skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eventually in this case being approximately 18-24 months from the first wave, which coincidentally is very close to where we are in the current pandemic.
Fair point that as a society there may be more urgent things to focus on.

However, counterpoints:

1. The carbon footprint of flying is expected to triple by 2050. It will still not be the worst sector, but it is getting worse quickly, and it makes sense to avoid that.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/06/1043803529/google-flights-car...

2. Flying less is one of the easiest ways for an individual to reduce their carbon footprint. Just taking one less flight a year makes a dent in your total footprint. There aren't many other actions an individual can take that, if all individuals took them, would make an impact.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/climate/airplane-pollutio...

We should fly less.
Git submodules are only a viable tool for truly external dependencies that need to be built from source, in which case adding a submodule and special case for your configure/make scripts is one of the easiest ways to add a dependency to your project.

If you're using it for dependency management for internal projects you're going to have a bad time. Especially as things get more complex. The only advantage is if you need to keep particularly components open source. Otherwise just use a mono repo.
Very true, and I simply don't believe that humans are wired to deal with what is, essentially, a permanent Panopticon. Most people understand on some level that gossip is destructive, but also a lot of fun. Now that gossip can circle the globe twice in seconds, and combine that velocity with the fact that nearly everything online is gossip, it's like some kind of destructive psyop that nobody could have ever imagined.

Even if you could have some flavor of anonymity, the cozy relationship that the big tech corporations have with national governments around the world means that only the most paranoid and OpSec-savvy can avoid having that anonymity pierced.

We just quietly slid from "you shouldn't say that," to "you can't say that" in less than a generation.
Paperspace (YC W15) is hiring engineers to build next-gen storage platforms
Mixed feelings; maybe just feeling a bit defensive as I fear I’ve been playing the role of revolutionary in my current work and don’t care for some of the negative descriptions which unnervingly ring pretty true.

Mid article though, it says

> That’s because organizations tend to become more bureaucratic, political and consensus-driven as they grow.

Is this somehow ever a good thing? Largely, all of those things just seem bad. Luxuries of inefficiency a product can enjoy only once it works itself into dominant/monopoly position where it’s bankrolling becomes secure.

The groups I’ve moved away from over the years (often with other revolutionaries moving on as well), became more evolutionary. And all of them have basically devolved into product lines on life support, the “evolutionary” employees left behind don’t understand why management won’t invest in them and would rather buy up competitive offerings to remain relevant.
Christmas absorbed pagan celebration, so this isn't really a transformation, just a return to the original celebration (winter solstice).
First, the complainant needs to take ownership of poor secrets generation and management. Their account wouldn't have been hacked if they used strong password policies.

There is also the remote possibility they're playing the victim to get out of charges after they realized it wasn't economical to mine on AWS.
Wow that's a really cool resource. Thanks for linking!

Even still, do you think researchers will want to take the time to learn all of that when PyTorch gives them no real reason to switch? Every day spent learning JAX is another day spent not reviewing literature, writing papers, or developing new models.
You didn't know there was a pandemic going on and that countries were reacting by restricting travel? I find that hard to believe.
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Generating z-scores for weird probability distributions

Spoilers: Turns out `c * (ax + b)^-(ax + b) + d` has some really nice numerical shortcuts/ratios for z-score calculations
Can you elaborate or provide examples?
I agree with almost everything that you said, and would bring it even further.

I wouldn't even say that "Yes it's all commercialised". If anything, I bet you there are multiple orders of magnitude more fun, silly, webring-like content than there were before the web exploded in popularity - they're just not visible to the average person, and are outnumbered by orders of magnitude more junk and commercial content.

And you know what? That's totally expected. The web was great originally because only a small cadre of people of above-average and technical skill used it. When all of the rest of the humans joined, the usual stuff that you would expect happened - commercialization, low-quality content, passive consumption instead of active participation, etc. But that's what happens when everyone joins.

There's also nothing preventing you from siloing off your own section of the internet where you only let certain people in! Hacker News already heavily curates content, and there are places like Lobste.rs where you can only be invited by an existing member. Don't complain that "the internet" has gotten worse, because "the internet" is just a communication technology, and it's gone from "limited access to a few elite" to "almost unlimited access to almost all humans"...and humans are kind of bad.

Also, now that everyone's on the internet, the best content has also gotten significantly better. So there's that.

If you're not liking the state of the web, you're either not looking in the right places (stop browsing YouTube and start looking for webrings and joining IRC channels), or you're complaining that the average internet user isn't as good as they used to be, which is dumb.
Have you seen infection/death charts? It peaks in winter and at its minimum in summer.
I learned about https://www.are.na/ at a meetup a couple years ago. IMO they're doing a solid job of bringing 1.0 wonder to the 2.0 world.
I like this article, but there's another way of classifying that I also like: letter grades (remember those from school?) which uses hiring psychology a little more. In a successful startup, whom you hire makes or breaks you.

