skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> like a child complaining in a boring class

Trouble connecting content being learned and the high level goal of the class is part and parcel of the learning experience. To say "I don't know" is the fundamental idiom of the student. Yes, that happens. All the time. To everyone who wants to learn.

But for that lack of understanding to be the cause of losing momentum is a preventable tragedy. Especially as a self learner and especially in such a well documented subject with such a friendly community. It betrays a poor attitude of entitlement. That's where I think the problem lies, not in the material it's self. Why? Because it's trivial to do a search on "How does XYZ pertain to the subject of ABC?"
There are plenty of places you can find high quality financial content/discussions. Some have already been listed in this commect section.

With that said, the problem we have is not one of curation which is what HN or Reddit does. The actual problem is the lack of strcture and searchability/discovery. Even on HN once something fades off of the front page, it is lost forever.

Here is an idea I have been considering for some time now: Imagine a website where you get to input a stock ticker symbol and you get back a timeline (literally a zoomable timeline) with all major events related to that ticker on that timeline. Each event has relevant links/documents attached to it. That way you categorize all the necessary information related to a company from its inception until today in one single place.

Even if you're talking about general finance and not stocks or investment grade assets. The problem is the same. We have an ocean of content all over the place but no structured way of search or discover what we seek to know more about. So imo finding creative ways to structure the content is the problem to solve for.
I don't think you'd need full earth graffiti to minimise the negative health effects of microgravity. Probably half or so would be enough. Just make sure people don't try to jump lol
What it will do is that when those people who haven't got the shots start to be sick, they will throw their beliefs in the bin and go to the hospital. They will stretch the capacity and then when I need to go for an ailment different from this disease, I'll be queued up behind them and the treatment I get would be subpar. Disclaimer: I don't have the stats on hospitalization rates/capacity in places that have low rates of vaccination but high rates of infection.
The analogy - I'd rather have 1 sharp knife than 100 dull ones - seems apt.

I'm not smart enough to know if something like Webb can be horizontally scaled into 100 or 1000x small sats to produce the same result.

My guess is not.

I think we need a super sharp knife and it's worth the investment.
I was wondering the same thing yesterday. It sure would be nice to have something that worked completely on-prem. Would be cool if it could run on something power efficient like an old smartphone. Then you could N old devices, install your app add to wifi, duct tape them to the wall near a power outlet.

Would probably be easier with Android as I imagine you could push apk files OTA if you wanted, which would come in handy.
True, I was being a bit hyperbolic with "massive corp" :). Employee size isn't everything in determining how "big" an organization is, though. I really just meant that it, personally, makes me feel better to use something created by a small, scrappy team than something maintained by a multinational enterprise.
It's an old, mutually beneficial PR arrangement known as the Newton-Leibniz calculus
Back when I was a web developer, I liked CSS pre-processor such as SASS/SCSS or LESS a lot. Popular framework at the times like Bootstrap or Foundation also had top-notch supports for CSS pre-propcessor.

I wonder where they went.
Going to definitely need you to explain that analogy though
Here you go[1]. The rights it refers to are the old Common Law rights.

And no, poached game isn’t “papers and effects.”

Also land patents and allodial title[2] are virtually extinct in the USA. We all are renting our property. Stop paying your “property tax” if you’d like confirmation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title
Wait until you find out about Elixir and its web framework Phoenix. $10 hosting, 2000+ reqs/s with 100% parallelism.

Before you say it, it's quite popular and used already. But there's a barrier beyond which a lot of programmers just don't tread, and will stay in Python / PHP / JS regardless (while raving about how awesome Elixir is).

My guess is market size and job security concerns but who knows, maybe some of what you say applies as well.
Rust software is bug free by design /s.
No need for oversimplifications. Plenty of very popular religions call for taking from others, by divine 'right' or to distribute divine justice.
> but eventually you always have to take out the value

No. You can just feed it to the function (from a library / stdlib) that needs it, or call .fold() in the end.
Honestly I doubt that will happen. Every glitzy ad showing the possibilities of AR are a lie... we will only have that sci-fi world when holography reaches mainstream adoption in the way we see it in sci-fi
That's true, I didn't even think of that! That makes it even more unfortunate
The point of the 15 day return policy is to give you enough time to try their service, and if it doesn’t work for you, for whatever reason, to send the equipment back and cancel service. If you didn’t do that on time, well, that’s on you. You can’t have it both ways, to keep the equipment and get the discount while not using their service. That’s simply not what you agreed to. No carrier would let you do that.
> I'd sure like to know a little bit more about the "nothing in particular" group

I suspect that this is at least partly because, in some parts of the US, people are quite hostile to atheism as a concept. So it's not that surprising that you'd have people who don't believe in a god but also wouldn't want to identify as an atheist.

> Who are the two percent of people responding to this survey who have no religion and pray every day?

