skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really depends whether you see IT as a job or as a tool to achieve your own projects. If the latter, then you don't particularly care how "hype" your tech stack is as long as it successfully solves your own problems.
A couple of comments here have talked about the benefits of “skinny models”, but that runs counter to the advice I’ve seen. How come skinny models? Is the idea to put most of the business logic… where?
^ this is correct, BadgerDAO has no control over user accounts, this is purely a frontend that was manipulated. You could redploy the frontend from source somewhere else without asking Badger and it would work just as well.
> Not doing an ad-hom attack here, but you probably own a reflow oven.

I do not, I've never even done reflow. I briefly considered making the toaster, because it's a very fun project, but in the end I think I'm just going to get my PCBs assembled.
That would for sure push our community to better describe the runtime of the different solutions. We talked only about syntax, features, semantic but very little about the runtime characteristics of the different platforms (Java, .Net, BEAM, different Common Lisps implementation etc). Maybe it's a sign of abundance and that most of these solutions are ok in most of the cases.
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If you're doing clean room design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design then reinvention is allowed
Thanks God neither Google nor Apple complied because "it's extremely [difficult] for them to" do so. Oh, wait, they did comply, too. Different jurisdiction, no HQs in Russia and yet both succumbed to the authoritarian regime. Not a good argument in the context of comparing the two search engines.
An fun visual explanation of Newton's Method is contained within this video by 3Blue1Brown
https://youtu.be/-RdOwhmqP5s
At this point, using other non-vim editors makes me feel like I have one hand tied behind my back.

But maybe that's just because I'm not good with those editors. :)

I once asked my dive instructor about the debates surrounding various dive gear setups. He said, "Strive to be an excellent diver with any gear."
Is this article supposed to prove my point or yours? I read it and saw no examples of supposed apartheid in the state of Israel. The article intentionally mashes Israel and occupied territories together.
Images/video are trickier since there's strict liability around those in most countries. So that should continue to live on private hosting services.

Other bad stuff could exist as it does today on the internet. You can find all this stuff online by just searching google for the most part. Most people don't want to interact with that stuff, so they would go on curated content providers like twitter that do active filtering of those things.
You don't have to use the frontend they host, it's not an actual single point of failure. Their frontend could go down, and as long as someone else is hosting one (or you download the source from github and host it locally) you can still use Badger.
InnoDB and Memory are really the only ones widely used these days. After Oracle bought MySQL they threw their full backing behind InnoDB and recommended all MyISAM users migrate. They fixed a number of small problems like the missing full text support.

InnoDB is more fault tolerant and modern feature rich (e.g. Foreign keys) than MyISAM. MyISAM is faster in practice despite Oracle’s continuous claims to the contrary.

MyISAM is largely undeveloped at this point. MariaDB hard forked MyISAM into Aria and have included better fault tolerance and other general improvements. It’s what I use for my personal projects.

Memory tables are strictly in memory and useful for doing very quick processing on things you are certain will fit entirely into system memory. Their data is lost when the system is rebooted or MySQL is restarted.
Similarly used by https://tildes.net (invites available if you email me).
Django is the nicest framework I've come across! For some context, my favorite overall programming language is Rust. Despite Rust having several web frameworks, I use Python the server due to Django being so nice.

In Python, there are micro frameworks like Flask, and whatever new ones claim to be "Blazingly fast!", async etc. Once you get over the learning curve, Django seems the nicest to use, due to including features like an auto-updating ORM, email, authentication, admin page etc. None of the Rust frameworks, in contrast, come close to feature parity.

Django's feature base is vast, and I admit I don't understand much of it. You can choose the feature sets you need. The template language is inflexible, but you can smooth this over using JS instead A/R.
IBM Model M. I have two, the 1st one I'm using right now and the 2nd one that I will use when the 1st one breaks, which probably means never. I believe this one is dated 1993, but might be older as it still carries a Lotus 1-2-3 v2.2 sticker on it. Yes, it's loud, but that's not a problem in my case.
I'd say it was extremely intentional given this:

https://lwn.net/ml/linux-api/20180905165436.GA25206@kroah.co...

And that's for a userspace header.
And vice versa for some people. Ideally, offer people a choice.
I added an extra x-ray view option that shows all 4 plots at the same time
>This is exactly why public schools have accessibility requirements for any of their communications.

I am not sure you have an accessibility case regarding a facebook group. It is accessible for individuals with disabilities, via the use of electronic aides such as screen readers. Accessibility does not mean, "I get whatever I want whenever I want." It means, "I can access this without my disability impeding that."

Not having facebook is not a disability.

