skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've went to schools where they admit anyone with a pulse and I've also been to actual top schools that are highly selective. I can tell you these programs that admit anyone feel significantly easier because they are. Doing well in one of these schools is not an achievement. I remember coming out top of the class at these schools simply studying for a test the night before.

Lol K bro, I didn't say this to brag, I said it because of what I witnessed. I don't think being good at engineering school is an 'achievement' or a sign of superiority, I just think it means you may be wired differently than some other people -- that's it. The school in question I'm referring to is ranked in the top 10 of US engineering programs, with much lower grade inflation than many of the private schools, and no one takes you seriously when you say this school is 'easier.' I lived with several of these people who were trying, and they were doing everything right and taking the necessary steps, with full family support, and working tirelessly and still just couldn't cut it. One of them I spent time with daily ended up becoming a doctor instead; these were not dumb or undisciplined people.

Many of the more 'highly selective' private programs are actually easier because they milk you dry in tuition and they want to keep the dollars flowing, so they will coddle you along.

Believe it or not there are public schools that will take essentially anyone with a pulse into engineering, and a handful of the more challenging and highly ranked engineering programs are included. These are not 'easy' programs, and attrition rates far exceed other programs at the same university. Personally I approve of this approach because it allows anyone to try their hand rather than depending on BS criteria like standardized testing or high school performance, or other dumb factors like whether your parents had the strings to pull in a non-profit to make you look like mother teresa. The kind of person who succeeds at engineering is often not the kind who has an impressive background coming out of highschool.

>I remember coming out top of the class at these schools simply studying for a test the night before

The number of people who received, or would be able to receive, an ABET accredited engineering degree at the top of their class from any of say the top dozen engineering schools while simply 'studying for a test the night before' is a much rarer trait than you think. Either you're unaware of your exceptional aptitude or you were blind to your surroundings.
How important is our breathing pattern?
Why is that short sighted? That seems the opposite.

If you had a money printer, wouldn't you give it a lot of freedom? Personally I'd draw the line at killing a dog or cat. Other than that, well... If it wanted to knock out a few walls, I'd just sigh and put up with the noise for a few months.

(For context, I'm undecided about Elon. But none of the counterarguments to his behavior seem persuasive yet.)
used to use npm, less often with yarn, now it's all pnpm
I remember at least one that existed years before r/place. Drawball was created in 2005 and was probably better.
It's not always true that a vendor receiving money will increase prices to pass the PayPal fees to the consumer. You can see that many checkouts offer multiple options (e.g. both PayPal, Stripe, and/or other methods), with the item price usually the same even if each method has a different fee. The idea is that you want to make purchasing as convenient as possible, as it costs more to lose a sale, versus paying an incremental fee difference with PayPal.

If a vendor makes PayPal purchases slightly more expensive, it can cause bad will with the customer (who is less likely to return and make more purchases). Exceptions are sometimes with one-off purchases (e.g. a conference ticket or course fee).

Separately, the original comment asserted that the PayPal account charges you each transaction (which is false). The new argument is different, which asserts that a vendor may charge you more due to PayPal fees.
Have you read much of Gibson's other work? He's very clear about his attitude towards sci-fi as a way to examine the present day in many of his essays.
> The hardest part of this type of journey is realizing you don’t need money to be happy or feel contentment.

No, but you need to it to survive.

Invariably, I find the "You don't need money to be happy" crowd is nearly always people who have enough money that they don't have to worry about money.

"Being happy with what you have" only really works once a certain minimum is reached. If you never have more than one paycheck's worth of money in your account, trying to figure out how you can live off of $2/day for food, then you're going to have a hard time being happy with that.
Yeah I was starting to use PCs during the Apple II era so we didn’t have 8 inch disks anymore by then in my house. But I do remember seeing them in labs with VAX systems.

But those specialized music workstations all were custom designed so the parts etc. used were based on older standards I’m sure. Pre-ISA bus too I would guess.

Nowadays, even a lot of embedded devices like IOT things are running effectively a Linux OS on them so the economies of scale are enormous compared to the early 80s music gear.

I imagine Roland and other similar companies had their own OS or base platform they used on those earlier workstations that eventually had screens you could attach.
And updated yesterday to boot. This is awesome, thank you.
I don't agree about debate. Debate is an important interaction between two humans in which a consensus is reached (generally) to guide a course of action. The debate is important for altering the likely course of action. If you decide that debate is unimportant, you don't get these I redactions and miss out on important I formation

Such as we are doing here

Debate is simply an exchange of information between two entities, its our perception of what debate is that's incorrect
I think it's 4 cameras and a flash but yeah I agree still. I've casually tried to read about the cameras and can't really find a good technical source. To me it looks like a lot of one upmanship. Main camera does 64MP but by default shoots in 16MP. Macro/depth cameras are only 5MP. Is a macro lens something people are really clamoring for? I think physical "0.5x" and "2x" make a lot of sense but something about their strategy seems more like marketing check boxes for tech geeks and less about quality.
I have made essentially the same thing as this offering within Notion - I wonder what the value add is outside of what I have already created
When a satellite collides with a different satellite in the same orbit, none of the parts move to a higher energy orbit, and most move to a lower energy orbit. Given that the original orbit is 380 miles, almost all fragments will immediately deorbit due to atmospheric drag.
That's precisely what the blog post deals with.