Well, you can get 2% of people to give any weird answer in a poll. But there probably are people who don't have a religion but do pray; it's a social ritual as much as anything else, for people who grew up with it.
The comparison of different voting systems is what clued me in to this. A number of "generally" more optimal voting systems have degenerate outcomes in certain edge cases which would lead to poor acceptability. It's not enough to have an optimal voting system- people also need to find the outcome somewhat acceptable to consent to the result.

The current two-party-first-past-the-post system in the US is an example that is not especially optimal, but does pretty well on acceptability of outcome. People get mad their candidate lost, argue about voter fraud, argue about the electoral college... But the system never produces a selection people see as flat-out broken & invalid, unlike some more optimal systems. That is a pretty important feature.
mycroft.ai appears to be one option. I heard of them at MakerFaire (2018) and they appear to still be around. I believe they supported installation on a raspberrypi/similar around that timeframe.
I wonder if we'll see more efforts to "demarketize" things to try to stave off this problem.

A huge part of the retirement crisis is due to skyrocketing health care costs. The tools provided with my 401(k) plan don't even mention anything else except a warning box saying "we estimate medical bills alone to be $6,500 per month when you're ready to retire."

Nationalize health care, and you gain a huge pricing lever. If Pfizer wants to charge 20% more for Viagra tomorrow, a national health program can yeet them from the formulary and their sales will be essentially zero. You could even go a step further and start nationalizing your way up the supply chain.

Eventually this will become a political crisis: there's only so many times you can hear people say "Grandma and Grandpa worked hard, saved, did everything they were told, and now they're homeless and hungry" before it starts to look really bad.
As if they can't come and move the camera. I suppose eventually you could build your plywood wall around the entire perimeter of the property. In the suburbs we call that a privacy fence. A bit more costly to build on such a large plot of land however.
Wow, what a cool story. I use that term on the regular, what an interesting history!

I must also confess I haven't felt this way about sativas in a long time. Not sure what happened but sometimes it makes me kind of sad to not feel that big brain effect. Been meaning to microdose LSD but it's hard finding a reliable connect

On another note, a young tweenage me wrote his first program on my uncle's copy of VB3. I wanted to write a terminal-type app that could dial a BBS and interact with it. I got about as far as getting the modem to dial.... I'm sure there's an angry BBS operator out there somewhere who got sick of this kid dialing his number and then never initiating the handshake. So... thank you for helping to create the tools I used to do that!
I'm mainly thinking of parameterized interfaces, like `Comparable` or some kind of "Keyed<T>". Another example would be datastructures that can be iterated in multiple ways, e.g. a multidimensional array that can implement both `Iterable<Int>` and `Iterable<Row<Int>>` or something like that. You could have cases where you're passing that to a function that expects Iterable<Int> so it's obvious which implementation you want, and cases where you would have to disambiguate.
In my opinion, significant additive changes are addressed more poorly than any other aspect of semver, regardless of the project scope.

Additive changes can be breaking changes quite easily, as those additions are adopted within a minor version range, as automated tooling needs to distinguish their presence, as documentation fragments.

My next biggest gripe with semver—that 0.y.z has entirely different semantics from any other major version—may actually be semantically better if adopted wholesale. If your interface changes, major version bump. Else you’re fixing bugs or otherwise striving to meet extant expectations.
Very roughly, there's a House seat per 750,000 people in the US. They were really close enough that a couple nursing home populations (in the hundreds) made the difference?

Yes, by 89 people. Incredible.
Like what? I've never met one.
BTW, this will blow your mind. Let's say you have $300 in your bank checking account. You borrow $1000 from the bank. You bank checking account now has a balance of $1300.

Where did the thousand bucks come from? Where was it moved from?

Nowhere!

The bank just changed the amount in the electronic ledger from 300 to 1300.

Crazy, right?
I don't think this is true. Game wardens cannot enter your house to search it without a warrant, and you certainly don't always have to have meat tagged.
web3/Metamask apps like NFT marketplaces are generally used with a wallet (software or hardware+software) which the end user is custodian of; not a third party.

Much of the crypto space is moving towards Proof of Stake, including Ethereum. These critics also fail to ever mention that.
And Nvidia drivers already set up, which you can spend a lot of time fiddling with in other distros.
That hasn't been my experience. Rather clubs have formed more loosely around common, nonreligious interests. Now in the COVID era even more are online.
Ditto! As we approach the launch date, the feeling in my stomach when I read about Webb is getting worse.

JWST is going to revolutionize our understanding of cosmos, but only because it's target spectrum, which requires operating temperatures around 45K(-228°C!), to completely eliminate blackbody radiation. Which means that tender layers of sunshield must... OHMY panic attack ...
They have a reputation of being one of the most aggressively anti-piracy companies that exists.
So if you specifically craft a definition to exclude web3 from being a new paradigm for the web, it (surprisingly) is not a new paradigm for the web.

