skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The video said that Simpson's employee Frances Cook spent six weeks choosing the 3,000 gifts that could be suggested by the computer and deciding what sort of people those gifts would suit. So it sounds like one person did the data collection.
I think you are way overselling the difficulty of digging a hole in the ground. Go to any grave yard- full of sealed coffins, all below the frost line.

Get a plastic storage box, drill holes for cables and seal them with caulk. Put inside a treated lumber box for extra crushing resistance. Run cables through metal conduits to avoid mice and moles chewing on them.

Rent a backhoe, and you are done in half an afternoon.

All of that said, I dont know that I would actually go that far- you avoid the battery freezing, but then you get to worry about it cooking. For an off-grid cabin that isn't constantly heated in winter, it isn't the worst idea.
I don’t “buy” the cookware argument. A cast iron skillet, a pot, and a good saucepan are enough for most folks, can be acquired for under a hundred bucks.
Would be great to have job board specializing in companies that do kanban (and are anti-scrum, sprint, etc)
Yeah. Even modern CV methods are hacky insofar as picking the “right” way to apply linear algebra. Convolution layers are hacked up matrix multiplications that are “inspired” by human vision. Of course, the real reason for the hacks is that form works in practice.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
You provided zero evidence, argument, or any support whatsoever for claims (1), (2), or (3). I think all of these claims are somewhere between mostly false and abjectly absurd. But this general topic has been discussed at length elsewhere (if you want to know about it, you can go do your own research), and is entirely off topic in a conversation about the OSS or industrial sabotage.

It is a waste of time to make up pretend “stronger” (more realistically, just as weak but not quite as overtly bigoted) claims to replace a wild bigoted conspiracy theory with a slightly less wild, slightly less bigoted conspiracy theory in a public conversation, so as to have a debate vs. myself only loosely related to the original off topic nonsense. It isn’t going to convince the conspiracy theorist (who will say that replacing his claims with invented substitutes is disingenuous), and no one else reading along cares.

P.S. when you tell your interlocutor that they are “confabulating” and “hallucinating” (i.e. accuse them of mental illness), it is hard to see your comments as representing good faith conversation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
Owning shares that could be transferred from house to house would make a lot more sense than renting.
This new coefficient of correlation is really really awesome, and this visualization shows its value in such a beautifully simple presentation.

It would be great if someone who has Wikipedia edit privileges, can edit the Wikipedia article at [1] to describe/link how the Chatarjee's correlation coefficient solves many of the known limitation of Pearson's correlation coefficient.
;)

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

(especially second top-left diagram)
I've been obsessed with those kinds of strategies for (A)GPL software lately. If it's true, like the critics say, that customers like locked-down, dumbed-down software, there's no reason we can't do that with GPL stuff - even though it can be easily bypassed in then source, and other distributors can sell clean versions, plenty won't.

GPL software should use the same predatory tactics as proprietary, and trend chase. Focus primarily on trend-chasing and marketing, focus on getting cash by any means necessary other than not making the source available. Market hard, dual license.

Dropping a license check in (as long as it's not obfuscated or intentionally confusing) is very cool in my opinion, and I wish you luck. Thanks for adding to the commons.
> Heat pumps heat more efficiently than gas, but I wouldn't be surprised to see in the near future some sort of rolling blackout and thousands of people freezing to death because we went all-in on electric. Will these buildings also have generators to combat this potential problem?

Everywhere I've ever lived if the power was out there was no way to burn the natural gas for heat.

Forced air furnace needs power for the ignition, control circuitry, and the fan that actually circulates the heat through the house.

I don't think it's a bad problem to solve, but it's not one that natural gas heating solves.
Because it is preventing Chinese citizens from exercising their human rights to choose the way they want to live their lives rather than some made up masculine "uberm-man" of the CCP.
This root cause analysis matches up with my experience. You can absolutely have safe ASN.1 with ASN.1 compilers, but the implementations that star in these vulnerabilities tend to be generic or ad-hoc DER/BER parsers.

You'd be hard-pressed to be able to blame ASN.1 with XER (XML Encoding Rules) encoding since then you'd throw an XML parser at the problem, side-stepping the bit twiddling and exchanging it for XML parsing bugs instead. Similarly, if all you have is fixed-length items, OER (Octet Encoding Rules), you essentially get a formally specified struct with a well-defined way to go from there to XML or JSON with JER (JSON Encoding Rules).

I imagine we'll see this happen with CBOR (whose ASN.1 equivalent is technically CDDL) a few years down the road.
ah spellcheck; "catechism"

No longer being sure is a good start, keep it up it you can.
There will be no AI fire alarm
Being fairly new to software as a job and not a hobby, I don't have a ton of experience when it comes to office politics. Does it necessarily follow that because employee A is busting ass, expectations get raised for employee B? Is the set standard really that fragile?

