skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel bad whenever I read about this because I’m friends with a Smyte founder and I know they absolutely didn’t want things to play out the way they did. I had hoped Twitter learned their lesson.
Here's the actual content the blog is summarizing:
https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/status/1466078600822677513
Good for Quill’s team, but not great for competition in the team collaboration space. I’d really like to see Discourse and Zulip get a much better UI to compete more directly with Slack.
Parent is talking about the "business of music" which is an entirely different thing.

The crux for artists that want to live from their art practice, is to know the difference, accept it, and control as much as they can of the two activities.
I think the idiom was: Fat models, skinny controllers.
That might return better results.
You can pass out layoffs across the whole company in a couple of hours through the same infrastructure you use to pass out work items, KPIs, and paychecks
Let's examine these claims:

> The Biden admin is growing cold to both China and Russia.

Washington has been cold to both nations for the better part of a decade/century depending on your perspective.

> They just announced they won't support the 2022 Olympics.

False. Virtually all American athletes are attending. Whether the Biden admin is diplomatically boycotting or wasn't even invited is a matter of perspective.

> Cyber warfare and espionage are reaching new peaks.

> Russia just blew up a satellite, which caused NASA astronauts to take shelter. Target practice for fog of war.

> China demonstrated their orbital hypersonics and glide platform, which is hard to track and defend against. Nuclear MAD that defeats US countermeasures.

> Russia is amassing forces to take over Ukraine and Georgia.

> China is increasing incursions over Taiwanese airspace.

When a historically passive person starts acting assertively, an unscrupulous observer might judge it as aggression. Russia and China are demonstrating that Washington is no longer the undisputed military superpower it once was, that it can't bully anyone it wants. This has critical geopolitical implications but does not necessarily point to an inevitable war.

The fact is that USA has hundreds of overseas military bases while Russia and China combined have less than 10. Many of those American bases are on the doorstep of both competitors. Until China is parking carriers in the Gulf of Mexico, it hasn't even begun to reciprocate American military assertiveness/aggression.

> China is delisting from US exchanges.

...and relisting on e.g. HKEX which is historically accessible to international investors from America and elsewhere. More likely, Chinese companies are hedging against the collapse of Wall St. (if the Fed raises rates) or the USD (if they don't).

> The US is in the awkward period between upgrading existing systems and designing next generation weapons.

Like the F35? Pretty sure that failure has nothing to do with "bad timing" and everything to do with the corrupt state of Washington and the Pentagon.

> We might really go to war in 2022 if China and Russia think they can take Ukraine and Taiwan. A hot war.

Why, though? Whose interests does it really serve?
You'll always be an HN celeb to me.
I agree that python documentation can be clunky especially in comparison with other languages. When I learned python I had experience in bash and R. Man pages and R vignettes have certainly spoiled me. R has usage, details, several examples, even a see also section for further reading. The equivalent python help page for a command like print is a little bit over six lines in comparison.
> The Kalman Filter (video 1 of 55)

That seems... excessive.
OpenWRT is outstanding (for my needs) on Microtik hardware, not sure what you mean?
This has been proven already:

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/brainflayer
Welford's online algorithm for computing weighted mean is essentially just Kalman filtering: Weights are the inverse of measurement covariance, i.e. the information, the initial state is the first measurement, state transition and observation model are 1x1 identity matrices.
Some hosts block port 25 (SMTP) and you have to use another server to send emails.
We have a small team, and chose Quill over Slack because it seemed like the client felt more lightweight, and the product team would actually solicit feedback from us in DMs.

It very much sucks that I have to drop everything to move to an alternative. We'll probably go with Slack. I'm hoping you can still sideload their iPad app on an M1 Mac.

In the end, I don't think Quill was significantly better. Search in chat history was nearly useless, and a reason we were already reconsidering alternatives. But those issues aside, it was never better enough that I'd go out and tell people, "You need to try Quill! It's so much better than Slack!"

It's a shame that people will draw the wrong lesson from this. They'll think that Slack and Teams have deeply entrenched network effects, which might be true at large enterprises, but small teams like mine will gladly use a competitor that provides a significantly better experience. There might not be enough of us to justify raising $14.5 Million, but I suspect you could bootstrap something quite nice.
So your question has the answers:

1. Learn kubernetes
2. Learn go.
3. Rinse and repeat.
Lucky for you that you don't check your bills on a quarter basis (3 months). It could have been another story to be reimbursed and the bills might have more than triple.
I would exercise a little humility and allow for the possibility that you don't understand what parent is saying, before slinging obscenities.

