skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that would add to ops costs for this service,

Wouldn't fewer moving parts mean lower operational costs?
Yes, exactly. There are so many to choose from. ;)

There are several discussions here in HN about PRNGs of different kinds and people still want to invent new ones. Why? Because old ones do not satisfy them in full.

Returning to the problem at hand. How many consecutive ties do we expect? This would helps us to define how many bits should we extract from state - for N expected consecutive ties we should extract 2log_2(N) bits or more (birthday paradox). For 64K ties we need 32 bits, which is fair amount of state, 1/8 of typical PRNG discussed here.

Most PRNGs are splittable and this also brings the question "how does splitting affect bits generated?" Will these bits be correlated between splitted generators?

I definitely do not want correlation coefficient computation that produces close results for provably different sets due to correlation between tie-breaked sections filled with random numbers.
Parent also made an allusions to Mark Zuckerberg "hacking" your "lizard brain" which is a clear antisemetic dogwhistle.
That's not good enough.

HN will continue to trend towards having 2-5 content-free "china bad amirite" threads a week with an echo chamber of people who don't know any history of the region saying completely nonsensical things. People who know a little more, or who point out things like "the belt and road initiative isn't a literal road and can't be used to invade someone" will be banned for contributing to flamewar.

For example, in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29655341[1]. You can't be everywhere, there will always 10x comments like that for every 'bad' comment going the other way, and your even-handedness means that 9/10 of them are implicitly judged as fine, acceptable and encouraging intellectual something-or-other.

[1] Check that guy's history, he writes Xi Jinping as Hsi Chunping.. his commitment to ideology is so strong that he wade-giles'd Xi, lol
But in the Us, you are currently free of 7.5% payroll tax and your income tax caps to 15%. Plus, you no longer need to save 15% of your income for retirement.

The most expensive early retirement tax in the us is health insurance.
Or perhaps a for-profit company running this search engine and not garnering profit from it by directly changing search results, or having a different model for profit that does not affect search rankings.
The people I know who have roommates do it because they’re cheap and they don’t like being alone. This includes people making $400k+/yr. Even people in 7-figure territory.

They’re pennywise pound foolish types usually tho.
I solved this same problem for a company also in 2019 (as the CPU quota bug hadn't been fixed yet) and it resulted in something like 8 figures of yearly cost savings.

You are correct in that most companies are not equipped to staff issues like this. Most places just accept their bills as a cost of doing business, not something that can be optimized.
Building a micro-startup week 1: laying the groundwork
A very effective way to solve problems in a community resource is to demand maintenance from a private party in exchange from exploiting it in a sustainable way. São Paulo just closed that possibility.

Yes, there are other possibilities. By nature those are more bureaucratic and jittery. Maybe they are closer to a solution now, but if that's the case, it's because it easier to make that law more relaxed than strict.
My first thought was also "why not SQLite?", but the author says he already has a MariaDB running. So, using the tools you know.

I guess it is the same for make vs airflow. I had no idea they could be used interchangeably for single machine workloads.

While I've seen datasette mentioned a lot of places, I still don't really know what it is, but if it makes exploring sqlite databases easy, I should give it a try!
It would be nice if the player that must play is highlighted.

What happens to the other players if I ragequit?
I have so many hobbies I could occupy (happily) maybe 10 lifetimes before getting remotely bored. Why spend the only one I have "working" for others?
As an newbie developer who hasn't dug into this stuff before, but found this post fascinating: does anybody have any good pointers, like books/articles/videos to learn about low-level details like this?
You could make the same sort of argument about C and yet we know for certain that it is a particularly insecure and error prone language.
Most self employed in Europe have access to similar tax policies. You could think about and approach things differently to attain a similar result.

I live in Belgium with similar high income tax rates to Sweden, but I know quite a few people that I grew up with who have done very well. Better than his story. All mid 30s and all came from nothing. Even as an employee. No excuses, man.

These stories might not be listed in the newspapers, but that does not mean there are none.
My gut feeling is that there's still good value in frequent demos/checkpoints/etc. It does create a sense of urgency to complete tasks and lets the owner know that progress is really being made.

Besides undercommitting for the sprint, I've seen a lot of point inflation. Developers start padding their story point estimates to allow for extra time.

The worst case I ever saw was a team of five developers breaking down a feature request into very small stories with total points that would require the whole team's workload for two sprints. I completed all those stories by myself in three days. I'm good, but not that good. I suspect the team was so tired/afraid of being admonished by the Product Owner, they just kept padding and padding their estimates.