I'm asking because I tend to dive into work headfirst. I love doing this stuff and I can't believe I'm getting paid for it; but if this is a thing perhaps I should be a little quiet about that - I'm not interested in making enemies of people by being 'too peppy'.
eh, crypto might have been the right choice tho
Thumbs up to bland food
In answer to sister comment by derbOac:

Thanks for sharing this. On the other hand the cited paper clearly relates to interdisciplinary peer review.

I am not sure how or if this can be transferred to mathematics.
> It seems silly to assume something that works there would work in a country that has single cities with larger populations

it would also be silly were we to imply that scaling up automatically means less efficiency. in many situations things get significantly more efficient the more they scale.

it also would seem silly to assume that we couldn’t take many of the pieces that are actually working in an entire country and adapt to our situation. We are very good at adapting things for various situations.
All of these things. The more the better, and places with better potential get developed first. Commercial opportunities tend to be developed first, followed by better weather. As all these places got developed, tertiary concerns become more important. Rural America will mostly stay rural and suburbs will slowly develop economies and become part of the metro areas they surround.
Unfortunately recent California requirements make it a challenging to have more than 20KWH (e.g. two tesla powerwalls are too much). As a result it can be useful to have gas appliances to reduce the amount of energy storage you need.
No. It’s a recent hire with a small different mindset. It’s a simple problem, with a simple solution. I wouldn’t even call it a problem or a conflict, just difference in expectation

Be an adult and just talk to people. Explain why his behavior disrupts a nice culture you had and why this causes stress to you. If there is risk of heat and you are new to giving such feedback, the standard template is something like “I’ve noticed that you ..., which causes ... to me. Because …. Would you mind … instead.” Be sure to emphasis on your own feelings of the situation, don’t make it hostile or negative in any way.

This guy probably just comes from other team culture where people turn off notifications off hours.

Don’t bring your boss into this unless the pattern repeats. The message will be lost in translation and you will come of as a whiny wimp, both to your boss and your colleges.
The “original antigenic sin” and its relevance for SARS-CoV-2 vaccination
It's like this because they start from postulates that are contrary to reality. The idea that elements in an economic systems act in a rational way, or that there is an "invisible hand" that drives the markets, or that the markets operate in equilibrium, these are all ad hoc ideas that have no basis in reality. I classify it more like a kind of economic theology.
As a generalist, you can become an expert in one thing after another as you apply your generic expertise and ability to learn to a broad range of areas and problems over time.
My partner works for the Forest Service and went to Colorado State University where they have what is called a Listening Lab.. pretty cool stuff.

https://sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu/soundandlightecologyte...

> The Colorado State University Listening Lab was established in 2013 as a collaboration with the Natural Sounds & Night Skies Division of the National Park Service. The primary goal of the lab is to aid in the preservation and understanding of natural soundscapes by providing a resource to efficiently analyze the thousands of hours of acoustic data collected each year within parks, allowing park officials and scientists to promptly employ effective soundscape management decisions where needed.

> The lab typically employs 5 to 10 well-trained undergraduate student listeners to analyze the acoustic data that our NPS Scientists & Research Associates record within national parks around the country. Many of our student listeners are also enrolled in the University Honors Program and use their time in the lab to complete their honors theses. These students have moved beyond basic data analysis and have explored how noise affects the natural world to produce the following theses:
It won't make the areas better in any meaningful sense.
my electric coil cooktop can't even boil water
Or maybe they prefer that only video games that espouse loyalty to the party and communist values become the only possible types of games played, so they whittle away right along the road to achieving that goal
Ordinary people don't have the money to, say, build sewers and roads.
This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxes
I don't think that is an overreaction. When looking for a place to live. Gas stove and induction oven are a hard requirement

If it doesn't have that...pass immediately
I honestly don't know all the tradeoffs here. I lived with electric coils for a few years when I was in a rental apartment and somehow we were still happy. It's not ideal but I can certainly picture criteria under which it's the optimal policy.

The point about Julia Child is that she was creating works of art using this supposedly unusable tool. If she can manage that, your average Joe should be able to bang together some burgers and saute some vegetables on one.
Economics is an extremely political science, a lot of common knowledge about what economists believe/predict/do is probably wrong. There is about as much visibility into what economics actually predicts as into physics, mathematics or any other science.

Most economics is quoted to try and score points in political debates where the lines are already drawn, conclusions already reached and people are mainly looking for tools to push their preferred solution. In such an environment, you might expect to see an enormous amount of very low quality economics content - probably full of motivated reasoning if you look for it.

It doesn't say much about the state of the field, more about how hard it is to find the field in amongst the dross. Eg, it is reasonably clear that most people writing about about Marxism or Keynesianism haven't read Marx or Keynes wrote.
Both can be true at the same time. None of us should _count_ on nuclear fusion being available as an energy source until at least the very first critical demo reactor _that actually generates useful electrical energy_, and we as a society need to move on as if it wasn't happening.

