skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a certain sense, matrix factorization is a special case of a TTSN with RMSE loss.

If you want cross entropy loss, use word2vec.

Follow it up with a lambdarank ranker.
Privacy-Respecting Software
Netherlands was barely able to form a government, took around 6 months I think and it seems shaky. Belgium, well ...has its own issues. UK - pretty polarized (Brexit was around 50% split), France - rise of the far right, Israel - election every 6 months, and so on and so on.
GCP, AWS, other IaaS providers, and more generally, any "post-paid" service company, needs your credit card, because the services these providers provide allow users to generate costs that can only be measured after-the-fact; and where those costs greatly exceed the free-plan limits, the provider wants to be able to pass those costs to the user.

As well, post-paid providers rely on credit-card billing information to deduplicate/KYC users. Without this sort of information, an, er, "ingenious" user could just sign up for a million free-tier accounts and lash them together into a quota-evading resource-sucking behemoth.
I loved the pebble time steel and wore it for years. But then when I compared it to the Apple Watch I got later, the pebble looked like a child's toy watch.
Once you have your browser focused, you can use App Exposé (ctrl+down) to show all the windows from it.
Sorry, but how could an anarchy possibly address this problem?

The emissions from a coal plant somewhere across the ocean affects my weather here in California. In an anarchy, are you saying I would get a voice in the operation of that remote coal plant? How would that work, exactly?
We've had an internal ACME server at my dayjob for over a year now. It's one of the few things I'm proud of where we really got out early on a cool technology. Otherweise we're a big telco and move like a oil tanker.
Does YouTube actually work for someone? I bit the bullet after not really giving any other input than what I watched and started marking "Not interested" or "Don't recommend channel" but I cannot see that it has had any effect at all it keeps recommending rubbish "sensationalist" videos.

I know that they probably optimize for ads etc. but if they actually showed me videos I would like to see, then I would spend more time on the platform.
Yes, the argument is 'burn stuff that's going to go into CO2 anyhow' but it just doesn't add up.

There are not that many dead trees, they don't release all of their Co2, you don't get that much energy, and it's a 'dirty emission'. Burning Hydrogen gives you CO2 and H20 - nice and clean. Burning wood gives you a lot of bad things.
Ironically, it's well known that the side of "Love, Understanding, Sympathy, and Tolerance" understands the other side less than it understands them.
It means the other side has higher actual-empathy (ability to emulate what someone else is thinking/feeling: putting yourself in their shoes).

(From Haidt):
https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/conserva...
Is it common for seed investors to want to be bought out by Series A investors? I've only read a little about the process, and was left with the impression that the inverse would be more common: seed investors really wanting to also invest in Series A to maintain their share (pro rata).
Given that the government was selling crack in the 90's I don't think an observer from the future would seize on this era in particular for that sort of thing. It's just a piece of glass.
I'm fairly sure a mode of transportation that can carry thousands and doesn't fall out of the sky when something fails has other benefits, even if the fuel/passenger ration should be worse (which I doubt).
> Social media has weakened all three

it isn't just social media, it s also travel and immigration
I agree that -V is more common. I have used a few things that use -v for version though (I think `ruby` does, which led to some confusion for me the first time I tried to pass that to `python` and instead of getting the version number found myself in a more chatty than normal python shell).
Look up the list of investors for every such startup implosion (Theranos, WeWork, Fast, Quibi). It is always going to be a new firm or someone from outside the valley without much tech experience who doesn't have the expertise to do the necessary due diligence. Such firms will always be taken for a ride by slick talking founders and flashy PowerPoint decks.
Seed investors almost never sell in series a or series a investors in series b. Company just raises more money and dilutes the previous investor. Investors only get bought out if there is a serious issue or reason to remove an investor, or later stage there is lot of demand for the stock so the company offers a secondary. Investors are not really in the business of making small returns.

IPO and public markets are different case where private valuation can turn out to be inflated and tanks after the IPO. However, retirement funds usually cant buy in to IPOs and institutions can often buy the stock before the stock trades publicly so in that case it can be the public who is left holding the bag.
I think the fundamental mistake this article makes is in assuming that bad-faith tactics are non-partisan. It's not as if fake news is coming from equally both sides of the spectrum. It's not as if there can be any equivocacy between Trump's administration and Biden's administration in terms of their willingness to lie. Right-wing media and left-wing media do not manipulate the truth to equivalent degrees. Science does not equally support liberal and conservative ideas about medicine and the environment.

I'm not saying that no elements of the left operate in bad faith, or that elements of the right do not operate in good faith. I'm saying that (as the saying goes) reality has a liberal bias, and the question is not "how do we fix the discourse," but rather "how do we fix what conservatives have deliberately done to the discourse."
Well sort of. Using ACME means you're not locked into AWS API.
That's one of the reasons I never make windows full-screen.

