skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SuperTux 0.6.3
>>Does it necessarily follow that because employee A is busting ass, expectations get raised for employee B? Is the set standard really that fragile?

Yeah sure - most metrics in software do not work as expected, so the only thing that we are left is perceived performance. And perceived performance is created only by comparison - You always subconsciously look for the baseline observing people in Your team, so if one ot them is concentrated only on work and is at least a little bit competent while doing it, it makes others look worse in comparison.
You could say the same about writing code. Getting over the mental hurdle is just the first step on a journey, though, not "job complete".
Yep. Half the fun/challenge of writing a book (I’m on my fourth) is finding the right linear sequence.
How much compute, storage, and network speed would a minimal up-to-date web search engine need?
As a kid I used open up those handheld games beginning 80s to try to figure out how they worked; most has just 1 blob on the pcb which contained the chip and not much more but I did get some good results, like a Pacman clone had 2 blobs; one if them was a music chip which contained 100s of tunes mosty unrelated to Pacman; by figuring out what was the power and what was the signal to select the tunes (there was not much choice and if I remember the correctly the signal was serial). Great fun. Took me a lot of time and the games would be broken afterwards; luckily my parents liked that I was learning stuff instead of playing the actual games.
The borrow checker does not affect code generation. Lifetimes are completely elided when codegen'ing.

What _does_ affect code generation is Rust's rules about borrowing and so.

If borrowck was affecting codegen, stuff like `RefCell` wasn't possible.
Could you do tldr?
Which 500 instances? 500 ec2 “large” is like half of a rack… or is the point to engage opponent in unwinnable argument?
I have, but it always felt like not going the whole length with the features, when Scala did much earlier. So if I want a “better Java” I really don’t see why should I stop at half way there. Java is a decent language nowadays so I either just use that or something quite different.
I can't upvote this enough; some people live in an alternative universe full of unicorns and bubble wrap but short of a basic understanding of economics and statistics.
I wrote the huxtable R package to output tables in HTML, Word, RTF and TeX, and TeX is more painful than all the others combined. Basic tables are less capable than HTML, and for anything more advanced you are quickly in a maze of competing packages.
What are these sounds at the end? https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:n0vhhc8z8z4a1rfa8vrpn0s1fw...
Seems like the number of full stops at the end of a sentence can generate weird mumbo jumbo. It's interesting.
Is the labor shortages as bad elsewhere in the world? Plenty of places with great social safety nets, not just now but all the time. Treating the vast majority of people as wage slaves seems particularly American.
What feedback? I was asking, and you gave me some weird non answer. I still have no idea what this is. Perhaps you replied to the wrong comment?
I don't disagree with anything specific that you said, but the reliance on "reasonable" means that you don't get a trivial guarantee about the lack of a short period from the structure itself.

The nice property that LFSR+non-linear-permutation-on-output schemes have is that by construction they give a guaranteed known gigantic period.

The counter and truncated permutation will do so if the permutation is reasonable. If lots of cpu time is allowed then I think it's likely that people will manage to select reasonable permutations. ... but when trying to shave off ever last cycle (as is the case for the RNGs discussed in this thread) it would be good to have a more concrete definition of reasonable.
If you have to ask, you can't afford it
Let me guess - everyone - means /r/machinelearning and a curated list of people on Twitter?
It's interesting to see if one can come with a solution based on custom `Send`/`Sync`-like traits.

Of couse it will require nightly since auto traits are not stable.
Why is this unlikely? If you do it several times then they will start to get annoyed and say no but a service like AWS is all about the long term customer relations. I've had bills of ~$1k refunded even though I'm a ~$3 p.m. user.
OPEX in the US is tax deductible for the current financial year; a lot easier to calculate and maintain. It’s basically the cost to run the company, taking away from revenue.

CAPEX items are amortized over multiple fiscal cycles; it’ll count and can helps raise the value(valuation) of your company, but tricker to calculate.

So depending what financial number goals your company has, the accounting of items can go one way or the other.

If your dev work brought permanent value to the company, then it can be capex. If you were a contractor instead, it could be either cap or opex. AWS services are basically rented and not permanent value to the company, ie, if you sold everything the company owned for cash, you couldn’t sell the AWS part, just the terraform scripts.
JSON is not a simple format. I don't feel confident enough to recommend anything in particular, but I believe one of the well-designed binary formats would be a much better choice.

I'll just leave this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826600

https://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html
Show HN: Terminal interface to search the LLVM-C API
Instead of mutual information, can I recommend the Transfer Entropy?