That being said, my mind was stuck in Animat's state as well for a long time, mainly because of neutron flux. Neutrons were the ultimate end boss at the end of the goal by laughing at your fusion progress and just destroying every containment that comes their way. What excites me these days are modern contenders like HB11 Energy and Helion Fusion jumping directly to aneutronic fusion.

This is the stuff most physicists didn't dare to dream of as of late, mostly because they weren't even close to sustaining the simplest D-T reactions for long, and aneutronic fusion takes even considerately hotter and denser plasmas — as well as being plagued by fuel availability concerns (HE3). But it's something that's within reach due to massive advances in ultra-short laser technology, coil breakthroughs and some other clever hacks like breeding HE3 on site.

That, combined with the other advance of direct electrical harvest instead of thermic conversion puts fusion into territories of believable reach for the first time in my mind. After decades of disappointedly following the status quo, I'm getting seriously excited.
Successfully Crowdfunded Product Designs of 2021
It is weird to see Papers with Code on the front page of HN.

This site is the bread and butter of each Research Engineers and Scientists working in Deep Learning. You use the site almost everyday.

Advanced learners also use the site regularly.

You would just think that "everyone knows" and never think of sharing the site on HN.
For guidance on this topic, I’d recommend the book “Deep Work” by Cal Newport. I think the relevant part of the book would advise that loving what you do requires sticking with it long enough to develop mastery; and the opposite pattern of bouncing between topics “looking for passion” is a recipe for mediocrity and dissatisfaction (I’m probably overstating his case a bit). But the whole book is great!
US laws, regulations, and B2B contracts tend to require employee surveillance - sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly under risk management - as part of the firm’s duty of care to customers. The customer has given the firm his money, his data, his health, etc. The firm must try to prevent abuse, and must have a forensic trail in case it happens.

In the financial industry, it is strictly forbidden by law to miss reps talking to customers from their homes, on their personal devices and accounts. Banks are in the news getting fined for this routinely.
An interesting teardown of one of the Ecoflow Delta plug-and-play inverter-batteries by Matthias Wandel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aFj4l3EDa8
I mean you should take yourself and your valuable talents to China and live your best life under the CCP paradise.
Are the boots back to being polishable? My stint was during the dusty oakleys era.
Belated answer, but several reasons:

- I created Redux Toolkit :)

- It's also "official", ie, from the actual Redux team (myself, Lenz Weber, Tim Dorr)

- RTK simplifies common Redux patterns, but tries to stay "typically Redux". It doesn't hide the fact that you're using Redux. Libraries like Easy-Peasy and Rematch add additional levels of abstraction, to the point that it doesn't even look like Redux any more. I can understand why that might be appealing to some folks, but I think it's too much abstraction.
> Battery-electric cars are already pretty hefty for their class

A Tesla Model 3 weights roughly as much as its ICE equivalent (BMW 3 series).
> with a 3k price tag for the cooktop

Here is a 30-inch Samsung induction cooktop for $1100

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Samsung-30-in-Smart-Induction-Mo...

> and another 500-1000 for induction cookware?

Here is a $43 induction cookware set which includes both pots and pans

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-8-Piece-Non-Stick-Kitche...
Pixen was the opposite. It was open source and sold on the App Store but then people just took the code and put their own low effort Pixen-likes on the App Store. No more OSS Pixen.
Me too! Right in the middle of the buy-shit month.

This year was a lean one.
From what I gather it has a good table of contents from which you can jump to the section you’re intetested and ignore the rest. That’s good for an inpatient dev who needs to learn what they need at the moment of the inquiry.
Nobody forces you to stick to one kind of role. It's okay to try a couple of roles.

I love (computer) science research and (software systems) development, so that's what I have been enjoying since age 11. Over three decades on, I'm a professor of artificial intelligence, which gives me maximum freedom to play around and invent new techniques. Among other things, I get paid to read HN, write papers and software, and teach the next generation some interesting topics like machine learning.
What are you talking about?

Correlation is absolutely useful for analysis of non-physical based systems.
I didn't stop using VSCode; I still use it. I only use IDEA for Go, via GoLand.

Feel free to suggest extensions that bring VSCode up to par with IDEA. The Go extension certainly isn't one of them.

For example, are there extensions to do file comparison the way describe? Or live, editable "find"? Refactoring with preview?
Nah. Qing technically is Manchu. Qing racist to the Hans too. The main race in China. CCP actually has less racist ideology compare to others previous ruler in China. China is very complex country.
It's an ad for something called Lager.

I wondered why the author is so into Docker for embedded.
> Induction cook tops cost nearly $4k. A whole electric stove and oven for about $600.

You are comparing a Tesla Model S to a Toyota Civic.

