skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few of ML is "principled" (e.g., taking account the probability distributions, priors, bounds on the value of parameters etc,), actually it is most of the time a brute-force approach that makes modelers avoid "thinking" about probability distributions, transformations etc.

I did a lot of the "principled" modeling you talk about, in Stan, TMB, and JAGS back in the day, but outside of the need for an "explanation" of model behavior—which is a scientific need much more than engineering need (mind you, here not having an explanation does not need having no idea what the model does, but it relative to the relationship between x and y, both in how we reach the estimation of parameters and the interpretation of the parameters themselves)—I would almost always favor a "brutish" for prediction in industry, out of (1) convenience, (2) accuracy that's almost always better for ML models even using un-principled methods, (3) outside of proper causal inference, predictions are what matters and even when people demand an "interpretation", causality when data and model are not up for that kind of analyses, is a just a guess anyway.
My handle would better suit a mathematician, but snooze you lose, topologists!
The kernel isn't working on commercial deadlines. Maintainers don't have to worry about their stack rank at the end of the year. They don't have to justify their head count. Some of this happens internally I'm sure, at places like IBM, Red Hat, and Intel, but none of it is coming from Linus.
I’m not an expert in this topic but to me this kind of seems like a big hand wavy extrapolation & it’s not clear how accurate any of the specific numbers in here are.

In particular the corporate profits being cited are coming from ALL non-financial corporations which is a suspiciously broad data set to use when trying to make an argument about price fixing. As an example if there were a shift in profits from small businesses towards larger corporations driven by pandemic behavior, that would contribute to increasing this.

And are we really supposed to believe that near 0 interest rates and unprecedented levels of quantitative easing have no impact on this?

Another thing that’s still worth consideration is that even if 3% of inflation were attributable to corporate profits (it’s probably safe to say he’s exaggerating this a bit at least), is the real rate of inflation actually 6.8%? Many think this is an understated number and the reality may be in the low double digits. If this were the case, corporate profits would represent a relatively smaller portion of real inflation.
Zcash Ravencoin Grin Beam Ethclassic Kadena Dash are all GPU mineable last time I checked
Medicare to Pay for Biogen’s New Alzheimer’s Drug in Clinical-Trial Patients
> So you're saying resisting the government = insurrection?

It’s literally the definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/insurrection
Pharmacological Potency of Creatine in Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome
It isn't that bad in my experience, type "disable iMessage" into Google and this is the first result: https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/ (which offers a way to deregister your phone number if you don't have an iPhone anymore).

It definitely was bad when iMessage first launched, but they probably made that site five years ago and it works to get rid of it.
This comes up every single time banning cryptocurrency for wasting electricity comes up. Using a clothes drying machine and just about anything else that you can think of that uses electricity is fundamentally different than PoW cryptocurrency.

If I want to use a machine to dry my clothes, I pay for that electricity. This puts a limit on the amount of electricity I can consume to do it.

Cryptocurrency is different. The more electricity you burn, the more money you make. I know this first hand - the computer I'm typing this on is running gminer to mine ETH on flexpool.io with my RTX 3070 card. I've mined $2,800 of ETH in the past 10 months.

Something that most people don't understand is that there is a finite amount of ETH that can be mined per day. Hashrate determines the size of the slice of that pie you get. Therefore the incentive is to consume infinite electricity! Of course miners can't do that because mining gear (i.e. GPUs, ASICs, FPGAs, whatever) is hard to purchase and electricity isn't infinite.

But that doesn't stop miners from trying. I know people that do anything they can to acquire GPUs - they have bots combing the Internet, they buy whole systems that have GPUs, rip out the GPU and sell the system, they've signed up for every GPU manufacturer's wait list, they stalk Microcenter, whatever they can do. They seek out areas with cheap or even subsidized electricity and latch onto it like a parasite. It is nothing like anything else you spoke of.
Find a new job first, then quit.

I am not part of nor associated to YC but I wouldn't worry about this, good YC founders know there are bad YC founders (same for techstars etc) -- FWIW I have worked with YC founders. Being in the "club" doesn't mean you are necessarily "good", just means you passed a bar that YC thought they could make money on that served a need. That isn't a dig at YC or any other accelerator, it is just how it works.

If they speak badly of you it is more about them than you, and it might work once but if they going there it will backfire on them. Plus there are 100's of other startups outside of the YC ecosystem, look at those if you are worried.
The value of the US Dollar deceases exponentially in comparison to gold.
> Are you suggesting that you could use Raytracing at all in modern games on a low end card like the RX 6500 XT?

Yes?

Minecraft Raytracing and Quake Raytracing are rather low-specs and probably would run on an RX 6500 XT. You might have to drop down to 720p but it probably would run.
> In the past IT people, whether we're talking about programmers or something else, where very clever people. People with a high level of intelligence that took serious pride in doing things in a meaningful and pragmatic way.

