skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reciprocal appreciation to Fury, Atlanta/n, and Meester (and my many other friends on Hacker News).

I deeply appreciate the kindness and support of the hacker community - sends me back thirty five years to when I was fooling with a Unix workstation and stumbled on a small accounting error. Back then, I was surprised by the outpouring of help, suggestions, and collaboration from other computer folk.

At this moment, I again thank this community -- across decades and across the globe, I'm heartened and happy to be one of the gang.

Warm wishes all around,

-Cliff
I take my notes in org-mode with deft plugin and latex snippets. I have shortcuts for taking screenshots and importing them in the org document. I use blocks for gnuplot, octave, etc.

It is very powerful but at the same time slow. Every time emacs generates the latex bits it takes some time to generate and open the file.

There is also a little bit of overhead because it is a lot of elements and a lot of syntax to generate documents.

I am learning math so my org files are full of latex code, screenshots and graphs.

It is very powerful but I wonder if I am wasting my time into details.

Sometimes I think I should limit myself to text only, but I am not sure I can convey textually ideas that are better represented in picture.

Also, although I very much like emacs I find it very slow.

So...there is this tradeoff, either very complete and detailed but slow (emacs/orgmode/deft/latex) or very basic and simple but quick (neovim/plain_txt/fzf).

I still do not know what would be better.
That's not true though. The gov pays the providers as well.
System error: Japan cybersecurity minister admits he has never used a computer[0]

And did not know what to do with a USB.

This person was 50 in the year 2000, has clearly given up being part of or informed about modern society, and is made minister of cyber security.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/15/japan-cyber-se...
Flutter – How Flutter's UI rendering works
but which companies offer part-time work?
Perhaps he already thinks profitability isn't the major concern and he may judge his success by adoption rather than by extracting maximum value from current customers, something a flat pricing scheme might improve.
There are millions in Tokyo who live in a 15sqm apartment or something like that, you don't need to invent anything new to "study" it.
It's a social engineering- or maybe trademark/big online platform loophole engineering attack, sounds like a computer security issue imho. It could certainly be done to scam other sellers as well, and perhaps it has already.
Definitely considered flying rats here in European cities.

Pigeon keeping/racing is popular, but still a small subset of the population. Also the pigeons in cities are generaly dirty, missing some appendage.
There are some (fringe?) groups who'd argue against this, evidenced by variant spellings like "womxn" and "womyn" that are attested since the 70s, in order to remove "man" from the words. Different in that "woman" is etymologically an extension of the word "man", but somewhat absurd because the etymological root was gender neutral, with a separate word attested for "masculine" man.

Point being, perception of a word can be more meaningful to some people than the historical meaning.

Good 'ole prescriptive vs descriptive linguistics...
I no longer buy anything important from Amazon, this especially goes for anything that plugs into the mains, I just don't trust Amazon any more. Amazon is now just for those low value items that I might need in a bit of a rush. This is especially true now that more and more retailers have caught up with Amazon's shipping (at least here in the UK).

They seem to want it both ways. They have simultaneously tried to argue that they are not responsible for third-party sellers and blame them when fake and/or unsafe goods are sold, but then they work hard to make it appear that everything is coming from one place. It gets particularly annoying when it's a product with lots of variations (colours/sizes etc) where each variant will be a different seller with different shipping.
Never heard of them. Or I probably have since I watch some of these YouTubers, but the product plugs tend to go in one ear and out the other, just like the VPNs and website builders.

Do they make their own products, or are these just Le Creuset knock-offs from Alibaba? I suspect the latter given that they had so few employees.
I get what you're saying, and think you're mostly right.

However, I just booted up Breath of the Wild for the first time in a year (it's the not the first video game I've played in a year -- I just haven't played it in a year) and was absolutely astonished at how beautiful and well-designed it is. "Soul-filling" is a proper adjective for its affect of me.

Some games are obvious dopamine and money pits; some games are art. Those in the latter category are unfortunately few and far between, but I suppose every medium is like that. Some books are just as pointless and trashy as Clash of Clans.
It all makes sense but it strikes me as odd (that is, not very RL-like) that it doesn't allow to actually "maximize" reward. What do you do, just specify a very high target? Then it seems you are depending very strongly on out of distribution generalization, which seems dangerous (but apparently works)
>Draw a time evolution of all the record numbers and you will see a straight line going up.

Ok, to understand this as evidence what you actually need to do is to repeat this process after you have got to ~0.99 many times, this will give you a way to understand the expectation of the evolution of this process, then you will see a curve with an initial rise that flattens as you approach 0.99 - you will have many trials at that level before you can have a expectation of getting to 0.991

So getting to a record level - if the bias of instrumentation is understood - is a surprising and significant thing; it's not something that we should expect. It's an event that can be interpreted as either a rare and surprising coincidence or an significant piece of evidence of a change. As a bayesian it makes me update my priors towards a stronger belief in climate change - but I had strong priors for that already.
Thanks, this is a well written and accessible article!

