skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reinforcement learning using mini batch updates, batch size beyond 32/64 is shown to decrease performance in various problems.
I wasn't really trying to disagree with you on this. I've seen a sentiment from some "anti-imperialist" voices that end up being primarily anti-western voices, that assume that _only_ the US and the West behave with imperialist policy.

Anyway, I wasn't trying to disagree with you or anything. Just adding my own clarification around the context from some of the other discussions I've had on this topic. See, for example, macanchex's reply to my topic, which places all of the blame for this war on Western powers.
>rule of law

We don't have that NOW.

>minority rights

I'm sorry, but the BLM riots in 2015 have made me immediately suspicious of anyone towing this line. I just don't trust you.

>Free-ish speech

We just banned Russia Today (not to mention all the issues with alt-platforms getting dehosted)... oh yeah and the Babylon Bee.

> Mostly equal application of law.

See pt. 1
"the problem" is the pareto distribution of wealth and power we can observe in every human society we know of. The tension ("class conflict") between the 20% and the 80% is a symptom. Even those systems that try to reduce its effect still have it.
Sooo?

You assume teaching is purely positive?

If I teach someone else my company secrets I only 'teached' or did I share company secrets?

If I go to north Korea did I teach the about some technology or did I just helped a country to circumvent sanctions?

You have a very easy perception of right and wrong if you think that's an acceptable excuse.

Very similar to the antivax people in Germany who broke demonstration laws by saying they just walking.
I think this is much more reflective of your relationship and friends than you think it is.
I do not know about the other issues, but I imagine most pictures taken nowadays, compared to the early 2000s, are in a much higher resolution than what is possible to process in a very fast way (without HW acceleration). The only way is to watch pictures being added to the disk and process them ASAP, which is a bit more involved than many users like (and adds hidden costs to the simple "copy" operation).
>I feel like I've hit my zenith already and it's just a slow decline from here on out.

Spend the next five years (or so) figuring out how you can use that money to make a positive difference in the world. That would top just earning it. And maybe you'll feel a little better about yourself, too.
The worst bug with nemo is when handling remote filesystems, it switches to a some kind of fallback mode that disables keyboard shortcuts and context menu options but drag/drop still works and you have to kill it to continue working.
Journalists thrived when Trump was still on Twitter. It was nightly news and they all RTed him constantly.
dude, drop out for a few years. take your family traveling, take the time to learn about subjects that interest you, develop a skill or even better an artistic discipline. FWIW I did that in my mid 30s and it was the best thing I'd ever done.
FTC/FCC are supposed to protect people from misleading stuff like this and level the playing field so that companies can remain competitive without resorting to dark patterns because their competitors are.
If profits > tax && MultinationalProfits == True {
totalWealthPercentage = totalWealthPercentage + Profits;
Nationstate = nationstate + tax
}

Run that through alot of loops and eventually corporations aree biggeer than any nationstate Vec<Nationstate> by design of the system.
This is quite sad that your reasons for lack of support of the wars are that you (an invader) had a bad time there, not that you were part of the force destabilising and destroying another country
In Europe your payment will most likely fail if your name doesn't match your card's and often even if your address doesn't match the address on your card.

Sad.
This might be an un-popular opinion, but:

You've been playing a young man's game, seem to have done well, but are no longer young. You sound like a retired footballer.

So, start playing a game where you continue to get better as you get older. Then it's all up rather than down. Business is such a game. Invest, buy, build, whatever.
This will supposedly be worked on in GNOME 43, fixing the file picker should now be possible, as they've completed the separation of GTK and GNOME UI code. The new GNOME file picker portal will be able to leverage full fat Nautilus to render itself.

And yes, Nautilus has some long awaited UI improvements planned for that release.
Interesting. I wondered if it was related to the Norwegian/Danish "skive" [1], which means to cut or a cut of something.

[1] which could even be inflected like "skiving", though realistically it might not ever have

edit: of course, it might be that "skive" and "esquiver" are related...
Judging from inflation-adjusted "net worth at same age" graphs, I'd say it's mostly about whether your parents were boomers (though not all of them would be in that position either, obviously, and of course some Xers have been very successful).

Mine are boomers. I've had assistance from them equivalent to probably $100,000 since turning 18 (I'm approaching 40). I have three siblings and I bet the total they've helped us all out amounts to something over $500,000 (some have received/needed a lot more help than me)

No down payment help for me. But they did buy me a house to live in for a couple years, once. (they broke even or made a little money on that one, but still, you'd have to reckon the value as at least what it'd have cost me to rent the same thing). And paid for my (very cheap) college tuition. Among lots of other things like a being gifted a hand-me-down car when I left the house.

