skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such an insipid argument. If we entertain the idea of a Creator and try to make logical sense of the world I think we'd find pretty quickly that it isn't as simple as "make suffering impossible". What does that mean? What are the constraints? A few solutions in no particular order:

Don't create the world in the first place, attractive only to nihilists.

Make cruelty on the part of humans impossible, easy to do without free will or choice, now we're all p-zombies with no internal life just forever going through the motions of existence.

Make man immortal, static and unchanging. Might as well be an action figure on a shelf still sealed in the box.

The world isn't perfect, neither is man but at least there is a world and we do exist and we have a choice as to how we treat each other. Everything that happens here is of our own doing, that is both terrifying and inspiring. Just don't try to use your own failings and that of man in general as a criticism of the concept of a God, the responsibility for our actions will always lie with us.
My terms of living are to become a craftsman at what I do, use that skill to improve the mess that the internet is today, and then to teach others. We will see if I end up burning out before I reach the end, but as I get older I become better at managing my life and sticking to my principles.
Your perspective is the same tired idea that the US is the only country that controls world foreign policy and everyone else just plays along. What of the Ukrainian people?
Honestly, if your hiring criteria involves looking at pedigree, you're probably doing it wrong. FAANG people jump over to the startup side and vice versa all the time. People grow (yes, even those $500k/yr staff folks).

Rather than looking at the company names, you probably want to look at the quality of the work your candidates did. Was there manager-level experience, did it involve dev ops, was there evidence of growth progression, etc. This sort of stuff matters more.
It's Texas. You're issued one with your birth certificate.
Long press in a text box. At least on my Android phone I get a "paste as plain text" option when I do that.
Honestly, the majority of derivatives of the cyberpunk genre I've seen have all usually been cheap cash grabs with less than any real messaging behind it. I guess to say it more plainly it's what you see the rock or rap genres of today as. While very few people "innovate" just like the music industry the writing industry is a monopoly full of those whose only interest is in revenue generation and shiny lights rather than the actual message. While it may be fun to rather generalize and insult others to put on the face of superiority. Maybe think bigger.
I once told my brother, who was suffering from anxiety, that "No one cares about you when you're out in public". I meant it in the liberating way I had come to know it, which is that no one is paying you the negative attention you think they are, because we're all pretty similar so we all blend in with the crowds. But my parents saw it as an insult. Different perspectives I suppose.
It is the other way, IMHO. As an amateur, my photos are not pixel perfect. I depend a lot of Topaz to sharpen the image and remove noise. My LR is mostly around adjusting the basic parameters which I can do in Darktable/RawTherapee. However, the new masking capabilities in LR has been a big boon where I can easily select the subject/sky and make adjustments.

I expect that the professionals take better pictures straight out of camera and need less adjustments while the dabblers like me need more post processing help. Now, I am struck on a loop with Topaz and LR and cannot switch out of windows (or mac).
Performance Improvement Plan.
I never thought about the implication that shaving a yak is the most fun thing you want to do all day. It's so great you would rather shun all your other responsibilities to shave some yaks. I guess I'd better try it.
Windows Blog: Powering the future of hybrid work
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The way most of these platforms work your ad is actually never “next to” anything anymore. Most people don’t associate online ads the same way as say a TV show. It is expected that you would get unrelated ads to your content when the content you consume is diverse, unlike TV ads which are very specifically on one topic. Then depending on if you view on mobile, ads again aren’t even part of the broader message. They take up the whole screen and aren’t associated with content again. Sponsorship, meaning your ad specifically supports the product, and online ads are different.
Hello,

I'm the author of the post. I'm slightly late to the party, but I'll try to clarify a few misunderstandings.

First and foremost, the post deals with the following scenario too many data scientists find themselves in: "I have (generated) a lot of features; let me do PCA and train my model using the top few principal components". This is a terrible idea and the post explains why.

Second, there seems to be a debate about 'feature selection' vs. 'feature construction' (or 'feature generation'), and whether PCA is of the former or latter type. Here are the definitions I use in the whole blog.

Feature Construction is the process consisting of generating candidate features (i.e. transformations of the original inputs) that might have a simpler relationship with the target, one that models in our toolbox can reliably learn.

E.g. a linear model cannot learn a quadratic function. However, because a quadratic function of x is linear in [x, x^2], the feature transformation x -> [x, x^2] is needed to make our quadratic function learnable by a linear model.

Check out this post for more details on what's at stake during feature construction: https://blog.kxy.ai/feature-construction/.

Feature Selection is the process consisting of removing useless features in the set of candidates generated by feature construction. A feature is deemed useless when it is uninformative about the target or redundant.

Check out this post for a formulation of three key properties of a feature using Shapley values: feature importance, feature usefulness, and feature potential. https://blog.kxy.ai/feature-engineering-with-game-theory-bey...

