skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, kernel-based computational methods are by far the most important overlooked advances in the statistical sciences.

Kernel methods are linear methods on data projected into very-high-dimensional spaces, and you get basically all the benefits of linear methods (convexity, access to analytical techniques/manipulations, etc.) while being much more computationally tractable and data-efficient than a naive approach. Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) is a particularly shiny result from the last few years.

The tradeoff is that you must use an adequate kernel for whatever procedure you intend, and these can sometimes have sneaky pitfalls. A crass example would be the relative failure of tSNE and similar kernel-based visualization tools: in the case of tSNE the Cauchy kernel's tails are extremely fat which ends up degrading the representation of intra- vs inter-cluster distances.
I made a writeup on reddit about a year ago. I have changed a few things since then and tried it out on new bosses as well. I have considered making a video explaining it. Here is the writeup though:
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/lml95...
> Ciudad de las artes y ciencias

The Delos headquarters in Westworld were filmed there (third season).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5CT0DdenVU
I was trying to answer to that (frankly paranoid rant about traps being set) by simplifying: Repeatedly yelling = fired. He or no one should driven away by violent behaviour. Fire the misbehaving person or say (like an adult): hey Chris, we (your management) are in disagreement with whatever, and are going with someone else as leadership, so we're reassigning you. If you want to go, well here's the door.

Anything else is just accepting sociopathic mind games. 'oh he shouldn't have felt threatened by violence and unchecked unacceptable behaviour! he was so naive, toxicity is not objective, suck it up'. WTF. I'm all for hearing the other side of this story but please, everyone (not you, GeekyBear!) stop defending sociopaths (or violent people) being sociopaths, and blaming victims not being sociopaths themselves.

The late Pieter Hintjens' writings on psychopathic behaviour needs a re-reading...
The BBC page also links to the intricate and fairly ancient irrigation system used in the Swiss mountain region of Valais.

Legend has it that when God created the Valais, he asked the local farmers whether they wanted rain, or whether they would take care of their own irrigation. After a brief consultation, they announced that, with all due respect, irrigation was too serious a matter to entrust to a bloody foreigner…
> As much as possible, people should decide what to do with their dollars.

This sounds very good until it is actually put in practice, when people realise that those who have all the dollars have all the power. Now you have an unaccountable oligarchy.

> Also, using your dollars to vote means you lose those dollars. So rich people can vote each dollar only once, just like everyone else.

That’s hilarious. As if those billionaires were not making the median yearly income in a week.
The 68000 takes 4 clock cycles (minimum) to access memory and can read or write 2 bytes. At 8 MHz that means that the 68000 has a memory bandwidth of (8Mclocks/s/4clocks)x2bytes = 4Mbytes/s.

The 6502 takes 1 clock cycle (which might be stretched if needed) to access memory and can read or write 1 byte; At 2 MHz the 6502 in the BBC has a memory bandwidth of 2Mbytes/s.

So going from the 6502 to the 68000 would only get you twice the performance. But the 68000 takes many more clock cycles to handle an interrupt compared to the 6502 and since the BBC Micro was designed around interrupts instead of DMA this would eat up all the performance gain. This was true of the 16 bit micros from National, Zilog and Intel as well.

The ARM2 takes 1 clock cycle (which can be stretched if needed) to access memory and can read or write 4 bytes. In addition, it can tell memory if the next access will be random or if it will be at the address following the current one. DRAM has to slow down the processor for random accesses (a RAS cycle followed by a CAS cycle) but can work at full speed for sequential accesses (just CAS cycles). That means that sometimes the ARM2 runs at 4 MHz and sometimes at 8 MHz - supposing an average of 6 MHz is very reasonable. So we are talking about a bandwidth of 6Mx4 = 24Mbytes/s. That is 12 times faster than the 6502 and 6 times faster than the 68000. And the ARM2 has a normal interrupt that is very fast plus a fast interrupt that is instantaneous.

Note that in theory you need "2MHz" DRAMs for the BBC's 6502 or an 8MHz 68000. But in practice if you want to share the memory between video and the CPU you will need 4MHz DRAMs. Which is what the ARM2 also uses, but without sharing with video. The solution is to fetch the video in chunks using the sequential CAS-only mode, put it in a FIFO and then feed the video that instead of directly. Which is what the MEMC/VIDC companion chips for the ARM2 did. Now the video still slows down the processor, but doesn't hog 50% of the bandwidth.
> The models that never lost data: Samsung 970 EVO Pro 2TB and WD Red SN700 1TB.

The others would probably be SK Hynix and Micron/Crucial, right? Curious why he's reluctant to name and shame. A drive not conforming to requirements and losing data is a legitimate problem that should be a "thing"!
“Locking people out of their bank accounts is severely restricting their ability to buy essential goods such as food, shelter, transportation, etc.”