Of course, no one bothered to look at the cause of the problem behind the developers massively over-estimating required effort. "The Process" is always right, and the people are always wrong. Isn't that the first principle of the Agile Manifesto (sarcasm intended)?
Second this. Most of the action is proprietary.
Ethereum Reminds GPU Miners the End Is Near
Split between two people as well. Only $450/month. It was really not very much money at all.

Their partner apparently isn’t a house cleaner and supposedly makes a decent living.
Thanks for the feedback! I can certainly try to improve the structure of the README, though I'm not sure if I agree with some of your points about giving more priority to non-Linux users. The thing is, at least in my eyes, Gtk generally feels terrible on platforms where it is not native (I would in fact even avoid using it in a Qt-based Linux desktop setup, just as I avoid Qt-based applications as far as possible in my Gtk-based one), and at any rate the ports are often lacking even in features (for instance, last I checked, Windows Gtk would not allow me to read tablet pressure information). If you are using Windows, and don't care for "free (speech and beer)", why would you even want to use anything other than OneNote? I'm somewhat wary of repeating the mistakes of Firefox (and GNOME) of snubbing a likely target demographic to court an unlikely one.

(Regarding Mac, I unfortunately don't have a Mac and neither does anyone who I know well enough to ask to borrow theirs, though someone did in fact contribute homebrew-based build scripts that supposedly work at some point. I just have no idea how to package the result to make it easy to install.)
In either case the person doing the modification would be found at fault by police / insurance, but with software it isn't so clear cut - how do you know whether or not the car is hacked? Often, the collision will become a national news story, prompting Tesla to perform a multi-week investigation to see if anything in the car was modified, all while they've already lost because news media had already blamed Tesla.
To those doing the reducing - just "bad". Never "good".
Yeah, this is the answer.

To add to this, for the "large scale technologies" you're interested in, remember that there aren't many individuals that knows it all (and neither will you!).

Senior engineers and CTOs will have a rudimentary knowledge of a lot of the moving pieces, but it's primarily a team effort. Even if you "knew it all", you wouldn't have enough hours in the day to keep it all up to date and running. Running any larger piece of software is a team effort.

But as a member of a team you'll still get a much better idea of all the pieces, even though you won't be able to master them all.
I’m responsible for my computer’s configuration; site operators are responsible for theirs. If I configure my computer to not show me ads, that’s my choice. If they configure their computer to not show me content, that’s also their choice. If they decide to show me content even if I’m not displaying ads, that’s also on them, same as if I configured mine to show ads and was then dissatisfied with my choice.
And this applies to 0.0001% of people, at best, so in practice it's not actually attainable.
Related: Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of a New Physics - Tiller, Dibble, Kohane - 2001.
'If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.'

Rest in peace.
> The stall owner clearly doesn't benefit from a lost sale. Mulled wine, mince pies and hot chocolate are not fungible.

If there continuously is a queue, the stall owner doesn’t lose a sale when somebody walks away, and, if the owner is smart, doesn’t lose any produce, as they shouldn’t prepare more than they can, at maximum speed, sell before closing time.
I can't comment on Kaiser or SF, not familiar with either. But great if Kaiser can just create GPs and consultants localised in newly built areas like that. well done them. To be honest, I forgot the private aspect of health care in the US. I wonder how city planners are planning around that.

> Public transport: the last few times I've taken the bus, it's been easy to find a seat. The last time I took the BART it was nearly empty.

if that is the case, SF has either the most amazing public transportation already or the most under-used public transportation. or you are simply cheery-picking.

school, kindergarten and medical need to be in close vicinity though. the overall capacity is meaningless for the first two if you build housing for an additional 15k within a few blocks and then have no GPs (and to a lesser extend consultants) within a few minutes of walking or no hospital within a quick driving distance. and if that 70k to 50k (i assume it is not covid related) is uniformly across all kindergartens, it is pretty meaningless for housing
Well, I guess it’s up to you how you want to delineate the appropriateness of the terminology, but a less mathematical application is still appropriate.
An Efficiency Comparison of Latex vs. Word (2014)
At Netflix, we're doing a mix of what Dan calls "CPU Pinning and Isolation" (ie, host-level scheduling controlled by user-space logic) [1] and "Oversubscription at the cluster scheduler level" (through a bunch of custom k8s controllers) to avoid placing unhappy neighbors on the same box in the first place, while oversubscribing the machines based on containers usage patterns.