In the scenario the blog post deals with (i.e. "I have (generated) a lot of features; let me do PCA and train my model using the top few principal components"), data scientists do both feature construction (full PCA, i.e. projecting the original input onto eigenvectors to obtain as many principal components as the dimension of the original input) AND feature selection (only selecting the first few principal components with the highest eigenvalues).

When the goal is to predict y from x, using PCA for either feature construction OR feature selection is a bad idea!

For feature construction, there is nothing in PCA that will intrinsically guarantee that a linear combination of coordinates of x will have a simpler relationship to y than x itself. PCA does not even use y in this case! E.g. Imagine all coordinates of x but the first are pure noise (as far as predicting y is concerned). Any linear combination of x will just make your inputs noisy!

For feature selection, even assuming principal components make sense as features, principal components with the highest variances (i.e. corresponding to the highest eigenvalues) need not be the most useful for predicting y! High variance does not imply high signal.
Truth is somewhere around here, I'm not sure where exactly:

"Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Current and former officials who support the alliance said they feared Mr. Trump could return to his threat as allied military spending continued to lag behind the goals the president had set.

In the days around a tumultuous NATO summit meeting last summer, they said, Mr. Trump told his top national security officials that he did not see the point of the military alliance, which he presented as a drain on the United States"

I'd say ultimately whether this was some sort of good-natured negotiating tactic with European allies or not, Trump lost enough credibility that his motives are/were seriously concerning and questionable. This didn't come from nowhere.

> He wanted Germany and Europe off of Russian gas

Maybe but again I think the motives are questionable. Did he want this because he spent years antagonizing Europe and decided that it made sense for oil and natural gas companies who donated to his campaign to get in on the fun by selling American gas to Europe, or because he had a genuine concern for geopolitical interests and saw how Putin was acting? I'm sure you can understand that many don't really trust Trump or his motivations to do anything. For example, was he advocating for getting Germany and Europe off of Russian gas and on to American gas, or did he also advocate for nuclear power and renewables (both, not just one of those)?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-presiden...
Confluence, Jira, and other Atlassian products are down
Presumably depends on whether you have a device to do it for you. Since I wear a watch anyway, it’s dramatically simpler to let it count steps for me.
You should read Snow Crash. While Neuromancer created the style, Snow Crash added in a lot of missing elements and had the benefit of being written 8 years later and by someone with some with a lot more knowledge of computing.
HN isn't the best place for that (see the many emotionally charged replies to my comment). I just wanted to point out that it was possible to be anti-union without being contrarian.
Gibson has been pretty adamant that interpreting the Sprawl setting as a dystopia is not quite understanding it: the Sprawl is a quality of life upgrade for a lot of Earth's citizens today.
Looks interesting, too bad it's SaaS only? Kudos on the no ads bit though.
If you're looking for something that can be self hosted, checkout snipe-it: https://snipeitapp.com/

For a more all-in-one household data solution that can also be self hosted, checkout Homechart: https://homechart.app.

I would be interested in working with you (contact info is in my profile).
Re: Lord of the Rings, while the language itself is a bit outdated and it can be quite tedious in a lot of places, it still set a benchmark that - at least as far as I'm aware - hasn't been met yet in other books in the wider fantasy genre. I've read a few, some of the serialized form, but they often feel awkward and derivative; often full of male power fantasies, coming-of-age hero's journey tropes, worldbuilding that somehow always feels derivative of LotR (which in itself was derivative of others as well I'm sure, but said others have been forgotten or replaced by that of LotR), and they often seem like the goal of the author is volume, write as many books as they can (thinking of Robert Jordan and the like) just to get all their worldbuilding in there.
https://zworkstations.com/configurations/3010617/

24x 4.5GHz cores, 96GB memory, 48TB NVMe storage, 2 giant GPUs, etc.
One feature which seems obvious enough that you're probably already considering it is the ability to share my inventory with other users. It would be nice if I could share this with my spouse without having to share login information.
Headless Explained to a 5-Year-Old
FWIW, 7000 steps works out very close to 5km (3.11mi) for a typical male stride. About 10% less distance for female. I consider myself pretty active, running at least 6.5km (4mi) five days a week, and I average around 8000 steps/day (including rest days). So yes, 7000 steps per day might do a lot of good, but it's also enough effort that most people will have to spend non-trivial time working up to it.
An ebike that goes 55mph is an electric motorcycle.
It works very fast in CI, its cache is smaller and it builds node_modules much faster. I don't feel comfortable caching node_modules folder itself, because I got side effects even causing incidents before, not sure if its supposed to. Speed difference is 15s vs 35s for our use case which is pretty significant.
Is there a "Jevons paradox" equivalent for information and media? That is, Jevons paradox states that as efficiency of resource usage improves (e.g. MPG goes up) that usage of that good can also, somewhat paradoxically, also go up, because the relative cost of that good goes down so it can be used in more ways, people can drive further, etc.