To other commenters: Of course, there wouldn’t be a straight line but rather the curve would flatten out the longer the random sampling would take place. This is due to the fact that it gets increasingly unlikely that a random „temperature“ would be higher than any drawn before.

As the paper explains the ratio between the number of maxima and the number of minima decays in a 1/n law if there is no underlying temperature trend and approach 1:1. What is observed is that the ratio between maximum and minimum temperatures indeed approached this limit until the 1970s but since then increased to almost 2:1 — at least for the US. Simulations suggest the number to increase up to 100:1 by the end of the 21st century. However, this would not so much be due to ever increasing extreme high temperatures but due to a decreasing number of extreme temperature lows.
That's just tabloid quality posts.
They're not near human, they're human.
What are you basing a $50k setup cost on?
default Ubuntu has the same. (Make sure you are in on-demand mode in Nvidia).
Fast delivery seems to have become an addiction in our fast-paced lives. Do we really need that new thing tomorrow? Probably not. Yet we can't delay the gratification.
And when you report it to government agency in your country they say to talk to Amazon or stop using them.

These too big to fail companies need to be split and held accountable!

If they consciously let fraudsters operate, in my opinion they are complicit!
IIRC on CM-1/2 the LEDs reflected state of conditional execution of the individual VLSI packages (there is one LED per package, not one LED per CPU), on CM-5 it is just a bunch of LED matrices controlled more or less globally by I assume some BMC-like thing.
If you're interested in this and have some friends you'd want to go in with, check out Funkwhale (no affiliation with the project)

https://funkwhale.audio
never underestimate the avian carrier

EDIT: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2549
I read it only last year. A brilliant and now historical book.
2021 Western North America heat wave
You mean for devs to support Linux? That is indeed an issue of some concern, because most Linux users would prefer native Linux games. But, if you mean "bother installing Linux", then get ready for the whole privacy and control discussion :)
There are several collections out there, mostly screenshots from existing platforms. This is what I found so far:

- https://screenlane.com/
- https://www.designencyclopedia.io
- https://www.darkmodedesign.com/
- https://uigarage.net/
- https://www.checklist.design/
- https://pageflows.com/
- https://mobbin.design/patterns
- http://ui-patterns.com/
- https://collectui.com/
PSQL no downtime upgrade (e.g. 12 > 13) via logical replication.

So difficult that I think it's worth writing an article for it:
https://dev.to/pikachuexe/postgresql-logical-replication-for...

But staying update with latest version is possible and relatively easy with Docker: update the Dockerfile, build and push, run deploy via Ansible playbook
Jobs for Women in Product and Engineering
what if you worked on a product that excites you? I created a simple website that helps product and engineering ladies find jobs in startups https://www.shesready2.dev/ there is also a slack community. This is a personal project that I do in my free time, does not have any corporate sponsors. DM and happy to share the list of 36 jobs, from entry level all the way up to head of product and head of engineering to startups of all sizes. I'm currently in VC, former ML eng and that's how I curate the jobs. Totally a passion project and free.

Founders can post a job for the community of 400 ladies to see or can get access to the airtable with the candidates who consented to be on the shared list.
The official 9/11 story being a farce has been an open secret almost since the event. There are hundreds of verifiable facts that don't fit the official narrative.
"A single action by the government"

Yeah, this is generally called "collective action" when it is contrasted with "individual action".
The local government in Taiwan still claims all of China as its territory, why would they want to be an independent country with only one island?
In the UK, plastic bags are no longer free in shops. In fact they keep increasing the price. It's definitely made me use far less plastic bags, it's just a case of developing a habit to take my own.

(This was government action)
I get that this is the von Neumann architecture. What I don't get is how not understanding it connects to not wanting WASM or JITs in your web browser.

Note also that the author explicitly mentions they are not that concerned with JavaScript performance and would instead prefer a supposed simpler and easier to understand interpreter.
> We don’t remember things by modifying our past memories – we simply accumulate more, as if adding entries to a log or a journal. We search through them by traversing time, looking for links between ideas and experiences.

This is a good write-up. Not the first one mentioning this, but ideas first, organisation second, that's the natural workflow. Yet most note-taking apps have it backwards. The self-promoting ones in the comment section seem no different besides offering a new color theme.

The only app I used that was true to this was apple notes. But then, organisation sucked and my workflow is not just about taking notes. It's about organising my knowledge and time around it.

I'm going to be no different here and promote https://acreom.com which launched recently and is unique. It's simple just like apple notes, the functionality is either well designed or hidden in the backend using machine learning.

