skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual report had a histogram comparing the relative results of all those options against each other.

The point I'm trying to make is that what you're calling out as a bad question is a summary in 3rd party reporting and not the actual questions in the survey or the report.

It's a bit like judging a book based on someone else's book report rather than the book itself.
The existing systems are much more efficient. I do think it is good they are moving to proof of stake.
Prices have already stabilized at the local big box hardware store. 2x4x8s were below $2 a month ago and are back to $3.50+
Others have noticed the same thing.

>Every time a new Pixel phone comes out, we make a whole article summarizing all the problems people have with them. We don’t do this for any other manufacturer. Google has proven over the years that its phones simply have way more issues than others.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-biggest-proble...
>Butt killing someone isn't respectful just because we say it is. If I kill you without you feeling any pain, it's hard to say I'm really respecting you, even if I say "respect in death as well".

If I had to kill someone in self-defense, I'd also try to make it as humane as possible. There's no point in generating excess suffering.

> Why not just eat something else that doesn't involve killing an animal that doesn't want to die?

Because I am above that animal on the food chain, and it's my natural right to eat it. Why don't you go judge a lion instead?

> Ah, so not much of a circle is it then?

We rot in the dirt eventually, plants eat us, and then herbivores eat those plants. It's a circle.
Having a sexual orientation or gender identity that their parents don't approve of and that they haven't revealed?
I am glad to be proven wrong.
The real question is how many dead kids matter until shareholder value growth is limited.

The thing I seriously wonder if there is a new evolutionary pressure unfolding, and whether or not we should fight it. Or, will it take care of itself?
This is the way:

Use new major versions for stdlib packages, e.g., sort/v2
Most of these people are "experts" on paper only. They are authoritative voices hired by big actors who have a stake into making people believe that the prices will not go down. The same thing is happening for housing, crypto and meme stocks.
It's a good question! I'm super curious about that myself.

I do have a bed occupancy sensor, in the form of a SparkFun OpenScale under the legs. There was a Raspberry Pi in the room for speakers already, so it's just on that.

It needs some fancy calibration to deal with temperature changes, but I just constantly tare it when my desktop computer is active (and I'm home alone I'm certainly not on the bed). That's been super responsive and great. Bed transitioning from empty->occupied when bedroom is in night mode turns off all the other rooms again.

In general, I've found that it's a lot easier to track actions than presence. So computer activity, or a door opening.

I did just flash some ESP32s with this, which is a way to report bluetooth signal for a single device across a network of listeners. They can report direct to HASS via MQTT, but it also has its own persistent python thing to more carefully triangulate. No idea if it'll work reliably or fast enough to really be useful: https://espresense.com/
I'd never heard of the Mushroom! Thank you for making me aware of it! A quick DDG search returned no results; I'd appreciate any links you have on the topic!

I'd also love to see your talk! Do you think a RISC Rekursiv could be achieved? What value, if any, do you think such might have in our current world?
Multi-year chart of lumber prices puts some of these "skyrocketing" and "cratering" headlines in perspective: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber
Sortof?

I think saying "haha PHP sucks, <my language> rules" is marker of immaturity. Presumably because it's beginners who think that showing contempt indicates superiority.

With more experience, you understand the value of trade-offs, and learn to live with flaws of legacy/historical decisions, etc.
Wow, do you try to SQL inject every site linked from HN comments?
> The existing systems are much more efficient.

If you ignore the costs of the trust issues between participants (as well as a lot of physical infrastructure apart of trust chains) and how that plays out through the entire system, and a lot harder to trace CO2 values on (esp those that people will all agree on).

Here's one persons take on this with Banks vs BTC wrt CO2[0] with their numbers from last year that I'm sure plenty of people will disagree with in one form or another (usually without numbers of their own).