I'm very, very confused by what you're saying.
would be interesting to know what was easier / harder since it's one of the rare cases of writing pretty much the same program in these two languages
LOL, looks like one gets seriously downvoted for mental freewheeling on HN... I did not see that coming, especially since I added a disclaimer.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to try to explain this to a total layman, but I'll defer engaging into subject matters that I never heard about before; lesson learned...
Could this be applied to gradient descent in neural networks?
It looks like we're getting closer and closer to making this a reality. Recently (this year) some other people published a sort of reworking of the Alcubierre drive[1], I wonder how much (if at all) better this paper will fit with that. For those who'd like a more accessible way to what it's about see: [2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.06824.pdf
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VWLjhJBCp0
Why exactly? They are a compile time concept which only generates code for types where it is needed. That C devs instead copy-paste the same code 10s of times, use some shitty slow linked list, or the worst, use textual macros doesn’t make any of them a better tradeoff imo.
presumably the code being distributed to users could then be redistributed by those users, making this not a SPoF

it just happened to be an overly trusted point of failure
Newton's method is an algorithm you can use to minimise/maximise/find the root of a differentiable function very quickly if you start with a reasonable guess. There are many variants on Newton's method, e.g. BFGS that does not require the hessian (/2nd order derivative) of the function. A pitfall of Newton's method is that it does not find the global minimum per se, it might just converge to a local minimum if this local minimum is "closer" to your initial guess. Some variants of Newton's method allow you to avoid this pitfall, but they are slow in practice.

This seems to be another variant that claims to find the global minimum quicker than other existing methods. I am not experienced enough to verify this claim. I am also not sure how this new algorithm performs in practice; in theory, ellipsoid methods are a lot more efficient than simplex methods for optimising convex functions, while in practice simplex methods are usually an order of magnitude faster. So take this result with a grain of salt.
That could be very easy to prove right or wrong: if it's the sex, then the wives of men taking viagra should be less likely to develop alzheimer's themselves.
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I instinctively want to agree with you but Apple has persuaded me I'm wrong.

Conventional wisdom has always been that not all users are the same: customisation and different workflows are needed for different people, particularly power users. Yet Apple's philosophy is to work really hard to find what they think is the best way to do something and polish the hell out of it. Power users like us software developers sometimes moan about it, but that doesn't stop us queuing up to buy iPhones!
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Tildes are painful to type on several non-English layouts (e.g. Swedish). I like their Unixy vibe but disdain having to type them.
>There are lots of crypto projects who have never been hacked

Cyclists have a saying: there are two kinds of cyclists, ones that have crashed, and ones that are going to crash.

I think crypto exchanges can be similarly partitioned: there are two kinds of crypto exchanges, ones that have been hacked, and ones that are going to be hacked.

It's just ideal conditions: lots of money, software, no regulation/oversight, anonymous criminals.
I now added and x-ray view option to show all sides of the cube at the same time (by hiding the cube itself)
With respect to productivity - any gains you save from moving to a mechanical keyboard will not make up for the time you spend researching, purchasing, and thinking about the mechanical keyboard.

I replied to other comments, but I like my Kinesis Advantage 2 for the ergonomics. I liked my Das Keyboard because it felt like I was interacting with a premium device, and was just a nice, solid way to use a computer. Yes it would make me more productive than a broken keyboard, but no, I don’t think it’s a huge gain (I also use laptop keyboards from time to time).

Investing money in what goes between you and the ground makes sense. Another thing to consider spending money on is what you touch throughout the day.
I don't think it would stop radio receivers from existing especially for astronomy.
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What sort of society would say everyone is healthy enough? I imagine one like Logan's Run, where everyone is healthy until 30 then executed.
Unless I'm mistaken (very possible), the existing cubic Newton method they discuss already has this convergence guarantee, but introduces a lot of extra expensive work at each step. The specific contribution of the paper is finding clever regularization tricks to keep this guarantee while sidestepping the extra hassle the cubic method needs
> ”No curtains on window in main room, which faced an office block close enough where people could see you and you could see them.”

This place sounds terrible, and of course it should have had curtains. But the part about facing onto other buildings is pretty normal in London.
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no audit's going to pick up every possible issue or potential exploit, but it does help weed out the obvious scams.

The entry to creating your own token is so low that people with little to no coding experience are attempting to add/modify functionality. Community insistence to get audited is useful to pick up on these.
"understand how the system works, and know how to secure their own funds."

"don’t care about decentralization and flood every discord server asking “wen token” and are just around to make free money a"

Please ... both groups are rife with hustlers and pyramid scammers.

Crypto as an asset class is entirely a grift irrespective of the few 'legitimate backers' beliefs or actions.

If it were not for the big pile on of grifters, crypto would not have inflated prices and would therefore be the purview of a small number of hobbyists.

