skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the reverse true? Misinformation is being framed as more trustworthy then accurate information. Are people willingly ignoring the correct information, or do they have the illusion of making their own decision, but its really been manipulated by other propaganda, lack of critical thinking skills, and like this interview suggests, tribalism.
That’s literally the plot of 2001
Fluxbox because it has enough features for me, very much "done" and stable. Also the greatest theme collection.
If their content is so interchangeable, why should they all stay in business?
Bypassing 2FA – Secret double octopus [2019]
After Another Blunder, the World Chess Championship Is Off the Rails
Unexploded ordnance to be cleaned along Laos-China railway
Road systems are pretty communal, though. We decide what safety systems to implement and what norms to uphold. I think 'externality' works well enough.

Shark attacks are an externality of having such a strong beach culture, or whatever.
Is your conjecture that Newton's method would always work at least as well as gradient descent when the vector field has nonzero rotation? I don't see why that should be true, especially given that's not the case when there's zero rotation. You could easily come up with examples where gradient descent would work better despite the rotation, and I expect you could also find lots of rotation cases where Newton's method would get completely thrown off (whereas GD wouldn't).

(Also, don't conflate the problem with the solution. My statements were about optimization vs. root finding, not about Newton vs. GD. Even if there is a solution that works for multiple problems, that doesn't mean the problems are equally difficult. If one problem admits solutions that the other doesn't, then it's still easier in that sense. If a problem can be reduced to another, then it's also easier in that sense. Just like how you can use a cannon to kill a fly, but that doesn't mean destroying a building is as easy as killing a fly...)
Hacker News: Windows is terrible because the user interface is inconsistent

Microsoft: Okay, we've made a small visual refresh of Notepad so that it's more visually consistent with Windows 11

Hacker News: Stop breaking my childhood!
As an American, I totally feel the same. But working with some of my European counterparts, they can just totally disappear for a month or two when they vacation, like into a black hole. They just take vacations more seriously. If one of them was a decider for a hiring decision, we definitely wouldn't hear back from them until after. Not anything good or bad about it, it's just a different culture.
I've been considering replacing my EdgeRouter with a pfsense box (probably the Netgate 6100), have you been dissatisfied with your Netgate?
In this case, just connect over LAN.
We have always been at war with us-east-1.
Responding to Tor Censorship in Russia
You keep clipping the point where I very baldly and plainly stated that it was hearsay: "I've known Elementary School teachers make very strong cases that…"

The first half of that sentence you keep fragmenting was the more important part of my comment. That's pretty obvious why you keep misunderstanding my intent. I don't really have anything to add about pedagogy or style guides, that's out of my wheelhouse and interest level, sorry. I'm sorry I can't be a more interesting interlocutor for this debate that you want to have.
https://archive.md/ZOzpA
Depends which provider you host your crap with. I’ve had real trouble trying to get a top tier incident even acknowledged by one of the pre cloud providers.

To be fair when it’s AWS when something goes snap it’s not my problem which I’m happy about (until some wise ass at AWS hires me) :)
Eh, give me an 80% discount on Office 2021 (not subscription-based, 80% off ≈ $30), then I'll figure out how to do that, otherwise I'll just buy a key on a resale site for $5.
"Huang, who is from China, said the U.S. lags behind other countries in regulation and consumer awareness of the dangers of certain chemicals in building materials. In China, we're very aware of those harmful chemicals," she said. "When they buy a home, people wait three or four months to move in. In the U.S., people don't care about it"

Yeah I'm not sure how much I buy this. Asbestos is still a common building material in China, and the west had to specifically lobby to prevent China from using it when they built the Olympics infrastructure. China consumes more than 1/4 of the world's asbestos.

Additionally, China only adopted a lead paint standard last year, something that the US has had in place for ~50 years. It is estimated that 10% of Chinese children today suffer from lead poisoning.

https://ipen.org/news/china-adopts-new-lead-paint-standards-...
https://www.ionos.com/servers/amd-servers

Among dozens of others...
Or BlueTooth.
The headline here doesn't seem to line up with what the article is about.
"Have they actually moved zoning control to the state level anywhere? There are proposals to do it in California but I'm not sure that any of them have been implemented."

Not just implemented, but even studied/surveyed.
How many of those 200 newspapers have the same owner ?
https://archive.md/F7rmt
Those are good points, but the pervasiveness of music as a means to connect socially is so out of proportion vis à vis hacker conferences that most hacker conference include one or multiple musical events, and sometimes music leading to some of the "big numbers". I think Discovery becomes a viable product when there's so much of something out there, and for math and hacker conferences it's not much of a necessity and no one with benefit from it. For music because of a matter of scale I think Discovery is ripe for innovation and there's viable products that should do well.

