skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a spreadsheet add-on similar to the pint library for python (dimensional analysis) based on my own open source JS library (https://github.com/GhostWrench/pqm). Website is still up: https://ghostwrench.net/convertplus.html.

To me it seemed like the perfect way to get a solo app up and running because Google was going to run all the sever stuff and I could just cash in. The app never really got off the ground and by the time I realized that Big G really doesn’t want to make it easy for any schmuck to run a profit generating app using their servers and their technology and it wasn’t worth the maintenance effort to keep up with the constant requests to update the app. I think it is no longer available on the GSuite store as of a few months ago. I think my biggest mistakes were as follows:

1) I needed a business/marketing oriented co-founder. I underestimated how difficult that job is and overestimated my ability to do it.

2) I wanted to charge too much for the app. I didn’t want to undersell myself and get caught in a trap of not making enough to keep up with maintenance. I went too far the other way. I think maybe a $50-$60 on time charge would have been appropriate, instead of requiring a subscription. This is an easy fix, but I would had to re-do my marketing effort and see #1

3) Built before I tested the market. I convinced myself that just asking a few of my engineering friend would use it was enough. Again, this is probably a symptom of #1

4) I was mentally unprepared to deal with failure and I lost motivation to keep working on the project when things didn’t go as I expected.

5) I underestimated how much people actually use spreasheet add-ons. There really isn’t a thriving market and most of the really popular apps are a utility attached to another popular standalone project.

6) Probably should have targeted Excel rather than Sheets, because the market is simply bigger.

I think if the stars align, I would like to give this project another go. I don’t think it has totally failed rather than just gone dormant, but I need a better strategy for round 2!
There’s absolutely no need to pick a fight in this thread, or any thread. Why don’t we all practice some grace in the Christmas/holiday spirit?
Or they're incentivizing firmware-less or open-firmware devices, while drawing a line where people can still choose certain devices that meet their purpose.
The problem isn't that the software is overprotective.

But that these companies specifically (fraudulently) market these assisted driving capabilities as providing more safety / autonomy than they actually do.

By giving these features names like "Autopilot" when it's just L2 for example.

It isn't the drivers, but rather the companies that need to be "kindergartened". Or in my view simply shut down by this point.
I guess they use something like "duty" or "shift plan".

Rota is indeed very British. It clearly comes from the Latin word for "wheel", but in Italy it is not used (nor in France, afaik) - we have the Sacra Rota (which is the Catholic ecclesiastical tribunal, typically invoked for marriage dissolutions) and the word rotazione which is "rotation" and can indeed be used to indicate shift planning. Now I wonder if "rota" in that context comes as a shortening of rotation...
Sadly, this is also what remdesivir does, although its an infusion. Also, the evolutionary pressure from vaccine-induced or natural antibodies also encourage mutations. The gamble is always complexity-related - will a random change help or hurt more.

People have also suggested a mixture of the Pfizer and Merck oral meds in order to reduce the chance of (quickly?) developing resistance to the protease. Similar to how HIV cocktails are used.
A lot of senior AWS employees have left. What the root causes of these outages are is a well guarded secret. I work at Amazon and no one I know knows anything in detail about what went down and why
I wonder how many will hesitate or not apply due to current political heat between Taiwan and China -- and the continual rumors that China is planning an amphibious invasion of Taiwan. Probably not so much that TSMC will have problems hiring the personnel needed for this project but I'll bet the concerned set is non-zero.
What happens between consenting adults is OK.

A major theme in the ‘open source community’ is people badmouthing commercial software (Stallman would say you are a bad person if you use Microsoft Windows, an iPhone, or even drive a car with a proprietary engine control unit.) or other kinds of ‘open source’ software that other people think is harmful.

It is best to let those people torture each other rather than ask why they do it or (worse) join in.
Chicken pox is caused by varicella, a herpes virus which remains permanently in most infected people. It is in no way comparable to COVID-19.
My conclusion has been that everyone needs to be devops

I used to think this way.

But time and time again I found that organizations treated Devops and SRE as either "developer help desk" or "hiring some person to do terraform stuff and calling them the 'DevOps Team'" or "we literally failed to hire actual technical specialists for the role we needed, so we're just going to dump these tasks on the Devops 'team'"

I no longer think the way I used to about Devops, I also no longer have any real interest in being part of 'Devops transformation' efforts. Go figure.
Now inverse that statement and see where it takes you, and what it tells about you as a human being.
Merry Christmas and a Happy Saturnalia

and my favourite xmas tune (I believe in Father Christmas) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfY4b1NszpY
I'm having a similar thing happen to me now, though all I bought was a package of six 50 oz glass jars from Walmart. I ordered it Monday and on Tuesday morning I received an email from Walmart saying it will be delivered within the next 15 minutes. Well, it's Friday morning and here we are without jars. The tracking page was updating for two days after with the message "arriving in X minutes" depending on where the driver was, though since yesterday I see has been parked in another part. Now the tracking page simply posts "Order delayed". It's not the end of the world since they're just jars and assume they'll be delivered eventually, but it's incredibly annoying on both Walmart and driver.

