skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ML can help reduce technical debt at logic layer, but it increases the technical debt at the infrastructure layer. It's a challenge for any company to deploy, manage and monitor models in production. If you can get away with a simple rule, that's a bigger win for the product (I'm not talking about research here).

In the community, there is a trend that "complicated == better". imho, more is less in industrial ML. You need to deal with model management, worry about inference & latency when the model gets bigger. The author has another article where he argues that data scientists need to be full stack ninja. While I don't fully agree with that statement, I think it benefits the company in many many ways. Data scientists need to meet engineers in the middle, and all these challenges need to be considered from day 1. Another trend I see is that some data scientists are not driven by the question "Can we solve this problem for the company?", but rather "Can we solve this problem using ML/DL?". This will lead data scientists to use the shiny and trendy models, even if it is not suitable for the job. I would blame management here, in some environments, data scientists are evaluated based on "fancy" models they build, not solutions that they provide. Solutions can be simple (but not simpler) rules.
> perhaps does not because lightning's connector has preferable RF sensitivity profile

Given that literally every other smartphone on the market has a USB-C port, i'd say this is not the reason why Apple used a non-standard connector, failing (voluntarily) to comply with European interoperability laws/standards.
Freenet currently takes the simpler route of suggesting to use the phones' IME (because that isn’t already proven to send all keystrokes).

It is likely that using Freenet in opennet-mode can get you on a watchlist — but you’re already on that if you wrote here.

There have not been report of actual tracking of Freenet in pure friend-to-friend mode, but there are too few people using it exclusively in that mode to be sure.
I used to do programming for a company that did loan calculation software. We would get specs from insurance company actuaries for how to calculate consumer loans that were made with credit life insurance attached. The ##### actuaries would always send us formulas that looked like the annuity formulas in the article: annuity due = (1 - v^n) / d, annuity immediate = (1 - v^n) / i. Except, they did not notice that the formula fails for zero interest loans ( zero divided by zero), which were a popular sales gimmick. There are probably a million or more of those loans out there still getting paid off with payments calculated using some arbitrarily small interest rate selected by the programmer to eliminate the zerodivide error when the actual interest rate is zero. Some of the actuaries calculated the insurance charges using really fancy formulas that were not zero divided by zero when the interest rate was zero, but zero divided by zero divided by zero. Limited-precision calculations of these functions were very badly behaved in quite a large neighborhood of interest rate zero, so, despite all the professional refinement of the actuaries, there is no telling how erroneous the payment number on your loan documents came out.
That'll be nice!!
The Curry-Howard Correspondence
I moved from the UK to the US 32 years ago (as a developer).

The most important thing to understand about actual life here is that while all the things you mention are true, real aspects of the USA, they are not necessarily notable aspects of your own day to day life here.

The US is enormously varied in terms of climate, geography, political inclinations, cost of living, and public provisioning. By choosing somewhat carefully, you can find yourself in a situation that either stares your list in the face, or makes it seem like a distant roar somewhere far over the horizon. A couple of years ago, I moved from Philadelphia (after 23 years there) to a small village in NM. This is a far greater change in my way of life and my experience of life than moving from the UK to the US ever was.

It is true that in the US you are essentially forced into more self-reliance for a number of aspects of your own well-being in a way that seems crazy from a UK/EU perspective. Most developers will do well enough to not suffer dramatically from this "design", but the question of other's suffering under it may come up, as might bad luck.
> Having taste makes you require more dollars to get the same level of satisfaction

I have carefully avoided trying excessively high quality things because once I've experienced something truly luxury then it becomes an ongoing expense to keep up that level of experience. The irritating part is that before I was perfectly happy in my ignorance of something better being available out there, but aftewards I feel like I'm "ruined" because I'm constantly disappointed and frustrated if I can't keep up the level of quality.

I have had headphones ruined for me because I tried the Sennheiser HD 800 once and then there was no going back to cheap plastic cans.

I've had monitors ruined for me a long time ago because I got Dell PremierColor 4K display.

Food as per my previous post. I've had such great food in so many fantastic restaurants that I'm upset with mere "pub food" that used to make me perfectly happy before. I am now incapable of eating certain fast food unless literally starving to death.

Etc...

Thankfully, I'm still okay for wine. I believe it comes in two or is it three colours? Whatever, I'm still happy with a random $10 bottle. My boss for comparison now has to buy the $250 bottles at company dinners. Ouch.
You can do Java -> Kotlin just fine.
Exactly. This is why usually when you reach that point, a red light turns on in your brain saying “you are just reinventing ML at this point, stop”
On the other hand, on a 16:9 or 16:10 screen you can have two windows side by side and still get enough horizontal space to read enough of a line.
See also PineNote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28190756.
ClickHouse has no limit on sting data length.
MaterializedPostgreSQL engine is just very recent feature with not large adoption rate. I believe if community will use it frequently it will become more bulletproof and more edge cases will be supported. TOAST in replication protocol is just not trivial to implement.
In the business and corporate world this is so underrated.