[0] https://medium.com/@mukeat/carbon-footprint-differences-btc-...
De jure is almost exclusively used when there's a contrast between theory and practice. "The UN seat is still held by the de jure government of Afghanistan, but de facto, the Taliban now have full control of the country."
I used to donate to Wikipedia but then they got bloated/political. I felt bad about my donations and wished I could take them back. Will the Internet Archive avoid this fate?
### LaTeX

$$ \log_{b} x = (b^? = x) $$
$$ 2^3 = 8 $$
$$ \log_{2} 8 = 3 $$
$$ \ln e = 1 $$
$$ \log_b(xy)=\log_b(x)+\log_b(y) $$

$ \begin{align}
\textit{(1) } \log_b(xy) & = \log_b(x)+\log_b(y)
\end{align} $

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_logarithm... ,

#### sympy2latex

What e.g. sympy2latex parses that LaTeX into, in terms of symbolic objects in an expression tree:

# install
#!python -m pip install antlr4-python3-runtime sympy
#!mamba install -y -q antlr-python-runtime sympy

import sympy
from sympy.parsing.latex import parse_latex

def displaylatexexpr(latex):
expr = parse_latex(latex)
display(str(expr))
display(expr)
return expr

displaylatexexpr('\log_{2} 8'))
# 'log(8, 2)'
displaylatexexpr('\log_{2} 8 = 3'))
# 'Eq(log(8, 2), 3)'
displaylatexexpr('\log_b(xy) = \log_b(x)+\log_b(y)'))
# 'Eq(log(x*y, b), log(x, b) + log(y, b))'
displaylatexexpr('\log_{b} (xy) = \log_{b}(x)+\log_{b}(y)')
# 'Eq(log(x*y, b), log(x, b) + log(y, b))'
displaylatexexpr('\log_{2} (xy) = \log_{2}(x)+\log_{2}(y)')
# 'Eq(log(x*y, 2), log(x, 2) + log(y, 2))'

### python standard library

https://docs.python.org/3/library/operator.html#operator.pow

https://docs.python.org/3/library/math.html#power-and-logari...

math. exp(x), expm1(), log(x, base=e), log1p(x), log2(x), log10(x), pow(x, y) : float, assert sqrt() == pow(x, 1/2)

## scipy

https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.s... scipy.special. xlog1py()

https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.s...

### sagemath

https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/functions/sage/fu...

### statsmodels

### TensorFlow
https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/math tf.math. log(), log1P(), log_sigmoid(), exp(), expm1()

https://keras.io/api/layers/activations/

SmoothReLU ("softplus") adds ln to the ReLU activation function, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier_(neural_networks)#So...

E.g. Softmax & LogSumExp also include natural logarithms in their definitions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmax_function

### PyTorch

https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.log.html torch. log(), log10(), log1p(), log2(), exp(), exp2(), expm1(); logaddexp() , logaddexp2(), logsumexp(), torch.special.xlog1py()

***

Regarding this learning process and these tools,
Now I have a few replies to myself (!) in not-quite-markdown and with various headings: I should consolidate this information into a [MyST] markdown Jupyter Notebook and re-lead the whole thing. If this was decent markdown from the start, I'd have less markup work to do to create a ScholarlyArticle / Notebook.
I don’t think so.

I’m fully bought in on Apple products. I now have a 2019 16” Macbook, which was an upgrade from my 2015 MacBook. It’s night and day better. Even the audio sounds really dang good.

My airpod pros work seamlessly, switching between my iPhone and MacBook. The sound is great, there are no cables, and these have lasted me longer already than my previous Bose sport earbuds, despite daily use.

The biggest innovation from Apple is a set of products that just seem to work, they’re pleasant to look at and touch, and pretty dang reliable.

I’m actually on an iPhone 7 still. I haven’t upgraded in many years, and not because I don’t think the new phones aren’t great, but because I don’t need a new phone. This one is excellent.
When Vimeo realizes your channel is using too much bandwidth
Nit-pick, but

> Empathy for customer needs

You can't have empathy for a need, but you can have empathy for the pain the person is feeling due to their needs. Empathy isn't really all that useful. What you really want is compassion for the customer and their needs.

When you pay a therapist to listen to you, do you want them to feel anguished, anxiety-stricken, rage-filled? Or do you want them to listen to you, understand your feelings, and calmly help you cope with them? The former makes for a very ineffective therapist; they wouldn't be able to get through the day doing that for every patient. But the latter allows them to do their job, which is to help you solve your problems.