It's time for a new approach. I'm happy to share access and get ridiculed if someone doesn't find it so.
Hot Topics in Self-Driving Industry
"I think there's a big difference between a US elite university, and say, Germany with German universities"

I believe that difference is $200k annually. I mean obviously free public universities in Germany will be a lot less selective than paid US elite universities.

"They really, really, really hate anyone that deviates from the norm. This is just my constant experience in Germany which is why I had to leave because I did deviate from the norm."

My experience has been exactly the opposite. Germans will try to show their individualism with odd little quirks like flower decoration and exotic hobbies. On the flip side, just try getting respect from US bankers if you're not wearing their pre-approved "business suit uniform". In Germany, you're usually OK visiting a bank in shorts and t-shirt.

"Germany feels a lot poorer than the United States"

I can agree to this one. Rich people in Germany are a lot more hesitant to be flashy about showing off their expensive car, etc. I'm not sure it is a bad thing, though. I would want rich people to pretend to be normal just so that society feels fairer for everyone (even if it is factually wrong).

"If you look at German billionaires, they all have inherited wealth, where the US billionaires which they... "

There's this club around the Rocket Internet and Project A people who have all become at least 10% billionaires from their own startup exits, some even with US funds like Sequoia or Tiger. But in general yes, there's a lot of inherited old wealth in Europe. But did Trump, for example, really become rich by working himself?

BTW, he seems to whine a lot about the lack of European / German quality research. Again, my guess would be it's more about a different way of presenting it.

MP3 and MP4 and MPEG-H are all from Fraunhofer in Germany. It's just that MPEG-H is usually branded as "Dolby Atmos". If you're a small European company and you want to enter the US market, it many cases it's easiest to have a local reseller. That way, it appears to be an US product.
The world is not software. That's a silly catchphrase.

You can't code meaning, joy, health, or good company into someone's life.

Software won't provide company and solace to a dying patient or make you feel blissed out when having sex. It can't give you the pleasure of talking to your six year old child or getting into the mosh pit of an aggressive rock show.

Software development is a nice profession with lots of benefits. But it's easy to spend too much time in solace and inside your head. And as a human we have needs that it won't be able to meet.
If this is the drive behind this project, seems like you are putting too many eggs in one basket. Maybe a good attempt to get rid of the "glue" programming but, I wouldn't pay for this. Its all trivial stuff that I now need to review.

It would be a "cool tool" if it inspected the code statically and dynamically. Testing the code to see if it actually does what the AI thinks it should do. From running small bits of code on unit level to integration and acceptance testing. Suggest corrections or receive them. _That_ will save time and I and companies will pay for.

Also you cannot call this the "third revolution" if it is a paid service.
Do you know what advantages does Renderman bring in comparison to Cycles or eeven Eevee, for hobbyists mainly?
Wait what, why do you mention these justices? Surely SC justices must study in the US to learn US law? Why would any of them study in another country in the first place? I would also assume all German Bundesgerichtshof justices would have studied in Germany.
Fixed. it had pointed to index.htm (wow - that's an oldie).
Military funding of Bin Laden isn't that far-fetched, and it may have possibly been true in the past[0], but 9/11 truthers believe that the World Trade Center was taken down by missiles and controlled demolition, and that people who thought they saw a plane were confused.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_...
Transportation, assembly, foundation, utilities, sewage. Ive looked at similar systems myself.

EDIT: They also state this in their FAQ (https://www.boxabl.com/faq/):

- Transportation = $2-$4 per mile from las vegas
- Assembly = "Boxabl only sells room modules. We will connect you with a Boxabl certified and state licensed installer in your area."
- The rest = "Whats not included in that price is your land and site setup. This can include utility hookups, foundation, landscaping, permits, and more. Depending on your location and the complexity of your site, this cost can range anywhere from $5,000 to $50,000."
I appreciate others success. I generally really like Graham's essays.

I don't believe wealthy people are different, just under extraordinary circumstances.

Here are some assumptions I'm holding:

- I don't believe the wealthy have any secrets on virtue that anyone else doesn't.

- I believe power messes with people's sense of reality.

- I believe we're poor judges of our own intentions.

- I believe we tend to more generously assign intent to the wealthy.

- I believe success can give us false confidence in unrelated disciplines.

- I believe generosity is a form of communication for the wealthy.

- I don't believe the wealthy often become poor from their generosity.