In that PCA pre-processing step, nothing guarantees that principal components are better representations for your problem than original inputs; in fact PCA has nothing to do with your target, how could it guarantee principal components are better representation to predict it?

Similarly, understanding the covariance structure of your original inputs will not necessarily help you predict your target better.

Here's a simple example illustrating this. Take x a single feature highly informative about y, take z a (large) d-dimensional highly structured vector that is independent from both x and y. Now, consider using [x, z] to predict y.

In this case, x happens to be a principal component as x and z are independent; it is associated to eigenvector [1, 0,...., 0] and eigenvalue Var(x). All other eigenvectors are of the form [0, u_1, ..., u_d] where [u_1, ..., u_d] is an eigenvector of Cov(z).

All it would take for x to be the very last (i.e. 'least important') principal component is for Var(x) to be smaller than all eigenvalues of Cov(z), which is easily conceivable, irrespective of y! In your quest for a lower-dimensional 'bottleneck' using PCA you would end up removing x, the only useful feature for predicting y! This will certainly not reduce overfitting.

PCA and other autoencoders work well as pre-processing step when there are structural reasons to believe low energy loss (or low reconstruction error) coincides with low signal loss. In tabular data, this tends to be the exception, not the norm.
Working on languages and runtimes is just fun on its own. It ends up pulling in many facets of CS: graphs, perf, grammars, automata, resource allocation, etc.
He filed 13g instead of 13d. Any activist investors who want to influence the course of the company get involved in proxy fights , change the board should not file 13g that is only for passive investment.

There was discussion yesterday whether him polling his followers last week about twitter and social media was activism. Joining the board certainly is.
It is both great and terrible, a shining example for me was that I wanted to install a package built off a specific commit. That was trivial, I just over rode the source and the expected hash and the exact same build & install steps worked.

Also rollbacks in nixos are amazing.

On the other hand newly packaging something can be really daunting.
I have no clue what hilbert space memory organization could possibly be - arbitrarily deep hardware support for indirect addressing? - but it sounds simultaneously very cool and like an absolutely terrible idea.
>You are allowed to insult the government.

That's entirely irrelevant. The point is that his past behavior shows a pattern of disregarding financial laws.
> This was almost certainly done by a lawyer working on his behalf.

That makes it worse, not less bad. It makes the good-faith-mistake defense untenable.
Profit is investment plus risk plus labor paying dividends to the entrepreneur. Go be a nutjob somewhere else.
Funny you would ask: I just finished All Tomorrow's Parties about a week ago, as the end of a massive read/re-read of William Gibson. I started with Neuromancer and read the Sprawl Trilogy and the Bridge Trilogy back to back.

I'd read everything at least once before, except Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties, so this was a chance to kinda do it all at the same time, finish the stuff I had not read, and kinda have all this William Gibson in my head at more or less the same time.

Having done all that, I'll add this; if you've only read Neuromancer, or even only read just the Sprawl Trilogy, definitely consider giving the Bridge Trilogy a shot. It's markedly different in many ways, but still very Gibsonesque and definitely worth reading. The big differences, IMO, are that the Bridge Trilogy books are less "futuristic" and have less focus on tech technology qua technology, and focus more on the people and their interactions and choices, etc.
The OP's post was written the engineering team behind r/place. Wardle was indeed Reddit's product manager at the time. He wrote this blog post about 2017 r/place https://www.redditinc.com/blog/place-part-two/
If it was late 90's, as much as I love Amiga, it would have been for niche stuff like replacing a bunch of information screens or something like that where they could have replaced it with PCs but would then need to change their software setup. In terms of "power" the Amiga was over by the early 90's, even if you stuffed it full of expensive third party expansions. It still felt like an amazing system for a few years, but by the late 90's you needed to seriously love the system and AmigaOS to hold onto it, and even for many of us who did (and do) love it, it became hard to justify.
Provide an environment where those talented engineers could accomplish something no other environment allowed them to. It's not like there aren't talented people at Boeing or Lockheed and it's not like those talented people just came out of thin air, it takes amazing leadership and a strong vision to bring talented people together to accomplish something that to this day no other rocket company is still capable of doing.
WWDC22. Call to Code
Regarding error handling verbosity, you don't actually have to write

_ = file.write(data) catch |err| { silence_err_somehow(err); ... }.