From what I saw, the language specifically allows them to continue using their account for regular daily purchases (food, etc).
Yocto boot2qt for the Raspberry Pi 4, both Qt 5.15 and 6.2
@dang i was speaking from experience. It happened to me. Including the part where they call you an "Illegal" and treat you like garbage, for a technicality that was later considered their fault.

I might make it sound frivolous but let me assure you its a very grievous injustice that people are subject to. And its worthing bringing to light.

And it happens way more often than you would like to think. Google it.
Frequently, especially with junior developers.
The left you used to know rightly deemed that fascism. Before everyone on the neu-left started painting all of their "enemies" with the term, that is.
Excellent question.

The post also begs the question: does DHH really think that people in Canada are performing everyday transactions in cryptocurrencies? Donations in those forms would almost certainly be liquidated immediately, into ordinary banking accounts.
Does it require steel rebar or could you use glass rebar? I think most homes (that are "boxes") have concrete in compression, and not tension. That means the structural considerations for rebar are a lot lower. I think, though, as always, the lifetime of a structure is always dependent on its roof. I don't think I've seen any "multicentury" solution for roofs. Even a lead roof is only definitely good for about a century before it needs maintenance; although, it's useful for twice that long. I've got a metal roof on my house, and it came with a 100 year warranty. (The UV eventually gets to the paint, which will take out the roof.)
I'm working on a better source-control, starting with game developers.
They may be fast but they are still stuck with extremely small amounts of memory.
I have a theory: I think it was a hedge against politicians potentially investing in public transport. If some brave politician comes along, doesn't need money from car manufacturers and decides to build public transport infrastructure, it will be a big financial drag on the US car market. A second Trump term could have gone that way: https://time.com/4247162/donald-trump-trains-infrastructure/.

If you were also one of the leading railway makers, it would protect you from such a thing because you could make money from government contracts to make trains instead. In the coming elections, it is very unlikely that Trump is coming back nor is the Democratic party going to win any elections at least in the next 6 years so railway isn't happening... hence this move.
If someone, like I was, is curious what a ”dory” is in this context, I believe this is it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Moderator
The article implies that the scam never made any money which is perhaps just as shocking as the con itself.

I ran a real web agency and clients almost never asked for references and were happy to pay up to 50% of a 5-figure project total upfront to get started, even from remote or overseas clients that I never met in person who found me through SEO.

Crazy that they couldn’t land even 1 contract with whatever stolen portfolio examples they desired.
Arguably Amtrak was intended to dismantle the remains of passenger rail, and its persistence 50 years later was not foreseen.
I'd like to know the effect of theobromine (found in chocolate) in low/med/high amounts in combination or w/o caffeine
Amtrak was created to relieve the freight companies' of the legal requirement to offer passenger service.

> Railroad corporations operated under charters received from the states, [...] These charters usually vested the railroad with a public mission and some pub- lic responsibility. Railroads were chartered to carry passengers and freight, for which they were incidentally permitted to charge fares.

> AMTRAK has not, during its brief existence, attempted to operate its own trains with its own personnel, but has instead chosen to rely upon contracts with the railroads. The result has been the immediate freeing of railroads from the passenger deficit. AMTRAK has also created a type of cost-plus subsidy, with no incentive to the operating railroad to improve services or control costs. The results are generally
what one would expect.

https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

I've heard it said Amtrak was designed to fail so that freight would have no competition. It seems to me this is the case, since anytime Amtrak tries to expand (or even re-establish service as in Mobile-New Orleans), the freight companies immediately go to court to prevent being forced to share their infrastructure.
That's pretty cruel, how to you get your test set? :)
The last time you could get a 30 second Super Bowl ad for less than $100k was 1973.
I don't mean this as an excuse, but to a big extent Apple has been so successful with their policies and the propaganda behind why their policies are better for the consumer, that it forces Google/Microsoft to copy them. Many of the things the big tech companies do nowadays was an idea originated and proven at Apple previously.

Edit: sorry, I meant this as a reply to GP question but I'll leave it here.
I made no mention of collation, alternate compositions, or of fonts. All I'm saying is that Unicode from the beginning could have had capital alpha and capital Latin 'A' been the same glyph with a glyph-part representation and a separate letter-part representation could have made clear which was which. O-with-umlaut and o-with-diareses could have been done the same. Since you've mentioned fonts, I'll carry on through that topic. Rather than having two code points with two different entries in every font, we could have considered the glyph and the parent alphabet as two pieces of data and had one entry in the font for the glyph.
The limitations are financial (both building the tracks and acquiring at some new right of ways) and geographical (a lot of distances in the US are quite big and most people won't take a train if it's a lot slower than flying).
TV news is barely journalism nowadays. It's a mechanical Turk text to speech.
Local broadcast stations are marginally better IF you are in or near a major city.
"Governors in the USA" are not subjects of the Canadian government, and there's no particularly valuable conclusion to be drawn from the structure and legal backing of emergency orders in the US in this circumstance.
As do I. I credit my dad with this. From a very young age he would frequently ask me what my earliest memories were, and ask me to recount them in as much detail as I could remember.

