skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stock analysis program. I scrape a stock site using Java and load the data to mySQL database in my computer. I have cloud functions to scape any new announcements and send mail to me. The site I had built is pretty much scalable meaning announcements are stored in Firebase and bootstrap 4 website logins are handled by Firebase as well and each user can track the stocks, get announcements related to their stocks and see all the financials and see the reports as well.

The roadblocks been, the source site from I scrape they change their site design often due to which I loose data or had to rework which some times takes couple of months. Data is sometimes disconnected like if the stock is part of a index the main page is updated with main items like revenue and net profit but the details pages are not updated and they might be updated within next 5days. So scraping takes lots of time in my home computer amd insertion takes time as well. Initally I was generating around 50 reports, after site upgrades due to change in data presented data, currently have around 35 reports. Since I am not seeing that many reports currently I am going to drop more reports.

Scraping part is the part I would like to move to cloud but currently I don't have enough time but 3yrs back I was working like a machine 9hrs office. 5-7hrs each day on this. Tech stack all of it I had to learn
Scraping : Java, Python (introduced a year back);
Analysis : Java & SQL queries
. Currently trying to add pandas;
Realtime scraping : NodeJs, Firebase in GCP;
UI : initially generated reports using Java velocity, Js datagrids in bootstrap. Later developed a full fledged bootstrap 4 web application;.

Spent RIDICULOUS amount of time on this. Worse thing is when I started there wasnt much of apps did what I tried to do in report perspective. Now there are apps which does almost 50% of analysis what I do.

Now the thought process is do I want to proceed ? No. I am trying to continue the scraping part but sort of minimize all the UI stuff and when some analysis is required write a query to get the data and subscribe & pay the app which solves 50% of my work.

Due to this I didn't focus on any other areas in life which right now is lot frustrating. Sacrifices I used to be a marathon runner, not anymore. Used to workout regularly 5days a week in gym, not anymore. Used to have social life, not anymore.

Another interesting thing, it's a stock webapp which I was building, I was soo into the programming in bringing this up actually I didn't actually get time to review the reports. I did miss a lots of Market Ups....
Well, the light gray on white background has horrible contrast. I think that'd give most people trouble.
I am using Inteliquent for my start up. I believe they are behind Twilio, telnyx and Messagebird.
Couldn't you make disclosure mandatory and impose significantly higher (business ending levels) on failure to disclose?
Study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn
Other way around. Separate tab bar is now the default, combo bar is an option.
> Github is just another GPL licensee. Unless they violate the conditions of the license, they're just utilizing their GPL rights.

And here is exactly the problem.

GitHub seems to be copying copyrighted code left and right and pretend they made it!

No attribution, no license.

They are of course allowed to let their AI study the code, but as "employer" of that AI GitHub/Microsoft has a responsibility if that AI breaks copyright right and left and they as a company pretend the code is theirs to give away.
I don't know why people are throwing around percentages so much in these replies. Percentage of what? Plus, the body of work of mathematics continues to grow all the time.

The core of the original comment that started this chain was:

> Applications of pure math happen downstream decades or centuries later.

My argument was that history shows that a surprising amount of mathematics does eventually trickle down into applications. I don't think anyone is arguing all of mathematics eventually sees an application.

Again, my point was that history does indeed seem to show that "applications of pure math happen downstream decades or centuries later". As the original commenter said, it's hard to predict what will be the next thing to be applied.
No, the greater society is actually enjoying the vast majority of value created by a business. You know, the people happily giving their money to the business in exchange for goods and services.
Some of that 'offline' pervasive tracking you describe does exist!

Not on the scale of the internet and you give some good examples that are egregious. a lot of it is just 'adtech' bs, but it's there.

and the traditional in-store transaction data marketplace is huge. Companies have been tracking you and your purchases around forever.

passive bluetooth IDs track you in store - though didn't iOS mitigate that by changing them frequently? idk maybe not.

There are some 'eye tracking' billboard tech but it's kind of dumb imho. The simpler is just trying to estimate impressions.

though maybe that's more digital ads than not. but collecting, selling, aggregating consumer data, combining it with purchase data, and using that for direct marketing ha been around for ages.
And in turn, watts are joules per second. Resolve Hours to 3600 seconds means 1 Wh = 3600 Joules. Which is the unit we should be using.
That's a good point. I reckon it'd be fairly trivial to get EmulationStation working nicely on it.
>> If we want top-grade products to remain available without a direct monetary transaction (i.e "free"), it seems we must give something that the product providers can turn into monetary value indirectly somehow.