You can just write

_ = file.write(data) catch { ... }.

And the first example of using `catch` in the docs[0] does this. It may be useful to also use the non-error return value of `write` though, because partial writes will return an amount of written bytes less than the amount you asked to write. You need `writeAll` if you want to ignore this concern, and then you don't have to write `_ = ` because the non-error part of the error union is void (so you don't have to use it). Then you get

file.writeAll(data) catch { ... }

[0]: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#catch
Sound on film is fascinating, and demonstrates a funny tension in analog formats: there's visible grain in the frames themselves, and yet a precise light source can encode massive amounts of data in just the spare emulsion between the sprockets.
Who says authentication needs to stay at the app layer?
Private Concerts: Inside Pop's Lavish Shadow Economy
for bash I use venv, nvm and gvm(more popular than goenv and worked well), worked fine so far.
You wrote in Kanye West for president, thought enough other voters would join you to make doing so worth anything to you and your vote, and share that extremely poor adult judgment confidently and publicly? You like him because he says shit? I mean I say shit, too, would you vote for me even if my entire policy platform was incoherent and I stalk and abuse my exes and their new partners in public? You realize his entire presidential bid was for attention and his staff couldn’t even make the deadline to get him on the ballot, right?

With respect, this comment makes you sound like a contemptible, gullible fool that makes society actively worse. I really hope you’re being a bit facetious.
Yes. He is currently in court claiming SEC is picking on him on another matter and this (and the fact that the filing was late) is likely going to hurt his case with the judge. And while I don't like speculating, since you're asking me to do so I'll add that it's entirely possible that any misrepresentations here get pursued on its own merits, as well.
Yes, the performance is low enough to cause jitter/stutter/frame drops just navigating around the UI and hopping between apps. Android can really use as much power as you can throw at it.
As a nuclear fusion ignorant, where is the small print here? What's the catch, drawback, issue that it will make actually nonviable ?
> ...I will often add keywords to my own notes to help me later...

I do this too! I learned it from my web dev days (back in early 2000s), where adding keywords helped search engines, etc. Half the time i just list out some synonyms in a "reference" area of any document/text file that i am drafting...the other 50% of the time i actually try and use synyonms inline, in the context of my writing...this helps for SEO sure, but also for my own writing it keeps things fresh, and (though small gain) helps me improve the extent of my writing vocabulary. The result being that it helps generally with searchability for my own material later on, even years later.
Yes because in 2022 Android is still a sluggy slow hellscape
The 80's were my 20s. It's hard to explain to younger folks how the 80s (especially early 80s) felt, culturally. The whole 'Japan, Inc.' thing was in full swing, and the general feeling was that Japan was eating the world. 'Tech' was this fresh, semi-mystical thing, still opaque to much of the public.

Gibson latched onto that cultural wave and took it into a possible future, and it was exciting to me. Today it's interesting to see that technofuture both commoditized and idolized.

Now in my 50s, it's still interesting but seems a bleak and not-terribly-human place that I don't want to live.
Oops yeah, meant Max. That’s the only one that can drive 3 - 5K displays.
Suppose everyone was simple and conspiracies didn't exist. Where might Germany get its fossil fuels? Perhaps shipped across the entire Atlantic Ocean? Perhaps from Mars? Or perhaps from the major producer on its same continent?

The bottom line is that European integration is a natural phenomenon. It is natural to have strong economic ties within one's neighborhood. You don't need a decades long conspiracy to explain basic economic advantage.

However, European/Eurasian integration is an existential problem for the one superpower that isn't part of Eurasia. Therefore we get a lot of chaos, misinformation, and artificial divisions.
I’m amazed the British did this first instead of Americans
This is my understanding and what I'm trying to optimize for in my food forest
Well, if those are the biggest problems the author has with Zig, then we're doing a fine job :^)

WRT having error unions just be a userland tagged union type, here's a reason why we don't do that: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Error-Return-Trace...
>If you hate Elon Musk, consider probing your mind deeply to figure out why.

So, I'm going to reply to your comment but really, this is relevant to most of this thread (and nearly every thread about him), because I'm just tired of these conversations.

Yes, by many measures, he has been incredibly successful at both running businesses and amassing wealth. There are a lot of metrics that you could cite that support that assertion.

At the same time, by many measures, you could successfully - and easily - argue that he's a pretty shitty person.

And guess what? Both are true. I don't know what my ultimate point here is besides saying that yeah - some people think he's awesome, some people think he's shitty, and neither view is technically incorrect. Move on.
Two reasons.

- Haters who can't stand people more successful than them, and who is more successful than Elon Musk? So anything he does is terrible.