Semi-related, I recently learned that if you create a Walmart account online and you later decide you want to delete, you actually have to call into Walmart's customer support and speak to a representative in order to do that.
You have presupposed that said monopoly will not have already bought the necessary legislation required to maintain its position through regulatory capture. The current system positively rewards monopolies in most sectors.
Precisely. Sort of like someone telling you they've given up cigarettes, then lighting up a cigar...
For once the AWS status page is actually telling the truth, there is no outage.
The EU does not have a standard VAT rate, each country sets their own rates.
I wonder how far you could get with Github pages? It’s probably againsttheir ToS anyways, but I bet you could host a decent amount of (efficiently-encoded) videos before they kick you off.
Always remember that there are real people behind technology and services that you use.
Happy Festivus for the rest of us!

And now for the traditional airing of grievances...

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Yeah, I missed that, but as I said (perhaps overly tersely) upthread PPP understates and GDP is probably closer, given the kind and degree of labor intensity of health care services and how the relevant labor costs tend to trend with other economic measures (in general, a nurse in a richer country doesn't have the same cost, even at PPP, as one in a poorer country.)
1. Hosting costs are paid by Ycombinator, in exchange Ycombinator alumni can see each other(orange names I think), there are job ads for Ycombinator companies and launch threads for Ycombinator companies. dang talks about it often.

2. I think there are two active moderators, that also work on the software side. I have no idea if they are the only people that can do this job or the best in a long list of candidates, so it's hard to answer that question.

> If Dan G got hit by a bus I know for a fact there is nobody who could replace him.

I think that too, and that makes his presence and contributions all the more valuable to me. In a way, the fact that you care deeply about this place shows how special it is. I think that as long as there are people like dang and you around, HN or its spirit will find a way.
I've found some of their basics to to be cheap but low quality. I'd rather pay more for nicer stuff, good quality clothes can last many many years.
If you read the posts in that blog the guy is barely holding in to positions for a few weeks. You are better off going for the best paying position rather than trying to manage two poorly paid positions.
The primary concern form day one has been the capacity of our healthcare systems. "Peak pandemic mortality" includes scores of people dying from unrelated illness due to lack of care. Does anyone truly think its acceptable to let people die in ambulances outside of hospitals because a highly contagious disease filled all the hospital beds and medical staff is too fatigued to work? Maybe people with a political axe to grind pretend to think that.
NewPipe[1] works fine on Android.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
I think you completely missed the point.
> "I haven't checked after release, how is Scala 3 smart-casting now? E.g. Kotlin and Typescript convert a T? to a T inside an if(t != null) branch, and Scala's left much to be desired when I checked."

See: https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/other-new-featu...

It works perfectly well in a number of ways (IE, you can use "=="/"!=" null, use a "match")

https://scastie.scala-lang.org/s853XsLoQEKTVosebJHelA

Kotlin is still a better experience when interacting with Java because of inbuilt interop with Java types like "List" though, in my opinion.

In Scala you need to use ".asScala", ".asJava" etc.
Sadly, I don't think China would care what Taiwan does to itself if it chooses to invade. The goal is the elimination of an irritant, not economic gain.
The company I work for switched from Azure to GCP at the start of the year and personally I don't agree with this statement. Azure was a royal pain in the ass compared to GCP, which I find to be rather smooth and responsive.

Maybe you're going off of past experiences and it's since gotten better?
No, but headlines are supposed to be neutral and not flame/click bait. Even actual headlines that go in that direction are frequently modified. Maybe a fix from @dang?
I spent 5 minutes on the site and couldn't for the life of me find any free resources to actually change my vision. They have a free 7 day course that tells you about the biology of the eye and how their program works, but nothing actually about anything practical. All I got was funneled into those familiar long-scrolly pushy sales landing pages that somewhere wanted to sell me a paid course.
Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
That is a lesson learned indeed. I avoid any business models that rely on Google's algorithmic blessing now, too many horror stories and it doesn't really pass a risk sniff test anyway.
Here's the video for the failed Kickstarter campaign, only raising 25% of the goal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f2Eah3bofk
So, he is acting like a leader who puts his country first? How is that bad?

