skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I experimented from the starting point I used simply because I felt like trying it, learning as I went. (I'm the author.)

A minimax result is a small improvement on Chebyshev. Though my program is too slow to be good for experimenting with higher-order approximations, for which a Remez algorithm implementation would be far more generally useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remez_algorithm

I think Remez + the end-point fitting trick I stumbled on would be the practical way to extend the last two parts in the article to higher order approximations. And make it exact instead of only "almost".
The moment you turn 18 your parents owe you nothing. For better or worse I was kicked out multiple times as a teenager, and evicted, all before turning 18.

I'm well aware that I'm simply not owed anything. However the worst human beings I've ever met are the 20 to 30 year olds who are still being taken care of by their parents, but don't appreciate it. They relentlessly complain about how poorly their being treated. A free place to live at 25 is great treatment as far as I'm concerned.

I learned the hard way these folks just think everyone in the world owes them. They treat having a job as optional. They create endless amounts of unneeded chaos.

As a related point, you need to set extremely high standards for anyone you enter into a relationship. You can't think oh it's okay, I really like this person, it's fine that they don't want to work. Nothing good comes from associating with people like this.

With that said I've been exceptionally lucky in the last few years. Almost everyone I've dated recently has been independent and career driven. The girl I'm currently dating is easily everything I've ever wanted in a partner, she has a master's, knows 3 languages, and has a great job.
Oh good to hear the Cars phase ends because every Friday when it’s his turn to pick for movie night, our three year old picks Cars 3, no exceptions.
How much equity is everyone getting as a high level senior developer/architect?
I just joined a 20 person pre-Series A company with a lot of traction and revenue and felt my equity offer was a little low. I don't want to reveal too much because I use my real identity on this site but it was under 1%. What have you been getting?
Love this article. I had a chance to go through YC S20 and it's been life changing for me. As someone who lives in a non-target city (Charlotte, NC) and with no connections to SV and not having a fancy degree, getting into YC opened so many doors for me. As a first-time founder, the 7% that YC takes seems like almost nothing when in return you get access to very valuable information and network. If I was to start a new company again, I'd still apply for YC again.
Search engines always like websites with more text and less graphics.
That DI layer (speaking for Spring) is pretty handy for large projects, though, because I can switch out implementations based on configurations centrally, I can use factories without change of injection patterns, ...
From what I've seen, YC will always advise going for a high-growth, high-risk strategy, and their advice and knowledge base will always push in that direction because that's what is best for YC.

That might be what's best for a given founder or company, but it may very well might not be. You will have to be proactive and assertive in what works for you to avoid being bullied into the standard YC/Silicon Valley gamblers' playground point of view.
I can't even track these UI techs anymore. I thought WinUI is the new version of the UI layer of UWP and all apps who use WinUI are actually still considered UWP apps? I genuinely don't know, can somebody enlighten me?
Typo: Near future
Dried spirulina has found its way into my diet lately as a recovery drink. It reminds me of what I expected play dough to taste like.
I'll look into it. Seems like need a little update for the kostikaable.com. Not sure why kostikaition.io showed registered on your end.

In general, each LTD can have around 300-1000 queries per day (the numbers is not officially listed, just from discussion on some forums)

Great advice to check them in parallel. Thanks!
> I'd rather have a beefier electrical system than maintain an electrical system AND a hydrogen pipeline system.

Sure, but so what? India is not dependent on you personally maintaining a hydrogen infrastructure and this narrow-minded “there can be only one way” would not just have us staying on fossil fuels because “why maintain both gas AND electric?” It wouldn’t even have us providing both gas and diesel by the same argument.
I was an edgy teenager and wanted to use something different my friends were using so I asked my even more edgy friend how to start with Linux and he pointed me towards Slackware or Gentoo. That was back in 2003 I believe. I also remember being enamored with KDE.

I'm not trolling. Thats exactly how I got into Linux and later other flavors of Unix like BSD and Solaris. Fast forward and that silly teenager angst paved the way to my whole career.

PS: my even more edgy friend is still very edgy though he also became a father and a successful engineer.
What do you think aging is from a mechanistic standpoint?

Define it and tell me how you can't make a measurable impact upon it.
The 'variants' include different sizes, and:

> You only pay for original images; not variants

https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/faq
Interestingly, the Wikipedia article for coal formation links to this paper which refuted the idea that coal formation was primarily attributable to the delayed agility of microorganisms to break down lignin during the Carboniferous period: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4780611
During the deal, self-rationalization starts to kick-in. The founders probably start believing some of the big-company synergy stories: complementary customer base, already scaled resources, complementary product in the portfolio. "Cross-sale alone will pay for the deal in X months/years." Sometimes they do work out! But all too often, the inertia of the larger business prevents realizing that dream. Yet if the founders weren't good at producing a reality distortion bubble, they quite likely wouldn't have made it to the M&A table in the first place. So such illusions shouldn't be surprising, especially if the price is high.
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> ...version system build into the VMS OS file system.