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_entropy

It is designed for time series, but can be adopted to a more general case. The advantage over MI is that with MI, you could only see that A and B are related, while TE can show that A dives B, but not the reverse.
Thanks! A really simple one for now: number of matching terms, and then prioritising matches earlier in the result string. But this is something I'm looking forward to working on properly when I get a bigger index.
Be quite with those statistics and mask the children because ... emotions.
Yes, Portman can do this https://github.com/apideck-libraries/portman
It also gives an overview of the current state of the art for thousands of tasks and indexes current research by methods used, so you can quickly bootstrap research on a topic.

Another great resource is the HuggingFace model zoo. So many trained models easy to deploy.
finclout.io solves that better. No more "free work" for klout.
Paperback: An encrypted paper-based backup scheme
Keep in mind that many of these "cleanroom" implementations are aiming to dodge patents, not just copyright
Tim Hartford addresses this: “ the Landsburg rule can only be imposed in controlled environments such as a theme park, perhaps”

He’s using it to explain reverse logic, and then moves onto the more practical application in a todo list (discussed elsewhere in the comment tree).
Useful? Hell, no. Like most technology derived from OSI, it's garbage that has been the source of a huge number of software vulnerabilities.
Neither did I. I tend to avoid RBDMS-specific syntax extensions of questionable benefit.

The only thing I really miss in PG is ASOF JOIN. It's possible to implement it via CROSS JOIN LATERAL, but in my case it resulted in nested loops — coming from ClickHouse it bothers me that there is no way (that I know of) to hint PG to use a specific join strategy.
I would love to talk more about it and understand your take. Is there a way I can reach out to you? I have been reading the content in web 3 and form my own opinion on the merits/demerits.
Try and increase side project revenue so its ramen-profitable or at least hosting profitable
No reason you can't have onsite infra but have cloud as backup for 0.009% time your stuff is down
Painfully obvious question, but are there gaps in the legal software world you think you could fill?
> But then any money going to support leave would be the dumb money right

Depends on where the money ultimately comes from. e.g. it would be smart for Russia to fund leave.
Indeed, this site recently timing out or not resolving was a good indicator of at least CloudFront or Route 53 issues.
Fair point.

How is it to be funded?
Induction cookers are expensive today, but they aren't theoretically expensive. One day, they'll be cheaper than resistive heaters.
No, not in a capability-based environment. Once you cap_enter() on FreeBSD, you can't – that's the whole point. Same in proper WASI runtime implementations.

Please don't assume people are stupid ;) These sandboxes have been carefully designed and extensively tested.
An old deep freeze is probably not sufficient, but packing them into a thick layer of insulation should be fine for the winter. The insulation would have to completely enclose them though, including the bottom.

Maybe best to have them sit on a thick layer of insulation on the bottom, and a box that can be removed during the summer months so the batteries don't overheat.

Another a bit weird idea would be to somehow put them next to a compost heap, which produces low temperature heat for a long time (years) including during the winter.
What if you were paid more?
My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
Offgrid inverters either get the power from the batteries/charge controllers or they get the power from the grid (usually to charge the batteries - they are called charger-inverters, look at the Outback VFX series for an example). This means that either you get the unstable grid power or you get the stable solar/battery power. Maybe there are inverters that somehow compensate and correct the power but I doubt it since they would be fighting the rest of the grid.

I would suggest that you add solar with a small battery bank and use the grid for overnight and for dark day charging. This way you have the best of both worlds as you only need a big battery bank if you need a lot of power when there is no sun.

P.S. Start with a 48 system since you are going for so much solar power. It is safer and cheaper in the long run.
ASN.1: I can only imagine that one day someone said "Strings are bad for security" and some bold lad overheard and said "Hold my Beer!".
This is probably a good list. Some points I don't agree with, but, as a person who kind of invested in the book by buying it while it was in MEAP at Manning, having high expectations for it, I can say I was extremely disappointed with the content. I found some passages unclear at times and the whole idea of mapping the data oriented programming approach taken from functional programming to a general purpose way of designing programs and using JS to convey the message, somehow didn't make it click for me.

It's a good list of tips and I hope the book was successful and helped people!
I agree that the difference between winter and summer is very large, like night and day.

But, 2kWh or even less should be plenty to keep a well insulated battery compartment from freezing.

On very cold and clear winter days you are going to get more than that, and on cloudy days it is usually not that cold.
The purpose of economics is to explain complex interaction between systems. Analogy is a powerful communication tool. Such phrases allow us to communicate and reason about systems.