Compassion also helps you choose better solutions. When you're empathizing, you're using your emotions, and we don't think clearly when we're emotional. When you're compassionate, you can consider their emotional state, but you may need to ignore it to provide the best solution, which might not be one that appeases their emotions. I have often over-empathized with customers' problems, and subsequently gotten angry when a solution I wanted to use [to alleviate their pain quickly] wasn't implemented. The calm approach was longer, but better in the end, and didn't have me lashing out at the bureaucracy.
What is meant by gluing two metric spaces together?
Theory: A lot of people have decided to be unemployed during COVID times. Even 5% of population deciding this will result in tremendous labour shortage. I think as people started staying home, many are realizing that they can actually get away with lot less or even no work.
Well, probably not as long as it's still run by its founder, Brewster Kahle.
I think it was good for America. Americans finally started to seriously transition to steel thanks to that.
End the business model entirely! Make all microtargeted advertising illegal!

(I can dream, can’t I?)
I haven't read this book, but this concept sounds very much like the notions of positive and negative liberty/freedom as described by Isiah Berlin [1].

In short, negative liberty is freedom from external interference, while positive liberty is having the resources and power to actually accomplish things.

[1] http://cactus.dixie.edu/green/B_Readings/I_Berlin%20Two%20Co...
> This entire case puts the government in a really bad light once you start looking into it.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that...

The SEC would probably open their own investigation into me.
> We discovered a small number of amplifiers that will resend their block pages when they process any additional packet from the victim - including the RST

Facepalm
I'm assuming it's the connectors and/or soldering. Given the pressure difference I imagine you could see a connector blow off or solder joints explode.

I still imagine it's insanely overkill, but when you're paying millions of dollars to send something into orbit, you probably want to make sure it works well first time.

With regards to malfunctions, I imagine this risk would actually be better mitigated with (fail-safe) circuit redundancy. After all, radiation is going to be causing bit flips and all sorts of weirdness.
Omigod: Critical Vulnerabilities in OMI Affecting Countless Azure Customers
I would wait. I'm an licensed inactive General Contractor.

If 14 months ago, they were building them for $450,000, I'd wait.

I'd shop around for another contractor too. A young guy starting out, might save you a lot. (There's no way to verify he knows what he's doing though.)

If you are some what handy, it's not that difficult to owner build your own house. That is if you get the blueprints past the town's council. Getting approvals is the tough part.

If you get all the town, county, approvals, and have a very buildable lot (flat, no flooding, etc.). Once the foundation is poured, it step by step, and done.

(If you decide to build yourself, don't make any changes. Don't build a custom house either. A simple home will make the process go smoothly. Realize too, the General Contractor just hires licensed subs, and takes a healthy cut off your nut. Then again--if you have never done construction yourself, disregard everything I said. I just pictured a typical computer developer in a wet lot, with an unhappy wife. Muttering to Google translate to communicate with the unlicensed, unbonded, subcontractor.)
I would make a good movie or netflix series.
The CDC that:
Says go ahead and give refugees Ivermectin and they're cool come on in lul
https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/guidelines/overse...

Gives preferential treatment to certain companies that continuously fuck people over (hint: it's corruption):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=2zoSSHx9QtA

Or that caves to teacher unions (I don't even...)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cdc-tightened-masking-guide...

And the FDA? They still actually push the food pyramid. It's a total clown show over there.

Is there a for real reason to trust these government agencies at all at this point?
Maybe this is why Toyota and Honda and Hyundai haven't totally given up on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpRyn5-ZbPU
I generally make it a goal to have a test case with silly enough data to get a comment from a reviewer.
At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, I remember 15-20 years ago talking to people next to me in public transports and meeting a lot of people who eventually became friends.

Now when I'm in a subway, every one is hunched on their mobile phone, no one is available to engage in conversation, to meet people. They're instead focusing on that tiny bright rectangle.