In the past I attended several meetings with customers where I was actively discouraged asking questions which would help us deliver a good meaningful solution as long as the customer would be happy "investing in a ML solution". And they were...
Tried to create an account to try it out. Limiting passwords to 20 characters seems like a bad sign.
I'm not arguing that German society or politics are unstable, rather that there is a justifiable deep-rooted fear of instability at an individual level - which doesn't have to be rational.
You skimmed the second part of the sentence. "my wife lost her job and showed no motivation to get another one"
I can see both sides of the argument. On one side, using ML feels like huge overkill when a simple trick exists. Plus AI can freak out in some circumstances. On the other side, it may find other, less obvious cues giving something more robust.

Rich Sutton's "bitter lesson" says the weight will move in time in favor of ML. http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
We have already seen it. In 2020, you saw macro funds (the ones often targeted for "underperforming") that were running max drawdowns of 5% make 20%, 30%, 40% in a few months.

The issue, as you imply, is that in a bull market people lose almost all ability to exercise reason and view the opportunity cost of capital as the S&P.

But a lot of hedge funds aren't running high levels of beta, and investors in their funds don't demand that (unf for some hedge funds, who demanded low vol and then went into index funds when beta did well).

And, ofc, most equity hedge funds have had very strong performance. All the Tiger group hedge funds have private companies, everyone owns tech companies, you are even seeing value hedge funds in FAANG stocks...it is quite something.
What would be closer to pagerank?

Freenet ranks others by their distance to you and weights their votes from that before aggregating them.

And the up- and down-votes in the Web of trust are signed, because that is what happens automatically if you upload something under your key in Freenet.
AI in AR: Business Insights Provided in AR
What you're saying is true, and it can be helpful to put things into logical terms like that.

But it's a messed up thing when you're a kid. You're thrust into the world, and some people around you make everything alright. Then one of those people leave, forever. As I'm sure many others can attest to, even as an adult, that frustration doesn't go away. I accept that it can be explained as deterioration of the cells, or maybe general entropy, but there's an emotional aspect to it nevertheless.

Somehow, it's comforting for me to remember that it happens "just because."
I read somewhere that if alcohol was invented today it would not be approved for drinking.

I wonder what other things we are doing today that future generation will realise that was bad idea. I think social media will make that list.
I regret throwing out all my old computers and magazines. I was never a hoarder but I should have kept my first 8 bit micro, the first PC I bought to run Linux, my first linux disk set, the BYTE magazines and others.
Doppler shift wouldn't help much in this case.

The clues required are in the how the thousands of waveforms are affected by the environment, how they change as the train passes different features, and how their volumes change over time, and other features we can't know in advance. Probably the clicks as the wheels pass joints between tracks are the most telling clues about speed.

The microphone doesn't give a sine wave.
Apple M1 Processor Exploration
Open Source ETL Project for Startups
Do you think American nuclear tests and news reels from the era were propaganda free?

This was an active natural gas well and drilling area. No one was living near it--it would have been a nightmare of potential deadly gas exposure to do so, even ignoring the nuclear blast. The blast was 1000+ meters underground so no cloud or fallout was thrown into the air. The really dangerous radioisotopes from most bombs have a half life less than a decade so everything underground is likely pretty benign now. But again, no one is going to be digging a hole 1000 meters down into a former natural gas well to go live there.
Most of the laptops reviewed by Linus Tech Tips consider thermals and fan noise.
The main issue is for navigation that supports lane-level precision. The 2m drift is still not enough by itself, but there is a base error of a meter or two in the GPS signal itself. So the two together is enough to confuse the navigation and have it show you driving in an adjacent lane, which then gives you bad directions.
Specialized’s next-generation Turbo e-bikes are basically computers on wheels
It might still be illegal to store encrypted data, especially if it is illegal to store that data in plaintext too.

I know that is ridiculous, but this could become the interpretation of the new law.
Not American so unfamiliar with this excellent man, but his careful attention to language is brilliant and seems very ahead of its time. When I was small there was a strict teacher at primary school with a harsh grating voice whom I was very afraid of; my mum tried to help by reassuring me that this lady's "bark was worse than her bite". Of course I had never heard this idiom before so in my mind she transformed into a snarling dog, which naturally made my anxiety a million times worse. I bet Fred Rogers would have caught that faux pas and edited it out!
Children aren't really victims of Covid aside from their parents being affected maybe and the restriction put on them.
Network for Decent Labour in Academia in Germany
+1 to this, if youre visiting paris just follow bib gourmand places and avoid the reservation anxiety. I had the best duck udon Ive ever tasted at Kisin
Before USB-C, the universal, international standard was micro-USB and every phone manufacturer (at least in Europe) was bound by law to implement it. Apple has changed its connectors since socket interoperability became effective and they could have adopted the standard. They just purposefully ignored the consumer-respecting standards in order to keep their 40$-connector business flowing.