Uh, no, IT people were idiots decades ago too. I was one of those idiots. I've watched myself become less of an idiot, over a very long period of time, because I can see my old self in other people today. But even that is a fallacy - I'm not actually less of an idiot, I just see my old idiocy and assume because I've seen it that I'm smarter now.

I find the "impostor syndrome" meme pretty funny. Tech people seem to get impostor syndrome when their egos develop a crack and they see their own lack of understanding, and worry somebody else will see it too. But then a tech person with a stronger ego convinces them that it's all fine, because actually we're all either idiots or geniuses and nobody can tell the difference.

The tech industry is basically at the same level of advancement as people who built small buildings in the medieval period. Large enough that you need an experienced craftsman to put it together, but small enough that they're not using geometry or doing the math necessary to safely build large structures. The idiocy will continue until society forces this industry to be a real regulated engineering discipline.
I frequently "info coreutils". I poke around and almost always learn something new or refresh something that had faded. Sort of a playground for me...
> Several bosses have explicitly told me they intentionally set an unrealistically aggressive delivery date because of the phenomenon of people taking as much as time as they're given.

Some people call this “phenomenon” planning against the deadline.
How does that become a DoS? Spoofing ip's to get banned? Wouldn't you have to know the ip's that you wanted to get banned?
No, I don't—I care about central bank independence.

I’ll answer this in the context of the gold standard—the ultimate hard currency/sound money. That history is very different than the one its proponents portray. Governments routinely had more currency in the circulation than they cover with their reserves, the money supply was effectively ceded to technological developments in mining, and we saw a period of social unrest in the back half of the 1800s as farmers got screwed by deflation. (See William Jennings Bryant’s ‘You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.’)

The money supply matters. Historically, the gold standard exacerbated swings in the business cycle. Economies would grow by exporting good and gold would flow in, people had more money so they spent more growing the economy more. But, if the economy was bad and there wasn’t gold down in the basement, the government and central banks were unable to issue the currency necessary to stimulate business activity to help end the problem. Milton Friedman made his name by looking at the money supply as the root cause for why the Great Depression was so bad.

Could the Federal Reserve do better? Absolutely. But if you compare the last 10-15 years to any other period in the last 150, things are as good as they’ve even been on the monetary front.
I'm not sure how to parse what the author is saying besides you should be exposing your database directly, which is apparently SQLite.

> In the process, it demonstrated a new kind of web app whose entire database was exposed and queryable from the outside.

> The data needs to be exposed in its original form; any additional translation step will ensure that most people won't bother.
Supply again. Supply!!

The analogy would be you telling people they have to drink that water a certain way and banned from drinking it the way they want. That’s fascism.

Everybody that wants to ban PoW is an authoritarian fascist. Might be an eco fascist, might be a boot licking state loving fascist… still a fascist.
I think he does mean web apps/sites, at least in large part. He is talking about implementing of web 3.0, after all. OTOH, I suppose there's no reason why web has to apply primarily to things that are currently webstuff. You both make good points.
And the first Pixar film that focused on human characters was The Incredibles, which is very smart since the characters are highly stylized and angular, like something from an Ayn Rand book cover.
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I think this is for those cases where you'd like to create a striking gradient but RBG falls kind of flat. For a lot of us it wouldn't be apparent why that is, just disappointing. This tool remedies that by giving you a vibrant and striking gradient regardless of what you feed it.

I do agree about the rainbow of colours though. As someone who understands how RGB works and has worked with colour a lot for decades, this tool is kind of un-intuitive at a glance. That's probably alright though. I can continue hand-crafting gradients because I know how to. Most people using a generator likely don't know how to.

Otherwise it's also a great exercise in learning about and then teaching these things, which Josh is great at.
I don't believe that. It would take too much work to have a coverup like that, especially as total nitwits are elected to congress constantly. To address that, you'd have to say that no, people are divided into two camps with an infinite chasm between them: the ones in the know, and the total idiots. The far more plausible and minimal explanation is that it's a complex power balance that can tip unpredictably.
The legacy systems you refer to are used because they satisfy the business needs.

But many have awkward, confusing UI are brittle in face of required changes and the documentation out of sync with the code which often has confusing and contradictory comments.

The management is always screaming for the latest fix, change to be made ASAP. So the programmers do their best in adverse conditions. Any attempt to do a proper job is a career limiting move.
I don't think Chromebooks are general-purpose devices either. You certainly can't install arbitrary code on them. A Chromebook is closer to an iPad-with-a-keyboard than it is to a general-purpose laptop running Linux (or even Windows).
the bill has most def. been raised. Every time i take my family out ( 2 adults + 2 kids ) we're pushing $100 these days.
American living in London - I rarely use iMessage. Almost 100% WhatsApp which is a much worse product than iMessage.