Interesting and constructive.
You just make vaccine optional and only mandate once enough data is available.
Why are you absolutely misintepreting his argument? It is completely obvious that he's saying that keeping hopes up helps, and helps a lot a lot. He's not trying to defy the laws of physics by which malnourished people can survive what is impossible.
>No, we do not have to do this. We wouldn't get anything done, if we tried to maintain our full oss stack. Where would you start? In the linux kernel and move your way up to chromium/firefox? Have fun out there.

People (sysadmins) have been doing this for years--it's nothing new. Software doesn't break that often. You generally start with wherever you're hitting the bug. Maintaining, running, and operating software is significantly different than writing from scratch (and generally less labor intensive)

What do you do when you hit a bug in production caused by some OSS? Throw your hands up and tell management you opened an issue on the issue tracker?
HN isn’t going to check on you when you are sick or help you move or maybe offer a hug when you really really need one.

Overtime, making in person, physical connections with people can be crucial to your long term well being.
Fair point, I would say they are a net benefit to their community
I run a super niche academic database - there is often that expectation that "search should know what I mean", yet there isn't enough data (in my opinion) to make any semantic search meaningful. There are about 23k data objects that can interlink, 50% of those belong to one specific data type, the rest are split.

So we've stuck with simple keyword search with filters to drill into specific categories within results, all pretty vanilla on a relational database structure.

Just wondering if there is a "volume" heuristic to this - I'd like to explore this more but realistically sometimes the academic user-base has big dreams with severe practical limitations.
You could separate the semantic version from the PR version.

The PR version doesn't even have to be numeric. You can give them proper names.
> This is equivalent to

You just had to write the concrete types (Ok and Err) out. What if these types are changed later on, e.g. to "Some(...)" and "None" or "Ok" and "ManyErrs(...)"?

As you said, it is easier to understand. Because it less abstract. This can be a good thing, but as well be a bad thing - but one thing is sure: while it does the same in the concrete case, the code is not "equivalent" when it comes to refactoring and certain changes.
Democratizing Access to the Startup World
Hey hackers, i was wondering if democratizing access to the startup world and its resources (finding the right partner, employee, mentor, investor), would increase startups' chances of succeeding?
> Looking out of your league is an universal human right; no one should be arbitrarily punished because they asked out someone who was offended by the attention of an unattractive person

I think you misunderstood me. I was referring to this part.

> How are the legions of thirsty lames, who aren't attractive enough to compete in the top-tier of men on Tinder/Bumble/Instagram, supposed to find companionship

If you're not attractive and not getting dates, then maybe you need to open up your field so that you're giving yourself more options. I didn't say anything about punishment.

Though people absolutely not be hitting on others at work. There's a HUGE difference between hitting on people at work and on the street. People who are at work have nowhere to run. You can disappear from others when you're on the street.

People must have an escape. I even have options on social media if someone is stalking me. But if I can't get HR to deal with issues at work, then where do I turn? I guess the answer is that you get stories appearing in the media.
To play devil's advocate: many people are forced by circumstances beyond their control to use various old versions, or provide libraries and want to support people who are forced to use various old versions.
Can you expand on this:

> I also think we're overdue for some major social changes because our current ways aren't sustainable (regardless of what you think the problems are + what 'side' you're on, I think we can almost all agree that this can't continue).

I'd love to hear more of your POV here - I tend to think things are....pretty okay? In the grand scheme of things?
Problem is evaporative humidifier require using moldicide in the water. Who wants to breath that.
Game Wardens do have more authority than typical police forces, although I don't have any specifics.
Challenge trials have nothing to do with adverse side effects in the original clinical safety trial. We also have good proxies for challenge trials for COVID.
Would you say its easy or possible to learn reversing while you learn binary ninja? I bought a license a while back and was struggling to figure out how to do things I could easily look up tutorials for in other programs so I ended up not using it much. I found a couple of videos that were pretty out of date and other than that I saw that there were expensive training courses from a single company.

You guys should try and get someone to write a book kind of like the IDA / Ghidra books that Chris Eagle did.

There could be something out there I just missed. Got any advice?
I thought Christopher Hitches is someone relatively difficult to avoid if one's done any research on atheism. Christopher Hitchens is _the_ definition of militant atheist.

If you've not heard of him, look him up, there's gold you're missing.
I wrote a tutorial on Go Modules, hope it's helpful.

https://www.makeworld.space/2020/11/go_modules.html

Looking for a tutorial on generics myself.
This seems more like the hubris and false choice fallacy list. Where you keep quiet because you don’t want the criticism.
What’s the dollar milkshake theory?
What about struct{}?
I think most people consider 91% to be “truly” protective. Nothing is 100%. The vaccine is more than effective enough to reduce the risk of Covid to the general background risk level of life in general (things like car accidents, slipping in the shower, eating red meat, contracting a flesh eating amoeba from swimming in a lake etc.)
New Goke
I've heard of Mycroft before but have no personal experience with it: https://mycroft.ai

It seems like they have an open source client that you can run on your own hardware but it's still dependent on the backend services that Mycroft-the-company provides. Perhaps their privacy stance is more palatable to you, though?