The concepts raise the standard of policy development. Consider how much easier it is to discuss a proposal thanks to 'The Tragedy of the Commons'. Those few words serve as a shorthand for a dynamic. Without it you might need to spend half an hour stepping people through the dynamic each time you wanted to refer to it, and you would lose people along the way.
An interesting site, with amazing tech once again let down by a hopeless UI. Seriously, a dropdown with several hundred options is not a great user experience. Still not as bad as the NVIDIA image generator posted a few weeks back.
Yes, as someone mentioned above, the problem is getting the underlying distribution of the data, so you can measure SUM p_i log(p_i); this usually involves some binning, which can be tricky (and yes, I know the formula I gave is entropy not MI)

I try to remind myself that "it is just a model", as a corollary to "all models are wrong, some are useful." You are never dealing with the real world. And you are usually trying to estimate some future as of yet unobserved signal based on existing data. In other words, if your bins are reasonable and reasonably usefully accurate, you can build a working if not perfect system.

Don't try to optimize testing error performance to a value lower than the irreducible error in the system.
I think you are being too harsh. If you have never run a business there are a lot of things to learn and get right.
~98% of the ASN.1 parsing bugs could have been prevented by generating the parser instead of handwriting yet another recursive descent parser "with a few clever optimisations".
Cycling on an indoor bike at enough effort to burn 600 calories an hour will leave me covered in sweat that makes wearing glasses hard. How comfortable is the Occulus headset when sweaty? does it stay on with violent movements you might do in shadow boxing?
I would need to login to my account which I haven’t done in about 2 years. But the thing that bothered me is I always feel like I’m navigating back and forth. And I end up lost where I am.

It’s not to say AWS is flawless because it absolutely could be better. But I don’t find myself getting lost. I just get frustrated that it’s slow.

There’s many really annoying bugs in AWS tho. Like if you use event bridge and you use the UI. You create a target to a lambda. Then go delete the lambda. The event bridge UI breaks due to not being able to load the lambda.

And if you create a target to a lambda and you have 400 lambdas. The page lags while it loads all 400 lambdas in the background before it renders.

But navigating around i don’t feel like I end up somewhere else.
It wasnt Germans, French or Spanish though was it, it was Romanians, Polish and Bulgarians.
But have you taken down their photos from your walls because of that?
The plan is to fund it through donations
We all know why no one's doing those jobs, its because they were low paid. Shouldnt farmers have been paying more or was low paid labour from Eastern Europe a good thing?
For business perspective, it's large irreversible upfront investment on capex vs ongoing opex. Sizing and building a data center is risky, execs not wanting to attach their names to $xxM data center project.

Cost wise Capex are depreciated, this gives less visibility on month on month costs compared with opex which goes onto income statement.

Developer work as capex is intangible asset, which has a bit more 'flexibility' depending on what management wants. It can operate on the same idea, developer wages for 1 year spread over several years via amortization of intangible asset.
These are cute but not even in the same league as Resemble.AI
Some things are shared already: The Euro is common currency for key states, and borders are light-to-non-existent. Thea means that a lot of governance has to be shared. The lesson is that a single market isn't just about opening borders, it's about shared standards and practices that prevent a race to the bottom. A market is fundamentally a shared set of ground-rules. I'm sure that there are lessons to be learned from 2008 about making a shared currency and financial arrangement that works for both e.g. Germany and for Greece.

Without the UK, "the awkward odd man out that consistently vetoed further integration" this trend is bound to continue and more things will become shared, in an "ever closer union".
Better to stop for a week than conduct inspiring new research into the combination of mild covid and low oxygen levels while needing to staff an underway watchbill.
Off-topic [0]: I would be very interested in an economic model that would work for such a search engine. Donations are fine, but (imho) it will take much more than that to keep the lights on, let alone expand...

The "fairest" solution for both sides I can think of is ads which no not send tracking information, and are shown primarily based on search terms and country, or even other parameters that the visitor has set explicitly. Any other ideas on how to finance such an engine so that incentives are aligned?

[0]: EDIT: off-topic because the page clearly states that this project will be financed with donations only.
That’s the same in most of Europe. Renewables have to be supplemented by gas plants which can turn their production up and down much quicker than nuclear, coal, etc.

In the future the gas plants can be replaced by various forms of storage, but until then gas is important even with electrified heating and cooking.
There is nothing keeping you from installing homebrew in your home folder. It is completely painless. No root required.
Is 5kW not enough to heat the cabin? I guess it must be really cold where you are. Modern heat pumps should unproblematic handle -25°C (air to air), and provide 4-5kWh of heat for each kWh of power used.
> a) most implementations being adhoc, of varying completeness,

While attempting to implement clean auditable code which would accept all signatures openssl accepted and reject all that it rejected years ago I fell down a rabbit hole of trying to discover if there was any complete and correct open source implementations of BER. I audited dozens of them and was not able to find a single one. They all implement different subsets and have various flaws in the more weird/useless ways of encoding things.