My dad owned a couple barely-successful blue-collar small businesses when he was young, after growing up literally in a barn because their house was a cobbled-together four-room farmhouse in the middle of nowhere and didn't have enough space for all six of the kids, then had a blue-collar industrial job for 2ish decades and retired after making it into the lower tier of middle management for another decade or so. They briefly tried renting a house they bought and fixed up, but hated it and by the end had basically just paid to have a sub-minimum-wage job and a lot of stress, so that didn't help much (this is before house prices went insane, so the appreciation from owning that over the couple years they had it was minimal—I think it was the early 90s, and not a hot market).

That's all. Not a doctor or anything. My mom didn't work past about age 30, and worked in a low-level federal job before that. My dad even had a divorce in his background (a couple of my siblings are from that marriage).

It really, really was different for the boomers. I come from "privilege" but all they did to get me/us there was just live a totally mundane, middling life, and didn't colossally fuck up.

[EDIT] Oh, and their educations are "high school diploma" (dad) and "junior college secretarial certificate" (mom)

It was really, really, really different for that generation.
this response IMO cherry-picks a single line, which is easily setup with an "appeal to USA flag-waving nationalism" rebuttal. Clearly capped off with a "love it or leave it" literally.. not intellectually honest in addressing the real point here, which is perhaps "young people have serious daily life and future adult life" problems which have nothing to do with Great-Powers, Great-Games manipulation. Similar discussions could have been had for three millenia of nationalistic warfare, and I side firmly with the parent post myself, empathy towards the young adults in the USA, not flag-waving "you people need to honor the flag that gave you all of THIS" type stuff
"When moderation goes away, platforms become rife with racism, spam, scams and less than desirable actors."

so... Twitter
This is absolutely correct. I'd go one step further and say over-communicate as needed. It's not stupid to ask questions. Ask away, process, and clarify.
Hopefully your correct and Twitter tanks and maybe we can finally be rid of this crap

I don't hate Twitter like I hate Facebook (mainly for ideological reasons and their propensity for exploitation) but god damn is their interface and entire product model annoying.
I've never agreed with yuppie_scum more.
>> price is determined by BOTH supply and demand

Most of economics teaching is about exploring just how wildly wrong econ101 is.

E.g. who passes on insulin since the last price increase?

E.g. why does a basic black and white rolex daytona cost around £12k at an authorized dealer? (For non-watch people there’s a 10 year wait list to buy at that price but you can buy 2nd hand immediately for a LOT more)
I agree, from a national policy perspective. But on an individual level, which I think was the scope of the discussion, I still don't think that it's okay to value ukrainian lives more than middle eastern/Muslim lives.
We have had a few files just seemingly disappear, never to be seen again. Only once or twice, but still.

Mostly, organization of files behaves... oddly. It is weirdly hard to ensure everyone has a consistent view of a hierarchy / folders. Search does work, so long as you have a good idea what you are searching for. It isn't great for discoverability, or if you only have a vague idea what it is you are looking for.
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, dictionary definitions are the last resort of someone flailing for an argument.
There is finally a replacement gas being developed / made so we might actually be rid of this crap soon while still keeping private aviation alive
Pretty much everything you have posted as an accomplishment is work related.
Do you have kids? If so can you focus on spending time with them?
Hobbies that are not work related? Sounds like you need to refocus your life on something new. Go volunteer in Europe to help the Ukrainians, or somewhere in the 3rd world. Or anything else that will give you a different perspective on life. You won the finance game, now go see the world.
I think that's more of a product of displacement. Those people get pushed out of big sites into smaller free-speech absolutist platforms. Thus, the proportion of these actors in the latter is much higher. Loosening moderation on a big platform would not have this same displacement dynamic. Sure, previously excluded people might rejoin but the bulk of the user base will remain. So there's no drastic shift on proportions here.

Furthermore, there's a difference between totally doing away with moderation and pruning some of the more ideologically slanted moderation policies at twitter.
You are getting down-voted, but I understand your comment as the history of Eazel will become less known as time passes. The company was only around for a couple of years.

There actually was a business plan and it involved configuration services and remote storage of files and settings. I thought it was a pretty good concept and the success of various companies over the years providing these services validate our business plan.

As to why Eazel failed, well there were many factors. The dot com crash, Microsoft pressuring OEMS like Dell and Gateway to not ship Linux pre-installed and the return of Steve Jobs to Apple were just some of them.
Excellent book indeed. Was monumentally influential in changing my perspective on the world.
Presumably from applications like Search, Chrome, YouTube, Android, Ads, Play Store, Assistant, Translate, News, Maps, Podcasts, Shopping, Google TV, Discover, etc. (That list based on the sources that show up for me https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols; your mileage will probably vary.)

But not from the productivity apps, which is what you were complaining about.