That was more of "versioning" than "version control" system. It simply automated the sequential numbering of the saved instances of a file. The versions were not deltas, just normal files, the version number being part of file specification:

name.ext;ver

As much as one can do with versions was diff, purge and file operations, basically, no change annotation or higher level grouping. But being files, the versions allowed to see the what-who-when changed. No why. Still this probably was convenient in some use-cases and as an immediate file backup.

As for the real version control system on OpenVMS, one of such was called CMS, part of DECset suite. I believe it was of exclusive-check-out/check-in kind, similar to how it's done with, say, CVS, but absolutely not like CVS otherwise. For example, there was no support for directories in the repository.

I guess these days it may be possible to run Git on OpenVMS too.
The way I see it, one party has gone dumb, and the other party is obviously going evil (I am from Russia so you can guess what I think of leftism). The question is whether you prefer your government dumb or evil; I think dumb is... the lesser of two evils.

But I can agree on the timing aspect, I'd vote for Obama OR Romney over literally any politician prominent in 2021.
Definitely overseas suppliers of lumber immediately pivoted their existing capacity and started running extra shifts. I have a friend who works for a lumber wholesaler, and close to 100% of their additional sales came from lumber in Asia.

But, if there was an expectation that these price levels were going to be sustained, the mills would have started engaging in capital programs to increase their capacity - because, and this is critical - there was no supply of raw-timber issue, indeed - the price of raw timber didn't increase.

That those capital programs did not take place, is the strongest representation I can think of of Mill owners true assessment of the long term prices.
In the end its going to be very much like influenza. We get yearly flu shots primarily because the flu is different variants every year, and secondarily because over time immunity lowers.
> Does any country in the middle east have a good reason to care that much about Israel? Does Israel truly have a reason to care that much about any other country in the Middle East?

The answer to both of your questions is Iran. Which makes Israel and ISIS strange bedfellows, when Israeli fighter jets dropped bombs on Iranian-backed militas fighting ISIS in Syria.
Re running: Couch to 5k is awesome. Again, go slower and avoid burnout. Wait until you “crave” running and you’ll actually learn to love it rather than hate it.
> 1 - mandate disclaimers in front of all videos describing the possible negative effects of porn

Why would you think this will work? My parents, school, etc already gave you a million false warnings about porn and yet I looked at it. Did that even work for smoking? I think smoking only stopped once vape replaced it. Now I have to skip the intro logo as well as some stupid disclaimer, and producers have to waste more of their time on legal checkboxes, great.

> 2 - hold video hosting sites liable if content is shown to minors.

That's not a concrete plan. Do we need photo ID here? Some experimental crypto to disclose your government certified age to the website so it can decide not to kick you off? What about a forum where anyone can post any image? Does the forum have to be legally liable to block minors if it has no rule against porn?

The internet worked perfect in 2000. I got my porn when I was 13 and had no problem. There was not a single complaint aside from corporate scum trying to enforce DMCA crap (the multi billion dollar company was complaining, nobody else). Only when all you American idiots came in 2010 from faceberg all these pretend social problems started existing. The internet is literally just data transmission and this act could not be more harmless if you wanted it to be. Quite literally, the internet is the most harmless technology in existence. It cannot give you any disease, etc. It costs nothing, etc. What we are seeing here is the American art of being a professional victim. One should start by observing that almost every single complaint about the internet starts with "I read some text and now I am offended".

I envision the internet as community run, and free. The current internet is all obsolete garbage. The problem is, on this new internet we wont actually be able to make it because everything will be illegal by then. It will be illegal to run point to point to your neighbour because of some stupid porno law that has absolutely nothing to do with your application.
FOSS drama is documented in mailing lists. I guess it is unfair to compare that with the local boat club that don't have any documented debates or discussions. For all I know the boat club could be terrible people.
Does this also penalize pages with tons of ads and three paragraphs of text? Or anything from Medium?
> for current employees the bonuses account for only about 2.5% of the total deal's value and work out to just $83,000 per employee per year.

"Just" $83k per year in bonuses. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me, considering other posters who said MC paid pretty well and had good benefits.