Finally, the notion that people should have an advanced understanding of computing, crypto, security and the various pitfalls, would imply technology is accessible to less than 0.01% of the planet who have both the will and ability to do so, thereby rendering the nill as any material opportunity for true 'decentralization'.

If people had to live in that world, they would be begging for some trusted institution in which they could safely place those funds, which are called 'banks'. Anyone can found one so long as they follow the regs, and those regulations are fully open and transparent. It represents just thee right amount of 'decentralization' necessary to keep a system with very high integrity afloat.
When will we stop making “jokes” about women being objects to be passed around? Perhaps 2022 will be the year we grow up. I am hopeful.
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(Disclaimer: Not an expert, and only gave the paper a very cursory read).

Newton's method attempts to find zeroes of a function (i.e. find x where F(x) = 0). This is equivalent to finding a (possible) minimum of a function f(x) where f'(x) = F(x). Note: The wiki article describes the process of finding zeroes for F(x), whereas the article searches minima of f(x), in terms of my notation here.

At a basic level, Newton's method iteratively improves a guess x_k via the following update step:

x_(k+1) = x_k - f(x_k) / f'(x_k)

When close to the correct solution, convergence is quadratic: You "double the number of correct digits" at every step, so to speak. But if you're far away, you might be diverging (going further away from the solution). Progress can also be slow under other conditions (multiple solutions nearby).

The paper, essentially, suggest the following update step instead:

x_(k+1) = x_k - f(x_k) / (f'(x_k) + sqrt(H |f(x_k)|))

for some H (that needs to be chosen/estimated). The extra term can be thought of as some form of regularization. This supposedly avoids divergence (where f is non-decreasing and does not grow too fast), and is also consistently fast.

Note that I've simplified to the one-dimensional case here. There are further concerns in higher dimensions (e.g. number of matrix inversions) that this method handles well, according to the authors.
>That's a strange extreme.

I agree, that's why I mocked your assertion that any dislike of Israel is due to ignorance, arrogance, or racial hatred. Thank you for immediately engaging in a whataboutist slander to defend your position, it's a great indication of your ability to have a discussion about this topic fairly.

The USA and Israel are both guilty of horrible atrocities that fairly allow reasonable people to hate them. They are not "naive or malicious" they just have a different point of view than you do.

It is an entirely ridiculous assertion from a zealot.
It isn't even just the same program in two languages!

He started it all with a bash version (named bashtop, here: https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop)!
If reinventing the wheel implies no added benefit, the answer is never (or perhaps for educational reasons as someone else has suggested).

If you can identify a benefit, that needs to be weighed against the cost. A benefit may involve maintainability, flexibility, extendibility or any number of ibilities. But that is more like improving the wheel which is OK.
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This is a forum run by a US VC firm talking about US startups. One could almost forgive the assumption that people would understand that I was referring to the US. ;-)
> small contract

> And if you screw up? The storage array will run our of space and data will get dropped and people might die. Or you’ll delete data before the system is done with it and people might die.

personally I don't think any situation with life on the line should be considered "small" or have any fewer then 3 people on it
For the foreseeable future, crypto will be denominated predominately in fiat.

Why does central banks printing money have anything to do with crypto?

It affects crypto the same as it affects corn and soybeans and gold and the S&P and any other investment.

Central banks printing money seems inherently unfair if you're a creditor and a boon if you're a debtor.

Until the majority of global debt is denominated in Crypto (ie never) - it doesn't change anything WRT central banks.
Almost the exact same thing happened to me. I used a debit card to pay (don't do this) and got refunded because I filed a dispute, which was denied, only because my bank failed to give a provisional credit (violation of federal regulations). VRBO offered no help at all.

You know this happens a lot when they issue 10% refunds. If it were rare and they cared about customers at all they would refund 100% and deal with the owner themselves. They just don't want to get into the business of talking with renters.
Indeed, they are a large voting base of an alliance of religious conservatives (along with Mormons, conservative Catholics, etc.) that is hyperfocused on that one issue, and so seemingly having some success on it.

But it's not like Amy Coney Barrett is barely Catholic. She's been heavily involved in the church her whole life, and her career has been centered around a deeply Catholic university. She only represents Evangelicals in situations where their belief overlaps with those of the Catholic church.
I'll just wait for a few months for this algorithm to show up in `scipy.optimize` [1]

[1] https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/optimize.html#
Quantum physics may imply the existence of free will
I think this is all super fair commentary and very balanced. As a Compute@Edge user though how do they test CloudFlare when the ToS says otherwise? Test and break the ToS and hope for the best? It's a bit of a shame that it exists.
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Scrape and rehost all the things!
I partially agree with you. It's true that bitcoin is not producing anything of value. It failed at everything. It's not a currency, it's not decentralized, it's not fungible, it's not untraceable and anonymous. It's nothing.

