If he suddenly stops all farming on all farmlands that he buys, what would be the impact on the food supply?

It is amazing that you're arguing in support of a billionaire with a monopolistic, predatory past. He might be doing good things today, but he is also a big supporter of companies like Monsanto. He also has the arrogance of influencing things his way using his money, even when a majority of people/voters don't agree with him. Here is an example : https://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/04/13085/charitable-plutoc...

I do not know if you are arguing in good faith at this point. No single person, especially an unelected person, should have as much influence as Bill has. He is just one example. There are other super shitty examples. At least Bill is doing some good, there are other billionaires that are much, much worse.
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The whole "Catholic guilt" thing is of often pointed to as some whacky vehicle of control, which is a total mischaracterization of what that perspective is meant to do.

Many religions and philosophers understand the idea that humans are not basically good people. They are generally self centered and not sacrificial. So to say that Catholicism or Christianity is strange for placing emphasis on our "fallenness" is a little unfair IMHO.

The daily struggle of a Christian is to strive to rid one's self of their sinful desires (selfish / evil) and live as Christ commands. This a continual process, and one that cannot be stopped. If one just "gets tired" of being a Christian, and lives differently, then they are in danger of losing their salvation.

I only go into this detail to illustrate that there is more to "Catholic guilt" than a flippant "critique".
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I think this is inflation. There's plenty of subreddits that were great for awhile then just became over run with stuff like that. I think because a lot of people are more casual members and just casually upvote a lot. But to be honest, there's still not that much great material in the first place. Maybe there's a way to separate out these groups. E.g. noobs and technical members. These people have different needs and wants. Technical members should help noobs (wizards don't exist without noobs) but maybe all technical members don't want to do that and only want to see what other technical users are doing. A niche topic stops being niche when it gains too many users and I think that harms the community when members are looking for said niche community.
From the link it sounds like Okrand basically wanted Klingon to use stative verbs with no copula. Actually, many languages function that way, i.e. Mandarin. As an aside, while Hebrew has "to be", it does not have a present tense.
US history answers that question for you. For the first colonists becoming rich as sell as for their imported cheap labor force.
Doubtful. Electric autos will decrease demand for ethanol. The Govt will increase subsidizes as well to provide price stability.
Whatever gets you the most money or happiness. I would generally say that is specialization.
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The legal standard for a conviction/judgement also changes, from "beyond a reasonable doubt" in criminal to "preponderance of the evidence" in civil- i.e. 99.9% certainty becomes 51% certainty.
This was a bit of a shock this morning for sure. Leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Maybe it's time to commit to neovim after all.
I'm a long time (20+ years) vim user, and neovim doesn't fit my use case. I've tried it, most recently today, to have a look at LSP and treesitter.
Treesitter added different syntax colors, but the result wasn't necessarily better than vanilla vim. More like an overly decorated christmas tree.
LSP and other "make it into an IDE" I usually turn off after a few minutes, it's more of a hindrance than a help. I mainly code in python and don't care for intellisense.

Other than that, there's 3 real showstoppers for me:

- the obsession with Lua (I personally don't like Lua much, and even to configure treesitter I have to inject little snippets of lua code into my .vimrc). You've got people even trying to rewrite their entire .vimrc in lua, which results in an enormously verbose mess if you ask me. Lua is also what drives the vim and neovim communities further apart.

- they removed gvim (which is what I use in most cases). There is no comparable third party GUI like gvim available. They're all either abandoned, unstable or simply very different with lots of bling and gimmicks.

- neovim feels less stable than vim. It just crashed on me a few minutes ago when I was trying to configure treesitter. I copy pasted the necessary snippet in my .vimrc and neovim crashes until I take it out. In the 20 years I use vim, I don't think I've ever had it crash on me. Neovim seems more of a "move fast & break things" development model, but I write code for a living so I prefer the rock solid stability of vim.

So I'll stay firmly in the vim camp. I appreciate neovim for what it did (kickstart the vim development, which was stagnating at a certain point) but I wished they had re-merged soon after that initial goal was met. Now the communities have split and are drifting ever farther apart. Soon with vimscript9 plugins on one side and lua plugins on the other, the spaghetti will be even harder to untangle.
> Government. At best it's REST but good chance it's SOAP or scripts doing FTP transfers of huge CSV files in the night.