And I can see that I'm also guilty of the same. I'm always either on my kindle or my phone nowadays
Perhaps something like covid, but worse. NZ is doing better than Australia for containment.

We also have looming ecosystem collapse, or cascading problems in spercific ecosystems (pests and plagues) that NZ might be partially sheltered from.
I've used Oso at Visa and it was a fascinating product. Until it clicked Polar was super confusing, but after speaking to the team over Slack. I realized how easy it was to use.

Their documentation has improved a lot since January, and while I haven't used Oso at Merkle Science (my current employer), I plan to. I owe the folks at Oso a blog article, which has been sitting in my drafts folder for 9 months now. I am going to dust it off this weekend and get back to it. Its the least I can do for them.
My washer is pretty low power consumption. I forget what exactly I set the threshold to, but when I did I was watching its output history. It spends a lot of time under 100w, and only irregularly spikes higher.

It is possible to watch much higher-power systems with power clamps--the same magnetic sensor kind you can put on your entire house power feed. I have one on my 220v dryer for completeness, although I never even bothered to rig up automation. There's no real penalty for ignored dry clothes like there is for ignored wet clothes--I guess it'd be useful for people with roommates, though.

Specifics devices will depend on zigbee vs z-wave vs wifi. If I were starting totally fresh, I'd go all zigbee.
404s are inflationary too, apparently.
This would be a really fun simulation to run
i wonder how youtube has an affect on children?
Typically, there is zwave plug measuring the power draw and sending data to hub. Based on the data, an event is triggered to change an LED on a light switch. HomeSeer has zwave switches with LEDs used for dimmer feedback than can be programmed to show a color.
I use the LEDs on one switch to match the state of two exterior door locks. Green/unlocked and Red/locked. I use another LED on the switch to match state of the Litter Robot, automatic cat litter box. Blinks red when full and needs to be emptied.
Here's a pretty good one:
https://www.bloombergquint.com/coronavirus-outbreak/pfizer-e...
Mortgage borrowing costs are at historic lows.
What I didn't realise until recently was that Duolingo's web version contains written material on grammar that is completely inaccessible on mobile. It is very very frustrating to know that what must be their main platform receives a slightly inferior service, even for paying customers.
> Imagine a world where actual physical computers didn't progress to universal computation, but were stuck being purpose built

It’s not clear that you need a theory of computation to build a stored process computer. You might not clearly understand the theoretical capability of such a machine , but that wouldn’t prevent you from doing many useful things with it.
What harm do you think would be reduced? Just what surveillance do you suggest?

How would it be enforced? Could minors just lie about their age? Or would you eliminate anonymity for adults?
Awwww, I kinda like Buganizer -- but also it allows for much more direct engagement between Googlers and the issues reported by the public.
Would it be OK to flag this because it's not at all drum juggling? Or should I be happy that someone commented better links?
when it comes to minors there is a good principle that whatever happened shouldn't cast shadow on adult life, like for example criminal record gets sealed/etc. Absence of E2E makes for higher chances that your communications are going to be out there for the rest of your life, so whatever stupid thing you said at 16 may be a part of your unofficial background check at 30 or even 40 ...
Doesn’t the three-letters do that like… all the time? That’s basically the definition of honeypotting

As I recall, the FBI did exactly that fairly recently, when they pwned some credit card trading site and ran it themselves for years.
I like the chart, but it's exactly what the article indicated, no?

Article indicated It went up to 3 times the price and is now down to pre rocket prices. Charts seem to agree?
The Chinese are actively trying to establish control of their territories and it's surprising that anyone thinks that there isn't a real threat to global security which comes with that.
I don’t understand your comment and scare quotes, do you think a quadrupling in price of a commodity is not skyrocketing?

That’s a cool website thank you for sharing it.
The 25Y chart looks interesting, a reversion to the mean. Prices finally came back to the normal range.
German Experiment Shows Horses Beating Local Internet Connections
Not OP, but I would guess they don't directly.

If it's possible to set those status LEDs arbitrarily, you could use another power-sensing outlet's data, so a different device entirely.