'A' players hire 'A' players.

'B' players hire 'C' players.

Independent of Revolutionary vs. Evolutionary, we have pure intelligence, education, and animal cunning. An 'A' player has all those, and moreover knows when a Revolutionary strategy is required, and when it's not.

A 'B' player tends to be Evolutionary, because it's safer, but occasionally he'll say "me, too!" to a Revolutionary if it seems to advance his career.

An 'A' player can recognize another one. That's all he or she wants to hire.

A 'B' player is bewildered and threatened by an 'A" player, and moreover, the 'A' player wants nothing to do with him. So he wants to hire someone who's safe and no threat to his tenuous position: the 'C' player.

After the startup is successful, the 'B' managers flood it with their resumes. They like a safe bet. Once they get in and start hiring their own, it's all over.
And if we accidentally make the planet nicer for everyone by cleaning up and having the rich spread the wealth and caring about others....

oh wait, this is driven from countries with a lower value on human life so I guess this explains it....
I always seem to hear from finance people that asset modeling is done in excel. Or are we talking modeling statistical relationships between assets?

The fundamentals-based valuation and statistical arbitrage approaches are so different, I wonder how they get reconciled into an overall profitable strategy.

Or are fundamental valuations strictly used for the department and statistical relationships for the active trading department?
yea actually my garden uses that community garden app, but it hasn't met the needs because users don't have the ability to update their own info. But for the amount of time I spent researching to your point, I probably could have coded half of the site by now in rails. But I guess it is always a tco of a coder using their time vs paying 80 a month which in the long term isn't that bad.
The term 3-value logic pretty obviously implies the behavior of operators as they relate to NULL, not just the fact that data is nullable, of course.

AFAIK MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server don't have the Boolean datatype as a variable/column type - only Bit, which lacks boolean semnatics, and so Booleans are not considered data values, and therefore can't be used with IS NULL or COALESCE.
So once again, Ethereum users relying on centralized exchanges to bring the gas fees down (when the steps involved confuses users and the fees are still high).

Given that being the case, the general decentralization argument would be pointless. For the many users who need to be able to pay for their groceries quickly, you might as well use Solana then, since everyone needs to eat.

The whole point of Uniswap is to move away from these centralized exchanges. Perhaps using that has gotten more complicated to use or the swaps have also gotten too expensive even if it is on an L2; making that useless as well?
I like Bunnie a lot and I always enjoy reading posts from his website.

That said, while I generally support his hardware manufacturing ideas, it's exceptionally hard to compete in this space against the largest electronics companies and against Asian manufacturing. As someone who also used to be involved in North American electronics manufacturing, there are so many factors, from local environmental regulations to the large network effects in Shenzhen, that it's almost impossible unless you have something truly novel and brilliant marketing. Good luck to Bunnie, I hope it works out.

Finally, let me just comment on the magnificent customer service of Digikey. If I ever had to source anything electronic, I would use them again in a heartbeat, to the point where I would use them over cheaper alternatives, because they are so good.
This reminds of a story I encountered in finance where everyone in the department got a bump in title as their bonus. I asked one what was difference in their role: nothing. Since everyone got bumped, everyone's role stayed the same. This was during the financial crisis and was the bank's (well known) cheap ass way to get away without paying a monetary bonus.
> I will keep wearing my N95 to all the dirty looks I keep getting and boost as much as the boosts are there.

The masks have never been about protecting yourself but have at it. I don't care what you do just stop forcing your attitude on everyone else. At this point you're just trying to make a statement, not protect anyone.
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Do you really think Elon Musk provides orders of magnitude more value than the engineers who actually built the damn thing? His main contribution was the capital.
Maybe.

But, I think it's more likely that the downstream revenue from car sales has changed dramatically, and they need to find clever ways to fix that.

Historically, cars needed a ton of work and maintenance and dealers got significant revenue from their mechanic's shops. Now cars are far more reliable, go far longer between standard service calls and oil changes, and there's just far less money being spent at the dealer after you drive away with your initial purchase.
Well it was hardly a manifesto!
It would allow them to use new language and standard library features that are not available in Python 3.6. A library may also drop support for 3.6 if one of their dependencies does, even if they themselves don't use any new features.
I think it would be great to live in a world where everyone can fly as much as they want without feeling guilty. This would be a lot easier to do if there weren't 8 billion people in the world.
Love it - only comment I have is to consider (it may not be possible) making the "●" characters in the password entry field match the rest of the design - similar to the stylized radio button asterisk indicators perhaps?