If US doesn't want to sell weapons to Turkey, its NATO ally, is Turkey supposed to give up and stay defenceless against terrorists that attack its borders?
The defensive tone by people in this comment section worried that this is some attack on rust is surprising. Experienced people write bad code sometimes. Rust standard library may or may not encourage people to write poorly performing code sometimes if they aren't paying attention to (or don't know) fundamentals. Chill.
While the long term plan was for Starlink satellites to communicate with each other, only the last four batches of v1.5 satellites have the actual hardware to do so, and the vast majority of Starlink satellites in orbit right now are only able to talk with ground stations and do not have the inter-satellite laser links.
> printing money

Something it cannot do without increasing its own borrowing costs, and reducing the import purchasing power of its currency. This has been tried and doesn't work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
You can create an account that has none of your personal information. I understand why people don't have an FB account. I don't, and I use an Oculus . But the downside of having an FB account is they plant cookies on your browser or track you in their app.

If you are only using the FB account on your Oculus, its an Oculus account that calls itself an FB account. You need an account for most game devices these days and for Steam. I am not saying its perfect, I am saying that not using an Oculus because you are off FB doesn't make that much sense to me. I do exactly that.
Configure Plex to use an Nginx reverse proxy and deliver content over Cloudflare
They will probably do this the same way software companies have always done this. Through contracts and auditing.

They seem to be lower profile these days, but traditionally enforcement of contracts like this have been through the Business Software Alliance or similar groups. Search for "Business Software Alliance audit" and you can find plenty of information.
That's an old joke already
You're missing the main point of my comment while falling to the swap trap:

Processes may crash, but kernel shouldn't, period.

If it crashes today with no swap while running 5 programs, it'll crash tomorrow with swap enabled while running 10 programs.
Countdown with links to livestream and blog here: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html
Yup, between the message trace and just reading the headers I have not been wanting for visibility... and as the Exchange Online admin I've found that 99% of deliverability issues end up resting with the outside party failing to read their own infra's NDRs anyways.
But you'll still need the Xcode bits on the machine, right?
There's so much to study and learn.

Trading algorithms are often implemented in Python/Pandas so learning hackerrank problems about stacks/queues can make one better at implementing trading algorithms. Some hackerrank problems involve hashes which are verified empirically which calculus. Studying calculus can lead to better understanding of the black-scholes theorem and brownian motion.

There's even an aesthetic nature to really good trades which can lead down an interesting path on gestalt theory and composition. Drawing charts is an art form too. Check out https://www.tradingview.com/u/tntsunrise/ for examples of minimalism in the stock market.

A previous commentor on this topic wrote that I'm studying tea leaves but what if for fun I wrote an image processing algorithm that processed the position of tea leaves in a cup and traded small amounts based on that?

Even something like moving averages has applications in programming language theory. It's easier to implement a moving average in a stateful rather than functional way. It's fun to figure out faster ways of cranking out new algorithms to trade markets which leads to better productivity. Markets move really fast. Old algorithms quickly become outdated.

As long as one does not make huge risks (that aren't well thought out), one can trade based on whatever their imagination leads them to. Anything can be tried and systematically backtested. Most traders won't think outside the box but it's so much more fun when you do.

There's so much synergy between math, computer science, betting strategies, art, drawing, data science and visual theory. Everything one studies in trading can lead to 10 insights in other areas. It's just a genuinely fun topic that can lead to a lifetime of happiness.
It's very common for children admitted to hospitals for other conditions to be diagnosed with asymptotic COVID-19 as part of admission screening. There is no reliable evidence of frequent serious post-COVID issues in children. I support vaccination, but let's not exaggerate the risks of disease.
They have been getting desperate, much more so than my quarterly Facebook/Google email. I've also had multiple Amazon recruiters reaching out, whereas I usually have a single Facebook/Google one. But apparently they aren't desperate enough to allow remote work after Covid, so I keep reminding them I'm not interested in non-remote work.
You can't figure these kind of outages out from the outside, and Amazon aren't going to explain it you except for their official explanations. Plus - 'access' means doing what the subject tells you, certainly not doing anything investigative.
I think there’s a bit more nuance to it than that

The paper in question found that in this age group risk of hospitalization for cardiac adverse events (CAE) is a few times higher than risk of hospitalization with Covid.

It’s unclear (to me at least) how to quantify the level of danger in terms of acute and long term health effects from just this data.

> Further research into the severity and long-term sequelae of post-vaccination CAE is warranted. Quantification of the benefits of the second vaccination dose and vaccination in addition to natural immunity in this demographic may be indicated to minimize harm.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v...
Borrowing costs increased independently of the new savings product. They were rising well before it was announced and increased further because the market priced in a higher level of inflation following the sharp depreciation.