Here is a $500 36-inch induction cooktop

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Empava-36-in-Built-In-Electric-S...?
That isn't very specific about how it works ("defends against the most common, frequently occurring network and transport layer DDoS attacks" whatever that means), but it sounds like they're going to drop weird looking packets.

The problem is, one of the more common types of DDoS is that the attacker has a botnet with a million machines in it and has them all make legitimate requests to your service all day, thereby overloading it. This looks just like a large volume of legitimate requests, because it is. S3 or similar isn't going to get overloaded, but then what stops you from getting a bill the size of the moon?

To do otherwise they'd either have to be able to distinguish these from legitimate requests (how?) or give you free traffic when you claim you were under a DDoS that they can't distinguish from a large volume of legitimate traffic (unlikely).
LaTeX is just a set of packages that run on Knuth's creation.
They were neck and neck with other civilizations but they certainly weren't "on top" unless you only read Chinese history books.
Not terribly large amounts of it. E.g. during prior blackouts I powered my tankless gas water heater just using a plug in inverter in a car. Even larger units can be easily powered by a modest generator.
[Public Service Announcement] For anyone using Wordpress Plugin – Elementor
I noticed a weird transaction while consolidating my bank account this morning.

A WP plugin Elementor has been charging me for two years - 2020 and 2021.

I first bought the plugin in 2019 but I turned off the auto-renewal and removed my CC details. So no way I can be charged any further.

Or so I thought.

I ping their Customer Service immediately for clarification. They admitted that it should not happened and will ask the accounts team to follow up. No refunds because it has passed 30 days since it was charged (WTF).

Ok fine whatever. My main concern is that I hoped this will not happen again.

I asked to cancel my subscription but the CS recommend me to just cancel my entire account (lose access to my invoices and conversation details) or just stick with the manual-renewal flow so that it will auto-cancelled next year.

The same faulty manual renewal flow that charged me for two years.

I was flabbergasted by this suggestion.

I insisted on cancelling the subscription and the CS has since stopped responding to me.

So if you were using the plugin and thought that you had already done your due diligence in "cancelling" the subscription, it's best that you check your bank statement again.
> There won't be a floating pink elephant in the middle of the room.

It is possible to take enough shrooms to hallucinate objects which are not there. It's hard to reach this state without losing full sight of everything tho.
I already have a mobile phone so...
The fastest-to-learn language I’ve picked up was Clojure. For whiteboarding, it has the added benefit that your interviewer probably doesn’t know it/might know general lisp concepts and you can handwave pseudocode as needed.

For “you can pick this up without knowing much about what you’re picking up” Python is almost certainly up there. JavaScript is a good choice because it’s ubiquitous but it’s a minefield and will be for whiteboarding.

To be honest I think the question is not setting the hypothetical interviewer up for success. They’d be better off learning relevant domain knowledge about the work they might be doing, and focusing on being prepared with good questions and generally explaining how they think through problems. They can use any language of their own imagining to express that on a whiteboard. If the interviewer wants something closer to real code that’s already a bad sign that they’re asking the wrong questions.
Did you take the resell value into account?
I'll be the guy who brings vim and emacs into another editor's story. Sorry for this, I will try sam and vis for sure though.

I recently moved to emacs after 20 years of vim. It is my fifth try with emacs, the other trials ended in weeks. This time I was motivated by emacs excelent support for LSP which I wanted for Go. I use Doom Emacs which is a lot better than Spacemacs in my opinion. After only 1 hour my Go experience was already a lot better than with simple vim. After a few days I started using workspaces. Then magit. After that I dived into Org mode and was blown away. Moved everything from vimwiki to that. With syncthing and orgzly I have everything on my android as well and replaced google keep with that.

Point is: if you are a vim user give emacs another try. Doom is mature enough imho. I will still use vim on servers. I still use vim in emacs evil so all my years investment still pays off. But for my personal workstation emacs is just wow. Nowhere near as fast as vim but the added features are worth the perfomance hit.
Not at all. If they're healthy and well and a pandemic isn't on then moving away is very low-risk.
Induction cooktops don't start at $4K, more like $400.
When I moved to my neighborhood it was dangerous to walk in at night and there were no children. 10 years later and plenty of families are here. The movement of all of these people are what made it safer - people who want a safe and healthy community. I don’t know why you are so defeatist, it must be a depressing mindset.
I'm just learning about a heat pump now from this thread and then reading about them.

Do we not already have a way to convert radiator/boilers to electricity? It's just boiling water right.

My condo is in a 110 year old building. I love my radiators even if they don't work that great ;) and really would hate those electric baseboard radiators

We probably will have to replace our boiler within the next few years due to issues (neighbors are too cheap to go all electric/vehicle chargers with me so no proactive changes).

I just assumed we could get an electric version? I would hope smaller and not a giant cast iron thing sunk under the house.

Would that not also work for new construction?