skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We just need to stop treating university as a vocational training session.

Is it treated as a vocational training session? I thought university was more about signaling some combination of socioeconomic status and ability to learn/motivation. More selective schools and more difficult coursework (such as hard sciences or engineering) signal a potential employee who is able to learn and manipulate the system they are put in, as well as possibly bringing useful connections.
If you're trying to make a classifier, have a crazy high dimensional space, and don't have a lot of training examples, dimensional reduction can be a lifesaver.

With simple text classification problems (is this a biomedical abstract or celebrity gossip?) and bag-of-words features I've seen dimensional reduction cut the error rate in half.
I wonder to what degree construction of solar farms over pasture could be automated. It seems like an easy competitive advantage over single-use: there is already revenue on the parcel, grass yield is increased because of reduced heat stress, evaporation is reduced, and generation efficiency is higher. Maybe combined with water collection, cutting erosion?

Sharing with row crops seems like the next level, where you probably need to share with irrigation and harvesting equipment. In the near future, production of NH3 on-site for fertilizer and fuel when grid price bottoms might become practical.
I'm a power user and have been using Fedora for over 10 years. I'd highly recommend it, and I don't recall ever getting the feeling that the support/info I needed was gated behind commercial RHEL.
I don't know why people are so allergic to the terms private cloud, (hyper)converged infrastructure, cloud repatriation, etc.
AFAIK, we don't currently have the ability to compile any of our software from scratch. Every compilation utilizes digital artifacts that were created externally. To operate a "no trust computer", not only would you have to build the hardware for scratch, but you would also have to recreate more than a half century of collaborative advancements in computer science. This isn't a cozy thought for those "chasing the trust dragon" since it means that a true "no trust computer" is impossible to create for any single individual and even practically impossible for any group operating on a timescale of less than decades.
Those are two different applications for two different marks. The article linked Webassembly while you linked WASM.
Similar to them, there is UpCloud as well. But I think both of these are more for a business market.
I feel like git gud needs to be a real git command. It's what you do to commit a patch to egregiously bad code. Like if someone git guds you some code your wrote, just hang your head in shame.
> apps that update by themselves

Maybe I'm too old (experienced) and cynical, but I always read that as "apps that are going to brick themselves". No thanks.
This is why prepping alone is impractical unless you’re just planning to live somewhere completely isolated from any possible humans.

I’ve always felt part of prepping should be to establish documents that details alliances and property rights with your neighbors and other preppers so when the government collapses you have a procedure to bring up a local rule of law and order very quickly.
> if it was easy for an artist to undercut Spotify, they'd be doing it

Isn't this the definition of a monopoly?
Security through obscurity is not security. The source WAS open, any bugs in it then are still discoverable. Opening source can actually make things more secure, the whole "many eyes" thing.
Estimating: Stop Trying Harder
Apple and Google are responsible for 99% of all mobile software distribution[1]. They both monopolize the mobile app distribution market, as well as the mobile app payment markets.

Both firms leveraged their dominance in the mobile OS market to dominate the mobile app distribution market, and then they leveraged their dominance in the mobile app distribution market to dominate the mobile app payments market.

When talking about monopolies, the working definition is firms that have significant and durable market power such that they can set prices and exclude competitors[2]. Both Apple and Google fit that bill for the mobile OS, app distribution and payments markets. Whether you use the words monopoly, duopoly or cartel to describe them doesn't really matter, because all of those terms are accurate descriptors.

[1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Around the time that this article was written I was putting the finishing touches on a neural autoencoder that was part of a search engine for patents. (The training was done with assembly language SIMD instructions so we weren't in a hurry to make any changes in the network, training algorithms, ...)

The search engine worked amazingly well. When we first demoed it we heard from the USPTO in the first week, they wanted to buy a license...
I'm pretty sure it loses money because of all the giveaways and coupons they pay for, so you'd have to take those out of the picture before doing the math for a proper comparison.
On December 9, 2021, SeaTunnel (formerly known as Waterdrop) successfully joined the Apache Incubator. Once in the incubator, we spent a lot of time sorting through external dependencies to ensure compliance throughout the project.
Finally, after four months of work by contributors, the community officially released the first Apache software version on March 18, 2022.
This release passed a rigorous 2-round ballot review by the Apache incubator in one go, ensuring maximum compliance with the SeaTunnel Software License.
This means version 2.1.0 is an official release that is safe for corporate and individual users to use, which has been voted on by the SeaTunnel community and the Apache Incubator.
2.1.0 version download address.
https://seatunnel.apache.org/download
GitHub Release:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-seatunnel/releases/tag/2...
> But the Republicans successfully goaded some Democrats into voting for it by threatening to taunt them.

Really? Wow, voting for a war you (allegedly) know to be wrong because you're worried about being "taunted". That's the most pathetic spineless thing I've ever heard. Worse than unashamed pro-war crowd, in some ways.