This effort eventually result in an openssl CVE, and we never got a consistent implementation: the exact set of messages accepted was far too irregular and dependent on the implementation.

(OpenSSL eventually 'fixed' the issue by restricting the set of accepted inputs ... in an uncoordinated manner guaranteed to create a vulnerability for any system where consistent validation is security critical.)

ASN.1 isn't unique in this though. Almost all other complex parsed formats with multiple implementations have troublesome inconsistencies too. The gap between "make it work" and "make it always work correctly" is too big. People make code that is sufficient for the purposes they care about and then it gets deployed into places where it's not sufficient but good enough to look like it is for a little while.
A big design goal of Protobuf was long-term evolvability of message definitions with backward and forward compatibility. How rich is ASN.1 in that aspect?
It takes about 20 seconds of attention to learn with positive reinforcement, while negative is instant. This is because negative experiences are critical for survival.

These same circuits get used for dealing with things that are unrelated to survival but still produce results the same way. When e.g. propaganda is used people learn that they can weild power this way, which they believe they need for survival.

And mostly we err into this mode when our biochemistry isn't at 100%. It is simply irrationality spilling over.
Most rural roads are majority funded by federal grants.
Homebrew does not need to be in /usr/local everything will work fine running from your home folder.
Tje Xft library is all about rendering the fonts on client side - it does use the Render extension but that's supported by xcb.
W, a 2kb WebGL Framework
Living in germany i got good healthcare and did allready some deeper analyses as a adult and its apartantly adhd. In the first message I meant as a child the test was not enough. But thank you for this hint :)
Great use case. Is the demo broken?
You haven't tried VR yet have you? When you do, you'll see this is very different to 3D of the past.
Wikimedia has an estimated $157m in donations this year. If we could get a small fraction of this amount we should be able to build something pretty good.
Most of these labor articles are about participation - which is a percentage. Unless it killed laborers disproportionately, and spared non-laborers - absolute deaths is a non-issue for participation.

It's obviously an issue for the total labor force.

That said, >75% of deaths occured in 65+ [1].

~200k*.61 = ~122k people in a workforce of 165M is a rounding error.

.61 = labor force participation rate [2]

Additionally, almost 85% of deaths occured in 55+, and participation for 55-65 is already pretty low (~38%). Articles would've stated the obvious (that people died) if it was a major cause. Almost 3M dropped out of the labor force. Deaths probably account for less 4% of that.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
I think there are far bigger problems with the lack of theoretical foundations and abuse of p-values rather than with ergodicity or whatever is the pet peeve of Peter Molenaar.
Indeed there is an odd element to that, as when it's all said and done, AWS itself is an on-prem infrastructure too.
Some idle words from a passer-by: It would have been good if this project had a pronounceable name.

"To Google" has entered the English lexicon as a verb, but I don't think anybody will ever say they "mwmbled" something.
is the size of the common Web already way too large to play catch up against google/bing at this point?

my dream, is a distributed/p2p index. each browser contribute to storing part of the overall index, and handle queries coming from other users so that how to fund huge data centers never become a question.
I choose to host on Vercel because I can spin up a production-ready, globally distributed web app in about 5 minutes with marginal, predictable costs without hiring a single other person, procuring any hardware nor learning anything beyond what’s necessary for coding my application. Pair it with analogous services like Upstash and Fly.io for persistence, and you can achieve incredible scale with minimal operational burden. Obviously this depends on your workload - for mine I can imagine this would cover the majority of use cases for the lifetime of my company. And there are many companies like mine.
> And Amazon’s predictive algorithm for what it calls “anticipatory shipping” uses artificial intelligence to predict what you’ll order and stock it in a warehouse near you, for same-day delivery. This is a vision where the internet amounts to little more than a big, mind-reading “vending machine,” providing products the moment you think of them, or earlier.

Same as it always was:

Christmas shopping the IBM way: computerized gift selection in 1962

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29687282
I never tracked is like news. I used it for two main things:

- Checking the state of the art (SotA) for a given problem. For some problems 2 year old solutions are still close to SotA; in others - there is a huge difference. And if there is a huge difference - is it because of architecture and parameter tuning, or using totally different architectures and training modes.

- Running code - to be used somewhere, or as a reference. Papers never have all details, and do not compile.

Context: I used to work in the field, as a consultant. Though, I cite Papers with Code in one overview paper.
Nice, someone with a non standard/officially approved opinion is a loony and is served with such epithets as "f*ck is with the antivax covid-hoax propaganda".