Except for that annoying quirk, I actually find the interface better (though it definitely took time to get used to it).
saneclang, saneswift, (sanegcc?) cli wrappers around clang, swift which fix the insane porcelains of those toolchains.

We built a million GUIs for these, why did we never build CLIs for bad CLIs?
Show HN: pyinfra v2
> Why is Russia losing so many tanks?

Maybe this...

'The US supplied Ukraine with 2,000 Javelin anti-tank missiles at the start of the conflict and has since sent at least 2,000 more.'

'The UK has also sent at least 3,600 NLAW missiles.'
Not GP (although I agree with them), but Trump's words and actions over the past 40 years or so make it quite clear that Donald Trump cares about three things:

1. Donald Trump

2. Donald J. Trump

3. Donald John Trump

and everything else is just background noise, if that.
First of all the idea that "white" = "colonizing", "non-white" = "colonized" is in itself racist and wrong. There have been hundreds of racially "white" populations colonized by others. For current day example see Ukrainians fighting colonization by Russians as we speak. For other examples see Balts or Irish.

It is abusive and morally reprehensible to demand colonized people "check their privileges" just because in your ignorance you only consider their skin color as relevant. World is bigger than anglosphere, the criteria along which people were discriminated and subjugated varied significantly.

Second of all - the point that the article makes (should race be considered when evaluating mathematical ideas) is different from the point that most comments make (attribution is skewed towards white people). It's perfectly possible to admit skewed attribution and argue against it while agreeing with the article that value of math should not depend on the race of the person who proposes it. I'd call it the only sane option, even.
100% agree. All of this whining about how people in the west have ignored traditions and discoveries from India or whatever is so...needy. If the west isn't that important, ignore us and do your own thing.
Thanks for sharing that. I keep trying to figure out why China continues to lock down their cities since it hurts their economy so badly. Isn't the main driver in a need to remind the citizens who is in control? These case counts are so low...
The Stanford lecture by Robert Channing for one of the first courses in chemical engineering (ChE 101?) on youtube is fun for this.

He goes through how many of the units are defined and how it has had an effect on various projects throughout the years.

One of the best ones is about how the size of the space shuttles' tanks were constrained. They had to be able to fit on a train, so things had constraints relating to the distance between railroad tracks. Those railroad track sizes could be traced back to car axel sizes, and therefore previous horse-carriage axels. These carriages of course had the Romans before them, but all of these had axels defined by the width of two horses.

So ultimately the size constraints on the space shuttle arose from the distance between two horses asses.
Kind of fun.
There are privately owned spaces (shopping malls, some towns) that have been treated as public spaces for free speech purposes in US court cases, as I understand it.

Basically, if a privately owned space is promoted as a "commons" and acts as one, some of the rules about speech start changing.
Ask HN: Breaking Countries into Smaller Ones?
I recently encountered the idea of breaking countries into smaller ones to alleviate polarisation, concentration of power, and military buildup.

I’ve heard of utopian scenarios where there’s lots of large communities that each live in line with their values. Perhaps it’s a similar line or thinking.

Anyway, to an uneducated mind this sounded interesting (not that any powerful nation would allow it).

Theoretically, if it were possible what would be the pros and cons? I’m guessing something like WW3 becomes less likely?
You get what you optimize for. It’s basically like SEO. You want links (citations)? No problem!
It’s also borderline offensive to treat Putin’s regime as anywhere near as transparent about how people from all walks of society are treated. Famous scientists and mathematicians just mysteriously fall from windows with no apparent explanation. People less famous either meet less notable ends or just aren’t there to be purged from anything worth purging in the first place.

None of which is to say Putin’s regime is anywhere near the atrocity machine that Stalin’s was. That’s an extreme that’s hard to imagine and very exclusive. But this notion that Putin’s regime isn’t committing the kinds of mass violence on Russian society because it isn’t on full display is neglecting both how his own regime has operated as well as how most did/have since the 70s-80s. They just do it with secrecy and plausible deniability.
One can always donate your salaries to those less fortunate than you.
Firing people is "purging" now? Their source article only details two arrests, with twenty addresses being searched.
Thank you. I wondered how many others have reached the same conclusion. I know I did almost immediately
I actually find it better in recent times! Gmails spam filter has become noticeably worse for me (false positives and false negatives) whilst Fastmails is OK. Doesn’t catch everything but it never puts legit stuff into spam either.
Sungard files bankruptcy with $424M in secured debts, 2nd bankruptcy in 3 years
According to the OP, ssllabs takes much longer to run a similar check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30993593.
Dude $1150 per employee is literally nothing. That's less than $100/month, per employee, for health insurance.

Individuals should still have an option to choose a plan on the open market if they desire, but they're highly unlikely to find a plan for $100/month.
The notion of 'securing part of a runtime' is essentially a fallacy.

