skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of content made by Tildes folks end up in places like Gemini or Gopher which aren't easily accessible. It's walled, but not paywalled nor web signup walled.
Fascinating, thanks for this!
There are two kinds of convergence proofs - the ones that get you a 1/k or 1/k^2 rate, and the ones that get you "linear" or "superlinear" convergence (which is optimization jargon for exponential/superexponential decay of the error). The latter require way too strong of assumptions to be that useful in practice, and we generally think of them as just "local" convergence theorems - i.e. the assumptions they make start to be true when you get close enough to the minimum, and the fast convergence kicks in at that point. Which is nice, but getting close enough in the first place is often 99% of the problem!
Say during due diligence two options are uncovered: use an upstream dependency owned by another team, or use that plus a 3P vendor for redundancy. Implementing parallel systems costs 10x more than the former and takes 5x longer. You estimate a 0.01% chance of serious failure for the former, and 0.001% for the latter.

Now say you're a medium sized hyper-growth company in a competitive space. Does spending 10 times more and waiting 5 times longer for redundancy make business sense? You could argue that it'd be irresponsible to over-engineer the system in this case, since you delay getting your product out and potentially lose $ and ground to competitors.

I don't think a black and white "yes, you should be punished" view is productive here.
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> You should avoid scheduling interviews post-lunch

Interesting opinion when weighed against studies like PNAS' famous parole decision study that found morning and right after lunch were the most favorable rulings: https://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889
I would say you don't really need Kubernetes for this sort of setup (I already was running all the K8s stuff which is why I went with it, but docker compose or even just running things in systemd without containers would work too).

I think the main thing is to have some sort of network isolation (like a separate VLAN or a server that blocks outbound traffic) between stuff that's exposed to the internet and stuff that's private on the network.
They usually start self-expressing just for themselves, so they still have a job. Most video bloggers started this exact way — first a hobby, then they quit their job and turned their vlogging into a Serious Business™ with obnoxious sponsorships, a studio, a ton of ridiculously expensive equipment, and optionally a crew.
Generally the presence of other people devalues places. You want just enough of the right number of people and that’s it.
Decentralised records of ownership enforce data portability and user IDs (wallets) that are not controlled by any single actor.

The incentives for centralised databases is to remove interop to create artificial silos and gate users from leaving your service. We’ve gotten to the point where text messaging which is trivial, has no interop.

Crypto flips this on its head. If you build a service using IPFS, ENS and crypto wallets as users, your website is merely a front end for an open source decentralised service. This is not a hypothetical, recently the HicEtNunc NFT market was nuked by its lead developer. The website was open source, the artwork was hosted in IPFS and all the ownership data (NFTs) were on Tezos blockchain, so literally NOTHING was lost. The community quite simply rebuilt the front end in 24 hours or so and everything kept going.

When was the last time you saw anything like that in web2?
Never. It was impossible. HicEtNunc now has 10x front ends competing for the space with no clear leader. Web3 is about ownership and portability, things that centralised servers and databases incentivised their owners to lie and cheat about to make into fake moats.

Here is the story - https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/11/18/what-hic-et-nuncs-r...
The `@` has no special meaning in the path part of a URL.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.3
YouTube, Facebook, TikTok already do convert things like hearts into money. The terms by which they do are very arbitrary and seemingly opaque to me, an outsider of that. One undeniable benefit of web3 would be the possibly for immutable and transparent rules for compensation (whether those would be enacted for any given platform is unclear).
Horrible but also kind of ironic that compared to all these authoritarians, US capitalism is on such a level that the US literally has to make and arms it’s own enemies to practice use of it’s full force. Reminds me of the big bad bully on the play ground giving the skinny kid a baseball bat and saying “go ahead, hit me I dare you”.
(I realize both of these scenarios sound awful, please don’t downvote me for being completely socially unaware).
For those of us not affiliated with a University, is there a way to read the article without paying $37.50?

Anecdotally, there's a lot of mythology in America about the supremacy of single family exclusive neighborhoods that's contradicted by actual numbers (mentioned in the abstract). There's also people's preference for the thing they know and at this point we have two generations that have grown up in single family exclusive neighborhoods.

It's really difficult to soften this kind of opposition.
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If it's brand new RiscV CPU that was just relesed 5 min ago, and nobody really tested then yes.

If its standard CPU that everybody else uses, and its not known to be bad then no.

Same for software. Is it ok to have dependency on AWS services ? Their history shows yes. Dependency on brand new SaaS product ? Nothing mission critical.