What happened to all those cowardly losers anyway? They all get voted out and replaced with people who were happy to continue those occupations and support the new wars and interventions during the Obama administration?
GH Actions felt so fundamentally janky and under-documented when I last looked at it (October?) that this doesn't come as a surprise. I really can't foresee using it with requirements any stricter than "nice when it works."
Ha ha. Yeah, the dev icons displayed are chosen from a set at random — but you mentioned two apps that are, sadly, not in the list.

Easy enough to add though. Now, if I can just find the icons....

EDIT: Found "MPW Shell", added. Resourcerer seems to be a little harder to find.
The FOV for regular FPS games is often less than 100deg, so you get more camera view than a typical monitor, it's just that you can't see anything outside of that so it feels boxed in. I would liken it to playing a game in the dark.
You should pivot to providing a simple API for other developers to integrate their users’ sports getting data into their own apps - I could see that being a really useful thing
I think I read that entire post in one breath. That was an emotional train that fortunately had a good ending. May the child live a long and happy life.
I thought this was for detecting if someone approached you from behind in public while futzing with your phone.
Author here. That's right, I'd like to think I do have it pretty well covered, if the free provider just disappears. They're static sites, they can be hosted anywhere. I have almost no lock-in (except for a few config files, and function hooks, that could be ported fairly easily). If one provider pulls the rug out from under me, I can move to another one. In the worst case scenario, if all the providers stop offering free static hosting, I could just move all my www hosting back to a VPS (although I'd probably move it to S3 + CloudFront + Lambda, which isn't free, but is so cheap for low-volume that it might as well be free).

Yes, I agree, personal private stuff is harder. Before embarking on this static-site endeavour, I migrated my photos from Flickr to S3 / CloudFront, and that was a big project in itself (and Flickr is one of the nicer SaaS'es, that lets you export your data quite easily). For email / contacts / calendar, I'm pretty locked in (with one of the big providers), I wouldn't mind moving to a better setup where I own and I control the data, but honestly, it's in my too hard basket.
It may surprise you that just under 70% of app revenue is games.

The myth of the indie developer held down by Apple and Google is a trope thrown out there just like every supermarket brand evokes images of family farms.
Spotify has very low margins so it's hard to say 30% isn't fair. Any lower they'd have trouble paying their costs. Streaming in general helped the music industry revenue grow. You can say Spotify might be bad at business for not making much money on a 30% cut, but overall they seem to be serving decent value for money to the copyright holders and customers. Before streaming, the overhead was a lot higher, with the retail distribution chain taking a comparable cut.
>The more accurate framing is "100% of people pay for 100% of people to have the opportunity to go to college".

It's not though. If you lack the aptitude then you will not have this opportunity. You will still have to pay for the ones that do go though. Oh, and they're going to be out-earning you in the future too.

>Your framing would apply if there somehow were a group--people with blue eyes, people born in May, whatever--to whom access was limited.

But this is the case though. Just look at college attendance in urban vs rural populations.
I hate to say it but for "best laptop" I'd rather get a typical SEO affiliate result than a 4 year old article talking about why they think MacBooks from 10 years ago were the best laptop.

The fact is "best laptop" is what's called a commerical intent query where people are looking to make a purchase. They want recent results and recent products, not informational articles
Did anyone else find this line interesting?

> This was pretty annoying to get working because I kept passing the wrong arguments to things.

I think this sentiment shows up twice in fact in the article.

I’m not sure what language the listings are in, but it looked static-type-ish.

Are there things the current batch of safety focused languages do to mitigate these types of ordering errors?

In Kotlin, Python, and Swift, we make it a practice to always use the keywords in calls if there are multiple arguments of the same type (e.g. two or more ints). I wish I could figure out how to configure any of their linters to enforce it better.

Despite its late bound unsafe nature, this was just never an error I made (argument ordering) back when I used to do a lot of Smalltalk with its interwoven keyword syntax.
IMO in the average case hard work doesn’t move you forward, but in exceptional cases it is a huge game changer. It’s probably true for most people that putting in crazy hours is pointless, but I absolutely believe that if you’re in a position to tolerate the effects and reap the benefits of those extra hours, it absolutely can be worth the pain.
Engadget's report:

https://www.engadget.com/legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-pc-...
Parasites seem to reduce mortality associated with Covid, and Africa has a high parasite burden. More research is needed, but this is a reasonably sized study (751 patients):

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34368662/
Single-axis tracked solar isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but we are going to have to adapt if and when the industry changes. We're building relatively generic robotic primitives that should be useful for many different types of system.
I think Mojeek is a better alternative "general" engine than Brave because Brave's ranking algorithm was optimized against Google SERPs (back when it was called Cliqz), making many SERPs too similar to Google's.