You are absolutely right about music being fundamental to the human experience, universally. But parent isn't denying that at all.

Parent is talking about the BUSINESS of popular music -- not music full stop. The business of popular music absolutely _has_ co-opted music itself as a means of marketing other products. That's how the money is made and it's the only reason you are aware of any popular music artists at all.

Yes people listen to popular artists because the music makes them feel certain ways. But from the business' perspective that only matters insofar as it enables the business to capture the attention of the listener, to sell things. Are you aware of how many product placements litter nearly all popular songs? Why do you think country music -- which is a massive market -- is hyper-focused on getting drunk, drinking beer all day, driving pickup trucks, etc.? Do you know how much money there is in that?
As far as disasters go, one you can opt-out of is not the most terrifying.
Interestingly, "Shattered Sword" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_Sword) a modern book about the battle of Midway, from the Japanese point of view, starts with something similar. Japanese navy did wargames before the attack, and one of the admiral of Red Force acted similarly to what the American navy did, positioning his force north-east of Midway, and inflicted heavy damages to the invading force. Yamamoto, the author of the plan and the navy top chief, shut him off and forced everyone to replay following his rules, ensuring the success of his plan.

I recommend the book, well written and approachable to casual readers like me. A lot of details about carrier operations, fog of war and visual representations of attack vectors and bomb hits and their outcome.

Also, Drachinifels had a good session/interview about the book with Jon Parshall, one of its author:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN79g34wjQA
If a metaphor has enough problems than it is not valuable.

Aesop's fables largely represent "conventional wisdom" and I think fables are effective at that because people aren't going to be inclined to tear them apart.

If you're trying to communicate something unconventional people are going to tear the argument apart at every weak point. The fable structure itself suggests there is some group of people for whom this is "conventional wisdom" and are talking to each other rather than the larger community.

What is practical for life extension?

Watch your blood sugar. Get exercise. Manage stress. Eat a quality diet. Get reasonable preventative care. Protect your skin from the sun. (e.g. my wife has great skin even though she teaches horse lessons and works outside because she always wears a hat.)

I don't really understand why but I think I look a lot better than the cohorts of people born around the time I was that I knew when I was a child, in high school and college. If I had to attribute it to something it is that my level of career stress has been high at times but it hasn't been incessant. I'd contrast that to some 40-somethings I know who are counting the days to retirement.

It's not impossible that some drug or supplement could have a significant impact but (i) scams will outnumber real results, and (ii) even real results will have tradeoffs. For instance Metformin seems good for many people but it seems to blunt the physiological benefits of exercise.

I think you can add some years, maybe decades, to your lifespan and healthspan, but extending your life to 200+ years like Louis Wu from Larry Niven's Ringworld novel seems fantastic and even that falls short of 'cheating death'.
I've flashed a number of devices with OpenWRT, for a number of vendors.
Thanks for that, it is what I figured. I have a really old, nice, router running one of the WRT-like OSes and I really, really don't want to do that anymore. I have a small family and do not want to mess with this stuff. I might just bite the bullet and hook up a few more of the Google routers. I hate using Google, and don't trust them, but I probably trust them more than most other brands in this space. Also, I can't argue that I don't get good performance from their stuff. The only problem is, if I turn off the cloud features with this thing, I can't even do port forwarding or anything! Who the F puts that behind a cloud? Anyways, thanks for the answer.
We use Slack. We "like" it in that it is an enormous improvement over what we used before: hipchat.
Well I won't belabour this, as the definition of "valuable" information can be as amorphous and/or personal as that of "quality". Glad that website and its videos are out there anyways, and glad somebody may have learned about Proctor Testing.
No no, we're looking for a man named Thomas A Toonikas
Thank you both for the feedback, I appreciate it. If you want to see what is shown in the screenshot you can go to https://playground.moos.app/#!example-skada
I think a lot of this lack of agency is what's driving the current interest in things like van life and digital nomadism. Whichever way you sell it, the idea that people ought to live every year until their 40s spending a huge chunk of their wages paying off some random Baby Boomer's mortgage through extortionate rents rather than their own is a bleak thing to face, especially when you can't even hang up a picture or adopt a pet in a lot of cases.

I for one am planning on moving onto a sailing yacht next year, while it's not exactly much cheaper that money is better spent on the inevitable maintainance than keeping the landlord's wine cooler full!
There are many neighborhoods in America that don't have coffee shops, at all. And many that you wouldn't want to be caught dead cycling around in on a pushbike.