Or npm/crates/pip packages. Packages that have been around and seedily maintained for few years, have active users, are worth checking out. Some random project from single developer ? Consider vendoring (and owning if necessary ) it.
That's shockingly stupid. I also worked for a major Walmart IT services vendor in another life, and we always had to be careful about how we handled them, because they didn't always show a lot of respect for vendors.

On another note, thanks for building some awesome stuff -- walmart.com is awesome. I have both Prime and whatever-they're-currently-calling Walmart's version and I love that Walmart doesn't appear to mix SKU's together in the same bin which seems to cause counterfeiting fraud at Amazon.
Use Sci Hub.
> Maybe it'd be nice if the calibration data could be sent from the OS to be applied directly on the monitor instead of the Video Card?

That would not be nice.

When you "calibrate" a monitor, you're really creating an output profile... a record of what signals create which colors. You can also calibrate a camera, and get an input profile, which is a record of which colors create what signals.

If you display a picture on-screen with a color profile, and your monitor has a color profile, the software translates the image from the image's color profile to the monitor's profile, and displays that on-screen. The problem here is that different pictures on screen will have different profiles, so you can't just load a profile into the monitor and do the conversion there.

For example, you might open a website, and see a bunch of pictures with sRGB profiles. And then you might open another website, and see pictures with Adobe RGB, which covers a wider gamut. The Adobe RGB profile pictures can be more colorful, if your monitor supports it, but both sets of pictures can be on-screen at the same time. Then there's the different ways you convert from one profile to another, depending on what you want (perceptual, relative colorimetric, absolute colorimetric).
The suggestion that he'd mention it in the very first sentence of an account of how he arrived at the idea for the atomic bomb, when in fact it was totally irrelevant at the time, is absurd on its face; and your analogy is terrible. A better analogy might be somebody asking you how you developed your "latest NeurIPS paper" and you responding by describing a Star Trek episode in which a (superficially) similar technology is used, before even mentioning your own work. And later, perhaps, recounting how you exclaimed Star Trek, here we come! when you had your key insight.

You've overextended your argument, and you know it. There is no use continuing this conversation if you're going to go to such absurd lengths to deny what's obvious.
Maybe take a look at Wick Editor? https://www.wickeditor.com/#/ It's open source and development has stalled lately, but it has a stated goal of being a low-learning-curve flash replacement.
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Newton's method is _commonly_ used for function minimization by looking for the zero of the derivative, and this is entirely what the article is about. In sec 1.1 at the top of page 2, they say very clearly "In this work, we are interested in solving the unconstrained minimization problem ...". Even in the first para, they say "Newton’s method is a cornerstone of convex optimization", meaning optimization/minimization of a convex function.

The article says "Unfortunately, Newton’s method is unstable: it works only for strongly convex problems and may diverge exponentially when initialized not very close to the optimum." And I was asking for an example or description of such a case.

You'll also note there are several comments in this discussion that mention the hessian/2nd order derivatives, and these all show up because this is being used in the context of optimization by looking for f'(x) = 0.
Yeah, that is a big difference between PoS vs. PoW where damaging the network damages you a lot more financially. You can cash out PoW earnings more or less immediately and then corrupt the network, whereas with PoS your stake is what lets you corrupt it. Someone else linked a thread that was like, "the buy-in for PoW is pretty high too, you gotta burn $15k-$25k on an ASIC mining rig...", but that's obviously peanuts compared to $130k.

I'm not so sure it's a given that corrupting the network outright destroys it though. That defense mechanism assumes at least a few things:

- Enough people would notice

- Enough of those people would sell their ETH as a result

- Enough of those people would sell enough of their ETH

I think it's pretty plausible some off-chain action would occur instead, like a fork or some governance issue. It seems unlikely that the majority of ETH holders would participate in a mass sell-off that would bankrupt many (most?) of them, to say nothing of the social (my whole life is ETH) and investment (my whole business and the businesses/careers of all my friends are ETH) costs.

You could also imagine a conglomerate doing this for "noble" reasons. "We reversed transaction Y because they're child pornographers" or whatever the worst thing is in the crypto community (maybe they discover Hillary Clinton's wallet address or something). This could be enough grey area for most people to not pull a run on ETH.

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Rocket Pool looks, idk it makes me nervous. From a quick read (could be getting this wrong) they're essentially selling their tokens for ETH, but you can't redeem your tokens to get your ETH back unless the staking pool can cover it, which I think they currently can't because the Beacon chain isn't sending ETH rewards yet. So you spend fiat for ETH, and you spend ETH for an IOU.

I guess my preference here would be something like a straightforward DAO where people buy shares of a staking operation and there some kind of governance when they want to leave. Anything more complicated than that and my spider sense starts tingling.