I think there used to be a project that was fully on-device but it got bought and consumed by Sonos
> Production will shift towards serving those with wealth

That's right. Serving those who created wealth.

It is already happening everywhere. Grocery store cashiers are serving while collar workers.
Funnily enough the first hard drives were like this too. They were a round pizza-sized (but a few inches thick) replaceable cartridge and could be inserted into a 'reader' which contained the heads.

But I guess work the data density required these days and the extreme closeness of the head to the platters this won't work anymore as dust would get in.

But this is how the first hard drives worked, we had some with our pdp-11 at the computer museum.
Fascinating project. I wonder if there are any medical applications?
> There are thousands of under-educated and overly-cautious software development managers who would prevent their teams from upgrading to a major version of Go until it is "proven".

If semantic versioning is used correctly, like here, that's actually a reasonable-ish attitude.
What is vector search
> So, the data comes from self-reporting, not from an external or objectively calibrated method

I'm not sure that there's a particularly effective lab test for whether someone's an evangelical Protestant...

I suppose you could give people an exam, but what you'd find generally is that most people have almost no idea of the religion they identify as.
The article explains the eurozone banks' rush from Euros to Dollars by the difference in interest rates. What puzzels me is that it should be the other way around when you take inflation into account:

Euro central bank interest rates: -0.5 % [1]
Euro inflation (Nov.): 4.9 % [2]
This yealds a Euro netto interest rate of -4.95 %

Dollar FED interest rates: +0.05 % [3]
Dollar inflation (Nov.): 6.8 % [4]
This yealds a Dollar netto interest rate of -6.75 %

So it seems that the real interest rate difference is aprox. 2 % in favour of the Euro.

[1] The article mentions -1 %, but I couldn't find a confirmation for this.

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/11563387/2-3...

[3] Per article.

[4] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
>A "vector" in vector search solutions is a dense vector generated by a transformer model.

Just a clarification that vectors are much broader than text vectors generated by transformer models. A more common application has been recommender models built on matrix factorization and other similar approaches. Word 2 Vec was another popular way to generate vectors dating back to 2013. Vectors are a very general approach with many benefits regardless of how they were generated. That is what makes these vector search libraries so exciting.

I wrote an article about the power of matrix factorization vectors for music recommendations back in 2016: https://tech.iheart.com/mapping-the-world-of-music-using-mac...

We also discussed how we used convolutional neural networks (deep networks, but not transformers) to build vectors on the acoustic content of music:
https://tech.iheart.com/mapping-the-world-of-music-using-mac...
After 30y in the church I'd trade all the mediocre benefits to get back all the time and peace of mind that was lost.
I think the clinical guidance for younger women (<50) is that they get a two dose mRNA vaccine and not Janssen or AZ for this very reason.
Cosmic rays impacting quantum computers
It is pretty subjective, but not entirely so, and I would guess there's a pretty clear consensus around whether this is a big deal or not in the community?
Okay, so now I'm starting to wonder if I'm just a sick mind or if others are just really not very creative.

So you go and move the piece of plywood. It costs the US Gov't much more money to move the thing than it will you. Stick it to the man. Plus, each time you move it, you can update the messages you've spray painted onto that piece of plywood. "Hello Mr Secret Agent Man!" "Isn't it a lovely day to be viewing my property?" "How about you go and..."
Something I didn't know I needed till I found it.

It'd be nice to make the notifications come even slower however ;-).
> And we will never see a Python 4.x

Why?
"He's presenting information which I disagree with, therefore he must be a troll"

Please listen to yourself.
...and a dollar glut in America is driving demand for everything, including virtual beanie babies apparently.
It might be an apt comparison though.

I much rather have reusable rockets than having ISS.

I much rather have in-orbit construction infrastructure than having either hubble or JWST.

I much rather have remote repair and maintenance satellites/crafts than having a robot rover on Mars.

If you keep doing what you barely can do, you'll keep doing it for the highest price possible. Instead you can invest in the infrastructure, and do things as they get cheaper with your current infrastructure.
Nightmares? They work better than the originals!

There's this:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/695292366639378433

And also, the way FTDI bricked the clones (only) was by exploiting the fact that they also implement the EEPROM write command in the sane way other FTDI chips do, instead of having the write staging quirk of the "genuine" FT232RL that they introduced when they wired the internal 32-bit EEPROM block to a 16-bit interface.

So all around, the clones work better than the originals in several ways.