> When your proof is "I trust Google", it doesn't really feel like you're acting in good faith here.

What do you think the reactions from various regulators around the world would be if these statements turned out to be blatant lies like you suggest? Lying about it would be really, really stupid when the option is to say nothing.

If you don't trust the TOS and the privacy policy on such crystal clear statements, why did you suggest that as the proof you wanted to see?
why would anyone want to show/promote war/explicit content on a social media for teenagers built to share user created entertainment content?

is that part of https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/30/23003168/facebook-tiktok-... ?
> symbols are somewhat limited in what they can be made of

Only in the unquoted literal syntax. The :symbol form follows Ruby's usual identifier rules but there's also a :"quoted symbol" syntax. You can also send :to_sym or :intern to any string and it will be converted to a symbol.

https://ruby-doc.org/core/String.html#method-i-to_sym

> This can also be used to create symbols that cannot be represented using the :xxx notation.

'cat and dog'.to_sym #=> :"cat and dog"
Funny that Musk is famous for catering to those human urges. Fast car! Big rocket! He even talks about rewarding limbic impulses and I am convinced that is why he is so successful.
Step 1: You plan to put an offer in on a company, which you know will drive up the share price

Step 2: You buy shares in the company

Step 3: You publicly disclose you will buy the company, driving it's share price up

Step 4: You sell those existing shares now that the price has gone up.

That is trading on insider information.
Cost sets a floor on the sell price, nothing more.
> If Musk thinks Twitter is that valuable to take such risks, current major investors will probably want to unlock that value themselves.

Elon is known for doing the impossible once he puts his head to it. Maybe he can promote the conviction that only he can turn the company around.
Nautilus was just one component of Eazel's general push for a business-ready Linux desktop.
Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art
Thank you for taking the time to read my somewhat lengthy about: entry here on HN.

I am curious as to why you think that it is significant that I have posted an article about research on avian migration without being involved in the field..?

From my perspective, the collaborative nature of the research was the reason I chose to post it here since the nature of collaboration is an area of some interest and relevance to many involved in internet technology here..

I am much more curious as to exactly how you come characterize my about: entry here as having "everything to do with seeking and exploring political conflict!"..

Would you care to elaborate?

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To save others' time, here is the relevant part of my HN about:

"I work with universities and similar institutions on enterprise information systems and I conduct semantic analysis based research on macroeconomic / geopolitical risks in information systems under multi- polar/cultural contention.

My aim is to trace the cybernetic implications of dynamics latent in human organization since the dawn of civilization - whose algorithmically induced resurgence as cyber-tribalism / anti-intellectualism now threaten it."

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While political conflict is indeed one aspect of human organization, I do not seek conflict, political or otherwise, any more than those engaged in public health administration research seek conflict with anti-vaccine movements..

Human organization is comprised of phenomena that are today eminently accessible through quantifiable research methods, including research into areas that were criticized as inherently qualitative in the days before today's deep learning techniques.

While I realize that no amount of research in public policy will stop the conflict and that it will always be much easier to make salacious accusations than to refute them factually, I find that process edifying, especially in a forum like HN..

I look forward to your response.
Watching the actions of the Russian and Chinese governments over the past few months I think the issue has gotten much more black and white than these things usually are. Not necessarily good vs evil, as that is too subjective, but definitely somewhat of an ideological standoff between truth and...not truth.
From the caller's perspective there's little difference between a procedure with variadic arguments and multiple dispatch. There's a lot of difference from the implementor's perspective, though. In Perl 5 you'd see a lot of ref() and wantarray() while in Raku you'd see different signatures for procedures with the same name.
> The long-term effort to implement "sharding" in Ethereum 2.0, which in effect parallelizes the operation of the blockchain.

This effort is effectively dead, for what it's worth. We've moved beyond this, it was going to over-complicate things and Layer 2 is a much better scaling solution that is already starting to work in production.
Duh, but they are not acting on the insider information.

Elon is. He bought shares, then put in an offer which drives his existing shares up. Perhaps you can argue until he sells them he isn't acting.. perhaps.. but if he sells them today, are you still telling me he isn't acting on insider information?
If that's interpreted as can do no wrong, than always support and always oppose are just putting on blinders. I can see it as a media persona, but the intellectual dishonesty required to actually believe that is scary.

Apologists / accidents happen I can understand, but I wouldn't trust any individual pretending that they can do no wrong.
I thought we had an alternative gas that has been produced and works but is just not yet fully certified and tested?
At least it's less than inflation is currently running year on year.

In the UK mobile phone / broadband companies have taken to adding a CPI (customer price index, a measure of inflation) + 3.9% year on year increase in to contracts. It's complete bullshit, if for no other reason than 3.9% is nearly twice the target inflation target without loading that further.
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
KDE breaks every time you touch it. Not sure why all of these picky commenters leave that out every time we discuss DEs.
I can think of parts of books that do this.