Great work.
It would be interesting to see a progressive taxation on flights. First flight of the year is tax free. Subsequent flights incur a charge at an increasing rate each flight taken.
That won't be running sub-pixel simulating shaders.
It should not.
See also Tom Lehrer's Christmas Carol (1959):

Christmas time is here, by golly.

Disapproval would be folly.

Deck the halls with hunks of holly.

Fill the cup and don't say when.

Kill the turkeys, ducks, and chickens,

Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens.

Even though the prospect sickens,

Brother, here we go again.

On Christmas Day you can't get sore.

Your fellow man you must adore.

There's time to rob him all the more

The other three hundred and sixty-four.

Relations, sparing no expense, 'll

Send some useless old utensil

Or a matching pen and pencil.

("Just the thing I need! How nice!")

It doesn't matter how sincere it

Is, nor how heartfelt the spirit,

Sentiment will not endear it.

What's important is the price.

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,

Advertising wondrous things.

God rest you merry, merchants,

May you make the Yuletide pay.

Angels we have heard on high

Tell us to go out and buy!

So let the raucous sleighbells jingle.

Hail our dear old friend Kriss Kringle,

Driving his reindeer across the sky.

Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
Oscar Wilde was wrong about the definition of the word Cynic (Dog):

Dog-like Diogenes knew the true value of things, because he had lost all money.

He lived like an animal, which is what we all are destined to; since eternal growth is impossible.

Cynical to me means to live without material wealth, and while most people would call that suicide;

I think everyone that has things, specially as those require you to burn energy, are suicidal.

Everything is relative.

You cannot really own anything in life except what is in your head and by extension what you created out of that head from scratch.

Stop consuming and start producing would be the only constuctive reaction to all comments on this article.

It's very easy to be an optimist when you have never taken any responsibility.
Microsoft is pushing Hololens dev, Meta is pushing AR features into the Quest, Snap just put out some AR spectacles. There's development interest but the consumer devices aren't quite ready yet so there's no real market quite yet.
New footage shows bizarre deep-sea fish that sees through its forehead
When I started using the web back in the 90's, everyone used to use a handle/nickname and so it was never easy to link an online person to a reallife individual.

These days everyone is encouraged to enter their real name, DOB and telephone number (see Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) which then creates a link to a real person.

I think the web was better because it was anonymous, rather than anything else really. If you had "SuperHardLord" posting abuse at you on IRC, it didn't really matter. However if you have a Twitter user with full photo and details doing the same, it feels much more personal.
He describes that offer coming after his estimate, so no.

> As evidenced by the continuously slipping timeline in mGBA, I’m not very good at estimating timelines, so I gave a (very) rough estimate of 2 to 4 months. A reply affirming that that sounded reasonable, with an estimation of 300 to 400 hours of work, with a price tag of $10,000 was what I got back (assuming the project didn’t run seriously overtime).

> $10,000.
At a certain point we accept the tradeoffs and get on with it. A few hundred thousand people die of the flu every year. So what? It's tragic, but that is life.
> but only provides low-level linear algebra abstractions.

Just to make sure people aren't scared off by this: jax provides a lot more than just low level linear algebra. It has some fundamental NN functions in its lax submodule, and the numpy API itself goes way way past linear algebra. Numpy plus autodiff, plus automatic vectorization, plus automatic parallelization, plus some core NN functions, plus a bunch more stuff.

Jax plus optax (for common optimizers and easily making new optimizers) is plenty sufficient for a lot of NN needs. After that, the other libraries are really just useful for initialization and state management (which is still very useful; I use haiku myself).
Think carefully about your keyboard. You want to be able to type a key without hitting the bottom of the travel. Learn to type lightly. (That does not mean slowly!) This was hard for me, because early in my career I had to type on some very stiff keyboards, and I learned to really hit the keys hard. As I also start having finger problems, I've had to unlearn that.

Oh, yeah, don't forget the mouse. If you have issues on only one hand, run the mouse with the other hand. (If you're not on a Mac, and you want the buttons to correspond to the same fingers of the hand when you're running it with the other hand, both Windows and Linux have a setting for "left-handed" mice, which reverses the buttons.)

We don't normally think of programmers as people who work with their hands, but we really do...
It solves the problem of code change visibility and synchronicity. Organizational architecture is not the same as software architecture regardless of how close they may look at times.
It's weird, I always considered myself as having a photographic memory and now I'm wondering if I have aphantasia. I believe I could draw a scene from memory with quite high resolution and accuracy. But it's not anything like the experience of seeing with my eyes. In fact, closing my eyes barely helps me visualise. I just assumed it was like that for everyone.
Someone said it much better way up above but -- yes, Apple has "niche tricks that are hard to even know about, because Apple actively hides things from you and secretly changes things without telling you."