'Sandboxing' anything really is quite hard.

If you want to make a firewall between blocks of untrusted code, they have to be run in completely isolated from one another, which creates a lot of overhead.

I don't see anyway to mix untrusted with trusted code.

If some of your code is untrusted, it's all untrusted.

We probably need an operational situation to this, which is, you pay a fee to some org that literally sits there and pours through the code to look for hacks, and there's some verification & oversight a to who is submitting what. etc..

It may very well be that the days of regular open source are over, there might have to be some changes to it.

I can imagine in 10 years from how, all you telling junior devs about the 'good old days' when people just randomly put some code up on a site, and you used it! They will hardly believe you. "That's crazy, a few line of bad code could wipe out your company!".
I absolutely hate this convention. Not only is there often very little documentation about what exactly gets added in for each verbosity level, making me guess randomly and then maybe binary search to find what I need with minimal noise, its basically impossible for me to differentiate repeated characters beyond 4 without using a cursor to step though them. I don't have any opposition to fine-grained log levels, but geez, just make it `-v [VERBOSITY (default 1)]` or something sane like that.
Author here happy to answer any questions about pyinfra!
Not quite, everyone dumps on you and your mom’s 401k when the company goes public, and you’re legally shut out from investing in the private rounds in a perpetual caste system that people barely know exists, by design.

Its a pretty awesome deal, when you can do it fast enough, or often enough.

I would say what the investors do is more Ponzi like than what they do with the shares.

Some investors, the VCs, pretty much guarantee the portfolio company some business by making their other portfolio companies the customers, which gooses the revenues of the primary company and then they make up the revenue multiple to convince others to buy some more shares at a 12x higher valuation (which means its the same money going around in a circle, VC money invested in one company and that company becomes a customer buying the widgets using the of the next company the same VC invested additional money into, but the widgets were also bought with the VC money invested into the first company). Until going public and dumping yet again in the public market. Rinse, repeat.

All this time the VCs are often raising additional funds and going into the the same company’s rounds. So the VCs are more ponzi like than any individual company, but the company does also overlap with some aspects of a ponzi.

(I dont have an issue with any of this except for the aforementioned caste system, let the people invest and fight for deal flow)
ah yes privatized healthcare. Spoken like a true American.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/u15pwv/univ...
Theranos committed outright fraud. It seems like fast didn’t lie about anything but was overvalued. Are you really confused about the difference?
Generally a good article, but unfortunately it falls into the political trap.

> Both ends of the political spectrum (the far left and the far right) express this view. Both sides believe that “the other side” simply can’t be trusted and therefore cannot be engaged in good faith.

I find it unfortunate that they blame this behaviour only on the extremes, because it is prevalent amongst moderates who often even state "you can't discuss/negotiate with extremists" and engage in bad faith communications towards the extremes.
visualizevalue.com- Jack Butcher

Kiss- Yep, the band- Gene Simmons. he talks about how he runs it alone in Me. Inc:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I2PG3TW
Static blogs or Dynamic blogs? which on is better?
> Now, mind you, Alaska supports BIPOC pilots. Can't leave an opportunity to signal that hard on the table.

Does this sound concerning for anyone? Not only does it come across as racist, but I would expect a company would get the best candidate they can find for these life critical positions. I don't care about the color of their skin or ethnicity, I only are that they are able to excel at their job, as people's lives are literally at stake now. I couldn't care less that they meet or didn't meet some diversity quota.
I know this is likely a rhetorical question but since you asked: it benefits whoever controls the narrative
Thank you for at least not denying of the existence of the multigenerational anti-russian propaganda.
I can only imagine that the "w" stands for "what the hell do I need to pass this thing to get it to tell me something useful"
I don't see how that analogy fits unless you think government is dangerous by definition and cannot provide any sort of services or protections for its people. Weakening the federal government in the face of these large multinational corporations because you're afraid of the government flavored corruptions seems more akin to "burning your house down because it has mice in it" from where I stand.
You are actually using two arguments that aren't really that related. What I think you're saying (tell me if I'm wrong) is something like:

LN doesn't fit BTC core values and BTC without LN doesn't work => BTC doesn't work

But that's a non sequitur, even if it's true that LN doesn't fit BTC values (which is debatible) and BTC can't stand on its own (which is also not clear) that doesn't imply that BTC doesn't work. Mainly because there are many people out there that see BTC only as a tool that fills their needs better than the alternatives, and can't care less about the inner philosophy. For those people BTC+LN works perfectly. You could say "Ok BTC can work but not without ditching it's values". But then you should provide some arguments about why can't exist a L2 solution that conserves those values.
The cat command is rather infamous for using -v to mean “visual” (as in, convert invisible characters to something visible).

