skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-linear optimization is very popular in many fields (non-linear = real world, optimization = find me the least cost/most profit/lowest energy). Nearly all scientific problems can be reformulated as an optimization problem. Training neural networks is a (stochastic) non-linear optimization problem.

Computers are quite fast at doing this in one variable, but typically you're in at least 10s, if not 10,000s of variables, which makes it much much harder.

In dense math, consider n=10,000. Typically a single step involves at least one system solve. Using some matrix factorization approach you're doing O(n*3) operations, assume the constant is ~1 and you have 1 TFlop of computation per step. Modern compute capability of a consumer device is about 1 TFlop/s, give or take. If you're doing (say) 300 steps to reach a solution, you're now at the 5 minute mark for a single moderately sized problem.

Admittedly things like sparse math and iterative solution approaches exist, but so do much bigger problems. And that's before we get to non-convex problems which will often use a convex solver to repeatedly solve subproblems.
Parody: FBI Agents Discover Elon Musk's Neuralink Secret – A Talking Pig
Django for me has been a solid API gateway. That said I would appreciate an API-centric iteration of it. Something like how Laravel has Lumen. Even if they would make Django ORM available as a separate library it would make me glad. I can’t say I’m overly enamored by the red wave that has passed over python. The only things I really like it for (so far) are when I wish to make concurrent http calls. For whatever reason, I don’t enjoy it as much when I’m trying to serve multiple requests. I prefer keeping requests read only or at most job launching.
haha, like for sure

i wrote a valgol language interpreter in the early 80s
He’s wrong about the OS, but it’s not far from the truth with Office.
I've recently tried this. It's not much improved. I have a PC, and invested in the TB3 compatible motherboard and add-in card. Displays rarely work, but so I instead hardwire this machine to the displays, as they have the extra inputs. On some boots, Thunderbolt isn't detected and will need a few reboots to be picked up. Getting the drivers installed, for a custom build PC, was also a nightmare. The thunderbolt headers are unique to manufacturer, so my Gigabyte Titan Ridge has a 5 or 3pin connector, whereas my Asus board is a 12 pin. Luckily, it seems to only be present for DMA security, so if you bridge pins 3 and 5 on the Add-in card it works. The motherboard still needs to support thunderbolt however, this didn't work on an older, z270 chipset.

On the MacBook side the only issue is that when disconnecting, a display won't sleep and just show a frozen image.

So, at least rest well knowing you've cut your losses wasting time with thunderbolt.
i will most likely never be able to use windows 11 or higher in my lifetime, i'm too poor
Andrew Kelley makes an interesting point in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1XqP4-qOo
about the PT_INTERP being hard-coded.

That seems like a long ago assumption baked that binaries should only have one program interpreter per system. I don't know enough about configuring a system and the historical decisions around PT_INTERP, but I suspect Andrew is on to something.
Google succeeded by not trying to manually classify everything, unlike e.g. Yahoo.
That sounds disturbingly similar to what they did to the Calculator in Windows 10.

I'm curious what the difference in binary size is between the two, and with the one in Windows 10 (which does have some enhancements compared to previous versions, but the same good old UI.)
i will most likely never be able to use windows 11 in my life time, i am too poor. basically this past half a decade for me is saying good-bye to modern technology as it's solely for wealthy white people. good-bye nazis, have fun with the apocalypse
Yes, James Webb has been quite the “amazing advance in space”.
I don't know if you checked as many boxes as you think. "Partial work from home" is the same thing as "not remote" to a lot of people.
Pegasus Spyware Infects U.S. State Department iPhones
Ask HN: Are you happy with your productivity software?
Trying to build a SaaS product and I've been researching productivity software. There's a multiplicity of offerings in the market. They all appear to take the same approach to solving user problems seem to work in the same way.If you have ever used productivity software, what would you like to see done differently ?
I think population decline is a serious issue, but perhaps for different reasons than listed.

The most significant are political instability and economic downturn.

North America and Europe will become majority minority leading to much more divided politics.

At the same time China will suffer economic stagnation with a huge elderly population to support. This will put them in a similar situation to Japan, but without Japan's level of development.

Last, the countries that are projected to see large population growth (sub-Saharan Africa) are not on track to be able to support themselves and will likely be hit hard by climate change.

Edit:

As an interesting aside, it is worth noting that the world has already passed peak births/year and is now on the decline.

The remaining gains between 8 billion now and 10 billion peak population will be made up by people living longer. This ultimately means fewer and fewer working aged individuals and more elderly to care for.

Today, about 28% of the world is over 65. in 2100 it is projected to be ~40%
Amazon just had an outage on their computers localized to a 3 mile region in Virginia and they still haven't fixed it.