With information and media, lots of us originally thought that lowering barriers to entry for media dissemination would make it easier to have this "global village of a billion voices". But instead what it has done is made it easier for users to filter to the top content, and easier for producers to use tons of data mining and machine learning to filter in on the most addictive (if definitely not the best) content. In the long term it can make it harder for smaller producers because they are competing against a much larger set of competitors for attention.
the number of news sources I regularly read isn’t even dozen

At least you've added "nrk.no" to your list this week. The problem is real for people who live in Facebook or TikTok bubbles, but the democratized news dream of the internet is still alive, but it takes some work to break out from the world of the algorithmic feeds.
I mean, "international leadership" are your words. I don't know what Merkel personally has done (or what her "useful idiots" have personally done, or even who those "useful idiots" are). But you are positing that there's a contradiction between Germany's dependency on China and Russia, and Merkel's perceived achievements in international leadership. I'm just saying that there's no contradiction or hypocrisy in being in an influential international leadership role, while being from a country with its own national security issues.

Essentially, I'm saying that the last part of your argument falls under the "vaguely gesturing at imagined hypocrisy" category.
When you put it like that, one almost has to feel sorry for Germany, bravely fighting influence, bribery and espionage every step of the way only to fall prey in the end to the Russian state which maliciously supplied the German industry with gas.

But this is not at all bad for the US, it’s great! Russia is isolated and weakened and the EU is strangulated by yet another wave of refugees and weakened economically, becoming even more dependent on the US for security.
What are you talking about? I started my post with the dictionary definition of an oligarch. A member of a small ruling elite. If you don't think Musks wealth puts him in that class who do you think is an "oligarch". Because Musk has, and had before the invasion, more global power than any Russian oligarch, had more power in almost any western country than a Russian oligarch.
I’m thinking about a Mac Studio w/ an M1 Pro, 32 GB RAM, & 2 TB disk for a 3 display dev workstation and an M1 Air for when I need to go in the road.

Any thoughts on this approach? It costs about as much as an M1 MacBook Pro.
>reddit, [...] twitter

Probably not the best examples because they have bloated webapps that are pretty slow/laggy.
I saw a lot of people having fun and didn't see people getting really angry. Though I'm sure there were people actually getting angry, that happens with every game. Maybe those people should relax more, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I was part of a community maintaining a small logo that got attacked a few times, and we repaired it - part of the fun. I agree with the people who think a canvas full of flags is kind of boring and wish people didn't jump so quickly into nationalistic identities as a way to express themselves, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
zmodem or xmodem?
Looks great! I entered a value for an item, and it was automatically denominated in USD. The amount I entered was in NOK. How can I change the currency? I checked the profile page, but I couldn’t find it there.
Approach to RAF Northolt in London has lighting in a business centre car park.

https://goo.gl/maps/2Qqss7iwQ4m7PQGA8
For now, at least. I imagine they'll have caught up before too many generations. Samsung clearly has the resources to keep up.
I'm not even sure you could build a $31,000 desktop computer even if you wanted to without resorting to some ridiculous "expensive for the sake of being expensive" parts. Even quad RTX 3090 Ti's would only set you back $8,000 if you got them at MSRP.

EDIT: Just saw the other comment and I stand corrected.
> "as I think parent commenter does"

Point of correction: I'm trying to convey what Gibson said. If there's a generalization, it's not mine but his. The guy invented cyberpunk, so I think he has a right to holding very strong opinions about it.

I do tend to agree with Gibson, but I also like the aesthetic and I'm content reading and looking at cyberpunk, as long as it's not too lazy.
Seems to be getting hugged to death. https://web.archive.org/web/20220405142923/https://codecs.mu...
Very nice!

Just, I'm not sure that users who stick to Excel despite a web app do so just because of Excel's interface... sometimes it is because it is much easier to work with files than with web sites. And sometimes the way to get to the web app is the thing destroying the UX (slowly responding servers, weird login processes, etc.)
There are Snapdragons in Europe too. Got myself S20 FE last December with Qualcomm chip in it off Amazon. Same SKU was available among many other retailers in Germany
The exposing of the cheating didn't help.
Sometimes all you have to do is shave the yak and give the wool away, and a nice yak-wool coat will come back to you. :)

Which is to say: sometimes, if you build a low-level library/infrastructure service and release it, someone else will take advantage of it to write the high-level thing you were originally aiming to create.