The only time I use iMessage is when I speak to friends and family back home.
the es5 build will reach less and less users over time, but it has no cost for other users or even the developer. Load it with a script nomodule tag and you always have a JS fallback that covers weird edge cases like the one described in the article.

And building with the right HTML foundation, means you have a fallback for any breaking javascript, that will cover even more edge cases.
The salutation is not encrypted because it's designed to attract the attention of the radio operators on the plane. They need a few moments to grab their pens to write down the message that follows so they aren't going to miss any characters.

So far as leaking information - by the time these are sent as real-world communications (i.e. not as a test or during training), the planes are nearing their target. So it won't matter for much longer if the enemy knows, since the positions of the planes are (hopefully) unknown.
> Google is literally pulling a "think of the children" campaign when the children don't even care what anyone is using because they're all on snapchat, whatsapp, and everything else.

Except stats don't back up what you are saying, at least not in the US. RCS is no less trash than SMS, it's actually an improvement over SMS. They could come together, along with carriers, to create an even better standard but one party is holding out...and blocking any innovation (hint, it's Apple.) I don't get how people are ok with them hijacking an open standard.
Can I have WhatsApp that fallbacks to SMS though? Genuinely curious.
Well, having to write unique SQL per site is much better than having to write unique scrapers per site.
Speaking of which, when is 10Gbit Ethernet coming to laptops? Most have even lost the port ffs.
Oh, and Cornus rubra is awesome also. Extra tough wood but sadly fragile to fungal diseases. You have several good replacements.
Regarding games, I wonder if it is just an issue of expectations.

For the longest time, AAA studios mostly released simple first person shooters with straightforward enemy AI and simple physics. And Bethesda and Obsidian released gloriously buggy RPGs. Nowadays, every game includes open world elements, RPG elements, and more complicated NPC interactions... and it turns out that they are all full of bugs. Complex games have complex problems that don't reveal themselves until players do weird things.

Not to mention all these RPG systems add a whole additional layer to mess up -- character stats might not be 'buggy' exactly, but they might be very poorly 'balanced.' It is really easy to not explore every skill interaction and sometimes multipliers end up exploding. I mean, we saw Blizzard fail to balance Diablo II for like a decade or so, Wizards of the Coast tries to balance D&D but that takes all the fun out of character building -- RPGs of any significant complexity are I think just fundamentally prone to exploding numbers.
On a bring your kids to work day, where a coworker explicitly asked everyone to not eat peanut products that day.

Because everyone has been clearly and explicitly asked to get vaccinated to protect the vulnerable members of society.
I actually believe Jesus came to show us that we are all one with God. When people said he was blaspheming, his response was not "I'm a one-of-a-kind god/man combo"... instead, he said: "“Is it not written in your Law, I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—"

For some reason, churches don't seem to talk about this.

I am, and so are you.
Can you do this if all of the recipients have iPhone? Or do they automatically get switched to Imessage?
An Appeal to the Whatwg (2018)
might be useful for any sort of live stream service (twitch, reddit public access network, etc). For example, alert when nudity
Gold has a few fundamental disadvantages:

- Hard to transport (also not digital)

- Hard to verify authenticity

- Hard to split up
"where very clever people"
I agree in principle, I think they are the #5 player right now in the commercial lift arena, SpaceX first, ArianeSpace second, ULA third, the Russians fourth and then Neutron. Which is quite an achievement. There are other players but those are not commercially available. So they are in excellent company but they still have a very long way to go, which given their funding is only to be expected. Once they start to fly heavier payloads and more complex engine configurations they will be a player to be reckoned with.
> How does this “harm users”?

I get those extras you refer to (read receipts etc) only if i have an iphone and so does the other user. Yet with an open standard i could have those with everyone.

Other apps have features imessage does not - yet i can’t intermix whatsapp/snapchat/vibr/telegram etc with my sms messages - apple is holding my sms’ hostage in the imessage app when i might prefer to send sms’ and whatsapp messages from a single app

Apple knows the lock-in increases the value of their devices. That’s harm - my iphone costs more.
I agree. Not much work went into the initial concepts of these extremely successful movies, because that's not what made the movies successful. Not to say the concepts weren't good, or these folks aren't experts, but it is to say that what set them apart was the massive amount of highly skilled work on executing the idea.
You would be amazed what can be accomplished when you roll up your sleeves.
> and while we're add it

I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies...
Yeah, I've heard the argument before that SQLite is just fine as a production database. Not arguing against that, just saying that it's not a common choice.
Not the OP, but I had the same issue living in North Austin, TX. I was nearly outside ATX, and would have loved to take the rail downtown for a night of bar-hopping and then not have to drive back. But the last northbound train was at like 10 or 11pm.