The Splendid and The Vile goes on a 1-2 chapter tangent about the very interesting use of radar during WW2 for targeting London and the many counter measures developed by the British. It seems that there must be great books out there about this.

Similarly the book Cadillac Desert has a chapter about how the large Damns built in the Pacific Northwest had a massive surplus of electricity, which enabled the smelting(?) of aluminum in quantities so large that it allowed the allies to outproduce the Germans and win the air war because of it. Planes were being shot down at a similar rate.
The interface does not make it easy to figure out where a file you have opened is located.
Yea but let's be real, when most people think "smart contracts" what they really mean is "turing complete smart contracts."
I think many people underestimate the inertia present in a large community, particularly one like scientific computing. I think Julia is much-much better than R/Python at basically everything important (as a language and platform). I certainly wouldn't call the python ecosystem robust. It's decades upon decades of ugly hacks and hacks upon hacks. The pandas internals are a Kafkaesque nightmare. But R/Python is where millions of people work daily and produce a huge amount of mindshare and libraries. You'd need an incredible amount of resources to replicate that in any other space.

I'd argue though that this mindshare is not there due to Python/R as a language (and platform) being better, but simply because there were no better alternatives 10-15 years ago and by now the sheer inertia makes it impossible to stop.

You'd need to convince a sufficient portion of people to move to Julia at more or less the same time. Few people want to be first movers. These tend to be the ones who actually care about the qualities of the platform, not just "get the work done and clock out".

If you are a data scientist, you won't be paid for moving to Julia. You'll be paid for coming up with working models. And you take a serious risk by moving to a new platform with little adoption. The platform might die, taking your tools and processes with it. You won't be able to rely on your colleagues advice about technical issues. You can run into bugs more frequently simply because fewer eyes have looked at the ecosystem.

The end result is that few people take the plunge.
If you really are financially independent (congrats!), I'd suggest trying to do things you WANT to do or are curious about. Go back to school to learn something new or different that's interesting, try working different kinds of jobs, volunteer with different types of organizations, or try new sports or activities. Basically, do something not-tech. Do something you're not currently good at and don't have 20+ years worth of opinions on. Do something, with your whole self, which isn't computers.

It sounds like you're more financially successful than >99% of 40 year olds. You've earned the right to try new things. Do it! But also, keep doing more and possibly better therapy or a different therapist.
I've always used ALT-D.
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price.. Eg. currently GPU's are selling at over double MSRP in a lot of cases.
If they were the same age, we were f2f and working closely then we knew a fair bit about each other. If not, particularly wfh during covid, I know virtually nothing about them and vice versa. I have not gone out of my way to build a social circle amongst coworkers at any point in decades.
What you just describes definitely works in modern versions of Nautilus. Just checked on fedora 34.

I have a nagging memory that this may not have worked in the past though.

I actually find Nautilus perfectly fine to use. My biggest gripe is sometimes it's difficult to right click to get a context menu that isn't a file selection (ie: to create a new folder when you're in the list view)
This is terrific. He said it will require threat with guns to get them to violate free speech. If true, this type of leadership is exactly what humanity needs.

I still don't understand the interest individuals have in proprietary, restrictive, unnecessary, platforms.. but for those who tolerate that sort of thing, I assume Twitter will become more valuable to them.
But the founding principles have always had restrictions build in. Try for example publically calling for the assassination of the president (or any other person) and see how you fare. Or army members not being allowed to talk about their missions. I don't buy that these are fundamentally different, it is simply drawing the line differently of what is permissable free speech.
The Farm: First time I saw the inside of a prison was in 1999; I was 16
Why bother with an already lost war like "consumer education"? Fuel charges, cleaning costs, etc. are all the cost of doing business. Require companies to list the out the door price. If your distributor switches from fuel to electric they can lower their prices and do more business.

This just sets up Amazon to charge a flat fee while they lower their costs and reap all the benefits.
You may be disappointed by my answer, but I have been a Mac user since 2001. Steve Jobs hired as many of the Eazel team members who wanted to come to Apple when the company closed. Many of us took the offer and other went to Android, Google, Red Hat and elsewhere. At Apple, I worked on Finder, Spotlight, Time Machine and other projects. Feel free to flame me about those. I'll accept some responsibility for the issues those projects have.
> Late-stage capitalism has different ideas as those basic graphs don't take into account any amount of game theory.

This has nothing to do with late stage capitalism. The parent post misunderstands cost to the producer and the price charged for the end product.

> There's perfect competition in coffee but marginal cost the the end user does not anywhere approach marginal cost.

This is 100% bullshit if you actually care about coffee.