According to European regulations, Apple's actions are strictly illegal, but if any law enforcement actually cared to protect people from wealthy corporations, we probably wouldn't have any climate change, tax evasion, planned obsolescence, science-denial smoking ads, corporate land grabs, companies stealing water supplies from local populations... As always, laws that protect the weak from the powerful are betrayed, while laws that protect the powerful from the weak are strongly enforced.
Until a few weeks ago, I worked for a team trying to build AI driven products. A surprisingly challenging thing has been finding problems that aren't better solved without ML (as an ML company, we are supposed to be using it so those concepts get eliminated).
But if Apple can do it then so will all the cheap cable manufacturers and everyone else will be confused too.
That can happen indeed. Compensating for lack of system or domain understanding with ML can result in mediocre results. I've seen this repeatedly with ML teams struggling to get their models adjusted to what was fundamentally not so great data that needed a simple cleanup. Failing to understand the data was dirty, which was easy to address, led to a wild goose chase extracting this and that feature in attempts to make the magic work better.

Once you have deep understanding of your domain and system, finding the places where ML truly adds value is a lot easier. Also, you'll have a basic understanding of how things are without it and you'll know whether it is working better or not and whether that's worth the trouble.
children are really different from one another (sometimes even siblings, born to the same parents only a year or 2 apart). What works for one child may not for another, it may be that they didn't handle it best but could also be that it's just a nervous child who has a hard time with such things while the child you saw falling asleep is a calm one that handles these situations better.
You're right about cooling for intel/amd, with the note that the M1 is a whole different beast - it can deliver good performance with only passive cooling anyway
But we do have to make moral judgments. That's just a consequence of valuing some things over others. And we have to be answerable for our actions. You can make that part of the circumstances if you will, if you really believe that people have no free will.
There's also the excellent ebook-convert command line tool as part of Calibre which can be used to convert between the formats[1], I use it convert HN content to Kindle e-book for my https://hntokindle.com.

[1] https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert....
The DNS problem is now fixed

see http://theradioboard.com/rb/
How are you planning to enforce that?
"I don't expect that people there are actually eating it"

Well, I'm a Scot living in Scotland and I eat it fairly frequently - its a fairly standard food, though not as popular as things like curry, obviously.

NB I probably count as "posh" as I eat it with neeps and tatties, not deep fried with chips.

Edit: Scotland has some great food and also some dreadful food - fortunately its not too difficult to spot the difference.
Thank you for the incredibly thorough post.
Huh, didn’t know anything tried to achieve or do anything with lane-level precision.

But if they’re genuinely needing that level of precision, I’d be very surprised if they weren’t taking continental drift into account.
The size of the board has little to no bearing on the quality of the VRMs. VRMs are VRMs. There's nothing that prohibits an mITX board from having the same VRMs as an mATX board or even a Full ATX board: The reserved CPU area still applies to all board sizes. The extra width is mostly beyond the memory slots or below the first PCIe 16X slot. That has no bearing on what's used for the CPU itself.

I would also wager the vast majority of people who have a PC only use one SATA or NVMe socket/slot and only have a GPU as an add-in. This makes, for the most part, an mATX board mostly as used as an mITX board in terms of features.

My first generation AM4 mITX board that I built with a Ryzen 7 1700X can handle the 3000 series Ryzen 9 CPUs just fine.

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty%20AB350%20Gaming-ITXa...

Even the Ryzen 9 3950X.

I recently did a rebuild and got another mITX AM4 board.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550I-AORUS-PRO-AX-rev-...

It handles all Ryzen 3000, 4000 and 5000 CPUs. Including the 16 core Ryzen 9 5950X.

Size =/= Quality of Board.
> Do you think American nuclear tests and news reels from the era were propaganda free?

did he claim that?
Ay Chavrusa, Ay Meesusa
That's actually testable and determinable from several perspetives.

- Isolate any other sources of ionising radiation.

- Check to see if prevalence increases or decreases with increased or decreased cosmic ray exposure (atitude, shielding, detected cosmic ray storms).

- Are the characteristics those of single-bit flips? (E.g., power-of-two changes to values, or similar.)

- Are the errors nott repeated for the same hardware component. (E.g., under increased cosmic-ray influence, bits flip at an increased rate, as predicted, but which bits flip is random and has no detectable pattern, as predicted.)