But as a broader comment, one of the things that makes me (and probably others) suspicious about the crypto space is that it's just littered with small and large reminders of how rich you're gonna get. Like the docs about their rETH token is a green graph going up tremendously with an example of how you're gonna make a 25% profit [1]. Like, I'm not saying all examples should include a losing money case and all graphs should be red lines going south, but there are real MLM vibes everywhere you look.

[1]: https://docs.rocketpool.net/guides/staking/overview.html#the...
I tend to use OpenWRT on Mikrotik devices, but I used a board from PC Engines, and I was was impressed by it. The hardware is very standard, and their support was good. I had a question about the max power the mini PCI port could supply. I got an answer and info on a change I can make that adds a capacitor to help in this scenario.
Church numerals are nice, yes. Try executing 1000000 + 1000000 in Church numeral representation. Will you get a stack overflow?
? That article says there was an attempt to introduce a law banning violent video games. That attempt never was implemented, so what is this link supposed to prove?
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That's been most of my life. Welcome to perfectionism.
Julia is the Plan9 of data science-y languages. It's better than python and R, but I don't see it being better enough to cause a meaningful shift away from those languages.
I have a feeling that if we spread the theory into small and midsize towns that the urban density laws were a conspiracy by the urban elite to keep cities rich and relevant we'd see them get repealed.
We are discussing people who are suffering from loneliness.

If you do not suffer from loneliness, this entire thread is not about you.

If you suffer from loneliness and are not socializing successfully, something has gone wrong, somewhere.

Even if you need to see a therapist, you are not fundamentally broken anymore than someone who is physically weak is fundamentally broken. You simply need help with your development.
My company relies on DynamoDB, so we're totally down.

edit: partly down; it's sporadically failing
Derivative works are relevant because they’re subject to the original copyright, yes? Please note I didn’t say all derivative works are not copyrightable; I’m saying that a basic remaster won’t even qualify as a derivative work.
It's just a t3a.nano instance since it's a project under development. However, I have a high number of t3a.nano instances in the same region operating as expected. This particular server has been running for years, so although it could be a coincidence it just went offline within minutes of the outage starting, it seems unlikely. Hopefully no hardware failures or corruption, and it'll just need a reboot once I can get access to AWS again.
Yeah, I've been frustrated with the router space for a while recently so I figured you might benefit from my research (and likely bias as well). Too bad others in this thread downvoted me without responding, though -- if anybody can recommend a decent answer to this question that I didn't cover or explain why I'm wrong, I'm happy to admit that. I would really like there to be a decent router out there for my use case.

The biggest reason I don't use a Google router or something of that ilk is exactly what you mentioned in this comment: I don't want basic functionality like port forwarding locked behind some cloud account that I might have to pay for monthly eventually (or might get shut down). At least my current hardware will likely work perfectly until the hardware fails.
They say that to try and avoid SLA commitments.
IPv6 SLAAC will not work on subnet smaller than a /64
Germany always had hate speech laws. To run afoul of those takes quite significant effort though.
Thought experiment.

What is worth more?

The average house in the country with a couple of acres of land or a 700square foot condo in Manhattan.

Generally the presence of other people tend to push up property values as it brings in a lot more amenities.
sure - my wife used to live in london years back, so isn't a complete stranger. but... seeing pictures of a room that has curtains, then getting there and not having curtains is just nuts.
Can you recommend how to go about this? It's the first i've heard of this strategy, and interviews are a big fear of mine. I would have assumed most of these "pay for feedback" things to be scams in one way or another. Thoughts?
That last part is key.

I suspect some form of X-prize approach would be worth trying - seed out a large number of small ISVs for government software (from license management to submarine firing systems).

Spend the money not in the requirements (which as you say are usually written by a non developer with minimal experience of the problem - after all if they were an expert they would have other more useful things to do) and spend the money on building automated test rigs.

I know I sound trite, and this is not even the best way (which is to organically grow solutions to problems), but we have a small window - software is eating everything and we will need to write the first generation of software that covers all politics and I damn well want that to be open to everyone to read. The software that runs governments will essentially be law. We should be free to read our laws
If nobody were offering these types of arrangements there wouldn't be freelancers choosing to work in these types of arrangements. These arrangements do exist, they're not the norm but are becoming more popular, and I find it interesting that you argue against them then claim they don't exist. You didn't have to wait very long looks like, I can be snarky too if that's what you'd prefer.

Decoupling healthcare is just the first step, decoupling everything except monetary compensation is ultimately what frees people to work on what they want to work on.
> Wine is almost bug-compatible with existing Windows code

The really important emphasis here is on "almost." The value is in "100%."