- Since Trump, HN mostly supports social media censorship of opposing political ideas, and Elon Musk has expressed that he doesn't like this censorship.
You're confused if you think residual neural net motifs don't underlie how human brains reason about analogies, and if you think they don't control vision processing categorization.
Yeah I guess it depends on what you consider a distraction.

Distractions, for me, more than just "background noise", are something that demands my attention. Those can be explicit (somebody coming into my office and talking to me), or implicit (I hear the kids fighting about something, my brain tells me to do something about it).

If I was a 20 year old and had people bothering me at home, I'd just get a membership at a coworking space, or work from the library.
I think you fully missed my point. Intelligence involves conceptually understanding a space/time model of the world such that you can use the word data as input to then create that model in your mind and compute with it. The words alone are just data and have no ability as data to build a conceptual/causal space/time model of what those words mean. So knowing statistics about words = statistics about words. It has nothing to do with understanding what the words mean = intelligence
It's not game development that brings out the yak shaving, it's programming language development. Game development is just a gateway drug because it provides so many opportunities for good abstractions to make things easier. The mistake everyone makes is thinking that they can create a programming language while also doing X, where X is whatever they had doing when they got the itch to do a PL. Really, if you want to do a PL right, you have to do it full time.

Actually I'm not sure it's really a mistake, it's just that doing PL development is so much fun that there's no reason to go back to the original project, if original the impetus for it was to have fun.
Thanks for sharing! SaaS only for the time being, but that could change in the long run. I'll send you an email, let's chat :)
Depends on what you value out of a phone. I'd probably never buy an iPhone SE over this due to the screen size of the SE.
Was it a honeytrap for spotting bots and alts I wondered?

Having carefully placed a pixel childishly contributing to the humour of a banner depicting a favourite football club, I noted it was replaced by a very serious user within seconds named 'ProBiotic587' or something similar.

I was not alone in my contributions, as others were rewriting the very serious banner in a manner similar to scratching out parts of a 'Please mind your head sign' to 'Fleas in your head'. Seeing that sign on the train as a 10 year old was a reminder both that were I a few years younger there may indeed be fleas in my head and headlice shampoo was no fun, and that a small act of rebellion by someone anonymous makes a monotonous train ride pass with a little humour.

Just as the fleas in your head sign was restored every few months on seat pairings, so were user contributions of 'art' to this football club's banner. Both by very serious anonymous people. While I never knew the names of train maintenance staff, Reddit made the names of these people known, but made them no less anonymous. A bot army of 3-8 letter word + 3-8 letter word + 2-4 digits at the end.

Fine, some people take their football club vary seriously, and would likely not be much fun in the terraces. To each their own.

But it wasn't just a serious fan of a football club. There were numerous examples of a voice shouting disproportionately and artificially louder over, well, over a lot of pixels. Ego? Other?

And that was entirely disengaging.

Reddit is, by subreddit definition, a place of sharing common interest, herding, or denying others' contribution to common interest through such herding. But Place was not just a place for herding, of tuning into and manipulating a group for one's own aims, it was an affirmation of the dominance of bots, alts as magnifiers of this, in discussion and voting in all but the most resilient subreddits, or subreddits of the most inert subject matter.
Nonce always raises an eyebrow -- In the UK it's a term for child-sex offender ("not on normal courtyard exercise")
The idea is you also have to walk for exercise, not just incidentally. I wfh and aim for two 2-3 mile walks a day and get in about 15000 steps. Takes about 1.5 hours out of my day but I'd just be zoning out watching a screen otherwise.
France 24
Affordable electric cars coming in 2027 from new GM/Honda project
4 billion is still a lot of money even for him.

Also liquid assets for investment are harder for people that rich so still likely a major decision.

Either he used proceeds from last year stock sales or he leveraged some Tesla stock for this .
Fascinating to me the level of vitriol that spews from people on this guy. He's just a guy, you know?
In the sense that an internal combustion consists primarily of a series of bombs in tubes, sure. I don't think that this is a very useful analysis, though.
This where sanctions could be used. TikTok is profiting by keeping this neutered version up in Russia, so US government could prohibit making money in US until they take it down in Russia.
Yeah, not the hundreds of billions of dollars he has, or the companies he owns.
Wow, never seen some many 'savvy' takes die in less than 24 hours

"He's not going to join the board" said the smart set.
I knew it could do 4,096 colors and I played around with it in Deluxe Paint, but I don't recall any games that used it. Being a kid at the time, the games were all I cared about.
As a Dane, that really surprised me.
Or tabulator http://tabulator.info/ .. I don't see filtering though.
Yes. "Open-source workflow" means you're leaving quality on the table.

This is one place where there's just no replacement to hiring engineers to sit down and work on the product for a few years. The open-source stuff is nowhere close to CaptureOne or Lightroom in terms of quality of RAW conversion or the quality of the image processing.
Celebrities with bad personalities have consequences for it all the time. Elon isn't getting special treatment.