Linux is "Yep, this isn't easy, but it's generally well documented and talked about. It may take some work to get there, but it won't be mysterious and unexpected like Apple."
I think this article explains quite well what makes it so special:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2021-analo...

I've ordered one today as soon as the orders opened, personally I'm incredibly excited about it - it will compliment my collection of classic gameboys really really well.
Do you think it's a bit easier to build custom layers in PyTorch though?

Also, I think Lightning handles the issue of loading optimizers, but I'm not sure about that.

It's nice to see TF get some love, but I still think PyTorch has easier debugging and is more pythonic which lowers the barrier to entry for a lot of people.
And long covid? The two people I know who had longer term side effects were quite healthy.

Also by some definitions America is “mostly fat people” so your point is not that meaningful to begin with.
I care about the effectiveness and approval of Pfizer's treatment, but I don't care to be informed about every single new piece of information that comes out about it. In this case the news was that Pfizer released additional data that's consistent with the interim report it released a little over a month ago. If the final analysis contradicted its original report, or if their emergency use authorization were approved or denied, that's something I'd want to see. It's still the most newsworthy item on the list IMO, and I wouldn't be upset if it slipped into my feed.
"What would you say ya' do here?" - Bob
Sure. It's normal for hospitals to be delaying routine surgical procedures (where they make most of their money) due to not enough staff and beds. It's not just about ICU capacity, it's the overall hospital capacity. My small town has three primary hospitals, and all are seriously overloaded now.
The author lowballs the emissions produced by air travel. He appears to only account for greenhouse gas emissions (1.9%) while ignoring total emissions which are 3.5% and growing each year.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-aviation
We also associate intelligence with certain prestigious specialties, while problems of equal difficulty get less respect.

Physicists in particular seem to be thought of as "the smartest people on earth". You can't be dumb in that field, but it doesn't require superhuman intelligence. It's just a specialty in which they had an interest, which allows them to spend the years of effort catching up to the state of the art.
Not stuck in my head the same as a song, but after a day birding I'll have things like Pacific-Slope Flycatcher or Red Crossbill calls stuck in my head.
Twitter to ban users that repeatedly claim vaccinated people can spread Covid
Ask HN: How do you cope with envy?
Recently I've been researching chinese streamers where even average looking (outright fat when the filter/effect breaks and you can clearly see it) girls thanks to app magic filters and being friendly/seductive and talking to lonely men can earn FAANG or higher level salaries.

This made me re-think my time invested in my daily job vs the salary and quality of life it can afford me.

I am trying to convince myself that having a decent IT job is much better than prostituting yourself on internet. But honestly I dont even consider it prostitution when they just cleverly take advantage of those stupid men selling them an illusion.
It does, however the sleep functionality doesn't work when used with an Everdrive, as confirmed by DigitalFoundry.
It seems like this suggestion is unpopular, so I'd better not upvote it.
For me, and I think for most people, "picturing an elephant" is very literal. For example, you could ask me to "picture an elephant" then follow up by asking "what is the elephant which you pictured doing with its trunk?" To answer the question, I focus my attention on trunk in the picture in my head in order to "take in" what it is doing (e.g., perhaps "it is curled upward but otherwise not doing anything" or it might turn out that "it is grasping a branch").

> Like many subjective experiences, I'm not sure if I'm experiencing things differently or just describing them in different terms.

Curious: can you experience anything like consulting or focusing attention on an image in your head in order to describe it, the way I explained above?
And if it weren't powered by fossil fuels dug out of the ground adding to the climate change emergency. If it were hydrogen catalyzed by renewables, it would be a completely different conversation.
Uh, how do you measure where CO2 is being dumped and whose property it is when, say, someone is driving around?

And who does all that measuring?
Getting back to life with COVID with the appropriate amount of precautions and restrictions has benefits. Current hysteria and alarmism shows we are not there yet.
Isn't that the only thing a mutation can change? What is mutating in the virus if it's not the DNA?
$20K is at most 100 hours of consulting time in SV. Probably less [it's been quite a while since I was in that market].

Analogue was hoping for a screaming deal on this software. He was right to walk away.
> but two ternaries become a branch

I need to use inline assembly because of this.
>I have no illusions that companies will immediately lower their prices the moment their input costs start dropping, not after weathering decades of pressure from buyers to race to the bottom. They are going to cling to these gains for as long as possible, which is going to influence downstream prices for years to come.

In fact there is evidence of this basically already happening as some industries like meat packers[1] are raising prices well above their increase in costs because "inflation" is a great scapegoat to raise prices and increase profits. Let this serve as a reminder that costs don't dictate prices in our economy, market forces dictate prices. All costs represent is a long term minimum price. The only way decreasing costs will yield decreasing prices is if there is adequate competition giving consumers an alternative to overpriced products.

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/business/meat-packers-profit-margins...