On a broader scale, the median wage in America is only ~30k, while the cost of rent and basics far outpaces any increase in wages. So the idea that people would use the time off from their excessive working lives to go hiking is actually a bit insulting.

The comment I responded to reeks of ignorance of the reality of the daily lives of so, so many Americans; who if they have any free time and disposable income it sure as fuck isn't going to be spent hiking up mountains and buying decent hiking gear.

... I visited Pittsburgh last winter, and was struck at the differences between neighborhoods. In Squirrel Hill the coffee shops were open and trading, the sidewalk was free of snow, people got their groceries delivered from Giant Eagle. In Braddock, the sidewalks were cracked to pieces, layered with demonically slippery ice that hadn't seen a grain of salt in years. There wasn't any cafe, or bagel shops, or proper grocery store; there was a dollar store and a bodega with people outside trying to sell me clothes, or threaten me because I only gave them a dollar.

So I dare you, go to your city's equivalent of Braddock and ask them how much they like hiking. Ask them how much free time they have, ask them why they don't socialize in coffee shops. [I'm not shitting on Braddock - I liked it, there were nice people there, and many neighborhoods are far worse.]

The reality is that poverty amplifies loneliness while reducing the ability to socialize, but so many Americans are happy in their little bubbles while huge portions of the country crumble around them.

The world knows how unequal American society is, from welfare to justice to infrastructure; but wealthy Americans seem not to be interested (or to even think of themselves as wealthy). The blissful ignorance of most American's daily struggle is only blissful for the ignorant.

This isn't flamebait or nationalistic prejudice; just my own observations about a country that seems to be racing blindly to an even darker place.
Yes! been waiting for this for years. Big Mikrotik fan, recommend them for nearly all applications.
Prediction markets, although this is becoming less necessary as governments come around to allow sports betting. Still, there are probably many markets that will never allow legal betting.
A lexicon of euphemisms for “corporate crime”
i don't think this would work because folks will just drive anyway and risk the additional fines rather than, say, miss work and lose their job. unfortunately, driving unlicensed/uninsured happens all the time already, at least in my neck of the woods.
But you cannot estimate values of missing states (unmeasured) with just a state space representation even under conditions of observability. You need a state estimator for that, and the Kalman filter such an estimator.

Also, while it’s true the covariance matrix is initialized with diagonals (we often don’t have good priors), the values are being dynamically re-estimated from measurements at every iteration. The initial parameters are just that — initial.

If certain assumptions are true, ie Gaussian noise and LTI model is approximately correct, the covariance matrix converges to a stable covariance matrix that reflects the current reality. Some of those assumptions are relaxed with EKFs and UKFs but they’re essentially built on a Kalman framework (the competing one being MHE).

The Kalman filter is a state estimator, not just a filter. And it is used in industrial applications with advanced control systems (MPC).
@dang should consider making this the actual link
Payments in Amazon India is down - likely because of this.
Fiction writer turns to wish fulfilment after a raft of thefts
The article is very good and pedagogical.

My take on Kalman filter is that they are, with a diagonal regression matrix and precomputed parameters, just a convoluted notation for guesswork. It is abit like drawing Nyquist diagrams for system stability analysis - mostly an academic excercise. And stuff like that plagues control theory. I would rather that students learned to keep it simple.
This sounds like a good plan for me, thanks for the information, I will put this on my list of things to research more.
thank you for that big hearty laugh! :)
Because you asked, even though it's now way off-topic for this thread (and I will not respond further):

Because the text of 2A does not indicate that the right is contingent upon participation in a militia (and indeed 10 USC 246[1] legally defines the US militia as all able-bodied male citizens of ages 17 to 44 inclusive, as well as all female citizens who are members of the National Guard, even if it did), as 2A actually specifies RKBA as a right of the people (not "people of the militia", just "people").

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246
I think one problem in the US is that we have a medical system that is paid to medically treat people. We need a health care system that is paid to keep people healthy. In this case, advancement would mean more people are healthy. It might include, for example, figuring out how to get people to eat better food and exercise.
Could you add Airplay to your Indie Shuffle app?
The Pareto Principle Redefined
R does a good job imo. Look at the vignette for print in R vs the help page in python. You get your reference style list of possible arguments, you get info on usage as well as additional examples, you even get a See Also section with further reading, and the whole thing has a citation you can reference. The entire language is documented thoroughly like this.
This article is just recapitulating a series of tweets, with essentially zero value added. And, since the tweets were off-the-cuff and ambiguously worded, it's hard to say what the original author meant.

I assumed he was referring to the discovery of music, as in "coming up with a new algorithm or process that recommends music to people does not, by itself, amount to a financially sustainable product".