I wish I had more time or contacts to actually put my money where my mouth is, so unfortunately so far I just have an opinion.
Efinity – A New Blockchain built specifically for gaming and trading NFTs
Kalman filters are literally everywhere in the industry. If there is a radar or data fusion involved, you can be pretty sure there are Kalman filters. I know a researcher whose most quoted article is just him applying fancy new methods to actual industrial datasets and showing they perform worse than a Kalman filter.

What you wrote is akin to someone explaining to students doing signal processing that they should stay away from Fourier transforms.
Lack of humility kind of plagues our profession.
Hm I think we have a misunderstanding. Who said that a news company has to be publicly traded multi-billion dollar media corporation? My local newspaper is a news company. It can not effectively be replaced by someone on substack, let alone a news company with aspirations of more than local news coverage. Substack is OK for opinion, not news. That was my whole argument.
> Maintain access 20 year old fitness data? What for?

Why not? I have about 12 years worth because that's when I started tracking, no reason to ever delete it. Saving the 0.001% (actual value, I just checked) on disk space isn't a motivation.

It's fun to review old data. Occasionally useful, even. Mostly for fun.

> And here's the thing: As the memories fade, so does interest in the photos. 10 years ago you still remember clearly. 20 years ago is another era.

Wait another 30 years and those now-50 year old photos will be treasure.

I don't look much at my photos from 20 years ago, that's pretty recent so I remember it well. But photos from 50 years ago are quite the treasure. Even older ones (like when grandparents were toddlers) are invaluable. Wish there were tons more of those.

But yes that's photos. Fitness data is certainly less interesting, but still fun and costs approximately zero space to keep.
Which behavior? First Click Free was ditched years ago, but websites will still allow x number of free articles. Some don't, and still get indexed.
I sort of only want WG support in EdgeRouter as WG client such that my homes in different geographical locations can share the same network transparently. Is that still a good use?
Showed up when I logged in this morning
I appreciate the counter-take — it seems like almost every take I read on the modern music business is coming from people who don't actually know what the reality on the ground is.

And gd submithub is awesome, I have been sucked right in, making submissions, buying credits, rating songs. It's taken up my whole morning, well done!
They use existing infrastructure. We don't have government hospitals and doctors in every city, it's easier to reimburse doctors and clinics to give out vaccines. We have a post office system hundreds of years old, which has worked fine for 95+% of that time. The idea that we need to rely on Amazon to send all postal mail, which they aren't actually capable of doing, is so strange to me
Opening a brokerage account is trivial, takes a few minutes. People who don't even have a bank account really shouldn't be trading securities. They mostly have no money and terrible credit ratings. They should focus on getting their personal finances squared away first.
I just hope the new version is fast and not like Paint 3D which sometimes spends multiple seconds "creating a new project" when opening a simple PNG on a 5950X.
You’re correct. The Kalman gain in the linear case can be computed offline since it’s only a function of model parameters. The P matrix is updated at every iteration, but it is also only a function of Q and R (which is determined offline) and the previous P, which at time 0 is initialized with diagonals. P does represent the covariance of (xpred - xact) but it doesn’t take in inputs at every iteration. I appreciate that call out.

Like most things, in practical implementations there’s a bunch of extra things that go beyond the basic theory you have to do like reestimating the initial P every few iterations as well as reestimating Q and R with online data.

It’s not magic and yes it is a form of recursive linear regression but it does work in real life.
For me, the richest discovery is playing the music on my instrument for myself.
The discovery of music in myself through improvisation is the richest possible discovery.
> the vast majority of suburbanites live in thoroughly suboptimal conditions and that their health and social lives would be massively better served by living in more dense and walkable areas.

And yet, they don't believe that. What are you going to do, force them?
> Peering isn't good and they seem to route a lot of the traffic via their Germany network.

Stuff like that always makes me wonder how much of it is down to the NSA being hooked straight into DE-CIX [0] via the German BND [1].

[0] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/german-court-thro...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization
'Quite dead' for example means completely dead.
What about this updates fucks it up?
Last year, Twitter acquired an app called Squad and shut it down with just 24 hours’ notice on a weekend[1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/squad/status/1337398991210725379
That's a... unique pricing. Or maybe I'm just really behind in the times - hours of using the app? And then only a per project without an unlimited plan?

It seems cool, just have never encountered pricing like that and it would certainly take me aback and reconsider using the tool. Especially when I don't fully know what a "project" is.
Agreed that is one of the hairier challenges a concept like this faces. I do think that argument is worth unpacking though. Would a render node in your neighborhood have acceptable latency? IIRC they have demoed "real-time" NFT's based on an Unreal Engine node streaming frames at acceptable e2e latency.