But the infamy is not that it used -v for something other than “version”—I doubt that convention existed in 1983, when the complaint was made—but rather that it was a sign of the ever‐growing complexity of specific Unix tools at the expense of the harmony of the whole system.

See “Program design in the UNIX environment,” by Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan, USENIX 1983: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/
According to [1] a passenger train consumes about 2l per 100km per person. Whereas airtravel takes 4.9-5.9l per 100km for short ranges below 800km.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftstoffverbrauch?wprov=sfti...
Same here. After 3 years of daily macOS usage I snapped and finally installed AltTab too. I though I’d get used to it’s way of doing but it’s really not good. I’ve also installed Rectangle a while ago to get easy screen splitting.

macOS does a lot of things very well, just not that.
Wile E. Coyote will be so happy with this.
I like the atypically slow Neo Neo Acid album by Tin Man: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnERUXhej3tb4Cp8U68B...
I think the poster didn't mean anarchy, but that in a communist centrally planned economy, they would recognize the climate change problem, and prevent the coal plant from being constructed or would decommission it, even if it hurts the energy consumption of the populous. But under capitalism, that doesn't happen as long as the buyer of the energy continue to buy.
Big picture:

https://youtu.be/NVVsdlHslfI
If the user could tell they were banned they might be quicker to create a new account and continue the behavior they were banned for.

I get the practicality of it, but still think it's a pretty nasty thing to do. Even to a troll.
I have an excellent job and have since I was a teenager.

I use my financial means to pretend to have a terrible job. I steal time from my employer to sneak off and play mechanic on my various mechanical toys. When I do a bad job, I hire a real mechanic to come behind me and fix my mistakes. Then I get a little better. I enjoy learning, and when I can, teaching.

But I take issue with one part of your post:

Don't assume the people you interact with are in a lower class. Some of the people you describe are happier than I ever could be, and lead richer lives too. I'd argue that all you have is freedom from financial stress and not much else. I'd put them in a higher class, from what I see here.

Maybe go learn what their secret is. I doubt they'd trade for yours.

$0.02.
I don’t read either Bloomberg or “tech journalism” often but this reads like a gossip column. Some interesting ideas mentioned in passing. Weird.
> What’s the point, to achieve paralysis?

Yes.

Here's a one hour lecture from a KGB defector who's explains what's going on:

15 min lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI

1 hour lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-cWbq1PoSw

TL;DR: It's intentional, it's going to get way worse, and if you get too loud in opposition you will find yourself ostracized and possibly without a job.
Is reducing the federal government to that size not committing to the long term disintegration of our country? When you have states passing laws making it illegal for you to do something in another state that is perfectly legal within that second state, ala the abortion laws places like Idaho are trying to pass, how is the a cohesive nation?
Parasitic, VC-backed company that doesn't understand the meaning of "no", number n. :(
I ran into this recently with the default sftp shell on macOS. Tab makes a tab character also. Very annoying.
I think Glenn Greenwald was stressed into a place where he just kind of cracked, such as by governments actually hounding him. I have listened to his recent interviews and I think he's gone into classical conspiracy theories involving the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwal...

https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-...
From memory, ZeroSSL also gets expensive after a couple of domains, and I had issues using certbot rather than acme.sh with it.
>Granted this tells us nothing about the accuracy of any one particular question

I think this is where my skepticism comes from.

Just because one can make certain predictions with reasonable accuracy (e.g. Scott Morrison will lose the upcoming Australian election, Joe Biden will die in office, Elon Musk will be the richest man in the world by 2030), it says nothing about their ability to predict other questions with far less information (such as if and when the CCP will invade Taiwan).
Both of them has drawbacks AFAIK. So which on is better?
Ask HN: How do you value your work?
I’ve been freelancing full time as a web developer for 10 years and I realized I still struggle to put a price of what I do.

This is mostly because I struggle to relate what I do—code websites—with other jobs in society.

So my question is: how do you see your job in the broader societal context? Do you think it’s fair for developers to be paid or expect to be paid more than a lot of other jobs?
What the lawyers do and how the technology actually works are not necessarily related.

The shaders are completely different, the controller is completely different, the command submission structures are different. Sure, it's still a tiled architecture and they probably have to keep PVRTC for compatibility and pay the royalty for that, and you can see some remaining PVR influence in the design. But it's not PVR, and quite possibly has zero actual PVR technology left (as in silicon IP from IMG). They're probably only paying patent royalties.

We know this because we're reverse engineering AGX and IMG just dumped an upstream submission to Mesa and now anyone can compare them. PVR's architecture is, for starters, a lot more insane than Apple's.
I refuse to believe that people don't understand this difference.

People who try to make Fast sound like theranos are evil-minded.

Fast had good early traction. Then, the traction stopped. They didn't lie about the numbers and couldn't raise more money.

Theranos didn't get actual traction, lied about almost everything, and successfully raised even more money.

Big difference.