- I believe wealth inequity is the third worst problem facing the world today.
One of the weirder ones is that there were over 80 cameras pointed at the plane that crashed into the Pentagon and the public has seen none of the videos.
I _really_ want a filter on Amazon for both where a product is manufactured as well as where the company exists. Basically I want to undo the Chinese-knockoffization of Amazon with all its complete dilution of all search results… let alone sad stories like this.
'Everything I don't use is bloat.'
Making sense of 1NF, pt. II
Aren’t caravans quite poorly insulated so if you heat it year round and don’t have extremely mild weather like most of UK then you’ll waste a lot of money keeping warm (or cool)?
The attraction of a modular home to me would be that it can have proper construction with heavy triple glass windows and so on.
That’s Sandy Bridge architecture, so unless they’re limited on RAM or have a spinny disk, they’ve got plenty of performance. They should be upgradable to 16GB of RAM.
Classic Lean Startup?
Introduce CO2 tariffs. Get the republicans on board through protectionist policies that actually make sense.
Very nice article.

I particularly enjoyed the description of the historical evolution of x86-TSO.
I guess you can find fringe groups against anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Because framing collective action problems caused by a very small powerful minority of people as mass moral issues is how we all fucking die.

In fact, you have a moral imperative to stop doing this, since you are covering for the actual actors with bad morality by misrepresenting where the moral failing lies.
Is there any explanation of how this works, beyond ‘ai’?

I mean, I understand (I think) how Bert/gpt works, but I can’t quite see how you would train this.
The paywall ends this article on a real downer!

> The male was caught in September 2004. He was old, had only one eye and died a few weeks later. The other two birds were spotted around the same time, then never seen again.

THE END
Would they still be secrets?
Mind slightly blown. The Cookoo's Egg is a great book, Cliff is amazing to watch in the Klein Bottle videos, but I've only just realised they're the same person!
True, and if the specialists retire, there may be some parts that no one understands properly anymore.

See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko / Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow
Aww, I love those objective headlines. Aren't "residents" always the ones protesting?

Well, while the headline isn't objective at least it has an objective: making us think that every Ohioan was protesting it.
Personally, I don't like having neighbours, I like nature, I don't mind living small. Such a house would allow me to put more of my resources in land. Then if I need more room for stuff I can build that myself (stuff requires less isolation and there are less strict rules for it in my country, etc).
I can understand this reluctance. For what its worth I don't like talks about programming. It often doesn't provide too much knowledge transfer beyond a very shallow level. A deep blog post is much more appreciated. Would be awesome to see changes that this form of publishing isn't neglected anymore.
I often find things on Amazon, then go directly to the seller's webpage or search for a book on other bookstores. You can often get it cheaper, and with peace of mind that it isn't counterfeit. Only really buy on Amazon if it really doesn't exist anywhere else and really need it.
Not for me. To be fair I didn't have types in PHP, Python or JS either.
I wrote about my onboarding thoughts on Elixir here: https://underjord.io/onboarding-to-elixir.html
Thank you Lanstin!

Stay-at-home parent? Oh, but your note brings smile to this tired astronomer's face...
Mocrosoft’s CausalCity simulation for causal inference in ML
“The 2020s will bring to tech what the 1930s brought to financial services.”
Full Quote:

"This reflects a conclusion that this decade will bring expanded tech regulation around the world. As I sometimes put it inside the company, the 2020s will bring to tech what the 1930s brought to financial services." Microsoft President Brad Smith

Original Article: https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-gears-up-for-future-tech-regulations
this is so weird

I don't use autocomplete nor syntax highlighting, this thing feels almost hostile to my ways.

(the only non linear help I love, is jump to definition)
The US starts wars all the time. The CCP would have made a grave error in judgement if it thought this would be any different. If the US walked away from Taiwan that puts South Korea, Japan and other allies in SE Asia at risk. Not going to happen.
Or prevent them from forcing other people to do it their way.
It's funny. You can be precocious in many things academic, and Leopold certainly is. But the 'wisdom' he imparts is still very generically from the mindset of a 20-year-old elitist. For example...

"People say the ivy leagues should admit more people. I actually think they should admit less... there is too much variability in the ability of the students"

He goes on to suggest it would have been a better experience if only the top 10% were admitted. Better, because it would have made his peer group more ideal. He says this without equivocation or qualification, lol. I almost admire the brazen egocentrism.
The one exception to car parts sites being shit is rockauto. Just start typing in the search bar and it figures out what year make model and part you're looking for. Their search experience is light-years ahead of any other auto parts website and might actually be the best product search interface I've found anywhere, hiding out on a car parts site. I highly encourage anyone interested in product search ux to go check it out.
How Rapid Lateral Flow Tests should be recorded in the UK
Finland did that and reduced homelessness by 33%. It fell short of their goal of ending homelessness entirely, but it's hard to argue that a 33% reduction is anything short of amazing.

https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/eradicating...
How dare you exclude non-person furries, bigot.
In old English man was gender neutral. Wer, as in werewolf, was the masculine. World comes from Wor-old, or literally, age of males.