That energy would be much better spent mining monero which does have all of those properties.
Turns out you can: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Buds+Live+Tea...
ETH already scales with L2 while remaining the most decentralized and secure
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Alternatively, the weakness was obvious to anyone with a brain, noone fixed it, so the enemy exploited it.

UK government issued a pandemic readyness report. Report said the country has no protective equipment and will get rekt. This is exactly what happened. Blaming the messenger is very misguided. Negligence is endemic and always comes back to haunt you
After his second loss (vs Carlsen) Nepo cuts his hair and arrives with Karjakin
Supernova in the East was a great series. I read one of his major sources, Ian Toll's Pacific War trilogy, immediately after finishing the series, which gave a great strategic and political view to complement Carlin's emotional view
FAQ covers 1 use case. It doesn't cover complexity. The entire docs is for that.
I love it! Well done
- USD is not a commodity or an asset.

- "security by hashpower" assumes that PoW is the only way to go, when the important feature of blockchain is that it works to BFT consensus.

A security system that is expensive to maintain and consumes so much resources in a non-renewable fashion (and I am not talking about energy production, I am talking about energy itself) is a bad system, period.

We should not be looking at how much hashpower it is using and thinking "that's a good thing", we should be thinking "how can we have a consensus system that is more efficient and less wasteful".
I strongly believe that there will be new laws that adapt to the SaaS like business model.

Most SaaS are structured in an effectively "non competitive market" kind of way. Lots of information hiding (don't post prices), high costs of switching (vendor lockin), and so on. These type of things stifle competition and lead to a more pseudo Monopoly kind of state rather than a truly competitive market.

Anyway, transparent pricing should be required for all businesses IMO. The problem is particularly bad in healthcare, and big contributor into high costs.

Of course, it will take a few decades for laws to catch up
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> This was a masters program in Germany

Witholding access to course materials, unless a student enters a contract/relationship with a third-party (Facebook or otherwise), is coersion. I would certainly kick up a fuss: start politely with those running the course (who probably didn't give it much thought); go up the chain as necessary.

At each step, make sure the focus remains on the coersion: the University is retroactively adding terms (e.g. whatever is in Facebook's policies) to the contracts agreed during enrollment. It is threatening to impose penalties (e.g. lost marks) on those who don't accept such unilateral changes.

Do not allow the issue to get derailed into tangential concerns, especially money (e.g. price of the service, or provision of equipment/connections, etc.). Those things could be solved by signing a cheque; but would not address the real problem. If concrete reasons is really needed, there are a bunch to choose from that aren't easily solved (and are not under the University's control): for Facebook/Meta there are a whole bunch, from real name requirements, privacy concerns, non-consentual psychology experiments, etc. Personally I would just say I find the company, their products and their business practices unethical.

(I had a similar experience when my Physics course tried to make me use Microsoft Excel)
I was trying to figure out something regarding county zoning by reading a 300-page pdf of county ordinances. Eventually I did a google search and found a FAQ on the county website that had a simple explanation of what I was looking for.

I do understand the argument that a need for a FAQ is symptom of poorly-structured content. But I do think context matters--if it's the federal government providing information about social security benefits, then sure, spend the time and resources to make good content. However, for the case of this small county government with limited resources, the FAQ is a very efficient. I'd rather a small number of my tax dollars be spent on the FAQ than a lot of my tax dollars on rewriting the PDF.
There are no 'first principles' that tie loosely-defined and emotionally-charged statements such as 'hates crypto' or 'believes in vaccination' to specific groups of people.
> > 2. Accessible market-making: The ability to provide capital to a decentralised exchange to operate as an automated market-maker.

> Yes, this is a great way of solving a problem crypto created for itself - illiquid markets for jars of air that is. In classical markets you can just buy shares in a market maker. Crypto's biggest market makers are centralized - Alameda Research and Cumberland/DRW. The latter is also a massive market maker in classical markets.

Buying shares in a market maker is absolutely worse than directly market making yourself - you can't pick and choose your markets, you are paying for staffing overhead of the company, you are paying a stock exchange and broker fees.

Therefore automated market-making is something crypto does better than a classical solution.
This is already the case for North Korea.

Not only will the US government refuse to do business with you, they'll charge you with a crime.
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"And is static analysis a non-negotiable requirement of life-critical code?"

I started grinding my teeth to slivers. "Normally yes."

I feel like this story is missing something. If static analysis is a non-negotiable requirement, shouldn't he have had to get explicit approval from higher-up before using Python?