For the sake of argument, lets assume FaceBook is a top-grade product that people currently don't pay for with money. It exists because advertisers pay FB. The targeting of ads to individual users allegedly results in a high CTR or whatever. Without targeting, FaceBook can still sell ads but they will be less targeted, and presumably have a lower CTR. That means they will be less valuable than other forms of ads and the ad spend will be adjusted accordingly. That seems bad for our "free" service. OTOH if we stop targeting in all areas, there will be no medium that is "better" to put ads and so the spend will likely move in proportion to where peoples eyeballs and ears are, as things used to be. That might actually result in more ad spending in areas like radio, TV, and any other medium that never gained the ability to target specific people.

Maybe that's a good thing for us consumers.
That is naive. If you try to say no to overtime, you will find they will just fire email they did not felt like writing.

And yes, there are managers who think common overtime to make fake deadline is good teambuilding.
Im in a similar circumstance. Do you own it outright? Where do you live? I have a plan to access liquidity (using cyrpto) rather than a direct sale. Looking in to the risks.
“instead of a program to simulate the adult mind, rather simulate the child’s”
That works only on desktop.
Any particular use-case you have in mind?
I think the author doesn't make the distinction between *knowing* practice XYZ and effectively applying XYZ. As with anything, when we discover something new, e.g. a hammer, everything looks like nails.

As a professional, I expect you to be able to argue both ways, to understand how much XYZ you need, or why XYZ has downsides and how it could hurt the company.

This is not just about best practices, but about anything: libraries, programming languages, clouds, DBs etc.
My understanding is based on the wikipedia article called "Historical Jesus", which confusingly is different than the "Historicity of Jesus". Also, a book I read a long time ago, called "Who Wrote the Bible".

I'm not purporting to be a biblical scholar, but it's clear to me that the evidence for Jesus is not as strong as, say, the evidence for Julius Caesar.

The fact that there is no direct evidence points to at least some haziness about the character. The same could be said for a number of other historical figures. It's pretty clear there are limitations to the evidence, from Wikipedia:

"The historical Jesus scholarship is bound by the following limitations:

- There is no physical or archaeological evidence for Jesus; all existing sources are documentary.

- The sources for the historical Jesus are mainly Christian writings, such as the gospels and the purported letters of the apostles.

- All extant sources that mention Jesus were written after his death.

- The New Testament represents sources that have become canonical for Christianity, and there are many apocryphal texts that are examples of the wide variety of writings in the first centuries AD that are related to Jesus.[33] The authenticity and reliability of these sources have been questioned by many scholars, and few events mentioned in the gospels are universally accepted.[34]"

So it seems that no writings about him survive from his life, by or about him. There is no physical evidence of his existence. Most of the evidence was written by early Christians, and few of the events they write about are universally accepted. And given the propensity of religious followers to exaggerate, I don't personally put a lot of stock in much of the motivated reasoning exhibited.

His is a resume with some holes in it. Smarter and better informed people disagree with me, but I'm just processing the evidence as I see it.
The Nvidia Shield ran Android. So either bad Android games locally, os streaming. The Shield might do better today as a client just for Stadia, Xcloud or PS Now.

However, this is far better. Not only are the specs very impressive for the size/power, but it runs an OS that can plan anything (with Proton). It's like mixing the switch with a ps4. Imagine playing the Witcher 3, or Doom Eternal on this compared to the 480p blurry Switch version. I hope this does well.
The option to walk away if you don't like it is an illusion. Facebook and Google can get an incredible amount of data on you just by tracking your friends. Communications logs, location data, calendar information, and more. The mere existence of the model also funds the continued development of mass surveillance capabilities. I don't see the will to make it happen, anywhere, but the only way out of the current situation is total abolition.
How does it compare in terms of performance to https://github.com/jsonapi-serializer/jsonapi-serializer (a fork of Fast JSON API out of Netflix, which wasn't being maintained)?
Or, more accurately, thinking inside of many tiny boxen.
From what I've seen, most codecs just brute-force in -1/+1 directions, nothing like doing Lucas-Kanade analysis to get an arbitrary direction. Not sure what the tradeoffs are. May be newer codecs will use Lucas-Kanade?
What is the point of opening this up to individual speculators? Wouldn’t it be better to launch a fund like an etf that ran the best or set of really good (historically backtested) ones and we lay people can just buy and sell shares of it?
is there any indication of a valve index 2 coming? given that facebook is a no-go for me, that makes the index the most appealing VR option for me. but it would suck to buy soon and have the next iteration come out right after I buy
I would be more convinced by this if BPOM hadn't approved azithromycin as well; there are far more severe risks in over-using antibiotics, and the available evidence suggests that azithromycin doesn't actually work to treat Covid.
My first boss once asked me in a performance review if I was a perfectionist. I was and told him so. He then explained something that left an impression on me: the value of shipping something that works even if it’s not elegant. I think there’s a happy medium between getting stuff done and getting stuff done ‘the right way.’