You end up with very strong circumstantial evidence of altered bits due to cosmic ray influence.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/bit-f...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8
Agreed. Part of gaining the trust of another person is being honest about uncertainty.

He subtly emphasized that authority figures are your best bet for advice, but they still don't know everything. It's a nice gentle introduction to what can be more bluntly phrased as "in the end, you will need to use your best judgement."
Was that written by some 16 year old?
This could very well be used for that IMHO. Other uses could be recruiting platforms, online shops, etc. It's not yet a mature project, but in theory, it can be used for anything that needs user data of any kind.
Blizzard Executive Overseeing Hit Game Is Leaving
Truelayer raises $130M at a $1B+ valuation
I have similar first hand experience with ClickHouse. In the past I have moved custom analytics solution I had built on HBase to a solution running on a single node ClickHouse and had no issues whatsoever. In my current startup I am again using ClickHouse with great success. It's a mind boggling fast. Thanks ClickHouse team for building such an amazing system and for making it open source.
>You say this like it's an inevitable part of life instead of picking just picking bad spouses or being bad at relationships.

This means that most people will end up being single, which is a actually a good thing in the long run.
At university, I generated Markov chains of the solution space from a single neuron that was being used as a binary classifier. You take n samples, average them out and look at the decision boundary. The decision boundary itself is linear but the margin of error is not.

It was really cool. Attempting to implent Hamiltonian MCMC on a single neuron really forced you to learn what a gradient is in regards to NN.
”he had vomiting spells and chills for weeks”

These are effects of MAOI withdrawal. Nothing to do with nicotine.

I’ve just about had it with the half-truths surrounding tobacco, coffee and alcoholic beverages. MAOIs from the Harmala alkaloid family as well as various flavonoid families are prevalent in all of our ”legal highs” in copious quantities, yet all we ever hear is ”nicotine”, ”caffeine” and ”alcohol”.
Presumably what’s meant is it hasn’t improved in 40 years, and even then it was probably just “barely good enough”. This might be considered MVP but that depends on whether you have to actually use it or not.
Because you need to trust its firmware that the data is actually gone. Unless it's free firmware, I wouldn't trust that.
I'm not sure the keyboard layout would stop me. I'd order a US layout one if I could (to a European country)
Another problem with goats is that they soon learn to strip the bark and kill all your trees.

I found out the hard way.
Does this make sense? Let’s say you’re developing a web service in Go or Rust, wouldn’t it be faster without being compiled to WASM but rather running natively?
Read @leerob's answer first. Additionally, the notion of "forcing" CSR might be a misnomer. The way I understand it, NextJS always prefers CSR; the server renders HTML on first page load and the NextJS framework attaches JS stuff to the page on render to handle the client-side interactivity. So, if you turn off JS on your browser and load the page, everything works out of the box (page renders HTML, links work, etc). There are ways to specify server-only data requirements.

Once the client-side JS has taken over, the `next/link` component [1] is used to render and listen to events when a user clicks on a link. That component tells `next/router` to render the page that was clicked on. All of this happens on the client by default. If JS is disabled on the client, then the HTML rendered by the `next/link` component on the server is a simple `<a/>` tag and a normal browser page load occurs.

[1] https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next/link
I would go even further and say that people should be able (in practical life) to choose their own moderators to filter and curate content. And know that they work for them, not for some third party.

In today's media visibility is massively skewed by the platform's interest of "engagement" — which too often means enragement. That’s how fake news spread so fast (also in ad-click-financed newspapers, by the way).

They aren’t only exploiting human psyche, but also the proprietary, centrally controlled algorithms that drive social networks and the ad-financing of newsrooms.

If you log out of Youtube and then watch a talk about Java development, and then the Youtube algorithm suggests alt-right content in the auto-play-list, then something is wrong with the algorithm.

It is ironic that platforms that send the fake news your way in the first place then put a fact check underneath.
Some, not all.

And Wine/Proton is (i would say) more compatible with old Windows-Apps then Windows itself, not even talking about dosbox/dosbox-x.
I would much prefer my government to take on responsibility for providing this sort of service

After witnessing enough leaks and hacks of government databases, this is one application where I'd favor a cryptographically secure, decentralized solution based on open-source code that's been competently audited to show the system keeps my sensitive info provably private.

Ideally something that's been in the wild under sustained and motivated efforts to hack it for long enough to convince me there's some substance to the claims.
I would have to get a 5x+ opportunity to consider leaving London for the US and I am not even British. I think you have an idea of American exceptionalism which is not really shared by most people in Europe.
If you're gonna have the cynical take on group projects, take the one that makes sense.

They require a fraction of the resources to assess.