That really cemented in my memory a few key moments in my life from about age 2.5 onward (the birth of my younger sister, meeting some of my childhood best friends, etc)
They did use crypto and the government blocked those crypto accounts too (at least to the point they can), which I fully support.
Instagram is reportedly removing shorter daily time limit options from its app
Maybe "invented" is in relation to the specific social system designed around the irrigation regulating water distribution fairness. It sounds much better than the system where I live(Colorado), which is "first in time, first in right", meaning the first person to use water from a river gets to claim whatever water they use as their own for eternity, meaning anyone else who comes along later can't have any water at all until the senior rights holder gets their fill.
Pedestrian deaths are surging in the US
Hopefully that was a joke (?)
> Why must we choose between doing nothing on the one hand and freezing assets without due process on the other?

Canadians only have two hands. Even the Quebecois.
That doesn't seem bad at all from my cursory glance at it.
Dune did just fine at the box office and its was amazing at least for me to watch at home on release day, I have no interest in going to the theater anymore.

The Matrix did bad because it was unfortunately a really bad
movie which was so disappointing.
What about TBC and the Las Vegas plans? It's not a Hyperloop as originally explained but uses the name - and seems to be par for the course in terms of Elon proposing products that aren't exactly delivered the way they were marketed.
It's more complicated than just "did he commit crime" (which he did, in terms of employment - you can't pay people £0 for full time work in the UK). His actions were fraudulent in terms of faking so many aspects of the company and his own profile, and he misled people by guaranteeing an income at the end of the probation. He was both criminal and manipulative but I'm sure in his mind he was just working on his grindset or whatever excuse internet hustlers use for ripping people off these days.
Those moments are tough to navigate, because sometimes half the room perceives the mood as "people have strong opinions about this and want to be heard" which is really great but there are also one or two people in the room who are absolutely terrified that a fight is going to break out. In those circumstances I try to find an excuse to break in at the prevailing volume and then, a little more softly, invite an opinion from one of the quieter people at the table. I think that helps the quieter people understand that the noise isn't a crisis and isn't meant to exclude them, and helps the louder people understand that they might not be getting the benefit of everyone's input when voices get raised.
Derw[0], an ML-family language that targets TypeScript or JavaScript. The aim is to have a language similar to Elm, but can do interop with TS a lot easier. I'm mostly excited that this will make my TypeScript projects a lot more enjoyable for me to work with.

[0] - https://derw-lang.github.io/

Github - https://github.com/eeue56/derw

Announcement post - https://derw.substack.com/p/why-derw-an-elm-like-language-th...
I welcome the automation too, although I bet the food won't be any cheaper.
That's a very... generous take.

On my 1st London iPhone dev meetup there was a single representative from Apple: a biz dev guy! He asked a single question, when I commented the review process is annoying (compared to anything we had back then).

So, in retrospect, Apple encircled the whole ecosystem from the get go and wanted 120% of all the money that could be extracted. And they executed on it rather flawlessly.
There's no coherent grand strategy. The world is structurally hostile to families and men and it's getting worse. It was hard enough in previous generations because men and women are in an adversarial relationship courtesy of mother nature. Nowadays on top of it many governments are destroying what little was left of a traditional society. It may not make a lot of sense to young people. You'll see what I mean once you are on the other side of 40.

There are a few contradictory data points to keep in mind.

* at age 40 a "dip in satisfaction" won't be your most pressing concern

* marriage can be justified only by raising children

* after 40 your life is literally meaningless if you have no children

* a woman will want a child; those in their twenties who are lukewarm about it will be desperate by mid-30s

* once a woman gets a child you will be a very distant priority for her

* taking care of a child is a nearly full time job; earning enough to let your woman do it is a luxury only a few occupations such as programming can afford

* a child is not guaranteed to share your interests/aspirations or even have a similar psychological profile; it could be a girl

* a married man has no legal protection whatsoever and all the incentives are in place for women to take advantage of you. How decent you are or productive as a member of the society makes no difference. From what I have seen the correlation is negative - good men are hit the hardest.
I highly recommend the book 500 Years Later: An Oral History of Final Fantasy VII. It's Matt Leone's article, but expanded to book length (240 pages). I received it as a Christmas present when it came out from my parents. Read the entire book in a day. Reading the book was a super nostalgic experience for me since my parents purchased the original PSX game for me back in 1998 around Christmas that year. It was awesome reading all that went into one of my favorite games of all time.