Tons of startups use equity as an excuse to under-pay and most go under, leaving the employees with useless stock and having earned less in their prime years than they could have.
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> Short or long term? Because shitting on democracy for money is potentially very damaging for brands in the long term, the market and especially future comptetitors will remember it.

In a perfect world this would be the case.

In the real world, their competitors won't exit these markets and will grow to fill the space left by them. This means that their competitors will grow which is probably more of a competitive threat to them in the long term.

i.e. if Google leaves China, the main impact to them would be the rise of TOS+ and the loss of their small market-share in China to Baidu. This would also be playing directly into the chinese government's hands who have a strong foothold on Baidu and Tencent.
That's very helpful. Based on the paper, which seems to state that they have a 2σ significance level, this seems very preliminary (I am absolutely not a physicist!)

> As an example, we examine whether the electron recoil excess recently reported by the XENON1T collaboration can be explained by chameleon-screened dark energy, and find that such a model is preferred over the background-only hypothesis at the 2.0σ level, in a large range of parameter space not excluded by stellar (or other) probes.
There's a lot of bawdy graffiti that was discovered in Pompeii: https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-p...
Does anyone remember Win4Lin? It would run Windows 98 as a process and translate system calls to their Linux equivalent. It was very convient for testing my websites in IE. And I swear it was faster and more stable than running Windows on bare hardware. And when it did blue screen, I could have it back up in a matter of seconds.
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Looks like an interesting feature, however I don't like that you can't really create SEO-optimized filenames + the content is hosted on a different domain.
I have also been forded to take some vacation. It was late in the summer, and I think my boss started to feel that HR might be coming down on him if he let me work all summer :)
Wasn't governments that won the 8 hour workday. It was unions.
Did you get funded? Can I contact you? ( you are Dutch right? )
No, that could be a lot of things. SCADA is what came to my mind.
1. Taxes should be for a MVP minimum viable product for government.

2. Government should be 100% transparent in time of peace and offset by 1 year in time of war.

3. All government content creation should be public domain.
Ah, OK. I don’t know anything about Russian. This is a hard problem. I think the solution is something like what you suggest: more operators allowing different transformations. Even in English, I would like a "you may pluralize but nothing else" operator.
I once mentioned Goodhart's Law to a data scientist at a company and they immediately rejected it based on the unironic assertion that

"that would mean that KPIs shouldn't be the sole measure of our performance that that doesn't make sense!"

My experience in the field has been that an astounding number of products have been destroyed and users harmed by failing to heed Goodhart's Law.
> If civilian gun owners in the US tried to overthrow the US government, the US military would crush them in a heartbeat. Hell, with the level of militarization of many local police departments in the US, it might not even take the US military.

The US military you know is not allowed, by law, to fight civilians. Only the national guard can, and that'll be quite hit and miss. The national guard is also under state control. The military would likely disolve and fight for both sides of civil conflict.
The platform isn't the problem. The problem is with the amount of code that does something other than letting you "pay bills, order tickets, etc.".
I use the term 'bien pensant' as an epithet. I think if you "chew your food" intellectually speaking, you're going to come to some surprising conclusions that will not match conventional wisdom and that's nothing to be afraid of.
Indeed, if somebody wants to build a rocket that flies to Mars, then it should better not crash, and the equivalent to not crashing is an algorithm that actually detects the bad behavior. Kind of strange that you're making fun of that very basic requirement. The problem really is that Facebook's algorithms are like rockets that crash too often (~generate too many false positives) and their "solution" is to ignore the crash death toll for maximum cost cutting (~minimize human intervention).
Please get some perspective. Read more actual facts and data from various different angles, you've obviously dived deep into one side with little consideration for any other.

You give me the kind opportunity to quote a favourite lyric of mine:

The do-er and the thinker: no allowance for the other

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As I mentioned in other comments:

I've been using some web-based tools. Somehow, they don't last (ie. namemesh, or domainsfortherestofus that @pwdisswordfish8 mention went offline for sometimes).

Then I thought having a desktop app would be great. For the long term, I don't have to worry the site is down.
That’s because the VM has hooks into the host filesystem though, isn’t it? Does it still happen if the VM is fully isolated from host resources (files, ports, devices)?
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I scoff at the plethora of pointless blockchains shoehorned into a problems where neither centralization nor trust are essential complexity of the problem domain. Most new blockchain tech claims that they'll solve centralization and trust (in a domain that doesn't have those problems) -- as long as you centralize on their platform and trust them. Most blockchain is a whitewash for new-age centralization.