A lot of young engineers seem to miss the forest for the trees and this can be seen early in a project’s timeframe. Sometimes customers don’t help either because they lack the vision to know what they are really asking for as well. I know there’s a problem when people start suggesting solutions, elegant or otherwise, before the user requirements are fully fleshed out.

I work in an industry where CI/CD isn’t really a thing due to qualification/validation, so getting things perfect for re-using or servicing codebase is really inconsequential, but you’ll see people fall into the trap of ‘this has to be genericized 100% so we can use it everywhere.’ In reality nothing really gets re-used in such a way that it’s effective in reducing effort. I’m not saying it’s that way for everyone, but in my company’s pseudo programming space this is true.
The IGN video seemed to suggest that.
So, this is actually something that is in flux right now, and the tech is shifting towards loading from storage directly into memory, like the cartridge days back in the 1990s (Nintendo 64, etc). This is in flux to the point that it's really the new games from the past year or two you'd want to test.

What caused this shift is that the current generation of consoles shipped with SSDs. The PS5 and Xbox Series X/S both shipped with NVMe storage standard. Games going forward are designed with this baseline in mind.

The reason this affects game technology is because it changes the tradeoffs. You always wanted assets to load quickly, since forever. The amount of time it takes to load an asset has two parts that contribute: I/O time and the CPU time spent decompressing.

In the past, storage was more precious and slow, so your game would load much faster by compressing the data. NVMe users would never see worse loading times than SSD or HD users, so you'd just compress everything, and the NVMe users would see a slight benefit.

Now that NVMe is a reasonable minimum requirement, you can ship a game that uses uncompressed data on disk. People with NVMe see faster load times, and people without them see slower loading times, possibly MUCH slower.

When I say "uncompressed", I just mean "uncompressed, relative to the runtime representation" which may still use compression, like ASTC.

The situation with the Nintendo 64 is remarkably similar to what's going on now... because the Nintendo 64 had such a fast storage system, games could "easily" load assets on the fly. The system had only 4MB of RAM, which seemed like a very severe limitation, but you could make very expansive areas in games by streaming assets from the cartridge while playing. It was fast enough that you could load some assets from the cartridge into RAM, and they would be available to render during the same frame! These are the kind of technological changes that are going to happen inside engines, now that NVMe storage is more common.

I put "easily" in quotes because nothing about Nintendo 64 programming is easy.
Ohhhh I forgot about the cute animal security step! Tbh I thought it was decent. A sort of reverse password where they demonstrate that they're really them before you demonstrate you're really you. Two factor does do this, but I think it's easy to convince people that the system just "didn't require it" this time and skip it as a malicious actor vs. the cute animal. I'm not surprised it failed to accomplish anything, but in theory it seemed decent.
Might be faster to generate verbatim copies of Disney IP.
I wonder what major changes and developments we might be likely to see within our lifetimes... do you have any intuitions there? If so, I wonder if there might be additional variables or situation types/probabilities that could be interesting to throw into a monte carlo simulation.
EU proposes 2035 as the end date for internal combustion cars
That is interesting.

Surely there is a middle way? This is a classic throwing the baby out with bathwater.
I got my "hybrid" inverter today. My panel size is 330w x 16. So 5.2kWh. Grid tied system. 1 year. Average production 28 kWh on a good day with no grid power cuts.

Well the new hybrid inverter from phocus is supposed to use the generation when grid outside is down internally at home and that opens up a lot of possibilities.

Been thinking about using solar water heating to reduce electricity consumption but that is a big project.

Batteries are still expensive in india. Lithium ion is prohibitively expensive than lead acid. Agreed it pays in time of life but still.

Edit: anyone know if I can incorporate phocus inverter into home assistant ? It has ble so some sort ?
This is really cool but also surreal. There's a lot of real-time reaction to the news, which is an insight in and of itself, but this feels very different from our IRC logs. Will be interesting to compare and contrast in 2041 when the OIR logs get declassified.
Huh, my Facebook feed is all about feminism, animal rights, and glurge. And I am not at all into that, but I guess many of my friends are, so that's what I am shown. I have a few "right wing" friends, but they are a minority, so I rarely get content like that.

It is just a bubble, it doesn't look like Facebook has any kind of bias, except to the best paying advertiser I guess.

It actually makes Facebook less "bubbly" for me. I get a variety of opinions that aren't mine, they are often controversial (controversy drives engagement), but rarely violent. Twitter and YouTube are much more targeted.
I'm a little disappointed that Valve is focused on Proton only. This can also play native Linux games. A well written native game should perform better, and, more importantly, get better battery life.

Maybe Valve is going about this the right way. Focus on Proton now, and if it takes off, game devs will make the effort to do a native port.
For pure arch, there are some helpers, like Arcolinux and anarchy Linux.