Kagi uses a mix of Teclis and other engines (claims to use Bing and Google) but the ability to adjust ranking yourself is its wild card. Neeva is similar, combining its own index with some ability to influence ranking.

But personally, I'm trying to reduce my use of "one engine to rule them all" and instead use specific engines for specific tasks they're good at.
You'd have to make an assembler then a compiler by hand to bootstrap. It's a monumental task, but reasonable to do. The blueprints are all there. Re-implementing modern operating systems and complex languages and the tools that run on them? That's wholly impossible for one human lifetime.

This is one of my favorite youtube videos in the past year.

https://youtu.be/SJ7lOus1FzQ
I don't feel worthy to be honest
Author here. As I think I explained pretty thoroughly in the article, regularly running system updates is only the tip of the iceberg.
Still has a time component, though. A flat 50% that is due whether you pay it off in 1 month or 60 months is a fee, not interest.
Yes, I've always felt like there are more eyes on Gnome's code. It's just a feeling, I have never looked at the size of the contributors pool.
Which Training Methods for GANs Do Converge? (2018)
Maybe Okta should have installed Duo or some other MFA solution :^)
He’s the HN secret sauce.
>So you think Rogan has more influence than the CDC's guidelines

That's not really the point but, for some, yes, he does have more influence. That "some" apparently includes you.

>You don't think he gets negative press or death threats?

Again, not the point. You asked why Fauci and others weren't challenged. My response was that, not only is he challenged, but he's also been the target of personal attacks, conspiracy theories, and death threats.

>Rogan has a diverse assortment on his show, and admits he is not an expert

Yet, he continuously pushes a counter-mainstream narrative that you seem to be repeating here.

>However, when bodies of so-called authority or expert credentials make policy you and your family will have to live by

To each his/her own, but I think those credentials are meaningful. We've had expert public health guidance for decades brought to us by the "so-called experts" and it's generally served us well, as evidenced by the fact that you've probably never had polio, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, etc. And, you're also not likely to die from a case of diarrhea.

>You are free to go after Rogan.

Yes. I know. But, I wasn't going after him, as much as pointing out the reality that people (seemingly yourself included) respect his opinions over those of public health officials.
What sort of topics are you looking for in all the noise?
>Poor people don't even pay for their own benefits, how can you say they fund education for the rich?

You're talking about the US and maybe some EU countries, but definitely not all of them. Everyone pays VAT equally regardless whether you're rich or poor. Furthermore, income taxes in most European countries aren't as progressive as in the US.
I know that the bigger the city the easier it is to find a tech job so go to the biggest city you can live in.

In Jordan, I would focus on government, petroleum and finance companies and any tech company you can find. Also, focus on a jobs that lead to a career rather than one-of jobs that lead nowhere, if you can.

Hit their websites now to see what's available. Good luck!
They have all these RnD budgets and they keep hiring all the van Rossums and Ken Thompsons of the world... They can probably set a side a 1 percent of a percent of their gigantic budgets and create their own little PARCS and do something useful. Thanks for the article.
Something like Teletext news on Europe:

- Short description on the body of the article/new

- Almost no bias
Aptible founder here. Since you mentioned compliance: Aptible is a PaaS focused on enabling cloud deployments that meet rigorous security and compliance benchmarks (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, etc.)

We're not directly competitive with Render but our solution is similar — we support turnkey app deployment, PostgreSQL, Redis and other OSS databases. Our focus is on the problem of simplifying compliance in the cloud. We're also building a self-hosted SaaS version of our product for companies who want the benefits of PaaS but direct access to their AWS/GCP/Azure infrastructure as well.
They still could have designed around it. At my current job, all of our services are in separate clusters, with none of them being largely interdependent on the other. It's possible our front-end could be bottlenecked, but as the front-end is read only, that is an easier problem to fix.

While we obviously have our own unique issues, this could never happen (in its entirety) at our company.
This comment hit me good. I have felt embarrassed or like nobody would understand my modeling hobby. I definitely try to hide it. I’m not sure why.
For some reason I ended up in a discussion with a friend about this; the agreement was that this wasn't a cloud simply because it's a single point of failure and it's not "someone else's computer".