I'm speaking from experience — my company's DBaaS is built on the premise of just building a really good database domain-model to hold a certain type of large, public-available datasets, for efficient, flexible querying of them; loading those datasets into it; and then giving people access to it (through SQL or various use-case-shaped APIs.) It's a really thorough yak-shave of the DB+ETL layer of what was originally planned to be a higher-level B2C product.

But it turns out I have a pretty unique view of what should be considered "fun", because my yak-shave was everyone else's schlep. Everyone turned out to be dying to get their hands on this thing, because they wanted to spend all their time on a product, rather than getting good data to feed their product. Once we realized that, we stopped trying to build a B2C product at all, and just started selling the yak wool directly.
Uploading consciousness is a breakthrough comparable to speech if we ever have it.

You can't begin to imagine the transformativity of this change. It is the singularity.
Why SGI failed:
https://vizworld.com/2009/04/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-cha...
https://vizworld.com/2009/04/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-cha...
https://vizworld.com/2009/04/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-cha...
https://vizworld.com/2009/04/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-cha...
https://vizworld.com/2009/04/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-cha...
https://vizworld.com/2009/05/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-epi...

It's a long story...
Do any of these OSS tools allow you to apply colour management? That is applying DNG or ICC profiles to images?
I think Apple is roughly trying that with their VPN service? I'm not sure; I never used it since I'm not a full 100% Apple device person, and if I'm going to pay for a VPN I want to be able to use it on all my devices.
Thanks for putting together your article. It’s useful and informative, and a generous effort on your part.
And Directus was recently ported from PHP to JavaScript as well: https://directus.io/
The protestant puritan history is probably where the reputation for prudery comes from. The Roman Catholics knew how to party, buying indulgences to forgive sins and continuing to celebrate roman festivals under the guise of Catholic holidays. The Protestant Puritans wanted to put an end to these festivals as well as marriage festivals and funeral traditions. They accomplished this in England with the 1642 Directory for the Public Worship of God based on puritan ideas. Since the festivals were not prescribed by the bible, they were to be replaced with Bible study and prayer. During the Interrugnum from 1649 to 1660 England was basically under Cromwell's puritanical military dictatorship until the Restoration of the effectively Catholic monarchy, which restored and soon increased religious freedoms.
An important distinction is that if I want to find foreign spin in the west, I can do so trivially and legally and share it with anyone I want. And the worst punishment I will see is a downvote.

The core claim in the liked article isn't about content moderation, it's about censorship. And it's really upsetting to see the extent to which HN commenters want to conflate them.
Your engraving looks good to me - the only change I'd make is measures 7 and 8, changing the C# to a Db. Basically, that harmony there is V - i (G major to C minor, a.k.a. perfect cadence), but with a tritone substitution of the V. So what would normally be the bass is replaced by a note a tritone away. Normal bass = G, so a tritone away would be C#/Db, i.e. I# or IIb. But I# -> i is not a resolution whereas IIb -> i is. This is because, generally speaking, you can't resolve a note to another note if they have the same note name. So C# -> C doesn't resolve, but Db -> C does.

Similarly, regarding the F#/Gb question in the vibraphone part, F# is better than Gb because you are resolving UP to G, so you want to use a different note name. The only questionable part is measures 11-12...I won't go into detail but I would say it can go either F# or Gb - both are perfectly fine ("depends on the person" kind of thing!)

The rule "you want to use sharps when you're going up and flats when you're going down" is maybe only really true for chromatic scales, and even then it's tenuous. In general, you pick accidentals based on the key or harmony that you're in.

Unfortunately music theory commentary does not translate well into English at all, so apologies if this comes across as gobbledygook. And make no mistake, I don't think in these terms when playing/composing music. It's more like a deep intuition you get after a while.

EDIT: vcxy beat me to it!
If the Note 9 is any indication, it's not the hardware, it's the bloody software - Samsung is seemingly terrible at it!

The North American Note 9 used a Snapdragon 845 SoC while the European version used Samsung's own Exynos 9810. The Exynos consistently benched lower, had worse battery life and ran hotter. The upside was that the Exynos version has an unlocked bootloader, which is huge imo.

With a custom kernel made by hobbyists in their spare time, you can have the 9810 on par with the SD845 or even better. It has great undervolting and overclocking potential on both the CPU and GPU. The difference between the stock Samsung kernel and Zeus for example, is mind boggling.

Sadly, flashing a custom ROM on it involves tripping an eFuse and losing some Samsung functionality, but if you don't care about Samsung Pay and whatever other "secure" garbage they offer, it's worth it.
Oh I’m well aware. And recent changed within the EU itself have not made things easier…
[even selling within the EU, you must now charge VAT for the product in question at the destination country, not the local rate, and with zero threshold]
I am actually running a community for bootstrappers (wannabe-entrepreneur.com/coworking) and it really helps to be surrounded by like-minded people.