> and certainly much cleaner than whatever code DLLs written in the Windows ME era contain

"Cleaner" is not a benefit.
Where KFs finally clicked for me was in deriving the recursive form of good old fashioned linear regression. You can do linear regression a data point at a time, or a batch at a time, and while I can't remember if it works out to exactly the same thing (because of the recursive state), it works out to essentially the same. Dynamic bayesian networks are a superclass of KFs and they're a great thing to have in your tool kit if you work with data.
http://ccbv.co.uk/ is a pretty useful resource for learning class based views...
For thousands of years retaining walls were successfully constructed without more than a cursory understanding of soil compaction and they didn't have rebar or geotextile to help them.

Nobody needs to understand soil compaction if they're willing to move and expend way more material than the bare minimum in order to solve the the problem. This is true in a lot of subject areas. You don't need to understand a lot of things if you're willing to copy what is tried and true and can tolerate some inefficiency.

For almost all personal and commercial projects the material is going to be cheaper than paying a real engineer to poke the soil with a calibrated poker and plugging the numbers into a spreadsheet that has some formulas.
Newspapers allowed Google and Facebook to drag them to their territory of online ad-monetized business models in which they have no way of competing (because of tech discrepancy).

This then led to deterioration of journalism and its inevitable transformation into sensationalism and entertainment, again driven by the incentives of the ad-monetized business model, because clickbait makes more ad money.

It is a sad state, but hardly it is fair to blame someone else for it.

Own it up, create credible news products, and monetize it like news were monetized for hundreds of years - you pay to read it.

The lawsuit admits that what we call "news" is really entertainment with the goal of producing content, not to inform the public, but to maximize CPM. Fox News already made it official [1]. Now you have to explain it to your viewers/readers too and make life less stressful for everyone.

[1] https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1454288815049240586

Edit:

I get a lot of value from my local newspaper. It is monetized with (local) ads but they are unobtrusive and non-invasive. The content matters because there is a limit to how much it can fit in an edition.

I can simply skip the pages with ads if I do not want to read them.

And sometimes the ads are the only thing I am interested in, when I am looking for something specific or want to see what is new. That is the beauty of it.

Now compare that to the horror story that is the online news. Content is created by the droves. Ads are everywhere, obtrusive and invasive to user experience, not to mention all the tracking and mining of user data. I never purposefully check the online ads. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for the business, the advertiser and for the user. The only reason it exists is because it is 'free', coming with two caveats. One obvious - we get what we pay for. The other not as obvious - we are what we read.

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honestly:

- I don't want to share my street with anyone, let alone a wall.

- I don't want increased traffic.

- Increased population density also tends to increase crime.

- Increased population density has economic benefits that tend to go to companies and developers, not me.

- It's too hard to get infrastructure built. Roads will never be enough and we'll never have good public transit.

- Culture is too antagonistic. Public shared spaces with no charge or admission control always get overtaken by inconsiderate, loud people. The less of them, the better.
what happens if you stop paying your loan?
I wonder what opposition there will be to the new laws in California allowing duplexes everywhere?
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JPL goes further and buys multiple copies of all hardware and software media used for ground systems, and keeps them in storage "just in case". It's a relatively cheap insurance policy against the decay of progress.
> Of course I'm assuming useful tests, why wouldn't I?

Because useful tests seem pretty hard to have in practice.

Especially when starting testing for a project without tests and a team without testing experience.

Early testing reduces productivity, and the proposed gains may never develop.
First, there's no mention of the legal theory under which they're claiming damages. Is this something to do with caching, aggregation, AMP, or what? The only thing the article touches on is Google being a monopoly for ads, but that would seem to be a very small part of how Google contributed to undermining the news industry.

Also even if these newspapers are successful, does anyone foresee any of the damages actually going towards reporters' salaries for doing real investigation again? It would seem that the case is really just an attempt at extracting some money for whatever private equity firms are currently feeding on the carrion.
It might be bad for you if code you wrote ten years ago is no longer protected by copyright, but what about society in general? Maybe five new start ups can take that old software and build something better than you were able to. Would that disincentivize creators? Maybe. Would the copyright expiration make a thousand flowers bloom? That's what would need to be studied. What the net benefit or harm is, isn't obvious.
Well, several reasons:

1. Your users leverage unintended behaviours, which obstructs your ability to move forward with meeting needs with intended behaviours in your intended target market (unfortunate but very real)

2. You know if you add or improve existing features, you can access more users, or an prospective user worth more than the existing ones

3. It's a passion project and you want it to function/look/whatever a certain way

I've encountered all of these, and each time it becomes a pretty big pain to make progress.
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