NASA had an outage 350 miles above the surface of the Earth and managed to fix it.

There's a difference in software reliability priorities and operations here.

[0] https://softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/sscl/moglen-software...
Vectors are generated for songs, and distance (nearest neighbors) is how recommendations are currently generated in major apps.

But there isn’t a user friendly way for people to browse multi-dimensional vector space.

But the embeddings (vectors) are capable of Kanye West - Jay Z + Frank Ocean , but don’t have a UX to match.
This is a long standing flaw of macOS. The common workaround is a lot of these docks will offer a TB3 passthrough, where a standard USB-C to whatever-you-need, will work.
Paper-thin piano demonstrates the power of printed electronics and NFC
I remember reading this article over a year ago, while trying to understand why vaccines are unlikely to stimulate the same evolution of resistance as incomplete application of antibiotics does. The article provides good overview and solid explanation behind this observation.

My layman's understanding that it is because vaccines do not directly "fight" the weak spot of the virus, but rather stimulate a multi-modal response of one's own immune system, so the evolutionary pressure generated is not different from the one of a "natural" response. It sounded reasonable and reassuring.

However, I then read somewhere else (cannot really find a link now) that such logic does not fully apply to the current breed of mRNA vaccines. Specifically because the immune response they stimulate is not a multi-modal, but rather narrowly focused and tied to a very specific "configuration" of the virus. So from this perspective they are more akin to a drug rather than classic vaccine. This sounded reasonable and plausible as well.

But there is another layer to this onion! Because the vaccine, through induced immune response, so very narrowly "target" probably the most critical part of the virus, every vaccine "escape" will likely transform the virus in the direction of reduced virulence. The useful model suggests that when part of mutational "budget" is spent on extended contagiousness, the less of it remains for potential fatality. There was also some explanation why this is more applicable to viruses than to bacteria. Something about horizontal gene transfer, if I remember correctly. So, even though the immune escape in this case is, probably, as likely as with drugs, it may actually be a desirable thing, bringing us closer to a harmless, unnoticeable variety of SARS-V-2.

While I don't think this logic supports vaccine mandates currently introduced, it could alleviate some concerns held by some people and work toward increasing of voluntary uptake.
It is a pity that instead of expanding on a very solid base provided in the article, and using the opportunity to educate people and make them thinking, the editors seriously misread their audience and decided to slap that religious statement across. For many, this outright invalidates the whole content, which is understandable and unfortunate.
Could it be rewritten in Electron? Out of bazillion words they could have chosen they used "electron" to show a find and replace feature.
I would argue that the unsanctioned permanent slums are already present in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other cities on the west coast.
Redox, 9front, and Haiku may all interest you.

Booting on real hardware will most likely be successful with a Raspberry Pi, or Thinkpad, those seem to be the most common for these small OS's to target.

Or you could boot Linux straight to qemu with your OS of choice.

Edit: Or Alpine Linux running Sway may be a decent option, though it's definitely some assembly required.
Intel plans to take self-driving car unit public in the U.S. in mid-2022
You most probably did. At least I know I did. And the point is exactly that, instead of protecting creative output copyright is locking it down by capitalising it. Rather than creativity being a flow of meaningful communication and exchange at the level of ideas and aesthetics, it’s becoming a stock with ongoing financial and not creative dividends. You will have trouble using your creative outputs when moving between companies. Unless you start all over again and from that perspective it is a weird motivator for creativity, albeit one oriented to getting you where you started from rather than one step further.
Your site is not loading. FYI
It's in response to various articles in the right-wing news sphere that have been mocking her for not using Bluetooth headphones, because... sensible opsec is uncool I guess?
Much of it is mainline, yes. So I’m thinking they expect x86 like compatibly.
I get chills reading that paper. I know that without mRNA vaccines we’d have plenty of alternatives, but for a while there it was really saving the world.
Looks very nice.
have to try it.
thanks for sharing
> Viagra use indicates that the person has a partner(s) at an advanced age.

Or money.
Google didn’t succeed. Most search results now are worse than in 2004.
Increasingly, Gemini too.
I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me. If it matters, I have direct personal experience with this. In 2020, I voluntarily ended employer group health coverage, at the time of my choosing, because I knew that I could get subsidized coverage through CoveredCA, the California web site that serves both federal ACA (Obamacare), plus California's own version of the ACA (very similar to federal).