Personally I'd think a bit broader than frame-streaming for achieving "console in the room" levels of video game fidelity.
Great ideas, they don’t work.

1. Mornings only is impossible because a lot of interviewer availability is in the afternoon since for a lot of them, it’s an unproductive task

2. Batching sounds good, but doesn’t work because different companies move at different paces and you almost always can’t batch them. You’d be lucky if you could batch 2 onsites back to back.

3. You may not be able to batch subsequent rounds together because you sometimes may not hear back on time

4. Most important of all, none of this takes into account that you already may be working a demanding job that you cant take time off from that easily
Eh I really don't want to have to fight against the happy path on VSCode, even if I could maintain my own fork, or whatever, and try to hold it in stasis. Emacs core is pretty fully baked at this point, and it just works on basically everything I throw at it.
Sure, the officers and crew are ultimately responsible. But how are "we" enabling the officers and crew to do their jobs? Manually verifying minimum soundings is a terrible use of one's time AND something that a computer will beat a human at every time.
https://tei.ai/arnA
Gigantic menu bar for the sake of one icon.

Aka “design language”

Aka “bullshit”
> Every recommendation engine I've encountered appear to be based on the idea that I care about artists or genres, rather than the sound profile of individual tracks.

And sometimes I don't even know why I like a particular song. This is especially true when it comes to the concept of catchiness. There is certainly some music theory around hooks, chord loops, etc. but I honestly haven't found any of it anywhere near as explanatory or predictive as more well-established classical western music theory concepts like harmonic function or voice leading. So often it really just feels like "that song is super catchy just because it is."
The article talks about the steady and consistently lower expected life span of americans. The example in it is we've done things like improve cancer survival rate by 25% but now people are dying from guns, opioids and covid. It sounds like a game of whack-a-mole for death causes.
Tim Cook’s $275B Deal with Chinese Authorities
"Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead." https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Currently: LXQT/Mate on most machines. Mostly just because they are some of the lightest DE's that have the bare minimum features I want. I was a GTK-leaning user for decades now but the LXDE -> LXQT transition has begun to convert me. Fedora's LXQT respin is among my favorite prebuilt distros with LXQT.
I was a little surprised to learn that my four-year-old processor (i7-7700) was locked out of running windows 11. It's certainly not processor speed issue, it's still plenty fast for games today. It's not TPM either, which it supports. The best I can tell, Microsoft drew a line and said "too bad," for everything before a certain generation.

I really only play games on my computer--I have no idea when I'll upgrade the CPU. The last one lasted nearly a decade before I replaced it. I guess it'll be a while before I see Windows 11. I'm not too mad though--Windows 10 is a fine Operating System.
Multiple undo steps is noteworthy. I have definitely lost text when I forgot Notepad’s undo limitation.
Can I get that on a license plate?
>I don't know what it is about music but for some reason there's like a tradition in online forums of people going on and on about the nuances of the financial deals in the music industry by people who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

I suspect this is 2 factors: 1) music is something people care about, therefore they have opinions on it (whether or not these are justified). And 2)
Gell-Mann Amnesia: You're familiar with music, so you quickly spot the bullshit that, in reality, suffuses almost all online discussions.
Suspected member of Khashoggi hit squad arrested at Paris airport
S3 bucket creation is failing across all regions for us, so this isn't an us-east-1 only issue.
It does vary, depending on your region. My observation is that not all regions get extra content.

NYT papers in New Jersey used to have different content. I'm not sure if that's still the case.

West coast editions printed in Los Angeles used to have an entire extra section. The last time I checked, that section is no longer there, but there are other subtle changes. Like the weather forecast in the upper right corner of the front page.
> ...local news media lose their geographical monopoly

I realize what you're saying, but really, local news will always have a geographical monopoly.

Can the NYTimes or WSJ even think about covering local issues? How will investigative reporting function for say a local office holder or a local environmental problem?

To my knowledge the real problem is that the traditional business model supporting reporting has dried up. Running classified ads or selling marketing inserts is an obsolete practice. This doesn't really change the need for local reporting though.
Walmart.com, Am I the only one in the world who can't view their site on my phone? I tried it on a couple devices and couldn't get it to work. Scaling is fubar. I assumed this would be costing them millions/billions since it's impossible to buy something from my phone right now. S21+ in portrait on multiple browsers.
I must admit I am a bit surprised that a social network based on music never really took off. If you really squint at it, TicToc kinda sorta is.