[1]: https://netflixtechblog.com/predictive-cpu-isolation-of-cont...
Ads are designed for whoever is doing the buying. I would guess that most underwear is bought by individuals, not their opposite-sex partners.
Depends on who owns that AR. If I own it, I could replace all the car insurance ads on the road with cute geckos doing adorable things.
Read (or listen to via yt) "How to win friends and influence people“ from Dale Carnegie
That was a fascinating deep dive into an area I had no idea about, thanks!

Of course I immediately tried to find a MagnaCut knife to maybe gift myself for Christmas... But it seems they aren't really available yet, if I'm not mistaken?
> There's a reason 99% of people have non-stick aluminum cookware. Everything else is horrible

Onyx pans are amazing in every way (nonstick, scratchproof, dishwasher safe, induction ready) but not yet sold in the US I think: https://onyxcookware.de/

There are similar ones sold on AliExpress that would presumably ship to the US, e.g.:
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mr49PaC
Rank based correlation coefficients: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_coefficient#Rank

There are several such algorithms.

Also, there is a comment with a link to paper comparing this correlation coefficient to some other: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29690208

It looks like this "new coefficient of correlation" is not without flaws compared to others.
JSON is very widely used, so if it’s properties were bad for security, we should expect different JSON-based attacks popping up every week, right? How often do we see these kinds of attacks?
Blind Shaft
Regulate, break up, open up: how to fix Facebook in 2022
This is the fallacy with this approach IMHO. Yes you can save a ton my living on minimal spend with no kids. That’s also not a life many/most people desire to live.

I’ll all for saving and do broadly follow a similar approach. With kids I won’t be retiring in my 30s or 40s but I’m investing in life now so that when I do retire it’s a much more well rounded and wholesome experience.

To each their own, but most of the “I’m not gonna have kids and just save all my money” types I know say later they made a poor life choice that’s hard to fix once that realization is made.

The main advice I do agree with is just because you start earning more doesn’t mean you should start spending more. Living comfortably below one’s means is a good way to build wealth over time. I just don’t recommend the “extreme” version of this.
Your opening reminded me of this piece attributed to Banksy:

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
You forgot to mention you do have a wealth tax. For wealthy people, those tend to be one of the "worst" taxes, because it is payable regardless of whether your investments do well or bad.
I can't recall particular instances but I've seen the same before. FWIW he's getting less stuff wrong over time.
The MacPorts approach is not horrifying or worse. This blog post [1] from April 2019 makes a good case for MacPorts and against Homebrew.

[1]: https://saagarjha.com/blog/2019/04/26/thoughts-on-macos-pack...
> where an Oculus is readily available.

not sure if that's true because I sold mine for more then what I paid for it...
And apparently there is at least one guy using it to draw illustrations[1] and explain how to use it with a tutorial[0].

Sadly the site seems to have been moved from another location and the obj files (the files tgif uses) did not survive the move. Only one file was transferred from another tutorial (in Japanese) about using Tgif with Gimp, most likely because it had a "wrong" extension (.html). It does open fine in a build of Tgif i just did though[2].

[0] http://plaza.harmonix.ne.jp/~onizuka/HowToTgifE.html

[1] http://plaza.harmonix.ne.jp/~onizuka/galgaE.html

[2] https://i.imgur.com/Rs5eG3M.png
I use Vim with a Markdown plugin (vim-markdown). Works well, can generate a pane with a table of contents from the headers, fold and jump around based on document structure, and more.
> it would be infuriating if you had to view an ad before being able to use the subway ticketing system

What about using a gas pump?

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/ozu1up/havin...

Seems that the trend is going in this direction.
Homebrew is rough if you use it for everything but haven't run it for a while, then need any (one) thing updated or installed quickly. It's probably best still since most popular means most problems discovered and fixed quickly, and will remain so as long as having updates forced only loses the stragglers.

I personally can't use it anymore now that my MacOS version (Mojave) is not supported so everything has to build from source and Rust fails.

Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29079096
Worse than that, they're taking away money from local businesses. Local markets, local stores, local shops, local newspapers, local magazines, small businesses, etc.

They're vampires centralizing local revenues worldwide and for what?!? That money gets reinvested or offshored so that about 100 billionaires live like kings with about 2 million millionaire flunkies working for them.
I can’t stand ads on government property, particularly in spaces where I am captive. The best example is public transportation. There are ads all over the station and then ads all over the interior (and exterior) of the train/bus during your ride.