It reminded me of Steve Jobs' reaction to Dropbox: that the entire product was more like a feature that some other product should have. Of course, Jobs was wrong about that, and this guy may also be wrong about his intuition here, even though he is informed and experienced at his business.
Totally anecdotal-- as someone of Indian culture living in America, I'm convinced there's something in it that the American diet lacks. The longer a stretch of time I eat the american diet for more I get vague stomach trouble and a feeling of unwellness. But then I eat a nice spice filled curry with some rice and I suddenly feel great. I almost exclusively eat Indian food now as it's one of the only types of foods that prevents my stomach troubles. Some other foods like Pho also seem to treat me very well. It could be a lot of things-- less user of processed oils, lack of gluten, lack of artificial ingredients, etc. I'm not quite sure exactly what it is
I remember the same. However, as I've gotten older and everything has become political, the non-political path has gotten smaller and smaller and has all but disappeared.

Even more importantly, I've realized that it's not healthy to have an entire social diet composed of polite conversations. Emotional vulnerability and openness is a necessary ingredient for meaningful social engagement. An opening move into politics is still an out of pocket move, but never engaging openly stunts a potentially deep bond.
I'm trying it again, but this time I made more adjustments in the sequencer mode at the bottom to include more original samples. I noticed that the same sample will play for a region, but if you deselect and reselect it, it will choose another one from that area randomly, which is nice.

One thing I didn't notice before is that when you're in sequencer mode, another globe option appears at the bottom that plays the sequence in the globe interface. But if you spin the globe while the sounds are playing, it will play record scratch sounds, which is hilarious. I wish the scratches were caused by the samples themselves, like playing the active samples back at different speeds, but they seem to be independent. Plus, that might be tricky to program
This actually happened back in 2012 or so. Major AWS outage that took down big services all over the place, took a few days for some services to come fully back online.
https://aws.amazon.com/message/680342/
No wonder IMDB <https://www.imdb.com/> is down (returning 503). Sad that Amazon engineers don't implement what they teach their customers -- designing fault-tolerant and highly available systems.
The article I linked too ( and the hn comments) in my original post seemed that fastly acquired the wasm team.

Sorry if I was mistaking.
... but then your starting point is already at the optimum. You're done in zero steps!
I think for a "strictly convex" function, the (sub)derivative will _only_ be zero at the global minimum.
So I take it your datacenter has never burned down?

Sorry, had to poke fun a little bit, obviously there's always a chance of having a bad experience. I've only had to interact with Hetzner support once, and it was positive, we determined that a consumer grade CPU was aggressively going into some sleep mode the Linux kernel wasn't waking up from, and the Hetzner support guy agreed that was the problem and determined it was possible to disable that feature in the BIOS, and went ahead and did that for us.

And of course the fact that that was necessary was on us for running our production on their consumer grade CPUs.

I believe Hetzner and maybe also OVH have a much bigger role to play in the deployments of the future. The big cloud players are overplaying their hands, and it's becoming more and more attractive to run on bare metal as devops tooling improves.
Maybe this will be the moment I upgrade.

Let's see what version I'm running: Django 1.5.9

This is going to be very painful isn't it. I wonder how long until the bitrot makes it unbuildable and undeployable.

I should clarify, there is no database attached to this and it talks to a secure API that is maintained really well. So this is just views and templates, where the views talk to the API.
Isn't that fit=crop?
I love Cloudflare, but these Image products are a black mark on their reputation.

Every point the author says is 100% correct. I'll add one more point, which ended up making it a total non-starter: you can't import lots of images because their rate limits are so pernicious. If you have tens of thousands or millions of images, keeping within their single digit per second rate limit, which appears to be totally non-negotiable, makes it impossible to add images at any scale.

They have another product called Cloudflare Images which can work from Workers: but here the pricing is almost absurd and from the data they show on their dashboard, they only cache a tiny percentage of the requests. This means you end up paying a lot more than makes sense.
Well what if you don’t WANT the interface to change between viewports? We used to use Desktop-style interfaces on 1024x768 displays, or even 640x480. Now we just get a one-dimensional mobile interface when the viewport is smaller than whatever arbitrary threshold is fashionable among designers. It’s incredibly annoying to have interfaces become downgraded (ie hyper-simplified) regardless of what the user requests just because they haven’t kept up with the resolution upgrade treadmill. Pinch and zoom (in BOTH directions) is such a powerful UI tool from the user’s perspective but its usefulness has become completely neutered by insistence on “reactive” design ripping control away from the user.