Through the exchange, without a struggle, I received insurance comparable to what I had before, no questions asked about my existing health condition, with a subsidy to help pay. The best I could have hoped for previously would have been up to six months only of COBRA coverage, at 102% of my employer's cost, no subsidy. And if I chose to go without any coverage at all for a few months, in the past I would have had to divulge any pre-existing "conditions" as part of the application process.
Some additional points since i'm currently interviewing a lot

-Practice leetcode since it will make up 50-60% of the interview process

-Study your resume inside and out, know the whys of what you did not just the whats

-Don't talk too much, sometimes nervousness and anxiety can make itself with a candidate talking too much or too little, both are bad, be concise with your answers but don't ramble on, the more you ramble the more surface area you give the interviewer to poke holes at what you said. Being concise can lead the interviewer towards areas where you are most comfortable answering questions.

-Realize you might be an amazing developer but you only have a couple of hours to show prospective employer what you got, don't be too harsh on yourself if you get rejected, it is impossible to know a person in 3 hours, they are merely going based on their best judgement of you (which is mixed in with actual performance considerations and bias many times) and not the "reality" of you.
I have limited experience with recruiters, but generally they often are nice, polite, want to help, then ask me the same question three times over a 30 minute period: "So, I know you asked for X as base compensation preference, but what would it take for you to do 0.8X of that number?"
More whitespace and even worse, no borders. It looks incomplete and empty.
Code signing for Windows is a pain for anything self hosted. I tried every open source, self-hosted option I could find last week and none of it was usable. IIRC the only one that had signed executables was Remotely and it was a 150MB client that bundles .NET.

All the rest seem to copy the terrible design of on demand code signing and that doesn’t work. If you get an EV certificate for instant SmartScreen reputation the key is on a HSM. If you get an OV certificate that is easier to automate with you need to build SmartScreen reputation which is brutal.

The RuskDesk project mentioned below was the most interesting to me. It’s a small executable and works pretty good. That’s enough to tell me that someone should be able to build a great product if they have instant support executables signed with an EV certificate.

What it comes down to though is that everyone needs their own code signing certificate or someone needs to run a matchmaking service. I’m sure you could build something that works well with Cloudflare Workers/KV by sending hashed (+salted) IDs to a matchmaking Worker. When a customer reads me the ID I know the secret and can tell the matchmaker “here’s the secret, please redirect the client to my self hosted server, relay, etc. at support.example.com.”

Also, Screego is another interesting project to check out.
I've always preferred contracting for this reason - you get one number and know exactly where you stand. Its put in your pocket every month. If the employer can't do the high rate you can negotiate for equity.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond, I really appreciate it.

By the looks of it, the analytics cookies (eg SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE) are not set when not clicking "Accept and proceed". So my issue is only with the wording. In practice it is already opt in, so the text can and should be changed to opt in.
The wording opt out does say the default is to accept, and you have to explicitly protest to not accept.
(It looks like the wording was already changed?)

Imho, you shouldn't look at it as cookies vs no-cookies. The GDPR is not really about cookies, but about protecting your personal data. You're allowed to set cookies! But if you're processing personal data (such as non-anonymous analytics), you do have to ask permission.

What bothers me the most is the consent modal:
I have to click the small blue text "cookie details" (vs the large green "Accept and proceed"), and then click the gray "Decline cookies" to not have my personal data processed and shared.

Why not give visitors 2 options equally?

- "Please use (and share) my personal data to improve this (and other) sites", and

- "No thanks, I'm just browsing"

If you offer those 2 options (and don't try to hide the "no thanks" behind an extra click and a hidden link), I would seriously reconsider consenting.
As a sidenote: I would be even more likely to consent if it's not the first thing you force on me. Visiting a press release with a fresh session cookie? Or landing directly on a datasheet from a google search? Why even bother with non-anonymous analytics and ask me for consent?
But if I'm clicking through and visiting other pages? Sure, ask to track me. My personal default is to decline, but if you can show mutual benefits I'm way more likely to consent.

As for the comments on the EU website I linked to: I agree. The wording is not clear as to what I'm accepting. As far as I understand:

- "visitor preferences" and "operational cookies" are required

- analytics cookies can be declined (even though they are already anonymous)

- third party cookies are handled separately, when viewing third party content

Following my own advice, I will contact the European Union DPO, and ask them to clarify the consent popup.

This should really be an import addendum to my previous post!: the first step is to contact the site's DPO, and only escalate to your nation's data protection agency when this approach fails.

Thank you again rgetz for taking the time to respond, and for raising this issue internally. It looks like wording of the privacy policy was already changed. I hope the consent popup can also be improved. Your response and the quick update of the privacy policy has greatly improved my opinion of Analog Devices.
Because inspiring people fucking matters. Bringing Hubble back and having it in a museum would (like it or not) do a lot more inspiring up and coming scientists/engineers than some random recent picture Hubble took.

Look at the number of views the falcon heavy double booster landing got. It’s entirely irrelevant to science but it’s still inspiring nonetheless.