Why should I be subjected to this private noise while taking public transportation? Some city needs to stand up and fix this. Allow me to get where I am going in peace.
Main thing I see people attacking this guy over is the “I did it and so can you” mentality more than anything. It’s survivorship bias at its strongest. No different than the FIRE post trending here as well. Dude literally saw his NW double in a year and income go up 50% cause of stock appreciation. Along with incredible starting salary and overall close to top tier comp the entire way - and no kids or what not.

I think people just really hate these “stories” because it’s not realistically repeatable. Someone will make it happen but it’ll be based off luck and nothing else. Even the dude in the fire thing wishes he did startups for 6 years. Mindlessly ignoring he’d get paid way less but oh wait - of course his story would only be posted if he joined a company that IPO’d and he got 8 figures out of it.

It’s just so annoying to see this shit on HN all the time. It’s some weird capitalism fetishism porn.
Author here: In my book, I used mind maps to let the readers visualize a high level summary of a chapter. Here is an example of such a mind map: https://twitter.com/viebel/status/1469187345580793860
No that seems like you are over-extending what I said. 'Hotly contested' doesn't imply there is substance to the context, only that there is great effort being made.
Who's going to pay for your Google search, maps, and Gmail if there are no ads?
Use Linux to target Linux.

Yes I am referring to the certified POSIX userspace on macOS.

Portable UNIX software should use POSIX anyway not GNUisms.
I think you overestimate how many HN readers are "Research Engineers and Scientists working in Deep Learning".
Author here: More challenge than fun!
Only to the extent that cost is a function of complexity. This isn't always the case. In a case like this, going to bare metal likely brings with it significant drawbacks in organizational complexity, orchestrational complexity, and more while allowing for much better utilization of memory and cpu resources.

Telling someone whose car is making some funny noises that it's simpler to go back to horse-and-buggy times would both increase costs and decrease the number of user-servicable moving parts. There's some significant overhead attached.
With that income? Sure, if kids came into the picture during the last day 3-4 years it would increase his expenses, but he’d presumably also have another income, at least for a few years?

I don’t disagree that for middle income earners kids are a huge expense, but when you’re making $350,000+ each year, $30,000 for childcare isn’t a dramatic expense. Same with all the incidentals.
> Where can I find some guidance? Philosophy, Religion, Science, History?

Isaiah 55:1-3 springs to mind:
"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David."
Yes and no.

It would lower the operations costs of hardware, hopefully (that's the entire goal of this article) but you'd need more people resources to manage it, I would guess. Mesos and containers automate a lot of thinking work.
That's a different text with classical pre-COVID route.
If I ever write another "things I learned ..." I would definitely include the three items that you mentioned.
I think it’s difficult to discover your “life purpose” while still working full time. Unless you’re anomalously lucky to be exposed to various subfields at your job, it requires a fair amount of leisure and self-directed tinkering (months to years). Quitting your job and living like a cockroach to find yourself or whatever is a pretty big sell. I also suspect this process requires a baseline level of comfort and freedom from stress but can’t say authoritatively.
Radio Free Asia/Europe is the US equivalent of China's CGTN; state-backed propaganda flimsily dressed up as regular journalism.
"I can't comment on Kaiser or SF"

The comment to which you replied was specifically talking about SF so I assumed (reasonably I think) that you were commenting about SF, too.

"if that is the case, SF has either the most amazing public transportation already or the most under-used public transportation. or you are simply cheery-picking."

Those are not the only explanations. And, given I said live in SF, maybe it's reasonable to assume I'm reporting actual observations, unless I've previously demonstrated some pattern of exaggeration.
The purpose of public stock is pay out profit to shareholders. Buybacks are a method of achieving this. Infinite growth is a joke.
How many programmers are in the team?
I'm not sure I understand how binning applies in e.g. segmentation of point clouds into distinct objects. The data would likely contain a mix of unknown distributions, partially observed (due to occlusions) and not easily parametrized (chair, table, toaster, etc.)... Locally you can find planar patches though, so correlation can still be useful.
Ugh, there is one dude in my town with this beat up old Civic with what sounds like a literal tin can for an exhaust, and the engine is tuned so badly that it backfires every time he shifts, which he does at the bend by my house. Which of course sets the dogs barking.

All I'm saying is, I kinda commiserate with the guy in that story.

Europe in general seems to have far less of that particular kind of jackassery. Better enforcement? Or are people just more considerate?