That meant while I could take the train to downtown, it wasn't practical (at least for a night of bar hopping) unless I wanted to spend a hefty sum on a return Uber at the end of the night.
I'd be leery of dismissing the potential consumer demand. That much throughput could be put to good use for a myriad of personal and business functions, and software trends to filing whatever hardware can provide. It's like every prediction about users not needing X amount of ram or cpu or dpi or network or storage space.

Having that much throughput suggests paging and caching across multiple disks, or using giant models (ml or others) with precomputed lookups in lieu of real-time generation. At any rate, all it takes is a minor inconvenience to overcome and the niche will be exploited to capacity.
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You're such a tease!

Seriously, please share the deets on this 2005 "junker" algo.

It was super unsatisfying to read your post with so much interesting information glossed over.
Tiktok is not a competitor to YouTube. Long form vs short form. It's like comparing tweetes to long form articles. I've actually seen Tiktoks promote YouTube videos.
> Fair enough, what about in the winter in New York?

I dry my clothes on a line in the winter in New York. It's below zero outside, but like 80 degrees and 0% humidity inside my apartment. Clothes dry fast. (And the space was already being heated, because I live in it, and it's against the law for the landlord to allow the temperature to go below 55 degrees, and they are paranoid, so it's more like 80-90 all winter.)
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And putting "energy" (people, time, money) into it isn't even enough on its own. I've seen plenty of 9-10 figure projects that were still suffering due to a lack of proper focus.
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The Metaverse Is Already Here for Cows and It’s Sad
Significant? Who doesn't have 20 minutes to soak and wash their clothes in a bucket? If the goal is to reduce energy usage one should start at the top with large appliances.
If we're going to think about gradients at that level, we should also think about perceptual nonlinearities that create all kinds of distracting visual artifacts... See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20754364
6600XT pass through works fine on QEMU/virtd. There is no need to have multiple GPUs in your machine to have a passable setup.

I can boot into Linux, and swap into Windows in 2 seconds with this setup. I have a dirty 20 line Bash script that deals with detaching the console, and passing the right things to the right place, but it all works.

ROCm on consumer cards does not work well. The tooling sucks. Massively. I don't understand why AMD doesn't have an extra team of 20 devs working just on the tooling.

Using DirectML with Windows Subsystem for Linux gives you better ML GPGPU support then AMDs native tooling.
Even better, they can login to your bank accounts, amazon account, etc...
Australia commits to $3.5B tank purchase from the US
This meme needs to stop. It is pure legitimacy-washing and I can’t believe the HN crowd falls for it.

It’s like Exxon donating a pittance to an environmental protection fund and calling it even.

I wish we would stop giving them credit for “helping” when they’re the ones causing and profiting from the damage in the first place.
What's up with country selector? Thought it's a link, clicked it, and instead got form element.
And all crypto assets at the time. People wouldn’t be clamoring for GPUs if Ethereum didnt exist and also capture so much of the market. Its the only proof of work blockchain that people pay so much to use that it frequently exceeds the block subsidy.

so Bitcoin crashing, without Ethereum existing, wouldn't mean anything. thats how I separate the two without it seeming pedantic to me.
ITT: lots of people who have promoted one trivial web technology or another who feel personally attacked by the post.
Can you explain how it is centralized? Because… it isn’t.
> Programming is engineering

Is it?

Genuine question that I've been asking myself for the past several years: In what senses is software engineering actually an engineering discipline?

If you make a project trade-off for the sake of code maintainability, is that based on empirically tested knowledge or following a design pattern guided by an artisan's intuition about how code will be interpreted?
> The value of the US Dollar deceases exponentially in comparison to gold.

I don't give a fly fig about the value of gold on its own (and, consequently, as a benchmark for anything else.) I mean, except when I am considering gold as a potential investment vehicle.

Now, if you were to say that the value of the dollar loses value roughly exponentially, with a low and gradually changing exponent, compared to, say, the basket of services used to define the CPI or any other broad price measure, I’d say fine, that’s great. Low volatility is stable, and that's what I want in money. (Escalating value with higher volatility is acceptable in an investment vehicle, but currency should not be a primary investment vehicle; what is good in one is not good for the other, in either direction.)
Wouldn't you want to use a subset of SQL in an API? Why use a unique superset that differs per webpage?
It happens all the time on discord servers everywhere. It’s just that the random freeform discussions that happen on discord over voice chat happen to not be something companies want to implement yet.
The Wargames RED DASH ALPHA MESSAGE bit has some relation to real life. There were RED DOT and BLUE DOT messages back in the old days (though that was in the encrypted payload, not the preamble) [0].

[0] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-0...