Which of course led to a discussion of whether you could, in principle, make self-contained cloud devices, powered by Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators, which you could deploy to a) confuse and frighten but b) create a self-managing mesh cloud?
My first computer was a store demo unit of an on-the-way-out Tandy 1000 HX. It came with several games, some kind of productivity suite, and A Tandy Bear Christmas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPYmpf64OfA

Secret money-saving strategy that makes store people love you: "got any old demo units I can buy?"
These obviously-ingenuine replies only add to the continuing distrust of Wasmer, by the way.
> my monetary contribution ending up with Spotify and the musicians

Spotify don't give much to musicians compared to other platforms. They are keen on putting hundreds of millions into podcasts though, which is why I left them. Joe Rogan's objectionable behaviour aside - I just don't give a shit about podcasts, so I feel like my sub money would be going to the wrong people.
Stay away from liberal states. Usually high taxes and crimes. Many (but not all) of these however are good weather too. Not sure about your income and whether obscene income tax is a concern - but there are good states with no state income tax.
Ah, thanks, I missed the tariff bit.
What sort of topics?
GitHub is becoming a huge revenue source for them FYI. They are stealing a TON of business from competitors. Shoot, if Microsoft had a real competitor for Jira, they would probably steal even more business.
Can't wait for the next Bush and Obama too. Probably got a while to go there :(

These clowns are all just the front-men though. They may have had a non-trivial hand in pushing for and profiting from war, but for every one of them there's ones we don't know about who have control over many administrations, and many countries, and who don't really give two shits about the fungible public figures in their pockets.
I don't even give them the benefit of the doubt here, this is shameless. They don't disclose that Wasmer is their employer (you can find it from their comment history though), and pretend like they're a satisfied customer.

Absolutely disgusting.
> Now the payment card companies decide they want 30% of all transactions

What you did there is subtle, but you're comparing apples to oranges. "payment card companies" charge 2-3%. It's platforms like Steam, Play store or App store that charge 30%. Those are not comparable.

I'm not arguing that 30% is the right number, but the analogy is very flawed. Ask anyone what % of their game sales comes from Steam vs their own website/itch/humble/epic. Let alone the dozens of other things that you get with a few lines of code (cloud saves, free in-game text/voice chat, workshop, marketplace, free download and easy patching, achievements, etc) and without having to host a single server or maintain anything. How much would it cost both in development but also hosting cost to code all of that yourself?
This sure would have saved Stadia. Sadly, they'd already put in the work securiring partners (Bunge with Destiny 2) and basically had a full product that was first demoed in 2018 under the name 'Project Stream'[0].

0: https://youtu.be/yLPvyKvtbwE
Hacker exploits infinite mint bug in “Cashio” stablecoin, value crashes to zero
In the US you pay for dogs. Cats are free. No one likes cats; they kill birds. Dogs only injure hoomans.
If you're interested, Here (the PaaS for automative industry in-dash nav), has a website based maps: https://wego.here.com. They also have a phone app. I only found this out because I was looking into where my vehicle pulled it's in-dash nav maps from.
VESA/display manufacturers should provide various DSC examples for consumer, rather than just saying "virtually lossless".
Computer Punch Cards and Amsterdam Carpets
The interesting thing in this argument is that the first person is positing axiomatically that closed source is more secure, the second person is positing that open/closed largely doesn’t matter and finally your position axiomatically is that open is more secured.

We’ve known since the 70s that you (provably) can’t trust source code. We know experientially that it’s easier to diagnose code than programs. We also know experientially that the teams involved have a dramatic effect on the security of the outcomes.

How will we ever decide which of our three contestants will win?
Anyone know why they were rejected from Bytecode Alliance?
Above all clarity. Facts and opinion clearly differentiated so that people can understand what the facts are, and then opinions can be formed compared and all of that.

I personally would really love to see the whole two sides to every story thing abolished. It's not productive, it's not even real.

Finally, and this will run against AD dollars of course, but I would love to see news focused right on the interests of everyday Americans, and presented from a labor, populist point of view. We basically don't do that in the US and there's a huge demand for it, and I would argue a need for it, given the outcome of media consolidation today.

I think doing those things will require a viewer supported and or subscription model such that it can be independent and actually present news in a way that serves the original purpose which is a check and balance against powerful interests.
Rumor has it that Swayze uses illegal parts, though.
Here https://archive.org/details/msdos_Classic_Adventure_-_The_Or...
Beautiful and uplifting story. Wish all of you the best of times together for the rest of your lives.
Home Network Security: Firewalla Blue+
Those cheap $5 servers are weak, probably best to compare to a rasberry pi which is cheap.
The rebranded Lambda School still offers ISAs:

https://www.bloomtech.com/tuition/income-share-agreements

So they didn't go away and Lambda didn't completely collapse.

The outcome based loans aren't better, they don't have a payment cap and don't expire if you get a job offer above $50,000 a year.

I wonder if they offer every graduate a teachin' position.
processing fees are on the order of 2-3% at most, platform fees are 30%. That being said, the platforms do incur all sorts of other costs, but these costs are unequally shared across all apps. A free app with no ads does not pay anything but gets all the same features as a 100$ app who contributes 30$ on each sale. The problem is that there isn't a more "fair" solution.
What sort of things are you reading now? What kind of topics do you read or wish you could read if it were available?
Another report on this issue:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/332955-microsoft-testi...