The higher rate on deposits that the new saving scheme offers doesn't increase funding costs for banks in anyway. The Treasury literally pays the depositors the extra yield, not the banks.
Now that you mention it, things have been more pleasant recently!
If you have only one artifact in your build process, you can afford the time to document the build process. :)
Merck’s molnupiravir is good at one thing
and burn down the stupid remotes
This testimonial is the best Christmas gift the team could have hoped for. Thank you very much!
Favourite quote I've seen on this:

"Most advice is basically people mistaking correlation for causation."

(quote by Leo Polovets, some random datascience guy from twitter, no idea if original or not)
Well, there really shouldn't be be a service-- even across all regions and products-- going down every five minutes. Especially because it would mean service that needed to be in multiple regions around the world would almost always be having some type of issue.
For Canadians, .ca seems a generally well behaved and managed TLD under community control.

EDIT: .ca is not particularly tech community related, but that doesn’t matter to me.
I think they meant servers with no reputation are punished. Other comments said so at least.

What ISP should someone choose?
Hm, no, android studio itself runs natively, and the JDK I'm using is native too, from adoptium.net. Most android build tools (d8, r8, etc) are written in java so they run natively. Building the java part in any project is really fast. Like, freakishly fast. 3 seconds to compile a thousand classes, WAT?!
you can not be serious. Is aws really run by humans?
I don't know about "4th time this month alone" which seems a bit editorialised, but our company is off AWS for now, and most likely for good.

We're not in the cloud or tech business per se, and as such our customers are not really understanding of technical issues which unfortunately means they are blaming us, and our own reputation is on the line because of AWS' shortcomings.

We did consider Google but for now OVH is the only major provider which is both reliable and secure (w.r.t. court-and-gag letters from government and intelligence agencies) as far as we're concerned. We still use Hetzner and Scaleway for some older stuff and also because of Scaleway's low prices, but it's likely we're moving everything to OVH in the future.
Arctic routes have been proposed for a long time, I hope this finally happens.

2014: https://spectrum.ieee.org/arctic-fibre-project-to-link-japan...
One approach is to build a compiler for a small but useful part of the model space.

For example, Fabrice Bellard's LibNC (https://bellard.org/libnc) handles transformers and LSTMs, but no convolutions.

NN-512 (https://NN-512.com) handles convolutions and is intended for, e.g., DenseNets, but doesn't support transformers.

Niche support, specialization.
Is it unethical to clone the Olive Garden’s lasagna recipe and post it on the internet?
Why not straight-up crypto? Ethereum is up 647% from a year ago.
Russia is invited by the government to help in the fight against wahabbi terrorists imported from Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Turkey used to smuggle Syrian oil, but today that "job" belongs to the USA.
It's obvious when your domain (well, the IP really) is blacklisted. You either get a nasty error from the mail system saying it didn't go through or that the server was unreachable or what have you. You're always going to get some notice that it failed. In that case I contact the recipient a different way and say, "hey, you're mail server is broken, can you please fix it?" Usually this means them contacting their mail provider and asking why they are blocking mail from someone they need to communicate with. If it's someone like Google, they'll realize they can't actually get any support and think twice about using Google for mail.

A lot of people will say, "no they'll blame you for it not going through", but that's rare. Most people will be receptive to your insistence that you're trying to send them mail but their provider is in the wrong.

Now, if you mean blacklisting in the sense that the server has shadowbanned you and is sending back "221 OK", then, again, you have an affirmative defense: "hey, you're mail server said it accepted the mail, can you please check with your provider on what they did with it?"

In either case, this is actually not a good thing for the recipient's mail provider especially if they pay for that provider. "Why did you accept the email from the sender but not put it in my mailbox? Who else have you done that for? Why am I using you as my mail provider again?"

I have a circle of influence... about 100 people. All 100 of those people would switch mail providers if I asked them to. And I think a lot of people have a circle of influence around this size as well. So there actually is an amount of control over these bigger mail providers. They will be receptive to "I just told your customer to switch because you won't let me email them" especially if it's widespread. In exchange for that "power", I make sure my mail server is as clean as possible and quickly respond to any notices sent to my abuse@ address.
Every time I see an article about the advance of AI, with the vague sci-fi theme of "AI is now so good it is about to replace humans" I think of the many, many stories I've heard like yours, where the FAANG seem unable to build even basic statistical systems, nevermind AI. Some articles suggest AI is on the verge of human sentience, meanwhile, in real life, I constantly encounter stupid algorithms, even from big companies with lots of money. The advertising companies are the worst. I bought a guitar and then, for the next 6 months, every ad I saw on every site was about guitars. How many guitars do they really think I'm going to buy in one year? It's really a once-every-two-or-three-years purchase, it doesn't justify the saturation I was exposed to.

Or elevators. I'm in New York City and everyday I go into some building that has a terrible algorithm for its elevators. I don't need advanced AI, my life would be improved with even minor tweaks to most algorithms for elevators.