Only recommend using them for subsequent installations. You have to get the basics right first, so you can troubleshoot anything in the arch forums
IGN preview:

https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-hands-on-impressions...
Nice, flips the script and exposes their passive aggressive, manipulative language.
Adapton falls in this category of incremental computing. http://adapton.org/
Their algorithm will create an echo chamber for every single person on their network. Why particularly do they care about creating “right-wing” echo chambers unless they themselves are biased in one way or another politically. Personally I find it disturbing and a bit dystopian that mega corporations get involved in politics at all and even worse, are EXPECTED to do so.
> Plug it into the TV like a switch

Speaking of: I wonder if it'll work with a Switch dock? Probably would require some physical modification of the dock itself, but it'd still be neat if they're interchangeable and I can stick either one into any dock.
can i use this to mine crypto on all of yalls computers
> Same if you get junk mail in your mailbox that prominently displays a sign “NO JUNK MAIL”. Call them. Ask to speak to the person who put illegal advertising in your mailbox. When they blame it on the deliverer, say “Do you realise you are legally responsible for any illegal action you pay someone else to perform?”

Asking barbed, rhetorical questions to a stranger over the phone isn't "being assertive", especially when the person you're speaking to most likely has little to no control over the thing you are complaining about.

To quote The Big Lebowski: "You're not wrong, Walter. You're just an asshole!"
Further problem: You are one mortar round away from that weapon system becoming completely useless.
That's perhaps true of stored procedures, but SQL views, constraints, and triggers written in a declarative manner are far more maintainable and far less buggy than imperative application code, in my experience.
It’s perfectly valid for a trait to be more than 100% heritable
I hope this is appropriate. Heritability has come up a few times on HN, and there was usually a fair amount of discussion about what the numbers really mean.

See for example:
* "Heredity beyond the gene" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16543703 in 2018
* "The heritability of self-control: A meta-analysis" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21638463 in 2019
* "Lifetime earnings are 40-50% heritable" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21408139

So I thought that it might be useful to have a post that really nails down what exactly the definition is. It has some strange properties that few people seem to be aware of: For example (as alluded to in the title) it's possible for heritability to be higher than 100% if environmental effects are negatively correlated with genetic effects.
> Can there be an "infinitely large integer?"

What could that even mean? Aren't integers all defined as Succ^n(x) for a finite n and a base x?
My wife and I tried NVC for our first two years before binning it. I argue it's counterproductive outside a therapeutic context. When both parties are heated it's often that they just need a release valve. Placing a bunch of logical frameworks over real emotion can often stymie the other party who needs to release.

After four years now the real magic trick has been to just work on our problems individually and on the rare occasions we bicker either really, honestly, directly blow off steam (this is as about anti-NVC as you can get) like hey you piss me off right now and it's this thing you're doing and it sucks or leave the situation bodily and come back later.

The key thing for us has been to silo these arguments off from the rest of the relationship. The high drama that occurs inside the confines of an argument doesn't need to mean anything to the broader relationship. Of course if you have systemic issues then those need to be dealt with but no amount of modulating your tone or speaking in I statements or trying to reflect the other person is going to solve those.

We're so intent on logicking our way out of anything. But we're not Spocks. We're human beings with big big feelings.

Funny story, if you look at my comments history about two down, my father the massive criminal who raised me is the one who first introduced NVC to me. He fancied himself an armchair psychologist. He remains one of the most toxic individuals I have ever encountered to this day, certainly to my own life.

I think we're going to see a renaissance in plain speaking from the heart. That's my prediction for the next decade.
I'll definitely agree that that applies for most people, including myself. Also don't think there's anything wrong with that. But I was more saying when people aim for equality, some take that to mean dragging everyone down first, and some take that to mean pulling everyone up first.
Cantor's diagonalization proof was never a proof to begin with. You can't construct a number that isn't on an infinite list of all numbers because you can't list all the numbers, otherwise you'd eventually find your number. It's honestly kind of ridiculous that this proof hasn't been subjected to more rigor than just handwaving away the problems.
Thereby incentivise your contractors to let things fail. Contractors only get paid if things fail, if they are on salary and on staff they are incentivised for things not to fail.
Also note that twillio has shown[0] it will cut off your service if it disagrees with you.

[0] https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/twilio-jeff-lawson-parle...
If you are conservative and thorough in your update routine, arch can be very stable.
I personally have found it's much more difficult to partially mock out concepts when writing logic in the DB layer though my tooling may have been the weakpoint. In a nice application language I can easily isolate specific units of code for direct testing - while every test I write over complex database logic feels like composing a symphony where I need to make sure the horns are coming in on the right pitch and the wind section isn't too early to properly simulate a relatively easy error scenario.

Since the application layer is much more naturally aligned with small well isolated chunks of logic it is easier to minimize the volume of code and logic in scope when testing a particular attribute - when that goes into the DB I've always seen things get more complex rapidly.