But DNS does have those problems inherent in the domain. It's one of the very few use-cases for blockchain that actually makes a modicum of sense.
"detected dark energy" Ooo! This could be really interes--

"(phys.org)" .... Oh. Expectations adjusted accordingly.
The Cars 3 video game is shockingly decent; I have it on PS4, but it looks like it's on basically everything.
> few countries have dictatorships

Ok, the US outsourced the dictatorship & punishment procedure to twitter, google, apple (e.g. see the ban of Trump and his supporters), ban of alternative media by Visa&co, etc etc. Soft humanitarian dictatorship ;)

> will threaten imprisonment (or worse) of anyone who speaks out against the current government

ok, they just arrested Capitolium protesters and charged 600+ people.

> https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-ar...

Ah, US calls it 'crime'.. so trivial..
You either take accrued vacation as a lump sum and take the tax hit or just take time off and get paid as you would.
In other words, they made babies together. Just not in the loving and intimate way usually implied by the phrase.
You pay per image delivered. They don't use the caching built in to your Pro account.
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> What does 10B buy me that 10M wouldn't?

Influence on the global stage

The ability to finance meaningful changes to the world - be they things like disease eradication, political movements, space endeavors. Rather than needing to band together with like-minded individuals and bring a voice to the table, you can outright create or buy a group to enable your vision (within the constraints of physics, and the political overton window)
I worked in another profession for 15 years before becoming a professional developer. I can't say definitely that empathy is much lower among devs than among other people I've worked with. But I got used to it.
I've tried a couple. In the end what worked best was some zinc oxide adhesive tape (the type you'd find in a first aid kit). Mind you, the point is not to forcefully tape your mouth shut abduction style. All you need is a small 2cm*1cm strip accross the center of your mouth. Breathing through your nose is the body default.

That said switching to nose breathing is not as easy for everyone. Chronic mouthbreathers often have clogged sinuses and a sensitivity to allergens. Making sure the air quality in your bedroom is good helps and there is a ton of other things you can do. Do checkout 'the oxygen advantage' youtube channel for some in depth material:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=oxygen+advantag...
I often see people commenting on the poor quality of America’s internet compared to European countries, but how much of that is due to the physical size of America? I imagine it’s much more difficult to build out a larger network especially when many parts of America are not very populated.
This is transparently a false dichotomy. No Go programmers are "repeating buggy code thousands of times". Go has a bit more boilerplate than Java until generics land, but I maintain that it's a non-problem 99% of the time (mostly it's just the simplest of conditionals and for loops). And anyway, a generic type system is a much nicer solution than an annotation or other magic.
https://archive.is/NQSTY
Strange you can take paid leave during a probation period. I'm guessing no probation?
To some extent I sympathize with you: I'm older, have seen some rejections for posts I wanted that I would be a very good fit for, and have a strong public portfolio of work that doesn't seem to overcome minor shortcomings in algorithm interviews.

However, I still think you're pretty badly missing the point:

(1) Algorithm coding challenges test whether a candidate has the ability to go to the internet, research and get good at a technical skill. That is absolutely an appropriate thing to be testing.

(2) Algorithms are a beautiful cornerstone of our profession. Perfectly reasonable, and kind of nice, to use them in our hiring processes as described in (1).
I don't think they lied necessarily, they said they had no intent on selling and they actually proved that a few times by turning down offers. A giant offer came and their decision to sell changed.

I think lying in this case would be to say to employees, "We will never sell" while negotiating a sale in the background. Timing is everything.
You know that's not true, right?

1) The Yemen number is for the whole system. The energy to send one transaction is tiny and much smaller than using the existing remittances system.

2) With a bank, it's not even clear you could send $5 to Yemen as there's a civil war going on. And if you did find a money transfer company willing to do it, it would be very expensive. With Bitcoin, as long as the person in Yemen has a phone and can get online, you can send them any amount, it will cost ~$2, and take minutes to do.
Walkman was massive with < 20s in my town. By the mid-90s most kids had one (if not Sony then certainly some other brand). Maybe it was a regional thing
Apple would pull out of China if their sales dropped 50% because they wouldn't.
Indeed. Can you say that the parties involved do not have lines? Everyone has lines, they’re just not always visible.

My point that the observe-eval-withdraw loop is difficult to terminate is not meant to argue we shouldn’t run the loop, but rather how difficult it is to code the withdraw conditions. As I tried to allude to in the second paragraph, you have to balance out the withdraw conditions with the pragmatic need to let the loop get some worthwhile work done.
Companies shouldn't put themselves in this position: they should simply refuse to have a local presence or local employees in authoritarian-leaning countries.
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