https://readonlymemory.vg/shop/book/500-years-later/
Didn't hear that one, good to know. China Clipper: The Age of the Great Flying Boats by Robert Gandt talks a lot about the Postmaster General and those postal contracts in the US. I came away from the book with a distaste for Pan Am given some of the stunts they pulled. It basically details that having the postal contract was the only way to make regular flights profitable in the early aviation years. To the point, many routes started as postal only.
https://veloren.net/

It's pretty wild that it's possible to make an open source 3D MMORPG where everything is procedurally generated and combat is in real time. That's a combination of words that shouldn't work.
Employee numbers are routinely inflated and employee pages on websites etc are "forgotten to be updated" during downturns.

Stealing work is a routinely done by marketing agencies and their employees.. directly and indirectly (look up the real Allstate Mayhem story if you can find it- it was originally pitched to a different insurance company, not used, ripped off and the new agency that "created" it won't actually allow Allstate to do any Mayhem work with any other agency by contract - which is an unprecedented stipulation (typically agency work rights are reserved by the client).

As for not paying people, there is a reason "fuck you pay me" is a thing.
I bought an m1 macbook pro not too long ago and I love it. But if I got a job where they offered me a choice between a macbook vs a windows laptop for work purposes, I'd take the windows laptop.
I just find if I need to get work done, PC/Windows is a slightly better option.
https://finbold.com/canadas-truckers-turn-to-bitcoin-as-gofu...
Define the scalability that you speak of.

Obviously there is no hyperloop system yet so we can't speak about real life stats but the idea of hyperloop is a pod that goes really fast because of the vacuum.

Change "pod" to "shipping container".

So if you can send one shipping container after another at, say, 400 mph, what exactly would be scalability problem. It would clearly be faster that rail and therefore having a higher throughput.
I see it as deterrence, even if it is a completely fabricated claim by the US.

If you can convince Ukrainians that a Russian invasion would result in these kind of terrible things happening, then they're much more likely to put up a bloody fight. This then increases the cost and risk of Russia invading Ukraine in the first place, which serves as deterrence.
How are you so sure it would work? We are not talking about one relatively small and homogenous nation which could carry on through the frustration of limited souvereignty. We are talking about whole middle third of the continent with simmering ethnic, religious, etc. tensions. If West just slapped the door on them, the results would be catastrophic, there would be several additional Yugoslavias between Berlin and Moscow. EU brought the stability and prosperity to whole region and nobody including Hungary and Poland autocrats want to lose that.
UC Berkeley and American Stagnation
> Why should we believe Gauss's law?

Because experiments show that it's correct.

> No one has the resources to verify the whole of science through first-hand experience

Courses in science commonly include actual experiments, either done by the professor while students watch, or done by the students themselves in labs, precisely to give the students first-hand experience in the scientific phenomena being studied in the course.

> at some point you have no choice but to trust someone

You may have to trust other people for first-hand observations of things you didn't observe yourself. But that isn't what's involved here. Here the student had a theoretical law whose consequences she was perfectly capable of working out for herself. She did not have to trust anyone for that.

In this particular case, the student even saw the problem with Feynman's statement: her letter says, in reference to the statement in Feynman's book that turned out to be wrong: "This was confusing, as it seemed to contradict all your previous statements." So why did she base her exam answer on the statement she found "confusing"? She should have thought it through for herself.
In terms of that Adobe Acrobat Reader snap, how am I supposed to trust that the container is a maintained, trustworthy, and official version of the application? That looks to me sketchy to use as to my knowledge Acrobat Reader hasn't be released on Linux in over 9 years, and shouldn't be used/trusted given the large number of potential vulnerabilities...

This is the reason I don't trust snaps, as I have 0 way of auditing it. I know that there is a "verified" mechanism in snapcraft, but not all apps that are "official" or "trusted" have that tag, such as MusicBrainz Picard, published by the MusicBrainz team, so the only way I know they support it is going back to the official website, which also offers a more conventional PPA that is also easier to audit and trust given the GPG key processes in place there, which _should_ be a bit more trustworthy.
> Wow that's a really interesting fact about North Korea that has absolutely and unequivocally nothing to do with Canada.

Except it's all the same everywhere. Maybe you habe never been out of your well so you don't know. Just so you know, free speech is protected right as per the North Korean constitution... except in practice, it's just like Canada.

> Consider than rather than being silenced, people may just not agree with these fringe positions?

What fringe position? That vaccines without long term data and questionable efficacy against the prevalent variant should not be mandated? Which other country has mandated it?
Survey reveals health impacts of home working during Covid-19