Instagram made photos social in a way that Facebook never really did. I think taking a photo and applying a filter as a way to express mood/personality is just an easier thing for the average person to do. It also requires almost no license. The user took the photo with their phone, no one else owns it. Even if a short snippet of a commercially created song is a perfect explanation of my current mood, I can't widely share it on a social network without license.

I think that revolution could come but it requires something fantastical. It would require a music making device as easy to use as a mobile phone camera. Some method of expressing mood/personality using sound that is effective.
I expect people to disagree with me, but it's very hard to get past the condescending language in the article:

> Totally neat, crazy correlations, scary math, pretty pictures, shiny pictures

It's really hard to read past this. I've seen this tone occasionally from junior academic lectures who somehow think that talking to people like they are nervous children will help put them at ease. I don't think the author's doing this malociouly, but it comes across as "I'm so smart, but don't be afraid, I'm dumbing it down to a cutesy level you can understand"

Avoid writing like this if you can, it's clear from the comments the article is otherwise very good
My point is not about rural vs urban. Most of American lives in urban areas (4/5). My point is that it is illegal in most of the populated places in America to increase density at all. The end result is getting high rises in central places in major urban areas but no change at all anywhere else. If you could have all towns slowly grow up rather than jumping straight to high rises then density is a lot less scary.
Right -- I think I've misread OP as graceful fallback e.g. working offline.

Rather than implement a dynamically switching backup in the event of AWS going down which is not trivial.
We ran through the whole 4.5 hour training and the training app didn't work the entire time.
A music history textbook I read identified movable type for printing music as the start of the "music business" on any scale.

Sheet music was a sizable industry before the phonograph.
"Productivity, performance, and reliability are paramount in Notepad. Regardless of how you incorporate Notepad into your workflows, we will ensure that Notepad continues to excel in those areas."

Is this from Microsoft? Is this real?
Nice of you to assume that I don't understand the pricing of the services I use. I can assure you that I do, and I can also assure you that there is no such thing as provisioned vs on-demand pricing for Azure App Service until you get into the higher tiers. And even in those higher tiers, it's cheaper for me to use on-demand capacity.

Obviously what I'm saying will not apply to all use cases, but I'm only talking about mine.
Arguably (actually probably) decentralization overhead costs more than centralized farm.

To clarify for everyone else (building on top of parent comment) - distributed does not necessarily mean decentralized.
I suspect this may change. The same powers used to lock down businesses and people may unfortunately be used to force resolution of this issue. I know that sounds crazy right now but if you look at various CDC and NIH reports, the medical crisis surrounding obesity, heart disease, diabetes alone will be enough to financially end the sovereignty of most first world countries. I have no idea what that will look like but it isn't far away. Whatever that translates into, it will certainly happen in our lifetimes. Here [1] is a brief discussion on the reports.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LTWJOi3bCo [video]
Would it be viable to use Vim in a terminal with big enough font size for programming with Quest 2 (perhaps via SSH connection to proper Linux system)?
Right, but Oswald was created by Walt. He did it under contract for Universal.
I was expecting a ribbon or other fluff (like write.exe / WordPad), perhaps even ads (two days ago I saw at a friend's that a Windows built-in game now has ads). Honestly I'm very impressed they kept the simple look. It's just a larger-than-necessary menu bar and some unobtrusive theming and that's it. The toggleable dark mode is also a welcome change for me.

I do assume we can open files larger than a few megabytes now and there were some more functionality issues that seemed very 90s, could it be that there was only one undo step or did they already fix that in a previous release? I truly haven't used Windows in, dare I say, too long.

Edit: yes I did remember the undo problem correctly and that's finally fixed: "adding support for multi-level undo".
Running a server to do database, authentication, comments, etc. is relatively simple. If you're trying to do scaling or whatever, sure. But to do all of that on a single vanilla server is pretty trivial, especially if you're using a CMS or some other software on it.
The most important factor is that on the internet local news media lose their geographical monopoly.

The other side of that coin, however, is that everybody knows the national news, but the vast majority of people know nothing about what's happening in their own backyard.

I'd estimate that at least 80% of Americans don't even know what days their city council meets.
"Show, don't tell" is a good principle. Don't tell the team how they should write better code. Show them an example that you can credibly argue represents improvement. Expect pushback and alternate opinions, don't fall in love with your particular style. Teams can get derailed over very minor things like tabs vs. spaces, so remember the important thing is a consistent style, not a particular style. Automated tests can be useful but don't expect the team to retrofit that, or for everyone to buy into it. You have to show the benefits in that environment.
Hot patching (kpatch) wasn't GE until earlier this year on Ubuntu.