CSV? Fixed-field-width EBCDIC text.
I imagine it's partly because because skeptics would have a field day any time it snowed a lot or was less warm than normal and say "so much for global warming!". It might sound obvious and silly to us, but a simple folksy sort of observational logic defeating the so called experts can be quite persuasive and validating :(
Investing in startups that use AI in their course of business would be one way to expand the surface area of innovation that would lead do that end.
Estimates of total Greenland contributions to sea-level rise by 2100 range from a low of 2.1cm to a high of 5cm.

I'm going to choose to worry about other things.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-climate-models-suggest-faste...

Those of you downvoting me to banish your anxiety should find a healthier outlet for your issues.
"The one that takes 'less' carbon is easy ... go the the coin laundry. "

Thank you for providing exibit A - blaming the consumer for being uneducated and yet getting it all wrong yourself -> Your frequent trips to the laundry will produce much more carbon than you could ever save by not buying an appliance that serves for 10 years on average.

"But blaming the manufacturer who is currently operating within the governing authorities guidelines is disingenuous."

But blamind the consumer who is currently operating withing governing authorities guidelines is fair game. HN morality at it's finest, when corporations have more rights than people do.
Yes, (ex-)Freenode users are just regular people, but it is a self-selected group of people who value freedom, and are willing to put some extra effort in keeping it. That is, I think, what grandparent post meant by "Freenode users are not regular people, like Whatsapp users, who will just bend over and let stuff like this happen."
Eh, it's not the same thing as pollution. Pollution to me invokes the process where you invent something unnatural and dump it into the environment, such as tetrachloroethylene. Whereas putting CO2 in the atmosphere is a completely normal natural process, and the amount we've added has "only" about doubled the usual concentration. It's categorically different because unlike TCE, which will kill you on the spot if you drink it, the downsides of CO2 are not instantly obvious.
Because if you buy a $300k house and need to move 10 years later, and only sell it for $150k, you still have a big chunk of the loan to pay off.
If they knew that it was harmful and decided to ignore and hide the facts, yes!
The information in the article posted by the person you're responding to answers your questions - J&J knew their product had high levels of asbestos and hid it from regulators while doing nothing about it. There absolutely was evidence of this, if you would read any of the information posted above. If I sold you a bottle of water with enough asbestos in it to give you cancer, knew about it, and didn't tell you: that would be illegal - it is pretty straightforward.
> Why are we hard coupling the hardware to the software? The whole secret of the success of M1 and ARM in servers is that lots of software has long ago stopped being hyper-aware of what hardware it is running on.

The software running on M1 is a bespoke fit for it. That's why the performance in macOS on M1 is phenomenal. It was custom made to execute optimally on it.
An increase in the defense budget will take care of the problem.
The most obvious example would be military-related. The government would know a lot more than the private sector about troop movement, ordinance production, deployment of assets (fighter jets, naval fleets), sabotage plans. Pretty much anything that is being intentionally hidden from public view by other parties is potentially known about by the government.

Even things like water levels of various bodies around the world are data points the military tracks (food shortages lead to strife) but aren't really easy for civilians to get.
This paper leaves me puzzled as to how proofs are connected to cyberattacks, etc.. Perhaps he means that deficiencies in first-order logic lead to security bugs in computing systems?

I do like the idea of classifying self-contradictions (as above) and other irritating paradoxes as "monsters" or "bugs."

I tend to agree that they are relied on in a number of incorrect "proofs" as well as informal arguments, often for unrelated propositions.
Ask them what’s wrong, then invalidate all their concerns and shame them for being depressed. That was my “parents” strategy.
I only really use it for condensing large documents into a smaller page
Can't even downvote myself, but my guess is that it's related to the extremity of your position. It sounds a lot like you're saying since we know cyanide is poisonous by itself, it's very strange to be able to win a lawsuit if you find significant amounts of cyanide in your bread. Most bread is fine, right? So merely finding cyanide in it should only count as suspicion of a problem and not count as evidence... seems to be what you're saying.
I mean, these days, at least in Europe, quite a lot of people who identify as Christians _don't_, or certainly not a personal god.
Well-crafted regulation is constructive, in that it expresses the social problem and provides guidance on the expected behavior. That can shape investment and allow companies to make long-term decisions.

Piracy can have many reasons behind it, including just not wanting to pay for things in general. And it’s easy for companies to dismiss as just an expense to manage, like shoplifting (“loss”) in the retail channel.