Why does that matter? People without a 4 year+ degree in physics need to be inspired as well because statistically they are the ones who make the decisions.
The Brydge ones look nice, but I prefer having my laptop's screen fully accessible while docked. Plus, I'm not really sure how I liked the idea of a vertically positioned dock... one bad swipe and I'd be out my Macbook, because I can guarantee you it's not surviving the fall off my desk.

And only two ports? What's the point of even docking it in the first place if I get less IO out of it?
The Thinkism Fallacy
Controlled indoor cultivation of black morel
I am going to have to try Lean. I find I sometimes fall into the trap of wanting the ideal tool or solution when good enough will get me further. The little I've looked at Lean so far, has been encouraging from when I tried to play with Coq several years ago.
When interviewing remotely, move further away from the camera so you don’t appear as a floating head. Showing more of your torso allows you to use your more of your body to communicate.
I wouldn't see this as a precursor to the internet. In fact, I'd see it as the opposite of the internet in important ways. The internet is a big decentralized network where knowledge ends up accumulating through the countless individual actions of users, often in ways that are not terribly well organized from a logical standpoint. Of course, most of the important services that run on the internet are centralized now, but neither the internet infrastructure nor the world wide web is centralized or centrally planned, nor does it have a hierarchical structure; information is spread out, duplicated, codified etc. in different ways on different centralized services.

In contrast, the Mundaneum seems to have been an attempt to create a top-down complete encyclopedia of information, organized in a rigid, rationalized, hierarchical logical structure. A beautiful logical diamond that would contain all knowledge. The project failed, and in fact all such projects have failed and will fail, although they continue to be appealing for some reason. Their rigid structures cannot cope with the diversity of information, its rapid change, or its amorphous nature in the same way that an unstructured network of linked servers or hyperlinked pages can. The success of the internet refutes the philosophy of the Mundaneum: rigid logical structures cannot contain human knowledge or activity; only something more freewheeling can work.
yeah, if you move the goalposts, then you score every time. and the original post in this thread said nothing about modernity.

but even if the original ranting comment was only talking about the modern music business, that starts with sheet music publishing in the 19th century, not this made-up nonsense about churches and bars.

and the 19th century sheet music publishing business was itself founded on hundreds of years of sheet music publishing that came before it, just at a smaller scale.
Another comment by OP says that they are 300k in the hole. So it sounds like it lost 10x what it cost

Also 30k is absurd for a single static web page
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But in terms of price stability as a fraction of the sum, its unrivaled.

Things are still very early so people don't know what to make of it, but stable is a not a property I would assign to the dollar. Given that one economy mutates and another doesn't, you have to realize its not bitcoin thats moving against the dollar. Its the dollar moving around the bitcoin.
Honour EXIF as well as sidecars for tags. Use one of the defined tag syntaxes and state which one you honour.

Approximate date in images is a huge issue. There's a range of ways to express uncertainty to date, not after. not before. circa. between. year good month uncertain. If you invested in this space, you could help simplify the thinking. Ramming it into specific YYYY:MM:DD:HH:MM:SS values is really bad.

Google is a bad actor here in photos: they don't re-index on tag modification except for very specific changes and its opaque and poorly documented. If you do better it has good qualities about market and mind share.
Why would anyone need more than 16kb of RAM with hard drives getting so big?
Probably mentioned here but its UI customization is pretty much limited to your css skill. You can go dense as much as you want or elegant with much paddings as usual. I tried almost every chromium variants but can't bear the touch friendly paddings and scaling.
Where does starlink come into play? Do these countries you speak of just not have internet?
My point was that RR Martin wrote books, and then *movies* were made off the books. If the copyright period is 2-3 years, then a movie company would just need to wait a couple years and RR Martin would get zero dollars for his work (except the small number of people that buy his book) but more people watch movies and shows, so they would be willing to pay the premium for the movies based off his content just a couple years later.
I sorely miss those exciting days. Hotline was so well done. I still have v1.8.4, but sadly remote host refuses connection. Is there no way we can bring such things to life again? Tor isn’t it.
Two things missing from the Step Functions portion of the article:

* Step Functions module in the AWS CDK: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-stepfunc...

* Step Functions Data Science SDK (python): https://aws-step-functions-data-science-sdk.readthedocs.io/e...

There is first class support for defining Step Functions using real programming languages (although it does compile down to the states language dls before deployment)
I think the allegation is that Tesla’s current product cannot actually make all decisions on the fly, but they have been claiming it can—which is exaggeration at the very least.
No, Linux has a stable syscall interface (and is unusual in this respect). Consequently, fully static binaries are a reasonable thing to want on that platform (and a major motivation for this proposal is that building them is currently too difficult/annoying/unsupported).
In the mean time you can visit the Kennedy Space Center, which has a full scale replica on display. (Haven't been there myself, but interested in going one day.)