This is the magic of Home Assistant in general--it's really just a big bag of sensors (temperature/power/times/etc) and a bag of services (turn on, set to X, change color). You can have sensors from anything trigger a service on anything else.
The real tragedy is it had a massive chilling effect on other sites.

A major escort site (not BP) was ethically ran by a retired sex worker. The site sold out of fear of prosecution and the new owner is a horrible person in my opinion.
Open sourcing DynoYARN A simulation and testing infrastructure for YARN clusters
> Using a public VPN anonymizes your traffic if you assume many other people are using the same VPN server

Gotcha

> Plus setting up a DO droplet VPN sounds like a PITA

It's actually very easy using https://getoutline.org/ - can highly recommend it if you need a fixed IP. And you can buy DO droplets with cryptocurrency through Bithost
I saw it on Reddit too. Been using it their api to build a stock price predictor
>"We did some crazy stuff. Delivered some gigantic ambitious projects with pure chutzpah. Dove into tech we didn't know anything about ..."

OMG. I had exactly the same story word for word until I got fed up with this meat grinder and had started my own business 20 years ago.
Some of the forecasts about high prices forever were just sour grapes that their preferred candidate lost an election. You always have to take predictions with a grain of salt.
Anonymous hacks and leaks data from domain registrar Epik
He is like the fifth force of nature.
I have a Mini Cooper SE EV -- much less range than the Bolt (110 miles), but a bit cheaper. The range isn't a problem, since it's my commute car, and it can handle 3 days of commutes without charging, and I don't take it on long trips, we have a second car for that.

We almost got a Bolt, but my wife always wanted a Mini and since we were replacing her car, she got to choose. In retrospect, she chose wisely.
It’s the first “I’d like to buy 3 days in orbit for 4” flight.
That's kinda what I was expecting, but honestly my first thought was that the drums would be in the air!
The only people I saw saying this were the people on mainstream news like CNN or Fox (more Fox). But outside that I didn't hear anyone. Lumber has been falling since May and lumber futures have been going down as well.

Really the only people that were saying that prices would remain high had a vested interest in keeping it high. It is such an insane position to even take considering that a pandemic is a temporary thing. Prices don't just pump like that and stay up. I know that there are a lot of people that say those kinds of things, but they are fear mongering and trying to cause inflation through self fulfilling prophesies.
Perhaps they were just quotation marks rather than scare quotes and they genuinely wanted to show how wild the price fluctuations have been. Cynicism abounds on the internet, but people are still sometimes genuine.
"the government" isn't a single person with consistent motives.

half the government wants to keep sex work illegal and doesn't really want to stop trafficking that much.
That might not be that easy. Can you run a bitcoin market on Tor?
Might of been Global Schoolhouse project https://web.archive.org/web/20091213001309/http://www.virtua...

they experimented with satellite links before settling in on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe
That someone thought this was a good idea is a social problem in itself.
So basically an indirect auction mechanism?
> With video games, the online tech communities rallied against any legislation and wrote volumes about how kids were smart enough to manage themselves and not let violent video games influence their thinking.

Because there is no evidence for this. In cases where there is, like in lootboxes, we see a push for legislation.

We have enough evidence to at least build correlation between social media use and decline of mental health. This doesn't call for banning or legislating the business to oblivion, but for talks in the society. We need to talk about social media use, our representatives have to discuss measures with the scientific community and promote research so that they can legislate based on data.

One thing is for certain, what we have now is unacceptable. What we will build in the future is up for debate and should be debated.
This fucks over the middle class a lot more than the "wealthy" Boogeyman that the Democrats like to trot out. Really makes it a lot harder to move up the class ladder when you have the oppressive hand pushing down on your head.
Yeah I did intentionally scope it to Eastern Europe. The caucuses and central asia did not go so well.
>could

Yeah but will it be? As it stands no rocket fuel is made in a clean way. As someone who very much intends to stay on Earth for the rest of my life, I feel well within my rights to be concerned that unneeded space travel is making stuff worse for us down here. Going into orbit is environmentally expensive, and society should use this technology judiciously.